Du You and Cao Wannian were so excited that they couldn't sit down, they never dreamed that this sale would be so successful, it was a big siege, in less than a day, nearly 10,000 items were sold cleanly, and the income exceeded three million yuan, and the strength of Chang'an merchants was staggering.

"Your Highness, it's unbelievable, how can something that is at most hundreds of thousands of guan sell for three million guan?"

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Actually, it's not surprising, these items carry a kind of thing that rich businessmen have been longing for a long time, but can't get it, that is, identity, it can be said that the part that greatly exceeds the original value is a kind of identity premium, and the big businessmen are eager for identity, eager for status, and their desire is fully manifested in this sale." ”

Du You nodded and smiled: "Your Highness's price is the highest, it's amazing, that red sandalwood and white jade screen was originally priced at 20,000 guan, but I didn't expect it to be sold for 200,000 guan, and there is also a white jade bodhisattva, 10,000 guan is sold to 100,000 guan, I can't imagine that the wealth of Chang'an merchants is so strong." ”

Guo Song smiled and said: "These things themselves are also very valuable treasures, and they all come from the palace, their identities are extraordinary, they also want to pass on to their children and grandchildren as heirlooms, they just changed the wealth to store it in a different way, it turned out to be copper coins, and now it has become a treasure, they are actually not a loss." ”

Du You went back to sort out the account books and collect the money, Guo Song asked Cao Wannian: "When are the fortifications going to start?" ”

Cao Wannian said with a smile: "In fact, it has already begun, the walls of more than a dozen squares by the city wall have been repaired, and tomorrow the wall will begin to be broken, and the official rental houses will be built, and the construction of the city wall needs big bricks, and you can't find ready-made ones, but you can re-fire, the first batch has begun to be fired, and it is estimated that it will be burned in half a month, but you can dig the foundation first." ”

Guo Song nodded, "I'll take a look tomorrow!" ”

...........

Early the next morning, a large number of people gathered around the city wall, Guo Song also came to the main gate of Chang'an Mingde Gate, the left and right sides of the gate are respectively Anyi Fang and Yanzuo Fang, the two square walls were originally close to the city wall, and now they have to be demolished about sixty steps, so that they can go directly into the root of the city wall from the street.

In addition, in order to appease the feelings of the people who had been demolished, the government built a new wall to separate them from the root of the wall.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The soldiers struck the wall with battering rams, and after a few consecutive blows, a large hole was broken in the wall, and the soldiers struck with a large log, and divided the wall by two, and the sixty-pace-long wall was demolished.

The people around them exclaimed, they finally saw the root of the city wall, and they saw a long passage in front of them, with the city wall on the left and the fang wall on the right, and the passage was very wide.

Guo Song rode into the passage, the fang wall on the right was newly built, and the tall city wall on the left.

Several craftsmen were using lime to outline the scope of the future house, Guo Song turned over and dismounted, walked over, several craftsmen hurriedly stood aside, Guo Song looked at the scope they outlined, and asked, "How are you going to repair the drainage channel?" ”

The leader craftsman hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qijin, the drainage channel is built in front of each house, and it is covered with a large stone slab. ”

"Where's the water source?" Guo Song asked.

The main source of water here is wells, which are shared by about 20 households, and there is a ditch next to the well, through which the sewage from washing clothes and vegetables flows into the drain.

"How to solve the latrine?" This is also a big problem.

"The latrines will also be built, about 50 households will have one, paved with bricks and squatting pits, built relatively large, surrounded by walls, and then in the morning there will be dung trucks to collect the clean buckets of each household, just like the other houses."

Guo Song looked at the range of the white lime again, it seemed that there was still a yard, he turned around and asked Cao Wannian, "Do you still want to build a yard here?" ”

Cao Wannian said with a smile: "We plan to build three kinds of official rental housing, one is a single courtyard and two houses, the other is a single courtyard and three houses, and the third type has only a single room and no yard, mainly the third type, but we also need to consider some people with a large population, in the old city, many families have small courtyards." ”

Guo Song nodded, and asked again: "I see that the house is only twenty steps wide, so is the road forty steps too wide?" ”

Cao Wannian bowed and said: "Your Highness, there is still a row of shops or single-room houses to be built on this side of the fang wall, after all, hundreds of thousands of low-level people, it is impossible for them to go to the east and west markets to buy things, so all kinds of small stalls and small shops are needed, and I believe that it will be very lively here in the future." ”

Guo Song had to admit that Cao Wannian was more thoughtful than himself, and the low-level business thought of it, and he also thought of the cavalry patrolling the city to maintain order, and he would go down to the city to solve it if something happened.

