Jiangmi Lane between Daming Gate and Qianmen is still busy and crowded, and as the largest grain trading market in Beijing, it is always so noisy.

But it's something less than ever.

There are fewer beggars and refugees begging for food.

In order to deal with the plague, at Chang Yu's suggestion, the imperial court began large-scale environmental management and isolation of people, that is, refugees and beggars were not allowed to enter the inner city, and there were officers and soldiers guarding and diverting at the three gates of Xuanwumen, Zhengyangmen and Chongwenmen.

Some people will ask how to distinguish the people in the city from the refugees outside the city?

It's very simple, refugees and dicks can be seen at a glance with the temperament and dress of ordinary people.

What's more, begging is strictly forbidden in the city, and if the soldiers find anyone begging, they will either beat them up and expel them or lock you up.

So at first, there were people who mixed in, but then no one was uncomfortable.

Although there are many rich gentry and wealthy families in the city, there is the most prosperous entertainment street in the capital in the outer city, and countless old men linger here every day to spend a lot of money, and if you are lucky, you can get a reward, and there are many shops in the outer city can always ask for some leftovers to cushion your stomach.

In addition, the porridge shacks set up by the imperial court and some kind-hearted wealthy families are also in the outer city, although due to food shortages, the porridge shacks are now only supplied once a day, and they are getting thinner and thinner, but they can always hang their breath and not starve to death.

Spending a lot of money on pleasure seekers, a variety of shops and porridge shacks with daily offerings, and strict law enforcement in the inner city have successfully isolated refugees in the outer city, and no one can say whether it will help prevent and control the epidemic, but at least reduce the risk in the inner city.

Chang Yu and Song Luoyu passed through the Zhengyang Gate to the outer city, and when they looked around, there was a strange feeling, there were a lot fewer people, a lot!

In the past few months, the military disasters in the Gyeonggi area have been continuous, and the people have lost their snacks and lost their places, and the people in the surrounding areas such as Yanqing, Changping, and Shunyi can only flee from the capital city, and it is said that even the people of Baoding Mansion have come here......

Thousands of people crowded the outer city, and the shacks built outside the city stretched for miles.

The capital has long been a refugee camp.

When Chang Yu returned to Beijing yesterday, he was surrounded by a large number of refugees begging before he entered the city, and he almost couldn't enter the city for a while.

But at a glance, there are only a few beggars left in the army, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and even women are rare......

Hey, Song Luoyu was confused.

But Chang Yu knows where people have gone.

At present, the imperial court needs a large amount of labor to cultivate sweet potatoes and potatoes, plough the land, turn the soil, plant, water, fertilize, hundreds of thousands of catties of seeds and thousands of acres of land to complete the sowing in a short period of time, the amount of work is huge, and the demand for labor is also large.

However, the most important thing in the capital is labor, and it is very cheap.

It's so cheap that you just need to take care of the rice.

So early in the morning, the people of the Jinyi Guard Yamen went to the outer city to shout, and then a large number of men and women labored along the Tonghui River to Tongzhou.

Tongzhou is close to the Grand Canal, where the land is fertile and easy to irrigate, and Huangzhuang also has a large area of land there, enough to consume one-third of the seeds, and the rest can be planted on the banks of the Tonghui River and the Wenyu River and the Qinghe River in the north of the city.

Generally, the fertile fields along the river are in the hands of Xungui, but this time Chang Yu no matter whose land it is, as long as it is empty, he will plant, and he does not need to come forward for this kind of thing, Emperor Chongzhen has convened Jingzhong Xungui to discuss this matter early this morning, I believe that no one will object, anyway, it is empty and empty, and it is worth it to let him plant some seeds for a season, not to mention that if anyone opposes this great famine, it is not a good way, and public opinion can be scolded to death.

A large number of refugees went to Tongzhou to farm, which reduced the pressure on Beijing a lot, first of all, the city was not so crowded and noisy, and secondly, Chang Yu also had the intention to take this opportunity to divert refugees to Tongzhou.

Tongzhou City was slaughtered by the Tartars a few months ago, and now it is the right time to take the opportunity to resettle the refugees in it, as long as the appropriate policy is taken care of, Chang Yu believes that there will be many people willing to take root here and reproduce, and it will not be long before this port town will prosper again.

With Chang Yu's current identity and status, there are many things that he doesn't have to do by himself, just like this time to promote the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes to deal with the famine, he discussed with Emperor Chongzhen, and then handed it over to Jinyiwei to carry out the order, and at the same time appointed Song Yingxing, an agricultural professional, to be fully responsible.

"Master, let's enjoy some silver" When Chang Yu was walking west along the street with his hands behind his back, he was surrounded by more than a dozen ragged children, and Song Luoyu frowned behind him and was about to drive forward Chang Yu shook his head gently, took out all the broken silver on his body and rewarded it, and the children were happy, and their mouths kept saying words of thanks.

"Begging is not a long-term solution, why don't you find something to do" Chang Yu asked a leading child, who looked to be seven or eight years old.

"We also want to find something to earn food, but we don't even need to waste food ...... the government."

Chang Yu sighed slightly, thinking that there were at least thousands of children in the city, and it was not a way to wander like this, so he had to find a way to settle it, but he had no plan for a while.

After all, it can't be raised for nothing, that's thousands of mouths.

"What kind of work can a child do?" Chang Yu frowned and muttered, Song Luoyu sighed: "Stealing chickens and dogs and pulling garlic seedlings, if it is bigger, it is estimated that it will be robbed" It's just that her casual words made Chang Yu fall into deep thought.

In later generations, children of this age are the treasures of the hands of two generations, and the school classroom playground grows up freely, but in this era, in addition to being born in a wealthy family, few children have the opportunity to go to school, and they are more proficient in various housework and agricultural chores since childhood.

It may seem tacky and ridiculous to say that children are the flowers and the future of the motherland, but when you think about it, isn't it? The future of a country is closely related to the education of the next generation.

Just like the generation of children in front of them, they are illiterate and have no skills, even if they survive this famine and do not die, but what is the future, either become habitual thieves, robbers, or inherit their father's face to the loess with their backs to the sky!

This is their future, and the future of the country!

But if they can go to school to read and write, broaden their horizons, and shine in all walks of life, then the country will also shine.

Therefore, Chang Yu decided to run a school, in fact, he had this plan and preparation early on, but he was disturbed by several military disasters, and it is rare that he doesn't have to go out to fight now, so let's do a good job of education over there.

But it costs money to build a school, it costs money to hire teachers, and it costs money to raise these children.

Money, money, money......

This kind of thing is too big for others to rest.

But Chang Yu already has a plan in his heart, money is really not a difficult thing for him, it's not that he has money, but he can get money, if there is more, it is more than enough to set up a school.

And he also made up his mind to build a new style of school, reading literacy is the foundation but not the only one, although it cannot be said that the reader is completely useless, but only read those four books and five classics, you are a thorough research, analysis and understanding and a use, what contribution to the development of the country!

The so-called rejuvenation of the country through science and education, it is time to put mathematics, physics and chemistry in the C position, although they do not expect to be able to ascend to the sky in one step, but at least popularize some basic knowledge, as for whether they can do it, it depends on their own creation.

Chang Yu also knows that once his plan is taken out, it will cause a lot of discussion, after all, in ancient times, chemistry and physics were generalized and called sideways, not mainstream academics, at this time, it is still to see who is the master of the study of literary thought, and mathematics is only close to the mainstream.