I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1110 No One Can Stop Me
Walking on the streets of Nanjing at this time, watching the pedestrians coming and going, the streets full of fireworks, and the scenes in memory slowly overlapped, so that Li Tian had a kind of blending that actually existed in it and integrated with this world feeling.

This kind of feeling is real, and it is the Tao that can be touched and felt.

"This is the real Nanjing City. This is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, a prosperous resort that has been passed down for thousands of years."

It has to be said that today's Beijing city is completely different from this place.

Compared with the city that has prospered for more than a thousand years and nurtured countless literati, the city that flourished after four to five hundred years in the Ming and Qing dynasties is like comparing a new industrial city with an ancient art capital.

Although there is not much difference in population and status, the cultural background contained in it can still be seen at a glance.

The city of Beijing feels like a city that is rising and vigorous, but still very rough.

But Nanjing City makes people feel as if they have stepped into a picture scroll when they set foot here.

"This is a mature city with a millennium heritage that is still full of vigor and vitality. This is what Ming Dynasty should look like in a prosperous age!"

After sighing, Li Tian felt an inexplicable sense of heaviness in his heart.

It is precisely because Nanjing City has the status of the accompanying capital, and there are many honorable lords living in the city, that the city has the current level of prosperity.

But once he cancels the status of Nanjing's accompanying capital and makes it an ordinary city, let those honorable masters move out of here.

Then here, will it still be full of vitality and show majestic vitality like it is now?

You must know that the reason why this city can reach the level of being the most wealthy in the world today is that those nobles have made immeasurable contributions.

This is like Las Vegas in the United States.

Where used to be just a remote town in the northwest desert.

But because of special policies, a large number of wealthy people are attracted to buy properties here.

However, countless ordinary people who dream of making money came here after hearing the news, which turned the original desert into a leisure resort that the rich people all over the world yearn for.

But once the United States twitched its head that day, that privilege was revoked.

The rich will leave, and the ordinary people who can't make money will also leave. In a few years, the once high-rise city will turn into a desert again, and become a desolate city that no one cares about.

Nanjing City may not be so serious.

But no one can guarantee whether there will be prosperity here without the nobles and the support of the nobles.

Even if it can still maintain the size of a populous city, its vitality and upgrades will definitely be weakened to a minimum.

Perhaps worse than a pool of stagnant water.

Is such a city really what I want to see? Is this kind of future what I want?

Seemingly feeling the sense of loneliness in Li Tian, ​​Wang Fu asked cautiously from the side,

"What is the young master thinking, why does this old slave feel that the young master seems to be in a heavy heart."

Li Tian turned his head and glanced at him, then said with a wry smile,

"Wang Fu, do you think I did the right thing this time? Downgrade Nanjing City and drive out all the nobles in the city. Will this really make Nanjing City better!"

To be honest, except for Li Tian who is very firm, everyone else is not very optimistic about the downgrade of Nanjing City and the expulsion of all nobles, even Yang Shiqi and others do not agree.

After all, this matter involves too much, and may even shake the foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty.

But Li Tian's persistence is not without reason. As courtiers, they can only obey orders and have no room to express their opinions.

But since Li Tian asked, Wang Fu didn't dare to speak directly what was in his heart, but changed his rhetoric and said,

"Young master, do you think that this matter may have unexpected results?"

"Well, there is one point. I was quite confident at first, but after I really saw the smiling faces of the people all over the street, my heart was a little shaken."

Hearing this, Wang Fu's body shook slightly. He knew that if he said something contrary to the plan, it might affect Li Tian's decision-making to a certain extent.

But he finally held back.

He took a deep breath and squeezed out a smile before saying to Li Tian,
"My lord, you are the co-lord of the world, and your will is the will of the world.

The old slave believes that the reason why you made this decision must be after careful consideration. The old slave is humble and dare not comment on your decision indiscriminately! "

There was a wry smile on Li Tian's face. Wang Fu's words meant that he didn't say anything. At the same time, he also knew that Wang Fu had something in his heart, but he didn't say it directly.

However, Wang Fu's words can be regarded as a reminder to Li Tian.

This matter is the result of his deliberation and repeated consideration. Even though Nanjing City will experience some pains at the beginning, after the pains, it will inevitably be a more prosperous stage of surging development.

The so-called no destruction, no complete eradication, those honorable moths who suck the blood of the people and nourish themselves, the people of Nanjing City will still be unable to get rid of the current life after another 200 years.

Thinking of this, Li Tian's expression became firm again.

"Why do you think so much? This road has been proven by countless revolutionary predecessors, and it is correct. I have no hesitation."

Having figured this out, when he turned his gaze to the street again.

The bustling crowd and the noisy hawking were no longer so pleasant.

"Guest officer, three pennies per catty can't be lowered anymore. If it is lower, I won't be able to earn anything. I still have a family to support..."

"What does it matter to me whether you support your family or not? Why do other people's families have two pennies while yours only three pennies?"

"Guest officer, how can it be the same? I grow it at home, pick it early in the morning, and pick it more than ten miles to sell it here to ensure freshness.

How can it be compared with those that have been picked up long ago. "

"Fresh? Do you call this wilted thing fresh? You're lying to a ghost!"

"Guest officer, this is indeed picked in the morning, but it's a bit sluggish due to the bumpy road for more than ten miles..."

"Whatever you say is what you say. It's only two pennies. Are you going to sell it or not!"

"Hey, okay, sir, how many catties do you want..."

In a different state of mind, listening to these cries is already a different feeling.

Baskets full of fresh vegetables have to travel more than ten miles, not to mention how long the vegetable farmer needs to travel for these ten miles. Once the vegetables are at least thirty to fifty catties.

Such a weight, such a distance, even the elite soldiers of later generations may not be able to walk down.

(End of this chapter)