At 10 o'clock in the morning, Chen Sen, Li Han and other officials and generals successively passed through the Chang'an New City under construction and entered the palace from the Mingde Gate in the south.

The first phase of Chang'an New City is planned to be built with an area of 180 square kilometers, 18 kilometers long from north to south, and 10 kilometers wide from east to west.

As a city wall that separates the city and the suburbs, due to the development of modern warfare, the general city wall is difficult to withstand the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery, so it is temporarily shelved to avoid wasting valuable local labor on useless city wall fortifications.

On the other hand, in view of the important position of Chang'an City, the central government, after shelving the construction plan of the new city wall, first built complete and meticulous heavy artillery fortifications on the basis of the four city gate buildings such as Chunming Gate and Jinguang Gate in accordance with the requirements of the overall preparation plan, and guarded the security of the Beijing division and the imperial city from different directions.

Secondly, the city of Chang'an is backed by the Sierra de Córdoba, at the junction of the plain of La Plata and the mountains in the north, and the main threat it faces comes from the direction of the Chang'an-Songjiang railway.

The planning and development of Chang'an New Town, the Imperial Palace and the newly occupied areas have led to the great development of the construction industry, and the scale of cement, steel, masonry and other related industries has expanded more than tenfold in three to five years.

In the second half of 1869, the construction project of Chang'an Imperial Palace began to start, to the beginning of August 1881, which lasted about two years, the entire palace construction project completed 65% of the task, the construction of the middle pole hall and the Jianji hall in the three major palace groups of the outer dynasty was completed, and it was put into use a month ago, and the main building of the three palace groups of Changle Palace, Hanyuan Palace and Weiyang Palace of the Inner Dynasty was partially completed, and there were about 120 ancillary buildings left for subsequent construction.

The construction of the Primero River dam is one month later than the Chang'an Palace, and by the beginning of August, the dam construction has entered the final stage, and it is expected that the full construction tasks will be completed by December at the end of the year.

The construction plan of Chang'an New City is progressing step by step, with different living and functional areas in the city being built and improved, and the Primero Dam, which is responsible for ensuring water supply for agriculture in the Gyeonggi region, is nearing completion,..................

With the improvement of supporting facilities related to urban life, residence and consumption, Chang'an New City has revealed a new atmosphere as the national capital.

Wandering all the way and browsing the market scene in the capital, Li Han sighed to Chen Sen and Hou Taiyuan with great interest, "The ancients often said that the prosperous place of the capital is not easy to live, according to my opinion, the current Chang'an New City is also similar to the capital in ancient times, and the merchants from all over the country bring rare and rare goods, and the daily grain, rice, oil, and salt are more expensive than other regions. ”

"The local situation in the Han Kingdom is stable, the country's development momentum is booming, many agile local businessmen and foreign businessmen from Germany, France, Venezuela, Colombia and other foreign businessmen have set up commercial sites in the capital, wanting to rely on the advantage of being well-informed in the capital to obtain the latest political trends of the central government in the first time, and then formulate an industry development plan that meets the requirements of the central government's policies earlier than competitors, and make careful preparations for the final acquisition of considerable economic benefits."

Chen Sen recalled the local and foreign businesses he saw on the way, and said with a smile: "The country's development momentum is good, driving the local economic development, and at the same time, the prosperity of industry and commerce has brought abundant financial and tax funds to the government, and the two promote each other, the more developed the commercial economy of the capital, the more beneficial it is to the development of the country."

In the second half of 79 years, the army had just occupied the old city of Chang'an (the original old city of Córdoba), at that time, a house covering an area of about two acres was about 4,000 Han Yuan (equivalent to about 2,000 taels of silver in Kuping),

Now that the price has quadrupled, my wife wrote a few days ago that she was going to build a new spacious house in the capital, and she had taken a fancy to a Western-style house covering an area of about four and a half acres, with a garden, a yard, a wing house, and a fish pond, and the main price of the house was 35,000 Han Yuan. ”

"According to the current situation in the capital, Brother Chen thinks that the price of the house will rise, if the house continues to rise in the future, I also plan to buy a house covering an area of three or four acres in the capital, and it is also convenient to bring my wife and four children to live in the capital."

Chen Sen's words aroused Li Han's interest, and he explained, "Brother Chen, Brother Hou, and Brother Feng all know that the hereditary nobles who were entitled the year before last were scattered in different regions of the homeland.

Like Brother Chen and Brother Feng's fiefdom Juetian, the location is better, one is located in Jiangzhou and the other is located in Chuzhou, which is not too far from the capital, and can be reached in one day by train.

And my eldest brother and I are located in Yangzhou, Luozhou, although the climate and environment there are good, the sea transportation is convenient, but the wife and a few children want to go to the capital to reunite, halfway with a change and delay, a round trip takes eight or nine days, very inconvenient, so if the price is right, I will send a letter to my wife, let her and a few relatives in the family come to the capital together, first Zhang Luo in the capital to buy a larger house to live. ”

"There should be a wave of increases in the price of houses in the capital, but you and I know Your Majesty's character, and it won't be long before the central government will formulate a decree to limit the rise of housing, and at that time, it may restrict businessmen from hoarding a large number of houses, formulate more detailed living standards, and limit the disorderly growth of the population in the capital."

"Your Majesty does have this idea, two days ago, the Ministry of Commerce, General Director Liu, the Ministry of Finance, Chief Sun, and the Ministry of Officials Zheng were received by Your Majesty, and asked them to discuss the formulation of administrative laws and regulations on public security, commerce, and residential management in the capital, among which curbing businessmen from hoarding residential buildings at will is the content of Your Majesty's emphasis on reminding, and after three or two months, the decree regulating the purchase and sale of residential buildings in the capital should be promulgated."

Feng Guoan added, "After the introduction of the decree regulating the purchase and sale of residences, it is impossible for the price of housing to continue to rise, but at that time, if you want to buy a suitable house, I am afraid it will be much more difficult than now, if Brother Li can't take out the remaining money for the time being, General Wang and I can support you partially, according to the future development of the capital, I suggest that Brother Li had better buy the house as soon as possible, otherwise the longer the time drags on, the more troublesome things will be." ”

"Brother Chen and Brother Feng are still long-sighted, after I go back to the next dynasty today, I will go back and write to my wife, asking her to come over early and solve the matter of the house."

"It's better to be early than coincidentally, if Brother Li can trust me and Commander Feng, there is no need to spend much time on buying a house, let my wife and Commander Feng's wife inquire in the capital these days, see a few more houses, and wait until the day when my younger siblings enter Beijing, and then let my younger siblings take a look with them, and buy which house they like."

"Haha, then it's troublesome for Brother Chen, Brother Feng and the two sisters-in-law to bother more!"

"It's just a trivial matter, it's a big deal to wait until the day of Brother Li's relocation, prepare more wine and food, and treat our brothers in the army well."

Chen Sen smiled heartily.

"I will definitely not forget to invite you." …………

Several people were talking and laughing as they entered the main hall outside the palace.