The Renshou Palace of the mountain has been built for two years, the world is unified, the people live and work in peace and contentment for the prosperity of the Great Sui, the emperor has been conscientiously dealing with the government affairs, only sleeping three hours a day, the emperor is also a person, there are also seven emotions and six desires, need to rest, after the unification of the south of the Yangtze River, look around, the Great Sui no longer needs to use troops on a large scale, and finally can take a breath, the ministers accurately grasped the emperor's mentality, and have proposed to the emperor to seal Mount Tai or build a palace.

Yang Jian refused to Mount Tai to seal Zen, chose to build a palace, no one thinks that the emperor's merit is not enough, just think that the emperor is humble and does not admire the false name, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty swept the Huns can be sealed Zen, the Great Sui still beat the Turks to bow down to the vassals, relatively speaking, the Great Sui only took a few years, half of China's strength to defeat the Turks, and ended China's three hundred years of division, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty raised the strength of the whole country, several generations of accumulation, it took decades, and the result was that the country was tired and the people were poor to defeat the Xiongnu, The achievements of the Great Sui can be said to have surpassed that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, according to Yang Yong's private speculation, it is completely the emperor's small family anger, the cost of Mount Tai to seal the Zen is huge, the emperor has to personally climb to the top of the mountain, suffer, in addition to showing the people along the way the royal prestige, there will be nothing left after returning, and the construction of the palace can also highlight the pomp and circumstance of the Emperor of the Great Sui, although the cost is not necessarily smaller than the mountaineering and sealing the Zen, but once it is built, the emperor can move in in the summer every year to enjoy the coolness of the palace, of course, the construction of the palace can be drawn.

For the emperor to build the palace, Yang Yong not only did not object, but also tried his best to undertake the task of building the palace to himself. Sending Zhang Qiu Taiyi to personally select a site for the palace, there was no large-scale war, the politics were clear, and the agricultural college had new production tools to be promoted to the whole country every year, and the productive forces of the Great Sui were developed like an explosion, and the granaries and treasury of the government were piled up more and more full year by year.

Yang Yong came from later generations, so he naturally knew that the court could not be blindly thrifty. Seeing that the speed of building the official warehouse cannot keep up with the speed of collecting taxes. There must be a way to spend these things. Otherwise, you can only let these things mold in the warehouse.

The construction of the palace is undoubtedly a good way, not only to please his own emperor Lao Tzu, to spend more and more grain and money in the official warehouse, but also to allow more people to break away from agriculture, so that the economy of the Great Sui is more prosperous.

In the past, the reason why the emperor's overhaul of the palace would cause the people to complain was because the people who built the palace were all free to use the conscription. Yang Yong persuaded the emperor and his ministers that the workers who built the palace were not only responsible for the food and lodging by the court, but also converted into wages every day, and the level of this salary should not be too low, taking a small worker as an example, it must be enough to support the whole family, of course, skilled craftsmen are higher.

Pay the wages of the people who are levied. This kind of thing is unprecedented. In the early days of the Great Sui Dynasty, when the soldiers were conscripted in the border war, they still had to bring their own dry food and weapons. Otherwise, the court can't afford it, let alone the people's husband, it would be good to have a bite to eat, but under Yang Yong's strong insistence, Yang Jian still agreed to Yang Yong's suggestion, although Yang Jian didn't understand the significance of government consumption to drive the economy, but he still knew that it was not necessarily a good thing if the money was lying in the treasury.

Determined to build the palace, Zhang Qiu Taiyi immediately selected the site for the palace, and finally chose to build the palace in the peaks on the southern slope of the mountain, Qishan is located in the north of Weishui, more than 100 miles away from the capital, not far and not close, the road is smooth.

According to Zhang Qiu Taiyi's statement, this is located in the sun of the mountain, the north of the water, can be described as the feng shui treasure land facing the mountain by the water, the terrain of the palace is not high, there is the main peak of Qishan to block, so the cold north wind in winter can not blow, it is much warmer than the city of Daxing, the wet south wind blowing from Weishui in summer is slowly continuous, plus the surrounding forests and trees block the sun, all day and night are as cool as early autumn.

Got Zhang Qiu Taiyi's reply, Yang Jian was overjoyed, and immediately named Renshou Palace for this palace that has not yet been built, faintly revealing the intention of supporting the elderly in it, and now Renshou Palace has reached the final stage, and it will be fully completed in two or three months, no accident, this winter the emperor can move in and enjoy the warm and ambiguous feeling of Renshou Palace in the mountains like spring.

