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Chapter 603 Lizi, how dare you insult my innocence!
Jia Liu liked the pens that Shuan Zhu recruited very much. Without these pens, how could his deeds be broadcast live to the military and civilians in Zhili province at any time.

More importantly, he also needs these people to help him explain his policies on farming season to the people.

If you don't talk about it, how can the people know.

Therefore, I happily took everyone's manuscripts, walked to the ground ten feet away, and sat on the chair that I had prepared long ago to read carefully.

The sun was high, and Shuan Zhu asked someone to set up the Wanmin umbrella brought from the governor's office in Baoding.

I don't know which of Jia Liu's predecessors gave this Wanmin umbrella from the Zhili people, but since it has been passed on to him, it is naturally named Jia.

The good Wanmin Umbrella has been left in the Governor's Hall all day to gather dust, so it is better to bring it out to play its due role.

During the tour, this Wanmin Umbrella was standard equipment for Jialiu's ceremonial guard, and the other four artifacts were the titles of "Shangshu of the Ministry of War", "Youdu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate", and two pieces of "avoidance" and "quietness". A sign representing authority.

The governor wanted to read the manuscript, so the weeding and farm work of Widow Zhang's family was naturally done by the entourage.

This is not deception.

But historical inheritance.

The compulsory course of the emperors of all dynasties is - "persuade the world, and take agriculture as the foundation."

Therefore, on the second day of February every year, the emperor would go to the fields for spring plowing and broadcast live to the army and the people.

Even the Qing Dynasty is no exception.

The Fourth Devil attached great importance to this aspect of work.

But maybe the fourth devil really plowed those tens of acres of land?

Just put on a show.

But this appearance is the emperor's homework.

If you don't do this homework, you are not a good emperor.

Compared with the old fourth devil's mere formality, Jia Liu spent at least three days removing the grass of the fifth part of the land, which was really hard work.

He didn't want to be like this either, there was no way, who made him want to be the emperor too.

"Master, drink tea!"

Shuan Zhu offered a bowl of ginseng, fungus and wolfberry tea.

The tea temperature is just right, neither salty nor weak.

Jia Liu took a sip of the drink, felt refreshed, and put the manuscripts written by Zhongcai together in his hands to read carefully one by one.

The title of the first article is well written, it is called "Never Forget the People at All Times—Remember the Governor-General in Huai Town".

After reading the whole article, Jia Liu looked respectful, and couldn't help saying to Shuan Zhu who was in charge of the governor's office next to him: "This Lai Xiucai is really not bad. Let him become a regular later, and first set a ninth grade."

"Whoo!"

Shuan Zhu glanced at Lai Xiucai, who was working with the young master's hoe, and nodded with a smile.

This person is a talent he discovered with his own hands. He was a storyteller before he entered the mimeograph office of Jia Ban, and he was good at telling ghost stories.

Looking at other people's manuscripts, they are all well-written and basically meet the three elements of reporting.

It's real, real, and real.

"Let's just go ahead and publish batch after batch. You can work hard and write some postscripts. Don't highlight me too much. The main purpose is to let the people know the importance of farming season, and let officials at all levels know how much I attach importance to agriculture. "

After a brief instruction, Jia Liu asked Shuanzhu chief envoy Lao Yang what his views and suggestions were on the "Connecting Counties to Counties" project.

The so-called "communication between counties and counties" is an important problem that Jia Liu discovered during his tour, that is, in addition to the official roads (post roads) between the counties and the mansion, the road construction with the surrounding areas is not paid much attention to, except for some areas that are stone slabs. Outside the blue brick road, there are mostly old roads from the past, not only dilapidated, but also the kind of small roads that can only be walked by a single carriage in many places.

Except for the larger towns that have green brick roadbeds, the villages are almost all cement roads.

It is the "concrete road" where the sky is full of dust when it doesn't rain, and knee-deep when it rains.

This phenomenon is not unique to Zhili province, but is similar in all provinces across the country.

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

For this reason, Jia Liu is going to focus on road construction projects.

This is not just a political achievement project, it is a major event that actually affects the people's livelihood, and it is also the foundation of Zhili's industrialization.

There is no road, minerals cannot be shipped out, goods cannot be shipped out, what will happen to the Beiyang trade?
In any era, the prerequisite for invigorating the economy is to have a way.

So Jia Liu specially wrote a letter to Lao Yang, proposing to build two north-south and east-west main roads in Zhili, and to build a county-to-county project across the province, which is to widen the roads between counties.

