In February of the 25th year of Zhang Wu, Liu Bei went north from Sichuan to Guanzhong to inspect the development of Guanzhong.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the population of Guanzhong was still quite large. Liu Bang was able to start his own business, which was indispensable to the help of the Three Chapters of the Covenant and the elders of Guanzhong.
However, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guanzhong's population dropped sharply. First, during the Little Ice Age, Guanzhong suffered frequent disasters, including droughts, locust plagues, and earthquakes.
Second, the most direct victim of the Qiang rebellion in the northwest was Guanzhong. Not to mention others, Guang Han Sui Ma Teng and his gang invaded Guanzhong no less than ten times, and each time they harmed the land of Sanfu.
After Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, Guanzhong's population surged briefly due to the westward migration from Luoyang. However, this population surge was not benign. During this period, a large number of people also migrated out of Guanzhong.
Like Hanzhong, Nanyang received a large number of people from Guanzhong due to the war during this period, so that Zhang Lu later had a population of hundreds of thousands.
However, now that the world is at peace, Guanzhong has built a large number of canals to fight drought and provide disaster relief. The government will also organize culling of locusts and raise more chickens and ducks. With the development of agriculture and the rise of the Silk Road, the population has gradually increased.
The Western Capital of Chang'an, at this time, Chang'an had already shown a grand scene. Originally, the largest area was the Imperial Palace of the Western Han Dynasty in Chang'an, but with the rise of Silk Road trade, the outer city also expanded.
Luoyang's expansion extended from east to west, north and south, but Chang'an was built south of the Wei River at that time, and the north of the city was very close to the Wei River, so there was not much room for development.
So now the main development direction of Chang'an is the southwest, southwest and east. The southwest of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty is the Abang Palace in the Qin Dynasty, which has now been turned into a market. Grand squares and cities have been built in the ruins, and there are even towering buildings.
Tall buildings.
The Han Dynasty cannot yet build high-rise buildings with dozens of floors, but six or seven-story buildings can be built. Taishan Academy and Taixue, the two leading universities in the Han Dynasty, have already opened departments of civil engineering.
The life of civil servants and horses carrying bricks officially started in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The steam cement mixer on the construction site was rolling day and night, and the kiln bricks, red bricks and paper-burning bricks were delivered one by one.
As steel production capacity increases, domestic demand for steel also increases. Needless to say, daily necessities include steam ship manufacturing, train track laying, urban construction, and weapons manufacturing.
After more than 20 years of development, steel plants in Hebei, Shandong and other places have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and their output has been increasing year by year.
From about 20,000 tons of steel per year when Yuan Shao was defeated, now the annual output has reached 3.8 million tons, an increase of 190 times in more than 20 years.
But this is not even a fraction of our country's annual output of one billion tons in later generations. It is impossible to meet the growing domestic demand.
Therefore, even though the steel industry has developed for so many years, only big cities have six or seven-story high-rise buildings.
However, all this is only temporary. With the continuous innovation of technology, Dahan's path forward is also unstoppable.
Moreover, after years of searching, tungsten filaments are already available for light bulbs. It will only be a matter of time before steel production reaches a new level and power grids are connected to the entire country.
At the beginning of May, it started to rain lightly in Chang'an. In Weicheng, there was light dust from the morning rain, and the guesthouses were green and green.
The current overall structure of the Western Capital of Chang'an is in the shape of a Chinese character. A new city was built from the ruins of Alpan Palace to the southwest of the Han Dynasty Chang'an City, and to the southeast was the site of the later Tang Dynasty Chang'an City, which was also growing day by day.
After Luoyang, the central capital, Chang'an became the second international metropolis in the Han Dynasty with a population exceeding one million. On the contrary, the old city was much empty, and the residents had moved to the new city.
In the Weiyang Palace, Liu Bei currently lives here. In fact, many of the Chang'an Palaces in the Western Han Dynasty have been dilapidated, but they have been repaired over the years, and they are still barely habitable.
In these days, Liu Bei, accompanied by officials such as Jing Zhaoyin, Zuo Fengyi, and You Fufeng, visited experimental farmlands in various parts of Guanzhong, inspected cement plants, steel plants, the Weishui Power Station completed at the end of last year, etc.
