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When we arrived at Zhangtai Street, the situation became much better.

Nowadays, scholars, nobles, and wealthy people disdain to come here.

The people who live here are basically the middle and lower classes of Chang'an, especially the people at the bottom.

To put it simply, it's a slum.

But a hundred years ago, that was not the case.

A hundred years ago, it was the location of the Zhangtai Palace of Qin Shi Huang.

The story of returning to Zhao after completing the battle happened here, Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, and the immortal legend of the King of Qin walking around the pillar also happened here.

Since King Huiwen of Qin, the political and decision-making center of the Qin State has been here.

It's a pity that now, everything is wrong.

Xiang Yu burned a fire, burying all the glorious palaces and all the eternal and immortal deeds of the Qin Empire.

Zhangtai Palace has become a historical symbol, a rubble buried in the ground.

Here, too, it gradually became a slum.

It has become synonymous with dirty mess.

For decades, it has been a paradise for rangers and ruffians, a lair for murderers and robbers.

Hundreds of people are persecuted and dare not speak out.

It is not until today, after the renovation of Chang'an City, that this place gradually rejuvenates.

Because Liu Che hated all the systems and mechanisms related to the slums, he relocated the Tingwei Yamen, his official offices, and his family members from Beique, and specially arranged the super-large life market of Liushi here.

This makes this place also haunted by dignitaries, and even many lieges, scholars and relatives can be seen.

But......

As a slum in the past, the people living here have always been the middle and lower classes of the city, and most of them are the lower classes.

At this time, what is the life of the lower-class people in Chang'an City, those extremely poor people?

Liu Che knows a thing or two.

The embroidered guards and the imperial historians have also reported some.

But it wasn't until he saw it with his own eyes that he realized that his efforts were far from enough, and that the people of this country were still very poor.

Through the curtain of the carriage, Liu Che looked at the children playing along the street.

These children, all dressed in patched clothes, with pigtails, snot and filth all over their faces.

These children are five or six, seven or eight years old.

If it is placed in 2,000 years later, each one is a treasure and a heart in the hands of parents. Pampered and protected in every possible way.

But here they live like weeds.

Almost all children suffer from some form of malnutrition.

Even, some people are skinny.

But it's not terrible, in fact, they're in a much better situation than before.

In the past, they didn't even have the opportunity to be malnourished, let alone malnourished!

Before Yuande, the mortality rate of children under the age of 12 in Guanzhong was as high as 50%!

One out of every two children will not live to be twelve years old at all!

Today, with the improvement of living standards, economic conditions, and health care, this premature mortality rate has been reduced by 80 percent.

But Liu Che was still very dissatisfied.

What is this place? Chang'an City!

Dahan Shenjing, the capital of the empire, the center of the world.

But people, especially children, are still starving, and large numbers of people live below the extreme poverty line.

And on the side of these people, Qili monk Guanli, Beique and Weiyang Palace, but they are singing and singing every day.

Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

That's the reality!

If this reality cannot be changed, Liu Che may feel better in his heart.

But the truth is - not really.

Since Yuande, Liu Che has considered that in order for his rule to be stable, it is necessary to expand the plate of the middle class.

It is to increase the income of the people and the country.

To this end, he promulgated various policies and gave various benefits.

For example, the price of grain is protected, for example, the levy of forced labor is no longer levied on construction projects, but the method of levying cheap money is used instead.

He did not hesitate to throw away the festival, and under the guise of transforming the nine cities of Chang'an, he knocked out the transformation costs from the businessmen.

But alas......

In fact, the burden of the people, especially the people at the bottom, has not been reduced much.

Take this renovation of Chang'an as an example.

Originally, Liu Che announced and formulated the policy that all Chang'an residents could move to a new house, and only need to pay 10,000 yuan per household for a new house.

If you don't have money, you can choose to take out a loan instead of working. Both applied to the Yamen of the Inner History to take a loan from Shaofu, and the interest on the loan was eleven, and the people could choose to participate in the reconstruction of Chang'an and other national projects to repay.

But the problem is that the policy at the top, when it comes to the bottom, will always be out of shape.

This time was no exception.

Since Uncle Tian stepped down, the internal history yamen has been leaderless for a long time, and later Liu Che found Niu Ru, a native of Qi, to serve as the internal history.

But Niu Ru is an outsider, and he has no reputation, let alone prestige.

The people below don't obey him at all.

Niu Neishi is nicknamed 'Sitting Hall Neishi' and 'Nuo Nuoming Mansion' in Chang'an City.

It means that this inner history, in addition to sitting in the yamen, only has the ability to wait for the above and below.

As a result, the internal history yamen, especially the grassroots officials in Chang'an City, immediately ushered in spring.

The Son of Heaven said that the new house is 10,000 yuan? Good! Naturally, we can't change this matter, and we can't change it.

However, you mud legs, with a new house to live in, should you be filial and filial? Thanks thanks?

It's not much, just give 1,800 dollars!

If you don't give?

Give you a house, do you dare to live?

Some people even dragged it out and didn't arrange for people to move in at all.

This posture is obvious, it is to cut the meat, it is to get a piece of the pie.

As for the people who are forced to sleep on the streets, it has nothing to do with them.

If you play like this, you still have a conscience.

It's just a little bit of fish, and the common people can grit their teeth and get through.

But the problem is that once the mouth of desire is opened, it is very difficult to close it.

In just half a year, the various dirty things derived from the transformation of Chang'an are not countable!

Moreover, it is clear that there are interest groups operating and mastering it.

According to the report of the embroidered guard, there are even two thousand stones in it, and the participation of the liehou family.

As for those big businessmen and heroes, they are even haunted.

Their purpose in this game is simple, that is, to force the people to borrow.

There is no need to explain, normal people should be able to understand that once you start borrowing high private loans, then your family will fall into bankruptcy, and it is even likely that the family will be ruined.

And before this, the result would have been even worse.

Those merchants, officials, and nobles will not stop until they turn all the people into bonded laborers!

That's right!

Their aim is to force the people to sign a contract of sale with them that restricts their personal freedom.

This is worse and worse than the land annexation that took place in the countryside in the past.

The landlords of the countryside only aim at the land and make the people tenants.

But these guys are trying to turn the people and their descendants into their own slaves!

It's just that Liu Che strictly controls the use of Han people as slaves, and any behavior that wants to turn the people on the household registration into his slaves may pay a heavy price now!

So, these scum came back from Anton learned a trick.

The evil contract labor system appeared two thousand years in advance!