Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1016 Climbing the Building
When the New Year arrives, the entire Tang Dynasty seems to have been pressed the pause button.All economic, political, and military activities have stopped, and every family is reunited and enjoys a happy time.

Shao Shude stayed in Luoyang and worked "overtime" until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Luoyang is not very popular yet, about [-] in total, not as lively as Luoyang and Henan counties, but Shao Shude still went up to the Yuri Tower with great interest, overlooking the whole city.

"The East First Street of Dingdingmen is still lively." Shao Shude praised the brightly lit six workshops of Mingjiao, Yiren, Chunhua, Anye, Xiuwen and Shangshan.

In fact, there are 2 people in the urban area, which is not bad.This is not a time of war, when people from the countryside flock to the city to escape the chaos of the war.Under normal circumstances, the population living in urban areas is not too large.

During the Tianbao period, there were only over 100 million people in the entire Henan Province. Those who really lived in Luoyang City, counting the population in the palace, were about [-] dead.

Luoyang has an extra Shendu Garden. Because it is surrounded by city walls and a palace has been built inside, the area is larger than Chang'an City. However, if the royal hunting ground is deducted, the living area is not as good as Chang'an.In Chang'an's heyday, the number of people living in the city surrounded by walls was at most 60 when counting the floating population. If counting the people living outside the city, there were only a million people.

Luoyang is not as big as Chang'an, with 30 to [-] people already very dense.No matter how big it is, it can't bear it technically.

Dingdingmen East First Street Liufang is considered to be the Lifang with the most restoration of mansions.

How many people can live in a square cannot be generalized.If they were all used to build high-ranking official residences, they would not be able to accommodate too many people. For example, Emperor Sui Yang built a mansion for his son and directly used half of the land in Yirenfang. In theory, Yirenfang can only accommodate two households.

But if all houses are built for small households, hundreds of households can be accommodated.

In fact, it is impossible for a workshop to grant all dignitaries man-made mansions, nor can it be all small households. The actual situation is somewhere in between.

There are about 20 households living in Mingjiaofang.Song Le, Zhao Jue, and Wang Ban have the largest officials. There are about twenty other families, most of whom are small military officers and clerks. Officials need to be familiar with the business and also need them to work.

Mingjiaofang still has room for more than ten households. It is not planned to build a big house, and try to allocate it to lower-level military officers or civil servants.

Other workshops also need to reserve a part for the common people, after all, businessmen and workers also need a place to live.

In the entire city of Luoyang, there are about 25 households, plus the population in Miyagi and Imperial City, the permanent population is about 40, plus the floating population coming in and out, there are at most 40 to [-]. More than [-].

Although the population of Mingjiaofang is small, its spending power is strong, so it attracts many merchants and craftsmen.There are also many servants and maidservants in the houses of rich families, and there are lanterns and festoons everywhere, which is even more powerful than the densely populated old squares in the east of the city in Zhang Quanyi's era.

Du Hong stood beside Shao Shude, standing on tiptoe to look at Anyefang.

The largest house in Anyefang was completely dark and obviously unoccupied. It was the mansion of Shao Siwu, the eldest son of King Xia.

The lights of Chen Changshi's mansion were turned on. He should still be in Bianzhou, but his family is in Luoyang. It's going to be the Lantern Festival, and the courtyard is full of excitement.

The inside and outside of the Du Mansion are also very lively.Dozens of members of Du Hong's family moved here.Fortunately, according to the specifications of the Household Minister's Mansion, dozens of people can live in it, and Du Hong is not dissatisfied.

In Anyefang, there are quite a few houses of small officers of the Tielin Army, small and small, not big.Du Hong talked with them, the house is not as big as the ones in the countryside, but they are very happy to live in. After all, it is a mansion in Luoyang City, which is not available to ordinary people.They were able to live in, thanks to the fact that King Xia still remembered that they were old people who were born and died, and they fought desperately with the thieves in the past.

