Xia Jing remembered the current situation in the capital, "Now there is still a shortage of population in the capital, everyone is talking about how to change the current situation?" If you have any good suggestions, you can say them, and everyone will discuss them. ”

Although tens of thousands of herders have been brought back from the grasslands, tens of thousands of people have been resettled in various areas of Gyeonggi, but there are not many of them.

Otherwise, the soldiers of the Gyeonggi battalion would not be able to run horses in the streets of the capital city.

Long Yutian stroked his neatly trimmed beard, "In fact, many of the people who fled south from the Gyeonggi area survived, and after the Gyeonggi area was recovered, the reason why they did not come back was probably because their safety was not guaranteed, and they were afraid that the Beidi or the rebels would counterattack, and then the Gyeonggi area would be dragged into the war again, and they would finally return to Gyeonggi and flee." ”

Xia Jing agreed: "What the prison army said is reasonable, but in the final analysis, it is because the credibility of the imperial court is not enough, and the people do not believe that the imperial court can keep the Gyeonggi region. What can we do to break this impasse, and what are your thoughts? ”

After eating and drinking, Li Chengyi shook his fan and said: "Since the people don't believe that we have the ability to protect them, we might as well fight a few victories and let the whole world see, Wang Shi is not weak, and he has enough ability to protect them!" ”

Li Chengmu listened to the words of the fourth brother Li Chengyi, and nodded in agreement.

He expressed his opinion: "During the days we came to Gyeonggi, we hit the grassland Beidi twice, and changed the equipment of the border army in Bingzhou, and the ordnance and armor were all made of stainless steel, which was enough for the border army to resist the surprise attack of Beidi. And we just took advantage of the autumn harvest to encircle and suppress the rebels entrenched in Yuzhou, if they can't be encircled, we will drive them to Yanzhou and Qingzhou! ”

Anyway, I won't give them a chance to harm the Central Plains again.

Long Yutian looked at Li Chengmu with satisfaction: "Weichen supports His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Xia Jing looked at the people sitting below, and saw that everyone looked gearing up, smiled and said to Yuan Rongcheng: "Rongcheng, you are responsible for sending a letter to your father, asking him to Chen Bing Jingzhou and Yuzhou to meet, and we will attack Yuzhou in half a month, at that time, let him adapt to the situation, don't let the rebels take the opportunity to escape to Jingzhou!" ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back." Yuan Rongcheng responded.

In the past few months, everyone has been peaceful, and more importantly, everyone is worried about food and grass.

The rebels occupy Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the previous years were a major drought, and this year's rain was slightly more normal, before the autumn harvest, the rebels did not want to start a war, because the war would consume grain and grass exponentially, they were recuperating, and after the autumn harvest had grain and grass to expand the territory.

Fortunately, the soldiers and horses led by Xia Jing, as well as the grain and grass, were all stored in the early stage, and they were transported from Nanyang and Annam to Lingnan, and then transferred from Lingnan to the Gyeonggi area.

Before the autumn harvest, they have no worries about grain and grass for the time being.

Long Yutian wasn't sure what Xia Jing was thinking about Jizhou and Youzhou, so he asked softly: "Queen Mother, do we want to inform Jizhou and Youzhou of the assassination history, so that they can take precautions, and don't rush into Jizhou from Yanzhou when the rebels don't arrive." ”

Xia Jing glanced at him and said decisively: "No! ”

As soon as they start a war with the rebels, all the forces in the world will know, no need to be specially notified, and their territory will be guarded!

You must know that once they lose their governing jurisdiction, they will lose everything, and they will resist desperately for the sake of their lives! ——

In the first year of Ming Xi, on the sixth day of July, Li Jingfu, the king of Dayu Dynasty, inherited the throne and officially ascended the throne as the emperor, and the year was named Jianyuan, and the next year was the first year of Jianyuan, which opened the prelude to his rule over the world.

At the same time, Li Jingfu announced to the world: canonize the princess Xia as the queen, and the fifth son Li Chengmu as the crown prince. Due to Dayu's internal and external troubles, the queen and the prince were specially approved to temporarily live in the capital, dominate the Gyeonggi region, and contribute to the stability of the world from outside the country.

In mid-July of the same year, Xia Jing ordered Li Chengmu to be the general of the counterinsurgency, Long Yutian to be the supervisor of the army, Feng Tu to be the left deputy general, Sha Yuliang to be the right deputy general, and Sima Lu's sons Sima Yi and Ding Dazhuang to be the left and right vanguards, leading 100,000 troops to the south to quell the rebellion.

