Chapter 1275 All Things Compete

After staring at the first "small steel plant" in his hand for a long time, Zhao Chengcai led the crowd down the tower and strolled around Wucheng directly.

The layout of Wucheng is the same as most cities. The closer to the center, the richer it is, and the closer to the city wall, the poorer it is.

Because Wucheng was once a trading city, the layout of the edge is subtly different from that of ordinary cities. There are many houses, although they are close to the edge of the city wall, but they are very spacious.

Such houses are used to store goods for merchants coming and going.

However, that was all in the past.

Since Zhao Cheng took Wucheng, there was another round of killing. These properties that originally belonged to the big families in the city were all taken over by the Yingtian Army.

Even if the civilians were not harmed at all, in this battle alone, 70% of the properties in Wucheng belonged to the Yingtian Army, which shows the wealth of the big families.

Of course, if these big families had no second thoughts, Zhao Cheng actually didn't care about this. A house is just a piece of soil and stone. As long as he has people, he can build a mansion in an instant, just like he did in the mountains.

In the final analysis, the most precious resource in the world is population, not anything else.

After taking these houses, Zhao Cheng did not distribute them directly to the people, but turned them into workshops and schools.

At this moment, Zhao Cheng walked on the street and could hear the sound of reading or labor coming from the houses on both sides.

The sound of reading came from the school, and the sound of labor came from the workshop, and no matter whether it was a school or a workshop, they were not closed.

Zhao Cheng looked at the nearest workshop. In this workshop, many men were cutting wood bit by bit. These people were very inexperienced and not very skillful. Even if it was a simple wood cutting, they were not very good, but most of them were very focused.

The reason is simple. When Wucheng was still in Wu Qi's hands, any craftsmanship was beyond the reach of ordinary people. If you want to learn, you have to work hard for the master for at least ten years before you can learn a few tricks. Some secrets require serving for a lifetime and taking care of the master until the end of his life, and you may not be able to get them.

Now, not only do you not have to work hard, but you can also get merits.

Now in Wucheng, money is no longer of much use. The merits of Yingtian Army are more valuable than gold.

Whether it is exchanging food, various daily necessities, or even the opportunity to sign up to become a militiaman, you need to use merits to exchange.

This incident also made many people regret not joining the militia earlier. Now, if you want to join, you must either be extremely brave and lift a 200-jin stone and follow a special sequence, or accumulate enough merits.

As for the militiamen, they also regretted that they missed the Yingtian Army's several recruitments.

If you want to take the assessment and join the Yingtian Army now, you either need to go through the special sequence and join by force, or accumulate enough merits and pass the normal assessment process.

People are undoubtedly the strangest thing. When the threshold for recruiting Yingtian Army was very low, no one was willing to join. Now that the threshold has been raised, many people are trying their best to get in.

Of course, this is not a cheap thing, but the power of the system.

When the gap is formed by the system, a centripetal force will naturally be generated.

And the source of this force is interest.

Now that Wucheng is the world of Yingtian Army, joining Yingtian Army not only has better treatment, but also has a higher status than ordinary people. In this case, it is extremely attractive.

As for Zhao Cheng, he nodded when he saw this scene.

If the wealthy families in the city were still there, he would naturally "resent the people" if he did this. It is guaranteed that a bunch of people bought by the wealthy families would sabotage in various ways, making his decrees impossible to operate.

But now, although many people are not used to the sudden change, they can feel that everything is getting better.

As for the school, Zhao Cheng did not go to see it, but he knew that there were children inside.

In Wucheng today, children over five years old can go to school, and the school provides two meals. In this case, naturally no parents are unwilling.

However, each child can study for three years. After three years, if they can pass the assessment, they can continue to study. If they do not learn well, it proves that they are not the material for this. They have to choose a craft and go to learn as an apprentice to support themselves.

It is also because Zhao Cheng has made fertilizers now and is not worried about the subsequent food problem, otherwise he would not dare to let so many people leave their jobs.

Zhao Cheng led everyone forward and listened to the movements on both sides.

Until they were close to the center of the city, there were workshops and schools here, but the content taught in them was completely different.

In the workshop, many craftsmen gathered together to study and discuss various things, a thriving appearance.

These craftsmen are the most flexible among all the craftsmen, so they gathered together to do innovative research. Of course, Zhao Cheng is still responsible for providing ideas, and these people study how to realize them according to the ideas.

The current research direction is mainly wooden carts for convenient transportation, crossbows for war, various agricultural tools, and the exploration of steam engines.

However, the steam engine is currently limited by the quality of steel and production capacity.

In response to this, Zhao Cheng just listened outside for a while and did not go in, but he remembered a name called Lu Da.

This person is a native of Wucheng. Although he has not read many books, he has an imagination that is extremely rare in this era. He is a good seedling.

Not far from the workshop is the school.

At this moment, there are sounds in the school, but it is not the sound of reciting books, and the content is not the articles of sages and the policy of governing the country.

Instead, it is how to plant the land, how to plan the land reasonably, how to motivate farmers to plant the land, and how to deal with disasters..., and so on.

The school in this place does not cultivate so-called scholars, but officials.

This place cultivates agricultural officials, or agricultural officials in reserve.

In addition, there are schools that specialize in training officials responsible for local security, administrative planning, and local governance.

Later, Zhao Cheng unified the southern wilderness. As long as he conquered a place, these people could take office directly without any vacancy.

Unlike today, when a county magistrate holds all the power and is considered a 100-mile marquis, Zhao Cheng splits the power. An official only does one thing and cannot enforce the law across systems.

Such a split of power is undoubtedly conducive to development and stability.

Otherwise, there will certainly be a ridiculous situation where a county magistrate who can't farm will instruct farmers on how to farm, and a county magistrate who can't build a house will instruct craftsmen on how to build a house.

And it is also known that if you study well, you can directly become an official in the future, and you don't have to study the articles of sages, as long as you specialize in one thing. In this case, the people in Wucheng are not only not opposed to going to night school, but are more enthusiastic.

As for if someone says something bad, complains, and destroys this matter, it is undoubtedly giving credit to others.