At around noon the next day, hundreds of yamen runners in Kaifeng Prefecture's yamen took the initiative, and half of them were responsible for posting nearly a thousand-word notices at the intersection of the streets and alleys in Tokyo. The content was about promulgating and implementing newly formulated traffic rules in Tokyo from 4 noon this day.
Considering that at that time, many people were illiterate, and in addition to being able to write their own names, they could not read half of their pockets. Bao Zheng, the prefect of Kaifeng, also specially invited students from the Imperial College to recite them over and over again in front of the notice.
The other half of the people were "dangling" and walked around the streets and alleys, and went to passers-by, as well as shops and residents on both sides of the streets and alleys, and promoted the traffic rules to be implemented in a casual manner, emphasizing that when entering Tokyo, whether it is royal relatives, princes and ministers, or civil servants and peddlers, they must abide by them, and no one can do anything about it.
Among them, there is a rumor that comes from the street chief Wang Hao, which is: red flag stops, green flags go on, yellow flags, etc.
The yamen runners of Kaifeng Prefecture all took action, and the soldiers of the Street Division were naturally idle. Before noon, two Street Division soldiers had already taken their place at the intersections and crossroads of the main streets and alleys in Tokyo.
Standing in the middle of the intersection, a soldier from the street department held a small flag of red, green and yellow colors in his right hand. Every time he recited it in his heart for twenty times, he would use his left hand to raise the small red and green flags on his side.
In the middle of raising the small red and green flags, you need to raise the small yellow flag with your left hand, and silently recite it in your mind for five minutes and then take it back, so that you can continue to cycle.
Another soldier from the streets at the intersection and the three-way intersection was naturally not idle. He was carrying a small wooden barrel filled with white paint. According to the previous instructions and requirements of the streets at the intersection or the three-way intersection, he used a brush to brush white paint marks on three or four directions. The soldiers of the streets learned from Wang Hao that this thing was called a "sidewalk" or "zebra crossing".
Although it was the first time that the soldiers of the Street Division heard that this thing was a very new thing when they saw it. Most of them had long been used to their young and promising immediate boss, and had made many wonderful ideas before, so they were used to it, and they had no doubts about life.
In addition, according to the notice posted by Kaifeng Prefecture, starting from 4 noon this day, all pedestrians, horses and vehicles must travel to the right, which is suitable for everyone entering Tokyo City.
In order to prevent pedestrians, vehicles or horses from colliding like last time, Wang Hao also specially took his street soldiers to use white paint brush isolation lines from the main roads in Tokyo City to divide the wide roads into vehicle, horse walkways and sidewalks.
At the same time, on both sides of the bustling street, Wang Hao personally led people to use white paint to draw their business scope for each stall on both sides of the street. The same is true for shops on both sides of the street. They must not cross the line and occupy the streets, which is more intuitive than setting up watch wood.
It took about seven days to achieve the new traffic regulations implemented by Bao Zheng, the yamen runner of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Wang Hao, the secretary of the street secretary, have begun to show results.
When Song Renzong heard the report from Kaifeng Prefecture Prime Minister Bao Zheng in the court, Long Yan was very happy and immediately gave Bao Zheng and Wang Hao 100,000 and 50,000 yuan respectively as a compliment to them.
After the morning court, Bao Zheng returned to Kaifeng Prefecture. After breakfast, he took a carriage and headed straight to the street yamen on Liangmen Street. First, Wang Hao, who was not qualified to participate in the morning court, sent 10,000 yuan rewarded by Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, and heard what Wang Hao would make next.
After all, the current new traffic regulations have indeed achieved some results after seven days of implementation, but there is still a big gap between the content descriptions in the previous two memorials.
Wang Hao, who was thinking about how to implement the new traffic regulations in steps in the office, suddenly heard a report from a servant outside the office: "Report to Wang Sicheng, Kaifeng Prefectural Governor Bao Daren is here!"
If someone interrupted his thoughts on weekdays, whether it was a tragic servant of the street department or his good brother Zhang Sanmu, Wang Hao would scold him in anger to relieve his irritability.
About a child, Wang Hao, who was sitting in front of the desk, did not get angry at the servant outside the office door, but quickly stood up, pushed the door out, and greeted Bao Zheng, who had walked in from the front yard of the street yamen.
Wang Hao, with a smile on his face, went forward in two steps, bowed to Bao Zheng who was walking opposite him and said, "The official did not know that Bao Gong was coming, and he was missing to welcome him. I hope Bao Gong Haihuan."
Seeing that Wang Hao was so respectful to him, Bao Zheng naturally couldn't say anything, but waved his hand and said politely: "Wang Sicheng, you and I have always met each other. There are no outsiders now, so there is no need to be so reserved in private. Let's go to your office room to talk."
