The north was filled with dangerous winds and waves. The Song (Northern Song), Jin and Western Xia were coming and going, and the battles were fought, and a military revolution had already been launched. The magnificent and prosperous scene inside and outside Jinling City was particularly superior to the past.

This southeastern city is a city surrounded by silk, brass, rice, salt and tea, and is extremely prosperous.

Jinling's silk industry itself is very developed, and the land outside the city is extremely fertile, producing rice. On the east side of the city are also the towns of fish, rice, silk, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Xiuzhou, Mingzhou and Yuezhou. To the west of the city are Chizhou, Shuzhou, Xingguojun, Xinzhou, and Raozhou, which produce copper-cast coins, and also produce fish, rice, cloth.

In the coastal areas of northeastern Jinling, the famous Huai salt is produced. In the mountainous areas of Jiangnan south of Jinling City, tea is abundant. As for the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, it is a major sea trade area for thousands of years, which can also bring wealth to the Jinling court.

The officials and people of Bianliang, Songzhou (formerly Yingtian Prefecture), who followed Zhao Huan to Jinling, and Xuzhou, especially the industrial and commercial workers in the Central Plains, have now pushed the prosperity of Jinling City to a new height!

This city, located on the bank of the river and absorbed the essence of the Southeast's rich land, has now obtained talents, capital and technology from the northern Central Plains, and has also been carefully governed by Zhao Huan and his Jinling court. In just two or three years, it has become the most prosperous, civilized and wealthy place of this era.

On the Yangtze River, boats come and go, and on the Qinhuai River, there are masts and oars like clouds. The blue-gray brick wall winds along the Yangtze River and Qinhuai Waterways. It is not only tall and solid, but also built according to the dangerous mountains and rivers. It is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Perhaps because Jinling is too prosperous today, every inch of land looks very precious, so that the king who has established his capital here wants to use the solid city walls to protect all the prosperity and wealth. Therefore, the addition and expansion of Jinling City lasted from the first year of Jingkang to the autumn of the third year of Jingkang, and it was still not completed. Moreover, the addition project seems to be getting bigger and bigger, and it seems that it will last for many years.

However, losing Kaifeng Prefecture, the Jinling court in Daming Prefecture and Songzhou (Lao Yingtian Prefecture) learned the lessons of the city's difficulties and did not build a "big Jinling" that was difficult to defend.

Instead, the construction of Jinling New City, Mufu Mountain City, Zhongshan City and Xuanwu City were started on the north and east of the old Jinling City left behind by the Southern Tang Dynasty. If all these four castles were built, the situation of five Jinling cities, cities and cities connected and covering each other was formed.

If a strong enemy attacks, the Jinling court can not only guard five castles when the troops are sufficient, but also concentrate their forces to guard one of the castles when the troops are insufficient.

When the autumn of the third year of Jingkang came, the brick and stone walls of Jinling New City, built along the Yangtze River, Qinhuai River and Mufu Mountain, were almost completed.

The total length of this circle of city walls is about thirty-five miles, roughly divided into four sides, the east, south and west sides are drawn into straight straight lines. The north starts from the west bank of the Qinhuai River and is built along the south bank of the Yangtze River, and is built to the west foot of the Mufu Mountains. Then turn south, straight to the shore of Xuanwu Lake, then turn west to the west bank of the Qinhuai River, and finally to the north, connecting with the north wall of Jinling New City.

The lengths of the four walls vary greatly. The longest one is the northern wall, which spreads thirteen miles along the river bank. The city is strong and dangerous and solid, which is what makes Zhao Huan feel most relieved.

The shortest of the four walls of Jinling New City is the west wall, which is only three miles long. However, these three miles of city are extremely strong and are the top priority of the entire new city defense system. Because this section of the city wall encloses the entire entrance of the Qinhuai River. It is not built with the Qinhuai River as a natural moat, but wraps up a three-mile Qinhuai River channel. Between the west bank of the Qinhuai River and the city wall, the Yangtze River Navy's command yamen and some barracks were also built.

However, the Yangtze River Navy's shipyard and warship dock are not in the city, but on the bank of the western section of the Qinhuai River branch outside the city. At this time, the Qinhuai River channel will be divided into two after passing through Jinling New City, and flow to the old city of Jinling, which is the most prosperous commercial area in the world today! The other route flows from the east of Jinling Old City, and Zhao Huan's Yangtze River Navy dock and the shipyard are located on this section of Qinhuai River channel and both sides of the Qinhuai River.

The three-mile-long Qinhuai River channel protected by Jinling New City is usually a passage and taxation place. In wartime, it can be used to moor the warships of the Yangtze River Navy. The original taxation (on the east bank of the Qinhuai River) will be converted into a shipyard for building warships.

In addition, the Tax and Customs Office located on the east bank of the Qinhuai River also has a tall exterior wall built along the banks of the Qinhuai River. Once the east wall of Jinling New City falls, this high wall will become an "internal wall" of Jinling New City, relying on the Qinhuai River waterway to prevent the enemy from continuing to break through.

