Han Shizu

Chapter 1164 New Luoyang City, Mangshan Hermit

In Luoyang, Xijing, after more than a year, the renovation work has basically entered the final stage. The Financial Secretary has successively allocated 430 million yuan for the cost of the project, which is equivalent to 150,000% of Dahan's annual tax revenue. One of them, in addition to the official artisans, [-] people were recruited for civilian service.

It was just a "repair", and the imperial court invested more money and food than the original Kaifeng overhaul. Of course, this was due to rising prices, and it was because the initial repair of Kaifeng cut the meat of a wave of rich businessmen in Tokyo.

Facts have proved that under high standards and high quality requirements, the investment in building renovation is not much cheaper than rebuilding, or even higher. After all, it involves a demolition issue.

The renovated Luoyang City is actually still the same, with shadows of the past everywhere, and the original layout has not changed much.In terms of magnificence, Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is really the pinnacle of Sui and Tang architecture, a bright pearl in the history of architecture, and after this repair and improvement, later generations may have to call it "Luoyang City in the Sui, Tang and Han Dynasties".

The construction of Luoyang was invested by the government, mainly in the palace city, imperial city, outer city, and various public facilities.Government offices, camps, workshops, warehouses, roads, greening, and underground pipelines have all been systematically improved.

Many old city walls and gates were demolished and rebuilt, but Emperor Murong's main energy was still on the reconstruction of Luoyang Palace.What was regrettable in Kaifeng was realized in Luoyang, and the core idea of ​​Murong Yanchao in managing the building was to be majestic and magnificent, to have a grand layout, to show the beauty of the building, and to be worthy of today's Han Empire.

One advantage of the renovation project is that many of the original building materials can continue to be used, which also saves a lot of wood and stone costs.

However, there are a few palaces that are completely new, and everything is new.Among the new palaces, the main hall of Miyagi is the most extravagant and gorgeous.

In the early years, Emperor Liu said that he felt that the Chongyuan Hall in Kaifeng was too small and too short, and his uncle, who was more and more obsessed with architecture, also thought so.Therefore, [-] points of enthusiasm were invested in the construction of the main hall.

The main hall of Luoyang, which was finally completed, is four hundred feet long, three hundred feet wide, and 190 feet high. The religious color is only to reflect the majesty of the emperor, and it is only used for court meetings or grand ceremonies.Compared with the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, perhaps it can only be described as a small witch.

Emperor Liu named the completed main hall of Luoyang Qianyuan Hall.After spending so much money and manpower to create a spectacle, Emperor Liu, who has always advocated simplicity, has changed into the appearance he hated in the past before he knew it.

Although he had repeatedly told Murong Yanchao to control costs, save money and food, and cherish the power of the people, it was difficult to achieve perfection in actual operation.

There were two additions to the payment, reaching 900,000 guan. In addition, a part of the two taxes in Luoyang and Gyeonggi Province were allocated, and the cumulative expenditure was huge.During the advancement of the project, there were over a thousand casualties, and more than 200 people died due to various accidents, and there were many cases of excessive labor.

Under such circumstances, the censors in the DPRK will naturally not remain silent, and there are countless people who have impeached the Luoyang project.

When the trouble came to Emperor Liu, he was silent for the first time.Although a handwritten edict reprimanded Murong Yanchao for the waste of money and food during the project and the phenomenon of slavery of civilians, more people still demand rectification and deal with those officials who are eager for quick success. The civil husband will pay double compensation.

To achieve this step is almost the limit. How can it be possible for such a human-based project not to hurt or kill people? Emperor Liu is not that naive.It can only prevent and strengthen supervision of possible problems, that's all.

And when the government carried out large-scale projects on Luoyang City, the officials and people in the city also followed up, repairing their own houses, so as to coordinate with the layout set by the government.Just like the construction in Kaifeng at the beginning, for the residential houses, let them build themselves, but there is a unified requirement for the architectural layout.

Uncle Murong also seems to be a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. As a result, just like Kaifeng, Luoyang's architectural layout, on the whole, is also strictly hierarchical, with officials and people high and low, and the levels are obvious.

With the gradual improvement of the new Luoyang City, Emperor Liu also announced in the spring and February of the sixth year of Kaibao (968) that he would go west to Luoyang for inspection.Moreover, with Murong Yan overpowering the governor of Luoyang.

At the foot of Mang Mountain, at the intersection of mountains and rivers, there is a bamboo hut among the green trees. The water wheel outside the court is rotated by the wind, creaking, and flowers and trees are planted in front of the court.There is a plaque on the door, the book is "Zhao Lu".

Looking at the surrounding environment, it is quiet and elegant, with a unique artistic conception, as if living in a hermit.It's just that the place where this hermit lives in seclusion is too close to the secular world of Luoyang.

In the bamboo hut, there was a sound of reading, the voice was immature.A tall figure, holding a scroll in his hand, paced among them, paying attention to the seven or eight children who were sitting.

With a broad face, long beard and gray robe, calm and powerful, he is none other than Zhao Pu, the outgoing former Southwest Governor.Since the winter of last year, he went back to Luoyang for his mother's funeral. After finishing the funeral, Zhao Pu built this thatched hut at the foot of Mang Mountain to observe his filial piety.Maybe it was lonely, so I called my three young children, as well as school-age children from surrounding farms, to experience teaching and educating people.

Zhao Pu's knowledge is not high, but that also depends on who he compares with.What he cultivates is managing the world and learning. The big man is much better than him, but in terms of being an official and doing things, there are not many people who can do better than Zhao Pu.

Moreover, due to lack of knowledge in the early years, when he was with Emperor Liu, he was criticized by others.In view of this, in his later official career, Zhao Pu also read a lot of books, but he didn't ask for a deep understanding.

In later generations, the phrase "half of the Analects governs the world" made Zhao Pu famous, and then many people took it for granted that Zhao Pu only read "The Analects", which is nonsense.

Previously, when Emperor Liu heard Xue Juzheng talk about the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when he talked about Shi Lemou, the founding emperor of Zhao, who advocated Bin, he used Zhao Pu as an analogy to Zhang Bin, which can be regarded as a compliment.

Now, he has been living in a hut for a few months, and Zhao Pu has cultivated himself for so long. Although he is becoming more and more peaceful, his heart is like a cat scratching, itching to death.

Zhao Pu is not a person who can sit still for a long time. If Ding You really let him worry for a year or so, he will definitely not be able to bear it.Therefore, during this period of time, I am in the rivers and lakes, my heart is in the temple, but I am concerned about the situation of the court, and I am looking forward to a certain day when the angel will come with his order.
(End of this chapter)