Hua An smiled and said, "If there are enough stones and timber mined in each county, this king will not mind sending out all the warships, so that more stones and timber can be transported in a short time." After speaking, he looked at several subordinates beside him.

Obviously, in order to build Luoyang City on a large scale, Hua'an is out of the way, even if it sacrifices the combat readiness of the naval army.

"Your Majesty, according to the situation reported by the counties, we have sent thousands of transport ships, which are enough to transport the wood and stones prepared by the counties, but the waterways will be frozen for several months, and when the Yellow River and Luoshui thaw in the coming year, there will be a lot of wood and stones in the counties, and when the time comes, I am afraid that we will really need to use all the warships to transport these reserved stones and timber to Luoyang City in a short time." An official looked at Hua'an and said.

Hearing this, Hua An nodded and said: "In this case, this king will let all the officers and soldiers of the navy be ready, and when the Yellow River thaws in the coming year, they will immediately disperse to the counties along the way, and transport the wood and stone stored in each county in large quantities." ”

"Your Majesty, after the river freezes, the weather will become extremely cold, and at such a time, should the counties still have to organize labor to mine wood and stone?" Wang San looked at Hua An and asked softly.

Hua An nodded and said: "That's natural, in order to speed up the progress of construction, the construction of Luoyang City cannot be stopped for a moment, at most it will rest for three days during the New Year, and since the construction of Luoyang City cannot be stopped, then the mining work in various counties naturally cannot be stopped." ”

Obviously, in order to build the streets and houses of Luoyang City as well as possible, Hua'an decided to make all the craftsmen involved in the construction of Luoyang City, including the county laborers who prepared materials for the construction of Luoyang City, all actively build it, even if it was freezing cold. After all, the construction at this time is all simple wood and stone, and the construction when the weather is very cold will not have a great impact on the quality of the building, at most it means that the craftsmen who work harder, if the warmth work is not done well. It is very likely that workers will freeze to death and suffer frostbite, but this difficulty can be avoided with proper measures.

Seeing that Hua'an made up his mind, in order to speed up the construction of Luoyang City, all the craftsmen still insisted on construction in winter, and all the henchmen under his command also agreed, after all, they also very much hoped that the construction of Luoyang City could achieve remarkable results.

Under the unified dispatch of Huaan. The stone and timber mined from Luoshui and the counties along the Yellow River were all transported to the ferry near Luoyang City in time, and were transported to the construction site in the shortest possible time. There were a lot of timber and stones, piles of piles. It looks spectacular.

Because Hua'an prepared favorable living conditions for these construction craftsmen, and the wages for the work were also very attractive, for this reason, these craftsmen all worked very hard, in just over a month. After the foundation of the street and shop is laid, the difficulty of construction is greatly reduced, especially less affected by the climate, after all. Building a wooden house can be carried out in winter, but laying the foundation can not be carried out in winter, because the climate in winter is very cold, and the soil is easy to freeze, which will cause great difficulties to the construction, and even if the foundation is barely dug up, it will be very unstable, and after the soil thaws in the second year, the foundation will be very unstable, which will cause the house to tilt or even collapse completely.

Luoyang City is close to the north, the cold snap came very quickly, not long after the foundation was laid, the first round of cold snap arrived under Luoyang City, and then, it was a heavy snowfall.

The sudden arrival of heavy snow made the construction of the craftsmen very difficult, and because the heavy snow covered the road, the craftsmen had to clear the snow before they could start the next step of construction.

In such weather, the difficulty of construction must be very great, and the craftsmen will also work very hard, but in order to earn more money, they would rather work hard.

Due to the thick snow, Hua'an was very worried about the construction safety of the craftsmen, so he specially brought a few soldiers to the construction site in person to check the construction situation of the craftsmen.

The snow on the road near the North Palace was all cleared, and there was no difference between riding a horse and walking on the road as usual, but after leaving the North Palace for half a mile, the snow on the road was still thick on the road, and the speed of the war horse walking on the road full of snow was obviously much slower.

Seeing that the snow on the road in the distance had not been cleared, but the road near the North Palace had been cleared, Hua An smiled helplessly.

After a difficult trek, Hua'an and his soldiers finally arrived at the construction location, which was originally outside the city, but because the new city wall has been built, the old city wall has been completely demolished, so the construction location at this time is already in the city.

Looking at the construction site, a white hill bag, Hua'an felt very relaxed, under these hill bags, is the pile of wood and stone, and many craftsmen in these construction locations, are in full swing to move wood, some carpenters are using tools in their hands, the round wood is processed, so that these wood can become the pillars of the house.

Seeing that these craftsmen are all in an orderly manner to build the shop, Hua Anzhong is very relieved, after watching for a while, he led his own soldiers, riding horses to run outside the city, at this time, Hua An was in high spirits, ready to hunt some game in the mountains outside the city, by the way to move the muscles.

At this time, the mountains outside the city are also full of heavy snow, all kinds of animals foraging for food has become very difficult, and this is a good time for hunting, Hua An and his soldiers just arrived in the mountains outside the city, they found many animal footprints on the snow, according to the characteristics of these footprints, Hua An can very clearly judge their species, and according to their own preferences, choose an animal of interest, hunting.

The heavy snow can be said to have helped Hua'an a lot, and it didn't take long for Hua'an and his soldiers to hunt a lot of game in the mountains on the outskirts of Luoyang City. Among them, fawns and foxes are included, and of course, more hares and dingoes.

