At night, it rained all night.

The next morning, the sky cleared, and it was indeed a rare good weather.

The young scholars of the top ten gates of Jinling, Shen Wanbao, Xiang Tiange and others, as well as some daughters who were friends with many princely mansions and princesses, went out of the city in carriages.

There is even a forty or fifty-year-old high-ranking official in Jinling, Lord Yin Wangxu, who came on behalf of the imperial court.

A group of hundreds of people came to Shizigang outside Jinling City to see off the concubine Xie Anran and Princess Xiang Ling.

This Jinling Mansion Yin Wang Xu, the eldest son of the current imperial historian Wang Su.

The palace Yin at the foot of the emperor is also a high-ranking official of the imperial court, Wang Xu has served as the palace yin for many years, and he is an old acquaintance with the gentlemen in Jinling.

The gentlemen provoked right and wrong in Jinling City, and were sued, and they were all sued to Wang Xu in Jinling Mansion first, which made Wang Xu extremely headache.

Like Xiao Duhou, Xie Anran, Shen Wanbao, and Xiang Tiange, the four great gentlemen of Jinling, caused trouble and tossed everywhere, he had no problem at all.

The backstage of these gentlemen is too tricky, the hereditary marquis of Xiao Duan is lawless, Xie Anran is the eldest grandson of the princess and the prime minister, Shen Wanbao is a relative of the Empress Dowager Shen, and Xiang Tiange is the current prince.

What can he do except stare dryly and be in a dilemma?

Fortunately, there was finally a second gentleman in Jinling, Xie Anran, who was promoted to the county guard of Danyang and went away from the imperial city.

Wang Xu was extremely happy in his heart at the moment.

Recently, the Marquis of Xiao Duan was busy with the court affairs assigned to him by the emperor, first became the commander of Danyang County, and then received an errand as the "chief examiner of the imperial examination", and he didn't have time to toss around in Jinling City.

Shen Wanbao was busy making paper to earn money.

Xie Anran was sent out to be the county guard again, guarding one side and suppressing the local local snakes, and he could also understand his complicated feelings.

Prince Xiang Tiange studied in the East Palace and rarely went out.

The atmosphere in Jinling City has finally shown some signs of improvement.

Wang Xu, the Yin of Jinling Mansion, was quite pleased.

...

Recently, there has been a lot of spring rain, and there are many residents in Jinling City.

In the spring, when the rain rains a lot, the small streets and alleys are washed by the rainwater, and the drainage ditches are obviously insufficient, so that the sewage flows sideways, and even the main street can be seen in the mud.

Li Yu and Chu Tianxiu, as well as Zu'er and Di'er, were in the carriage.

Chu Tianxiu saw the scene outside the window in the carriage, and couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Modern people who travel through ancient times are most afraid of injuries and diseases, as well as plagues. Because there are not many medicines to heal, I basically rely on my own carry.

Chu Tianxiu crossed over to the Great Chu Dynasty, he was not afraid of the heavens and the earth, and he didn't put anyone in his eyes, he was afraid that this thing would suddenly come out.

After all, people are easy to deal with, and there are always weaknesses. But this disease, it doesn't matter who you are.

The main city, the sanitary conditions of the Pingwang Mansion are good.

But in civilian areas, small streets and alleys are obviously not good, dirty and rampant.

The more densely populated the city, the more important it is to do a good job of hygiene. Otherwise, if there is a plague somewhere, it will be unlucky.

Jinling Mansion Yin is responsible for this.

Chu Tianxiu drove to catch up with the car of Jinling Mansion Yin, and said to Wang Xu: "Lord Mansion Yin, how many people do we have in Jinling City?" ”

"Little Marquis, there are five or six hundred thousand registered in the city, and there are three or four hundred thousand scattered in the cities and towns within dozens of miles outside the city, which are also Jinling people. The total is probably nearly one million! The Prime Minister's Mansion once estimated that the population of our Great Chu is estimated to be 70 million. ”

Wang Xu said proudly.

Jinling City is the first giant city of the Great Chu Dynasty, and it is also the only giant city with a population of more than one million.

The population of the entire Great Chu Dynasty has roughly exceeded 70 million, and it is even growing.

In particular, the population growth in the Jiangnan area is the fastest.

"So much...?"

When Chu Tianxiu heard this, he was taken aback.

