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Today's Tongzhou is no longer in its prime, and it is completely a tragic situation after being ravaged by war. After Li Laiheng and the Qing army set fire twice, all the buildings in the city have been burned down, and a large area of farmland outside the city has also been set on fire by the Qing army to vent their anger.

On the official road from Beijing to Tongzhou, a large number of refugees who helped the old and the young looked at their devastated homeland, and many of them wept bitterly. The peasants depend on their livelihoods, one is the house, and the other is the field. Now that these two are gone, although one life is saved, how can they survive?

Zhu Youzhen got off the dragon chariot at the west gate of Tongzhou, looking at the blackened hole in the city gate, and his mood was also very heavy. As a key part of the defense of Beijing, Tongzhou was ordered by him to give up and surrender to the Qing army, so the people of Tongzhou suffered such heavy losses, of course he had an unshirkable responsibility.

However, when the refugees found out that they had come to Tongzhou to visit them in person, these ordinary people were still grateful from the bottom of their hearts, and they knelt down in a large area and shouted in unison. This cry is absolutely from the heart, because although most of these ordinary people are illiterate, they still understand the most basic and simple truth: without the Banzai Lord sending officials and troops to resist the Tartars, without the Banzai Lord arranging for them to retreat to the capital and arranging food and lodging for them, they would not have survived today!

Zhu Youzhen was also very excited, and shouted to the people with tears in his eyes: "Fathers! Our homeland has been destroyed by the Tartars, but we are still there! I came to Tongzhou today to help everyone rebuild their homes, as long as everyone works together, our life will definitely be better than in the past! And I promise you that I will never let the Tartars come again! ”

These words are not simply comforting, the battle for the defense of the capital division has not yet ended, and Zhu Youzhen has already had a general idea for the post-war reconstruction of the Gyeonggi region.

Take Tongzhou as an example, as long as the Qing army returned from the city of Jingshi this time, as long as they are not fools, they should have fully realized that with their current strength, it is absolutely impossible to break through the Beijing division. Therefore, even if the Qing army entered the Kou again, it would avoid the Jingshi and instead plunder other weakly defended areas.

From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, with the continuous import of advanced firearms from Portugal and the increasing scale of production of the Jingshi Military Factory, not only will the Jingshi become more impregnable, but the Ming army will also have the ability to expand the defense line outward. Tongzhou is not only the east gate of Beijing, but also the end point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the strategic location is very important, itself is a densely populated area, naturally the most priority to strengthen the defense of the place, so Tongzhou City must be rebuilt.

However, Zhu did not intend to simply rebuild the site. After he arrived in Tongzhou, he did not enter the city, but set up a line outside the west city gate, and only let the new Tongzhou governor Gu Yanwu lead his subordinate officials, officials and a part of the Tongzhou guard army into the city.

Gu Yanwu's original official position was a member of the Zhongshu She, although his official character was not high, but he had entered the cabinet, he was both highly talented and knowledgeable, and he was appreciated by the emperor, and his future was bright, which made many officials who had worked for many years envious. However, after the defense of Beijing, Gu Yanwu took the initiative to ask to be a magistrate in the Gyeonggi area, which surprised many people.

Zhu Youzhen greatly appreciated Gu Yanwu's move, because Gu Yanwu made it clear that the top priority at the moment is to let the refugees return to normal production and life as soon as possible. Compared with dealing with documents in the cabinet, being a magistrate is more direct to help refugees, and there are so many scholars in the cabinet, and he is not the only one who is left behind. As for the official product, he doesn't care at all, even if it's just to be an eight-grade county magistrate.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but sigh secretly when he looked at Gu Yanwu's recital, thinking that it was no wonder that people could put forward in history that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", and this vision is much higher than that of ordinary feudal scholars. It just so happened that he wanted to erect a model of post-war reconstruction in Tongzhou, so he approved Gu Yanwu's request and appointed him as the Tongzhou Tongzhi to go out of Beijing with him. Tongzhi is from the fifth grade, lower than the prefect and higher than the prefect, but from the perspective of proximity to the center of power and ease of promotion, it is far worse than the Zhongshusheren in any case. After hearing about it, many ministers scoffed at Gu Yanwu's choice.

In the Ming Dynasty, the local administrative levels were provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, but the state level was more special, some were parallel to the prefecture, and some were subordinate to the prefecture and parallel to the county. Tongzhou is subordinate to Shuntianfu, which is equivalent to a large county. And because it was the end point of the Cao Yun, a large number of people gathered in the city, plus the peasants engaged in farming in the countryside, there were no less than 100,000 registered people.

Since it was a post-war reconstruction, the first thing to solve was the problem of accommodation. All the buildings in Tongzhou City have been completely burned by fire, and if you want to rebuild the original site, you must first clean up the ruins, which is naturally very huge, and you have to do it for at least a year and a half. And now that autumn is getting stronger, the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and time is obviously waiting for no one.

Zhu Youzhen's solution was a bit ingenious, he announced through Gu Yanwu that anyone who planned to rebuild on the ruins of his original residence in the city would be measured by the government, estimate the number of houses, and then give appropriate compensation according to the normal cost of the houses, and let the residents rebuild themselves.

In addition, next to the forty-mile official road from Jingshi to Tongzhou, an imperial village was selected every eight miles and opened up as a new residential area. Those who settle in new settlements will be helped by the government to build new houses free of charge, and the old houses will be compensated accordingly. Not only that, but the men of each household are hired to ensure that they have jobs to do and money to pay.

As soon as the policy was introduced, most residents chose to settle in new settlements. The reason is also obvious: building your own house is not only a matter of spending money, but more importantly, it requires labor. Now the entire Tongzhou housing needs to be rebuilt, and only the rich can afford to hire workers, and where will the building materials come from?

And choosing a new settlement, all this is not a problem. And most importantly, livelihood issues have been addressed. In the past, the reason why so many ordinary people crowded into the small land of Tongzhou City was because jobs could be provided there. Now that you can survive in the new settlements and have compensation money to be gained, why not?

And those who are rich and big, without exception, still choose to rebuild in the city. On the one hand, they think that Tongzhou City has a city wall, which is safer than in the countryside; On the other hand, they are also reluctant to abandon their ancestral homes, especially since there are many people who have buried gold and silver in the ground, and they are even more unwilling to leave.

However, on the afternoon of the day when Gu Yanwu first announced the new policy, several local large landowners in Tongzhou came to him sweating profusely and resolutely opposed the establishment of new settlements in those Huangzhuang.

Gu Yanwu actually knew it in his heart, but he pretended to be surprised and asked: "The Imperial Village is the private property of the Holy Lord, and the Holy Lord uses the Imperial Village to settle the people, and the Ancient Holy Monarch is far superior to it, what does it have to do with you?" Why are you opposed? ”

A big landlord named Wang Zhifa immediately smiled all over his face, and said in a low voice: "My husband and ancestor don't know, these Huangzhuang are actually our land!" ”

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