My Taoist buddy has practiced surrogacy

Chapter 198

"He said about forced service, that's a primitive way. He said that other people have to pay for their work. If they have money to get it, people from all over here will come to build roads."

"Tsk tsk," Ling Pu heard that Zhou Xing was not forcing the people under his rule to build roads. For other expenses, the salary alone is an astronomical figure, right? How much is a worker per day?"

"A worker here gets one copper baht a day, including food materials a day, and the daily cost of road construction is as high as three gold baht." In fact, the original weekly plan was three copper baht per person per day, but Du Chou blocked it and said For a copper baht a day, those people will rob their heads to work.

"Three gold baht!" Ling Pu was shocked when he heard this. His family is considered a well-to-do family. There are seven or eighty people in the family, but the total monthly expenses are less than ten silver coins. , it will cost at most one gold baht a year.Hearing Du Chou said that it costs three gold bahts here every day, how could he not be shocked, "How can your master afford such a lot of money?"

Seeing Ling Pu's expected reaction, Du Chou laughed and said, "Brother Ling, I also reacted like you at the time. But my lord came up with a solution, Young Master Qiao, Brother Ling, you can guess."

Seeing that they still couldn't figure it out after thinking hard for a while, Du Chou continued to laugh and said: "He asked me to invite all the people in charge of the rich family in a county in Bodao, saying that since the road was built by their Hou Guo, Naturally, there will be a fee in the future. Of course, ordinary people will not charge it, only the money from those business trips in the past. It is said that if everyone is interested, they can invest in shares, and the future income of this road will be distributed according to the shareholding ratio. "

"This method is really a good one," Ling Pu suddenly realized: "This Gao Hou really has a lot of methods, Ling admires it!"

"His method seems to be a trick, but it is actually very harmful." Jordan said unconvinced: "As he does, this road will naturally be built. But since ancient times, it is only natural for the common people to serve. He has The money can be taken, and those people will naturally come to work willingly, but what will they do in the future? Will the government still give money when they organize the people to do things? He broke the rules by going around!"

When Qiao Deng said this, Du Ling and the others were taken aback for a moment, and then fell silent.After taking a few steps, Ling Pu raised his finger and broke the silence among several people, "What is that thing doing?"

In fact, Jordan had already seen what Ling Pu was pointing at.I just saw a log about seven or eight feet long that neither of them could hold was tightly bound to the support of a horizontal bar. At both ends of the horizontal bar were two wheels more than one foot high. Made a support that is more than two feet high.The logs are not tied in the middle to the bars, but are short at the front and long at the rear.In front of the log was a boulder that seemed to weigh a few thousand kilograms and was flattened with a few thick ropes.There were also two thick ropes hanging from the back of the log, and as a few people below shouted and pulled, the boulder hanging in front of the log was easily lifted up.After the other side had dragged the back of the log to the ground, everyone let go with a cry, and the huge boulder hit the ground heavily.

"That's smashing the foundation." Du Chou explained: "The more compact the road is, the smoother the road will be in the future. If you put fine sand on it, you can walk as usual even in rainy days. At first, everyone couldn't move it." Such a huge boulder, after my master knew about it, he designed this vehicle. Now let alone monks, even a few commoners can knock down such a huge boulder."

"Tsk, this is also designed by your master? This really saves manpower."

"That's right." Du Chou's words were full of pride, "All these are from my master's handwriting, but the production is made by skilled craftsmen."

"Hmph," Jordan said with mixed feelings when he heard that Zhou Xing had done all of this, he hummed softly, "It's just a trick."

Although Qiao Deng's voice was low, those two people had profound cultivation, so they could hear clearly. They were all puzzled in their hearts, why this son of the Qiao family, who is well-known in Sichuan, had such a big opinion on Zhou Xing.It's just that they have been tempered in society for many years, so they pretended not to hear such words, and naturally they would not ask why.

The three of them walked along the official road for a while, and finally saw a few buildings in front of them, and the flow of people was denser than that of the road.

"The two buildings that are still under construction are the schools," Du Chou pointed to the east side and introduced: "In the future, all school-age children in our Marquis Kingdom will be able to go to school."

"Great kindness, great kindness," Ling Pu nodded his head and said, "It's really unheard of for Gaohou to act so kindly in the Jin Dynasty. If all counties and counties are like Gaohou, the great prosperity of the world is just around the corner."

