The city wall on both sides of Guanghuamen Street is still in full swing, the city wall is about 700 steps wide, nearly ten miles long, connects the old city and the new city, there will be a city gate in the middle of the city wall, not far away is the Feng River, and then a Cao River is introduced from the Feng River, which runs through the Guanghua Gate Outer Street, so that it is convenient to transport goods.

The Cao River passes through the middle of the street, and on both sides of the street are dense shops, which have already been built, and unlike the East Market and the West Market, it will be built as an open commercial street, and the Gwanghwamun Gate will also be demolished at that time, becoming a city that never sleeps where all kinds of businesses gather.

Guo Song walked through the commercial street that was under construction, and at this time, he unexpectedly saw Li An again, and there was a man about thirty years old next to him, Guo Song knew, it was Li Guiren, the eldest son of Li An.

Li An has two sons, the eldest son Li Guiren, the second son Li Guiyi, after Li An retired, the eldest son Li Guiren took over his father's class and became the head of the imperial merchants, but after the Jingyuan Mutiny, the Li An family began to work alone, Li Guiren still ran the grassland route, and Li Guiyi took the Anxi route.

The family has thousands of camels, which bring extremely good profits every year.

Li Guiren saw Guo Song and hurriedly said, "Father, His Royal Highness the King of Jin has come down." ”

Li An hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said, "See Your Highness!" ”

Guo Song turned over and dismounted and smiled: "Uncle An, isn't Fat Zhang with you?" ”

Li An smiled: "He has diarrhea for the past two days, and he is lying at home!" ”

"How so?" Guo Song asked puzzled.

Li An stepped forward and whispered: "He wanted to aphrodisiac and ate home remedies, but the result was ......"

Guo Song smiled dumbly, it was not a day or two that the senior brother was unreliable, he looked around again and asked, "Uncle An, did you buy this area?" ”

The real estate on Commercial Street is all developed by the government, only rented and not sold, but Guo Song told Zhang Lei and Li An the news in advance, and allowed them to buy a mile of land each as compensation for them to pay money to help the government build an official house, and Guo Song also bought a mile of land for his eldest sister Guo Ping as a source of her pension money.

Li An nodded, pointed to the city wall under construction, and said: "From here to the city wall, six hundred steps wide, and then one mile to the north, this land is what I bought, Zhang Fatzi's land is on the other side of the river, and then I plan to build shops along the street, each shop is one zhang wide, three zhang deep, two floors, with a backyard, and I plan to build five wharves in front of the Cao River." ”

Guo Song smiled again and asked, "Build a storefront along the street, what about the land behind it?" ”

"I plan to fence the land behind me first, divide it into two acres of land, and sell it later, if the business here is hot, maybe you can also build an inn, a restaurant or something, and then it depends on the situation."

At this time, Li Guiren, the eldest son of Li An, stepped forward to salute Guo Song, and Guo Song smiled and asked, "Have you been to the grassland recently?" ”

"Your Highness, I just came back from Hui the day before yesterday."

Guo Song suddenly asked with great interest, "How is the situation of Hui Hui now?" ”

"Hui Hui is now Princess Ye in control, the implementation of the tribal elder system, each tribe elects an elder, form an elder, Princess Ye and the Council of Elders share power, all tribes support this plan, and also support Princess Ye, her position in Hui Hui is very stable."

"How is the recovery of the national strength of the Hui Dynasty?" Guo Song asked again.

Li Guiren shook his head, "It's not easy to talk about, the main thing is that the population has decreased sharply, they were originally the largest tribe in the grassland, but now they can only be regarded as a medium tribe, and it is impossible to annex other tribes. ”

Guo Song nodded slightly, in fact, he also knew that the Hui forces completely withdrew from Beiting last autumn, which meant that their life in the grassland was very difficult, and they had to shrink their forces.

"Business in the prairie isn't bad, right?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"It's not bad, they have a great demand for coarse cloth, and coarse cloth can be exchanged for sheepskin at the same value, but sheepskin is ten times the price of coarse cloth with us, and the profit is here."

"Not bad! Very business-minded. ”

Guo Song chatted with Li An for a few more words, and then went to the old city.

