A means of transportation? Xu Lin was still wondering when he suddenly felt his body float in the air. He couldn't help but cry out in surprise, but soon he found himself placed in another seat.

He slowly stretched out his hand and touched the places where his body touched, feeling somewhat unfamiliar. He touched the back of the chair and the armrest.

Xu Lin asked quietly, "Is this... a new chair?"

Liu Tan walked up to him and said, "No, it's a wheelchair."

Xu Lin: "Wheelchair?"

Liu Tan walked up behind Xu Lin and said, "Hold on tight, we're about to move."

After hearing this, Xu Lin immediately grabbed the handrails on both sides. However, the imagined feeling of weightlessness did not come, but he still felt the seat under him moving forward.

He moved his ears. Because he couldn't see, his hearing was very sensitive. He heard a sound like wheels hitting the floor. Thinking of the wheelchair Liu Tan had just mentioned, he couldn't help but ask, "Does this... does this have wheels?"

Liu Tan laughed and said, "Smart! This chair has its own wheels and can be steered by itself."

Liu Tan stopped, reached out and held Xu Lin's wrist, guiding him to put his hand on the control lever of the wheel.

Liu Tan held his hand and gently pushed the joystick forward. "Push it like this to move the wheelchair forward, and pull it back to move it backward. And here, there's a directional joystick on the armrest. You can control the direction you want to go, and the wheelchair will move in that direction."

Xu Lin felt around as if he had obtained a new toy, and first pushed it carefully. After finding that it was really moving forward, he pushed it forward again with force. After moving forward for a distance, he began to retreat.

He controlled his strength well, and he retreated the same amount he moved forward.

He reached out to touch the joystick again, and then tried to control the joystick with one hand and push the wheel with the other. Although it was a bit difficult with one hand, Xu Lin still tasted the long-lost joy of acting alone.

He said with some regret: "It's a pity that I can't see it. I still need someone to help me. I'm sorry for your kindness."

Liu Tan smiled and said, "It's not against the academy's rules to help. Besides... your eyes might not be impossible to treat."

Xu Lin's first reaction after hearing this was naturally disbelief: "I have been ill for a long time..."

"But you're not completely blind, are you?" Liu Tan had been observing for a long time. Although Xu Lin mostly identified things by touch, he could occasionally distinguish the colors.

For example, he could see the red dots he had marked on the wooden board before. At that time, Liu Tan felt that Xu Lin should still have some weak vision in his eyes.

In addition, Lu Xuan had looked into Xu Lin's experience and learned that his eyes and legs were probably acquired problems, so his eyesight was most likely caused by anemia. It was hard to say whether he could fully recover with proper care, but he would be able to see without any problems.

He also didn't know why Xu Lin always covered his eyes with a piece of cloth.

Thinking of this, Liu Tan patted his shoulder and said, "I'll have someone send a recipe to your kitchen later. If you follow the recipe, it will be good for your health, even if it doesn't make you better."

Xu Lin agreed in a gentle voice, but his men unconsciously pushed the wheelchair forward and then backed it back, as if they were a child.

Liu Tan said, "Alright, all the gold, silver, and jewelry before were just formalities. This is the real reward I want to give you. You can slowly get familiar with it, but you still have to let someone watch it."

Xu Lin thanked Liu Tan very sincerely. As Liu Tan said, he was not very interested in gold, silver and jewelry, but he liked this wheelchair very much.

After Liu Tan got up and returned to the palace, Miao Rui brought out the map and said, "Your Highness, you mentioned earlier that you wanted to choose a place to open a bean factory. Everything else is ready, except for the location. Take a look..."

Liu Tan: ...

Hey, he just wanted to give himself a vacation.

However, we really cannot take a holiday now. Although the new season's soybeans have not been planted yet, it will be too late to do these things when the harvest comes. It is a good opportunity to start now and expand production capacity when the autumn harvest comes.

Liu Tan looked at the map of the industrial zone that Miao Rui had moved to, waved his hand, and said, "We can't put it here. That's where the food is made. How can we choose that place?"

This industrial zone is full of heavy industries. Bean curd sheets are drying here while coal dust is floating in the air over there. How can we eat it?

Miao Rui was slightly startled, then his eyes lit up and he asked, "Your Highness, do you want to choose a new place?"

Liu Tan looked at him expressionlessly, feeling as if these people had been waiting for him to choose a place.

He put the map aside, thought carefully, and said, "Don't look for it near Shuofang City."

The population of the royal capital has begun to increase. Many people who had previously fled to other places to make a living have returned. It can be predicted that there will definitely be a shortage of people in Shuofang City in the future. If the surrounding areas are turned into industrial areas or production workshops, it will be difficult to layout in the future.

Liu Tan didn't think about making it as big as Changan, but he still wanted to work hard to match Changan.

