Just after the New Year of the sixth year of Qingli, the people of the Great Song Dynasty were still immersed in the joy of the New Year.

A special official document on "The Great Song Dynasty Sweeps Gangsters and Eliminates Evil" was sent by the Constitutional Yuan to the Ministry of Police, the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial Historical Tower.

It is mentioned in the content that for the umbrella behind the local underworld forces, there is no upper limit and no bottom guarantee. Big tigers have to be swatted, and small flies have to be swatted.

The bosses of several departments did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly began to move forward.

All kinds of documents were conveyed, from the imperial court to the road, and then from the road to the state, the road and the yamen of the road, the state capital, and the county yamen, and they moved and arrested people everywhere.

Moreover, the various imperial history divisions also sent people to supervise and inspect everywhere, and the local imperial city divisions had bright guards and secret guards, and the secret guards were like plainclothes and integrated into the people.

During their visits, a large number of underworld forces and those who support them are about to face annihilation.

However, it is not immediate after a decree is issued, especially for a large country, which naturally takes a while to ferment.

This time may be months, half a year, or even a year or two.

Therefore, except for Gyeonggi Road, which has officially been led by the Ministry of Police, and has started operations in 18 counties of Gyeonggi Road, the rest of the roads are only about to start work.

And in the process, in February of the sixth year of Qingli, the imperial court once again issued a large number of new policies.

This new deal officially belongs to the fifth round of Qingli New Deal.

From the first year of Qingli to the present, there have been no less than 100 large and small policies in five rounds.

This new policy also covers all aspects, including supplements to previous policies and new policy guidance.

For example, at the official level, the imperial court allowed Zhulu to set up its own state-owned enterprises to build the steel, coal, cement, textile, and brick-burning industries in the road, and the specific construction methods were guided by the Wu'an Iron and Steel Plant.

Private businessmen were allowed to participate in the contracting of coal mines and iron mines, and the establishment of cement factories, spinning mills, brick factories, newspapers, and other industries, and commercial control was further relaxed.

Establish a postal system, set up a postal department, and incorporate the original post station system into the postal system, so that writing letters and consignments are no longer the exclusive domain of officials, but all people can pass letters and send goods.

In terms of education, elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools have been officially established.

Elementary and junior high schools are found in all states and counties, while high schools have only one in each district.

As for the university.

It is still in the preparatory stage.

Don't think it's confusing to build a university at this time.

In fact, the world's first university was founded forty-two years later, at the University of Bologna in Italy.

The University of Oxford, on the other hand, began to be taught in 1096 and was officially established in 1167 AD, just 121 years after 1046 AD.

Therefore, under the condition that the Great Song Dynasty established a relatively complete scientific system, no matter whether the universities established in the future can have the same height as later generations, they will at least provide a place for countless students to study and progress.

In terms of medical care, we promoted the construction of medicine, established the Ministry of Health, established Bianliang Hospital and the affiliated medical school, and convened doctors with rich management and high level to serve as experts and professors to train students.

In addition to promoting traditional Chinese medicine, the development of Western medicine was also indispensable, and the imperial court would give prisoners sentenced to death a chance to be general teachers, and if they voluntarily donated their bodies, the families would receive a state compensation fund so that medical schools could perform human dissections.

There are also cowpox vaccinations, epidemic prevention manuals, boiling water theories, etc., I believe that in the near future, there will basically be no dispute between Chinese medicine and Western medicine in later generations, because all of them are Chinese medicine.

In science and technology, we have increased investment in mathematics, physics and chemistry research, actively protected the cultivation and attention of scientific talents, the level of scientific research and the discovery of achievements, and also established a scientific and technological journal, which was distributed in a small area in Bianliang, and gradually increased the people's understanding and understanding of science.

In addition, there have been changes to varying degrees in the officialdom system, military and national defense, economic development, agricultural construction, and so on.

