Wang Pu Youzhou has already started spring, in China that attaches great importance to the New Year, generally speaking, most of the imperial court will not do anything on New Year's Eve, but now Shi Chonggui is too anxious in his heart, and there are some things, he can't wait!

Now every move of the Tiance Tang Army is the attention of everyone, and everyone knows that Zhang Mai is now training soldiers and horses in Youzhou, and what has gathered in Youzhou is not a group of new soldiers, but more than 100,000 horses left after eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, and assigning them to various places in the prefecture and county -- and the vast majority of them have been on the battlefield and are veterans. ()

The training of veterans is naturally different from that of recruits, plus there is a group of elites as the core, and a few months of reorganization is enough! So what happens after the reorganization is completed? Even a fool can guess that Zhang Mai's next step is most likely to be Luoyang!

Therefore, Shi Chonggui couldn't wait, although he knew that diplomatic negotiations were unlikely to achieve any results, but if there was still a glimmer of hope, it had to be before Zhang Mai made a move, so Wang Pucai was "ordered to go north".

It's a pity that Wang Pu, who was ordered in danger, did not think about the Lord as hard as Zhuge Liang did when he went to Dongwu, and now there are not many people in Luoyang City who are still sincerely planning for the Shijin Dynasty.

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Youzhou, which was once empty, gradually became lively after half a year, especially in the south of the city, in the north of the desert in the south and in the north, in the west of Tianzhu Tianfang, in the south of Wuyue Zhenla, in the east of Goryeo Japan, businessmen from all over the world can see, faintly there is a feeling of an international city, so that Wang Pu feels very surprised.

Forget about Gaoli and Wu Yue, those merchants from Tianzhu and Tianfang naturally didn't come after they knew that Youzhou was open, but they traveled eastward along the Silk Road early in the morning, and they just knew that Youzhou was open, so they rushed to do business.

It's only been a few months. Hundreds of shops have been opened in Nanshi, and there are thousands of people who come and go. Most of these shops were renovated from the original empty houses in the area, and some of them set up tents on the vacant lots, which was done when Liangzhou and Lanzhou were just opened, so the officials in charge of urban planning were familiar with it.

Most of the citizens of Youzhou were taken captive by the Khitans. Except for a few fish that slipped through the net, these houses and land were all nationalized, and the policy of housing and land, Zhang Mai was very strict, at first only allowed to rent, and when the New Year approached, because commerce and trade were becoming more and more prosperous, and anyone could see that the prospects for a foothold here were ambitious, so the price of land and housing prices rose all the way and there was no market - not that no one bought it or did not have to buy it! Only then did Zhang Mai give permission to release a small part for sale. As a result, no matter how old and dilapidated the houses are, these "real estates" have been inflated to sky-high prices -- the income from renting and selling the land for these houses alone is enough to make Fan Zhen dumbfounded.

It stands to reason that these things should not be done by Zhang Mai, even if it is just a decision, it is suspected of killing chickens, but Zhang Mai is now in need of money, and he is still a little bookish when he grasps the quality of Dongshu, so Zhang Mai has to go beyond the bounds.

When Wang Pu entered Youzhou. is encountering the first round of real estate auctions in the new year, so the south market is very sensational. Wang Pu also paused when he passed by, and saw that the auction was often auctioning a two-acre vacant land, and the real estate released by the government before was a two-room scattered shop, and it was rare to see such a whole piece of vacant land, so the atmosphere at today's auction scene was particularly high.

When he was in Qinxi, Wang Pu had seen this kind of Zhang Mai's "Ming" auction model. Therefore, it is not a stranger, and in the end, this piece was auctioned by a Hangzhou silk merchant at a sky-high price close to the land price of Luoyang (of course, not the current land price), which made Wang Pu speechless.

After checking into the post house at noon, he took people out to the restaurant - the rules of Tiance Datang, unless there is a special arrangement. Otherwise, although the arrival of the foreign envoy will provide a post house, but also include food, but the food is very simple, basically two dishes and a soup and rice are full, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are not to think about it, a meat dish and a vegetarian dish, if the envoy is not satisfied, then you can go outside to buy yourself, not a special period and even allow the envoy to go out to eat accompanied by the accompanying officials.

