"Your Highness, I'm full, let's go to class first!"

In September, with the sound of Li Dingguo putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Zhu Youzhen in the Changchun Hall of the Qi Palace also put down the dishes and chopsticks.

When he looked up, Li Dingguo had already run out of the door, and Yuan Xifei looked at Li Dingguo's back and couldn't help but worry:

"I already stayed in school, but this kid is still stubborn about going to school, and I don't know if I can keep up......"

"It's okay, he hasn't missed his homework in the past few months, he has been self-taught, and he can't get any worse." Zhu Youzhen wiped his mouth, then looked at Yuan Xi Concubine next to him and said:

"If you haven't come back for a long time, will there be changes in the house?"

"It's not ......" Yuan Xi thought that His Royal Highness was asking if anyone was pregnant, so she lowered her head and responded.

Zhu Youzhen thought that there was no change in the house, and bowed slightly: "When I come back this time, I won't move lightly in three or five years, you talk to the concubines in the harem, or continue once every three days." ”

"The concubine received ......the order," Concubine Yuan Xi responded, and then raised her head and asked, "Do you want to go down to Fangshan in winter?" ”

"Brother Huang should go, look at you if you say, I guess I will stay in the palace to preside over the affairs of the court." Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea, and Yuan Xi's concubine also bowed:

"The younger sisters are probably reluctant to His Highness, and if His Highness doesn't go, it is estimated that they won't go either."

"Let's go for a few......" Hearing Yuan Xiconcubine say this, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, he was really a little unbearable.

He had the heart to refuse, but he had no heirs, so he still had to pay the grain that should be paid.

"Huh...... Then the concubine will arrange it. Seeing Zhu Youzhen's appearance, Yuan Xi Concubine smiled snickering.

But while they were chatting, Li Dingguo also ran to the side door of the palace, pushed a bicycle and rushed out of the side door, and after getting on the car and sitting on one side, he began to pedal the bicycle towards the official school where he was studying.

The capital is very large, although there is an official school in Baiwangfang, but Zhu Youzhen did not arrange for Li Dingguo to study in the official school of Baiwangfang, but arranged it to study in Changle Fang, which is far away from the palace.

After several expansions in the capital, there are now 126 private squares, each of which houses 5,000 to 20,000 people.

There are more than 8,600 residents in the whole Changle Fang, and there are four official schools in the city, each with 500 to 1,000 people, and Li Dingguo studied the first official school in Changle Fang.

There are 1,000 students in the first official school of Changlefang, which is currently full, and it can be said that a group of teachers are taught from the first grade to the fifth grade.

Li Dingguo is now a student in the second half of the third grade, and he is still two and a half years away from graduation.

After many students read this, their families began to prepare for their Enke, but for Li Dingguo, he was not worried about Enke's problems, because he already knew that his Royal Highness was already planning a county school.

If nothing else, he had to finish high school and then go to college, and by the time he had finished the whole process, he would be almost twenty-two years old.

Of course, Li Dingguo is a year late, and under normal circumstances, he entered the government school at the age of seven and then graduated at the age of twenty.

"Li Dingguo!"

Li Dingguo rode into Changle Fang, still thinking about his future road, but heard someone shouting at him, so he quickly tightened the brakes.

"Sneer......"

The tires of the bicycle have long traces on the cement road, but because the rubber of the Ming Dynasty is taken from the natural rubber of the Euphorbiaceae family, it is pale yellow and does not leave black marks.

Stopping the car, Li Dingguo looked at the place where the sound came from, and then saw six or seven twelve or thirteen-year-old boys carrying bookcases.

They walked over quickly, and when they saw Li Dingguo's bicycle, they couldn't help but envy: "You actually grabbed the bicycle of the imperial store!" ”

"I've been queuing at home for a long time and haven't grabbed it."

"How's it going? Is it comfortable? And horseback riding? ”

The three young men in the same class as Li Dingguo kept looking at the bicycle with envious eyes and asked him how he felt.

"Would you like to try it?" Li Dingguo simply turned over and got out of the car to signal them to get in the car, but these six or seven young men immediately shook their heads:

"We can't ride, so it's not good to break your bike."

Obviously, they were all worried that they would break Li Dingguo's bicycle, after all, this bicycle was very "expensive" in the eyes of students who only had three or four yuan a day.

Compared with theirs, Li Dingguo's pocket money is relatively rich, although Zhu Youzhen also adheres to the consumption concept of "raising a son from poverty", but considering Zhu Ciran's existence that appears from time to time, he still asked Wang Chengen to give Li Dingguo fifteen wen every day as pocket money.

However, Li Dingguo basically didn't spend any money, and the money was basically saved, and then it was stabbed by someone who didn't know where it would suddenly come from.