"Not bad! Hopefully we can start construction soon! ”

Cao Wannian said with a smile: "It took us ten days to draw the white line, dig the drainage channel, lay stone slabs in the drainage channel, and then demolish a number of vacant houses in the old city, and use their bricks and tiles to build government rental houses, and the construction can start in ten days at the earliest." ”

"As soon as possible! Now we have enough financial resources, if they speed up, the wages can be increased, and you know, a large number of officials will move to Chang'an next month, and I am under a lot of pressure here. ”

"The lowly will understand, so the lowly will build and draw lines at the same time, and demolish and relocate at the same time, and the wages will be given according to ten hours a day, and three thousand craftsmen will be recruited."

Guo Song nodded, "Let's go see the old city!" ”

They turned their horses and headed toward the old city.........

Just when Chang'an was in full swing to build a large-scale city, the atmosphere in Jiangning Mansion was quite tense, and Han Rong, who had just been transferred from Mingzhou to Runzhou to serve as the assassin, took a boat close to the north shore for several days to observe.

He got the news that Zhu Zhu's army was building a big ship in Jiangyang County, which made Han Yun's heart worry, he knew what the other party wanted to do, he had three thousand sailors in his hands, more than thirty large ships of more than 1,000 stones, which were originally used to escort salt taxes, but now they are used to defend Zhu Zhu's army.

With this naval army, it is impossible for Zhu Zhu's Cao transport fleet to cross the Yangtze River, but if Zhu Zhu's army wants to consider the logistics of attacking Huaixi, then there is no need to build ships, and it is enough for them to have several thousand trough ships in their hands to go along the Jianghuai River.

Obviously, Zhu Zhu is in Longwangshu, occupied Yangzhou and Chuzhou, and is in the idea of fighting the rich Jiangnan.

Although Han Rong could understand Zhu Zhu's intentions, he had nothing to do, he only had 5,000 troops in his hands, in addition to the 3,000 naval army, there were only 2,000 soldiers left, and the troops of the two Zhejiang provinces were scarce, the combined strength of all states was less than 20,000 people, and the equipment was generally poor, once Zhu Zhu crossed the river, they were powerless to resist at all.

Zhu Jun should have also seen this, so there were signs of shipbuilding and southern invasion.

Han Yun returned to the military office, anxious and uneasy, and he ordered someone to find Luo Ziyu, the commander of the navy.

Luo Ziyu was originally the governor of Yangzhou, and was later demoted to the Runzhou regiment to train the reserve naval army of the militia, and the current Runzhou naval army was trained by him.

Not long after, Luo Ziyu hurriedly came to the military office, he knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See Han Xiangguo!" ”

Han Yun smiled bitterly, and said helplessly: "I've told you many times, I'm no longer Xiangguo, don't call me Xiangguo anymore, but you just won't listen." ”

Luo Ziyu grinned and said: "I have also told Xiangguo many times, fairness is in the hearts of the people, Xiangguo is a master who rules the world, and those people in the court are not worthy." ”

Han Yun pointed at him and said with a smile: "You are so disrespectful, beware of the imperial court dismissing you, etc., don't say that you can't ask for it." ”

Luo Ziyu's lips moved, and she couldn't help but scratch her head and laugh.

Han Yun put away his smile and said to him after a moment of silence: "I have been observing the situation on the other side for the past few days, I feel that Zhu Jun's next target is Jiangnan, I want to discuss with the general, is there any way to deal with it?" ”

Luo Ziyu said: "This problem is also being considered, and the lowly position believes that the best way is to strike first and completely destroy the enemy's shipyard." ”

"But we don't have the ability to do that!" Han Yun said very frankly.

Luo Ziyu nodded, he didn't want to boast at this time, the enemy army had 10,000 troops to protect the shipyard, and they only hit the stone with an egg when they went.

"Actually, we still have time."

Han Yun thought for a while and said: "It will take at least a year or two for the other party to build more than 100 big ships, can we ask the imperial court for support, if Runzhou has 30,000 heavy troops stationed, even if the other party has 100 big ships to cross the river, we are not afraid." ”

Luo Ziyu sighed, "Yangzhou has lost such an important financial and tax land, and the imperial court has not even reacted at all, and there is not even a minister to say a few words, it is like someone has stolen a pile of worthless wheat straw, Xiangguo is counting on the imperial court to help, but ..... Is the imperial court reliable? ”

Han Rong was also silent, although Luo Ziyu spoke very harshly, Han Rong had to admit that he was actually right.

The two were speechless for a moment.

At this time, Luo Ziyu said slowly: "Actually, there is a way to keep Jiangnan, and it depends on whether Xiang Guo is willing to accept it." ”

"What's the solution?" Han Rong asked.

Luo Ziyu was silent for a moment and said, "Ask His Royal Highness the King of Jin for help!" ”

(End of chapter)