Chapter 90: The Capital of the World
Sima Guang's actions were a serious contempt for imperial power, Cai Jing, Kumamoto and other members of the imperial party couldn't help but change their faces when they heard it, but they were helpless, the officials could tolerate Sima Guang, and they couldn't offend Sima Guang. Although Sima Guang has no real power, his title is much higher than theirs. Among the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, only Wang Anshi can have the same status as Sima Guang, and their status is more than one level lower.
Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are both factions of their own, and they are not factions formed for personal interests, but factions formed with different governing concepts. However, the formation of the concept of governing the country also has a certain relationship with the forces they represent, which is very close to the partisan politics of later generations. Sima Guang's faction is an opposition party, and Wang Anshi's faction is the ruling party. Unlike later generations, they may be in coalition after this election.
"Junshi still has a lot of prejudice against the official family! The official family just wants to train the soldiers, and Junshi doesn't think too much. Wang Anshi said with a smile. deliberately downplayed the embarrassment caused by Sima Guang's angry scolding of the official family.
"The emperor should be like the emperor, aren't there generals in the training?" Sima Guang responded.
"I heard that the official family intends to go to Japan, maybe after the election, the official family can personally go to Japan." Wang Anshi pondered for a while and said, "Xiong Shangshu, the training of the military towns must not be slack, you are the secretary of the military department, and you must prevent the regeneration of bad habits in the army." ”
"Yes, Prime Minister Wang." Kumamoto said.
Although he knew that Kumamoto had always governed the army according to the resolutions of the political affairs hall, Kumamoto was still in the imperial party, and as long as Kumamoto was the secretary of the military department, then Zhao Ji could still avoid the political affairs hall and mobilize the army. Sima Guang couldn't help but wait impatiently for the general election, returned to the political hall to govern, and drove Wang Shao, Kumamoto and other people from the imperial party out of the political hall. Sima Guang was willing to join forces with Wang Anshi's people to govern, rather than Zhao Ji's people to get involved, because Zhao Ji's party was a general, and he thought about expanding the territory all day long, as if governing internal affairs was to prepare for war, which made Sima Guang very uneasy.
;;;;;;;;;;;; After a ten-day journey, the fleet finally arrived in Shangjing early on Chinese New Year's Eve, which can be regarded as the completion of the plan to move the capital years ago.
In Shangjing, the population has surpassed Bianjing, reaching more than 4 million people, and such a population scale has even exceeded the total population of a country such as Western Xia, Goryeo, and Japan. This is a manifestation of a high degree of urbanization, the Song Dynasty had a high urbanization rate, there were countless large cities with millions of people, and there were four or five large cities with a population of more than two million, but the large cities with a population of up to four million were frighteningly large. Fortunately, Shangjing was built at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and water transportation was developed, so it was not afraid of not being able to supply the material consumption of four million people.
However, there were very few real Shanghainese in Shangjing, and almost all of the city's residents migrated from various regions of the Great Song Dynasty, roughly divided into two classes, merchants and artisans. This can be regarded as a way to eliminate the contradiction between the north and the south.
They used to be ordinary people. Because Zhao Ji encouraged the construction of workshops and gave preferential treatment to policies. Many family workshops and machine households, getting rid of the shackles of agriculture, put the handicraft industry outside agriculture, adopted the principle of equity distribution, and jointly raised funds to open a large workshop in Shangjing to recruit craftsmen, which accounted for half of the workshops in Shangjing.
When Zhao Ji moved the clan to Shangjing, the newly formed Shangjing people waited for Shangjing to truly become the imperial capital. Now, the political hall has finally moved to Shangjing, and the entire Shangjing City is really boiling! How have the people of Shangjing ever tasted the taste of being a common person in the imperial capital? How could there ever be a city that was truly subordinate to commerce and industry? Although the people of Shangjing knew that the capital of the Great Song Dynasty was set in Jiangning, and Shangjing was just a transition, they were still ecstatic!
