Chapter 13 The Maokeng Movement
The granting of knighthoods to commoners would blur the lines between commoners and nobles, and ultimately lead to the loss of core interests of nobles.
In the historical development of the earth, the contradiction between the commoners and the nobility has never stopped, taking China as an example, in the early Warring States period, the seven kingdoms competed for hegemony, and the commoners of each country could not obtain the title, even if they killed many enemies.
Subsequently, the demonic Qin State stepped onto the stage of history, and Shang Ying changed the law, giving civilians the opportunity to obtain the title for the first time, so that the Qin State broke out with terrifying energy from the foundation, and finally unified the six countries.
Any country will always have the largest number of civilians, and a country that does not know how to use the power of civilians will not be able to become a strong country after all.
The same is true of Phuket, and God has given Luo Lan the best opportunity, that is, there is no deep-rooted aristocratic power in Phuket, the nobles use this place as a pig farm, and now the farmers are going to rebel, and the nobles simply quit, anyway, it is a broken pigsty.
Such a good opportunity cannot be obtained by any land country.
Luo Lan took a fancy to this, he was not worried that the development of the situation would get out of control at all, he was now going to detonate the power of civilians.
Gandalf agreed, and he took over the matter with full authority, and began the difficult cause of reform with his few courtiers.
And Luo Lan began to ponder his toilet.
Walking on the streets of Phuket City, you can see garbage and sewage everywhere, and the alleys are full of feces and smell.
Luo Lan rode out at night and walked around, and he could see some people excreting behind his house. They were accustomed to it, and they would not be ashamed to see the prince.
The tiny city of Phuket is about to be flooded with dung.
Luo Lan rode his horse and walked down the street, and from time to time he could hear the cries of rats, which was quite terrifying under the night sky.
"It's so dirty, living in this kind of place, I guess I was killed by disease before I completed the great cause of reform."
Luo Lan shook her head for a long time, her eyes swept over the filthy long street, and found that there were beggars lying almost everywhere.
These beggars had no land, no housing in the city, and were not hawkers, and lived on handouts from the city's inhabitants every day.
"There seem to be no less than 500 beggars in Phuket City, almost one-twentieth of the inhabitants, which is really rare."
Luo Lan left some bread for the beggar, and returned to the palace while thinking about the toilet.
On this night, Luo Lan formulated a new policy, which made people laugh for quite a long time, and even spread to the land and became a laughing stock.
But when the plague swept across the northern continent decades later, in the squeak of rats, all countries went crazy to build toilets to control cities, and at that time Phuket City was already the most prosperous and cleanest city in the world, and it was also the benchmark for all cities.
After a night, the tired Luo Lan rested for a long time, and then went to find Ellie who was reading.
Elle was still depressed, she had nothing to do, and after reading the record book, she could only read the book.
Seeing Luo Lan coming at this time, she immediately complained to Luo Lan, "You bastard prince, how long are you going to suffocate me?" Let me go to the army, I want to be with my brother".
She was already bored enough to join the army.
Luo Lan smiled dumbly, and then took Ellie to her bedroom, asked two maids to bathe Ellie, and changed her into the most luxurious dress.
When Elle appeared in a dress with her hair tied up, Luo Lan's eyes lit up, what a beautiful girl.
With her delicate face, fair skin, flaxen hair and brown eyes, and that princess dress, she was more aristocratic than any aristocratic girl.
Luo Lan applauded, Ellie's face flushed slightly, and she pouted, "What are you going to do?" If you're so good to me, you're sure you're trying to do something wrong! ”
"That's right, I'm going to ...... Hey. ”
Luo Lan walked over with a strange smile, Ai Li was stunned, clasped her hands and stared at Luo Lan vigilantly, "Are you really?" I'm going to call someone! Brother"!
With a shout of his brother, Barrett immediately rushed in, the guard had been guarding the prince, and now he began to guard his sister.
Luo Lan rolled her eyes, and the rough Barrett was stunned by his sister's new look.
He pointed at Ellie and stammered, "Sister...... Younger sister? ”
Ellie ran behind Barrett with her skirt in her hand, "Of course it's me, the bastard prince wants to do bad things to me, hit him!"
Barrett smiled and scratched his head, "No, the prince is a good man."
This rough man is already Luo Lan's loyal guard.
Luo Lan sat down funny, and asked the two brothers and sisters to sit down as well.
"Don't make a fuss, Ellie, I don't have any staff right now, and you, the Minister of Education, are going to work as my assistant. So, I need you to spread the word about repairing the toilets, so I say that God has given you instructions to take care of hygiene, to clean up the city, and to make God happy. ”
Luo Lan came up with his seemingly useless policy, repairing toilets and sanitation.
Later generations recorded that the great Prince Roland was thoughtful and long-sighted, saw hidden dangers that ordinary people could not see, put an end to the plague that should have swept Phuket, and set the clearest benchmark for the rest of the city.
But now, Elle and Barrett are confused.
Especially Barrett, he, a big man, even directly criticized Luo Lan's policy, "Your Highness, there are still many people in our Guards who don't have horses, and now they have finally gotten some money from the nobles, and they have to repair the toilet, it's too wasteful, right?"
Although Elle didn't speak, she didn't feel good either.
Luo Lan couldn't explain it from the pathological aspect, so he had to ask Ellie, "This beautiful lady, would you rather live in a clean city or a dirty city?"
Ellie immediately said clean.
Luo Lan laughed, "That's right, everyone likes to be clean, now the world's cities are basically the same, backward and dirty, if we are clean and tidy in Phuket City, it will be great for the residents, it can also attract more people, and it can also attract overseas talents to move in in the future, in short, there is no benefit, this is a long-term development plan."
Ellie and Barrett looked at each other, they felt that Luo Lan's words were reasonable, clean was indeed better, but they were worried about money.
At Luo Lan's repeated insistence, Barrett, who was keen on expanding armaments, obeyed the order and took his sister to promote the Maokeng Movement.
Barrett is responsible for gathering the homeless, giving them money, and taking them to clean up the city, while Elle becomes the ambassador of Phuket City, convincing the people with her beauty and temperament.
In fact, these are preliminary efforts, and it is very difficult to change the habits of a city. But as soon as clean streets appear, and people live for ten days and half a month, they no longer want to be in the company of feces.
In addition, the city of Phuket is very small, and it can be cleaned perfectly with 500 beggars, and the subsequent construction of thatched pits is also a matter of course.
In this way, the prototype of a delicate and clean city appeared in this world.
"Maokeng movement, an indecent word, was given an elegant meaning by the great Prince Luo Lan. No one expected that the fight against the plague would start on an island in the south, and it would start so far ahead that it was like a divine revelation" - "History of Diseases in the Norlan Continent"