The prince is five and a half years old, and he is reclaiming land and becoming a group favorite.

Xie Changshi really didn't expect that His Highness would think of the Xinliang Iron Mine so quickly. He was a little surprised and at the same time deeply relieved: "Your Highness is right, we can mobilize manpower from the Iron Mine."

His Highness asked the people who were released from the Xinliang Iron Mine to build Xinliang. It is really reasonable and legal. Even if that person knew about it, he would not think much about it.

When he thought of this, Xie Changshi's eyes darkened slightly.

Those people have suffered long enough in the iron mines!

The carriage moved at a slow speed along the winding path. After another night, the group finally saw the outskirts of Xinliang City.

The suburbs were the first to be built, with the purpose of giving people who moved to Xinliang a place to live.

At the same time, the official road from the suburbs to Xinliang City has been built for a long distance.

Gu Yuzhi stretched his neck and looked outside. After looking for a while, he didn't see the city wall. He couldn't help but muttered: "Sure enough, there are still not enough manpower. We haven't even repaired the city wall."

How can a city have no walls?

Gu Yuzhi remembered the first time he told his mother and concubine that after confirming that the fiefdom was located in Xinliang, his mother and concubine became particularly worried. Not only did they say that Xinliang was desolate, but it was also too close to Quanzhou. If the Beidi people knew As a prince in Xinliang, he might attack Xinliang with all his strength next time he invades.

It was also from that time that Gu Yuzhi learned that every city must build strong walls.

Now there is not even a shadow of the city wall of Xinliang...

Xie Changshi couldn't help but sigh, yes, if you want to develop Xinliang, the task is too difficult!
In view of the emperor's previous two acts of subsidy, Xie Changshi felt that the emperor must know about such a difficult matter!

Chen Dianyi had received the news that His Highness was coming to Xinliang early. At this time, he was waiting at the planned city gate with his guards. When he saw the carriage, Chen Dianyi couldn't hide the joy on his face.

"Your Highness."

He trotted forward: "Your Highness, you finally arrived safely."

Gu Yuzhi opened the car window and looked out. Compared with last time, Chen Dianyi had obviously lost a lot of weight, and his beard had grown longer, but he looked more energetic than at the house.

He jumped out of the carriage happily: "Chen Dianyi, I brought a lot of pastries made by Grandma Xu, as well as bacon and other things."

Gu Yuzhi scratched his head and said a little disappointed: "It's just that the weather is hot, and it's hard to bring the dishes cooked by Aunt Xu, otherwise I will bring you more dishes." Xie Changshi said, you also like to eat Aunt Xu's dishes. .”

Chen Dianyi was almost moved to tears by His Highness!
Who would have thought that His Highness, who liked to take a nap during his lectures, would actually remember to bring him food.

Chen Dianyi wiped the moist corners of his eyes: "I also miss His Highness very much. I look forward to Your Highness day and night to come to Xinliang to have a look and feel the changes in Xinliang."

Of course, when His Highness comes to see him, he will be even happier if he brings him cakes made by Aunt Xu!

As soon as he entered Xinliang City, Gu Yuzhi really felt the earth-shaking changes in this place.

Different from the gravel official roads outside the city, the roads in the city are basically made of bricks. The main road that was planned late is paved with bluestone bricks. Although the distance is not that far, it does have the appearance of a city. .

Chen Dianyi held a map in his hand. This map was drawn by Xie Changshi and was a layout map of the entire city of Xinliang.

As they walked, Chen Dianyi told Gu Yuzhi where this place was on the map. Looking at the bare ground, Gu Yuzhi found it hard to imagine what Xinliang would build in the future.After entering Xinliang City, Wen and Shu could not hide their excitement, especially Wen Xiuzhu.

Shu Xiaohan's agricultural development will see results by the end of this year, but Wen Xiuzhu's business development has already encountered a bottleneck.

If Xinliang City cannot develop, Wen Xiuzhu's business plan will be difficult to carry out.

He looked at the map in Chen Dianyi's hand and even started to plan where to open what kind of store and what kind of method to use to attract southern merchants to do business.

It would be great if the whole state could open a mutual market. He guaranteed that Xinliang could replace Changzhou and become the most prosperous city in Mobei.

Thinking of this, Wen Xiuzhu felt that his breathing was stagnant.

After a while, he said solemnly: "Your Highness, we must quickly increase the population of Xinliang. The rate of thousands of people a year is too slow. We must think of other ways."

Shu Xiaohan also nodded and said: "What Shopkeeper Wen said is absolutely right. An increase of 2000 people a year is very detrimental to the development of Xinliang. Let alone land reclamation, it is difficult to complete the city's basic construction."

Increasing fertility incentives can also increase the population, but children still need people to take care of them, so where will the labor come from?

The development of the city depends on young adults!
Shu Xiaohan was brainstorming, thinking about medical care, school, elderly care and other conveniences for future generations. She wished she could tell Gu Yuzhi everything right away.

She looked at Gu Yuzhi's snoring face, forced down the idea of ​​saying it now, and decided to make a plan so that Gu Yuzhi could use these plans to collect more people from all over Mobei. Xinliang was chosen to settle down.

Gu Yu didn't know that Shu Xiaohan had planned to give him a particularly difficult task, and he was happily following Chen Dianyi towards the palace.

Chen Dianyi said: "Because His Highness wants to build the reservoir first, the construction of the palace has just started. At present, the foundation of the entire palace has only been laid, and the front yard is being built."

People and Chen Dianyi discussed building the reservoir for a long time and decided to build the largest reservoir not far from the Xinliang Iron Mine because there is the largest river in Xinliang, the Heihe River.

When Gu Yuzhi heard the word Heihe, he subconsciously said: "Why is it called Heihe? Is it because the river water is black?"

What a strange river!

"If the water is black, will it be okay if everyone drinks it?"

Chen Dianyi explained patiently with a smile, but Xie Changshi twitched the corner of his mouth.

I don't know why, but the memory of the cyan building suddenly started to attack him.

The group of people stopped riding the carriage and walked slowly around the main road of Xinliang City. After a while, Gu Yuzhi discovered that drainage ditches had been dug on both sides of the main road, but they had not yet had time to lay bricks on the drainage ditches.

Seeing these details, Gu Yuzhi couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and called Shu Xiaohan silently in a cheerful tone: "Teacher Shu, Teacher Shu, look quickly. You and I told you to pay attention to the city's drainage. Chen Dianyi has done a good job."

Teacher Shu said that urban drainage is very important. Although Gu Yuzhi didn't understand, he still found an excuse to talk to Xie Changshi about the drainage ditch.

Xie Changshi didn't say anything at the time, but now he discovered that Chen Dianyi had built many more drainage ditches in Xinliang than he had seen in Changzhou.

Unlike being a transparent person in the palace, he felt like he was being taken seriously!