A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 162 The Eternal Famous City: Jinling

Jinling City is located in the south of Chaohu Lake, on the banks of the great river, with convenient transportation. After decades of development by the Huai Kingdom, the surrounding area has become relatively prosperous.

After annexing a large amount of land from Chu State, the best way for Huai State to control those lands was to move the capital.At the same time, after the capital is moved, the lands of Shudi and Nest will also be developed on a large scale.

After Wu Zixu received the order to build Jinling City, he didn't stay in Huai'an, but took people to Jinling directly.

Wang Qi had already discussed with Sun Wu, Fan Li, Wu Zixu, Wen Zhong and other ministers. Everyone supported the move of the capital to Jinling. From a strategic point of view, the territory of Huai State is too large, and Huai'an is located in the east, which is not conducive to ruling.And Jinling can relatively well control all parts of Huaiguo.

Moreover, compared with Huai'an, which is surrounded by plains and only has the Huaihe River as a line of defense, Jinling's security is much higher.

Although Huai'an has never been captured since the founding of the Huai state, it does not mean that Huai'an city is safe.To the north of Huai'an is only the Huaihe River.Jin and Qi attacked from the north several times. If the Huaihe River fell, Huai'an would face Bangzhou's army at that time.

If it weren't for those generations of Huai Gong who were all Ming emperors and had elite soldiers and strong generals under their command, Huai'an would not be as stable as Mount Tai.

As long as you cross the Huai River, the next distance from Huai'an is a flat river, and there is no danger to defend.This is also the reason why the Huai state monarchs of all dynasties have accumulated heavy troops in Huaibei.

Once the Huai River falls, the Huai State will fight a battle to defend Huai'an.

Relatively speaking, Jinling is much safer.To the north of Jinling is the nesting place. The Chaohu Lake, the Chaoding Capital, and the rest of the Dabie Mountains make this place easy to defend and difficult to attack.To the east is the land of Wu and Yue, to the south is the land of Shu, and only to the west is the state of Chu.

This god-given capital is also.

However, the Chu State was broken by the Huai State War, and there was no one that could not recover for decades. After the Huai State moved its capital to Jinling, it was the Chu State that should be worried.

Wu Zixu led an army of [-] and [-] people built Jinling City.Because it was built as the future capital city, the site selection and scale of Jinling City were very particular. The former Jinling City will be used as a sub-city of Jinling City.

A large amount of food and materials were transported from Huai'an to Jinling. With the support of Huai State, the construction of Jinling City went smoothly.

Wu Zixu chose a slightly protruding place on the south bank of the Great River.The terrain here is tens of meters higher than the surrounding area, and the surrounding area is flat, like the back of a turtle.The moat is directly drained from the big river.

After determining the location of the city to be built, Wu Zixu delineated the foundation, then built the moat first, dug the river, diverted the water from the big river, and then used rafts to transport materials. The raft can go straight into the city.

Various materials are transported by rafts, which greatly saves the difficulty of transportation and speeds up the construction.As the capital of Nanjing City, the city wall is five feet high, and the foundation is also made of huge stones.

Wu Zixu sent people to dig huge stones in the mountains, and then transported the huge stones to the foundation of the city wall by water. After the foundation was built, rammed earth was piled on top of the city wall.

Even in order to increase the adhesion, the glutinous rice was boiled into juice and mixed into the city wall. After tamping, the city wall was as strong as a rock.

When Wu Zixu was building Jinling City, after a year of preparation, Fan Li visited and inspected various parts of the Huai Kingdom, and finally started to implement the green crop loan.

Fan Li invited Wang Qi's edict, and transferred a group of students from the academy, and then trained these students, telling them the rules of the Qingmiaodai, and teaching them arithmetic to calculate the Qingmiaodai.Of course, Fan Li didn't intend to let them promote the young crop loan.

Instead, he intends to let these students inspect Huai Country to supervise the implementation of youth loans in various places.When these students are young and passionate, they are not polluted by those stereotypes and customs, and they will not join forces with local officials. If they are allowed to do things at the grassroots level, various problems may arise, but if they are allowed to inspect and supervise, then It's just perfect.

After listening to Fan Li's explanation, Wang Qi immediately agreed to this suggestion, and appointed these students as inspector censors, who specially inspected the implementation of the Huai country's young seedling loan, and all inspector censors had the right to directly write to the monarch. The inspecting censors are accompanied by a team of soldiers to protect their safety.

Don't think that this is a big deal. After so many years in power, Wang Qi has a deep understanding of those nobles and officials.If killing people is the easiest and most effective way, they will never mind.

At the same time, in order to deter these people, Wang Qi ordered that all the inspecting censors, no matter whose jurisdiction they were killed or besieged, all the officials around them would be severely punished.The families of officials with a radius of fifty miles were also subject to censorship.

Except for this one, the inspector censor can only serve for three years at most, and if the inspector censor has selfishness, he will also be severely punished.In order to prevent the inspecting censors from favoritism, the inspection scopes of all inspecting censors are intersected and replaced once a year.

After training these censors, Fan Li told them the tricks most officials used, and after some training, he let them take office.

Just before these inspection censors took office, Huaiguo's youth loan began to be implemented.

Although Wang Qi and Fan Li had already rectified the administration of officials before the implementation of the Green Seed Loan, with the help of the logistical problems in the preparations for the invasion of Chu, many corrupt officials were seized, but some people still took risks.

After discovering these people, Wang Qi directly ordered severe punishment, confiscated their property, and then moved them to Jinling to build a city.These assigned people are quite different from the recruited farmers.After the construction of Jinling is completed, if it is not dead, the land will be redistributed to open up wasteland.

Just building a city, how can there be no undead?Whether they can survive depends on their good fortune.

In the second year of Wu Zixu's construction of Jinling City, a large number of officials and their families escorted them here.This situation did not begin to decrease until the fourth year of fortification.

When the construction of Jinling City was completed, the number of officials sent to participate in the construction of the city, together with their family members, was close to tens of thousands.It can be said that almost half of the low-level officials in Huai State were arrested.As for the people who survived in the end, less than half of them survived.

In Jinling City, Wu Zixu built the city very quickly with the full support of Huai State.

The city wall of Jinling City is twenty miles long and five feet high. The bluestone is the foundation and the rammed earth is the wall. The city is divided into the palace city, the inner city, and the outer city. It took more than 10 people to complete it in seven years.

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The ancient city of Nanjing, also known as the ancient city of Jinling, was first built in the late Spring and Autumn Period. In the 18th year of King Huai Wenxiang, the capital was moved to Jinling, and Jinling began.

Nanjing is a UNESCO World Famous City in 1981. It is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation. In history, six dynasties established their capitals here.Nanjing is a world-renowned historical city, as famous as the world-famous ancient cities such as Rome, Athens, and Cairo. It is also the capital with the longest history among the six ancient capitals in China.

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