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, another massacre followed. All the properties that originally belonged to the wealthy families in the city were taken over by Ying Tianjun.
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 Ying Tianjun, 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.
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.
The sound of reading comes from the school, and the sound of working comes from the workshop. Both the school and the workshop are open.
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.
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, and even those who have to serve for a lifetime and support the master until the end of his life may not be able to obtain it.
But now, not only do you no longer have to be a cow or a horse to learn this, you can even get a meritorious service.
Nowadays, money is of little use in Wucheng. Ying Tianjun's meritorious service is more valuable than gold.
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 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, walk in a special sequence, or accumulate enough merit. .
As for the militiamen, they also regretted that Ying Tianjun had missed several times to replenish personnel.
Now if you want to take the exam to join the Ying Tian Army, you can either go through the special sequence and join by force, or you can accumulate enough merit and pass the normal assessment process.
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.
Of course, this is not mean, but the power of the system.
When a gap is created through the system, a centripetal force will naturally arise.
And the source of this power is interest.
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.
As for Zhao Cheng, he nodded when he saw this scene.
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.
But now, although many people are not adaptable to the sudden change, they can feel that everything is getting better.
As for the school, Zhao Cheng did not go to see it, but he knew that there were children inside.
In Wucheng today, children over the age of five can attend school, and the school provides them with two meals. Naturally, no parent would be unwilling to do so.
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 must choose a craft as an apprentice. Go and learn and support yourself.
It is also Zhao Cheng who 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.
Zhao Chengcheng led everyone along and listened to the movements on both sides.
Near the center of the city, there are also workshops and schools, but the content taught there is completely different.
Among them, where the workshop is, many craftsmen gathered together to study and discuss various things, and it looked like a thriving business.
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 monetize them according to the ideas.
Among them, the current research directions are mainly wooden carts for convenient transportation, crossbows for warfare, various agricultural tools, and the exploration of steam engines.
However, steam engines are currently limited by the quality of steel and production capacity.
In this regard, Zhao Cheng just listened outside for a while and did not go in, but he remembered a name named Luda.
This man is a native of Wucheng. Although he has not read any books, he has an imagination that is extremely rare in this era and is a good prospect.
Not far from the workshop is the school.
At this moment, there were sounds in the school, but they were not the sounds of reciting words from books, and the content was not the articles of sages and strategies for governing the country.
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.
The schools in this place train not so-called scholars, but officials.
This place trains agricultural officers, or in other words, reserve agricultural officers.
In addition, there are schools dedicated to training officials responsible for local security, administrative planning, and local governance.
Later, Zhao Cheng unified the Southern Wilderness. As long as he conquered a territory, these people could take office directly without any vacancy.
Unlike today's era, where one county magistrate controls all the power and can be called a Bailihou, Zhao Cheng splits the power. One official only does one thing and cannot enforce the law across systems.
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 thing. In this case, 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.
(End of chapter)
