The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 282 Outsiders

Early morning, six o'clock.

The sky was light and the huge city had not yet woken up from last night's sleep. There were only a few carriages and pedestrians on the wide streets, showing a rare sense of tranquility and serenity.

"These restless students should be kept in the police custody room for a few more days and suffer a little bit so that they can remember their lessons. ... It's early in the morning to torture our old bones."

Bao Zhengxin, the provost of Chang'an University, was sitting in the carriage, yawning, busy sorting out the documents on hand, and mumbling in a low voice.

Last night, I discussed the research topic with several professors until after one o'clock at night. I lay in bed and barely squinted for a while before I had to get up with difficulty. Following the principal's instructions, I took the person to the Suzaku District Police Station to pick him up.

When he thought about the technical seminar that he would have to hold with the Royal Academy of Sciences and the General Armament Department of the Military as a representative of Chang'an University in the afternoon, he suddenly felt like his head was as big as a bucket, and his temples on both sides were beating constantly.

In this state, can I still cope with the afternoon meeting?

"These students..." Bao Zhengxin sighed heavily again.

"Chief Dean, why don't you postpone the morning's subject review meeting until tomorrow so that you can gather some energy?" Seeing that Bao Zhengxin seemed to be in a bad state, Han Shengquan, the general manager of the Moral Education Office who came with him to pick him up, suggested: " It will take some time to get to the police station later. If you rush back to school, you may be pressed for time. You didn’t have a good rest last night, and now you have to rush here early in the morning. I’m afraid your body won’t be able to handle it!

"Haha..., my little job is nothing. In fact, compared to the farmers cultivating the fields, the workers working day and night in the factories, and the migrant workers cleaning the streets, those of us who spend all day in class and People who work in the laboratory are extremely happy. At least they are protected from the wind and rain, and they also enjoy the most generous treatment in the world. "

This may be a side effect of economic development.

The job of "Wolf" is to remove garbage from the streets of the city and keep the urban environment clean. People who work in Langshi are called "Tiaolangshi". "Tiao" means washing in ancient times. The job of "Tiao Langshi" is to clean up urban garbage.

According to "Zhou Li Qiu Guan", "There are six corporals, six Xu, and sixty disciples of the Lang clan."

However, with the acceleration of the industrialization process in Qi, air pollution and water pollution, which are more serious than urban garbage and fecal excrement, have become increasingly serious and have become the biggest killers threatening the lives and health of urban residents.

It is precisely because of this great emphasis on urban environmental sanitation that in the more than 90 years of Qi's development history, there have been almost no outbreaks of large-scale plagues and various infectious diseases.

Compared with the feces and urine on the streets of Paris, the filth of London, and the chaos of Amsterdam, cities in Qi can simply be called paradises for human habitation. Although some cities have a small population and are not very majestic buildings, their environmental hygiene is impeccable.

Although later on, with the rapid growth of Qi's population, more and more immigrant settlements were built, and one new city after another rose from the ground, the strict requirements for the sanitation of the living environment still continued.

Therefore, when countless immigrants and foreign visitors arrived in Hanzhou or some overseas territory, they would marvel at how clean and hygienic the Qi people's territory was.

"Chief Dean, you have to pay attention to your health!" Han Shengquan said with concern: "Your daily work schedule is too intensive, even if it is placed on a young person, it will be too much."

During this period, no matter in China in the East or in the European countries in the West, there was no concept of toilet sewerage system. The bustling and bustling Paris had less than ten public toilets. London, whose population had grown to 600,000, still had There is no dedicated sewer pipe, and the sewage pipe is connected to citizens' houses and then discharged directly into the Thames River. The Thames River, mixed with feces and garbage, remains smelly all year round.

"It's still holding up, it's okay." Bao Zhengxin shook his head with a wry smile, "The morning project review meeting was arranged as early as the beginning of the month. If it were rescheduled rashly, wouldn't it be a waste of everything those professors and students had prepared? Alas, I hope At noon, there are no big things for me to deal with in the school, so that I can relax for a while and recuperate in order to cope with the three-party technical seminar in the afternoon."

The earliest written records of the agencies responsible for urban environmental sanitation and the workers who clean up urban garbage can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period.

