Chapter 732

Therefore, in almost every cell, there will be three errand guards who take turns to keep an eye on it, which prevents this kind of suicide from happening.

And as the interrogation continued, nearly thirty officials were involved one after another, and these thirty officials were secretly glad that they could escape, but they never thought that they would fall into the hands of their pig teammates.

Because of the close attention of the Son of Heaven and the cold eyes of the Empress Dowager, the pressure on the ministers and workers of the old party who occupied most of the court can be said to have almost broken their waists.

In order to be able to extricate themselves from this situation as soon as possible, the triage of the three divisions was almost done with lightning speed, with the largest number of manpower, and at the fastest speed, and it took less than a month and a half to conclude the trial of 50 percent of the officials involved in the smuggling case.

Nearly three-fifths of these officials were reduced to civilian posts and distributed, about one-fifth were degraded to barbaric places, and about one-fifth were not deeply involved, or the smugglers they endorsed were only smuggling ordinary commodities and did not involve commodities prohibited by the Great Song Dynasty.

Even so, they were punished with fines and demotions, while the other half of the officials remained in prison, anxiously awaiting their fate.

This move was a terrible catastrophe for those officials of the entire Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, it also made those officials think twice before they wanted to commit adultery in a short period of time.

On the contrary, it made the rule of the Great Song Dynasty clear, but unfortunately, this credit will only be counted on Zhao Xu, the young son of heaven.

And Zhao Xu can more and more feel that the attitude of the ministers in the court towards him is undergoing a fundamental change.

From the past when the imperial grandmother hung the curtain to listen to the government, these people waited one by two to ignore themselves. When it came time for him to be in power, he began to be cheeky to kneel and lick himself, but there are still quite a few people who take a perfunctory attitude towards themselves.

And until now, Zhao Xu finally felt that his authority had begun to be gradually erected, and the sense of accomplishment brought by this really made Zhao Xu so happy that he smiled for several days in a row, and even ate an extra bowl for lunch.

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Wang Yang had already carefully considered the potential questions of the Empress Dowager's words, and gave a detailed answer, but Wang Yang was not the kind of hot-blooded and overly impulsive young man, he knew very well where his advantages and strengths were.

In addition, even if the land in these three states is being sold now, although it seems to be beautiful, the problem is that these three states will need to accommodate nearly 300,000 people who have migrated here, which is definitely not a small amount.

Therefore, even if he is rich, it is impossible to use it to pay taxes to the country now, Wang Yang doesn't want these people to come to these three states without food and clothing, and there is no tattoo on their heads.

In addition, it is necessary to build a larger and stronger Yanzhou Prefecture City, which requires the cost of resources, which is not calculated in 100,000 guan, but in 1 million guan.

After several days, Wang Yang personally went to all the salt ponds in the workshop to conduct statistics and audits, and then began to determine the officials in charge of the salt ponds and the person in charge.

Then he rushed towards the site of the new Yanzhou without stopping. Rushing over from the nearest salt pond, it is also more than 30 miles away, and when I came to the new site of Yanzhou, which has been selected, it is already in full swing at the moment, but the construction site here, there is no ordinary people, but the old driver Zhi Keshi personally led 5,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 elite horsemen to guard here.

At this moment, there are 25,000 Xiang troops who are working here, and the Xiang army rushed to Yanzhou seven days ago, and after spending almost three days of hard work, so that their families and dependents have settled down, leaving 5,000 Xiang troops to supplement the defense of Yanzhou and maintain law and order.

The other 25,000 troops left Yanzhou and headed east, nominally to tell everyone that they were going to other walled cities for repairs.

But after leaving Yanzhou for more than 100 miles, I went around in a big circle, quietly arrived here, and then began to build on a large scale.

The city of the new Yanzhou is more than twice the size of the original Yanzhou, and the width and length alone have reached three miles each. The circumference is a total of twelve li, which is more than half of the circumference of the city wall of Kaifeng Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

The total circumference of the city wall of Kaifeng Bianliang is only twenty miles and one hundred and ninety steps, and the scale of the new Yanzhou is comparable to many important cities in the Great Song Dynasty, but not like the old Yanzhou city in general, the total circumference is less than eight miles.

Therefore, the streets of the old Yanzhou City are narrow, the residents' houses are very old, and the drainage system is not smooth, and the whole city feels like an old shantytown in the future.

Since you want to do your own work, of course, you have to do it to the extreme, plus there is a lot of cement, and the terrain here is mountainous, rocky, wood, for construction, the best is the best.

In addition, more than a dozen brick kilns have risen from the ground, and green smoke is constantly emitting day and night, and they are naturally firing red bricks, as well as lime and other building materials.

"Lord Wang, I've been looking forward to it for a long time, but I didn't expect you to come over so long." Zhi Keshi, who received the news, also rushed over, in addition to the old driver, there was also Li Ji, an old man who looked a little haggard.

"There's no way, my little brother also wants to come over earlier, but I can't get out, I didn't expect you to come here for a few days, and it's already the first time you have seen the prototype." After Wang Yang hurriedly returned the salute one by one, he raised his hand and pointed to the lively construction site that was already beginning to build the city wall with fired red bricks around him.

"That's not all, the brothers are working hard, knowing that this is their future home, so naturally they all do their best. And with Yuanyou cement, as long as the red bricks produced are enough, I am afraid that the construction of this new Yanzhou will only take twenty days at most, and this wall city can be completely built. ”

"After all, this is not like the kind of border town fort built in the past, only seeking speed, not firmness, this is a city after all." Zhe Keshi was quite emotional.

"In the past, in order to seize the territory, my Great Song Dynasty guarded it with a large army in front, and forcibly built a walled fort with servants in the rear, even if it was a walled fort that could accommodate thousands of people, it would take half a month to complete."

"And at that time, it took only a few days of hard work to build such a defense line that was difficult for tens of thousands of powerful troops in Western Xia to cross, and Zhi Mou understood that this Yuanyou cement was much stronger than the glutinous rice juice we used in the past. One is convenient, and the other is fast. ”

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