Even after the expansion, Huzhou City cannot be compared with the big cities of Nanyang, Youzhou and Xuzhou, and even compared with the old state cities of Caizhou, Chenzhou and Xuzhou, it is much inferior. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, a state city represents the history and heritage of a place, and the new construction of Huzhou, especially the outward expansion of the city wall, is the direct result of vacating a considerable area along the line of the city wall, which is called a new city by the old Gu founders.

The construction of the new city is very fast, but it can be seen that there is a clear boundary between it and the old town.

The style of the buildings is also not consistent, including buildings with a considerable Huaibei style, and some buildings with Hu style are under construction.

There is a lot of traffic on the streets, and the accents are also very mixed, and the Huaibei accent accounts for a large proportion, and what surprised Wang Miao is that there are many horses of all colors on the streets, which is not easy to see in other states and counties.

According to Wang Miao's judgment, this should be after Huzhou received a considerable number of foreign population, so the structure of the city began to undergo some changes.

And what surprised Wang Miao was that Hu Shang actually began to settle in Huzhou, which was indeed a bit unexpected.

Generally speaking, Hu merchants do not live in big cities, and of course this Hu Shang refers to the kind of big traders with deep financial resources, not those grass platform groups such as Hu Ji who sell Hu cakes or laugh at the door, and these people can of course be found everywhere in all states and counties.

However, the construction of Huzhou New Town is obviously more like a guild hall-style building, which is clearly the business place of Hu merchants.

Huzhou was able to become the favored place of Hu Shang, and the current situation in Huzhou was obviously not up to it, but Hu Shang came, which only shows that Hu Shang is optimistic about the development of this place.

Wang Miao looked at the progress of the construction of the guild hall, and it was estimated that the guild hall should have been built before Jiang Feng took Huzhou, otherwise Wang Miao felt that Hu Shang might prefer to choose Shouzhou as the location of the guild hall.

It should be said that Wang Miao's judgment still made some mistakes, but it has nothing to do with Wang Miao's judgment.

Karim and Nashin did choose Huzhou when they decided to build the guild hall, but they had already received the news that Shouzhou had been taken by Jiang Feng before the construction began, but they decided to build it in Huzhou after thinking about it again and again.

There are many reasons, but the main reason is to consider that there is a new city in Huzhou, not only has a fairly wide land for storage, but also Shouzhou is afraid that the situation will not be stable for a year or two, from a security point of view, they are also more focused on Huzhou.

In addition, one of the main transactions between them and Huaiyou is to buy war horses for Huaiyou, and as a temporary transit place for the horse farm, Huzhou is obviously more suitable than Shouzhou.

The three states of Guanghushou all need good horses, especially military horses, not only cavalry, but also the logistics department has a great demand for healthy horses.

The Persian Hu merchants could not only provide war horses for Huaiyou, but also ordinary horses of inferior quality to war horses, or even more.

Because after all, most of the horses and camels from the Western Regions and the Xia Ling Prefectures are still civilian, the requirements for military horses are too high, and the price is higher, while the general transportation horses are much cheaper in price, of course, for the Hu merchants, the profits will not be much less.

The 2,000 Xiazhou war horses promised by Wei Chi without illness finally arrived, which also alleviated the embarrassing situation of the Huaiyou cavalry.

Some military horses that were no longer capable of the frequent training tasks of the cavalry were eliminated to the logistics and transportation department, and some of the worse conditions were directly eliminated to the market, which is also the reason why Wang Miao saw that the horses in Huzhou City appeared much more frequently than other ordinary states and counties.

After all, it is such a big state city, and it was originally a county seat, and suddenly hundreds of healthy horses appeared on the street to pull freight passengers, which must be very different.

But what makes Wang Miao feel that Huzhou is different from other places is the spirit of the people walking on the streets, which is different from the ordinary people in many places in the past few months or even the past few years.

These ordinary people on the streets of Huzhou are also in rags, some are also dressed in vegetables, and some are begging for food, but more people, or including these people, they seem to have a hope and a goal, and they are all working hard to get busy.

gives Wang Miao the feeling that the pace of life of the people in Huzhou is half a beat faster than that of other states and counties, and most of them are busy, unlike other states and counties, he sees more laziness and decadence.

I have to say that Wang Miao may be thinking too much, or the contrast feels too strong.

The influx of a large number of Huaibei refugees caused a lot of pressure on Huzhou, but under Jiang Feng's strong promotion, the Chen, Huang, Tan and other gentry in Huzhou finally succumbed to Jiang Feng's threat and accepted the policy of land seizure and land exchange.

In short, it is to pay taxes for land inspection, and exchange for semi-cooked land and raw land in the Tang Dynasty and Huoshan according to the ratio of 1:2 to 1:5.

