Yelu Qiyan quickly leaned forward and said: "Return to your highness, this is not produced nearby. It was transported from Yanshan Prefecture and has been stored in Datong Prefecture for more than 20 years. It is the inventory of the Liao Kingdom. A few years before the fall of the Liao Kingdom, it was
We began to transport supplies to Datong Prefecture. These were only a small part of the supplies shipped that year.
At that time, there were more than two million catties of coarse silver, three hundred thousand taels of gold, more than one million pieces of silk and satin, and a large number of treasures. Now, in addition to copper, iron, and cloth, there are also some coarse silver and gold, and almost everything else.
They were all transported away by the golden soldiers."
"Why didn't the Jin soldiers transport away the copper and iron?" Chen Qingxiao asked.
"The villain asked Wanyan and Lisa. He said that the Kingdom of Jin does not need to make armor and weapons, and it does not have such a large population that cannot be consumed. It is the same thing to put them in Yanshan Mansion and Datong Mansion."
"I previously agreed to the return of the Mengwu merchants. Do you think this decision is correct for Yelu to join the army?"
"Of course it is correct. Your Highness is correcting the Jurchens' perverse move!"
"Could there really be Mongol spies?"
Yeluqiyan sighed and said: "The excuse for Wanyanhelisa to drive away the Mongol people was to guard against spies from the other side, but the actual purpose was to seize their wealth. Song Ying, Wanyanhelisa's aide, even planned the sale of land and houses.
The plan has not yet been implemented. As for whether there are any Mongol spies, I don’t know, but I don’t think we can drive away the entire Mongol people just because they are afraid of the spies. This is a complete sign of incompetence.”
Yeluqiyan's last few words touched Chen Qing's heart. To avoid spies, he drove out the entire tribe. This approach was not only incompetent, but also stupid. What if the Mongol bribed the Khitan people to serve as spies? Just like
Just like using Commodus the Sogdian to collect intelligence, the correct approach should be to use internal guards to detect potential spies.
Chen Qing nodded and said: "I plan to appoint Zhe Yanzhi as the envoy of Yunzhong, in charge of military and government affairs, but I still need a general judge to assist him. From now on, I will officially appoint you as the general judge of Datong Mansion.
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Yelv Qiyan was excited and quickly stood up to salute, "I am willing to serve His Highness in my humble position!"
Chen Qing smiled and nodded, "If the military relaxes martial law tomorrow, does Yelu Tongpan think it's appropriate?"
Yelu Qiyan knew that he was already the general magistrate of Taiyuan Prefecture. He suppressed his inner excitement and said quickly: "I think it will be no problem even if the martial law is relaxed now. The key is to provide gruel first and ensure that the people at the bottom have food to eat."
, many people here do odd jobs for shops, and they get paid every day. If they don’t work, they don’t have food to eat. Some people in low-level jobs may have run out of food.”
Chen Qing and Zhang Xiao looked at each other, and Chen Qing asked: "There is no problem with porridge relief, but I don't quite understand. Is the money earned in a day just enough to eat?"
Yelv Qiyan sighed and said: "The price of grain in Datong Prefecture is one hundred and fifty cents per dou, salt is five hundred cents per catty, and even the cheapest coarse cloth costs several hundred cents per piece. Ordinary people earn fifty cents a day.
A part-time worker only has thirty cash a day and can only buy two pounds of wheat. Isn’t that just enough to make ends meet?”
After hearing these words, Chen Qing knew that he was stable in Datong Mansion. Once their Changping House was launched, all the people would kneel down.
Chen Qing then said to Zhang Xiao: "Zhe Yanzhi is still in Fuzhou. The military advisor of Datong Prefecture will temporarily serve as the prefect to stabilize Taiyuan Prefecture and the entire Hebei Road."
Zhang Xiao nodded, "Don't worry, Your Highness! I'll take care of my humble duties."
In the afternoon of the same day, the Song Army lifted the martial law in Datong City. At the same time, they set up tents in ten places in the city to provide porridge, which attracted a large number of people from the lower classes to queue up to receive porridge. There were gradually more people on the street, and shops were opened one after another.
The name was changed into a sign with Chinese characters. Chen Qing issued a pardon order and announced it on a list. All Jin officials in Taiyuan Prefecture would be pardoned. Non-Jurchen officials could continue to be appointed, and it would be decided by the state government.
Chen Qing also ordered a ban on the official use of Jurchen script, requiring all Chinese characters to be used, and abolished all taxes in the Jin Kingdom, exempting all states and counties along Hebei Road from taxes for three years. At the same time, he asked each county to launch Changping stores to sell low-priced goods to the people.
Living supplies, mainly grain, salt, sugar and briquettes, are the same as in other counties. Of course, this will take a little time and cannot be released immediately.
Two days later, tens of thousands of expelled Mongol and Kle merchants returned to Datong City and their homes. Although they could not get back the money they had robbed, their shops and houses were still there. The Song Army again
The prairie merchants were extremely grateful for the promise to return goods and grain to them. To express their gratitude, they changed all their store names to Chinese.
