In the capital, under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and with the assistance of Shuntianfu, the Infrastructure Construction Bureau has begun to undertake the construction of the outer city wall of the Beijing Division.

The outer city wall is still the style of the two-storey three-drop water corridor pavilion with heavy eaves on the top of the mountain, and the outside is still covered with bricks, so that the city wall is still as beautiful and atmospheric as the old city wall, but the interior becomes cement reinforced concrete, and the firmness is higher.

The construction of the outer city wall of the capital was a matter of 32 years in Jiajing in history, which took ten years, and only the outer city wall in the south was repaired.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty has far surpassed the middle and late Jiajing period in the original history, so the construction of the outer city wall is no longer just the construction of the outer city wall in the south, but directly to the entire outer city of the capital to build a circle of city walls.

The speed of construction is also very fast, and the more scientific management model and salary system have stimulated the migrant workers in charge of construction to be highly motivated, and the quality of the completion is also very high, while the rapid setting speed of cement and the technology of forging thin steel wires have enabled the craftsmen of the Infrastructure Construction Bureau to cast a solid structure inside the city wall in a short time, without having to waste time and effort to tamp the Sanhe soil.

Before the construction of the outer city wall, the Infrastructure Construction Bureau had built a cement road around the outer city, and now after the completion of the outer city wall, the Infrastructure Construction Bureau still built an eight-lane cement road around the city outside the outer city, and connected with the cement road leading to the outside of the new Yongding Gate.

At this time, Yongding Gate became a landmark building into the capital, and Shuntianfu built a bus stop here, with large horse-drawn carriages as buses, responsible for operating the transportation route from the city around the city and directly to Daming Gate, in addition, there was also a long-distance horse station, which was responsible for operating transportation from the capital to Tongzhou.

Today's Ming Dynasty is a peaceful and prosperous dynasty, industrialization and commodity economy are developing rapidly, as a political center and Ming scientific research base and a gathering place for large manufacturing companies and countless powerful people, the capital is naturally extremely prosperous, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, there are countless people into and out of the city.

The floating population living in the outer city and outside the city all the year round has reached a million, some have been concentrated into villages or workshops, but most of them are still landless and houseless, although these people have a good economic income, even if they can make a lot of money by selling early in the capital, but in the capital, where every inch of land is valuable, it is still difficult for them to take root in the capital.

Because the land in Gyeonggi is mainly the land of the Huangzhuang and the magnates, and a large part of it is the official land, that is, the public land managed by the Shuntianfu, and Zhu Houzhao predicted as early as the early years of Zhengde that with the economic development will lead to a high increase in the land of the capital, in order to avoid the wealth being occupied by the magnates, he directly asked the Huangzhuang and the Suncheonfu to buy the private land at a high price as the official land.

Nowadays, the land in the capital is mainly divided into official fields, imperial villages, and the farms of the magnates, and it is naturally difficult for the people who come to Beijing to buy land to build houses and settle down, and most of them can only rent houses to live.

Zhu Houzhao asked the cabinet to preside over the court discussion on letting people come to Beijing to settle down, so Shuntianfu began to sell a part of the official land in a planned way, and let the businessmen be responsible for contracting this part of the official land for the construction of commercial housing, at the beginning the price of commercial housing was not high, most of the people who came to the capital for a long time to accumulate more family property can also afford it, and they have successfully become Beijing people, began to settle in the capital, enjoy education and corresponding benefits.

But from ancient times to the present, people are the same smart, in the case of the shortage of commercial housing, many powerful chaebols began to smell the business opportunities in this, so they also began to speculate on the house, so that the current Zhengde 30 years, the price of commercial housing has been high to more than five times the price of the same house in other places.

The officials of Shuntianfu also began to adapt to this social change, began to make a series of policy changes, and began to regulate and control the economy of the entire capital, the most important of which was housing prices, so as to control the economy of the entire capital in a state that was the most stable and easy to mobilize the people's enthusiasm for production.

Moreover, in this era, without the impact of liberal economic theory, the pressure on the government to intervene in the economy is not very great, so many administrative interventions in Shuntianfu have not encountered too many slanderous voices, but there is still resistance, after all, many people in the capital are either rich or expensive, and it is not easy to control.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao, the biggest magnate in the capital, is supportive, and Shuntianfu can also be controlled.

