Villager of Daming

Chapter 1326: A newspaper drives the group (and twelve other chapters)
"Yes, yes, Your Majesty is right. I think that airship is more useful than a hot air balloon. It can be used to blow up the enemy's central camp on the battlefield."

Qiqili, who suffered psychological trauma from being hunted down, likes to study the weapons of the Ming Dynasty and how to apply them, such as hunting down others.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly: "Yes!"

In fact, there is no need to say it all, everyone thought of this operation after seeing the airship.

When the two sides fight, there is a central army, where the commander is located. The commander's flag is obvious, or it is called a big banner. It is important that the commander's flag does not fall and the army fights to the death and never retreats.

If the commander-in-chief was chased by an airship in the sky, where would the morale of the army be?

The key is that the airship is very fast, and the coach on horseback has to keep changing directions to avoid it.

If we send more airships to encircle and suppress the enemy, the commander will probably surrender.

The airship is not an ordinary hot air balloon. It is large and can carry a lot of weight. In addition to dropping explosives from above, it can also be equipped with heavy machine guns to fire.

The most terrifying thing about a heavy machine gun is that it can correct its trajectory during shooting, and it cannot be avoided without cover.

It feels like the Ming Dynasty's current attack on others is like an adult bullying a baby. The enemy can only go deep into the mountains and forests and use the terrain advantage to offset the weakness in weapons.

The people in the earthquake-stricken area didn't care about the weapons. When they saw the rain stop, the intervals between aftershocks became longer and the amplitudes became smaller, they all showed long-lost smiles.

"There was an earthquake, so how can we still be happy? The vegetable garden at home has been washed away by the water."

A vegetable farmer who usually sells fine vegetables at the market outside Xiaqiu Village, put his hands on his waist, and muttered to the person standing next to him with a troubled look on his face.

The person next to him smacked his lips and said, "Haven't you already picked all the vegetables you can from your vegetable garden?"

"There are still some small ones that have not been picked. We want to wait and see. It is not the time to close the garden yet. My family is here. The government has arranged for people to take care of it. When the rain stops, they should release the water."

The vegetable seller said sad words, but there was no trace of sorrow on his face.

"I think it's nothing, a small loss, but it can grow back. It's been hard to buy groceries these days!

As long as the court is here, earthquakes happen, and it's good as long as people are alive.

This house is broken and the imperial court repaired it. Which dynasty has ever taken care of such a thing? Exempting the rent and taxes is a great favor."

The person buying vegetables is worried because the vegetables are out of stock and he can only make do with what he has. However, he is a rich man who buys gourmet vegetables.

The vegetable vendor's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes! If there is no earthquake, we are actually more worried. What will happen if the imperial court is not accurate?"

'Pah!' Another person slapped his thigh with all his strength, ignoring the protest of the person whose leg was slapped, and nodded: "That's right, no wonder we are not anxious. What's there to be afraid of if we know about the natural disaster in advance?

If you can hide, then you should know how to hide. If you know you can't hide, then it's fate!

If the whole world turns upside down, there is no place to hide, and it doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, it will still be the same.”

"How could that be! There is a master in the court, from Xiaqiu Village, no, Taizi Village. If the world turns upside down, the master will definitely take action.

The current earthquake is considered a minor disaster. If an expert takes action, it is estimated that the person will have a short life, or even lose his life.

We are just hiding, but the master must be alive. He is the white jade pillar that supports the sky and the purple gold beam that spans the sea of ​​our Ming Dynasty."

Another wealthy family buying groceries opens its mouth, and I can imagine what it means.

"Yes, it's the Dinghai Shenzhen mentioned in Journey to the West. Who wrote Journey to the West? It only mentioned Xiaqiu Village, but no specific person."

The people who were buying vegetables before joined in and talked about Journey to the West.

According to history, it was too early to write Journey to the West! Zhu Wentian did not want to write Dream of the Red Chamber because it was not the right time. Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin had already been edited and written by Luo Guanzhong.

At present Luo Guanzhong was creating other works. Zhu Wentian felt embarrassed to take advantage of him for nothing, so he gave him a lot of money for writing.

Other authors of vernacular storytelling also received generous rewards, and everyone was very motivated to create.

Some of them were specially written to promote the Ming Emperor and the army, and the idea of ​​the close relationship between the military and the people was also incorporated into the novels.

……

"Our Hanhan is the stabilizing force. The sales of newspapers are getting higher and higher, and the sales are getting better in places that were previously under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

Few people in the newly occupied areas are literate, so we need to strengthen education. We don't have to worry about the Ming Cult, because their methods are no match for ours.

