Li An always felt that he had just left the capital for less than a month, and the population of the capital had increased a lot, and the pedestrians on both sides of the road seemed to be much more than before, and the capital had become more prosperous.

This may not be Ang Lee's delusion, because the attraction of the capital is becoming bigger and bigger, there are many superior job opportunities, only in the capital, there are no other cities, living here will be relatively rich, even if you do the lowest job here, the remuneration is also very considerable, therefore, the population of the surrounding counties and villages are trying to find ways to develop in the capital, settle and live in the capital, thus pushing up the population of the capital step by step, and at the same time making the price of the capital grow rapidly.

Many of the worthless wild vegetables in the countryside are not picked on the roadside, but after arriving in the capital, these wild vegetables can be sold for a very high price, which is due to the fact that there are too many people and too many rich people in the capital.

In this way, many new occupations have also been born in the countryside around the capital, such as farmers who are responsible for picking wild vegetables, whose daily job is to go to the fields to collect fresh wild vegetables, and then sell these fresh wild vegetables to the hawkers who come to receive the goods, and finally the hawkers load them into trucks and quickly transport them to the capital for sale.

In order to ensure the freshness of wild vegetables, the farmers responsible for collecting must get up before the early hours of the morning and pick them by the moonlight, and then, in the early hours of the morning, they must be sold to the vendors who receive the goods, if it is late the hawkers will leave, after all, as soon as the sun comes out, the freshness of the wild vegetables will decline rapidly, and the hawkers will transport these fresh vegetables to the market in the capital as soon as possible after receiving the goods in the early morning, and the time when they arrive at the market is generally when the sun has just risen, at this time, not only almost all the merchants have gotten upMoreover, the servants of many large families will also enter the vegetable market to buy fresh wild vegetables, so as to cook delicious meals for the nobles of the family.

Being able to get up in the early hours of the morning to pick wild vegetables, this is really very good, this is only the countryside around the capital, can do this, if the distance is a little farther, then you have to get up in the middle of the night to pick, even, the first night after dark to start the action, in the middle of the night, the hawker's vegetable truck left, because the transportation has to delay a lot of time, the hawker can't afford to wait.

Even in the suburbs of the capital, many farmers will get up before midnight to pick wild vegetables, so that they can pick more vegetables, and the vendors will also collect the vegetables and leave early, so that they can arrive at the market in the capital before dawn, so that they can buy better prices than other vendors.

Because some nobles need to go to the morning court, the time to get up to eat and drink is very early, many times, before dawn to the palace gate, you can imagine how early they get up and eat.

In the day when the noble person wants to go to the morning court, the relevant servants who are responsible for cooking at home naturally need to get up earlier, the servants who buy vegetables are the earliest, they have to get up an hour earlier than the master, and then go directly to the gate of the vegetable market to intercept the vegetables that have just arrived, as long as the price is not too dark, these fresh vegetables and wild vegetables can be sold in a very short period of time, and you can get more income, of course, the hawkers will also work harder, the days of black and white reversal are not easy, and the hawkers earn hard money.

Farmers are even more hard, they have to sleep all night long, to pick wild vegetables, and the price of selling to the hawkers is not very expensive, most of the profits are made by the hawkers, they can only get a small part, but this is also a considerable income, for poor farmers, it is also a very good income In order to survive, they don't care about this hard work at all.

The working people are great, and every laborer is very worthy of respect, they use their hard work to obtain income, and at the same time, they also bring huge material resources to the whole society, and it can be said that their contribution to the whole society is indispensable.

"This road is blocked hard enough! When the culverts were first built, they should have been built more and built larger and wider. ”

Li Hanlu looked at the congestion on both sides of the road and said.

Li An explained with a smile: "What Madame said is, however, when these culverts were built, I never imagined that such a remote location would develop so prosperously, look at the city wall in front, it is at least a dozen miles away from here, when the railway was laid here before, it was still an empty land?" Before you know it, it has developed into a market town, and it's only been a few years! It's also going too fast. ”

With the city wall as the boundary, the development of the capital is getting faster and faster, before, not to mention outside the city wall, even if it is the southern suburbs of the city, it is relatively desolate, there are many houses are idle houses, and at this moment it has already been full of people, and there are many houses are three or four storey superimposed houses, in order to accommodate more people to live, outside the city before are empty land, occasionally you can encounter some inconspicuous houses, but at this moment, there are more and more houses in the suburbs.

Many ordinary people who come to the capital to look for opportunities do not have the funds to buy a house in the city, even if they rent a house, they do not have the strength, so they can only choose to live in a temporary shed outside the city, and over time the city will become a slum, the quality of these temporary houses is very worrying, and the imperial court has also sent people to clean up many times, but the resistance encountered is very large, and there is no way to carry out the clean-up work.

After all, these ordinary people who live here are the poor class, these temporary houses with poor conditions are their place to live, if the court cleans up these shacks, then they have no way to live, although this kind of shacks are simple, but they are the places where ordinary people live, the court forcibly demolished these houses, that is, not to give the lowest level of the people a way to live, in this case, it will cause serious conflicts between the government and the people, and even bloody conflicts.

No official wants to cause too much trouble for himself, if it really causes a large-scale conflict because of cleaning up the slums, their official position may not be kept, and even, the imperial court may kill this official in order to appease the people's anger, so no foolish official dares to cause such a big thing at the feet of the Son of Heaven, since it can't be cleaned up, then don't clean it up, it's a big deal to be reprimanded by the boss, it's better than losing your life.

