Chapter 398 Fire

Zhao Xing smiled and looked at Shuai Fan. Shuai Fan muttered: "I said why did he agree so easily... Forget it, there are many Song merchants in our Nanyang Affairs Bureau 'robbed', so we couldn't help it and planned to find fighter jets in the name of protecting Song merchants. The Beiyang Affairs Bureau is willing to take this title, but the benefits of this battle must be explained clearly in advance..."

Shuai Fan pulled the official and discussed the profit after the war. Zhao Xing smiled and pulled Wan Qi Yong onto the rooftop platform of the Blue House.

As soon as he walked outside, Zhao Xing couldn't help but shivered and said to himself: "The ice chamber effect seems to be becoming more and more obvious. Now in the twelfth lunar month, the weather is so cold that people are frozen to death."

Wan Qi Yong shook his head: "The Taiwei always gives us a lot of trouble. The Beiyang Affairs Bureau exists to check and balance the Nanyang Affairs Bureau. Now the adults are fighting under the name of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau... Alas, there are a lot of troubles!"

Zhao Xing took a few deep breaths of cold air and asked again: "Have the budget plans from various places been reported?"

Wanqi Yong replied: "There is a report, and there are about 11,000 guan. I don't plan to allocate all of this money. I plan to allocate it according to the season and let them spend as much as they do. Otherwise, wouldn't it still be a lot of trouble like in previous years?"

Zhao Xing looked north and said thoughtfully: "Next year, we will support one person to the post no matter what. I plan to let Huang Luzhi be the Minister of Rites, Zhang Lei be the Minister of Revenue, and get the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue first."

Wan Qi Yong replied in contemplatively: "Cai Jing may not let go of the Ministry of Revenue easily, but what about the old party? Should the old party support someone?"

"Fan Chunli! Mr. Fan's younger brother, Fan Zhongyan's son, I'm going to let him take over the Privy Council, and then choose a member of the Party to take over the Ministry of Works, Li Jie and Shan E have a more experience. They are also qualified to take over the Ministry of Works. In this way, the three provinces and six ministries, the new party and the old party and the Zhejiang party are separated, and the new party takes away a prime minister is considered balanced."

Wan Qiyong also took a deep breath as Zhao Xing, and then said: "Starting next year, we will review the various village councils under the Southeast Affairs Bureau one by one, and strive to make these village councils play a supervisory role. In addition, Fujian must also make great efforts to rectify..."

Zhao Xing interrupted Wan Qi Yong's words: "Fujian's main surname oppresses the small surname, which is also the majority will of Fujian. Since it reflects the majority will, it is the decision of the majority. We have no right to suppress them in any name, otherwise it will be difficult to say that it will cause a rebound.

In my opinion, officials and scholars and officials jointly govern the world. They reflect the upper republic, while grassroots republics need the guidance of Lantian Township Agreement. Under the rural agreement, officials and fellow villagers jointly govern the local area. This is a complete republic. Only with a republic can we ensure that we are not regarded as monkeys.

With a bottom-up republic, no matter how chaotic the court is, we can at least ensure that the southeast half of the country is stable. The rest depends on my efforts and you guys."

Speaking of which, since Zhao Xing returned from the war and the soldiers who went out to fight for the New Year, the people of the Song Dynasty's understanding of the world has quietly changed. The Maritime Newspaper has published several serials in succession, publishing the experiences and experiences of the soldiers who went south. In the descriptions of the soldiers, the world outside the Song Dynasty has gradually become clear. The people of the Song Dynasty gradually knew that there were other civilizations outside the Song Dynasty and other powerful countries. At the same time, they also knew that with the help of culture and force expansion, the Song Dynasty could use its own trade to plunder the world's wealth.