"Ride, I'll take care of it for you."

With that, Li Dingguo walked behind the butt of the car and pulled the back seat of the bicycle with his hand.

It's a pity that although these six or seven young men wanted to sit, they still shook their heads and refused.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo did not force it, but pushed the cart and walked with them to school.

Six or seven people walked for a long time, chatting inside and out, but no one talked about homework, because there was indeed too little homework assigned by the official school.

Although it was a whole summer vacation, the homework assigned by the official school was mainly an essay in the summer vacation, as well as manual practice, plus 30 notebooks and 100 math problems.

Manual practice, mainly is to use some wood issued by the government school, and use the knowledge of textbooks to make wooden machinery by themselves.

As the squire of the official school department, Cheng De assigns the same homework to all government students, and the basic homework time can be completed in about 14 hours.

Compared with the long summer vacation, this homework time is spread out evenly and it is only half a cup of tea every day.

"By the way, Li Dingguo, did you go to the construction site during the summer vacation? Many people in the official school have gone. ”

"Construction site?" Li Dingguo was a little puzzled, and the student who opened his mouth to ask also nodded: "Yes, the construction site!" ”

"Don't you know? This summer, the construction site recruits workers over the age of 11, and they can earn a penny by carrying ten bags of cement. ”

"A lot of students in the government school have gone, three people carry a bag, we can carry 1670 bags a day, each person earns 56 or 6 Wen, I have saved a lot in a summer vacation."

"I don't know, I went home to farm, and I just returned to the capital after harvesting the millet yesterday." Li Dingguo explained, and the others nodded after listening to his words.

"Then you're missing a lot." The young men felt sorry for him, and at this time they also came to the gate of the official school.

The entrance of the official school, which covers an area of more than 200 acres, is also very broad, and the soldiers and horses in armor are also guarding the school gate to prevent gangsters from abducting children.

In the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for trafficking was very severe, according to the "Da Ming Law", those who plundered and sold human beings were sentenced to 100 canes and exiled for 3,000 li, and those who plundered and sold women to others as wives and concubines were sentenced to three years in prison with 100 canes.

Of course, this is only a punishment for ordinary trafficking, and if it is a special trafficking, once discovered, it is basically a death sentence.

This special kind of abduction is known as "harvesting and cutting".

Ordinary traffickers abduct and sell children and women to other families as children and concubines, but the methods of "harvesting and mutilation" are even more brutal, by poisoning children, cutting off their limbs, or burning their faces with charcoal.

Countless children have been brutally tortured and subjected to inhumane treatment, many of whom have been cut off by traffickers and then bled to death, and those who have survived have become tools for profit.

They roam the streets during the day, relying on their physical impairments to gain sympathy, and as long as they earn enough money, the traffickers will bring them back to their homes.

After returning home, these children could not rest normally, and the traffickers wanted to treat these children like animals, living a miserable life, and the children could not resist, so they could only endure everything in silence.

When the children grow up, they can no longer be profited by human traffickers, and many children are killed.

This phenomenon of harvesting and cutting has appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, so in the "Da Ming Law", this "harvesting and cutting" trafficker often needs to face punishments such as Ling Chi after being caught.

As far as Zhu Youzhen is concerned, if he wants to open a free official school, he must ensure the safety of the students.

Therefore, the key inspection location of the Soldiers and Horses Division and the official servants was around the official school, and in order to further restrict human traffickers, Zhu Youzhen revised part of the "Da Ming Law" and formulated the punishment for the same crime of buying and selling, implicating the three clans.

If one of the three clans denounces the family, the family is exempt from punishment and receives property for the purchase of children and women's families.

In addition, in order to prohibit false accusations, local nursing homes have also formulated adoption policies and issued adoption certificates.

As these various punishments and policies against human traffickers were publicized and implemented, from the ninth year of the Apocalypse to the first month of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, more than 6,000 traffickers were arrested, and 327 gangs were arrested, involving more than 3,600 people.

These more than 6,000 traffickers implicated more than 60,000 people of the three ethnic groups, and the traffickers themselves were executed by Ling Chi, car splitting, and beheading, while their three ethnic groups were exiled to places such as Nanzhou and Dongzhou.

Li Dingguo is not afraid of human traffickers, he has been followed by Jinyiwei, but I heard that there were indeed students from official schools who were abducted and trafficked at the beginning of the year, although they were later rescued, but the family no longer dared to let their children study official schools.

This kind of thing is unavoidable, with the Ming curfew, city gate inspection, road guidance system, in fact, it is relatively easy for the Ming traffickers to be arrested, but if the traffickers go out of the city, it is basically impossible to find.

Li Dingguo honestly put the bicycle next to the sentry box of the Terracotta Division, and then followed the students into the official school to start the first day of study in the next semester.

