readx; "Long live the Lord has already made an order to expand the Jingshi!"

This exciting news spread quickly throughout the streets and alleys of Jingshi. For ordinary people www.biquge.info as the population increases year by year, the living space is getting narrower and narrower, and the expansion of Jingshi is naturally of great help to their livelihood and living conditions.

For merchants, a larger capital will inevitably accommodate a larger population, which naturally means greater business opportunities. After learning the news, many businessmen from other places also flocked to Jingshi, making it more lively than ever.

But the ministers were skeptical of the emperor's decision. The head of the household department persuaded the emperor not to start the project easily, because the project was too huge. During the Jiajing period, the national strength was still strong, and the current outer city of Jingshi was built at that time. However, only the southern part of the city was built, and even one-third of the total amount of work was not reached, so it had to be hastily completed because the national treasury was exhausted, and it became the current "convex" zigzag pattern.

Now the financial resources of the imperial court are 108,000 miles worse than in the Jiajing period, the treasury of the household department is empty, and it is already too much to deal with the wars in various places, and even the officials' salaries cannot be paid, where can such a large sum of money be raised to build the city?

But Zhu Youzhen has made up his mind, and he blocked all the objections in one sentence: use internal funds to build the city, and don't use the ministry to pay a penny! Not only is this the case in Beijing, but the Shanhaiguan City is built with the same internal silver!

Bi Ziyan has nothing to say now, because the internal silver is equivalent to the emperor's private money, and the emperor can spend it as he wants, and the household department has no right to ask.

Zhu Youzhen now has this confidence. Since the eradication of the eunuch party and the abolition of the eunuch system, only the confiscation of fines from the hands of lawless eunuchs and the recovery of the smuggled internal silver have added up to more than 50 million taels of silver, which is worth more than ten years of national fiscal revenue.

Of course, the household department has long been worried about this amazing wealth, and when there is nothing to do, he always wants Zhu Youzhen to use the internal treasury as an excuse, but Zhu Youzhen is extremely strict. He is not a miser, but wants to spend his money wisely. The expansion of the Beijing division and the construction of a heavy city in Shanhaiguan are such "blades".

In Zhu Youzhen's Pingliao strategy, it was now necessary to take a defensive position against Houjin, and only after resolving the civil strife such as thieves and training a strong army that could compete with the Eight Banners could it turn from defense to attack until the Jianyu was completely eliminated. Abandoning Dalinghe, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan, and shrinking forces to Shanhaiguan and Jizhou was the first step in this strategy.

The next second step is even more important, that is, we must defend Jingshi and Shanhaiguan. Needless to say, once the Shanhaiguan Pass is lost, the Houjin army can drive straight into the Central Plains, ravage wantonly in the North China Plain, and even cut off the Grand Canal, the lifeline of the Beijing Division.

Jingshi is even more inmissible, because this is a symbol of the empire, and the fall of Jingshi means the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youzhen knew very well that in history, the Houjin army frequently bypassed Shanhaiguan, entered the army from Jizhou, Xuanfu, and Datong to threaten the Beijing division, and came to the city several times, causing great passivity to the imperial court.

When the defenders could not retreat in the city in order to ensure the safety of the Beijing division, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry waved south, penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains such as Hebei and Shandong, burned, killed and looted, and then calmly withdrew from the pass. If this is the case five times, the remaining bit of national strength of the Ming Dynasty will be exhausted, and only then will Li Zicheng easily break through the Beijing Division.

Zhu Youzhen also thought about it repeatedly, can he keep the enemy out of the country and let the Beijing division not be threatened? But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't think of a complete strategy, because the border line in the north was too long, and the Ming army had limited troops.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen had to come to a reverse thinking, that is, to assume that Houjin would definitely hit Jingshi. So, if the Jingshi is built into an impregnable fortress, what does it matter if the enemy fights over? The Ming army could just give full play to the advantage of defending the city and use firearms to strike at the Eight Banners cavalry. Later, Jin was far away from his hometown in Liaodong, and the supply of grain, grass and military supplies could not be supplied, so he could only feed the war with war, and it was impossible to besiege the city for a long time. If he dares not to retreat, then Zhu Youzhen will have time to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the king of Qinwang in the world and encircle and annihilate him near the Beijing Division! Luring the enemy deep and fighting on the inside line, isn't this exactly the classic tactic of the old man who defeats the strong with the weak and has tried and tested it repeatedly?

After figuring out this section, it is imperative to expand the Jingshi. Because the current city defense structure of the Jingshi is very unreasonable, only the south side is the inner and outer walls, and the fool will choose to attack from this direction. And if the inner city in the east, north, and west directions is breached, the outer city will lose its meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to rebuild a complete outer city, so that the entire city defense is free of flaws.

Zhu Youzhen's style has always been to do what he says, but there is no way to do it, because Houjin has not much time left for him. On the day of the decree, he inspected the site of the city, accompanied by the ministers and officials of the six ministries, and first determined the location of the city. The construction drawings are also ready-made, because they have been built once in the Jiajing period, and the old drawings are preserved in the archives of the Ministry of Industry.

In the previous life, whenever a major project was carried out, the first thing to do was to solve the problem of compensation for demolition. In this regard, Zhu Youzhen encountered little resistance, because beyond the city wall of the capital division was a wilderness, which did not involve demolition, but only occupied a large area of arable land, which must be collected by the imperial court.

Most of the cultivated land adjacent to Beijing belonged to the nobles, including the British Duke Zhang Weixian. Hearing that the emperor was going to expropriate his own farmland, Zhang Weixian immediately issued a statement of resignation and insisted on compensation. Under his leadership, the other ministers had to endure the pain despite the reluctance in their hearts.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen didn't get this little bargain, but bought the land with domestic money according to the market price, including the crops on the ground.

The final plan was to keep the southern wall of the outer city untouched, and the east and west walls needed to be demolished and expanded because the distance between them and the inner city wall was too narrow. The distance between the outer city walls and the inner city is nine hundred zhang, that is, six miles; After completion, the outer city is 3,450 zhang long from north to south, that is, 23 li, and 3,850 zhang wide from east to west, that is, about 25 and a half li. A total of more than 130,000 mu of cultivated land was expropriated, and a total of 2.7 million taels were spent according to the high price of 20 taels of silver per mu.

Of course, this is an impossible task for the household department, because not counting the "three salaries", the annual tax income of the household department is only more than 3 million taels. But the inner library has a rich background, and this bit of silver only accounts for one-twentieth of it, so Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth in order to reduce the resistance and start work as soon as possible.

On the day of the rain on March 21, the expansion project of Jingshi officially started!

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