Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 257 The Big Dream of Spring and Autumn (two in one)

There was silence in the nave...

My lord, what does this mean?
Could it be that... in order to promote this spirit, he decided to marry Huang Jijiu personally to correct the trend?

And...Huang Jijiu, you are so ignorant that you directly answered that you are not married yet?You said you should go home and ask your parents!

Seeing that the lord's long-standing problem will be solved so soon?

Xiangbaitu has traveled five years and is now an older young man. Regarding his old man's marriage, Lu Kang and others have also had headaches. After all, if you don't get married, you won't have children... "The master of the country is doubtful" is better than "the master has no descendants" "Isn't it insurance?
Even Lu Bu was secretly looking for a candidate, but...after discussing with Diao Chan again, he was rejected by his own family for several days for no reason, and then he delayed.

Lu Lingqi: ...

Lu Lingqi looked at Huang Yueying who was wearing a veil with dead eyes—well, she probably understood why Huang Yueying said that, but...it sounded like she still wanted to hit someone.

"My lord is right! If the husband of a man has no tolerance for others, wouldn't he be worse than a woman in the street? I would also marry him!" Mi Heng noticed that Bai Tu's expression was different and understood that it was not everyone. As I thought, I immediately stood up to save the field.

"A tone full of jealousy can't tolerate a female official, why bother to bend down again, why not ask the eunuch for everything! Yo!"

After finishing speaking, he even spat out a burst of tongue-in-cheek swords—it's cool to speak out in the middle hall of the general's mansion, just like when he was in the prime minister's mansion, and he could get multiple "feedbacks" at once.

Mi Heng: Mental power +10!

At this moment, Mi Heng felt like he was the most watched star!

Huang Yueying:? ? ?

Huang Yueying looked at this guy with his neck stretched out in disbelief. Just now, she felt that there seemed to be a flattering guy sneaking into the general's mansion, and now... she was even more convinced that this guy had already reached the extreme level of flattering!
I told you that I am unmarried and don't suit your lord's taste, so you took the initiative and said, "You are also willing to marry"...so that you can satisfy the general's good wife, right?Isn't your licking more excessive than that of Shi Changshi?
There is such a weird thing. The General's Mansion is really a scary place...

"Haha, I don't like long necks. It reminds me of the love turtles that drowned in the pond in the backyard." Huang Yueying said in a disgusted voice.

Mi Heng:? ? ?Mental power -10; Huang Yueying: mental power +10!

Mi Heng's face turned red because he was suppressing it, and all the mental energy that had just been harvested from the audience was released at once...

"My lord and Zhengping are both honorable men, but not all men in the world are honorable men. As far as I know... every workshop that employs female workers also has vagrants in the countryside causing trouble, right?" Wei Teng said at this time.

The Wei family is very conservative, and even...to this day, they still stick to their principles and will never hire female workers to give those scoundrels an opportunity to take advantage of them!

It can be said that he is old-fashioned, but in fact, he also has a "cute" aspect - a modern capitalist would not have such a high bottom line.

It's just... Wei Teng felt a little uncomfortable when he saw other people hiring cheap female workers.

"En? Wang Sibu, is this kind of thing... very rampant recently?" Bai Tu looked at Wang Lang.

"Well... because there are not many reports of this kind of thing, but there are some workshops, so there are a lot of reports of people's lives being reported, especially in Jinling..." Wang Lang said and looked at a few people in particular, and everyone pretended not to be surprised. See the look in his eyes.

Baitu: ...

Well, few people will go to the government for this kind of nuisance to women.

Such people who disturb women are usually beaten to death by clan members, old and young, when they are found in the countryside. If they are found in a workshop, they are beaten to death by the workshop - especially the workshops outside Jinling... Who are they really? Can they all be opened?

Do I need to report the female worker who is harassing me to the police if she is discovered?
Of course, because of the habit of not reporting crimes, more second-rate scoundrels have not been punished...

"People who are killed in the workshop need to be taken care of, and those who disturb female workers must be taken care of even more!" Bai Tu said sternly.

Wang Lang is also helpless. If they don't report the crime, why should they blame me?
Although he didn't say it clearly, Bai Tu seemed to understand his eyes and said directly: "I blame the Punishment Department for not giving the victims confidence! In the future, the Punishment Department will strengthen the law enforcement in the workshops!"

Wang Lang: ...

Okay, what else can Wang Lang say?
Go back and tutor the law popularizers on their "speaking skills"!

