There is no such thing as an impermeable wall.

The news that the emperor was going to build a number of houses at the state's expense and rent them to hundreds of officials and talented people at a low price spread throughout Chang'an City in just two days.

Basic necessities of life.

The four major issues that the people are most concerned about, the popularity of the topic instantly overshadowed the news that the Lan family was exiled, Taichang Temple was abolished, and the newly established Law Enforcement Bureau was widely rumored before, and directly became the hottest topic in Chang'an City.

Everywhere you go, there's people talking about it.

The people discussed, and the officials discussed, after all, in the entire Chang'an City, except for the court tycoons and family dignitaries, most of the middle and low-level officials did not have a house to live in.

Now the imperial court builds houses for them to live in, although they collect rent, but they have been officials for many years, who has not dug the corners of the imperial court, and this rent is likely to be the meaning of the imperial court.

For these middle and low-level officials, he doesn't care who you Lan Qing is or what Taichang Temple does, what they are most concerned about is always their food, clothing, housing and transportation, especially food and accommodation.

So in the past two days, the bigwigs of the imperial court have also been very busy, almost every moment there are officials running to ask them what the imperial court is building and what kind of public rental housing, and the ministers of the six ministries and nine secretaries are all upset, and they have asked Wang Mang one after another, Wang Mang shook his hand and threw the matter to Zhang Jian.

In the end, Zhang Jian came forward and summoned more than a dozen ministers of the imperial court to Shangshutai to prepare a meeting to study whether the matter was included in the law change, which was also what Wang Mang meant.

Public rental housing, a new term, has never appeared in the history of the mainland for tens of thousands of years, and it belongs to the new system, and of course it belongs to the matter of changing the law.

Since it is a matter of law change, according to the rules, a meeting of the leading group for law change should be convened to study and decide.

Shang Shutai, more than a dozen court bigwigs sat together, and when they looked around, all of them were members of the leading group of the imperial court to change the law.

In fact, whether it is Zhang Jian or these court bigwigs, they definitely did not expect that in a few years, this place will become the central organ of the imperial court.

And Shang Yang, the only one who could think of it, was sitting down with low eyebrows at the moment, glancing at the officials present from time to time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I called everyone over today, mainly for the public rental housing that has been rumored in the capital in the past two days, this matter is boiling in the capital, the old man is the secretary of the ministry, and he is in charge of hundreds of officials in the world, and he has a headache these two days, what do you think about it. Zhang Jian was the first to speak at the speed of his slow speech.

Zhao Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, rubbed his head and said with a wry smile: "I don't dare to go back to the yamen for the past two days. ”

The ministers of the imperial court, the public rental housing matter, the most annoying is the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials is the first stop for hundreds of officials of the imperial court, also known as the maiden home of officials, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for organizing scientific examinations, and most of the current officials of the Ministry of Rites have a teacher-student relationship with the middle and low-level officials of the imperial court. So these two have the most headaches on this matter.

Wang Yongji has always been the master of what to say, he doesn't have any friends and political enemies in his eyes, he simply thinks that this matter is very good, the military department is responsible for the war, it is normal to lack arms and legs on the battlefield, and once the officials sent by the military department to supervise the war are injured, the career will come to an end, but the existing system of the imperial court is difficult to make these officials loyal to the country satisfied with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the public rental housing makes Wang Yongji's eyes light up.

Different from Zhang Jian and Zhao Xin's spitting, Wang Yongji looked directly at Shang Yang and said, "Lord Shang, you are the person in charge of the specific work of changing the law, what do you think about this matter?"

Shang Yang's face remained unchanged and said: "Xiaguan is trusted by the emperor and serves as the person in charge of specific work, but this matter has to be studied and decided by the adults in the end, and it is good to report to His Majesty for approval. ”

Li Hong had already figured out a little bit of Shang Yang's temper, and said, "Then Lord Shang may explain to us what kind of charter this public rental housing is." ”

Shang Yang had already communicated with Wang Mang, and when he saw this, he informed the court bigwigs present of Wang Mang's meaning, specific process, and significance of public rental housing.

Li Hong is the secretary of the household department, and as soon as he heard that the state was paying for it, he immediately said loudly: "I don't know how much money Your Majesty is going to invest in this matter?"

"Your Majesty believes that public rental housing is the cornerstone of the prosperity of Great Qin, and it is natural that the more the better, but considering the actual situation of the imperial court's finances, so at this time, the imperial court naturally invests as much money as it wants, and invests in building houses every year, and it will naturally be very different after five or ten years. Shang Yang opened his mouth slowly.

Zhang Jian said at this time: "But now Chang'an City does not have so many people, what's the use of building so many houses?"

"Now the house in Chang'an City is naturally enough, but Your Majesty said that you must do things for eternity, Daqin is destined to become the most powerful empire in the world, and Chang'an is also destined to become the most powerful city in the world, and at that time, Chang'an's population and economy will be several times larger than now, and what Your Majesty is planning is not the present, but the future. When Shang Yang said this, his eyes were extremely bright, as if he had seen a vast world.

The courtiers present were all through the wind and rain, and although Shang Yang said it simply, the simple words revealed the emperor's lofty ambitions.

The ambition of the bird!

Zhang Jian and the others all sighed in their hearts, they had already seen from the emperor's several actions that the emperor had a lot of plans, but no matter what they thought, they didn't expect that the emperor would want Daqin to become the strongest empire in the world, and Chang'an to become the strongest city in the world.

But in this case, it is destined to be a major reshuffle in the world, and the world is destined to be turbulent, is this really good?

Zhang Jian and the others were still thinking about it, but Haifeng said: "I think this public rental housing is very good, no matter what the future holds, at least for now, it can indeed solve the accommodation problem of many officials in Chang'an, I agree with this matter." ”

Different from the bigwigs of the court who are now ranked in Jiuqing, Haifeng is from a poor family, it can be said that I am the son of a farmer, Haifeng also slowly climbed up from the lowest officials step by step, and has been renting a house for many years, until last year, when he was rewarded with a mansion by the Yuan Palace.

Among the bigwigs of the imperial court, Haifeng is the most understanding of the life of middle- and lower-level officials, and even Haifeng is actually the representative of the vast majority of middle- and lower-level officials in the court.

Therefore, as soon as Haifeng got the news of the public rental housing, he immediately had a detailed understanding of the matter, so he didn't care what the emperor wanted to do, as long as the emperor did practical things, he Haifeng was the first to support it.

Seeing Haifeng jumping out, Yu Wenkai also immediately said: "I also support this matter." ”

In Yu Wenkai's view, building a house must be done by the Ministry of Industry in the end, as a construction maniac, Yu Wenkai's biggest hobby is to engage in construction, whether it is to repair the city wall, repair the road, repair the embankment, repair the palace, etc., are Yu Wenkai's favorite.

To build a house, Yu Wenkai is in charge.

Gongsun Yan thought that the group of translators who had difficulties in life in the General Administration Department had no skills except for foreign languages, and they couldn't even sell calligraphy and paintings, so he also nodded and said, "I also agree with this matter." ”

Zhang Jian saw that all the ministers agreed, sighed in his heart, and said, "Then report this matter to Your Majesty." ”