The army marched south, and the capital became even more empty.

Taking advantage of the free time before the autumn harvest, Xia Jing wandered through the streets and alleys of the capital and basically figured out the layout of the capital.

In addition to the inner city, the outer city is basically distributed according to the rich in the east and the rich in the west, the poor in the south and the cheap in the north.

In addition to the buildings in the east and west areas of the outer city, the north and south urban areas are basically low houses, stinky water and narrow lanes.

These areas affect the appearance of the city, and Xia Jing wants to carry out urban transformation, but the current situation does not allow her to build large.

Xia Jing touched the bottom of the capital, and the north of the city could not be built, but the streets not far from the four city gates in the east, west, south and north did not say no.

"Niangniang, you have been in the capital for a few days, if there is anything to do, you can tell the slave to do it."

Hongmei has followed Xia Jing around the capital for a few days in the past few days, and her legs have become thinner.

Xia Jing glanced back at her, gritted her teeth and stiffened her mouth, "No, I have my own plans." ”

When she returned to the palace, Xia Jing stayed in the study to write and paint, so that the two maids were confused, they didn't know what the queen was doing?

Two days later, Xia Jing handed over a few drawings to Ye Fei: "These are four drawings, you can find someone to look at them and see if someone can build them?" ”

Ye Fei took the drawings and read them carefully, the four drawings were four four-story buildings.

Ye Fei is no stranger to such buildings, and many such houses have been built in the north of Lingnan City.

"Niangniang chose these places near the city gate to build a house, do you want to open an inn here?"

"Sort of, after the building is built, I want to open a few high-end inns integrating accommodation, catering and entertainment."

Of course, there are no entertainment activities in this era, mainly singing, drinking and storytelling.

The building area is very large, and if it is built, whether it is accommodation or eating and entertainment, it is one of the few big inns in the capital.

She handed over the construction of the inn to Ye Fei, and Xia Jing sent a letter to Ding Daqiang, who was far away in Jiankang.

Jiankang's various businesses are doing well, the store and the factory are on the right track, and Ding Daqiang only needs to be managed by a capable deputy below.

And he himself needs him more in the capital.

Xia Jing is not idle, the government affairs of the capital have Wei Dong to help deal with it, she has nothing to do and let people recruit masons and idle laborers, and all streets and alleys in the east and west cities have arranged personnel to pave cement roads.

Ye Fei reluctantly took the street paving drawings, "Niangniang, these two urban buildings are very elegant, and the houses are also sturdy, since there have been no residents for more than a year, except for the garden with more weeds, everything else still maintains its original appearance, you spend so much effort to lay cement roads, for what?" ”

Xia Jing held her cheeks and said with a smile: "Actually, I prefer to pave cement roads in the whole city, if that's the case, people's shoes won't get dirty or wet when they go out on rainy days." ”

And the most important point, now these houses belong to her, she took advantage of the fact that no one came to Beijing, first paved the streets, and when the real families came to the capital, they had to pay to buy the property if they wanted to get it back.

The roads in the eastern and western urban areas are paved with cement roads, not to facilitate the sale of them at a high price in the future, so as to subsidize the state treasury.

You must know that Dayu will be her own son in the future, and she, as a mother, can only save more working capital for him if her body allows.

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On the post road leading from Jingzhou to the Gyeonggi region, several Qingbu carriages were parked on the side of the road, and a weak coughing sound could be heard on one of them.

Outside the carriage, a man came in with water, and on the couch of the carriage lay two quilts, on which lay an old man who described himself as withered.

The man's name is Zuo Houping, he is from the capital, and the old man lying on the wooden couch is his old father, who collapsed his body by escaping from the famine last year, and he shouted that he would return to his roots before he died, and he had to return to the capital from the comfortable Jingzhou.

Zuo Houping helped the old man up: "Father, come and drink some hot water, if you insist on it, we will be able to enter Gyeonggi one day." ”

The old man drank a little hot water, panting but fortunately did not cough again, he listened to Da'er's words, a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and said angrily: "It's so good, I finally returned to the hometown where I was born and raised." ”

"Father, you must hold on!" has come to this point, Zuo Houping has to cheer up the old man, he is really afraid that after walking ninety-nine steps, his father will not be able to take this step, and he will be in trouble if he dies halfway!

My father will die in the coffin with regrets, which he does not want to see.

After the old man rested, the brothers drove a few carriages and continued to move forward.

Three days later, they finally arrived in the capital.

