Cai Jing bowed respectfully and was about to start talking.
Zhao Xu suddenly remembered something, raised his hand and said: "Please wait a moment..."
Cai Jing stood respectfully.
Zhao Xu smiled at Lu Xizhe, who had been sitting there motionless: "Lu Storytelling..."
Lu Xizhe was having a good time eating melon, but when he was suddenly called upon, he was startled and stood up immediately: "Your Majesty..."
"Liang Lang is not able to accompany you today, please take charge of the minutes of today's meeting!"
"First of all, I will record everything that I and all my dear friends said just now..."
Lu Xizhe was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed: "No!"
He is about to retire and prepare to serve as record keeper.
However, Zhao Xu stopped him: "Wait a moment, I will discuss matters with you today and have a few principles. Please remember them!"
Lu Xizhe raised his head.
Zhao Xu said to him: "First, all words and deeds should be recorded as they are, and cannot be modified, let alone polished!"
The civil servants of the Song Dynasty were not good at this.
I like the Spring and Autumn style of writing, which is taboo for the venerable.
Therefore, the records of the living room master and the living room master were deliberately beautified and polished.
It made it seem as if the emperor was arguing with his ministers about classical Chinese every day.
But if you think about it carefully, you will know that classical Chinese requires reading and understanding.
When scholar-bureaucrats write their own articles, they still need to think over and polish them again and again.
How could the emperor and his ministers quote each other's scriptures every day?
At the same time, this recording method can easily give future generations unlimited room for manipulation.
In Zhao Xu's previous life, his father's records were revised twice.
There are two completely different versions, recording two completely different Shenzong dynasties.
In modern times, Zhao Xu even knew that there was a third version.
After crossing south, Wan Yangou threw all the blame onto Wang Anshi and Zhang Dun.
I think it was them who caused the Song Dynasty to perish!
In other words, it is said in secret that it was Zhao Xu and his father who caused the demise of the Song Dynasty!
Pooh!
Zhao Ji's family can't get out of the strange pit by themselves!
"Second, whatever the emperor said today, whether right or wrong, must be recorded completely!"
"Third, after the discussion is over, I will lead someone to extract an excerpt of the minutes of the proceedings and send them to the emperor. I will make a copy and send it to all the participating ministers, and everyone will sign it!"
This is to use this meeting to build a political group around him.
Lu Xizhe bowed respectfully: "I obey your decree!"
So, he stepped back and pushed behind the screen on one side of the hall.
Feng Jing has already brought some people with him and prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone for him here.
Lu Xizhe sat down, picked up his pen and started writing.
He has a good memory and writes quickly!
In just a quarter of an hour, he had already recorded the conversation he heard while eating melon on paper based on his memory.
Then he stood up from the screen.
Holding the recorded discussion and conversation in his hand, he presented it to the king.
Zhao Xu shook his head: "I won't watch anymore..."
"My dear friends, please take a look..."
"If there is no objection, let Kaifeng Mansion start the introduction..."
"promise!"
As a result, relevant records were sent to the civil servants.
Starting from Deng Runfu, circulate them one by one.
In the end, I even asked my companions and brothers Zhong Jianzhong to read it again.
This flattered these people.
Because this means that the officials allow them to participate and sign the pledge.
This is equivalent to elevating their status in the imperial court to the same level as the banquet officials.
This is too exaggerated!
You must know that each of the officials of the banquet has a big background.
Even Cheng Yi, who had the lowest official salary, was also a Beijing official, and Cheng Yi was a contemporary great Confucian and had his own aura.
where are they?
Before today, who knew who they were?
As a result, they were short of breath and excited, so much so that some people didn't even dare to look at it, and passed it directly to the next person.
After everyone had circulated it, Zhao Xu asked Lu Xizhe to put the text away, and then asked him to go back and serve as the recorder.
In order to prevent Lu Xizhe from not being able to record it.
Zhao Xu also sent Zhang Chi to help - Zhang Chi wrote very quickly.
After all preparations were completed, Zhao Xu said to Cai Jing: "Kaifeng Mansion, it's time to start!"
Cai Jing bowed and bowed, and then said: "Your Majesty... Bianjing City has been established as a capital like the sky since our ancestors. We wanted to emulate the beauty of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, we followed the system of the ancestors and divided the chessboard in the borders of the capital.
The streets and alleys are all lined with ropes and ink, which makes the streets have mediocrity and mediocrity has doors. If traitors and traitors are caught, there will be no room for them! And the imperial government, official temples, and residential areas are also incompatible with each other..."
All the civil servants listened with fascination.
In the cities of the Han and Tang dynasties, the so-called "hundreds of houses are like chess boards, and twelve streets are like vegetable fields" developed due to the separation of government and civilians, and the isolation of commercial areas and residential areas. This is just like the rule of the Three Generations and the well-field system.
It belongs to the ideal country in the minds of literati and officials.
At the same time, they believed that it was a good medicine to solve the chronic problems of poor public security and endless theft and murder in the cities of the Song Dynasty.
But...
Scholars and officials throughout the ages have worked diligently, but they have always been unable to recover.
Just like them, they will never be able to return to ancient society and see the well-field system.
Zhao Xu smiled and asked: "Then why can't the ancestral system be implemented?"
