Hearing this, many officials were already unhappy.

In the eyes of the officials, moving the capital at this time and building a large scale of construction and laboring the people and money is not only unnecessary, but also harms the national strength, and is an absolute foolishness.

As a result, some officials who claimed to be upright stood up on the spot to advise, hoping that Wang Shizi and Prime Minister would take back his fate.

If you must move the capital, wait at least three or five years to completely defeat the Jurchen Tartars, and then consider the issue of moving the capital after the state affairs are a little calmer.

As an emerging regime, the state of Qi is surrounded by enemies, and there is no war for many years, and the king of Qi is now greedy for pleasure, which is a self-defeating move.

Xu Shiyang was very talkative, he did not reprimand the officials of Shuntianfu for their verbal confrontation, and even expressed his appreciation to the officials who advised him.

However, the decision to move the capital could not be changed, and the new palace had to be built.

He even came up with a whole set of architectural drawings for the new royal palace!

According to Xu Shiyang's request, the new palace will be named the Forbidden City, and the location will be selected as the middle line of Shuntianfu, which is 666 steps long from north to south (calculated as 1 step and 1.5 meters), 500 steps wide from east to west, and covers an area of up to 750,000 square meters (almost 30,000 square meters larger than the northern Forbidden City in another plane)!

In this huge area, Xu Shiyang planned 80 large and small palaces, more than 26,000 houses and pavilions (mainly 2 or 3-storey small buildings, so the number of houses is close to three times that of the Forbidden City in the north), plus the planned 10-meter-high forbidden city wall, with an estimated construction area of 450,000 square meters!

This huge construction plan completely stunned the officials of Shuntian Mansion, and someone asked Xu Shiyang tremblingly, what is the budget cost of this palace?

As a result, Xu Shiyang gave them an astronomical amount that was enough to make the household officials faint.

Opposition to the relocation of the capital has become louder.

No matter how Xu Shiyang explained the strategic position of Shuntianfu and the significance of the construction of the Forbidden City, no one wanted to listen.

Some local officials in Shuntianfu even resigned on the spot to threaten Xu Shiyang to abandon his plan to move the capital and build the Forbidden City.

In desperation, Xu had to forcibly adjourn the meeting — the first time he had ended a meeting without getting any results.

After returning to his temporary residence, Xu Shiyang put away the expression of a smug superior in front of him, and secretly ordered the Qi State newspaper to help spread the exhortation of the officials of the Shuntian Mansion.

The surging public opinion spread like wings all over Liaodong, grassland, Shanxi, Jianghuai and Jiangnan.

Soon, even people in the Western Regions and Dali knew that the officials of the Qi State were launching a huge campaign against the relocation of the capital and the construction of the palace.

However, when the world outside the Qi Kingdom felt that Shuntianfu must have been in a uproar at this time, the locals of Shuntianfu did not feel so strongly.

Because Xu Shiyang did not forcibly approve the plan to move the capital and build the Forbidden City, that plan is still only on paper.

After the big drama of the battle between the monarch and the minister that day, Xu Shiyang didn't even bother to continue to ask the question in front of the officials.

In fact, Xu Shiyang certainly would not choose to move the capital at this time, and he did not have the ambition to build a townhouse covering an area of 750,000 square meters within the Third Ring Road.

This dispute was actually just a play directed and acted by Xu Shiyang in order to complete the plan of the General Staff.

As a time-traveler in the Internet era, Xu Shiyang knew that if he wanted to attract the attention of others and let everyone in the world know that he was in Shuntianfu instead of Liaonan, which was about to launch a large-scale attack, then the best way was to cause a quarrel that spread as widely as possible.

As long as the people of the world focus on Shuntianfu and the matter of moving the capital of Qi State, it will be difficult for them to notice the specific actions of the Qi army elsewhere.

In addition, after the matter is completed, Xu Shiyang can also pretend to be a monarch and a minister, accept the advice of the officials of the Shuntian Mansion, and officially announce the shelving of the plan to move the capital and build the Forbidden City, and reap another wave of good reputation.

Why not?

……

Just when Xu Shiyang caused a huge quarrel in Shuntianfu and attracted the attention of other places, a large number of personnel and materials had already set sail from the ports of Qi Province and Hebei Province, and after arriving at the ports in southern Liaoning, they were dispersed to the field army and countless war-ready warehouses on the front line.

By the end of November, the troops and supplies needed in the staff plan were basically in place, and now they only need to wait for the heavy snow in Liaodong to be thick enough to support the sled movement.

As a result, the specific battle plan was issued to the officer level, and the officers at and above the battalion level of the front-line troops knew at this time that their target this time was actually the entire Liaozhong Plain!

This means that the State of Qi is no longer going to give the Jurchen Tartars more time!

At the same time, Xu Shiyang, who was in Shuntian Mansion, suddenly convened a meeting of local officials again, at which Xu Shiyang made a profound self-examination, saying that he and the King of Qi should not have lazy and extravagant thoughts and build any palaces when the whole country was preparing to fight to the death against the Tartars.

He apologized on the spot to all the officials present, praised them for their noble deeds of not forgetting their original intentions and courageously speaking out, and announced that the proposal to move the capital and build a new palace would be shelved for at least 10 years.

This kind of attitude gives people that he wants to make an edict against himself, which makes the officials of Qi State a little confused, they don't quite understand why Xu Shiyang suddenly made such a big concession, is this really the prince of Qi and the commander-in-chief of the Qi army, who once forced the father of King Qi, once placed his uncle under house arrest, and once copied the sage's mansion, and was known for his domineering Xu Shiyang?

During the meeting, Xu Shiyang even plagiarized the famous words of Tang Taizong in his previous life:

"With copper as a mirror, you can be dressed; With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; With people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses. ”

"You have the courage to advise, let me see that the officials and scholars of my Qi country are sincere, and have the courage to do things, you are all the mirror of the prime minister!"

"One day, this moment will be recorded in history, and it will be a good story that will be passed down through the ages!"

This is what the scholars of this era like to hear the most, so the officials bow down, and the conference hall of Shuntianfu is a harmonious scene of monarchs and ministers getting along with each other.

……

The tenth day of the twelfth month of the fifth year of Longdao.

It snowed heavily in Liaodong, and it was four days and three nights at once, which proved that the coldest season in Liaodong had arrived.

Judging by past experience, the Jurchens would never attack at this time, because the Han people could not stand such cold weather.

What's more, Xu Shiyang should still be arguing with his bureaucrats in Shuntian Mansion about whether to build a new palace.

When he heard the news, the Jurchens were still very excited, Xu Shiyang wanted to build the palace, which meant that he had begun to want to enjoy a luxurious life, and his fighting spirit had begun to wear off.

The enemy's gradual loss of morale is of course good news for Daikin.

Once again, the Blazers were sure that the Qi army would not attack in winter, and that they could only attack after the spring warmed up, the snow had completely melted, and the ground had solidified enough for wheelbarrows to pass.

Therefore, according to their own plans, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongwang respectively led nearly 10,000 female real men to go north to Chagan Lake for winter fishing, striving to catch some big fish, hunt some wild animals, and increase grain reserves as much as possible.

It would be even better if we could catch some people from the Jurchens and come back to replenish the shortfall in troops.