Chapter 181: Move the capital to Luoyang [two in one]
In the spring of the sixth year of Wei Xing'an's reign, Zhu Jin, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was responsible for the construction of the new capital Luoyang, once again reported to Chui Gong Hall on the progress of Luoyang's construction.
It has been five years since the construction of the new capital Luoyang was started automatically, but in this era, the speed of construction is absolutely amazing.
After all, Luoyang, the new capital, is the future capital of the Wei State. It is undoubtedly the largest city in the entire Wei State. Even if the Ministry of Industry mastered cement, a cementitious material, and built this city in just five years, it also caused great confusion in the court.
All the ministers and even Wei King Zhao Run were amazed.
This miraculous construction speed is due to the cooperation of all parties: the Sichuan-Luo Alliance is responsible for the supply of funds, the Ministry of Housing is responsible for the collection, purchase and transportation of building materials, the Ministry of Industry and the Metallurgical Bureau are responsible for construction. In addition,
There were also tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of slaves who actually participated in the construction.
It was the great cooperation and cooperation of all parties that enabled Luoyang City to be built within five years.
When this news reached Daliang, Zhao Hongrun was also inexplicably excited. After all, he had been waiting for this new capital for five years. How many five years can a person have in his life?
"I'll go take a look first."
After informing the ministers in the inner dynasty, Zhao Run took Queen Mi Jiang, Ying Ying, Oona, Yang Yanxing, Su Ran, the daughters, Zhao Wei, Zhao Chu and other children to the Imperial Guard.
Under the protection of the army, I went to Sanchuan County in person to enjoy the spring.
Originally, Zhao Run wanted to take Empress Dowager Shen with him, but Empress Dowager Shen had always been in poor health, and as she was getting older, her body was inevitably weak, so she had to give up.
Under the protection of the imperial guards, more than a dozen members of Zhao Hong's family took a boat at Xiangfu Port, sailed up the river, and came directly to the waters of the Luocheng area. At this time, those who learned the news one step ahead of time
The chiefs of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance brought their children and warriors from the tribe to pick him up.
When both parties saw each other, they inevitably felt a little emotional.
I think that when Zhao Run first conquered Sanchuan County, he was only fifteen years old. Fast forward more than ten years, and this young master Wei who once seemed quite immature at first glance is now nearly thirty years old and has a grown-up son and daughter.
There was an inexplicable power of a king in every movement of the group.
But to everyone's surprise, this monarch is still approachable.
"Lu Balong? Are you really Lu Balong?"
When the clan leaders of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance came to pick him up, Zhao Hongrun looked at the broad and bloated Lu Balong with a strange look on his face.
I think back then, Lu Balong was not only the leader of the Lun clan of the Yi tribe, but also the first warrior of the tribe. He was strong and muscular. He had taken the lead in attacking the army led by Zhao Hongrun time and time again. If the Wei army at that time had not possessed the powerful Wei Liannu weapon,
This kind of war weapon may not be able to defeat the momentum of the Lun clan warriors.
But Lu Balong, who appeared in front of Zhao Hongrun now, was a fat man who was out of breath even after running for two steps - watching this former prairie warrior, trotting all the way to him with his body covered in fat, and kept using
Zhao Hongrun couldn't believe it as he wiped sweat from his Weifu sleeves.
"You have fallen...the former number one warrior of the Lun tribe."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head with a smile and patted Lu Balon's arm.
In fact, Lu Balong, the former number one warrior of the Lun tribe, had already begun to degenerate when the Wei Kingdom started trading with Sanchuan. The superior life and abundant wealth made it inevitable that this former warrior would gradually decline.
The warrior's willpower was lost.
There's nothing you can do about it, after all, not everyone can keep their original intentions in the face of endless squandering of wealth.
In fact, not only Lu Balong, but also the other chiefs of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance have gained weight. For example, Meng Liang of the Meng tribe, and even one of Zhao Hongrun’s father-in-law, Amutu, the former chief of the Qingyang tribe,
Now he has become a chubby little old man, but his son, Zhao Run's brother-in-law Wuwu, who after taking over the position of leader of the Qingyang tribe, is quite similar to his father when he was young.
