When the New Year comes, the entire Tang Dynasty seems to have been pressed on the pause button. All economic, political, and military activities have stopped, and every household is reunited and enjoying the happy time.
Shao Shude stayed in Luoyang and worked "overtime" until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Luoyang is not very popular yet, with a total of about 20,000 people. It is not as lively as Luoyang and Henan counties, but Shao Shude still happily climbed up to the Yuri Tower to overlook the whole city.
"The East Street of Dingdingmen is still lively." Shao Shude praised as he looked at the brightly lit Mingjiao, Yiren, Chunhua, Anye, Xiuwen, and Shangshan Liufang.
In fact, there are 20,000 people in the urban area, which is not bad. This is not war time, and rural people flock to the city to escape the war. Under normal circumstances, there are not too many people living in the urban area.
During the Tianbao period, there were only over one million people in the entire Henan Prefecture. Those who actually lived in Luoyang City, including the population in the palace, supported more than two hundred thousand people.
There is an additional Shendu Garden in Luoyang. Because it is surrounded by a city wall and a palace is built inside, the area is larger than that of Chang'an City. However, if the royal hunting ground is deducted, the living area is not as good as Chang'an. When Chang'an was prosperous, it was surrounded by walls.
Those who live in the city, including the floating population, are only 600,000 at most. If you include those living outside the city, there are only a million people.
Luoyang is not as big as Chang'an. With 200,000 to 300,000 people it is already very dense. No matter how big it is, it cannot technically bear it.
Liufang, the first street on the east side of Dingdingmen, is the area with the most restored mansions.
How many people can live in one square cannot be generalized. If they are all used to build the residences of high-ranking officials, then it is true that not many people can live there. For example, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built a mansion for his son and directly used half a square of Yiren Square, so in theory Yiren Square
The house can only accommodate two families.
But if all houses are built for small households, hundreds of households can live there.
In fact, it is impossible for a whole building to be built for high-ranking officials and nobles, nor for all small households. The actual situation lies somewhere in between.
There are currently about 20 households living in Mingjiafang. Song Le, Zhao Jue and Wang Ban have the largest official families, and there are about 20 other households, mostly junior officers and civil servants. The list was drawn up by the following people, Shao Shude
Rewards are given out one after another. After all, warriors need to be rewarded for their merits, and civil servants with many years of experience need to be familiar with the business and they need to work.
Mingjiafang still has space for about ten households, so we don't plan to build big houses. We will try our best to allocate them to lower-level officers or civil servants.
Other houses also need to be reserved for ordinary people. After all, people in business and industry also need a place to live.
There are about 30,000 households in the entire Luoyang city. Adding the population of the palace city and the imperial city, the permanent population is about 250,000. Adding the floating population coming in and out, the number is up to 300,000 or 400,000.
, no more than 400,000.
Although Mingjiafang has a small population, it has a strong spending power, so it has attracted many merchants and craftsmen. Large families also have many servants and maids, and they are decorated with lights and colors everywhere. It is even more powerful than the densely populated old villages in the east of the city in the Zhang Quanyi era.
Even more vast.
Du Hong stood beside Shao Shude, standing on tiptoes to look at Anyefang.
The largest house in Anyefang was dark and obviously unoccupied. It was the mansion of Shao Siwu, the eldest son of King Xia.
The lights were on at Chen Changshi's residence. He should still be in Bianzhou, but his family and children are all in Luoyang. They are all celebrating the Lantern Festival, and it is really lively inside and outside the courtyard.
It was quite lively inside and outside the Du Mansion. Dozens of members of Du Hong's family moved here. Fortunately, the size of the residence of the Minister of Revenue was quite spacious for dozens of people to live in, so Du Hong had nothing to be dissatisfied with.
There are many houses of small officers of the Tielin Army in Anyefang. They are small houses and small houses. Du Hong has talked with them. The houses are not as big as those in the countryside, but they are very happy to live in. After all, they are residences in Luoyang City.
It is not something that ordinary people can get. They can live in it because King Xia still remembers them, old people who have been through life and death, and they have fought to the death with the thieves in the past.
