The spring of the fourth year of Chuping came very early, and Luoyang City only had two light snows in the entire winter just past, and the temperature was much higher than usual.

Dian Nong Zhonglang was worried about this, and rode horses all day long, urging the county officials who had not long taken office to make preparations for drought prevention and disaster prevention, and organized the newly resettled people to complete the restoration of cultivation and sowing as soon as possible, and then concentrated manpower and material resources to dredge rivers and ditches, and seize the time to dig more than 500 wells within a radius of 300 miles.

Without the severe cold, the officials and people who had just resumed cultivation of millions of acres of land were worried about drought and locust plagues in spring and summer, but the continuous sunny and rainy weather was a good time for the construction of Luoyang City.

In the days when there was almost no snow and no rain, the restoration project of Luoyang City was progressing very quickly, and a large amount of cement, wood and other building materials transported from Qingzhou before the Yellow River froze last winter were fully reserved, and the grain sent from Xuzhou and Jiaozhou was transported in one stream, and more than 20 brick kilns and lime kilns were built in Wuli in the west of the city, and nearly 60,000 craftsmen and people who could eat their stomachs every day only took four and a half months to build the three horizontal and two vertical five streets in the city together with the underground drainage system project.

Temporarily built in two shantytowns in the southeast and southwest of the city, it can now accommodate 40,000 people, and Taicang, which is two miles square in the northeast of the city, has been restored, and the grain and materials originally stored in the military camps outside the east city have begun to be transported to warehouses with superior conditions for storage.

In the restoration of the entire ancient capital of Luoyang, the most time-consuming, manpower, and material resources are the quarrying and firing of all kinds of bricks and tiles.

The North Palace, which was planned to be built as it was, was not on its own due to the huge amount of the project, and Liu Cun and his subordinate Wenwu did not make their own claims. Instead, it was cleared up and further construction stopped. An envoy was sent to Chang'an to invite Yang Biao, a servant of the Imperial Servant, Sun Rui, a scholar of Shangshu, and Zhao Wen of a scholar. Consultation was held on the restoration of the North Palace and the East Palace, and finally in strict accordance with the requirements of the royal family, the construction plan of the 24 halls was established, and the construction scale of the East Palace was re-planned.

In order not to irritate Li Dao and others, who held the emperor hostage and controlled the government, and affected the rescue plan that had been carried out silently, Liu Cun put forward the proposal of temporarily postponing the construction of Taixue, Mingtang and Lingtai outside the South Gate, and made a promise that "once the emperor is welcomed, the construction can be completed within six months".

After the field survey. Yang Biao, Zhao Wen and others thought so, and they all knew that if they were to build according to the scale before the burning, unless they invested more than 200,000 manpower and a steady stream of huge amounts of money and grain, they would definitely not be able to do it in five or six years.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, the four main halls in the imperial city used to house the concubines were omitted and the imperial garden was built on the empty site, which was three times larger than the original, but the entire palace was required to be completed within three years.

After Liu Cun repeatedly estimated, he agreed to this request with great difficulty, after all, for a long time. He couldn't reveal his true intentions, so he could only grit his teeth and bear it.

Shang Shu Lingshi Sun Rui saw this. In a playful tone, he told a "big rebellion" joke: "In the past eight years, the royal family has gone through disasters, and now there are not many people left......"

"In the palace in the future, I am afraid that there will be no more spectacular scenes of 30,000 servants and 3,000 beauties in the period of the first emperor, so only need to rebuild the twenty-four halls and the east palace to show the majesty and grandeur of the royal family, which is far better than the dilapidated palace in Chang'an, where the saint lives now."

After everyone laughed, they felt quite reasonable, and at the same time, they could also realize that Liu Cun, who was burdened with a heavy responsibility, was indeed difficult.

Although Liu Cun never complained, everyone could see that in the reconstruction of the old capital of Luoyang, Liu Cun and his advisers did their best and did a very beautiful job, dispelling the doubts in the hearts of Yang Biao, Zhao Wen, Zhao Qi and Ma Riyan and other important ministers with practical actions, and deeply realized the loyalty of Liu Cun and his subordinates to the Han Dynasty and the royal family.

Therefore, in the end, even Shangshu Lingshi Sun Rui became Liu Cun and Gongsun Pei's best friends.

To Liu Cun and his advisers, Liu Cun and his advisers were deeply satisfied that more than 200 middle- and low-level officials transferred from Qingzhou were put to the test and performed well.

These officials had strong organizational skills and experience in the resettlement of displaced people, and with the generous support of the princes, the magnates of the states, and some of the family lords, the huge project was carried out in an orderly and orderly manner.

Although the 350,000 people worked day and night in the farming and reconstruction work, they were able to eat their stomachs, have enough advanced agricultural tools produced in Qingzhou and an increasing number of ploughing cattle, and the labor intensity was not large, and the overall progress was very smooth.

Compared with the recognition of the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, Liu Cun attached more importance to the opinions of the people and the honesty and diligence of officials at all levels.

Due to the changing weather, diseases, accidents and other reasons, tens of thousands of homeless people who moved to Luoyang died throughout the winter, but very few died of starvation or freezing.

Under Liu Cun's repeated pleas and persuasion, the world-famous doctor had the idea of opening a medical center in Luoyang and preaching and teaching, which made Liu Cun, who had been struggling to recruit Hua Tuo and other famous doctors for several years, feel very pleased.

Compared with the construction of Luoyang City, the reclamation and resettlement affairs that Mao Jue was responsible for can be said to have made rapid progress.

Mao Jue did not simply move the successful experience of Qingzhou Langya, but pioneered the summary and application, formulated more strict, and even somewhat harsh regulations to implement, put the responsibility on every competent official, and distributed a large number of advanced farm tools and ploughing cattle from Qingzhou before the beginning of spring, and completed the restoration of more than 5 million mu of land in the surrounding four counties in a timely manner.

During this period, the household registration and land deeds of 350,000 displaced people were also completed, and the enthusiasm of the people who obtained the land was unprecedentedly high, and they sincerely supported the governments at all levels that brought them stability and order and distributed their fields and cattle free of charge.

Mao Jue's remarkable achievements made Liu Cun overjoyed and appreciated Mao Jue's talent even more.

Compared with Mao Jue, Huo Jian, a master craftsman who has been constantly going back and forth between Luoyang and Jinan New City for several months, is equally hard and has the most sense of achievement.

On the tenth day of February, Huo Jian rushed to Luoyang from Jinan again.

Seeing Liu Cun who went out of the city to greet him, Huo Jian immediately reported with joy on his face: "Lord, Jinan New City has been basically completed, all kinds of trees and flowers are being transplanted in the streets of the city, more than 38,000 local people have lived in the new area of Chengnan City, and 56,000 craftsmen and people who have been allowed to register are all meritorious people who participated in the construction of Jinan City. ”

"They and their families have moved into the four square districts of Xicheng one after another, and the 500 Mengxue gentlemen transferred from Langya, Linzi and other places have also entered the twelve schools outside the city, and it will only take two more months to complete the Jinan University in the south of the city, the military camp in the north of the city and the reserve warehouse."

"My subordinates are entrusted by the 350,000 people inside and outside the new city of Jinan and the old city, please come to Jinan City as soon as possible to preside over the grand ceremony on the first day of the fifth month!"

Gongsun Sheng and Fu Zhu and others were overjoyed and congratulated Huo Jian one after another.

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