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The price of Fu Chun Soap with its exclusive logo printed is ten guan, that is, ten taels of silver. Da Wei still uses copper coins as the main currency at present, and gold and silver are only settled in large amounts. Da Wei’s latest big expense is to lend it to King An At first, Emperor Yuan and Qing thought that they only needed such an amount, but King An's system determined that they only needed gold, so he had to ask Liang Zhong to take it from his private treasury.

Based on the current prices in Dawei, ten guan is enough to maintain basic food and clothing for a family of three for a year.

Since Fu Chun wants to take the high-end route, the consumer group is naturally targeted at the upper and middle class, and ten guan is still affordable for these people, and the ladies at least have to pay at least a hundred guan for a set from head to toe. The princess class is more than enough.

Moreover, no matter the material, workmanship or size of Fu Chun Zao, they are all sincere and absolutely worth the price.

The queen originally planned to open a Fuchun brand store, but when she thought of the shopping mall that An Wang was about to build, she planned to help An Wang by setting up a special counter in the shopping mall and delaying the opening of the store, or simply opening the store in the shopping mall.

Since it would take at least two months for Wang An's shopping mall to be officially put into operation, the first batch of Fuchun Soap was temporarily sold by Princess Qingkang, and the queen and the others also took advantage of this time to study other cosmetics.

And after Fuchun soap spread among middle and upper-class families, the Yuan and Qing emperors also quietly ordered the construction company to use waste oil to make some inferior soaps, or soap, and sold them wholesale to those people at ten yuan a piece. The merchant made a fortune before the formula of the soap was researched.

Originally, it could have been set higher, but the Yuan and Qing emperors hoped that soap would be popular among the people, so they lowered the price.

While the Queen and the others were busy, Emperor Yuan and Qing had successfully developed an advanced version of cement, and he planned to start building roads.

Building roads is not like eating soap. Since ancient times, building roads has been an extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive task, but roads must be repaired. The benefits of building roads do not need to be told by the traversers to Emperor Yuan and Qing. He also knows that once the road It is a good thing to build, whether it is for the development of military or business, or for the common people.

Once cement roads are laid across the country, one can imagine the grand occasion in the future.

Regarding the matter of road construction, Emperor Yuan and Qing had already conceived it since the cement was still being studied, and had discussed it with the Taifu many times. After Shao Yan appeared, the previous idea was overthrown and restarted.

In the last ten years, Shao Yan has met many people, heard people tell many things he knows and does not know, and has traveled to many deserted cities, and has seen many with his own eyes. Regarding paving, he proposed two construction methods .

Surface roads and standard roads.

Surface roads, as the name suggests, just lay a layer of cement directly on the exposed surface. The cost is low, and it is suitable for various roads in urban and rural areas.

The standard road is more complicated. The loose soil is excavated downwards, and then divided into three layers from bottom to top. The bottom layer uses small stones, mortar or clay as the foundation, and the second layer uses pebbles, gravel, bricks, and soil. Mix and tamp, and the third layer is paved with cement concrete mixed with cement, sand, stone, etc.

Such paved roads, together with normal maintenance, are enough to last for many, many years in this era when there were only horse-drawn carts and donkey carts.

However, complicated procedures are doomed to high costs. If all roads in the country are paved with standard roads, quarrying alone is enough to be considered a waste of time and money.

So in the end, it was negotiated that the standard roads still had to be paved, but only the official roads, and the small roads in the towns and the countryside were paved with surface roads for the time being. When the country is stronger in the future and more advanced technology is available, it will be slowly rebuilt.

And the cost of paving official roads alone is enough to give Emperor Yuan Qing a headache.

In the end, he simply recruited the queen and several people to brainstorm together.

"Build a toll station!" This time Song Jie had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he was the first to speak, "Crossing the bridge, no, tolls, that's what we did all the time. The state funded the construction, and the people paid the tolls. crowdfunding, but it is usually set up on the highway, and the official road can be regarded as a highway in disguise."

The eyes of the others lit up, and they started discussing in a hurry:

"That's a good idea, huh? When did you suddenly become smart?"

"That's right, isn't there a post station? Oh no, the post station can be used as a toll station. However, the management is a problem. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. There is no computer or Internet. How can I check the records?"

"That's true. Corruption has been a big problem since ancient times, alas."

"How about this? Issuing license plates, regardless of whether it is a horse-drawn donkey cart or an ox cart, all license plates are issued and recorded uniformly. It is stipulated that without a license plate, you cannot go on the road. When you pass the toll station, you must register and then issue a certificate. Generally, most of the Shangguan roads take a long way. , At least two posthouses have to pass, it is impossible for all posthouses to cheat, it is really impossible to set up supervision, and severely punish once discovered."

"That's good, that's good. Let's take the traffic point deduction system as well. It happens to be able to manage the vehicles in the capital. When building roads, we can also plan and draw out sidewalks! In the future, if you dare to violate the rules on the driveway, all points will be deducted. It’s forbidden to take all the carriages!”

"Yes, there is also a zebra crossing! The bus must be built, and the rules have just been made in advance, but the traffic lights are a bit difficult, so we can only manage them with replacements."

"Traffic policeman? That's right, Shao Yan used to be a traffic policeman, he's already doing his job."

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Discussions and discussions were all about things after the road was repaired, and they didn't offer much advice on how to build the road. In the end, Xia Chan weakly raised her hand:

"Can't you do contracting? My dad is a contractor. I don't know about road construction, but he has contracted to repair government buildings, so road construction should be OK..."