Zhao Su looked at Lehe Fang, the first street on East Second Street of Dingdingmen.
He had just been rewarded with a mansion, and he was still quite young. He heard that it was formerly the residence of Wu Youning, the king of Jianchang County in Tongfengge Luantai Pingzhang.
With his status, he shouldn't be able to get such a mansion. However, the negotiation with King Xia went smoothly and he received a reward, which is something that others cannot envy.
Longjian Town is facing tremendous pressure from Li Maozhen. At present, Chengdu has sent people to recruit people to surrender. They have talked back and forth several times, but they can't reach an agreement.
Li Maozhen definitely didn't want the Dragon Sword, Langmao and Five States to be out of his control, so he would want to seize them quickly. Even if he surrendered to Li Maozhen, he would definitely not be able to keep his territory.
And what about King Xia’s side? They are no different from Li Maozhen, and they also want the territory of the Five Prefectures of Longjian.
His father's current attitude is not to vote for anyone, but to guard his own territory and pass it on to future generations as a legacy forever. Zhao Su understands and agrees with his father's idea - his eldest brother Zhao Ye will live on the grassland, and Longjian Town will be restored in the future.
Isn’t it Zhao Su’s?
However, if the battle against Li Maozhen is unfavorable, then you must choose one to surrender to.
In fact, there is no need to choose, I will definitely vote for King Xia.
In other words, the Zhao family's first choice is to establish a separate kingdom on their own. If they can't separate the kingdom and cannot resist Li Maozhen, they will surrender to the king of Xia.
The King of Xia was a shrewd man, and he must have seen through their little thoughts. In fact, as long as he is a warrior, he can guess their thoughts. If you don't stand on your own and separatist rule until the end of the mountain, and you surrender, what is that other than a beast?
The King of Xia was also a generous man. He did not make things difficult for the Zhao family. He just asked them to prepare troops, horses, equipment, money and food to resist Li Maozhen. If the troops were not strong enough, they could go to Helong and Lingxia to recruit troops.
Zhao Su was overjoyed when he heard this. The cost of going south to Longjian was obtained by recruiting soldiers in Hengshan. At this time, these hard-working soldiers are needed to help.
Helong has been in peace for many years. Taking Hexi Town as an example, there are hundreds of thousands of people. Except for large-scale grazing, they cannot support themselves by farming because there is not so much water.
One hundred thousand Tubo people were so poor that they were so poor; I heard that the population in the north of Guan Dynasty was densely populated. There were one hundred thousand people in Xiazhou alone, which was double the number during the Tianbao period. I am afraid that the water of Wuding River would be used up to irrigate the farmland. The king of Xia must also
I really want to use up all this extra manpower.
In return, Zhao Su expressed his humility on behalf of Longjian Town and promised that once King Xia's army arrives, he will surrender the town. As for whether the promise will be fulfilled at that time, we have to wait and see. Anyway, everyone was talking happily and the atmosphere was harmonious.
On the other hand, Shannan West Road is not so respectful, and Zhuge Chang did not come today.
Zhao Su searched around silently again, and indeed he did not see Zhuge Chang, so the negotiation must have broken down. In fact, he also understood that if he were in Xingyuan Mansion, he would not surrender unless there was really no hope of separatist rule and self-reliance.
"Your Highness, in the past, Empress Wu encouraged the Jingzhao Prefecture and Chinese people to move to Luoyang and be exempted from rent and tax for three years in order to realize their household registration in the divine capital. Your Highness may use this strategy to enrich Luoyang as soon as possible." Du Hong said: "In this way, then
It will be even more spectacular next year.”
"There are not many people in Henan Prefecture. There are more than 116,000 households and more than 513,000 people, which is nearly half of Tianbao." Shao Shude said: "The small Yiluo Basin cannot support too many people. Even if
There are more than a million people alive, and each household has only ten acres of thin farmland, so what’s the use? In the end, we have to rely on the whole world to support us.”
Duhononuo was speechless and did not dare to say any more.
