readx; The expansion of the Beijing division is a rare major project since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and its project volume is probably only comparable to the construction of Jinling by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the construction of Beijing by Chengzu Zhu Di, and the repair of the Great Wall in previous dynasties. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSuch a huge project, even if Zhu Youzhen spares no expense, he will still encounter all kinds of difficulties.

First of all, there are the workers. Building a city is both technical and laborious, and in addition to having professional craftsmen to check the quality, it also requires a large number of people. Naturally, the people came from the conscription, but although there were many people in the capital, they had already undertaken all kinds of conscription, and they could not squeeze out many manpower to build the city.

The second is earthwork and bricks. The circumference of the newly planned outer city is 100 miles, the wall is three zhang high, the inner layer is a version of the rammed earth wall, and the outer layer is covered with city bricks. The so-called plate building is to take the wooden board as the mold, fill the clay limestone, each rammed layer is one foot thick, and the layers are compacted with soil. The widest part of the bottom wall base reaches seven zhang and two feet, and the top end is also three or four zhang wide, and the amount of earthwork can be imagined.

It is even more difficult to cover the bricks with the rammed earth layer. In the past, whether it was to build the Great Wall or to build the outer city of Beijing, the bricks used were sent from official kilns all over the country. City bricks have strict regulations, slow production, extremely low yield rate, a brick from the beginning and mud to the final build to the city wall, often take half a year or even longer. The expansion of the capital division also requires at least millions of city bricks, which is simply an astronomical amount.

The third is logistics. If we want to complete the construction as soon as possible, we must mobilize at least tens of thousands of people to build the city at the same time. Let's not talk about where these people come from, even if they really have enough people, the people are not robots, they always have to eat, drink, and sleep, how to solve the basic needs of so many people? How are earthworks and bricks transported? According to the estimates of officials of the Ministry of Industry, on average, two or three people need to provide services for each person who builds a city, and where do these service personnel come from? The Ministry of Industry is at a loss for what to do, and some schadenfreude, thinking that it's not that we don't work, but that this job can't be done at all, and your emperor has the ability to build the city by himself.

However, since Zhu Youzhen decided to expand the Beijing Division, he had already thought of a way to deal with these problems. For the craftsmen in charge of technology, the master itself is a place where craftsmen gather, and when Qi Meifeng went to Beijing from Xi'an, she also brought most of the craftsmen with her, and the technical strength is not a problem.

As for the large number of people needed to build the city, Zhu Youzhen decided not to recruit people from another levy, but to adopt the method of recruiting labor. He did not directly abolish forced labor as Jingyang County did, because the topic was too big to affect the whole body, and the current situation did not allow for such drastic reforms.

Then, under the circumstance that the majority of the common people are forced to do it, if they are forced to do it again, they will not be able to recruit many people, and second, all those who are forced to serve will not be able to contribute to their work, and if they can be lazy, they will be lazy, and the construction period will definitely be delayed.

Although the recruitment of workers has to pay additional wages, the workers work hard to earn money to support their families, and their enthusiasm will naturally be much higher. Zhu Youjian calculated an account: if there were 50,000 recruited workers working at the same time, even according to the higher standards implemented in Qinwangzhuang at that time, a worker's monthly new income would be 35 taels of silver, and 50,000 people would be more than 100,000 taels. Zhu Youzhen hopes that the project can be completed before the winter freezes, then it will only take eight months, and a maximum of two million taels of silver will be enough. What's more, he will implement piecework wages and get more for more work, and the actual expenditure of silver may not be so much.

In addition to recruiting labor, Zhu Youzhen also had two major sources of free labor, that is, displaced people and captured Mongols.

Jingshi has always been a place where homeless people gather, and it was precisely because of the rescue of the homeless people who could not enter the city that Zhu Youzhen, who was still the king of Ning, gradually embarked on the road of confronting Wei Zhongxian. Nowadays, there have been major disasters in various places for many years, and the people are struggling to make a living, and there are at least tens of thousands of displaced people near Beijing. As long as these displaced people can be organized, provided with the most basic food and shelter, and the practice of "cash-for-work" can not only obtain at least tens of thousands of free laborers, but also eliminate the factors of instability, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

As for the tens of thousands of Mongolian Ordos prisoners captured in the Battle of Baoketu, Zhu Youzhen had no intention of being polite to them. They are standard prisoners of war, and it stands to reason that they should all be killed, but Zhu Youzhen did not kill them, but only let them do hard labor to atone for their crimes, which is already extra preferential treatment.

Previously, these Mongols were scattered in Dunzhou, Guyuan, Qingyang, Longzhou and other places, and were under the strict supervision of the Qin soldiers. Now that Tuntian is beginning to take shape, there is no need for so many people to sell coolies, and Zhu Youzhen will never let them eat and drink for nothing.

He immediately sent a message to Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Zhou Yanru, the governor of Yansui, asking them to send sergeants to escort the able-bodied Mongols to Beijing. As for the old and weak women and children, they remained in the same place and could also play a role in containing the Mongols who came to Beijing.

The problem of earthwork and bricks is not difficult to solve. From the very beginning, Zhu Youzhen did not plan to send bricks from brick kilns all over the country to Beijing, which would be too troublesome. The bricks are also earth-burned, so you can use local materials!

Zhu Youzhen's plan can be called ambitious, that is, along the planned outer city wall of the Beijing Division, digging a super large moat about dozens of zhang wide outside, and the excavated soil is just used to build the city.

For the city bricks, as the so-called workers want to do their jobs well, they must first sharpen their tools, Zhu Youzhen's practice is not to transport the city bricks, but to gather craftsmen from all over the country to Beijing, build dozens of brick kilns here, and fire city bricks day and night. Although it took a while for craftsmen to come to Beijing and build a brick kiln, it was much easier than stupidly transporting the bricks.

The only problem that is more difficult is the logistical problem, and to put it more simply, the food problem. Whether it is a craftsman, a recruiter, a homeless person, or a Mongolian, it is definitely not possible to work hungry. However, the food in Jingshi was already in short supply, and now it has to provide food for more than 100,000 people at once, which is completely beyond the capacity of the household department.

Moreover, the grain from the south goes north, mainly through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. However, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Tongzhou was terminated, and the Tonghui River, the canal from Tongzhou to Beijing, had gradually silted up because of disrepair, and the big ships transporting grain could not be navigated, so they could only transport it from Tongzhou to Beijing by land. Even if Zhu Youzhen is willing to spend a lot of money to buy grain, whether this grain can be transported in time is also a big problem.

But there is no turning back from the bow, and since the project has begun, even the greatest difficulties have to be overcome. Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth and made a major decision: dredge the Tonghui River and let the Grand Canal reach Beijing!

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