Because Yuan Xifei suspended Li Dingguo from school because he was sick, after entering the school, many classmates came to care about his health.

Although Li Dingguo said that it was okay, they still kept an eye on Li Dingguo.

As for the teaching of official schools, they actually knew that Li Dingguo was the child in the palace of the king of Qi, so they basically turned a blind eye to Li Dingguo's various behaviors.

"Bell Bell Bell ......"

As the bell rang, the class ended at two hours in the morning, and Li Dingguo also followed his classmates to the kitchen of the official school to eat.

The cook of the official school is actually almost the same as the canteen of later generations.

With concrete walls made of pig iron and cement, wooden beams overhead, and cement tiles, the entire kitchen is enough to accommodate 1,000 people at the same time.

Unlike rural students who bring enough rice and wheat to government schools, government schools in market towns and cities charge for meals, while a meal from Da Ku Kitchen is three monnies.

For a three-pennie meal, you can choose three dishes and a bowl of rice, and there is a large vat filled with green vegetable soup next to it.

I haven't eaten the cooking rice of the official school for more than half a year, and Li Dingguo still misses it a little.

Standing in line with his classmates, when he arrived, he glanced at the big pot of vegetables on the table.

Today, there are eight dishes, namely stir-fried chicken, stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried tofu skin, stir-fried pork, shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with leeks and fried fish.

"I want a scrambled chicken, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and shredded potatoes."

Li Dingguo spoke, and the cook behind the table also stood up.

One of his legs walks abnormally, and it can be seen from the empty pants that it is a prosthetic leg.

In this regard, Li Dingguo is no longer surprised, because he is not the only one in the entire official school cook, and many cooks are disabled.

Most of them are ordinary soldiers who have retired from various battlefields and have been resettled, working in this kitchen, and they also have a monthly salary of 600 wen a month, which is very good for a disabled body like them.

In the past dynasties, for these disabled soldiers, most of them were given a sum of silver even if they were settled, and some even did not even have the silver to be placed.

It was not until the fourth year of the Apocalypse that Zhu You's reform of the law began to be reformed, and the disabled soldiers were placed in large numbers.

For example, these people basically got a pension of 100 taels of silver, 10 acres of pension land, and also got the assigned posts.

Compared with those who work hard at the dock to earn 30 yuan a day, they can earn 20 yuan a day by washing dishes and cooking here, and they are also paid vacations during winter and summer vacations, which is a better job in the placement of ordinary soldiers.

"What are you looking at, boy? Not enough to eat? ”

The veteran cook looked at Li Dingguo, who was standing at the table stunned, and scolded with a smile, and Li Dingguo also smiled and turned to leave.

The kid was not a curse in the Ming Dynasty, but a word for the juniors, or the juniors called themselves, so there was no need for Li Dingguo to be angry.

As for his stunned mind just now, it was he who remembered the disabled soldiers of the Northern Expedition.

Li Dingguo went to the wounded barracks and even met some veterans in their forties.

According to their words, when they were soldiers in the Nine Sides, everyone wanted to save their lives, because the imperial court was not paid enough, not to mention that if anyone was killed or injured, most of them would not get any compensation.

But in the year of the Apocalypse, after King Qi took power, they were no longer "afraid of death".

This is not to say that they are really not afraid of death, but they are not afraid of the problems left behind after their death.

When a person dies, the family can get a hundred pension silver and ten acres of pension land, which is enough for the family to live an ordinary life, so they have no reason to be afraid of death.

died, the court helped to care for the family, survived, and took the beheading reward to buy a new house for the family.

After all, they are all on the battlefield, everyone has to fight desperately to win, if they lose, not only will the whole army be wiped out, but even the court will be in danger.

When the court was in danger, the promised bereavement became a problem.

Therefore, before going to the battlefield, everyone is ready to die in battle, which is very different from the atmosphere in the Wanli and Taichang periods.

"Except for His Royal Highness King Qi, who cares about our gang of mud legs......"

The words of the old soldier with the severed hand in the wounded barracks were still echoing in Li Dingguo's ears, and gradually he also knew why His Royal Highness could win the love of so many people.

Unlike those officials who keep saying that they are for the people, His Royal Highness has them in his heart and treats them as human beings......

After eating with thoughts, Li Dingguo and his classmates went to the sink area with the dinner plates, skillfully turned on the tap of the tap water, and washed the wooden dishes and chopsticks with the soap corner in the sink while the water fell, and then put them in the cutlery area.

The tap water system in the capital is the first set of water supply facilities in the Ming Dynasty designed by Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao, and built by the Ministry of Industry.

This water supply project began together with the construction of the east and west outer castles, and later joined the old castles of the capital, such as the southern castle, the inner castle, the imperial castle, and the palace castle.

