There was also a time for the long meeting to end, and when the task of the last central department spat out of Yang Shiqi's mouth, the silver moon outside the Fengtian Hall had been hanging high for a long time.

Zhu Yunwen got up and stretched, only to feel that Zhou's body was sore except for exhaustion.

"Everything that should be explained has been explained, after the secretary leaves the palace, the General Administration Department has already arranged a residence, let's disperse."

"Congratulations to Your Majesty."

turned around and left, Zhu Yunwen, who had a headache, now just wants to fall asleep, his sleep quality has not been good, and he has held a long meeting from morning to night for two days in a row, which is really unbearable.

Thirty-two or thirteen-year-old Zhu Yunwen couldn't bear it, let alone the group of middle-aged courtiers in their forties and fifties in the Fengtian Palace, but they were not in the mood to complain that they were tired, because after only a hasty night's rest, there were still several days of long meetings waiting for them.

Mandarin Palace, the cabinet meeting is the place to do practical things.

The tasks of all ministries and provinces have been set, and in the next time, it will be their turn to fight in the Wenhua Palace, reaching out to ask the cabinet for money.

"Don't be in a hurry to say anything else, first discuss the results of His Majesty's preparation to move the capital to Beiping."

In the midst of the noise, Yang Shiqi picked up the startling wood he was carrying and smashed it hard, and the crisp echo echoed through the hall, suppressing the noisy scene.

"Wei Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Sun Yu, the political envoy of Beiping Zuobu, you two first sum up how much budget and how long it will take to build a new capital in Beiping."

The two glanced at each other, but Sun Yu asked first.

"Dare to ask the elder of the pavilion, is the standard for building a new capital fully in line with Nanjing?"

"That's nature."

Yang Shiqi bowed: "Either don't build, you can't build it in a so-so way, whether it's the capital or the imperial city, the palace, we must refer to Nanjing can only build better, and not worse, by the way, the paving road in the new city should be re-planned." ”

Sun Yu thought for a long time before he spoke: "Xiaguan bluntly said that Beiping is a place of long-term war, and it has fought for nearly 400 years.

First of all, this outer city, if it is two circles, it will go to the east and west sixteen miles, north and south eleven miles, build five zhang high, and then set up the corner tower sixteen, the bell tower four, only this one, 300,000 people are levied in advance, and it takes ten years to start construction.

One should build a city bluestone, transported from Shanxi, and need to use 100,000 people.

The imperial city was built, 10,000 skilled craftsmen, 100,000 people, all of them should be needed, high wooden beams, to be cut from the southwest, transported from Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, thousands of miles of transportation, along the road to transport the consumption is also huge.

Beijing brick paving, gold and jade carved beams, and cinnabar powder walls, glazed tiles, more than 10,000 skilled craftsmen are required, and dozens of kiln factories are needed. ”

In the main hall, there was silence.

Wei Jun swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said in his heart, boy, did you already know that the emperor was going to move the capital, otherwise how could this preparation be so sufficient?

I started to think wildly in my head, and I heard a voice in my ear.

"Wei Butang has calculated it?"

Urgent?

Wei Jun was annoyed, how could such a large expense be calculated for a while and a half, but when he looked up, he found that it was none other than Xia Yuanji who asked this.

The latter's eyes were full of anxiety.

"This, I understand where the specific calculation will be for a while and a half, at most there is an approximation."

Wei Jun reported a budget with a sigh.

"If the manpower is sufficient, only counting the materials, the outer city is more than 50 miles around, and the building is five zhang high, I am afraid that there will be no more than ten years to get down, and the cost will be more than 200 million."

Countless sweats began to seep out of Xia Yuanji's head.

"Let's talk about the imperial city, the imperial city can be rebuilt in the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the big cost is not much, it can be repaired left and right, it will take a year, and the cost will be three or five million.

The construction of the palace city, with the Nanjing Imperial Palace as the blueprint for the re-inspection, covers an extremely wide area, so it is necessary to demolish the Yuan Palace to fill part of the materials, and the rest is transported from the southwest, plus the material yard, the kiln factory, the whitewash tile and pave the bricks, the overall calculation, it is almost ten years smaller, and the cost is more than sixty or seventy million. ”

The outer city and the palace city were built together, and it was completed in more than ten years, with a total cost of nearly 300 million.

Overall, the estimated repair time is similar to that of Zhu Di's relocation of the original time and space, but the cost is 200 million more.

The reason is very simple, when Zhu Laosi moved the capital, Ding Xi was not canceled, and it was still the obligation of the people to serve the conscription.

As for the construction needs, there is no raw material money for this part of the wood and stone extraction, and the wood and stone are originally state-owned resources, but the workers who cut the wood and take the stone have to pay the wages.

Including the cost of eating and drinking during transportation, and the wages for loading, unloading and moving, this is not great.

The idea of the Yongle Dynasty is that it is the honor of the people to repair the palace for the emperor, and you have to repair it if you don't give you money, and you dare to disobey it?

This has led to a huge disparity in spending.

"Does manpower still cost money?"

