Xuande

Chapter 742 Liu Bei Doesn't Like Money
Expansion of Luoyang City is not a trivial matter.

When Liu Bei proposed this idea more than a year ago, many people opposed it, feeling that it was too expensive and needed to be cautious.

However, Liu Bei firmly believed that it was imperative to expand Luoyang City, otherwise Luoyang City would not be able to bear such a large population and something would happen.

Two-thirds of the current Luoyang City is used for the imperial palace and government offices, and only the remaining one-third is used for other purposes. Most of the population lives outside Luoyang City, living around the city. If you look closely, you will only feel that it is a mess.

The inside of the city is clean and tidy, but when you leave the city gate, you will be met with a foul smell. It is good in winter, but especially bad in summer. In the first year of Jian'an, a plague broke out and more than 1000 people died.

At that time, Liu Bei dispatched the army to forcibly isolate the sick, and then dispatched the army to carry out comprehensive cleaning, disinfection, rat trapping, cleaning the road, and burning mugwort leaves.

Therefore, in his view, it is imminent to expand Luoyang City, build complete sanitation facilities, and provide comprehensive health education to the people.

After the first year of Jian'an, waves of plagues continued to appear all over the world, sometimes in Qingzhou, sometimes in Xuzhou, and sometimes in Yuzhou.

Small-scale infections occurred several times inside and outside Luoyang City, fortunately Liu Bei was prepared for this——

He specially arranged a group of people to monitor this kind of situation. As soon as he heard any troublesome news such as [several people were sick] [the whole family was sick] [neighbors were sick], he immediately dispatched personnel to isolate the patients and took them to the sick village near the sunset pavilion outside Luoyang City for centralized isolation and treatment. This did not lead to a large-scale plague outbreak inside and outside Luoyang City.

However, the living environment outside Luoyang City is too dirty and harsh, and it is hard to say that the first year of Jian'an will not happen again, so Liu Bei pushed forward this matter vigorously, and at the beginning of this year, the project was implemented in place.

The overall person in charge of the project is Cao Cao.

"According to the meaning of the General, it means that Luoyang City is slightly inferior to Chang'an City back then. What Xiao He said back then was correct. No grandeur can be regarded as powerful. If the Han Dynasty wants to show its power, the capital must be magnificent.

Although Luoyang was also a big city in the world at the beginning, it had some shortcomings. It claimed to have a population of 40, but there were only more than [-] people living in Luoyang City, and most of them lived scattered outside Luoyang City.

If outsiders see this, they will definitely think that the Han Dynasty is a chaotic country with no rules, so they feel contemptuous, thinking that the Han Dynasty can invade and cause wars, so Xuande said that all people living outside the city should be included, and a new city wall should be built.

So now that the whole project has started, Luoyang City will be divided into three parts: the outer city, the inner city and the palace city in the future, with three walls to distinguish them and expand the scale, and the outer city wall needs to be the thickest and the palace city wall needs to be the tallest.

In addition to the city walls, all living places have to be re-planned, and special residential areas are designated, as well as the urban area for businessmen to do business, and the government area where the government is located. "

When Kuai Yue heard this, he was very impressed.

"A major project like the expansion of Luoyang City would be called a major construction project in normal times. There must be strong opposition from some people. If it goes wrong, some people will bleed for it and make a farce. But right now, it doesn't seem to be the case."

"Yes, there is no farce in the expansion of Luoyang City, and it will be promoted naturally."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Of course, it's not that no one objected to this, and there were some who opposed it, but there were not many objectors, and after the general came up with a complete plan and money strategy and announced it in the court, there were no objections.

How to use people, how to use money, how to use materials, how to transport, how to allocate the construction period, etc., etc., the Ministry of Industry in the General's Mansion has come up with a comprehensive plan, Henan Yin's Mansion just needs to follow it, assign it to me, and the rest is construction, and I don't need to worry about everything else. "

"The more I heard in Jingzhou, there are six departments in the General's Mansion to give an overview of government affairs. If there is any government affairs, the six departments can always respond, and they are quite efficient."