However, the overall change is not much, because these things have basically become more or less the same in the previous rounds of reforms, and there is no need to make any drastic changes.

In addition to these aspects, what is closely related to the people is this year's major infrastructure projects.

Funded by the imperial court, plus the surplus of the government stocks of each road, prefecture and county, a nationwide infrastructure construction was started, and large-scale repairs were carried out on the official roads, canals and barren fields of the county.

Originally, the big infrastructure must be designed and drawn, for example, if you build a road, you must always do a good job of where to repair and where to repair?

But this time the infrastructure is not to build new roads, but to re-manage the old roads so that they can play their role.

After all, if you want to build a factory, you have to build a road first, you can build a cement plant with a rammed earth road, you can build a cement road with a cement plant, you can build a steel plant with a cement road, and you can build a highway with a steel plant.

It is impossible to jump directly from rammed earth road to highway, which is unrealistic.

Therefore, all aspects of construction are actually slowly establishing a prototype for the industrialization of the Great Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to building a foundation and officially transforming from a feudal society to a scientific society.

Fortunately, at this time, feudal etiquette and religion had not yet developed to the same extent as the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, and the entire social atmosphere was still in the relatively open era of the Tang and Song dynasties.

If a woman is not allowed to be a maidservant, she can go out, remarry, or divorce. Men were not allowed to be slaves, merchants were allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, and traditional lowly titles such as lehu, prostitutes, beggars, and tanhu did not exist, all of which belonged to the category of free people.

Therefore, in such a social background, from another point of view, as long as the direction of reform is adjusted, in terms of the difficulty of reform, in fact, the difficulty of reform in the background of the Song Dynasty is lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Otherwise, just allowing human dissection is a great rebellion and is not tolerated by the world.

At the beginning of March, Bianliang.

It was Meng Chun, the spring sun was just right, and the warmth was sprinkled on the earth, making the world full of vitality.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo has long since ceased to be what it was ten years ago.

High-rise buildings rise from the ground, rows of trees drift in the wind, and painting boats on the river sway.

In the world of two- and three-story wooden houses, these five- and six-story reinforced concrete buildings stand out as a luxury.

But there is nothing out of place with this seemingly modern and classical combination, because the buildings are full of soft lines and beautiful oriental elements.

Between the white walls and gray tiles, there is a touch of beautiful style.

The streets are crisscrossed by signs swaying in the wind, and as the weather warms up and the temperature rises, peddlers' pawns wipe their sweat down the streets.

"Spice Le, spice Le, spice from the Western Regions, good quality and low price."

"Come on, the wontons just out of the pot are delicious."

"Take a walk and take a look, the best Hangzhou silk satin, a horse only needs two dollars, as long as two dollars!"

All kinds of shouting sounds, all kinds of smelly smells, and all kinds of people are like fish pouring into the sea along the river, full of agitation.

At the entrance of the small paper square in the inner city, several scholars were eating in the champion building next to it.

They are students of Bianliang Academy.

From the fourth year of Jingyou, the imperial court set up a school in Bianliang and named it Bianliang Academy.

Different from Taixue, in addition to Confucianism, science is also taught.

Students are not based on family conditions, but only on their learning ability, character and morality, and whether they can bear hardships and stand hard work.

To put it simply, this school is the pilot school for science education in Da Song Gang, and it is also the first batch of children who came into contact with science in addition to the first batch of students taught by Zhao Jun.

At that time, Zhao Jun brought extracurricular books such as "Interesting Little Experiments in Physics", "Basic Reactions in Chemistry" and "Primary School Mathematics" from later generations have also become textbooks here.

Nine years on, many of the students here have successfully graduated and participated in last year's imperial examination.

In the spring of February this year, because the imperial court officially included mathematics, physics and chemistry in the imperial examination this year, Bianliang Academy became the biggest beneficiary, with more than 200 jinshi and more than 120 people from Bianliang Academy.

