Hua An looked at the rejected horses on both sides of the road, and said softly: "How can a simple row of rejected horses be able to block the lawbreakers, the wooden rejected horses can be split with a sword." ”

Obviously, Hua'an felt that the horses on both sides of the road could only be used as temporary facilities, not permanent ones, after all, the structure of the horses was so rudimentary that as long as one of the wooden sticks was cut, it would be possible to pass through the gap, which obviously did not meet Hua'an's requirements.

When Wang San heard this, he said softly: "Then according to the king's meaning, the horses on both sides of the road should be replaced with two high walls?" ”

Hua An shook his head slightly, and said softly: "It's not as simple as two high walls, this king thinks that two rows of pavilions should be built on both sides of the road, and the outside of the pavilions are all blocked, so that the defense on both sides of the road is more solid, so that the criminals have no chance to take advantage of it, and at the same time, the pavilion can also shelter the soldiers outside the city, so that the soldiers can be more comfortable guarding outside the city. ”

Obviously, Hua'an's idea is to solve all the problems in one step, and build a single-sided blocked pavilion, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone, firstly, to enhance the defense of the road, so that criminals can hardly take advantage of it, secondly, the pavilion can shelter the wind and rain and the sun, so that the soldiers guarding outside the city are more comfortable, and, with the shelter of the pavilion, the bonfire does not have to worry about being extinguished by the rain, of course, many people in and out of Luoyang City, can also rest in the pavilion, restore the body, In short, there are many benefits to replacing the rejection horse with a gazebo, of course, there is also a very bad one, that is, it costs a lot of financial resources, but with the current financial resources of Luoyang City. The pavilion that supports the four city gates is still more than enough, and it will not put too much pressure on the finances at all.

Listening to Hua An's thoughts, Wang San felt that it made sense, nodded, and said softly: "What the king said is true." It is true that two pavilions should be built at each city gate, but it is almost the Chinese New Year, Luoyang City has stopped work, and the craftsmen of the coming year are also very nervous, and they are afraid that they will be delayed after the spring ploughing of the next year, and the construction can only be carried out. ”

Hua An nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, after spring plowing next year, it will only be a few months." For the time being, it is no problem to deal with it for a few months, and pavilions can be built along the alleys of the city to store firewood and campfires. After saying that, he looked into the distance.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it will be arranged in the end." Wang San replied softly.

After riding the horse around the outside of the city, Hua An was quite satisfied with the deployment at the city gate, and immediately led the group out of the city gate. Return to the Northern Palace.

After returning to the North Palace, it was already late. But Hua An did not rest in the dormitory, but continued to think about how to build a pavilion outside the city, after some careful thinking, Hua An's plan became richer, not only did he feel that the outside of the pavilion should be completely blocked. At the same time, several towers should be built at the head, tail and in the middle of the pavilion, and a small number of soldiers should be deployed on the tops of these towers, so that a small number of soldiers should be deployed. You can better observe every move around, these soldiers are all equipped with bows and arrows, once you find outlaws, you can immediately release arrows, the number of towers does not need to be too much, five in each row, so that there are ten towers, with five soldiers deployed in each tower, ten towers need a total of fifty soldiers to garrison, and this accounts for half of the number of soldiers stationed outside the city, so, it is bound to weaken the number of soldiers on the road, thus causing the weakness of the strength of the soldiers who set up cards, and if you increase the number of people, For this reason, after thinking about it again, Hua'an decided to change the ten lines of defense on the road to five, that is, twenty people were deployed in five locations with towers, ten of whom were set up on the road to check the passing pedestrians, and the towers on both sides were deployed five people, so that the checkpoint could be firmly controlled, and five more lines of defense were set up outside the city gate, which was enough to ensure that ordinary lawbreakers could not move an inch.

Of course, the action of building a pavilion outside the city needs to wait for the spring ploughing of the next year to be carried out, so naturally there is no need to be too anxious, at this time, it is only necessary to make the plan of construction.

