Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 416 Building a new capital
At the beginning of February, the weather has gradually warmed up, and the greenery in the wild has been rendered.

It is also rare for Shen Zhezi to get out of many affairs and take a stroll around the Dunan Lake with Ji You and Yu Tiao in a bullock cart.

The scenery in the south of Jiankang City has always been lacklustre, not as magnificent as the north of the city, nor as beautiful as the east of the city.Especially now that there are a large number of refugees living here, it has become a place where nobles are extinct.

At this time, there are many refugee women and children strolling in the wild, carrying bamboo baskets in their arms to collect wild vegetables that have just emerged.Looking from a distance, although these poor people's faces are not lacking in color, they are no longer full of despair.It is probably because the flesh and blood of many corpses nourished the fertility of the land, which made the wild vegetables grow particularly strong this year.

"The most difficult days are finally over."

Looking at the women and children walking briskly in the wilderness, Ji You couldn't help but sigh with emotion, his family lived in this village, and seeing the villagers survive the harsh winter and gradually regain their vitality, he was really relieved.

He pointed at Shen Zhezi who was facing him and said with a smile: "Weizhou, your outstanding military achievements are already glorious in Jiangdong, but in my opinion, the real achievements worthy of being passed down to future generations are those who can live countless lives!"

After Shen Zhezi heard the words, he laughed lightly, shook his head and sighed: "How dare you expect to pass it on to future generations? People are forgetful. I'm afraid that these benefactors will turn upside down in a short time. I am ordered Relief is not for saving them, and I don't want them to be grateful, so don't give me too many constraints, I will never tire of both."

After hearing this, Yu Tiao couldn't help laughing: "What Wei Zhou wants to do, people will always believe it. But your cold-eyed view of the world is always contrary to human nature."

Shen Zhezi smiled slightly and said no more.For Xiaomin, perhaps the most difficult time has passed. The spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and the countryside is full of vitality. As long as you work hard, you can survive.

But his test has just arrived, and troubles will happen one after another.

After the disaster relief, it is natural to arrange production. As long as the fields are paid, there will be no major turmoil.Farming needs land and people.After Shen Zhezi returned to the court at the beginning of the year, the court finally launched a new round of rewards. Apart from magnates, the biggest reward was naturally land.

After a round of carve-up, there are not many fields suitable for farming around Gyeonggi.At this point, Shen Zhezi naturally has no position to blame others, because he himself is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this round of carve-up.

Except for the marquis of Wujiang, the land rewards alone amounted to hundreds of hectares!Other people's meritorious deeds, big and small, are also rewarded in an orderly manner.In fact, apart from the land, the imperial court has no other means to win over people's hearts.

With land, the next natural step is population.Shen Zhezi, as the chief disaster relief officer, suddenly became important in the hearts of everyone.During this period of time, people have been coming to ask for help, wanting to share some of the people.After all, the old records have been completely burned, and as long as Shen Zhezi swipes a pen, a large number of people will be concealed.

Shen Zhezi is not the only smart person, he can engulf the population wantonly, and others naturally have the same idea.In particular, the various families living in Danyang have suffered heavy losses in this turmoil, and they urgently need to replenish a large amount of manpower so that they can recover as soon as possible.

Of course, Shen Zhezi couldn't satisfy this kind of request. The reason why he took the initiative to take on this important task was not to work for those people.Only when manpower is in our own hands can we have the confidence to proceed with the next step.

But these people's greed for population is hard to curb, Shen Zhezi ignores them, they will naturally have other means.Therefore, the vicinity of various refugee camps has been active recently, and many families have sent people nearby to attract people.For example, spreading rumors, the more marketable rumors are that the imperial court will transfer these refugees to Jiangbei to garrison wasteland, or turn them into official households and military households, and no longer resettle them normally.

Such rumors caused great panic among the refugees.Once they cross the river or become official households, their ancestors will suffer for generations and bear heavy labor.As a result, refugees absconded to varying degrees in many camps, and repeated prohibitions continued.

These bastards curl up behind when things happen, and they do their part to fight for profit.Shen Zhezi was not polite about this, he expelled all the idlers around the camp, and searched various manors in the suburbs of Beijing by the way, found more than ten people in the village, and directly killed and sealed the manor!
In the past few days alone, dozens of people's heads have been chopped off. Although it's just the servants of the various families, those bloody corpses are enough to make people horrified.

Such a violent method actually did not help the matter, but confirmed those rumors from the side, and the refugees fled even more violently.But Shen Zhezi didn't kill people to prevent the wind of fleeing, he just established rules.Don't think that if you offend him, you can be as vague as before, and be prepared to be beheaded!

Because of this incident, Shen Zhezi's reputation has also taken a turn for the worse recently, from the original reputation of having both ability and political integrity to being known as resentful and stingy.Whoever dares to kill me, I will scold him!Such a dramatic emotional turn at the time was quite eye-catching.

However, Shen Zhezi didn't take this seriously. He didn't fight alone, and there was a powerful group of Wu people behind him.He is bearing the interests of the Wu people and appealing to return to the capital. No matter how loud the scolding is, there will be someone behind to help scold him back.At least before Xia Harvest, even Director Wang could not disregard the demands of the Wu people and take Shen Zhezi away from office.