For a time, Bianliang Academy became famous in Beijing, making this school, which originally only existed in legends and was basically not famous, became a household name overnight and everyone knew it.

At this moment, in the champion building, several people toasted each other.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time in Chunqiu High School, no one dares to say that the science we studied is useless."

"Yes, years of hard work have paid off."

"After passing the Jinshi examination, you will be selected and examined. Brother Wang, Brother Li, Brother Zhang, what are your plans in the future? ”

"I want to go to the Academy of Sciences, what about you?"

"Brother Wang, you too?"

"Coincidentally, so did I."

"The principal said that science is the way of the future, so what's the good of being an official? Academicians of the Academy of Sciences walk outside, who does not respect? ”

"Eh, am I the only one who wants to be an official?"

A few of the classmates who were in the middle of the academy said to each other that most of them actually wanted to enter the Academy of Sciences to engage in scientific research, which was also a strange thing.

However, at present, the threshold of the Academy of Sciences is indeed very high, in addition to the professional quality, but also the academic level and Jinshi background. Unless the first two are capable and the court gives them the same Jinshi background, it is difficult to get in.

There is no way, now the Academy of Sciences is still linked to the grade of officials, which can be understood as the Academy of Sciences is not a scientific research institution, but an official residence under the imperial court to study science.

The senior experts and professors in it are all going up to the fifth grade, and the dean of the Academy of Sciences is even more positive.

Although the president of the Academy of Sciences is now named by Zhao Zhen, and the three vice presidents of Jia Xian, Wan Zhichen, and Yan Su preside over the work on weekdays, as the imperial court attaches importance to science, their status is higher than that of ordinary scholars, and their treatment is more generous.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers. There is a new deal in the imperial court, take a look, this time it is another big reform, which concerns every one of us. ”

At this moment, the newspaper boy who sold the newspaper walked in waving the newspaper in his hand.

Someone hurriedly said, "Come on." ”

"I want it too."

"Little brother, give me two here."

"Okay."

The newsboy sold newspapers back and forth, and soon there were more than a dozen fewer newspapers in his pockets.

"The imperial court is going to build science schools in an all-round way, and all states and counties must have primary and junior high schools, and there will be a high school on the road."

"Great, we don't know how many students have stepped into the way of science."

"I've changed my mind, I'm going to the Ministry of Education."

"Why does Brother Liu want to go to the Ministry of Education?"

"Now that science schools are being established all over the country, there must be a shortage of people in teaching, and I want to participate."

"Brother Liu wants to be a gentleman? I don't know if the treatment is generous. ”

"Well, I really need to ask."

The Jinshi surnamed Liu, who was interested in entering the education industry, also hesitated.

He was born in poverty, but he was studious since he was a child, and he studied hard for nine years before he became a jinshi.

Although he knows that he has no background and no one to support, it will definitely be difficult to enter the officialdom, so it is better to find another way and find a better way.

For example, it is possible to go to the Ministry of Education, to be delegated to a local education bureau in the future, or to become the principal of a high school.

But I am also worried that the treatment of the imperial court is not good, is there such a thing as being an official, not only sharing the house but also paying a high salary.

But after a while, he said firmly: "The imperial court now attaches so much importance to science, it will definitely not treat educators harshly, I was born in Jinshi to devote myself to education, presumably directly as the principal started, and the treatment will not be too bad." ”

"Then I wish Brother Liu a peach and plum all over the world."

Everyone gave their blessings.

In fact, it didn't take long for the Ministry of Education to issue a new notice.

For the new Jinshi, there are willing to go to all walks of life, and it is true that they all start from the vice principals of primary and junior high schools in various places, and they are all from the seven-grade level, which is equivalent to the local county level.

And the principal of Yiyi High School is not a new jinshi, but a group of doctors selected from the Academy of Sciences, with a level of positive five grades.