As a result, sales of some items in department stores also increased, especially soap.

Industry can indeed drive the overall economic development of society, and every little change can promote overall improvement..."

Zhu Yuanzhang also talked about Journey to the West, but he did not only talk about the plot in Journey to the West.

Can the connotations revealed in Journey to the West be compared with those in the imperial court?

Zhu Yuanzhang emphasized the role of newspapers in other aspects, and people were willing to read newspapers.

Some of the content in the newspaper, such as daily knowledge and interesting anecdotes, are fixed.

There are special people who send the compiled books to various places, and newspapers are printed there. The amount of books printed every day is the same across the country.

Including a completed novel, which is serialized in a newspaper, a little bit every day.

Current affairs were transmitted via telegrams, uploaded during the day, typeset in the afternoon, printed at night, and sold in various state capitals in the early morning. Counties usually did not receive them until almost noon, which meant that current affairs were a whole day late.

Anyone in the village who subscribes to a newspaper will have it delivered to them. Even if there is only one household in the village that subscribes, the cost of delivering the newspaper will be hundreds of times higher than the value of the newspaper, but it will still be delivered.

Citizens in provincial capitals obtain information the fastest, followed by those in county towns that are not the seat of government, and finally those in villages.

People discuss current affairs and talk about plots in novels. Men generally like to get together to talk about current affairs, while women like to talk about trivia about life.

If someone subscribes to a newspaper, they will generally refuse to lend it to others, as it would be difficult to return it.

In addition to the content on the newspaper, it can also be used to practice calligraphy, paste walls, and wrap things.

The greater value is to collect newspapers and exchange them for things in department stores. Soap is the best, but needles and thread can also be exchanged.

What should I do if I lend a book to someone else and there is a page missing and I cannot replace it?
In the process of exchange, people found that the money they spent on newspaper subscriptions could actually be earned back by saving newspapers and exchanging them for other things, which was equivalent to reading newspapers for free.

You can also keep part of the newspaper. You don't need the whole newspaper, just cut out the designated area of ​​each page.

The people are willing to subscribe, which is equivalent to not spending any money. This is what the people themselves think.

In fact, the goods that department stores exchange are at normal selling prices, which include profits.

When people subscribe to more newspapers, merchants are willing to advertise in newspapers, and merchants in every place advertise locally.

Some merchants who wanted to take their goods to a certain state capital to sell them would go to the state capital in advance to discuss advertising in newspapers.

What the imperial court really earned was the merchants’ advertising fees and the taxes they collected on the goods they sold. Goods would sell better if they were advertised.

People reinforced their learning of Chinese characters and mathematics in the process of subscribing to newspapers. They read them every day and constantly strengthened their memory.

People need the content of newspapers to chat. Those who are unwilling to learn to read cannot chat with others, so they have no choice but to work hard to learn.

Once they have learned literacy and arithmetic, adults at home can tutor their children.

It turns out that when children have the opportunity to go to school and the family spends money, the children may not study hard, and the parents don’t know about it when they come back. They just think that their children have a bright future because they study hard.

When parents learn this, when their children come home and are asked about their behavior, if they dare to lie, they will be beaten. You lied to me, right?

The country's overall education level will improve and the competition will be very fierce.

The purpose of learning itself is not to learn fixed knowledge, but to apply it, that is, to study things and acquire knowledge, which belongs to the ability of re-learning.

Give people a thing and an instruction manual, and they will be able to operate it after reading the instructions.

In daily life, when you find that the knowledge you have learned can be used in a certain situation, then analyze and study it, and finally gain convenience.

As for why changing soap is the easiest, it is because soap is used in many places.

In addition to normal laundry cleaning, it can also treat wounds, drink soapy water if you eat something wrong, and blow bubbles...

When more people are willing to use soap and have access to soap for cleaning, the chances of getting sick are lower, the chances of getting tetanus are lower, and the chances of survival increase.

The people did not know that every step of these things was planned, they just ordered newspapers and changed soap according to their own wishes.

What Zhu Yuanzhang was most worried about was that the Ming Cult would be unable to do anything under such propaganda.

The Ming Cult usually wins people's hearts by treating illnesses and providing food to the poor.

In fact, what the Ming Cult really needs are rich people, because only with money can great things be accomplished.

Rich people also have spiritual needs, and the Ming Cult uses their money to make poor people support them.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Huimin Pharmacy, the Herbal Medicine Storehouse, and the Orphanage. Unfortunately, he didn't have much money in history, but fortunately, the Ming Cult didn't have much money either.

