In the early morning, when the first ray of sunshine shone on the Yongding Gate, Dou Yaer stretched out and walked outside to fetch water with a bucket.
Now he has grown into a young boy of eleven or twelve years old. The sickly appearance of a big head and a thin body that was caused by wandering has gradually disappeared. When he followed Fei Jin to the capital and lived in Fei Hong's house, Fei Hong's wife came to
He died of an illness a few years ago and has not remarried since. He spent all his time writing books and couldn't spare the time to take care of him. After discussing with him, he was adopted by a friend named Wan who made carriages and horses.
They are in business. The couple has a good relationship. They are thirty years old and have no children. They treat Douyaer as if they were his own. Douyaer himself is also up to date. Although his education is average, he can help the family take care of the business at a young age and is very filial.
The adoptive parents now have a new name - Wan Ping.
Although the place where Wanjia lives is not in Beijing, it is not far from Yongding Gate. It can be reached in a quarter of an hour across the moat. Everyone calls this place "Guanxiang".
Guanzhe means city gate, Xiangzhe means side. Taken together, it refers to the street outside the city gate and the nearby land. Many businessmen think that these places are treasure-producing places, because they are transportation hubs, and there is a lot of traffic every day.
In addition, it is a must-go place for high-ranking officials, wealthy people and royals in the city to visit outside the city. As time goes by, more and more people live here.
Wan Ping was humming a tune while fetching water and washing his carriage. At this time, two tall and strong men came over. When Wan Ping saw them, he called out affectionately: "Brother Leopard, second cousin."
The two of them glanced at him and softly "hummed".
Wan Ping didn't take it seriously and just went back to clean the car. These two were distant relatives of the Wan family, and the man named Bao Zi was actually only seventeen this year. The original intention of the family was to adopt Bao Zi to the Wan family couple.
, but the Wan family and his wife felt that the child was too old and did not learn well from the usual cockfighting lackeys, so they never agreed. After Wan Ping came, the leopard started to hold a grudge, and Xunri didn't feel well after meeting him.
With his face, he is now living with his second cousin by collecting rent.
"Damn it, have you heard? It seems that the imperial court is going to build an outer city. Where will we live when the city expands?" The second cousin cursed, and while cursing, he took off his pants and swaggered under the wall.
He got up to urinate, "Huh, it's finally solved. I don't know what those officials are crazy about recently. They don't sit in the yamen, but patrol the streets all day to catch those who urinate. Isn't this sick?"
"Yes, but the smell in the city has been really good recently. I think the dung pickers have been making crazy money recently. They get two wages a day. If this continues, they will soon be able to buy a house." Leopard said with some envy.
The second cousin grabbed the waistband of his trousers and gave him a kick, "I envy you, go and pick them out too, damn serfs. It was the female Taoist priest named Xian who caused us this! Now she wants to expropriate the land, but she probably doesn't have good intentions!"
Although Xian Ruxing's series of initiatives in the past two years have provided many jobs, no matter where they are, there are those who are doing well and those who are not. Because of the opening of the factory, many people chose to move in with their families.
As a result, a large number of houses near the capital were vacant, so the rent dropped slightly. I thought that my second cousin, who had two or three properties and relied on rent collection, would definitely be affected, so I felt very hatred for Xian Ruxing.
Leopard said with some hesitation: "If this succeeds, wouldn't we be from the capital? Then uncle, your house will not rise so much..."
"You're getting better!" the second cousin yelled angrily: "How many people have you seen who took advantage of officials? What about city people? When the time comes, everyone will be city people!"
"Then, what should we do?"
The second cousin's face was uncertain. He hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth and said: "No, I have to talk to several companies and join forces. No matter what, we can't let them succeed in expropriating land!" After that, he quickly left.
In the corner where they didn't notice, Wanping, who had been eavesdropping with his ears pricked up, looked at the backs of the two people, hesitated for a moment and followed them.
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When he heard the news that someone wanted to cause trouble, Xian Ruxing was not too surprised. From ancient times to the present, demolition has not been an easy task. After writing down the names of the leading people, Xian Ruxing planned to talk to them one by one, although he could not let them go.
Everyone is satisfied, but she is confident that she can achieve the wishes of most people.
In fact, Xian Ruxing was a little surprised when he heard Yang Yiqing mentioned the news of building an outer city, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that this was indeed a solution.
First of all, it is cheaper to expand the outer city. Today, there are many Tucheng ruins left from the Yuan Dynasty outside Beijing. If these are fully utilized, the court can save a lot of expenses.
Secondly, the current layout of the capital is no longer suitable for reality. Zhu Di moved the capital here not only for some well-known reasons, but also from the perspective of defense against Mongolia. Therefore, the main consideration in city construction at that time was to consolidate imperial power and military needs, but
After more than a hundred years of development, Beijing, as the capital of a country, needs to transform into a civil society. Today’s inner and outer cities have a combined population of one million, which is really crowded. The city is so dirty, but it is actually difficult to manage.
