The newly established printing bureau was subordinate to the secretary province, and the yamen was naturally in the secretary province, but the printing bureau was to print books after all. The printing office consisted of a paper, an ink, and a printing house, which could not have been located in the city.

The emperor deliberately allocated a piece of land to Li Xiao on the side of the Zhongwei Bridge as the location of several workshops. This place is very large, it is next to the original Chang'an Ancient City, close to Weishui. It is not far from Chang'an City, in the north of Chang'an City, and Chang'an is separated by a wide canal.

This abandoned Chang'an City has not been abandoned for long.

When the Sui Dynasty was founded, it still continued to use the old Chang'an City as the capital, but later Yang Jian felt that the Han Chang'an City was dilapidated and narrow, and the groundwater pollution was serious, so it was no longer suitable for the capital of the new unified dynasty, so he chose a good land in the south of Longshouyuan in the southeast of Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty.

In the Sui Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, the capital was also set in Guanzhong, but Daxing City was changed to Chang'an City.

The old Chang'an City has been abandoned for only sixty or seventy years, but it is extremely dilapidated and dilapidated. When Yang Jian moved the capital, he first built a palace city at a new site, and then built official offices and private houses one after another, basically demolishing the old capital to build a new capital, so the old Chang'an City has been almost demolished.

The high walls are gone, the majestic palace is gone, and the houses and courtyards of the old city are in ruins.

Even the big trees in the city were cut down.

"San Lang!"

Li Yuanfang had already waited there with a group of people, and when he saw Li Xiao arriving on horseback, he hurriedly came forward to greet him.

"Have you chosen your address?" Li Xiao asked.

In order to be able to do things well, Li Xiao also unceremoniously made a few requests to the emperor, not only asking for enough money and abundant people, but also specifically asking for a temporary loan to the corn supervisor to assist him. Li Zhi also fully agreed, allowing him to seconded some of the corn supervisors first.

Li Yuanfang is his brother, and he is also very well-connected in Chang'an City, especially his cousin Di Renjie is still Yongzhou Facao, Li Xiao was naturally the first to seconded him, and Li Xiao, many old subordinates of the corn prison, was also called.

Under his hands, the officials of the corn prison enjoyed the dividends of the small treasury, and they were usually well fed, and their enthusiasm was quite high at this time, and they came as soon as they called.

"It's on the south bank of Weishui, the paper mill needs water, and it's more convenient to be close to Weishui." Li Yuanfang said.

The Weishui River was important to Guanzhong and irrigated the Guanzhong Plain. However, the Weishui is impermanent in size, shallow and deep in sand, and has never been a good canal, often blocking transportation. After the Sui unified the north, the old Cao Canal of the Han Dynasty had been silted up for a long time and could not be used, so it had to be used by Weishui, but the bad luck of Weishui forced the Sui Dynasty to have another Cao Canal later.

At that time, from the northwest of Daxing City to lead Weishui, slightly follow the old road of the Cao Canal of the Han Dynasty and go east, to Tongguan into the Yellow River, more than 300 miles long, the name of Guangtong Canal. Since then, Caoyun Tongli, Guanzhong relies on it, so it is also called Fumin Canal, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the grain goods of Kanto and Jiangnan also rely on this river to transport into Guanzhong.

Weishui, like Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, is no longer prosperous.

Except for the three Weishui bridges, the road connecting Chang'an and Weibei, the rest of the Weishui River is actually very desolate. But such a desolate place, Li Xiao likes it very much.

"Did the young superintendent and the general send craftsmen?" Li Xiao asked.

The emperor has already pulled out the land and given money, and now the key is to build the workshop first, and the paper-making and ink-making workshops will transfer artisan slaves from the original royal workshops, and the printing workshops will have their own.

But the construction of the workshop also requires professional people, Datang is in charge of the construction of the project, and the construction project is the supervisor of the craftsman. As for the 100 crafts, this is supervised and governed by the Shaofu.