With this understanding, it also brought about the expansion of self-confidence of the people of the Song Dynasty. They were increasingly dissatisfied with the treatment of humiliation under the Liao Kingdom for hundreds of years. They all wanted to make a change, and Zhao Xing extended his tentacles to the north. This is what the people of the Song Dynasty hoped to see. They all hoped that this famous general in a hundred battles could constantly weaken the strong enemies in the north. This mentality was reflected in the Beiyang Affairs Bureau, which was the reason why Han Zhongyan suddenly lowered the offer.

At the same time, Zhao Xing opened a free trade territory everywhere overseas, and the governance methods of those free trade territories were also fed back to the domestic. The Song Dynasty was too far away from the small islands overseas. To manage those trade zones that were isolated overseas, the Song Dynasty could not bear administrative pressure at all. However, the government contracted these overseas territories to merchants, and the Song Dynasty government only sent a nominal governor. This fully commercialized administrative agency not only did not allow the Song Dynasty's finances to spend more, but also easily earned large amounts of trade income and taxes. The influence of this model gradually spread, and some people in the country also wondered whether this administrative system could also be implemented in China.

Under the influence of this trend of thought, the status of the village councils in the southeast coastal areas under the Nanyang Affairs Bureau has become increasingly important, and gradually transformed from an unbinding local civilian institution to a real-powered institution holding some executive power. Therefore, this year, the promotion of the village councils on the southeast coastal coastal was very smooth, and the rest was to make plans for the development of the Southeast village councils.

Wan Qiyong was silent for a moment and replied weakly: "What the adults said is right. People are willing to do so. Since the people of Fujian have accepted their system, we have nothing to do. However, adults often say that everything is ready for success, and no one is ready for success. Now all the township and old councils have been established in various places, and Lantian Township Agreement is just a general initiative. Should we establish a series of rules to correct its development?"

"Of course!" Zhao Xing walked to the female wall on the roof of the Blue Tile Platform and looked into the distance. Wan Qi Yong was awakened by Zhao Xing's actions. He also walked over and looked over. They looked at the direction of the ground. A thick smoke rushed straight into the sky. Wan Qi Yong looked for a while, took out a pocket telescope from his arms, and raised it to the direction of the thick smoke rising, while saying, "Strange, there is..."

The place where thick smoke is ignited is Hangzhou Shachang.

Linhe was originally used to spinning with hydraulic power, but later the yarn mill was built larger and larger, and the hydraulic spinning machine seemed to be insufficient. At this time, Shen Kuo presided over the research and application of steam power spinning machine. The Linhe area was replaced by steam power and continued to expand, forming a large textile area that stretched for more than ten miles.

When Zhao Xing saw the smoke rising on the rooftop platform, it happened to be the strongest time. When he led the Xiangjun to the textile area and started to put out the fire, the fire was no longer controlled.

"How many casualties?" Zhao Xing asked the firefighting captain anxiously.

Accompanied by the jingling copper bells, water trucks were rushing towards the fire area - this is the Song Dynasty urban firefighting team recorded by Lu You and Fan Chengda in their notes. It consists of a large wooden water truck, which relies on the bellows water bag to suck it into the water tank, increase the amount of water, and then spray out the water to extinguish the fire.

At the same time, ships are now prohibited from passing on the river. Several naval firefighters are trying their best to approach the shore and use their powerful water pumps to spray water around. According to the naval firefighting exercises, the water sprayed by the firefighters is not the object, and they sprinkle water on the houses that are not on fire. They hope to cool these houses so as to prevent the fire from spreading. Under the powerful water column sprayed by the naval army, the people passing by were sprayed wet, and even Zhao Xing was like a chicken falling from falling.

The captain of the firefighting team was a retired wing army. He retired from the wing army when Su Shi and Zhao Xing were in charge of Hangzhou and transferred to the government firefighting team. He knew Zhao Xing and quickly stopped trembling. He gave an inappropriate military salute to Zhao Xing, and then replied: "My husband, it's so miserable. When the fire broke out, the female workers rushed to flee. Many people were not burned by fire, but were trampled to death. We have found hundreds of corpses. Now there are three cotton mills that are no longer in control. We can only burn them.

