Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 147 Daqing, rise up!
The situation in the inner city of Jinan is exactly as Pierre and other French nobles guessed.

The clean and tidy streets, the row upon row of houses, and the energetic and orderly Ming people almost dazzled the eyes of these French nobles and foreign students.

The more they looked, the more desperate Holbach and Grand Maester Diderot became.

Compared with the temporary capital of the Ming Dynasty in front of me, Paris is like a dirty and messy pigsty.

It is obvious that the temporary capital of the Ming Dynasty will only get better and better, and the dirty and messy Paris will probably continue to be dirty——

Among the successive kings of France, it is not that no one has thought about cleaning up the excrement outside the city of Paris. However, "If you want to completely clean up the excrement outside the city, you may have to use all the labor in the city. The king's soldiers alone cannot completely clean it up." The feces outside the city walls", so the kings of France had to give up this idea and instead kept raising the walls of Paris.

Grand Maester Holbach, who had originally turned from Ming blowing to vigilance, walked forward with the crowd, and whispered to Grand Maester Diderot: "I have said long ago that European governments must follow the Ming Dynasty as a model. Now It appears that I was right."

Grand Maester Diderot also said with sympathy: "Yes, you are right. If you want to make France better, you must study the Ming Dynasty comprehensively, whether it is their system or their knowledge."

After thinking for a while, Diderot added another sentence: "However, learning the system and knowledge of the Ming country is obviously not enough. In my opinion, we should persuade His Majesty the King to send all the troops to the Ming country. Receive training from the Ming Dynasty."

"You know, those middle and petty bourgeoisie have always disliked His Majesty the King, especially the demise of the Rohan family, which made many nobles fall to those petty and middle bourgeoisie."

"These bloody idiots!"

After cursing bitterly, Diderot couldn't help but start mocking the French nobles: "They don't even think about it, they are nobles, and those capitalists want to take their rights away from them." , how can there be so many idiots in this world!"

It wasn't until they moved into the posthouse and discussed quietly all the way with Holbach and Grand Maester Diderot that they finally remembered a very important thing.

After finding the officials of the Honglu Temple through Pierre, Holbach and the Grand Master Diderot couldn't wait to express their desire to visit the "Daming Library".

According to Pierre, the largest and most complete library in the Ming Dynasty is the "Daming Library" located in Jinan City. The collection of books in it is innumerable, and its scale is larger than that of the French Royal Library with 15 volumes. Several times larger.

However, the officials of Honglu Temple only agreed to part of the request of Holbach and Diderot: "It is possible to visit the Daming Library, but only on the first floor of the first branch library, that is, Non-Ming people are not allowed to enter the part that is open to everyone, like the second floor and other branches.”

As for Holbach and Diderot's idea of ​​becoming a Ming nationality, the officials of the Honglu Temple unceremoniously put forward several conditions.

"First of all, the Ming Dynasty does not recognize dual nationality. Anyone who wants to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty must swear allegiance to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and renounce his original nationality. "

"Secondly, you must be able to read and write Ming characters normally, you must be able to recite "The Analects of Confucius", and you must be familiar with "Zhou Li".

"Again, there must be a skill."

The Buddha Sakyamuni said that human beings have eight sufferings, which are birth, old age, sickness, death, meeting with hatred and hatred, parting from love, flaming five shades, and not being able to get what they want.

Wanting to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty but unable to do so, Holbach and Academician Diderot were autistic, and after being autistic, the two began to envy the ordinary people of the Ming Kingdom——

According to Pierre, the people of the Ming Dynasty not only have the right to freely enter and exit the library and borrow books, but also have various rights.

"The laws of the Ming Dynasty emphasize the principle of "permission if not prohibited by the law" on the premise of not violating morality. The people of the Ming Dynasty have the right to say "no" to anyone, and their power is restricted by the Emperor of Ming and the army of the Ming Dynasty. And the multiple protections of the Ming government."

"Compared to the so-called freedom of France or Europa, the freedom of Ming Dynasty is more like real freedom."

"Moreover, they gave civilians a chance to change their class - studying or joining the army, or even working hard, all have the opportunity to change their destiny."

Speaking of this, Pierre also had a look of envy on his face: "I was born as a commoner in the Ming Dynasty, that's why they were reincarnated. It doesn't matter whether they can recite "The Analects of Confucius" or understand "Zhou Ri". The fact that they are Ming people."

"And those who were not born as Ming people but want to become Ming people must go through many tests."

"Only when you become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, can you have the rights that the people of the Ming Dynasty have had from the day you were born, such as allotment of land, children's schooling, exemption from agricultural taxes, birth equality, birth freedom, etc., can you be recognized by the Ming Dynasty. The protection of the emperor, the Ming army, and the Ming government."

"Do you know what is written on the license of the Ming country's maritime merchants? It is "the holder of this license is protected by the Ming emperor and the Ming army." They stipulated in the law that any foreign-related cases related to Ming people, their court They have to intervene, and any trial that is not attended and approved by Ming officials will be deemed invalid by their government."

