Chapter 123 The rising political star

Sure enough, the Kaifeng magistrate's personal sweeping of the streets caused a great sensation. Even Zhao Zhen knew about it, and Wu Yu asked Zhao Zhen to summon him the next day.

Now the entire government office is paying attention to this matter.

But when Wu Yu came back in the afternoon, he looked quite happy. He held a meeting and said: "His Majesty supports this matter. Let us continue to advance. If the effect is satisfactory, he can urge other departments to follow up."

At this time, the entire government office was in a state of shock.

There is a way to do this!

Originally, the officials were just pushed away, but the officials paid personal attention and suddenly realized that it was an opportunity.

The subordinate officials below heard about this and knew that the superior officer had taken it seriously, so they no longer needed Zhang Heng's encouragement and took action one by one.

When it comes to doing things, it has to be the subordinate staff.

Strong subordinates and smooth officials are the characteristics of this era.

The magistrates of Kaifeng are often changed, the magistrates are often changed, the Cao officials are rarely changed, and the subordinate officials are not changed when they are deeply rooted.

Almost every subordinate official has his own base, and Zhang Heng knows this very well, so although he initially focused on the prefects and judges, his final focus was on the subordinate officials.

Zhang Heng divided the entire Bianjing city into pieces, and then asked his subordinates to divide a piece into pieces and disperse them to implement the plan.

The first is the management of roads. Horse and cow dung are not allowed on the roads, and obvious garbage is not allowed. This needs to be supervised by the Street Department of Bianjing City.

The street department was the sanitation department of later generations. They were responsible for road maintenance and sanitation management. However, due to the conceptual issues of this era, the streets were not tidy in Zhang Heng's opinion, so it was necessary to propose new standards.

The Street Secretary was not very happy with the Kaifeng Yamen's criticism, thinking it was a waste of manpower. Zhang Heng asked several of his subordinates who specialized in supervision to check several times. The Street Secretary gave in and agreed to follow Zhang Heng's new standards.

Come.

Secondly, there is the problem of hygiene at the entrance of merchants. They did not pay much attention to the suggestions of Kaifeng Yamen. Some people even made wild remarks and suggested that Kaifeng Yamen should stop making suggestions. Then the subordinate officials who managed the merchants came to the door, and the merchants became more honest.

Finally, there is the sanitation at the doorsteps of people's homes, which must be managed in collaboration with the village leaders at the bottom.

The square system in the Song Dynasty had collapsed, but the square chief system still existed. The square chief still had authority in the hearts of the people. The square chief patrolled every day. If he saw people piling things at the door, he would give a warning, and then ask the people to regularly

Clean it up.

Such a movement, which was initiated from the top and then promoted by the power of the grassroots, was launched vigorously, and the city of Bianjing was cleaned up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The livestock excrement and urine on the road have obviously disappeared, and the road is much cleaner. There is no garbage piled up everywhere at the door of the merchants, and there are no mountains of garbage piled up at the door of the people. It looks much cleaner.

The officials in the government office also praised this change, but Zhang Heng knew that the movement launched now had just begun.

Because many supporting facilities have not yet been provided, such as toilets, trash cans, street lights, roadside greening, and blocked rivers. These are the real chronic diseases. If these infrastructures cannot be established, the current health campaign will not be maintained.

Too long.

Only when citizens see the beautiful streets and don't have the heart to destroy them, can this cleanliness truly be sustained.

But this is different from mobilizing people to clean up. This requires real investment of money. When money is involved, the difficulty becomes very high.

The Kaifeng government office doesn't have much money. In fact, not only does the Kaifeng government office have little money, but the three departments also don't have much money. Even if they do have it, it's impossible to invest it in it. The soldiers in the northwest are crying for food, and there are plenty of places to spend money.

Therefore, Zhang Heng did not put his hope in them.

Where does the money come from?

This is a question that all the big men in the government office are thinking about.

According to the plan proposed by Zhang Heng, it is impossible to realize it without hundreds of thousands of coins. Let alone anything else, just one toilet is enough for them to drink a pot.

Let’s first look at Zhang Heng’s standards for public toilets:

1. Set up one public toilet with a service radius of one mile;

2. There are regulations on the average area of ​​each toilet seat in Class I and Class II toilets. A Class I toilet must be seven steps times seven steps, and a Class II toilet must be five steps times five steps.

3. The minor solution and the major solution need to be set up separately;

4. Both men and women need to have separate toilets.

5. The toilet needs to be equipped with a septic tank and cannot just be a primitive dry toilet.

After that, there are many constraints. According to Zhang Heng's calculations, the construction cost of each toilet is about 20,000 yuan. In other words, a public toilet costs about 26 yuan to build, and the entire Bianjing City needs

Build 4,714 toilets, so the budget is approximately...

"...about 130,000 guan."

Zhang Heng gave specific figures, which made Wu Yu and the other judges look embarrassed.

Wu Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Do you know how much taxes Kaifeng Mansion pays per year?"

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "Of course I know, it's about 400,000 yuan."

Wu Yu spread his hands: "You can take away one-third of Kaifeng Mansion's annual tax for just one toilet. Do you think it's possible?"