However, my husband, the surrounding factories are already safe. We are sprinkling water around us, and the people in those places have all ran away. So, the official probably has this situation. It is impossible to be worse..."

"In other words, now, the worst situation has occurred, and the rest is only property losses, and there are no more casualties among personnel," Zhao Xing said sadly.

The conversation between Zhao Xing and the firefighting captain reflects the humanistic idea, and property losses are nothing. The losses of personnel are the most worthy of sadness. If things are lost, they can be compensated, and if people are lost, they will never come back.

This conversation appeared in the Song Dynasty. This is not surprising, because in the commercial atmosphere of the Song Dynasty, factory losses and machine losses are nothing. As long as there are skilled workers, production can be resumed immediately. It takes a long time to cultivate a skilled worker. Hangzhou's recent development has caused a labor crisis. It has to recruit labor from all over the place and transport it to Hangzhou thousands of miles away. Then, after training mature textile workers, the money spent is nothing, and thus it is too late to wait.

The firefighting captain nodded silently and recognized Zhao Xing's words. Zhao Xing shook his head and asked sadly: "Why is this happening? The sponge mills have been changed to stone buildings? Why can't the fire be controlled yet?"

Originally, Hangzhou was all wooden buildings, just as described in Liu Yong's poem "Looking at the Sea Tide". Since the invention of cement, a new building material, and with the strong promotion of Su Dongpo and Zhao Xing, Hangzhou has basically been converted into stone buildings. This styling mill was originally built by Zhao Xing. After he went to Guangzhou, he sold these styling mills to its current owner, the fifth prince consort Tang Di. After Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou, Tang Di turned to work with Zhao Xing in Nanyang Sea Trade, and then transferred the styling mill to its current landlord, which was the wealthy businessman in Hangzhou.

Yangchong was also wet. In such a cold winter, he was still sweating. Zhao Xing nodded frequently when he heard the conversation between him and the firefighting captain, and he couldn't help but nagging: "The loss is huge, and now the loss is huge. The female worker in the cotton mill has a salary of ten guan every month. After this death, the pension will be about a hundred guan, hundreds of people, my God!"

Zhao Xing looked at Yang Chong with contempt: "A hundred guan wants to save a life. Do you think this is a milk horse? Every dead female worker will have to provide at least 10,000 yuan for pensions. Please wait, 10,000 yuan for less, and wait for me to deal with you."

The firefighting captain inserted his words at this time and answered Zhao Xing's words: "Although the cotton mill is now a stone building, the needles and threads are everywhere in the cotton mill. It is difficult to make fire in winter. I guess it was the fire that ignited the yarn ball and could not be extinguished, which led to a disaster.

Fortunately, there are all stone buildings here, that is, the fire in three factories is very large, but it cannot spread. Fortunately, it is fortunate."

When Zhao Xing heard this, he suddenly asked in a daze: "Have you read a book?"

The firefighting captain thrust his chest and said proudly: "My husband, you forgot that retired landlords must be evaluated. I, the captain, got the exam!"

Zhao Xing nodded: "No wonder, no wonder you speak so elegantly."

The firefighting captain spoke elegantly and had read books. This was not uncommon in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, one sold the incense seller, the other sold the hat, and the other became the master of the sect. This also shows from one aspect that the Song Dynasty was a business society with equal opportunities. As long as you are willing to work hard, no matter what your birth is, no matter what your profession is, you can make a name for yourself.

Yang Chong was still sweating there, and he murmured: "At least three million coins, my god!"

Zhao Xing laughed: "Three million quotas, you can get it. Remember, I will investigate the families who died one by one. If there is any pension, I will settle the score with you."

Yang Chong said with a sweating face: "Three million yuan, all the money I have earned for many years is going to be poured out. Oh my God, my family has lost all the money, and the family has lost all the money."