As early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qi State attached great importance to the environmental sanitation of cities and immigrant settlements. In order to prevent the spread of cholera, plague and other tropical diseases, a large number of Hanzhou natives and Nanyang natives were "recruited" to serve as scavengers. Clean the streets regularly every day and process and collect feces and other filth dumped by residents in each household to keep the city or settlement clean and hygienic at all times.

This also caused many English cities, including London, to experience outbreaks of cholera and other epidemic infectious diseases almost every ten years, resulting in the death of a large number of residents.

Looking back at Qi State, after decades of development, almost every city has established a relatively complete sewage distribution pipeline system, which has avoided the occurrence of epidemics to a certain extent and effectively improved the quality of life for tens of millions of people in Qi State. living conditions.

Han Shengquan followed Bao Zhengxin's gaze and looked out the window at the street sweepers who were busy working on the street. They were hunched over, dragging box trucks, and quickly loading the garbage and filth they swept together into the trucks along the way. .

In various cities in Qi State, the labor groups engaged in sanitation and sewer unblocking in the past were mostly Hanzhou natives or "recruited" Nanyang natives. However, with the rapid development of Qi's industry, the demand for industrial raw materials such as iron ore, coal mine, copper mine, tin ore, etc. is increasing, resulting in an increasing labor gap in many mines in the country and overseas territories.

Well, in addition to the unbearable smell of the Thames River, the streets and alleys of England are not immune. "Most houses are mixed with pig and poultry pens." In poor areas, there is no garbage disposal equipment, and the streets and alleys are even worse. It is covered thickly with feces and other household waste.

Farther away, on a street that had been tidied up, a carriage carried a huge water tank and was constantly spraying clean water.

This is why the State of Qi continues to increase its efforts to "recruit" native coolies in the Nanyang region. At the same time, it also mobilizes as many Hanzhou natives and Nanyang natives as possible to meet labor needs as they engage in "light jobs" such as urban cleaning and sewer unblocking. The most urgent ones are mines and forest farms.

The vacancies after these people left were filled by a large number of non-national foreigners. Some of them risked smuggling into Qi through Japanese intermediaries with dreams of getting rich, and some were recruited by unscrupulous planters or factory owners. He was deceived and couldn't bear to be squeezed, so he came to the Hanzhou continent.

These people have no identity information, no skills, and cannot read, write or read. Many of them even do not understand the language (non-Qin nationality). They are unwilling (uninformed) to obey Qi's forced overseas immigration plan. I want to be "black" in the prosperous and prosperous Hanzhou mainland. I hope that after a few years of hard work, I can earn a considerable income and return to my hometown in glory. Under such circumstances, some of them have devoted themselves to large and small black factories, earning the lowest wages and doing the hardest and most tiring work. Some of them have become thugs and accomplices of the evil forces, engaging in theft and deception. They engage in underground activities of extortion and extortion, while others are honestly engaged in dirty and smelly jobs such as scavengers and dung diggers.

No one has carefully counted how many non-national foreigners without official status there are in Qi's mainland and surrounding overseas territories, but almost every city has a large number of such groups, and the number has also increased from It ranges from a few hundred to tens of thousands. A rough estimate puts their total number at probably over one million people.

Regarding the existence of a large number of non-citizens, no one has called for it. Government officials and social scholars have also submitted relevant solutions, requesting that such groups of people be given formal national status and that they be properly resettled on site. Or assigned to empty overseas territories.

However, whether it is local governments or domestic factory owners of all sizes, deep down they do not want to clean up and deal with these large numbers of non-citizens.

The city's cleaning and sanitation work, the dredging and cleaning of sewer pipes, the construction and maintenance of streets and roads, the hard work, and their relatively low wages have all caused the local government to adopt a tacit attitude towards the large number of non-citizens. It is believed that they have a positive role in promoting local social livelihood and economic development.

The only ones who are dissatisfied with this are ordinary workers, because the existence of these large numbers of cheap non-citizens has greatly affected their overall bargaining power on wages, and has even taken away the jobs that should belong to them, allowing those black-hearted people to Factory owners were able to exploit them with impunity.

However, ordinary people in Qi disdain to do urban scavengers, sewer cleaners, dock coolies, and dirty and smelly excrement diggers. Not to mention the hard work, the working environment is poor, and the income is small. I love everyone. go.

Even if I really can't make it in my hometown, I can still apply to the Immigration Department to go to an overseas territory to live the life of a small farmer.

