Tao Chengzhang is different from Yin Ruizhi, he has gone through hardships, his mind is mature, and he knows what each other's purpose is when he comes, in other words, he came from the beginning with the purpose of investigating cooperation and possibly surnames, rather than wanting to be a lobbyist and persuade Li Zhigao to rebel.

Therefore, since Liu Runsheng said that he would let him see it, he didn't shirk it, and he didn't even go to any big hotel for lunch, he bought a few flatbreads directly on the road, and then deliberately found Yin Ruizhi and Zhou Zhengbin, and asked for two cars, and then began to walk around the city.

Because Tao Chengzhang believes that only what he sees with his own eyes can he figure out the real situation here, if he asks Liu Runsheng to accompany him, listen to his explanation, and delay people's efforts, it will definitely not be true and comprehensive.

Similarly, Tao Chengzhang started with the school, he took the pass given by Liu Runsheng, and first inspected the Taiping School in the city and the newly established Taipingfu No. 1 Middle School and Taipingfu Guangrong Primary School.

The result shocked him, because whether it is the level of teachers or the educational environment, he is sure that it is definitely the first in the country, and what is even more rare is that the students who go to school here are free of tuition, and even the accommodation, clothing and learning tools are also provided by the school.

The students enrolled in these schools basically do not have the children of big families, most of them are children of poor families, and even orphans adopted by Li Zhigao, such as Glorious Primary School, next to the school, is a newly built Glorious Orphanage, which specializes in adopting orphans under the age of 14 in the city, providing them with food, drink, clothing, housing and education, which is a rare good governance!

In addition, whether it is the Taiping Academy, which has gradually evolved into a university hall, or the primary and secondary schools such as Taiping No. 1 Middle School and Taiping Glory Primary School, there are foreign teachers, mainly British, and a small number of Americans. In school, these people only serve as teachers of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and do not have much power, and they are not the directors of the school, and the content they teach is not the Western one, but the textbooks reformulated by the school itself.

He also read all kinds of textbooks in the school, all kinds of rich content, and very systematic, he read a lot of things are very interested, very eye-opening, but what touched him the most, is Hanyu Pinyin, when he understood that this is the first thing to learn in primary school universal education, he studied it a little, and found that this thing is very fast, and it is a very good auxiliary learning method for learning Chinese. In other words, in Tao Chengzhang's view, after learning Hanyu Pinyin, and then learning Chinese, the learning progress can be accelerated by at least two or three years.

Although in Tao Chengzhang's view, the number of such schools is too small to popularize education, Yin Ruizhi explained that it is not that Li Zhigao does not want to build more schools and does not want to engage in universal education, but that schools are easy to build and teachers are lacking. If we only build some schools with poor education standards to support idlers, it is better to concentrate on doing what can be done first.

Yin Ruizhi said that education should be separated from charity, the education system must pay attention to efficiency, and the best teachers must first focus on teaching good students, and then these good students will become good teachers, and continue this cycle of good surnames.

In other words, the schools that Tao Chengzhang looked at actually took the road of elite teaching from the beginning, and they belonged to key schools, and they accepted elite students with good health, fast response, and strong learning ability. As for the literacy of ordinary people, in fact, whether in the city or outside the city, there are many rapid training schools everywhere, these rapid training schools are literacy points, specially for adults from poor families and minors who have not met the test scores, but those fast schools only teach for free, provide free venues, but do not provide free accommodation, free learning tools and other items.

Tao Chengzhang immediately went to see these rapid training schools, and found that many of these schools are actually a street house, or a teahouse or something like that, and then a teacher will generally come after six o'clock in the afternoon to explain literacy to everyone, and the lecture time continues until nine o'clock in the evening, during which one-third of the time is to teach everyone to learn Chinese pinyin, learn Chinese characters, and the other two-thirds of the time is to talk about some ancient Chinese history and Chinese and foreign real-time, because the content is close to reality, and the history subjects are very exciting. That's why a lot of people come here to learn.

In fact, he also found that many of the teachers in these rapid training classes, whose original profession was storytellers or even cross talk artists, began to become teachers as soon as they were trained a little and given some new teaching materials. When this kind of teacher is paid, he will be paid a fixed salary every month, and the salary is quite a lot, which is much more stable than making some money by telling stories, and his identity and face are also good-looking, so many storytellers are willing to be this kind of teacher.

Anyway, Tao Chengzhang saw that Li Zhigao didn't say anything else, at least he attached great importance to education, because he walked down in such a circle, and the investment in these new schools in Guangcheng was probably not a small amount, and he estimated it a little, just these education investments, it was no problem to raise two patrol battalions.