However, it is inevitable that there will be excessive government control and excessive intervention in the market economy, resulting in the vitality of capital still not being as good as that of Jiangnan and Liangguang, and the speed of development is not as fast as that of Liangguang and Jiangnan, but it is more stable than Jiangnan and Liangguang.

The emergence of securities trading in Liangguang has led to several economic crises in Liangguang, and each time it was the central court that came to the rescue, so that Liangguang did not have turmoil due to the excessive development of the free economy.

In any case, Xu Jie, the governor of Shuntian Mansion, was still very grateful to His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao for letting him Shuntian Mansion fund the acquisition of a large amount of private land and the land of the criminal magnates into official land, because now Shuntian Mansion can obtain a lot of financial revenue just by selling land, and it is enough to raise the municipal level of the capital to a level that is enough to manage millions of people.

It is precisely because of the sufficient financial income of Shuntianfu that almost every square in the capital has a civilian medical hall, and all of them are old doctors with superb medical skills, and there are even surgeons who graduated from Beijing Normal University.

Even outside the Yongding Gate of the capital at this time, it is very neat and clean because of the high level of municipal services in Shuntianfu, two rows of green trees set off the wide cement road particularly brightly, and all kinds of four-wheeled carriages of different sizes are spotless, and only in this way can they be allowed to enter the city.

The police officers responsible for maintaining traffic order and law and order are patrolled almost every 10 paces, and there is a security booth every mile.

On the cement road ten miles away from Yongding Gate, there is not only a ten-mile long pavilion, but also a toll station, which was invented by Xu Jie, Zhu Houzhao did not stop it, and now he and the six cabinet departments are no longer in charge of the city management of Shuntianfu, and the management of Shuntianfu is basically handed over to Shuntianfu to manage by itself, and the roads of Shuntianfu are also maintained by Shuntianfu itself.

And the new Shuntianfu Cheng Xu Jie, so set up a toll station, although it is not high, but there are so many people who go out of Beijing and enter Beijing, and they can collect a lot every year, which can not only meet the maintenance of the road in Shuntianfu, but also allow Shuntianfu to have more public income.

Of course, the use of cement road maintenance, toll collection, and inspection has also solved the employment problem of many people, especially the elderly and frail and other vulnerable groups, so that they will not become beggars and can support themselves.

Because Zhu Houzhao issued an edict to let the vassal kings enter Beijing to participate in the clan meeting, so during this time, many clan children entered the capital one after another, and Zhu Chengji, the auxiliary general of the Xiangyuan Palace, also came to the capital at this time, and he came galloping on a horse, and when he saw the Yongdingmen toll station, he yelled directly: "Get out of the way of this general!" ”

Gu Zhi, the toll collector of the Yongdingmen toll station, ignored it, there are countless dignitaries and nobles who enter Beijing every year, and he has seen a lot of unruly people, therefore, for Zhu Chengjin's drinking order at this time, Gu Zhi did not pay attention to it, and at this time, Zhu Chengji directly got off the horse and came to the toll station, ordered the guards to take Gu Zhi out and press it on the ground, and then whipped it over:

"Slut! This general is an auxiliary general of the clan, and the heavens are noble, so let you get out of the way! Why are you stopping here, are you looking for death?! ”

This Zhu Chengjin shouted as he spoke: "Beat me to death!" ”

Gu Zhi didn't even have a chance to beg for mercy before he was beaten severely, and after a while, he was beaten to the ground, screaming miserably, and finally was directly knocked unconscious.

Zhu Chengji just smiled coldly, and when he had a sense of convenience, he simply ordered Jean to break this Gu Zhi's mouth, and then sprinkled it in.

After Gu Zhi was awakened, Zhu Chengqi laughed: "This is dragon urine, it can heal your injuries!" ”

After speaking, Zhu Chengjin ordered the guards to evacuate the barricades, and at this time, Zhu Taihan, the king of Fenglin, also appeared at this time, happened to see this scene, and asked: "What's going on, why was this person beaten!" Are you members of the clan? ”

"Xiangyuan Palace, auxiliary general Zhu Chengjin!" Zhu Chengjin first reported his clan title.