After Yang Chong said this, he stopped sweating. His eyes were full of despair. His eyes were rolling around, as if looking for straws to save lives. Zhao Xing looked at the panicked crowd around him and suddenly remembered something. He said with a regretful look: "Emergency measures, we should train the female workers to understand emergency measures. Oh my God, this is my mistake, why did I forget this?"

Zhao Xing wanted to say that it was "the duty of women". In ancient times, this kind of women's duty was also called "female virtue".

The economic development and cultural popularity of the Song Dynasty. The social openness was high, and the competition in all aspects was becoming increasingly fierce. Correspondingly, the management responsibilities in the family became increasingly heavy, and the role of serving the main role of management affairs was increasingly prominent. The economic source of scholars' families determines that men are the core of the family. In real life, many major male members in the family, whether they are in business outside or studying at home, find it difficult to manage industries and take care of their ethnic groups regularly.

In order to adapt to this change, the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system. Housewives became the actual host of a large number of internal affairs in the family. This is what the Song people said: "Women are in the right position, men are in the right position." Based on this situation, the women's morality in the Song Dynasty required women to understand mathematics, manage accounts, run family businesses, and maintain the existing order in the family - that is, the "gateway for discipline".

Sima Guang said, "Women are the prosperity and decline of the family." The standard for choosing a wife by scholars in the Song Dynasty was: "Women can take care of their own housework because their husbands are stupid and cowardly, calculate money and grain, and cannot deceive them; they have unfilial husbands, but can do housework with their sons, and do not lose their family property; some husbands die and their sons are young, but can educate their sons, be harmonious with their relatives and relatives, and do housework. As for the prosperity, they are all virtuous women."

There were many such outstanding women in the Song Dynasty, such as Su Shi's mother Cheng. Wang Anshi also praised his sister. Wang, the wife of Zhang Kui, the doctor of Bimen, "is a wife, a wife, a wife, a mother, and a aunt, and a aunt, and a girl, and a girl."

It is precisely because of this requirement for women's virtue in the Song Dynasty that Mei Sanniang and others used to work to earn money to support their families, and then hired son-in-law to inherit their family business. There was also a special phenomenon of being a concubine as a job, earning a family business, and then marrying a good wife.

The "female ethics" outside of China are different from the "female ethics"; non-Chinese female ethics requires housewives to be both a dedicated houseworker and a nurse who knows simple nursing knowledge and various disaster relief and risk aversion knowledge; at the same time, they should be a psychotherapist who can treat some psychological diseases, etc.

As far away as the Oracle era in China, Greece in the city-state period asked women in this way - "When her husband returns from hard work, he repays him with a grateful, dedicated and dedicated heart; when her husband is sick, she should know how to take care of him; when a disaster occurs, she knows how to lead her children to avoid danger..."

After the Song Dynasty, the moral requirement for women was that a woman without talent was virtue.

The female workers in the spinning mill were all a group of poor women who were in line with the "female virtues" of the Song Dynasty. They came out to earn money to work to support men and raise children. Therefore, Zhao Xing asked Yang Chong to be kind to the pension. However, the spinning mill was a pillar industry in Hangzhou after all, and the spinning industry was severely damaged, so Hangzhou's taxes would be affected. Therefore, after Zhao Xing forced Yang Chong, he turned to find reasons for him and the opportunity for the government to intervene.

This involves the requirements of two kinds of "female virtues". As a woman, according to non-Chinese standards, she should know about post-disaster risk aversion and simple rescue knowledge. This is a common scene in Western movies - bringing out a group of housewives, all of whom are qualified nurses and can rescue wounded soldiers immediately.

"Times are different. Now, since we let the girls enter the factory, they should learn something that men should know. This is the government's mistake. Our government has not taught the girls how to avoid risks before..." Zhao Xing said thoughtfully.

