System, help me become the empress

Chapter 89
"So the drought problem in Wenxia County has been solved?" Xu Youxi continued to ask.

Zhou Huixue quickly added: "Yao Shaofu asked the passing caravans to assist in the transportation of water sources between several cities and counties."

When Xu Youxi heard this, he just laughed: "Master Meng must have come up with the idea! Before the battle to defend Shangjing, he also used this method to let the deployed troops transport food from the outer city to Shangjing. Repeat the old trick!"

"Master Meng is indeed a talent for governing the country!"

Xu Youxi said with emotion, the advantages of road construction, attracting caravans passing by, not only solved the embarrassing situation of the people in drought years, but could even drive the local economic development.

For the people of Wenxia County, this is directly an additional way to make a living.

Xu Youxi specially checked the progress bar displayed by the system for this purpose.

【Save Binh Thuan Province 86/100】

【Save Wenxia County 45/100】

【Save Luzhou 58/100】

The task progress bar of Binh Thun Mansion is slowly increasing every day, and the remaining 14% of the progress may have to wait another month to be full.

The progress of Luzhou's rescue has been overwhelming recently. It has surpassed Wenxia County, and is even catching up with Pingshun Prefecture.

Xu Youxi was very satisfied with this.

"Zhou Yuxue, have any other major events happened recently?"

"Return to Your Majesty, not yet."

"The memorial has been approved, let's take it down and deal with it, I'm leaving the palace." Xu Youxi put down his pen, and at the same time quickly thought about where he should leave the palace to inspect today.

The flint guns of the Shenji Battalion have not yet been manufactured, but the soldiers are already proficient in using the three-stage strike method of the matchlock guns;

The matter of measuring the land has progressed rapidly since Jin Yiwei's intervention. If this momentum continues, there is really hope that it will end before the beginning of next spring;

She doesn't need to worry about public school matters, anyway, let the adults work harder and get things done;
As for the Shengong Bureau, Xu Youxi asked someone to take the 'steam engine' produced by the system to Wen Deyi to toss a few days ago, and by the way gave him simple drawings of the 'steam train' and 'steam car' respectively.

Having said that, since Wen Deyi came to Shengong Bureau, he has completely ignored the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, although there is nothing special about the Ministry of Industry that he needs to deal with.

Xu Youxi suddenly remembered something: "Zhou Yuxue, has the servant of the Ministry of Industry, Hang Yonghan, returned from Jingzhou? Let him enter the palace to see me."

"The old slave will do it now."

Not long after, Hang Yonghan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was invited to the imperial study.

"Chen Hang Yonghan pays homage to His Majesty." Hang Yonghan bowed directly.

"Pingshen, give Master Hang a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Hang Yonghan got up, counting, he and Xu Youxi had been separated from Jingzhou for more than half a year.

Although Hang Yonghan also felt that the news of Xu Youxi's ascension to the throne was a bit unexpected, but he also believed from the bottom of his heart that the princess who could share the hardships with hundreds of thousands of people in Jingzhou would definitely be able to protect the great country.

"Master Hang, it is really helpless for me to transfer you from Jingzhou to Shangjing so quickly this time. Minister Wen Deyi of the Ministry of Industry holds two positions and is really unable to do what he wants. I hope you can come back to help him lighten his burden."

Hang Yonghan also heard about the deeds of his own minister, who served as the director of the legendary "Shengong Bureau", and he also felt admiration from the bottom of his heart.

"The minister will go all out to live up to His Majesty's expectations."

After spending more than half a year in Jingzhou, Xu Youxi has a somewhat understanding of Hang Yonghan's character.

Hang Shilang is capable and able to endure hardships, but his character lacks a bit of tact. If he can learn one percent of Bao Shoufu's performance in this aspect, it will not be the same as today's achievement.

What Xu Youxi valued most was that the background behind Hang Yonghan was very clean, and he didn't have much interest in any party in the court.

To be precise, most of the officials in the Ministry of Industry have clean backgrounds.Their Shang Shuwen is proud that although they don't have much management talent, their family background is so strong that they can protect the officials under him very well.

"The Ministry of Industry has indeed not made much progress in the past few years. Does Hang Shilang have any good ideas?" Xu Youxi began to ask questions.

Hang Yonghan thought for a moment: "My humble opinion, since Shenjiying has invented such a good thing as 'cement', I think it is better to rebuild the dams nationwide in the next time, which can just alleviate the situation of rampant floods in recent years. .”

"Besides, official roads can be resurfaced with cement."

"There is no rush to use cement to pave the road. There will be better materials than cement later." Xu Youxi alluded to the asphalt residue produced after petroleum refining.

Cement roads do not expand well, and are difficult to maintain after being damaged by impacts. However, if asphalt is used to pave the road, the difficulty of repair will be much smaller, and the cost of road maintenance will also be reduced.

Xu Youxi planned to wait for a while. After she got the 'asphalt' out, let the Ministry of Industry decide what kind of road to pave after comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the two materials.

"Your Majesty, let's build the dam..."

"The preparations for building the dam can be started." Xu Youxi pondered, "You first list all the dam projects that need to be built within the Dagan area. When I was in Jingzhou, I also compiled some blueprints for the dam construction for you. You Think carefully about how to repair it, and ask me to approve the funds after you think about it."

"One more thing, I intend to hand over the establishment of a 'cement factory' to the Ministry of Industry. There are too many places where cement will be used in the future, and the Ministry of Industry will be responsible for arranging people to build factories in batches near different large quarries. "

Hang Yonghan was somewhat flattered, he didn't expect His Majesty to value the Ministry of Industry so much: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"I called you here this time not just to reminisce about the old days. I can still believe in Hang Shilang's ability." Xu Youxi said politely, "At present, there is only one cement factory in Daqian, and the Imperial Guards sent people to work there. Responsible, you have selected a trustworthy official from the Ministry of Industry in the past two days to take over with you."

"The minister obeys the order."

After seeing Hang Yonghan, Xu Youxi prepared to leave the palace. "Shengong Bureau" has been established for so long, she has to hurry up and find a way to realize the products of Shengong Bureau.

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Outside the palace, Shengong Bureau.

Wen Deyi is no longer fighting alone. During this period of time, Jin Yiwei has searched for talents with "research and development" talents in the entire Dagan territory for Shengong Bureau, and has used various methods to recruit them.

At present, 56 capable people and strangers have been hired with high salaries to join the Shengong Bureau. These people have different research directions according to the different fields involved.

Although Xu Youxi provided Wen Deyi with the principles of steam engine manufacturing, as well as ideas for steam cars, steam trains, etc. through the system.

But these things are far from easy as they seem.

More than a month has passed, and Wen Deyi has only barely grasped the principle of the steam engine, but it is still too difficult to make something.

On the other hand, another group of people who studied glass mirrors had successfully tested it, and this extraordinarily clear mirror has officially entered the factory and started mass production.

Of course, 'kaleidoscope', 'telescope' and so on are mass-produced together with glass mirrors.

(End of this chapter)