Chapter 88: The Kingdom (10)

The wide dissemination of knowledge and the system of talent evaluation and selection were the sworn enemies and gravediggers of the hereditary feudal system of the aristocracy, as well as the basic pillar of power ambitions, as well as the reserve army and organizer of later rebellions: often with the power of one state, one government and one county, a large unified government could be quickly established, and the war would not become a succession game between the nobles. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the final analysis, the power of this era is really a matter of you doing what you do. The same is true of the era when the aristocracy monopolized knowledge and means of scheming. Others can't, so others can't, and over time, the princes and generals do have a kind of truth.

At this time, most of these people who sat in the council hall and frowned and thought about it with a wooden slip did not have the confidence and strength to do it with me, even if it was just for them to be an official who governed a hundred people.

Before that, they were just learning to read and count, and to work in the fields. At that time, the city was very small, and Chen Jian was in charge of everything, and later it was a little larger, and it was also the food and drink of thousands of people under the jurisdiction of the Planning and Statistics Department.

Now that the city is bigger, the population is larger, the country is going to be built, and it is going to develop, and it will not work like before, and the top-down management method that directly details each person will exhaust Chen Jian to death.

The immediate priority in his mind was not reunification or war, but paper, printing, tubular firearms, and basic education, which he could use as the best tombstone of his life to pave the way for the race. For at least three years, it is impossible for him to spend his mind on meticulous management, so that the city and the country will have no sorrow but joy.

For example, people like Shi Quan who are about to become grassroots officials, the first task in their hearts is to do a good job of arranging things, and if they have the opportunity, they can be promoted to the rank of official and become a high-level in the country in the future. Managing a hundred people was a grand dream in the age of the clan, and that was the chief; And for a country with more than 70,000 slaves, the dream of more than 10,000 people can be considered majestic.

After explaining the plan for the next two or three years for two consecutive days, Shi Quan and other people in the agricultural class each handed out a set of wooden tablets, which were the various rules that had been copied before.

Jian Chen picked up the wooden tablet again and spent a few days interpreting it for them from beginning to end. Most of these techniques have been exposed to and practiced by themselves, and it is not difficult to learn, it can be regarded as a review.

Everyone's arrangements had actually been decided, and Shi Quan knew that he would be assigned to Xia Dong, and in view of his previous excellent performance and the dining room conversation that had reached Chen Jian's ears at the beginning, let him manage Sili, which is two hundred pairs of men and women.

Basically, students in all classes were forced to end their part-time studies ahead of schedule, and they were thrown to the grassroots level as officials after a little polishing.

The only ones who did not move to continue their studies were the children in the original education class, who continued to study all kinds of textbooks in the spacious and bright room as future teachers.

Many people complained about this, although Shi Quan was unimpressed, he was sure that the leader he trusted, Ji Xia, must have his purpose.

But this time, unlike in the past, Chen Jian did not give any explanation, but enforced it, because the explanation was not understood.

The materialist is not a fortune teller, and the future development and changes should and can only be in a general direction, and should not and cannot be mechanically prescribed, and become a person who can clearly know every detail of the future like a diviner.

Nowadays, a large number of babies who appeared in the first batch of Xiacheng people because of their settled life have reached the age of six or seven years old, and they are about to undergo enlightenment education.

Nowadays, Xiacheng's welfare system, the support of minors with public property, the imperfect marriage system and the policy of not being fully accepted, the textile industry has not yet developed in an all-round way, and there is no poll tax but a collective land tax and a publicly-owned workshop, in fact, is to encourage or not prohibit multiple births, multiple children, nonsense, wild marriage, and children out of wedlock.

Therefore, not only will those in the education class not be able to fill the vacancies of the junior administrators, but a large number of students will have to be recruited after next year's enlightenment examination to cope with the educational guarantee of the terrible population growth in the near future.

This not only means that the people in the education class cannot replace the tense grassroots officials, but also means that the expenditure of more people who are out of work in three years, the beginning of the welfare of the city in the next few years, and the distribution of the system of the national people and other systems that Chen Jian promised at the beginning in three years, this heavy pressure must also be resolved.

The external demand for workshop goods is still expanding, and it will continue to expand next year after the establishment of the blood-sucking system along the river and the beginning of the transformation of some cities.

But in addition to external demand, we have to look at internal demand, and the only solution can only be to add some special commodity or ration for domestic demand - housing.

When a city is forced to move to a city by force or initiative by scattered clans or villages, and the process is very rapid and extremely smooth, it will inevitably be accompanied by a shortage of housing in the city.

After leaving the cave, they need to live, but they are not used to family life, so for the time being, they can live in houses made of mud and wood. And those who were the first to have the status of civil servants are accustomed to family life, and they are eager to have their own spacious and bright houses.