Wang Pu is naturally familiar with these rules, and when he was in Qinxi, he felt unaccustomed to it, and wanted to let foreign envoys go out, what should he do if he was spied on? What should I do if the messenger has an accident? Wouldn't it be undignified to let the envoy buy his own food?

However, in the past two years, seeing the changes in the world with his own eyes, his thoughts have changed, knowing that Zhang Mai dares to let the envoy go out, he is not afraid of any "virtual reality" to be seen, this is external self-confidence, not afraid that the envoy will have an accident, that is to have a grasp of public security and safety precautions, this is internal self-confidence, as for eating, meat and vegetables are not slack, there is really the style of the ancients, but it is not comparable to the various luxuries after the Qin and Han dynasties, and I heard that Zhang Mai's own food is the same.

Today's Youzhou, the population is mostly outsiders, but there is a flow of commerce, there is a flow of services, so all kinds of food, clothing, housing and transportation are provided, but the businessmen come too much and too fast, and all kinds of service industries are still in short supply, Wang Pu is relying on the identity of the messenger, and the official came forward to order a table of wine and food in a restaurant, the owner of this restaurant is Liangzhou, and it is a "time-honored brand" in the northwest, but in the past two years, Tiance has fought in the north and south, and those middle-level soldiers with considerable consumption power are fighting in Mobei. During the war, business expectations were also unstable, and the government advocated frugality, so merchants did not dare to be extravagant, so business was really bleak in the past two years.

Since hearing that Yanjing is open, Zheng Wei has been working hard in the business district to publicize, this boss has moved his mind, leaving the store pù to his eldest son to operate, he took his younger son and two chefs, moved to Yanjing in accordance with the immigration policy, and ran all the way to Yanjing to open a branch. In less than three months, the money lost in the past two years was recouped.

When the owner of the restaurant came to accompany the wine, he talked about his own experience, and sighed: "I still make a lot of money!" Originally, I was doing ready-to-wear business next door to me, but it was really big! There are hundreds of thousands of horses on the ground in Youzhou, excluding those old, weak, sick and disabled, soldiers and slaves, and there are more than 100,000 people. These months. How many things can be shipped to Youzhou? The appetite of these military masters alone is enough to eat as much as they will transport to Youzhou! As for those merchants, not to mention, who can have the vision to come to Youzhou last year, which one is not making a lot of money? After making money, you can either change hands and buy goods, and you have to treat yourself for the rest of the money. So the business end of Youzhou in the past six months is good! ”

Wang Pu casually asked about the price of rice and vegetables, and the owner of the restaurant said: "Rice is not expensive, it has always been transported from the south, and the vegetables are okay. There are also large merchants outside the city who have hired the military surplus who have been laid off, and set up a large greenhouse with more than 1,000 vegetables, or you can eat a mouthful of green vegetables during this time. Well, I've heard that these alone feed a lot of people, and many businesses make a lot of money from it. ”

After the restaurant owner said goodbye. Wang Pu thought in his heart: "Now the price of rice in Luoyang is as high as a day, but the price of land is as low as a day, which is the opposite of Yanjing. It seems that the king's luck has also shifted to this side. ”

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Wang Pu stayed in Youzhou for two days, and only when he heard that Zhang Mai was not in the city, he went to see Fan Zhen and hoped that he would help.

This is also an old friendship between Fan Zhen and Wang Pu, otherwise, according to Zhang Mai's current temper, he doesn't want to pay attention to the people in Luoyang, and he will dry it first. Fan Zhen is now in charge of Dongshu's internal affairs. The day is full of opportunities, Wang Pu begged to come to the door. It was not easy for him to meet with him.

"You're going out of town to find the marshal?" Fan Zhen hesitated for a moment before he said: "The marshal has some impressions of you, and if you change someone else, I don't dare to be the master." So he summoned a man to send Wang Pu out of the city—he was the only one to go, and all the other retinues brought from Luoyang were not allowed to follow.

