What kind of city would this be?

Song Yingxing was strolling on the street, Wan Shihua was beside him, and the eyes of both of them were confused.

It has been more than two months since they came to Xinxiang, and unlike Yu Guozhen, they took the inland waterway, which was transferred from the Yangtze River to the Li River through the Ling Canal. When they first arrived in Qin'zhou, they saw that there were many businessmen, a large population, a solid livelihood, and abundant products, and the two of them thought that this was a great achievement. You must know that the annual commercial tax paid by Qin' Prefecture was only a mere 200 taels, but now the annual commercial tax is as much as 4,700 taels, which is enough for Wang Chuanlu to have a relaxed hand and renovate the yamen and streets that have not been repaired for many years.

But when they came to Xinxiang, they were even more shocked, and even had a feeling of not knowing where they were in a dream.

Xinxiang has many small hills, so with the increase of population, the expansion of the city also depends on the mountains. In order to reduce the occurrence of landslides, mudslides and other unbearable things, the hills on the edge of the city have been simply protected and disposed of. In Yu Guozhen's view, Xinxiang's annual income is increasing rapidly, and in addition to investing in expanding reproduction, some of these revenues should be used to improve people's livelihood.

"Brother Maoxian, have you figured out how the road is going now?" Song Yingxing asked Wan Mao first.

"I'll see." Wan Mao muttered first, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and began to look through the lead printing album in his hand again.

These two old gentlemen both wore reading glasses on their noses, and the emergence of transparent glass, especially the progress of lens polishing technology, made the "glasses industry" also develop. There are millions of people who read books in the Ming Dynasty, among which there are not a few people with myopia, such as Song Yingxing and Wan Maoxian, who have very serious presbyopia symptoms. After arriving in Xinxiang, one of the benefits enjoyed by the two of them was that they could get a suitable pair of reading glasses for free every year - otherwise, with the current price of glasses, his income would be a little tight.

"Are the two gentlemen lost?" Just as the two of them were looking at the map of Xinxiang to check where they were now, a young man with only one arm left next to him came over with a smile and asked.

The young man's costume was somewhat similar to Huwei's, and he also wore an armband, on which was written the word "City Management", which was the abbreviation of the organization to which he belonged. After Xinxiang became a city with a population of more than 10,000, the original simple system of relying on consciousness to restrain everyone would not work, so Yu Guozhen set up the "Xinxiang City Internal Affairs Administration", which some people also called "urban management", and every time Yu Guozhen heard this word, he would be stunned for a while and show a faint smile.

The scope of the city's management is huge, from the planning of Xinxiang City to the prohibition of open defecation in the streets and alleys. Like many of Xinxiang's public institutions, its main managers are also injured in the retirement of the Tiger Guard. When they first arrived in Xinxiang, the two old gentlemen didn't know this, and they only said that the disability of this servitude was quite unkind, but after the news of the Gyeonggi War came back, they learned that these seemingly disabled young people were all heroes who fought bloodily on the battlefield!

The two of them saluted the young man solemnly, not daring to regard him as a servant.

Xinxiang has a lot of gifts, according to the rules forcibly promoted by Yu Guozhen, subordinates must salute when they see their bosses, and their bosses must return the salutes. If the subordinate kneels and bows, the boss has to kneel halfway, and if the subordinate reaches the ground, the boss must at least bend down and bow. Yu Guozhen's reason was that the people of Xinxiang gathered all the towns, and they had to be re-educated in order to become a ceremonial state, but the actual result of this was that no boss here was willing to kneel and bow to him.

"Thank you for this little brother, alas...... The Xinxiang house is too tall to make people ...... It's really dizzy. ”

Wan Shihua felt a little ashamed, they came to Xinxiang for more than two months, and they basically got lost every day, no wonder, because the construction speed of Xinxiang was too fast.

From the seventh year of Chongzhen to the current nine years of Chongzhen, in just two years, the scale of Xinxiang has expanded by 20 times, and the population is the same. Especially in the eight years since Chongzhen, the infrastructure construction work group of as many as 4,000 people in Xinxiang, plus the people who came to work as small workers and migrant workers of all ethnic groups, and the infrastructure construction team of more than 10,000 people, has not had a day off.

Roads, bridges, and every day: building buildings.

Nowadays, three-story buildings are the most common for new construction, and since Chongzhen eight years ago, the newly built houses in Xinxiang are generally three-storey. The first floor of the street is a storefront shop, which is rented out to those who are a little older to open various shops to facilitate the livelihood of the people. The second and third floors are houses, and there is a large public yard behind it, which is made of simple landscaping, and some people grow some vegetables and fruits for their own consumption.

This architectural style really makes newcomers such as Song Yingxing and Wan Xinghua feel fresh. But what surprised them the most was the glass windows.

Even in Xinxiang, glass windows were a novelty, and it wasn't until March this year that they became popular. Large pieces of glass are cut square, and then fixed to the wooden window lattice with small nails, so that the decorated house is much brighter than the window paper, and can also effectively block the mosquitoes, a major scourge of Xinxiang, if supplemented by a screen made of fine yarn, then warm in winter and cool in summer, it is really very convenient for life. It's just that Song Yingxing also asked about the price, and it costs a lot of money to complete such a window, and only Xinxiang people with quite high wages and good incomes can afford it.

