The expansion of Luoyang City is not a trivial matter.

When Liu Bei proposed this idea more than a year ago, there were still many people who objected, feeling that it was too expensive and needed to be cautious.

But Liu Bei resolutely believed that it was imperative to expand Luoyang City, otherwise Luoyang City would not be able to bear so many people, and something would happen.

At present, two-thirds of the area of Luoyang City is used for the imperial palace and government offices, and only the remaining one-third is used for other purposes, and most of the population lives outside Luoyang City, living around the city, if you look closely, you will only feel a mess.

The inside of the city is clean and tidy, as soon as you go out of the city gate, you will be greeted by a burst of stench, the winter is fine, the summer is especially unpleasant, in the first year of Jian'an, there was an outbreak of a plague for this, more than 1,000 people died.

At that time, Liu Bei dispatched the army to forcibly isolate the sick, and then dispatched the army to carry out a comprehensive cleaning, disinfection, rat and insect extermination, cleaning the road, and burning mugwort leaves, which reluctantly suppressed the plague and did not let the plague spread to Luoyang City.

Therefore, in his view, it is urgent to expand Luoyang City, build complete sanitation facilities, and improve health education for the people.

After the first year of Jian'an, there were waves of plagues all over the world, one moment was Qingzhou, one time was Xuzhou, and one time was Yuzhou.

There have been several small-scale infections inside and outside Luoyang City, but fortunately, Liu Bei is prepared for this-

As soon as he heard the news that [several people were sick], "the whole family was sick", "the neighborhood was sick", he immediately dispatched personnel to isolate the patients and take them to the sick village near the Sunset Pavilion outside Luoyang City for centralized isolation and treatment, so that there was no large-scale plague outbreak inside and outside Luoyang City.

However, the living environment outside Luoyang City is too dirty and harsh, and it is difficult to say that there will not be another thing in the first year of Jian'an, so Liu Bei strongly promoted this matter and implemented the project in place at the beginning of this year.

The person in charge of the project is Cao Cao.

"According to the meaning of the general, it is said that Luoyang City is slightly less than Chang'an City back then, what Xiao He said back then was right, it is not magnificent and powerful, if the Han Kingdom wants to show its own prestige, the country must be magnificent.

Although the original Luoyang is also a big city in the world, it has a slight deficiency, claiming to have a population of 400,000, but there are only more than 100,000 people who really live in Luoyang City, most of whom are scattered outside Luoyang City, without city walls, no norms, and a mess.

If outsiders see this, they will inevitably think that the Han is a chaotic country without rules, so they will despise it, thinking that the Han can invade and cause war, so Xuande said that all the people who live outside the city should also be included and a new city wall should be built.

So now the whole project has begun, and in the future, the city will be divided into three parts: the outer city, the inner city and the palace city, which will be distinguished by three city walls and expanded in scale, and the outer city wall needs to be the thickest, and the palace city wall needs to be the highest.

In addition to the city walls, all the places where people live were also replanned, and special residential areas were set aside, as well as urban areas for merchants to trade, and the government districts where the government offices were located, where to do things, and the road planning between each other was completed, waiting for the project to follow. ”

When Kuai Yue heard this, he sighed very much.

"A big project like the expansion of Luoyang City, if it is placed in normal times, it can be called a large-scale construction, and there must be strong opposition from someone, if it is not good, there will be people who will shed blood for it and make a farce, but at the moment, it seems that this is not the case."

"Yes, there is no farce in expanding Luoyang City, so it will naturally be promoted."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Of course, it's not that no one objected, and there were people who objected, but there were not many opponents, and after the general came up with a complete plan and a strategy for using money and announced it in the court, no one objected."

How to use people, how to use money, how to use materials, how to transport, how to allocate the construction period, etc., the Ministry of Industry in the General's Mansion has come up with a comprehensive plan, Henan Yin Mansion just needs to do it, and if it is assigned to me, there will be only construction left, and I don't need to worry about the rest. ”

"The more I heard in Jingzhou, I also heard that there are six departments in the General's Mansion, which oversee government affairs, and what is the government, and the six departments can always respond, and they are quite efficient."