If you want to build a workshop, you still have to build a workshop and put it into production as soon as possible, so naturally they have to send people the fastest.

"What? Shaofu and the general will not send people? Why? Li Xiao asked in surprise.

Li Yuanfang said helplessly, "The master craftsman said that he was busy preparing to build Yong'an Palace recently, and he couldn't spare manpower for us." ”

Repair Yong'an Palace?

Li Xiao thought to himself, what the hell is Yong'an Palace? Moreover, didn't Li Zhi just issue a million bonds to borrow money from the subjects of the world, ready to use it to support the war against Goguryeo and this year's disaster relief, why did he build a palace fortress at this time?

You must know that in ancient times, the construction of the palace city has never had any good reputation, and it is easy to get into a bad reputation for construction and extravagance.

Li Yuanfang saw Li Xiao's dazed look, and hurriedly explained to him, it turned out that this Yong'an Palace was not only started to be repaired now, nor was it Li Zhi's idea, in fact, the Yong'an Palace project has been established for decades.

The earliest was established in the Zhenguan period, at that time Gaozu Li Yuan was still the emperor, because the emperor was still there, there were two emperors in the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin also felt awkward, so he thought of building a new palace on the side of the Taiji Palace for the emperor to live, so it was named Yong'an Palace.

Zhenguan officially began construction in the eighth year, and the designer of Yong'an Palace was Yan Liben, a famous architect in the imperial court. It's just that in May of the ninth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Li Yuan died in Da'an Palace, so Yong'an Palace was stopped.

Soon after the construction of Yong'an Palace, it was renamed Daming Palace, but sometimes everyone still knows Yong'an Palace and Daming Palace.

Li Zhi is now in power, and at this time he proposed to rebuild the Daming Palace, which actually has another deep meaning.

This year, there was a severe drought in Guanlong, Shannan, Heshuo and other places, and the summer harvest loss was serious, and many people did not harvest.

The ministers of the imperial court also had their own ideas about the resettlement of the victims. Some people proposed that local officials should strictly guard the boundaries of the territory, and that the victims should not be allowed to go out of the border and wait for the relief food from the imperial court.

Some officials believe that this will kill many people, after all, the south of the Guanlong River and Shuoshan is not a convenient place for transportation, and waiting for food for disaster relief is waiting for death. Instead of blocking the state border in this way, it is better to let the hungry people come to Chang'an, after all, there is still a lot of grain here in Chang'an, and it is more convenient and time-saving to transport grain from Kanto to Chang'an than to transport it to Guanlongheshuo Prefecture.

Of course, there are still many risks associated with the large number of hungry people gathering under the capital.

If someone instigates the people to rebellion, it will not be easy to control.

So Li Ji, the more economical prime minister, put forward a suggestion to use work for relief.

Those victims who had failed to harvest this year were allowed to come to Chang'an, and the imperial court set up some disaster camps on the edge of Chang'an to temporarily resettle these people and distribute relief food. But the food was not given in vain, and the young and strong among the victims were arranged to build the Daming Palace.

The young and strong people among the victims went to build the Daming Palace, which is equivalent to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, reducing the source of turmoil, on the other hand, to work for relief, but also to use these victims to build a little Daming Palace, after all, it is not easy to build a palace in ordinary times, you have to avoid agricultural time, and each recruitment is limited.

Now is just right, with work for relief, killing two birds with one stone, not only to facilitate the relief of the victims, but also to control the situation, and to be able to repair the Daming Palace, which is unfinished and suspended, isn't it right?

And Li Yifu even suggested that a little more disaster relief bonds should be issued, anyway, with the successful experience of the previous issuance, the land and prisoners captured by Baekje should be used as collateral for the bonds.

Li Yifu also ambitiously prepared to issue 2 million new bonds to enrich the imperial treasury and survive the disaster smoothly.

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