After staring at the first "small steel factory" in his hands for a long time, Zhao Chengcai led the crowd down the tower and wandered directly in Wucheng.
The layout of Wucheng is the same as that of most cities. The closer you go to the center, the richer you are, and the closer you are to the city wall, the poorer you are.
Because Wucheng was once a trading city, the layout around the edge is subtly different from ordinary cities. There are many houses in it. Although they are close to the edge of the city wall, they are very spacious.
Houses like this are used to store goods for merchants coming and going.
However, that was all in the past.
Since Zhao Cheng took Wucheng, there was another killing spree, and all the properties that originally belonged to the wealthy families in the city were taken over by Ying Tian's army.
Even if they did not harm the common people at all, in this battle alone, a full 70% of the real estate in Wucheng belonged to the Yingtian Army, which shows the wealth of the wealthy family.
Of course, if these wealthy people had no second thoughts, Zhao Cheng would actually look down on this thing. A house is just a bit of earth and stone. As long as there are people in hand, just like he is in the mountains, he can build a mansion in an instant.
In the final analysis, the most precious resource in this world is population, not anything else.
After taking these houses, Zhao Cheng did not distribute them directly to the people, but changed them into workshops and schools.
Zhao Cheng has now produced chemical fertilizers and is not worried about the subsequent food problems, otherwise he would not dare to let so many people go out of production.
Unlike today's era, where one county magistrate controls all the power and can be called a Bailihou, Zhao Cheng splits the power so that one official can only do one thing and cannot enforce the law across systems.
And the source of this power is interest.
The sound of reading comes from the school, and the sound of working comes from the workshop. Neither the school nor the workshop is closed.
Of course, this is not mean, but the power of the system.
But now, although many people are not adaptable to the sudden change, they can feel that everything is getting better.
Later, Zhao Cheng unified the Southern Wilderness. As long as he conquered a territory, these people could take office directly without any vacancy.
At this moment, there were sounds in the school, but they were not the sounds of reciting words from books, nor were they the words of saints and sages, or the strategies for governing the country.
When a gap is created through the system, a centripetal force will naturally arise.
As for the school, Zhao Cheng did not go to see it, but he knew that there were children inside.
In addition, there are schools dedicated to training officials responsible for local security, administrative planning, and local governance.
Nowadays, money is of little use in Wucheng. The merits of Ying Tianjun are more valuable than gold.
In Wucheng today, children over the age of five can attend school, and the school provides them with two meals. Under such circumstances, naturally no parent would be unwilling.
These craftsmen are the most flexible among the craftsmen, so they are gathered together for innovative research. Of course, Zhao Cheng is currently responsible for providing ideas, and these people will study how to realize them according to the ideas.
Now if you want to take the exam to join the Ying Tian Army, you can either directly go through the special sequence and join by force, or you can accumulate enough merit and pass the normal assessment process.
However, steam engines are currently limited by the quality of steel and production capacity.
Now that Wucheng belongs to the Ying Tian Army, joining the Ying Tian Army will not only give you better treatment, but also make you a high-ranking civilian in terms of status. Under such circumstances, it is extremely attractive.
The schools in this place train not so-called scholars, but officials.
As for the militiamen, they also regretted that the Yingtian Army had missed the opportunity to replenish personnel several times.
Not far from the workshop is the school.
The reason is also simple. When Wu Cheng was still in Wu Qi's hands, all crafts were beyond the reach of ordinary people. If you wanted to learn, you had to work for the master for at least ten years before you could learn a few skills.
Hands, some secrets, even if you have to serve for a lifetime and support your master till the end of your life, you may not be able to obtain them.
This incident has also made many people regret that they did not join the militia earlier. But now, if they want to join, they must either be extremely brave and be able to lift a two hundred kilogram stone and walk in a special sequence, or they must accumulate enough merit.
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If the wealthy families in the city are still there, if he does this kind of thing, it will naturally cause "popular resentment". It is guaranteed that a bunch of people who have been bribed by the wealthy families will cause all sorts of sabotage inside, making it impossible for his government to operate at all.
Near the center of the city, there are also workshops and schools, but the content taught there is completely different.
Among them, the current research directions are mainly wooden carts for convenient transportation, crossbows for war, various agricultural tools, and the exploration of steam engines.
Whether it is exchanging food, various daily necessities, or even getting the opportunity to sign up as a militia, you need to exchange for merit.
This man is a native of Wucheng. Although he has not read any books, he possesses an imagination that is extremely rare in this era and is a good prospect.
Where the workshop is located, many craftsmen gather together to study and discuss various things, and it looks like a thriving place.
People are undoubtedly the strangest thing. When the recruitment threshold for the Ying Tian Army was very low, no one was willing to do so. Now that the threshold has been raised, many people are trying to get in.
Zhao Chengcheng led everyone along and listened to the movements on both sides.
This place trains agricultural officers, or in other words, reserve agricultural officers.
At this moment, Zhao Cheng was walking on the street and could hear the sounds of young people reading or working from the houses on both sides.
But now, not only do you no longer have to be a cow or a horse to learn this, you can even receive meritorious deeds.
It’s about how the land should be planted, how the acres should be planned reasonably, how to encourage farmers to farm, how to deal with disasters, and so on.
Zhao Cheng looked at the nearest workshop. In this workshop, many men were whittling wood bit by bit. These people were very unskilled and had no dexterity at all. Even if they were simply whittling wood, they were not very good at it.
Although they are successful, most people are very attentive.
In this regard, Zhao Cheng just listened outside for a while and did not go in. However, he remembered a name named Luda.
As for Zhao Cheng, he nodded when he saw this scene.
However, each child can study for three years. After three years, if he can pass the assessment, he can continue to study. If he does not study well, it proves that he is not the one and has to choose a craft as an apprentice.
Go and study and support yourself.
Such a split of rights is undoubtedly conducive to development and stability.
Otherwise, there will definitely be ridiculous things like the county magistrate who doesn't know how to farm, instructing farmers how to farm, and the county magistrate who doesn't know how to build houses, instructing craftsmen how to build houses.
And you also know that if you study well, you can directly become an official in the future, and you don't have to study the articles of saints and sages, you just need to specialize in one. Under such circumstances, the people in Wucheng not only have no objection to attending night school
, but became more enthusiastic.
As for if someone says bad things, complains, or undermines this matter, this is undoubtedly giving credit to others.