In addition to education, he also found that the spirit of the local people was also different from other places, with more smiles on people's faces, brisker walking, and great admiration and respect for Li Zhigao. It can be said that if you say something good about Li Zhigao, you will be able to talk to you happily, but if you say something bad about Li Zhigao, the other party will immediately turn his face, and even quickly go to the police to report.

Yin Ruizhi told Tao Chengzhang that this is because Li Zhigao has canceled a lot of harsh taxes since he cut off the money and grain of the Qing political axe, and the underworld forces in the city have also been forcibly swept away by the police, as well as high-end products such as boutique department stores, so the business is prosperous, all industries are thriving, and the lives of the people here are getting better and better, so they are very grateful to Li Zhigao who brought them all this.

Yin Ruizhi also said one thing, that is, not long ago, there was a young man who came from other places to take the Taiping Academy, but he did not get in, because when he was eating in a restaurant, he scratched Li Zhigao and complained a few words, which was heard by other people in the restaurant, and immediately went over to beat him without saying a word, and beat the young man to half his life, and he was raised in the Shengaitang Hospital for more than a month.

There is also a foreigner who came to buy goods in the boutique department store here, because he disliked the price was too expensive, and complained about Li Zhigao at the door of the boutique department store, and since then this foreigner has been unable to move an inch in the Taiping Mansion, not only can not buy goods, but also can't buy food, not even accommodation, that is to say, no one who knows the news will provide him with services, and he can only walk out of the city in embarrassment.

Hearing this, Tao Chengzhang immediately understood that Li Zhigao had firmly grasped the hearts of the people here, and others might not be able to intervene anymore.

Of course, Tao Chengzhang listened to it very one-sidedly after all, Yin Ruizhi also listened to others, and he didn't know that when Yin Ruizhi said these two examples, Zhou Zhengbin next to him also smiled at the corner of his mouth, in fact, these things have the shadow and role of their security bureau.

It is true that Li Zhigao has indeed done a lot of measures to benefit the people, and most people do think of him very well, but it is impossible to say that everyone unanimously thinks of his goodness.

For this reason, Zhou Zhengbin, who has read a lot of intelligence materials given by Li Zhigao, has developed a large number of supernumerary intelligence personnel in all walks of life, and pays them five cents a month, referred to as five cents. Their role, in addition to spying on suspicious persons, is also to guide public opinion.

For example, the Wumao people say that Li Zhigao is good when they have nothing to do, say that Li Zhigao has some good measures and how much they will pay, and even look for comparisons everywhere, such as comparing the past and the surroundings, in short, to guide the people around them, so that they can also follow Li Zhigao's good, remember that it is because of Li Zhigao that they can live a good life, and these things must be done constantly and repeatedly.

For example, the young man who complained in the restaurant was the first to beat someone, and that guy was one of the intelligence officers he developed.

and the foreigner complained at the door of the department store, and it was also through those ubiquitous Wumao people who quickly spread the matter, so the foreigner couldn't move an inch here.

In short, it is precisely because of the existence of the Wumaozhong that the grassroots situation and public opinion guidance in the Taiping Mansion can be so one-sided, so this is actually artificial, Li Zhigao's policy and authority to benefit the people is just a basis for the Wumaozhong to guide public opinion.

In addition to education, Tao Chengzhang also inspected measures such as people's livelihood here, and the more he investigated, the more surprised he became.

What surprised Tao Chengzhang the most was that there was an organization called the Grain Bureau, which was dedicated to stabilizing grain prices, and the purpose was to keep grain prices at a suitable price, so that the peasants would not suffer losses and the citizens would not be expensive to buy grain.

To put it simply, the Grain Bureau is actually a government-run grain merchant, who usually stores grain and sells grain to others, and no matter whether the price of grain in the market rises or falls, he will sell grain at the original price, and even if there are fluctuations, the fluctuations will not exceed two cents.

The reason for this is that the Food Bureau has a large amount of grain reserves, which can regulate grain prices, and it is also backed by violent organs such as the police, which is itself a functional organ of the government. If other grain merchants do not follow up with the price of the grain bureau and hoard Juqi, they will be forcibly closed by the police! And if the price of the grain bureau is followed, then the grain merchants will still have a certain profit, and once the grain price falls, if they have a loss, the grain merchant's loss will also be borne by the grain bureau.

However, in order to prevent foreign grain merchants from maliciously buying grain, the city implements an ID card and food stamp system.

That is to say, all the people in the Taiping Mansion have to apply for ID cards and household registration books, and when selling grain, they will be issued a certain amount of food stamps according to the number of people according to the contents of the ID card and household registration book, and then go to the grain bureau and other grain merchants in Taiping Mansion to buy grain. If it is a foreign population, it must also go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register, issue a temporary residence permit, and then receive food stamps with the temporary residence permit, only in this way can you buy low-cost food.

