Chapter 39: Five Years of Change (1)
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Five years is not a long time, but it is not a short time.
It is long because more than 1,800 days and nights, more than 21,000 hours; It is said to be short, because it is not too long in a person's life, and for the long river of years, a hundred years is just a drop in the ocean, let alone a short five years.
Five years, in fact, it is not even five years, and when I came back from the white night, it was only a little more than four years.
This year is 1264, in September, the season has come to autumn again, the sun is still warm, and the verdant and lush trees and grass and leaves seem to be difficult to make people imagine the scene of everything bleak and decaying in this season.
Perhaps, people have not yet noticed that one morning when they open the window, they will see that the ground is covered with autumn frost, and the leaves in the courtyard have withered and yellowed.
In the field, some children who came home from school were chasing and playing, running between the fields where the wheat had been harvested, and their young faces were full of smiles and giggling, this was their childhood.
In the city, large shops are ready to be lit up, and some small stalls and vendors are also pushing small carts and starting business at designated locations.
Those who have been busy all day will look around the store and buy one or two when they come across something that is good and cheap. There is no curfew in these cities, shops and shops can stay up all night, and people can party all night long.
On the street, a procession of field training returned, and the pedestrians avoided it, staring reverently on both sides of the road. A girl in the crowd smiled and pointed to a young soldier in the group, and waved at the soldier, as if she knew him.
When the soldier looked back, the procession stopped, and the officer on horseback immediately came and scolded the recruit, and the people on both sides laughed, and the girl who had just called out the soldier's name turned red and bowed her head shyly.
If most of the first half of the year was just a small change, then in the past five years, the entire Henan Province has undergone amazing changes.
Under the organization of the White Night Force, everything is developing in a good direction, all the power has been used to the point, and the ordinary people who live here deeply feel a sense of hope, and a sense of identity and belonging rises from the bottom of their hearts.
Year after year, day after day, people see every bit in their hearts, maybe they didn't understand some policies at first, but now look back, it is these fragmentary plans and strategies that have made their lives where they are today.
These changes are concentrated in three areas: people's livelihood, military and political affairs, and scientific research.
The change in people's livelihood is first in education, because Bai Ye made a set of very harsh orders, so that those who do not want their children to study, or do not want their children to read the books in the White Night School, are either forced to leave the area, or honestly send their children to the school.
In the end, they found that the children were doing well in school, not only saving food for the family every day, but even some filial children, and bringing back eggs and chicken legs to their parents that they had not eaten at noon, which made these farmers moved and ashamed.
These pupils have completed their primary education this year, and some of the better-achieving and nimble-minded children have been deliberately organized to form another more advanced school, the secondary school. Due to the lack of teachers, White Night occasionally came to class, but these children did not know who White Night was.
In this era, most people's thirst for knowledge is very strong, and you can understand the status of scholars in this year. This concept has been passed down from the elders to the children, which is far from modern, and the idea that knowledge is cheap is not as good as raising a family and making money as soon as possible.
The children are very hard-working, every day is full of courses, what Chinese and mathematics, what physics and chemistry, what martial arts biology, what practice, all this, they do not feel tired, but a very solid day. Moreover, although there are many lessons in one day, they are all children, and these lessons are not too profound and complicated, but more to make them literate and lay a foundation.
Because it was the first year, there was a problem here, that is, when students were first recruited, as long as they were under the age of 16, children above the age of 7 had to enroll, which caused the oldest students to graduate in their twenties, and the youngest to be in their teens.
The question of where this group of people will go is a big question, especially for those who are older graduates, who are obviously not suitable to mix with a group of children.
As soon as the problem came out, several chief administrative officials in the management and education department were very troubled, and they should be directly released for appointment, although these people are literate, they have limited study time, not much knowledge, and cannot do much work.
I want to teach them in the white night, but it took me ten years to complete the entire high school education.
After thinking about it, one of these people was quite clever and came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, and to put those older graduates over the age of eighteen and appoint them as elementary school teachers, which not only solved the problem of these people going to stay, but also solved the problem of teachers. Then bring together those who have graduated under the age of eighteen to build a higher level of junior high school.
This method was fed back to Bai Ye, and Bai Ye saw that this method was indeed feasible, and according to this model, there would be no shortage of teachers in the future. It's just the first few batches of students, which can be regarded as a sacrificed generation.
It is also helpless to propose this method, which is actually not a joyful thing, from a deep level, it is the backwardness of this era, the sadness of this era, why do those older graduates enter the school at an older age? Why do you graduate at an older age? They will even become the initial cornerstone of education as a whole.