After hunting these wild meats, Hua An did not choose to return to the North Palace, but rode his horse to the construction site where the construction was underway. He wanted to give these freshly hunted game to the hard-working craftsmen in recognition of their earnest efforts in building Luoyang City.

Although there is still very little game hunted by Hua'an and his own soldiers, it can't satisfy the taste of all craftsmen at all, but Hua'an mainly wants to express this gesture of caring for craftsmen, so as long as these craftsmen can get a mouthful of game soup, they are very excited, and Hua'an does this. Naturally, it is to boost the morale of the craftsmen and make all the craftsmen work harder.

The craftsmen who worked in the heavy snow were very hard, but after learning that Hua An personally hunted game for them and improved their food, these craftsmen were immediately very moved and worked harder. Whether it's craftsmen outside the city or inside the palace. They all worked very hard.

Thanks to the hard work of the craftsmen, it was not long before the first new street and the shops on both sides of the street were built, and some of the merchants who had purchased the shops were eager to move into the new shops and immediately recruit people. Decorate and decorate the interior and exterior of the new shop in the hope of opening as much as possible, after all, the New Year is approaching, and more and more people will buy New Year's goods. Business will be very prosperous, and businessmen naturally want to earn a little more, especially those big businessmen from other places, they used to arrive in Luoyang City, they can only buy things on the street during the day, and return to the inn at night to rest, now, after having their own shop, they can comfortably stay in their own shop pù to do business, no longer have to endure the wind and rain on the street, so that not only people are comfortable a lot, but also the goods are not easy to lose, it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, and, These businessmen from other places all know the status of Luoyang City in the Great Jin Dynasty, and if they buy a shop here, they will never depreciate, but will only rise higher and higher.

The first street and the shops on both sides have been thoroughly built, the second and third have been systematically accelerated, and even some of the houses have already begun to be built, and the construction speed of the craftsmen has not slowed down in the slightest because of the gradual colder weather, but has become faster and faster, of course, this is mainly due to the better treatment, and the calculation of wages is not calculated by days, but by quality and quantity, and the more you do, the better, the richer the wages, and the less you do, the worse the wages, and the wages are naturally very littleUnder such a remuneration policy, all craftsmen are naturally willing to do their jobs as quickly as possible in order to earn more remuneration.

Towards the end of the year, the second street had already been built, and many merchants were busy moving into the newly built shops, and by this time the first street had already occupied most of the merchants, and had already shown the prosperity that a street should have.

In order to check the operation of the first new street, Hua An and several of his henchmen decided to go to the new street in casual clothes.

Accompanied by several confidants, Hua'an came to the newly built street and decided to start from one end and gradually walk to the other.

After just walking a few dozen steps, Hua'an was curious to find that most of the shops operating on both sides of the street were merchants from other places, basically there were few local merchants in Luoyang City, and even merchants from nearby cities were rare, among them, the merchants from the Western Regions and Liaodong were the most, followed by merchants from southern Xinjiang and Jiangnan.

"It's really strange that most of these merchants are outsiders?" Hua An asked in a low voice.

"King Qiyu, the local merchants already have shops pù, and they are all doing very well, except for those who need to open branches to buy these new shops, the rest of the merchants will naturally not buy, and the merchants from other places, in Luoyang City, have not had a suitable shop pù, for this reason, they urgently need to buy shop pù, therefore, on this street, there will be a large number of foreign merchants, which is recorded when they buy shop pù, not surprising at all!" An accompanying official reported with his fists clenched.

Hearing this, Hua An nodded slightly, when selling the shops on both sides of the street, the officials under his command once handed him the list of buyers, however, he didn't look at the list at the time, just asked about some general information, so naturally he didn't know that most of these shops were sold to outsiders, but if you think about it carefully, foreign merchants need shops more, so it is human nature to buy more.

Looking at the endless crowd on the street, Hua An said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that not long after this street was built, it attracted so many pedestrians, and the businessmen who set up shops here are really prosperous!" ”

"Your Majesty, most of the items sold by these foreign merchants are rare items, which is naturally more attractive, and all the shops on this street are newly opened, and there are discounts for customers who buy them, so they are even more attractive to customers." A confidant official, Masashi said.

"Oh, is there a discount at every store?" Hua An asked in a low voice.

The official replied: "Yes, Wang, there are discounts in every store. ”

Hua An nodded slightly, looked at a few henchmen beside him, and said: "This Western Regions wine shop on the left, the decoration outside the hall is very good, why don't we go in and take a look and see how the situation is inside?" After speaking, he strode towards a shop called the Western Regions Wine Shop.

The henchmen followed behind Hua An and strode into the wine shop.

As soon as he entered the Western Regions wine shop, Hua An and his henchmen smelled a strong aroma of wine, which was different from the local good wine, and had a unique style of the Western Regions.

"Your Majesty, let's go upstairs and sit down!" A confidant whispered.

Hua An nodded slightly, and said softly: "Okay, let's go upstairs." After saying that, he walked down the stairs to the second floor.

In a position with a wide view on the second floor, Hua An sat down with several henchmen beside him, and sideways enjoyed the beautiful singing and dancing of the girls from the Western Regions downstairs.

It didn't take long for the guys in the store to bring up sumptuous dishes and wines, all of which were characteristic of the Western Regions, and looked full of mouth-watering feelings. (To be continued......)