In the face of the passivity of the ministers, Zhao Yu was very angry and helpless. When Qi Yaqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, asked for the transformation of Lin'an City to reduce pollution to the city at the court meeting, it immediately sparked controversy. They thought that this was too disturbing for the people to be tempted, and that the river in the city could be desilted and the garbage could be cleaned up, rather than the whole thing being transformed.

In addition to these suggestions for tinkering, some people think that the current financial situation has just improved, so they spend a huge amount of money to renovate Lin'an City, which is really a waste of money for the people; There are also people who believe that since 'recovering the Central Plains and expelling the Tatars' is the main task at present, then it is inevitable to return the capital to Bianjing, and there is no need to carry out large-scale renovation of Xingzheng; other people even think that Emperor Gaozong set his line in Hangzhou in those years, and it was instructed by the masters, and the landscapes and buildings are all said to be changed easily.

Everyone actually knew that this was the little emperor's idea, but they didn't dare to target Zhao Yu, so they turned to Qi Yaqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and played impeachment one after another. said that he was so happy, and in order to achieve his own name, he bewitched the emperor to repair the city. And this is still polite, some ministers bluntly said that it is in the name of benefiting the people, but in fact, it is to enrich their own pockets and receive benefits from it. What's more, the impeachment of him is a move that harbors evil intentions, and wants to use this to stir up the people's hearts and trap the emperor for injustice and injustice, which is a traitor in the court.

Fortunately, several consuls and ministers are still sober, of course they know that recovering the Central Plains is a matter of one day, even if it can be done within three or two years, but it will take a long time to select a new capital, build a palace, and then move in. The old man in Lin'an City, who is already in his twilight years, can no longer bear the increasingly heavy burden brought about by the development of the city, and is ready to be renovated. But they prefer to renovate parts of the city, but they can relocate the handicraft workshops in the city, treat the river like dredging, and still have reservations about 'demolishing houses too much'.

And the reasons given by the deacons are difficult for Zhao Yu to refute. First, the large-scale transformation cost is very heavy, but at present, it is necessary to support the Yangtze River defense line, and there are two battles to be fought to aid the west and conquer Dali, but the treasury has very little savings and is not enough to support, so the transformation can be carried out step by step; Such a large project of the two will inevitably mobilize manpower, which will inevitably affect the summer harvest and summer planting, and then increase the burden on the people.

Although they didn't say the third point explicitly, Zhao Yu also understood the meaning. To clean up the invasion of the streets, both the government and the opposition know that the resistance does not come from the people, but actually from the officials and magnates of the DPRK and China. Therefore, 'excessive house demolition' is a landmine, and whoever steps on it will hurt whom. And the emperor of this dynasty wanted to do it several times, but he returned with a feather, so he persuaded him not to touch the nail anymore, but he couldn't get off the stage and didn't say anything, and made enemies for himself.

Zhao Hao felt that the words were all good words, but they didn't listen to them. And Qi Yaqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who was supposed to preside over the matter, was also worried, not only has he now become a public enemy of the government and the opposition, but he has been impeached repeatedly, which has made him physically and mentally exhausted, but he does not dare to disobey him, and he fell ill in a hurry, and asked for leave to raise soldiers at home. Zhao Yu knew that he had a heart disease and wanted to avoid it, but he was helpless, he couldn't force a 'patient' to work!

Seeing that the 'blueprint' he drew was in danger of being shelved before it was finalized, could Zhao Hao not be annoyed? But the top and bottom were passive and slack off on this matter, which made him feel that the public was angry. If you really turn your face with the ministers because of this matter and forcefully implement your own 'good governance', it will seem a little unworthy, and it will make people think that they are children, they are not stable enough, they like to act rashly, and they will become a little stick for them to beat themselves in the future.

Since Zhao Yu was willing to give up easily, since the ministers disturbed the people by 'demolishing houses excessively', and it was easy to provoke the people to prevent the transformation, and he did not have much opinion on the relocation of the workshop and the dredging of the river in the city, then he decided to start the transformation project first, and gradually start the renovation project, he did not believe that he would not be able to cure these people. It is the rainy season, and it is obviously not the best time to intercept the dredging of the river in the city, and it is the moment when the new currency is issued, and it is not suitable to carry out demolition, so the workshop demolition is the opening battle.