Everything in Datong Prefecture is running very smoothly, even smoother than the Hedong states. The reason is that everyone here is oppressed by the Jurchens, from common people to officials. Ordinary officials receive meager salaries. They also have to support their families, but
Bearing the same heavy prices as ordinary people.
All the wealth was plundered by the Jin Kingdom and used to support the 20,000 Jurchen troops stationed in Datong Prefecture. There was really no extra wealth for officials to line their pockets.
So when the Song army captured Datong Prefecture and liberated officials and people at the same time, the officials received a salary that was twice as high as before and enjoyed prices countless times lower than before. How could they not work hard?
The common people directly received the greatest benefits. Wheat dropped from 150 fen per dou to 30 fen per dou, salt dropped from 500 fen per jin to 80 fen per catty, and coarse cloth dropped from 300 fen per bolt.
The price dropped to a hundred cents per horse.
After the news was officially announced, the entire city of Datong was in an uproar. People rushed to the streets to beat gongs and drums, and cheers soared into the sky. They sang and danced to celebrate this moment that they would never forget.
But while the whole city of Datong was celebrating, Chen Qing led 20,000 cavalrymen to leave Datong and go south. After picking up Yu Ying in Shanyang County, he returned to Jingzhao and ended his inspection of the Hebei Road.
However, this battle in the northeastern part of the river still left some regrets. The weather took special care of the Jurchen army. The expected blizzard did not come, and there was only a light snowfall. Wanyan Helisa's defeated army was not trapped by the heavy snow and succeeded.
Withdrew back to Yanshan Mansion.
It was not until a month later that a blizzard swept from the grassland and engulfed the entire north.
In the blink of an eye, it is mid-December, and it is already freezing cold in the north, a world covered with snow.
At this time, the expansion of Jingzhao City, which took two full years, was finally completed, pushing the entire city wall five miles south, and the city wall perimeter reached an unprecedented fifty-eight miles, making it the largest city in the world, even surpassing the old capital of the Song Dynasty.
Bianliang.
That morning, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Department held a grand completion ceremony to celebrate the completion of the new city wall.
In front of the new city wall, there were loud gongs and drums, flying flags, lion dances, and flying dragon dances. The completion ceremony was hosted by Zhou Kuan, and Chen Qing unveiled the red cloth on the city building inscription, announcing the official completion of the new city wall.
Immediately afterwards, five thousand soldiers went to the city to practice spear formations and crossbow formations, while tens of thousands of people watched from the city walls.
On top of Dongcheng, Jiang Yanxian smiled and said to Chen Qing: "Did Your Highness read the memorial that I proposed before I humbled myself to rebuild a new city on the basis of Han Chang'an City?"
Chen Qing said calmly: "I have seen it, but I remember there is more than one plan!"
Jiang Yan nodded first, "Yes! It also includes moving the north city wall another three miles to the north, to the location of the former city wall of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty."
"What's the reason for expanding three miles further north?"
"The reason! Externally it can be explained as the lack of military camps, the need to station troops, and the need to build a new warehouse city. But in fact, the humble consideration is to make preliminary preparations for the future construction of the palace, and at least the land must be reserved."
Jiang Yanxian said angrily: "That stingy man, let him spend a penny without doing anything and crying about poverty all day long. I know that a lot of money and food will be spent in the Central Plains and Hebei in the future, so I have given up the plan to build a new city in the east. Now I
There are only two plans proposed, either to build a new city in Han Chang'an City or to expand the city wall to the north. In fact, building a new city in Han Chang'an City is also to prepare for the construction of palaces."
"Has Counselor Jiang calculated how much the two projects will cost?"
"I have roughly calculated that it will take about 400,000 guan to build the new city. It will take ten years to build the city, and the average is 40,000 guan per year. In fact, it is not much."
"What about the northward expansion of the city wall?" Chen Qing asked again.
"It would cost about 80,000 guan to expand the city wall by three miles to the north."
Chen Qing frowned slightly, "But we only spent 50,000 yuan to expand the city wall to the south by five miles."
Jiang Yanxian explained: "Your Highness, don't forget that the south city wall utilizes a large number of original city bricks, while the north city wall is not demolished, but a new city wall is built three miles away, which requires a large amount of bricks and a large amount of farmland.
It’s a lot more, so it will definitely cost more money than the south city wall.”
Chen Qing thought for a long time and said: "I agree in principle with the second plan, which is to build a second north city wall three miles away. Building the Han Chang'an New City will cost too much money. We will talk about it in the future. This time I got 200,000 jins of crude silver from Datong.
And 30,000 taels of gold, the money to build the new city wall will come from here. I will talk to Zhao Kai. You can submit another memorial. It should still be in the name of building a new military camp and warehouse. Not a word about the palace plan can be mentioned.
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Jiang Yanxian was overjoyed and said quickly: "I understand my position, I will start writing the memorial tomorrow."
At this time, the drill on the city wall ended, and there were cheers and cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami from all around, and Chen Qing also smiled and applauded.
He then said calmly to Jiang Yanxian: "Don't worry about the memorial. Wait until I convince Zhao Kai before we start."