The casual talks on the day of the Shangyuan Festival will ultimately not form institutional resettlement.

So after sending Martinos and others away, Li Su and Zhuge Liang discussed this matter and felt that after the completion of Luoyang Gongyuan, some functions that were originally not available in the Taixue School could be added and some "elective courses" for miscellaneous studies could be provided.

When the world is peaceful and the court's finance allows it, the central government will pay for it and raise a group of miscellaneous teachers who have no performance pressure. Anyone who has been selected by the local government as a juren, if they stay in Luoyang for a long time and study and prepare for the exam, they can take the initiative and learn something else by themselves.

Maybe after taking the exam for a few years, I feel that the imperial examination is hopeless and it is not a material for becoming an official, so I can change my career and work in another direction.

This kind of reform is also a kind of enrichment of the functions of the Taixue. After all, in the later generations, there were also various "attacks" in the Tang, Song and Hanlin Academy, which were to do piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and other miscellaneous studies.

In this life, since the imperial examination has not yet deteriorated to the stage of "examination-oriented education", we should try our best to bloom a little from the beginning, which can alleviate the Chinese's official-oriented thinking and relieve it a little.

Moreover, these miscellaneous studies are not all martial arts, sports or art, and they can also have physics, chemistry and medicine.

Mathematics is not considered miscellaneous, mathematics is directly involved in the future imperial examination courses.

When the Gongyuan does not take the exam in the future, the Gongyuan will integrate the functions of the Taixue school, study during daily life and take exams during exams. This will also prevent the Gongyuan from using the building at too low.

Moreover, as long as these miscellaneous studies do not involve ideology, the official will not stipulate an orthodox idea, and everyone can bloom. Especially when teaching martial arts and sports, you can know who is stronger and who is weaker. It is easy to judge, and those who are capable will be superior to those who are mediocre.

...

After quickly agreeing on this direction of effort, I was already busy until noon on the Lantern Festival.

In the holiday season, it is really inconvenient to handle official duties in the afternoon. It is time to accompany your family to enjoy the lanterns and go out for a trip. Li Su's family also took the visiting guests to board a carriage, go out of the city to travel far, and wander along the Luo River to Yanshi and Chenggao.

The custom of turning on the lamps on the Shangyuan Festival was originally not available in the Han Dynasty. It was developed by Li Su after he entered Sichuan with Liu Bei, so it spread from Chengdu to Chang'an.

Later, as gunpowder technology was less secret, even the Kwantung warlords mastered the original ratio and could only burn themselves without oxygen but not violently exploded, Liu Bei's camp also reduced the control of these low-end formulas.

Therefore, fireworks and firecrackers have become entertainment items that can be produced and used by the people. In the past one or two years, they have also appeared in Chengdu and Chang'an.

In contrast, Luoyang was still an enemy-occupied area until last year, so this year's Lantern Festival was the first time that the lights were set off. Only Li Su himself officially opened firecrackers, and there was no one among the people.

Although these things cost some money, they are also a kind of fun with the people. They can be seen by the people who are several miles apart in the surrounding area. They are quite beneficial for declaring the atmosphere of the new ruler, so Li Su would not save this money.

He just asked Zhuge Liang to do a good job in public security. Only the fireworks in the city were set up in the official center, and the onlookers should not be too crowded. All soldiers maintained order.

If they are outside the city, they will put some of them tonight, which will also allow the troops traveling with them to be surrounded from afar and will not be approached.

Otherwise, the scene of meeting gods on the tour of the Yuan Dynasty will not be easy to act.

...

The women in the Li Mansion and Zhuge Mansion have been gossiping enough these two days. The men outside are talking about national affairs, and the women in the inner house have also learned a lot of things.

The interesting foreign stories that men outside heard from, but no matter what military and political affairs, the women in the house could also hear them together.

At this moment, Zhen Rong, Huang Yueying and others also followed Cai Yan and Zhen Mi, and the BMW car was filled with fragrance. The east wind was blooming at night, and thousands of flowers and trees were blooming along the Luo River.

In the car, Cai Yan sat alone on one side, occupying the supreme position, while Zhen Mi accompanied Zhen Rong and Huang Yueying on the other side.

They already knew that the convoy was heading towards the location where the new city was selected. They were getting closer and closer, and they couldn't help but lift the curtain to see the scenery on both sides to see if the future construction of the new city is really beautiful.

