Chapter 585 Promoting Development

Gao Shun then promulgated the retirement age for civil officials, and the retirement age for the Taishou level was set at 55 years old, which caused many people to dissatisfied.

However, at present, most of the officials at the state and county levels are high-ranking civil officials, and those who are dissatisfied are only a small number of people, and they cannot play a decisive role, and this matter is also very well accepted by the majority of officials.

At the same time, Gao Shun also advanced the age of officials, and he can be out of office before the age of 30.

In terms of employing people, it is also gradually moving closer to institutionalization, for example, Li Qiang's son is the oldest of the younger generations, and after reaching the age of 20, he chooses to join the army, and he also starts from a small soldier.

Dian Wei's son Dian Man, under 20 years old, looks honest, but shrewd, keeps an eye on the prince, insists on being the prince's guard, and later has been mixed to the level of the chief.

Guan Yu and Chu Yan's sons are older, and they all started from the bottom, without the opportunity of their fathers to be in a high position as soon as they came, and now most of them are at the level of military marquis.

Among the juniors, only Cheng Wu and Jia Mu were in higher positions, both of whom were in the position of assassins, which was due to special reasons at that time.

The prince is more special, he was crowned at the age of 18, married, and then arranged by Gao Shun to be a civil official under Zhou Fei. Gao Shun did not dare to be careless, and equipped the prince with a strong escort, four camp soldiers, a Qu senior cavalry and a Qu senior infantry.

Kong Rong has a lot of complaints about this.

Gao Shunmei called it exercise, and stipulated that after that, his sons all started from the county lord Bo level.

This move blocked the dissatisfaction of many literati.

It is said that the world is stable, the border counties are safe, only the people of the court are struggling in pain, and many ministers are forced by life to open up wasteland outside Changsha City and sweep the ground.

Fu Wangui is the emperor's father-in-law, for the situation of the court is very sad, for the future of the court, use his brains, come up with various methods, in the end, or decided to suggest to the emperor to take the most traditional way, marriage, but the object of marriage is difficult to suit.

The emperor's children were too young, even if they married Gao Shun's heirs.

After Fu Wan, he boldly suggested that Liu Xie marry Gao Shun's daughter and canonize him as a nobleman, if Gao Shun and His Majesty the Emperor become in-laws, they will definitely treat the court well and will not replace him.

As soon as his suggestion was put forward, it was opposed by everyone, and even Liu Xie felt ridiculous.

You Heng sent this news back to Yecheng for the first time.

Not to mention that Gao Shun disagreed, even the generals under him did not agree.

Imagine that in history, Cao Cao married his three daughters to Liu Xie, Gao Shun didn't have such courage, and every child was his treasure; If he didn't have the advantage of understanding the historical development trend, if he didn't have the help of the system, he would never have achieved what he is today.

Gao Shun laughed at Fu Wan's suggestion, and then he put all his energy into agricultural construction.

At that time, agricultural production was extremely backward, and Gao Shun built water conservancy in the Central Plains, and implemented measures such as intensive cultivation, rotational cultivation, and seed selection, which achieved very good results.

Potato planting technology and cotton cultivation technology were also promoted.

As early as the Han Dynasty, or even earlier, Cheshi had a history of growing cotton, but the amount was very small; In the past, cotton was also used in the Central Plains, but it was only used as a flower for ornamentation, and its use was unknown until hundreds of years later.

At that time, there was only "cotton" next to the word "silk" in Chinese characters, and there was no "cotton" next to the word "wood", which was pioneered by Gao Shun.

After the people of Cheshi were relocated to Jizhou, their place of residence became the first choice for Gaoshun to promote cotton.

The name of cotton by the people of Cheshi Country is white stacks; After the output, everyone was shocked, and the white stacks produced were very different from what they planted. Gao Shun estimated that the cotton they had planted before was Indian cotton or African cotton from Persia, with low yield, short lint, and not easy to peel off from seeds.