"Lord, those rural refugees who commit crimes are certainly cancerous, but if the existence of women's workshops did not give them the opportunity, they would rarely go to the countryside to harass women. Some refugees even see opportunities. That's why I became restless." Wei Teng said at this time.

If you go to the countryside to harass women...if you are discovered by the villagers, you will be killed and buried!

This is also a manifestation of the protective nature of the clan. It is of no benefit at all, and the concept of "clan" will not appear...

Even in troubled times, there are many gangsters who rob civilian girls and few second-rate scoundrels who harass civilian girls... because most of them are buried in mass graves!
"It's reasonable. When Dong Zhuo was doing mischief in the court, as long as he didn't become an official or cause trouble, and just went back to his hometown and hid, he wouldn't be in danger... Why didn't Old Captain Yuan understand Zhou Lin's reasoning?" Bai Tu looked at Wei Teng and said.

These words were quite heart-wrenching, and Wei Teng's scalp exploded after hearing this - Who is Old Lieutenant Yuan?Yuan Feng!The uncle of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, he was the mainstay of the anti-Dong Baohuang government during Dong Zhuo's chaos, and was later killed by Dong's thieves!
Even though Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao were each defined as rebels by the court, Yuan Feng's posthumous reputation was not affected. He was a model for officials.

When Mi Heng heard this, his eyes lit up - master!Can all these be brought together?

Write it down, write it down...

"This, this... Old Lieutenant Yuan stepped forward for justice. What I mean is... those female workers did not go to the workshop for justice... Of course, I am not saying that they are unjust, but..." Wei Teng quickly explained.

"Is it righteousness for farmers to cultivate in the fields?" Bai Tu interrupted.

Wei Teng did not dare to answer. It was indeed not the same kind of "great righteousness", but...if he said it was not a great righteousness, Bai Tu would definitely ask him, if everyone doesn't farm, what will they eat?
"Ahem, working in a workshop is naturally beneficial...but isn't it the same with weaving at home and caring for your husband and raising children?" Wei Teng said aggrievedly.

After all, this is the crux of the matter. Men farm and women weave, a word that haunts the Han people.

"I know what you're worried about, it's nothing more than men plowing and women weaving, but have you ever thought about it, let alone the army in the general's mansion, the workshops outside the city, the shipyards at the port, the salt fields by the sea, the miners in the mountains... ...Where do these people come from? Are they going to rely on refugees and disaster victims in the future? Are the technologies and projects of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs prepared for refugees and disaster victims?"

Bai Tu simply put on a posture that said, "Let's talk clearly today."

Men farm and women weave, this saying touches everyone’s heart.

Anyone who has attended junior high school understands what the small-scale peasant economy was in ancient my country?Men farm and women weave!
In order to invest productivity in industrialization, we must "destroy" the small-scale peasant economy. Of course, Baitu's "destruction" cannot be "sheep eating people", that is, we cannot force the labor force to produce small-scale farmers when basic needs cannot be met. Pull them out, otherwise the consequences will be starvation all over the land...

"Although what the Lord did was an act of kindness, it was indeed quite... difficult and dangerous. After all, 'food, clothing and security' are the foundation of the people." Zhang Zhao said after hesitating for a moment.

Although the aristocratic families have also benefited a lot from the workshops that cooperated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, it does not mean that they will forget the "fundamentals".

Although conservatives such as Zhang Zhao here do not understand what "sheep eat people" means, they have instinctive resistance and fear of the impact of the model of men farming and women weaving.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in fact, as long as Baitu did not mess around with death, it would be difficult for "sheep to eat people" to happen. After all... the nobles from aristocratic families who had the ability to "sheep to eat people" had their own engraved legends for generations. Bloodline’s persistence in “farming”.

Therefore, when Bai Tu heard Zhang Zhao's words, instead of being angry, he looked at him very pleased.

If it is difficult to suppress the aristocratic family's transition to a powerful family, but the scholar-bureaucrat class is collectively capitalized, it will be a scourge...

But it's okay... Even though they are both oppressive classes, there is still a fundamental difference between the aristocratic right-wingers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the capitalists after the fifteenth century.

To a certain extent, a wealthy family is much safer than a capitalist. If a capitalist is a personified capital, then a wealthy family is a personified bloodline continuation. If a real family gives it a hundred times the profit, it will not Would consider going to the gallows.

On the contrary, "continuation of bloodline" is the core interest, and this "core interest" can curb other ambitions!

