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As soon as they got down from the wharf, before they arrived at the foot of Shengzhou City, Yang Wu and the others saw the houses outside the city in front of them, and the pedestrians on the streets were endless, which was a prosperous atmosphere.

Yang Wu couldn't help but smile at Chen Yanqian beside him: "Chen Yuanjun, this Shengzhou is well planned, it seems that if this place is to be built into the capital of my Huainan, all that is missing is a city wall!"

As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, it was once the first metropolis in the world with a population of more than one million. However, with the unification of the Sui Dynasty, especially in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou failed to raise troops here, and the city was also destroyed.

Later, until the Anshi Rebellion, it existed as Jiangning County, and although it was upgraded to a state for a short time during the Anshi Rebellion, it was soon abandoned and only re-established as Shengzhou again 16 years ago.

Therefore, at this time, although Shengzhou had a large population and prosperous commerce, its city wall was only the city wall of a county town, and most of the residents lived outside the city. Compared with the prosperous atmosphere outside the city, the city wall of Shengzhou is too short.

Fortunately, except for the short city walls, Shengju is very suitable as a capital city in other aspects. Moreover, since Chen Yanqian became the governor of the country, he began to replan the streets and houses outside the city, especially this time Yang Wu ordered the wealthy families of the four states that had just fallen in the south to be forcibly moved here, and Chen Yanqian made careful arrangements.

So this time, when Yang Wu came here, what he saw was rows of scattered houses and streets extending in all directions. In this way, when Shengzhou expands Chengdu City in the future, there will be much less things to do, and the most important thing is to build the city wall.

"The prince mentioned at the beginning that there was a plan to build this place as my Huainan Governor's Office, and if his subordinates didn't know to plan in advance, it would be a serious dereliction of duty." Chen Yanqian said with a smile.

After two years of training, he seems to be extremely calm and capable at this time, and the kind of bookish atmosphere he had when he first met him is rarely seen.

"Ma'am, we've been on the boat for a long time, and it's time to move. Why don't you just walk back to the Assassin's Mansion? It's also good to take a look at the customs of this Shengzhou. Yang Wu turned to his wife and smiled.

On this trip to the south, the first stop was Shengzhou. Since he captured Shengzhou with Li Shenfu two years ago, although he has led troops through here several times, he has rarely stopped to make a good inspection.

However, he can still see that Shengzhou has changed a lot in the past two years, especially the chaotic houses and streets outside the city have been rectified, and as for the increase in population, there has been no obvious change.

"Okay, husband, you can make a decision!" Zhou Mengjie looked at her husband and said sweetly.

As far as she is concerned, as long as her husband can accompany her more, she doesn't care about anything else.

"In that case, please ask Chen Yuanjun to lead the way in front."

"Son of the world, please! Madame please! Chen Yanqian bowed and said.

Zhou Mengjie's face was slightly red, and she was a little uncomfortable with being called "Mrs."

According to the title system of the Tang Dynasty, the prince's wife was canonized as a princess or a lady of the country, and the concubines were generally county monarchs, such as Mrs. Zhu was canonized as Mrs. Yanguo at the beginning, and Yang Wu's mother, Mrs. Shi, was canonized as the county monarch of Wuchang.

The wife of the county king can be canonized as the county lady, and the concubine is generally canonized as the county lady.

However, now that the imperial court system has collapsed, and the Son of Heaven himself is difficult to protect, where is there still time and mood to seal the wives of various feudal towns. If it weren't for the needs of the original situation, Yang Xingmi deliberately mentioned it when the envoy of the Son of Heaven, Li Yan, arrived in Guangling, but he was afraid that Yang Wu could only be called a son or a girl like his younger brothers and sisters now.

Of course, Yang Xingmi can now be crowned an official without the emperor's consent, but the canonization of the title involves a lot of money, and it is not the most urgent at present, so until now, Yang Wu's mother is still only the monarch of Wuchang County, and has not been promoted.

Yang Wu's current title is the rank of the county king, and it stands to reason that Zhou Mengjie, as his wife, can be named the county lady, but there is no official canonization at present, but fortunately, Zhou Mengjie doesn't care about these.

Besides, with the current development momentum of Huainan, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Huainan will definitely build a country and be honored in the future, as for whether it is the king first or the emperor directly, that is to see the situation in the future. Zhou Mengjie, as Yang Wu's wife, will either be a princess or a queen in the future, so naturally there is no need to be so anxious.

At this time, under the leadership of Chen Yanqian, Yang Wu took Zhou Mengjie under the protection of the guards and began to return to the Assassin's Mansion on foot.

Most of the people in Shengzhou have slowly migrated from the states south of the Yangtze River, especially the recent migration of many wealthy families from the four southern states. Because they lived in the underdeveloped south, these families were influenced by the local aboriginal customs in many ways, and in many ways they were very different from the customs of Guangling.

In the face of this completely different customs, Zhou Mengjie showed great interest, many times when she saw the novelty items in the street shop, she was a little eager to try, but remembered that she was no longer a girl who was ignorant of the world, but Yang Wu's wife, plus Chen Yanqian was there, so she had to hold her mood and accompany Yang Wu to continue to walk.

