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The first wave is to collect swill, food residues, soup, etc., will be placed in swill buckets, and someone will buy them to feed pigs.

There is another group of manure collectors.

There is no feces disposal fee, just take it away, and both parties get what they need.However, it is also engaged in the toilet cleaning business. If residents need to wash toilets, they will take them out of the city and send them back to you the next morning. A cleaning fee will be charged for this.

A dung cart was quickly filled, and there were still a few toilets hanging on the cart, and the toll collectors drove the mule cart out of the city.

Colbert has been floating on the sea for more than a year, and he has been able to speak Chinese. He followed up and asked, "Hello, how much do you need to pay for someone to take away the excrement? By the month or by the day?"

The dung collector smiled and said, "Collect money? In the past, we Xiangtou had to give people money!"

The money was given to the stewards of the big families, not to buy dung money, but a private bribe.Of course, there is no need to give it now, and even the shit bullies have been banned.

Colbert became more and more puzzled: "You help people clean up their excrement, and you still have to pay those people?"

"That's the reason." The manure collector said.

Colbert couldn't figure it out: "Why?"

The manure collector said, "Yexiang is a good thing."

"What is night fragrance?" Colbert asked.

The dung collector said: "Yexiang is dung."

"What's the use of poop?" Colbert asked.

"Sell to farmers to fertilize the fields," the dung collector explained, "there are several grades of night incense. The most expensive is the night incense from the palace. How many farmers are rushing to buy it. The night incense from the dignitaries is also expensive, and the cheapest is Xiaomen. Xiaohu. People in the city also suffer haha, they can’t eat well by themselves, so what kind of fertility can the Ye Xiang pull out?”

Colbert followed all the way out of the city, and finally figured out what feces can do, but does this thing really make crops grow better?

Soon, Colbert was dumbfounded.

Outside of Nancheng, he saw a large feces industrial park.

This was requested by the imperial court to be concentrated, and it was scattered everywhere before.Residential areas inside and outside Nanjing were divided into more than a dozen "dung roads" by the government, which were contracted to excrement treatment companies, and concentrated in three places in the south, east, and west of the city for processing and distribution.

In the past, there was no company, and the imperial court didn't bother to take care of it. It was all up to the shit tyrant to grab the territory by himself.

If the collection of dung is beyond the limit, there will be a fight.In the second year of the Republic of China, a large-scale fighting broke out. Hundreds of dung workers fought together, killing four people and injuring dozens of others on the spot.

The matter even alarmed the emperor, because there was a fight on the street at that time, and the feces were all over the street.

As a result, the imperial court ordered the formalization of the excrement industry.

Divide the area and invite public tenders.

The dung heads must first register the company and go through a qualification review, such as how many qualified dung trucks they have.Bidding prices vary depending on the region, with the Forbidden City being the most expensive.

In the future, if you encounter cross-border behavior, you will not be allowed to fight privately, and you will directly report to the government, and the government will fine those who cross the border.If you dare to fight privately, you will be fined, and the manure collection license will be canceled if casualties are caused!

Colbert observed the river water near the feces industrial park and found that the river water was not dirty.

Even when cleaning the toilet, the sewage is not discharged, but stored in a pool.This kind of pool water that has been used to wash toilets can also be sold, and the price is the cheapest, which is very popular among nearby vegetable farmers.

Dry manure and wet manure are poured into different ponds, which are distinguished when collecting manure in the city. The manure truck is equipped with several large wooden barrels.

There is even more refined management. A few large wooden barrels are placed separately, with labels on the barrels: Fei Ge's hometown, Liu Shangshu's house, Zhang Shilang's house...

"Dang Dang Dang Dang!"

Suddenly someone rang the bell and shouted loudly: "We have a distinguished guest!"

But a boat came, and the boat was full of farmers.

A dozen households of farmers in a certain village partnered to hire a boat and recommended experts who picked manure to come here to carry goods back to the village.These belong to those far away from the city, and those nearby farmers come to pick them up or carry them on their backs.

"Do you want dry goods or wet goods?"

"We came all the way by boat, of course we want dry goods."

"Then please come here, the incense in our factory is all good. Although it can't compare with the heavenly incense of the Forbidden City, nor can it compare with the expensive incense of the officials and lords, but they are all rich incense from wealthy families. If you are in a hurry to use it, we There is still a fermented fat fragrance in the factory, but the price must be much higher."