In order to build Renshou Palace, the court used 300,000 craftsmen and people, and the money spent has exceeded 20 million, and the grain is as much as millions of stones.

In order to ensure that the construction of Renshou Palace was not mistaken by the money and grain, the court allocated the money and grain to the official warehouse specially built by the mountain at the beginning of the year, 300,000 people, based on the annual consumption of seven stone of grain per person, the grain allocated to Qishan at the beginning of the year will be 2.1 million stone, and now it is expected that there will be at least one million stone or more in the grain storage, if the grain from Qishan is transported to the capital, plus the grain stored in the official warehouse, it is very possible to calm the grain price in the capital.

Lu Mulin wanted to solve the problem of rising food prices in the capital, but he didn't expect that if this was the case, I was afraid that the prince's two-year work in presiding over the construction of Renshou Palace would be ruined, and even if the emperor agreed on the surface, he would be dissatisfied with the prince in his heart.

Yang Yong did not hesitate to veto Lu Mulin's proposal, the construction of Renshou Palace can not be delayed, the Great Sui is not without grain, nor is there no money, there is a big granary in Luoyang, the key is that the road is not passable, the far water does not quench the thirst of the near, Yang Yong couldn't help but regret it, if he had known that this year would be so drought, last year he should have taken advantage of the smooth water transportation to transport Luoyang's grain to the capital for storage, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world, and now I can only think about it.

There is a mountain solid danger in the pass, as the capital, although it is safe, but there is no convenient transportation, and such a natural disaster will be exposed immediately, which may be the reason why Yang Guang took Luoyang as the eastern capital and overhauled the canal in later generations.

On the bank of the Weishui River, a wide and straight avenue leads straight between the mountains, and from time to time you can see the people who help the old and the young into the mountains on both sides of the road, although these people are still neatly dressed, but they have vegetables on their faces, and they are weak when they walk, so they sit down and rest for a while after walking for a while.

There was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a team of dozens of knights kicked up a cloud of dust, and they were hurrying away, seeing the knights passing by themselves, many people who were sitting next to them hurriedly raised their hands to cover the dust, and squinted their eyes to look at the knights coming in the middle of the road.

"Ritsu!"

Yang Yong grabbed the reins. He stopped, and asked left and right suspiciously, "What's the matter, why are there so many more people on this road?" ”

This road leads directly to Renshou Palace, every half a month Yang Yong has to go to Qishan to inspect the construction of Renshou Palace, usually except for the workers who transport the materials for the construction of the palace to the mountain, rarely find any people on this road, let alone help the old and the young like this.

Mai Tiezhu replied bravely: "Your Highness, go and ask somebody?"

Yang Yong nodded. The rod had never ridden a horse. Spread your legs and walk towards a young couple with a child. asked a few words in a low voice, and came back immediately: "Back to Your Highness, a certain family has asked, they want to enter the mountain to build a palace for the emperor." ”

"Build a palace?" Yang Yong frowned, when Renshou Palace was first built, although the court advertised that the people not only provided food and lodging, but also settled wages every month. Most people still didn't believe it, and finally relied on compulsory orders to recruit 300,000 people, and it was not until a few months later that these forced requisitioned people sent money home, and everyone believed that such a good thing really happened, and for a while, many people who wanted to work to earn some money after farming slack flocked to the mountains to join the team of building the Renshou Palace.

It's a pity that the enrollment of local people is full, and the court needs people who work in the mountains all year round. For these farmers who just want to earn some pocket money in their spare time, they naturally refuse to do so. Everyone could only return disappointed, and now they didn't expect that someone would go to the mountains to join the workforce.

Don't say that Renshou Palace will be completed in a few months, but it will not be completed. I'm afraid that the court will only recruit skilled craftsmen now, and will not pull people casually, and if you miss some things, you will miss them forever.

"Will the mountains recruit people, why doesn't Hongu know?" Yang Yong asked left and right.

Every half a month, the prince took the entourage into the mountain once, Yang Yong didn't know what the others didn't know, of course the others didn't know, everyone shook their heads for a while, Mai Tiezhu touched his head, and said embarrassedly: "Your Highness, a certain family will ask again." ”

"Mai Aiqing, no need, let's go over together."

"Yes," the crowd gently pinched the horse's belly, and all the horses slowly started and walked towards the couple whom they had just asked.

When Mai Tiezhu came alone just now, he saw that Mai Tiezhu was nine feet tall and had a fierce face, and the couple was already worried, but now they saw this group of people riding tall horses coming in their direction, and their hearts were even more frightened, only to feel that their legs were weak, but they couldn't move, and a little boy of six or seven years old among the two of them was not afraid at all, and looked at the horses with wide eyes, and wanted to go over and mold a few times, but his mother grabbed the clothes and did not succeed.

