"Thank you, my husband!" Shen Hongmao suppressed the excitement in his chest and bowed to accept the order.

"Mr. Shen, sit down and talk!" Qi Zhiti's face showed a frank smile: "You don't have to thank me, this is a mission that offends people. You should know that this dynasty has been in charge of Westernization for forty or fifty years, and people who rely on these factories to make a living are all. If you do this, you will cause hatred from many people. If it is done, it will be fine if it is done. If it is done, it is fine. If it is made, I am afraid that those people will bite you and will kill you. You have to think about it! Mr. Shen!"

"If it is beneficial to the country's life and death, how can we avoid misfortune and good fortune?" Shen Hongmao replied in a deep voice: "We read the books of sages to do something beneficial for the court and the country. How can we be greedy and cowardly for the sake of our own gains and losses? After a thousand generations, we will probably be scolded by thousands of people in history!"

"Well said, well said! Lord Shen, you are indeed the true seed of our scholars. I have been raising scholars for three hundred years, and finally I have not vain the efforts of the emperors of all dynasties. This matter is settled! Lord Hu, Lord Zao, what do you think?" Qi Zhiti's eyes turned to Hu Keqin and Zao Guoquan.

"The next official agreed!" Zao Guoquan responded.

"Mr. Shen must act cautiously. He would rather be slower than be tempted, which would ruin the major affairs of the court!" Hu Keqin said earnestly.

"Thank you, Mr. Hu, for your advice!"

"What about the next one? Lord Shen?" Speaking of this, Qi Zhiti laughed half-jokingly and half-seriously: "It shouldn't be as scary as the one just now, right?"

"I dare not!" Shen Hongmao glanced at Hu Keqin and whispered: "Actually, these two things are the suggestions of Lord Hu and I."

"With Lord Hu?" Qi Zhiti turned his gaze to Hu Keqin on the side in surprise. Hu Keqin nodded slightly: "No, my husband! This time, Lord Shen and I went to Shanghai to issue public bonds. I encountered many things. I was quite touched and felt that some things had to be changed. Otherwise, if you say something taboo, I am afraid that this court and this country will have big problems in less than twenty years!"

"The big problem?" Qi Zhiti showed a dissatisfied expression on his face: "Mr. Hu, the emperors of this dynasty have had great kindness and no place for any virtue. The people have been blessed with my great grace for more than two hundred years. Even if there are some disasters, they can still be removed slowly. Did the old man say something just now?"

"Mr. Qi, if it were three hundred years ago, I thought it was good, but now I am afraid it is a bit inappropriate!"

"What's the difference?"

"Qi Gong, if it were three hundred years ago, our China would be within the four seas, and the four realms would be just barbarians. Even though the troops were strong for a while, after all, the moral education of culture and moral education was far inferior to that of our country, and the hearts of the people would still be to the court. But now it is different. Although the Western barbarians are known as barbarians, civilized education is by no means inferior to my great conscience, which is enough to compete with me. Once a conflict arises, who can say that the hearts of the people will definitely be subordinate to me? Secondly, like Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, there are no less than millions of people who have exercised work and labor in the city. These families have no savings for ten months and work hard to feed and clothing. Once there is a change, they will be left on the streets and have no way to make a living. As the saying goes, hunger and cold have a thief. These millions of people have not read the books of sages. Once the incident occurs, they are afraid that the southeast half will no longer be owned by the state!"

After hearing Hu Keqin's words, Qi Zhiti couldn't help but change his face slightly. As Hu Keqin said, Dashun now has two problems that have never happened in thousands of years. First, the powerful countries such as England, France, and Russia faced by Dashun not only have strong military power, but also are not inferior to Dashun in civilization and education. Once defeated, there will be no phenomenon of assimilation by China as in the past. Xia will enter the barbarians instead of Xia. Second, due to the development of industrial economy and urbanization, a large number of proletariats appeared in Hanjing, Shanghai, Youzhou Prefecture, Jinling Prefecture, and Guangzhou, such as relatively developed industrial cities. These proletarians who rely entirely on their own labor life have nothing but their own hands, and the nature of their work determines their habits.

Accustomed to collaboration and unity, and the city in which they live in a stream of people and information flow center makes them not as narrow and shallow as the peasants in the past, and it is easy to become a closely-organized rebel army. Such a group is undoubtedly a potential threat to Dashun. Once a crisis occurs, the number of this class is not large compared to the total population of 40 million in the country, but the growth rate is amazing. Once these all-encompassing generals are thrown on the streets and face the threat of starvation, it is not difficult to imagine how fiercely these people facing desperate situations will take. Hu Keqin had seen the power of this strange class in Shanghai not long ago. As a loyal minister of the Dashun court, he was naturally worried about all this.