Listening to Ling Pu's praise of Zhou Xing, Qiao Deng felt even more uncomfortable. He thought that what I have been promoting these days is the best policy to make the world peaceful and the Jin Dynasty prosperous. Zhou Xing's small favors are nothing.

"Brother Du," Jordan said in a cold voice, who was really young and vigorous, and couldn't hide his thoughts on his face, "How did I hear that this school will not teach the study of saints in the future? Is there such a thing?"

"Ahem," Du Chou, who was originally in high spirits, showed a little embarrassment when he heard Qiao Deng's words, "The study of sages is naturally the focus of teaching. But my master insists on setting up some other courses."

"Oh," Ling Puyuan asked curiously as he had never heard of these in Berkshire, "What other courses are there?"

"Astronomy, geography."

"These Confucian saints also studied them back then." Ling Pu was not surprised at all.

"There are some others, what are they called arithmetic, gewu and so on."

"Hmph, brother Du, this is putting gold on your master's face." Jordan said with a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "What kind of sage's study is just to practice literacy, what is it called language? It doesn't even count as elementary school content." .”

"Ahem, let's start with the basics." Du Chou argued, but his tone sounded unreasonable.

Still in Zhou Xing's magnificent reception room, Zhou Xing expressed a warm welcome to Qiao Deng and Ling Pu.These people were all practical people, after a few polite chats, Ling Pu asked about the medical center.

"Since Mr. Ling is strongly recommended by Mr. Du, I naturally believe in Mr. Ling's medical skills and personality." In Du Chou's introduction, this Ling Pu's father was a teacher of Zhang Tuo, who was known as a genius doctor in the past. Well-known miracle doctor.Although Ling Pu is only 32 years old, his skills are almost beyond blue and better than blue.It's just that he has been in the shadow of his father at home and not known to many people. "Mr. Du has shown you the medical center just now. It has basically been built. After the inside is cleaned up, Mr. Ling can move in. As for the supplies and manpower that Mr. Du needs, you can ask Du Master Bo can even come to me directly. I will do my best to support Mr. Ling's work."

"Thank you, Junhou. Ling is very grateful." Ling Pu first thanked Zhou Xing for his support, and then asked cautiously: "I heard from Master Du that Junhou will pay half of the medical expenses. I wonder if this is true?" Although Du Chou had already told him about this matter, it was of great importance, and he had to get confirmation from Zhou Xing.

"That's right." When Zhou Xing said this with a smile, his heart ached secretly. Who would let him say it out of his mouth when he first came that day.To take back what he said, Zhou Xing thought he was not that thick-skinned.

"Everyone?" Ling Pu asked again with a more serious tone.

"Not everyone." Zhou Xing realized this and immediately said: "Only the registered residents of our Bodaohou Kingdom enjoy this discount, and people who come and go on business trips or other places cannot enjoy it."

"Ling understands." Ling Pu responded, but was slightly disappointed in his heart.However, he also knew that it was impossible for the other party to pay half of everyone's medical expenses. It was unheard of since ancient times to be able to pay half of the people under his rule.

The two chatted for a while, then Ling Pu was taken out by Du Chou, leaving only him and Qiao Deng in the hall.

"Ahem," Qiao Deng broke the silence between the two of them first, and then went straight to the subject, "Gaohou, Lord Shijun has repeatedly invited you to assist him. Why didn't you accept the invitation?"

Seeing Qiao Deng's domineering appearance, Zhou Xing naturally couldn't be happy, thinking that Wang Tianci's family is not much more luxurious than yours, but he doesn't look like you.Thinking this way in his heart, he naturally lost his intimacy and said lightly: "Gao, a person from the north, is unlearned and inexperienced, and he has just arrived here, and he doesn't know anything about the customs and customs of Yizhou. People value themselves. , Gao thinks that his qualifications are blunt, and he really can't afford to be enlisted by the envoy, so he hopes that brother Qiao will tell the envoy."

Seeing his refusal, even though Jordan had expected him to do so, he was still upset.With his family background and natural aptitude, he has been the focus of attention and the object of flattery no matter where he has been since he was a child, but only when he met Zhou Xing, this person's disregard for him under his modest appearance was almost engraved on his face. face.

