Wentang

Chapter 378
More than 63 workers were mobilized, [-] commercial firms provided material support, and the imperial court also paid a part of the money. It took nearly four months to complete the city covering an area of ​​four square kilometers.

The new city is very magnificent. The outer wall is eight meters high, the wall base is ten meters wide, and the inside is rammed earth and covered with blue bricks. It is not an exaggeration to say that horses can run on the city wall.

In ancient times, this standard can only be regarded as a general entrance examination, which is higher than the standard of ordinary county towns and lower than that of big cities.

The horizontal and vertical layout of the city is like a vegetable patch, with a dedicated residential area, market area, government office area, and a teaching area.

There are three broad avenues vertically and horizontally connecting the whole city together, and there are countless small and medium roads connecting thousands of households.

Every small street in the residential area has a water well for residents' life.Of course, if you still find it inconvenient, you can pay for the drilling in your own small yard.

The sewer leads directly to the door of every house, and there are special trash cans at every intersection, which are cleaned regularly.

It can be said that the design of this city has reached the limit at that time, surpassing Chang'an City conveniently.

But what came with it was that the expenditure was seriously exceeded. The fiscal deficits of Yanci County and Dizhou Prefecture far exceeded those of other states and counties.In terms of the profit rate of a purely agricultural society, it cannot be replaced for decades, and this is still without calculating the profit.

However, Yue Shan is not worried, because the nine counties of Dizhou have also been digging salt fields in the past few months, and the salt fields have reached nearly 3000 mu so far.Calculated based on the daily production of 660 catties per group of salt fields, [-] mu is more than [-] groups, with a daily output of [-] catties of table salt.

(Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Salt Field uses the ancient method of sun-drying salt, with a daily output of about one ton per mu, at least five or six hundred catties. Here, a group of salt fields is actually three mu, and the output has also been reduced to two hundred catties, which is a very conservative figure.)
With a daily output of more than 600 million catties of salt, it is worthwhile to build ten new cities.

Moving to a new house is a joy of housewarming, and most people will gather a few relatives and friends to celebrate.Relocating to a new city, which may only happen once in a few lifetimes, naturally needs to be held more grandly.

An auspicious day was chosen, and on that day all the dignitaries from the nine counties of Dizhou attended, and there were still tens of thousands of people watching.

Yue Shan led people to worship the gods such as Haotian, Mazu, and the land to pray for protection, and then pushed open the gate of the city himself.

This opening of the city gate is symbolic. The ancient city gate was very heavy, and it usually required the joint efforts of several big men to open and close it. Even if he was exhausted, he couldn't push it alone.

In fact, he put his hand on the city gate first, and then Li Daoyan, Yu Kexun, Tian Xuechen, Gan Yuanfeng and others came together and pushed the city gate open.

In front of you is a wide and flat road.

The hardening technology of the pavement adopts the construction technology of Chang'an City Avenue. The loess is compacted and covered with yellow sand, which is durable and easy to maintain.

When Yue Shan stepped into the city gate, the others followed.Of course, those who can follow in are all famous figures, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter.

Now this is an empty city without an owner. If so many people are put in, the door panels may be demolished in a short time.

There are neat rows of houses on both sides of the street, most of which are two-story buildings of the same style, a few are three-story buildings, and few have one-story buildings.

There are lanes reserved for every few houses. This kind of lane can only pass people but not cars, so the ground is paved with green bricks to avoid muddy water in rainy days.

It's not just the aisle in front of you that is like this, the whole city is of the same standard.Except for the avenues where cars are often used, the rest of the trails are all paved with blue bricks, which is not even comparable to Chang'an City.

Of course, the area of ​​Chang'an City is too large, more than 80 square kilometers, paving all the roads with bricks is too extravagant and wasteful.

That's why Qian Yueshan made it like this because the big salt field in Dizhou is not bad, and he wouldn't be so extravagant and wasteful in other places.

But to be honest, you get what you pay for, and the pavement paved with blue bricks is beautiful and clean.

After wandering around the door for a while, Yue Shan took people to the government office.

Xinyanci County is both the seat of the Zhou government and the seat of the county government, so there are two yamen, one is the Yamen of Yanci County, and the other is the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion.

Yue Shan naturally went to the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, and he will work here for a long time in the future.

The governor's mansion is so tall and majestic that it is daunting.

Many people in later generations said that the government office should be repaired in a simpler way, which means loving the people like a son and being close to the people.

Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty even stipulated the specifications of the yamen, which were not allowed to be modified at will.As a result, some yamen have not been repaired for tens or hundreds of years, and the doors and windows leak air and the roof leaks rain.

Yue Shan didn't mean to ridicule him, this Emperor Hongwu won the world with one bowl at the beginning, even the common people's difficulties, that's really kind to the common people.The bad reputation is because too many scholars have been killed, and the history books are written by scholars, so how could they be written well by him.

He just felt that Emperor Hongwu had overcorrected, and it didn't take long for the dilapidated yamen to become formalistic, and what should be greedy is still greedy.

After all, the yamen is a yamen, which represents the majesty of the imperial court. It doesn't matter if it is repaired better, and sometimes it is more awe-inspiring and dare not cause trouble.

Of course, regardless of the local economic situation and the actual need for random repairs and overhauls, they should indeed be won.

Yue Shan felt that it would be no problem to build a larger government office based on the situation in Dizhou, including the construction of Yanci county government office.

After entering the government office, Yue Shan found a random place to sit down and said, "Haha...you must be tired from walking all day, sit down and rest."

Everyone found a place to sit down and rest. Li Daoyan sat down beside Yue Shan and said with a smile, "After the new city is built, I don't need to live in that crappy house at last."

"Shabby house? You just think too much about enjoying yourself. No matter how many people want to live in your house, you can't live there." Yue Shan sneered.The two got to know each other well, and their conversation became casual.

"You're just bragging, aren't you, who gave me a good ancestor." Li Daoyan laughed.

"My ancestors who have never been rich have no common language with you." Yue Shan also laughed.

"The new city is indeed not comparable to the old city, and this is all the work of Marquis Yue." Yu Kexun also said with a smile.

"Don't do your work, you still owe a lot of money to those merchants. When the weather gets hot, you should hurry up and start drying the salt, and don't make it a joke if you don't pay the bill by then." Yue Shan said.

"Don't worry, Yuehou, even if we put our lives on the line, we will help you save face." Jia Yizhang joked with a smile on his face, but he was really nervous.

Not everyone is qualified to joke with the leader, he is also testing his position in Yue Shan's mind.

"Yizhang didn't expect you to learn to flatter and flatter, and I will stay away from you in the future, so as not to be spoiled by you." Yue Shan pointed him with a finger and smiled.

Jia Yizhang heaved a sigh of relief, and then there was a burst of ecstasy, it was done.As the person who was the first to take refuge in Qing Shuihou, he really has some status in Qing Shuihou's heart, so there is a lot to be done to curry favor.

If you can become a confidant, the future is just around the corner.

Tian Xuechen and others are indifferent to this, while other officials with ordinary relationships are envious.

"The new city is built, what are you going to do with the old city?" Li Daoyan asked suddenly.

(End of this chapter)