We all know that on Chinese New Year's Eve, we will welcome the arrival of the capital relocation team and hold a new capital ceremony. People began to prepare happily from the cold winter, preparing to resettle more than 500,000 people who had moved from Bianjing. Most of these 500,000 or so people are rich people, and their arrival will stimulate the increase of domestic demand in Beijing.
Many workshops, lit with oil lamps and kerosene lamps, worked three shifts day and night, producing many festive items for the new home to be sold. Many stores have also expanded their operations and purchased a lot of new goods.
Shangjing is a beautiful city, very different from Bianjing, everything here is new. In just four years, the city has grown from nothing and from existence to prosperity. It is a trade transit station between the Great Song Dynasty and overseas countries, and a trade transit station for coastal cities in the north and south of the Great Song Dynasty.
However, since the massive migration of people to Liuqiu, the population here is less than two million, and the city is twice the size of Bianjing, Shangjing has become empty, and the people who came to settle here are all merchants, and there are too few real consumer residents, making Shangjing heavily dependent on exports.
Because of the preferential policies in industry and commerce, the merchants who came to settle down came from various countries and ethnic groups, including Liao, Jurchen, Japanese, Liuqiu Turen, Tiansun Turen, Cham people, Jiaozhi people, Sriwijaya people, big cannibals, and Indians. The number of merchants in various countries has reached a staggering million! Coupled with the merchants gathered from all over the Great Song Dynasty, this city was almost a city of merchants and craftsmen!
The city is a cosmopolitan city, and the city has a special character. The biggest feature is the architecture, except for the palace and the city walls, most of the buildings here are contracted to the merchants themselves, and the merchants of different countries bring different national architectural styles.
It is worth mentioning that with the rise of white glaze production workshops and cement production workshops, there were cement buildings that only later generations had here. The city's landmark is a 100-meter-tall skyscraper! Although cement did not meet the standards of later generations, and it was not possible to build a house entirely with cement, it was not without remedies. In ancient times, there was a kind of cement that was specially used to make coffins for nobles, called sanhe soil.
The combination of clay and cement, coupled with the use of a large amount of steel, and the installation of white glass, is a translucent skyscraper. The construction of this mansion is the masterpiece of Li Zhanma, the first merchant of the Great Song Dynasty, and it took three years to build it with the support of many merchants! This building is fully functional, it is an inn, a restaurant, a goulan, and an office building, and has become a large-scale consumption place that only rich people can enter. This building cost 40 million yuan, equivalent to one-fifth of the national tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty, so that Li Zhanma and other giant businessmen exhausted their family resources, but its completion consolidated Li Zhanma's position as the first giant businessman in the Great Song Dynasty!
The name of this building is called the first floor of the Great Song Dynasty. A number of copper pipes have been installed to supply the building with water. There is a reservoir on the top floor of the building, and next to the building, there are more than 30 large animal-powered water drains, which transport water to the reservoir 100 meters above the reservoir through copper pipes. These animal-powered water rafts are the masterpieces of Tong Wenjiang, a giant of the Mo family, and require a total of more than 300 pack horses to run day and night to drive.
Ten days before the relocation of the political hall, Yelu Hongji, the emperor of Northern Liao, Li Bingchang, the lord of Western Xia, the emperor of Japan, Baihe, the king of Goryeo, Wang Yun, the king of Dali, Duan Lianyi, the king of Jiaozhi, and the king of Srivijaya Zhanbei, all came to Shangjing one after another, and were arranged by Zhao Ji to live in the first floor of the Great Song Dynasty.