As soon as you get out of the north gate of Youzhou, you will be greeted by a desolation. After Youzhou was relocated by the Khitan, although in the summer and autumn of last year, hundreds of thousands of horses came from all over the country - as far as the army is concerned, but placed on the ground of Youzhou, how much land can hundreds of thousands of people occupy? After the autumn harvest, Zhang Mai also personally called for leading the whole army to go to the field and Tuntian. But it is also impossible to reclaim this northern land. Especially after just experiencing the prosperity of Nanshi, when you suddenly come to this uninhabited suburb, you can't help but feel empty and desolate.

But if you come here for a modern person, you will probably think that the environment here is really good!

Under the cover of snowflakes, it is common to see many scattered wheat fields, these are all the tun fields of the sergeants, after the autumn harvest, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses planted millions of acres of wheat, under the non-fine management, the acres of fields are naturally not as neat as the intensive cultivation of the south of the Yangtze River, the integration of agriculture and animal husbandry, but look at the snow layer that protects the wheat field, next year's harvest can still be expected.

There are clear rivers everywhere, and you can see the flowing water under the ice after freezing, and the ice is like crystal, unlike later generations, many dirty rivers are yellow, yellow, black and black after freezing, which is very ugly.

There are evergreen pines and cypresses everywhere, and some rabbits and deer occasionally pop out between the pines and cypresses, and there are even bears in places far away from the city, which is the characteristic of the natural environment that has not been severely damaged, of course, bears and deer dare to run out of the Yanshan Mountains to this plain, and last year's population in Youzhou area is also related, which is the "credit" of the Khitan people.

There are lakes everywhere, and the lakes are also frozen like the rivers, although it is spring, the ice is thick, and some retired sergeants can be seen opening some ice holes and fishing, and the dogwood fish head they ate in the restaurant may have come from here.

In short, the water source of Youzhou in this era is sufficient, the land is abundant, the population is scarce, and places like this in the world can generally withstand the toss of Chinese for hundreds of years.

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Wang Pu rode a horse to the north for half a day, the vision suddenly came to a huge construction site, the naked eye saw that there are thousands of people are leveling the land, digging kilns and burning bricks, according to Wang Pu's knowledge, coupled with the previous rumors, he probably guessed that this is where Yanjing New City is located, often heard people say that Zhang Mai wants to build a majestic new capital here, the scale of the planned city has been a little scary, is the current Luoyang, Kaifeng can not be compared, is not here?

Zhang Mai was also in the crowd, not wearing armor, nor a wide robe with slow sleeves, but a tight cashmere under a brown cape, and a hood on his head.

Seeing this, Wang Pu sighed in his heart: "When Dayu ruled the country, his hands and feet were calloused, his clothes were brown and he rode in the car, and he was walking for four hours, which was probably like this." Don't mean the wind of the ancient holy king. Again today. ”

Seeing Wang Pu come forward, Zhang Mai said a few more words to the craftsman, and then turned his head and walked to a temporary shed, where the stove was burning, and the warm and the outside were like two worlds, Zhang Mai took off his cloak. sat down and drank a sip of hot tea handed over by Ma Xiaochun before asking, "Your name is Wang Pu?" ”

Wang Pu saw that there was only one Ma Xiaochun in the house, so he knelt down and said: "Chen Wang Pu, a native of Qi County, Bingzhou, has been in Tiance for six years, and he is the first in Luoyang Enke Jinshi." ”

Zhang Mai was surprised and said: "The first place in Jinshi, that's the champion." Then he said: "But you don't call me a minister, but a minister, and the year name is Tiance." Without Shi Jin's, this tone is not quite right. ”

Wang Pu said: "The minister is the minister of China, and then the minister of Shi Jin." When I won the first place in the Jinshi, I was happy in my heart, and I think back today that it was better not to be successful at the beginning. ”

I was happy that day and regretted it today, naturally because the Jinshi in the middle of the day was the Jinshi of Shi Jin, and now the change of dynasty is imminent. He was young and if he didn't refer to it that day. Now he can directly enter the new dynasty and be a pure minister.

