Unlike all expeditions, almost no one doubts the outcome of the war...... Da Zhou is already strong enough.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the population of the Great Zhou exceeds 40 million, which is almost half of the peak population of the Song Dynasty, which does not seem to be much, but if you carefully study the population structure, I am afraid that you will be dumbfounded!

Among them, the population under the age of fifteen has reached a staggering three-in-five!

Under the age of fifteen, he happened to be born after Guo Wei ascended the throne...... After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he strictly practiced Juntian, recuperated, released slaves, and encouraged childbearing...... After a set of measures, the results have been remarkable, and many rural families are basically a pair of parents with five or six children.

Among them, the oldest ones are over ten years old, and they get married early in the countryside, or in a few years, more people will join the fertility army...... Ye Hua predicts that in the next twenty or thirty years, Da Zhou will enjoy an unprecedented demographic dividend, but if there is no adequate preparation, it will evolve into a crisis!

In the first few years of the founding of the country, the population grew with a vengeance, the contradiction between man and land became prominent, and it quickly entered the stage of land annexation, and then the struggle for annexation and inhibition of annexation until the change of dynasty......

For Da Zhou, there is hope to jump out of this strange circle, because industry can bring more employment opportunities, and at the same time, the powerful power brought by industry can allow Da Zhou to sit on a wider territory, have more land, and settle more people...... This creates a virtuous circle.

It's just that the industry needs quality labor, at least Tianzhu people are not suitable.

Educate!

It is necessary to have enough education in order to send tens of millions of young people into the factory and give full play to the talent dividend.

"Therefore, the implementation of education is the most important thing at the moment, even above the Northern Expedition to the Khitan."

Ye Hua did not go north with Chai Rong, the emperor liked to enjoy the glory and establish a prosperous era beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties, and Ye Hua enjoyed the improvement of civilization even more.

In the name of the Cabinet, he demanded that all workshop factories be connected with the school.

Li Shi, who is in charge of education, is even more cooperative, and some people are willing to invest money, but he has no reason to refuse.

Li Shi demanded that all cooperatives must prepare to build schools, even if they can't establish schools for a while, they must set up literacy classes, and if there are no teachers, county magistrates, county officials, and scribes, all of them must go to serve as part-time teachers.

The literacy rate should become the most important performance evaluation item of the local yamen, and if the education is not up to standard, it cannot be evaluated.

When students are literate, they have a certain degree of discipline and know how to obey commands...... At this time, each factory will send some craftsmen to select apprentices and enter the factory for internship.

If you perform well, you can receive wages while studying, and after graduation, you can enter the factory and become a worker directly!

This set of methods is absolutely effective, and even amazing.

First of all, the army went north, orders flew like snowflakes, and the factories were producing at full capacity, and what was needed most was enough workers.

Originally, they also wanted to train workers by themselves, but now they can cooperate with the imperial court, and the government helps to do the early training, their burden is much lighter, and the students enter the factory, work and study, the salary is very small, and they can also be trained according to the needs.

Everyone knows that many parents in the countryside do not allow their children to go to school, because they are short-sighted and feel that it is a waste of time to spend money on studying, and it is better to do farm work at home.

This kind of thing can be reasonable, but Ye Hua thinks that it is more effective to talk about interests!

Who said that studying is not profitable, as long as you are smart and clever enough and willing to endure hardships, it is not difficult to earn money at all, and you can live better than your parents and have a better income......

Ye Hua believes that with role models, it is not difficult to change people's perceptions.

Of course, there's another problem, and that's students!

Children who are too young to enter the factory as an apprentice are still a little cruel, so Ye Hua requires that they must receive more than three years of education and be over ten years old before they can become an apprentice.

Moreover, the age of regular workers cannot be less than 12 years old.

This is also the result of Ye Hua's careful consideration, he really wants to raise the upper age limit a little more, but the problem is that there are many people in the countryside who are fourteen or fifteen years old and married, and they can't all be fathers, and they are not qualified to enter the factory!

In fact, in the early days of industrialization, the use of child labor was a very common phenomenon, and even children as young as seven or eight years old entered the factory, worked for more than ten hours a day, and the average life expectancy was even less than 15 years old, which was too miserable...... That's exactly the cannibalistic capitalism that Mentor Ma is so vigorously attacking!

"In view of the problem of child labor, Ye Xi's children have a very important decision for their father."

Ye Xi suddenly had a feeling of being covered by dark clouds, something was wrong!

"Dad, I'm going to beat the legs of the ancestor, and I'm leaving!"

He turned his head to run, but he didn't know that Ye Hua's detective grabbed his neck and mentioned it directly in front of him.

"You're ten years old now, and you've been in school for five years...... How about you go to the factory for an internship and work and study part-time? Ye Hua smiled, although it was an inquiring tone, but he was not allowed to object.

The little one's face fell, and his big black eyes were covered with tears.