At the present time when science has just been enlightened, the principal of the primary and junior high school who teaches Xinxue must at least have a diploma of the imperial examination and a scholar, and the teacher must also be a lifter, so you can know the importance that the imperial court attaches to education.

In the restaurant at the moment.

In addition to a few new jinshi, there were many merchants in the restaurant, who were actually very concerned about the imperial court policy and bought newspapers one after another.

There was a table at the adjacent table, and it happened that the Ma family, who was making paper in Bianliang, was banqueting the Meng family, who was doing grain and oil business, and the eldest of the Ma family was in his Chinese New Year's Eve, about the same age as the boss of the Meng family, and it was time to take over the family business.

When Boss Meng saw that the newspaper said that the imperial court had opened up steel, cement, textile and other industries, he immediately said excitedly: "Brother Ma, the imperial court has finally allowed us to operate steel and cement." ”

Boss Ma wondered: "Brother Meng, with the relationship between your family and the prefect, you still read the newspaper to find out about this?" ”

Many people in the Bianliang business district know that the Meng family was originally just a middle-class grain merchant family, but later they hugged the thigh of the prefect and became a shareholder of a state-owned commercial bank.

Boss Meng shook his head and said: "The Zhiyuan has always been upright, and my second uncle is not a person who is good at drilling camps, I only know that as long as the imperial court lets us contribute, even if it is bankrupt, we must help, so that we can get the favor of the imperial court, how can we be given internal information in advance?" ”

Boss Ma admired: "Uncle Meng is really the contemporary Meng Weijun. ”

"Since this steel mill and cement factory are set up by the imperial court in the hope of everyone, then our Meng family must not lag behind, and I plan to register a commercial house by myself to respond to the call of the imperial court."

Boss Meng said righteously.

Boss Ma thought about it, and then said: "Brother Meng dares to be the first, which makes the brother very admired, since the virtuous brother is in such a mood, the foolish brother naturally can't watch it, and is willing to work with the elder brother, what do you think?" ”

"That's a good feeling."

Meng Lao Lian nodded repeatedly.

In fact, there are already many businessmen who are investigating the affairs of steel mills and cement factories, but most of them are still waiting.

Everyone in the steel mill can see the profits, the demand for private steel is large, and there will be no shortage of sales in the future.

But I don't know how much it costs to set up such a factory, and ordinary businessmen will definitely not be able to afford it, only those giants are qualified.

The cement plant does not know whether there will be a market in the future and whether it will lose money.

However, there are risks in the business of businessmen, and the imperial court has already given the future development direction of the cement factory, so naturally there is no shortage of people who are willing to be the first to eat crabs.

Soon after the news came out, many businessmen in Bianliang planned to go to the industrial and commercial bureau to inquire about the establishment of these factories.

Both the education and business communities have caused quite a few earthquakes.

Compared with many scholars who studied science and businessmen who valued steel and cement, the folk are a different picture.

In fact, there are not many low-level people who really read the newspaper in Bianliang, and many of the people who read the newspaper are Bianliang citizens.

Just like the later generations of Beijing citizens, these Bianliang citizens have real estate and property in the local area, and they all have small family assets, so they can read and write and read newspapers, and their literacy rate is also high.

But the people at the bottom can't understand it, most of them don't live in the inner city, not even the outer city, but outside the city.

At this moment, the wilderness outside the city is no longer the wilderness it used to be.

In recent years, Bianliang has built a lot of buildings, and a large number of houses have been built in the eastern and western suburbs outside the city, which are full of people.

The lowest house price is in the eastern suburbs, the eastern suburbs are close to the city, close to the canal wharves such as Bianhe, Caihe, Wuzhang River, Jinhe, etc., and it is close to the wharf when you walk to the wharf, so it stands to reason that it should be the most sought-after place.

However, the housing prices outside Xincaomen are as low as less than 300 wen a month, which is more than 100 wen cheaper than the public housing built by the government, and even worse than the rent in the outer city near Xincaomen, which is even worse than the rent in the outer city.

