The secretary and superintendent are typical of lowly and powerful places.

No one dared to underestimate any of the secretaries here, because they were all people who could easily see Li Ze and could speak.

But that doesn't mean they have a lot of income.

At present, the various ministries of the imperial court in Wuyi, on the whole, are still extremely clean and strictly supervised. In addition to supervising the imperial history, the pervasive Yixing Society can also play a role in investigation, and once the bribery is exposed, the punishment is extremely severe.

Therefore, even though Chen Wenliang is in such a central organ, he can only live on salary. His family is extremely burdened, both parents have no ability to work and can only be supported by him, and the monthly soup and medicine expenses are also a lot, even his wife is still working in an embroidery shop. Fortunately, the owner of this embroidery shop knew more or less what the secretary was, but he gave his wife the highest salary, which made the life of the family better.

But horses can't afford to be raised.

The daily consumption of a horse is more than raising a person. Even a mule and a donkey, in Chen Wenliang's view, are completely unnecessary expenses.

He got up every day on the fourth watch day and walked all the way from the outer city. Then at the end of the day, walk back. If there is a delay in official business, the time to get home will be even later.

He had been sleep-free for a long time.

Two dark circles under the eyes have naturally become the standard, and now that I sleep a little longer, there is naturally no such sign.

"Now that we have a public carriage, it's much better. For two pennies a day, I can sit at the gate of the inner city and walk all the way back. Chen Wenliang said happily.

As for the ten-dollar carriage in the inner city, he was categorically reluctant.

"Four wen a day, only one hundred and twenty wen a month, but it is indeed much cheaper than raising a head of livestock." Li Ze said with a smile.

Chen Wenliang shook his head again and again and said, "Li Xiang, the bus and carriage in the outer city only cost 100 wen a month. ”

"Why?" Li Ze was stunned for a moment, but then immediately reacted, "They can't be doing something like a monthly pass, right?" ”

Chen Wenliang was also stunned, and only after a long time did he say: "Li Xiang, you are really a god." As you can guess, they've only been doing this for a few days! Someone like me, of course, knew about it as soon as he could, and hurried to do it. ”

took out a small card from his sleeve and put it in front of Li Ze, Chen Wenliang looked at Li Ze with reverent eyes.

Looking at the small card in front of him that was very crudely made, Li Ze couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The wisdom of the working people is indeed endless, and it extends from one thing to another so quickly.

Amazing!

Pulling the official document that Chen Wenliang had just sent in front of him, Li Ze asked, "What is the main thing that was sent today?" ”

Chen Wenliang said: "Li Xiang, the matter is not a big deal, but Mr. Gongsun said, let you take a look, this is a report submitted by the Department of Public Transport Management, because these things are unprecedented, Mr. Gongsun said that he is not sure." ”

"Oh, what did they say?" Li Ze opened the official document and only read a few lines, but he was stunned again.

The report submitted by the newly established yamen actually wanted to divide the roads in the city into two different parts: pedestrian and chariot horses. According to their investigation during this time, there have been several accidents in the outer city where animals were frightened and injured people. Second, after separation, it can also effectively improve the operating efficiency of the vehicle. It is not only beneficial to public transportation carriages, but also to those goods entering and outside the city, which can greatly speed up the passage and greatly alleviate the traffic situation in the overcrowded outer city.

At the bottom of the document, there are also some schematic diagrams detailing how people walk, how vehicles walk, and how livestock such as horses walk.

He couldn't help but laugh.

"Li Xiang, don't you think it's necessary?"

"No, no, no, it's necessary!" Li Ze smiled more and more heartily: "There are too many people, too many cars, and too many horses in Wuyi now, so it really needs to be regulated." But the report is not perfect, you tell them, what to do with roads like intersections, T-junctions? According to their methods, at such an intersection, it will still be blocked, but I am afraid that it will be even more blocked. ”

"That's true!" Chen Wenliang read the report in detail, and after thinking about it, this is really the case.

"Second, what if someone violates this regulation after it is introduced? That's not what I said! Li Ze smiled: "Like this, you can't arrest people and lock them up or play boards, right?" ”

Chen Wenliang took a breath: "Xiaguan thought that their report was very detailed before, but you said this, but I think there are still many loopholes, and it seems that they have to write another report in detail." ”

"Yes, if a system is to be implemented, then we must think more about it, set the rules and let everyone know about it quickly, and we can't punish it without teaching." Li Ze smiled and returned the report to Chen Wenliang.