The north-south direction refers from Dongming County in the southernmost Daming Prefecture of Zhili to Duolunting in the northernmost, with a total length of nearly a thousand miles.

The east-west direction refers to Fuping County of Zhengding Prefecture to Tanggukou of Tianjin, with a total length of more than [-] miles.

Since it is a main road, of course it must be wide, so it must be six lanes facing each other to meet the future transportation of bulk goods.

In all dynasties, road construction is a major event, and there is a saying that how many people die when a mile of road is built.

The reason is that road construction is purely by manpower.

It is hard labor for the people.

In order to make the people willing to participate in road construction, Jia Liu plans to pay for it out of his own pocket and use the method of "substituting labor for labor" to solve the labor problem of road construction.

To put it bluntly, it is to pay wages, food, and tools to the people involved in road construction, instead of giving nothing as in the past, and let the people bring their own dry food to do hard labor.

It is conservatively estimated that the cost of the two main roads plus the county-level project will be at least three million taels.

If it is borne by the finance of Zhili Province, it may be repaired a little every year, and it will take more than ten years to complete it.

At this time, Jia Liu couldn't bear it.

It may take three to five years to connect counties to counties, but he hopes to start construction of the two main roads at the same time, connect the north and south, and connect the east and west, and implement them segment by segment. It must be completed within two years.

This condition is not high.

Because, Jia Liu has assembly line operation standards.

Road construction is about to be standardized, who is responsible for blasting mountains to remove rocks, who is responsible for compacting roadbeds, and who is responsible for building bridges and beams
With the standardized assembly line and the funds in place, it is not difficult to complete the two main provincial roads within two years.

He is not building highways.

As for the funds, Jia Liu is going to use the "Baolong Project" project funds for road construction, and then borrow a sum of money from Sichuan President Li, and apply for a part from the Ministry of Households. If it is not enough, you can mobilize local donations .

After all, this road was built for the people of Zhili, not for Mr. Jia.

After the road is repaired, it is not the common people who benefit.

Lao Yang wrote back, and with a very high attitude, he enthusiastically praised the contribution made by the son-in-law to the people of Zhili, and he was very supportive of the overhaul of roads in the province.

But it seems that there is only one central meaning - "Adults can build roads, but I have no money".

"There is no pattern."

Jia Liu shook his head. Lao Yang really said that the province is willing to take money to support the governor to build roads. Is he, the governor, really ashamed to ask for this money.

"You write back to Lao Yang for me, and say that he doesn't need to worry about the money, and ask him to immediately mobilize relevant professionals from the whole province to carry out the surveying and mapping project of the two main roads, and try to complete it before June, and then start working on it. Two provincial roads will be built first."

When Jia Liuzheng confessed, Ding Qing rushed over with a secret letter.

"From Beijing?"

Jia Liu took it curiously, looked at the sealed envelope and found that it was from Zu Yingyuan, who suppressed bandits in Huguang, and tore it open immediately, but the contents of the letter shocked him.

The Xinghan army has become a master!

Yuanyuan's nephew Gu An actually seized a large number of artillery buried in the city by Wu Sangui's army in Yuezhou, and then used these artillery to capture Changsha and captured more than 40 Huguang military and political officials including Governor Chen Huizu of Huguang and Governor Zheng Dajin of Hubei.

Bayan San, the governor of Duhu Lake, disguised himself as a civilian and escaped before the city was broken.

If Changsha is lost, it is lost. The problem is that the captured governor of Huguang, Chen Huizu, surrendered frantically!
He also wrote a "Letter to Manchuria", in which he cursed the Qing court as a Manchurian barbarian, and asked people all over the world to rise up to overthrow the Tartars and restore China.

That's all, it's okay for Chen Huizu to be a traitor if he is greedy for life and fear of death, but this bastard actually mentioned him in the letter.

What is said that Qianlong reused the incompetent young children of Manchuria, such as Fengsheng, Mingliang, Fukang'an, Heshen and so on.

That's okay, because it's a fact.

But Chen Huizu actually included him, Jia Jia Shikai, the new governor of Zhili, saying that he was "lucky enough to get into a high position" by being Qianlong's male favourite. Yes, selling officials to make money, lying about military achievements and so on.

He also said that a Manchurian in his teens or twenties was the head of the frontiers. This is a way of subjugating the country. Anyway, Jia Liu was furious when he saw it, and snatched the ginseng, fungus, and wolfberry tea that Shuan Zhu was drinking. , drank it all in one gulp, threw the bowl into the wheat field in anger, and yelled: "Zhuzi, how dare you stain my innocence!"

(End of this chapter)