The essence of control is not to point it every day, but to regulate a person's life, as long as life is regular, and all kinds of violations are noticed, then it is normal to move towards improvement.

This is similar to the parole system in later generations, but compared to parole, the cost is lower.

This is definitely based on national conditions and human nature, the best workaround, of course, after experiencing the judicial darkness of my Daming, anyone who doesn't understand the market feels that this kind of punishment is simply nothing.

They have not experienced the seven o'clock in the morning at the door of the police station honestly waiting for the director to go to work, trembling to report everything they have done, before they dare to leave to do things, this state of life to persist for three years, every day, is not so easy.

Just like a martial arts in later generations, it is also the smiling proud rivers and lakes that are popular in the imperial capital at this time, in order to save her lover, the holy aunt Ren Yingying chose to let herself live in seclusion in Shaolin Temple for five years, which in itself is a kind of torture of temperament.

The case gradually fermented, compared with the previous imperial capital, the residents of the new city are more efficient in transmitting official gossip, the small alleys are narrower, and each residential community will more or less leave a place for the elderly to bask in the sun, and the activity space is also sufficient.

A few old people are taking advantage of the spring breeze, resting in the community, compared to the past, their days are much better, in addition to the annual fixed wind and sand still come quietly, but at least they are used to it, want to eradicate sandstorms, you have to plant trees on a large scale in Mongolia, now you can imagine, almost impossible.

"This imperial capital is really full of people, not to mention anything else, the Zhu family and the Zhang family are all noble relatives for many years, but what if the dynasty is changed, even the children in the family have begun to run away, hehe, I think, I don't need anyone to do it, just fall by yourself."

The Zhu family he said was Zhu Chunchen's family, and the Zhang family was naturally a British family.

There are a lot of tenants in the community, because the imperial capital is in the stage of having fewer people, and the speculation was directly killed by the elders who hate it, so there is no large-scale coal boss to buy a house in Beijing, the house price is not expensive, and the living conditions are still very good.

What the two old men said, of course, is the young descendants of several families who have recently moved in, although they are dressed in general, but they speak well, and they do hard work, but they are not bad every day, and when they go in and out every day, they are also greeted attentively, which is a good offspring.

"What's going on with you, they are generations of national princes, the fields in the family are mountains, but there are a lot of people in and out, but the food and drink of such a large family, as well as the expenses of the son's brother, are the things that are to be killed, and it just so happens that they are not at peace, have you heard, the Zhu family alone was fined 3,000 taels of silver in one breath, 30,000 silver dollars, all crying to sell land to pay off debts."

"How is three thousand taels enough, take care of the officials up and down, those officials' favorite is the big lawsuit between the gentry, they are all the masters who ate the plaintiff and the defendant, hum, when I opened the restaurant, but I saw a lot, the official who ate the oil, I said earlier, your family is reasonable, and I will say it later, your family is reasonable, around the Wanping County Ya, what teahouses and restaurants, not all do this business."

"You have wronged people, now this official mansion is much cleaner, a few days ago I went to receive the meat skewers given by the New Year, the little descendant was polite to me, I heard that he was still an orphan adopted by the elders, not arrogant at all, this is the change of dynasty, as for the Zhang family, of course, there is no money, now the monthly money is gone, what rewards, and the cost of helping people into slander is gone, and no one dares to go around his house, even the benefits of blackmailing merchants and taking dry shares are gone, but it is more spent, and it is naturally difficult."

"In the end, it's still those kiln sisters who are the scourge, the scourge."

"No, have you heard, in previous years, several grain merchants in the city, settled at the end of last year, the harvest was not very good, and the faces of several bosses were very poor, anyway, as long as it was in previous years, as soon as it was winter, they began to hoard things and sell them at high prices, and they all lost money."

