The trip to the Ming Kingdom of Cao Yun of the Prince of Qi continued. In Baoqing Port, after Cao Yun and Qin Feng reached a package of agreements, the two set out from Baoqing Port to Yuejing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Here, Cao Yun was once again baptized like a storm. Yuejing City was no longer the city he reflected. In the past, when he was in Qi, he could gather information from all aspects and the huge changes that some merchants heard from the mouths of this place, but when he was really immersed in the scene, he realized that the limited imagination was still numb to the display of the real situation.

In terms of scale, Yuejing City is already a super city that is not inferior to Chang'an. The old city within the city wall still maintains the same appearance as Chang'an, but outside the old city, the newly expanded territory has completely changed. The cement-made roads divide the entire outer city into square areas after square area, which is extremely regular and orderly. The more outward it is, the taller the house will be built.

Qin Feng was wearing casual clothes and accompanied Cao Yun, who was also wearing casual clothes, in a stroll in the new city area. His personal soldiers and some guards were quietly mingling among the lively people and counties and followed the two of them.

"Urban construction is a big deal!" The two of them wandered like old friends for many years. Qin Feng said: "In recent years, the population of Yuejing has skyrocketed, which has brought us many troubles. But slowly, we have also explored some ways of urban management. Just like this road construction, please see, on the cement road in the middle, there are horse-drawn carriages and livestock carriages, and horse-riding people. The separated areas on both sides are specially for people. Such a small distinction immediately made the originally crowded road smoother."

"Where are small things, you can see big articles!" Cao Yun nodded and said, "The road is smooth, and naturally it brings about improvements in work efficiency. But Your Majesty, why do everyone go in one direction?"

Cao Yun noticed that the people who walked aside were all moving in the same direction.

"Oh, that's right. Because there are too many people, the municipal department of Yuejing City forced to stipulate on the streets, and everyone walks on the right. If you want to go against the direction, then the road in the middle will be marked with an area for you to cross every distance. The reason is that people and livestock branches are the same, and they are all for the purpose of making the city more smooth."

"Even a rule is required to make walking?" Cao Yun exclaimed: "Is this too much control?"

"No rules, no square. If you don't make such regulations and everyone acts according to your own wishes, it will be messy." Qin Feng smiled and said, "In order to make the entire city run faster, more orderly and more efficient, Yuejing City specially established a yamen called Municipal Affairs. Since the establishment of the Municipal Affairs Bureau, Yuejing City has indeed been organized. Now many cities in the Ming Dynasty have begun to imitate Yuejing City to set up the same yamen to manage the city. His Royal Highness, in the Ming Dynasty, there are many cities that are not inferior to Yuejing City, but they are just a little smaller in scale."

Cao Yun nodded silently. Along the way, he had seen Shayang and Zhengyang, and his prosperity was indeed not inferior to Yuejing.

"The Municipal Department spent a year to make a statistics. Now the permanent population and migrant population in Yuejing City have exceeded one million, one million. If this is not managed well, wouldn't it be a mess?"

"I have something unknown, so please let Your Majesty make it clear." Cao Yun thought for a while and said.

"Your Highness the Prince said it clearly."

"After Your Majesty ascended the throne, one of the most important things was to rectify the administration of officials and lay off redundant officials. Once, the Ming Dynasty had a shortage of officials. The Ming Dynasty streamlined its institutions and eliminated unqualified officials, which greatly improved its efficiency. But now, as far as I know, the Ming Dynasty has set up new yamen almost every year, such as the Tax Department, and the Municipal Department, etc. In this way, will the country support more and more people?"

"Your Highness, the key to abolishing the yamen is to have redundant words, and eliminating officials is also a bad word. The key is not the number of yamen and the number of officials, but whether they have something to do and whether they do things seriously? There is indeed a new yamen opened every year in the Ming Dynasty, but every yamen is working diligently and working hard for the people of the Ming Dynasty. No matter what they do, there is a problem of input and output. As long as the income is greater than the investment, it is profitable. Do you think?" Qin Feng said with a smile.

"Your Majesty's words make sense, but the foreign ministers have turned aside." Cao Yun thought seriously and nodded.

