primitive survival evolution

Chapter 369 Governing the Country
A week after the establishment of the Han Empire, officials of all sizes gradually returned to the clans.

Now, Li Yan's idea is to let these officials who are loyal to him go down and rectify the various small clans, starting from the grassroots.

"This is a book on grass-roots reforms such as medical education, neighborhood committees, and village cadres. You should read it first. Now that the clans have just been converted into villages, our Jiang clan does not have enough control over the clans. Chief of the Clan."

"These books contain my future plans. I plan to mobilize the grassroots of each clan, and let the people of each clan receive the information of our Jiang tribe as soon as possible, so that in the future, the village chiefs of each clan will be able to stand aside. , the power of the county magistrate."

"You will follow my instructions in the future, and contact each clan member step by step, understand?"

At the gate of the imperial city, Li Yan distributed a batch of planning pamphlets to a group of small officials. This group of officials was sent to the clan heads to help the clans manage them. This was also the last batch.

"We understand, we will definitely do our best for His Majesty."

After saying goodbye to Li Yan, these officials boarded a group of beast teams composed of Liang Long and headed to various clans.

After Li Yan bid farewell to these officials, he also returned to Jiangcheng, but he stood at the door discussing matters with more than ten ministers.

"Your Majesty, we have calculated that it is not impossible to transform Jiangcheng into a palace, but all the residents inside must be moved out." The Minister of Engineering said to Li Yan holding a blueprint.

"Although it costs a lot to build the imperial palace, it is a symbol of power. A magnificent imperial palace can deter other clan chiefs and even the alliance of foreign surnames to a certain extent, letting them know the strength of our Han Empire. This expense is indispensable." Li Yan said, "Let's vacate Jiangcheng. In the future, Jiangcheng will be transformed into an imperial palace, where our royal family lives and where various departments work. Therefore, civilians cannot live in it, and management must be strengthened."

"Yes, but where do the residents move to?" the Minister of Works asked again.

There are pottery warehouses, commodity warehouses, and even farmer’s markets around Jiangcheng. When Jiangcheng was built before, they were forced to build it outside the city without careful consideration. The outermost periphery is a few villages and large tracts of land. Farmland used to be surrounded by rural areas, but now it seems that this is a bit inappropriate.

In the past, the beast tide was like a war, so layer after layer of defense was built. Now the tribe is strong, with powerful giant beasts such as Nanju, broodmother spider, Tyrannosaurus rex, etc., even during the beast tide, they are not afraid at all. , therefore, the city-within-a-city model has become superfluous.

Li Yan looked at Tucheng in front of him and thought for a while, then said: "Move to the outskirts of the palace, build four avenues in the four directions of the palace, all those farmlands are pushed to build houses, residents are divided into communities, and shops are built on both sides of the roads, shops Buildings such as houses and residences surround the palace."

Li Yan seemed to have seen the future of the palace and its surroundings.

"Patriarch, the residents don't have the protection of the city wall. If a wave of beasts comes in, or foreigners attack us, wouldn't those residents be in danger?" the engineering minister asked hastily.

"There are a lot of cannibal flowers around our valley, as well as powerful behemoths, and the protection of the fifth-level totem tree. The chance of being attacked is very small. So, you can form another construction team and build around the valley. A tall city wall strengthens the defense, and we will use this valley as a city to build a huge imperial city!" Li Yan said.

The Minister of Engineering looked around, looked around for a while, nodded immediately and said: "That's right, now our Jiang tribe's territory will drive the beasts on the ground and it will take half a month. I understand, as long as the city walls of the valley are added. ,hehe."

"Yes, but don't be careless. This imperial city is the last line of defense of our Han Empire, so the defense must be sufficient." Li Yan nodded.

When Li Yan returned home, he saw the Holy Mother and Ling Yu taking care of their children. He wanted to discuss with the Holy Mother about how to return to the Alabas tribe, but seeing the Holy Mother taking care of the children in the courtyard, it was difficult for him to bother him. .

When she was raising children, she would teach her a lesson if she discussed state affairs with her, so Li Yan could only ask Wei to help him prepare for returning to the Land of Two Rivers.

In the past two months, Sabah and others have suggested to Li Yan to go back to the Land of Two Rivers more than once. In fact, Li Yan also planned to go to the Land of Two Rivers again. He wanted to integrate the Alabas tribe, the Haisha Tribe, Sabah, as a subsidiary territory of the Han Empire.

After all, it was close to the western Nian people, and it was also an important territory for the Han Empire to seize the scorched earth and fight against the new Nian army. Li Yan didn't want to give up there.

However, it would take at least two months to cross the scorched earth back to the Mesopotamia, and the environment of the scorched earth is quite harsh, there are many ferocious beasts and huge beasts, and there are many Nian strongholds in ambush. Make Li Yan's head crazy, if you want to build a channel connecting the two river basins in the scorched earth, the difficulty is beyond imagination. With the current national strength of the Han Empire, it is impossible to do it!
This is also Li Yan's biggest headache. The Han Empire has just been established, so he can only focus on making the Han Empire a success.

After discussing with Wei about crossing the scorched earth to return to the Alabas tribe, Li Yan rushed to the industrial park without even eating lunch.

He came to the paper mill.

More than a year ago, he invented papermaking. Now, more than a year later, this paper mill has been able to mass-produce straw paper for wiping buttocks and writing paper.

The production of grass paper is simple and the requirements are not high, but the requirements for writing paper are much higher. Relatively speaking, the output of writing paper produced by paper mills is not high, and the quality is so-so.

"How? How is the research on the banknotes I asked you to make?" Li Yan came to the paper workshop and asked the person in charge here. He personally went to the paper mill to issue an order to study the banknotes two months ago, and even designed them himself. Pattern of banknotes.

"Patriarch, this is the banknote that was minted just yesterday, do you think it is suitable?" Seeing Li Yan coming in to ask, the director of the paper mill hurriedly found a sample to show Li Yan.

This is a red one-hundred-yuan bill with a red cow printed on it. There is no way. The tribal people in this era have limited painting skills, and they don’t need to be too particular about making paper money. Li Yan directly designed this "Red Bull" "The hundred-dollar bill is very vivid.

The main color of this banknote is red, and it is coated with a layer of tung oil. To be precise, this is a piece of tung oil paper. Because of the backwardness of papermaking technology, the thickness of this red bull is relatively thick, just like a piece of red paper coated with tung oil. Cardboard, more like a cardboard card.

Li Yan took this banknote and studied it for a while, and immediately smiled with satisfaction. This banknote is light, waterproof, and not easy to break, which fully meets the requirements of circulation.

"Yes, make me a batch of banknotes to replace the shell coins circulating in the Han Empire. We want to unify the currency."

(End of this chapter)