"Luoyang, don't rush, take your time." Shao Shude said: "Besides, I still have the family of the sergeant who needs to be resettled. There is no need to encourage immigrants from Guanzhong, Luoyang's population will increase on its own, faster than you and I can imagine. In ten years,
Twenty years from now, you may have to worry about too many people in Luoyang."
Du Hong laughed twice.
"However, Tian Shefu does not need it, but the rich and powerful can move some of it over." Shao Shude said.
After saying that, he glanced at Zhao Lu, who was standing in the corner, seemingly unintentionally.
As the eldest son of Zhao Kuan, the nephew of Zhao Kui, and the unofficial successor of Chen Xu Zhen, Zhao Lu was rewarded with a Luoyang mansion early on, namely Li Shizhai, the former minister of the Ministry of Industry, located in Lehefang.
But he has not moved here yet, and his family has not come over either. Even the mansion is empty with no furniture.
Zhao Lu seemed to feel Shao Shude's gaze, and smiled reluctantly: "What your Highness said is true, Luoyang is very beautiful and beautiful. After the Spring Festival, I will send people to decorate the new house, and then bring the family from Xuzhou."
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Shao Shude nodded with a smile and said: "Tomorrow I will send someone some gold and silverware. The new house can't be too shabby."
There are basically no big problems regarding the reduction of vassal status in Xuzhou, but judging from the process, the Zhao family's resistance is very strong.
They didn't expect that not long after they sent Chenzhou out, even Xuzhou couldn't be saved. No one was calm about this matter.
However, they finally had some brains. After seeing the Huai army's defeat in the Qizhou battlefield and the battlefield gradually moving eastward, their hope of external contact with Yang Xingmi was shattered, so they did not dare to resist.
Shao Shude took the opportunity to point out Zhao Kuangning's move to Jingnan, and the Xuzhou Zhao family relented, albeit reluctantly.
Martial arts warriors, martial arts warriors, Shao Shude has finally convinced these people. The thoughts in their minds are so imprinted that they have to use urine to wake them up.
The originally large number of vassal vassal towns has been managed with great efforts this year, and the results are quite great.
Hezhong Town took advantage of the rebellion and war to seize the food from the tiger's mouth and snatched it directly. However, the efforts in the previous years cannot be ignored. After all, the Xia army is still very intimidating there. There is a hidden fear in Hezhong, otherwise it would not be so
Simple.
Chen Xuzhen managed to persuade him through naked threats, including but not limited to mobilizing an army for encirclement and suppression.
The move of the Zhao family in Xiangyang was a combination of coercion and inducement, but years of sausage-slicing, sand mixing, and pressure from the external environment also played a key role.
Eyue Town was taken by my father-in-law, who stabbed Du Hong in the back and captured it neatly.
The dragon sword holds the mountain high and the emperor is far away. If it were not for the real threat of Li Maozhen, Shao Shude is sure that Zhao Jian and Zhao Su and his son would definitely resist the reduction of the vassal. Now they are still wavering, and the hope of luck has not been completely eliminated. They will not be beaten by Li Maozhen.
You won't be willing to lose all your disappointment after just one meal.
Zhuge Zhongfang was clearly resisting the reduction of the vassal state and was unwilling to hand over power. However, he spoke very beautifully. He sent his son to Luoyang and offered goods to Luoyang, but he wanted to hand over the power of governance and military power, but he did not do anything.
Ken.
Tang Dengsui was handed over by his father-in-law on his own initiative. In exchange, Ezhou was basically handed over to the Zhe family, and officials from top to bottom made a lot of arrangements.
Huaixi Town is more difficult, so Shao Shude placed it at the end.
He planned to find time to have a good talk with Zhe Silun, but the prerequisite was to find out his brother-in-law's thoughts first. Once some words were spoken openly, there would be no room for both sides to retreat. Once the face was torn, there was no hope of returning to the same state as before.
So easy. This matter requires an opportunity and sufficient exchange of interests. To Zhejia, he does not intend to use strong methods for the time being.
But this matter cannot be delayed for too long. All issues left over from history must be resolved before he ascends the throne and cannot be left unfinished.