Chen Mu has finished observing his filial piety and is accompanying him in Chang'an.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Ju Shu are also there. Now the only ones left in Luoyang are Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Zhong Yao and the newly promoted cabinet ministers such as Hua Xin, Shi Yi, Sun Shao. Their ability is more than enough to handle government affairs.
What's more, in addition to cabinet ministers, the current cabinet also has many subordinate support staff.
Sima Yi, Lu Yi, Chen Qun, Yang Xiu, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and other younger generations have now completed their journey from county officials, to county magistrates, to county magistrates, and to county magistrates. In recent years, they have returned one after another.
Cabinet, serving as the second-class counselor doctor.
Zhuge Liang, who is 44 years old this year, is one step ahead. Last year, he was transferred from the cabinet to Jizhou as the Zhengsanpinzhou Mucheng. He is responsible for Hebei's steel production capacity and economic development. In the next ten years, he may take over from Chen Mu.
To a certain extent, many people felt that this was a form of nepotism. Chen Mu was forcing his brother-in-law to take the position, and some people had impeached him on this matter, but he was suppressed by Liu Bei.
Liu Bei trusted Chen Mu's vision of people. Chen Mu said that after their group of old ministers left in the future, Zhuge Liang would lead the Han Dynasty to a broader future.
After completing the inspection work in various places in Guanzhong in the past few days, I discovered that no one had gone to Chang'an City yet, so I decided to visit.
Jushu had great affection for the city of Chang'an. He stayed in Chang'an for a long time in his early years, guarding Guanzhong, and made great contributions to Guan Yu's ability to pacify Guanzhong and Xiliang.
Many canals, granaries, and farm fields in various parts of Guanzhong were built when Jushou was in Guanzhong. Many officials in Jingzhao Yin were also promoted by him.
Everyone dressed up in disguise. Liu Bei wore a white silk T-shirt underneath and a black silk robe on the outside. It was not a double-breasted dress but had double-breasted buttons. It was a bit like the Tang suit worn by a certain treasure in later generations.
This is also a manifestation of the rapid progress in clothing development after the rise of the textile industry.
In ancient times, due to the lack of metal and plastic, ancient people did not choose to button their clothes. Instead, they chose to wrap themselves in cloth and tie it with a belt around their waists.
But now the steel industry and manufacturing industry are booming, and chemical physics and mathematics have been highly developed. Taishan Academy and Taixue, as well as the state schools gradually established in various states recently, are training a large number of professional students in this field every year.
People synthesized plastics from resins and other chemical materials, and buttoned clothes gradually became popular. In summer, Han people also tended to choose loose clothes instead of tying rice dumplings like before.
It is worth mentioning that due to the development of resin and chemical fiber materials, they were quickly applied after the emergence of plastics. In recent years, the Han Dynasty has begun to issue ID cards to all people.
Whenever Liu Bei visited a place, he liked to dress up in disguise and take Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Chen Mu, Jushou and others to visit them privately.
Although there were some local officials who had guessed that he would do this, they were afraid that the emperor would discover something that was not conducive to local officials, so they often sent people to monitor him.
But when it comes to spying, who can compare to the Military Intelligence Department?
Even though there were only a dozen of them plus their entourage, there were hundreds of military intelligence officers in charge of the surrounding area, spread all over the palace and near the hotel. Not to mention any officials who dared to spy on the emperor's whereabouts, even a passing fly had to spy on them.
The male and female were checked.
The six of them were all wearing summer uniforms. The double-bladed swords, Qinglong Yanyue Dao, Zhangba Snake Spear and Shizi Sword were all placed in the Taoyuan Palace. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Chen Mu all had small handguns on their waists.
This kind of firearm invented in the Yuan Dynasty has been greatly developed now. Although the breech-loading gun has not been invented yet due to some technical problems, the handgun is already considered the best firearm among small front-loading guns. It can be fired at a close range.
Can solve most crises.
Even if there is an assassination, the person will be shot down with one shot. If there are more people, hundreds of military intelligence officers will swarm around. Then there are tens of thousands of troops traveling with him in the palace. Firearms are strictly controlled and cannot flow into the civilian population. It is almost impossible to assassinate the emperor.
possible things.
Therefore, every private visit on Weibo went very smoothly, and we were often able to ask questions about local officials, government policies, and other problems encountered by the people from their mouths.
Along the way, we have severely punished many corrupt officials and incompetent officials, solved many problems, and done practical things for the people.
As usual, the group left Weiyang Palace and headed southwest.