"Fenglin King Zhu Taihan", Zhu Taihan also replied.

Zhu Chengqi saw that Zhu Taihan was higher than himself in the clan, so he saluted: "Uncle doesn't need to ask more, this eyeless thing doesn't give way when General Ben comes, General Ben just teaches him a lesson or two!" ”

Zhu Taihan said angrily: "Since you are a child of the clan, you should have the means, why do you care about ordinary people, beat people so hard, and ignore the king's law!" ”

"The whole world belongs to our Zhu family, just a common people, so what's the matter with death!"

After Zhu Chengqi said, it happened that one person walked out: "Chengjin is right, we are nobles, what is it to kill one or two people!" ”

Zhu Taihan was about to persuade Zhu Chengqi for a sentence or two, but when he saw that this person was also coming with a large group of guards, he hurriedly asked where he came from.

"Lonely is Hui King Zhu Houjiao", Hui King Zhu Houjiao said after saying: "Everyone is a blood relative of the clan, the two of you might as well go up, let's talk a few words." ”

Zhu Taihan and Zhu Chengjin didn't expect that the person in front of them was Zhu Houjiao, the king of Hui, although he was not a close relative of the Son of Heaven, but he was also closer than himself in terms of intimacy, so Zhu Taihan and Zhu Chengjin also went away on Zhu Houjiao's chariot.

Only Gu Zhi, who was covered in bruises, was still moving on the ground.

The feudal clans usually don't have the opportunity to get together, but now because they are ordered to enter Beijing, they just have the opportunity to chat, and they have chatted with each other for a few words, and they have become more acquainted, and what they talked about is nothing more than the matter of the Son of Heaven summoning him to Beijing and the recent matter about the taxation of Jiangnan and the collection of heavy taxes in the Guannai.

In fact, for these policies of the imperial court, the vassal kings are also quite dissatisfied, although the Ming ancestral precepts stipulate that the vassal royal clan cannot be from commercial farming, but these feudal royal clans will naturally not really abide by the ancestral precepts honestly, and most of them have their own agents to do business for themselves.

But the examples of failed rebellions such as King Anhua and King Ning are in front of them, and these vassal kings do not dare to openly oppose the imperial court, the only thing they can do is to express their dissatisfaction with the imperial court through some violent behavior, after all, they are all children of the clan anyway, and it is difficult for the law to restrain themselves.

"Your Majesty, Du Min, the imperial historian of the city patrol, outside the Yongding Gate of Shuntian Mansion, there are children of the clan who beat Gu Zhi, the toll collector of Shuntian Mansion, and insulted him with urine! According to the investigation of Shuntian Mansion, three children of the clan did enter the capital that day, among which a famous Zhu Chengjin killed a police soldier outside the Yongding Gate because he refused to be checked by security! ”

Zuodu Yushi Jin Xianmin explained the matter to Zhu Houzhao at this time, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but hold his forehead after hearing this: "It seems that these feudal royal clans are so presumptuous in the local area that they forget the rules, do they think that the laws of the court can't control them?!" ”

Jin Xianmin could hear that Emperor Zhu Houzhao was obviously quite dissatisfied with the arrogant behavior of the clan, but he couldn't let King Hui in at this time after receiving the benefits of King Hui: "Back to Your Majesty, there have always been many arrogant people in the clan, but there are also virtuous people, such as King Hui has always been good at loving the people, this time it happened that Zhu Chengjin and others entered Beijing and must have persuaded him, but he may have a thin face and did not persuade him. ”

Zhu Hou glanced at Jin Xianmin, and from Jin Xianmin's expression, he confirmed two messages, one was that King Hui was virtuous, and the other was to let the Zongren Mansion strengthen the management of the vassal king.

If Zhu Houzhao didn't have the eyes of the West Factory, he would still really believe Jin Xianmin's previous words, that is, Hui Wang Xianming, whether Hui Wang Xianming is not virtuous or not, what Zhu Houzhao can be sure now is that Jin Xianmin is not so clean at least on the surface, therefore, Zhu Houzhao only smiled and said: "Later, you will go to the East Factory Inspectorate by yourself, and you don't need to send someone to the East Factory to give an order." ”

Jin Xianmin was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, for a while, his heart was mixed, he didn't know how to explain, and he knew that it was useless to explain, so he had to say yes.