Kuai Yue sighed: "It seems that the general is not only good at military affairs, but also good at government affairs." ”

"That's true."

Cao Cao sighed: "Any big problem can be dismantled into small problems, and then find someone to solve it, in the past, it was a little slower, but now after the establishment of the six parts, the speed is even faster, and I can't believe it."

It is said that it only took two months for the Ministry of Industry to formulate a perfect plan for the expansion of Luoyang City, and then a month to notify all aspects of the matter, and another month later to start action, and the entire preparatory process was only four months. ”

"Four months?"

Cai Mao was quite surprised and sighed: "Is it possible to complete the preparation of such a big thing as expanding the capital of the Son of Heaven in four months?" It's a little too fast......"

"Not only that, but when it's the turn of the place, it's just as fast."

Cao Cao smiled proudly: "In the past, the imperial court always had to forcibly recruit migrant workers in the construction of large construction projects, which made people angry, and a bad one would cause a civil uprising, but the manpower used in this operation was not only slaves, but the people in the collective farms.

They are all organized, no matter what they do, as long as they give an order to the county government, and the county government will order them to go to the farm, and the farm will gather the people who can be dispatched to report to the county government, and the county will report to me, and I will have a full list here.

Then the people of which county are responsible for the construction of which section of the city wall, I only need to give orders, and they will go to the construction, inspect and inspect the construction on time, and I don't have to worry about other things, and the progress will be relatively fast. ”

"How efficient can it be?"

Cai Mao was very surprised: "Aren't there any grievances among the people? Won't it delay the agricultural time? ”

"The collective farms set up by the great generals were set up for such things."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Each family in the farm helps each other, and if someone needs to work, the farm will arrange strong laborers to help cultivate the land, so as to avoid the inability to complete the agricultural work and prevent one person from starving. ”

"It's a lot of fun."

Kuai Yue stroked his beard and sighed: "Once upon a time, the construction of large construction was bound to be accompanied by great resentment, but now it is ......"

"The imperial court also gives money for the work, and it also manages three meals, and the farmer works to make money, which is the same as cultivating the land."

Cao Cao laughed as he spoke: "The general once told me privately that there are nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine problems in the world that can be solved with money, as long as the money is enough, it is not a problem, and the money can always be given enough, but some people are reluctant."

I asked the general if he would be reluctant to give so much money, and the general told me that he didn't like money, money is a thing, life does not bring it to death, and if you can use it to make it play the greatest value, it is enough, and if you blindly want too much, you will become a slave of money. ”

"The general still figured it out."

Of course, Cai Mao is not interested in the big truth, but he still really admires Liu Bei.

Because Liu Bei not only said the truth, but also did it.

He really gave money, really threw a lot of money, and sprinkled a harmonious and beautiful prosperous situation, and even the construction of the project became so warm.

Doesn't he really like money?

Is there anyone who doesn't like something as good as money?

Kuai Yue thinks so.

If you just talk about big truths and don't do anything yourself, then it's pure fart, but if you start doing it while saying big things, it's completely different.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that they will have the least trust in Liu Bei, and are willing to take the initiative to come to Luoyang and seek cooperation from him.

For a person who is trustworthy and generous, taking the initiative to take refuge will get more things than passively accepting, if Liu Bei wants a slave, just give it to him, if he wants land, just give it to him.

Anyway, he couldn't have all the slaves and land alone.

On the other hand, the Cai family and the Kuai family were able to get out of the quagmire of Jingzhou, return to the center, and gain an early advantage, leaving the rest of the local families in Jingzhou far behind.

And compared with the Cai family, the Kuai family actually has a more urgent need for this, but because the difference between Luoyang five years ago and five years later is too great, the relationship between the Kuai family that was painstakingly managed back then completely collapsed, so that it had to rely on the relationship between the Cai family and Cao Cao, so as to climb the relationship with Liu Bei.

And Liu Bei, on his side, after learning the thoughts of the Cai family and the Kuai family from Cao Cao, also had some different ideas in his heart.

He was worried that he lacked enough entry points to cut into the situation in Jingzhou, and as a result, he was about to sleep and the pillow was sent to the door.

(End of chapter)