However, the country now has no money in its pocket. The remaining money is reserved for disaster relief in times of crisis and cannot be used.

So Chang Yuan Bo's eldest son, the Minister of Civil Affairs, suggested that the large and small official roads from the suburbs of Beijing to the capital should be repaired and paved with cement roads for a trial period. If the effect is good and durable, it can be promoted nationwide.

Jian Jian thought about it and agreed.

The Minister of Household Affairs stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, will we have to collect labor according to the old rules for building the road this time?"

If other emperors had been spared, no one would have asked about such a trivial matter, but judging from the Queen's performance in the past year since she ascended the throne, the Minister of Revenue felt that it was really hard to talk about this matter.

No, the number of households should be revealed to the minister, but the empress would deny it.

After thinking for a while, Jian Jian suddenly thought of the buses of later generations. So could she get a bus ticket based on the operation method of this bus and mix it with the tickets from the 1960s and 1970s?

"I want to start a public transportation department."

Courtiers: "What is the Public Transport Department?"

Simple: "Bus means public transportation."

"That is, the imperial court can send out horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, donkey-carts, flat-carts, etc., to go around the capital in shifts according to a fixed time route every day. If any pedestrian wants to get on the car, he will give the specified amount of money, such as one penny per mile.

, like two cents for two miles."

"Currently, the national treasury is not very full. I am thinking if I can print some tickets, like banknotes, that represent special rides. They are distinguished by the number of people, the number of people, the color, and the distance. For example, the black one-inch ticket says, two miles

Only one person can ride once."

"The imperial court can use this coupon, or make some more grain coupons and cloth coupons as wages. What do you think, dear sirs?"

Simply put, even if there was a heated discussion in the palace, after half a cup of tea, all the courtiers agreed.

So it was time to discuss the details.

Finally, after several days of discussion, everyone decided that the trial location of the cement road would be around Huangzhuang on the outskirts of the city.

The workers conveniently adopted the simple method before, no longer collecting corvee as usual, but hiring workers.

Workers are provided with three meals a day, and specific matters are discussed and decided by the household department themselves. Their wages are based on their work points, and food stamps, train tickets and cloth coupons are issued to them at the end of each month.

These tickets will be exchanged for them after the cement roads are repaired.

Preparations plus recruitment and rest, by the time the road is cleared, the time will be almost a year shorter. The annual income should be almost collected by then, and the people who went out for sea trade should almost be back.

By then, the national treasury should be full.

Now that the ticket is about to be obtained, the anti-counterfeiting marks on the ticket must also be kept up.

In ancient times, she couldn't come up with anything too high-tech, but anti-counterfeiting signs, in addition to seals and the like, could also be the color of red mud.

Jian Jian wants to use different color materials and gold foil to create a fluorescent green that is unique in the world and hard to replicate. Use this color as red mud to prevent counterfeiting.

Coupled with some of the production techniques of major bank ticket stubs such as engraving and paper design, I believe that there will not be too many fake tickets.

So the matter was settled, and with the active and busy work of the Sixth Department, the work started quickly.

After finishing his business, Jian Jian would usually follow the spiritual imprint placed on Li Rong and watch the ships crossing the ocean while correcting the memorial.

However, Jian Yi just paid attention and did not interfere too much. After all, Jian Yi will leave this world one day.

More than eight months later, Jian Jian, who was correcting the memorial in the royal study, received a notice from the old eunuch that Li Rong had returned with the sea trade caravan.

Jian Yi was shocked and overjoyed, and hurried to meet him.

"Quick, tell him to come in."

Soon, Li Rong, who had just washed up and had the fragrance of soap locust all over his body, strode in.

"The humble minister meets the Emperor, long live the Emperor..."

Jian Yi quickly stopped him and helped him up before he could finish his words.

"My dear, please come back quickly."

"This trip has been really hard, my dear."

When the middle-aged rough man heard what Jian Yi said, his eyes turned red with excitement, and then he knelt down and kowtowed to Jian Yi.

"Wei Chen, thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty. It is our honor to serve His Majesty."

Jian Yi subdued him again and asked him to sit down for tea. After Li Rong's mood stabilized, Jian Yi hurriedly asked about the situation of sea trade.

After a simple question, Li Rong, who had just calmed down, put down the tea cup and knelt down again.

"Your Majesty, I am fortunate to have lived up to my command."

"Hahaha, good, good, good."

The trader laughed loudly a few times, and then asked Li Rong to talk about the major and minor matters of this sea trade.

This said, it lasted a whole afternoon. Jian Jian saw Li Rong's face with obvious fatigue, so he sent him away and gave him two days off. After Li Rong finished telling his heart to his father, wife and daughter at home,

Come to court again.

Two days later, Li Rong went to court, and under the curious eyes of the civil and military officials, he reported the major and minor events on their sea trade journey and the spoils of war they had obtained.

"...It turns out that there are other mainland countries on the other side of the sea. After passing the Bangzi Kingdom and the Japanese Kingdom, after traveling for more than a month, there is still this continent that is about the same size as ours. However, the countries on the mainland over there are very scattered.

, each country’s land area is only about the size of one county in our country, and the largest blue country’s land area is almost the size of two counties.”

"Some countries over there also have firecrackers similar to ours, but our firecrackers are much better than theirs. Their firecrackers are very bulky and require two people to work together at one time, and they are not as powerful as our country's.

.”

"Oh, you are talking about robbery, murder and smuggling, of course, but the power of our guns and ammunition is too powerful. If a grenade passes by, the officers and soldiers who want to arrest us will be shocked into a pulp, those foreign devils

Take a look and see how dare you play tricks on us."

When all the civil and military ministers heard what Li Rong said, their eyes unconsciously began to glance in the direction of Jian Yi, secretly thinking that the power was incredible? Otherwise, how could Her Majesty the Queen sit on the throne?

The original Emperor Xue Cheng is still being kept in Prince Shen's Mansion with simple provisions.

After Li Rong had finished speaking, Jian Jian ordered someone to serve Li Rong a cup of tea.

"Li Aiqing, please sort out what you have seen and heard over the past year and hand it over."

Li Rong, who had finished his tea, heard this and hurriedly agreed, and then Jian Yi asked him to talk about the things he brought back from this sea trade.

Li Rong immediately asked someone to simply hand over the account book that he had prepared earlier and was as high as an adult's arm.

Although I already had a general understanding of Jian Yi when I met him two days ago, don't the ministers still know about it?

After briefly and quickly turning over the list, he asked the eunuch to distribute all the account books so that all the civil and military ministers could take a look.

After all the courtiers finished reading, their hands were shaking and they were speechless.

Oh my God, what did they just see?

Normally you can only buy cotton cloth for a pound of gold, but no matter where you go, you can even sell it for two ounces of gold, let alone other more precious and delicate fabrics.
Chapter completed!