Chapter 149: The Great Construction

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Hearing the chaos in the city, Meng Guan knew that the rebels had infighting, how could he give up such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so with a wave of his hand, the army immediately attacked. Sure enough, as expected, the siege troops did not encounter a trace of resistance, and opened their doors and surrendered wherever they passed.

When Meng Guan came to the city, the king of Hejian was wailing in front of Fang Yang, "Little Sima Shu! The widow has fallen for your tricks...... The widow is not convinced! The widow is not convinced! ”

Fang Yang looked at the king of Hejian who was like a lost dog, and said in his heart: I knew it earlier, why bother in the beginning!

Meng Guan captured the Hejian Wang's family and prepared to escort them back to the capital. As for Zhang Fang, when he raised troops to besiege and kill Bi Heng, he was doomed to his end, so after seeing the imperial army entering the city, Zhang Fang immediately ordered to stop resisting.

Although the imperial army suffered very little losses in this battle, many people in the city suffered a lot of losses, and most of them were disturbed by the chaotic soldiers under Zhang Fang's command. Faced with this situation, Meng Guan was unrelenting and cut off more than 300 heads in a row, which greatly shocked the beast army under Zhang Fang's command.

When the imperial army swept away the remnants of the land, the reconstruction plan launched by the cabinet won the hearts of the vast number of ordinary people in the Central Plains. In ancient times, it was really good to have a good reputation among the people at the bottom, at least there was no need to worry about someone exposing it!

How could Sima Shu, who was familiar with history, not know the power of the peasant uprising!

And because of the thunderous means of the imperial court, the powerful and landlords in various places no longer dare to bully the common people as before, otherwise once they are discovered by the imperial history of the inspection of the land or sued by the common people to the local Dali Temple or the procuratorate, they will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

It doesn't matter if you are a thousand-year-old family or a thousand-year-old hero, as long as you are caught by the imperial court with pigtails, you will be unlucky!

Now who knows that the prince has always looked at the family unpleasantly, in order to please the prince, which of the families is not trembling!

In the process of implementing the land policy, Sima Shu drew on the experience of history, and on the one hand, he expanded the number of middle and rich peasants, and on the other hand, he organized a large number of poor peasants and arranged them together according to the large farm plan.

In this way, private joint-stock farms began to spread all over the Central Plains, coupled with some state-owned farms controlled by the imperial court and private farms wholly owned by the family, so that this novel land management method began to become the mainstream in the Central Plains.

However, in this way, more people were liberated from the land, but fortunately, Sima Shu's original purpose was this. The liberation of so many peasants was largely for the purpose of developing industry. The degree of mechanization in ancient times was not high, and of course a lot of human resources were needed.

Although the Zhongyuan Iron and Steel Plant, the Glass Factory, and the Match Factory are still under construction. But there is already a lot of labor, and fortunately the dams on the Yellow River and its tributaries are being built, so that many laborers will not be idle all day.

The young and vigorous first began to build sheds on the predetermined river and level out the site for stacking raw materials; The able-bodied woman took on auxiliary tasks such as cooking and laundry. As for the elderly, they are placed in designated areas and are responsible for taking care of the children. Some children of the appropriate age have entered the school to study.

However, even so, there were still a large number of women who did not have any work, and it was at this time that craftsmen developed a new type of water-powered spinning machine to solve the urgent needs of the imperial court. The establishment of spinning mills has solved the work problems of many women. Moreover, the cloth produced by such large yarn mills is of good quality and low price.

As soon as it was listed, it was immediately ordered out by local merchants, and it was even exported to countries in the Western Regions. However, due to the establishment of the yarn factory, wool on the grassland suddenly became a scarce commodity. Many people in the yarn mill are looking for all kinds of wool in every possible way, and Sima Shu knows that he is extremely nostalgic for the cotton of later generations.

Later, Britain in Europe once had a famine because of this. Aristocrats and merchants were busy raising sheep in enclosures in the British Isles. In fact, Sima Shu is almost the same here. Since there is not enough cotton. Many farmers find sheep farming a good livelihood.

As a result, a lot of small pastures have arisen in various parts of the Central Plains, but the quality of the wool produced in the Central Plains is not good, and there is no Maoshun on the grassland at all.

For this reason, some court officials even jokingly said: "Sooner or later, the court will launch a Northern Expedition for wool!" ”

In addition to the textile industry, Sima Shu also established a match factory in the Central Plains, a small part of which was supplied to the imperial court's domestic demand, and most of it was sold to the Western Regions through the Silk Road, and then resold to the Roman Empire. Another part was sold to the Jiangdong family, and there was no way that most farmers had problems even eating, where would they get the money to sell your matches.

However, the price sold to the Jiangdong family was slaughtered by the imperial court. to retaliate for their conspiracy to divide Jiangdong.