Zhang Heng shook his head and said: "This is just a small part, greening, dredging rivers, trash can layout, street lamp layout, road and bridge paving, etc., and these must form a normal maintenance. All these added up, it will cost about five yuan at a time."

100,000 guan, and the regular expenditure will be at least 200,000 guan every year from now on.”

Wu Yu suddenly felt suffocated, and the others also looked at each other in confusion.

Wu Yu said dejectedly: "That's it, we will just carry out health activities in the future. A slight improvement is also good. When I went to court these days, my colleagues also praised our government office for doing a good job in this matter. The whole capital

Everything has become a lot cleaner. As for the construction of infrastructure... let it happen."

The others also nodded.

"Yes, this is already very good. Now I go out and walk often, and I feel very comfortable. After all, it is really clean. It's very good, very good."

Zhang Heng laughed: "Such a little difficulty scares you away?"

"Is it just such a small difficulty?" One of the judges laughed bitterly, "It's great that Zhang Qian is so young. He has five hundred thousand guan. The three commanders shook their heads when they saw it!"

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "Just leave this to me. Isn't it just about making money? It's easy."

Everyone looked at each other.

The meeting has reached this point.

Zhang Heng did not explain clearly to them, but immediately mobilized talented people from the warehouse to establish a coal yard and a foundry.

Talents are readily available and can be transferred directly from various warehouses and warehouses. Materials can also be transferred at any time by directly recording the accounts. Coal and pig iron are transferred from the mining and metallurgical service, and timber is transferred from the lumberyard.

The secondment only took half a month, and both the coal yard and the foundry were running smoothly.

The foundry mainly produces two products, one is a coal beater for making lotus root coal, and the other is a lotus root coal stove. Both of these products must have been seen and used by the generations born in the 1980s.

The coal yard received a large number of coal breakers and began to produce lotus root coal. The production of lotus root coal required a large amount of soil, so Zhang Heng simply invested in purchasing river silt from the public.

It was the river's dry season, and although the refugees didn't know why the coal yard was buying sludge, for them, anything that could make money was a good deal.

As a result, large numbers of refugees went down to the rivers to dig out silt. Some smart people, after asking about the needs of the coal fields, simply organized a large number of refugees to encircle some small rivers, drain the water, and then excavate the silt in an organized way.

Over time, all the small rivers that were blocked by siltation were dug out to reveal the yellow mud, and all the mud was swept away.

Of course, this kind of intensity is a bit small for a large river, and people will definitely have to be organized to excavate, but it is naturally better to do things by the way.

There was a lot of sludge in the coal yard, raw materials for making lotus root coal, and a large amount of lotus root coal was produced.

Zhang Heng organized a group of backbone salesmen to promote lotus root coal and coal stoves, and conducted street performances in some crowded places, vigorously promoting the power of lotus root coal, saving coal, saving money, convenience, and versatility, and it can be used to boil water and cook.

It can be used for cooking and heating. It has multiple uses and saves coal.

It has entered late autumn in Bianjing, and the weather is gradually getting colder. It is the time to buy a large amount of heating supplies. Coal cakes and coal stoves are produced in time, which immediately triggers a large purchase.

A large amount of products are shipped out from coal yards and foundries every day, but for a big city with a population of two million, it is only a drop in the bucket. Zhang Heng has already made a large enough advance, but he still underestimated Bianjing.

The enthusiasm of the people.

Zhang Heng can only continue to expand the scale of production to cope with the strong rush to buy. Fortunately, there are a lot of talents hidden in the warehouse of Kaifeng Mansion. Zhang Heng only needs to give him the power to go out, and someone will naturally help him organize it.

By mid-November, Zhang Heng began to purchase large quantities of trash cans and arrange them on various streets. He also purchased wood from the lumberyard to make street lamps. Public toilets were also put out for public bidding. Finally, the engineering team under the shop's housekeeping department took over the task.

, a total of more than 4,000 public toilets are in full swing.

According to Zhang Heng's plan, all these public toilets should be completed before the Spring Festival. The time is actually quite generous. One month is enough for them to build them. Although Zhang Heng asked for a lot, it is actually not difficult to build.

The septic tank is earthwork and the rest is a regular small bungalow project, how hard can it be?

The key is money.

But money is no longer an issue.

Everyone in the Kaifeng government office watched helplessly as Zhang Heng performed a dazzling operation. He established a coal yard and a foundry, and then continued to expand them. What kind of marketing, what kind of coal repurchase, and what kind of messy new trend was it?

It was a coal-burning activity, and then the money poured into the Kaifeng government office like a flood.

On the first day of selling coal cakes and coal stoves, Kaifeng Mansion made a net profit of 9,000 yuan;

The next day, thirteen thousand guan;

On the third day, eighteen thousand strings;

After that, it stabilized at 20,000 guan per day.

After one month of selling, Kaifeng Mansion's profit reached 500,000 yuan, which was exactly what Zhang Heng had budgeted before.

However, this stable amount of 20,000 coins per day is only because the coal fields and foundries can only produce so many things in a short time, and it is not the limit!
To be continued...