Cao Shi was taken away with a blank face, he didn't remember the specific date of the expansion and renovation project of the temple, the last meeting of the three princes and nine Qing only proposed that the construction would start in the near future, but he didn't expect that the ground would be broken in just a few days.

Liu Che was very anxious, and pulled Cao Shi to board the prince's carriage and go all the way to the south, at this time Chang'an City has been demolished beyond recognition, except for the Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace in the distance, the whole city has no original appearance.

Along the way, you can see that both sides of the street were originally under the Luli system, which belonged to the location of the wall in the residential area, and now a long trench of seven feet square has been dug, the soil pit has been repeatedly beaten and tamped, and then paved with green bricks and cement, and finally smeared with a layer of waterproof material mixed with pine resin mixed with lime powder, and the upper part is directly covered with heavy masonry to become a semi-closed U-shaped drainage channel with smooth inner wall.

A small part of the land has been completed, the middle section is still under construction, the second section of the pit has just been dug, and the people are repeatedly flattening the land with the simplest rammed earth techniques, and they are building a sewer system.

The Han Dynasty has fully mastered the siphon technology, but the urban drainage system is very clumsy, the residents' domestic wastewater has to rely on the ox cart to and from the city to and outside the city every day, a rain and snow and other inconvenient travel, these wastewater can only be discarded in all corners of the city, so whenever the weather is clear, it will often smell all kinds of unpleasant stench.

Cao Shi was smoked many times when he first arrived in Chang'an, and the residents who came and went to Chang'an had long been accustomed to it, and they would laugh at them as foreigners when they saw travelers covering their mouths.

Liu Che appreciated this plan very much, changing the appearance of Chang'an has an extraordinary effect on improving the overall image of the Han family and strengthening the cohesion and pride of the Han people.

The prince made a ruthless effort to spend a full 8 billion yuan for the renovation plan of Chang'an City, which is equivalent to the tax revenue of the Han Empire for two years, fortunately, the fiscal and tax revenue has a surplus of 4 billion yuan per year, deducting the income of hundreds of officials under the official governance system and public expenditures, there can be more than 2 billion money left every year, and the accumulated amount is also very considerable, which is also the root of the later generations called the rule of Wenjing.

The total construction funds of the renovation plan are far more than 8 billion yuan, and the businessmen and people of Chang'an have been repeatedly persuaded by the officials of the Inner History Mansion to voluntarily take out their pockets to support the renovation of their houses and roads, and the 200,000 people of Chang'an have donated 4 billion yuan in total, and the average per capita is 20,000 yuan per person, which shows that the people of Chang'an, the capital of Beijing, are extremely rich.

The princes of Chang'an have also donated generously, excluding Cao Shi's personal donations, more than 100 princes have donated a total of 4o billion money, and the military nobles who live in the first division of Chang'an City have donated a total of 2o billion money, and their willingness to give generously is not the legendary rich willfulness, just like the donation reasons of the merchants and people of Chang'an, the money at home is not blown by the wind, and the donation must have their own reasons.

The inner history of the left and right in Chang'an inside and outside the painstaking work, the new Chang'an concept map posted in front of the East City Lingfu Ya, from ordinary houses to luxury houses, and then the Beijing Division, all kinds of new shapes have achieved great repercussions, the boxy two-storey new house is a black wall and red tile with the charm of the Han Dynasty, and the new house has both the simplicity of the first and the bold and novel creativity is refreshing.

The luxury dwellings are also two-storey buildings, but the scale and magnificence are qualitatively improved, the living area varies from 2 to 5 times that of ordinary houses, and each floor is four feet taller than ordinary houses, and the huge windows facing the sun will make the rooms appear more spacious and bright.

According to the wishes of the princes, they either choose the reinforced type of luxury houses, or choose the new style of the "Hui" type with a garden in the middle, the high load-bearing columns and the gorgeous gate are the biggest attractions, because the gate can be directly facing the main road of the Beijing Division, and the princes who love face are very welcome.

Everyone is equivalent to paying money to let the craftsmen under the Shaofu command them to build houses for themselves, and those who are not willing to pay for the conscription can also resist, if the conscription is unwilling, then they have to roll up the cover and roll away from Chang'an City, and the Jingshi does not welcome the greedy people who are stingy like ghosts.

As the chief designer of the new Chang'an, Cao Shi also has to lead by example, he alone took out 200 million money to smash into it, and took out shovels, crowbars and iron drills and other iron artifacts from the blacksmith workshop in his own house to accumulate tens of thousands of pieces, anyway, he also has money in his hands, and he made a lot of money when he monopolized papermaking, and he made thousands of gold before and after selling carriages.