Another way to make money is the ancient business of selling illicit salt, which has become an important source of tax revenue for the imperial court since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the monopoly of salt and iron tea. In particular, it is impossible to ban private salt in all dynasties. After the reconquest of Qingzhou, Sima Shu established a salt factory along the coast to produce salt.

After receiving the support of Sima Shu, Wang Yan also became interested in investing in the factory. Under Sima Shu's guidance, his cheap father-in-law invested in the construction of a soap factory.

The necessary raw materials for the production of soap are baking soda or potassium alkali fats or oils. Baking soda or lime can break down the fat with either to form a soap that separates the glycerin. It is convenient to pour lime, but the calcareous soap obtained in this way cannot be dissolved in water, so it is useless. If you use baking soda, you can get a soluble soap that can be used regularly.

The workers collected a lot of samphorns, apricots and various kinds of sargassum that floated ashore. These plants are collected in large quantities, dried in the sun, and then burned in open pits. You can get a lot of gray powder, which is natural baking soda.

Many children from poor families also come to help collect seaweed after school to earn a little money, and the oil and soap factories mainly use animal fat. But the cost of using this alone is too high. Later, the technician tried several more fillers. In the end, it is better to use rosin, which is cheap and can make the soap foam more, but it looks ugly.

It's the kind of yellow laundry soap it looks like. Later, I tried the water glass (sodium silicate). This time it looks good, it's cute for nothing, but the cost is a little higher. And it's a little harder.

Later, Wang Yan ordered the factory to produce two kinds of soap, and the low-cost ones were sold to the middle and lower class people, and the high-cost, spiced soaps were sold by him to various wealthy families at high prices.

As the reconstruction plan unfolded, various problems began to emerge, especially the increase in personnel and affairs, and another problem was that management became difficult. According to statistics, the pacification of the Central Plains suddenly allowed the imperial court to have more lands in the six prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yan, Henan, Si, and Hebei, and the population alone soared by more than 10 million people.

But fortunately, with the help of Zhang Hua, Zhang Bin and others, they are all elites of this era, and each of them is very good at administration. Although Sima Shu did not come from a management background, in the era of the information explosion in later generations, he still knew some modern management systems.

In terms of production, we learned from the experience of Xincheng, divided the original production process into several parts and established corresponding standards. In this way, not only the proficiency of the workers is improved, but also the quality of the products is greatly improved.

In terms of farm management, Sima Shu established a system of villagers' congresses. Although the current village congress does not have much power, it is only a matter of small things. But the management of the farm has become more humanized. Of course, these systems will have to be gradually improved in the course of implementation in the future.

The current Central Plains is a pilot project, and Sima Shu hopes to accumulate enough experience through the reconstruction of the Central Plains to promote modern management throughout the country in the future. In Sima Shu's view, an effective system is better than a thousand saints. Zhang Bin learned a lot from the prince. Zhang Bin felt more and more that this prince was unfathomable. Problems that are often difficult to solve in everyone's eyes always have unexpected solutions.

In addition to the great development of agriculture and industry, the most popular thing for the low-level common people is probably the school system introduced by the imperial court. Under the auspices of the Imperial Academy, the newly incorporated six states will establish a complete school system based on Guanzhong. It is necessary to ensure that villages have primary schools, counties have county schools, governments have government schools, and prefectures have state schools.

Moreover, because the imperial court was in urgent need of various talents, Sima Shu also established many professional schools in various states, such as Luban College, Mojia College, medical school, and so on.

All students are admitted free of charge before entering the state school. In addition to courses such as Chinese Studies, History, Mathematics, and Gewu, the school also offers courses in painting, music, physical education, and ideology. This kind of ideological class is to instill in students the ideas of national pride, dedication, and obedience to the rule of the Sima family.

A child's mind is like a blank sheet of paper, if you give them what kind of thoughts from an early age. Then they will become loyal supporters of this idea after they open up. Ten or eight years later, when this group of people grows up, Sima Shu's rule will be completely stable, and he will no longer have to worry about the subversion from the family.

After the work became regular, Sima Shu did not do everything himself, but boldly delegated power to hand over the specific work to the cabinet. And he himself freed up his hands and focused on the construction of the Navy. Since coming to this world, Sima Shu has always been obsessed with the navy.

If it weren't for the vassal king's chaos and disrupting his plan and stilling his river fleet, I'm afraid he would be able to make a boat to Qingzhou at this time! Even so, after the end of the war, Sima Shu immediately stepped up the construction of the navy. This time, the base chosen by Sima Shu for the navy was in Qingzhou, which was the famous Liugong Island base in later generations.

After handing over the government affairs to the cabinet, Sima Shu took his concubine Luzhu under the protection of the guards, and traveled all the way to Qingzhou. (To be continued.) )