"Alas …"
Li Bochang sighed and said with a wry smile, "It’s a blessing to be old and still alive. It’s the best result. How dare you expect him?"
Su Yonglin was silent for a moment and didn’t know what to say.
Rip was the housekeeper of his ex-fiancee who died before going through the door.
When the two families were talking about marriage, Li Bo sent messengers to the house many times to discuss various matters. It was not bad that Su Yonglin often met.
Su Yonglin vaguely remembers that Rip was very talkative and witty, and the atmosphere was always very good every time he came home.
Later, the ex-fiancee died before going through the door, and there was no contact between the two families. Later, the Su family also suffered great changes, and Su Yonglin’s revolutionary alliance was completely broken
Fifteen years later, Su Yonglin never thought that there would be a reunion day. It was an accident.
It’s a pity that Rip is the only one left in the ex-fiancee’s family.
"When your army attacked Lin ‘an in the south, many Lin ‘an people fled to prepare to go to sea to flee from this area. At that time, the master didn’t know that it was your army, and he was also very scared and worried that the army would cross the sea and flee together.
As a result, it didn’t take long for the ship to sail and encounter a strong wind. Everyone died. An old man was swept to the shore by the waves with a piece of wood. Later, he learned that the real army didn’t attack Dinghai and didn’t escape. "
Rip’s wry smile is as broken and uncomfortable as a sound in a worn bellows, which makes people unable to bear to listen more.
Su Yonglin three people also don’t know what to say, can sigh the world, often no one knows what will happen in a second.
Su Yonglin sighed for a while and then asked, "So now you should live alone?"
"That’s really to thank you."
Rip gave a gift. "The workhouse has money, rice and oil to subsidize the widowed and lonely old man every month, which hinders the life of the old man. The workhouse also sends people to ask the old man about his health every day, as if he had never been broken all the year round."
In the future, if the old man is lucky enough to live to take care of himself, the almshouse will take him to the hospital, and then there will be someone to take care of him and let him live in his old age.
Said rip van winkle will kneel to thank Su Yonglin Su Yonglin busy stretch out his hand to hold him and help him up.
"This is what I should do. The ancient system of respecting the old and loving the young in our country cannot be abandoned. What if the widowed and lonely people are taken care of and the evening scenery is bleak?"
Rip lamented.
"There are still so benevolent policies in the old age. Don’t ask him …"
As he spoke, he wept bitterly.
Chapter 1566 The workhouse
The workhouse is a kind of feedback that Su Yonglin gave to the people and an inheritance of the national unity and virtue.
Compared with the past dynasties, Su Yonglin’s almshouse was more than the relief means, which was closer to Cai Jing’s ideal.
At that time, Cai Jing spent a lot of money on the welfare programs for the people, which were broad and far-reaching. Today, the expenditure was huge, which made the ruling class endure and finally abandoned him, which made him ruined.
Although his ideal was shattered and the Confucian disciples failed in their last attempt to achieve a great harmony, Su Yonglin inherited the glory of his ideal.
Since Hongwu was three years old, he began to build a workhouse.
By the end of the eleventh year of Hongwu, every county had set up a comprehensive relief hospital, which was supervised by the local Renaissance Association.
In addition, although the hospice is managed and disposed of by a special person, all the revived members in the county, regardless of their positions, have volunteers to serve in the hospice every year.
The almsgiving center specifically targets widows and orphans and children, and counts widows and orphans and children in a county to be included in the welfare coverage.
Widows and lonely old people who can’t take care of themselves, orphans and children will be taken to a comprehensive relief hospital and supported by the state finance.
Old people will support orphans and young children until their death, and they will not only raise them as adults, but also arrange them to go to school to learn skills.
Every year, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Supervision of Renaissance will send people to inspect the almshouses all over the country to verify the accounts of local almshouses.
Su Yonglin, who avoided the appearance of workhouses in various parts of the country, also charged the local Skynet Army to devote part of its energy to the workhouses, but anyone who found the lawbreakers immediately reported it.
Those who dare to profit from the almshouse’s materials and cash flow regard hell to pay as a felony.
At that time, some officials objected that it would bring a huge burden to the court’s finances, and it was never what the court should do to support widows and loneliness, and there was no substantive move in the past dynasties
Su Yonglin refuted this view and insisted on promoting the establishment of the almshouse. This part of the financial expenditure is far from as huge as expected.
His policies are in line with those of the former countries, and there are not so many widowed and lonely people to support.
The reason is that everyone has land, workers are safe and secure, and life expectancy has made great progress. Su Yonglin tried his best to control the acceptable range of the ruin probability of an ordinary farmer.