It also depends on the difficulty.
Finally, there is national defense. For Mongolia in the north, the city of Beijing does not have many dangers to defend. It can easily be taken down by someone in one go. Although the city can be closed at that time, there are still so many people in the outer city that cannot be ignored.
Therefore, this city must be built, but before that, Xian Ruxing still has to put things in order.
After discussing with Yang Yiqing, she submitted a letter to the court through the other party's mouth, requesting that free public toilets be built in various streets in the capital and maintained by the government at the expense of the government. In addition, a group of people should be hired to clean up feces and sludge on the streets in a timely manner to prohibit people from casually
Dispose of garbage and send someone to supervise it.
Of course, many people disagreed at first. After all, this set up would cost a lot of money.
But Yang Yiqing made a calculation on the spot. If he didn't do this, the cost of cleaning the ditch every day would be much more than this, not to mention the trouble of dirt easily making people sick.
In this way, the voice of doubt will be much smaller. After all, this is just a small matter. Everyone will benefit from a cleaner city.
Jiajing agreed, so within a few weeks, there were more toilets in the city. Of course, even such people's habits are difficult to change, but now the Jin Yiwei are catching people everywhere in the city, and no one dares to mess with these imperial eagle dogs.
Be obedient and obedient.
As time passed, the people also found that the surrounding environment was a little better, and began to gradually maintain it voluntarily.
With this as a foundation, it will be much easier to propose the expansion of Beijing later.
It was not convenient for Xian Ruxing to show up, so he only wrote a plan. The main speaker was still Yang Yiqing. His central idea was only one: repairing the outer city would not only cost the court money, but also make money if it was not done well!
According to Xian Ruxing's design, the total length of the outer city is seventy miles, with eighteen miles each in the north and south, seventeen miles each in the east and west, eleven city gates, and one hundred and seventy-six enemy towers. After construction, the entire capital city will be
"Hui" shape. The city walls and roads are all made of cement. After the repairs are completed, the defense level of Beijing city will be improved by several levels, not to mention being impregnable.
As for the money needed, the imperial court could organize the sale of shop space to raise funds from the public. Xian Ruxing was choosy and wrote out the previous plan again. After hearing this, the ministers looked at each other. In this way, there really was nothing to say.
However, as a result, new problems emerged.
Now any fool can see that whether it is presiding over the construction of a city or attracting investment, it is a fat and oily job. If you can get involved, you will definitely be full. So everyone refused to give in to each other and directly went to court.
A dispute broke out in the hall.
Zhu Houcong looked at all this indifferently, and sneered in his heart. The civil and military ministers, the pillars of the country, were just as ugly as dogs. The dogs fighting for meat and bones might look better than them. The young man even considered choosing two at random first.
They were useless, and after seeing them make mistakes, they would clean them up, so that the dogs would not dare to bark anymore. However, when I thought about this matter, it was Xian Ruxing who pushed for it, and I don’t know how much effort it took the female Taoist priest to finally finalize, and her heart suddenly softened.
Usually if something like this happens, she will definitely be the first to discuss it with me.
Zhu Houcong felt sour in his heart. He turned around and looked at the officials below rolling up their arms and sleeves, feeling even more disgusted.
"Wang Qiong will lead the Household Department to solve the problem of raising money, and the city repair will be handed over to the Ministry of Industry. Since it was proposed by Mr. Yang Ge and Zhenren Xian, you two will be responsible for coordinating the overall situation and report anything to me at any time." There is no room for explanation.
After giving the order, Jiajing left the court with a gloomy face.
As for Xian Ruxing, she was a little stunned after receiving the imperial edict. She originally thought that Zhu Houcong would be awkward for a while if she rejected him before, so she made herself invisible in this matter. Unexpectedly, he seemed to be fine.
Normally, people still treat her according to their previous attitude.
In this case, wouldn’t it be you who is being petty?
Xian Ruxing was a little embarrassed and thought about whether to go talk to the other party, but then he was overwhelmed by the heavy work.
Thanks to Fang Ping, she can now accurately know which family has the biggest opinions on the demolition. Xian Ruxing did not use any coercive means in this regard, but tried his best to satisfy the other party's wishes. Fortunately, the conditions given this time
It was indeed generous. After confirming that it was correct, those people nodded. In the end, only the second cousin of the Wan family was left stubborn. Xian Ruxing's conditions were set to the highest level, but the other party was still greedy. So he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him and directly asked Jin Yiwei to help him close the door.
After two days, I finally became honest.
Nanguanxiang, where the Wan family lives, is the most prosperous place. Apart from that, there are not many people from other families. After communicating one by one, they were finally solved.
At this point, the long-prepared major expansion of the capital city can finally start.:,,.