Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

The next morning, when the residents of Banshan Ward took to the streets, they immediately noticed unusual changes within the ward!

The streets and alleys, big and small, were plastered with strips of white paint, upon which were written huge characters of various colors.

【Create a picturesque Banshan, with every little thing showing spirit!】

【Be civilized citizens, and jointly build a beautiful future for Banshan!】

【A person can be shameless, but they cannot defecate or urinate anywhere.】

【When you defecate or urinate anywhere, the heavens are watching you!】

【The ancients said that defecating or urinating anywhere easily leads to childlessness.】

【Defecating or urinating anywhere will bring death to your whole family!】

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Countless eye-catching and beautiful words swept through Banshan Ward overnight.

These were painted overnight under Fang Zheng's orders, and the words themselves were the result of a whole night of painstaking effort.

They combined well-intentioned advice, threats, curses, ghost and god superstitions, straightforwardness, and ease of understanding, all to reverse the lifestyle problems of the Banshan Ward residents as quickly as possible.

Considering the high illiteracy rate among the residents of Banshan Ward, each wall was also accompanied by a down-on-his-luck scholar acting as an explainer.

When he saw a crowd passing by, he would loudly shout out the content on the wall, or specifically clear up their doubts.

Originally, these scholars were extremely unwilling.

Is there still justice in the world if people aren't allowed to shit in the streets!?

Later, Zhang Biao knocked out two troublemakers and gave everyone five taels of silver, and everyone happily took up their posts.

At this time, an old man passing by in the street, carrying a shoulder pole, looked at the large characters on the wall and muttered to himself: "Eh, tsk tsk, what's written here! It looks pretty good!"

The explainer saw this and quickly stepped forward to explain.

They didn't dare to relax. Fang Zheng had instructed the Military and Administrative Department early on to send petty officials to be responsible for inspecting the work of these explainers. Once someone was found to be slacking off, they would be fined.

"What's written above is our ward's new activity!"

【Encourage the use of public toilets, with random prize draws for shitting, and lucky people can win a maximum reward of five taels of silver!】

The old man scratched his head and laughed: "I've never heard of being able to win a prize for shitting in all my years! They're even taking their scams to the streets, and the government isn't doing anything about it. Alas, these days!"

After speaking, he turned around to leave.

The explainer quickly grabbed him and said loudly: "It's not a scam! This is an activity organized by the government. Look at the public toilet over there, there's someone holding a slip of paper, you can get one when you go in."

"Then the government will hold a lottery on the street at the end of each month! The first prize is five taels of silver, but there's only one spot! I'm not lying to you, I've already gone!"

The old man smiled, didn't say anything, shook his head, and walked straight away.

The explainer became anxious and quickly grabbed him again: "What's going on?! You don't believe what I'm saying?"

The old man looked impatient: "What do I believe! You can win a prize just by getting a piece of paper, who are you trying to fool! If the government can really give out silver, I'll shit upside down!"

The explainer quickly said: "Why don't you go take a look and see? There are words on that piece of paper. After you get it, you have to put a handprint on it. After you go in, you must come out of the latrine within half an incense stick's time, otherwise your spot will be forfeited!"

The old man looked at the public toilet with suspicion: "Really?"

"Really!"

"Then I'll give it a try."

After speaking, the old man turned around and went to the public toilet, took a slip of paper, looked at the Arabic numerals written on it, and scratched his head in confusion.

Then, under the guidance of the guide, he dipped his finger in the carbon powder box and pressed a handprint at the corresponding number on the booklet.

This method was also devised by Fang Zheng: get a number for going to the toilet and win a prize.

The lottery was set up with first to fifth prizes, with the last three prizes being copper coins ranging from five to several tens of coins, with a total of one hundred winning spots. The first and second prizes were one tael and five taels respectively, with a total of two spots.

Of course, he didn't expect such a crude design to be without problems. Over time, there would definitely be situations of fraudulent claims.

First, there was the situation of one person claiming multiple times, but the number of people in Banshan Ward was not large, and the number distributor guarding the public toilet could probably distinguish them.

Second, there was forgery, which was also not a problem. First of all, there was a unique number corresponding to the fingerprint. When the time came, anyone who dared to make a fraudulent claim would definitely be found out, and anyone who dared to forge would be dragged out to repair toilets for free.

In addition, all kinds of strange situations would definitely occur, such as work oversights, forgeries that could not be identified, etc. Fang Zheng didn't care about spending more silver. The total amount added up was not much. He didn't feel bad about distributing it to the people, and it could also have a better promotional effect.

Finally, this was just a short-term activity that could not continue forever. When the atmosphere changed, without Fang Zheng saying anything, the people would condemn those who defecated or urinated anywhere. After all, who wouldn't like walking on clean streets?

Looking at the people gathered in groups of three or five around the explainers, Fang Zheng smiled with satisfaction.

Now that he was going to recreate the miracle of Taoyuan County in the capital, he had finally made a good start.

Li Yuanzhao also looked at the promotional slogans on the street with a playful smile. As expected of Lao Fang, he could always come up with strange things.

Although it looked outrageous, it should be useful!

Ding Quan stood beside the two of them, his eyes twitching, and looked at Fang Zheng with awe.

He thought to himself, so this is the Crown Prince's teacher... truly extraordinary...

"Ding Quan, how is the work of selecting sites for public toilets progressing? And when will the manpower be in place?"

Ding Quan hurriedly said: "Reporting, sir, the site selection is almost complete. The houses of those people have been bought, and they are just waiting to move."

"In addition, the recruitment of manpower will be slower, and it will take two more days for everyone to be in place. Also, because the recruitment was rushed... the wages are generally higher."

"It doesn't matter. What this official wants is speed. If you spend more money, you spend more money."

Afterwards, Fang Zheng pointed to a row of houses at the end of the street and said: "I have another task for you! Buy all of these houses at the end of the street in the next few days, tear down the houses, and clear a space!"

"From today onwards! That place will be called Banshan Square!"

Li Yuanzhao wondered: "Lao Fang, when are we building houses? What's the use of building a square? It's not edible or drinkable."

"Wrong, this square is of great use. The people's entertainment life is insufficient, so we must first enrich their spirit. People are motivated when they are happy."

"We also have to hold prize draws, and we must draw them in front of all the people! Could it be that we can draw them in secret and then announce the results half an hour later? Then I, Fang Zheng, would become a lottery ticket seller!?!"

Li Yuanzhao looked confused: "What is a lottery ticket?"

"Cough cough cough..." Fang Zheng coughed awkwardly twice. He let it slip. "This lottery ticket is a good thing. We will do it in the future. It is also a prize draw, but that one has to be done well, not so crude."

There was also one point that Fang Zheng felt that the current publicity was still not enough.

He planned to build a stage in the square and invite opera troupes to perform every day, preferably finding young people from Taoyuan County to write some new scripts.

In addition to advocating positive energy such as everyone paying attention to hygiene and doing good deeds.

You can also do some advertising... ...