There were several convoys at the city gate waiting to enter the city after the inspection, and Zuo Houping could only wait in line honestly.

He asked his brother to watch the convoy, and he himself went to the front of the convoy to check the situation, and by inquiry, the first few convoys were caravans.

When they heard that Gyeonggi had been recovered, they formed a team to transport supplies over, just to make a wave of silver in the unpopular capital first.

When the merchants react, the capital will not know how fierce the competition is.

Zuo Houping returned to his carriage and said to his brother: "A businessman's nose is always the most sensitive, but if he smells a business opportunity, even if the war is raging, he can't stop them from making money." We returned to the capital at my father's request this time, I don't know if it's right or wrong? ”

The brothers of the Zuo family listened to his words, and they didn't know the bottom in their hearts: "The queen and the crown prince are all in the capital, and the capital should be safe." ”

When the emperor can't put the prince of a country in a dangerous place, doesn't the sage say that the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, if the Gyeonggi area is really in danger, the queen and the crown prince will definitely not stay in the capital.

Of course, it is not credible to say that the capital is absolutely safe, and in times of war, it is possible that no matter where it is, it may not be safe.

The capital is a little different from what they imagined.

When they stopped at the gate of the city and waited to enter the city, they realized that the road under their feet was extraordinary.

As a result, after entering the city, the main street that runs through the east and west is completely paved with this kind of cement road.

The street is flat, and the carriage does not feel the bumps when walking on it, which is very comfortable.

The only dissatisfaction is probably that there are a lot of horse-drawn carriages carrying sand on the road, so there is a lot of dust on the street.

"The road that used to be potholed by horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians is all paved, this thing called cement is amazing!" Li Houping noticed the situation outside from the car window.

"Transporting so much sand and gravel into the city, is there construction in the city?" The second child of the Li family was even more curious about what the sand and gravel brought into the city were used for.

There was no one in the car to answer this question, because everyone had just entered the city, and everyone did not know what was going on in the city.

There was no need to ask, and soon they noticed that there were many laborers coming out of the alley on the side of the road, they were all paving the road in the alley, and it was already lunch time, and these laborers were going to eat.

Li Houping noticed that many people's clothes were different from those of the Central Plains, "Second brother, look at the clothes of these people, how do I look like Beidi's clothes." Could it be that these laborers were taken captive from Beidi? ”

"It's possible!"

The brothers chatted while driving around the city looking for an inn.

I searched a lot of streets and didn't find an inn, and in the end I had no choice but to ask the officials on the side of the road.

From the officials, they learned that at present, there are no inns, no restaurants, and no grocery stores selling daily necessities in the capital.

The enemy's fortified wall Kiyono is doing too well.

"There are no shops, what if we want to stay?"

The official very patiently pointed to the yamen not far away: "There are not many other things in the capital, but there are many houses, if you come to the capital and have no place to live, you can live in the people's houses, or go to the yamen to buy a yard or shop!" ”

Li Houping hesitated for a moment, but still said: "If you don't understand, just ask, we used to have a house in the capital, but the imperial court moved south, and the house under our name was also abandoned in the capital, and now that we are back, can we still live in the original house?" ”

Asking this sentence, it can be seen that he also knows that Xia Jing announced to the world at the beginning, and he also knows the content.

The official finally met a man who asked for directions, and he replied patiently: "If you want to live in your own house, it's not impossible, but now the whole capital has not come to the capital for a month at that time, and the real estate and money in his name have been returned to the public, and if you want to live back in the original house, you can only go to the yamen to register and buy your own property again." ”

When the Li family heard this, they all wanted to stand up and scold their mother, which was even more rampant than thieves.

"This house originally belonged to our family, why do you want to go back to your own house now, and you have to pay the silver to live in it?"

The official only accepted the street inquiry this time, listened to his words, and explained: "On the day of the fall of the capital, when you abandoned the capital and fled south, all the property in the capital went into Beidi's pocket, and the queen mother led the prince to snatch it back from Beidi's hands with great difficulty, and the property she snatched back was sold at a low price to those of you who want to settle in the capital, what's wrong?" ”

"Besides, the money from the sale of shops and houses is used by Niangniang to build the capital, such as paving roads, repairing city walls, digging ditches, etc., all of which are used with the silver on this account."

Therefore, Niangniang is called taking from the people and using it for the people.

When the Li family brothers heard this, they gasped, the entire industry in the Gyeonggi region is under the name of the queen, so in the next few years, how much can she earn from this industry?

I can't imagine!