Most of the people on the ground in Jingshi and Beizhili had a rare New Year this time. ○ In previous years, when the New Year came to pass, I always had a sad face, and the people who gritted their teeth and went to the pawnshop with things rarely showed a smile.

According to Gao Yang's suggestion, Emperor Chongzhen distributed a large number of New Year's gifts to all the people under his jurisdiction in his own name, and they had everything to eat.

It is distributed according to the number of people registered in the household department. Each person has two catties of salt, one catty of brown sugar, one knife of fatty meat, and a bag of rice in a thirty-pound woven bag. Each family was given a coal-burning stove from a machining factory outside the city, plus 200 catties of coal to survive the cold winter. A large kettle was also included.

These items, which looked very shabby in Gao Yang's eyes, made Emperor Chongzhen's prestige among the people rise rapidly, and their role even exceeded the huge prestige when sacrificing to the Taimiao.

After all, for ordinary people who are busy running around all day, it is the tangible things that move them the most. They also have to eat to feed their families.

Each child under the age of 10 was given a bag of colorful candy and a new set of clothes.

This is a special request from Gao Yang. The sweets were all ordered in large quantities by Gao Yang from modern time and space. As for those clothes, with the sewing machine, which is a simple and easy-to-understand textile artifact, it is directly lent on credit to the women who do housework all day. Collect a certain amount of fabric from the factory and go home to make your own clothes, as long as you send back the finished product in the prescribed quantity.

There are too many women in charge of the housework, although the production efficiency is not as good as that of those factories that produce on the assembly line. But in this era, it is definitely a horror level. This time, the clothes were taken out of the factory warehouse and distributed directly to the children.

No matter how the world changes, there is nothing wrong with these children, who do not even have the ability to protect themselves. And they are the future and hope of this empire.

Gaoyang's schools in the prefectures and counties of Jingshi and Beizhili will be completely open to ordinary children after the Spring Festival. Recruitment is not limited to orphans. At the same time, the burden will be reduced to the extent that ordinary people can afford.

Children will learn some of the most basic basics in these houses. It includes literacy, simple mathematics, physical studies, and basic universal moral theories. Literacy and education are no less important to a country that wants to develop and progress than an army that is invincible in the world!

In order for their children to have access to this once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity. After confirming the authenticity of the news, countless poor families with their children braved the wind and snow from various villages to the outside of the school building in the county town, and waited at the door to start school.

If it weren't for the county magistrate and the famous squires who patted their chests and promised that everyone would be able to study after the Shangyuan Festival, these poor families would probably have spent this very meaningful New Year in front of the school.

Study. Learn.

For people in the modern plane, this is just a very ordinary thing. But in the era of knowledge monopoly, ordinary people's thirst for knowledge is very terrifying! They have long had enough of not having knowledge!

How many families have broken their homes in order to provide for their children's education?! Why do students from poor families want to hang their beams and stab their stocks? Cutting into the wall to steal the light? It's not because knowledge can change fate!

Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and children of mice will make holes.

At the moment of birth, the fate of a person's life is basically predestined. Unless it is a person of modern time and space who travels with the soul of memory. Otherwise, he wants to change the farmer's son to farm and pay for the emperor's grain all his life. The craftsman's son inherits his father's business all his life, making blacksaws and wood to paste the walls. The children of military families have been dressed like Hanako all their lives, shivering in the cold wind and guarding the frontier. Lehu's children have been hunched and shy all their lives, and they have no dignity to laugh and sing to please others, which is the fate they don't want. In this era when knowledge and learning are monopolized by a small number of people, the only way out is to read!

Of course, pulling the flag and rebelling like Li Zicheng is also a way out, but it is too dangerous.

Therefore. These poor families are naturally very precious to the open school houses for students. Who doesn't want to change their destiny if they live in hardship?! I've already had enough of the hardships of not being educated, and now that the opportunity is in front of me, who doesn't know how to fight for it?!

Emperor Chongzhen was surprised by the enthusiastic reaction of the people after the gifts were distributed. Listening to the spies of the Imperial City Division, the ordinary people were overjoyed, and they kept shouting long live. Emperor Chongzhen, who looked obviously energetic, waved his pen, and even those called Hanako who lived in the broken places received a hot meal that could fill their stomachs before Chinese New Year's Eve!

The profession of a beggar is very complex. The vast majority of people will do this kind of begging when they have no choice. After all, the ancients attached great importance to dignity and face. There are many people who don't care about their lives, but there are very few people who don't care about their lives. Isn't it that when they really can't live, who will be a beggar?! The ancients valued courtesy, righteousness and shame, which is not at all the same as the professional beggars in modern time and space who earn much more than the writers who work hard to code words.