Zhu Houzhao met with Ma Yongcheng here and asked: "At that time in Jiangnan, Dongchang found out that Ji Xuan had dealings with King Hui, and confessed that he was the person of King Hui, and the assassination of Xuanwu Lake was also related to King Hui. ”

"Back to Your Majesty, King Hui has been staying in his palace since he knew that Ji Xuan was arrested, and there has been no abnormal behavior, only this time His Majesty summoned the vassal kings into Beijing, and King Hui went out of the palace and entered Beijing, and there was no panic, the ministers just learned that King Hui and Zhu Taihan, King of Fenglin, and Zhu Chengjin, the general of the auxiliary state, have been living together for a long time, as for what they said, because they were in the car, they could not be monitored."

Ma Yongcheng replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "After Jin Xianmin confesses, submit Jin Xianmin's confession record immediately." ”

"Yes!"

Ma Yongcheng retreated, and at night, he asked to see Zhu Houzhao again, and said: "Your Majesty, according to Jin Xianmin's confession, he knew King Hui because of Tao Zhongwen, the ambassador of Liaodongku;

This Tao Zhongwen is good at treating demons and diseases, last year, Jin Xianmin's grandson got chickenpox, and he couldn't be cured by seeking medical treatment everywhere, and he was introduced to let Tao Zhongwen pray to make his grandson heal, so Jin Xianmin deeply respected Tao Zhongwen, and Tao Zhongwen recommended King Hui for Jin Xianmin, saying that King Hui was good, especially good at making elixir, Huang County had an eighty-seven-year-old man who had already died of illness, but was saved by his charm water and medicine, and now he is one hundred and ten years old! After Jin Xianmin got it, he asked King Hui for his medicine through the long history of King Hui, and the consequences of taking it were so energetic that he couldn't leave this medicine every day. ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh dumbly after hearing what Ma Yongcheng said, thinking that chickenpox is a self-healing disease, and children with chickenpox have a high self-healing rate, this Tao Zhongwen can also successfully pretend to be trusted by Zuodu Yushi Jin Xianmin, the key is to pull King Hui in, and this King Hui is also good at the art of immortality.

If he wasn't a traverser, he might have believed this lie because of his attachment to life, and really thought that King Hui would have the art of immortality, and chose to forgive King Hui.

However, Zhu Houzhao is also very curious about what kind of elixir King Hui gave to the eighty-seven-year-old man and Jin Xianmin, which can still make people feel uplifted.

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly and said, "Let Zhu Houjiao, the king of Hui, come to see me tomorrow." ”

Ma Yongcheng thought that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao was also interested in the so-called elixir, so he retreated, only to sigh in his heart that even if he was as wise as His Majesty the Emperor, he was easily moved by such a thing as immortality, after all, who doesn't want to live longer.

……

Ji Xuan was taken away by the people of Dongchang, it is impossible to say that King Hui is not afraid or worried, but he has no other way, in front of His Majesty Zhu Houzhao, the emperor with absolute strength, even if he plots to surpass Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen, it is useless.

Because of this, when he received the order to enter Beijing for discussion, he still chose to enter Beijing, and took the opportunity of entering Beijing to continue to spread his immortality.

King Hui can only hope that he can use the elixir to fool most of the powerful people, and then fool the Emperor Ming.

He didn't believe that Emperor Zhu Houzhao was unwilling to live longer.

When Ma Yongcheng came to find King Hui, King Hui guessed that it seemed that Emperor Zhu Houzhao must have been interested in his elixir.

Thereupon.

A stone hanging in King Hui's heart finally fell to the ground, and he wished that His Majesty the Emperor could take his elixir, so that he could achieve his goal even if he didn't have to change the emperor.

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After Zhu Houzhao's will was issued, at this time, Zhu Chengji, the auxiliary general, had been escorted out of the Ten Princes' Mansion by the people of the Criminal Department, and this Zhu Chengji was still shouting on the side: "You let go of me, I am a child of the clan, why do you arrest me!" Isn't it just beating a pariah, killing a Qiu Ba, what's the big deal, do you still want me to lose my life! ”

King Hui happened to see this scene, and saw Zhu Chengji's embarrassed appearance of being shackled, he was very glad that he was not punished because he knew some special Taoist skills, but he also began to look forward to his elixir so that the emperor could really enjoy it, so that he would not have to wear shackles like Zhu Chengji.

