Dress to be a celebrity

As soon as the foundation laying ceremony of the Hanzhong Economic Park was over, Song Shi couldn't wait to arrange for people to lay the foundation, build the field, and pour concrete precast slabs on the circled factory site.The lime factory manager he personally promoted led people to build ash kilns a little farther away, and the coal-smelting master he invited all the way to Fengxiang was also instructing workers to build coal kilns...

Although they are blooming everywhere and working together, there are as many as four to five hundred refugees in Nanzheng County. Laxian... There are even a lot of beggars for a living.The county magistrate Zhu picked up strong ones to build gardens for adults, healthy women to cook and wash clothes, and the rest of the old, immature, disabled and sick who could not work were sent to nursing homes and Salesian Village for temporary care. .

It's just that the nursing home doesn't allocate much money for a year, so these people are added suddenly, and the food, clothing and charcoal are not enough.

Zhu Chong heard the embarrassment of the county nursing home manager, and after thinking about it, he decided to go to Mr. Song for an idea——

He may have heard that when Ma Tongzhi raised money for charity, the big and wealthy businessmen under him donated like gold and silver.Later, Master Song accepted apprentices on the spot at the foundation laying ceremony of the Economic Park, and the parents who saw them wanted to donate the money for the construction of the academy on the spot, thinking that there was a lot of money in the mansion...

The county's finances are difficult, and these refugees can't ignore it. The county magistrate has no choice but to cry to the adults for being poor!

He made up his mind, tidied up the accounts of the nursing home, took the steward to the government office to ask Mr. Song, and asked him to allocate funds to the nursing home: according to the current standard of the nursing home, adults should be given three buckets of rice every month , a salary of thirty catties, one bolt of winter and summer cloth, and two-thirds for the children.Now they include the refugees as relief targets, adding nearly a hundred people who can meet the income standard of the nursing home, and the original allocation of money is far from enough.

County magistrate Zhu has only served as magistrate for less than two years, and he has exhausted his efforts to sort out the refugees before, so it is really beyond his ability to ask him to raise money.

He really turned down his face and begged this adult who was ten years younger than him: "My lord Wangfu will pay this money for the sake of the title of Xiaguan and Huan Qianxian in the same year."

Song Shi comforted him with a smile: "Brother Zhu, don't worry, this is a refugee that the government told you to gather. How can you only want the county to bear the expenses? The government will approve the note tomorrow, and you can ask the householder in Nanzheng County to come and pay the money."

He took a pen to write down the matter in the meeting minutes, asked the door to send the new roster to the household, asked the book office to redo the archives of the nursing home, and calculated the amount of firewood, rice, cloth, and cotton that should be allocated.

After arranging this matter, he asked County Magistrate Zhu: "Brother Zhu, have you asked how many of the refugees admitted to the hospital this time are the disabled, the seriously ill and unable to take care of themselves, the elderly over seventy, and the young children under sixteen?"

Although County Magistrate Zhu had read the files, he couldn't remember the numbers clearly, so he asked the steward to report back.

Since there was a special person to deal with it, Song Shi not only asked the refugees, but also asked about the proportion of staff in the entire nursing home, the number of stewards and employees, and asked them what kind of work they usually arranged for the orphans adopted in the home to supplement their living expenses. .

How could the steward dare to say in front of him that the people in the courtyard who were raised by the court to take over work to make money, hurriedly swore to the sky to assure the two adults that they would not dare to withhold any money, let alone instruct the courtyard. Working alone, old, sick and disabled.

Song Shi sneered: "This government hasn't said anything yet, so why are you guilty?"

Master Zhu also felt that something was wrong, looked down at the steward, squinted a pair of phoenix eyes shining brightly and said: "Could it be possible that you dare to treat those widows, widows, lonely, sick and disabled people harshly?!"

The steward repeatedly said that he didn't dare, Song Shi said lightly: "The nursing home often secretly withholds funds to make the adopted people in the hospital do their own work to make money for subsidies. In the future, Master Zhu will ask people to check more. But today I don't have time to ask about this matter, but I want to ask you, how many of these people can take care of themselves? If there are still young people who can take care of themselves and are willing to learn some crafts to be self-reliant, the mansion can also arrange craftsmen to teach them."

County Magistrate Zhu couldn't help persuading him: "My lord, if you want to find someone to teach them skills, the usual donations from the imperial court are not enough..."

The charitable money allocated by the imperial court is not enough, even the loans have to let them learn something to live on, otherwise these disabled people can't do heavy work, so they really only eat three buckets of rice and thirty catties of firewood this month?

Nowadays, even monks can make lead powder, and nuns can also do needlework well, and it's not all for the sake of earning more money and living a better life.Although these people were housed in the nursing home, they would not be able to use the little firewood and cloth from the imperial court for a month. They still had to learn some skills, so that they would have the hope of being self-reliant in the future.

What's more, how many people exploited the little relief from the imperial court. If the nursing home really couldn't support them and killed them, their leaders would have to bear the responsibility.

Song Shi glanced at the steward of the Nursing Home, and said to County Magistrate Zhu, "You don't need to find people to teach you any secret techniques. You just need to teach them some ordinary skills and earn some money to support yourself. Those who are diligent and willing to work, may be able to save up money to start a family and start a business in the future, so they don’t have to stay in the nursing home for the rest of their lives.”

He has experience in carrying out this practice in Guangxi and Fujian. Except for those who are bedridden due to serious illness, others can learn the technique of self-support.