"What? If you want to go in and have a look, you don't have to be so reserved! Yang Wu couldn't help but smile when he saw her look.

Zhou Mengjie's face turned red, and she couldn't help but say angrily: "Who said I wanted to go in and see it?" I see that you are walking too slowly, at this rate, you will not be able to return to the Thorn Mansion tomorrow! ”

Yang Wu smiled and didn't argue with her, and after walking for a while, Yang Wu saw that she was a little tired, and knew that she was just a rich girl, so he summoned the carriage and the group returned directly to the Assassin's Mansion.

In the study, only Yang Wu and Chen Yanqian were left to talk about official business, and Zhou Mengjie was accompanied by Chen Yanqian's wife to talk.

"Your Highness, how long is this parade going to last? How long are you going to live in Seongju? Chen Yanqian asked straight to the point.

"It's more than a month in total, maybe I'll go back in March, and no more than April at the latest. So I won't be able to live long in Shengzhou this time, and at most it will take five or six days to take a rough look. ”

Chen Yanqian couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard this, "My subordinates also expect His Highness to stay in Shengzhou for a few more days, so that His Highness and his wife can have a good look at the scenery of Shengzhou, if there are only five or six days, then the time will be a little tight." ”

"Don't worry, when the government is moved here, there will be time to play." Yang Wu said: "By the way, if Shengzhou starts to expand the city wall now, the length of the city wall of forty miles, the average height of four zhang, is all made of bricks and stones, how much does it cost to calculate at this scale?" How long will it take? ”

The main purpose of his visit to Seungju was to prepare for the construction of a new Seungju city on the agenda. Building the city wall has never been an easy thing, in history, Zhu Yuanzhang built the city of Nanjing, mobilized the country's 1 ministry, 3 guards, 5 provinces, 28 prefectures, 152 prefectures and counties, a total of 280,000 workers, about 350 million city bricks, lasted 27 years, before finally completing the pattern of the four city walls of Yingtianfu.

Yang Wu now has neither so much manpower and material resources to mobilize, nor so much time to build a city for him, so it is naturally impossible to build such a large-scale city wall.

In history, Nanwu built Jinling City, at the beginning it was only during Xu Zhihe's tenure as the assassin of Shengzhou, and it took more than three years to build it with the power of Shengzhou, and after the city wall was completed, the circumference was twenty-five miles and forty-four steps.

This can only be regarded as a medium-sized city in this era, and later Xu Wen took a fancy to this place, and intended to move the capital here, so it was expanded, so that the circumference of Jinling City reached forty miles.

However, the Jinling City of the Southern Tang Dynasty is still far inferior to the Chang'an City of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, nor is it as good as Kaifeng of the Song Dynasty, nor can it be compared with Nanjing and Beijing in the later Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and even today's Suzhou and Hangzhou, which is obviously unacceptable to Yang Wu.

Although he didn't plan to build Nanjing so big and strong like Zhu Yuanzhang, at least it couldn't be too shabby. Therefore, Yang Wu planned to build a city wall length of forty miles first, and then carry out the next step of expansion.

Chen Yanqian also thought carefully about the expansion of Shengzhou City for a long time, and after listening to it, he replied directly: "If it is only built with the power of Shengzhou and one state, it will take at least six years to complete, and the cost has not been carefully calculated by his subordinates, and it is difficult to say, but it is difficult to support it only by relying on Shengzhou." ”

"So how much time will it take to build it with the civil and material resources of the entire Jiangnan Prefecture?"

"If we can get strong support from the surrounding states, it can be built in three years." Chen Yanqian replied after thinking for a while.

"Three years?" Yang Wu groaned, three years is not a long time, if you start building now, after three years, if it goes well, you should be able to eliminate Qian Di, but if you want to unify the south, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult.

Moreover, if history has not changed, three years later will be the time when Zhu Quanzhong usurped the throne and established the Later Liang, and then Yang Wu can also take the opportunity to establish the country and relocate the capital.

It's just that the next step is to completely eliminate Qian Biao, I am afraid that a large number of people and material resources in the Jiangnan prefectures will be used to attack Hangzhou, and I am afraid that there are not many that can be used to build the city wall.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu said to Chen Yanqian: "In this way, you first find someone to explore, plan according to what you just said, first formulate a detailed plan for building the city, list all the civil and material resources needed, and then report to the Jiedu Embassy, and then make a decision then." ”

Chen Yanqian's expression was overjoyed, "My subordinates obey the order, and I will definitely come up with a plan as soon as possible." ”

"Well, you can try to refer to the surrounding landscape trend and adapt measures to local conditions, so the shape of the city wall does not have to be square, but also irregular; In addition, forty miles is only temporary, and when you are planning, you must also consider future expansion. Now that the south is undecided, I can't get much financial resources for the time being, but I will definitely expand the city in the future. ”

The construction of a new castle is not decided all at once, there is a lot of preparation to be done, there are many issues to consider, and naturally a detailed plan is needed.