Now that he is rich, he can really extend the free medical care and social welfare system throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, conditions are limited. There are no special good medicines, only simple medicinal materials. Antibiotics are not distributed everywhere at present. The use of antibiotics needs to be cultivated, and the same is true for anesthetics. "It is all thanks to your majesty's grace to the world." The village head has formed a conditioned reflex. No matter what Zhu Yuanzhang says, it is right to praise him first. It is politically correct.

No matter what happens, even when going to the toilet, one must first say that he is under the guidance of so-and-so's thoughts before pooping.

"Yichang, I just like the way you talk nonsense. You say I have made contributions, I am happy, what do you mean by 'all the blame'? Do I have that ability? Drink to win!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hands twice, picked up the beer glass, and said, "Drink, keep drinking!" He would go to sleep when it got dark, and talk about other things tomorrow.

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When the day came, the earthquake was finally over.

The people all took their positions, cleaning up what needed to be cleaned up and calculating their losses.

If someone in the family dies, we should cry and arrange the funeral.

Well...the earthquake had a certain impact, but it was not the main cause. If there hadn't been an earthquake, wouldn't there have been deaths in so many states?

Every day someone is born, and every day someone dies.

Earthquakes affect the environment, climate, and magnetic field, which can indeed advance or delay the birth of pregnant women, and can also make people...

But it is not a direct effect, such as being killed by falling objects, being killed by heavy rain, etc.

The people have no time to grieve and are now starting to prepare for the next earthquake.

I have told you the time and range, but next time it will be winter and it will be cold!
Except Zhenzhou, which is Sanya, every other place is cold in winter.

The winter in Guangzhou is damp and cold. When it is cold, the temperature is around 5 or 6 degrees Celsius. Normally, the temperature is around 10 degrees Celsius. The key reason is the humidity.

Nanjing is also not warm, but fortunately everyone has adapted to it. What about those who can’t adapt? Babies start dying, and the fittest survive.

"Is everything arranged?" Zhu Yuanzhang had a good sleep yesterday. He had been up for a long time and was too sleepy, so he was given some calming incense and some medicine. He had a long deep sleep and when he opened his eyes, eleven hours had passed.

I went to the bathroom and took a warm bath, feeling refreshed.

He went to bed at 7 o'clock last night, which is 7 o'clock. It is still 7 o'clock now. In the morning, he spent an hour going to the toilet and taking a shower.

Officials from the six ministries were all waiting, with a stack of papers in front of each of them. As the aftershocks weakened and disappeared, the frequency of message transmission increased, and the officials below would receive the messages, sort them out, and send them over.

Everyone is still in Xiaqiu Village, and in order to allow them to work overtime, their families are also in Xiaqiu Village.

Yesterday was July 11th, and we should have had a holiday, but no one dared to mention it.

“Father, we have not received any data on deaths directly caused by the earthquake. Maybe there are, but we cannot be sure.

For example, if a family goes out to avoid an earthquake before it happens, the resulting physical discomfort may lead to the outbreak of other diseases and death.

Or death caused by ground shaking during an earthquake or rainy weather.

These data are difficult to determine and count, and the people did not attribute the death of someone in their family to the earthquake.

There are deaths and births in more than a dozen states every day. I want to wait until the situation stabilizes and then make a statistics.

Statistics are collected on normal days and the death data in the same month last year.

This will give an inaccurate number, because the birth rate and death rate are different according to the year."

Crown Prince Zhu Biao first got the data, looked through it, and made a brief report.

Hu Weiyong, who wanted to stay in the capital and did not want to go back to the two lakes to farm, quickly added: "What the prince said is absolutely right.

Your Majesty governs the country well, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the number of babies born increases every year, and the number of deaths decreases day by day.

This is due to the fact that people have enough food and clothing, and they have avoided natural disasters and man-made disasters.

In addition, they know how to maintain hygiene, and Huimin Pharmacy provides free medicines. People live longer, get married more, and the number of children born is naturally proportional."

The other ministers immediately agreed. Some of them disliked Hu Weiyong very much, but they had to admit that the former prime minister was right.

We have learned health knowledge and have medicinal materials. The key is that we don’t have to worry all day long. The war is over.

You can eat your fill, dishes will have more meat, your body will get better nutrition and your life span will be extended.

Now we know that many people in the past died of malnutrition due to lack of protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, chlorophyll and other things.

Don’t drink water from the river that has germs in it, don’t wash your hands after eating, let alone use soap. Soap nuts are only a luxury for rich people.

Now all these problems have been solved. A bar of soap can be used for a long time. As long as the clothes are not greasy, I will not want to use soap.