In addition, Zhen Mi also brought her half-drawn picture of encountering the God of Luo, while observing the surrounding scenery, looking for any iconic scenery to be painted in the background so that the painting will look more present in the future.

At the same time, before getting married, Zhen Mi helped her family sell vegetables in Chang'an for two years. She was quite business-sensitive. Along the way, she also knew to look at the value of different lands from an economic perspective and commented on her husband's choices casually.

In this regard, Cai Yan and other noble ladies are a little bit untouched by the spring water and are not familiar with the sufferings of the people compared to Zhen Mi.

It’s not that they have never seen farmers farming since childhood. For example, those who came from a young landlord who came from a young family who were farming and studying and inherited their families, they also knew grains and vegetables. But at least they are not most types of vegetables, and they have seen them grow them in the fields.

"The eastern slope of this mountain is indeed flat. The cost of building land should not be much. However, the general terrain is high, and only water diversion is not good or bad. In the future, the city will be built along the slope, high in the northwest and low in the east, and slowly down.

This slope should have no effect on the passage of cars and horses, and will not cause the steep slope to fall or the uphill cannot be pulled. Instead, the drainage canal in the city will be easy to repair, so it will be arranged in the northwest to the east.

There is no need to waste all the lowest and humid places on the edge of the river valley to build a city. You can plant some Chinese cabbage and vegetables, and collect some rice. These are all high yields like reeds, and there is no need to have too much land. The wettest land along the river is enough to grow hundreds of thousands of people to eat.”

The shui is the "萱萱" in modern Chinese. The shuicai is the flesh part like bamboo shoots, and the shuicai is its seed, which can actually be eaten as rice, because the shuicai is a plant of the rice subfamily of the Grape family, and its seeds can also be regarded as a kind of "rice".

As early as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were also records in the "Book of Zhou" that the rice species of wild water chestnuts were collected and eaten. However, the yield was too small, and a water chestnut corresponded to a few seeds. It was really difficult to use it to cook rice, so it was the Emperor of Zhou and the princes around Luoyi who ate it.

Later generations had many fancy internet celebrity foods, who thought that selling rice was not a mess and was not luxurious enough to show off. They hyped up a variety of rice varieties that China spread to North America. The so-called "Supreal wild rice" is known as a natural gift from the Great Lakes region, and a pound of 200 yuan sold.

But in fact, it is just the seeds of water chestnuts, which are just the vain novices on Douyin.

Zhen Mi is very wise about these things, but Cai Yan and Huang Yueying are not surprised. Instead, her own sister Zhen Rong felt that she didn't know each other and sighed:

"Oh, I have seen since I was a child that you are a mature young girl. In recent years, you have helped your family and do business that improves people's livelihood but does not make much money. This has also made you suffer. You still have to worry about this."

Zhen Mi smiled and said, "I am depressed when I am idle. Isn't it just right to do something that I think is meaningful? Moreover, because I don't make money quickly, no one comes to fight for it. After getting married, I think it makes sense if my husband comforts me.

Those very profitable businesses, people like us do, and they even say behind the scenes that you compete with the people for profit. In this way, we make a little money and let the people use the same amount of land and have more options to eat, which is also a good thing.

I also thought that Guanzhong was still relatively abundant in raising Chang'an. A few years ago, we just organized them to grow vegetables as much as possible, and the Zhen family transported grain from other places to sell them.

But the proportion of people responding to the call is not large enough, and there are also people who have left their own land to grow some food and raise some livestock. We are afraid that our caravans will not come in time and cannot sell enough rice in winter. If they are hungry, they must plant some by themselves to be unhappy.

Now that I hope Yiluo will support the future Luoyang city. If the population exceeds one million, I have to persuade the people to plant rice and wheat at all, so that local vegetables can be enough to eat.

To raise pigs and sheep, you must also control the quantity. You can only raise the rotten vegetables at home. If you can’t raise them locally, you still have to transport live animals from other places and slaughter and sell meat locally. In this way, the livelihood of millions of people in the capital can be stable."

Zhen Mi talked about these topics of stabilizing people's livelihood, and neither Cai Yan nor Zhen Rong were interested. However, Huang Yueying also liked to coordinate miscellaneous things and barely discussed a few words according to her rhythm:

"My younger sister has been planning to build a new city with her husband recently, and is also tinkering with some Qijiao machines to speed up construction. I have made a circular saw that can be driven by a waterwheel or rotated directly with a foot-pedal sprocket.