Brick houses are expensive because brick and tile are public property, and there are only a few brick kilns. Most of the collective work and skilled workers of carpentry have to work in public workshops, resulting in wooden doors, windows, house beams and structures that cannot be completed by individuals.

In order to prevent too many houses and a lot of labor used to build houses, Chen Jian had always been in charge of the construction department by the public property, and encouraged private construction when the clan was divided, but at that time they were all mud houses, short and dark. The workshop workers in Yucheng did not have time to build houses, and Chen Jian did not allow them to build real houses on their own.

Now the sudden influx of a large number of people has led to an extremely tense housing problem: if the new house is built bright and moving, the people of Lao Xia City, who own the house, will be dissatisfied and demand; The random construction of the new house version of the structure will temporarily solve the housing problem, but the house itself can hardly become a new means of exploiting the Chinese people.

Therefore, Xia Cheng faced a situation where the government had the ability but did not do it; And ordinary Chinese people want to do it but can't do it.

In this case, the house can exist as a special commodity, and at a price higher than the labor value of the house itself, the nominal welfare that should be given to the people will be compensated by the inflated house.

Housing will also become a necessity of life under the policy of promoting the marriage and family system and forcibly relocating to the city.

As with salt, try to make the house a hidden tax within three to five years.

It can not only allow the people to own houses, but also ensure the implementation of the benefits of the system - the cities nominally do not sell houses, but secretly use the benefits due to the system to force the purchase of houses, and use the wealth for the construction of the education system.

That is, when the public property benefits are distributed according to the ranks, a brick and stone house is made a part of the benefits at an inflated price, and the vast majority of the public property benefits distributed by the knights each year are deducted under the pretext of buying the house in installments, and become the private property of the individual, which can be passed on to his eldest children in accordance with the original inheritance law.

This kind of system of the whole people will not last long, but as long as it lasts until the reunification is completed, there will be other simpler ways at that time.

Until then, housing can only be used as a means of forcibly stimulating domestic demand; Cooperate with the blood-sucking system along the river to exchange copper and iron weapons for primary agricultural products to ensure the living standards of the people; Tempting the Chinese to invest their wealth in the colony of Xinhua City, it stimulated the development of iron tools, agricultural tools and textiles.

And in the future, building a house has a great advantage, you can try some new construction methods, and even change the layout of the house, so that the house has more flavor.

Such as windows, such as doors, such as window paper.

The sketch had already been planned, and one night after explaining the simple management methods for a few days, Chen Jian found a group of people from the construction department who had returned with him, and these people were the backbone of the construction of houses and ditches left behind in Xia Cheng in the future.

Unlike the previous houses, one of the most important features of the houses on the cloth is that they have wooden doors and large windows that can be opened.

Before this, the windows of Xia Cheng's houses were very small, and there were basically no doors, and most of them were covered with straw curtains. Especially the windows, it is impossible to make them too big, otherwise it will be very cold in the house when it is windy, rainy or winter.

Because houses with doors and large windows are a bit strange in the eyes of those front-line laborers.

Simple doors, there are not many ways to choose in this day and age.

Although the most common metal hinge connection sliding door in the previous life could be done at this time, the limited manpower and blacksmiths may have to be used in military and agriculture, and it is impossible to improve the living standards of the people in a short period of time.

There are also side sliding doors with sliding friction or copper wheels rolling, which are laborious to make, but are only used in some special rooms such as entertaining relatives and nobles, and the effect is basically the same as the extra-long bronze sword worn by the king during the conflict between the nations.

The cheapest and easiest option for the rest is the hub, the hub of the beetle.

A wooden pier, with a hole dug in the middle, and the side of the door inserted into the hole in the wooden pier, closed every day, really does not give birth to insects.

With the hub, it is natural that a new and flavorful word will appear. Doorsill.

Because the wooden pier and the door frame are connected together, there will definitely be such a height of the wooden pier from the ground after the door is closed, which requires a threshold to be flush with the household hub.

There is a simple way in the simple era, with the popularity of the door, from the story of Chen Jian's incisors and nettles to the present for many years, the front teeth that are not read as incisors are finally possible or have the opportunity to have this name, and the first half of the sentence can also exist in a row to be more imposing.

Although these people from the construction department are not professional carpenters, they have also seen a lot of hands, and Jian Chen slightly explained the operation method of the hub, and everyone understood.

The only thing that puzzles me is the huge windows and the divided window lattices, which are not absent in Yucheng, and are used for some indoor work that requires light.

But most of them are thin skins, fish bladders, or even large mussel shells that are very thinly ground, and it takes a lot of effort to build a window in this way.

"Just do it. When the time comes, there will be something to cover the window. It can transmit light and resist the cold wind. And...... Definitely not as laborious and expensive as a thinned mussel shell. ”

"According to the picture on this cloth, try to build a few rooms first, and I have already chosen a place for you."

"Once all the snow and ice in the ground have melted, you will begin."