Han Shizu

Chapter 338
"The city of Kaifeng needs to be rebuilt!" Standing on the pavilion, overlooking the crowds of people in Tokyo, Liu Chengyou felt it.

When the First Emperor destroyed Wei, Qin general Wang Ben attacked Daliang with his troops, flooded it with water, and destroyed the capital of Wei.In the following hundreds of years, Kaifeng City has been in a state of decline. From the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was called Liang after Jianzhi, and Bianzhou began to be the state government.Until the mid-Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Li Mian took over Bian Song and rebuilt the girders. Up to now, it has been more than 170 years.

Zhu Wen usurped Tang and built Liang, promoted Bianzhou to Kaifeng, the capital, Jin and Han because of it.After half a century of development, Kaifeng has completely replaced Yong and Luo, becoming the political, military, cultural and economic center of the north.

However, after decades of rapid development, the old and backward city has been unable to adapt to the social economy, and cannot undertake the function of being the capital of a big country.Since the dynasty, Kaifeng has been repaired and repaired, but they are all repaired on the basis of the original city.

Therefore, nowadays, the city of Kaifeng in Liu Chengyou's eyes is inherently prosperous, but what he understands more deeply is its messiness and filth.

It was not the first time that Liu Chengyou lamented that the city of Kaifeng was so small and the roads were so congested.In the whole city, the sanitation situation is particularly worrying. The sewage is converging, the drainage is not smooth, and the waterways are silted up. Especially in summer, the smell of decay and decay will attack the city, especially the street market.And the system of separating and closing the market place is becoming more and more backward, especially in Kaifeng, where the commercial atmosphere is becoming stronger.

The houses are dense and crowded, and the people are often disturbed by fireworks, and if it is not serious, they will worry about running out of water.Basically, every month, there are fires in the city, and most of them are concentrated in folk squares.The sky is bright and bright, and if you look around, you can still see the smell of fireworks. If it is morning or evening, the entire outer city of Tokyo will be even more densely covered with smoke.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of urban planning. Kaifeng's ancient urban foundation is in serious conflict with the development needs of the imperial capital of one dynasty, and the Kaifeng government's urban management capabilities are seriously lacking.

Don't look at Hou Yi's two vigorous rectifications since he became the prefect of Kaifeng, but that only met the most basic needs of Kaifeng's law and order, and it was far from the great rule of good weather.

Of course, no matter how many disadvantages Kaifeng has, it does not hide its geographical and economic advantages.

"Tokyo is already so rich, and you want to renovate it?" Zhe Xiaoniang looked at Liu Chengyou's side cheek and asked a question.

Hearing this, Liu Chengyou took a deep breath, tilted his head and asked softly: "In this air, besides the smell of vegetation and fireworks, what else can you smell?"

There was suspicion in Qinglian's eyes, Zhe Xiaoniang showed a coquettish attitude, tried to take a breath, felt it carefully, frowned slightly, and said: "It seems to have a faint sour smell."

Nodding his head, Liu Chengyou went straight to a street not far away, walked towards pedestrians, and continued to ask: "That road is the main road here, do you think it may be driven by traffic?"

Zhe Xiaoniang looked at it, thought about it, and shook her head: "I'm afraid I can't!"

The city roads here are narrow and crowded, and with the wideness of the Yujia, it is barely passable, but the word "barely" is enough to show the inconvenience.

Seeing that Miss Zhe has some thoughts on her face and seems to have gained something, Liu Chengyou secretly delighted in her intelligence, turned around and pointed to the south: "Look at that boat, it's going hard, how much time will it take to get to Beishi?"

Following the direction of Liu Chengyou's finger, you can see that there is a small boat on the tributary of Bian River, full of goods, passing through the waterway, intending to go to the city.However, due to the obstruction of roads and houses, it is necessary to make a circle before entering the market.

"I don't know!" Zhe Xiaoniang pondered for a while, then shook her head, but after a short pause, she said with certainty: "But, I understand what you mean!"