No one dared to detain these things issued by Emperor Chongzhen. Even the rations that were distributed to these beggars, who had no background at all.

It wasn't that the Ming officials who developed the ink greed into an invisible culture were inspired by the high immortals, and all of them turned into pure angels overnight, wholeheartedly serving the country and the people. It's because deep down they fear the pervasive search and the eternal life of coolies!

With the use of monitors, bugs, lie detectors, various tried and tested methods of extorting confessions, and special effects such as TTTTT (real pills), no one can escape the pursuit and pursuit of the brocade guards who have been trained by the biochemical warriors after greedy ink.

Once he was caught after greedy ink. It was a terrible end.

Not to mention the full recovery of the greedy ink, he will also be fined. The amount of the fine is determined by the amount of ink embezzlement, and the more ink is greedy, the more the fine. Basically, it's a matter of breaking the bank. As a result, the family was unlucky.

After that, it was a long, almost eternal, hard work as a coolie.

Every newly appointed official of the imperial court before officially taking office. will be led by the local brocade guards to the mine site near the place where they are employed to take a look at the unlucky people of the ex.

Dust flying in the sky. Clothes that were so tattered that they could barely cover their bodies, and their dirty bodies were covered with dirt and wounds. A meal of soup and grains with a few leaves floating. Fierce and vicious guards, wielding whips with water in their hands from time to time. The hard labor life of going to work before dawn and not finishing work before it gets dark!

In the past, those were white and clean, pampered. There are a few strands of hair on his chin, and his face is meticulously dressed with grease and powder. Throughout the day, he called friends and recited poems. The big men who go in and out of the Qinglou wine shop. Now they are all skilled craftsmen.

The little belly full of oil and water is gone. Because I have enough to eat, I can't talk about the yellow face, but the emaciation is certain.

The fair skin has become dark and red after being exposed to the wind and sun, and it has a dull color. Because of the long hours of labor, many people's flabby bodies actually have a faint trace of muscle outline.

The beautiful hair on the chin has long since turned into a messy chicken nest with a full face, and unknown little bugs are constantly shuttling through it. The slender hands that used to write splendid articles have now become thick and powerful, and wielding an iron pickaxe is effortless. These people have lost everything and are now just living to live.

Gao Yang never thought that these people's survival ** would be so vigorous. There is only enough food to eat, and medical treatment is only the most basic. Working day and night, these people can keep going! It's really surprising.

Those newcomers who happily went to take office were directly dumbfounded when they saw all this in front of them, and even some weak scholars were directly frightened and fainted.

The former unlucky ones were dressed as beggars more than beggars, their completely dull and cloudy eyes, and their rapidly thinning bodies made the newcomers completely unable to believe their eyes.

"You can't punish the doctor, the country is a good man." The nerds who had already read stupidly began to babble stupidly to comfort themselves. I don't even think about it, the Ming Empire has been cracking down on corrupt officials since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and even the punishment of 'mercury peeling method' that makes people's scalp tingle when they hear it has been used! Where else is there anything to offer?

After seeing these newcomers who were brought over by the brocade guards and wearing brand new official uniforms. Those ex-exes who were confused and relied on instinct to do coolies were all inexplicably excited. Sluggish, cloudy eyes suddenly burst into fine light.

Completely ignoring the guards and the whips they had whipped on their bodies, they threw away their work, rushed to the fence, stretched out their dirty arms, and shouted loudly, "It's new!" Here comes a new one!! Look at that face, so white! Look at that ass, so warped! Come on, come on. You love you!! ”

The ghostly screams of night owls and the hideous and distorted faces of the night owls, as well as the extremely strange atmosphere. After seeing everything that makes people collapse in front of him, those who dare to pluck up the courage to reach out and want to be greedy for ink are only stupid except for their talents.

It's not that these people don't want to at the moment, but they don't dare!

Who else can ignore all of this after seeing it for themselves? Regardless of the need to go crazy? You must know that Gao Yang has asked Emperor Chongzhen to increase the treatment of officials on a large scale, which is at least ten times higher than those predecessors!

Of course, the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang has set too few officials is also an important reason. Now that there has been a good change, it is necessary to persevere. Taking advantage of the fact that there is still not much place for the imperial court to carry out administrative capabilities, set the rules, and when the territory is greatly expanded, everything will become much simpler. (To be continued.) )