The east wall of Jinling New City is more than seven miles long between Mufu Mountain and Xuanwu Lake. Trenches were dug outside the wall and sheep and horse walls were built, and inside the walls were trenches and inner walls. Inside the walls, along the imperial road leading to the palace, there were many military camps and yamen offices, with outer trenches and high walls. You can defend and resist step by step!

The city wall on the south side of the new city is located directly on Xuanwu Lake and the Qinhuai River (a small part crosses the Qinhuai River). It is more than ten miles long. Like the east city wall, it also has outer trenches, inner trenches, sheep and horse walls and inner walls, which are very strong.

The palace city where Zhao Huan lives now is around Lion Mountain on the east bank of the Qinhuai River. The palace city is also a castle that can be independently defended. The walls of the palace city are about sixteen miles long, and there are moats outside the city, and there is also a Lion Mountain city inside the palace city.

Zhao Huan, who had a clear sense of security, placed his bedroom and Fengsan warehouse in the Lion Mountain City, and also built a warehouse in the Lion Mountain City that could store tens of thousands of stones of rice and grain.

It was almost Mid-Autumn Festival, and Zhao Huan, who had finished his government affairs, took a chariot to return to the recently built Lion Mountain Palace, which was not long ago. He got off the chariot outside the Queen's Kunning Palace and walked in a stroll. Although the emperor of Jinling, who was less than thirty years old, was not as strong as his father Zhao Ji and his brother Zhao Kai, was still very healthy. Apart from cowardly disease, there was nothing wrong with it. The "good news" from the north recently has aggravated his cowardly disease, and his brows are always frowning.

The Empress Zhu Lian of course received a notice from the official, but she did not greet her at the main entrance of Kunning Palace according to the rules, but only greeted her at the main entrance of the main hall. This was because she was very busy these days and was busy preparing Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for the "Crown Prince" Zhao Kai.

Because the news that Zhao Kai personally won a great victory in Lingxia, the Emperor of Jinling should of course express that rewards are necessary! In the "official announcement" of Emperor of Jinling, Zhao Kai is the crown prince!

The land of Lingxia has been lost for more than a hundred years. Now it has been recovered in one fell swoop, forcing the Western thieves to submit to the emperor and offered 80,000 horses. This was taken out by Li Ganshun crying, and he was almost heartbroken!

In addition, Zhao Kai also collected 100,000 horses from 100,000 Dangxiang people from Lingxia. Although the quality of these horses did not meet Zhao Kai's requirements, the harvest this time was still very rich.

Zhao Kai's gains were obviously not a good thing for Zhao Huan, but he still had to pinch his nose and celebrate bad things as good things, and he had to give Zhao Kai, who was intending to usurp the throne.

He was also worried that Zhao Kai would only take the money but not appreciate it. He sent troops to take Jiangdong as soon as he turned around, so he could only find a way to pretend to be sick and play the emotional card.

He first claimed to the public that he was seriously ill and had not attended the dynasty these days. He secretly held a small meeting with several prime ministers in Chongzheng Hall of the Imperial Palace in Jinling New City. Of course, it was not good to deal with the government affairs!

The three years of Jingkang were almost over, and there was no disaster in Zhao Huan's territory. Even the Yellow River seized the Huai River without causing floods, of course, it would not flood. Because the Jin Dynasty ignored the Yellow Flood, which turned the Yellow Flood into a flood storage area, so there was not much Yellow River water entering the Huai River.

In addition to no disaster, the three industries of agriculture, industry and commerce in the southeast are still prosperous!

Especially the copper and iron industries on Jiangxi and Jinghu South Road have seen a blowout growth since the first year of Jingkang due to the southern journey of northern craftsmen!

In addition, Ezhou in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River also flourished rapidly due to the emergence of "Eur-Han-China trade". The trade exchanges on the Yangtze River even surpassed the Xuanhe period when the world was peaceful.

With the prosperity of the three industries of agriculture, industry and commerce, the taxes of the Jinling court have been increasing in the past two years. At the same time, the Jinling court has not spent much, so a large amount of worrying surplus has emerged.

To be honest, he is probably the first in Chinese history, and maybe he is the only emperor who thinks there are too many taxes!

It’s not a good thing to have too much money! Zhao Huan’s understanding of finance is “old party style”. I believe that there is a certain amount of wealth in the world. It’s not in the court, but among the people. It should not be in Jinling, but in Luoyang!

If the Jinling court had too much money, the Luoyang court would definitely lose money! Zhao Kai followed Zhuangzong and didn't know how to be frugal. If he had no money to spend, he would definitely come to grab it.

So while Zhao Huan gave the "reward", he also played the emotional card and didn't dare to think about brotherly feelings, so he had to have some love between uncle and sister-in-law and sister-in-law.

Therefore, Zhao Huan asked his queen Zhu Lian to prepare the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony for Zhao Kai and Zhu Fengying (Zhu Lian's sister), and asked Zhu Lian to sew a set of crown robes (one of the nine tins) for Zhao Kai, and attached a letter to win over his feelings.

Zhu Lian was born in a wealthy family and was good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but he was not good at female workers. It was a bit difficult for her to sew a robe. At the same time, she also had to prepare a Mid-Autumn Festival gift to Zhao Kai and Zhu Fengying. This is another big deal, and time is tight, so she is so busy!
Chapter completed!