The food stamp system is also more flexible, for example, different people's appetites are large and small, families are large and small, and purchasing power is large and small, so the number of food stamps is a preset average, and the average amount is enough for an adult's monthly food consumption, but if you are not satisfied, feel that you are a pot-bellied man, or have additional consumption, you can ask for an increase in food stamps every month, but the increased part will cost additional money. There is also a certain limit on the amount of food stamps that will allow you to eat five people's servings for one person, but it will never cause you to resell grain in large quantities, and if you are found to be reselling food, you will be arrested and put in a prison cell.

In addition, there are certain restrictions on the entry and exit of bulk grain in and out of the city, and all bulk grain transactions must be registered with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, explaining the type and quantity of the products traded, and paying stamp duty and stamping the stamp of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau before they can be traded. Stamp duty is very small, mainly plays a supervisory role, and merchants like it very much, but for special merchants such as grain merchants, the meaning is even more different.

To put it simply, once the police guarding the city gate find that there is a large amount of grain entering and leaving the Taiping Fu City, they must check whether there is stamp duty and whether there is a transaction certificate, and if there is no transaction certificate, even if the amount of grain on the transaction certificate does not match the actual amount, they are not allowed to leave the city.

In addition to food stamps, there are also salt stamps, and there is a special salt industry bureau that provides low-cost salt to those who have ID cards, and similarly, everyone has to use their ID cards and salt stamps to receive low-cost salt.

After controlling grain and salt, Li Zhigao began to implement silver dollar rolls, which were very convenient and could be bought at the Grain Bureau, the Salt Industry Bureau, and even the newly established Taipingfu branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Although the silver dollar roll is a paper banknote, it is issued by Li Zhigao in his personal name, not only the workmanship is exquisite, there is also an anti-counterfeiting watermark, the silver dollar and copper can be freely exchanged in the Taiping Mansion, so it is very popular with the people, up to now, the Taiping Mansion market has rarely seen the copper money silver dollar broken silver these things, everyone trading is basically with the silver dollar roll. Even, the silver dollar rolls have begun to go out of the Taiping Mansion, and the fame around the Taiping Mansion has gradually expanded, and many people have changed some of the silver dollar rolls and traded them with the silver dollar rolls.

As for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a bank that was established in Shanghai through the annexation of major banks, the boss on the surface is always Li Huade, and the managers are the owners of other original banks, but the actual owner is Li Zhigao.

In other words, ICBC is held by Li Zhigao alone, but he shares the equity through himself, his personal subordinate companies, and even the subordinate companies of his personal subordinate companies, so it seems that there are many directors on the board of directors of ICBC, but in the final analysis, he is alone, and those directors are just agents in front of the stage.

Li Zhigao did this, not to covet profits, in fact, if you just make money, there are too many ways to make money than the bank, the bank is just a tool, and its own profitability is not too terrifying in this era, the reason why Li Zhigao controls the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is just to reduce the risk, because the silver dollar rolls of his hairstyle are all through the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, so there must be no mistakes.

Moreover, Li Zhigao was also very cautious, although the Bank of China issued and exchanged silver dollar rolls, but at present only in Taiping Mansion to exchange silver dollar rolls, and other branches in various places only give exchanges, but do not issue. In other words, new banknotes can only be issued at the branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Taiping Province, and the number of banknotes issued is also controlled by the branch in Taiping Province, and branches in other places will only exchange silver dollar rolls for you, but do not have the power to issue banknotes.

Because of the use of later technology, the stereotype of later generations, so there are many anti-counterfeiting technologies, such as paper materials, watermarks, fiber filaments and color dots, opaque plastic security threads, etc., with these technologies, not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even other powers can not make fakes, and it is easier to distinguish.

After learning about the special surname of this kind of silver dollar banknote, Tao Chengzhang was also very interested, thinking that this could be issued as a banknote, and even felt that Li Zhigao was too cautious, this thing could be issued in large quantities to replace silver dollars, rather than only being issued in a small area in Taiping Mansion. Because Tao Chengzhang has a wide range of knowledge, he knows that China's silver has been flowing out, and he also knows the important surname of precious metals, so he advocates the use of this kind of paper money with better credit.

Yin Ruizhi doesn't understand this, and Zhou Zhengbin doesn't understand either, they only know that this thing was made by Li Zhigao, and all the implementation plans were also made by Li Zhigao, so just implement it according to the plan, as for why, they don't understand it, and they don't need to understand.

The people's livelihood in the city is almost over, Tao Chengzhang went out of the city again, went to the countryside to investigate, this time, he was even more surprised, because the changes in the countryside are greater, and what surprised him the most was undoubtedly the farmland water conservancy project and grain production here!

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