The city is very deserted, most of the people have gone to Chang'an City to make a living, only the old people and children are left, there are groups of bare-ass children playing on the street corner, an old woman saw a large group of horseback riding men, hurriedly called the children back, closed the door.

When they passed a monastery, more than 20 monks suddenly ran out of it, and knelt in front of their horses at once, Guo Song was startled, and hurriedly reined in the war horse, he saw clearly, it turned out to be a group of old nuns, all fifty or sixty years old, although they were wearing coarse cloth monk robes, but they were well maintained, and their skin was fair, and they could see that they were not young.

"What Jing Zhaoyin promised us, why hasn't it been fulfilled for a long time?" The old nun asked dissatisfiedly.

Du Wenxing's face was full of embarrassment, how could this group of old nuns appear in front of King Jin? He peeked at Guo Song's face uneasily,

"Du Yuanjun, where are they monks?" Guo Song asked.

"Back to Your Highness, they are all nuns of Ganye Temple."

'Ganye Temple? ’

Guo Song suddenly remembered, isn't Ganye Temple the place where Wu Zetian became a monk?

He glanced back at the temple, and sure enough, he saw the word 'Karma' written on the plaque at the gate.

At this time, the head of the old nun asked timidly: "May I ask if this lord is His Royal Highness the King of Jin?" ”

Just now, Du Wenxing's sentence of 'returning to His Highness' made them suddenly understand?

Guo Song smiled and nodded, "I am!" ”

A large group of nuns surrounded Guo Song at once, knelt in front of Guo Song's war horse, kowtowed, and said, "I beg Your Highness to give us a way to live!" ”

Du Wenxing whispered to Guo Song: "These nuns used to be the concubines of Emperor Xuanzong, and after Emperor Xuanzong died, they were all sent to Ganye Temple to become monks, and there were only about 20 people left in more than 100 people. ”

It turned out that they were all imperial concubines, no wonder they all looked like they had a good temperament, Guo Song asked, "What difficulties do you have?" ”

The old nun cried for the head: "We originally had the palace to give grain and rice every month, after Zhu Zhu usurped the throne the year before last, he ran out of grain and rice, we can only sell the old jewelry and clothes to live, and now we really can't live, we went to Du Yuanjun last month, he promised to solve the difficulties for us, but a month has passed, there is still no movement, we ran out of food half a month ago, and we can only live from house to house every day, and we have suffered all the white eyes and abuse. ”

Guo Song glared at Du Wenxing, "Why don't you solve the problem of survival for them?" ”

Du Wenxing smiled bitterly: "It's not that I don't want to solve it, as long as this opening is opened, tens of thousands of monks in Chang'an will come to block the door." ”

"But they are in a special situation, how can they be allowed to beg like ascetics? The news spreads, do you want my Guo Song's face anymore? ”

"Humble duty knows wrong."

Guo Song turned back to his soldiers and said, "Give them a hundred taels of silver first." ”

The soldiers took out a bag of silver and handed it to the old nun, the nuns were so excited that they clasped their palms together and chanted the scriptures, Guo Song said to them again: "Han Chang'an City will be demolished in the future, there is a Guanyin Temple in the Daming Palace, which is currently empty, you all move over, and each person will have 3,000 yuan per month in the future, so that you can spend the rest of your life in peace." ”

All the nuns clasped their hands together with tears and said, "Amitabha, His Royal Highness the King of Jin is merciful and compassionate!" ”

Guo Song said to Du Wenxing again: "According to what I said, you have settled them all in the past two days, not only them, but the former palace concubines who were away from home will all be taken back to Daming Palace for support." ”

"The lowly job will be done as soon as possible!"

Guo Song didn't have the heart to continue his inspection, he comforted the nuns a few words, and then turned his horse's head and returned to Chang'an City.

The group went out of Xi'an Gate, but unexpectedly found a group of people standing outside the wall of Weiyang Palace, pointing to Weiyang Palace and discussing something, Guo Song recognized the tall and fat guy at a glance, and there was a thin dry old man next to him, who was not Li An?

Guo Song smiled, turned back to his relatives and said, "Go and call the two of them up." ”

The soldiers urged the horses to gallop away, and after a while, Zhang Lei and Li An hurried over and saluted Guo Song together, and the two were a little embarrassed.

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Are you two going to the old city, or have you already returned?" ”

"Lao An called me up early in the morning, we have finished the site selection and are preparing to return to Chang'an."

Guo Song smiled: "Then let's go to lunch together!" ”

The two met Du Wenxing again, Du Wenxing was very familiar with them, and knew that their relationship with King Jin was not ordinary, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned the salute.

