Valley Emperor

In the tenth year of Xuanping, the golden autumn in the tenth month, Chen Lifu returned to the city for the second time after he left Jinling City and returned to his hometown last month.

He was still sitting in his almost iconic and luxurious four-wheeled carriage, and two tall horses dragged the four-wheeled carriage through the cinder road outside the city.

Then follow this expressway into Dongcheng District!

Dongcheng District is different from the old city. There are no walls around it. It can be said that the entire Dongcheng District has no obvious boundaries. There are only wide cinder roads connecting all parts of Dongcheng District and the suburbs.

In addition to the absence of city walls, the entire urban layout of Dongcheng District is also different from that of the old city. The old city is the layout of a traditional Chinese city. Except for a few main roads, other streets are not well planned. Many streets They are all crooked and narrow, although in recent years, Chengtian Prefect Yamen has been continuously transforming the appearance of the old city.

For example, demolishing the street area occupied by merchants in the Ming Dynasty before, for example, renovating dirty and chaotic neighborhoods, and for example, dredging and reconstructing the entire drainage facilities.

At the same time, in order to better manage the urban area, it also imitated some traditional urban management methods and some current management methods at the grass-roots level, divided the urban area, and then set up a number of sub-districts to manage every corner of the city. .

After years of renovation, the old town of Jinling City is different from the past in all aspects. Anyone who walks into Jinling City will have clean and tidy streets, and carriages will pass in an orderly manner on the wide cinder road. , the crowd was impressed.

But even so, there is a huge gap between the old urban area of ​​Jinling City and the new Dongcheng District.

Jinling New Dongcheng District can be said to be the first, and also the only, large-scale modern city built in the Tang Dynasty for so many years, and it was built with perfect planning.

The total area of ​​this new Dongcheng District is much larger than that of the old city. From the beginning of the planning, Li Xuan personally intervened. The most obvious sign of it can be said to be the layout of various infrastructures.

The transportation network extending in all directions is the core infrastructure of the new Dongcheng District. There are several major main roads, plus many branch roads, and these main roads are straight and wide.

These main roads are all paved with cinder or cement roads!

It is worth mentioning that the cement road is actually Yanjiang East Road!

Large-scale use of cinder to pave roads in domestic cities is nothing new. With the large-scale use of coal as fuel for production and heating, cooking, etc., a large amount of cinder is produced. The final use of these cinders is to be used for paving. .

However, the cinder road also has some defects, especially the aesthetic problem is difficult to solve.

Therefore, in some important places, cinder is still not used to pave the road. In the early days, the bluestone road was directly used at a huge cost. For example, the road in front of the Royal Courtyard was the stone road used.

Later, as the city of Jinling, which is under great pressure on the appearance and appearance of the city, it began to use plank paving again!

Yes, it may sound like a luxury to pave with planks, but paving with planks is much less expensive than paving with flagstones.

However, the maintenance of boardwalks is very difficult, and boardwalks are still very expensive. Only the sidewalks in some important commercial streets will do this in such a small amount.

When cement was discovered, it was not actually used to build houses. The Hanlin Academy in the Royal Courtyard was not the first place to use cement. The first place to use cement was actually along Jiangdong Road. .

Along Jiangdong Road, a large number of companies are concentrated around, which is a typical place where wealth is concentrated. In order to ease local finances, of course, it is more important for their own decency. Companies working along Jiangdong Road initially raised funds to lay stone roads and wooden boards. However, this road is too busy, and it is close to the wharf. There are often carriages passing through it. Whether it is a stone slab or a wooden board, it is often damaged.

At that time, after the cement was revealed, the cement company also cooperated with the District Yamen in Dongcheng District for the purpose of testing, and provided cement at almost the cost price for laying the Yanjiang East Road.

At the same time, in order to solve the problem of paving materials, especially in order to make cement better used in construction, the cement company specially commissioned other units to design a stone crusher, which is powered by a steam engine and can effectively crush stones, resulting in uniform small gravel.

Combine cement and any time, and this has a standard cement-hardened pavement!

This is the only cement road in the country.

It's not long, only four kilometers before and after, but the cost is extremely high!

No way, today's cement is still very expensive. To pave roads with cement, the cost is not ordinary, and other places can't use it for a while.

On the contrary, the military purchased most of the cement production, and then transported it to important areas to build fortifications such as fortifications.