Hou Guoli's ironware workshop is about to catch up with the scale of the old mansion of the Hou Mansion in Pingyang, recruiting thousands of local teenagers in Hou Guoli as apprentices, forging and casting pig iron and steel appliances day and night, no matter the scale of production capacity, or simple iron smelting technology is incomparable, even the Linqiongzhuo Wangsun family who started in the Warring States Period can not catch up with him.

So that the pig iron production capacity of Hedong County can not catch up with the needs of Pingyang Houguo, recently Shentu Cheng set up a blast furnace in Anyi crazy, and ordered the merchants of Hedong to mine iron ore everywhere and pull it back to Anyi to smelt pig iron, and then transport it to Pingyang Houguo for sale.

Cao Shitong guò has earned a wealth of more than 200 million yuan by various means, and his willingness to donate this money has a lot to do with the fact that he is the founder of the new Chang'an plan.

The carriage went out of the gate of the south city to the location of the temple in the south of the city, tens of thousands of people were digging next to the original temple, Lang Wei in Chang'an City relied on the blockade and isolation of the temple around, the frame of Changxin Palace and Jiaofang Hall was already waiting here, there were also frames of the Dou family and Wang Tian's two relatives in the distance, and Liu Jia, the marquis of Zongzhenghong, also came to watch the ceremony in person.

The curtain was pulled up in front of the frame, the Empress Dowager Dou and the Queen Wang sat on the low couch in the middle of the curtain, the palace maid held a parasol and a fan to serve the left and right, and the fruit plates such as Changchu and lychees were placed neatly.

The old queen's ears were very sensitive, and suddenly the voice suddenly weakened, and when she heard the familiar footsteps, she immediately smiled and said, "The prince is here!" The old man heard that the expanded Taimiao Temple is even more magnificent, what kind of magnificent method is it? ”

"Back to the emperor's grandmother's words, the grandson wants to build a huge stone for the ancestors to build an immortal temple for ten thousand years, and in the future, the meritorious son of heaven of the Han family can enter the temple to enjoy four times and three sacrifices, and protect my Han family for ten thousand years." Liu Che replied confidently.

Empress Dowager Dou slowly stood up on crutches: "Okay!" It is worthy of being a good son and grandson of the Liu family, with this ambition to deserve the throne of the prince and prince, and the emperor must have a strong heart, when your father and the emperor advocated cutting the domain and the hundred officials opposed it, the bamboo slips sent to the Changxin Palace were a few feet high, but the old body just did not object, when everyone in the world wanted to oppose the Son of Heaven, the old body must support the Son of Heaven to cut the domain, and the prince wanted to build a new Chang'an, even if the world was in an uproar, the old body still had to support the prince! ”

"Thank you, Grandmother!" Liu Chele's mouth couldn't close.

Suddenly, the Empress Dowager Dou changed her words: "The old body is very hard, you don't have to worry about it, you don't want to be idle all day long in Chang'an City, you have to go to the Taimiao every day to watch, you have to learn lessons from it and think about the difficulties of Emperor Taizu Gao's establishment of the Han Dynasty, my Han family is not easy to come by, if someone does not know the times and violates the law and bad people's hearts, the old body will never bypass him lightly!" But if someone wants to bully us, the old body must not be bullied. ”

The relatives of the Dou family praised the queen mother for her wisdom with a happy face, and the princess of the pavilion Tao said with a smile: "Some people think that the queen mother is old and doesn't like to take care of things, and she looks like a loyal minister and filial son in front of the queen mother. ”

Many people turned their eyes to Cao Shi behind the crown prince, and the Empress Dowager Dou expressed a trace of dissatisfaction with Pingyang Hou on such an occasion, and the meaning is intriguing.

Liu Che's face sank, and everyone reflected in his demeanor, and then smiled: "Today is a big day, don't be unhappy about some trivial things, the Han family's laws are strict and can't tolerate anyone mixing sand, if there are people who don't know the current affairs, it will naturally be handled by the Tingwei Mansion, how can the imperial grandmother worry about it." ”

Queen Wang said with a smile: "Che'er said very well, the queen mother should take care of the heavens and enjoy a few more years of happiness, and the queen mother can live and work in peace and contentment in Chang'an, and all mundane things will be handed over to Che'er to do well, and the three princes and nine kings in the court are virtuous ministers promoted by the Son of Heaven, and with their assistance, they will be foolproof." ”

"I hope that no one will provoke right and wrong in this way, lest the old body put down his face and make waves again." Empress Dowager Dou slowly sat back again.

"No, no, please rest assured!" Liu Che waved his hand at Cao Shi and asked him to leave quietly.

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