0p0 Chapter 166 Warming the hearts of the general public
Chapter 166 Warming the hearts of the general public
The next morning, the streets were bustling with people coming and going.
Yesterday's donation to the Shen family won the applause of the whole street. Today, Longchanghang merchants played the leading role. All Longchanghang stores in the city held activities at the same time. The dragon and lion dance teams at the door of the stores danced to the sound of gongs and drums, creating a fiery scene. The crowds outside the stores gathered in three layers, and they were all very curious about what Longchanghang was doing.
After the enthusiastic performance of the dragon and lion dance team, the shop owner's hearty laughter appeared in front of everyone. "The owner of the shop worshipped Buddha in Qingcheng Mountain yesterday and was enlightened by the Buddha. Today, all the shops in Longchang Bank will do charity activities to benefit the people!"
"Boss, what kind of benefit-for-the-people activity is this?" The onlookers shouted loudly, one person spoke at a time, and the shopkeeper's words were drowned out by the noise.
"Everybody, please be patient! Everybody, please be patient! Wait for me to finish. Our store will give one penny to those who are queuing to enter the store. This penny can be used to directly redeem ten pennies when you buy things in our store. If you don't buy anything, this penny will also be yours. This benefit activity is only limited to today! Do you understand?" The shopkeeper had to shout to speak.
"Wow, Longchang Bank is so generous that we can spend ten cents a penny!"
"I want to get the money..."
"I also want……"
The enthusiasm of the onlookers was instantly ignited! It was a great deal to go into the store and find cheap things to buy.
"Dong Dong Clang! Dong Dong Clang, line up to enter the store and get your money. If you don't line up, you won't get any money!" The shop assistants came out to maintain order. The shopkeeper came in with a string of money ready to hand out money. This string contained a thousand coins, which was probably enough. The owner of Longchang Store was also smart. A store used the cost of a string of money to attract customers to consume in the store. It really gained both reputation and money.
No matter how anxious the crowd was, they lined up to enter the store under the order of the shop assistants, and happily received a penny from the shopkeeper. Many people hurried to find cheap goods, and some people wanted to buy something but couldn't afford it before, and now they can buy it at a discount of ten cents. Some people didn't buy anything, just looked at it and followed the crowd out. Looking at the long line, some people wanted to line up again, and some wanted to run to another store to line up, after all, this store didn't have the things they wanted to buy.
The term "Longchang Bank giving out money" has set off gossip circles in the streets early on. There are many more people on the streets telling each other, and more people calling friends to go with them. The destination is undoubtedly the Longchang Bank store, and this wave of traffic is undoubtedly successful!
The roadside stalls on Qingcheng Road were also prosperous, with all kinds of goods on both sides of the road. In the morning, Dada Food Factory pulled a cart of tofu products. As soon as the stall was opened, it was bought by the monks who came down the mountain to purchase, and they also asked for help to pull it up the mountain. This scene happened in front of everyone's witnesses, and everyone was very envious. The monks also favored the fresh vegetables sold by the villagers. They bought the ones they liked in baskets, which made the villagers very happy. There were also a few people selling dried goods, dried black fungus, and dried bamboo shoots. With such a good opening, the enthusiasm of the people setting up stalls has increased a lot. As expected, with the increase in the number of vehicles and horses, people walked and stopped, constantly looking at the goods of one store after another, and the shouting and bargaining were endless. Along the way, the sound of laughter, asking for directions, and the sound of carriage bells were also noisy.
As soon as the yamen in the city opened, it received a messenger from the lord of the fiefdom, Prince Ning, to send a task for the national character recognition activity. So, more than half a month before the end of the year, the people in the yamen were busy again, copying official documents, posting official documents, and the yamen runners went out in groups, with gongs leading the way, and posted official documents in communities where residents gathered, at the entrances of schools, and at the entrances of academies. The yamen runners who went to the countryside and villages had to be sent to each township. In addition to posting, they had to lead the reading, explain the content of the posting to the onlookers, and explain the task to the village heads, asking them to prepare for the character recognition competition in advance. Those who signed up to be the character recognition teacher should first sign up with the village head and then report to the yamen. The yamen runners had to run to every place where there were rural schools. There were tasks and rewards, and it was also a task from the prince to educate the people, and no one would refuse. The scope of this activity was wide enough for all the yamen runners to run for a day, and they spent a lot of time and effort, and finally completed the task of posting official documents.
