Production, labor and management
Unlike students like Sun Jingshu and Ou Wenna who have already focused most of their energy on running their own country, Zhou Xun's dream is to become a policeman. Therefore, he needs to go through one more step than the students in Class 9 - the college entrance examination.
Although Zhou Xun's ability meant that the college entrance examination could be skipped, and the authorities were happy to arrange a "fast track" for him, Zhou Xun's dream was not limited to Earth. Being a policeman required more than just combat capability and a sense of justice. Zhou Xun needed to master the knowledge that came with the identity of "policeman", a complete administrative system, and so on. Only by knowing all this well could Zhou Xun adjust this system to a method suitable for Parnaki and promote it in Parnaki.
And those huge knowledge systems are absolutely necessary without a complete foundation.
Therefore, Zhou Xun became one of the few students in Class 9 who still stayed in the classroom to study.
In addition to Zhou Xun, Rong Yu, Bai Luo, Zhang Jiajia and others also often appear in the classroom.
Like Zhou Xun, Rong Yu needs to learn a lot of knowledge to achieve his goal. It has always been the wish of his mother, the dean, to get into a good university. Rong Yu wants to fight for it through his own efforts.
Bai Luo was simply playing badly. There was no point in staying at home, and he didn't want to hang out in the "Temple of Destiny" all day. It was also fun to stay in the classroom and joke with his classmates.
Students like Zhang Jiajia who already have their own careers on Earth use classroom t as a lounge and creative room. This classroom is a turning point in their new lives and has great significance. The strong learning atmosphere of the school is more suitable for concentrating on hard work than a study room or staying alone in a room. Anyway, for them, with space magic, it is easy to reach the North Pole from the South Pole in one second.
As early as the South Island training period, the principal had already known that Class 9 (some of the students) were time travelers, and since then he had always been laissez-faire towards Class 9. After even asking Rui Hang for his opinion, he simply stopped all their classes, no longer restricted the students' commuting times, and turned the classrooms into rest areas that students could enter at will.
Therefore, when Guo Yingxue, the former physics teacher of Class 9 who was responsible for teaching the two time travelers, returned to the classroom after half a year, what she saw was a scene of "demons dancing wildly".
Zhou Xun and Rong Yu sat in the lower left corner of the classroom, concentrating on reviewing, oblivious to what was happening outside. Bai Luo had brought a recliner from somewhere, placed it in the last row of the classroom, and was sleeping soundly on it - although Guo Yingxue couldn't understand why they had to go to the classroom to sleep, was it because sleeping in the classroom was particularly sweet?
Si Jishi also moved a recliner and leaned against it side by side with Bai Luo. However, he did not fall asleep, but covered his head with a "WONDERLAND" helmet that actually did not mean much to him.
Lin Yuan, who rarely returned to the classroom, replaced his chair with a high-end office desk and signed a table full of thick documents one by one.
Zhang Jiajia and Yu Zhi, two art students, chose a spot with just the right amount of light and each set up a canvas. The class pet hanging overhead had long vines hanging down from its branches, surrounding the two of them, manually separating them into two small compartments, and even thoughtfully hung drinks, brushes, paints and other utensils on the vines.
Two exchange students from Parnaky sat in the middle of the first row, in the seats originally occupied by Jiang Cunzhi and Zhou Ruo. They crossed their hands on the desk, with their backs straight, and looked as well-behaved as elementary school students attending a public class for the first time.
The two faces, with different styles but equally handsome, were full of curiosity. When compared with the other students in Class Nine, Guo Yingxue was actually somewhat moved.
She lowered her head and glanced at her textbook.
Compulsory education textbook, "Mathematics for the First Grade, Volume 1 (Jiangsu Education Edition)".
Guo Yingxue: “…”
Why on earth would she, a second-level high school physics teacher, come here to teach first-grade math classes?
Guo Yingxue took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.
"Classmates, will I really not disturb you if I take classes here?"
There was a barely perceptible nervousness in her voice. Although they were all students she had taught before, they were now different and Guo Yingxue could no longer treat them with the same attitude as before.
"Teacher Guo, don't worry, just go to class!" Bai Luo, who was thought to be asleep, sat up directly with a bright smile: "I'm just waiting to hear the sound of your class! To be honest, without these class sounds, I feel uncomfortable doing anything."
The other students nodded in agreement.
——Doing other things during class time is always the best time for inspiration, and it is even better for falling asleep!
Guo Yingxue: “…”
It’s a familiar emphasis, a familiar beating.
