Dressing up can't hide Chu Li's increasingly thin figure due to stomach problems, and her appearance is not as good as before, although she is still good-looking, she is sick.

"Your Majesty, how is the battle in Northeast City? I never heard of the news of the battle, and the concubine was very worried. ”

Unprecedentedly, someone finally asked Li Xingchen about the war situation, and he sighed again and again in his heart, his wife still cared about him, and everyone else thought of himself too strongly.

Although he thinks well and is indeed tough, the seven-foot man also has a tender side, and everyone wants to care.

Li Xingchen stretched out his hand to hold Chu Li in his arms and gently patted her back, Chu Li's nose was sore, he couldn't hold back, and shed two lines of tears.

"Your Majesty."

Her voice trembled, her hand clutched Li Xingchen's clothes tightly, she was wronged.

"I won't leave your mother and daughter for so long, the matter of Northeast City is settled, and I won't allow the small country to have such ambitions again. This time it was the last time. ”

"Well, the concubine believes that you have this ability."

"By the way, the daughter's name, the Ministry of Rites has calculated more than a dozen, and the concubines have been waiting for you to come back and choose."

As he spoke, Chu Li left his embrace, took out a piece of red paper from the box and handed it over.

Li Xingchen took a look.

Li Mingyue, Li Yue'er, Li Xingyue, etc., a total of twelve names with moon capital.

It seems that the Ministry of Rites speculated that it was related to the moon according to the eight characters of the little princess's birth date and the solar terms on the day of birth.

It's better to simply call it moonlight, I hope that when she grows up, she can be as gentle as moonlight.

The name of the little princess was finalized, Li Yueguang.

In the next few days, Li Xingchen pushed away everything as soon as he went to court, and hugged the little princess to tease her all day long, making up for the lack of fatherly love for several months.

"Your Majesty."

On this day, the eldest duke trotted in front of Li Xingchen with small steps.

Li Xingchen squinted at him, "Don't make noise, the moonlight has just fallen asleep." ”

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu asks to see you, and is waiting outside the imperial study." The Grand Duke said softly.

Li Xingchen was stunned for a moment, thinking that the matter of paper money was solved, so he handed over the little princess to the nurse and went to the imperial study.

However, he guessed wrong, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu came to him today, not because of the paper money, but because of the ceremony of building the road.

Because Liuli sent people to urge him for three days, the Ministry of Rites thought of a way to hold a groundbreaking ceremony first to deal with Liuli, as if it was already working on this side, but in fact, it was dragged first.

After the work of the Highway Bureau is completely implemented, the construction will begin.

And the Ministry of Industry Shangshu came to him, hoping that he would participate, and Liuli also sent a representative.

Li Xingchen knows that whether it is to build a road or build a house, but all large-scale construction needs to hold a ceremony, and superstition says that if the ceremony is not held, it will disturb the local ghosts and gods, and will be hindered by retaliation.

"Are the days over?" Li Xingchen asked.

"Yes, the day when the Ministry of Rites cooperated with Si Tianjian to calculate the day, today is suitable for holding a ceremony."

"Then let's go check it out." Li Xingchen nodded.

The highway has not yet moved, so we will prepare at both ends first, and we will not delay the progress at that time.

In the next few years, the national highway is the top priority, so the construction of the first national highway between Liuli and Liuli must be a good example.

And going there in person will let the people below know that it is very important to build roads, don't think about overdoing it.

Knowing that Li Xingchen was going, the prime minister, the Marquis of Dingyuan, and the ministers of the three provinces and six ministries also followed and gathered at the main gate of the capital.

Seeing that the imperial court attached so much importance to it, the people of the capital also gathered around to watch the excitement.

A groundbreaking ceremony was stunned and magnificent.

Soon, the ceremony ended, and Li Xingchen and the others returned to the palace.

As for the people sent by Liuli to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony, they were placed in the post station, and they returned to China when they liked.

On the way back to the palace, the prime minister reported to Li Xingchen about the responsibility plan of the Highway Bureau.

For the time being, a headquarters in Beijing will be opened.

After the General Administration is ready, it will accept people first, and everything will be opened and distributed on a large scale.

Li Xingchen listened to some details and felt that the overall was not bad, as for the details, they were a little ambiguous, but it was impossible to figure them all out before it was carried out.

Only by developing, adjusting, and running in can we achieve the desired effect.

"Okay, let's get ready." Li Xingchen nodded.

"Yes, Your Majesty. After that, a national highway with Ruri can be built.

Presumably, other small countries are also waiting to see the progress of the national highway, so as to decide whether to cooperate with us or not. ”

"It's all cunning foxes, let them watch." Li Xingchen seemed to be smiling.

Cultivating the national road, he didn't plan to contribute money from within Great Wei at all, so he could tolerate other countries to continue to wait and see.

Once the Great Wei and Liuli started trade and drove the economy of Liuli, they were still afraid that Turkic and Goryeo would not come to the sparsely populated and economically backward places?

When they come to the door, that's when you negotiate terms with them.

So Li Xingchen is not in a hurry at all, and it is inevitable to extort a sum of money at that time.

"By the way, the officials of the Highway Bureau must be carefully selected, I don't want them to stand in the pit and not, otherwise don't blame me for not being emotional."

He still remembers the situation of the six workstations.

The newly established Highway Bureau, he will never allow the situation of a corpse to happen.

"Your Majesty rest assured." The prime minister said, "The top management of the Highway Bureau selects the children of each adult. ”

This is no way, if the high-level people are selected, firstly, it is unreasonable, and secondly, it will be impeached by the Manchu civil and military, and Li Xingchen also knows it, so he didn't say much.

As for the middle and bottom levels, they can use their brains a little bit to promote some people.

As long as the high position of the Highway Bureau is pinched by high-ranking officials, they will not care too much about the middle and low levels, and turn a blind eye.

This also creates a relative constraint.

As for the board of directors, there is no need to worry, it is all rich businessmen who participate in the shares.

When he was about to arrive at the imperial study, Li Xingchen stopped.

"I said before I went out about the first imperial examination, and the Ministry of Rites is still the book."

"The minister is here." The Rite Department Shoshu trotted up from behind.

"It's better to see when the imperial examination will be held." Li Xingchen said.

The next plan is to control the hereditary, and if the family develops its own power, it will definitely affect the throne.

It is necessary to intensify efforts in education, strive to train qualified personnel after three years, and gradually replace important ministers of the imperial court.

Take your time, if you can't be in a hurry, you can't become fat in one bite.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The Ministry of Rites bowed down.

"And the last time I talked about the imperial examination, I also mentioned calling on the people to have more children and social security, and I think we can start to implement it.

Publicize first, so that the people can understand what social security is. ”