Such a huge slum is indeed very unsightly, but because there are too many poor people, there is no way to do it, and forcibly banning it will only cause serious conflicts between the government and the people, and even cause greater social turmoil, so in order to take care of the poor people, this situation can only be allowed to exist temporarily.

In order to control the chaos outside the city, some four- or five-storey buildings were built in some vacant land that had not yet been occupied by the poor, and these houses would be rented to the people of these slums at a lower price, and the price was definitely affordable by many people, so that some poor people would enter the more high-end buildings to live, and then reduce the scale of the slums outside the city to a certain extent, and maintain a better order outside the city.

"What the husband said is that if he had expected that this would be so prosperous earlier, when the culverts and overpasses were built, they would not have been built so little and so narrow, but now they can be remedied! Just build more, is this difficult? ”

Li Hanlu asked.

Li An opened his mouth and replied: "From a technical point of view, this is naturally feasible, and there is no difficulty, however, the rules of the imperial court are very cumbersome, not a casual sentence can start construction, the people below need to put forward this requirement first, and then, level by level, after the people above know this situation, they will sit together to study how to increase the culvert, how far to set up a culvert, how wide a culvert needs to be, how much the cost needs to be, and how much the treasury can allocate money, these are not the end, When they report the construction plan, another department will feel that the cost is too high, there is no such big demand for the time being, and ask to redraw the plan, so back and forth a few more times, a construction project may drag on for a year and a half, or even longer, and wait until it is completely determined, but also to choose the construction team responsible for the construction, which takes a long time, the construction process naturally does not need to say much, and the time is not short, so that when the new culvert is put into use, That's all the Year of the Monkey. ”

For such a situation, Li An is also helpless, the officials of the imperial court are like this, they are very inkblot when dealing with things, they always like to complicate simple things, a little bit of small fart always needs to be delayed for a long time, unless it is an extremely important big project, their processing speed can be improved, for the culverts on the outskirts of the capital, in the eyes of many officials, it is not so important at all, and it is nothing to deal with it slowly, anyway, the nobles and the emperor are active in the city, and it is a matter of the poor to block a little outside the city, Who made them all rush to the capital?

However, as long as Ang Lee chooses to intervene and use his ability and influence to solve this problem, then the phenomenon of officials arguing will be much less, and the progress of the project will be much faster, but Ang Lee has too many things to do, and he can't let Ang Lee deal with it as soon as there is something! In order to allow himself to live for a few more years, Li An can only choose to deal with some of the most important things, and he is really helpless about the traffic conditions in the slums outside the city.

In fact, congestion does not occur all the time, during the peak period of the flow of people, the traffic is naturally congested, many people are trapped on the opposite bank, and when the flow of people is low, congestion does not occur, congestion is only a short-term phenomenon during the rush hour, which is probably the fundamental reason why officials do not pay much attention.

There is another problem that is very worthy of attention, that is, the culvert below is often congested, but the overpass above will be vacant, this phenomenon is very worthy of attention, which is enough to show that the quality of some people needs to be improved.

The overpass is a ladder, only ordinary pedestrians can pass, and the culvert below is tilted, vehicles and people can pass, but because it is more difficult to climb the stairs, and it is easier to walk directly to the culvert below, so, even ordinary people on foot will choose to walk through the culvert below.

Originally, during the rush hour, the traffic pressure was very great, and the traffic was endless, and the people on foot actually went to the culvert to compete with the vehicles, which further aggravated the traffic congestion.

The reason for this situation, in addition to the fact that it is easier to walk the culvert, there is another reason, that is, because the culvert and the overpass are staggered, there will be no overpass if there is a culvert in a place, there will be no culvert if there is an overpass, the staggered distance is at least one mile, and the distance between the two culverts is two miles, in this case, some people are next to the culvert, if you take the overpass, you need to detour more than a mile on both sides, which is too far for many people, for the convenience of the figure, They will choose to go directly to the culvert, so that there is a culvert traffic congestion is not decent, and the overpass on both sides is almost not many people passing, there is only one way to change this phenomenon, that is, the culvert and the overpass are built together, there is an overpass next to each culvert, and there is a culvert next to each overpass, so that when the culvert is congested, many people will choose to take the overpass at the top in order to be able to go to the opposite side faster, so that the situation of traffic congestion can naturally be greatly improved.

In order to ensure safety, when the train is close to the capital, the speed will slow down, slower than the speed of the carriage, and even people who walk faster can catch the train, after all, once there is a traffic accident, the impact is very bad, the capital is not without traffic accidents, these lessons are worth summarizing, once an accident occurs, not only the loss of personnel, the vehicle will also be greatly damaged, the loss will be extremely heavy, in order to avoid such a thing, It is necessary to reduce the speed of the vehicle as much as possible, because the slower the speed of the vehicle, the lower the possibility of accidents, most of the traffic accidents are caused by excessive speed, as long as the speed is controlled, the incidence of traffic accidents is also controlled, this is the golden rule of later generations, put it in the era of the Tang Dynasty, it is the same reason, on this point, no one can raise objections, everyone agrees with this truth, for this reason, many court officials when they go out, As long as they encounter a crowded area, they will take the initiative to ask the servants to slow down so as not to hit a passing pedestrian, and if someone does not slow down and collide with a passerby, it will be impeached.