Except for the Weiyang Palace and the newly built official buildings in the west, the old city has been razed to the ground, and it is also to prevent new displaced people from moving in, which will not be easy to deal with in the future, so all the dilapidated houses are simply torn down, and not even a single wall remains.

More than 30,000 people were busy in the old city, and the broken wood, rotten furniture, and thatched roofs were burned down, and the earth was transported to fill the puddles in the city, and bricks, wood, and stones were used to build government rental housing.

Despite this, it took half a month just to clear the dirt inside the city, and now it is almost the same, and when you enter the city, you can see that it is full of lush ancient trees and large areas of flat land.

At this time, Guo Song saw Lu Jin in the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry is the original Kai Cao Division, which covers a wide range, including the Imperial Court Ministry of Industry, Ordnance Supervisor, Craftsman Supervisor, and Water Supervisor, and now renamed the Ministry of Industry, with seven bureaus and two bureaus, from mining, manufacturing, urban construction, dredging, road repair, etc., are under its control, and the power is very great.

Cao Wannian was the commander of the government, he was only temporarily concurrently on the errand of the reconstruction of Chang'an City, and after the Ministry of Industry moved to Chang'an, he threw a bunch of tedious things such as the reconstruction of the old city to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin also saw Guo Song and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Guo Song nodded and smiled: "Lu Silang seems to have encountered something difficult?" ”

Lu Jin pointed to a large area of flat land in the distance and said: "Humble duty is considering, the water system in the city is too little, there is a Kunming Pond in the Weiyang Palace, humble consideration, is it possible to lead a Cao River from Fengshui into the city, from the east of the city, into the Wei River, it is best to have a lake covering an area of hundreds of acres in the city, surrounded by big trees, to summer, in the lake to enjoy the cool, sparkling, refreshing." ”

Guo Song smiled and said: "Whether it's the trough river or the lake, the old Chang'an City should have it!" ”

"Yes, I have seen the old drawings before, there are Caohe and lakes, but they are slowly being eaten away, and the few sewage pits in the city were originally a lake, and most of them have been filled."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "But the official residence has been built in the west, I remember that there is basically no vacant land, and Fengshui can be introduced again?" ”

"I have considered that the Cao River on the street outside Xinghua Gate can continue to extend to the east, and flow into the city from the east of the Liyang Palace and the official house, this river just separates the official house and the Weiyang Palace, so that they become an independent area on the other side, and then build a bridge on the river, the lake is in the center of the city, and in the future it will become a beautiful garden in the old city, Taixue and Guozixue are next to it, and the Jinju Yuan of each state is arranged in the east, and there is a large area of land in the south, and some official offices will be moved over in the future, such as the History Museum, Guozijian, Si Tiantai, etc., Can be placed in the old town. ”

Guo Song pondered for a long time and said: "The key is to build a tribute courtyard, at least to ensure that it can accommodate 100,000 people to take the exam together, and the plan can be built with reference to the Taiyuan Tribute Academy." ”

"Humble duty understood."

At this time, a soldier galloped on horseback and rushed to Guo Song's approach, he turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "Your Highness, Longyou has an urgent military situation, please come back quickly!" ”

Guo Song was stunned, he ordered Lu Jin to say a few words, and immediately rode back to the Jin Palace with his entourage.

He returned to the official room of Tiance Building, and Wen Miao presented him with a copied eagle letter, "Longyou just sent it, and the situation is not good." ”

Guo Song took the eagle letter and took a closer look, Tubo recuperated for several years, and began to harass Longyou again, the eagle letter said that more than 1,000 Tubo cavalry attacked the salt field, the salt merchant died a dozen, the others were captured, only a few salt workers escaped, in addition, the Tubo sentry cavalry also set fire to dozens of hectares of wheat fields, and the Tang army patrol cavalry who came to fight fiercely, both sides had casualties.

Guo Song put down the information and paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, all large-scale Tubo invasions started with small harassments one by one, although now it is only a small harassment, but this is a signal, which means that Tubo is recovering.

Of course, the Tibetans destroyed the salt works, and they had to fight back, but Guo Song considered the scale of the counterattack.

Guo Song pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind, for the sake of Longyou's long-term peace and stability, he could not leave Tubo any chance.

(End of chapter)