The saw teeth are like ordinary carpenters' saws. After making a circular saw blade, you don't have to pull it back and forth. You can turn in one direction and divide the wood quickly. It is much easier to process the wood for building a city and building a house.

If this circular saw is changed, it can be used to slaughter and divide pigs and sheep in the future. Maybe in two years, Luoyang New City will be built and the people will be dense, and a slaughtering workshop can be opened.

I heard that when Sikong was in Chengdu, he created a mill that used water trucks to push rice and flour to grind rice. Why not use water to kill pigs and sheep on a large scale? If you need to rely on foreign transportation to supply the capital, you can consider purchasing large quantities of goats from Bingzhou.

Bingzhou is rugged and there are not many fields that can be planted. I heard that the people also raise more goats to subsidize people's livelihood. Moreover, they are separated from Luoyang from Hanoi. At that time, they will organize merchant ships from Kanto to go to Qinshui and Danshui to Shangdang Taiyuan to sell local shortages of people's living resources, buy goat pond salt back, so that they can also supply them to Luoyang."

Zhen Mi and Huang Yueying said one by one, and seemed to have discussed a way to commercialize people's livelihood.

Originally, in the economic environment of the late Han Dynasty, most meat eaters were just self-sufficient manors and powerful economies. To put it bluntly, they all had manors at home like Zhang Fei, and then they kept them in their own manors for the owners and tourists. The people rarely bought meat in the circulation market.

Luoyang was the capital of the Han Dynasty before, but until the Huanling period, there were still strong natural economic attributes of manors around him. The powerful and wealthy people who ate meat in the city all had farms within the Yiluo Plain outside the city, and they raised livestock exclusively for their own farms.

Such economic efficiency is actually very low. Firstly, there are very few people who can eat meat, and the scale is too large to provide supply at all. Secondly, it greatly wastes the precious fields around the capital and is not distributed to other crops that require timeliness and cannot be transported for long-distance.

This point was not improved until the Tang Dynasty. It was better to have until the Song Dynasty that the commodity economy was highly developed and commercial trade broke the inefficient state of the natural economy.

Most of the meat eaten by the Bianliang people in the Song Dynasty was not local or nearby livestock. There were also merchants who carried pigs and sheep on boats along the Grand Canal for more than 500 miles, or other domestic animals that were good at running around by themselves, rushed directly to a place closer to the city and then slaughtered them in a concentrated manner.

The biggest advantage of animals over plants is that they can move alively, and slaughter them when they are about to eat, and they are still fresh meat.

Such a simple truth, but the people from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty did not use it. They would rather bear high losses local breeding. In the final analysis, the commodity economy is too weak.

The people dare not invest all their wealth in the production of a single product, for fear of being hoarded by profiteers and controlling the supply of goods. They cannot buy daily necessities in the market, which will lead to death from freezing and starvation.

After all, everyone is afraid that "my whole family only grows one thing or only breeds one thing, but this kind of thing is oversupply and unsalable, the price plummeted, and it is not enough to buy rice after selling, and the whole family starves to death." Then, for survival, they can only divide some of the fields to plant life-saving rations, so that they can be calm.

On the other hand, from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the government did not care about this matter, nor did it deliberately focus on the market, cracked down on unscrupulous merchants who hoarded goods and hyped up their daily necessities. Over time, the people felt insecure.

There was an important reason why the Song Dynasty could solve this problem. It was because the Song Dynasty was indeed rich, and the official warehouses were rich in storage. It often used regular warehouses to calm grain prices and prevented the unspoken businessmen who hoarded and speculated to succeed. After a long time, the people's sense of security was established, and they devoted themselves to the commodity economy with higher resource utilization efficiency.

Of course, Zhen Mi is not a time traveler, so she certainly couldn't know about these historical events. But she had two years of experience in selling vegetables around Chang'an and stabilizing grain prices, and had also seen such things in the past two years.

In the winter of the previous year, she personally encountered a rapist in Huaili area of ​​Fufeng County. Because she discovered that many farms in the counties around Jingzhao were monopolized by the Zhen family, she persuaded the people to grow vegetables but not grain.

Then, taking advantage of the winter season when vegetables cannot grow, people just sold the vegetables and kept their money to buy rice. The powerful rapists took the opportunity to stock up on rice without taking out, hoping to induce grain prices to soar and make a big profit.

