Taking Sima Xiangru with him, Liu Che left the palace gate at Beique, entered Qili from Sima Gate, and then exited the arsenal from the Imperial Road and entered the noisy and lively New Chang'an.
The first thing that came our way was the countless crowds of people.
After this transformation, Chang'an City officially formed a layout of eight streets and nine streets.
There are eight main roads connecting the entire city, and there are nine traffic avenues leading to various places outside the city.
The most famous one is naturally Shangguanli Street.
Shangguanli Street starts from the arsenal, extends eastward, leads directly to Bianmen Bridge Avenue and Baqiao Avenue, and is connected to Weiqiao Bridge.
This street is the widest among the Eight Streets of Chang'an.
It is enough to have three wide lanes, and can carry twelve standard heavy-duty carriages in parallel, which is almost comparable to the eight lanes of later generations.
But at this time, even this street, which is famous for its spaciousness, was crowded.
Even the royal road was crowded with people.
On both sides of the road and among the crowds, urban management staff wearing red clothes or red armbands were diligently combing the roads and cleaning up all kinds of garbage.
When the Urban Management Department was first established, it was actually nothing more than a rip-off government office.
At that time, Liu Che, who was so poor that he had no need for moral integrity, gave instructions to Ju Meng. The organization he established essentially existed to extort money from businessmen.
Therefore, at first, the entire Urban Management Department was composed of thornheads and rangers from Chang'an City. They had sinister faces and looked like evil people at first glance.
But no one could have imagined that within seven or eight years, this yamen, which was just extorting money and doing some serious business, has become the largest yamen in the entire Chang'an City, with the most personnel and the most responsibilities.
The total number of employees, temporary workers, and officials under his name is nearly ten thousand.
The number of staff members alone exceeds 3,000!
How terrible!
But there is no way. Chang'an City is too big and has too many people. Millions of people in Chang'an eat, drink and poop every day, and the domestic garbage left behind cannot be cleaned up in time.
Then, Chang'an City will probably become Paris in the Middle Ages.
Thanks to the work of the urban management office, Chang'an is so neat and clean today.
Even if the large-scale demolition and construction in the past six months left hundreds of thousands of stones of garbage, it was only through urban management and tunnel management that they could be transported outside the city and buried in time.
"Go to Zhangtai Street..." Liu Che pondered for a moment on the carriage and then gave the order.
Zhangtai Street is one of the Eight Streets in Chang'an and the most prosperous street after Shangguanli Street.
To the north are the newly completed Tingwei government offices and family residences, to the northeast is the newly built Liushi City, and the rest are residential areas.
During this reconstruction, seven former poor households were moved to the Zhangtai Street area. In addition, there were originally three businessmen gathering quarters and a dozen other civilian quarters in the contemporary era.
Many allusions and stories have happened on this street.
The most famous allusion in later generations is that the allusion "The joy of the boudoir is better than the thrush" happened here.
Comrade Zhang Chang's home is on Zhangtai Street.
But at this time, the status of Zhangtai Street was not as important as that of Empress Wu.
This can be known from the fact that Zhangtai Street was generally a residential area for merchants in the past.
This place used to be the territory of the rangers and ruffians of Chang'an City in the past. Basically, all the heroes and green forest heroes in Guanzhong once hung out here.
After Chang'an City was renovated, these people were driven out of the territory they occupied. Captain Jingfu took a stick and beat these heroes until they cried for their fathers and mothers. He also captured hundreds of fugitives and sent them to Build the Great Wall to repair the earth.
However, the power of inertia is still huge.
There are still a large number of bandits, rangers, and ruffians here.
In the past three months, Dao Jian has impeached some noble officials to Liu Che ten times, acting as a ranger and a protective umbrella for local ruffians, making it difficult for him to govern.
But every time, Liu Che stayed in middle school.
The reason is to stay today and handle these matters personally with the dignity of the emperor.
To put it figuratively, Liu Che deliberately kept a group of monsters to gain experience for himself.
Chang'an's eight streets and nine streets have been re-planned and designed and can now be connected to each other.
The road from Shangguanli Street to Zhangtai Street is not far.
It was no more than ten miles at most, but it took two hours to walk these ten miles - there was no way, there were too many people in Chang'an City!
What's more, now it's time for the exams.
This time of year creates a unique examination economy.
