Agnelli sat staggeringly on a bench. He drank a lot of wine just after the dinner, and he felt a little dizzy. It was still timeless. I remember that he was very capable back then, and there was no problem with a bottle of Daqu in the River at a time. But now he is old and his physical function is declining, so it is naturally impossible to compare with when he was young.

This is a park, not large in size. A pond was dug in it, some willow trees were planted, and some wild flowers were planted on the river bank. It can only be said to be a bit wild, but it is really not very good. Agnelli once went to Luoyang Prefecture, the new capital under construction. The north city is digging a huge artificial lake using a wetland that originally existed. The lake area is very large, about fifty or sixty hectares. Zhèngfu intends to make its average water depth more than three meters, and then mine huge rocks from the mountainous area to the west, and move to the lake to build a rockery. There are three rockery, each mountain will be decorated, and one of the largest ones will even be built on it, which is amazing.

There is no doubt that compared with the park in Luoyang Prefecture, Dongfang County can only be considered a younger brother. There is no way, this park is relatively old, and at that time, the finances are not abundant, and there is no chairman Shao, who likes to build a large-scale construction. The innate contractor gene is really speechless.

There were a few bright gas lights in the park, and several workers in greasy work clothes were smoking. They might be students at a nearby night school that taught people to learn various skills, including driving a carriage, geotechnical construction, repairing common general machines, and even how to be a competent security guard.

The teachers of these night schools are hired by zhèngfu, and students do not need to pay tuition fees. The daily operation fees of the school are also funded by the civil affairs department. It sounds strange, but this is indeed a fact, mainly due to the assistance of the "Social Welfare Relief Law" introduced by the state. This law was formally compiled based on some relief regulations implemented in the past. It has a lot of content and has made a lot of progress compared to the previous ones.

The new law contains relevant content on opening night schools, and it is clearly stated that it is funded by zhongyāng and local civil affairs systems. As mentioned above, the main purpose of these schools is to enable non-national labor workers who have become regular and farmers who go to the city to find jobs to have a skill faster and adapt to a brand new urban life. The faster these people integrate into the new environment, they can create value for society faster and pay taxes for zhèngfu, which is a very good thing for both public and private.

Agnelli also appreciates this. There are several such workers in his rabbit hole flour mill. They are all young men who are pursuing a new life from the countryside to the city. After all, you have to successfully register. There is no need to doubt that the quota of night schools is limited, and you often need to grab it to successfully sign up. I learned how to repair a simple horsepower steam engine in school. Although my level is definitely not high, I have to study with the master for a long time after entering the factory, but at least it is not without a foundation, which makes business owners like Agnelli and others very satisfied.

Compared with the social relief system on the east coast, Britain, France and other countries are completely fire pits. Children in the workhouse are forced to do child labor and support themselves. Many people are exhausted to death at work. Regulators receive benefits from businessmen and do not care about these things at all, which leads to the fubài and depravity of the entire social relief system. It is amazing: a person's lower limit can be so low!

Social welfare relief also includes drug relief. These drugs are mainly jointly resolved by pharmaceutical companies, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Taoist Federation and some social donations. They are regularly dispatched to treat and distribute. This is simply a life-saving medicine for those who first arrive in a certain place, are unfamiliar with the local environment and are unacceptable to the local environment, so they are deeply welcomed by the public.

In addition, a call for "national insurance conservation" has emerged in the East Coast. This call believes that everyone with a stable income can save a portion of their daily expenses and join an insurance alliance so that when members of the Tongmeng members face illness, pension and funerals, they are unwilling to provide guarantees for these miscellaneous insurance alliance organizations, and at the same time they also report to the people, asking them to carefully identify these organizations. Once money fraud occurs, they will report and report them immediately and the public security bureau will handle it.

Therefore, at present, these so-called mutual aid and insurance organizations are mostly concentrated in rural cooperatives. These organizations have been working together for many years, and internal members are very familiar with them. They have high trust. There are basically no intentional fraud. However, in cities, because of the lack of such organizations, workers generally cannot trust anyone, and in the end they can only choose to save money to deal with emergencies, unlike in rural areas where they can help each other.

