Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Xiao Zirong deeply felt that maybe he should open another party school, oh, no, it is an ideological and moral class, and it is specially for these little ladies to take ideological classes, what are they thinking about?

He said helplessly: "Okay, don't be so extreme, I just remind you, and there is one more thing, although you are already an official, you still have to study."

"what?"

This is a quintet, plus Bai Yan and Liu Cainiang.

Xiao Zirong nodded seriously and said: "Everyone should continue to study. Your official position is not permanent, and there are also deputy positions. From now on, there will be an imperial examination every spring, and qualified people will make supplements. If you are not as knowledgeable as them will be replaced."

Everyone suddenly showed panic. They didn't expect to study even after becoming an official.

Xiao Zirong looked at their expressions and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, there is no end to learning. Even court officials have to learn all the time. It doesn't mean that you don't learn anything when you become an official. You can put your current level outside. It’s better than a petty official, there’s nothing you can do now, think about the refugees who have already arrived, if they behave well, they can take the exam after they get out of slavery in the future, when the time comes…”

There is no need for a heavy hammer to beat the drum, and everyone can understand Xiao Zirong without finishing his speech.

Jin Sheng said firmly, "Don't worry, the city lord, we must study hard."

Xiao Zirong glanced at it, only Jin Sheng and Wei Yun in the whole hall didn't seem to think of learning as a difficulty, and one of the remaining four people looked distressed.

Needless to say, Zhai Xi is partial to subjects, and Lu Liu is even worse than her partial subjects.

Xiao Zirong is helpless, these two people can be regarded as his cheating, of course there are people who study better than the two of them, but the problem is that only these two people are the most suitable for these two positions.

What the Ministry of Industry needs to do is all kinds of projects. In this respect, no one in the city can compare to the three sisters of the Zhai family except himself. Lu Liu is outstanding in both archery and martial arts. In order to convince everyone of her, Xiao Zirong, He simply did another martial arts exercise, anyway, it's just a fight, whoever is the most powerful will win the position, as for the art of war... not needed for the time being.

Well, Lu Liu needs to learn a little bit, anyway, the skills are not overwhelming.

Xiao Zirong happily decided on this matter, and when the four freshly released officials were surrounded by people the next day, they couldn't help saying that they still needed to study, and everyone's expressions changed from envy to sympathy in an instant .

Xiao Zirong listened to what Liu Cainiang said, looked at Liu Cainiang and Bai Yan, and said, "You two don't regret it?"

In fact, Xiao Zirong originally wanted to arrange official positions for them. Even if these four positions cannot be arranged, he still has the final say on what official positions are available in the city?Two more can hold up.

It's a pity that Liu Cainiang and Bai Yan disagreed. Liu Cainiang waved her hand and said, "Forget it, I just finish the compulsory education that the city lord said. Don't let me study anymore. I'm not that material."

Xiao Zirong looked at Bai Yan helplessly, and Bai Yan smiled softly, "I'm still used to being the butler of the city lord."

Bai Yan has always remembered who rescued her from the sea of ​​suffering, officials and the like are not attractive to her, she feels that the city lord may need her more here.

Xiao Zirong didn't say anything else, one of these two wanted to be his housekeeper, and the other wanted to be his guard commander, it simply didn't make sense.

He sighed helplessly and said: "Okay, if you regret it, just tell me, by the way, Cai Niang, wait and tell Wei Yun for me, let her send someone to count the number of children under the age of ten in the city now , including the children of those refugees.”

These little ladies are hopeless. Few people are willing to study, and many are unwilling. Even if they know that studying can make them an official, they still prefer to farm and raise silkworms. What else can he do?We can only literacy according to the head, let them have the basic reading ability, and leave the rest alone.

Then education should start from the baby. The best age is under ten years old. To be honest, only refugees have it, and among refugees, this age is already able to establish a family. They can share some, and it is very likely that their parents will not let them go to special studies.

However, Xiao Zirong plans to set up an evening school, which is specially used for literacy, as long as they have graduated from elementary school, and it is up to them whether they want to continue their studies.

The children study there full-time, and they don't charge money from their parents anyway. They are only allowed to take care of their own three meals a day. Parents should be willing.

You must know that young children are not easy to deal with, especially when parents go to work in the field, these children are either brought to the field or left at home.

But no matter where I am, I am not at ease. Children who can run and jump may run to other places without paying attention in the field. There are mountains and forests near them, and there are many wild animals. It is very dangerous for children to run far away.

And there may be many accidents at home, so Xiao Zirong can help them solve their worries, and at the same time lay a foundation for the future of Taoyuan City.

Wei Yun's hands and feet are very nimble. After she finishes counting, the isolation of refugees over there is over. Fortunately, these refugees packed up their things and left when they saw that their homeland could not withstand the flood. They didn't wait for the flood to leave. So it wasn't too bad.

After these refugees came out, all of them were slaves, and the rules of slaves in Taoyuan City are that they cannot buy a house or distribute land, they can rent dormitories, of course, they need money. Taoyuan has to pay taxes for three years and complete all the hard labor. By the way, note that this condition can only allow one person to withdraw from citizenship, but both men and women can bring their underage children when they withdraw from citizenship, no matter how many children there are.

This can be regarded as Xiao Zirong's preferential treatment for children, but even if he treats children preferentially, different classes may still be born in the future.

This is something that can't be helped, and it is currently unsolvable.

