Wentang

Chapter 369 City Construction
"Jiaodong Gong? Why are you still up?" Yue Shan calmed down and sat down beside him, asking.

"You asked Mr. Sun Ren to be on standby, how could I still be able to sleep." Li Daoyan said: "Looking at your expression, you must have asked something?"

"The question came out, but there is no proof." Yue Shan said helplessly.

Is Guo Wenchang a witness?Yes, no.It is impossible to correct a family of many generations with empty words.The Du family in Suzhou is a well-known great salt merchant accumulated for several generations, and has a very wide network of contacts. It is too difficult to move him without conclusive evidence.

"Haha..." Who knew that Li Daoyan laughed suddenly, and pointed at Yue Shan after a while and said, "You, I still don't understand what is meant by relatives of the emperor."

"What do you mean?" Yue Shan asked suspiciously.

"I'll explain to you that you don't understand. Write a secret letter about today's matter and pass it to the saint. Then you don't have to worry about anything and you will understand later." Li Daoyan shook his head and said pretending to be mysterious.

"Okay, I'll write it right away." Although he was very curious, Yue Shan didn't continue to ask.

"Remember to ask Guan Lijun to write a letter and hand it up together." Li Daoyan reminded again.

After finishing speaking, Li Daoyan got up and went back to rest, Yue Shan thought for a while and still didn't understand what he meant.What do you mean I don't understand what is the royal family?Could it be that the royal relatives can destroy a big family without evidence?
Forget it, don't think about it if you can't figure it out, and you will naturally know what's going on when you are decisive.

Thinking of this, he also got up and went back to his room, wrote the secret letter overnight, and sent it to the capital with Guan Lijun the next morning.

After temporarily solving the assassination, Yue Shan was able to concentrate on other government affairs.

The most urgent thing at present is to build the city.

"Yuehou, I have taken someone to Qinghe Town to see it. This is a blueprint drawn according to your request. What do you think?" Gan Yuanfeng spread a roll of blueprints on the table and said.

He is currently acting as the county magistrate in the position of chief bookkeeper, and he wants to be promoted to county magistrate in an exceptional way. Building a city is the only opportunity he can see.So he is more concerned about building the city than anyone else.

I have to go back and forth almost every day, personally lead people to explore the address and make design drawings.After more than a week of hard work, I finally have the first version of the drawings.

Looking at the tired-looking Gan Yuanfeng, Yue Shan comforted, "Don't be so anxious about this matter, your body is important, and Yanci County depends on you to manage it."

But do you think Yue Shan really loves him?Big mistake.

He worked so hard to become the county magistrate, and he had to put in as much effort as he wanted to get as much fruit. His current hard work was an opportunity that no one could ask for.How many people in later generations have to choose zero-zero-seven working methods for a meal.

His hard work now is nothing compared to the workers on the assembly line in future generations.

But you should still care about it, buy people's hearts.A few words matter, Huibufei why not do it.

"Xie Yuehou is caring, I'm not tired, I'll be fine when I go back to sleep." Gan Yuanfeng said gratefully.

Yue Shan nodded and turned his gaze to the blueprint, his brows furrowed when he saw it.Gan Yuanfeng's heart suddenly rose, isn't he satisfied?

However, Yue Shan didn't say anything, and continued to look down.

The overall effect of the city is good, and the boxy shape is more in line with the aesthetics of Chinese people.The streets are divided in an orderly manner, and each functional area is complete, which looks like a standard ancient city.

But because it was too standard, Yue Shan was dissatisfied.

"Add a few more shops in the place where people live, sell some groceries and daily necessities, and it's better to have a medical center." Yue Shan said.

"Why is this so?" Gan Yuanfeng asked puzzled.

"The city is so big, you have to travel several miles to buy a needle and thread, are you willing?" Yue Shan asked back:

"The city is for people to live in. The first consideration is naturally the people. You have to go to the market to buy everything, and the time is wasted on the road. How can you have time to work?"

Gan Yuanfeng's eyes lit up, but then he fell into a struggle again.What Yue Shan said was understandable to him, but it didn't meet the mainstream standards at all.The ancestors have built the city like this for generations, so there is a reason for it, how can it be changed randomly?
For a moment he was in a tangle.

Yue Shan didn't have time to confuse him, so he said directly: "That's it, I'll be responsible for any problems. As for where these shops are located, you can decide for yourself. Remember, it must be conspicuous and convenient for people to shop."

Speaking of ancient city construction, there are indeed many inconveniences. For example, what Yue Shan just said, the market is the place where people live in the market, and they should not be confused, otherwise they will be arrested and imprisoned.

Of course, there are also reasons for this era, in order to facilitate management and reduce the crime rate.

Some people want to ask, it’s okay to say that the city is small, what about the people who live in Chang’an City?Do you have to travel more than ten miles to the market to buy a needle?

At this time, a profession called drum shopkeeper was born. The drum shopkeeper is a person who carries a rattle drum and carries a burden to sell small items in the streets and alleys.

Buy small items from the drum shopkeeper, and go to the market for large items, or ask neighbors to pick them up. People always have a way.

The benefits of this one-size-fits-all approach are obvious, and it does reduce a lot of troubles from management.The disadvantage is also clear at a glance, it is too inconvenient to live.

However, urban construction must also keep pace with the times in the progress of the times. Of course, Yueshan is not planning to mix the market and residential areas together.He's not stupid, he can't do that.

In the simplest example, the market means a large floating population. What if someone wanders into the residents' homes and commits crimes?In ancient times, there was no such advanced criminal investigation technology, and it was difficult to detect such crimes.

Putting the market and the residential area too close is not conducive to municipal management.

His idea is to open several grocery stores at fixed locations in the residential area, specializing in selling small items to facilitate residents' lives.If conditions permit, we can also open a pharmacy or medical center to facilitate medical treatment.

Seeing that Yueshan had said so, Gan Yuanfeng didn't say anything, and it wasn't a big change, just set up a few stores.

But Yue Shan's next change made him dumbfounded - the sewer system.

In fact, sewers were not a rare thing in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Chang'an City had a relatively rudimentary sewer system, and Kaifeng City's sewer technology in the Song Dynasty was relatively mature.

Even later novelists invented an underground organization called Wuyoudong based on the sewer system, which is quite wonderful.

However, not all cities have sewers. In ancient times, only a few cities were built with this in mind, and most of them just dug a few simple open ditches.

What is Minggou?It's an uncapped sewer.Residents can pour water into open ditches to discharge outside the city.There are also many that don't even have open ditches, and the dirty water of life is dumped on the spot.

But the sewer is inseparable when it is in use, and no one will pay attention to it when it is not in use.Gan Yuanfeng is a dignified scholar, so naturally he won't pay attention to this stuff.

So he had no idea what a sewer was.

And the craftsman who designed this city didn't know whether he was not good at learning skills and didn't know about sewers, or he felt that there was no need for sewers in a small county town, so he didn't design such a thing.

It's okay.

From Yue Shan's point of view, the house can be dispensed with, but the sewer is indispensable. He can't stand the smelly and dirty water all over the street.

After an explanation, Gan Yuanfeng was so ashamed that he realized that he was far from being a qualified official: "Please give me a few days, Marquis Yue, and I will definitely design the best city."

After he finished speaking, he dropped the blueprint to hide his face and walked away, leaving only Yue Shan with a confused face.

Hey, don't go, I haven't finished yet.

(End of this chapter)