Under this situation, the presence of a large number of non-national personnel is of great benefit to the maintenance and development of public undertakings in the entire society.

When the carriage in which Bao Zhengxin and Han Shengquan arrived at the Zhuque District Police Office, the sun had just risen, the morning glow illuminated the sky, and the clouds were dyed with brilliant colors.

At this time, the senior police officers of the police department had not yet arrived for work, but the police officers in charge of the custody room had obviously received the orders from their superiors. After seeing the deans of Chang'an University and Imperial University arriving one after another, they immediately shouted at the half-awake students in the detention room, took them to the police compound, and handed over the offending students to the school one by one.

I originally thought that these students might not be used to the rough food in the prison cell, so they might pay the police officers who were guarding them to buy breakfast from the food stalls on the street. At that time, everyone will be able to profit from part of the money, which is a considerable additional income.

Unexpectedly, the professors of the two universities were afraid that the arrested criminal students would walk out of the police station in broad daylight and be watched by others, which would affect the reputation of the schools, so they chose to come at dawn early in the morning. Lead people.

Alas, that’s it.

They are all the pillars of the empire. Although the crowds gathered to fight yesterday night and the noise was quite loud, everyone felt that there was a reason for the incident and the circumstances were excusable, and they did not regard it as an ordinary vicious case.

Young people, even if they are a little passionate and impulsive, can understand. Even if there is no instruction from the school to lead the students, the person in charge of the police department has never thought of detaining the offending students for a long time.

They are all students from a high-level university, so what bad intentions can they have?
Even if ordinary hooligans cause street fights, the police who come to maintain order can kill them all on the spot. After being detained by the police, they will definitely be beaten again, as a stern warning not to provoke the authority of the police and disrupt the security order of the city.

Bao Zhengxin and Han Shengquan led their students out one by one with cold expressions, and then ordered them to take the earliest passenger carriage back to school immediately. They must deliver a self-examination certificate to the Moral Education Office before 12 noon. As for subsequent disciplinary decisions, they will be made after consultation with the principal and the dean of the corresponding college.

After chatting with the Dean of the Imperial University who also came to receive people, he hurriedly left.

But before leaving, Bao Zhengxin, on behalf of the school, thanked the senior police officers who came after hearing the news. He immediately confessed, saying that there were still many matters to be dealt with, and returned to the school eagerly in a carriage.

Compared with those local students from Qi who were indifferent, some international students from Qin seemed a little worried about the possible punishments issued by the school.

Most of them were overseas students sent by the imperial eunuchs of the Great Qin Dynasty. After layers of selection and in-depth background assessment, they traveled thousands of miles to study in Qi. If they lose the opportunity to continue studying because of a penalty, it would be a disastrous result for them.

Because there was no hope in the imperial examination at the Imperial College, he signed up for the election to study abroad in Qi, hoping to use "Qi Xue" as a basis to achieve the goal of indirectly becoming an official in the Qin court, so as to become an official and shine.

When studying in a university in Qi, students will generally be issued corresponding graduation certificates and degree certificates after completing basic studies, proving that you have a high degree of professional knowledge and technical level in a certain aspect.

After you return to Da Qin, the Imperial College and the Civil Affairs Department will directly grant you a corresponding official position based on the graduation certificate and degree certificate you obtained, usually a low-level affairs officer of the eighth or ninth grade.

If you are unable to complete your graduation or do not obtain the relevant graduation certificate, you will not only be reprimanded and reprimanded by the court, but your status as a scholar may be deprived of you and you will become a penniless white man.

Therefore, almost all the scholars of the Qin Dynasty who came to study in Qi State studied hard in school. Even if the knowledge points they learned were obscure and difficult to understand, they would still recite them all into their heads as if they were swallowing jujube. On weekdays, I am more cautious, abide by the rules and disciplines, and dare not take a step beyond the bounds, hoping to survive smoothly until graduation.

Who would have thought that last night, he would be coerced by his classmates, forced into a street fight, and end up being arrested and imprisoned by the police. Although he didn't suffer much, it was not a good thing after all, being taken away by the Qi government. It would be very unsightly if the school would get angry and punish them severely, affecting their further studies.

However, looking at the nonchalant appearance of the local students from Qi State, the foreign students from Qin State could not help but feel a little lucky.

If you punish but don't blame everyone, let's not do this.

(End of this chapter)