"Also, if your majesty is short of money, you can open those gardens that you don't often visit and use them as parks to collect tickets. Even if you only charge one penny per person, if you accumulate little money, you can still collect a lot over the years, right?"

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Everyone came up with ideas on this topic one after another, and Emperor Yuanqing recorded them one by one, and finally left the Tai Tuo to discuss for a long time.

Contracting is indeed a good way. The state is solely responsible for the construction of official roads, and the remaining small roads are distributed to officials from various places, and even local gentry, who will come forward to hire people to repair them. They can be named after them, as long as the Great Wei is alive, they will never change, and they can set up signs on the side of the road to record those who have contributed to road construction and pass on their names to future generations.

In this way, the labor-intensive organization that originally required the state to be undertaken slowly will be scattered into thousands, which reduces the burden and can also be carried out simultaneously.

Now that the spring sowing has passed, there is no shortage of manpower. If the road can be repaired before the autumn harvest and winter come, this winter Chinese New Year will definitely be much more lively.

So the next day when he went to court, Emperor Yuan and Qing announced the road construction.

Road construction is a good thing, but the ministers don't know the existence of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes. They are worried that the cost of road construction will be too high.

Furthermore, today's official roads are good, why should they be repaired, and what is cement?

The Yuan and Qing emperors had prepared for a long time, and the construction department brought the cement into the palace to demonstrate it to everyone, and then brought the solidified cement slabs for everyone to see.

Zhou Zongkui stood up again and told the people about the negotiated policy. After he heard that he named it after his own name, and then calculated the cost, he immediately agreed to it. No objection.

So the first batch of contractors in Dawei was born.

If it is said that the hot topic in Chang'an in the first half of May was contracted by the queens, and the road construction in the second half of May was contracted, all kinds of news emerged one after another.

Soon the Emperor Yuan and Qing saw the contract allocation of the Chang'an section compiled from the records of the Ministry of Industry.

Road construction is not a small expense. Officials are qualified to contract but do not have enough money. Of course, even if there is, they will not reveal it. Isn't this automatically jumping out and admitting that they are corrupt?

However, merchants are rich but not qualified. Therefore, Emperor Yuan and Qing made the rule of building roads first and then paying. Therefore, merchants who were dependent on officials and nobles came to visit one after another. What's more, the officials said that after the road was built, although the naming rights belonged to the officials, the records on the monument can include them who participated in the construction.

Nowadays, when the status of this businessman is low, it can be regarded as a very honorable thing to improve his own reputation.

The upsurge of road construction spread from Chang'an to the surrounding areas, and gradually became known throughout the country.

Chang'an, as the imperial capital, was the first to be built. The first one was the road section selected by the chief assistant Zhou Zongkui. As the chief assistant, he directly contracted two squares and one city.

Si Tianjian specially chose the auspicious day of the zodiac, the day when the construction started, attracted many people to watch, in order not to cause inconvenience to the people, half of the road was repaired, and when the other side was completely hardened, people could leave before repairing the other side.

By the time the whole country knew about the road construction and the statistics gradually came up, more than half of the cement roads in Chang'an City had been laid.

And the official road has been dug long ago. Just after the battle, many soldiers were idle. Emperor Yuan Qing asked King Su to recruit these people again and pay wages to build roads.

Because of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, Emperor Yuan and Qing were very confident. As long as they survive this year, the granary will be full next year, and they will directly change corvee to employment.

In addition, the contractors are also hiring people. For a while, anyone in Chang'an who is strong and willing to work can get a lot of income, because the refugees who gathered near Chang'an during the winter famine last year also have new ways out.

While road construction in Chang'an City was in full swing, Xia Chan's proposal to open a park was also implemented.

Emperor Yuan and Qing did not object to the disclosure of the royal private gardens. It is true that his grandfather Shenzong built too many palaces and gardens, and maintaining these gardens every year would cost a lot of manpower and money. solved this problem.

Furthermore, the Shanglin Garden in the Han Dynasty was not only a royal private garden, but also allowed the common people to come and go.

The first garden that Emperor Yuan and Qing chose to open as a park was Furong Garden. This was not built by Shenzong. The scenery is beautiful, and it is near the Qujiang River, which is just right for a park.

But before it can open, some repairs have to be done first.

Emperor Yuan and Qing had never seen what a modern park looks like, so this matter was handed over to Shao Yan and Liang Ping'an, Song Jie was also one of them, and Xia Chan who provided the idea also got involved, in the name of a field trip No. took the opportunity to disguise out of the palace.

Putting the park aside in advance, Shao Yan and Liang Ping'an issued a "military order", saying that they would give everyone a surprise, and that the Yuan and Qing emperors would only wait for the completion of the project to come and see.

He still has a more important thing to do at hand, time goes back a few days, back to five days ago.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Emperor Yuanqing made a decision with King Su to select children under the age of ten from his clan to enter the palace for school. Once the Dragon Boat Festival was over, King Su set about it.

It took less than ten days for King Su to deal with all the clan members, and even the three aunts participated, hoping to include his own children and grandchildren.

So on this day five days ago, on the auspicious day selected by Si Tianjian, all the children under the age of ten and over the age of six in the clan entered the palace, a total of 23 children.

The first batch of students who received modern mathematics, physics and chemistry education in the future Dawei was born on this day.