A dull whistle sounded not far away, which made Agnelli, who was slightly drunk, raise his head. He knew that it was the steam whistle of the night school, giving the order to finish class. He took out his pocket watch and saw that it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Soon, a large group of people appeared on the gravel road at the entrance of the park. They walked in groups of three or three, talking and laughing, and looked very good in spirit.

"Gas lamps are such a great invention, which allows the evening time to be studied. Well, they can also be used for work." Agnelli shook his head and said to himself.

There is no doubt that in the era without gas lamps, it is basically impossible to teach at night. Even if you light a candle in every corner of the classroom, the light is not enough for everyone to see the teacher's movements clearly. Moreover, the cost is very high and it is impossible to spread across the country. The bright gas lamps change all this. It makes every corner of the classroom full of light, and night teaching is possible. This alone, the knowledge dissemination efficiency of the whole society has increased by many times.

Of course, gas lights also bring about a drastic improvement in production efficiency, which is mainly because nighttime work has become possible. Take the shipyards on the east coast as an example. Due to the sufficient orders and busy business, they have long allowed workers to work all night and work overtime to produce ships. The efficiency of this is naturally not comparable to those of the old mainland shipyards that have to finish work after nightfall.

There was a factory near the park where Agnelli was at this time. He sat on the bench in the park and could hear the rhythmic sound of forging hammers hitting metal from afar, as well as the faint smell of coal smoke coming from the air. It was obvious that the factory was still working, maybe it was only in the middle of the night, maybe it was started all night, and the metal utensils processed at night would be transported away by heavy carriages early the next morning and delivered to customers. You see, the goods produced at night were actually extra wealth. A factory might not be obvious, but what if it was dozens or hundreds of factories? The extra wealth would be amazing!

It is said that countries in the old continent are also actively developing gas lamp systems. A German businessman in Rostock has even claimed to have produced the finished product. Although it was completely damaged after less than half a day of use (it also exudes an unbearable smell when working normally), it is ultimately a breakthrough from scratch from scratch, which is of great significance.

Agnelli sat on the bench for a while, and when the manager came to drive him away, he felt that his mind was no longer so drowsy. After apologizing to the park administrator, he dusted the dust off his clothes, got up and left the bench, and walked towards his home. The old area at night was a little dim, and the night watchmen were already patrolling the streets. In another half an hour, they would turn off some of the gas lamps for lighting, leaving only a few to save gas.

The kid who was playing games on the streets had disappeared, and there were only dog ​​barking in the alley. The wind at night was a little cool, blowing away the summer heat. Agnelli bathed in the night wind, breathing the air with a slight smell of coal smoke, looking up at the bright moonlight in the sky, and for a moment he felt that life was so beautiful.

He remembered the days when he lived in Italy when he was young. In that era when wars were frequent and famines were everywhere, he absolutely did not have the courage to walk in the deep alleys at night, where there were too many criminals tortured by hunger and lost their minds, and they would steal all your things. If you are not lucky, you might be in danger of life. In this regard, the East Coast is indeed a very safe country. This kind of security is based on the traditional culture of shameful crime, and on the relatively abundant living conditions. Entering the East Coast Republic of China, which was in the middle of the industrial revolution, the social wealth increased greatly. Even the workers without any skills could live on their wages and even get married and have children, which is something that other countries could not compare with.

Now several states in northern Italy have formed joint troops. The next step is to establish a unified market and eliminate various tariff barriers. This is a prerequisite for industrial revolution and industrialization. I just hope that they will bring Naples and Sicily in southern Italy in the future so that the people of their hometown can also gain some benefits. It is too poor there. He remembered his youngest son who was on the mission of the East Coast intelligence department to return to Naples, hoping that he could make good use of the knowledge and intelligence he had learned to persuade the local nobles to wait for the opportunity and quickly approach the East Coast when Spain changes greatly.
Chapter completed!