These words have been said clearly enough, Zhang Mai smiled and said, "I have some impressions of you." I can make an exception for Fan Zhen to allow you to come to see me, and you must have something extraordinary. Get up and speak. ”

After Wang Pu got up, Zhang Mai asked, "What kind of knowledge do you treat?" Wang Pu said: "Four books and five classics, I dare not call it proficient." but it is also recited. ”

Zhang Mai waved his hand and said: "You are the champion, these Confucian classics must be fine." I'm asking about practical ability. The classics are retreating, and if the classics are not cured, the height of looking at the problem is not enough; But when you come out to do things, you can't just retreat, you also have to have a skill. ”

Wang Pu pondered for a moment. Only then did he say: "The marshal issued 19 kinds of "Practical Learning", and the ministers can speak. ”

Zhang Mai attached great importance to cultural construction as early as the Shule era, and for more than 10 years he had the opportunity to summarize his writings under the battlefield, and these works were published and revised locally, and basically formed a preliminary scale by three years ago, and they were a large series of books including general knowledge of arithmetic, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, medicine, administration, law, war, agriculture, architecture, and so on.

Part of this series of books is dictated by Zhang Mai, Li Bin, Fan Zhen, Wei Renpu and others have helped to sort out, such as arithmetic, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, medicine, law, etc., some are professionals together with the collation, such as agriculture, architecture, war, etc., and some are the translation and recreation of Greek and Roman classics bought from Taixi, all of which are drafts determined by Zhang Mai after reading, although these nineteen books are all basic knowledge, but also full of millions of words, with a large number of pictures and texts.

Zhang Mai glared at him and said, "Can you memorize it?" ”

Wang Pu's face was ashamed: "Word by word, I can't do it, but the marshal has an inquiry, and Wang Pu will be able to repeat it." ”

Zhang Mai thought to himself, if you can memorize millions of words, then there will be ghosts, what is there to be ashamed of if you can't memorize it? Let Ma Xiaochun bring a copy of "General Knowledge of Architecture", flip through it casually, nod his head, Wang Pu will talk about that chapter endlessly, and he can draw it when he encounters a place with a picture, and he can also touch the class when he encounters a place that is similar to the humanities, and express his own opinions.

Zhang Mai listened for half an hour and interrupted: "Enough is enough!" I met a genius again. No wonder Fan Wensu looks up to you. He thought about it, and ordered Ma Xiaochun to take out another big picture and say, "You have read the general knowledge of architecture, come and help me see how this plan is." ”

Wang Pu stepped forward to take a look, and after only a glance, he understood that this was a planning map of the capital, and said in a trembling voice: "This ...... Is this the Beijing of the future? ”

"yes." Zhang Mai said: "This is my idea, the veterans of the camp are looking for a good place, and the master craftsmen have held more than a dozen meetings to make sketches, and then they have read them to Xue Fu Yanqing and Fan Zhen Wei Renpu, and changed them to a revised version, and then gave Yang Yi and Zheng Wei to give feedback, and finally revised it to this way." Well, I also sent one to Feng Dao, and he also replied with some comments, Guo Luo was too far away, so he didn't send it to him. ”

Wang Pu didn't expect Zhang Mai to let himself have such a big deal with Wen, and he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, and thought: "It turns out that Gong Feng has also heard about this matter, no wonder he has such a posture in the court!" ”

In fact, he thought too much, Zhang Mai did not act secretly about this city construction, and even wanted to make it public to the world to brainstorm, but later considered that this kind of major event may not be as many people as possible, so in the end, he just let the site of the camp be selected, the master master map, and then let the generals such as Yang Yi and Xue Fu, who are proficient in war, Feng Daofan and other Wenchen who are proficient in etiquette, Zheng Wei Naibu, who is proficient in business, and other elites in the world participate, and even asked his wife Guo Fen to see what their women need. And then it all came together into this big plan.

However, it's not just Wang Pu who thinks too much, Feng Dao was also excited enough after receiving the pattern secretly sent to him by Zhang Mai, this is the construction of the capital, whether Beijing is the capital in the future or not, who can hear about such a major event? What's more, Feng Dao was still a "foreign" prime minister at this time. So after getting that sketch, Feng Dao was so excited that he was moved. After thinking about this matter for many nights, he did a great job of secrecy, and except for one of his closest disciples and one of his most reliable sons, he was the fourth to know about it.