"They deserve it, who let them make it bad every year, they all keep saying anything, the grain can't be transported in winter, and the price rises one by one, but the elders come, and the carts of grain come in, who dares to raise the price? In the final analysis, there are still many corrupt officials, and if they have money to make friends, they can hoard them and make high prices. ”

"And salt, those salt merchants, aren't they all selling coarse salt mixed with white ash, how long has it been sold, now, you don't know, I have a niece, I married a worker in a salt farm last year, the salt in the salt field is a mountain of salt, all come out of the sea, the whole north can't eat it in the pile, originally, the salt farm is going to give benefits for the New Year, but they are all required to replace the ham with salt, as a result, the director of the salt farm said casually, everyone sent a sack of fine salt, this is good, a lifetime of salt is enough."

However, the two of them did not laugh much, they could not understand that the cheapness and abundance of these basic products brought about by large-scale industrialization, basically, except for a certain year, because of the panic salt grabbing, caused by regional turmoil, other places are convenient.

The Changlu Salt Farm was not famous in later generations, but at this time it was already the largest salt field in the north, even if it was the Ming Dynasty, most of the salt sources were here.

However, compared with the old-style scraping and brine, taking the brine to burn the salt, with the help of the new equipment, various leveling equipment, the construction of a variety of salt drying plants, and the scientific drying of salt, so that the output has been terrifyingly improved.

The salt-drying technology has been in the Song Dynasty since the Song Dynasty, but it has always been difficult to mature, and Shen Kuo even knows the salt-drying method, but there is no flat land.

In later generations, there are Xiaobai who want to go back and come up with an idea casually to get the salt drying technology out, but they are estimated to be beaten to death by the salt merchants who have suffered heavy losses soon, and they will be crippled if they are not dead.

These things are completely imported from the West.

Of course, just as a large number of Western steamships laid off the workers and unemployed workers became supporters of people like Tao Chengzhang, the progress of the salt industry also made many people stand aside, but of course, this change is not a big problem.

After all, the elders have improved the system, and there are no longer any restrictions on military households, artisan households, salt households, and happy households.

As the two old men muttered, since the change of dynasty and Jiashen, even in the eyes of the most ordinary people, the ugliness of those nobles of the previous dynasty is simply ridiculous, if the elders kill them, it can be said, but now leave them there and ignore them, and their bottom will come out.

Without privileges, there will be no business, under the pressure of cost, many slaves and maids have been released half-pushed, and many servants have also looked for other jobs, of course, there are also these, under the new standard of living, some of the many servants have become unnecessary, at least the water source is more convenient.

This is almost the trend of the times, on the one hand, people's wages are constantly increasing, if you don't raise, people directly pat their butts to sign up for immigration reclamation, and the treatment of each factory is also according to the high salary of the elders, at least to ensure that a pair of male and female workers can have a basic life in the emperor and support two children.

On the other hand, these families are basically sitting on the empty mountain, and all kinds of fresh tricks are simply holes that constantly release water outward, hollowing out the inside of these families, even if they are vigilant, but what should not be contained is still uncontrollable.

People say that they will open up sources and reduce expenditures, but as a result, these families have all embarked on the point of cutting off the source and increasing the flow, and they will soon be unable to maintain it.

Of course, the things behind it are naturally not something that a few old men basking in the sun can understand.

The two old men were both locals, so they could naturally see the previous changes, and the first to be frightened and feel wrong about this violent change were actually those literati.

In the restaurant near the evening, there are not too many people, a few scholars are drinking and drinking, discussing the exams that are not going well, Hongxiang has stopped distributing Xiucai Yueyin, so that they can't understand all kinds of things, this stuffy wine is naturally more talk and less wine, say a few words to eat a peanut, eat a few peanuts to eat a mouthful of two pots, talking about whether to go to the south and still insist on the place to take the Xiucai exam, but since there is no even the imperial examination, what is the point of lifting people.

Perhaps, it is also a good idea to find a newspaper editor or a teacher in a school, at least it is a literary job, and there is no shame.

Mai Lin slowly took a sip of wine and said: "Don't hide it from the two brothers, last year, my family's two acres of thin land also had some harvest, but after thinking about it, it still lost a lot and staggered like this, I am afraid that I can only go back to my hometown to guard." ”

"Why is that?"

