At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"We also know that it is necessary to separate the sick from the healthy, but it takes a lot of time. During this time, the number of sick people will become more and more uncontrollable, and it will eventually lead to tragedy, and there will always be a lot of deaths. people."

Manuel was puzzled: "How did you do it?"

"As long as you deal with it properly, not many people will die, that's for sure."

Simpi said: "I have participated in many meetings of His Majesty to deal with the outbreak of the plague, and what I know is that His Majesty will write down all the signs and possibilities of the outbreak of the plague.

Write it on a piece of paper and send it to any village in the country where people live and are managed by officials. The head of the village needs to memorize all the contents of this piece of paper in the shortest possible time.

His Majesty's request is to memorize everything backwards, and you can't remember a single word wrongly. If you remember wrongly, you will be punished, and then observe carefully. Once you find any signs, isolate the patient immediately.

In this way, the problem can be found in the shortest time, and then immediately isolated, the population flow is controlled, people are not allowed to go out, the problem is brought under control, and then immediately reported to the township and county, depending on the situation, see whether to continue to report, This is roughly the process. "

Manuel looked at Wei Yong, the interpreter, puzzled.

"What is the village chief you speak of?"

"He is the lowest-level official in our Wei Dynasty. He manages dozens or more than 100 households in a village, and directly manages about 200 to 500 people, and there are more. Such an official."

Wei Yong said slowly: "About a dozen of such villages form a township, and many townships form counties, and then there are counties and prefectures. It is equivalent to five layers of classification, layer-by-layer management, and layer-by-layer decentralization."

"His Majesty's official government directly manages the lowest people? Does it directly pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Naturally, everyone has to pay taxes to the court."

"How many people pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor like this?"

Manuel asked expectantly.

Wei Yong thought about it.

"Are you asking me about the population of Wei? It has exceeded 7000 million."

"Seven thousand..."

Manuel took a deep breath: "No, I'm asking about the people who pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor."

"Yes, all citizens will pay taxes to His Majesty, whether it is agricultural tax or commercial tax, more or less, they all have to pay taxes."

Wei Yong talked about very normal things that he took for granted, but in Manuel's view, he found it unbelievable.

7000 million people, pay taxes to the emperor?

These 7000 million people are all citizens?

All citizens and all paying taxes?

Wouldn't someone not pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor and then embezzle the taxes themselves?

Doesn't such a huge empire have the kind of super strongman who can be in charge of the government, so as to control all local taxation, and just pay a little tribute to the emperor every year?

Is there no such person in the Wei Empire?

Manuel is weird.

"Is there no one who doesn't pay taxes?"

He continued to ask.

"There are, but they are all permitted by His Majesty. The land that is rewarded for meritorious service does not need to pay taxes, but other lands are taxed, and merchants also have to pay taxes."

Wei Yong felt a little unclear with this guy.

Simpi was also a little confused at this time, and asked Wei Yong: "What's going on? What is he asking?"

"Ministry, he is asking about taxes. He asked me if all Wei's taxes have to be paid, and whether there are people who don't have to pay taxes or something."

Wei Yong replied like this.

Simpi frowned.

"What is there to ask? Is there still..."

Simpi stopped speaking before finishing his sentence.

He suddenly remembered that the emperor had described the current situation of the Roman Empire to them when he held a meeting.

The Roman Empire is an alternative Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

It can be said to be a relatively slight degree of warlord separatism in the late Han Dynasty.

The military leaders control the power of a province or a region, and control the administrative, judicial, financial and even military power.

But because the Roman Empire has been like this since its establishment, when the emperor is strong, he can control the power of the military leaders in various places, and when the emperor is weak, he doesn't care at all. In the long run, the Roman Empire is also used to such a situation.

If you have money, everyone will send troops together, if you don’t have money, everyone will go their own way, and when necessary, they will fight for the throne, lead troops to fight for the throne, or use money to buy the throne from the imperial guards, and enjoy the emperor’s addiction.

This situation is very similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Their emperor was like the Son of Heaven. He directly ruled a piece of land, and then controlled an army, and the other lands were handed over to the princes.

The princes have all the power in their own land, but they are only responsible for conscripting and paying tribute for the emperor of Zhou, and then go to the emperor of Zhou to report on their duties at any time.

This model has good vitality and can last for a long time. As long as the transportation is not so convenient and the Zhou Tianzi is not so strong, everyone can develop freely.

Developed to the end, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, from peaceful coexistence to mutual annexation.

Of course, with the weakening of the authority of Emperor Zhou, not to mention taxes, there were very few tributes. The days of Emperor Zhou were getting worse day by day. The country is destroyed.

I don't know if the Roman Empire will have this day.

At that time, Guo Peng sighed in this way, and the officials also refreshed their understanding of the Roman Empire, and followed Guo Peng's thinking to understand what the Roman Empire was like.

Such a model, of course, does not need to talk about taxation and other things. If the emperor wants to rely on taxation to centralize power, he must defeat all military leaders, install civil servants, and rule the local area by means of the county system.

For now, don't even think about it.

A powerful emperor like Guo Peng cannot be owned by the Roman Empire. If he wants to have one, he must first be a military strongman with strong military talents and an army capable of fighting well.

So Simpi can understand Manuel's doubts.

"There's nothing to say about it. Tell him, let's talk about other topics. If you go deeper into this issue, it's him who feels uncomfortable."

Simpi patted Wei Yong on the shoulder.

He didn't want Manuel, a man with good thinking, to go into a dead end.

Not everyone can be a powerful emperor like Guo Peng.

And even if it was Guo Peng, how many years and how many people did he kill to achieve this step of coercing the world and making the rule of the Wei Empire deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?

