[Group Wearing Song Dynasty] The Glory of the Sky

For this group of weird people, as well as his current situation, Mr. Guo feels like trying to catch the ducks on the shelves.

Like magistrate sun, he himself did not understand their strangeness to a large extent.

Things like flashlights, cars, speakers, radio, etc., take a while to digest and understand.

The same is naturally true of the people in Yangzhou City - those who are superstitious believe that these people are gods or half-immortals, while those who are not superstitious think that the broadcast is sound transmission, and the light is some kind of kung fu.

Although Guo Di himself resisted these sudden changes, he had no choice.

The city wall that has been built for 30 years will be broken if it is broken. The [-] defenders in the city can't handle the few water dragons. It seems that this group of people is in charge of the wind and rain, and they don't go around spoiling things and robbing women and children. In any case, they are better than the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin .

Although he couldn't understand the women coming and going in the yamen, he could clearly feel that everyone was quite polite to him.

As for whether this is caring for the elderly, or recognition of his old official position, it is impossible to consider.

The old man observed secretly for a period of time, and found that these people were indeed extraordinary.

They can travel thousands of miles a day, and they can also control white flying birds. It is even more common for them to transmit sound over thousands of miles.

——Is it really a fairy?

So one day, he sent a stove to the yamen, hoping to talk to Liu Xi about something.

Liu Xi was a little confused when he saw the old man bring a stove over.

"You are..."

"A little thought."

Guo Di showed a embarrassed smile, and realized that he didn't understand the meaning of the stove, so he explained: "Now it's October, and this is our festival gift."

"Please sit down, just put the stove here." Liu Xun glanced at the small copper stove half a person's height in a daze, and asked curiously: "Festival?"

"October [-]st is the Burning Clothes Festival," Guo Di said with a smile, "It's also called the October Dynasty. At that time, we should give clothes to worship the ancestors, or go out of the city to enjoy the grave."

He motioned Liu Xi to look at the opening of the stove, and explained kindly: "On the first day of October, the stove is open to the fire. In this October, our local people often use this kind of stove to warm wine and barbecue, and sit around to drink and eat."

Hey, why did the old man take the initiative to send gifts today?

Liu Xi naturally knew that Guo Di didn't get close to them on weekdays, and the resistance and wariness in his eyes always existed.

"Are you... looking for me for something?" He tentatively asked.

"I don't know what kind of gods you are." Although Guo Di couldn't understand their things, he instinctively felt that these people were not gods, so he just saluted: "I don't comment on the matter of releasing slaves."

"But there is one thing, I don't know if you can do it."

He looked at the fair young man, hesitated for a moment, and said, "The practice of not giving birth to a child has been repeatedly banned, and it has become more and more serious in recent years."

"If you can get rid of this habit, you are also doing good deeds and accumulating virtue."

Liu Xi signaled Sun Ci, who was waiting at the door, to serve the old man a cup of tea, and listened to him curiously.

People in Song Dynasty called the matter of giving birth to a child and not raising it as non-judgment.

And the so-called not giving birth is an abandoned baby.

The phenomenon of abandoned babies was very common in various periods and regions of the Song Dynasty, and it had become a serious social problem in Guo Di's generation.

Whether it is an ordinary family or a scholar-bureaucrat's family, it is nothing new to kill or throw away children when they have too many children.

"Is it... only female babies?" Liu Xi asked tentatively.

"No," the old man sighed and shook his head, "If there are too many men, the men will be killed, and if there are too many women, the women will be killed. Mr. Dongpo and other officials have also made complaints many times, but no matter what the government does, they will not stop."

Liu Xi was stunned for a long time, then poured himself a cup of tea, and didn't speak for a long time.

He probably understood the problem.

The old man is of course kind-hearted, and he can't see thousands of babies dying.

But the focus of this social issue is on... contraception.

As the saying goes, food and sex are also sexual, leaving aside the need for reproduction, the pleasure of having sex is completely an evolved reward mechanism.

Modern men and women have so many ways to have fun, and they can't resist the temptation of sexual pleasure, let alone the ancient people who had a single way of entertainment...

The problem is, at this time, it is impossible for Liu Xi to turn into a condom factory.

Due to the constraints of economic conditions, people cannot raise too many children, so all the redundant children born are disposed of in inhumane ways.

but……

Liu Xi thought of something, and suddenly his expression changed: "Mr. Guo, do you know about potatoes?"

Guo Di was stunned for a moment: "What is that?"

"What about the corn?"

"what?"

Liu Xi was also stunned for a moment, and asked Sun Ci to go to the temporary kitchen and bring over two corns and potatoes brought from the town.