Especially the aristocratic families, the more glorious and ancient they are, the more they have a deep fear of agricultural waste - in this land that once said, "Princes, generals, ministers, would rather have seeds", don't expect anyone to be willing to go hungry...

Others farmed the land, but I studied when I had enough to eat, and watched others help farm the land—farming, studying, and passing down family traditions was the safest way.

Of course, on the basis of "insurance", if I can have more land and more people to cultivate land for me, that would be even better!

"The provision of food and clothing is well said! Therefore, whether it is the Ministry of Civil Affairs or the Ministry of Industry, in addition to the necessary means to deal with those rebels who are making trouble, isn't the main focus on the provision of food and clothing? Five years ago, Jiangdong [-] Only one peasant household can support a person who is out of work while meeting the needs of his family... This person who is out of work can be a scholar, a worker, a businessman, or a general."

Of course, it's not just "one person", because in the world of Cheng Ji, some manpower has been recruited!

"Now, basically every two households can support one person... What is the benefit of this?" Bai Tu asked.

"Of course my lord is wise and a living divine farmer!" Mi Heng said fiercely.

"Well, there are reasons for this, but there are also more reasons. It is the water conservancy project of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the breeding plan of the Ministry of Industry. If we want to be more efficient... we can only rely on more convenient tools and better... Crops, more fertile land! These...all require 'people' to complete!

Therefore, compared with other princes, the manpower invested in the army by the General Mansion is very low. It should be the same as Yizhou, which is the lowest. However, in terms of labor, we have the highest proportion of requisitioned workers, and it will only be higher in the future. Only in this way can we Make 'food, clothing and security' more secure.

In other words... the manpower that can be overflowing on the basis of 'food and clothing' is the most precious thing. "Bai Tu said.

The "destruction" Bai Tu wanted was to "overflow" the labor force from the small-scale peasant economy.

Preparing for water conservancy projects everywhere, encouraging land reclamation, encouraging scientific farming, encouraging efficient collective spinning of yarn and flax, etc... are all enhancing the efficiency of "ploughing" and "weaving".

No matter how advanced Baitu's skills are in other areas, the labor force that can be utilized will always only be the "overflow" after satisfying "ploughing" and "weaving"!
That's why Baitu is so yearning for the crops in the Golden State - high-yield staple food crops, cotton suitable for textile looms, these can be exchanged for labor force, I am afraid that it is comparable to all the planned water conservancy projects and water conservancy projects in Baitu in Jiangdong and Huainan. The sum of the official farmsteads to be reclaimed...

Not to mention conservatives like Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, even Lu Su and Lu Xun took a while to figure out the logic of what Bai Tu wanted to say - in short, Bai Tu went around and around to illustrate one point: in order to have more knowledge. Efficient "ploughing" and "weaving" require more people to break away from "ploughing" and "weaving"!
"Then...what happens after that? If in the future...one household can support one person, or even two people, then what?" Zhang Zhao asked without realizing it for a moment.

Is it because more people are quitting farming that more people are quitting farming?So what do you do when you're full?Infinite loop?
"After that, you can do some happy things." Bai Tu said matter-of-factly.

"Happy?" Zhang Zhao clicked, and the word was not difficult to understand.

"What do you think is happiest?" Bai Tu asked.

"Of course it's reading! If every household can read in the future, the prosperous age that the saints have been waiting for will come true! If everyone can read, there will be no greater happiness in the world than this!" Governor Guan said immediately.

Well, Guan Ning's expression was very honest - how could there be anything happier than reading?

Hearing this, Bai Tu smiled and nodded: "It makes sense, but not every household has a 'person'. The manpower saved from farming and weaving may not necessarily be in 'person' terms... As far as I know, the county now has one person." The difficulty in promoting education is that after basic rural education, children aged [-] or [-] are already an indispensable labor force. If there is no shortage of people in the future, everyone can study to the age of a crown and a hairpin! There will be other happiness Something about that?”

"If tens of millions of Han people are liberated from the land, they can conquer all directions and prevent the Hu people from going south to herd horses." Lu Bu, who was born in Bingzhou, said at this time.

"Well, my foster father is right... not only can we prevent the Hu people from coming, but we can also go north to herd horses! Besides... we can also herd cattle and sheep. Of course, if the Hu people are willing to herd for us, that's fine too." Bai Tu added.

