Jinling, once a small county town in Danyang, has undergone earth-shaking changes in just two months.

The low walls and dilapidated streets have disappeared, replaced by a large city with an area of about 100 square kilometers and a wall about 10 feet high.

This big city was completely planned according to Yuan Shu's requirements, covering an area wide enough, but the city walls were not too high, and there was no moat or anything like that, otherwise it would not have been completed so quickly.

Even so, it took millions of people two months to complete the initial construction of the city.

The reason why the huge city wall was not built is because this city has been designated by Yuan Shu as the seat of Yangzhou and will also serve as the political, military and economic center of the entire Yangzhou in the future.

If he was really beaten to his hometown by the enemy, Yuan Shu really felt that he was a fool, so he only left a basic city wall that was enough to defend against a small group of enemies, after all, there was no moat or anything, and it was more convenient for people to enter and exit.

The city was roughly divided into four parts, one part was inhabited by the common people, one part was used as a commercial area and handicraft area, one part was provided to wealthy people such as gentry and merchants, and the last part was provided to officials and garrisons.

Yuan Shu planned to have more than 30,000 elite soldiers stationed in the city, so he naturally had to divide a large part of the area for military training.

The initial construction of Jinling City has been completed, and there are already more than 1.5 million people in it, and Yuan Shu is ready to move the general's mansion this time, together with the officials under his command. And Danyang still let Sun Jian be stationed as a guard.

In the past two months, Huang Zhong, Gao Shun, and Ju Yi have tossed around the Shanyue in the four northern counties of Yangzhou, and the vast majority of Shanyue people have basically been arrested and returned to Lujiang for some labor reform and ideological education, and then they have been arranged separately.

These Shanyue people are all good at doing manual work and being soldiers, because Yangzhou is now a little more than 130,000 soldiers, Yuan Shu did not dare to levy more, from which a small levy of more than 20,000 soldiers were distributed into various armies.

These people are very sought-after in the eyes of Huang Zhong, Sun Jian and others, and when it comes to personal strength, they are all at the level of elite soldiers, and with a little training, they are an elite.

Among the 300,000 Shanyue people, 80,000 are young and strong, and each of them is a good material for serving as a soldier.

Historically, most of the soldiers of Eastern Wu were composed of these people, so they were often able to win more with less and firmly resist the attack of Wei.

Now Yuan Shu didn't need so many soldiers, so he arranged for them to build roads and water conservancy.

These people found that life seemed to be good after being forced down the mountain, and they only needed to work hard every day to support their family, and their lives were much better, and they no longer had to fight wild beasts all day, so they slowly integrated into it.

Yuan Shu watched these Shanyue people remove their wildness and begin to slowly integrate into the Han nationality under the corrosion of powerful military deterrence and comfortable life, and he was also relieved in his heart.

Lujiang and Jinling are now the two construction centers of the whole Yangzhou and have begun to operate wildly, and continue to radiate to the surrounding areas.

More and more roads, houses, water projects and bridges are under construction.

Yuan Shu has also been asking his craftsmen to develop the artifact of cement, but it has not been developed so far. Therefore, it can only be made with dirt roads and stone roads for the time being. As soon as the cement is developed, it can be reinforced on top of the original foundation.

Now that businessmen with a certain strength in the world are rushing to Jinling, they are all looking at the huge profits of perfume and mirrors, since Yuan Shu dares to let it out, it means that he still has goods in his hand, even if he can't get the big head, it's not bad to get a piece of the pie.

As a result, a group of people came to Jinling and were immediately shocked by this majestic giant city that was much larger than Luoyang.

That is, now Dong Zhuo is engaged in the east and west in the capital, which has attracted the attention of people all over the world, and no one cares about the remote soil of Yangzhou. Otherwise, Yuan Shu, an obviously overstepped city, would have been attacked by a group of people a long time ago.

These shrewd businessmen saw that the city was populous, but orderly, very harmonious and serene, and immediately realized that this was a big cake that was at least comparable to Luoyang.

A group of people immediately went to inquire about the prices of the houses and shops here.

Yuan Shu had already prepared for this, this group of businessmen was able to mix to the current scale in this era of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, and all of them had sharp noses, so they could naturally discover the strong potential of Jinling City.

In this era, Jinling, a large city with a superior geographical location and a large population, was far better than the modern capital as a better investment object.

It can be said that if you buy a house with your eyes closed, the house price will rise several times after ten years.

Yuan Shu had already made a rule that the housing prices in the residential areas of the common people were not high, and you could buy them casually, but it was not allowed to renovate and carry out large-scale commercial transactions.

Only half of the shops in the commercial area are allowed to be purchased, and none of them are in prime locations.

Yuan Shu planned to rely on these places to cash out some money first.

Although he is not short of money, he can attract businessmen and relieve the pressure on the government.

After all, it is not a long-term solution to maintain the expenses of the government by relying on Yuan Shu or the private treasury of the Yuan family, and the treasury and the private treasury should still be separated, so as to avoid many problems and troubles.

The other half, Yuan Shu, who is in a better position, has all the house deeds and land deeds returned to the government, and only merchants are allowed to lease them, and they will rent them for a maximum of three years.

It was only in this area that Yuan Shu stipulated that larger transactions were permitted, so the merchants had no choice.

As for the area where the rich lived, Yuan Shu allowed private individuals to carry out the transformation, and these people who were not bad for money naturally targeted these places.

This area is very large, and Yuan Shu does not hide it, and directly allows them to buy all of them, but the price is still not low.

After asking around, these merchants immediately understood where they could make money, and one by one they rushed to the shops that allowed them to buy, and did not spare any money, and bought in large quantities.

A group of visionaries and daring ones went straight to the area where the shops were rented and rented the shops in prime locations.

In the last rich residential area, some businessmen who have big businesses and don't care about money also visit a lot.

The cost of the construction of Jinling Castle was equivalent to nearly 100 million yuan, and as a result, the lease was now allowed for only two days, and more than half of the cost was recovered.

Tian Feng, who was in charge of finance, was dumbfounded, and suddenly had the idea of building another one.

However, he soon gave up on this idea, because he understood that the miracle of Jinling City could only be such a miracle in Yangzhou.

After all, it is impossible for him to get more than 1.5 million displaced people, and Jinling is so crazy because Yuan Shu clearly wants to use it as the seat of Yangzhou and provides a lot of policy support.

The city is a wonder that is hard to replicate.