Wang Hao, who was standing in front of the office room, made a "please" gesture at Bao Zheng, and let Bao Zheng enter his office room, and then followed behind and entered the room.
Although the office room used by Wang Hao looks a bit cramped and narrow, it is only 20 square meters in total. Isn’t there a saying that “the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs”. This is what Wang Hao’s office room is like.
After entering the office room, Wang Hao and Bao Zheng sat down on chairs on both sides of the coffee table next to the window lattice. As soon as their butts were seated, a very eye-catching servile servant brought two cups of hot tea, a cup of tea with seasonings placed on the side of Bao Zheng's tea table, and the other cup of tea without seasonings placed on the side of the coffee table with seasonings close to Wang Hao.
"Xiaguan has not seen Mr. Bao in seven days. Today, Mr. Bao has come here. It must be important to tell Mr. Bao. I wonder why Mr. Bao is here?" Wang Hao sat on the chair on the right side of the coffee table. After he waited for the servant who brought the tea to leave the office room, he asked curiously.
Bao Zheng, who was sitting on the chair on the left side of the coffee table, had a smile on his face. First, Wang Hao’s work in recent days, he praised him and said: “Bao knows that you, Wang Sicheng, have been very busy in recent days. He takes people to patrol the streets during the day and uses white paint to brush threads on the streets at night. It can be said that he forgets to sleep and eat day and night, which makes Bao admire him.”
Speaking of this, Bao Zheng paused for a few moments, then changed his mind and asked, "But fortunately, you and me have not been in vain in these seven days. The officials saw it, and the new traffic regulations implemented in these seven days have also begun to show results.
"The attitudes of the ministers in the court who had opposed it had been eased. Although they did not support it, they did not object, which made the officials happy in today's court. Wang Sicheng, guess what Bao was doing today?"
After listening to what Bao Zheng said, Wang Hao just thought for a moment and guessed boldly: "I heard from Bao Gong that, the official family would reward the subordinates, and would be given a higher title to the subordinates, right?"
Bao Zheng was stunned at first, and then gave Wang Hao a lot of advice and said, "Wang Sicheng, you really dare to guess! It's not that easy to be promoted. You are only twenty years old and are already an eighth-rank official. You are one step ahead of those scholars who have passed the imperial examination and passed the imperial examination.
"Besides, you are still an eighth-rank Beijing official. Most of the people who are high school Jinshi will be sent to remote places to serve as officials. The official family has promoted you to the Secretary of the Streets. In less than a month, you are thinking about getting promoted. What kind of discipline is this?"
As he said this, Bao Zheng sighed and changed his tone. He turned his head and looked happy. He continued: "But, Wang Sicheng, you have guessed half of it just now. The official family has indeed given you a reward in today's court. So, let Bao bring it to you and hand it over to your hands."
After saying that, Bao Zheng loudly ordered outside the office room with the door open: "Come on, take the things I brought over and let Wang Sicheng take a look."
After a while, two accompanying yamen runners carried in a large basket, covered it with a lid, and placed it on the open space in front of Wang Hao.
After Bao Zhengping stepped back from the two accompanying yamen runners, he took a sip of hot tea and then reminded him: "Wang Sicheng, why are you still standing there? You haven't lifted the lid and see what is in this basket. The things in this basket are all rewarded by the government."
After being reminded by Bao Zheng, Wang Hao quickly got up and squatted in front of the basket, reached out and lifted the lid on it, looked down and looked closely. He really didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was shocked when he saw it.
What Wang Hao never expected was that the things that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen gave him turned out to be a basket of copper coins. Looking around, there was a word written around the square hole in the middle of each copper coins, and it was connected together: Qingli Tongbao.
Seeing a large basket of Qingli Tongbao, Wang Hao squatting on the ground, turned his head to look at Bao Zheng sitting on the chair, and asked curiously: "Mr. Bao, can you tell the official how much money is in this basket?"
After eating two bites of tea, Bao Zheng then answered: "The official rewards you 50,000 yuan, and your monthly salary is only 2,000 yuan, which is a considerable amount. You should buy a house with a main house and a east-west wing room in the outer city of Tokyo."
Just now, when Wang Hao saw that the big basket contained copper coins of "Qingli Tongbao", he was still very excited.
However, in just a moment, when Wang Hao learned that the copper coins in the big basket were only 50,000 yuan, the smile on his cheek disappeared.
According to the conversion of copper coins and silver at that time, one thousand coins were equal to one tael of silver, and fifty thousand coins were just fifty taels of silver. For Wang Hao at this time, what was there to be happy about just 50,000 coins?
Chapter completed!