For example, Wusong Fort is an important plan of the military's cement fortress plan!

The military plans to use cement as the main material to rebuild the entire fort and increase its defense capabilities, especially the ability to resist heavy artillery bombardment.

Along with the traffic network in Dongcheng District, there are complete drainage facilities. On both sides of each road, there are underground drainage ditches that have been constructed in advance, and green trees and flowers are planted on both sides.

At the same time, the new urban area has also pioneered the laying of a tap water pipeline system. Although the current coverage of tap water is only a very small part of the urban area, this is still a great improvement.

In addition to these infrastructures, every part of the urban area has its purpose planned in advance. For example, there is a commercial office area near the Yangtze River, and there is a road along the east of the river. However, it is only a few kilometers long, but it is crowded with more than 100 companies. Headquarters or branches of large enterprises, thus forming an almost very distinct regional style.

The people working in this area are all in the style of social elites, and they wear the most decent clothes to and from work. In order to pick them up to and from get off work, the companies here have also jointly established a bus and carriage company to connect Dongcheng District. Other places, as well as the old town, are used to serve the employees of various houses to and from get off work.

It can also be seen here that in fact, many companies engaged in public utilities in Dongcheng District, such as water supply companies, carriage companies, etc., are funded and founded by many large enterprises along Jiangdong Road!

After all, these are public service industries. If it wasn't for so many big companies paying for the joint venture, Jinling City Yamen wouldn't necessarily approve it. Ordinary private individuals would have little chance to get involved in these industries alone.

Such a new Dongcheng District, Rao Shi Chen Lifu, a Jinling native, could not help but be surprised when he saw it. In fact, he was even more surprised than outsiders.

If they are outsiders, they may think that Jinling City has always been so prosperous, but Chen Lifu, as a Jinling native, is very clear about what this place was like before the Tang Dynasty came to Jinling. After being here, Jinling City has undergone great changes.

The change of Jinling City is a small microcosm of the changes of the entire Tang Dynasty!

Today, the cement road on which his carriage travels almost witnesses many changes in the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Lifu firmly believes that he is in a great era of change!

And it was Li Xuan, the sage of all ages, who led the Chinese people to create this era of change!

The Son of Heaven has already created this new era of change, and he, no matter what, if he follows the steps of the Son of Heaven, he will leave his own traces in this prosperous world.

Today's new department, the Ministry of Finance, is the place where it has created a new peak.

The Ministry of Finance, this is an institution that has never appeared in the Tang Dynasty, or even in the thousands of years of history in China. Not only the name, but even the function has never appeared.

According to the few information he has learned, he can already analyze it. The main function of the newly established Ministry of Finance is to manage money!

Its main agencies are the Budget Department and the Finance Department, which were split from the Tax Department.

Although it has not been announced to the outside world, some well-informed people in Jinling City already know that. Just five days ago, at the front meeting of the cabinet, the Son of Heaven officially approved the reform plan of the Ministry of Taxation.

Several main agencies of the tax department will be independent, but at the same time, the customs will be added to the tax department. Therefore, the main agencies of the tax department are the grain collection department, the customs department, etc., and their main functions will become pure tax collection agency.

However, the famous tax inspection team is still retained, which makes many people quite disappointed. Many people actually want to take advantage of the reform of the Ministry of Taxation to revoke the tax inspection team, or split it up. It is also necessary to separate the tax inspection team from the tax department and put it under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet.

However, this plan was rejected by the Son of Heaven. In the end, as the largest non-military armed organization in the country, the tax inspection team with tens of thousands of employees across the country was finally retained and still belonged to the Ministry of Taxation. Only However, it is no longer assigned to the Grain Collection Department as before, but has been established separately for the management of the Audit Department~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Several major agencies split from the Tax Department, namely the Budget Department and the Finance Department, are Formally established as a new ministerial-level agency, the Ministry of Finance.

This Ministry of Finance will comprehensively manage the domestic economic order!

The institution where Chen Lifu works is the Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance, and his specific position is the right deputy director of the Finance Department.

The Financial Department consists of a third-rank director, a left-deputy director of the fourth-rank, and a right-deputy director of the fourth-rank. That is to say, Chen Lifu will be the third-in-command in the financial department.

At the same time, according to some traditions in imperial politics, the deputy usually helps the first-in-command in charge of some important affairs. Therefore, Chen Lifu also supervises the director of the securities department under the Finance Department.

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