It doesn't make her happy at all!
...
While Ulysses and Sebastian were busy remediating their first-grade primary school courses, Rui Hang and other students also got new jobs.
The young king of the Kingdom of Yaflan and Duke Sandro, who were previously framed in the Ruihang incident, were directly dealt with by Owena after the tour group returned to Earth. After dealing with the feudal nobles who were hiding in the Kingdom of Yaflan and unwilling to obey, the Kingdom of Yaflan officially became the "Principality of Yaflan". The young king who was pushed to the throne as a puppet was also directly pulled off the throne and downgraded from "King" to "Duke of Yaflan".
Today, the little king is still the country's biggest mascot, but his identity as "Duke of Afram" is enough for him to enjoy his future life in wealth while staying away from politics and power.
As for the current Principality of Afran, Ovina, who dealt with it with thunder and lightning, does not intend to incorporate it into her territory.
The plan to "pull the Kingdom of Afran into the plan to expose Rui Hang, use them to make Rui Hang famous, and then take advantage of the situation to get rid of them" was proposed by Owena. The reason why she targeted the Kingdom of Afran was not only because most of the nobles of Saint Malo had fled here, and they were instigating the royal family here to take action against the Holy Roman Empire every few days. It was not only because this country was extremely feudal and backward, but she wanted to liberate this country.
In addition to the above two reasons, there are two very important points.
First, the overall area of the Kingdom of Afran is among the largest in all the countries of Parnaki. The geographical conditions here are very favorable, with abundant resources and labor, and it borders on Reltsad in Ruihang.
Second, after the Earth and Parnaqui are completely integrated, the waters near the Kingdom of Afra will be connected to the East China Sea of China.
The two worlds that have been fused together look like two globes pressed together. Only the space in the pressed part is distorted. It is not in the form of up and down opposition, but only the space where a part of the sea is distorted and connected. In the future, you can enter Parnaki through this specific space by ship or plane.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Afran will become the country closest to the Earth and easiest for Earthlings to reach after the world is connected.
If such a Feng Shui treasure land was left to the Afran royal family and nobles who were bent on conquering the earth, they would never accept science and technology. Instead, they would only use the geographical advantage to find ways to invade the earth and start a war.
Instead of letting the royal family and nobles of Afran waste it, it is better to directly eliminate the roots, clean up the garbage first, and then return the country's rights to the people here step by step.
Before that, Ovina planned to let all the students in Class 9 take over the country for a period of time and turn it into a "special zone" where the Earth civilization and the Parnaqui civilization could be integrated.
All the goals of Class 9 can be tried here first, including the police system that Zhou Xun wants to promote, Rong Yu's social welfare system, Yu Zhi's planting test field, etc., including the various technologies from Earth that Ou Wenna wants to promote.
Only when the countries of Parnaki see the tremendous vitality brought by technology and magic, will the two worlds take the initiative to take the step of integration, accept and tolerate each other's civilizations, and use the different advantages of technology and magic to advance civilization to a higher level.
However, it would be too difficult to implement their policies throughout the country right away. After discussion, the students decided to build a new city to test any policies before promoting them nationwide.
...
Old Charlie was an ordinary farmer in the Kingdom of Afram.
Like all farmers in this country, they have no surnames, and even their names are mostly passed down from generation to generation.
He is Old Charlie, his father is Old Old Charlie, and his son is Little Charlie. When he dies and his son grows up, his son will become the new "Old Charlie", and his grandson may inherit the name again and become "Little Charlie". In this cannibalistic country, this name seems to be the continuation of their lives and the proof that they are alive.
But at the moment, Old Charlie didn't have the energy to think about long-term or profound issues. He looked at the basket of food in the kitchen, his eyebrows drooped to the ground, and he opened his mouth and sighed so loud that it could float out of the house.
There is no food left at home.
In the past few years, the concentration of magic power has been getting higher and higher. It's not enough that we can't grow food every day, but there are plant mutations every other day. In their village alone, at least three people are injured or even killed by mutated plants every month.
In order to survive, they could only take out a portion of the meager food after paying taxes and give it to the masters, asking them to send knights to protect them.
——The so-called "knights" are just a few soldiers with weapons.
Later, the passage between the other world and Parnaki was opened, the concentration of magic power decreased a lot, and the nobles of the Kingdom of Avran were wiped out by the queen who claimed to be the "Holy Roman Empire" because of instigating war.