As for manpower is not a problem, he has already thought about it. More than 20,000 enemy troops were captured in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and reorganized on small islands outside the mouth of the river, and according to convention, these captives were not incorporated into the combat troops, but were generally organized into baggage troops to engage in 'urgent, difficult, and dangerous' tasks, such as mining, smelting, drying salt, repairing, and building water conservancy.

As for the issue of funds, Zhao Yu is really tight at the moment, and he doesn't dare to expect that the imperial court will allocate funds, even if the household department is his own person, but in the wave of opposition from everyone, none of the prime ministers will countersign it, so his edict is equivalent to a piece of waste paper. Although the summer tax began to be collected, in order to cope with the possible situation of the issuance of new currency, it has been ordered to defer the payment, so there is naturally no spare money.

It's hard to move an inch without money, but people always come up with solutions. Zhao Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, he can sell land! According to his thoughts, although the imperial city has been destroyed, the land should still belong to him. At present, he moved the military camp and Taixue institutions into the imperial city to resettle. You must know that the imperial city occupies nearly a quarter of Lin'an City, so even if you suffer a loss, you can also be regarded as a land replacement, and give yourself the land occupied by the city defense area, Taixue, and institutions such as the Shoyuan and Shaofu, as long as the land is exchanged for money, won't you have start-up capital.

Someone will ask, does anyone buy it? Zhao Hao can tell you clearly that not only do people buy it, but they also have to rush to buy it. You must know that according to the research of relevant scholars, the urbanization rate of the Song Dynasty reached 22 percent, and this level is boasted in modern times. From a modern point of view, the increase in urbanization is a change in the economic model, with the urban economy surpassing the rural economy and commerce accounting for more than agriculture.

Zhao also found that the center of Lin'an was a concentration of capital and commerce, and the imperial palace was located in a corner, which was very similar to the spatial structure of the modern city, and was undoubtedly the result of the urban revolution in the Song Dynasty. And his current Beigong area is smaller, although it is in the middle of the city, you can hear the shouting of vendors day and night, which can be described as shabby, but I don't know what to say to future generations. Therefore, Lin'an City already has the characteristics of a modern city, and it can be regarded as a first-tier city according to the classification, and it is naturally a place where the population gathers.

However, Lin'an City is really not big, and the population is not large, especially in the eyes of Zhao Yu, a modern person. According to the statistics he conducted after entering the city, there are two counties belonging to the urban area of Hangzhou, one is Renhe County and one is Qiantang County. The population of these two counties, including the rural population of suburban counties, is about 700,000. After the return of the capital, with the influx of a large number of central officials and troops, and the floating population was around 900,000, and the number of people living in urban areas was more than 300,000, it still did not recover to the peak of 1.5 million in history.

By modern standards, this is also the standard of fourth-tier cities. However, the urban area of Lin'an City, that is, the place encircled into the city wall is five miles from east to west, fourteen miles from north to south, that is, about thirteen square kilometers, and the population density can reach 30,000 people per square kilometer, and now the population density of Hangzhou, the highest districts in the city center, is an average of 20,000, and the world's metropolises are about 10,000 people.

Another problem that cannot be ignored is that the people of the Song Dynasty still lived in single-storey or double-storey wooden buildings, and the population density of urban areas has exceeded that of modern society dominated by many and high-rise reinforced concrete. One can imagine how crowded the city life was at that time, and how serious the complications it could bring, first of all, the fact that land was too expensive, and it was even more difficult to have a house of your own in the city than in modern times.

How expensive the house is, people were quite emotional as early as the time of Bianliang. As a capital city where officials and businessmen gather, Bianliang's residence is undoubtedly particularly tight. As early as the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the university scholar Tao Hub talked about this kind of "snail dwelling" situation, "surrounded by congestion, half-empty shelves, stacked boxes and cages, and divided children". By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the urban population had nearly doubled, and housing and land shortages had become even more severe. In the imperial history, Cheng Weng Yanguo pointed out: "The household registration of the Beijing division is growing, and the buildings are closely connected, and there is no gap. Where can I buy land even if I have the price? ”

The brothers of the Su family are both Beijing officials, but Su Dongpo has never been able to buy a house in Kaifeng in his life, but only bought a few sets in other small places. His son got married in Kaifeng and had no new house, Su Dongpo was very anxious, and finally borrowed a friend's house to do the happy event. And Su Zhe participated in the work for decades, until he was seventy years old before he bought a house, he is the imperial history of Zhongcheng, equivalent to the speaker of the House of Commons, has been in Beijing and can not afford to buy a house, until his later years, in the second tier city of Xuchang, south of Kaifeng, built three rooms.