A few days later, the people of Luoyang City all knew about Hua'an's policy of lifting the curfew and keeping the city gates open, and began to adapt to this policy.

Although the vast majority of the people still adhere to the habit of sunrise and sunset, and do not carry out activities at night, but after they have no curfew, many people get up earlier than before, and can go to the street to buy fresher vegetables, and after sunset, there is no need to rush home in a very hurry, and it does not matter if you go home half an hour later, so it has caused great convenience to the life of the people in Luoyang City.

Of course, after the curfew policy was lifted, there are still a considerable number of people who choose to be active at night, and with the passage of time, there are more and more people who are active at night, and soon, in the most prosperous streets of Luoyang City, there is a scene of prosperity at night, among these people who choose to be active at night, most of them are people with a certain social status, and their activities at night, some are for pure recreation, and some are for socializing, and a large number of businesses are naturally to earn more money.

However, behind the prosperity, there are still many unexpected problems, for example, the noise generated by the night business of the restaurant will interfere with the sleep of the guests in the inn, and the business of the inn will be greatly affected, and the owner of the inn will naturally find the hotel owner to theorize, which has caused a lot of contradictions, and these contradictions that cannot be negotiated must be coordinated by the officials responsible for the security of the place, which will inevitably increase the burden on the officials, and thus need to be equipped with more manpower.

Also, after the curfew was lifted, many merchants on the streets were open during the day and at night, but these merchants were reluctant to recruit more men, or did not have time to recruit new men, so that many of them worked for a lot longer, and they used to be able to rest as soon as it was dark, but now they had to wait until the middle of the night when all the guests were happy, and they could not have time to rest, although the wages increased a little, they still felt that it was very uneconomical, and for this reason, there was a collective strike. And this will inevitably lead to a greater lack of manpower in the business, forming a vicious circle.

Of course, these various problems are all problems that will inevitably arise after the curfew is lifted, and Huaan's purpose is that problems are not terrible. Just work on the problem. And these problems are all small problems, as long as you adapt to it for a while, they can be solved very well.

After the curfew was lifted, although the lawbreakers who committed adultery at night still existed, there was not much change compared to before the curfew was lifted, and Hua'an also according to the newly formulated public security regulations. The punishment for these violations of law and discipline at night was increased, and many lawbreakers who committed more serious crimes were pushed out of the streets and beheaded, so as to deter those who wanted to make a move.

The time of the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, and Luoyang City is becoming more and more lively, especially the commercial center is the most lively, all kinds of New Year's goods are placed in the streets and alleys of Luoyang City, and many businessmen come from afar. Pushing carts of goods from the four gates of Luoyang City into the bustling streets, they were going to rush in time for the Chinese New Year. Making a lot of money in Luoyang City, these merchants from afar, the items they sell are naturally rare things that are not available locally, so it is needless to say that the business is booming.

The city of Luoyang was prosperous, and there was no major turmoil. Hua'an was naturally very happy about this, and his subordinates, who were originally very skeptical of Hua'an's plan to never sleep, also began to realize the benefits of the city that never sleeped, and felt that Hua'an still had a vision. At this point, the plan of the city that never sleeps has been completely successful, and the two policies of lifting the curfew and keeping the city gate open can naturally be implemented well.

On the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, in order to celebrate the smooth implementation of Luoyang City's plan to never sleep, and to thank his henchmen for their continuous support, Hua An set up a luxurious banquet in the main hall of the palace, and invited officials above the fifth rank in the city and many well-known merchants, including merchants from far away places such as the Western Regions, Liaodong, Shuzhong, and Jiangnan.