"The two gentlemen are going to Xinxiang Elementary School, go north along this Taibai Street, and then turn west at the next intersection, you can see the sign of the retreat road, and then follow the retreat road to the end, it is a six-story building, and there is a door downstairs in the six houses that is the side door of the primary school."

The city manager didn't wait for the two to say where they were going, so they pointed out the road in detail, and the two thanked them, and then realized that something was wrong, and pulled the city pipe: "How do you know where we are going?" ”

"The two gentlemen are also celebrities in our new Xiang now, and it's rare to get lost every time." The city manager laughed good-naturedly.

Both laughed, and they walked slowly toward the six-story building.

The six-storey building is the symbol building of Xinxiang, which is made of steel and bone concrete and skin, and was put into use as the teaching building of Xinxiang Primary School in September. After Song Yingxing and Wan Shihua went to meet, in addition to being amazed, the two also had a heated debate. Wan Shihua thought that such a beautiful and majestic school should be used to teach Confucius and Mencius, and it was a waste to teach practical learning, while Song Yingxing thought that it was the most appropriate to teach practical learning. As a result of the debate, Wan Shihua reluctantly agreed with Song Yingxing's point of view: if it is used to teach practical learning, it is possible to study better cement and steel bars, and to build taller buildings to teach the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Of course, after researching better cement and steel bars, is it really to build a building to teach the way of Confucius and Mencius, Song Yingxing smiled and said nothing, and Wan Shihua was also worried in his heart.

If you don't get to Xinxiang, you don't know what you learned before.

They passed through the door on the sixth floor, and when they passed, they had to show their passes with a big red seal, the security level of the Xinxiang Primary School was the same as that of the Municipal Bureau, and even Yu Guowei would be stopped here without a pass.

As soon as I entered, I felt that today was different from usual, the originally quiet campus seemed to be a little noisy today, and on the ground, there was a group of people gathered in one place to point and point. Song Yingxing pushed his glasses, stared at them, and then said in surprise: "Yu Jimin - Nanhai Bo is back!" ”

It was Yu Guozhen who introduced the school to Fang Ziyi on the field.

"Along the way, there is nothing else to show off, but this Xinxiang Primary School, I can't wait to show off to you." Yu Guozhen and Fang Ziyi walked side by side, and beside them, were Xiaolian, Ma Xianglan, and Wang Yue. In addition to Gu Mei and Gu Hengbo's other appointments, Ma Xianglan and Wang Yue were both arranged by Yu Guozhen to Xinxiang Primary School to serve as Xiaolian's assistant, and also learn practical learning from Xiaolian. Wang Yue's learning speed is very fast, and now she can come out to teach, and Ma Xianglan is a little slower, so she mainly teaches the "aesthetic education" class in the primary school.

Yu Guozhen has always believed that the art of the nation contains the values of the nation. The highest level of conquest is to make other peoples accept their own values, and art plays a great role in this.

"This is not for you to show off, it should be Xiaolian to show off." Fang Ziyi took Xiaolian's hand, and under the veil, a pair of wonderful eyes lightly glanced at Yu Guozhen.

In addition to letting her come to see the primary school he had worked so hard for, did Yu Guozhen also mean that he was anxious to see Xiaolian, Ma Xianglan and Wang Yue?

"Tell us about the situation of the Xinxiang Primary School today." Yu Guozhen said to Xiaolian.

Xiaolian pursed her lips and smiled, facing her housemother, she was not very shy and afraid, this is because she and Fang Ziyi have known and had a relationship for a long time, and on the other hand, it is also because she is very sure of her position in Yu Guozhen's heart.

After the petty officials came to Xinxiang, they also moved their family studies here, and on the basis of family learning, they established the Xinxiang Primary School. At present, there are 2,977 students in the primary school, of which 31 are in the fourth grade, all of whom moved from Xiang'an with the junior officials, 216 are in the third grade, all of whom were enrolled in the school when the school was first opened, 1,254 are in the second grade, and 1,476 are in the first grade......

In terms of numbers, the scale of Xinxiang Primary School is not inferior to some regular schools in later generations, but this is for special reasons, the second-year students who officially enrolled in September of the eighth year of Chongzhen were refugees from Nanzhili that year, so the number will increase dramatically, and this year more than 20,000 refugees have been transported from Nanzhili, and the number has expanded again.

"Songyang Bailu, Ying Tianyuelu, are not as good as this, Xiaolian has done a great job!" Hearing this scale, Fang Ziyi couldn't help but be moved.

Giving nearly 3,000 children free of charge and having to pay for their food, clothing and lodging is a great deed! Fang Ziyi praised Xiaolian in her mouth, but her eyes looked at Yu Guozhen, and her eyes were full of overflowing friendship.

Previously, she also heard that Yu Guozhen had set up a school, and thought that at most dozens of people would study, but now, the scale is so large, this is really better than the grand event of the four major academies, if you stick to it, it will become a shocking cause!

(To be continued)