The second major change in people's livelihood is hygiene, which is not only environmental hygiene, but also personal hygiene. In some time-traveling novels, as soon as the protagonist crosses, he sees a beautiful and white maid standing in front of the bed, waiting for the protagonist to wake up.
This kind of bridge is actually very nonsense, because ordinary people in this era generally don't pay much attention to personal hygiene, not to mention brushing their teeth and taking a bath, even wiping their butts is also a very troublesome thing. Just imagine, how clean can a group of people wipe their buttocks with wooden sticks, stones, blades of grass, etc.? Ordinary people are not rich and noble, and they can't afford to consume silk and paper. Therefore, ordinary people generally have some fecal smell on their bodies.
Speaking of bathing, like this, when a dynasty starts and a dynasty dies, life and death are still a problem, who cares about being unkempt and not taking a bath for dozens of days? Even in peacetime, it is as common for ordinary people to take a bath infrequently, so what is so special? It's just that everyone smells strong and covers each other.
Survival is the first priority, and everything else is meaningless in the face of survival!
Such a way of life is easy to breed bacteria and parasites, and drinking water and other aspects are not standardized, and in ancient times, when there was a plague outbreak, it was a disaster that swept millions of people.
Now, the cities have been replanned, with old buildings being torn down and rebuilt, garbage bins placed, and public baths, toilets, and hospitals set up. What satisfies Bai Ye the most is that a group of guys got the flush toilet out, although it is not popularized much, but it is worthy of the claim of the greatest invention of mankind in the previous life.
Moreover, the base of the white night has improved a papermaking technique that makes it simpler and faster, but the paper produced is not of good quality. So he used this crude papermaking technique to produce cheap straw paper, which could be carried home in a large bundle for a single piece of cake.
Now the whole city has a new look, the ground is clean and wide, and the roads are planted with evergreen trees, and the air seems to be fresher. Every day, there are special workers in charge of sanitation in the city, so those who like to litter, defecate and spit are most afraid of those who are elusive chengguan.
These people, under the rules laid down by the White Night, manage the sanitation of the entire city, and if anyone violates it, they will be fined directly. This fine is very interesting, the first time the fine is very small, the second time it is doubled, the third time it is doubled, and it grows by the power of two, so that some guys who didn't care about it at first ended up crying and regretting it.
This unscrupulous idea was naturally thought up by Bai Ye, and his intention was to change the behavior and habits of these people, but he also set a double limit, and it was impossible for people to really go bankrupt because of spitting.
Under such and such constraints, people began to be very uncomfortable, but now they find that they have adapted to this kind of life without knowing when. When some people from Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty enter the city, they have a familiar taste, and these people often show a look of disdain, which makes the newcomers inexplicable and unaware that in fact, these people are just copies of their years.
In agriculture and workshops, Bai Ye advocated the establishment of agricultural cooperatives to provide convenience for people willing to farm, and the grain harvested in five years was particularly sufficient, enough to support a year of foreign war. The workshop is mainly advocated by the White Night forces, and is divided into military workshops and civilian workshops.
Needless to say, the military workshop is used to make all kinds of civilian products, such as soap and soap, such as matches and glass, etc., these are not advanced crafts, and it is not difficult to make, but it provides a lot of funds for the operation of the entire power of the white night. In particular, daily necessities such as mirrors, matches, soap and soap were sold in the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia, and were even brought to the Western Regions by merchants.
In terms of business, Bai Ye set up a bank, but his bank is different from modern banks, and has the responsibilities of industry and commerce and taxation, and his order is that banks can only be owned publicly, not privately, and all underground banks are abolished.
For those pawnshops with pledges, the bank will thoroughly inspect them, and all shops that deliberately cheat people will be disposed of in a unified manner. Banks also have the purpose of pawning things for some emergency responders, but the price is very fair, better than the unscrupulous pawnshop.
In order to prevent some businesses from arbitrarily employing people and lowering salaries, Baiye set up a trade union, notified the whole district in the form of a clear text, and formulated a minimum labor fee and a series of labor guarantees.
Moreover, in order to prevent the occurrence of capital cannibalism, Bai Ye suppressed it by strong means at the beginning, and those who dared to touch the bottom line died!
In doing this, it is not that he wants to develop a perfect and intact national society, but that he wants to ensure that he can make use of people's wisdom as much as possible, instead of laughing at the poor and not smiling at prostitutes, as later generations do.
The methods used by Bai Ye make it impossible for many businessmen to make money that rivals the riches of the country, because the more money you make, the more taxes you pay, the higher the wages you pay to the workers, otherwise, you will be miserable. Unless you bring everyone into the rich!
Although this method made the merchants lose their great ambition, on the other hand, it ensured the vigorous development of the whole force.