I think of the martyrs on this road, I think of Luoyang City where people were panicked and blood flowed like a river, the rampant and unscrupulous Black Armored Forbidden Army, and the blood and tears of tens of thousands of scholars and their families who were exiled in one breath...

Those people should all be dead by now.

In the horrible living environment on the Shu road construction site, those who do not work hard and do not distinguish grains will not live long.

If the Roman emperor wants to achieve Guo Peng's level, he must first be prepared to change the people around him.

Is he okay?

Simpi sighed secretly.

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Manuel, of course, failed to understand the reason for this.

He did not fully participate in Guo Peng's battle for the founding of the country and the social revolution he worked hard to promote. It is normal that he cannot understand it.

Even if you understand it, Rome can't do it right now.

Unless Emperor Caracalla immediately turned into a macho man from heaven, united vertically and horizontally, fought a decisive battle with the military leaders of the whole country, wiped out those military leaders with political and military means, and brought all the provinces under his rule.

In that case, you can almost consider learning from the Wei Empire to carry out social revolution.

Before that, don't even think about it.

But that would require a large number of officials, a large number of officials with a central will, paper, cultural transfer, and social revolution.

Caracalla has nothing, and the peak is Liu Xiu.

Rome had no paper.

Only after Manuel came to the Wei Empire did he know that the writing tool of the Wei State was called paper, which was light, cheap, and easy to carry. People in the Wei State used it to write characters.

Unable to find out the taxation issue, Manuel was not in a hurry. He came to a paper shop and saw many scholars who came to buy paper, as well as stacks of paper.

He watched the people in the store write and draw on the paper with a brush, and watched one character after another appear on the paper. He was very surprised and delighted.

Parchment is expensive, not easy to manufacture, has many disadvantages, and there is also the fear of being bitten by hateful creatures such as rats.

And this paper...

They can be sold on the street, and there are quite a few people who buy them, which is enough to prove that the output is very high, so the price is very cheap. It seems that there are no shortcomings worth worrying about at present.

"Can we buy this kind of paper? There is also this kind of pen, which looks very interesting. I want to try to buy a batch and send it back to Rome so that my friends can use it."

Manuel looked at Wei Yong.

Wei Yong looked at Simpi.

"He said he wanted to buy paper and pens to send back to his country so that his friends could use them."

Others don't know, but Simpi doesn't know what paper has brought to this group of scholars and this country. He knows that paper is very important, and he also got Guo Peng's face-to-face instruction.

Anything can be sold, but the manufacturing method and formula must not be sold. It is the hen that lays eggs. If the hen is sold, we will have no eggs to eat.

Simpi's attitude towards paper is complicated, but when it comes to money, he and Guo Peng are definitely on the same front.

They want to buy it, of course they can, but the manufacturing method, forget it.

We only give a man a fish, never teach a man how to fish.

Just buy, that's absolutely welcome.

"Tell them, we have the four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper and inkstone. To write articles, both are indispensable. How can we just buy paper and pen? We should buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone together."

Simpi asked Wei Yong to convey his meaning.

Manuel quickly understood what the so-called Four Treasures of Pen, Ink, Paper and Inkstone of the Study meant, so he nodded in agreement, saying that he would purchase a large number of them, and then send them to Rome to introduce friends to use them.

Walking on the stone road, Manuel saw the public toilet again, saw some pedestrians enter the public toilet, and then walked out of the public toilet.

He stood curiously at the door of the public toilet.

"This is?"

"This is a public toilet, for excretion. There are many such toilets in Luoyang. Most Luoyang people solve their excretion problems here, so the smell is not very good, but people often go in and smoke with wormwood, so it's not bad. Not too bad."

"Toilet? A place to defecate?"

Manuel walked in curiously, looked around, and found that it was a compartment separated by wooden boards. The smell inside was rather pungent, but not smelly. He understood what the toilet meant.

There are places like this in Rome, and the city of Rome also has public toilets like this, but they are very dirty and messy, and there is no one to clean them up. The mess is often a paradise for all kinds of small bugs and mice.

It's okay if someone cleans it up, but if no one cleans it up, no one wants to go there.

Everyone will flock to the toilets that are cleaned by someone, but it will take a long time to queue up. Some people can't bear it at all, so they find a place to solve it.

So the city of Rome is definitely not without people defecating everywhere, and the smell is really bad.

But ever since he entered Luoyang City, he felt that the air in Luoyang City was very sweet, without the slightest discomfort, and it was very comfortable to breathe, as if this was not a city where millions of people lived.

He was very puzzled about this for a while, but now that he saw this toilet, he understood why.

"Why doesn't it have that smell in it? Where does people's excrement go? Does it have no smell?"

Because of lack of awareness, Manuel even thought that Chinese shit doesn't smell bad.

"Oh, the excrement is collected and transported outside the city, made into fertilizer in a special place, and then sent to the farmlands in various places to make the land more fertile and increase the grain output. Use it for the people and use it for the people, hahaha.”

Wei Yong laughed.

In the past, even if he was killed, he would never have imagined that the emperor would link public toilets with manure, creating a highly profitable industrial chain.

The one-stop service from the upstream toilet to the downstream farmland has created more benefits for many people, and the grain production has really increased a lot. Many people are very surprised by this.

It's really funny.

Wei Yong thought it was funny, but Manuel looked surprised.

"Can excrement increase the yield of crops in the land?"

"I didn't know it at first, but later I found out that it was true. Using excrement to make fertilizer into the land will really increase food production, and it will increase a lot. So now all states and counties use local fertilizers. Output is to be grasped as political achievements.”