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At this time, Wang Pu looked at this capital planning map, and the traditional Chinese capital architecture has certain regulations, as the so-called "craftsman camps the country, square nine miles, side three gates, nine longitudes and nine latitudes in the country, and nine rails in the warp painting." Left ancestor right society, facing the market. ”

The same is true of the basic regulatory concept of this new capital, but it has been expanded dozens of times in terms of specifications! Moreover, in addition to the retro ritual planning, it also takes into account all aspects of the life of citizens in the real layer, including transportation, drinking water, sewage, etc., and pays special attention to the planning of the commercial bazaar.

Wang Pu watched that there was a meal time. couldn't help but sigh, and suddenly said, "It's just such a huge project." Fear...... There is a ...... that hurts the people's power"

He said it very cautiously, lest he anger Zhang Mai.

Zhang Mai smiled and said, "Didn't you see my installment?" I heard that Emperor Yang of Sui built the new Chang'an in nine months, but I am not as anxious as him. The first phase will take three years, which is enough for the time being. After that, over a period of ten years, the entire establishment of this map will be completed, which will take about thirty-three years. I'm sure you can see it, I'm going to have to get some exercise. ”

Wang Pu said: "In 33 years, no matter how big the project is, it may not cost more people. Marshal Shengren! ”

Zhang Mai said: "Don't say it, you can tell me if there are any loopholes in this plan." ”

Wang Pu said: "This atlas is the wisdom of the great sages. It's almost perfect, the minister is young and shallow, and he only feels very shocked for a while, and he doesn't dare to talk about it. ”

Zhang Mai smiled: "Okay, if you want to find anything wrong in the future, you can write to me." ”

This is to leave a channel for himself to reach the heavens, Wang Pu was overjoyed, and he wanted to thank him but stopped, and he was so excited that he almost scratched his cheeks for a while.

Zhang Mai put down the planning map and said, "Then let's talk about Luoyang." You're from Luoyang, so you have something to do. ”

Wang Pu's heart tightened, and he quickly collected his mind, and his posture was resumed to be rigorous, and he said: "Yes, the minister has two things, one is to come on behalf of Shi Chonggui, and the other is to come on behalf of Changle Lao. ”

Zhang Mai said: "Shi is expensive, well, does he want to seek peace, or to surrender?" ”

This is said in a domineering manner, but it points out the key in one breath.

Wang Pu leaned over and said, "Sue for peace." ”

Zhang Mai laughed and said, "Do you think it's possible?" ”

Wang Pu sighed softly and shook his head.

Zhang Mai said: "Then you don't have to bother talking, I won't be polite to Shi Chonggui, you go back and sue me, I'm not an unreasonable person, but in this kind of situation, everyone knows that it is impossible to make peace." However, he didn't make any big mistakes, and I won't do anything to him in the future. Shi Jingjiao won the country is not right, his throne is obtained from Shi Jingjiao, the country is not long, I don't plan to get him any peace and happiness to detain him, he can become a free man in this country. As for the other conditions, he can mention them, and I will agree if I can say yes. I have only one purpose, to try not to fight, because I don't want to die in the Central Plains anymore. The lives of the people are very precious, and these lives should be used for the expansion of the territory, for the works of metaphysical thought, for music and art, for the creation of the Ming Dynasty, and for the enjoyment of life, and should not be wasted on this meaningless internal war. That's what I mean, how do you turn around and say to Shi Chonggui, you can figure it out yourself. ”

Wang Pu was amazed in his heart and said, "The minister understands. ”

Zhang Mai said again: "What did Feng Dao ask you to do?" ”

Wang Pu said: "The meaning of Elder Changle is also the same as that of the marshal, and Duke Feng also hopes that the world will stop fighting and killing, and return to the Taiping as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Mai smiled: "That's good, you go back and tell Elder Changle, I'll ask him about Luoyang." I believe that with his wisdom, he will live up to my expectations. In another month or two, when the weather is warm, I will lead the army south, mobilize millions of people, and besiege Luoyang......"

Wang Pu was stunned: "Marshal, didn't you say...... Don't you fight? ”

"Looks like you're a little tender, Champion Lang." Zhang Mai smiled faintly: "People are very cheap, they don't give up until they reach the Yellow River, they don't hit the south wall and don't look back." If I blindly show leniency, this matter will never be finished, and only by raising troops on a large scale can we have the possibility of going down without a fight! ”

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