Just like Double Eleven in later generations, regardless of whether they are candidates for scholar examinations or scholar-bureaucrats, the entire Guanzhong landowners, powerful merchants, and descendants will gather in Chang'an to enjoy the flowers and the moon, and have a good time.
It has developed so far that even the powerful children from Luoyang, Suiyang, Xingyang and Jinyang will come as promised.
Most of them have no intention of taking the exam at all.
They are all outstanding elites who are interested in martial arts.
Now, the class differentiation of the Han Dynasty has been reshuffled.
The first-class people are students of Wuyuan and senior officers of the field army.
They enjoy a transcendent political status and the admiration of the people, the largest family resources and the best education.
Only those crooked melons and cracked jujubes will come to take part in the examination.
After all, scholar-bureaucrats and nobles are very arrogant.
They instinctively reject the idea that their elites will compete on the same stage with the poor and poor people.
Moreover, most young and talented people are very proud.
Due to the current examination system, nobles, two-thousand-stone scholar-bureaucrats, or officials' families have preferential treatment and can get extra points.
Therefore, the real elites of these families stay away from the examination.
They think - I need extra points? You are humiliating me!
It just so happened that martial arts became popular in the world, and every family was proud to have a martial artist. Even the wealthy people in the countryside were proud to have an officer in their family - no matter how tall they were.
Therefore, the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles of the Northland changed their tune and devoted themselves to military affairs.
The goal of the most elite and best disciples has always been Wuyuan!
Even if it's not possible, he still has to go to Imperial College.
Examinations and the like are inferior products, a place where dandies go to get a job.
This gives a large number of children from poor families the opportunity to get ahead and compete fairly - after all, if the elites of scholar-official families and nobles also join the examination feast, then there will be too few opportunities for children from poor families and the middle and lower classes in this era to get ahead!
The children of poor families and lower class people have already lost a thousand miles to each other at the starting line.
This is a gap that is difficult to fill through hard work alone.
For example, elites like Ji An and Yan Yi already hold great power in their twenties and have all kinds of connections. Even if they don't rely on Liu Che, they can make rapid progress in their career.
What do ordinary people use to compete?
While you are still struggling at the grassroots level, others are already sitting upright in the high hall and claiming to be the boss!
Ordinary people work hard all their lives, but the starting point of these people's entry into officialdom is not much different.
Now, it's okay. The big nobles, the scholar-bureaucrats and the two thousand stone crocodiles don't play with the poor people, and they go to do martial arts on their own.
The children from poor families finally have a chance to succeed and can take a breather.
Although, this has caused some confrontation and contradiction between civil and military forces today.
Civil servants, especially those who were born in the imperial examinations, felt that these warriors were too arrogant and arrogant. The proud warriors regarded themselves as the favored sons of heaven, the pillars of the country, and the pillars of the country.
But fortunately, this kind of contradiction also exists in the middle and lower levels.
When you get to the top, especially at the level of County Sheriff Two Thousand Stones, it's basically a mixture of civil and military affairs.
Because the Han Dynasty's requirement for two thousand stones is that mounting a horse can lead the army, and dismounting can calm the people.
If you can't be both civil and military, don't dream of becoming a county guard.
But all of this does not prevent young people from taking advantage of the annual examinations to come to Chang'an City to play, meet, brag, promote each other, and develop connections.
After all, apart from Chang'an, there is no other place in the world that is so prosperous and lively, and where talented people from all over the world can gather.
And all the scholars also think that this opportunity is really wonderful!
There is no better time to promote yourself and attack your enemies.
So every year at this time, the Confucian, Legalist, Mo, and Huang elders would fight in various township schools and various public places in Chang'an City, preaching the classics and discrediting their opponents, using almost every possible means.
Gossipists and neutral people are immediately blessed.
Countless gossips are flying around, and all kinds of gossip are flying all over the sky.
Various jokes are circulated from time to time.
This immediately improved Chang'an's transportation. Originally, Chang'an's transportation could carry the flow of millions of people.
But the problem is that during the examination, this transportation system will immediately undergo the most brutal test.
Especially this year!
With the entry of big businessmen from Guandong last year, these local tycoons and big business owners used their money to smash up shops in the nine cities of Chang'an.
So much so, that even in a market like Zhishi, which used to be outside Chang'an City, its standard shops, which were thirty paces long and ten paces wide, covering an area of 60 to 70 square meters, could actually sell for 100,000 yuan!