Kuai Yue sighed: "It seems that the general is not only good at military affairs, but also good at government affairs."

"Indeed."

Cao Cao sighed: "Any big problem can be disassembled into small problems, and then find someone to solve it. In the past, it was a little slower. Now that the six departments are established, the speed is faster. I can't believe it.

For a matter as big as the expansion of Luoyang City, it is said that the Ministry of Industry only took two months to formulate a complete plan, and then notified all aspects of the matter one month later, and started to take action a month later. The whole preparation process took only four months. "

"Four months?"

Cai Hao was quite surprised, and sighed: "The expansion of the emperor's capital is such a big matter, has the preparations been completed in four months? This is a bit too fast..."

"Not only that, but it's just as fast when it's the turn."

Cao Cao smiled proudly: "In the past, the imperial court always forced migrant workers to carry out large-scale construction projects, which caused outrage and resentment, and a bad thing would lead to civil uprisings, but the manpower used in this operation is not only slaves, but also peasants from collective farms.

They are all organized. No matter what they do, they only need to order to the county government, and the county government then orders to go to the farm, and the farm will gather available civilians to report to the county government, and the county will report to me.

Then which county's folks are responsible for the construction of which section of the city wall, I just need to give an order, and they will go to the construction, inspect and inspect the construction on time, and I don't need to worry about other things, and the progress will be faster. "

"How can it be so efficient?"

Cai Mao was very surprised: "Are there no complaints among the people? Will it not delay the farming season?"

"The kibbutz established by the general was established for just such things."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Every family in the farm helps each other. If someone needs to work, the farm will arrange strong labor to help cultivate the land, so as to prevent the farming work from being overdone, and no one will starve for it. This kind of mutual help is a collective farm."

"That's really fun."

Kuai Yue stroked his beard and sighed: "Once upon a time, large-scale construction projects were bound to be accompanied by great grievances, but now..."

"The imperial court also pays for labor, and also manages three meals. Farmers earn money by working, just like farming the land."

Cao Cao laughed while talking: "The general once told me in private that there are nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand problems in the world that can be solved with money. As long as the money is enough, it is not a problem, and money can always be given, but some people are reluctant.

I asked the general if he would be reluctant to give so much money. The general told me that he doesn’t like money. Money is something that you don’t take with you when you live or die. "

"The general can still figure it out."

Of course Cai Mao has no interest in the truth, but he still really admires Liu Bei.

Because Liu Bei not only said the truth, but also did it himself.

He is really giving money, really throwing a lot of money, spreading out a harmonious and beautiful prosperous situation, even the large-scale construction has become so tender.

Could it be that he really doesn't like money?
Money is such a good thing, will there be people who don't like it?

Kuai Yue also thinks so.

If you just talk about the truth and don't do anything, it's pure fart, but if you start to do it while talking about the truth, it's completely different.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that they have the minimum trust in Liu Bei, and are willing to come to Luoyang on their own initiative and seek cooperation from him.

For a trustworthy and magnanimous person, taking the initiative to take refuge will give him more than passive acceptance. If Liu Bei wants a slave, just give it to him. If he wants land, just give it to him.

Anyway, he couldn't own all the slaves and land by himself.

In contrast, the Cai family and the Kuai family were able to get out of the quagmire of Jingzhou, return to the central government, gain an early advantage, and leave the rest of the local families in Jingzhou far behind.

Moreover, compared with the Cai family, the Kuai family actually has a more urgent need for this, just because the Luoyang five years ago and five years later are too different, and the personal connections that the Kuai family worked so hard for in the past have completely collapsed, so that they have to rely on the relationship between the Cai family and Cao Cao to gain Liu Bei's relationship.

On Liu Bei's side, after learning about the thoughts of the Cai family and the Kuai family from Cao Cao, he also had some different thoughts in his heart.

He was worried that he lacked enough entry points to penetrate into the situation in Jingzhou, and when he was about to sleep, a pillow was delivered to his door.

(End of this chapter)