Along the way to the queen's palace, the Dongliang female soldiers who had just been recruited to guard the palace all showed great respect to Zhao Rui.
A team of people even escorted Zhao Rui to the entrance of the palace before leaving.
"You're here!"
Xiao Yu'er stood in the inner courtyard of the palace, with a smile on her face.
Her belly bulge was a bit bigger than before.
"Coming!"
Zhao Rui responded and stepped forward, holding Xiao Yu'er in his arms.
"Did you miss me these days?"
Xiao Yu'er hugged Zhao Rui's neck tightly: "Not only me, the children also miss you!"
Zhao Rui kissed Xiao Yu'er on the cheek, then carried her into the house.
In the next two months or so, the world was at peace, and Dashang was developing steadily as Zhao Rui had planned.
As the special envoy of King Zhao, Wan Yanjing led the people from the Ministry of Industry and 50,000 soldiers and civilians to the mountains and forests of Northeast China with the imperial edict of Emperor Shang.
Jicheng was also quickly repaired and restored to its former prosperity. The original Northern Yan Palace was used as the Duke's Palace of Yan. Le Sheng led 200,000 elite soldiers to guard it here, always guarding against He Jiangwu of the Southern Qi Dynasty.
Tang Long had 60,000 elite troops guarding Jimo City to support Lesheng at all times and obey his orders.
Zhao Rui also gave the two men the right to recruit troops on the spot. If there is a critical moment, they can expand the number of troops to 400,000.
During this period, all the armies of Dashang were reorganized and integrated.
The imperial court's nine-department system was also fully operational.
Among them, the Ministry of Industry was the busiest, repairing bridges, paving roads, building ships, and even borrowing troops from the nearby army when necessary.
At this moment, in a wine shop in Dashang Imperial City, Zhao Rui was sitting in a private room on the second floor. Sitting opposite him was the somewhat thin Huangfu Xin.
In fact, the reason why Zhao Rui had to wait three months was not only to let Dashang recuperate, but also to wait for Huangfu Xin.
The addition of the Ministry of Commerce to the nine departments means that commerce has been elevated to an extremely important position.
In the past half year, Huangfu Xinshou Zhao Rui assigned him to lead a caravan and an army to travel throughout the Western Regions and grasslands, and even to the mountains and forests of the Northeast. The purpose was to expand trade routes.
Zhao Rui came from Blue Star, and he clearly understands that only vigorously developing business can accelerate the development of a country.
Only in this way can various resources in the country be fully circulated and allocated.
At the same time, Zhao Rui also knew that the development of commerce could never be separated from the control of the state, so he specially set up the Ministry of Commerce and made Huangfu Xin the Minister of Commerce!
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Huangfu!" Zhao Rui poured a cup of tea himself and handed it over.
"Your Highness, King Zhao, express your love!" Huangfu Xin was very respectful, his eyes full of gratitude.
All over the world, businessmen are the least popular, and some people even call them cheap businessmen.
However, Zhao Rui defied public opinion and established the Ministry of Commerce, which greatly improved the status of businessmen all over the world.
Moreover, by traveling to so many places this time, we have built up the business network in various places. As long as the straight roads and Chi roads are repaired, Dashang's business can develop rapidly.
Take the mountains and forests of Northeast China as an example. Resources such as ginseng, deer antlers, and animal skins there can be sold to all parts of the country without any hindrance, and local people can obtain materials, money, and food from other places.
In this way, the entire country will be more integrated and easier to rule.
Although Huangfu Xin has been doing business since he was a child, this was the first time he truly felt the true charm of business.
In front of the two of them, there was a huge map with some routes drawn with lines of various colors.
This is the world's commercial map compiled by Huangfu Xin with great effort, including salt roads, tea roads, horse roads, grain roads... various routes, almost all over the world.