Chapter 488: The New Political Center
Compared with Zhenzhou, which is almost a messy construction site, Wuyi is much more orderly. After the expansion of Wuyi, after a large influx of people, it is now a big city no less than Zhenzhou, and the original county seat is now basically inhabited by ordinary people. In addition to the various yamen of the Kaiguan Mansion, the people who can live in the inner city are basically high-ranking officials under Wuwei.
The current Wuyi has been divided into three parts: the inner city, the outer city and the city outline.
Needless to say, being able to live in the inner city is itself a symbol of status and power. In the outer cities, there are more middle and low-level officials and people who work for the government, and then a group of wealthy people. The rise of Wuwei has defeated a group of original privileged classes, but it has also created a new group of wealthy people. Compared with the past, these newly rich people no longer have a large landlord class. Wuwei's policy was to mercilessly clean up the landlord class who owned a large amount of land, measure the land, and clean up the Dingkou. Most of these new affluent classes are related to business.
Come to think of it, even a big family like Hou Zhen of Cangzhou only owns 5,000 acres of land, not to mention the rest. Five thousand acres is a red line set by Wu Wei, and if it exceeds this number, it will immediately enter the target of the government's attack.
Wuwei's supply and marketing cooperatives monopolized all the industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but they did not prohibit commercial development in other fields, and a large number of nimble people seized the opportunity in this turbulent society, and closely relied on the Wuwei official government to obtain a large amount of wealth in a very short period of time.
In the city, there are a large number of ordinary people living in the original Wuyi, they are not poor, and they are even richer than some ordinary officials living in the outer city, because they have obtained a lot of relocation expenses in the process of urban expansion, and some simply sell their houses in the city, and then buy a piece of land in the city at a small cost, build a house, and the remaining part is enough for them to live a worry-free life.
Like the little worm family, who are now serving as officers under Liang Han, is such a typical example. I have to say that this family belongs to the group of people who are at the head of fortune.
During the first expansion, Worm's parents moved to the outer city and got a sum of money. Then, when the outer city was overcrowded and every inch of land was scarce, they sold the houses in the outer city again, went to Daqingshan, which was still relatively deserted at that time, bought a large piece of land, built a house, and became self-sufficient farmers.
Unexpectedly, under the Daqing Mountain, because Zhending County settled down for a long time, and attracted a lot of powerful and rich people to build Zhuangzi there, the family sold most of the land they had originally placed, leaving only a house for themselves, and once again made a lot of money. Their family is in the outer city, and they have bought more than a dozen shops, and now they live a life that everyone envies by renting out these shops. In addition, their son is now the captain of the Bapin Xuanjie Festival, and seeing that the future is bright, their family can be regarded as a typical kind of old hen and duck in the blink of an eye, hulala climbed the branch and became a phoenix.
In fact, under the rule of Wu Wei, there are not a few people like the Xiao Worm family, and it is this group of people who have become Li Ze's most loyal subjects.
Don't forget to dig wells. At the beginning, Xiao Worm fought with Li De in Texas, and the income from the robbery and war exploits was reluctant to spend a penny and wanted to send it home, and the family was also carefully saved and prepared to marry a daughter-in-law for Xiao Worm to pass on to the next generation, and now I feel funny when I think about it.
Now his family is fragrant, I don't know how many people have daughters in the family, looking forward to marrying into his family.
In the inner city, with the former Jiezhen Marshal's Mansion as the center, the newly expanded yamen have been erected, which happens to surround the Marshal's Mansion tightly.
It is tacitly known to everyone that these buildings are about to become the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Rites and some other important organs in the future.
In addition to the bureaucracy, three large military camps were deployed in a triangle in the inner city.
The people stationed in these three barracks were Li Ze's personal guards and righteous servants. After several expansions, Li Ze's pro-Weiyi has grown from the original 1,000 people to the current 5,000 people. They are responsible not only for the security of the inner city, but also for the security of these important government offices, as well as the security of important officials' residences.
The leader of this pro-Wei Yizun was Li Kang. The original Min Rou and Li Mi have left their posts.
Min Rou will inevitably get one of them among the twelve generals in the next military reform, which is a tacit thing for everyone, and Li Mi took over the post of commander of the Zhenzhou garrison, which made more people see Li Ze's intention to control the emperor.
Li Mi has always been Li Ze's personal bodyguard, and she is the daughter-in-law of Li Ze's henchman Cao Xin, she is responsible for the security of Zhenzhou and the safety of the emperor, as long as she is not blind, everyone knows what this is for.
