Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 248 Rebuilding Chang'an
"It's reasonable. If the former Sui Dynasty understood this truth, it would be a different sight to pay the people who built the canal and the palace! This is why you agree and support the construction of the palace." Li Shimin sighed.

"That's true. The money in the imperial father's internal treasury is useless. If it is used to build palaces, the people of the world will benefit a lot from it. Most of this money will return to the national treasury, but it has changed to a different place. It is equivalent to getting a palace for nothing, and the people have no complaints, they will only praise you!" Feng Daiwen explained with a smile.

"In this way, I should be happy that I lost all the silver in my internal treasury!" Li Shimin said with a half-smile.

"That's right, from the internal treasury to the national treasury, it's just a change of place, but the left hand is the right hand." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"Well, even if you are right, if the transformation of Chang'an is completed, my internal treasury will still be empty, and I will settle accounts with you when there is no income, hum!" Li Shimin said with a cold snort.

This!This is simply unreasonable!
Well, as a strong emperor, he doesn't make much sense, let alone with his son-in-law.

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A huge shed has just been built in the eastern and western cities, and many large and small architectural models are displayed inside, and the colorful renderings drawn by Yan Liben brothers are pasted on the outside.

Every day, a large number of people, businessmen, and even nobles came to watch. Feng Daiwen specially trained more than a dozen small officials to explain to the people.

But Li Shimin knew that Feng Daiwen was busy with affairs, so he specially transferred nearly a hundred low-level officials from various departments, and the small officials obeyed the arrangements at any time.

The yamen of the Ministry of Industry has become a temporary sales department. Every day, a large number of businessmen come to inquire about the price. Those who have attended the banquet and know the details directly enter the Ministry of Industry with boxes of copper coins in a carriage, and directly ask how big the store is. Get an estimate of how much it will cost.

There are also many Hu merchants who come to visit, and the same rich and powerful people bring gold and silver and ask to buy shops. Feng Daiwen treats everyone equally and does not refuse anyone. He just plans the same industry so that the same industry will not be distributed unevenly. You have to make money.

A single company will make a lot of money, but it may be more expensive. If there are two or three companies, it will form a healthy competition, but if there are more than three companies gathered together, then some people will have poor business.

Of course, Feng Daiwen can completely ignore these things, and only needs to earn the first sum of money, but this is not good for future development, and it is easy to lose trust, so everyone who comes to buy will tell them how many similar stores are in front of them. , where the location is, it is up to them to decide whether to continue to buy.

In just a few days, nearly [-] shops in the east and west cities were sold out, and they had to expand the scale according to the planned plan. According to the new plan, the two cities will become the two major commercial centers of Chang'an in the future, five times the size of the original place .

Of course, this is also related to the wider streets and larger shops. The newly built market not only has shops, but also warehouses. The warehouses are also very well built, all of which are made of bricks and stones. Not only fire and theft, but also insect and moisture protection are also taken into consideration. .

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In two years, Li Shimin's internal treasury had an income of 500 million guan. This time, all of it was used to build the palace, and the treasury allocated another 200 million guan to carry out the first phase of Chang'an City, which can be said to be a huge project.

Because there are still many materials that belong to the imperial court, and what is paid is only the cost, especially the most used wall bricks, tiles, and cement, most of which belong to the imperial court or the royal family.

In the past two years, many captives have gathered in Guanzhong. According to the current situation of Datang, they will not be allowed to rest for free. Although they are using labor reasonably, they are not allowed to rest.

Many times when there is no other business, the government will arrange some road repairs, so now the entire Guannei Road has the best traffic. There are many roads distributed from Chang'an to the surrounding areas. There are also transplanted evergreen trees. If you just look at the road, you will think you have returned to the afterlife.

A steady stream of materials and materials gathered in Chang'an City from all over the world, and more people fired bricks and tiles and quarried stones in kilns near Chang'an.

Ten square cities near the eastern and western cities have been completely emptied out. Now a large number of people are digging foundations. The excavated soil will be used to build street isolation, street gardens, etc. Feng Daiwen is determined to build a modern city. Be spacious and beautiful.

There are so many people and so much power. Every day, a lot of building materials are transported into the city and turned into foundations and houses. As time goes by, more and more bricks and tiles are fired, faster and faster.

The houses on both sides of the road leading from the east and west cities to the outside of the city have also begun to be demolished. If the supply of materials can keep up, Feng Daiwen plans to continue to expand the scale. If there are enough people, what is lacking is materials.

Many people have nothing to be busy in winter, and the most important thing in Chang'an City is manpower, but the first recruits are people with special skills, and there are only a few small workers, so many people are paying attention to the progress, hoping to continue to expand and recruit more Multiple hands.

After all, working not only provides free food, but also considerable wages. Working for a few months is equivalent to a year's income from farming.

The design of the Longshouyuan palace group has been completed, but the selection of materials for the palace is strict, and the demand is huge. Therefore, at present, it is only digging the foundation, building roads, and hoarding materials. The official start of construction will be at least in the next year.

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With the arrival of the first batch of wood from Lingnan, Feng Daiwen's furniture factory officially started. He has one of the best carpenters at the moment - a native of Taijia Village.

The identities of the people in Taijia Village are different now. A few people are in the Ministry of Industry, and they are small officials and craftsmen in the craftsman workshop; Some of the old and the young don’t want to leave, so they live in Lingnan, and the rest settle in the Wannian County Villa in Chang’an.

This time Feng Daiwen recruited more than a dozen people with good skills to come to help, and the cheeky captain Wei Chi Gong family borrowed [-]% of the shares from dozens of people who knew carpentry. Giving it to Yuchi Baolin was regarded as an income in Feng's family.

Yuchigong and his wife were very satisfied with this point, even with Yuchigong present, they didn't show an ugly face to Feng Daiwen, but it was not a very good thing for him.

Because Yu Chigong is now putting on the attitude of an elder in an aboveboard manner, no matter whether he is in front of others or behind, even if Feng Daiwen is upset, there is nothing he can do about it, after all this is a fact.

November [-] is an auspicious day for getting married.

(End of this chapter)