After coming out of Zhangcheng Gate, there is already an outlying market connected to Chang'an City. There are many two- and three-story brick buildings on the streets. There are three six- and seven-story high-rise buildings, namely Wannian County Government Office,
Xidu Restaurant and.
Chang'an City has been expanded over the years and has jurisdiction over four counties: Chang'an County in the old city, Wannian County in the southwest, Changmen County in the southeast, and Yueyang County in the north, plus the surrounding Changling, Anling, and Yangling.
Maoling, Pingling, Baling, Duling and other county towns formed by many imperial tombs of the Western Han Dynasty guard Chang'an.
The most prosperous ones today are Wannian County and Changmen County. One of them is the old system of Abang Palace in the late Qin Dynasty, and the other is the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Wannian County started its business through trade with the Silk Road and is known as the Hu people.
The city is home to more than 80,000 merchants from the Western Regions and is full of exotic customs.
Changmen County in the southeast was Changmenting in the Han Dynasty, and a large number of docks were built due to its reliance on the Ba River. The original Chang'an City was some distance from the Wei River and the Ba River and could not rely on shipping, while Changmen County had the convenience of river transportation.
, started by relying on trade with Kanto.
In addition to being manufactured locally in Guanzhong, most of the goods shipped from Chang'an to the Western Regions were shipped to Chang'an from Guanzhong or Sichuan. Silk, porcelain, tea, exquisite knives, even tobacco and coffee have all become the mainstay of Western consumption.
Let me talk about something quite outrageous, that is, after the Silk Road has been running for so many years, drinking coffee and smoking tobacco have become a habit in the Roman Empire, which is 100,000 miles away.
Roman nobles were proud to drink tea and coffee, and to wear oriental silk clothes as a beauty. Army soldiers were equipped with oriental knives and armor as their first choice.
On the contrary, their own handmade products gradually declined, and the two sides formed a huge trade deficit.
Liu Bei and others entered Wannian County, where rows of streets were built along the river canals, with willow trees and shops lined up on the banks. At a glance, dozens of streets and lanes crisscrossed each other, like a bright star river.
Moreover, there are no city walls in Wannian County. In other words, since the tenth year of Zhang Wu, the cities newly established by the Han Dynasty have no such thing as city walls.
The road to urban expansion is no longer restricted by city walls, and the urban population and business population are also increasing day by day.
Streets are either paved with bluestone slabs or cement roads. Nowadays, many stone factories have adopted large-scale electric cutting machines. The principle is also very simple. Just like an electric fan, the current generates a magnetic field to drive the stator to rotate.
Many things that people think of as high-tech were actually invented very early. For example, after electricity was invented, thermal power stations were realized 40 years later, and hydroelectric power stations were realized 47 years later.
Electric lights, electric fans, and even air conditioners only appeared 70 years after the invention of electricity. Sometimes technology is like a layer of window paper. Once it is broken, there is nothing new.
There is a street lamp every twenty steps on the street, and the wires on the cement pillars are intertwined with the Han Dynasty houses and countless people coming and going below, reflecting a unique and peculiar scenery.
As everyone walked on the streets of Wannian County, Jushou's eyes were quite profound and also full of memories.
Guan Yu stroked his gray and white beard and chuckled: "Gongyu, I remember that this county was planned by you."
"Yeah, more than ten years have passed, but I didn't expect it to develop so fast."
Jushou sighed.
Liu Bei looked at the crowds of people coming and going on the street. Countless people from the Western Regions who looked different from the people in the Central Plains were passing by. He smiled and said: "The Western Capital is as prosperous as it is today. The public contribution is indispensable."
Jushou smiled and said: "This is all because Yunchang and Yide pacified the Western Regions. Otherwise, the merchants would not have come to Chang'an, nor would they have brought Chang'an today's glory."
Several people stepped into a neighborhood, and the soldiers at the door were checking the ID cards of passers-by to make sure they were correct before they were allowed to leave.
Because after Liu Bei came to Chang'an, the government began to implement strict inspections and curfews. The originally good security situation skyrocketed again. Many people who usually committed crimes were arrested in the prison. There was not even a single theft incident in the past few months. It can be said that it was the end of the war.
The rule of rope.
Although it will cause people to travel difficulties to a certain extent, such as having to queue for a long time to get in and out of Lifang every day. But there is nothing that can be done, and even Liu Bei did not blame the local officials for this.