Before buying a house, Su Zhe wrote a poem to laugh at himself, saying "My hair is half white, and there are no rafters in the four seas", and he said, "I don't have a house, and the sons think it", which means that I have lived most of my life, my hair is gray, and I haven't got a house yet, so that I can't hold my head up in front of my sons, and they always complain about me.

After Hangzhou became the temporary capital in the Southern Song Dynasty, the real estate market was very hot, and the housing prices in the prosperous areas were staggeringly high. As early as the time of the southern crossing, a large number of urban refugees brought their families to the south, and the demand for housing in the south of the Yangtze River was extremely strong, driving "rich families to build corridors", and even "the former military divisions set up mats". It can be seen that the real estate market was hot at that time.

Therefore, the housing prices in the capital are not affordable for ordinary people, and even many officials cannot afford to buy houses, so they can only rent houses to live. This situation is, in the final analysis, the fault of land prices, and the fundamental reason is that the supply is not low and the supply is too small, so Zhao Yu thinks that as long as these lands are turned over, there is no money for transformation?

Zhao Hao felt that his idea was really good, both the prison and the Shaofu were for the inner government, and the land they moved out naturally still belonged to themselves, and after they were sold, they even had the cost of urban transformation. In this way, if you have people and money, are you still worried about not being able to do things? But when asked, it was really not as simple as he thought.

According to the current law, although it is said that "the whole world is not the king's land", in fact, China has always recognized the private property rights of land. Even the emperor could not theoretically encroach on land and dwellings at will. The land occupied by the royal family also belongs to the official land, and it cannot be used at will without the consent of the imperial court, that is to say, those lands are not theoretically his, and if you want to use them, you have to get approval, and you have to use the money from the inner treasury to develop them.

However, there are people in the court who are easy to do, Zhao Yu and Chen Zeweng, the head of the household department, are really relatives, and the niece and son-in-law still have to help, and actively contribute to them. He said that he could mediate and grant the military camp outside Genshan Gate to the little emperor as land for the relocation of polluting enterprises, and he could also give some compensation for demolition and relocation, and as for the land vacated in the city, he could not grant it to the emperor in violation of regulations, unless he participated in the auction. Although he apologized, he also said that he could only help so much.

Zhao Yu also has a headache, because his government is a business-driven government rarely seen in previous generations, and seeing that the real estate market is profitable, he has also actively invested in it, setting up special agencies to operate the leasing of government land and public housing. At present, the government sells state-owned land to developers by bidding, auctioning, and listing, that is, bidding, auctioning, and listing. The court of the Song Dynasty also sold land in this way, but at that time it was not called bidding and auction, but called "actual sealing and surrender".

The imperial court announces the land plot and the reserve price, and the interested buyers write down the price they can pay on paper, put it in an envelope, and put it into the standard box designated by the imperial court. In other words, if Zhao Yu wants to use these lands, he also has to participate in the bidding.

Zhao Hao smiled bitterly, why is it so difficult for him to do something good! Chen Zeweng gave the same method as he didn't say, even if he put down his body and went to the bidding with the developers, people would say that he took advantage of the situation to oppress people and compete with the people; If it doesn't work, you have to laugh at him, a dignified emperor is not as rich as a businessman, which really damages the prestige of his Great Song Dynasty tyrants. And the reality is that he really can't come up with that money at present, in addition, there are Song Dynasty officials who are not allowed to do business, although he turned a blind eye in the past, but he is staring at it, he can't do it knowingly, at least he can't do it openly!

Fortunately, there is no endless road, and Chen Zeweng has now promised to allocate the land outside the city to himself, and as far as he knows, that land is not small. It was once used as the Aolu camp of the Mongolian army's Hangzhou Duwanhu Mansion, in addition to housing family members, it was also a logistics base for manufacturing military supplies, and there should be something to use. Besides, there is still some compensation for demolition, and you can do it first, anyway, those prisoners are just about food and clothing, and they don't pay for their wages. As for what to do if there is no money in the back, Zhao Yu doesn't think about it anymore, anyway, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there will always be a way......