The market also has everything from fruit and grain to jewelry, jade, and even slaves.

If the commoners can still be regarded as half a person in these years, then the slaves are not human at all, and they can be bought and sold freely like commodities, and there is even a market for the special buying and selling of slaves, which are classified according to the strong men, women, children, and the elderly, for everyone to choose.

Moreover, most of these slave markets are government-run.

The main sources of slaves were captives, criminals and their families, or captured Hu people.

Although Zhao Kuo sympathized with these slaves, he did not intend to abolish slaves, and it was unrealistic to abolish slaves in this era.

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang limited the number of aristocratic slaves and forbade ordinary people from owning slaves, and a large number of 'godfathers' and 'godmothers' still appeared. This means that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

And these adopted sons and daughters are more disgusting and oppressive than slaves, on the surface they are adopted sons and daughters, but in fact they are still slaves, but the relationship has become a father-son relationship, and they have lost the opportunity to redeem themselves, and they can't run away if they want to, and they are not as good as slaves in the end.

Under the rapid development, Handan City will inevitably have some small flaws.

For example, crowded streets, garbage on the ground, some chaotic management, and so on.

Zhao Kuo saw that it could be solved, so he wrote it down and went back to order someone to deal with it, but there were some things that could not be solved temporarily, such as the street was too crowded and could only be put on hold temporarily.

Handan City is so big, unless it is expanded, no one can solve this problem.

However, the expansion will not be able to be pumped out until Handan College is fully completed.

Zhao Kuo's understanding of the people's situation is very simple, take a turn on the street, or find a family with more restaurants to drink, and listen to the content of everyone's conversation by the way, and you will know it in your heart.

Whether a policy is beneficial to the people or not is not something that you can say, but depends on what the people say, and only the people are the most qualified to say it.

Many policies are good on the surface, but when they are actually implemented, they will completely change, and if you are in the palace, you will never know.

"Guest officers, what are you going to do?" As soon as Zhao Kuo stepped into the restaurant, the little servant stepped forward to entertain him.

As a small servant, the most important thing is eyesight, knowing who can offend and who can not offend, although Zhao Kuo and others are dressed plainly, but the little guy can see at a glance that the jade pendant on Zhao Kuo's waist can buy the entire restaurant.

"A jar of wine, and a few more of your store's signature dishes." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said, this is the first time I have come to this store.

"Okay, guest wait."

Zhao Kuo chose a window seat, looked at the pedestrians coming outside, and always felt that Handan seemed to be missing something, but he couldn't remember it.

"Do you think there's something missing in the city?" Zhao Kuo looked at Ben and Gai Nie.

"Nope."

The two shook their heads, you can let them do it, forget it.

"Forget it, I don't want to." Zhao Kuo sighed.

"Shopkeeper, borrow a thatched house and use it." At this time, a man hurriedly rushed in from the outside and said anxiously.

The shopkeeper seemed to be surprised by this, pointed in one direction inside, and continued to settle accounts with the calculation.

The man thanked him and quickly slipped in.

"I remember, there's a lack of toilets! No wonder the city is a little dirty, and sometimes you can even smell the stench. Zhao Kuomeng slapped the table and said loudly.

Fortunately during the day, no one dares to take off their pants in public, and passers-by can also borrow some of the shop's thatched houses to go to the toilet, and the shop will not refuse under normal circumstances.

But at night, when everything is silent and the lights are dark, the situation is different, and some people have to run outside to poop even though they have a toilet at home.

If you pass by a small alley at night and shine a light on it, the scene is spectacular!

There are also new residential areas outside the city, because of the chaotic management and the lack of city walls, pedestrians who have not had time to enter the city will choose to stay outside.

What if there is no toilet at night when it is convenient?

Naturally, it is solved on the side of the road.

It's okay for one or two people to do this, and it's okay for ten or eight, but when thousands or even tens of thousands of people do it, it's a big problem.

The outside of Handan will be shrouded in a stench, and it will even blow into the city under the action of the wind.

Zhao Guo originally had a perfect management system for this, which would not cause the current situation, but the expansion of Handan was too rapid, and the people living outside the city caught up with the number of people in the city in a short time, but the management system could not keep up, so it led to the current result.

"Go and put Wei Wuji...... Forget it, call the Tentacle Dragon. Zhao Kuo thought that Wei Wuji was now responsible for coordinating the affairs of the whole country and the relocation of the corpses of soldiers, and he was very busy every day, so he decided to let him go.

"Is the king planning to build a toilet in Handan?" Ben asked curiously.

"Not only to build toilets in Handan, but also to build public toilets in all cities in Zhao State." Zhao Kuo said solemnly.

Public toilets not only improve the environment of the city, but also collect manure and increase food production.

In this era, there is no chemical fertilizer, and fertilizer has a very, very much increase in yield per mu, sometimes even three or four times.

However, under normal circumstances, a family of five to eight people, even if all of them are manure machines, they can't pull much poop a year, and the most fertilizer is applied to two or three acres of land, which does not have much impact on the total output, and the increased tax is even less, so in addition to some farmers who are on the subsistence line, the monarch and the nobles do not pay attention.

But if most of the manure could be collected and fertilized on the state's cultivated public fields, the yield would be very impressive.

Each household does not produce much manure, and all the people in the country add up to that. Moreover, all the harvest of the public land belongs to the state, unlike taxes, which only take a tenth.

"How much does that cost?" Ben said that although he was not good at arithmetic and could not calculate a specific number, he also knew that it was by no means a small amount.

"It doesn't cost much, and besides, when have you ever seen that this king is short of money?" Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

How luxurious is the toilet? It can be built with wood, but there is a lot of land in the mountains, and the land does not cost money, but what you have to pay is labor money, as well as the wages of workers who build houses, clean toilets, and pull manure.

Again, this year's artificial money is the price of cabbage, and in other countries it may not even have the price of cabbage, all for free.

At most, it will pay back in one year, and the rest will be earned.

"That's right." Ben smiled, although he didn't understand why Zhao Kuo's money couldn't be spent, but he really hadn't seen Zhao Kuo lack money.

When Touchlong rushed over, the dish was already halfway served, and Touchlong arched his hand and said, "I don't know what the king is looking for?" ”

"Sit down, let's talk after eating." Zhao Kuo pointed to the dish and said.

When I finished eating, it was really not appropriate to talk about it.

"No." Touching the dragon was not polite, sat down directly, and picked up the fast son.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Kuo told him what had just happened, and finally said: "The sooner this matter is, the better." After the construction of public toilets, it was stipulated that everyone must go to the toilet to defecate and fine. ”

"I understand." Touching the dragon nodded, he was not a Heavenly Empire official who did not touch the spring water with his fingers, and when he heard Zhao Kuo say it, he understood the importance of this matter.