The rent outside Chaoyang Gate and Datong Gate is a little more expensive, about 500 wen a month, which is about two to three days of wages for dock workers now. However, compared to the houses in the city near Chaoyang Gate and Datong Gate, it is still very cheap.

The reason why the rents in the eastern suburbs are low is that most of these houses were built by the imperial court for the people outside the city to live in, and the most important thing is that tens of thousands of people died outside the eastern city.

Zhao Jun dealt with Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Building, as well as the investigation of the filth of the entire Kaifeng, whether it was corrupt officials or underworld forces, they were arrested and imprisoned in the Imperial City Division and Kaifeng Mansion Prison, the prison was overcrowded for a period of time, and more than ten prisoners were locked up in a six-square-meter cell.

Then, after the interrogation of the Imperial City Division, groups of prisoners were taken to the outside of the East City for execution, and they were cut down for more than half a year, and the outside of the East City was still a wild wasteland, where the grass once turned red, and the small hillsides there became mass graves.

As a result, in just seven or eight years, the urban circle of Bianliang began to expand outside the city, and the mass graves outside the eastern city were also bulldozed, turning into a new urban area, and a large number of buildings rose from the ground.

Therefore, the eastern suburbs are far better than the western suburbs in terms of geography, environment and distance from the workplace, but the housing prices in the western suburbs are more expensive than those in the eastern suburbs.

Who's to blame for this?

At this time, compared to the era of buildings and bungalows in the city, it was much simpler outside the eastern city.

Like a criss-crossed town, you go out of the city along the Xincao Gate, and after crossing the bridge, you will step into the riverside road, with a moat around the outer city of Bianliang on one side and a street on the other.

There are three- and four-story houses, four- and five-story houses, and two- and three-story houses - what they all have in common is that they are basically not wooden anymore, but reinforced concrete houses.

Originally, there were many wooden houses in the eastern suburbs, but now they have been expropriated and demolished by the imperial court, and according to the plan, a market town extending to the outside of the city has been built for a mile.

Although the town is not as prosperous as the city, it also has all kinds of stores, and all kinds of stores are not much worse than those in the city.

At various intersections and outside the city, there are notices.

The eastern suburbs are under the control of Kaifeng Prefecture, and at the intersection leading to Xincao Gate, Datong Gate and Chaoyang Gate, crossing the bridge into the city, several officials came over with notices and rice milk.

Seeing this scene, the surrounding people suddenly stopped, some shopkeepers of nearby shops no longer looked at the shop, some workers who went to the city to work chose to be late, and even nearby children who did not go to school and ran barefoot gathered around to join in the fun.

"There's another notice."

"Let's see what new policies the imperial court has?"

"Good news, the imperial court is going to recruit workers on a large scale this time and build roads and canals."

"Really? Now that many places in the city are full, the eldest of my family has found a job, and the second and third children have nothing to do every day, and I am dying of sorrow. ”

"As mentioned above, if you want to go, you can go directly to the local government to sign up, and you will go to build roads and canals, and the treatment is lucrative."

"That's great."

Many people immediately discussed.

In recent years, because of the increasing prosperity and economic development of Bianliang, I don't know how many people have come to work.

The question is that in the era of deindustrialization, even if the economy is growing rapidly, where are there so many jobs?

So with the increasing number of people in recent years, it has become more and more difficult to find a job in Bianliang.

Although this problem will be easily solved in the future with the first industrial revolution unfolding, at least for the time being, there is still a great shortage of labor.

Now that the imperial court has begun to recruit workers again, it must be very good news for Bianliang's surplus labor.

For a time, the common people rushed to tell each other, and outside the Kaifeng Mansion and the Ministry of Industry Yamen, which was responsible for recruitment, were crowded with long queues, all of whom came to sign up to participate.

(End of chapter)