Because Zhen Mi was not experienced at that time, and felt that "there was a lot of food in the early winter after the autumn harvest and the price of grain was not expensive, so there was no need for the Zhen family's merchant fleet to transport grain from a long distance to sell it and give money to the people. The people asked Huaili and the grain merchants in Meiyang area to buy surplus grain, saving some transportation costs." Therefore, the Zhen family did not do the grain business by themselves at the beginning.

As a result, after the grain shortage began, farmers in several counties in western Jingzhao who heard the Zhen family's words and did not grow grains were indeed panicked and even gathered to find representatives to come to the Zhen family's business to ask for help.

Zhen Mi listened to the report of Zhang Quan, the caravan manager, and knew that losing money was small and the credibility was big. She told Zhang Quan not to be afraid of losing money, so she immediately opened the Zhen family's granary to sell grain.

At the same time, we went to Chencang, the upper reaches of the Wei River, and purchased surplus grain at high prices in the area of ​​Mei County. If not enough, we went to Tianshui and Ji County to buy it. In the end, the Zhen family finally lost a lot of money, but the reputation was saved, and it did not cause the people who did not grow rations because they believed in the Zhen family's call to starve to death.

When he was young, he didn't know that people's hearts were sinister. After paying this money, Zhen Mi had gained an IQ. He knew that when he was in charge of these people's livelihood businesses, he would be wary of the manor economy being in opposition to you, and specifically targeted the good people who responded to your call.

Therefore, we must establish a "supply chain" that we have completely controlled from the beginning, and establish a safe inventory that can deal with emergencies. (Although Zhen Mi does not know the professional term "supply chain")

At this moment, Zhen Mi talked about these people's livelihood issues with Huang Yueying, and when she was proud, she couldn't help but tell all these experiences and lessons with Huang Yueying.

When Huang Yueying heard this, she was quite moved: "Sister is really poor. I really didn't expect that my sister was born in such a wealthy family and was so kind."

Zhen Mi was gentle and humble: "Where is it? After all, you can't make enough money. Even before I got married, the four sisters in the family had married powerful people, and their husbands were doing big things.

We are not allowed to lose face of our family, especially the husband's family, and we cannot be too ugly to do business. If you make some money and improve people's livelihood, but no one can compete for it, then let go of your hands and do nothing else, and you won't compete with the people for profit."

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law talked to the warmth, and the sky gradually became darker. The convoy had already set up camping for wild tours, and the maids outside had already started to light lanterns and hang them everywhere to create an atmosphere of outdoor night tours for a while.

Huang Yueying saw the lights outside the car curtains and then came back to her senses and quickly got up:

"Oh, I almost forgot. My little sister lost her companion for a while. My husband asked me to make a 'dive bucket'. She was still on the boat that I followed. I'll go to debug it and put it in the river so that the God of Luo will be able to show his sage."

It turned out that in order to show the saint of Luoshen today, Li Su ordered Zhuge Liang to prepare in advance. They prepared a double-layer shell large wooden barrel sealed with pressure resistance, which was enough to drill two or three people into it.

Moreover, the reserve buoyancy is enough to stand several people on it. There is also a flat platform fixed on the top. When floating on the water, people can stand directly on it like a ship deck.

A hole was drilled at the tail and through the shaft, then a simple propeller blade was installed, with a crankshaft pedal inside, which allowed a person to sit inside and drive the propeller to rotate like a bicycle, and the submarine moved forward.

The only technical difficulty is actually the sealing problem when the propeller shaft passes through the boat hull, because the shaft hole is underwater, and if the seal is not good, it will sink quickly.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's final decision was to use a double shell and add a little insurance, and to prevent the boaters from sinking directly into the Luo River and drowning in case the outer shell breaks and leaks.

At the same time, the shaft passes through the hull, is elastically wrapped by an oil cloth, and repeatedly apply grease to fill the pores as much as possible. This way, although it will be a little more laborious and more frictional resistance when stomping, it is safe.

This kind of thing is not very difficult. In history, the French created it before the Industrial Revolution, about the early days of Louis XVI, that is, at least fifty years before Napoleon's ascension and the Industrial Revolution.

Moreover, the one created by the French around 1730 also has a ventilation system and a snorkel to prevent people in the submarine from suffocating to death after a long time.
To be continued...