Within half a month, huge changes began to appear in Banshanfang.
First of all, many houses were demolished to create a huge square. The road surface of the square was replaced with stone slabs. A stage has been set up at the innermost location, and several huge billboards have been built with wooden frames around the square, which are currently empty.
At the same time, various decorations such as flowers and plants are set up in the square, and a number of stalls are planned for sale. Although investment has not yet begun, many quick-witted people have already consciously come to the square to set up stalls.
Fang Zhengyi was also happy to see this happen. Nowadays, people are poor and it is rare to find a few people with courage and business acumen willing to stand up.
Therefore, he also specially ordered the military department to send people to protect these small vendors from harassment by ruffians.
Rows of small trees were planted on both sides of the street, but they were not of the same species. All the small trees were dug from the mountains outside the city, which was very convenient.
The most important thing is that the number of public toilets in Banshanfang has increased greatly. At the same time, people are ordered not to dump feces buckets at will. Space has been reserved behind the public toilets for unified dumping, collection and treatment.
If it is discovered that someone violates the rules, they will be severely punished. However, since public toilets are built densely, people don't think it is too troublesome. On the other hand, they are afraid of being fined so they are very proactive.
However, accidents are inevitable in this process. The size of the public toilet pit designed according to the original plan is able to meet the needs of the residents of Banshanfang.
But the news of the poo lottery spread quickly, and people from several surrounding towns came to Banshanfang to poop, and the amount of poop increased dramatically...
So the original pit was obviously not enough, so people were ordered to deepen and widen it temporarily.
It is also because of this that the number of migrant population pouring into Mid-Levels has increased, and consumption in the area has also increased in a short period of time.
The people are happy to see this happen.
It can be said that the people of Banshanfang are very satisfied with the current situation. Just changing the hygiene aspect has not caused excessive disturbance to the residents but has greatly improved their quality of life.
Banshanfang may be the first market in the world to promote tourism industry because of toilets...
In order to facilitate his work, Fang Zhengyi also purchased a house in Banshanfang.
At the same time, the number of servants and guards in the house was increased. After all, the renovation of Banshanfang had just begun, and only some superficial work had been done. Although there were no highway thieves, there were still some petty thieves.
For example, Xiaotao likes to hang out on the street whenever she has nothing to do, so Fang Zheng was worried and assigned her a few more bodyguards.
Thanks to Fang Zhengyi's publicity, most of the people in Banshanfang knew that the huge changes in the past half month were due to the arrival of Mr. Li and Mr. Sai in Banshanfang.
So when the three of them were patrolling the streets as usual, people on both sides of the road kept greeting Fang Zhengyi and Li Yuanzhao.
Li Yuanzhao always looked very proud and was increasingly enthusiastic about managing Banshanfang, even though he didn't do much.
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It was another sunny afternoon. Fang Zhengyi and his two companions were sitting at a tea stall, observing the people passing by on the street.
Li Yuanzhao smiled and said, "Old Fang, you are the one who has the solution. I didn't expect such a big change in just half a month."
"I want to transform the whole city like this!"
Fang Zheng took a sip of tea, ate a mouthful of tea dregs, and spat: "Well, the renovation cost less than two thousand taels of silver during this period, mainly spent on purchasing a large number of houses from the people, and the rest was labor expenses and the purchase of materials."
"This is just the beginning. We don't know how much silver we will have to spend in the future, but let's calculate according to the current standard... One hundred and eight wards in the capital, a total of 216,000 taels will be needed."
"Help me ask His Majesty for money!"
Li Yuanzhao laughed awkwardly: "Do you still have money? What if you don't have any?"
"Yes, there are tens of thousands of taels. Banshanfang is comparable to Taoyuan County, and it is probably enough to carry out comprehensive infrastructure renovation. More... That's all."
"Money is so convenient. If we don't have it, we can ask the rich dog owners for it!"
Fang Zheng was nonchalantly picking at the tea dregs in the cup, his brows furrowed.
I really can't get used to all the messy stuff added in here. The price of roasted tea on the market is too high. We have to lower the price of tea quickly.
Helping Emperor Jing sell tea is a task, and promoting tea is also one of his necessary tasks.
First, fried tea tastes good. Second, it can provide more nutrients to the people. Ordinary people generally lack nutrition, so the more they can supplement, the better.
Third, tea must be boiled before drinking. People prefer to drink raw water. The groundwater in the capital is seriously polluted and always has a bitter taste.
And it is very easy to get sick due to unhygienic conditions.
The solution to this problem is simple, which is to let people boil water for drinking, but the power of habit is huge and extremely difficult to reverse.
The core problem is that the lower-class people lack fuel, and they have little time to eat hot meals and dishes, let alone boil water to drink.
During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty, the Japanese monk Ennin came to China and saw that ordinary people in Shandong "never cooked soup to eat, and only ate cold dishes all year round." But when very distinguished guests came, "they were given empty cakes and cold dishes" as a treat.
Boiling water consumes more fuel than cooking. In the daily lives of ordinary people in the Song and Yuan dynasties, they did not make fires except for cooking, let alone boil water.
Even in the Qing Dynasty, the habit of drinking boiled water to prevent stomach upset was only popular among the upper class, while ordinary people only drank cold water.
Fang Zheng thought about it but couldn't find a perfect solution. Tea is an addictive product. If he could provide high-quality and low-priced tea, it should be able to alleviate this problem to some extent.
But back to the basics, the people still have no money, so they need to make money!!
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