On that day, Zhao Run and his party stayed in Luocheng for one night. When they entered the city, the people in Luocheng were excited, whether they were Wei people or tribesmen from the Sichuan-Luocheng Alliance.
It's no wonder, after all, Zhao Run enjoyed a very high prestige in Sanchuan before he became the King of Wei, not to mention that his current status is different from what it used to be.
In order to entertain Zhao Run and his party, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance slaughtered nine ibex in one go, ninety-nine ordinary sheep - on a day that was not a sacrificial day, they slaughtered nine ibex in one go just to entertain distinguished guests. This was absolutely
This is an extremely rare thing in the Sichuan-Luo Alliance.
The Sanchuan people and ordinary people in Luocheng City also celebrated the arrival of King Zhao Run of Wei, and it was as lively as a festival.
Waiting until dawn the next day, Zhao Hongrun and his party rode on horses and embarked on the journey to Luoyang.
Among the girls, Oona, who was born in the Qingyang tribe, is certainly the most proficient in riding skills. Even though she has given birth to Zhao Hongrun’s son, Zhao Chuan, her vitality is still the same as before. In other words, compared with her in the deep palace, she is still
In fact, I prefer riding horses on the vast grassland.
Seeing their daughter or sister riding a horse and running wildly on the grassland, their father Amutu and his brother Wu Wu looked quite embarrassed, worried that Zhao Runwei would blame Wu Na for this.
"You are already a mother, and you are still making such a fuss," the old patriarch Amutu couldn't help scolding.
However, Zhao Run disagreed. He hugged Su Ran in his arms and followed him with a smile. Among the girls, Su Ran was the least good at riding a horse. Zhao Run was afraid that she would accidentally fall off the horse, so he talked to her.
Ride together.
On the contrary, it was Su Ran's daughter Zhao Chu who followed her brothers, as well as her step-brother Wei Yun and step-sister Wei Ning. Several little guys were riding around on their ponies, having fun and causing the guards to panic.
The soldiers were so frightened that they didn't even dare to take a breath and stared at the princes and princesses, fearing that they would accidentally fall off the colt.
"I am General Sima An, and all soldiers will obey my orders!"
Zhao Run's second son, Zhao Han, shouted loudly while riding the colt.
As soon as he finished speaking, the third son Zhao Chuan also raised his arms and shouted: "I am the general Wu Ji, and all the soldiers will obey my orders!"
It turned out that these two princes had read "Yitan" which was popular throughout the Central Plains, and they admired the Wei general Sima An who "destroyed the enemy with a hundred sheep" and the merchant general Wu Ji who was known as the "Courage of Wei".
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"Yes, yes." Mu Qing of the Imperial Guard shrugged, waved his hand to the Imperial Guard soldiers around him and said, "'Soldiers and generals', why not follow up with your general quickly?"
The soldiers of the Imperial Guard suppressed their laughter and rushed forward quickly.
During this period, Zhao Hongrun's daughter Zhao Chu was also influenced by her two younger brothers. Unfortunately, her mother Su Ran stopped her in time and was unable to shout something like "I am also a general of the Wei Dynasty" and followed her father on a pony.
Next to Zhao Run, he pursed his lips and looked unhappy.
Seeing Su Ran complaining about her daughter, Zhao Run said with a smile: "I have told you a long time ago that if Chu Chu follows that girl Yulong, sooner or later she will learn bad things."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Run felt someone tap him on the shoulder.
Zhao Run turned around and saw Princess Yulong wearing a riding uniform, and said angrily: "Who are you talking about? No matter how big or small, I am your royal sister."
"Oh." Zhao Run rolled his eyes and said casually.
In fact, Princess Yulong is indeed one year older than Zhao Run, but in Zhao Run's heart, she always treats her as a younger sister.
"snort!"
Snorting at Zhao Run, Princess Yulong bent down and said to Zhao Chu who was riding on the pony: "Chu Chu, don't follow your boring father, go with your aunt... Xiao Ning'er, you also go with your aunt."
Come on, don't follow them."
Wei Ning glanced at Zhao Run timidly, and when he saw his adoptive father Zhao Run helplessly shaking his head and smiling, he grinned, and together with Zhao Chu, rode a pony and followed Princess Yulong, his aunt, away.