The project took five years to build, with 10 pools, 32 miles of masonry tunnels, and 79 miles of ceramic and cast iron pipes, which could supply water to 1.5 million people, making it the largest water supply facility in the world.

Under the background of Zhu Youzhen's new policy and "work for relief", more than 2,200 county towns and more than 14,000 market towns in Daming have been put on the list of tap water supply projects, but they need to queue up.

According to the accounts given by Zhou Yanru, the cumulative labor of this project alone requires at least 18.6 million people and 17 million taels of silver, and the time span is about 25 years.

Of course, if Zhu Youzhen is determined to do it, he will be able to make all counties and towns in Daming successfully supply water in about ten years, but at present, Zhu Youzhen's idea is still "work for relief".

To put it bluntly, the project is listed first, and where the disaster is affected, the construction can be started.

Under this system, naturally, many officials lied about the disaster, and the result was that they were exiled to Nanzhou.

The tap water supply project is just one of Zhu Youzhen's projects in the context of "cash-for-work" in the next 13 years.

Railways, provincial roads, government roads, county roads, township roads, urban expansion, urban reconstruction, bridges, reservoirs, dams, etc......

According to the estimation of the Ministry of Industry, the overall project needs to use more than 600 million people before and after, and 4.26 billion taels of silver, spanning 76 years.

Of course, most of these 600 million people are double-counted, and if you really look into it, at most 100 million workers will be used, and each worker will get at least 25 taels.

If the silver is issued, it will eventually flow back to the hands of the imperial court through the market economy, so the economic expenditure caused is not much.

The real economic expenditure is the follow-up maintenance and repair of various projects after construction.

However, this is not in the scope of Zhu Youzhen's consideration, after all, to what extent can Daming Technology develop after 76 years, and does it still exist? This is a questionable question.

Li Dingguo has seen a lot of songs, and he also knows about the works of the Ministry of Industry, but he didn't expect the Ministry of Industry to hire a group of eleven or twelve-year-old boys.

He didn't expect it, and Zhu Youzhen didn't expect it, and if Zhu Youzhen didn't expect it, then he would naturally have to ask Zhou Yanru, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Not surprisingly, Zhou Yanru was summoned by Zhu Youzhen in the afternoon, and when he came to the side hall of the carrying palace of the Qi Palace, he saluted Zhu Youzhen, who had not been seen for a long time.

"Xiaguan, Zhou Yanru, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, see King Qi, respectfully ask His Royal Highness to ......"

"Lonely Ann."

In the side hall, Zhu Youzhen sat under the "General Map of Kunyu under the Great Tomorrow", and the four-zhang wide and three-zhang long "General Map of Kunyu under the Great Tomorrow" behind him added his appearance, giving people a feeling of self-insignificance.

Wang Chengen ordered someone to bring a chair to Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru sat down cautiously, and looked up at the "General Map of Kunyu under the Great Tomorrow".

The map is very complete, especially the location of the Qi country.

Judging from the distance ratio of the corner, Qi is not too far away from the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen chose the Qi State in this place in order to avoid the conflict between the Qi State and the Ming Dynasty in the future.

However, it can also be seen from the map that if the Zhu family has internal turmoil in the future, the place of chaos must be South Asia, and Donghu Burma, which borders the feudal domains, is a direct conflict area.

"I've heard people say that in the Ministry of Industry's cash-for-work scheme, there is a matter of employing eleven or twelve-year-old children, do you know about this?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked, and Zhou Yanru hurriedly responded:

"The lower officials know that this policy was issued by the lower officials, and the purpose is to help poor families, so that young people can also take on part of the burden of supporting their families in their spare time during winter and summer vacations."

"However, this policy is only implemented during the winter and summer vacations, and does not exist at other times."

Zhou Yanru knew what King Qi liked to hear, what he didn't like to hear, what he liked to watch, and what he didn't like to see, because what he said was in the category that Zhu Youzhen liked.

Sure enough, after Zhu You listened, his tone was not so stiff, but asked:

"What if someone fills the old with less in the future? What if people forced children to work? ”

"Timely inspections, all punishments!" Zhou Yanru hurriedly responded.

Zhu Youzhen was worried that some short-sighted parents would force their children to work, and the answer given by Zhou Yanru was to inspect, which made Zhu Youzhen not very satisfied.

"At present, this policy is only carried out in places where there are official schools, and official schools are mandatory, so Your Highness does not need to worry."

Zhou Yanru added, which made Zhu Youzhen's attitude a little slower.

After relieving, Zhu Youzhen also cared about the affairs of official learning, and asked:

"In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse next year, what are the provinces that will open government schools? How is the construction of government schools? ”

The second watch was around half past five in the afternoon

(End of chapter)