It is interesting to say that a few people used commonly used forged ID cards to get through. It is also strange that the monarch of the Han Dynasty and several high-ranking ministers actually used forged ID cards to explore the public sentiment.
But as the saying goes, listening to both will lead to enlightenment, and partial belief will lead to darkness. If you just sit in the court and listen to the reports of officials, you are likely to be deceived.
Therefore, private visits and surveys by senior officials have become the norm.
Everyone entered the square smoothly. There was a steady flow of people in the square, and the streets were very clean. Businessmen and people coming and going, as well as the patrolling menxiadu thieves, that is, the patrol police under the jurisdiction of the local Weiyuan, were all walking along the street.
The planning of Chang'an City was already very prescient. Wannian County was surrounded by a market in the east and a horse market in the west. Most of the merchants from the Western Regions had horse teams, ranging from hundreds of horses or camels to tens of thousands.
If horses and camels are brought to the market, there will definitely be an impact. Therefore, the west side of the county is used for horses, and the east side is used as a market, and vehicles and laborers are used to transport them every day.
This move not only makes the urban appearance of Chang'an City very clean, but also gives more jobs and opportunities to workers in the city.
Along the way, Liu Bei was very satisfied and said to Jushou: "Gongyu, is this also part of your plan?"
Jushou smiled and said: "I did think about it when we first built it, but it was Zigui who reminded me that we would take back the Western Regions in the future and the Silk Road cannot be cut off. That's why I thought so."
"good."
Liu Bei stroked his beard and smiled, wandering around the city for a few times.
Zhang Fei noticed that there was a Western Restaurant in front of him, and his eyes widened when he saw Hu Ji dancing with her belly exposed at the door, and said, "Isn't this immoral?"
Chen Mu said with a smile: "Each place has its own folk customs. The Han Dynasty embraced the vast seas and rivers, so naturally it should accommodate national customs. If we force them to accept the Han folk customs, wouldn't they be different from bandits?"
Zhang Fei said quickly: "Then let's go experience the folk customs of the Western Regions."
Liu Bei rolled his eyes and said: "Okay, third brother, you are nearly sixty years old, how can you be disrespectful? Those sisters-in-law can be your granddaughters, let's just go to an ordinary restaurant to have a meal."
Zhang Fei was reluctantly dragged away by Guan Yu. In fact, he was not interested in the girl. He smelled the fragrance of the grape wine in Hu Lou.
A few people chose a restaurant, and the waiter at the door welcomed them in. It was lunchtime, and the aroma of food filled the restaurant.
Peanuts and soybeans have been widely planted in the north, and the technology for extracting peanut oil and soybean oil is also very mature. After the oil was added to the Han diet as a necessity for cooking, various dishes have spread all over the country.
As the capital of the West, Chang'an can obtain a large amount of raw materials through shipping and transportation. The restaurants have a variety of dishes, spicy or not, numb or numb, fragrant and fresh.
As soon as we entered the store, the gray-haired shopkeeper at the door greeted us with a smile and said, "Guys, the halls on the first and second floors are full, and there are private seats on the third floor."
"Then let's go to the third floor."
Liu Bei nodded and walked at the front.
The shopkeeper was about to ask the waiter to take them up. His eyes glanced at Jushou's face, and he was stunned for a moment. Then he quickly came out of the counter, raised his hands to Jushou and said, "Isn't it Mr. Juge?"
Jushou was quite puzzled. He didn't know when he was exposed, so he waved his hands and said, "The shopkeeper admitted the wrong person."
"Oh, it's really Mr. Ge."
It's okay if he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, the old shopkeeper bursts into tears and kowtows.
Everyone was puzzled for a moment, and the attendants around him quickly went up to help him.
Jushou said helplessly: "How did you recognize me?"
The old shopkeeper wiped his tears and said: "Twenty-three years ago, Ma Teng's troops invaded Chang'an. The Duke of Qin sent people to defeat those troops. Mr. Ge called us and other homeless people to help us build villages and cultivate land.
At that time, the villain rebuilt his farmland with the help of Ge Lao. The villain will always remember Ge Lao's heroic appearance."
"It's Mr. Juge."
"I heard that Mr. Ge accompanied the emperor on his inspection tour of Guanzhong, wouldn't he be here?"
"Look at that guy, he is General Guan who has been guarding Guanzhong for many years."