"Hey, I have to lead another one into trouble."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head and laughed.
Before he finished speaking, he heard another voice coming from behind: "Hey, please be polite, she is the Crown Princess of Da Qin after all."
Zhao Run looked back and realized that it was Princess Yulong's 'husband' Qin Shaojun Yingying, so he smiled and joked: "Is it necessary to protect her like this?"
Qin Shaojun Yingying glanced at Su Ran in Zhao Hongrun's arms and hummed softly: "To each other."
After that, she shook the reins and went after Princess Yulong and the others.
Obviously, she was a little bit dissatisfied with how Zhao Run protected Su Ran.
On the other hand, the official queen of Wei, Mi Jiang, drove her mount expressionlessly from beginning to end, without squinting, and kept looking at her son Zhao Wei, the prince of Wei, who was looking at him with envy at this moment.
He looked at his two younger brothers Zhao Chuan and Zhao Han, and watched them leading a group of imperial guards to play the role of generals of the Wei State.
There is no way, he is the crown prince of Wei, so naturally he cannot be as casual as his two younger brothers in public.
Otherwise, the Crown Prince and Grand Master Du You, the Minister of Rites, would definitely be unhappy when they found out.
Similar to him, there is his sworn brother Wei Yun. The two sworn brothers looked at each other and were both troubled by the shackles of their own crown prince (Prince Wei).
Seeing the interaction between these little guys, both the imperial guards and the clan leaders of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance had smiles on their faces. Only Zhao Ying looked cold and said unhappily: "Annoying little brat."
But having said that, when she looked at Zhao Han, Zhao Chu, Zhao Chuan and other little guys, there was no disgust in her eyes, but instead there was an inexplicable hope.
Not far from her, Zhao Que also sighed and touched his belly.
Both sisters were a little suspicious that it was because they took some drugs for martial arts practice when they were young that they were still unable to conceive. "Author's Note: Actually, the author was too lazy to think of a name, so he had to
I’ll let you all have your wish when it’s about to end.”
With great might and noisy, the large group of people finally arrived in Luoyang.
At that time, I could vaguely see the walls of Luoyang City, which looked like Wei Jiao, Lu Mu, Mu Qing and other Imperial Guard generals, and I couldn't help but exclaimed: "Okay, so big..."
Even Zhao Run had a hint of surprise in his eyes.
It turned out that the size of Luoyang City, especially the height of its walls, greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.
Especially after the large group of people approached, the city wall was incredibly high. Compared with the larger city wall, it was unknown how much higher it was.
"This... I'm afraid it's more than twenty feet long, right?" Mu Qing murmured to himself.
Hearing this, Wei Jiao also said with a shocked look on his face: "I'm afraid it won't stop."
Later they learned that the city wall of the new capital, Luoyang, was thirty-six feet high, ten feet wide at the bottom, and more than five feet wide at the top, allowing several carriages to run smoothly on the wall.
As far as the world is concerned, it is definitely a city that looks down upon any city in the world.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Run finally understood why it took five years to build the new capital, Luoyang, and four years to build the city wall. It was really spectacular.
At this moment, the east gate of Luoyang City slowly opened. Lieutenant of Luoyang and Marquis of Anping Zhao Tan, wearing armor, rode out on horseback, leading a group of Luoyang city guards to greet them.
The monarch Zhao Run entered the city.
Behind Zhao Tan, there were also officials from the Smelting Bureau and the Ministry of Industry.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Tan, pays homage to your Majesty!"
Galloping in front of Zhao Run, Anping Hou Zhao Tan turned over and dismounted, knocked to the ground with one knee, and saluted with clasped fists.
"Welcome Your Majesty!"
The city guards who followed Zhao Tan, as well as officials from the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Industry, also kowtowed to the ground.
"The Marquis of Anping, please rise, and all the ministers, please rise."
Raising his hand to make a gesture, Zhao Hongrun looked up at the huge word "Luoyang" above the east city gate and said with a smile: "Everyone, you have really built an amazing city."
After hearing this, officials from the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Industry were quite proud.
