When the situation in Youzhou and Liaodong changed greatly, Sima Shu was inspecting Guanzhong, which was the first time he came to Guanzhong since he ascended the throne, and Guanzhong has always been regarded as Sima Shu's most firm backing. Accompanied by Emperor Fu Zhen, the assassin of Yongzhou, Sima Shu personally inspected the construction of the new Chang'an.

This new Chang'an was built in the seventh year of Yuankang, since the Guanzhong rebellion was put down, in order to solve the work of the displaced people at the beginning, Sima Shu, who was still the prince at that time, personally ordered the expansion of Chang'an City. After nearly five years of construction, today's Chang'an City has more than doubled in size than the original, plus several satellite cities around it, Chang'an deserves to be the first city in the world.

After the work became regular, Emperor Sima Shu began to inspect various places, and his first stop was Chang'an, Guanzhong, which shows the importance he attaches to the land of Sanfu.

Accompanied by Huangfu Zhen, Sima Shu first came to Xianyang City, one of the satellite cities of Chang'an City. This Huangfu is really a native of Yongzhou, and he is not yet thirty years old this year, but as a top student of Chang'an University, as soon as he graduated, he was particularly valued by Jiang Tong, who was sitting in the governor of Chang'an at that time.

However, in two or three years, coupled with the court's thirst for talents in the early stage, Huangfu Zhen quickly became a rising star in the Guanzhong faction with his own talents, and took over the post of Yongzhou Assassin after Zhou Xun left.

In history, Huangfu Zhen was also very famous, and together with Pei Wei, he became Murong Diao's right-hand man. When he was about twenty years old, because of his outstanding talent, Murong Diao appointed him as the squire of Liaodong Kingdom. After the former Yan Wenming Emperor Murong Hao succeeded to the throne, he was promoted to Pingzhou. The former Yan Jingzhao Emperor Murong Jun was called the emperor, and the emperor Fu Zhen entered the palace to serve as a scribe. Later, he followed Murong Ping to attack and capture Yedu. Huangfu really doesn't take any property, but is just sympathetic to others and accepts books and classics. Before Murong Jun died, Huangfu Zhen, Murong Ke and others were entrusted as ministers of care

The current Xianyang City is completely different from before, and the south of the city, which is close to Weishui, has completely become a large arsenal. According to Sima Shu's original plan, it was reorganized and divided into 16 miles: it was planned as 16 districts, including smelting, forging, bows, arrows, vehicles, stone cannons, bed crossbows, and carpentry.

Weishui was introduced into the city by opening a canal from the newly established west water gate, and traveling around the west, south and east of the city to form a Tiangong canal for the use of the factory, and a waterwheel was set up in the place where the drop of the canal was slightly larger to provide power for the driving, blower and simple lathe in the workshop.

The west of the city is divided into ten miles is a civil workshop, which brings together cotton, linen, silk textile factory, woolen woolen field, casting field, wood field, etc.; The eastern part of the city is divided into six miles, but it is a different scene, all paper and printing yards.

The development of the paper industry and the printing industry. It has greatly promoted the development of the Dajin newspaper industry. There are no less than a dozen newspapers that are well-known throughout the country. Among them, there is "Current Affairs of the Great Jin Army", which publishes military news; There is the "Dajin Political Affairs Newspaper" that conveys the decrees of the imperial court; There is an interview with the folk customs of the "Luoyang Times", this newspaper founded by Zuo Si, for collecting current affairs in various places, commenting on important cases in various places, criticizing various shortcomings, and serializing various long stories and is quite popular among ordinary people, and it is also a must-have product for "storytellers" everywhere; Recently, there is also a copy of the publication of the head of the municipal department, the "Shishang Daily", which is also quite popular. All of this is the price of goods in various places on a semi-monthly or monthly basis. There are also tariffs on various goods that are regularly published by the Customs Department. Therefore, it is quite popular with businessmen.

After Zuo Si moved into the school, he immediately founded a professional newspaper under the supervision of the department, the "Dajinti Journal". This newspaper is completely on the route of spring and snow, and it is the most sought after newspaper by literati and writers. In addition, Wang Yan, Zuo Si, Ouyang Jian and other celebrities served as the main writers, which attracted the world's readers.

In addition to these newspapers on mundane things, the only religious newspaper that has been qualified to be published, the Revelation of the Heavenly Venerable, is also very popular among believers everywhere. Although other sects of Buddhism and Taoism also wanted to publish newspapers, they were not approved by the Information Agency for various reasons.

In the north of Xianyang City, most of the craftsmen and their families live in various workshops, because the policy of equality of the four people was implemented under the rule of Sima Shu, the status of craftsmen has been greatly improved, and the income of craftsmen is also very considerable, so that there are many students who apply for Mojia College and Lugong College every year.

There are nearly 10,000 craftsmen living in the entire Xianyang City, plus their families, plus some other people, there are nearly 60,000 people in the entire Xianyang City. In order to protect the safety and security here, the Yongzhou Assassin Mansion stationed a box of infantry troops in the east and west outside Xianyang City, and a box of cavalry was stationed twenty miles away to the north, guarding Xianyang City with a heavy guard, and among the craftsmen in the city, there were dense spies from the Military Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Agency to closely watch the possible spies.

After staying in Xianyang for two days, Sima Shu left this industrial center, which can be said to be unique in the world at this time, and began to travel to the overlord city in the northeast of Chang'an.