Several academies also received letters from the prince when they were preparing to leave for the holidays. The timing was just right. The dean could explain the matter at the closing ceremony and call on the students to return home and actively participate in the registration of the literacy teacher. The daily salary system was perfect for them. With the dean's encouragement, the students said they would devote themselves to social practice activities as soon as they had a holiday. This arrangement of holidays couldn't be more fulfilling.
A literacy contest that will benefit the people no matter how you look at it has kicked off, and as expected, the news of the contest has made headlines in the gossip circles on the streets, and the word-of-mouth gossip circles in towns and villages have finally caught up this time and are almost in sync, no longer talking about expired gossip.
Attracted by the five levels of high-value prizes, the new blood was very active and surrounded the village chief's house, asking him to explain the activity in detail. The people in the village who could read a little were surrounded by people. It was a pity that he hadn't even signed up for the literacy teacher, but the villagers had already taken a half-day literacy class for free. Who did he offend? So the villagers forced him to go to the village chief's house to sign up for the literacy teacher first, and even the half-grown children who had been to school were not spared. The private school teachers in the village were actively recommended to participate in this activity. It must be said that rice, wheat, meat, and cloth are really too attractive to ordinary people. Recognizing words is yourself. The more you recognize, the more benefits you will get. Maybe you can even find a good job!
Prince Ning's good deeds warmed the hearts of the general public and the scholars. There is still more than half a month left, not to mention that there are opportunities on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, so everything is urgent. This time, more people will tell each other about it, benefiting the young and old in the entire fiefdom! Countless people are grateful for Prince Ning's kindness, and this gratitude will last for a long, long time!
As the organizer, the village also sent people to notify the Sixth Young Master Lu Yao who had been staying in Dada Industrial Park. Lu Yao, who had been busy researching unified standards for a long time, received a large order of 1,000 sets of student desks and chairs. The opportunity to produce them on the assembly line according to the unified standards and to test the research standards in practice has come! So the Sixth Young Master held a mobilization meeting with all the craftsmen as soon as he received the task, requiring everyone to cooperate closely with each process. They had to record the experimental data to see to what extent the assembly line operation could help the factory break through. Everyone was looking forward to creating miracles and was particularly active in preparing materials, just waiting for their manager to announce the start!
As the prize organizer, Xiaojiu also arranged for a large number of material dispatches. Rice, wheat, soybeans, and cloth are all easy to prepare, but pork is more difficult. Live pigs are reserved, and some of them are expected to be made into a batch of bacon. After all, it is not good to kill animals on the first day of the Lunar New Year! This is enough to keep Xiaojiu and his people busy for several days. Xiaojiu was very reluctant to leave to do things after watching the rabbit mother feed the six baby rabbits. Before he left, he repeatedly told Bailu to remember to go over and see if the rabbit mother would feed the baby rabbits by herself when she was free, and if she didn't need help from others. Haha, just this worried look is really fascinating!
The rest of the staff standardized more than 10,000 commonly used characters. The men wrote neat large characters and small annotations. The guards around them helped to copy, and the craftsmen began to make rubbings.
Yiyi, Bailu and Yanan were not with them. In Yanan's new home, they picked up enlightenment books and started writing and drawing. Yiyi used small cartoons, Bailu and Yanan used simple drawings. What's more, "Mengqiu of Names and Things" allowed them to make such a change. Every two sentences of four-character words were matched with a simple small drawing, which was vivid and imaginative, making people instantly associate and easier to remember.
The sky is high and the earth is low, the universe is stable. The light and clear is the sky, the heavy and turbid is the earth.
The sun, moon and stars are beautiful in the sky, moistened by rain and dew, and encouraged by wind and thunder.
How do clouds rise? By the rise of water. How does rain fall? By the rise of clouds.
When Yang is connected to Yin, the wind swirls and whirls back. When Yang is stored by Yin, it cracks and thunders.
Only the rainbow appears when the sky clears, only the lightning appears when the sky shakes, and they disperse into smoke and haze and condense into hail and sleet.
The sun is bright at midday, the moon is waning at fullness.
At this time of Yangming, the universe is open and bright. The sun is bright and the sky is clear, with bright wind and clear moon.
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