Of course, that’s just the rules of ordinary people. People who have studied are different. He directly gathered the scholars together to take a test. Of course, the test paper this time is much more difficult than the previous test for young ladies. Many young ladies saw the test paper After that, they were very worried, worried that this would be a question for their next exam.

And some of those scholars answered well, and some were of average level, but they were still better than the little ladies.

Counting it down, there are actually only five people who have studied, and Tao Zhi, who almost went crazy when he went to the city before, is the best one.

Xiao Zirong waved to Tao Zhi and said: "You come with me, the rest of you don't have to worry about it, I will make arrangements, you go back now and wait for the announcement."

Tao Zhi followed Xiao Zirong a little nervously, not knowing what Xiao Zirong wanted him to do.

As a result, after he followed Xiao Zirong to the study of the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Zirong said directly: "I have something to announce now, so you can help me draft a document. Remember that it doesn't need to be too gorgeous, don't use too much Allusions, but to make things clear."

This request... made Tao Zhi feel a little bit difficult. Those scholars who want to become an official learn how to write articles that are meaningful and colorful at the same time.

He had never heard of this request before, but he could only bite the bullet. He knew very well that this should be a chance given to him by the city lord. If he did well, he might reach the sky in one step.

So Tao Zhi tried his best to start writing the document, but what Xiao Zirong actually asked him to write was the next arrangement, or the arrangement for those refugees.

Since you want the other party to pay taxes, it is natural to let the other party have a job, otherwise how can you pay taxes if you don't have a job?Not to mention the issue of paying taxes, I am afraid that I will starve to death.

The work Xiao Zirong arranged for them has two aspects. One is to reclaim wasteland. It is said to be reclaimed wasteland. In fact, it is to build terraced fields in selected places. With the increase of the number of people, the original land is definitely not enough. These terraced fields need After it is opened, it is owned by the state government.

Of course, if there are people who can leave their citizenship, these properties will be distributed to those people in the future.

Another aspect is to continue infrastructure construction, city walls, moats and bridges over the moats.

All this needs to be done, and the moat is more important.

This year's flood season has been brought forward, but it seems that there is still a break in the middle, so that it is true that the water is coming out, but according to the rules of previous years, the real flood season has not yet come.

Xiao Zirong needs to get the moat done before this time, and the city wall can be raised as much as possible, so that when the real flood season comes, he will feel more at ease.

I have to say that the people Liu Cainiang picked are not bad, and most of them have the quality of hard work and hard work. After this document was sent out, a part of it was directly intercepted and posted as an announcement. Of course, the function of this announcement is actually to tell other little ladies arrangements for these refugees.

As for those refugees... the rest are unable to read, and Wei Yun still needs to send someone to preach.

However, Tao Zhi's announcement is not bad. Although there are still some places where he likes to use beautiful words, at least the ladies don't have too much trouble reading them, and they can understand the meaning even if they don't care about those words.

After reading it, Xiao Zirong made a decision and said, "You can stay with me and be a clerk."

Tao Zhi looked surprised: "Really...really?"

Xiao Zirong said: "Really, and will give you citizenship, which is considered preferential treatment."

Tao Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this, he had almost accepted the fact that he would stay in slavery for two or three years just now, although it was difficult to accept, there was nothing he could do about it, after all he had no more leverage.

On the way to escape, he was really a useless scholar, and he did sell himself in exchange for his life, so his mood is still stable, and anyway, staying with the city lord is definitely better than staying with other people. places have more opportunities.

If he was asked to do coolies or farm, he might not be able to bear it in two days.

After all, he had never done these things at home before, so he couldn't get used to it for a while.

Tao Zhi has made arrangements, and the other scholars naturally also have arrangements. As long as the level of literacy is not too bad, they will be given civil registration, and those who are not good at reading will be assigned to the four officials to do documents. The remaining Xiao Zirong decided to let them teach. !

Of course, the content of the teaching is of course stipulated by him, and Xiao Zirong even prepared the teaching plan for them, so just follow this teaching, and wait to be cleaned up if you talk too much nonsense.

Xiao Zirong wasn't worried at all that these teachers would be bullied if the rules were so strict. These days, he had the most basic respect for parents and teachers in heaven and earth, so he didn't need to emphasize the authority of teachers too much.

Of course, some people were unwilling to this arrangement, especially the few scholars who were assigned to work under the four officials, who regarded it as a shame and a shame to work under a woman, and were cursing and unwilling.

Even these scholars organized a group to the city lord's mansion and shouted: "This is Yin and Yang reversed, and the hen is the morning!"

Liu Cainiang, who was in charge of defending the city lord's mansion, was so angry that she wanted to deal with these scholars immediately, but she didn't dare to do it. Even without Xiao Zirong's emphasis, Liu Cainiang knew that scholars were very precious these days and could not be easily offended.

She had no choice but to ask Xiao Zirong, and when Xiao Zirong saw her coming in angrily, she asked, "What's the matter?"

Liu Cainiang said angrily: "It's not those scholars who are not convinced. It seems that they must be officials to be happy."

Xiao Zirong was not surprised and just asked, "What did they say?"

Liu Cainiang pursed her lips before saying, "They are blocking the door of the city lord's mansion, yelling that the rooster is in the morning, yin and yang are upside down."

Oh, it's okay, IQ is not too low, so I probably didn't dare to scold him together.

Xiao Zirong nodded calmly and said, "Let Lu Liu lead people to arrest them all and put them in the public rental housing, and tell them that they will be slaves from today onwards, remember to sign up for work."