Bacheng is also one of the satellite cities of Chang'an, for ordinary people may be just an ordinary city, but for the officers and soldiers of the Xiang Army, it is like thunder, because there is the highest school for officers of the Xiang Army in the north of Bacheng - Chang'an Army Officer Academy, all the officers in the Xiang Army and the government soldiers graduated from here, and here is the temple in the hearts of countless hot-blooded young people.

In the cradle of this officer, Sima Shu saw Zhang Fang, who was studying here. Since the surrender that year, Zhang Fang has been very decadent for a while, and for an arrogant person like Zhang Fang, failure means losing the motivation to live. Fortunately, after some time of adjustment, especially after seeing the performance of the Xiang army in various places, Zhang Fang realized that his defeat was not a crime of war.

After Sima Shu ascended the throne, Zhang Fang proposed to the imperial court that he wanted to study in Bacheng, which Sima Shu expressed his approval. For Zhang Fang, he still admires it very much, but Zhang Fang is too domineering, coupled with the lax management of the army, most of his subordinates are beasts. If he didn't train him, Sima Shu really wouldn't dare to use him much.

"Duwei Zhang, are you okay here?"

"Your Majesty, when you come here, you will know how much you used to sit in the well and watch the sky. During this time, the minister learned a lot, alas, and now he knows that even if the rebels did not have internal strife, His Majesty could have achieved the final victory. This is determined by the strength of both sides! ”

At this time, Zhang Fang has long lost the impetuousness he had before, and has been replaced by a kind of calmness. Seeing this situation, Sima Shu was overjoyed in his heart, as if he saw another star rising.

In the south of the city, there is the Chang'an Military Academy, which is a school for the imperial court to train non-commissioned officers, and there is also a Chang'an University Hall in the east of the city. The university hall is now a well-known institution of learning throughout the country, and many celebrities and scholars are proud to have lectured here or been hired by it.

In addition to the satellite city, the expansion of Chang'an City itself is also very eye-catching, and many people even say that the imperial court intends to move the capital to Chang'an, Guanzhong. Although this claim has not received an official response, it is very popular among the people, and some so-called private experts have cited a series of reasons to support it.

One of the most important is the scale of the new Chang'an, once the expansion of the new Chang'an is completed, its scale will greatly exceed Luoyang City, becoming the first city in the world worthy of the name of this era.

According to the plan proposed by Sima Shu that year, the entire new Chang'an will be centered on Longshouyuan, which is located in the north of Longshouyuan, and this place will be transformed into an area for government offices and officials' residences; Longshou Yuan will be the address of the new imperial palace and the center of the new Chang'an; The west of the city is the education area, and there are various schools within a radius of several miles, including Mojia College, Lugong College and so on. Accommodating tens of thousands of students is not a problem. The eastern part of the city will be a residential area; The south of the city will be a huge commercial district: divided into the east and the west market, which will be the largest commercial district in the world once completed.

The expansion of Chang'an City is an extremely large project, even with the assistance of various primary machinery, coupled with new building materials such as cement, the expansion of Chang'an City is still a protracted, manpower-consuming and material project.

Just like now, it has been four years since the expansion of Chang'an City, but only a part of the financial surplus can be used to build it every year. In particular, last year's war brought the Chang'an expansion project to a standstill, and it was not until this year that construction began again.

Emperor Fu Zhen pointed to the busy crowd in front of him and said to Sima Shu: "Your Majesty, as long as the court can keep up financially, the minister is confident that he will complete this magnificent building within his term of office." ”

"Hehe, okay, Aiqing, I will hand over the task of Chang'an expansion to you. I hope that in a thousand years, Chang'an will still be the largest city in the world! ”

After inspecting Chang'an and the surrounding areas, Sima Shu went non-stop to Feng Yi and Shangjun to inspect the armaments of the border counties, which were the front lines of the confrontation between the imperial court and the Xiongnu and Xianbei people. At present, the imperial court has 70 infantry troops and 40 cavalry troops, with a total strength of more than 300,000 people.

Among them, Liangzhou is stationed in the three-box cavalry army, two-box infantry army, since Liangzhou has become the only input channel for cotton seeds, the imperial court has increased the strength of Liangzhou.

In addition to Liangzhou, Yongzhou has a ten-box infantry army and a five-box cavalry army; Qinzhou is stationed in a six-compartment infantry army and a two-compartment cavalry army; Yizhou has a six-box infantry army and a two-box cavalry army; Liangzhou has a five-box infantry army and a one-box cavalry army; Sizhou is stationed in the ten-compartment cavalry army, the ten-compartment infantry army; Jizhou has a five-box cavalry army and a ten-box infantry army; Huainan is stationed with a ten-box infantry army and a three-box cavalry army, and Qingzhou is stationed with a three-box infantry army and a three-box cavalry; The rest of the land is scattered and stationed in various states and counties, among which there are also six-compartment infantry troops and five-compartment cavalry troops stationed in Luoyang City. In addition, there are 165 troops stationed in various dangerous cities.

Sima Shu's visit to Feng Yi and Shangjun was to further promote the importance that the imperial court attached to the border counties, which had now become the front line of the imperial court's resistance to foreign invasions, and there were no less than dozens of skirmishes with the enemy army every year. Sima Shu visited the soldiers of the border counties stationed here, and hurried to the next inspection site. (To be continued......)