For example, spinning, weaving, sewing, knitting... He was introducing his experience in the south, but County Magistrate Zhu couldn't help laughing and said, "Aren't these things done by women? How can men spin and weave?" Yes, although my lord has good intentions, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it."

Song Shi smiled and said: "There is nothing in this world that can't be done, it's just that you haven't been forced to that point." Like when he first time traveled, his brain was not fully developed, so in order not to waste the few papers he had downloaded, Didn't you try your best to memorize it?

Later, although no tourism plan was made, they also used some related ideas when promoting their Fujian Lecture Forum, and publicized a local forum to the world.

Therefore, it is said that art is not overwhelming, and there is no harm in learning more.

There is also the Yuyingtang, where many healthy girls are adopted, and the older ones can start to learn to be female celebrities.The government will allocate some money to add a few spinning and looms to them, and distribute a few catties of cotton to each of them, asking them to weave and sell by themselves...

...the spinning machine!

The fabrics of the Zheng Dynasty are as hard currency as silver. To improve the livelihood of the local people, there is nothing better than the spinning jenny, hydraulic loom, and mule loom, which have been in history textbooks and suddenly surpassed during the British Industrial Revolution. The artifact of the productivity of the whole society is faster?

Although Hanzhong Prefecture does not grow cotton, Fengxiang in the north is a major cotton-producing province. They bought cotton and shipped it, and then spun it into yarn and woven it into cloth to sell to other places, and they could make a lot of money in the process.

Even local expansion of cotton cultivation could be considered.

Although the people of Hanzhong Prefecture are not used to growing cotton, but in this era, there is no guarantee of pesticides and chemical fertilizers like their later generations, so the wheat field only grows one season of wheat a year, and then grows beans, rapeseed, etc. In fact, it can also be changed. grow cotton.

Now that he has found calcium-rich dolomite, phosphorite, and pyrolusite, he can also use plant ash to make potassium fertilizers, so the only thing that cannot be supplemented in large quantities is nitrogen fertilizers.However, soybeans and peas can be intercropped in cotton fields, and the root nodules on the bean roots can just fix nitrogen. From this point of view, the rotation of wheat and cotton will not consume too much nutrients in the soil.

——Even if it is only done every two or three years in order to protect the soil, it can quite increase the income of farmers.

But don't rush, take your time.

Now that the factory has not been built and the chemical fertilizers have not been prepared, farmers are hurriedly required to grow cotton. If the planting is not good, it will delay their yearly income from growing rapeseed and beans.He is a magistrate who has a family and a business and is not afraid of loss, but those small households point to the field to harvest and survive. If the government does not guide them well, thousands of people will go bankrupt...

He pressed the center of his brows hard, took a deep breath, suppressed some eager thoughts, and looked up at the steward standing below: "Wait for me to transfer the money back, and you organize people, according to age, disability level, and your own interests." Separated, the smart and dexterous will be taught to tailor, sew, spin and weave; those with thick hands and feet will learn to weave shoes and baskets... These are not skills that can be passed down from family to family, I don't believe you can't find a master."

Nanzheng County sent people to watch over this matter.

Looking at the efficiency of Nanzheng County's handling of refugees before, it can be seen that this county magistrate is a diligent person, and he reported the adoption of orphans, elderly and disabled people, so it is most appropriate for him to handle it.

Song Shi made arrangements for this matter, and said to Master Zhu on the way: "If there are still young people under the age of 16, no matter male or female, find a teacher to teach them how to read and write, so that they can be useful people when they grow up."

County magistrate Zhu hurriedly memorized his request, and then added: "If you want to teach women to read, you must hire women who have studied. I'm afraid it will be difficult to hire such women."

Even if it is difficult to hire, it is really impossible to look for it from the nunnery.But they must not be asked to teach the scriptures, and they don’t need to teach the Four Books for Women—what is the use of reading the Four Books for Women?Go directly to Primary Four Books!

Other Mongolian books can be replaced, but "Famous Things Mengqiu", one of the Four Primary Books, contains a lot of simple natural knowledge, which must be learned by children from an early age, and history books should also be read. Maybe you don't need to learn "Xing Li Zi Xun", and add a book like "Jiao Zi Zhai Gui" or "Children's Instructions" to teach children etiquette, and then add a nine-nine multiplication table that must be memorized.

After a child learns this, he can go to his factory school for further studies.

Mr. Zhu didn't know that his immediate superior was thinking about even the child laborers, and said with great emotion: "The day before yesterday when the foundation of the Hanzhong Economic Park was laid, it was known that the adults were educated and cared for the young. The moral heart of the people."

He said every word from the bottom of his heart. Mr. Song, who originally planned to let the children come to work for him after entering elementary school, felt a little embarrassed when he heard it. He touched his chest and said, "Brother Zhu is too famous, let's be officials. Which one of you doesn’t expect to turn the land under your rule into a place of enlightenment where everyone reads and understands? Although I have long wanted to, but today I have the confidence to ask someone to teach orphans, thanks to the generous donations from the local gentry, and the hard work of all colleagues Work together for the court and the people."

Yes Yes Yes……

Lord Zhu nodded in agreement, and when he heard the phrase "My colleagues", he unceremoniously regarded himself as an adult praising himself, and after a while, he also sensibly boasted: "What credits do the subordinates have? The adults do the most for the government and for the people."

That's true.

Song Shi felt sorry for Huan Ling who helped him calculate the earthwork until midnight, and sighed: "He is also for the people of the court, so how can he complain about suffering." Just a little bit.