"May I ask, but the virtuous couple are going to work in the mountains, is the court starting to recruit people again?"

"Back to the adult, the little one...... The little one doesn't know if he wants people in the mountains? The young man finally mustered up his courage and stammered back.

"I don't know, I don't know what you're doing in the mountains?" Yang Yong asked depressedly, thinking that the steward in the mountain dared to recruit people without his permission, so it turned out that there was no local affairs.

"Back to my lord, food is too expensive now, we really can't afford it, I heard that the people who work in the mountains not only have a full meal, but also have a monthly money, we want to try our luck and see if we can go in?" Now that he said it, the young man was not so afraid, and this time he spoke much more smoothly.

"Just try your luck and go into the mountain, if you can't get in, what will you do?"

"This ......" hesitated for a moment, and then the young man replied: "My lord, if there are villains in the mountains, if you can't get in, you can only rely on your fellow villagers, I think, it's better than starving to death outside." ”

"Nonsense, now is the prosperous era of the Great Sui, how can people starve to death?" One of the guards couldn't help but shout.

Being drunk like this, the boy in the middle suddenly cried loudly, and the young couple also shrunk, not daring to distinguish, they inherited the tradition that the people do not fight with the rich, and the rich do not fight with the officials, although they don't know the details of these people in front of them, at least it can be seen that they are either rich or expensive.

Yang Yong glared at the guard in displeasure and comforted: "You don't have to be afraid, as long as you tell the truth, this palace ...... Ben Gongzi won't blame, you said that people would starve to death outside, what did you do before? ”

"Back to the adults, the little ones...... The small one is just doing some handiwork, only three or five hundred coppers a month, if it is in previous years, enough to buy a few stones of rice, plus the mother-in-law can also sew and mend for others, subsidize a little family, life is still passable, now the income in a month can only buy a few buckets of rice, even if the coarse grain is only a stone, if you don't find a chance, adults can stand it, children can't stand it. ”

"That is to say, there are so many weaving factories in the capital, and a weaver has at least four hundred wen per month, and more than six or seven hundred wen, why don't you let your wife join the weaving factory, and you can also reduce the burden a little?"

The young man smiled bitterly: "The lord is talking about the weaving factory opened by the court?" ”

"Exactly, what's wrong?" Yang Yong asked curiously.

"Of course it would be good if you could enter the weaving factory opened by the court, but the weaving factory has limited recruitment every year, and although the villain's mother-in-law has been there several times, she has not been recruited." The young man said helplessly.

"Oh, then why don't you try a private weaving factory, that is, as this son knows, there are new weaving factories that open every year to recruit people, although the price may be lower, but it is better than sewing and repairing with people." The name of the Agricultural College is set up by the imperial court, in fact, it is completely under the management of the East Palace, and the industry under its name is also equal to the industry of the East Palace, and Yang Yong personally participated in the formulation of the wages and regulations inside, anyway, the Agricultural College monopolized the technology of the textile machine, and the efficiency was definitely higher than that of other private weaving factories, and Yang Yong naturally set the salary higher.

The woman saw that the group of people had asked her husband for a long time, and there was no malicious intent, so she added to the side: "The son thinks that the weaving factories opened by those rich families are the same as those in the court, they not only have low wages, but also do not let people rest, if they enter such a weaving factory, they can exhaust people to death, but if there is a mouthful of food, the slave family cannot enter such a weaving factory." ”

"What, there's such a thing?" Yang Yong was shocked, this is not the same as the sweatshops of later generations.

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Note: In history, the construction of Renshou Palace was in the thirteenth year of the Kaihuang Emperor to the fifteenth year of the Kaihuang Emperor, presided over by Yang Su, Renshou Palace was repaired very gorgeously, which is inconsistent with Yang Jian's frugality, and in order to catch up with the construction period, at least thousands of servants died, coupled with the drought of the 14th year of the Kaihuang, due to the construction of Renshou Palace consumed too much financial resources, the court was unable to provide disaster relief, Yang Jian himself could only take the minister to Luoyang to eat, and the people who died in this project did not know how many, Yang Jian turned a blind eye to these, after the Renshou Palace was repaired, praised Yang Su, it can be seen that Yang Jian's thrift at the beginning is not really to be frugal, he still pursues luxury in his bones, and the construction of Renshou Palace here was advanced to the twelfth year of the emperor's opening, because the time to unify Jiangnan was also advanced by one year.

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