dingdiange:
The New Year of the sixth year of the Qingli period had just passed, and the people of the Song Dynasty were still immersed in the joy of the New Year in the first month of the year.
A special official document on "The Great Song Dynasty's Sweeping Away Gangs and Evil" was sent by the Constitutional Council to the Ministry of Police, the Imperial City Administration and the Censorate.
The content mentioned that there would be no upper limit and no lower limit on the protection umbrellas behind local evil forces. Big tigers must be taken down, and small flies must be swatted as well.
The heads of several departments did not dare to delay and immediately began to move forward.
Various documents were passed down from the imperial court to the prefectures, and then from the prefectures to the states. All the local prefecture offices, prefecture offices, and county offices heard the news and started arresting people everywhere.
In addition, the various censorate offices also sent people to monitor and inspect everywhere. The local imperial city offices had both visible guards and secret guards. The secret guards were like plainclothes officers, integrated into the civilian population.
As they explore everywhere, they find that a large number of evil forces and those who support them are about to face a devastating disaster.
However, once a policy is issued, the results will not be immediate, especially for a large country, it will naturally take some time to ferment.
This time may be several months, half a year, or even one or two years.
Therefore, except for Gyeonggi Province, which has officially been led by the Ministry of Police and has begun operations in all 18 counties in Gyeonggi Province, the rest of the provinces are only about to start work.
And during this process, in February of the sixth year of the Qingli period, the imperial court once again issued a large number of new policies.
This new policy officially belongs to the fifth round of Qingli New Policies.
From the first year of the Qingli period to the present day, five rounds have been passed, with no less than a hundred policies, large and small.
This new policy also covers all aspects, including supplements to previous policies and new policy guidance.
For example, at the official level, the imperial court allowed each region to establish state-owned enterprises on its own to develop its own steel, coal, cement, textile, and brick-making industries. The specific construction methods were guided by people sent by the Wu'an Iron and Steel Plant.
Private businessmen were allowed to participate in contracting coal mines and iron mines, and to establish cement plants, spinning mills, brick factories, newspapers and other industries, further liberalizing commercial regulations.
A postal system was established, and the Ministry of Posts was set up. The original post station system was incorporated into the postal system. From then on, writing letters and entrusting them to be delivered were no longer exclusive to officials, but all citizens could deliver letters and send items.
In education, primary schools, junior high schools and high schools were officially established.
Primary and junior high schools are distributed in all prefectures and counties, but there is only one high school in each prefecture-level city.
As for university.
It is still in the preparation stage.
Don't think that establishing a university at this time is confusing.
In fact, the world's first university was established 42 years later, the University of Bologna in Italy.
Oxford University began to teach and study there in 1096, and was officially established in 1167, only 121 years after 1046.
Therefore, when a relatively complete scientific system was established in the Song Dynasty, regardless of whether the universities established in the future could reach the same level as in later generations, it would at least provide a place for countless students to study and progress.
In the medical field, he promoted medical development, established the Ministry of Health, built the Bianliang Hospital and its affiliated medical school, and recruited doctors with rich experience and high skills from all over the country to serve as expert professors to train students.
In addition to promoting traditional Chinese medicine, the development of Western medicine is also essential. The court will give prisoners sentenced to death an opportunity to become cadaver teachers. If they voluntarily donate their bodies, their families will receive state compensation funds so that medical schools can perform human dissections.
There are also cowpox vaccination, epidemic prevention manuals, boiling water theory, etc. I believe that in the near future, there will be basically no disputes between Chinese medicine and Western medicine in future generations, because they are all Chinese medicine.
In science and technology, he increased investment in research in mathematics, physics and chemistry, paid attention to the cultivation of scientific talents, actively protected scientific research levels and discoveries, and also established scientific and technological journals, which were distributed in a small range in Bianliang, gradually increasing the people's knowledge and understanding of science.
In addition, there have been changes to varying degrees in the official system, military defense, economic development, agricultural construction, etc.
However, the overall changes are not significant, because these things have basically become similar in the previous rounds of reforms, and there is no need to make drastic changes.
In addition to these aspects, what is closely related to the people is this year's major infrastructure projects.
Funds were allocated by the imperial court, combined with the surplus in the treasury of each route, state, and county, to initiate national infrastructure construction and carry out large-scale repairs to the county's official roads, rivers, canals, and wasteland.
Large-scale infrastructure construction must have design plans and blueprints. For example, if you are building a road, you always have to make a plan of where to start and where to build it.
But this infrastructure construction is not about building new roads, but about renovating the old roads so that they can be used more effectively.
After all, if you want to build a factory, you have to build a road first. You need a rammed earth road before you can build a cement plant. You need a cement plant before you can build a cement road. You need a cement road before you can build a steel plant. You need a steel plant before you can build a highway.
One thing after another, it is impossible to jump directly from a rammed earth road to a highway. That is unrealistic.
So all in all, the construction in all aspects was actually slowly establishing a prototype for the Song Dynasty to enter industrial development, which was equivalent to laying a foundation and officially transforming from a feudal society to a scientific society.
Fortunately, feudal ethics had not yet developed to the level of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the entire social atmosphere was still in the relatively open era of the Tang and Song dynasties.
For example, women were not allowed to be slaves, could leave home, remarry, and divorce. Men were not allowed to be slaves, merchants could participate in the imperial examinations, and traditional lowly classes such as musicians, prostitutes, beggars, and boatmen no longer existed; all were considered free citizens.
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