Old Charles did not understand the significance of war. He only knew that with fewer noble lords, there would be fewer mouths to feed, and the amount of grain collected from them would also be reduced.
With the reduced magic power, Old Charlie thought that he could save some food this year and avoid starvation. But he didn't expect those nobles to say that they had fought for him and suffered heavy casualties. They, the common people who did nothing, could only pay more food to repay the sacrifices of the soldiers and nobles.
But Old Charlie didn't understand why the masters took away the food that kept them alive when they clearly said that everything they did was for them?
Old Charlie didn't understand anything, but he knew that the steward would come to collect the grain in five days.
But they couldn't even afford tomorrow's meal.
Yesterday, old Mike from the neighbor's house told him that the slave traders in the next village were recruiting people, two handfuls of wheat for a young man, and one handful of wheat for an older man. One handful of wheat is twenty handfuls of oats. As long as he and his two daughters were sold, they could get enough food to eat and hand in this month and next month.
Even if you are a slave, at least you have something to eat, which is better than starving to death.
Just as Old Charlie was about to tell his equally worried wife his thoughts, his eldest son Charlie suddenly rushed into the house from outside, his face full of excitement: "Father, mother, sisters, come with me!"
"What's wrong?" Charlie's wife was infected by the joy of her eldest son. She asked curiously, "Did you find food?"
"Almost!" The eldest son said happily, "Isn't there a dead land to the south of our village where nothing can be grown? A large group of people came from outside and said they wanted to build a city there, and asked all the free people in the nearby villages to go and work there—"
He held up five fingers and boasted, "Five handfuls of wheat per person per day!"
"What!" Old Charlie was so scared that he almost fell to the ground: "Say it again? Is this true?"
Five handfuls of wheat? He sold himself and his two daughters for five handfuls. How could such a fool give him five handfuls of wheat a day? A handful of oats is enough for one person to eat for a day. If these wheat were exchanged for oats, it would be enough for the whole family to eat for twenty days!
Even the richest lord in the city wouldn't dare to squander like this!
Old Charlie's wife had not experienced much, so she believed what her son said: "What about women? Can women go too?"
"Of course!" Charlie nodded vigorously: "Women should also give the same amount of wheat as men!"
"Then let's go!" The wife also became excited and was about to rush out pulling Charlie, but was stopped by old Charlie.
"Wait." Old Charlie held down his excited wife and asked again, "Are you sure these people are not scammers?"
"Oh, father, am I so dumb that I can't even tell the difference between real and fake?" Charlie couldn't hide his pride: "I've been there a long time ago - that group of people set up a big pot on the construction site, and everyone who went there could get a big bowl of hot oatmeal!"
Are they so extravagant as to cook porridge directly with wheat? This is a privilege only enjoyed by gentlemen!
The little girl licked her lips, with a hint of desire in her eyes: "I haven't eaten wheat porridge yet."
Although he was skeptical about what his son said, the temptation of oatmeal porridge was too great. Old Charlie did not bother to think about it and hurriedly rushed to the deathland in the south with his family.
...
At the death spot, about three miles from the village, there was already a long queue.
After Old Charlie and his family waited in line for more than half an hour, it was finally their turn.
"Name, age, place of origin." The man sitting behind the table was writing something on a piece of snow-white paper. When he noticed someone coming, he asked without even raising his head.
"Old Charlie, this year... about 41, living in Stone Village three miles north of here." Old Charlie said nervously, while curiously looking at the man sitting behind the table - he was wearing strange clothes and didn't look like a person from the Kingdom of Afra. The most eye-catching thing was the yellow hat on his head, which was a texture that Old Charlie had never seen before, and it looked solid and smooth, like a delicate pot.
"Why is there another Charlie?" The man muttered in a language that Old Charlie couldn't understand: "This is the seventeenth one today."
After making a casual complaint, the man switched to the common language of Parnaki: "When can I start work, and how many days can I work?"
"Now, we can do it now!" Old Charlie said quickly, "We can do it until the spring plowing season."
"Look at the machine on the right...the black thing. Don't move." said the man.
Although Old Charlie was confused, the aroma of food wafting from not far away was so strong that he had to obediently follow the man's instructions.
After doing a series of inexplicable things, the black box next to the man made a "creaking" sound, and then he handed Old Charlie a strange thing with a flat rectangle on the top and a yellow rope hanging on the bottom, and said, "Hang it around your neck and go to window No. 2 to get your meal. After eating, go to the shed on the right and wait. Someone will take you to work, and the food will be distributed to you at the end of each day."