And the reason why Hua'an wants to do this is to thank them for their support to him all the time, to contact their feelings, not to mention the support of their henchmen, the merchants can enter Luoyang City to do business, which can naturally be regarded as support for Hua'an. The second is to increase his prestige, set up a banquet, naturally it will not be so simple as eating and drinking, Hua'an at the banquet is to express his position to his subordinates and businessmen, and warn everyone that if he supports himself, he will gain fame and fortune, and if he opposes himself, he will end miserably, of course, Hua'an will not express it so directly, but euphemistically express this meaning.

The officials under his command and the big businessmen in Luoyang City are all vested interests in Hua'an's formulation of new policies, so naturally they will not oppose Hua'an, but are willing to follow Hua'an's left and right and obey Hua'an's orders.

At the end of the banquet, Hua An expressed his desire to levy a night business tax in front of all the merchants, and consulted the merchants.

The merchants will not be happy when they hear that the night tax will be levied, but since Hua'an has proposed it, and they also make a lot of profits when they are operating at night, they naturally dare not object, after all, in order to lift the curfew and open the city gates, Hua'an has paid a lot of costs, and the cost of maintenance is also calculated by these merchants, however, they also expressed to Hua'an the scope of the amount of night tax collection, and said that if it exceeds the amount of bearing, It would have a big impact on their operations, and once that happened, they would have to cancel the decision to open at night.

Hua'an listened to the amount proposed by these merchants, and felt very happy in his heart, this amount has exceeded twice the amount he wants to levy, that is to say, the merchants can fully accept the night business tax, Hua'an will ask for the tax to be collected to the merchants, and said that this policy will be implemented after the spring ploughing of the next year, the merchants heard that they were overjoyed, and said that they will fully support Hua'an in the future, and An'an will do a good job of a businessman.

After appeasing these big businessmen, Hua'an thanked his henchmen and subordinates who had always supported him, and told these subordinates that as long as they followed him, they must have a bright future.

Halfway through, the banquet ended smoothly, and all the henchmen and merchants of Luoyang City dispersed one after another with a happy mood.

Hua An was also about to return to the dormitory to rest, and when he saw that Wang Meng hadn't left yet, he asked softly, "General Wang, why haven't you left yet, is there something wrong?" ”

Wang Meng clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, there is an incident recently, the last general has been thinking about it for a long time, and I don't know whether I should report it to the king. ”

"General Wang, what is the relationship between this king and you, and if there is anything, you can just say it." Hua An Zhengse said.

Wang Meng paused for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, now, we have nearly one million soldiers and horses, including more than 100,000 in Guanzhong, more than 100,000 in Shuzhong, less than 100,000 in Liaodong, less than 100,000 in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, more than 200,000 around Luoyang City, and nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses in Hebei!" Accounting for forty percent of the total soldiers and horses under the king's command, this doesn't seem very reasonable! After speaking, he looked at Hua'an.

Obviously, Wang Meng felt that the deployment of nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses in the direction of Hebei was very unreasonable, after all, at this time, the Yan State was already much weaker, and the Dai State was completely devastated and fled into the Mobei Wasteland, in this case, it is completely unnecessary to maintain nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses in Hebei, and besides, Hua'an is in Luoyang, and the main force of soldiers and horses should be deployed around Luoyang City.

When Hua An heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "General Wang is worried that General Xie Ai will support his troops and do something against this king. ”

Obviously, Hua An immediately guessed Wang Meng's intention to say these words, and said it out loud.

Wang Meng thought for a while, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the last general believes that General Xie is loyal to the king, but the heart of guarding against people is indispensable, if General Xie Ai really falls to the court and no longer obeys the king's orders, wouldn't it be troublesome, and it has been a taboo since ancient times, besides, the Yan State has been in a slump, and General Wang Wu is in Liaodong to contain the soldiers and horses of the Yan State, so there is no need to deploy heavy troops in Hebei at all, and it is the best policy to transfer a team of soldiers and horses back to Luoyang City to garrison, so, not only divided the redundant soldiers and horses under General Xie's command, but also enriched the soldiers and horses in Luoyang City, so that it could better deter the Jingzhou army in the south. (To be continued......)