"As God testifies, being a commoner in the Ming Dynasty is far more secure than being a nobleman in France."

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Zhu Jinsong did not expect that the jaws of all the European nobles would be shocked just by the fact that there was no dung wall outside Jinan City, and he did not expect that Pierre, who is worthy of being the most famous blow in history, would actually do it all the time. Don't forget to boast about the advantages of Daming.

In fact, the original hygienic situation of Jinan City can only be said to be average, and even the sanitation of all the cities at the entrance of the Central Plains is very average. Although it is much better than the scene of the dung wall outside the city wall of Paris, it is definitely not too it is good.

This is an extremely uncommon historical knowledge that no one even pays attention to——

Since ancient times, dry toilets have been used in the cities and villages of Tangkou in the Central Plains, and no matter how deep the cesspit is dug, the capacity is always limited and will be filled soon.

Even in the 21st century, dry toilets are still everywhere in the rural areas of Tangkou in the Central Plains.

Fortunately, the people in Tangkou of the Central Plains are much better than the "romantic" European barbarians, at least they don't dump dung outside the city.

Just to solve the problems inside, there is a special industry in each city at the entrance of the Central Plains - dung man.

Dung man, also known as excrement digger, dung monkey, or "honey picker" in a more pleasant way.

Their equipment is very simple, a manure scoop for picking up manure, a manure barrel for holding manure, and some have a car for transporting manure. The main job is to dry the collected manure and sell it to farmers who plant the land.

For example, the number of dungmen in Beijing is about 5000 people, and the number of dungmen in Jinan City is about 1000 people.

Don't underestimate this industry. After all, under the rule of my Daqing, it is not bad to be alive, and the dung man can even be regarded as a good job. In order to compete for the opportunity to collect the dung, the dung man will even fight.

When Mazi, who shot three hundred rabbits in the sun, became the emperor, my Daqing began to divide the labor sites of dungmen, and dungmen who often worked in a certain area could contract the poop in this area. Thus the "Taoist System" was born.

There are three types of excrement channels, "dry channel", "water channel" and "heeling channel". Among them, the excrement collectors in the "dry channel" have to go to the dry toilet to dig out their defecation, and the service provided by the "water channel" is to clean the toilet for the residents. The dung collectors do not need to dig out the dung but receive monthly wages. The dung collectors who "follow the road" are a bit miserable. They have to follow the dung collectors in the waterway to collect the residues in the toilet. The "harvest" (feces) is small and laborious.

In addition to the official dung collectors who have divided the dung channels, there are also some retail investors. They do not have fixed dung channels, and most of them pick up dung in the corners.

The age of the dung man is basically in his 40s and [-]s. He eats all kinds of hardships, but he has not become a master.Their income is often lower than that of rickshaw drivers, and their lives are quite poor.They have to come to the dung road every day before the morning rush hour when residents go to the toilet to clean the dry toilet.The collected excrement is then sent to a nearby excrement factory.

The tools for transporting manure are very simple, wooden single-wheeled carts, and there are manure baskets without covers on both sides.There is no wooden barrel on the back of the cart, and there is no lid on it.The dung man has to walk through the streets and alleys in the stinky environment all day long.

Although the dung worker’s life is so hard, there are still some people who have become local tyrants by squeezing the dung workers—the allocated dung road belongs to the dung road owner’s assets, and the dung road owner enjoys the “dung road right” and can resell the dung road to others.

How much is a manure track worth?Depending on whether there is a toilet, the area, the number of households, and the amount of manure produced, the price that the manure can sell is different. "The real estate can be let go, but the dung road must never be let go." This is the secret that the dung bullies always believe in.

During the Guangxu period, ordinary manure was worth tens of taels of silver.In the bald period, the market was bullish, and the price of dung roads rose even more, and the price of dung roads for a hundred households once increased to five or six hundred yuan.

Back then, the bald man had thought about taking the rights to dung into the hands of the government, but was opposed by the dung husbands and even took a collective vacation. The plan finally ended up on the street.

Of course, Zhu Jinsong is the emperor, and he is the emperor who is a time traveler, so it is not too difficult to solve this problem.

After taking back the excrement channel, the sanitation system of Daming is working hard to promote the project of changing dry toilets to flushing water, and at the same time vigorously tossing Jinan's drainage system, and the manure collectors have also changed to sanitation. This is how Pierre came into being. In the eyes of French nobles such as Hall, Holbach and Diderot, Jinan City is clean, tidy and heaven-like.

Of course, no matter what, Holbach and Diderot were deeply shocked anyway, and there was Pierre, a shrewd braggart, who didn't even wait for Zhu Jinsong to sacrifice his muskets and cannons. , Holbach's and Diderot's inner defenses are almost useless.

But before Zhu Jinsong could figure it out, Ke Zhiming reported a piece of news that surprised even Zhu Jinsong.

Daqing, who has always had friends coming from afar, and who is not easy to lose, has become powerful!
(End of this chapter)