The gentry such as Chen, Huang, Tan, Xu, and Ju borrowed money to provide the displaced people with cattle, donkeys, seeds, and food and basic necessities to survive the famine, and also provided them with a certain amount of money and silver to build their own houses.

It should be said that this agreement is a completely unequal agreement, and even for the gentry and surnames, it is an agreement that has to be signed if it is not signed, so it caused a big backlash at the beginning.

However, after Jiang Feng successively investigated and punished several Chen side branches who wanted to resist violently, and promised to greatly reduce the taxes on the Tang Dynasty and Huoshan, the gentry of Huzhou finally gave in.

This is a game process in itself, between Jiang Feng, who holds the handle of the knife, and the local gentry such as Chen and Huang, who are not very powerful, the power of the knife handle is overwhelming.

Of course, Jiang Feng also knew that if he didn't give these gentry some thoughts, then his plan to build Huaiyou into the granary of his own hegemony in the future would be difficult to really implement, so he also gave these gentry a lot of wishes.

For example, they were allowed to enter the three counties of Shouzhou, in the same way in exchange for their reclamation of land in the three counties of Huoqiu, Anfeng and Shouchun.

It should be said that Jiang Feng's policy did cause considerable harm to the interests of the gentry in Huzhou in a short period of time, but after the gentry accepted this policy, the effect quickly appeared.

The influx of displaced people was eliminated, and in the year before Shouzhou was taken, the displaced people from Huaibei and Caizhou quickly filled the wasteland in the three counties of Shengtang and Huoshan and Yincheng.

Among these wastelands, there are some local people who were killed and coerced away when ant thieves were rampant, and there are also those that have not yet been cultivated, but with the support of food, seeds, and money from the gentry, these Huaibei disaster victims who had fled to Huainan with nine lives can finally settle down with peace of mind.

After learning of the government's policy, they burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for labor, from the first season of wheat to the small harvest of early rice, these displaced people finally found that life has a head, and they can also become a member of Huzhou.

That's what Wang Miao saw.

Farmers with small harvests picked up their harvested early rice and sold it to traders in the market town bazaars in exchange for their own living needs, and the traders in turn sent it to the grain merchants in the city, who then trafficked the popular rice to the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and a business route was restored.

In fact, for a place, as long as it can ensure social peace, there is no rebellion of soldiers and thieves, and God blesses that there are no floods and droughts, the speed of recovery of a place is not slow.

Like this year's harvest because of the drought, can only be said to be unsatisfactory, like Huzhou and other territory there are many rivers, irrigation conditions are not bad, so it can still get by, like the Central Plains, Qingmi, Huaibei, Heshuo and even Guanzhong, the drought is more serious, a taste of the change of the sky has been faintly revealed.

Wang Miao didn't go to Ganquan first, for him, since he had made up his mind to defect to Huaiyou, it was better to go directly to the door and recommend himself.

When he received the report from the guards, Jiang Feng was talking with Yao Jing, the new Gwangju assassin, and Sun Xuan, the chief of the long history.

The appointment of the imperial court's assassination history and long history has finally come down.

Yao Jing, the concubine of the Yao family in the Jiugongqing family, and the eldest grandson Xuan, the concubine of the eldest grandson family.

For coming to Gwangju to take up a post, it also caused a storm in Chang'an City.

After all, Gwangju is a small state with only three counties, and it has just experienced the cruel rule of the Yuan clan of Caizhou in Gwangju, and its vitality is greatly damaged, and it is far away from Chang'an, plus there is a defensive guard overhead, which is of little value to the relatives and nobles.

But for those marginal characters who don't have a chance to get ahead in Guanzhong, this position is like pie falling from the sky.

A fierce competition is inevitable, so Li Yan gave Jiang Feng an explanation.

The final winner is inseparable from the role of the Nine Princes' families, and of course it cannot be too important.

For these two, Jiang Feng also learned through various channels that Yao Jing is a character with some backgrounds, who once served as the county magistrate of Xinfeng County, Guanzhong, and later entered the court as an idle official, after all, he is a member of the Yao family, and he himself is not willing to eat and wait for death in the court, so he came.

And the reaction of the eldest grandson Xuan is not very good, as the concubine of the eldest grandson family, he is not capable of doing things, and his background also has some problems, so it seems that eating and fighting the autumn wind everywhere seems to be the main achievement of this member of the eldest grandson family in the past ten years.

It is said that this son of the family of the first minister of Guanzhong has been mixed in Chang'an City to the point that there is no way to borrow, and even owes a considerable amount of usury, so he was forced to flee Chang'an and take refuge in Gwangju.