In order to ensure that this year's fiscal revenue remains at last year's level, or even to a higher level, it is necessary to continuously introduce new industries to attract merchants from near and far and stimulate consumption in Yunnan.

Therefore, after Li Yi's repeated consideration, it was decided to promote public carriage services in Yunnan, establish a large-scale public carriage shop in Ningzhou, set up public carriage branches in each county, and establish horse-drawn stations in each township, so as to connect the counties, townships and villages in Yunnan, which not only facilitates people to go out to visit relatives and friends and do business, but also promotes the rapid circulation of people and goods.

"If you want to get rich, build roads first", the road situation has improved, the traffic is convenient, and the exchanges between people are frequent, and the rapid transportation has undoubtedly shortened the distance between people, so that people's concept of time and space has been subversively changed, which will play an important role in promoting economic and social development.

According to the current road situation in Yunnan, public transportation services have also met the preliminary conditions. You must know that in Yunnan now, the roads between the counties and townships are very wide and flat, and there is almost no bumpy feeling for cars and horses walking on them, which has met the requirements of rapid transportation.

And the construction of Ningzhou New City has also been carried out smoothly, the first to complete is the road between the various squares in the city, but I Li Yi has already envisioned that the public transportation in Ningzhou City still needs to wait for a while, at least until the completion of the construction of Ningzhou New City can be implemented, and now the most important thing is that the traffic between Ningzhou and the counties and townships must be completed in the shortest possible time.

To this end, the government has ordered the first batch of 60 large horse-drawn carriages from the Yunnan Commercial Bank, which is expected to be delivered in July and immediately implement public transport services. The sixty carriages were all passenger carriages, and there were two models in total, all of which were giant carriages that had been reinforced and expanded.

Both models of carriages are towed by two horses, the smaller one has four rows of eight seats, and the larger one has a total of six rows of twelve seats, which is the maximum limit that two horses can tow.

Since it is defined as rapid transportation, the emphasis on speed is the most fundamental issue. Originally, it took nearly two hours to travel from Ningzhou to Huize County, the northernmost part of Yunnan, if you took an ordinary carriage. Now, because the road conditions are much better than before, and the speed of this new type of carriage has increased by more than a little bit, so the time from Ningzhou to Huize County is more than one-third less than before, and the efficiency is greatly improved.

However, because the scale effect has not yet been formed, the operating cost is still high, so the cost of taking this kind of public carriage is expensive. Taking from Ningzhou to Huize County, the farthest county, as an example, if each person carries a limited amount of goods under 20 catties, it will cost 1,000 yuan to make this trip, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the monthly salary of a government teacher.

Therefore, how many people can be willing to take this kind of expensive carriage, Li Yi's heart is not at the bottom. But he is also optimistic that if the public carriage plan is implemented half a year later, if the cost is cut through scale effect, the cost of the trip should eventually be reduced to less than 500 yuan, so that more people can enjoy this rapid transportation.

Although there are still more than three months to go before the establishment of the public carriage deal, the transportation plan must be drawn up in advance. Li Yi asked Lin Jin to draw up a route map for the public carriage, as well as detailed plans for mileage, price, and rules of conduct. In it, it is stipulated that in the future, the traffic rules in Yunnan should demarcate the middle line of the road, and it must be in accordance with the regulations on driving on the right, and it is not allowed to cross the line without reason, otherwise, it will be punished accordingly.

To this end, Li Yi also arranged for the establishment of a road inspection and maintenance department, and established a road inspection team of about 500 people, most of which were composed of retired soldiers and some volunteer battalion personnel, and were under the jurisdiction of Lin Jin, a sergeant in charge of roads.

Their duties are to inspect road violations, stop and punish them, inspect road damage everywhere and repair and fix them, be responsible for the registration, registration and management of horse-drawn carriages on the road, rescue traffic accidents, and trace the vehicles that caused accidents.

The traffic rules also stipulate that all carriages in Yunnan must be registered, and each carriage has a unique numerical number, so as to facilitate the identification of the carriage, and also facilitate the investigation and punishment when they violate the rules, and standardize the compliance of the carriage.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and Li Yi knows that this is only a preliminary change. It will take a long time to develop Yunnan's rapid transportation. Li Yi envisions that after the smooth implementation of the long-distance public carriage service, the next step is to carry out the long-distance cargo service, expand the commercial tentacles, and promote the circulation and development of commodities and materials. Then carry out public transportation services in the city to meet people's travel needs at a low price, and completely change the backward traffic situation of people carrying people on their shoulders.

When people's lives are more prosperous and convenient, Li Yi also wants to create conditions for people in their spiritual life, open up people's ideas, and popularize knowledge and information among the broad masses of the people, that is, to establish public libraries and newspapers.

The prerequisites for the establishment of a public library are already in place. Through collection and sorting, Yunnan has printed a large number of ancient classics and practical reference books, dictionaries and articles.

Moreover, the government also mobilized the local scholars in Yunnan to contribute their own rare collection of books on the basis of providing a certain amount of compensation, thus printing a lot of precious documents that were about to be dispersed, which not only rescued and protected many ancient classics, but also achieved the role of popularizing knowledge, and undoubtedly made due contributions to the cultural cause.

I have also determined the location of the Yunnan Library, the original Sun Decheng Old Palace was originally the book market we set, and now after a comprehensive renovation and arrangement, it has officially become the site of the Yunnan Library.

The Yunnan Printing Company, which was originally located in the palace, also had no room for development because of the expansion of its scale, so it also took the opportunity to move away from the palace and planned a large site in the Ningshang District under construction, and began to build a new Yunnan Printing Company.

As for the establishment of the newspaper, it is the core part of Li Yi's long-term plan, and this is an important weapon to control the direction of thinking and development. Although Li Yi opened up the official Di Bao to the outside world soon after he became the ruler of Yunnan, the monthly Di Bao was an official article, and because of the taboos and restrictions of the government, the amount of information in the Di Bao was very small, and it was dull, monotonous, and had no new ideas, so in addition to the local families, literati and scholars with ideas, there were few buyers, and it was quite good to sell one or two hundred copies a month.

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