Xue Ping was helpless about this.
It is impossible for Qin Zhao to surrender his identity to seek this position, and Li Hai, who is qualified to compete, refused Xue Ping's invitation in person, on the grounds that he wanted to follow Weizhou Assassin Shi Pei Ju to avenge the Fu King Li Xin, this excuse is impeccable, but until this year, Li Hai still stayed in Wuyi and did not move his nest, which can only show that Li Hai has defected to Li Ze, and Li Ze has another appointment for him. And Cheng Xu, another high-ranking general under Xue Ping, can't compete with Li Mi in terms of seniority, the only possibility is to think about the position of Li Mi's deputy.
Stepping into the inner city of Wuyi, seeing the architectural layout of the inner city and the buildings that had clearly been built not long ago, Xue Ping gritted his teeth with hatred, in Zhenzhou, you have no money, and when you arrive in Wuyi, your money will be too much to use up. These newly built houses are tall and majestic, and they are unusually sturdy.
Until now, Wuyi has not built the walls of the outer city, but these houses living in the inner city are like huge fortresses, what is really the matter, even if the enemy enters the inner city and wants to capture these special layout of the building complex, I am afraid that it will not be able to be completed in a short time.
Walking into the Shuai Mansion of the Festival Town, the solemn atmosphere came to the face. The wall was as wide as a city wall, and the heavily armed soldiers stood solemnly on it, and on the watchtowers made of huge stones at the four corners, a crossbow machine showed a hideous face from behind the battlement wall. Two rows of soldiers stretched from the main gate to the entrance of the lobby.
Li Zezheng stood at the door of the lobby, smiling and watching a large group of civil and military officials rush in.
Stepping into the lobby, the thick bluestone slab that was stepped on under the feet before has become a thick carpet, soft as stepping on cotton, even these people have seen the world, at this time they can't help but be speechless, such a carpet that will cover the entire lobby, I am afraid that the value will exceed the wealth of many medium-sized families.
Seeing Xue Ping staring at the carpet with different colors, Li Ze laughed and said, "Xue Shilang, this carpet is not bad, right?" ”
"Of course it's good. If what I know is good, this kind of carpet can't be produced in Datang, right? This should be a Persian commodity from across the ocean, and this piece alone is worth ten thousand gold! Xue Ze said with sarcasm in his tone.
Li Ze didn't think it was wrong, but smiled and said, "Xue Shilang, you are wrong. You're talking about the old yellow calendar. This carpet is an authentic Texas product, and we made it ourselves. Pure wool carpet, how about Xue Shilang, this handiwork, this dyeing, this pattern, are still eye-catching, right? ”
"Texas made it himself?" Xue Ping's face has a different color.
"Of course. I dare say that the Persians could not make such a carpet of pure wool! There are rich people in our house, everyone takes care of their own business, and one person buys a few and goes back to shop at home, high-end atmosphere and grade, hahaha! But now this thing is still priceless and needs to be customized. But after all, you are different, you can give priority to the front, and you can decide what color and pattern you want. By next year, it will be mass-produced, but by then, these features will be gone! Li Zexing said happily: "This alone, this year we will purchase more than 100,000 catties of wool from outside the mouth, the price of wool has risen, and those Hu people outside the mouth will raise more sheep again!" ”
Everyone in the room laughed, even Xue Ping couldn't help but laugh at the moment. This is a policy of Wuwei, starting from the economy, and firmly tying the wild beards and miscellaneous beards who were originally wandering around and unruly with the economy. Because these places under the rule of Wuwei now, they are not allowed to move around grazing, to raise a large number of livestock, they can only use the method of captivity, Wuwei also sent a lot of experts in this area to teach these Hu people to grow crops, but also teach them to grow grass, when their income is higher, the more they are tied to this place can not flow, and in a few years, these people will naturally be like the mainlanders, become settled households, which is greatly beneficial to the rule of the entire government. Unlike in the past, it was almost impossible to count the population.
"Let's all sit down!" Li Ze, who personally welcomed everyone into the house, took the lead in sitting in the center of the lobby. Different from Xue Ping's meeting in the past, there was a circle of long tables in the lobby, and the table was covered with light blue cotton cloth. White cloth is now the cheapest thing, merchants want to make more money, they must dye these white cloths, but dyeing can not fade for a long time, do not destroy the technology of color, but not just anyone can master. As far as Xue Ping knew, this technology was now only owned by one of Li Ze's institutions, and those merchants had to pay a huge amount of money to this institution every year just for this technology.