The commotion in the restaurant quickly affected the entire lobby. The originally bustling restaurant with dozens of tables suddenly became silent, with everyone whispering.
Only then did they notice that there were a large number of entourages behind the group of people. They were obviously not ordinary people coming to the restaurant to eat.
"Your Majesty, it's your Majesty!"
Suddenly an old man stood up among the crowd. This old man was celebrating his birthday today and there was no banquet, so his family took him to a restaurant to have a meal.
Unexpectedly, his eyes suddenly widened, he stood up tremblingly, knelt down and kowtowed: "The common people thank you for saving your life. Back then, Dong Zhuo looted the pass. If it weren't for your majesty, my whole family would have died without a burial place."
"See Your Majesty."
For a time, the people who were eating in the hall were sure that Liu Bei was among them, and they all stood up and saluted. Even the Hu merchants in the hall followed the same example and followed the Han people to kowtow to the emperor.
Everyone did not kowtow, but bowed and bowed their hands.
Previously, the hotel manager kowtowed to the octogenarian because of the great favor of saving his life, so he only bowed his head to him.
Liu Bei said helplessly: "Yes, I can't eat this meal, so go back to the palace."
After saying that, he waved his hands to everyone again: "Excuse me."
Xu Chu, who was outside the door, immediately walked in and said loudly: "Your Majesty paid a private visit incognito. Don't be surprised."
A few people left the restaurant. Although the shopkeeper asked to stay, he had to leave for fear of disturbing the people. Even today's private visit could only come to an end.
After coming out, I walked to the street, and it turned out that there was quite a commotion. The surrounding people came to attack one after another, many of them saluted, and many even kowtowed to thank Liu Beiju for granting Guan Yu and others the life-saving grace.
The three of them were very kind to the people in Guanzhong. Liu Bei saved many people when he was fighting against Dong in his early years. When Guan Yu and Jushu were in charge of Guanzhong, the people in Guanzhong were in dire straits. It was Guan Yu who drove away the bandits. After more than ten years of Jushu's governance, what is today is possible.
A brand new look for the film.
It can be said that their kindness to the people in Guanzhong is profound and will be remembered in our hearts.
Back in the palace, several people stood on the tower of Zhangcheng Gate, overlooking the city of Wannian County that stretched for dozens of miles in the distance. Jushou confessed to Liu Bei and said: "Your Majesty, I am disturbing your Majesty's elegant mood."
"Ha ha ha ha."
Liu Bei laughed and said: "If the people remember Gongyu's kindness, it means that Gongyu has done a good job in governing Guanzhong. How can I blame Gongyu?"
Jushou only felt lucky and said with tears of gratitude: "I am very lucky to be able to serve your Majesty."
Liu Bei looked around at the crowd and said seriously: "The prosperity of this great Han Dynasty today is also due to your contribution. This is a stroke of history that will be remembered for thousands of generations."
Jing Zhaoyin, who came after hearing the news, had been listening for a while and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."
"explain."
"The people in Guanzhong miss the kindness of His Majesty the Duke of Qin and the elders, and have petitioned many times to have a statue built in the city to commemorate it."
"It's ready."
Liu Bei nodded, this is the recognition of the people in Guanzhong, how can they not want it?
"Your Majesty, not allowed."
Jushou was immediately flattered and refused again and again.
You must know that at that time, public ministers often left monuments only after their death, which was a great honor. However, only those who had made particularly great achievements would leave monuments during their lifetime.
For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing conferred the title of Lang Juxu, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dou Xian Yanran Leshi, and Emperor Wu and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty conferred the title of Zen on Mount Tai. These were recorded in the form of inscriptions and their names were immortalized through the ages.
However, Jushu believed that he only contributed to the governance of Guanzhong, but did not have Huo Qubing and Dou Xian's expedition to the north of the Great Wall. Even Zhang Liao, who sent troops to Mobei, did not have such merits. How could he be able to leave a monument during his lifetime?
Liu Bei looked at him seriously and said: "You should enjoy your merits and deeds. What's more, this is the wish of the people. Do you want to go against the wishes of the people in Guanzhong?"
"His Majesty......"
Jushou felt his heart surge, his face was filled with tears, and his nose actually started to bleed. He kowtowed excitedly and said: "I am willing to die in repayment of Your Majesty's kindness throughout my lifetime."