Zhao Su looked at Lehefang, the first square on Dingdingmen East Second Street.

He has just been rewarded with a mansion, and he is not young. I heard that it used to be the mansion of Jianchang County King Wuyou Ning, who was in peace with Fengge Luantai.

In his capacity, he should not have gotten this kind of mansion.But the talk with King Xia went smoothly and he got a reward, which is something that others cannot envy.

Longjian Town is facing tremendous pressure from Li Maozhen.At present, Chengdu has sent people to recruit people to surrender, and they have talked back and forth several times, but they can't reach an agreement.

Li Maozhen definitely didn't want Longjian Lilangmao and Wuzhou to be out of his control, so he wanted to seize it quickly.Even if he surrendered to Li Maozhen, he would definitely not be able to keep his territory.

And what about King Xia?Just like Li Maozhen, he also wants the territory of Longjian Wuzhou.

Father's current attitude is not to vote for anyone, but to guard his own territory, pass it on to future generations, and make it a permanent foundation.Zhao Su understands and agrees with his father's idea - the eldest brother Zhao Ye lives on the grassland, so in the future, Longjian Town will not belong to Zhao Su?

However, if the battle with Li Maozhen is unfavorable, then you must choose one to take refuge in.

In fact, you don't have to choose, you must vote for King Xia.

That is to say, the first choice of the Zhao family is to establish a separate regime on their own. If the regime cannot be separated and Li Maozhen cannot be resisted, then vote for King Xia.

King Xia is a shrewd person, so he must have seen through their little thoughts.In fact, as long as you are a warrior, you can guess their thoughts.If you don’t stand up for yourself and go to the end of the mountain, you vote. If it’s not a beast, what is it?
King Xia is also a generous man, he did not make things difficult for the Zhao family.He just asked them to prepare troops, equipment, money and food to defend against Li Maozhen.If the troops are not enough, you can go to Helong and Lingxia to recruit troops.

Zhao Su was overjoyed upon hearing this.At the beginning, the capital of going south to Longjian was obtained by recruiting soldiers in Hengshan. At this time, these hard-working and hard-working soldiers are needed to help.

Helong has been in peace for many years. Taking Hexi Town as an example, there are hundreds of thousands of people. Apart from large-scale grazing, they can't afford to rely on farming because there is not so much water; Thousands of Tibetans are so poor; Guanbei is densely populated, and there are 40 people in Xiazhou alone, which is twice that of Tianbao years. I am afraid that the water from the Wuding River will be used up to irrigate the farmland. King Xia must be very happy. Want to consume these excess manpower.

In return, Zhao Su expressed respect on behalf of Longjian Town, and promised that once King Xia's army arrived, he would raise the town to vote.As for whether the promise will be fulfilled by then, we will have to wait and see. Anyway, everyone will have a good time talking and the atmosphere will be harmonious.

On the other hand, Shannan West Road was not so obedient, and Zhuge Chang did not come today.

Zhao Su searched around silently again, but he did not see Zhuge Chang, so the conversation must have broken down.In fact, he also understood that if he was in Xingyuan Mansion, he would not surrender unless there was really no hope of independence.

"Your Highness, in the past, Empress Wu encouraged the people of Jingzhao Mansion, Tong, and Hua to move to Luoyang, exempting them from rent and tax for three years, so as to secure their household registration in Shendu. Your Highness may use this strategy to enrich Luoyang as soon as possible." Du Hong said: "If so, then There will be even more prosperity next year.”

"There are quite a lot of people in Henan Prefecture, more than 11 households, more than 51 people, which is nearly half of Tianbao." Shao Shude said: "The small Yiluo Basin cannot support too many people. Even if there are hundreds of people alive What's the use of Yu Wan, a household with less than ten acres of Susukida? In the end, the whole world has to support it."

Du Hongnuo was speechless and dared not say any more.

