Chapter 645: Building Luoyang City
When Hua'an heard this, he felt that what Wang San said was very reasonable, at this time, active preparation for war is the most important thing, and it is indeed a little inappropriate to invest too much energy in repairing the palace in Luoyang.
But Hua'an also felt that Luoyang City was the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty after all, and it had been ravaged by foreign tribes many times in the past few decades, and now, when the army under his command regained Luoyang City, it should carry out necessary repairs to the facilities in the city and the palace, so as to show the determination of the Great Jin Dynasty to recover the homeland.
After thinking about it for a while, Hua'an made up his mind to invest a certain amount of energy and manpower to repair the facilities of Luoyang City and the imperial palace in the city without affecting the preparation for war.
Hua An and his party walked around the ruins of the palace, and then returned to the Chinese army's tent outside the palace gate.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Hua An began to think about how to stabilize the law and order around Luoyang, and how to repair Luoyang City and the palace in the city, it is easy to maintain law and order, with the main army under his command, he can completely deter the surrounding bandits and bandits, and it is not so easy to repair Luoyang City and the palace.
You must know that in the Central Plains, where wars are frequent, there are not many craftsmen of all kinds, after all, there are wars everywhere, who still has the heart to build a house!
Hua An thought about it and felt that it was necessary to use various talents in the direction of Guanzhong, otherwise, the development of Luoyang City would be impossible.
To repair Luoyang City, it is necessary to have craftsmen in the direction of Guanzhong and improve the agricultural facilities around Luoyang. It needs talents in water conservancy, swords and other military materials are far from the direction of Guanzhong, if you can build a weapons workshop in Luoyang City, you can save the trouble of transportation.
For this reason, Hua'an made up his mind to transfer some talents from Guanzhong to Luoyang City, and various production facilities should also be transported over.
Hua'an's goal is to build Luoyang City into a metropolis like Nanzheng City and Chang'an City, and has various functions, such as the Weapons Museum, the Medical Museum, and the Literature Museum. marketplace and so on. Nothing less.
From the moment he entered Luoyang City, Hua'an had already decided to shift the focus of construction from Chang'an City to Luoyang City. All kinds of materials and talents. We must give priority to meeting the needs of Luoyang City.
After a period of consultation with his subordinates. Hua'an made up his mind to bring the talents of Pu Tie, Zhang Yu, and Huangfu families, as well as various important equipment. All of them were transported to Luoyang City, and an order was immediately issued to let Wang Meng, who stayed in the pass, be fully responsible for the deployment.
"Big brother, if so many materials and talents are transferred to Luoyang City, I'm afraid that Luoyang City will need to be expanded! In addition, the soldiers and horses near Luoyang City seem to be a little insufficient, whether it is necessary to allocate a group of soldiers and horses to come. Wang San opened his mouth and said.
Hua An nodded, and said loudly: "The expansion of Luoyang City is the trend of the times, outside the west gate of Luoyang City is a large open space, which is enough to meet the needs of expansion, in addition, Guanzhong is still very important, our army is not enough soldiers and horses, we can recruit new soldiers near Luoyang, there is no need to transfer troops and horses from Guanzhong." ”
"What the eldest brother said is that our army will start recruiting new recruits tomorrow, how about it?" Wang San Zhengse asked.
Hua An nodded, and said softly: "In the area of Luoyang and Xingyang, there are hundreds of thousands of people, and it is not a problem to recruit 50,000 recruits, the combat effectiveness of the recruits is not strong, all of them are incorporated into the reserve corps, and strictly trained, and in a few months, these 50,000 recruits will be trained into troops that can fight and win battles." ”
"Don't worry, big brother, I'll leave this matter to me." Wang San said loudly.
"Okay, recruit and train new soldiers, and leave it to your personal guards, don't let me down!" Huaan officially gave the order.
"Don't worry, big brother, this matter will be handed over to me, and it will be foolproof." Wang San took the order with great emotion.
Recruiting and training soldiers requires the support of food, grass and money, but fortunately, Hua'an has these things, and for this reason, you can recruit soldiers without any scruples, without worrying about not being able to afford them.
In the following days, Wang San led his personal guards to recruit new soldiers in Luoyang and Xingyang, and soon recruited 50,000 new soldiers, and distributed them in the suburbs of Luoyang City for rigorous training.
In order to increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the pro-guard army to train new soldiers, Wang San divided the 50,000 recruits into five teams, each team was 10,000 people, and then, from among the pro-guard troops, selected five battalions of soldiers, let each battalion of 1,000 pro-guard soldiers, responsible for training 10,000 recruits, every half a month, the five recruit teams were evaluated in a competitive manner, and for the worst team, the soldiers of the pro-soldier battalion who were responsible for training should be punished.
This practice has indeed greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the officers and men of the Pro-Guard Army in training new soldiers, and after half a month, the five new recruits have initially become combat-capable.