"And Zibu said that one household supports one person. Actually... I think we can be more courageous. If it is just one person per household, I estimate that we can do it within a few years, and even if we can't see more Just because it’s here doesn’t mean it won’t be possible in the future!
Just like this thing, the Qi Machine... Five years ago, the crossbow could not penetrate the armor beyond sixty or seventy steps, but now it can penetrate the iron armor at three hundred steps!What if the Qi Machine can be used to cultivate land in the future?How can he use the Zhenqi Machine to plow tens of thousands of hectares of land and harvest tens of millions of grain by sending hundreds of servants to him? "Bai Tu said in a somewhat boastful tone.

"How can there be so many gilded warriors..." Gan Ning couldn't help but take the lead in disrupting the situation.

Bai Tu glared at him and said, "What do you know? When Pang Sibu first made the Qi machine, only the liquid Qi of General Jin Yu could be stored... Hasn't it been optimized now? Not to mention Hua Lao's in the medical school now. Wu Qin Xi' is still being perfected and promoted, how do you know that ordinary people will not be able to use the Qi Machine in the future?"

Gan Ning rolled his eyes when he heard this - OK, OK, you are right.

Seeing Bai Tu and Gan Ning come out like this, everyone relaxed a little, and the atmosphere was not as tense and sharp as before.

"If this is true, countless laborers will be available to dig mountains and dig rivers to make the natural chasm accessible." Lu Su said after pondering for a while.

As the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the first thing Lu Su thought of was those things that looked "very good" but... taking into account manpower issues, they were simply impossible to achieve.

"That makes sense." Bai Tu didn't correct him, just nodded.

"If we can really support so many people, in the future every village, no, every pavilion will have a team of catchers and quickies, and they will have to learn for ten years before taking office!" Wang Lang said bitterly.

The names of "catcher" and "kuaishou" were derived from the expansion of the original "thief-seeking" position after the establishment of the Ministry of Punishments, and were combined into "catcher".

Recently, due to the contradiction between "the prohibition of using torture to extract confessions" and "difficulty in obtaining evidence for conviction", Wang Lang's hair has become thinning day by day. No wonder he is so resentful.

"It makes sense, it makes sense." Bai Tu looked at Wang Lang's hair style, which was about to lose its hairpin, and quickly comforted him.

"Then there will be more doctors like Divine Doctor Hua and Divine Doctor Zhang in the future, right? After that, maybe seventy will not be considered 'rare' in ancient times." Lu Kang felt this.

Recently, his body bones have begun to feel a bit unresponsive, and he often runs to medical school.

"That makes sense...Mr. Lu should also take care of his health," Bai Tu said.

"In other words... after I make a Qi machine that can cultivate the land, more people can specialize in making pastries?" Huang Yueying said with a very clear mind.

"Ahem... Not only that, there can be people, many people, who can design cakes specifically. It would take many times more people to do it than all the people who were distracted in inventing cakes in the past combined." Bai Tu said seductively.

After all, Huang Yueying had done a lot in this matter, so she couldn't be discouraged.

"Is it possible that there could be someone who specializes in making clothes, or even designing more beautiful tattoos and clothes?" Gan Ning thought for a while and said.

Baitu: ...

Are you really my Navy Commander?Can you tell me something related to your major?

"Hmph! If the general's painstaking support can only support some actors, then what's the point?" Hua Xin immediately attacked.

Since Gan Ning came back safely, Hua Xin was so angry that she had to eat two extra bowls of rice every meal, and she became more and more "plump" recently.

"Old man, my lord has already told you that hundreds of people can get tens of thousands of rice grains, don't you know how to count? Do you know how many times the number of people who are out of production will be? Knowing that after the year-on-year increase..."

"Don't argue, it's all enough, all is enough... Since it is a happy thing, everyone can speak freely." Bai Tu persuaded.

The more people talk about this, the more people have different ideas, and some people’s ideas are very unrealistic. For example, Bing Yuan thinks that in the future, each person can farm for one year, be an official for one year, be a soldier for one year, and serve for one year. Take a year off... and so on.

This is also the rekindling of Bing Yuan's heart for a poor family. He probably feels that it is unfair that so many people have studied but have never been an official?In short, this idea is enough to let myself go.

Naturally, following this idea, many people are nervous. If this is true in the future, then in the future... won't the advantage of being a child of a noble family be even smaller?
So someone secretly pointed out that maybe some people think rebellion is the happiest...

However, in response, Bai Tu just asked one sentence: Did the Yellow Turban come out of hunger or support?
Generally speaking, everyone can still think of many happy things. Of course... there are many happy things that everyone does not want to share with Bai Tu.

