Liu Bei made a decision, and the ministers immediately prepared to implement it.

Because the matter is serious, there is really no room for shirk, so this time the execution of the bureaucrats is also quite explosive, and it didn't take long, only seven or eight days of hard work, to dig out the ghosts in the school.

There are three ghosts in total, each with their own line of collusion with the locality, and through the strict interrogation of the full pet, they confessed their collusion with the local government and all the news they knew with tears and snot.

So Liu Bei learned the ins and outs of this matter, and he also had a basic understanding of the officials and local forces involved in this matter, and he was also clear about some local mentalities.

To be honest, he was very annoyed, although he had been on guard and mentally prepared for the possible fraud, but he still felt completely annoyed that he had not been able to prevent this matter by all his defenses.

There was a need in the local area, and it was easy to go directly to the Luoyang Imperial Court without a big problem, and found a partner in a highly confidential situation, obtained a series of inside information, and completed a special arrangement for the position of the exam that seemed to be difficult.

Originally, according to the rules, in order to prevent candidates from cooperating with each other to cheat, the arrangement of test cubicles should be arranged according to the distinction between states, and candidates in the same state should never be in the range where they can cooperate and cheat, so as to make a physical partition.

But in this exam, there were such bad incidents, which shows that it is not only the problem of officials, but also some problems in settings and rules, Liu Bei has to review the rules he has formulated, and then continue to patch this set of rules to fill the loopholes.

But what's interesting is that each of the ghosts in these three divisions has actually connected more than one set of business, they have also expanded the number of businesses, and each of them has connected several sets of business, and each of them doesn't know that the other two are also engaged in this business, and the means they take are also different.

The only thing that is the same is that they are all very bold, so big that they make Liu Bei lose face.

Through the investigation of these three people, the follow-up three law divisions also dug out the remaining cheating candidates, in addition to the first one hundred and three people, more than three hundred cheating candidates were dug up, adding up to four hundred and twenty-seven people.

Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, a total of six states have problems, and a large number of officials and teachers who cooperate with local forces have also been caught in the state schools of these six states.

The three law divisions quickly sent people to various places to accurately capture them, and notified the local county and national military system, asking them to cooperate to catch and deal with these people, including the local forces that had needs.

By the end of February of the sixth year of Zhenguan, the arrest operation came to an end, the people involved in the case were basically arrested, and the local scholars' families, Haoqiang families, and civilian families involved in the matter were all controlled for further investigation.

Through this comprehensive investigation, the innocence of most of the candidates was also confirmed, so Liu Bei decided to admit the results of this selection after comprehensive consideration, and after eliminating the cheating candidates, the results of the remaining candidates could be officially announced at the end of February.

And as the news spread, the candidates who had been worried about the candidates' dormitory for more than a month finally let go of their hearts and finally began to cheer, feeling a joy similar to the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

Zhuge Jun and Zhang Yue, two activists who lived in the same dormitory, were also worried for more than a month, and they didn't dare to go out to play all day except for eating, drinking, and studying.

They thought that no matter what they did, everyone would read books and review their homework together, and no matter what happened, even if they had to retake the exam, everyone would have enough room to cope with it, so as not to lose their original level.

It is precisely because of this that most of the nearly 10,000 energetic students during this period of time are worried, full of worries about the re-examination, and they can't play well, and they can't eat well.

In this dormitory, only Zhuge Liang was different from a few others, and on the third day after the selection was over, he adjusted his mentality, thinking about letting Zhuge Jun and Zhang Yue go out to visit Luoyang together, but the four people in the same dormitory were all worried and couldn't play well.

So a few days later, Zhuge Liang simply went out to visit Luoyang alone, from the east city to the west market, from the south city to the north city, and also visited various residential areas.

In the bazaar, he saw a lot of fresh goods that could not be seen in Xuzhou, saw many people from the Western Regions who looked very different from the Han people in the Central Plains, and tasted a lot of food from the Western Regions.

