Xun Yu did not show his authority, but just talked to them nicely: "I have already told you that I want to build a city here, but now, the people here are a bit difficult to take care of. One acre of land costs a hundred gold."
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Those officials were immediately shocked: "A hundred gold? Did you give it to me?"
Xun Yu nodded: "Baijin, I bought a village of fields, but I can't do this later, because I still want a lot of fields, and it's not cost-effective. I called you here today just to discuss it with you and see what you are doing."
Can we come forward and solve this problem?"
"Then how much do you plan to buy their fields for? Or do you want to drive them away and expropriate them by force?"
Xun Yu smiled: "Of course I want to buy it, but my price is one gold per acre!"
"Ah?" Those officials were immediately dumbfounded.
"Sir, one gold is enough to live for the first half of the year. Even if the people sell all their fields and live frugally all their lives, they are afraid it will not be enough. Without the fields, there will be no way out in the future!"
Xun Yu shook his head: "Who said there are no roads? I am building a new city here, and there will be roads everywhere in the future!"
The officials still looked suspicious.
So Gou or smiled and said: "How many people are needed to build a new city?"
"It's just a small town, but it has to cost tens of thousands of people, right?" Several officials who knew a little about this city immediately said.
Xun Yu nodded: "Since I came here to build a city, do you think I will build a small city? To tell you the truth, our Majesty wants to build a magnificent city here, which is ten times larger than your previous country! How can such a city be built?
In ten years, it will be in a state of construction and expansion! All the people around here can come here to work."
"Working!" All the officials were delighted.
Because it was the custom of Wei Dynasty to pay money for work, and the reward was quite a lot!
But someone immediately said: "Sir, we need strong men to build the city, but what about us old people, women and children? If it is farming, they can also help. Now that the city is being built, one or two strong men in each household may not be enough to support the family!"
Xun Yu waved his hand: "How come you still don't understand? This is a construction project that lasts for decades, and tens of thousands of people participate every year! So many people gather here for food, clothing, housing and transportation, do you want to solve it?"
"Old people and women can't do heavy work, can't cook? Can't they make clothes and sew? As for children, in the future, we will build a school here. All children must go to school, read and read, and be selected to be officials in the future! Come to our great Wei Dynasty
To serve as an official under the system, do you know what that concept is?"
The eyes of those officials immediately became red. Anyone who has anything to do with Wei can make a lot of money, let alone serve as an official within the system of Wei!
"Now, can you handle this matter?"
Xun Yu asked again.
"Yes! It must be possible! If the people here are not willing, we will bring our own people here!"
These officials are the same as in the past in the Wei Dynasty. They are also representatives of wealthy families. Behind each of them, there are nearly 10,000 or more than 10,000 people who are closely related to them. Add in some relationships such as marriages, friends, etc., then each person
It can mobilize about 100,000 people.
Xun Yu still believed in their energy.
The local people were constrained by their horizons and were unwilling to accept the price of one gold, but were more willing to accept the offer of several times the amount of land offered by officials to allow them to move.
In less than half a month, all the indigenous people around Xunyu New City had left.
What confuses these aborigines is that as soon as they left, the big clans and officials rushed to move in with their own clansmen!
"We seem to have missed something?" Although the aborigines are short-sighted, it does not mean that they are complete fools.
How could those wealthy nobles give them multiple times their land and let them move without any benefit?
Soon after, these people were watching in the new city during their spare time.
The wealthy families who moved in did not farm there, but began to build houses and organize the streets.
The houses they built have obvious oriental elements, but their craftsmanship is still subconsciously integrated into the Kushan style.
Every first half of the month, the aborigines can see that the great Wei official here will give a lot of money to the children of the rich families.
After asking for a long time, they reluctantly found out that the weak craftsmen here could earn a thousand copper coins a day and one gold in ten days! They could earn thirty gold in a year!
How about farming? Today's food, such as sweet potatoes grown on a large scale, is so expensive that it can't be sold for much! A hundred acres of land a year can only be sold for a few hundred copper coins.
At this time, these common people began to know why they came out, while those big families were pouring in crazily.
It turns out that the most valuable thing in this new city is not their land, but their labor!
It's a pity that they, the best at working, missed the opportunity to make a lot of money through hard work.
A year later, Xun Yu wrote: "Your Majesty, the construction of the new city is beginning to take shape! The steel, glass, dock, sealing, oil refining and other processes are all ready, and the manpower is fully equipped, and we are ready to start work!"
After Zhao Feng received the report, he was immediately overjoyed.
Half a year later, Gou Yu wrote: "Your Majesty, the large port built by Zhou Yu has been completed. It is larger than the Roman Alexandria! The key is that many cargo ships and warships built by Sun Ce have also been successfully launched.
Prepare to travel between the two places and transport goods in large quantities!"
Half a year later, Xun Yu wrote again: "Your Majesty, the asphalt has been mass-produced. Now it has been mixed with rock asphalt. It is extremely stable. It is being built from Xincheng to Mulu City in the north. However, the road is far away. I am afraid it will take ten years.
Long!"
When Zhao Feng saw this letter, he couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, with today's technology, manpower and material resources, it is really difficult to build roads on a large scale! Thousands of years of accumulation cannot be made up overnight.
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However, thanks to the emergence of the great ships of the Wei Dynasty, shipping was completely revived!
Because sea transportation has been strengthened, there is an endless stream of ships along the way from Xincheng Port to Alexandria Port or ports in Yangzhou.
Just as Xun Yu expected, the new city has indeed become a central link and a central city!
However, Zhou Yu is still a little unsure about Xun Yu:
"I said Wen Ruo, now this new city is more than thirty miles from east to west and fifty miles from north to south. Don't you want to expand it? There is no sign of repairing the city wall yet? What is it for? Without the city wall, it is not safe.
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Xun Yu smiled slightly: "What do you need a city wall for? Your navy is also stationed here, and my 100,000 troops are always stationed around it. Who dares to cause trouble?"
Zhou Yu frowned: "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unlikely event. If someone colludes with the outside world and a large force comes to attack, then we will fall into a passive situation! By then, if there are any key people, we will be there.
He was hijacked in the chaos, and it’s hard to find such a big place! If there is a secret passage or something, something bad may happen!”