At the same time as the disaster relief, Shen Zhezi also completely demolished Jiankang City. In the south of Suzaku Dazheng, except for the residences of some Taiwanese officials such as Wuyi Lane, other places have almost become a piece of white land!After those refugee husbands were rescued, they were mainly doing this.

Of course, this is not Taichung's idea. Taichung just hopes that Shen Zhezi can provide relief and ensure that this year's farming and production can proceed normally.But Shen Zhezi felt that this did not show his ability, so in the name of cleaning up, he dismantled a little bit a day, and then completely dismantled it.One of the consequences of this is that Jiankang City will die if it is not repaired!

People say that the Wei and Jin Dynasties are more liberal, but behind it is the appallingly low efficiency!In history, after the Sujun Rebellion, Jiankang City was also dilapidated, but it was repaired and settled down.Even Taicheng and Yuancheng did not undergo a major repair until Xie An was in power.

In other words, those courtiers in Taichung can ignore the leaks in their offices, so how can they expect them to be diligent in political affairs?
Today's Jiankang City was originally built from the former site of Soochow Wu when Chen Min was in rebellion.

To be honest, even if these people live in a kennel, it's none of Shen Zhezi's business.

But the reconstruction of Kangcheng is not only of political significance. Shen Zhezi also needs to use this protracted project to sort out his own forces and achieve a more stable structure in order to be more efficient. Turn over manpower and material resources to Jiangbei, and officially start the Northern Expedition.

If a more appropriate metaphor is used, the reconstruction of Cannes is a relatively thorough groundbreaking, which strengthens the imperial power to a certain extent.In this way, only the support of the emperor is needed to obtain a relatively stable rear.

After all, Shen Zhezi's foundation was in Wuzhong, and due to geographical constraints, Wuzhong could not become the rear base of his Northern Expedition, so he needed the blessing of imperial power.

There are three major problems in rebuilding Cannes.

The first is land acquisition. Jiankang is not a barbaric land. It can be said that every inch of land is owned by the owner.It is really difficult to completely expropriate these lands.

The second is money and food. In the past, the urban construction of Jiankang City was not done much, and the main reason was that there was no money.After Su Jun conquered Jiankang, he obtained hundreds of millions of money, 50 to [-] pieces of silk, and [-] hu of grain.

It seems that the amount is not small, but it is the surplus accumulated by the central finance for several years.As long as a war is launched, it may be exhausted!
Yu Liang has been in power for several years, and only this family property was left behind. It was originally a reserve to solve Liyang's troubles, but it was all looted by the rebels!An incomparably rich country could be said to be extremely rich in other eras, but to be honest, the Shen family alone has accumulated more than that over the years!
The third is the issue of resettlement after reconstruction. Gyeonggi, as the central capital, is of great political significance. Even if it is just a simple farm resettlement, there are intricate problems.

The small circle that Shen Zhezi is preparing now is the three people in the bullock cart, including himself.As the Ji family is an indigenous family in Danyang, Shen Zhezi assigned Ji You the task of retrieving land. As for the problem of attracting capital, Shen Zhezi and Yu Tiao will solve it.

In fact, the money and food used for this disaster relief is the first fund that Shen Zhezi attracted.Only those Wuzhong Township people who have already benefited greatly will give him an early investment without seeing the prospect of profit.

"This is already the case in the capital. The next step is to dredge the rivers around the outskirts of Beijing, fill in these mud ponds and wetlands, and operate several large arterial roads. This must be completed before the spring flood."

Now Shen Zhezi can't wait to break a quarter of an hour into two quarters of an hour, and naturally he is not in the mood to play. The main purpose of going out with these two people today is to sort out his plans again.

Following Shen Zhezi's pointing, the two people in the car saw that a large number of high hills had been piled up in the wilderness, and they were all earth and rocks cleared up in Jiankang City.There is no need to obtain materials from other places. Although the fortification is not small, it will be completed before the spring flood as Shen Zhezi said. With the tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster, it will definitely be completed as scheduled.

"As for money and food, there is no need to worry. As long as Taichung decides to build a new capital, it will inevitably use a lot of bricks, tiles, and civil materials. At that time, there will naturally be a large number of people living here to build workshops. But whoever can enter here must first input Part of the rice has arrived in Jiankang. The grain collected from all over the world can be used for work.”

The imperial court has no money and food, and a large number of fortifications must be outsourced.The reason why Shen Zhezi was able to persuade various families in Wuzhong was also because he promised to leave enough projects for the business alliance.On the other hand, the reason why he dared to build such a big project was also because of the guarantee of Jiangdong's No. [-] richest group.

As long as the early stage framework is set up, it is impossible for those rich and wealthy families who are striving to make progress in Jingjiang to sit idly by.

It is true that the imperial court has no money, but there are people and land. As long as these people are active and the land is used, it will be a huge wealth!The construction of Jiankang City is not a one-off effort. The accumulated private capital gathers here, and its long-term activity will inevitably burst out a huge amount of energy.

Shen Zhezi first sent Du He across the river to operate. In addition to the needs of defense, there is also a very important point that is to plunder the population and build a framework for farming.If rice grains are used as a deposit for the construction of a new capital, stockpiling grains nearby is almost an inevitable choice!
(End of this chapter)