After completing the compilation of households, Dai Yan set his sights on another chaotic thing in Taoqiu: traffic congestion!

That's right, the Taoqiu of this era already had a traffic problem as serious in later generations, far more serious than in later generations, and it has affected normal trade. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, only a few people in this era have horse-drawn carriages, not as many cars as later generations, and everyone basically relies on walking, plus the streets of Taoqiu are originally extremely spacious, and there should not be traffic congestion.

However, with the excavation of Heshui, Taoqiu rose to become the commercial center of the world, and the city's merchants and trade surged, and almost all the merchants of the world flocked to the city.

These merchants were followed by large groups of goods. After unloading from the wharf, these goods must also be transported through the city gate to the trading center in the northern city for trade.

With so many merchants and so many goods going in and out of the city, how can it be possible not to cause congestion?

Especially the most congested north gate in the whole Taoqiu, Taoqiu people have a very vivid saying: wise people do not go from the north city. As long as you are a smart person, if you want to enter and leave the city, you will not go to the north city, because when you get there, you will not be able to get out at all, and you will not be able to enter!

Every merchant and carriage that entered the north gate had to line up for at least half an hour. After unloading their goods from the Jishui wharf, many merchants even had to run around and detour through the east and west gates to enter the city! Who can endure such a thing?

This almost reminded Dai Yan of the experience he heard from a friend when he was in Shenzhen in his later life: The hero is sad about Meilin Pass! At that time, a friend told him about this experience, in Shenzhen, do not pass through this pass during the rush hour, if it is not necessary, it is best not to enter and exit the customs at will!

How serious is the congestion in the city that has restricted everyone's travel? Especially in a commercial city like Taoqiu, time is money and efficiency is life! If this congestion problem cannot be solved, the experience of the city to everyone and even its future value will be seriously weakened, and it must be completely solved!

In Dai Yan's eyes, such a city with a population of hundreds of thousands will have such a serious congestion problem, in fact, most of it is caused by the inexperience of the city's administrators.

With a population of hundreds of thousands, it is considered a megacity in the world in today's Warring States Period, and it is only the level of a county town in later generations. As long as the policy is formulated well, the congestion problem will be greatly alleviated.

Therefore, immediately after this, Dai Yan immediately set up a new department from Le Yi's Weiwei Mansion, the Walking Division, which was responsible for managing the traffic of the entire city.

To be honest, in this era, there are actually already traffic management rules. The traffic rules of this era are also very different from those of later generations, and the etiquette is clear: the road is from the right, the woman is from the left, and the car is from the center. That is, on the road, the man walks on the right, the woman walks on the left, and the car goes in the middle!

Dai Yan is extremely disdainful of such traffic rules: Is there anything wrong with men and women walking together? In the future, when he and the princess go shopping, will they both score points and go on both sides? I don't know if talented and beautiful women sometimes need to show their affection and fight single dogs? Don't you know that men and women sometimes need to walk together to cultivate relationships? This kind of traffic rules that obviously guard all male comrades as perverts are simply discriminatory!

For the interests of the vast number of colleagues in Taoqiu, in order to maintain the traffic order of the entire Taoqiu, after the establishment of the Walking Division, he resolutely issued a new decree: all roads should be on the right, vehicles should go in the center, and pedestrians should stay on the side!

As soon as this decree was formulated, Dai Yan's subordinates questioned: "Lord, since the road is always on the right, isn't the left side vacant?" This is not only a violation of etiquette, but I am afraid it is also inconsistent with the original intention of the sovereign to control congestion, right? ”

Dai Yan looked at this subordinate with idiot-like eyes, and asked him, "Is the right side when you enter the city and the right side when you leave the city?" ”

Seeing that the subordinate was still there constantly comparing the direction of entering and leaving the city, Dai Yan sighed and said to him: "It seems that your IQ is not suitable for managing traffic, you don't have to do this work, you won't use it tomorrow!" ”

Subsequently, Dai Yan forcibly promulgated such a decree.

Of course, he also needed to make some preparations when cooperating with the decree, and he drew clear lines in the middle of all the roads in the city with lacquer with reference to the rules of later generations.

Each of the main roads of the city has more than four lines, two lines in the middle of the road to separate traffic from traffic, and a single line on both sides of the road to separate vehicles and pedestrians.

Initially, this division was extremely unaccustomed to all of Taoqiu. Everyone is used to walking according to their own habits, and this sudden such a rule gives everyone a very uncomfortable feeling!