Miao Rui didn't dare ask any more questions and just waited for Liu Tan to make a choice.

Liu Tan thought for a moment and turned to look at Zhu Shanfu: "Bring me the Dunhuang County Magistrate's quarterly summary."

Zhu Shanfu immediately and accurately took out the quarterly summary of Dunhuang County from a pile of documents and handed it over. Liu Tan nodded with satisfaction. Apart from anything else, Zhu Shanfu had a good memory and seemed to have a good ability to summarize and generalize.

Liu Tan thought of this and said, "Go back and look at the quarterly summaries of each county and compile them. I want to see them later."

Zhu Shanfu immediately perked up: "Yes."

Ever since he followed the King of the North, he had been doing work like organizing documents, and always felt like a book boy. Fortunately, the King of the North was finally willing to give him something to do.

Liu Tan took the quarterly summary of Dunhuang County. This form was ordered by him on the first day of his official report after the New Year. The purpose was to make a better horizontal comparison between the past and the present, and to let the county governors write out the quarterly plan for the next quarter.

In fact, whether it is construction planning or economic planning, it is best to follow the long-term approach and then divide it into small goals one by one.

However, Liu Tan had only come across five-year plans, fifteen-year plans, and even hundred-year plans when he was studying current affairs. But he couldn't do it on his own, and no one would do it now. He could only set small goals one quarter at a time, and then set bigger goals after he was familiar with them.

Of course, it is not true to say that he has no long-term goals. Fenglangjuxu is also a long-term goal. The only headache is probably that we don’t know when this goal can be achieved.

Liu Tan was holding Dunhuang County's quarterly summary and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

He had read the summary of Shuofang City. No matter in which aspect, the growth was enough to make people smile.

Although a large part of the economic growth is due to his tax payments, but... at this time, let's just look at the results!

However, Dunhuang County...the economy has also grown slightly. Last year, the mayor of Dunhuang County organized people to start making raisins according to Liu Tan's method.

This thing is easy to preserve and is sweet. It is cheaper than sugar and is not easily damaged during transportation. In addition, Liu Tan often transports things to Chang'an, and he will bring some to Chang'an to sell, and he can make a lot of money from it.

Therefore, Dunhuang County’s finances expanded a bit this year, and then the county magistrate of Dunhuang County simply wrote down the next plan: to expand the plantation.

He found that the prefect of Dunhuang County was probably the exact opposite of him. After he made something, he would want to move on to the next thing and hand the previous one over to someone else. He wanted to find new ways to get rich.

However, the prefect of Dunhuang County would just find a way to get rich and develop it first. As for whether he had other plans, Liu Tan didn't know.

However, in a place like Dunhuang County where there are few talented people, it might be safer to take a more cautious approach like the Dunhuang County Magistrate.

Liu Tan was able to do so much because, first, he was rich, second, he had the support of his parents and brother, and third, he had capable ministers like Huo Guang under his command.

He looked at the map of Dunhuang and said decisively, "I'll go to Dunhuang in a few days to take a look."

Miao Rui was stunned for a moment: "Your Highness, are you going to build the workshop in Dunhuang?"

Liu Tan said: "I have this idea."

Miao Rui was a little surprised: "But Dunhuang is not a soybean-growing area."

There is even very little arable land there, but there are quite a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Liu Tan looked at the map and said, "Dunhuang is certainly not a soybean-growing area, but it is the gateway to the Western Regions and is also close to the Xiongnu."

The idea of ​​the Silk Road must be pursued. Soybeans can be considered a product unique to the Central Plains. Only special products can bring profits these days.

Why are porcelain and silk so popular? Isn’t it because they can’t be produced abroad?

However, silk is expensive and porcelain is inconvenient to transport, so soy products, which are affordable for ordinary people, may have higher profits.

Anyway, even if the workshop is placed somewhere else, the soybeans must be transported there. Once the transportation network is built in the future, it will not be a problem.

For a moment, Liu Tan even thought about whether to stipulate that one-tenth of the annual tax revenue of each county should be used for road construction. Road construction should be reported, and it depends on which section to build. After the construction is completed, he will report again and send people to inspect it.

However, Liu Tan soon gave up this idea. The tax revenues from the counties and prefectures were too late to be used for other things now, so they probably had no time to manage roads. Moreover, they would always realize the disadvantages of inconvenient transportation in the future, and they would find ways to build roads at that time.

Liu Tan had just decided on his trip to Dunhuang when Huo Guang hurried over and said, "Your Highness, a report has arrived from Chang'an stating that the customs market has been completely built and is tentatively scheduled to open on the first day after the summer solstice."

Liu Tan laughed and said, "What a coincidence! Tongda City is already built, right? I'm about to go to Dunhuang, so I might as well visit both Dunhuang and Guanshi at the same time."