Chapter 118 Complaints

Author: Use your soul to aim

Chapter 118 Complaints

After the commendation meeting was completed, it was time to complain.

Under the leadership of his direct disciples, after all the commendations were completed, the complaint phase entered.

Under the leadership of the direct disciples, all the disciples were divided into four groups, and each one had to talk about the suffering he had suffered.

It could be the experience of not having enough to eat, it could be being bullied by elders, or relatives being persecuted, etc. In short, you should talk about all the pain in your heart.

They were all children of about the same age, led by direct disciples and outer disciples. Soon the disciples all started talking freely.

Most of them come from poor backgrounds, and the ones who talk about it the most are naturally hungry to the point of not being able to eat, and wet from the cold without clothes.

Some disciples also told stories about how they were forced to sell off their younger sisters and younger brothers just to have enough food to eat at home. Their parents owed loan sharks and their land was sold out, and they eventually became tenants. When their grandparents got old, they had to be left in the mountains. Some disciples have seen their parents drown to death because they could not afford to support them.

of one's own children.

As the disciples opened up their hearts, the things they talked about became more and more painful, and soon all the disciples were crying together.

Zhang Zongxian just walked back and forth and listened to their stories. I believe that after such emotional lessons, these disciples will have a deeper understanding of our ways.

After completing the part of complaining, the disciples were naturally rewarded with a big meal to help them get out of their miserable mood.

After the big meal, there was a bonfire party. At the party, Zhang Zongxian taught his disciples to sing and dance. Then there was a singing competition.

Completely ignite the enthusiasm of the disciples and let them feel a completely different living atmosphere from the repressed feudalism of the Ming Dynasty.

Finally, Zhang Zongxian also led the disciples in a torch parade to commemorate the completion of this collective mission.

After the entire ceremony, at the college's management meeting the next day, Zhang Zongxian announced to his direct disciples that some of his outer disciples would be assigned to the army, yamen and caravans for internships.

On the one hand, this is to alleviate the shortage of talents in various external expansion projects, and on the other hand, it is also to allow them to grow rapidly.

Being assigned to an internship does not mean that you don’t have to study anymore. It means that you are learning and practicing at the same time.

From now on, outer disciples will have a shortened academic cycle. Those who fail to be promoted to inner disciples after studying for one year will be assigned to practice.

You can come back and take the exam every year. After passing the exam, you can be promoted to an inner disciple. You can also be promoted to an inner disciple after making meritorious deeds.

This time, four hundred outer disciples will be arranged for internship, and nearly two hundred of them will be assigned to the army to serve as grassroots officers.

One hundred people were assigned to various yamen to supervise and assist the officials in their work. The disciples who went to the yamen did not occupy the yamen's establishment and were only regarded as non-staff personnel.

The remaining one hundred people went to places like Taiping, Ma Market, and the newly established transportation caravan.

The college also officially began to publish newspapers and periodicals. One is an internal publication that is published internally. It has always been published externally and specializes in excerpting newspapers and providing business information.

Internal publications are currently published monthly. In addition to the content of the Dibao, the research progress of various scientific research projects and contributions from all interns will also be included.

The college encourages disciples to submit articles to the monthly magazine, and there is no restriction on content. Both outer disciples and inner disciples can submit articles.

Disciples who are interning abroad are also required to submit articles once a month.

It can be work problems and suggestions for improvement, questions about the nature of feudal society, or things happening around you.

Submissions will be initially reviewed by direct disciples and then submitted to Zhang Zongxian for review and approval.

Once the submission is successful, these disciples will receive corresponding points. Particularly good content will even be personally commented by Zhang Zongxian and then published on the home page of the internal magazine.

With these disciples in various places, efficiency is immediately improved and control over all directions is strengthened.

This side of the yamen looks like household rooms, work rooms, and execution rooms, all of which are filled with college disciples.

As a result, Zhang Zongxian's orders had less resistance and were implemented more thoroughly than before. For example, Zhang Zongxian asked the yamen to make clear the non-agricultural population statistics, including the employees of various workshops and mines, as well as the whereabouts of servants of various large households and the recent influx of refugees.

Prepare for future tax collection.

Orders like the one before must have offended the gentry and gentry in various places. They were constantly implicated and the officials were reluctant to carry out the order.

Now that there are these disciples, they only listen to Zhang Zongxian's orders, but they don't care who the other party is?

Zhang Zongxian taught them long ago not to be afraid of anyone's interference and to do it bravely.

As long as it's not illegal things like bullying men and dominating women, other schools of thought are their backers.

Of course, this must have violated the interests of the officials. As a compromise, Zhang Zongxian allowed their children to enter the college without taking the exam.

As Taiping continues to place various orders, there is no interference and extortion from the government, stable food prices, and low-interest loans.

More and more businessmen went to the development zones designated by the government to open workshops. As a result, the entire manufacturing industry in Jiazhou ushered in vigorous development.

The newly renovated roads in various counties have stimulated the four-wheeled carriage manufacturing industry. The new four-wheeled carriages can carry a load of two thousand kilograms, which greatly saves logistics costs.

XCMG has already gone to Shanxi to recruit carpenters, but it still cannot meet the order demand.

The construction of iron cable bridges across the Yellow River also began, and three of them were built at one time. Previous tests on the small river gave the Wang family confidence in construction.

Zhang Zongxian also promised that after the cable bridge was built, he would allow the Wang family to collect tolls to repay the loan and maintain the bridge.

For Wangjia Construction, building a bridge is equivalent to having a gold mine. Zhang Zongxian proposed the construction of steel bridges more actively.

After all, such a bridge has fewer restrictions and a higher commuting rate. It also costs more than a cable bridge.

With the establishment of the escort agency, logistics costs have dropped significantly. The scale of the workshop has become larger and larger, and the prices of various ironware produced have become correspondingly more competitive.

The more ironware is sold, the more ore needs to be mined and more ironmaking furnaces built.

Naturally, more workers have to be recruited. When workers earn money, they naturally have to spend it on food, clothing, housing and transportation.

In this way, a positive cycle is formed, driving the development of the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

This is also Zhang Zongxian's purpose, but if it continues like this, the food gap will become bigger and bigger.

Although after the mushroom cultivation was successful, the Yamen took the lead in holding a press conference and asked Taiping to come forward to purchase the mushrooms at a high price.

However, mushrooms can only replace some vegetables. Even if they become large-scale in the future, they cannot replace staple foods.

On the contrary, rat meat and rabbit meat are mixed with beef and mutton, and the lunch meat produced can provide nutrients that can replace some staple foods.

Currently, we are vigorously promoting people to raise rabbits and mice in their own homes.

It is then purchased uniformly by the workshop and made into luncheon meat.

Trade with grasslands can also provide a large number of cattle and sheep. With the development of rock salt in Wubao County, the price of salt in Jiazhou is one-third that of other places, and the price is still falling.

There have been large-scale salt-cured mutton workshops in the private sector. The cured mutton produced in these workshops is exported to surrounding counties.

Ordinary people can buy a whole leg of lamb at home and cut a piece into a bowl when eating, which can save them money on extra salt.

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