For example, many people must have thought that if this were the case, could the number of servants, concubines, etc. in the family also be doubled?
The smarter people will think that by then, human life will be much more valuable, and it will be less likely to have servants and concubines. Will this be a blessing or a curse?
But what is even smarter is the thought that now we can only buy children from poor families, but in the future there will be a lot of educated people waiting to sell themselves...

Bai Tu didn't care what they were thinking. When the atmosphere became more heated, he suddenly clapped his hands, interrupting everyone's spring and autumn dream.

"It seems that there are still many happy things, but this happiness is far away from everyone, and it is also within reach! I think that the proportion of folk farmers who want to develop into small farm owners is often the lowest. Small farms From the owner to the owner of a large farm, the proportion is much larger.

The farmers with two hectares are the most, but the third hectare is the most difficult... because the first two hectares, in addition to feeding us, are only enough for their own food and clothing, but after the third hectare, the advance and retreat There is more room.Now we want to 'overflow' people from the land, so why not? "

Everyone understands what Bai Tu said. According to what I just said, the "overflow" of people who don't need to farm can go to repair bridges and roads, repair rivers and canals, develop new tools, and breed, and then Make it more efficient and bring more people out of the land!

"So... now 'farming' has reached a bottleneck. Although the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs are working hard, in comparison, this 'weaving' has greater potential, and even part of the potential that is within reach has not been developed. Come out! Some of you have a spinning or linen spinning workshop at home, right? How much more efficient is it than ordinary people spinning by themselves?
Just for these solvable troubles, and just because of gender, do you have to tie these manpower, which can be separated from farming and weaving at any time, to farming and weaving? Bai Tu asked rhetorically.

Seeing that no one spoke, Bai Tu immediately said before the others could react:
"There is no need to discuss this matter again in the future... Now that we are facing unprecedented challenges, naturally we cannot blindly follow the rules. Heroes among women such as Zhong Wuyan and Fu Hao are encouraged! Those who are idle and harass the female workers in the workshop will be dealt with severely...at least by the county-level criminal court." Bai Tu said after thinking about it.

Although the aspect of "farming" will continue to improve from time to time, it is difficult to make substantial progress before finding the golden state. Therefore, "weaving" and female labor are the short-term potential.

Of course, what Zhang Zhao said was not unreasonable. It at least reminded Bai Tu that women should be encouraged to "work in the most glorious way" and at least they should have no worries.

In terms of changing customs, it was not that difficult during the Eastern Han Dynasty, but...if some second-rate people caused trouble at this time, Baitu would not mind being severely punished.

There is no need to add any special clauses, just the sentence "must be transferred to the county prison for trial" is enough to show the strength and avoid the spread of bad habits due to cover-up at the grassroots level.

The entire General Mansion, including Jiangxia County, which has not yet been completely conquered, and the temporarily established Yiyang County, which only has four counties, has only eleven counties in total. If there are problems in the county execution hall, it will be in vain. Let’s ask Wang Lang...

"Will it be overkill?" Bai Tu asked after pondering for a while.

After a short silence, Gan Ning was the first to say: "No! Such criminals will be punished with a thousand cuts!" It was as if they were the ones who affected him from having more beautiful clothes to wear.

"The crime is extremely heinous, just like a dolphin or a dog! My lord, you must not be merciful."

"Do you want me to take the time to invent some special torture instruments? What if they delay the cakes... well, it would be bad if they delay the important events of the General's Mansion!"

"Such a dishonorable and shameless person, he will stick himself to death in the workshop..."

"It's not that he is shameless... In my opinion, this is an attempt to overthrow the general's government. Nine times out of ten, he is a spy of those traitors!"

Seeing that everyone couldn't hold it back, Bai Tu immediately withdrew his magical power and stepped back: "No! The Ministry of Punishment has repeatedly issued orders prohibiting the abuse of lynching. Don't talk nonsense..."

Bai Tu also breathed a sigh of relief...

Finally, it was a "bluff" - from now on, the status and interests of "female workers" have been established!Although there is still a long way to go before women can be formally included in the selection of officials, it is natural to establish the status of "female workers" and specially recruit some female officials and officials.

As for people like Huang Yueying, who have significantly helped everyone's "Spring and Autumn Dream", they are unanimously praised by both men and women...

　Dongdong: Who dares to say that I am not long enough?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)