Chapter 112: Moving the capital to Jinling
In order to build a magnificent capital, Huai requisitioned a large amount of manpower, and in the following years, more than seventy percent of Huai's money, grain and taxes were invested in the construction of Jinling City.
A lot of money was invested in it, and when Jinling City was finally completed, it was much bigger than Huai'an.
After the completion of the construction of Jinling, Wang Qi did not move the capital immediately, and the newly built city was not popular, and it was necessary to move in the population first.
After the construction of Jinling was completed, Wang Qi ordered the relocation of 30,000 households in Huai'an to enrich the population of Jinling. Coupled with the tens of thousands of Chu people who were previously placed in Jinling, the population of Jinling directly reached an astonishing 200,000.
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When Wang Qi announced the relocation of the capital, there were many opposing voices. It's just that the power of Huai has always been firmly in the hands of the monarch, and as long as the monarch wants to do something, it is basically unstoppable.
The vast majority of these opponents of the relocation of the capital were the Qingshi families who controlled a lot of power in Huai'an. They have been bound to Huai'an, and once the capital is moved, the family will immediately decline, from the original wealthy family, to the middle and lower classes.
It is difficult for them to accept this situation, but if they move to Nanjing together, they will lose their underlying foundation, and their strength will also decline, and everything will have to start again.
However, no matter how much these people oppose it, it will not help. Sun Wu, Fan Li, Wu Zixu, Qingji, Wen Chong, Xu Feng and Gongyang Clan, and other important ministers of the Huai State all agreed to move the capital, and naturally no one could stop them.
Therefore, the migration work began, and there were originally 200,000 people in Huai'an City, but this time Wang Qi migrated half of them, and the rest migrated from around Huai'an City.
Wang Qi's migration was also a selective migration, this time the people who migrated to Jinling were basically rich families in the city, and those outside the city were local wealthy families. These people are either rich or powerful, and they used to be pressed by the Huaiguo Office, and these people can be honest.
If after the Huai State moved its capital, there was no suppression by the Huai State Office, they would soon expand. The Huaiguo office moved to Jinling, and at the same time, the imperial court of Huaiguo would also move away, although Huai'an was no longer the political center of the road, but Huai'an was also an important city in Huaiguo.
Especially after the departure of the upper echelons, there will be a power vacuum, and these wealthy families will immediately begin to encroach. When the time comes, it won't be long before these Qingshi families will swell rapidly.
Wang Qi would not give them a chance, so these princes and wealthy families were all moved to Jinling by Wang Qi.
At the same time, Huai'an will not give up, Wang Qi will keep his younger brother in Huai'an, as the Huai'an Order, the term of office is four years, and then the office will send someone to replace it, here will be the same as Gusu, will be the city managed by the Huaiguo Office.
Although Huai moved the capital, but the foundation of Huai'an is still there, there are canals outside the city, fertile fields, many people, even if it is no longer the capital of Huai, it is still an important city of Huai.
A large number of people passed through the canal into the river and then came to Jinling. The movement of people continued for two years. By the time Wang Qi moved to Jinling with his office and court, the emerging city had become prosperous.
After the land near Jinling City was reclaimed, it had been distributed to the people of Chu according to the previous discussions. As for those Qingshi families and wealthy families, their land is south of Jinling.
These lands have not yet been developed and are in the barren stage, and Wang Qi deliberately gave them wasteland. These nobles, wealthy families, some people have money and food, how could Wang Qi let them go, naturally he wanted to make the best use of his resources and use the power of these people to reclaim wasteland.
To the south of Jinling, it was originally the territory of Shu, but after Shu was destroyed by Chu, it became the territory of Chu, and after this attack on Chu, it became the land of Huai.
These lands were not developed much in the first place
After all, the population of Shu is not large, and there is not enough manpower to open up.
As for the Chu State, it is even more lazy to come here to open up the wasteland, there is a large area of land that can be cultivated for two thousand miles in the Chu State, so naturally it will not go so far to reclaim the land.
These wastelands were used by Wang Qi to distribute to the Qingshi family, and in exchange, they could give 20% more land in Huai'an. Of course, the reclaimed land is not owned by these nobles, the rich and powerful, and the land they reclaimed is divided into five or five parts of the office.
After Huaiguo moved its capital to Jinling, the political and economic capital began to shift from Huai'an to Jinling. A large number of workshops also began to be established in Jinling, and at the same time the Huai State began to build on the land seized from the Chu State.
This time, the Huai State seized hundreds of miles of land from the Chu State, and after the Huai State moved the capital to Jinling, under the influence of Jinling, the land here also began to be developed in large quantities.
Originally, the degree of development of these lands in Chu was not high, but after Huai moved the capital, these places were immediately taken seriously.
The most obvious thing is that after the Huai State moved its capital, a large number of soldiers were also brought to Jinling, and these soldiers would also be re-granted land properties.
The relocation of the national capital from Huai'an, which was economically prosperous and agriculturally developed, to Jinling was a severe test. But with the help of Fan Li, Wu Zixu, and Wen Chong, Wang Qi quickly stabilized the court.
After the court stabilized, with administrative support, the area around Jinling also began to prosper rapidly, and the materials of the Huai State were constantly transferred to Jinling, and the arrival of a large number of materials and population promoted the rapid development of Jinling's economy.
Although it is not as good as Huai'an now, it is also half of what Huai'an used to be. And after the capital was moved, Huai's control over the land east of Dabie Mountain and west of Jinling increased rapidly.
After the adjustment, Jinling, as the center of Huaiguo, has made great progress in controlling all parts of Huaiguo. In the past, because Huai'an was close to the north, his control over the land of Wuyue was a little weak. Now that the land of Wuyue is under the nose of Jinling, the state's control over the local area has improved more than a notch.
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The relocation of the capital of Huai to Jinling was an important event in the late Spring and Autumn Period, which indicated that Huai began to focus its strategic focus on Chu and began to develop westward. This also meant that the battles between the Huai and Chu states began to become more frequent, and the wars between the countries began to become more intense, and the Chu state began to decline as a result, and was eventually annexed by the Huai state.
Historians agree that the relocation of the capital of the Huai State to Jinling and the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty were the dividing lines of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ——"The History of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties"
PS: Soliciting the country name, since the capital has been moved, it is not appropriate to call it Huaiguo.