"Luoyang, don't rush, take your time." Shao Shude said: "Besides, I still have family members of soldiers who need to be resettled. There is no need to encourage immigrants from Guanzhong, Luoyang's population will increase by itself, faster than you and I imagined. Ten years, After 20 years, you may worry that there are too many people in Luoyang.”

Du Hong laughed dryly.

"However, Tian Shefu doesn't need it, but the rich and powerful can move part of it." Shao Shude said.

After all, he glanced unintentionally at Zhao Lu who was standing in the corner.

As Zhao Ji's eldest son and Zhao Jue's nephew, Zhao Lu, who was originally designated as Chen Xuzhen's successor, was rewarded with a Luoyang mansion early on, that is, Li Shizhai, the former minister of the Ministry of Industry in Lehefang.

But he has not moved here yet, nor has his family, and the mansion is even empty, without any furniture.

Zhao Lu seemed to feel Shao Shude's gaze, and smiled reluctantly: "Your Highness said very well, Luoyang has beautiful scenery, beautiful scenery. After the Spring Festival, I will send someone to decorate the new house, and then bring my family from Xuzhou .”

Shao Shude nodded with a smile, and said: "Tomorrow I will send some gold and silver wares over, the new house can't be too shabby."

There is basically no major problem with the matter of Xuzhou's reduction of the vassal, but judging from the process, the Zhao family's resistance is very strong.

They didn't expect that not long after they were sent out of Chenzhou, they couldn't even keep Xuzhou. No one would be calm about this matter.

But at least they had brains. After seeing the Huai army's defeat in the Qizhou battlefield and the battlefield gradually moving eastward, their hopes of reaching out to Yang Xingmi were shattered, so they dared not stand up.

Shao Shude took the opportunity to point out Zhao Kuangning's move to Jingnan, and the Zhao family in Xuzhou relented, even though they were very reluctant.

Wufu oh Wufu, Shao Shude has convinced these people, the imprint of thoughts in his mind is too deep, and he has to wake them up with urine.

The original large number of vassal towns have worked hard this year, and the results are quite large.

Taking advantage of the rebellion and war, Hezhong Town snatched food from the tiger's mouth and directly grabbed it.But the hard work of the previous years cannot be ignored. After all, Xia Jun is still very intimidating there, and there is a hidden fear in the river, otherwise it is not that simple.

Chen Xuzhen reluctantly persuaded him through blatant threats, including but not limited to mobilizing a large army to encircle and suppress.

Xiangyang Zhao's move to the town was a combination of coercion and lure, but years of cutting sausages, mixing sand and pressure from the external environment also played a key role.

E Yuezhen was the hand of the old man who stabbed Du Hong in the back and took it neatly.

Longjian town is high and the emperor is far away. If there is no real threat from Li Maozhen, Shao Shude is sure that Zhao Jian, Zhao Su and his son will definitely resist the reduction of the vassal.Now they are still vacillating, their luck has not been completely dispelled, and they will not be reconciled if they are not beaten by Li Maozhen and lose all their disappointment.

Zhuge Zhongfang was clearly resisting the reduction of the vassal, and he was unwilling to hand over power.But he spoke very beautifully, he sent his son to Luoyang, and offered goods, but he refused to hand over the governance and military power.

Tang Deng Sui was handed over by the father-in-law on his own initiative. In exchange, Ezhou was basically handed over to the Zhe family, and officials from top to bottom arranged a lot.

Huaixi Town was more difficult, and Shao Shude put it at the end.

He planned to find a time to have a good talk with Zhe Silun, but the premise was to find out what his brother-in-law was thinking.Once some words are spoken, there is no room for both parties to retreat.Once the face is torn, it is not so easy to restore it to its original state.This matter requires an opportunity and a sufficient exchange of benefits.For Zhejia, he does not plan to use strong methods for the time being.

But this matter cannot be dragged on for too long.All problems left over from history must be resolved before ascension to the throne, and no raw food can be made.

(End of this chapter)