Xia Yuanji was annoyed at the time: "To build a new capital, the manpower cost will be hundreds of millions, and this money cannot be spent, so the household department will take 20 million to support the war and go to the southwest to capture a group of laborers to hand over to the Ministry of Industry." ”

The act of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to recruit people in the country is unacceptable to the current cabinet, because it could have spent less money to plunder millions of labor slaves who did not need to spend money, and it was not distressing to die.

The wolf nature of plundering has been deeply rooted in the bones of the cabinet.

Wei Jun didn't care: "As long as there are enough people to do heavy work, then at most tens of thousands of craftsmen can be recruited to build the palace and some decoration expenses, which can save most of it." ”

"Then it's decided."

Xia Yuanji waved his hand: "Immediately I will draft the book, and after submitting it to His Majesty for approval, the household department will immediately send the money to the General Staff Department, and the arsenal and the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry will make every effort to produce armaments, and Jiangxi and Zhejiang will open warehouses to transport grain. ”

It takes a few dollars to produce equipment, and Xia Yuanji understands this account in his heart.

The conversation was so hot that there was a general attitude that it was settled, but the other ministers present at the meeting were already dumbfounded.

For more than ten years, the total expenditure of hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions has been set?

Everyone is a political envoy of the third grade, and a year's worth of silver is only 1,000 taels, and it seems to be 10 million to be an official for 10,000 years.

Truly, there is no harm without contrast.

The emperor is so willing to spend money, you will give us more money, the big guy is happy, and he will sing praises to you every day, what an emperor through the ages, as long as you want, an emperor through the ages, and even three emperors and five emperors of Degai.

Isn't it fragrant to spend money on our blades and change the reputation of a hundred generations?

"Anything."

Sure enough, there was a big feeling that his heart was dripping with blood and opened his voice, "Elder Yang Ge, why don't we go to Your Majesty together to persuade you, the cost of moving the capital is too great, and the dynasty has just had a surplus now, is it too extravagant to spend so much." ”

"Yes, yes, moving the capital has all kinds of disadvantages and no benefits."

Many people also echoed it, in addition to feeling sorry for the money, among the nearly 100 courtiers in this Fengtian Palace, nearly eighty percent are from Jiangnan.

Jiangxi accounts for half of it, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili are also a lot.

These people's homes and properties are basically placed around Nanzhili, and they have to be sold when they move north.

I can't think about it, and it hurts when I think about it.

If you can't say it directly, then find a reason.

"The north is barren and a place of war for a long time, after moving the capital to the north, all the food and clothing must be sent from the north and south of the Jiangnan, and the consumption along the way is huge."

As soon as the minister of Yijing spoke, he was pulled by his colleagues.

The former was still a little angry, and then he saw the big guy's eyes as if he was looking at a joke.

Then, the Beijing official's face turned red.

I almost forgot that the current north is not the north of the Hongwu year.

With the large-scale development of the Guandong and Liaodong Plains, the grain self-sufficiency in the north was achieved in the first two years, and even, together with the development of the Moting animal husbandry, Liaodong, and Pingjin Bohai Sea fishing and hunting industries, the north is not much better than the south of the Yangtze River in terms of meat and dairy products, and there are still large areas of self-operated folk farming in the rural areas of Hebei.

Food, clothing, porcelain and iron utensils, the north is rapidly recovering, and the dependence on the south is not at all the same as it was a few decades ago.

This is the Jianwen Dynasty, not the Yongle Dynasty of the original time and space.

"Actually, Xia Guan feels that it is necessary to move."

At this time, Sun Yu sighed: "Since Emperor Er's ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, the land of Hebei has fallen into the hands of foreign races for nearly five hundred years.

Since the Jianwen Dynasty, a large number of Han people in the south of the Yangtze River moved north to Hebei and Liaodong, and there were many Han people and few people, so it was time to move the capital to the north at this time to deepen the dependence of the people in the north on the national dynasty.

Otherwise, it is difficult to light the north and the south, is it possible, I only have half of the world in the south of the Yangtze River? ”

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Shiqi knocked on the big case again and interrupted the argument.

"It's not that you are called to discuss the good or bad of the matter of moving the capital, moving the capital is a holy oracle, it is imperative, and you don't have to worry about how to provide for it after moving the capital, the matter of the Ministry of Industry and Beiping has been decided, the problems of your provinces, how much support you need from the cabinet, hurry up, let's strive to settle it before the National Day, and the project will be approved, and the cabinet will be submitted to the imperial court for approval."

Yang Shiqi can see that the minister in front of him is really speaking, how can anyone really oppose the relocation of the capital for the country.

It's not all selfishness.

There are pros and cons to moving the capital, good and bad can be found out, there is no need to fight for right and wrong.

Sun Yu and others supported the relocation of the capital to the north, and most of them were from the north, and those who opposed the relocation of the capital were all southerners.

Let these two parties talk about objective analysis, and anyone can say a lot of truth.

Life is a record of officialdom.

Fortunately, don't make any noise, the emperor has decided to move, and the relocation is over.

What's the matter, won't it take more than ten years?