"Dad, I'm your own son, and you're willing to throw me into a black-hearted factory that doesn't see the light of day, can't eat enough, can't sleep, gnaw on black cakes, and wash my face with tears? They would beat me, scold me, torture me...... Daddy! The little guy let out a heart-rending scream, "If you want to kill me, just go straight to the knife!" But before killing me, please allow me to see my mother, I want to kowtow to her, and I can't serve my mother if I am not filial! ”

The little guy grinned and cried, heartbreaking, earth-shattering!

"I don't need you to serve, don't be angry with me!" Fu San walked in from outside with a black face, Ye Xi saw his mother, opened his mouth wide, ran over in one step, hugged his mother's thigh, and rubbed hard...... Like a poor husky.

"Alright, get out!" Fu Sancai is not as good at talking as Ye Hua, "You listen to me, as the eldest man of the Ye family, you can't recruit cats and dogs all day long and do nothing!" Letting you go to the factory is to let you improve your skills and know how the poor live. Also, you also have to suffer a little, when His Royal Highness the King of Shang was a teenager, he went to the Western Regions, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also experienced in Hebei, as my son, I can't lag behind others! ”

Fu San grabbed his son's ears, "You listen to me, if you don't say no, I'll kick you out of the house!" ”

"Get out! Get out of here and go to the factory now! ”

Ye Xi was frightened by the old lady, he had never seen such a fierce old lady, tears kept rolling in his eyes, the little guy gritted his teeth hard, he couldn't help but not shed, he turned his head, step by step, and walked out of the door.

Ye Xi didn't see it, as soon as he went out, Fu San's tears rolled down...... Ye Hua sighed, "If you are reluctant, just wait for another two years, it's okay." ”

"Nonsense!"

Fu San said angrily: "As long as you pretend to be a good person, that kid will be privately determined for life, if you don't give him a dose of fierce medicine, I'm afraid that in two years, he will really become a gentleman, and he can't teach!" ”

Ye Hua walked to his wife's side and silently hugged Fu San's shoulder, "No, I still know what virtue our son has...... I'm not worried about him now, I'm worried about whether this kid will continue to make trouble when he enters the factory! ”

"Ahh Fu San laughed and said, "What else can he toss, I don't believe he has such great ability!" ”

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"Mother, look at it, it's your mistake that you let me go to the factory!"

Ye Xi gritted his teeth and changed into canvas clothes, which was really similar to an apprentice...... Ye Lan circled around him several times, slapping with a smile, "Big brother, don't say it, it's a little handsome!" Do you want to invite your sister-in-law over and let her take a look! ”

Ye Xi glared at his sister and said disdainfully: "Now it's a little handsome, and after a while, it's a big handsome!" ”

This kid really strutted and ran to the factory.

For ten days in a row, Ye Xi was as tired as a dog, and when he went home, he went to sleep, and he didn't even have time to take a bath, and the white and pure doll became a mud monkey...... Every night when Fu San came to see, he couldn't help but cry.

But since the eleventh day, Ye Xi has changed, the little guy still goes out early and returns late, but there is no black sludge on his body, on the contrary, on him, there are several more small books and a pack of charcoal.

Almost at the same time, there was an extra "tofu block" in the newspaper, and several coherent cartoons appeared in each issue...... For example, draw a fat boss, holding a leather whip, whipping a skinny worker; For example, the boss eats roast chicken and roast duck, but only gives the workers green vegetable soup; For example, the boss counts the bills, and the worker only takes one or two pitiful coppers......

In the past, newspapers were all textual content, and comics appeared for the first time, and with a full sense of irony, they soon opened up the market, and the sales of newspapers directly increased by 30%.

Ye Xi's children got the first manuscript fee...... But obviously, he would not be satisfied, Ye Xi negotiated with the newspaper, won the position of the third edition, and began to publish articles regularly in the name of "Friends of the Workers".

In his first article, he mentioned that farmers plant in spring, manage summer in summer, harvest in autumn and store in winter, work for three seasons a year, and rest for one season...... Workers should also follow the example of farmers, do three days off and one day, and give enough time to regulate their body and mind, otherwise workers will be exhausted to death!

This article, in terms of rhetoric and grammar, has no merit, and can only be described as immature, but it has become popular! The newspaper was reprinted five times, and within three days, there were people talking about it almost everywhere on the streets of Kaifeng.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around!"

Lu Duoxun, who was in charge of munitions, came to the door of the cabinet, and he took the trouble to put the newspaper in front of Ye Hua.

"Master Hou, please see, someone actually wants to give the workers a rest, it's unreasonable!"

Ye Hua raised the newspaper and covered his face, he had already read the article, but now he was just pretending, for a long time, Ye Hua slowly put it down, and said quietly: "Lu Shangshu, what are you going to do?" ”

"Check! Strict inspection! ”

Lu Duosun said: "The front is tight, military supplies, weapons manufacturing, can not stop for a moment, some people spread this kind of article, it is ill-intentioned...... I think this person should be found out and punished severely! ”

What else could Ye Hua say, "Lu Shangshu just has to catch it, and there is no need to ask me about some trivial things." ”

Lu Duoxun frowned, "Master Hou, in my opinion, this should be those literati who are fanning the flames behind their backs, and Master Hou should use thunderbolt methods!" ”

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