Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 596 Rebuilding Luoyang City

"How to reform the navy is a long story here." Lu Yan paused for a moment and said to Gan Ning and Su Fei: "The manpower transferred from Xuzhou should come to Chenliu soon. 5 people. You can train on your own now, and after ten warships come out, you will take turns to operate and cooperate with the warships. At that time, we will discuss the reform of the navy."

Gan Ning and Su Fei felt that their hearts were being hung up and down, but Lu Yan refused to say more now, they could only suppress their curiosity, and clasped their fists and said: "The last general will obey the order."

The construction of warships and artillery is a long-term job, and the training of the navy is also a grind.As the saying goes, sharpening a knife does not cut firewood by mistake. Only by laying the foundation first can the building be built higher, and the navy can go further.

The first appearance of the three-masted battleship ended perfectly, but after that, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi became even busier.

The shipyard has been continuously expanding, and it is expected to build ten more docks; but after the first performance, Cao Cao made an extravagant investment, and now, the docks have to be expanded by another ten.

A total of [-] shipyards have to be started at the same time, and many more craftsmen, handymen, etc. are needed.

As a result, the shipyard began to expand its enrollment again, and there was another wave of artisan migration in the Central Plains, Hebei, and even the South, and Guanzhong.

For these trivial matters, Zhuge Liang is so busy every day that he never touches the ground.He is used to doing everything by himself. He has to manage personnel and shipbuilding. He even has to personally inspect the canteen food and accommodation of the craftsmen.
Look at the sailors.

The soldiers who were transferred from Xuzhou and knew some water skills also arrived at Chenliu's naval garrison one after another.Sima Yi was responsible for the basic necessities of life of the 5 navy personnel, logistics support, etc., and he was also so busy that the sun and the moon were dark.It's just that Sima Yi is willing to delegate power, which allows him to quickly gather a group of available talents and greatly reduce his workload.

When Cao Cao first annexed Xuzhou, Xuzhou had a population of less than 40 households.Although Cao Jun did not slaughter the city, he used various policies to attract many Xuzhou people to move to Yanzhou, resulting in a very serious population loss in Xuzhou.

But now Xuzhou, after several years of steady development, has already been reborn, and it is not what it used to be.

The birth of the common people, plus many refugees from other places who came to seek stability moved to Xuzhou, and now the population of Xuzhou has soared to more than [-] households.

As the second big state first controlled by Cao Cao, Xuzhou's agriculture is naturally very developed now, and its business is also very prosperous.

In terms of agriculture, in addition to the military and civilian settlements, the common people planted potatoes at home, and the government built water conservancy to teach the improved scientific planting methods to the common people. Today, there is no famine in Xuzhou or even the Central Plains.

In terms of business, in addition to the official Xuzhou Chamber of Commerce controlled by the Mi family and Mi Zhu, there are also dozens of chambers of commerce spontaneously formed by the people, large and small.

Xuzhou is an important place connecting the north and the south, and the caravans traveling between the north and the south on the main official road are often in groups.With more businessmen coming and going, Xuzhou's transaction tax, tolls, etc. will naturally rise.Today's Xuzhou, the annual tax revenue is also quite considerable, it is only slightly inferior to Yanzhou.

Since the implementation of the commercial tax, even Zhao Yan, the chief farmer, has never cried poor in front of Cao Cao.

With huge financial resources as support, Cao Cao wanted to fulfill his promise to Liu Xie to rebuild Luoyang, and Zhao Yan agreed without blinking an eye.

No way, nothing else is enough, but we just have a lot of money!

For Cao Cao to fulfill his promise to rebuild Luoyang City, Liu Xie was naturally delighted and excited.

Although the emperor has no right to speak, the country is always getting better.

In this feudal empire era where the emperor is the country, the country is thriving, powerful and prosperous, can history not leave a good review for the emperor of this country.What happened to the puppet?Doesn't the Donglin Party of later generations hope that the emperor will be a puppet emperor who can only stamp his seal?

Besides, Liu Xie can at least give some ideas on some things now, and Lao Cao's mentality is very stable now, and some innocuous things will follow Liu Xie to make trouble.However, the launch of the artillery not long ago made Liu Xie correct his position.

In fact, preparations for the reconstruction of Luoyang City began last year, but they have been planning some time ago, and the real start of construction was at the beginning of this year.

First of all, outside Luoyang City, the tomb where many dead people were buried had to be removed first.Otherwise, as soon as you leave the city gate, there will be a big cemetery, and it is estimated that many people will be scared out of their psychological problems.

Although the current population of Henan Yin is still far from the size before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, under the governance of Sima Lang, Henan Yin has gradually regained its vitality.

In recent years, refugees who fled in the past have returned to their hometowns, and Sima Lang has also taken in refugees from other places. The population of Henan Yin has also recovered to about 20 households.

When the plan to rebuild Luoyang was first proposed, there were not no voices of opposition from the court, especially Cao Cao's civilian and military voices who opposed it the most.

After all, Luoyang City was completely burned down by Dong Zhuo's fire. To rebuild the new city in situ, the manpower and material resources that would be consumed are unimaginable to ordinary people.

Now Xuchang has been expanded several times, both in terms of space and prosperity, it has surpassed Luoyang at the beginning, and it is completely enough to be used as a government. .

However, even though there were many voices of opposition, Cao Cao chose to rebuild Luoyang arbitrarily.

No matter how good Xuchang is, the meaning Luoyang represents cannot be replaced in a short time.After rebuilding Luoyang City, Cao Cao can once again gather a large number of people who love the Han people.

Lao Cao's authority now is greater than that of the emperors of many dynasties in the past.Now that he has made a decision, other people naturally can't object anymore. Anyway, they are spending money from Lao Cao's own pocket, and others just need to follow his orders.

In order to plan the new Luoyang City, most of the craftsmen who will be in charge, led by Geng Liang, were summoned to the palace.

Liu Xie is going to do it himself, starting from the design drawings, and will work with them to complete the construction of the new Luoyang city.

The craftsmen were able to get in touch with the emperor of the Han Dynasty at such a close distance. This was something they had never even dreamed of.

In order to make it easier for Liu Xie to draw design drawings, Geng Liang also deliberately introduced charcoal, one of the secrets of the prison, to Liu Xie.

Before the appearance of charcoal pencils, drawings were drawn with brushes.Brush drawing drawings not only have very high requirements on the artist's personal ability, but also cannot make mistakes in the middle. Once mistakes are made, the entire drawing will be completely abolished.

After switching to charcoal, not only can some tools be used to draw straight lines and circles, but also can be erased at any time even if the drawing is wrong, which can be said to greatly improve the work efficiency of the craftsmen.

As for the money to build Luoyang City, Liu Xie doesn't have to worry about it at all.

Because he knew that the current old Cao Fuyu could drip oil if he pinched it.

(End of this chapter)