Poor Family Chapter 807

  Chapter 807 Move the capital to discuss

Although the south city of Bianliang, Tokyo has been opened, there are still ruins outside the north city. The plague virus like death is still wandering outside the north city, looking for opportunities to enter the city and wreak havoc. People dare to enter.

  The corpses of hundreds of sick soldiers who escaped from the Jinbing isolation camp have been found one after another. They are all not far from the isolation camp. The farthest soldier fled to the woods south of Chenqiao Town, 20 miles away from the isolation camp.

  At the same time, nine people infected with the disease have been found in the city. The Zhizheng Hall officially approved the resolution of the Provisional Yizheng Hall and evacuated 500,000 people to the south.

   At this time, the voice of moving the capital rose again in the capital.

At the same time, the long-dormant business has also resumed, mainly catering. The Yiku Ghost Teahouse located on Panlou Street is also one of the famous teahouses in the capital. The mountain has become the source of water for various teahouses in the capital.

  Although the talk of the epidemic in the city has changed, and the government advised the people to go out as little as possible, it still couldn't stop the tea lovers' enthusiasm for gossip. At noon, the ghost teahouse was full of customers.

  The guests in the teahouse talked enthusiastically, and the main topic was moving the capital.

An old guest took a sip of the tea, put down the teacup in his hand, and said softly, "My son is the deputy supervisor of Hangzhou Xingong. I received a letter from him yesterday. The palace was completed last month and it was built in Fenghuang. Although the palace on the hill is a little smaller than the palaces in Tokyo, if you remove the Yanfu Palace, the palaces and pavilions are actually similar, except that the imperial city where the imperial court is located is a little smaller, so it can only be expanded slowly in the future."

   "Mr. Gong, do you mean that the imperial court really wants to move the capital?"

   "Of course, the palace has been repaired. Wouldn't it be a waste not to move the capital?"

   "It's not bad to be a companion!"

  At this time, a tea merchant stood up and said, "Everyone, I just came from Qiantang County, Hangzhou, let me say a few words!"

Everyone quieted down, and the tea merchant said with a smile: "The fan tower has been built by the West Lake, which is exactly the same as the fan tower in Tokyo, but it's called Fengle Lou. Qingfenglou, Baoyanzhai, Jujinyinshop, let's put it this way! The shops on Yujie have all appeared by the West Lake, and the shopkeepers, shopkeepers, and tea prostitutes are all original people. On the east bank of the West Lake, your mansion The houses are more exquisitely built. Walking in Qiantang County, it feels like returning to Tokyo. The accent is completely the same as here, and the locals have to roll their tongues to speak official words. There is no moving the capital, but in fact it is no different from moving the capital, just waiting for the emperors and concubines to pass by."

  The lobby fell silent, at this moment, someone suddenly said angrily: "If we move the capital to Hangzhou, what will happen to our real estate in Tokyo? Will the wealth accumulated by generations of hard work be gone like this?"

The shopkeeper leaned on the counter and said, "Mr. Jia, everyone is the same. Two years ago, my small house in Xiwai City was worth tens of thousands of dollars, but now? The house is still empty, but it is no longer worth much. If anyone wants it, I'll sell it to him for 500 yuan. Our family is lucky. At least the house is still there. It's even worse in Beiwai City. There's nothing left and it's been razed to the ground. It's just a joke."

The tea merchant also said: "The shopkeeper is right. I went to Xicheng yesterday, and the most luxurious Cai Xiangguo's mansion in the past has been burned down. It was a mansion built with millions of dollars. When there is a war, only gold Silver is useful, but even luxurious houses and land will be worthless. Smarter people went to Hangzhou to buy land early. I heard that Li Yuanwai of Baoyanzhai bought 3,000 mu of land by the West Lake a few years ago, and now it has increased Ten thousand times."

   "Ten thousand times higher, no way!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Why not? When Fang La's rebellion approached Hangzhou, houses were being sold everywhere in Qiantang County. A ten-acre house by the West Lake could be bought for a hundred pennies, and an acre of land was only ten pennies. Now it is by the West Lake. One mu of house land can't be bought for one hundred thousand yuan, so wouldn't it be ten thousand times higher?”

   "Then Li Yuanwai has become the richest man in the world?"

   "Almost! They have foresight and dare to hoard a large amount of land when the land price in Hangzhou is the lowest. There is also the Cao family who bought Fenghuang Mountain at that time, and now donate it to build the palace. I don't know how to repay this favor!"

Talking about houses, many people are tempted, and they have to take advantage of some spare money and go to Jiangnan to buy real estate. If Hangzhou can't afford it, they go to Suzhou or Changzhou or Jiangning. Everyone realizes that moving the capital is a foregone conclusion. It's too late to start.

  While the common people were discussing moving the capital, a formal court meeting was also held in the Ziwei Hall to discuss the matter of moving the capital.