The cotton produced by the seeds provided by Gaoshun has long lint and high yield, and the cotton lint and seeds are easy to peel off; He estimated that it should be a hybrid variety.

Gao Shun asked the senior craftsmen to teach the big slingshot and other tools to the Cheshi people to help them improve the loom machine, which made the Che Shi's family grow cotton, every household has a textile machine, exchange the woven cloth for money, and then buy their living needs, the living standard is much higher than when they were in the Cheshi country, they now not only have no resentment towards Gao Shun, but are full of gratitude, so that they get out of the harsh living environment there.

The power of example is endless, and the surrounding villagers see that the Cheshi people earn a lot of money from planting cotton, and the housewives can also earn a lot of income from spinning and weaving cloth in their spare time, so they compete to follow suit, which is much simpler than when Gao Shun promoted it.

Gao Shun sighed that the people are like flowing water, focusing on guidance, not coercion, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

In just three years, almost every village in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou and Yanzhou has people who grow cotton, and almost every household has a spinning machine and a loom.

The people have another way to survive.

In addition, Gao Shun has lowered the price of cotton, and cotton clothes and quilts have become common things for the people to keep out the cold, and the sales of cotton cloth have accounted for more than one-third of linen.

Gao Shun is also pondering mille-feuille bottom cloth shoes and cotton shoes, using the cheapest materials to make the most durable shoes, so that most people can get rid of the dilemma of wearing straw shoes in winter; Even if the living conditions are better now, in winter, there are still a large number of people who can't wear shoes, and their feet are frozen and cracked, which makes people feel distressed.

He lived in the city in his previous life, for mille-feuille shoes, he had only heard of it, but he had never seen it, and he didn't know much about the production process, so he had to experiment with the ladies again and again, and the ladies had nothing to do at home, and they were willing to accompany Gao Shun to do the experiment, which was a good opportunity to get close to Gao Shun and a good opportunity to get Gao Shun's favor.

Gao Shun believed that when cotton clothes and shoes became popular, it would be when he developed Pingzhou, which would greatly expand the expansion of the Han people into the cold regions of the north.

The wisdom of the people is infinite, Gao Shun's experimental products are exposed, attracting the people and merchants to follow suit, they use their brains, and the improved shoes are more strong, durable and beautiful than the experimental products of Gao Shun and others.

Many people wept with joy because they were able to wear cheap and affordable shoes, and most mothers made the first pair of shoes for their children, which contained a strong maternal love.

Gao Shun also made pants, shirts, etc., which were worn at home, and it was very easy; Gao gave some to outsiders by the way to facilitate dissemination.

Realizing the benefits of the things of the future, and Gao Shun has been doing less recently, he has been looking for ways to improve things every day, so that Yecheng has become a fashionable place, and every time a new object appears, it will soon spread to all directions.

For example, all the government offices have been converted into tables and chairs, and the office efficiency has been greatly increased; Even the school is equipped with high tables and chairs; The people who were a little richer also began to buy tables and chairs as the main furniture in their homes; The wheelbarrow, like the zigzag plow, has also become one of the most common production workers in the common people's homes.

The bed has also become an ordinary furniture in the people's homes, of course, in the cold areas of the north, it is still dominated by the fire kang.

In the spring of the fourteenth year of Xingping, the son has been promoted to the county order, and a son was born in the same year, Gao Shun was very happy and named it Gao Hongtao.

And formulated a twenty-character ranking of generations: Hongdejia Changjing, Yurui Zhao Hengxiang, Yingqi Sheng Yongxi, Mianyu Yuan Zhaoji.

Gao Shun was very satisfied with his son and decided to recruit him back next year and stay in Yecheng as a training for him; And Gao Shun can also go out for a walk with confidence, Li Qiang and others have long been suffocated at home.

For example, in the development of Nanzhong, it is safe only if he goes with the system personnel, otherwise, it is easy to be attacked by those natives, and if he goes, there is a system map, and there is no need to carry logistics baggage, it will be much simpler.