"Where's the dung stick?"

"One look at the guests is an expert, the stick is here, you can stir it up and look at it."

"..."

Colbert was allowed to go in for a visit. Seeing the scene and the conversation, he was shocked to pieces.

The excrement that has plagued Paris for hundreds of years has actually become an industry in China!

"What are you wearing?" Colbert asked a worker.

The worker replied: "The government says that masks must be worn, and those who don't wear them will be fined. Lime is sprinkled every ten days, saying that it can kill fecal poison, and only after killing the fecal poison will you not get sick. These rules are said to be set by the Long Live Lord. .Long Live Lord is the reincarnation of Ziwei Xing, and he even understands this kind of dung work. It is said that Long Live Lord also picked up dung before he started his army."

Colbert was so smoked that he left the place early.

He knew Louis XIV and the Parisian nobility, all loathing the city's shit.If he can solve this problem, he will definitely be appreciated by the king and supported by countless nobles.

But this thing is not easy to do. You have to persuade farmers to use manure to fertilize the land, and you have to get the support of the lord or landlord. The difficulty is no less than winning an international war.

After much deliberation, Colbert decided to give up.He will never do things that are thankless, and he should learn China's industrial and commercial policies.Louis XIV likes money, as long as he can earn money for the king, he will definitely be favored.

Colbert didn't go back to the city immediately, but ran to the countryside in the outskirts.

At this time, it is in the jointing stage of rice, which requires a lot of water and fertility.This year is a little bit dry. Farmers along the Qinhuai River are treading water wheels, and the river water is carried into the diversion canal to flow to the rice fields around.

There are also some small waterwheels in various parts of the diversion canal, which can be operated by one person.

The farmers stepped on the water to irrigate the fields, and at places far from the canals, they all opened a gap in the field ridges, so that the river water could pass through the nearby fields and flow into the farther rice fields.If these paddy fields belong to different families, then the peasant association will be useful, and everyone will discuss and work together.

The men in charge of treading the waterwheel come in rotation from each family, and those who are lazy will definitely have their spines poked.

When a certain paddy field has been fully irrigated, the gaps in the ridges of the fields should be plugged.

Then, the family applied their own fertilizer, which was piled up dry manure and added plant ash.A bamboo basket is hung on the waist, just like the later generations sprinkled chemical fertilizers, sprinkled all the way.If the children in the family are on vacation, they can also go to the fields to help, mainly by pulling out weeds in the fields.

In the middle of the morning, the woman went home to cook.

When it was almost noon, the peasant women came out with food, went to the field talking and laughing together, and called their husbands to come to eat.

People gather under the shade of trees or sit on the ridge of the field, holding clay bowls in one hand and chopsticks in the other, chatting about anecdotes while eating.From time to time, there was a burst of laughter, but someone was telling a joke.

Even when fertilizing, there is a focus, and the "pro-field method" is generally used.

For example, if your family has ten acres of land, two acres will be selected this year, and various fertilizers will be doubled.Another two acres will be replaced next year, and key investments will be made, and ten acres of land can be rotated again in five years.In ten years, as long as you have enough fertilizer and take care of it properly, all the thin fields can become fertile fields.

This kind of fertilization theory in ancient China was summed up over thousands of years. It is called: the soil can be replenished, the soil can always be renewed, and although the land is barren, manure is often added.

The focus of the pro-field method is to add fertilizer, mainly before transplanting rice seedlings, and the oil residue of pressed soybeans and rapeseeds is made into fertilizer mixed with plant ash and sprinkled.

The farmers in front of them are also killing insects while fertilizing and weeding.

The tobacco stems left over from the manufacture of tobacco are useless in Europe, but they are sought-after pesticides in China.After breaking the tobacco stems and throwing them on the roots of the rice, many kinds of pests can be controlled.

Colbert looked at the peasants, each of them was very energetic. Although covered in mud and water, they were far stronger than the French peasants.

What is it like to be a French farmer?

Thin, sluggish, lifeless, like a humanoid tool that can't think.

The previous 100 years was the outbreak period of French land annexation.It is different from the land enclosure movement in Britain. French farmers were forced to go bankrupt due to rising taxes, and nobles, businessmen, and lawyers took the opportunity to buy land at low prices.