The group entered Chang'an City, Du Wenxing had something to do, and went back to the official office first, and the three of them came to the West Market, entered the God of Wealth Restaurant invested by Zhang Lei, and asked for a private room to sit down.

Zhang Lei poured Guo Song a full glass of wine, Guo Song picked up the wine glass and said: "I also looked at the old Chang'an City today, how to settle the hundreds of thousands of people in the most troublesome thing now, do you have any solutions?" ”

Li An smiled: "When His Royal Highness saw us, Zhang Lei and I were discussing this matter, many people live in Han Chang'an City is actually very inconvenient, Chang'an Restaurant has to close early, the reason is to let the guys rush back to the old city, the city gate will be closed when it is late, can't get out of Chang'an City or a trivial matter, can't enter the old city, you can only stay in the wild for one night, shop guys, begging people are the same, after the weather is hot, the people in the city are going out at night, they can only go back early, thus missing a lot of opportunities to make money." ”

"If it's so inconvenient, why do they stay at any other place?"

Zhang Lei raised three fingers as thick as carrots, and said with a smile: "Two words, cheap!" ”

Guo Song said angrily: "I can't tell the difference between two and three, what kind of businessman should I be, let's be more detailed." ”

"At present, the cheapest rent in Chang'an is Guiyifang, 700 Wen per month for a house, and the rent in the old Chang'an City is 400 Wen per month, which is 300 Wen cheaper, and these 300 Wen can buy four buckets of rice, and the people at the bottom can only earn two cents a month, saving 300 Wen per month, which is 3,600 Wen a year, which is one acre of land in my hometown! So everyone would rather work hard and live in the old city. ”

"So how do you solve this problem?" Guo Song asked.

"The method is also very simple, the government builds a large number of cheap rental houses, a monthly 500 Wen, long-term unchanged, and does not rush people, although it is more expensive than the old city of 100 Wen, I believe that everyone is willing to live in Chang'an City, will not go to the old city."

"!"

Guo Song glared at Zhang Lei and said, "There are so many places to build low-rent houses, what else do I want to do in the old city to build an official house?" ”

Li An said slowly: "Your Highness wants to develop the old city, not just planning to build an official building!" ”

Guo Song nodded, "You're right, I also want to move Taixue, Gongyuan, Confucian Temple, Jinjuanyuan, Guanyi, etc., and the official office of Jingzhao Mansion may also go over." ”

"Isn't this okay, they went over, and freed up a large area of land, which was just used to build cheap rental housing for the government, if His Highness thinks it is inappropriate, there is another way."

"What's the other way?"

The institutions that Guo Song is going to move to are currently in the best locations, and Guo Song does not want to use these areas to build cheap rental housing, and it will not be cheap to build.

Li An smiled: "I said that the other way is actually very simple, Your Highness only needs to abolish one rule." ”

Guo Song suddenly became interested, and hurriedly asked, "What regulations?" ”

Li An smiled mysteriously and said: "In fact, this suggestion has been put forward for many years, but it has not been adopted, Your Highness think about it, in fact, Chang'an really has vacant land, where is it?" ”

Guo Song thought about it carefully, he suddenly slapped his head, how could he forget the open space at the root of the city wall.

In order to defend the safety of the city, the Chang'an city wall is not allowed to build houses within 50 steps, this ban from the Sui Dynasty when the construction of Daxing City, the Tang Dynasty continued this ban, Chang'an City is close to the city wall within 50 steps are open land, belongs to the military use, in fact, Taiyuan City, Luoyang City is also like this, Taiyuan City used this land to build the examination tribute institute.

You can use this land to build cheap resettlement houses.

"You mean, the city wall restriction decree was abolished, is that so?"

Li An nodded, "It's exactly this order, but Your Highness has to understand one thing, why has everyone wanted to use this land for decades, but they just can't use it?" ”

"Tell me, how can you make use of them?"

Li An said unhurriedly: "To use this land, two conditions must be met, the first is to withdraw the curfew, and the second is to withdraw the ban, so I will give His Royal Highness two auxiliary suggestions, the first is to cancel the curfew, you can close the city gate, but don't close the square gate, many shops can be open all night at night, and the same is true for stalls, so many people don't want to live in the old Chang'an City anymore."

The second is to open up all the walls under the city wall, build the square gate of the opposite road, or simply open it, so that the open space at the root of the entire city wall is connected as a whole, and it is enough to build 100,000 low-rent houses. ”

Guo Song was overjoyed, raised his glass and said, "You have solved a big problem of mine, come!" I'll give you a glass. ”