"At the end of each year, there will always be times when grain prices are high, and there is no easing until summer grain, but since last year, until now, grain prices have not only not moved, but also gone down, that cart of grain, from Liaodong to Tianjin, and then transported to the imperial capital, sold to various places, actually cheaper than local grain, my family originally calculated according to the original expenses, these days the grain can not be sold, it is in a hurry."

"Isn't this competing with the people for profit, I have some fields in my family, and I am relying on these fields to support my wife and children, and read poetry and books, but there are always profiteers who oppress the people behind their backs, hum...... I heard that in the Temple of Literature and other places, some people are collecting signatures and writing together, asking the court to respect Kong Shangwen. ”

"Zunkong? Haven't you heard, Chengguo Gong's family, almost killed the prince of Yanshenggong, and in the end he only lost three thousand taels of silver, and after a little reprimand, he was released on the spot, and the family of Yanshenggong really couldn't stand the humiliation, and was about to sue it. ”

"Yes, there is no owner in the country so far, so it is so unorthodox, I think, I still have to find a way to worship under a military marshal, assist Ming Jun to ascend the throne, and then I will be the founding hero."

"How can it be so easy, people say, the republic is republic, without the emperor, we scholars are useless."

"Did you hear, the ...... Not only did he move out, but he also removed the guards, and now he just goes to the Siling Tomb every day to incense, and there are a few eunuchs around him, and all the old ministers are gone. ”

"That's it...... I just don't know, where did so many loyal ministers and good generals go, so that the imperial family went to the people, it's a pity. ”

"Brother Mai, why don't I wait for tomorrow to go to worship, in the blink of an eye, February, the weather is getting warmer, and the death day of the first emperor should be approaching."

"It's time to cry, the first emperor has been diligent and thrifty in his life, but there are villains, I originally heard that the last words of the first emperor said that all the ministers can be killed, some words are exaggerated, but today I look at it, there are not a few people who still devote themselves to the new court, but it is ......"

A few scholars discussed enthusiastically, but saw someone outside slowly walked in, dressed vulgarly, strode in from outside the door, there was an iron car at the door, although it was not big, but there was a glass stove, and even a lot of eggshells, but it was a small stall that was very popular among emperors, selling pancakes and fruits, and finger cakes.

This car is considered to be the product of supporting employment, the price of half selling and half giving away is very cheap, as for the location of buying eggs and coal, it is also cheap, it is a livelihood, with the size of the imperial capital, it can also afford to raise more than 100 such cars.

The man shouted, "Man, it's still the same." ”

Sitting in the corner, he picked up the teacup and drank the tea that had been prepared in a big gulp.

This tea has a special attention, called high crushed, there are also teaching high end, in fact, it is the tea leaf dust sieved out when the tea shop sifts the tea, this kind of broken tea is a useless thing in other places, in the old imperial capital, it is a tea raw material that the poor people love very much.

Suddenly, a scholar said: "Cow chews peony, one cup is the product, two cups are to quench thirst, and three cups are ......."

All three of them had read Dream of Red Mansions, and the descriptions in it were naturally vicious and petty-bourgeois, but the man naturally didn't understand them.

He suddenly took out a bag from his waist, which seemed not to be light, and smashed on it, and a lot of money rolled out of it, mostly copper coins, and even more silver dollars.

At first, a few scholars didn't care, but those silver dollars were full of tables, and the man didn't seem to be happy to count, so he could only count ten, and put them in the bag, and after a while, dozens of silver dollars were put into the bag.

The guy in the shop came over with a wooden tray and said with a smile, "This business is really good." ”

"yes."

He ordered a flatbread, a large piece of bacon, and a bowl of noodle soup, and with the noodle soup, he rolled the flatbread with the bacon, and began to bite and drink.

"Brother Zhuzi, my mother asked me to ask, is this pancake fruit job easy to do, or I will help you do it, your day's income will be on top of our shop."

The man took a breath and said, "It's just tired." ”

"It's worth it."

"I get up this day, I will meet before dawn, where there are more people, workers who work at night, workers who go to work, dolls who can't cook in time to go to school, where there are more people at noon, and I have to send eggs and batter fritters a few times halfway to my family, this day, earn so many taels of silver, you think it's easy."