Isn't it just killing the national traitor Shen Xiu?It's just that I, Qiao Deng, didn't catch up. If I, Qiao Deng, were also in Shangluo at that time, it wouldn't be your turn to kill Shen Xiu.

It's just that although he was annoyed in his heart, he still didn't forget the purpose of his coming. Seeing that he was suppressing his unhappiness, he directly asked, "Gaohou, what do you think of what Master Shijun has done?"

The fact that Luo Shang wanted to carry out the reform of Lingtian was already known to the people in Sichuan the next day, and Zhou Xing naturally saw the corresponding content.In the world he came from, the word "reform" was probably the word he saw and heard the most. Even though he was a gamer, he knew a lot about this kind of thing.After seeing so many real or fake performances, he is almost immune to these two words.Every time he hears these two words, he already has a conditioned reflex. The first thing he thinks of is not the bright prospects depicted, but thinking about the changes these reforms will bring.

"Master Shijun's reform measures are excellent," Zhou Xing organized his vocabulary carefully. He didn't know the purpose of Jordan's visit this time, but he already knew that Jordan is now Luo Shang's son-in-law to promote this project. Pioneer of Reform, "Just..."

"Just what?" Seeing that Zhou Xing hesitated to speak, the young and vigorous Jordan couldn't help asking anxiously.

"It's just that the resistance must be very great." Zhou Xing continued to think about his words, and the news that Jordan was blocked by his father was widely spread. The stakeholder is the biggest problem.”

"Hmph, it's up to people to do it!" Jordan said with a firm face, "If you do it, the difficult will be easy; if you don't, the easy will also be difficult. Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement. We and others should face up to difficulties. , open mountains when meeting mountains, build bridges when encountering water, as long as we have that kind of awe-inspiring spirit in our hearts, we will do things that benefit the country and the people, and no difficulties or obstacles will stop us.”

"Ah bah, that's pretty slick." Zhou Xing said with contempt in his heart: "You opened up your father's big mountain, and I will obey you."

After seeing his passionate words, Zhou Xing still sat there silent, and Qiao Deng couldn't help being even more annoyed, "Fortunately, you are still the hero who killed the national traitor Shen Xiu. Don't you only think of the court and not us? State?"

"Gaohou," he thought in his heart, and said with a sneer on his face, "Master Shijun already expected that you would still not be recruited, but he asked me to ask, what good strategy do you have to solve the current situation?"

He really couldn't bear to say that he came to ask the question, so he pulled out Luo Shang's banner as a last resort.When he asked this sentence, he actually didn't have much hope in his heart.

"I really have a plan to solve Lord Shijun's immediate worries." Zhou Xing said slowly and confidently: "Brother Qiao, let me ask you, is there more monks from rich families or monks from poor families in Yizhou?"

"Of course there are a lot of poor monks."

"That's it." Zhou Xing continued to talk eloquently: "Of course you can't defeat those wealthy monks with a large number of people alone. So, you have to find ways to unite those poor monks to fight with the wealthy monks. fight."

Hearing Zhou Xing's words, Jordan had a sense of direction in his mind, and when he looked at Zhou Xing again, he lost that domineering aura, and asked for advice: "How can we unite the poor?"

At this moment, Zhou Xing thought of several ways.At the same time, he thought of Shen Xiu again.

Isn't Shen Xiu uniting the poor and the rich?
But Shen Xiu finally turned the government into such a mess.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered a sentence that Wang Tianci had talked to him: My great-grandfather always said that Hongdu College would bring disasters to the future, what do you think?
He didn't look much, he didn't know, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out.

"Perhaps Wang Rong is wrong." Zhou Xingxin said: "Shen Xiuzhangbu is just an example. The monopoly of resources by a noble family is a stumbling block to society. At least this reform by Luo Shang seems to be very beneficial to the country and the people. Help him and see where this reform is headed."

Thinking like this, he slowly said: "Public opinion, let's start with public opinion."

"Public opinion?" Jordan looked confused.

"Master Shijun's reform is extremely beneficial to poor families, but harmful to high families. Most of the upper echelons in Yizhou are from wealthy families. How can you implement it by relying on these people? You should rely on the largest number of people. A humble monk."

(End of this chapter)