Yang Chong caught a drifting tree like a drifting man. He looked at Zhao Xing with a hug, and asked pitifully: "Master Taiwei, what do you mean..."

Zhao Xing waved his hand and asked the firefighting captain to go busy first. He said in contemplatively: "We should set up a safe-haven agency - I am going to call this agency 'insurance company'. Each merchant takes out a portion of money to deposit it in this company so that when suffering disasters, there is a chance to compensate for losses. Isn't this just watch over and help? It should be the moral style of a gentleman in ancient times. When the government returns, the government will issue a notice and advocate that chambers of commerce in various industries organize industry joint insurance...

In addition, this disaster also reminded me that I was preparing to set up girls' schools in various places to teach Song Zhi's "female virtues", which also included emergency evacuation knowledge, emergency risk avoidance knowledge, and simple rescue knowledge..."

In fact, Zhao Xing did this to lay the foundation for future wars. He always had that string in his heart, believing that the war between Song and Jing will be inevitable. When the war occurs, a large number of rescuers will be needed to use this reason. The requirements of other civilizations of women's virtues into the requirements of women's virtues in the Song Dynasty will make the women of the Song Dynasty more full and cute.

Let later generations cry at the "female virtue" standards in the Song Dynasty. This will be a Zhao Xing version of the "Full Beautiful Mother Plan".

Thinking of beautiful mother, Zhao Xing thought of Mi Fu who fled from Japan. He waved to the shadows, Yuan Yeping rushed out and nodded and bowed. Zhao Xing immediately ordered: "Send people to Japan immediately. On the one hand, you can recruit some wandering samurai who is proficient in Yin-Yang Tao, and on the other hand, you can notify Mi Fu and tell him. I am no longer angry with him, so I ask him to return to China."

Yuan Yehei smiled: "Master Mi is now very respected in Nagato. He keeps banquets in the palace, and the names of various countries are regarded as guests of honor. I am afraid he doesn't want to come back."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You don't know the Chinese hometown complex. As long as you tell him this news, I don't think he will stay for a day."

As he was talking, Hangzhou officials had arrived one after another. Zong Ze led the yamen runners to try his best to clear the crowd. He had a gloomy face and after inspecting the scene, he felt sad: "The Grand Marshal, 321 female workers died, and it is said that there were dozens of corpses in the fire, which was so miserable."

Zhao Xing nodded, and pointed Yang Chong and continued: "I have asked Yang Chong for the situation just now. I have asked Yang Chong to give each person a pension of at least 10,000 yuan. But our purpose is not to make the owner bankrupt. This is also because the government's supervision is not effective. I am going to write a letter and use the government's emergency funds to help with relief."

Zong Ze nodded: "It should be so! This is also because the officials are not good at doing things. I saw that in the place that the Taiwei originally built, there was an open space between each factory building. I heard the firefighting captain say this is called a fire isolation belt.

However, the officials were negligent. In order to make money, the current factory owners have taken advantage of the situation and built many new factories. The other two factories that were on fire were too close to each other, which affected the fire.

Don't worry, I will make great efforts to rectify the situation when I look back, so that enough space will be left between each factory building to facilitate everyone to avoid the fire and prevent the fire from spreading..."

Zong Ze was serious about his work. Since he realized that Zhao Xing would no longer talk. He talked about his thoughts just now: "I am going to issue an emergency evacuation order for disasters, requiring each factory to take out a day of drill every month and be supervised by the government. Zong Zhizhou will be worried about it in the future."

Zong Ze nodded with relief: "That's good, that's good."

Wan Qiyong watched the fire gradually weaken, and he interrupted worriedly: "Master Taiwei wants to help with relief, but I don't know how much it will cost? Now all states are reaching out everywhere. By the way, Xie Lin, the Jinghu Transport Author, also wrote a letter recently, asking for relief, and he is short of money."

Zhao Xing was surprised: "Why did Xie Lin join in the fun?"
Chapter completed!