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Passing by the post station where he used to live, Dongsu could hardly recognize it. The mud houses and thatched huts had become a long row of brick houses, and the courtyard that was once overgrown with weeds and surrounded by fences had become a flat and wide square.

She could understand the changes in the post stations. This road was the main road from Youzhou to Central Plains, with many businesses passing through. It was reasonable to see major changes in the post stations along the way.

But with the post station as the center, there are post offices, pharmacies, grocery stores, restaurants, and more upscale inns on all sides, which are more comfortable to stay in than the post station.

There are also market stalls, which are mainly prepared for farmers who pick fresh vegetables, fruits and melons to sell.

What is even more surprising is that there are advertising signs with bright colors that are very eye-catching. They indicate which district of the city the business is in and what its main products are.

There are also opera houses and auction houses distributing flyers. This has become a commercial district!

No wonder people always say that the post stations in Dazhou City have changed. They are now more convenient and faster, and many merchants can complete the sale of goods without having to go into the city.

After receiving the news that the Queen was coming in advance, the post station was thoroughly cleaned within a ten-mile radius. The ground was very clean, and the animal manure that was seen everywhere in the past was no longer visible.

The female official in charge of the post office brought the managers of various shops to greet the queen. The imperial guards only allowed the female official to approach, and everyone else saluted from a distance.

Dong Su mainly looked at the finished medicines in the post office and the pharmacy. The post office's current business is limited to delivering supplies, small items for the people, and large items for merchants.

However, at present, large items must be accompanied by merchants. This is the request of the merchants themselves. Even if the Queen's reputation is good, they are afraid that the people below will cheat!

Dong Su took a look and found that the delivery price was cheaper than that of the escort agency, but it was much more expensive compared to the logistics costs in later generations.

But the merchants felt that it was still cheaper. Compared with finding their own cars, boats, and workers to escort the goods, going through the post office was quick and less troublesome.

The post office also provides small-value gold and silver mailing services, but if the amount is too large, it will be transferred to the bank.

The cheapest thing is mail. Even if it is sent to the farthest provincial capital, it only costs five cents at most.

The mailing of letters made the people most happy. In the past, it was difficult to receive letters from home, but now family members who were away from home could send back a letter once a year or two.

Since the post office was established, I receive letters from home almost every month.

Among them, the most letters were sent to military units at the border, because the price for mailing to military dependents was extremely favorable and mailing letters was free.

Dong Su walked into the post office and took a look around. Most of the staff inside were women in uniform. There were only a few male workers doing heavy work, and some guards specially recruited from veterans.

It was larger than the post offices of later generations. After all, the thing that was most in abundance in that era was land, and the population was small, so the shops near the post stations were all built very large.

There are warehouses for storing goods, stables for tying horses, and parking lots for parking.

Next to it is a pharmacy, which sells various Chinese patent medicines. The most popular ones are the finished medicines produced by the Medical College. Many of them are sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves.

Because there were many merchants traveling near the post station, they would buy some ready-made medicines as stock.

As a result, drugstores not only have to limit purchases, but also require advance reservations.

The pharmacy is managed by two female medical nurses who graduated from a medical college and have hired some workers. They said that the most popular products are children's medicines.

They also make some children's nutritional supplements with a short shelf life. There are also long queues of customers waiting to make reservations, and the products are sold out immediately after they are made.

Although the Medical College will soon be taken over by the imperial court, she is still hers. The post office will probably also be taken over by the imperial court in a few years, but as long as she is there, she will still be the women's backer.

I asked them with a smile if they needed any help and if there was anything that needed to be improved locally.

Several women said in unison that the local government was very supportive of their work and they had not encountered any difficulties.

If there is anything to say, it is that there is a shortage of staff. The post office is not so bad. Although the female manager is busy, there are enough workers to handle the work.

The pharmacy can accommodate as many medical staff as possible. Although it is a finished drugstore that mainly sells medicines, it also has merchants and local people coming and going.

They all treated this place as a clinic and respected the two as doctors. Those who lived far away from big hospitals would come here to ask them for treatment.

When patients come to the door, they cannot be ignored. Unless they are seriously ill, they will be sent a car to take them to the hospital. Both of them will treat minor illnesses.

There is a big hospital in the city, but there are only a few pharmacies in the nearby counties and towns, and there are not enough doctors. Sometimes the people are so anxious that they kneel down and kowtow, asking them to come to their homes to treat the patients. They have no choice but to close the shops and save people first.

Dong Su certainly knew that there was a shortage of medicine and nurses. This time when Master Bai went to Lingnan, he took more than 200 female medical staff with him, but the letter still said that there was a shortage of staff. Compared with the number of patients, the number of medical staff was simply a drop in the bucket.

It is no exaggeration to say that when a female doctor from a medical college came to the town, the locals wanted to worship her as a deity.

She could only comfort them that the court had officially accepted the Medical College, and there would be more and more medical personnel in the future. If they persisted, there would be hospitals in every county and town across the country soon.

This time she inspected alone. Ling Moxiao led the officials into the city, while she walked around outside the city. After leaving the post station area, she went to check on the farmland irrigation.

Looking around, you can see water trucks transporting food everywhere. The rice ears in the large rice fields are already golden, the wheat has just been harvested, and the newly planted beans are growing green and pleasing seedlings.

In the past, people planted beans by sowing them on the ground and letting them grow. If some beans did not sprout, they would replant them later.