He said without even looking up: "Next."
Old Charlie walked out of the team in confusion, and the man's voice sounded again behind him: "Name, age, place of origin."
And his son's equally dull answer: "Charlie, twenty-four years old..."
As he walked towards the window number 2 the man mentioned, he looked curiously at what the man handed him - there was a lot of words he couldn't understand, and a man's face on it.
For some reason, the man's face seemed familiar.
Who is it?
Old Charlie thought hard, but his thoughts, which had finally been gathered, were soon shattered by the aroma of food.
He didn't care about anything else and handed the card to the man at the window as requested. Without saying anything, the man gave him a bowl as big as a handful of wheat. The bowl looked very strange, light and thin, and felt a bit like the inside of a tree bark, or like a peeled tree trunk, smooth and slippery.
But the bowl is not the point - the full bowl of porridge inside is the most important thing.
The porridge was so thick that a spoon could be inserted into it without falling over! A few chopsticks of dried vegetables of unknown origin were placed on top.
Old Charlie picked up the bowl and took a big sip. The rich taste and aroma of grains almost made him cry.
Only after drinking half a bowl did Old Charlie have time to taste the dried vegetables.
The first thing you taste is the sour taste that goes straight to your head, followed by a strong salty taste - they actually put salt in it! And the amount is quite high!
A small spoonful of pickles and a big bowl of porridge, the stomach that had been empty for a year finally felt the taste of being full.
Charlie held the bowl that had been scraped clean and looked at the increasingly long line of people not far away. He wondered foolishly: Are these people sent by the "Twenty-Four Gods" to save them?
...
There are many families like old Charlie's who are so poor that they can't even afford to eat, and they risk their lives to work just to get a bite of food.
This group of wealthy nouveau riche who actually used wheat to make porridge were actually a construction team sent by Class 9. Some of them were from China, and some were from the countries where the students were from.
Although with Team Nine's magic, it would only take a day to build a city on flat ground, one of the purposes of building a city is to provide a large number of jobs for residents of nearby towns.
The peasants who were exploited by the nobles were already so poor that it was like being in a famine-stricken era. Work-for-relief was just right for them.
China's infrastructure is world-famous, and the students in Class 9 also hope that their subordinates can learn more knowledge from them.
The person responsible for supervision fell to Rong Yu.
For Rong Yu who wants to develop charity, activities like work-for-relief are just right for him, and his fighting ability is also enough to keep the situation under control.
However, considering Rong Yu's autistic personality, Lu Baixi, who was relatively free among all the students, was asked by Zhou Xun to come along to help.
The grain used for the porridge was not wheat as the villagers called it, but rice.
As for why rice is not oats, which is more commonly eaten by farmers here, the reason is very simple - in recent food prices, rice is cheaper than oats.
In terms of being filling and delicious, rice has the best value for money and is the number one grain chosen by the Chinese.
As for the amount of food, it's not that Rong Yu, Lu Baixi, and the Parnaki people didn't consider the problem of inflation. In fact, for the construction team members from China, five handfuls of rice were already extremely stingy - I've never seen anyone who moved bricks for a day and only got five bowls of rice.
Including the porridge provided to these people, the team members felt it was extremely shabby - for this kind of physical work, there must be enough rice, steamed buns, vegetables and meat!
If the construction team members of Parnaki had not tried their best to dissuade them, telling them that even a handful of wheat was half a year's income for the farmers here, and that if the salary was raised further, the nearby economy would collapse before they could implement the work-for-relief policy, the Chinese construction team members would have temporarily given up the idea of feeding the villagers.
But if word of this treatment spread, it would cause riots in the vicinity. All the civilians would put down their work and rush here to work.
The number of these people is far greater than the demand.
If these people who arrive do not get jobs and are jealous of the high salaries of those who are already employed, conflicts can easily arise.
Fortunately, the students of Class 9 took this into consideration when making the plan, and took the initiative to use high income to lure nearby residents to come here - there are enough people, but there are still a lot of vacancies in the city. Now that you are here, why not just stay and settle down here and become the first batch of residents of the new city.
Of course, these welfare policies will attract not only the poor people, but also the nobles who suck the blood of these people and abuse their power in their own territories.
Ovina dealt with the core nobles in the royal city, but there are still a considerable number of local tyrants scattered across the country.
Not far away, there was a sudden commotion behind a long queue of people.
Lu Baixi, who was drowsy, suddenly opened his eyes and showed an excited look.
"The fun is coming~"
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