"In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has developed very fast. Compared with the previous Edge, there have been many new things and new industries. At that time, a large-scale layoff of officials who were scrambling to live was not only to reduce the financial burden, but also to make things more efficient. I am a big-headed soldier. The most shameful thing is that officials are procrastinating when doing things. When they are competing for merit, they are rushing to be the first to be the first to be supported by the people, but do not do things for the people. Such people are naturally unbearable. Now our Ming officials are from a wide range of sources. First, they are specialized talents trained by the Capital University. These people have their own expertise in. Second, they are recommended and asked those capable people to serve as corresponding officials, and they do not ask the source. Even if there are pearls in the wild, they are much better than in the past." Qin Feng said.

"I am afraid that Daqi will not be able to learn the Ming Dynasty for a while." Cao Yun shook his head and said.

"It's natural that Da Qi has been sinking into the woods for many years, and it is difficult to change suddenly." Qin Feng said with a smile: "We are young children in Da Ming, and we have small boats and can turn around. Unlike Da Qi, we have many boats and people."

"If Your Majesty is in my Grand Qi, what are you going to do?" Cao Yun asked.

Qin Feng laughed loudly: "This is not a good problem, but I think that now His Majesty Daqi thinks that he should use severe medicine for severe cases, but if the medicine is too strong, it may be counterproductive. Just like a person who has been seriously ill for many years, he will not be replenished. If you take ginseng every day, he may get him to death."

Cao Yun smiled: "Your Majesty meant to slowly draw him slowly, but the times are so fast that Xu Tu Zhi was afraid that he would not be able to save Qi. After seeing the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yun felt even more like this!"

"Can you live a life if you put it to death?" Qin Feng refused to say anything: "The prince really thinks this can solve the problem?"

Can the problem be solved? Cao Yun didn't know, he was swaying around now.

Shaking his head and no longer thinking about this matter, he was sure that Qin Feng was leading him to another path quietly. Although he also thought this path was very attractive, there was one thing he always kept vigilant, that is, what the enemy wanted you to do must be unfavorable to him. Even if he couldn't see through the key points for the time being, this conclusion would never be wrong.

The further he walked out, the taller the building became. Cao Yun stopped in front of a construction site and looked at the busy construction site in a daze. It was a construction technology that was completely different from Daqi. The Ming people used steel bars and cement to build the frame of the house.

"This is the latest house building technique that the Ministry of Works Construction Department has invented recently." Qin Feng said: "Using steel bars as bones and cement as meat, first build the frame of the house, and then build bricks in it. The building speed is extremely fast. In such weather, one floor can be built in almost three or four days. More importantly, such a house is extremely strong and durable. His Royal Highness also knows that when we are in winter, heavy snow is everywhere. Every winter, what we fear most is that heavy snow will cause disasters and crush the houses, which will kill people. But now, we no longer have this worry. Moreover, such a tall building can accommodate many people in one building, and it can also solve the population problem of Yuejing City. More and more people are flocking to Yuejing City, which has already made Yuejing City's housing prices and rents terrifying, which also raises the cost of living here in disguise. In the long run, it is not conducive to the long-term stability of the country."

Qin Feng was talking about people's livelihood, but what Cao Yun saw was the application of these technologies in the military. With these materials, such technologies could be built with few people to defend the Qi army in a very short time. Such technologies could also be used to pave roads and build bridges. The so-called obstacles that were called natural barriers in the military were no longer a problem in the eyes of the Ming people.

After leaving Changyang County, Cao Yun saw cement bridges and steel bridges across mountains and rivers, turning all the difficulties and obstacles of the past into a smooth road.

The longer he stayed in the Ming Dynasty and the more he saw, the more he became frightened. Now he suddenly regretted letting this inconspicuous country grow up next to Qi. If he had known this, he should have ignored Chu and tried his best to eliminate this important problem.

Now, this young tiger has grown up and grown strong. If Qi still has a slight advantage in its comprehensive national strength, as time goes by, the Ming Dynasty came from behind and overwhelmed Daqi.

Will you start a war now? But Da Qi is now at risk of falling into full-scale civil unrest. Once a war against such a powerful country is launched, not only will the reform achievements of the previous few years be shattered, but it is also very likely that the entire Da Qi will fall into a quagmire and cannot extricate itself.

If the domestic hidden dangers cannot be dealt with quickly, then Da Qi will not have the possibility of competing with the Ming Dynasty in the future. These days, Cao Yun has understood that in the next many years, Da Qi, which has been adhering to strategic offense, will have to shrink its defense and turn it into a passive comprehensive defense.

If it is just such a suggestion, will the arrogant emperor accept it?
Chapter completed!