These landlords can bargain with tax collectors, or simply be taxpayers themselves.They pay less or even no tax themselves, and pass the tax on to ordinary farmers, forcing more farmers to go bankrupt, and then take the opportunity to continue to annex land.

In addition, because grain cannot be sold at a price, they grow grain on public land to avoid taxation, and use private land to raise high-value-added livestock.

As for infrastructure such as roads and canals, no landowner is willing to spend money.

Colbert looked at the canals extending in all directions in front of him, and he knew that France was hundreds of years behind China.And these Chinese peasants are all comparable to the small landowners in France in terms of their mental outlook and health.

"China is a paradise for farmers... The rural system here cannot be replicated in France, otherwise a nationwide war will be provoked, and even the king may be sent to the guillotine." Colbert wrote in his diary.

Chapter 885 [News from Qinghai-Tibet]

While Colbert was investigating the excrement business, a fleet came from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Before the fleet arrived in Nanjing, a fast boat rushed over.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Han received urgent news and immediately summoned the ministers of the cabinet: "Gushi Khan is dead. His eldest son and six sons control Uizang, his eldest grandson controls Kangba, and the other seven sons rule Qinghai separately. These descendants, each other If you are not convinced, you will not be able to choose a new Khan..."

Gush Khan himself lived in Lhasa for a long time, and his eldest son and six sons were stationed in U-Tsang to guard against local Tibetan rebellion.The main clan and their seven sons graze around Qinghai Lake.The eldest grandson ruled the Kangba area, and most of the taxes collected here were used to support the Qinghai tribe.

Gushi Khan is over 70 years old this year, and it is normal for him to die, but he has not designated an heir.

Today, Diba (the chief executive of the Qinghai-Tibet region) controls Lhasa and requires the sons of Gushri Khan to elect a great Khan before he can hand over various powers.To put it bluntly, the chairman died suddenly, and the CEO didn't know who to listen to, saying that he would not get involved in the family affairs and let the chairman's sons handle it by themselves.

Therefore, no one can take over Lhasa until the Great Khan is elected.

The eldest son and the sixth son, leading the army to negotiate, are still facing each other in Weizang, and have already fought two small-scale battles.

The eldest grandson is still stationed in Kangba, which is the closest to Sichuan, and sent a team of envoys with a large amount of tribute to come to Nanjing to ask the emperor to canonize his father.Once his father becomes a profuse sweater, he will have the right to inherit from now on.Even if he cannot inherit the position of Great Khan, he still controls the most affluent area in Qinghai-Tibet, and can take the opportunity to get rid of the burden of sending taxes to Qinghai.

The other seven sons expressed that they would not get involved in the battle for Khan's position, but the eldest and sixth sons were not allowed to go to Qinghai to cause trouble.But this is impossible, the eldest son competes with the six sons, and the one who loses must retreat to Qinghai to be the general manager (Qinghai King), and then create a situation of Badaiji in Qinghai.

Song Yingxing said: "There are two ways. First, let the boss and the sixth son fight on their own, don't confer any one, the longer the better; second, canonize the boss as king of Wei Zang, canonize the sixth as king of Qinghai, and put the two together. The Shut Khanate was divided into two."

Pointing to the map, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Kamba must be captured and merged into Sichuan and Yunnan. Xining, Nianbo and the northwest valleys (Menyuan, Datong) are all assigned to Gansu, and Gansu separates from Shaanxi to form a separate province."

The Kham area includes Ganzi and Aba in Sichuan, Diqing in Yunnan, Yushu in Qinghai, and Qamdo in Tibet.This is currently the territory of Handu (the eldest grandson of Gushi Khan), and the nobles of Qinghai enjoy their lives, all supported by taxes from Kangba.

However, Xining and its surrounding areas belonged to Gansu Town in the Ming Dynasty, and were taken by Gushi Khan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they have not been taken back until now.

The Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion have discussed for a long time, which is to take Kham and divide it into Yunnan and Sichuan, and emigrate and garrison in Qamdo, Ganzi, Aba and other places.Then take Xining, Gannan, Menyuan and other places, emigrate and garrison, place them under Gansu and separate from Shaanxi to establish a separate province.

As for other places in Qinghai and Tibet, the King Khan and the Lama were enshrined to keep them in check.

You have to take it step by step, don't think about eating into a fat man, the situation in the Qinghai-Tibet area is too complicated.