Guo Di took two strangely shaped objects from the girl's hands, and asked in a daze, "What are these?"

"This is... something that is very easy to satisfy and can be widely grown."

Liu Xi patiently explained: "A single plant of this corn can feed four or five people."

"As for this potato, it doesn't need to be taken care of after it is planted, and it grows quickly, so it is very easy to satisfy hunger."

If these two things can be widely disseminated, the problem of not being able to feed children can be solved.

In this era, there is no such problem as difficulty in schooling, and the survival crisis has not been resolved, so there is no need to consider anything else for the time being.

Guo Di held the two strange plants, and the expression on his face changed a lot.

Could it be that it is really a fairy from Penglai?Is this grass jelly?

"In the future, I will ask the people from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to train more and teach the people in Yangzhou City how to breed," Liu Xi said patiently: "It's not difficult, don't worry."

The old man knew what that meant too.

If things are really as he said, it is equivalent to saving tens of thousands of babies who were strangled to death in the dark.

The merits and virtues in this are not to be overstated even if you become a Buddha.

While Comrade Lao Guo was slowly breaking down his defenses, the people of the whole city also got a taste of something new.

Although during the meeting, those few officials spoke passionately, and all of them wanted to slap the table when they were talking.

But when it comes to doing things, he still knows how to measure.

One is that they are not forced to make progress according to their heads in the matter of disseminating ideas.

Since the students in Jiangyin Town were all concentrated in their study and development, the teacher naturally had a lot of space.

Li Luan arranged for bulldozers and workers to demolish several useless houses, opened up four small squares in the southeast, north, south, and north of Yangzhou City, and arranged dozens of stools.

Seven or eight teachers took turns to clock in at work, and some people pushed a small blackboard over to make it easier for them to write on the blackboard.

At first, the teacher went to give lectures, facing the empty square.

But their words still followed the voice of the radio, and spread out authentically and clearly.

It's not that complicated.

In the very beginning, just talk about two things.

Human rights thought, and natural science.

The teachers were instructed to use the attitude of teaching elementary school students, break down the rankings of those majors and explain them in detail, so that the vague concepts can be understood by people.

For example, the most basic, the issue of equality for all.

Opening people's wisdom is a very long, but definitely useful thing.

Liu Xi knew that this matter could not be rushed, so at the very beginning, only three things were abolished.

Binding feet, slavery, and the question of three wives and four concubines.

In fact, the abolition of three wives and four concubines was something that no one else had thought of.

Liu Xi's method was not extreme, but only stated that concubines would not be allowed in the future, and anyone who found out would be severely punished.

—— Taking a concubine itself will not interfere with economic production, nor will it cause any great social impact.

But Liu Xi has been in contact with politics for a long time, and he understands a core problem.

If he allowed new concubinage, sooner or later something would go wrong inside himself.

People in Jiangyin will have trade relations with Yangzhou people sooner or later, and their customs will blend with each other after a long time.

If people in Yangzhou were free to take concubines, then Jiang Yin and the people within him would have such thoughts sooner or later.

Can Jiang Yin's woman spare him?The people inside themselves won't tear it up?

If he didn't kill this sign in advance, he would be able to drink a pot by himself later.

And the matter of slavery has also been transformed very reasonably.

Because the south wall of Yangzhou City was blown down, Liu Xi needed a large number of workers to carry out relevant reconstruction and repairs, and directly cooperated with the government project to propose a city-wide recruitment system.

The ban on prostitution and domestic slavery has been publicly explained for three consecutive days that there are two things, the labor recruitment system and the contract.

In the case that the people cannot pay the minimum wage, the government has set the minimum wage line.

Although they didn't have copper coins, Qian Fan directly approved the official documents with Liu Xun, took out a few gold bars, and exchanged them with the local rich merchants for equivalent copper coins and silver collars.

In this era, silver has not been widely circulated, and because of the price, even wages are mainly issued by copper plates.

Within two days of broadcasting the news of the recruitment, the first batch of people was already full.

Many had escaped openly from the mansions of merchants or great families—yet there was little they could do about the government.

——If you have a job to do, you will get paid for it, and you will get a lot of it, so a fool will not go!

The first is that people from the Finance Bureau are sending people to talk to them about the purchase of goods and supplies. When there is business to be done, it is not a big problem to run away with some servants—not to mention the invalidation of the contract of sale and the signing of some cheap ones. The contract is it.

Second, it is natural to be afraid of their ability to supervise and control.

People are speculating on the identities of these strange people, and are also secretly observing their good and evil.

So far, it's neither hated nor liked.

But at least...the women's feet can finally take a breather after being relaxed.

At the same time, thermal power plants can finally resume operation.