Hua An was greatly satisfied with the effectiveness of the training of recruits by the Guards and encouraged the officers and men of the Guards to make persistent efforts to continue to work hard to train recruits, and strive to train 50,000 recruits into elite divisions that are proud of the world within a few months.
The training of recruits progressed rapidly, and at the same time, the movement in the direction of Guanzhong was not slow, under the transfer of Wang Meng, tens of thousands of craftsmen in Guanzhong, under the protection of the escort soldiers, took a transport ship, and went down the river from Chang'an to the east, and soon arrived in Luoyang City, and began to carry out certain repairs to Luoyang City.
Not long after tens of thousands of craftsmen arrived in Luoyang City, the facilities in the city were greatly improved, and Luoyang City began to move towards glory step by step.
Immediately afterwards, talents from all walks of life in Chang'an City also arrived in Luoyang City by boat and brought various urgently needed equipment, and Luoyang City became lively for a while.
In order to settle talents from all walks of life, Hua'an allocated a large number of military tents from the army, so that everyone could be wronged first, and then arranged craftsmen to urgently repair the empty houses in the city, especially some relatively large mansions.
In order to build a lot of space such as the Armory Hall, Hua'an asked more than half of the craftsmen to urgently expand Luoyang City, and outside the west gate of Luoyang City, first surrounded a simple city wall with wooden sticks and ropes, and then, on this basis, the construction of the city wall was carried out.
In order to improve the speed of construction, Hua'an also adopted the method of building a wall with loess, only wrapping a layer of stones in the outermost layer of the city wall, which saves time and effort, and the defense power is not much weakened, which can be described as the most cost-effective method of building a city.
In the direction of Luoyang City, preparations for war and construction are carried out at the same time, it can be said that there is a hot fire everywhere, the newly recruited 50,000 soldiers, the combat power is increasing day by day, the construction of Luoyang City is also the same day by day, the damaged houses are getting fewer and fewer, and the newly built city wall is gradually rising.
Hua'an was naturally very happy that the construction of Luoyang City could achieve such fruitful results, and gave necessary rewards to the meritorious personnel to encourage them to make persistent efforts.
With the support of strong materials and money, the construction of Luoyang City will definitely get better and better, and will be restored to the standard of the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty in the shortest possible time.
At this time, all kinds of talents in the direction of Chang'an City have entered Luoyang City, in order to better build Luoyang City, Hua'an convened many talents to discuss in the big tent of the Chinese army, and adjusted some deployments according to the suggestions of everyone, until late at night, all kinds of talents, only to disperse one after another.
Hua An rubbed his eyes and was about to enter the back tent to rest, Zhang Yu walked over and said softly: "General, Luoyang City used to be the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, and now, since the general has made such great efforts to renovate Luoyang City, is there any plan to welcome the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty into Luoyang City!" After speaking, he looked at Hua An, wanting to find the answer in Hua An's eyes.
When Hua'an heard this, he was unconsciously stunned for a moment, this question, he really didn't think about it, in Hua'an's subconscious, the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty is Jiankang City in the south of the Yangtze River, and Luoyang City is only the former capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, so that the royal family moved from Jiankang City to Luoyang, this problem, for Hua'an, is a problem that he has never dreamed of, after all, the Great Jin Dynasty has been partial to Jiangnan for decades, even if he writes to request, most of the royal family members and ministers of the court will try their best to get right, and the possibility of agreeing to move the capital is almost zero.
Moreover, at this time, the palace in Luoyang City has not yet been renovated, and it still looks dilapidated and depressed, if it is to be completely repaired, it will take a long time, and it is obviously not suitable for the Dajin royal family to go to the dilapidated palace.
Of course, Hua'an is most worried about safety, at this time a large area of land in Hebei has not been recovered, Luoyang City cannot guarantee absolute security, and putting the Son of Heaven in a dangerous place is not what a courtier should do.
There is also a hidden problem, that is, once the royal family moves to Luoyang City, it is very likely to have an impact on Hua'an's combat operations, after all, at this time, Hua'an can lead the main army to cross the river to the north at any time, but if Luoyang City has the emperor and a minister, not to mention, will it make Hua'an a stumbling block, just to stay to escort the troops, is not a small number, which is a great constraint on the strength of the front line, will very likely cause the failure of the northern expedition to cross the river.
However, at this time, since Luoyang City has been recovered, and Luoyang City is the former capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, Hua'an feels that it seems a little inappropriate if he does not ask the royal family to move the capital, after all, only by asking the royal family to move the capital to Luoyang can he express his desire for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains for the Great Jin Dynasty and reflect his loyalty.
"The palace is being repaired, or wait for the repair to be completed, and then write to the court and ask for the capital to be moved!" Hua An looked at Zhang Yu and whispered.
Zhang Yu was shocked when he heard this, and hugged his fists and said: "The general really plans to write to the imperial court and ask the royal family to move the capital to Luoyang City?" ”
When Hua An heard this, Zhengse said: "Luoyang City was originally the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, but it was temporarily occupied by the Hu people. (To be continued......)