In the residential area, he was able to taste a lot of Lao Luoyang's favorites, some traditional food, and some new restaurants that are constantly opening.

After visiting for a while, Zhuge Liang found that he preferred these residential areas to the market.

There have been some changes in the residential areas of Luoyang after the Zhenguan year, the original major square districts are between the fang gates and the corresponding management, the curfew policy inside and outside the city is relatively strict, but after three years of Zhenguan, Liu Bei gradually relaxed the curfew policy, giving the people greater freedom.

Later, the fang districts abolished the fang gate and the fang official, and mainly divided it into residential areas, commercial areas and administrative districts.

Some necessary sensitive areas retain the custody and review system, and pay attention to the fact that no idler is allowed to enter, but most commercial areas and residential areas have lifted restrictions, allowing residents and outsiders to move freely without restrictions.

So Zhuge Liang was able to visit many places, and for more than a month, his footprints have covered almost every area in Luoyang City, and in the course of this tour, he found a lot of interesting things.

One of the things that interested him the most was the existence of a public toilet.

This thing is something he has not seen in Xuzhou, there is a similar existence in the Zhuge clan, basically people with conditions in the family will build a toilet room for the family to use, pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, and will not get everywhere and stinky and noisy.

However, judging from Zhuge Liang's experience of living in Xuzhou for so many years, there are still no toilets in many places, and things like open defecation are very common.

This kind of thing is only available in some relatively wealthy homes, and only in the city will the government arrange special personnel to clean up the filth, there are not many clean places, and there are many smelly places, which is quite common.

He had heard that in some places in the countryside there would be someone who collected human feces and urine to make compost, and there were similar things in his family, but he had not seen it in person.

As a result, when he arrived in Luoyang, he first noticed that there were a large number of toilets in the candidates' dormitories and examination halls, but at that time he thought that this was normal.

However, later he found that there are many spacious public toilets in the streets and alleys of Luoyang City for people to use, and many people will go to the public toilets to go to the public toilets if they can't get a toilet at home, so it is no wonder that he walks around in Luoyang City, but he can't smell the smell.

Zhuge Liang himself went into the public toilet and found that the smell inside was not unpleasant, and there was an obvious smell of smoked wormwood, one by one the compartments were neatly arranged, and when he opened it, there was a pit inside, and there was a wooden box on the side, and there was a pile of paper in the wooden box.

Zhuge Liang was also very surprised when he arrived at the candidate's dormitory just now and saw this toilet and this pile of paper.

Although paper was already a commodity that could be purchased in Zhuge Liang's concept at that time, the concept of expensive paper formed by people for a long time, especially the consumption concept of very expensive paper such as Qingzhou leather paper, made Zhuge Liang think that it was very incredible for paper to appear in the toilet.

Then he touched it and found that this paper was different from ordinary writing paper, it was very soft, and it was quite tough, not like it could write.

Later, he learned that this thing is called straw paper, which is a by-product derived from the development of the paper industry, and is specially used for toilets.

Some people feel that this is insulting and inappropriate, and some people secretly take the straw paper in the toilet home, thinking that this is a sign of respect for the paper.

It's just that later this thing began to appear and began to be sold in the Luoyang market, and the quantity was huge, the price was extremely low, and the public toilets were even more piled up, and I really couldn't see where there was a precious appearance.

So people's perceptions began to change.

Similar to Zhuge Liang, in addition to the students from the original Luoyang Taixue and Sili Academy, the students from other states also had various opinions on the straw paper because they did not have time to promote it, but as time went by, they gradually became accustomed to wiping their butts with straw paper instead of scraping their butts with toilet chips.

Well, it's really soft and a little more comfortable.

What made Zhuge Liang feel a little happy was that like the candidates' dormitories and the examination institute, the public toilets in the public areas of Luoyang were also a style.