Seeing Chen Wenliang hurrying away, Li Ze smiled more and more happily. He felt that with the wisdom of these officials, maybe there would be traffic fines next.

Well, yes, that's another piece of income.

I'm afraid that the amount will definitely not be less.

I went back in the evening and told Xia He the news, thinking that she was happy.

The newly established yamen is always full of enthusiasm, in order to make a little brilliant achievement, in order to make the higher departments pay more attention to themselves, it is gritting their teeth and working overtime, less than ten days after Li Ze sent their report back, a thick re-made report appeared in front of Li Ze again.

After carefully flipping through the report, Li Ze found that what he was looking forward to finally had a look. He has seen some shadows of the modern rules of the road.

For example, there are special personnel at intersections for command, for example, to keep to the right, turn right and pass directly, and so on. He saw that there were specific places for buses and carriages, and that other horses, such as private horses, were not allowed to stay on the streets, and the result of violating these regulations was: fines!

There are many types of fines, and there are no less than dozens.

Li Ze was overjoyed to see it.

That's good.

It's time to cultivate a sense of rules in ordinary people.

This is a good thing.

Anything can be included in the rules, and when everyone has formed a habit, everything will become rule-based.

Li Zeya is prosperous.

He simply picked up the pen and added to the traffic rules he knew, but whenever he felt that he could use them. He even took the trouble to write down in detail what gestures were used by those who directed the traffic.

Thinking about the appearance of some uniformed people standing upright on the high platform waving their arms to direct traffic when he crossed the intersection in the future, Li Ze felt extremely happy.

This revised and improved traffic law was submitted to various ministries for review, Xia He is very happy as long as he has income anyway, this is not a harsh tax, as long as you don't violate the rules, you naturally don't have to pay money. Naturally, the Ministry of Industry is in favor of it, because these revenues will be earmarked by the Ministry of Industry to improve road traffic throughout the country. Even though the other ministries felt that it was too wide to manage even how to walk, they felt that it was harmless. If everything goes well, it will make Wuyi look more well-behaved and more able to become a role model in the world, which is also a good thing.

So all of them passed.

Immediately afterwards, the full text of this regulation was published in Datang Weekly.

The entire Wuyi took action all at once.

The Ministry of Industry was short of manpower, so Guo Fengxiao went to ask Liu Ruyan, the general of the Right Qianniu Guard, and transferred some people from the army to help paint the dividing line and zebra crossing on the street. Of course, they can come up with the dividing line, and the zebra crossing was added by Li Ze later.

At each intersection a wooden platform was erected, and under the platform was a locked box for collecting fines. On the platform, standing is naturally the person who directs the traffic, wearing a red uniform and white gloves, which is both eye-catching and stylish. These people are armed with weapons, and priority is given to those who have retired from the army. Not only can they direct traffic, but when necessary, they can also play a role in maintaining law and order, helping to catch people who break the law and commit crimes.

Their salaries are self-financed by the Department of Public Transport Management, and the Ministry of Households does not pay them.

A month later, it was officially implemented.

Li Ze went to experience it himself, got into an ordinary carriage, and really experienced the feeling of waiting for a red light.

After a short period of chaos and discomfort, Wuyi people quickly adapted to this new system, anyway, over the years, Wuyi has been changing, from a small county town, into a thoroughfare city, and then for the entire political and cultural center of the north, every change, there will be countless new things to be added, everyone is used to accept these new things, and even proud of it.

Of course, in a month, the fines imposed on the entire Wuyi for violating these regulations also made Guo Fengxiao and Xia He overjoyed, and there were tens of thousands of yuan.

Guo Fengxiao felt that she could take out this part of the money to do more things, and Xia He was because the Ministry of Industry could generate income, so she could naturally give them less money, and the rest of the money could be invested in other places.

In short, the more money, the better.

If you want to say that it is inconvenient, it is not big for ordinary people, anyway, they will not ride horses to walk around Wuyi City, but those who are powerful and rich are now in some trouble, if they can't find a place to tie their horses, they can't stay categorically, not that they can't pay the fine, but they can't afford to lose this person.

This, in turn, has led to a better business for horse-drawn carriages on public transport. Everyone went out, and they would rather take such a public carriage.