The fleet of moving the capital docked at Huangpu Port early in the morning, and the first group to land was naturally a group of members of the Political Affairs Hall. Zhao Ji went to greet him in person, and when Wang Anshi got off the boat, Zhao Ji took Wang Anshi's hand and said, "Mr. has worked hard!" ”
When he saw Sima Guang, Zhao Ji also squeezed out a smile and said, "Mr. Junshi has also worked hard!" ”
In front of the public, Sima Guang also gave Zhao Ji a lot of face, and arched his hand and said: "They are all saints and wise!" ”
The three of them laughed in unison. Zhao Ji took Wang Anshi and Sima Guang's hands and boarded the carriage, "Two gentlemen, are the people waiting for the New Year?" The capital relocation ceremony can't wait any longer! ”
After that, Zhao Ji actually drove in person, shook the reins of the horse, and pulled Wang Anshi and Sima Guang to the Shangjing Palace. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang sat in a carriage without a carport, and waved frequently to the people who came to greet them. Such glory has never been seen in all dynasties. It is an honor to be able to ride in the same carriage with the Son of Heaven, let alone drive by the Son of Heaven!
There are countless people in the world who don't know Zhao Ji, but there are no people who don't know Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. Needless to say, Wang Anshi's avatar is printed on Jiaozi, and all countries that use Jiaozi know that the person on Jiaozi is Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty. There is even a popular saying among the people: Father and mother, it is better to be the prince and father-in-law!
The people, whether it is the people of the Great Song Dynasty, or the people of Western Xia and Northern Liao, are grateful to Wang Anshi. The people of the Great Song Dynasty thanked Wang Anshi for sending them green seedling money and subsidies, because Wang Anshi and they have a stable life now. The people of Western Xia and Northern Liao would be grateful to Wang Anshi for the trade agreements signed with their countries, which eliminated the war and brought prosperity to commerce and trade. The people of Western Xia and Northern Liao even regarded Wang Anshi as their prime minister! It is said that with the prince of the king, the world will be stable!
Sima Guang's words, no one who reads the book does not know. As the books of the Great Song Dynasty sell well all over the world, everyone who reads knows that there is a Junshi Book City and that there is a Sima Guang. Because the first few pages of each book will introduce the compiler of the book, Sima Guang's avatar is placed in the first place. If a scholar does not know Sima Guang, it means that he has not read a book. Sima Guang's image can be compared with Confucius in the eyes of readers!
In the eyes of the people, the current education system of the Great Song Dynasty and the reason why the Great Song Dynasty can prosper culturally are all due to Sima Guang! Originally, ordinary children from poor families didn't know how difficult it was to buy books and read, but now Junshi Book City has opened bookstores in various cities around the world, and everyone reads books recompiled by Sima Guang! In the Song Dynasty, where everything was inferior and only the reading was high, it was a saint's thing to let all the children of the poor family be able to study and go to school for free! Ordinary people are especially grateful to Sima Guang for being able to let their children read and become a reader!
As for Zhao Ji's image, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is a demon who is irritable and angry, and kills people when he is angry. However, most of the people have not forgotten Zhao Ji's contributions, when it comes to today's officials, they must first say that the officials have a bad temper, and then they will say that the officials are close to the people, treat the people well, abolish the harsh tax law, and are a good official. Compared with Wang Anshi and Sima Guang's tall and radiant images, Zhao Ji is much inferior. It's not even as good as Su Shi, at least Su Shi still has a large number of die-hard fans!
From the palace square to the royal street, it is already a sea of people, in front of the magnificent palace square is two purging and mighty phalanxes, they are the newly trained dragon guards, this dragon guards are all students who have graduated from the patriotic school, the middle of the phalanx is the avenue paved with red felt, and it goes straight to the majestic hall above the ninety-five (forty-five) jade steps.
Seeing the dragon cart pulled by nine white horses coming, the square resounded with earth-shaking cheers: "Long live my emperor!" "Long live the Prime Minister!" "Long live the Book City Order!"
Since Qin Shi Huang was proclaimed emperor, long live is the emperor's code name. Others call it long live, that is the Passover, which is the great sin of killing the head. But now it's different, because this is what Zhao Ji ordered. Long live has become a term for jubilant deeds.
Zhao Ji drove to a stop in front of the white jade steps, moved a low stool for Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, and opened the door. After the two came down, Zhao Ji took the hands of the two and walked through the jade steps and came to the front of the majestic hall.
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