"Parking! Let those people go first! ”

After Qi Zexuan attended the welcome dinner held by local officials and businessmen in Nandu, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. Escorted by the Praetorian Guards and the local gendarmerie, the group rode in four horse-drawn carriages through the slightly empty streets, preparing to return to the State Guest House to rest.

Just as the convoy passed through an intersection, more than 100 people poured out of a nearby four-story building. It may be that it is getting late, and these people want to return home as soon as possible, so they inevitably rush to the highway and compete with Qi Zexuan's convoy for the right of way.

The gendarmerie officer sitting next to the coachman jumped out of the carriage and was about to reprimand the pedestrians who did not understand the rules and rammed into the convoy of His Royal Highness the Emperor and Sun for no reason.

Qi Zexuan drank a few more glasses of wine at the banquet, his head was still a little dizzy, but he was still a little sober, so he stopped the behavior of the military police officer and asked the convoy to stop moving and let passers-by pass first.

At this time, it is the middle of spring, coupled with the temperature difference at night, the temperature is still relatively low, these passers-by wear heavy coats, hurried to the night road, do not hesitate to fight with the carriage, clearly want to return to the warm home as soon as possible, sleep a beautiful sleep, and then wait for the next day when the sky is light, get up early to continue to work and make money to support the family.

And his party sat in a luxurious and comfortable carriage, without feeling the cold of the night, let alone rushing for life in a hurry, if you want to rely on the royal prestige, shouting at these pedestrians, forcibly seizing the road, it will inevitably damage the reputation of the royal family.

It's just a road, and it's not an important official political trip, so there's no need to make a big show and show off your might.

"Your Highness is so humble, it's really a blessing for me!" Yin Wang Zhixu, who saw off the southern capital with the car, praised complimently.

Well, His Royal Highness the eldest grandson of the emperor is so calm and low-key, he must also be a gentle and restrained good emperor in the future.

"Isn't it a worker who has just gotten off work in the middle of the night?" Qi Zexuan watched through the car window as the group of people quickly crossed the road in piles of three or five, and then disappeared into the depths of the block in the night.

"Your Highness probably didn't notice that they were holding books in both hands, right? …… Hehe, these people are supposed to be workers in night school. Wang Zhixu said with a smile: "In the place where I just passed, there is a government-funded adult training school to teach workers some professional skills, so that they can master a skill, which is of great benefit to the local and personal people." ”

"Oh?" Qi Zexuan was surprised, "These workers got off work, and they had to attend night school training at night despite the hard work of the day? ”

"Yes, these workers work tirelessly in order to get better pay, and after getting off work, they will rush to night schools to participate in various professional skills training." Wang Zhixu said with some ostentatiousness: "Let Your Highness know that this kind of training school is financially supported by the government of Nandu, and the daily operating expenses of the school are also funded by the civil affairs department, and the teachers trained are also temporarily hired by the government from the higher education hall and professionals in various industries, and the students participating in the training only need to pay a small tuition fee to learn one of the professional skills." ”

"That's a great move!" Qi Zexuan nodded and praised: "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish." Workers have a skill, not only have an additional skill to survive, but also enable them to better integrate into the city. And these trained workers will be able to create more value for the city in the future, and pay taxes for the government, which is a very good thing for both public and private purposes! ”

"Your Highness...... Sagacious! Wang Zhixu couldn't help but look at the young emperor.

Seeing the small and seeing the big, as the future heir of the royal family, it is really not given for nothing!

These schools typically teach students a variety of skills, including driving a horse-drawn carriage or railcar, civil engineering, general machine repair, tailoring, shoemaking, ship driving, clocks, machinery, gardening, medicinal herbs, bookkeeping, shaving and cooking, and even how to be a competent security guard.

After these people have been trained in professional skills, although they can't do things right away, they can get started quickly after a little guidance from the master.

For example, after learning how to repair general steam machinery, the level is certainly not as good as the experienced senior craftsmen in the factory, and he still needs to practice with the master for a long time after entering the factory, but after all, he has a little theoretical and practical foundation, or it will not be long before he can easily deal with some small machine failures, and for the factory, these trained workers are quite cost-effective.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if you only have a little bit of steam engine maintenance from the training school, if you go to Daqin, or Europe, you can definitely get the status of a senior "engineer" and enjoy a generous treatment.

In European countries, education has never been a right for civilians. For example, in the United Kingdom, the traditional education fee is very high, and at the same time, the belief in the national religion is an important assessment criterion for students to enroll, graduate, and stay in school to teach, and the threshold is too high, which hinders people of other faiths or poor economic conditions from enrolling in school. After enrollment, students enjoy significantly different learning and living conditions according to the grades of aristocratic students, high-level self-financed students, self-financed students and reduced-fee students. Under this mode of education, schools were gradually monopolized by the aristocracy and high-ranking state clergy, and it would be difficult for the lower classes to have access to education, let alone the future.