As for prosperous places like Liushi and Huaishi, the economic and financial core of Chang'an, it is common for a standard store to cost hundreds of thousands or even millions.
Those oversized shops were bought for exaggerated prices ranging from millions to tens of millions.
Because of this, the Han Dynasty did not pay a dime for the entire Chang'an reconstruction project, but instead made a lot of money.
This made the ruling and opposition parties eye-catching, and also made Liu She, the young minister of the government, deeply realize that real estate is better.
So I decided to have a try besides the horse racing track in Maoling.
However, the merchants paid such a high price.
Of course it's not for charity.
They spent tens of millions or even tens of millions to buy shops in nine cities in Chang'an.
Then you must want to earn tens of millions or even tens of millions!
In the past, this would have been impossible.
But now, in Chang'an, it is extremely possible!
Apart from other things, within three months of taking the exam, the entire Chang'an will usher in most of China's powerful children and rich families.
Dandies spend money like water, and there are many who spend hundreds of gold just for a pure white fox fur made in Anton.
Even those family elites and future pillars will not hesitate to spend money in these months.
When you meet a soulmate you like, you can give him a house, money, slaves, or even a girl without blinking an eye!
As for those princes who have made a fortune in Anton, they will spend money without hesitation at this moment.
Among these people, the most famous is none other than Wei Qihou Dou Ying, who is now without an official position.
Since Dou Ying was dismissed from his post, he seems to have thought clearly that he is not a political person and simply doesn't want to be an official.
Instead, he began to devote himself wholeheartedly to his ideals.
What is Dou Ying’s ideal?
Of course, he became the Mengchang King of the Han Dynasty!
Now, businessmen, scholars, and common people were all happy.
Liu Che heard that not long ago, Dou Ying attracted hundreds of diners in one go.
I take this group of people to drink and drink every day, eat big fish and meat, eat people with soft mouths, and take people with short hands. Naturally, the diners also expressed: You are a noble man, you are really a great person in the world!
Dou Ying himself was in a state of ecstasy amid the flattery and flattery.
Don’t live your little life too comfortably!
The only problem is that money is wasted.
In just one month, Wei Qihou spent all his year's rent and taxes from the feudal country...
But that doesn't matter.
To Dou Ying, money was like dung, and he wished he could run to Chang'an Avenue and sing the song "Nothing".
Anyway, he has plenty of money.
When Wei Qihou enfeoffed the country, the annual taxes amounted to several million, which was a drizzle!
He is now in Anton's Jiaenfeng Kingdom, and can contribute to him an output with a total value of more than 10 million every year, and he also has rewards and subsidies from Changle Palace.
Last year alone, Liu Che heard that Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Dowager Bo had rewarded each other more than ten times, and each time the reward was no less than a hundred gold...
Therefore, Dou Ying is really not short of money!
Regarding this, there was a lot of discussion in the government and the public, all of which were that Dou Ying was giving up on himself.
There were even many people who secretly reported to Liu Che privately, saying that Dou Ying had "been complaining about His Majesty for a long time and was quite disloyal."
Liu Che was too lazy to take care of it.
Dou Ying! My cousin!
Liu Che knew what this guy was thinking and understood his views.
It is true that he is giving up on himself, but when it comes to resenting his own emperor and even wanting to rebel, this is nonsense.
Did Dou Ying dare to rebel? Empress Dowager Dou was the first one to spare him!
What's more, apart from the group of guys who follow him around to eat and drink every day, who else is around him now?
Guanhu?
Therefore, no matter what Dou Ying did, Liu Che was very tolerant.
As long as he is happy!
Moreover, Dou Ying's play has greatly promoted consumption, increased employment, and reduced social problems.
If the diners under him did not have this financial backer, they would have no choice but to go out to deceive, kidnap, or even kill people.
How great now!
Thanks to the help of countless nobles and dandies, including Dou Ying, a large amount of hot money and gold from Anton entered the market quietly. In the end, it was sent to the Shaofu by Guandong merchants and became
Liu Che's small treasury.
Because the shops purchased by Guandong merchants were all mortgaged and borrowed from the Shaofu.
If you make money, of course you have to pay it back.
If you don't pay back, then all the properties you mortgaged will belong to Liu Che!
As a result, the Shaofu's gold reserves continue to increase, and a large amount of five-baht coins are recycled. This is a good thing for the country!