After hearing Hu Keqin's face became ugly when he heard that the rising rice prices in Shanghai and the shutdown of factory work, his face became ugly. To this completely unfamiliar threat, there was no answer in all the Confucian classics he had read, so he asked Shen Hongmao: "Mr. Shen, what are you doing with this question?"

"Qi Gong, I think there are two ways: one is soft and one is hard!" Shen Hongmao owed his body, stretched out his finger and clicked from the teacup on the coffee table next to him, and habitually wrote and told the tea table while writing and telling.

"The so-called soft-handed approach is to try every means to prevent these workers who are tempted to end up in a desperate situation. I said, "Why do people fear death if they are not afraid of death?" No matter what, these people are innocent people in the court, and they must leave a way out!"

"Mr. Shen said so much!" Qi Zhiti nodded. Shen Hongmao's suggestion just now was very in line with his appetite: "Maybe Mr. Shen meant that when there were floods and droughts in ancient times, the court took out money and grain to provide relief? Yes, it is better to use it for relief than to use this money and grain to raise soldiers and suppress them. This is a good way!"

"Qi Xianggong, yes, but not all!" Shen Hongmao explained with a smile: "Although there are not many workers in Shanghai, Hanjing and other places, there are millions of people. There are no less than 200,000 to 300,000 people who are unemployed on weekdays. If the economy is in a downturn, I am afraid that there will be more. If the court provides relief to these people, then the unemployed people in the surrounding rural areas will inevitably flock to the city. Will the court pay or not at that time?"

"This?" Qi Zhiti was speechless when asked by Shen Hongmao's question. As Shen Hongmao had just asked, the finances of the court were already very tight, and if there were such a free lunch, there would definitely be a large group of bankrupt farmers in the surrounding villages to share it. How can we squeeze out money from the stretched income to fill such a bottomless pit?

"My husband, the following officials have seen two ways. First, if they have worked in a factory, the factory owners will give the government a certain amount of money per month according to the number of workers they hire, and force themselves to save. Once the workers are unemployed, they can temporarily obtain food and clothing from this money for several months as a temporary transition, so as not to violate the law of the king due to hunger and cold, so that the court will not have to increase their expenditures. Moreover, these workers are skilled workers, but they will be fired because of the economic downturn. Once the economy recovers, the factory owners will easily recruit skilled workers again. And they will not waste money to raise lazy people who are lazy."

“What about the second one?”

"If you have not worked in a factory, the government can also recruit them and give them free porridge for three months. However, these people must engage in various jobs during this period as compensation and learn various necessary living skills at the same time. If there are still people wandering on the streets, they can be convicted, or sent to mines and harbours for hard labor. In this way, good people can learn the skills of making a living, and if they are vicious people, they can also be strictly supervised and dealt with."

"Okay! OK! OK!" After hearing Shen Hongmao's words, Qi Zhiti showed a satisfied smile on his face: "Zhang Jiuling said, 'I don't want to live in the prefectures and counties, but I think that although Lord Shen has not been in the prefectures and counties for a long time, he can handle things very well. He can go directly to Taiwan Province!"

"My husband is wrong!" Shen Hongmao quickly stood up and thanked him. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy at this moment. Qi Zhiti is now in Pingzhang's military affairs. If he said this, it would be slight and heavy.

"You should go back and think carefully about this matter first, draw a memorandum, and submit it to the court when it falls, and announce the world. You must hurry up!" Qi Zhiti said enthusiastically: "By the way, since you have come up with the solution, you can name this method and the place!"

At this time, Hu Keqin coughed lowly, stroked the beard under his chin, Shen Hongmao made a clever and quickly bowed, "The emperor is a little ignorant and can't think of any good name for a while. Please ask Mr. Qi to get up!"

"Well!" Qi Zhiti did not shirk responsibility. He thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Since this method was originally established to help the poor, it is called the helping poor method. In this kind of place, poor people can learn the skills of making a living, so it is called the poor learning institute!"

"The method of helping the poor is the school for learning arts. The official of the government has only thought about it for a long time, but it has gained something, but it is really a thousand miles away from the income of my husband!" Shen Hongmao hurriedly flattered.

"Haha, it's nothing to be a name!" Qi Zhiti waved his hand, smiling happily on his face. It seemed that solving this problem made him feel very good. At this time, Hu Keqin, who was standing beside him coughed and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Qi, I think this method is good, but this poor arts school should not be handed over to the government for the work!"

"What does Mr. Hu mean?"

"Mr. Qi, you and I have been officials of the prefecture. Later, after doing this, most of the money was filled with the private pockets of the clerks. If there was a conscience in ten thousand, there was no such thing as the poor. Moreover, the government did not have so many people to tell who was a worker or a refugee, let alone that everyone was only allowed to stay for three months. If something happened, it was all blamed on the court. It would be better to let the factory owners pay for themselves. If it was done well, it was the virtue of the court. If it was not done well, it would be impossible for anyone to blame!"
Chapter completed!