Many people did not like this law as much as they did with Dai Yan's previous property protection law, nor did they accept it as happily as they did with the real estate registration law, and they did not take it to heart.

Dai Yan could not tolerate this kind of behavior, which seriously threatened the credibility of the Yi government, and he drew 500 soldiers from the 3,000 soldiers under Zhao Xue's command, and distributed these soldiers to various places in Taoqiu to manage the movement of all pedestrians and vehicles.

These soldiers patrol around with sticks, but if they encounter pedestrians who do not follow the rules, they first go up to persuade them, and if the persuasion fails, they directly use sticks to correct them!

And for those vehicles that break the rules, the requirements are much stricter. First of all, ask if it is a foreign businessman, if it is the first time to Taoqiu, and you don't know such rules, then you can let it go. If a local merchant in Taoqiu, or a merchant who has been to Taoqiu many times, is aware of this decree but knowingly violates it, the owner of the car will be fined!

With such strict laws and regulations, as well as the efforts of the Walking Division, the traffic order of the entire Taoqiu City was greatly improved, and later, not only were all the streets in Taoqiu City orderly, but several gates of Taoqiu were no longer congested into the city for more than half an hour.

The resurgence of congestion in Taoqiu will have to wait until Taoqiu's business continues to develop greatly.

After solving the road traffic problem inside and outside the city, Dai Yan's vision of attaching importance to efficiency turned his attention to the ten-mile wharf outside Taoqiu City. In his eyes, the inefficiency of this ten-mile wharf is actually an alternative kind of congestion.

Although people in this era generally referred to the wharf as a ferry, Dai Yan still named it according to the custom of his later generations.

The wharves owned by the big merchants of Taoqiu are fine. Because these businessmen themselves import and export goods very frequently, they will pursue efficiency themselves, and they do not need to be urged at all, and their own wharf is divided into strict inbound areas, outbound areas and even ship berthing areas. As a result, the docks of the big merchants are very independent, and the docks of other merchants are clearly separated, and do not affect the actions of other merchants.

This is not the case at all with the docks controlled by small and medium-sized merchants, although most of them also have their own docks, but the number of their own ships is obviously not as large as that of large merchants, and their docks are either fully loaded or completely empty most of the time.

This makes their docks and the docks of big merchants completely incomparable in efficiency!

Moreover, the wharves owned by these small merchants themselves were themselves crowded with other merchants, making the entry and exit of ships crowded! Because of this problem, there are boats rushing to get in and out of the entire Taoqiu Pier area almost every month, and there are incidents of boats overturning and even falling overboard.

And due to the congestion of ships, there have even been countless "boat accidents" on the water! Once a car accident occurs in the future, the first thing that both parties think of is to call someone. And in this era, once a "ship accident" occurs, everyone thinks the same!

Moreover, in this era, the world has a strong martial atmosphere, and everyone is not like the later generations who scold and scold for a long time, but just a gentleman who does not move his hands! They are all merchants who have walked the world, and they are accustomed to seeing the law of the jungle and bullying the weak, and there is a "ship accident".

Such behavior also obviously affected the security of the Taoqiu Riverside District, which is obviously not in line with Dai Yan's goal of creating an orderly Taoqiu.

So Dai Yan decided to renovate the wharf of this pottery hill. This work is still ready to be handed over to the Walking Division.

At this time, he had already promulgated the law on the protection of private property, and in order not to slap his own face, he chose to buy the wharves of these small and medium-sized merchants one by one through acquisition!

In the face of the sovereign's request, even if the merchants had a property protection law, they didn't dare to really openly confront the sovereign, and sold the wharf one after another, and these wharf areas soon fell into the hands of Dai Yan.

Dai Yan imitated the way of those big businessmen, unified planning and management of all the wharves, formed a U-shaped wharf, and clearly divided the incoming area, the outbound area and even the berthing area of the ship, and the entry and exit of the ship must obey the order!

Moreover, he also configured a similar agency for the riverside area, all of which were equipped with fast rowing boats, and once the merchants had a conflict on the water, the water police immediately dispatched quickly to the surface of the water to mediate disputes!

This kind of governance that extends domination to the water has never been seen before! At first, everyone was not used to this kind of mediation, but after a long time, everyone became accustomed to this kind of orderly mediation and rule!

As Dai Yan's rectification of Taoqiu's traffic got on the right track, both pottery locals and foreign merchants began to get used to this orderly rule!