This is a small court meeting. There are not many ministers participating in the court meeting, but they are all important ministers above the third rank. In addition to the six prime ministers, there are Taiwei Li Yanqing, Sun Fu, Minister of the Ministry of War, Lu Haowen, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Li Ruoshui, Hu Huang Qianshan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Boyan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wu Ge, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Zhang Shuye, Minister of the Ministry of War, Lu Yundi, a scholar of Guanwendian, He Jiao, a scholar of Baohedian, Geng Yanxi, a scholar of Longtuge, Yin Nieshan of Kaifeng, Taichang There are more than 20 people including Qing Li Yan and Yushi Zhongcheng Xu Han.

In fact, moving the capital has been a consensus between the ruling and opposition parties, including the two empress dowagers, that is, the empress dowager Zheng and the empress dowager Wei, who have successively issued decrees to agree to move the capital. The outbreak of the epidemic is certainly one aspect, and the powerful and powerful moved southwards is also an important reason, but the more important reason is the threat of war. , Hebei and the Central Plains have become the main battlefields of the Song and Jin battles. The capital, as a centralized power, is in any case inappropriate to be placed in the place of the Fourth World War, which was seriously threatened and completely destroyed by the war.

  So moving the capital has become a resolution, now we need to discuss when and how to move the capital?

   "Li Taiwei, please share your opinion on the timetable for moving the capital!" Zhao Gou looked at Li Yanqing who was sitting in the first row, and asked him to express his opinion with a smile.

Li Yanqing stood up and saluted, "Your Majesty, ministers, relocation is a major event. There are many issues to consider, and we must try to cover everything as much as possible. Therefore, it is impossible to complete the relocation in a short time. It is now May, and the next icy There is still half a year left in the period. If the Jin soldiers invade the south again, it will probably be at the end of the year. At that time, winter will enter and the impact of the plague will basically weaken. That is to say, we have about half a year. According to the principle of post-mortem, first move the personnel to the south, and then proceed with the relocation of various materials, and strive to complete the various matters of the capital relocation within three months."

   "Then will the Jin soldiers come to sneak attack during our capital move?" Li Gang asked.

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said: "It is possible, but due to the impact of the epidemic, even if the Jin soldiers come to sneak attack, it will be a small-scale harassment, and they will not go south on a large scale. We need to make defensive preparations by the Yellow River to ensure the smooth progress of the capital relocation. .”

  Zhao Gou nodded, "The defense arrangements are under the full responsibility of Li Taiwei and the Privy Council. In addition, Fan Xianggong will tell you about the steps to move the capital!"

Fan Zhixu is the general person in charge of moving the capital. He mobilized more than 30 officials from six ministries and nine monasteries to set up the Capital Relocation Department, which is in charge of all matters. I will come out, and I can roughly talk about the steps to move the capital."

  The hall fell silent, and everyone listened carefully to Fan Zhixu's report.

"Yesterday we issued a ship requisition order to the southern states, requiring all ships of more than 100 stone to be transferred to the capital. At present, more than 800 ships have been collected from the three states of Cai, Chen, and Ying, and they are rushing to the capital. It is estimated that they will be collected eventually. There are more than ten thousand ships, which is a strong guarantee for the transportation of the capital. At that time, merchants and ordinary people can rent official ships when they move south, and the elderly can also go south by boat. We will carefully arrange these. In fact, we only consider moving the capital from Tokyo. The matter is not complicated. There has been a wave of relocation since the year before last. The relocation of the rich and powerful families in the capital has basically been completed. Now it is just the relocation of ordinary civilians. "

   "Excuse me, Mr. Fan, what does Daqian mean?" Li Yanqing asked puzzled.

Fan Zhixu sighed softly, "The Great Relocation is a scene that no one wants to see, including Kaifeng Mansion, Luoyang Mansion, Jingbei Road, Jingdong Road, Huainan East Road, Hedong Road and Shaanxi Road, that is, The retreat of the Han people in the entire area south of the Yellow River can be referred to the southward migration of the Han people in the Western Jin Dynasty, which cannot be controlled by the imperial court, just like the people in Hebei fleeing south, it is unpredictable and inevitable."

   "What about the arrangement on the way to the south?" Zhao Gou frowned and asked.

"Your Majesty, since yesterday, the evacuation of 500,000 people has been started, but this evacuation is combined with the relocation of the capital. Most of the people choose to go to the south of the Yangtze River. Basically, the government along the way is responsible for distributing porridge and medicine. We A thousand Tai students were mobilized, and more than 50 officials were mobilized to ensure that there would be a porridge shed every ten miles and a medical rescue tent every twenty miles on the three official roads.

As for the resettlement of the people after going south, they are mainly placed on Liangzhe Road, Jiangnan East Road, and Jiangnan West Road. The relief on the government road can only last for half a year, and it will end in winter. If it is the southward migration in the next few years, the government will not be able to take care of them on the road, but can only take care of them in resettlement. "

   "Then when did the imperial court move south?"

"Your Majesty, the southward relocation of the imperial court is divided into two steps. First, the inner palace is moved southward, and then the imperial officials are moved southward. When the ships from Caizhou and other places arrive, let the palace people bring their belongings to the south by boat first, and the artifacts in the palace will be transported later." .”

  (end of this chapter)

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