Jinling, once a small county town in Danyang, has undergone earth-shaking changes in just two months.

The original low city walls and dilapidated streets have disappeared, replaced by a large city covering an area of ​​about one hundred square kilometers and with walls about ten feet high.

This big city was planned completely in accordance with Yuan Shu's requirements. It covers a large enough area, but the city wall is not too high, and there is no moat designed. Otherwise, it would not have been completed so quickly.

Even so, it took millions of people two months to complete the preliminary construction of this city.

The reason why no huge city wall was built is because this city has been designated as the seat of Yangzhou by Yuan Shu, and will also serve as the political, military and economic center of the entire Yangzhou in the future.

If the enemy really attacked his hometown, Yuan Shu really felt that he was in vain, so he only left a basic city wall that was enough to defend against a sneak attack by a small group of enemies. After all, there was no moat and it was more convenient for people to enter and exit.

The city of Yuan Shu is roughly divided into four parts, one part is for common people to live in, one part is used as a commercial area and handicraft area, a part is provided for the residence of wealthy people such as nobles, gentry, merchants, etc., and the last part is provided for officials to live and garrison troops.

Yuan Shu planned to station more than 30,000 elite soldiers in the city, so he naturally had to set aside a large area for troop training.

The preliminary construction of Jinling City has been completed, and it has a population of more than 1.5 million. Yuan Shu is planning to move the general's residence there this time, along with his officials. However, Sun Jian is still stationed in Danyang as the prefect.

Huang Zhong, Gao Shun and Ju Yi have tormented Shanyue in the four northern counties of Yangzhou in the past two months. The vast majority of Shanyue people were basically captured and taken back to Lujiang for some labor reform and ideological education before being put into solitary confinement.

Arrangements are made.

These Shanyue people were all good at physical work and serving as soldiers. Since Yangzhou now had 130,000 soldiers, which was already too many, Yuan Shu did not dare to recruit more soldiers. He recruited more than 20,000 soldiers from small and medium-sized groups and distributed them to various armies.

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These people are very popular in the eyes of Huang Zhong, Sun Jian and others. In terms of personal strength, they are all at the level of elite soldiers. With a little training, they can become an elite force.

Among the 300,000 Shanyue people, 80,000 are young and strong, and all of them are good soldiers.

Historically, the soldiers of Soochow were mostly composed of these people, so they were often able to defeat more with less and firmly resist Wei's attacks.

Now Yuan Shu doesn't need so many soldiers, so he arranges them to build roads and water conservancy projects.

These people found that life seemed pretty good after being forced down the mountain. They only needed to work hard every day to support their families. Moreover, their lives were much better. They no longer had to fight wild beasts all day long, so they slowly integrated into it.

Yuan Shu saw that these Shanyue people had completely eliminated their wild nature under the strong force of force and the corrosion of a comfortable life, and began to slowly integrate into the Han people, and he felt relieved in his heart.

Lujiang and Jinling are now operating crazily as the two construction centers of the entire Yangzhou, and continue to radiate to the surrounding areas.

More and more roads, houses, water conservancy projects and bridges are under constant construction.

Yuan Shu has also been asking his craftsmen to develop the artifact of cement, but it has not been developed yet. Therefore, he can only make do with dirt roads, stone roads, etc. for the time being. Once the cement is developed, he will strengthen it on the original basis.

Just one layer is enough.

Now all the powerful businessmen in the world are rushing to Jinling. They all see the huge profits from perfumes and mirrors. Since Yuan Shu dares to say it, it means that he still has goods in hand. Even if he can't get the bulk, come

It’s not bad to get a piece of the pie.

As a result, a group of people arrived at Jinling and were immediately shocked by this majestic city, which was much larger than Luoyang.

That is to say, Dong Zhuo is now doing things in the capital, attracting the attention of the whole world, and no one cares about the remote soil of Yangzhou. Otherwise, Yuan Shu, a city that has obviously exceeded his limits, would have been attacked by a group of people.

These shrewd businessmen saw the city's large population, but it was orderly, harmonious and peaceful. They immediately realized that this was a big cake that was at least as big as Luoyang.

A group of people immediately went to inquire about the housing prices and shop prices here.

Yuan Shu had already prepared for this. If this group of businessmen could reach this scale in this era of emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business, and each of them had sharp noses, they would naturally be able to discover the strong potential of Jinling City.

In this era, a large city like Jinling with a superior geographical location and a large population is a far better investment target than the modern capital city.

It can be said that if you just buy a house with your eyes closed, the house price will rise several times in ten years.

Yuan Shu had already made regulations. Housing prices in residential areas were not high and you could buy whatever you wanted, but renovations and large-scale commercial transactions were not allowed.

As for houses in commercial districts, only half of the shops are allowed to be purchased, and none of them are shops in prime locations.

Yuan Shu planned to cash out some money from these places first.

Although I am not short of money, doing so can attract businessmen and relieve the pressure on the government.

After all, it is not a long-term solution to rely on Yuan Shu or the Yuan family's private treasury to maintain government expenditures. The government treasury and private treasury should still be independent to avoid many problems and troubles.

The other half, Yuan Shu, who was in a better position, took back all the house deeds and land deeds to the government, and only allowed merchants to rent them, and they could only rent them every three years at most.

Only in this area did Yuan Shu stipulate that larger-scale transactions were allowed, so merchants had no choice.

As for the areas where wealthy people live, Yuan Shu allowed private individuals to carry out renovations, and these people who were not short of money naturally targeted these places.

This area is very large, and Yuan Shu does not hide it, but directly allows them to buy it all, but the price is still not low.

After asking around, these merchants immediately understood where they could make money. They all rushed to the shops that allowed purchases, and did not hesitate to spend money to buy in large quantities.

A group of visionary and bold people went straight to the area where shops were rented and rented shops in prime locations.

In the last wealthy residential area, some businessmen who have big businesses and don't care about money also visit a lot.

The construction cost of Jinling City was nearly 100 million yuan in monetary terms. As a result, it only took two days for leasing to be allowed, and more than half of the cost was recovered.

Tian Feng, who was in charge of the entire finance, was dumbfounded and suddenly had the idea of ​​building another one.

But he soon gave up this idea because he understood that there could only be one such miracle in Jinling City in Yangzhou.

After all, it is impossible for him to attract more than 1.5 million refugees, and it is difficult to find a place with such superior Feng Shui and geographical location. Moreover, Jinling is so crazy because Yuan Shu clearly wants to use it as the seat of Yangzhou and provide

There are many reasons for policy support.
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