Seeing Miss Zhe comprehend his thoughts so quickly, Liu Chengyou couldn't help feeling happy, and sighed secretly in his heart, she deserves to be "Madam She", she is really a strange woman, she is extraordinary and does not give way to men.

"It's a pity, I can't repair it if I want to!" Liu Chengyou sighed again.

"Why?" Zhe Xiaoniang was indeed aroused curiosity.

Liu Chengyou spread his hands and expressed helplessness: "Without money and food, how can we rebuild?"

Zhe Xiaoniang didn't say any stupid words about how the emperor has no money, but she showed a look of understanding, and said comfortingly: "When you have money, you can fix it!"

Hearing his plain words, Liu Chengyou nodded and couldn't help laughing.

Of course, when the court has money, it may have to wait.Today's Han court, apart from normal administrative and military expenditures, dare not spend money indiscriminately.Recently, the only big expenditure is to allocate river engineering.

As expected by Wang Puqian, after the beginning of summer, the compilation of the "Dahan Xingtong" was completed, and the imperial edict was published, and more than [-] young officials were recruited from the central court and Kinki to study the "Xingtong" .

The "Xing Tong" was completed in a total of thirteen months, upholding Liu Chengyou's original will, in addition to revising, refuting, adding and subtracting as appropriate, using the old law as a blueprint, and then narrating it briefly for easy understanding.

Of course, this "easy to understand" also has thresholds and steps, and it cannot be understood just by knowing a few words.In the past few years when the literati are not flourishing, the quality of literati in the world has degenerated as a whole. Most literati, even if they study the old law and the uncommon and complicated, they may not be able to explain it well even if they study it with an in-depth mentality. .

And Liu Chengyou chooses people to practice law from Kaifeng Mansion, Dali, Ministry of Justice, and Yushitai. This is to train legal talents for the imperial court. A new department is established, called the Supervisor of Law. Zhang Shi is the supervisor.Among these people, as long as they have achieved something in their studies, they will be dispatched to states and counties all over the world to be judges of cases and prisons.

At the same time, in order to promote "Xing Tong", Liu Chengyou ordered all the people in the world to go to the state capital, calling on officials, officials and scholars to study.And for a period of about three years, it is the Ming Law Department, which specially organizes a system.

After the completion of the Han Dynasty, Fan Zhi made the first contribution, promoted the Minister Zuo Cheng, and made him a Marquis.Becoming the youngest prime minister in the court can be regarded as replacing Dou Zhengu's seat.There are more than a dozen other officials who participated in the legislation, and they were given more money, food, utensils and silk, and then promoted with their talents.Or take a real job, or like Zhang Shi, the supervisor of law, as a doctor of law and a professor.

As for Wang Pu, after the law was established, he made preparations for river regulation without stopping.Called together a group of officials who were in charge of fortifying the river, and left Beijing to investigate the details of the hydrology of the Bian River Basin.

The matter of harnessing the river has officially started, and the money and food have been prepared, so there is no reason to embezzle it.What's more, the matter of Hegong is also related to the imperial court's strategy of going south.

So at this moment, even if Liu Chengyou intends to plan and expand Kaifeng, he still has more than enough energy.Of course, the imperial court still has a little surplus food for the time being, but that is a strategic reserve to prevent unexpected situations such as border incidents and disasters.The most important thing is to reserve money and food for the Southern Expedition.

In fact, since Liu Chengyou set the strategy of nourishing his health, gathering money and food, and repairing his soldiers to conquer Huainan, various preparations have already begun.Once the war broke out at that time, the money and food would be spent, and the imperial court would have no energy to manage Kaifeng.

On the other hand, Liu Chengyou still has another layer of concerns about whether to repair Kaifeng or not.Because the idea of ​​moving the capital would appear in Liu Chengyou's mind from time to time, Kaifeng can be used as the economic center of the Han Dynasty, but in terms of politics and military affairs, especially military defense, it is really doubtful.

(End of this chapter)