The ministers discussed repeatedly for a long time, and Zhao Han made a final decision: "When the envoy from Handu arrives, let it hang out for a while. Immediately condemn the envoy to Qingzang, and tell the nine Taijis who are willing to hand over the original Gansu township of the Ming Dynasty. Land, and then donate the Khamba area, I can confer and support him to be a great sweat!"

If your fist is big, you can be unreasonable.

But this kind of thing cannot be stated clearly. After all, the Heshuote Khanate has been canonized as a vassal.Even if the suzerain country wanted to annex the subordinate country, it had to give sufficient reasons, and the envoy had to raise conditions in private.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, while expanding the territory, it is enough to strengthen the control over Qinghai-Tibet.

The Qing government's complete recovery of Qinghai-Tibet was also a matter of Yonggan's time.For hundreds of years, the continuous construction of cities, the increase of garrisons, and repeated suppression of rebellions finally established the authority of the Minister of Tibet.The first batch of Qing troops who entered Tibet could only be said to be miserable. Because of the terrain and climate, the entire army was directly wiped out.

The Gansu Province to be established is very large, covering the whole of Ningxia, and also including Xining, Haidong, Menyuan and other places in Qinghai.At the same time, it seems very small, because the places west of Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Guazhou, and Yumen are still in the hands of the Yarkand Khanate.

"Your Majesty, if most of Kangba is merged into Sichuan, then Sichuan's tax reserves will have to be readjusted." Fei Chun said suddenly.

Zhao Han nodded: "That's for sure."

Compared with the great Sichuan of the Ming Dynasty, the Sichuan of the Datong New Dynasty was much smaller.

The land of Bozhou was all assigned to Guizhou.Wusa Mansion, Zhenxiong Mansion, Dongchuan Mansion, and Wumeng Mansion were all assigned to Yunnan.The Western Sichuan Plateau is in the hands of the Heshuote Khanate.

And the land of Chongqing in later generations was full of chieftains in the late Ming Dynasty. Even if the land is changed to return to the local people, it is still as poor as a bell.After taking back the Western Sichuan Plateau (Kangba area), a large amount of construction had to be invested, and Sichuan's finances were unable to support other provinces.

In comparison, Yunnan is really big.The land of four prefectures was drawn from Sichuan, and a large piece was swallowed from Burma.In the future, after the Nguyen family is destroyed, some mountainous areas in northern Vietnam will also be assigned to Yunnan and Guangxi to prevent Vietnam from becoming independent in the future.

When the conditions are ripe in the future, the Pingnan military and civilian government will fully reform the land and return it to the people. Myanmar will definitely establish a separate province in the north-central and eastern parts of Myanmar, and then take the opportunity to bring the area of ​​​​Yunnan back to normal levels.

After confirming the plan, the cabinet and the ministry got busy.

The three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Yunnan have begun to mobilize resources. There will definitely be no wars this year, and there will be several battles in Qinghai and Tibet next year.

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"He doesn't want to?" Zhao Han was a little unhappy.

Fei Rulan said: "He thinks the British princess is too old."

Zhao Han complained: "Fart is old, he doesn't like the old woman. No matter what, he has to get married and have a son and a half."

Charles' younger brother and younger sister, because they were too young, did not come to China with the ship, but went to the Netherlands with his mother.

The younger sister brought to China was named Elizabeth Stuart, who had the same name as the Winter Queen.But this Elizabeth did not leave a name in history, because she died of illness in exile at the age of 15.

For unknown reasons, Princess Elizabeth survived and followed her brother Charles to China.

Poor Prince Zhao Kuanghuan, for the sake of the country, was forced to go into business again and took a 20-year-old foreign woman as his side concubine.

The sedan chair was carried to a courtyard, and Princess Elizabeth was full of curiosity.She didn't have any other thoughts, European royal families had to get married, and those who couldn't get married were the most miserable, and could only die alone.

The moonlight is bright and the red candles are flickering.

Zhao Kuanghuan has already broken the jar, and if the emperor gave him a side concubine, he will accept it.Anyway, I have already married three, so it doesn't matter if I marry another one.

Picking up the hijab, Zhao Kuanghuan looked at it carefully, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Not ugly, at least more beautiful than the foreign woman he imagined.The only downside is that the bridge of the nose is a bit too high, making the face look thinner. This kind of face is relatively thin.