readx; With the arrival of the summer solstice solar term, even in the "Xiaoice River" period in history, the northern land is still hot and the sun is hot. The expansion project of the outer city of the Beijing Division www.biquge.info as well as the dredging project of the Tonghui River have also been carried out in the stage of tackling tough problems.

Since more than a month ago, a large number of Mongolian prisoners of the Ordos Department were escorted from Shaanxi to Beijing, and they were put into hard labor under the strict supervision of the officials and soldiers, and the progress of the project has been greatly accelerated. Zhu Youzhen's policy towards these people was: as long as they worked hard, they would provide them with good food and drink, including the spirits and beef and mutton that the Mongols liked, and satisfy them as much as possible, and eat better than the Han people; If you grind foreign workers, I'm sorry, I'll be hungry for a day. Those who dare to try to escape, or incite others to make trouble, will be killed on the spot.

Zhu Youzhen also made it very clear to the Mongol captives: This is called labor reform. The Mongols were accustomed to living on nomadism and plundering, and were lazy, and now that they had a chance to survive, they had to change their old way of life. If one day, Zhu Youzhen can pacify all the forces in the Mongolian steppes, he will also put these Mongols back, provided that these people have already advocated peace and will never raise their sabers against the Han again.

In addition to the Mongols, more and more workers were recruited. Considering the difficulty of the overall reform, Zhu Youzhen did not abolish the forced labor system abruptly, as he did in Jingyang County. But as a pilot, Shuncheonfu has been exempted from forced labor for one year this year. The common people, who used to suffer from heavy forced labor, suddenly became much more relaxed, and also freed up time and energy.

The two major projects are to spend money to hire workers, pay daily according to the amount of work, and get more for the more you do. For the poor people who have no skills, going to the construction site to work hard is also a way to subsidize the family, so all those who come to work on the construction site are sweating like rain, and there is no one who does not work like the conscripts in the past.

Under the hard work of nearly 100,000 workers day and night, the magnificent new outer city of Beijing has begun to take shape. The excavation and brick burning are still in full swing, and the rammed earth part of the city wall is growing taller every day, and it is now one zhang long. At this rate, the entire expansion project will be completed by the end of the year.

The Tonghui River project is also progressing smoothly. In order to make the canal last longer and easier to maintain in the future, the Tonghui River has been completely cut off and drained, and the channel has been paved with newly fired river bricks. In this way, the embankment is strong, and the serious leakage phenomenon is effectively improved, and the dredging is much easier in the future.

The progress of this project is much faster than the expansion of the outer city, and it will be completed in less than a month. After the water is opened, the Tonghui River can sail side by side with three large grain ships, and the draft can reach nine feet, and the grain from Tongzhou can be continuously transported to Jingshi.

In this way, the status of Tongzhou City has declined, and once Houjin attacks, as a last resort, you can abandon Tongzhou and defend the Beijing Division. And if there is no Tonghui River, as long as Tongzhou falls, there will be an immediate food shortage disaster in Jingshi. However, with the current strength of the Ming army, it is too difficult to hold Jingshi and Tongzhou at the same time, and it is dangerous to divide troops and garrison them.

Therefore, the strategic significance of the Tonghui River is no less than the expansion of the outer city. Zhu Youzhen has asked Zhu Cunqi's Wuzhou Trading Company and Li Zicheng's Shaanxi Merchant Gang to buy a large amount of grain in Jiangnan, even at a high price. As soon as the Tonghui River is navigable, it will immediately rush to the Beijing Division to replenish the strategic reserves.

Of course, there are busy people and idle people. The workers sweated like rain in order to meet the deadline, and the gentry and wealthy businessmen in the Beijing division were still singing and dancing. One of the most sensational things in recent times is that the new World Oiran Finals will be held in Beijing.

On this day, the Oiran finals are held once a year in Tongzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou. It was the time held in Tongzhou in the third year of the Apocalypse that Zhu Youzhen got acquainted with Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan. Now three years have passed, and it is the turn of Tongzhou again, but this time the organizers have changed the location to Jingshi. Perhaps they can also see that with the expansion of the outer city of Jingshi and the completion of the Tonghui River, the influence of Tongzhou will plummet, and Jingshi will become the largest city in the country with more prosperity than Hangzhou. The Oiran Contest attracts wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen, and of course the more prosperous the venue, the better.

Regarding Qinglou and Leji, Zhu Youzhen's mood is very contradictory. From the bottom of his heart, of course, he wanted to immediately ban this kind of oppression of women, destruction of family and social stability, and indulgence in arrogance and luxury, and liberate tens of thousands of happy women and let them become normal people again.

But he also knew that this ancient and ugly industry had existed for thousands of years and had not been eliminated even in previous lives. The fundamental reason is still four words: men are superior to women.

In the final analysis, silver desire is still a primitive desire for control and possessiveness. A man who can afford to visit a clean building is not unable to marry a wife and meet his physical needs; But the richer and more powerful he is, the stronger his possessiveness, he has three wives and four concubines, and he always thinks about women all over the world, which is not essentially different from the monkey king and lion king in the animal world. And Qinglou is such a place for them to legally violate other women.

Women who depend on men for survival have no choice but to engage in this profession because of their low social status, lack of means to earn a living, and coercion and inducement by the powerful class. In his heart, none of them are willing.

There is such a dross in traditional Chinese culture: on the one hand, it attaches great importance to women's chastity, requiring wives to be absolutely loyal to their husbands. On the other hand, it is forbidden for men to play with women in Qinglou, and some famous literati have interacted with technical women, and they will be rumored to be "good stories" and talked about.

And the women of Qinglou have become the biggest victims, they are not only ravaged on the **, but also have to endure the scolding of tens of millions of people, they are really the most pitiful people in the world.

Therefore, before the phenomenon of male superiority and inferiority of women is fundamentally changed, it is really an impossible task to ban the liquidation of the real estate industry. Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to pretend that he didn't know what the "Oiran Contest" was, after all, there were too many things that needed his energy now, and he couldn't do everything, and some profound reforms couldn't be achieved overnight.

As the day of the Oiran Tournament draws closer, more and more people come to visit Kyoto. Not only rich businessmen, but also many literati and artists from all over the country came to join in this excitement, or wandering around the city all day long, or sitting in the restaurant, drinking, writing poems, painting and bragging, which also made Jingshi more prosperous than before.

On this day, on the second floor of the famous "Wanghai Tower" on Shiwangfu Street, on a table facing the window, there was a young scribe looking out the window at the street scene, brushing and writing something on the paper.

This was an extremely ordinary scene, but the content of this person's painting made a peek at a person passing by him, and caused the person to be highly vigilant.

Because what this scribe drew was actually a map of the various city gates in the inner and outer cities of the capital and the imperial city!

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