As for the vocational skills training of ordinary citizens, it is impossible to talk about it.

Workers, just work like livestock, that's enough!

Training, what's the matter?

There is no doubt that the rise of night school is inseparable from the invention and application of gas lighting. In the days when there were no gaslights, it was almost impossible to conduct large-scale lectures at night. Even if you fill every corner of the classroom with candles, the light is not enough for everyone to see the teacher's movements, not to mention the fact that it is very expensive to spread across the country.

And bright gaslighting changed all that.

It fills every corner of the classroom with light, making it possible to teach at night. For this alone, the efficiency of knowledge dissemination in the whole society has increased many times.

Of course, gaslighting also brought about a drastic increase in productivity, mainly because of the possibility of working at night in the factory. Take those machinery and hardware factories in Qi as an example, because of the abundant orders and busy business, they have long had workers work in two shifts, all night, and work overtime to produce various mechanical products and hardware products.

Naturally, the efficiency of this is not comparable to that of those European counterparts who have to call it a day after dark.

Can you imagine? The metal utensils processed overnight are transported by heavy freight wagons early the next morning and delivered to customers without any problems. The goods produced during the night are in fact extra wealth, and it may not be obvious to one factory, but what if there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of factories? The additional social wealth created is quite amazing!

Thanks to the prosperity of overseas trade, there was a flourishing scene in all walks of life at home, with an unprecedented boom in the machinery industry, cotton textiles, chemicals, fine industries such as clocks and watches, shipbuilding, metal smelting and processing, and the military industry (relying on the several medium-sized wars currently being waged), large quantities of goods were produced and then shipped to home and abroad, and unemployment – well, structural unemployment inevitably in society – was reduced to its lowest point. Workers, peasants, commercial service workers, everyone has a stable income, prices are falling slowly but resolutely, all kinds of enterprises are operating at full capacity, and the number of bankruptcies has even been reduced to extremely low levels - well, there are always unlucky people in society who are not doing well, and the whole national economy is like cooking oil on fire, and the growth momentum is extremely strong.

The prosperity of the real economy has given birth to the progress of the service industry in Qiguo. In today's Hanzhou, all kinds of dramas, concerts, circuses, and competitive sports are held in succession, and the audience is full of people, and the income of actors (athletes) has risen sharply, so that countless artists from Qin, North Korea, and Annam have poured into Qi to earn a considerable income, and the culture of the whole society is in a state of full bloom.

Of course, the growth of the service industry does not only come from these arts, competitive sports and other industries, in fact, in some relatively "traditional and old" industries, its breeding and development speed may be even more rapid.

The subtle and classical small family wall jade in the East, the enthusiastic and unrestrained Persian singers, the exotic Westerners, oh, and the cheap and humble Nanyang natives and Indian dancers.

In fact, the government has no big prejudice against the development of this deformed industry, it is always the demand of the society, and it cannot be suppressed by pressure, after all, the bachelors in China have a little spare money in their hands, and they need to put pressure on the lower half of their bodies.

At present, prostitution is not a legal act in Qi State, because the damage to the "social spiritual level" is very huge and far-reaching, and it is easy to lead to the degradation of social customs. However, local governments have not overdone this and completely banned it, and have basically turned a blind eye and are in a gray area.

The state occasionally knocks on it, investigates and punishes some, and rectifies it, giving the people the impression that the government does not approve of these underground economies, and then even if everything is business as usual, it doesn't matter, the people of Qi are not noble enough to have no desires and no desires.

Of course, there are still some underground economies in many overseas territories in Nanyang. For example, many small-scale low-cost gyms run by Japanese people have always been the target of severe crackdowns by local governments, because they have caused many social problems, including health, and the government cannot afford to ignore them.

The governments of the Viceroyalty of the South Seas had tried to guide the Japanese women to earn money with their own hands and ingenuity, or to marry the new immigrants, which helped to improve their overall image. However, it seems that it has little effect, and after learning that there is a treasure mine of wealth between their legs, it is difficult for Japanese women who don't want to work too hard (including the evil forces that control them) to settle down to work, because the accumulation of wealth is too slow to quickly help their families in Japan.

When the carriage passed through a block, Wang Zhixu couldn't help but be embarrassed when he saw His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun tilting his head and looking at some slightly scantily clad women on the street through the car window.

How could these custom women in the southern capital be so bold and run to the street to solicit customers, so that the emperor and grandson will collide.

When he talked about the development status of the domestic custom industry, and after he belittled the Nanyang pickles, he saw that Qi Zexuan just smiled slightly, with a noncommittal expression.

Damn, why am I telling His Highness this?

Isn't this trying to cover up!

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(End of chapter)

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