Some monks don't eat meat, but they eat beans! Beans are a kind of protein.

Beans were not cheap in the past. Soybeans could be used to extract oil, and monks also ate sesame oil, so they had no shortage of fat and protein.

In the past, ordinary people did not have such conditions. But now they have them. There is an abundance of soybeans in the Ming Dynasty, and the oil extracted from tea seeds can be eaten after some processing.

Iron pans are no longer a luxury, and the dishes cooked in them are very fragrant.

If the mother does not have enough milk for giving birth, there is goat milk. Department stores have milk powder. If it is confirmed that the mother’s milk is indeed insufficient, the milk powder will be given for free and the child will be raised by the court.

The key is to give money when a child is born, and also to people over 60 years old.

One is to ensure the birth rate, so that people are willing to have children and live a stress-free life, and at the same time treat the elderly better. They don’t need filial piety to support it, just give them money!
As for what a sixty-year-old man can do? Chopping firewood, growing vegetables, cleaning the yard, building walls...

Especially when it comes to building a wall, using irregular large stones and yellow mud to build a courtyard wall is something that young people simply cannot do.

How can stones of different shapes and sizes be put together to form a wall? Many old people have this trick.

Weaving baskets and making baskets is a piece of cake. When they were young, they also climbed trees to dig out bird nests and went to the river to catch fish...

The key is that the elderly live long, which brings cohesion to most families and also lets others know that they can also live for many years.

The assistant ministers and chancellors of the six ministries kept talking like this, and they were all good things anyway.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned as he listened: "Okay, okay, we know! That idiot... uh... take another look, don't let the local authorities conceal the loss data, and don't exaggerate it either."

As Zhu Yuanzhang was speaking, he thought of Hanhan and suddenly realized that this was a court meeting. Hanhan had no official position and would not attend this, even though the court meeting was held in Xiaqiao Village.

The key is that Hanhan is unwilling to brag, only Yichang will praise him. Hanhan only talks about serious matters, and you have to find him privately. I guess he is in the laboratory now!
Others continued to report data. The court had to spend a lot of money after the earthquake, but it was not in vain as the road was repaired at the same time.

The yards of people's homes in low-lying areas should be padded up, and the road surface must not be higher than the houses, otherwise when it rains, the rainwater will flow into other people's homes.

In addition to open ditches and underground canals, the location of the toilets should also be determined.

With such planning, things that were previously difficult to do can now be done.

After more than two hours, almost three hours, the court meeting was over, and the ministers went back and had an hour and a half to make departmental arrangements.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to annotate the title book with the crown prince and his son, also for an hour and a half. If it was longer, they would continue in the afternoon.

Fortunately, this management model does not take that long.

If you sit in the office all day reviewing documents, you may seem diligent, but in fact your management is not scientific enough.

The leader only needs to grasp the strategic direction and take care of all the details, so what does the management do?

With the military power in his hands, can’t the bunch of promoted ministers help him share his worries?

At eleven o'clock, it was noon, and it was time for lunch.

"Where's Hanhan?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked for his favorite food and looked around, but where was he?
"Your Majesty! We are here!" Zhu Wentian hurried over. He was indeed in the laboratory and had a lot to do.

People don't carry plates, but push a small cart with tableware on it. When they see something they want to eat, they just take a little to avoid spilling it. It's very tiring to carry the plate.

The restaurant is big, like walking around in a supermarket with a cart.

"How is it?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled. He felt relieved when he saw Hanhan.

"From the data of the industrial zone, it can be seen that the scale of battery production can be expanded, but the flashlight involves the issue of glass use, both for export and domestic sales."

Zhu Wentian said that what is done in the laboratory is connected to the industrial area, and the production of batteries used in flashlights can be increased.

A flashlight requires a focus ring, a bulb, and a piece of glass. How much should they cost?
If it is sold too cheaply, will the foreign merchants still be willing to pay a high price for it? If it is sold too expensively, it will be difficult to sell it within the Ming Dynasty.

"Is there any way?" Zhu Yuanzhang continued to ask. He didn't believe that Hanhan's question would lead to fewer solutions.

"Smuggling! The Ming Dynasty banned the export of the same things, and then secretly sent people to smuggle them with foreign merchants, so that the price would be easier to deal with."

Zhu Wentian proposed a plan. Even if flashlights and batteries were distributed for free within the Ming Dynasty, what did it have to do with export?
Export was not allowed. If foreign merchants wanted to buy it, they could only go through secret smuggling channels, which were set up by the government.

In this way, the foreign merchants not only did not think it was expensive, but instead thought they were getting a good deal.

(End of this chapter)