There is no difference between the toilets in the two places, and even the scale is larger, and there are also special personnel who are responsible for cleaning and taking care of them, so no matter when you go, you will not have a "dirty" feeling in the toilets.

In Zhuge Liang's view, this not only reflects the superiority of the governance of Luoyang City, but also shows that the Son of Heaven who leads this matter treats the people equally, and does not think who is clean and dirty because they are literate or not, whether they have mastered knowledge or not.

Everyone is clean, there is not much difference.

Therefore, cleanliness is Zhuge Liang's most intuitive first impression of Luoyang.

As for other things related to the toilet, what touched Zhuge Liang the most was that the group of people who worked in the toilet and were responsible for cleaning the toilet were all people who were not too old but were widowed and lonely.

Zhuge Liang once talked to an old man in charge of guarding the toilet about the toilet, and learned that this old man was very grateful for the court's kindness.

It turned out that it was difficult for elderly widows and lonely people like them to live.

The family members died one after another in the previous natural and man-made disasters, and they were the only ones left, and when they were still old, it became unrealistic to reorganize their families and live again, no one wanted to marry, or no one wanted to marry, and these elderly men and women would have faced an extremely miserable life.

But Liu Bei took these people into account when formulating policies, and also considered that construction plans such as public toilets are public welfare projects, and he didn't think about making money, but simply wanted to make the Han world cleaner and better, so it was better to do good things to the end.

Starting with Sili Prefecture, where the Luoyang region is located, he ordered officials to make a comprehensive count of widows, widows, and lonely people aged between 50 and 60.

These people's physical strength is no longer enough to cope with the heavy agricultural production, and it is really a bit difficult for them to allocate land for agricultural production, but their legs and feet are still dexterous, and they have not reached the time when they need special support and support.

So Liu Bei thought that they could do some simple public welfare work and not be too tired, but they had a job, made some contributions, and took the road of the treasury to provide them with an income and let them be self-reliant.

Liu Bei plans to make public toilet projects throughout the Han Empire in the next decade, not only to make the empire cleaner, but also to collect manure in a unified way to make compost.

At the stage when there is no way to produce chemical fertilizer, if it can be uniformly produced and compost can be provided to agricultural production areas in a regular and quantitative manner, it can also increase a certain amount of agricultural output value.

If this income is properly operated, it can just cover the part of the expenditure that provides income for this group of elderly widows and lonely people, and will not put too much pressure on the financial expenditure of the imperial court.

At the same time, the establishment of public toilets can also reduce the occurrence of epidemics, and in a sense, it also provides deeper benefits for the Han Empire, but it does not seem so obvious.

This is true in terms of the scope of the policy, but from the perspective of a person from a small person to an individual, the emergence and implementation of this policy is tantamount to giving them a way to live, and it is a great thing to live people's lives.

"Before, a few old guys in our village felt that they couldn't live to be fifty, and they thought that how long they could live, in case they died one day, they could be found in time to collect a corpse for us, which could be regarded as giving us a place to go, but I didn't expect that good things came so suddenly."

The janitor of a public toilet in the northeast corner of Luoyang City carried a wine gourd, sipping wine and looking at Zhuge Liang with a smile.

"The Son of Heaven is benevolent and righteous, our group of people take the monthly money directly from the government, and when the day comes, they will line up, and there is a long queue at the gate of the government over there, one by one, to sign up for the monthly money, and it has been more than a year now, and there has never been a shortage for a month.

Some people don't say much, but for me, it's really enough, you see, I can eat enough, I can wear warm clothes, and the rest can I eat two or three meals of meat, drink a pot of wine, and do some cleaning work every day, the taste is not very good, but compared with the old days, these are the days of heavenly people! ”

Zhuge Liang is not a fool, he can tell what is the truth and what is false, this old man is sitting at the door of the toilet, his face is clearly a satisfied smile, where is there a trace of sadness?

(End of chapter)