Since the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has been vigorously spreading planting knowledge to the people, everyone knows about raising seedlings. Although it takes more time to transplant seedlings after raising them, the seedlings are less likely to be infested with insects, grow stronger, and produce more fruits.

Occasionally there is a grayish-white patch between the farmlands. That is a pond. There must be a few farmhouses near the pond.

The farmhouses in this area are not gathered together by dozens or hundreds of households, but three or five households are together, with another three or five households not far away.

It is said that these are farmers who moved here from the old village. The old village was flooded, so the government planned a new village and built new farmhouses on high ground.

They are all brick and tile houses, and villagers can be seen building roads from afar. It is said that the government only builds main roads, and if you want the main road to reach your doorstep, you have to build that section of the road yourself.

The villagers helped each other, the men repaired the road, the women and children carried water and moved things, and helped out. From time to time, the domestic yellow dog ran around, pretending to help too.

Such a vibrant scene brought Dongsu’s memory back to Shenjia Village. He wondered if there was such a road built in his hometown?

The pastoral scenery here is very different from that in Gwangju. Dong Su did not go into the village to take a look. For the common people, seeing the queen should be a mixture of joy and surprise, right?

You are working hard, why scare others?

She mainly looked at the reclamation of wasteland and whether there was any barren land.

As a result, she discovered that there were actually workshops outside the city, large houses, workers coming in and out, and many carriages parked on the road.

The female official accompanying her hurriedly said that it was a papermaking workshop. Since papermaking required a large amount of water, as well as hemp, cotton and wood, it was more convenient to transport the raw materials outside the city than inside.

The female official laughed and said that there were many small workshops like this in larger villages, and the female official's agency could rent tools from the people.

For example, some villages can rent ten textile machines and open a small textile workshop, and the workers are all female villagers.

They also teach villagers how to make simple side dishes or agricultural products, such as rice noodles, fried tea, hemp ropes, etc. A small workshop can be opened in a village.

Poorer villages with fewer people can rent out their chickens, ducks and piglets to the villagers. When they grow up, the female officials will come to buy them and they can earn some money.

In short, they learned the political decrees of Youzhou, and the female officials cooperated with the government to do their best to help the local people get rid of poverty and become rich, and take advantage of the huge wealth of Shanghai merchants.

Dong Su was very satisfied with this. She could do such a good job as a female official in a small state. If she were given a few more years, she would surely be able to ensure that all the people in the world had enough food and clothing.

Occasionally, they saw large tracts of fertile land, but the crops planted there did not grow well. The female officials said with disdain that these were fields handed over by wealthy and powerful families.

We are currently working on military storage land, but because we missed the farming season and sowed the seeds late, the crops are not growing well.

It seems that the gentry here fought against the land reform for a long time before they had to accept their fate.

When they heard that a canal was being repaired, the leader of the imperial guards did not allow Dong Su to go over to see it, saying that there were hundreds of young and strong men working there and they were afraid of bumping into the queen.

Dong Su's greatest strength has always been that he listens to advice and never makes things difficult for those around him.

When she saw a barren slope with mugwort planted in the low shade and a flower stand planted with jasmine and honeysuckle, she asked with great interest:

"Are there merchants buying flowers and plants here?"

The perfume workshop that she and the Jiang family jointly established required a large number of fresh flowers, so the Jiang family rented tens of thousands of acres of land in Dianzhou to grow flowers and plants.

The female official laughed and said that this was not grown for making perfume or rouge, but for growing mosquito coils.

"Mosquito incense?"

This name really surprised her. Could there be other time travelers?

When she first came here, she thought about making money by selling mosquito coils, but because she soon met the big boss Ling Moxiao, she no longer bothered to think about these small businesses.

But after listening to the female official's detailed explanation, she was sure that there were no other "fellow villagers".

This mosquito coil was made by a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple. He has been making tribute incense for decades. In order to repel mosquitoes, he combined the techniques of fumigating with mugwort to repel mosquitoes and making tribute incense, using mugwort and various mosquito repellent grasses.

The yellow mud used for tribute incense was mixed and baked to make mosquito repellent incense, which was widely praised. People went to Taoist temples no longer to pray to gods, but specifically to ask for mosquito repellent incense. Taoist temples also needed to make money.

The old Taoist simply opened a mosquito repellent incense workshop, and these flowers and plants were used in the Taoist temple.

Dong Su sighed again, as expected, the progress of history could not be weighed down by one person.

As long as there is an open and free environment, many ideas will naturally arise.

"It's a pity that this Taoist priest doesn't know that if this secret recipe is sent to Youzhou, I will give him an invention award."

This was an unexpected surprise during her patrol today. They returned to the boat before dusk. Xiaoman was holding Xiaobao's hand, looking forward to it eagerly.

Xiao Bao felt aggrieved: "Father took my brother to the city, and Mother went on patrol alone without taking Xiao Bao with her."

Dong Su smiled and said, "This is the first time that mother went to inspect the people. I was afraid that there would be inconveniences, so I didn't bring you with me."

"Mom promises that I will take you with me next time."

Xiaobao's pouting little mouth finally revealed a sweet smile, and she told Dongsu about her play with her younger brother today.

When the meal was being served, Ling Moxiao came back with Dabao. Dong Su was very surprised. Was there no banquet in the city?

Ling Moxiao smiled and said that naturally someone wanted to prepare a banquet, but he didn't want to take the children out to eat, so it would be better for the family to have dinner back on the boat.

From this point on, this southern tour has completely turned into a family trip.