Valley Emperor

The powerful and middle-class people of Datang all ran out of the city.

On the one hand, it is because of ancient traditions: traditionally, except for officials, businessmen and other groups serving in the city, in fact, more ordinary gentry do not live in the city, but in the country.

The Datang Empire seems to be industrialized, but it is still a traditional feudal empire, and it still retains many traditional customs.

The rich and powerful still like to live in mansions in the countryside or on the outskirts of the city!

And the upper-middle class people naturally follow the same example. For them, luxury houses in the countryside cannot be built or lived in. After all, there is no mansion covering dozens or hundreds of acres, and dozens of maids and servants are waiting for you. I'm embarrassed to say that I live in the country!

So they basically live in some of the wealthy areas on the outskirts of the city.

But it is not because of tradition that causes this phenomenon.

Tradition is important and important, but not important.

The main reason for the powerful and middle-class people in Datang to make such decisions is: the environment of big cities is really bad these days!

If the ancient cities before the Industrial Revolution were at best dirty and messy, then it would be a bit strange to come to the Tang Dynasty.

Because the Datang Empire attached great importance to urban hygiene, no city was dirty or messy.

On the surface, it actually looks pretty good.

But only if you hold your breath, as long as you can't help but open your mouth to breathe, then you will smell the pungent soot!

Now is the era of the steam engine revolution, and factory chimneys can be seen in almost every city, spraying smoke into the sky.

It's not just coal-fired steam engines that are used in a lot of factories, power, etc.

Most of the living fuels of ordinary urban residents now use coal. Anyway, Li Xuan is already regretting what kind of briquettes he came up with.

Even in Jinling City, where there is no heavy polluting industry, the residents of an entire city are cooking with coals, and that smell...

For the sake of his own life and the health of royal family members and senior officials, Li Xuan built a holiday garden in the suburbs a few years ago, called shelter from the cold. Out of town!

Do not disturb for industry and do not disturb for domestic use of coal, these two add up to make the sky above many medium and large cities in Datang gray and full of soot smell. The more industrially developed the city, the more populated the city. It is so.

The industrial and commercial pearl of the empire, Shanghai, the most prosperous city in the empire, is a typical example. Throughout the year, the moon can be seen only a few nights in the city, and the smell of soot emitted by burning coal can be found in almost every corner of the city.

Since the living environment in the city is so poor, those rich people will naturally not choose to live in these places every day, not to mention those rich and powerful, even the ordinary middle class, they live far away, as far as possible. Live on the outskirts of the city.

So these days, although there is a real estate development in the Datang Empire, people often develop mainly the wealthy suburban areas far away from the city center. Relatively speaking, the price of houses in the city center is even lower. Some.

These days, urban areas are often the place where the middle and lower classes live.

The middle and upper classes generally live in the wealthy areas on the outskirts of the city, and there are many facilities for the wealthy, such as consumption places, medical care, education and other facilities, naturally there will be no shortage of them, and they are often better, but All very expensive.

The choice of tradition and natural environment has led to a large number of rich people running out!

And the government will not impose restrictions on policies. In principle, if you live there, it will not have any political influence.

After all, the Datang Empire does not need to rely on the academic degree system, household registration system and other messy things to drive up housing prices, it can't afford to gather the rich and build a magnificent prison for them, and sell every cell for a sky-high price!

Because even if the house price is raised, the landowners earn it, and they have nothing to do with the government, because most of the land is in private hands, and the government does not have much.

When the businessmen see that the government has raised the price of land in a certain place, they will immediately follow up and compete with each other...

The state does not directly monopolize all land resources, so don't expect to be able to drive up land prices and house prices to engage in land finance.

Therefore, the government sometimes prefers to build the railway line far away and expand the scope of the urban area, and it will not pile up resources in a certain place.

Speaking of the degree household registration, in fact, Datang also has a household registration and a degree system, but Datang has no rural and urban household registration, and you love living in the countryside and living in the countryside, and you love living in the city and living in the city. The household registration is only a kind of registration management only a means, not a means of restricting rights.

At the same time, although there is also a student status~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it is basically the same as nothing, because in every state capital across the country, you can go to study there if you like to study there, and the official does not impose any restrictions.

There are no restrictions on the admission of each school. In theory, candidates from all over the country can apply for the exam, and they can recruit them. For example, when you graduate from high school, as long as you want, there are so many preparatory courses in the country, you can apply for any one, theoretically It's all possible...

It's just that the Datang Empire does not adopt the model of unified enrollment and unified examination, but adopts the school's independent enrollment. It is hard to say whether they will admit you.

Famous schools must have higher requirements for the quality of their students. They rushed over to apply for the exam, and it is estimated that they are not eligible to participate in the entrance exam.

For example, in Jinling Preparatory Course, there are many people who come from afar to take the entrance exam every year, but how many can pass the exam?

Moreover, the admission season of each school is fixed for a few days, so it is impossible for candidates to try them one by one. They must select a few schools that they like and are sure of in advance, and then apply for and participate in the admission one by one in those days. take an exam.

Otherwise, you may not be admitted to any school, and you will have to waste a year to repeat or simply drop out of school.

The education system of the Tang Dynasty had nothing to do with fairness. It was heavily inclined towards the children of geniuses and powerful people. It would be good for ordinary people to go to elementary school.

After so many years, sometimes Li Xuan feels that he has gone too far.

Obviously there is spare capacity, and even without spending a few dollars, we can better popularize education at the middle school and even the preparatory stage, but the empire still does not do this.

Han Zhongkai, the Education Department of the Ministry of Rites, privately commented on Datang's current education system!

"It's good now. Why do so many people go to college? After all, who goes to farm? Who goes to factories?"

One sentence explains the essence of the education system of the Tang Empire!