After the new law was issued, the city of Bianliang became increasingly lively in late August.

On the streets, in tea stalls and wine shops, many people were talking about it.

The people were watching the court change the country's name and add a national flag, national emblem, and national anthem.

After all, this has never happened before, and it seems very far away from them.

But for the departments of each government office, it is an important matter.

Under the new law, all government offices and departments must display the national flag and national emblem, and schools must hold flag-raising ceremonies and sing the national anthem even if they do not have them.

There is nothing special about these things, but they represent different meanings. They symbolize the country.

So to some extent, the national flag, national emblem and national anthem are like the "dragon", which are spiritual symbols.

Therefore, after the new law was issued, the Bianliang Weaving Bureau and the Smelting Bureau were extremely busy and started working at full capacity to embroider the national flag and make the national emblem for use in various government offices.

However, it is unrealistic to expect results in a short period of time for things like this, and it requires subtle and gradual progress.

According to data from the Ministry of Statistics last year, after the reform in the second year of the Qingli period, a road construction boom swept across the country. In the first year after the reform, a total of more than 2,000 kilometers of township and county roads were repaired across the country, with remarkable results.

Even with the extremely prosperous private commerce, even though large quantities of copper ore were imported from abroad and domestic mining continued, the gap in copper coins was still very large, and small and medium-sized transactions were also very inconvenient.

After all, the education in the Song Dynasty was still very poor. Not to mention the nearly 150,000 primary schools in later generations, the number of 15,000 high schools alone was a number that the Song Dynasty could not even begin to match.

The introduction of paper money was intended to address this problem. It is expected that by early next year, the printing factory will be able to officially print the first edition of Song Dynasty banknotes, ushering in the era of paper money for commerce.

Shaanxi, which has been divided into Qinfeng Road and Yongxingjun Road, is now planting trees and afforestation. According to the policies formulated during the reigns of Zhao Kuang and Zhao Guangyi, it is gradually restoring the ecological environment of Guanzhong and changing the situation of soil erosion.

A railway is being built from Bianliang to Xiangyang. The railway from Bianliang to Weishi was open to traffic at the end of last year. Now, ten months later, the railway has been built to Ye County.

Now that the war is over, we should focus on developing the economy and education. Education will be an important development direction in the next few decades. Once the basic talents are cultivated, the school will naturally grow like a gusher.

In just over ten years, the people were transformed from being poor and weak, and a large amount of wealth poured into their hands, greatly promoting the development of the economy and trade.

This also includes the changes in the perception of officials. It is not easy to pull them out of their previous condescending thinking and return to their original intention of serving the country and the people.

In terms of national transportation roads, the Song Dynasty had been preparing to carry out national basic road repair work since the second year of the Qingli period.

This era is the best era of the Song Dynasty. The economy is booming, grain production has skyrocketed, and the people have food to eat when they are hungry, clothes to wear when they are cold, and jobs to work when they have no money. The court abolished all corvée systems and replaced them with a hiring system.

The only thing that might be hurt is finances.

Bianliang University did not recruit students from outside the country before. It only recruited outstanding graduates from Bianliang High School and those who passed the imperial examinations. Next year, it will officially conduct external examinations to recruit students.

However, I believe that the financial situation will be much better in two years, because the current business development of Song Dynasty is not limited by its size. In fact, as a country with a population of 100 million, the current business cannot actually meet the domestic market.

In the School of Chemistry, following the court's instructions, chemists boiled cotton and flax fibers into a paste, then added appropriate amounts of petroleum and rubber extracts, and finally created a material suitable for making paper money.

With the large-scale infrastructure construction, money was spent like water. Thanks to Zhao Jun's reform of the military system, he cut more than half of the troops and investigated all the corruption and ghost employment problems in the army under tremendous pressure, thus filling the financial deficit.

There are also countless other measures such as reclaiming fertile land, developing water conservancy projects, widening rivers, etc. The whole country entered a period of rapid construction.

In terms of education, more than 200 schools have been built across the country, including more than 100 primary schools, dozens of junior high schools, and more than 20 high schools, gradually improving basic education in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

The School of Physics has recently been studying electricity. Electricity has been invented, but how to regulate and transmit electricity is still a problem.

Otherwise, if the situation of five out of six soldiers in the country continued as before, the Song Dynasty would have difficulty in feeding the people, let alone carrying out construction.

In early September, the Yanyun wind blew across Hebei and reached Bianliang. Beneath the seven-story iron pagoda, along the banks of the Bian River, willows swayed gently in the wind.

However, all things are difficult at the beginning. The reason why there are so few schools now is that there are few science talents and even fewer teachers. It does not mean that the court cannot build schools.

This is just the repair of the original official road.

Therefore, the domestic market of the Song Dynasty is more than enough to be digested internally.

In addition, more than 4,000 kilometers of new roads have been opened, greatly improving the previous problems of bumpy roads, inconvenient walking, and difficult transportation.

This requires training in all aspects, such as ideological education, power supervision, reward and punishment measures, etc., so Zhao Jun is not in a hurry.

This railway was the first step in Zhao Jun's plan to build a nationwide railway system. It would connect Hubei to Bianliang, allowing people from Sichuan to travel along the Yangtze River to Hubei without having to go through Zhejiang and then Huainan to Kaifeng.

The old problems are still hindering the development of the Song Dynasty.

Although only the rammed earth roads are being repaired now, it is expected that after the major infrastructure construction, these roads will be rebuilt and turned into concrete roads in the next few decades.

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