Cai Jing lowered his head.
He is an extremely smart person, and he is also a person with an excellent memory.
Things about Bianjing City were like a book in his mind.
He said softly: "Your Majesty, this matter... it's a long story..."
"Since the Sui Dynasty, Bianjing has been famous all over the world for its industrial and commercial affairs..."
"In the Tang Dynasty, Bianjing's industry and commerce became increasingly prosperous..."
"Poems from the Tang Dynasty say: Watergate is making trouble for tea merchants in the evening, bridges are open for drunkards all night long, and it is also said: Grass markets welcome river goods, Jinqiao taxes maritime merchants..."
"After the Five Dynasties, the walls of Bianjing City no longer exist..."
"At the latest in the Later Han Dynasty, the curfew system in Bianjing no longer existed..."
This is an inevitable trend in the development of commodity economy.
First, the Fangshi system in the Han and Tang dynasties collapsed. Merchants who were originally limited to doing business in one area broke free from the walls of the Fangshi and opened shops all over the city.
Then came the collapse of the ribo system.
The curfew no longer existed, and people began to stay up all night to enjoy nightlife and entertainment.
Zhao Xu asked: "Does Kaifeng Mansion know why this is the case?"
Cai Jing replied: "Population..."
"In the late Zhou Dynasty, there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Bianjing...and the city was so narrow that the soldiers and civilians in the city could only continue to build houses and live in various places in the city..."
"The people in Bianjing were troubled and troubled, and wars broke out frequently during the Five Dynasties. As a result, houses often caught fire, and fires spread all over the city..."
"After the fire, everything ceased to exist..."
"Under the chaos of the Five Dynasties, there was no one to take care of it..."
"When Taizu Dingding arrived, the walls of the city walls and the walls of the inner city no longer existed. The city was narrow, and there were many people who built houses across the city walls..."
Well, when the city could no longer live in it, they lived outside the city, and new cities were formed outside the city.
Therefore, Bianjing can be divided into an inner city and an outer city.
"It is precisely for this reason that Taizu just thought of moving the capital to Luoyang or Chang'an..."
"However, Luoyang and Chang'an are both in ruins. The palaces are in ruins, the city walls are destroyed, and the people are scattered..."
Cai Jing said this, quickly skipping this slightly taboo topic, and continued: "When it comes to Taizong and the Zhen Temple, the world is gradually settled, and people from all over the world are coming to the capital..."
"As a result, the number of people in the capital has increased day by day. So far, the number has reached one million!"
"At the time of Renmiao, six million dans of grain were transported from the southeast every year, which was enough to support the capital... Nowadays, 8 million dans of grain are transported every year, which is especially insufficient!"
When Cai Jing finished speaking, the entire third floor of Baojin Building was silent.
This is the first time that most people know how Bianjing City became what it is today.
It did not become what it is today in one day or two days.
Rather, it has been development and change that lasted for hundreds of years!
After hearing this, Lu Dafang also sighed and said: "I once knew Chengdu, but today Chengdu is probably the same as Bianjing..."
Chengdu, like Bianjing, is a city where neighborhoods have collapsed, curfews have collapsed, and the urban population continues to soar.
Fan Chunren also sighed: "The same goes for Hezhong Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion..."
Lu Haowen in the accompanying reading said softly: "I followed my grandfather and once lived in Yangzhou, and the same is true in Yangzhou..."
Cheng Yi recalled the city of Luoyang and lowered his head, as did Luoyang.
This is the epitome of society in the Song Dynasty today.
Cities are attracting more and more people, and the number of urban households is growing.
Now nearly 30% of the household registration belongs to the urban population.
At the same time, the money that households in the city paid each year for travel exemptions and service exemptions accounted for 30% of the world's annual income.
They also contributed a large amount of commercial taxes to the Song Dynasty.
In fact, urban industry and commerce had become one of the economic pillars of the Song Dynasty.
Upper decision decided by the economic background.
When more than 30% of a dynasty's annual income comes from the city.
This dynasty will naturally form a foundation conducive to the development of industry and commerce.
Because Brother Kong Fang would make even the most stubborn scholar-bureaucrats and emperors choose to acquiesce to this situation.
And Zhao Xu is now an outlier among the Zhao family.
He no longer has any attachment to the small-scale peasant society that he longed to restore in his previous life.
He now wished that the Song Dynasty would adopt the national policy of mercantilism overnight.
Then... spread the empire and colonize the world!
Unfortunately, this kind of thing cannot be rushed.
He must first let the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles eat and drink enough to taste the best sweetness.
Just like what he said on a TV series he watched in modern times.
Only by feeding the officials and powerful people first can it be possible to feed the common people.
otherwise……
Although he thought so in his heart, Zhao Xu was heartbroken.
"The system of the ancestors and the laws of the ancestors are so beautiful!" he sighed.
"In today's Bianjing City, there are no images of chess and borders..."
To put it bluntly, apart from the main roads dominated by Imperial Street, the current Bianjing City is filled with piles of illegal buildings.
Traffic jams are the most common thing in Bianjing City.
So much so that there are even officials responsible for traffic guidance and traffic command in Bianjing City.
Listening to Zhao Xu's sigh, the officials all worshiped: "I am waiting for the death penalty!"