Affected by Zhao Run's previous influence, officials from the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Industry have always held a "bigger" and "more sophisticated" attitude towards construction and forging. This has resulted in the area occupied by Luoyang City being larger than originally expected.
That's twice as much.
"Take me into the city to visit."
Zhao Run said with a smile.
After visiting Luoyang City, Zhao Hongrun and his party were divided into several teams: he himself wanted to personally inspect and accept the city, and of course he had to observe every place carefully; while Qin Shaojun Yingying and Princess Yulong took Zhao Chu and Wei
The two little girls Ning went into the city on their own; as for Su Ran, Yang Yanxing and other girls, because they were tired from the journey, they took the lead towards the inner city, where the palace was.
With several sons, Zhao Run, surrounded by a group of people, climbed onto the tower of the east gate of Luoyang, stood on the wall and looked into the distance.
The thirty-six-foot-high city wall has an excellent view. Zhao Hongrun can even faintly see Luocheng twenty miles away from here.
With such a height and such a wide field of vision, Luoyang City basically eliminates the possibility of being attacked by enemies during the day. As for sneak attacks at night, the possibility is very slim - after all, the height is too high, even
Even the green crows and the black crows cannot climb up.
No, out of curiosity, Zhao Hongrun waved to Ya Wu who was among the guards and asked him: "Are you here?"
After hearing this, Ya Wu poked his head out from the wall, took a look at the distance from the ground, shook his head and said: "It's difficult...the height is second, mainly because there are almost no gaps in the outer wall of this city wall, so it's difficult to climb.
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Zhao Hongrun also stuck out his head and took a look. Only then did he notice that the outer wall of Luoyang City seemed to have been plastered with cement, so that there were almost no gaps in the outer wall, so that even the Qingya people like Ya Wu could
, even with the current climbing tools, it is difficult to climb up.
In other words, as long as the gates of Luoyang City are closed, there are basically two worlds inside and outside the city.
The defensive performance is simply extraordinary.
"well!"
After saying two good words in a row, Zhao Hongrun slowly walked towards the end of the city wall.
He was not surprised that there was no Wei Liannu on the city wall of Luocheng. Perhaps it was because the city wall was too high, causing Wei Liannu to lose its due defensive advantage. On the city wall at this height, there were probably no ordinary crossbows for machine-operated crossbows.
Hands are easy to use.
After visiting for a while, Zhao Hongrun slowly stepped off the city wall, mounted his horse and headed towards the inner city.
During this period, he looked around and looked around the street.
Five years is still a bit hasty to build a city of this size. Perhaps for this reason, the streets in the city are not paved with bricks and stones, just ordinary dirt roads.
But the street itself is still roughly in shape.
At this time, the imperial guards and the city guards of Luoyang City had worked together to clear the roads to prevent the people in the city from disturbing their monarch.
But there were still many people crowding at the entrances of alleys, watching Zhao Run pass by with excitement.
Firstly, many of them had never seen Zhao Run, the monarch of Wei State. Secondly, Zhao Run personally came to Luoyang to inspect the completion of the city, which also meant that the imperial court was about to fulfill its obligations to the people.
promised to move the capital to Luoyang.
Once Luoyang was confirmed to be the new capital of Wei State, the local people would suddenly become the people of Gyeonggi.
The local people were very excited when they thought of this.
Facing these excited people, Zhao Hongrun sat astride his horse and occasionally waved his hands to greet the people, but he focused more on other aspects, such as the buildings and residential buildings on both sides of the street.
"These houses were built spontaneously by the people who moved here, right?"
Zhao Run asked, pointing to the nearby houses on both sides of the street.
After hearing this, Zhu Jin, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, quickly reported back: "To answer your Majesty's question, yes."
Of course he knew the reason why Zhao Hongrun asked this. It was simply that compared to the magnificent Luoyang City Wall, the residential buildings in the city looked very inconspicuous, low and messy.
In response to this matter, Zhu Jin immediately added: "Due to the rushed construction period, we only built the city wall and the palace. As for the buildings in the city, they were built spontaneously by the people in the city, so they look a bit messy. But don't worry, Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry will take care of it in the future."
Slowly perfected."