……

Zhu Houzhao saw Zhu Chengjin first, he had already heard of the arrogance of the children of the clan, but he didn't expect that some of the children of the clan had been arrogant enough to dare to spread wild at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, this time, Zhu Houzhao plans to treat Zhu Chengqi as a typical example, and he wants to let the people of the world understand that anyone who violates the law will be punished by the law, even the children of the clan cannot go unpunished.

Therefore, looking at Zhu Chengji, Zhu Houzhao said: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, since you killed someone, you naturally want to pay for your life!" Zhu Chengji, is the most daring for you, dare to spread wild in the capital, do you know who the police soldiers you killed are, they are warriors who once opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty, even if you were the toll collector Gu Zhi who was humiliated by you, he is also a scholar who graduated from the junior school, not like you, a waste who does not learn and has no skills! You're not just a waste, you're lawless! ”

Zhu Houzhao instructed as he spoke: "Wang Jun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, will be sentenced directly, and there is no need to tolerate it!" ”

"Obey the order!"

After Wang Jun said this, he immediately issued an order from the Criminal Department: "Behead!" ”

Zhu Chengjin couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down towards Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the minister is a royal descendant, how can you let the minister pay for the lives of a few common people, the minister is not satisfied, the minister is not convinced!" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't pay attention to Zhu Chengjin anymore, and walked away directly.

For the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chengji's death is indeed of great practical significance, which not only makes a lot of rules for the clan, but also increases the goodwill of the common people and officers and soldiers towards Zhu Houzhao, knowing that His Majesty is a good emperor who is willing to be the master of these lowly people.

Even some low-level eunuchs in the inner court thought so, so they were talking in a whisper, and Zhu Houjiao, the king of Hui, also heard a sentence or two of discussion, so he couldn't help but sneer, and said in his belly: "The good emperor still hopes that he will live forever, and he hopes that he can be a master forever!" ”

When Zhu Houzhao saw King Hui coming in, he asked directly: "You are Zhu Houjiao, King Hui?" ”

King Hui bowed his hand: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is Zhu Houjiao." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded and continued to ask, "I heard that you are good at making elixirs of life, can you bring the medicine today?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, bring it, the minister occasionally got the best medicine before, and didn't dare to give it away, but now he brought it into Beijing before entering Beijing, thinking that the best medicine must be the most noble person to enjoy it, but the minister needs to use a smoking gun to smoke it, so the minister specially brought a gold smoking gun", King Hui said and came out with a pack of ointment in one hand and a cigarette gun in the other.

Zhu Houzhao had almost guessed what this King Hui was talking about, so he only nodded and asked, "What is the effect of this medicine?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, in the short term, it can be invigorating, if you are like a fairy, the whole body is comfortable, and if you take it for a long time, you can prolong your life", King Hui said as respectfully as possible.

"Do you have anything to do with it?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

King Hui was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "This medicine is suitable for people with body yang, and the minister has always been yin and cannot be eaten, so he has never taken it." ”

"I see that your physique should be yang, you can take it, come here, give King Hui a collapse, put it opposite Guanyue Pond, and let King Hui drink the elixir with the breeze and jade dew."

Zhu Houzhao commanded.

Seeing this, King Hui couldn't help but be shocked, and his heart became extremely panicked, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this medicine is only one taste, and no matter how difficult it is to refine, it can increase your life span by five hundred years!" If the minister uses it, it will be difficult to have it again, Your Majesty! ”

"It's okay, if you can really live for five hundred years, I would like to give you the country!"

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

King Hui's eyes kept rolling, the sweat on his forehead soaked out, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but cold his face at this time: "What, King Hui, do you want to resist the decree?" ”

"Minister, minister don't dare!"

When King Hui was talking, the eunuch Gu Dayong walked in: "Your Majesty, the collapse has been placed opposite Guanyuetang", as he spoke, Gu Dayong turned around and saluted King Hui: "Please move King Hui." ”

。 Sogou