As far as he knew, the peak of the history of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty was 50 to 60 million people, and it could no longer rise.

The upper limit of the population is directly linked to the upper limit of the amount of land.

The Great Chu Dynasty has only been established for more than 70 years, how could it surpass the peak population of the Western Han Dynasty so quickly?

Chu Tianxiu thought about it carefully, it should have a huge relationship with Jinling City, the capital of Dingdu.

The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty have not carried out large-scale development of the south of the Yangtze River. Most of the population is concentrated in the Central Plains north of the Yangtze River, and the south of the Yangtze River is vast and inhabited.

Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Quan seized Eastern Wu and began to develop the south of the Yangtze River. But because they were busy with the war, they couldn't do enough, and the development was not enough.

After the Han Dynasty, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the north was hit by the Wuhu Rebellion, and a large number of Central Plains scholars fled to the south of the Yangtze River, which slowly completed the development of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the history of Great Chu is somewhat different from the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu of Great Chu, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, completed the great cause of hegemony and pacified the world, and felt that Chu Land, where he led 8,000 Jiangdong children to raise troops, was his blessed place.

All the princes and ministers all hope to set the capital in Chang'an or Luoyang.

But Xiang Yu's brain was beaten, and he was arbitrary, and decided to set the imperial capital in the south of the Yangtze River, where he was born, and choose Jinling City.

And requisitioned the world's top ten gates, more than 100,000 family properties of the big wealthy family, with a large number of people, migrated to Jinling City.

A large number of scholars in the Central Plains were forcibly relocated to the vast and barren area south of the Yangtze River in advance.

Cutting down forests, burning forests for farmland, and building new towns.

The original Central Plains area vacated a large amount of land, which also gave the people a chance to recuperate.

After 70 years of continuous development for four or five generations, farmers were often requisitioned to the south of the Yangtze River to open up wasteland and obtain new arable land.

In addition, during this period, most of the time the world was peaceful, with Jinling City as the core, and constantly to the south, the area of Dongwu in the south of the Yangtze River has been greatly developed, and a large number of farmers have reclaimed the past in the Lingnan and Minyue areas.

It should be because of this strange decision that the Great Chu Dynasty gained two huge benefits - it greatly relieved the pressure on the population and arable land of the Central Plains, and obtained a large amount of land and population in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although the Great Chu Emperor and officials were not much better than the Western Han Dynasty, thanks to the decision of Taizu Xiang Yu, the Jiangnan was developed in advance.

The population of the Great Chu Dynasty is now as high as 70 million, and its national strength is significantly higher than that of the Western Han Dynasty in history.

And this Jinling City has also become the largest giant city in the world, gathering a huge population of one million. With the dense population, it far exceeded the original design of Jinling City.

This large number of people is not necessarily a good thing in the face of the pandemic.

The most dangerous place for epidemic prevention in Dachu is probably Jinling City.

"Lord Wang, this spring rain is plague, and the sewage in Jinling City needs to be improved! Dig deep into the sewage and arrange special personnel to deal with the dirt. If the hygiene is not good, it is easy to have spring plague. ”

Chu Tianxiu said with a worried face.

Wang Xu was a little surprised that Xiao Duhou's thinking was too out-of-the-box, and he was talking about the population of Jinling just now, but suddenly it became sewage and plague again.

Moreover, how could Xiao Duhou, a great gentleman of Jinling, care about the prevention of the plague?

Could it be that you are afraid of death?!

Not to mention, Wang Xu really guessed right.

This Da Chu is up and down, and those who can easily threaten the life of Xiao Duanhou are afraid that there is really nothing else except for the plague that the gods are not aware of.

Even the princes and kings of various places who led tens of thousands of troops to divide one side could not hurt half of the cold hair of Xiao Duhou.

Can Chu Tianxiu not be worried?

Wang Xu was puzzled: "This, the spring plague has no trace, how can it be prevented?" ... Besides, curing the plague is a matter for the imperial doctor to order Song Yi. Digging ditches and discharging sewage requires the imperial court to allocate funds, which costs a lot, and I am afraid that it is difficult to allocate money. ”

Song Yi, the head of the imperial physician of the imperial court, and the imperial physician of the official residence. That is, the eldest disciple of the pure old divine doctor.

Every year, the epidemic prevention in the counties and counties of Dachu is done by Song Yi with the imperial doctors.