"Hmm." Zhao Run nodded and said nothing more.
After all, he also felt that in just five years, not only a city of this size was built, but also a palace was built. This was already very fast, and he really couldn't expect too much.
When he came to the prince in the city, he recognized his point of view more and more. He saw that the palace in Luoyang City was built on the same ground as Daliang - no, in fact, in terms of the size of the land and the level of sophistication, compared to
The palaces in Daliang are even better. It is hard to imagine how long it took to build this palace. It only took one year.
It was not until later that Zhao Hongrun learned that the Ministry of Industry and the Metallurgical Bureau spent four years building the city wall, which did not mean that the construction of the palace only took one year. In fact, the two projects were started at the same time, and even the palace
The construction of the city took longer than the construction of the city wall of Luoyang City.
After all, building a city wall simply requires aligning the direction and then stacking large stones and fired bricks. But building a palace is different. The palaces and pavilions in the palace are all carved out by carpenters with their planing knives.
After being cut with a planer, it also needs to be carved and painted. In terms of the complexity of the project, it is actually still building the city wall.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Zhao Hongrun said sincerely after seeing those exquisite palaces, pavilions, water pavilions and other buildings with his own eyes.
After visiting the whole place, he felt more and more that the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Works were definitely working hard to build this new capital and this palace. Otherwise, these two projects would probably be two or three times as far as the current era is concerned.
It may not be completed in ten or thirty years.
And this fully reflects the speed and momentum of Wei's current internal construction.
On that day, Zhao Hongrun carefully visited the entire palace.
He found that the general architectural layout of the palace in Luoyang City was almost the same as that of the palace in Daliang, except that the palaces and pavilions were larger and the paths in the palace were wider.
In addition, it seems that the Daliang Palace has been moved to Luoyang City.
"The Sichuan-Luo Alliance really put in a lot of effort this time..."
Zhao Hongrun glanced calmly at the clan leaders of the Sichuan-Luoyang Alliance who followed him to Luoyang.
According to previous statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the cost of building Luoyang City was more than the tax revenue of the imperial court in ten years. Even the previous Wei State could not afford such a huge expenditure - after all, the Wei State
We also need to feed an army of hundreds of thousands.
As for the current Wei State, although military expenditures have been greatly reduced due to the "military land system", it is not necessarily able to afford this expenditure. At least, it cannot shorten the construction period to five, ten, or twenty years.
Years ago, it was quite acceptable.
It can be seen from this that the Sichuan-Luo Alliance is really bleeding a lot this time.
"In order to obtain the title of a noble, these clan leaders really worked hard..."
After taking a look at the Wei uniforms worn by the clan leaders, Zhao Hongrun thought to himself.
Indeed, for today's Sichuan-Luo Alliance, the suffering of hunger and cold has long been a thing of the past. What they desire now is the recognition of the aristocratic class in Wei State, or in other words, they hope to become the aristocracy of this country and have a decent status.
This is good, it means that these Sanchuan people, who were once called "Yinrong" by the Central Plains people, have now gradually integrated into the Wei people.
The only difference is that they still more or less retain the customs passed down by their ancestors and retain part of their own culture.
"The common master of the world...?"
For some reason, a word suddenly flashed through Zhao Hongrun's mind at this moment.
Of course, his understanding of the term "co-owner of the world" is still different from that of officials such as Jie Ziu, Gongyang Gao, and Xu Ruo who are currently tinkering with the idea of "great unification."
A few days later, Zhao Hongrun returned to Daliang with his wife and children to discuss the matter of moving the capital with the ministers of the inner court.
After all, the imperial court used the name of moving the capital to lure the people of Yingshui County and several other counties to Sanchuan, which greatly eased the land annexation conflicts in Yingshui County. But now, since Luoyang City has been built, naturally the imperial court cannot
If you break your promise, you must immediately put forward the proposal to move the capital.
In May of the sixth year of Wei Xing'an, Chui Gongdian issued an edict to move the capital to Luoyang, with Daliang serving as the accompanying capital.
After the edict was issued to the whole country, the whole country was excited and ran around to celebrate.
A few days later, the countries in the Central Plains learned of Wei's change of capital relocation, with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow.