The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Xia Jing recalled the current situation in the capital, "Now the capital is still short of population, everyone talk about how to change the current situation? If you have any good suggestions, come out and discuss with everyone."

Although tens of thousands of herdsmen were plundered from the grasslands, tens of thousands were resettled in various areas of the capital, but there were really not many of them.

Otherwise, the soldiers of Gyeonggi Daying would not be able to race horses in the streets of the capital city.

Long Yutian stroked his neatly trimmed beard, "In fact, many people who fled south from the Gyeonggi area survived. After the Gyeonggi area was recovered, the reason why they did not come back was probably because of the lack of security. They were afraid that Beidi or The rebels counterattacked and once again dragged the Gyeonggi area into the flames of war, and they finally returned to Gyeonggi and had to flee."

Xia Jing agreed: "The supervising army is right. In the final analysis, the court's credibility is not enough. The people don't believe that the court can keep the Gyeonggi area. What can we do to break this deadlock? What do you think?"

After eating and drinking enough, Li Chengyi said while waving his fan: "Since the people don't believe that we have the ability to protect them, why not fight a few victories and let the whole world see that Master Wang is not weak and has enough ability to protect them well." !"

Li Chengmu listened to the words of the fourth brother Li Chengyi, and nodded in agreement.

He expressed his opinion: "During the time we came to Gyeonggi, we severely damaged the grassland Beidi twice, and changed the equipment for the frontier army in Bingzhou. All the ordnance and armor were replaced with stainless steel, which was enough for the frontier army to resist Beidi. And we just took advantage of the autumn harvest to encircle and suppress the rebels entrenched in Yuzhou, if we can't encircle and suppress them, we will drive them to Yanzhou and Qingzhou!"

Anyway, they are not given the opportunity to harm the Central Plains again.

Long Yutian looked at Li Chengmu with relief: "My minister supports His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Xia Jing looked at the people sitting at the bottom and saw that everyone was gearing up. She smiled and said to Yuan Rongcheng: "Rongcheng, you are responsible for writing a letter to your father and asking him to Chen Bing at the border between Jingzhou and Yuzhou. Yuzhou launches an attack, then, let him adapt accordingly, and don't let the rebels take the opportunity to flee to Jingzhou!"

"Okay, I will make arrangements when I get back." Yuan Rongcheng agreed.

In the past few months, everyone has lived in peace, and more importantly, everyone is worrying about food and grass.

The rebels occupy Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou. There was a severe drought in the past few years, so this year's rain is a little more normal. Before the autumn harvest, the rebels don't want to start a war, because the war will double the consumption of food and grass. They are nourishing their energy. Rui, wait until after the autumn harvest when there is food and grass before expanding the territory.

Gyeonggi is fine. The soldiers and horses led by Xia Jing, food and grass are all stored in the early stage. They are transported from Nanyang and Annan to Lingnan, and then transferred from Lingnan to Gyeonggi area.

Before the autumn harvest, they have no worries about food and grass for the time being.

Long Yutian was not sure about Xia Jing's thoughts on Jizhou and Youzhou, so he asked softly: "Empress, should we inform the governors of Jizhou and Youzhou, and let them take precautions, so that the rebels don't rush from Yanzhou at that time?" Entered Jizhou."

Xia Jing glanced at him and said decisively, "No need!"

When they start a war with the rebels, all forces in the world will know that there is no need to make a special notice, and they will protect their own territory without telling them!

You must know that once they lose their jurisdiction, they will lose everything. For the sake of their lives, they will desperately resist! ——
In the first year of Mingxi, on the sixth day of the seventh month, Li Jingfu, the modest king of the Dayu Dynasty, succeeded to the throne and formally ascended the throne as emperor.

At the same time, Li Jingfu issued an edict to the world: canonize the princess Xia as the queen, and the fifth son Li Chengmu as the prince.Due to Dayu's internal and external troubles, the empress and prince were specially approved to live in the capital temporarily, commanding the Gyeonggi area, and contributing to the stability of the world.

In mid-July of the same year, Xia Jing ordered Li Chengmu to be the general of counter-insurgency, Long Yutian to be the supervising army, Feng Tu to be the left deputy general, Sha Yuliang to be the right deputy general, and Sima Lu's sons Sima Yi and Ding Dazhuang to be the left and right vanguards. One hundred thousand soldiers marched south to suppress the rebellion.

The army went south, and the capital became even more empty.

Taking advantage of the free time before the autumn harvest, Xia Jing wandered the streets and alleys of the capital, and basically figured out the layout of the capital.

Except for the inner city, the outer city is basically distributed according to the east rich and the west rich, and the south poor and the north cheap.

The buildings in the east and west areas of the outer city are exquisite, and the north and south urban areas are basically low-rise houses, stinky water, and narrow lanes.

These areas greatly affect the appearance of the city. Xia Jing really wants to carry out urban renovation, but the current situation does not allow her to make large-scale construction projects.

Xia Jing found out about the capital, and said that large-scale construction projects were not allowed in the north of the city, but the streets not far from the four city gates in the east, west, north, and south did not say no.

"Your Majesty, you have been in the capital for a few days. If there is anything you need to do, you can ask your slaves to do it."

Hongmei followed Xia Jing around the capital for a few days, and her legs became thinner.

Xia Jing glanced back at her, gritted her teeth and insisted, "No, I have my own plan."

After returning to the palace, Xia Jing stayed in the study, writing and drawing, which made the two maids confused. They didn't know what the queen was doing?
Two days later, Xia Jing handed several blueprints to Ye Fei: "Here are the four blueprints, please ask someone to have a look and see if anyone can build them?"

Ye Fei took the drawings and read them carefully. The four drawings are four four-story buildings.

Ye Fei is no stranger to such buildings, and has built many such houses in the north of Lingnan City.

"Your Majesty chose these places close to the city gate to build a house, because she wants to open an inn in these places?"

"Well, I want to open a few high-end inns that integrate accommodation, dining and entertainment after the building is completed."

Of course, there are not many entertainment activities in this era, mainly singing, drinking operas and storytelling.

The building area is very large. If it is built, it will be one of the few large inns in the capital, whether it is for accommodation, meals and entertainment.

She handed over the construction of the inn to Ye Fei, and Xia Jing sent a letter to Ding Daqiang who was far away in Jiankang.

Jiankang's various businesses are doing well, and the shops and factories are on the right track. Ding Daqiang only needs to hand over the management to the capable assistants below.

As for himself, the capital needs him more.

Xia Jing couldn't be free, Wei Dong helped with the government affairs of the capital, and when she was free, she asked people to hire bricklayers and idle laborers. All the streets and alleys in the eastern and western urban areas were arranged to lay cement roads.

Ye Fei reluctantly took the street paving drawings, "Ma'am, the buildings in these two urban areas are very elegant and the houses are also strong. Since no one has lived in them for more than a year, except for more weeds in the garden, everything else remains the same. What is the purpose of putting so much effort in laying the concrete road?"

Xia Jing propped her cheeks, and said with a smile: "Actually, I would rather have concrete roads in the whole city. If that's the case, people's shoes won't get dirty or wet when they go out on rainy days."

And the most important point is that these houses belong to her now. Before no one comes to Beijing, she paves the streets first. When the real powerful families come to the capital, they have to pay to buy the real estate if they want to take it back.

The roads in the eastern and western urban areas are paved with cement roads, not for the convenience of selling them at a high price in the future, so as to subsidize the national treasury.

We must know that Dayu will belong to his own son in the future. As a mother, she can only save some working capital for him if her body allows it.
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On the post road from Jingzhou to the Gyeonggi area, several green cloth carriages were parked by the side of the road, and a weak cough could be heard on one of the carriages.

A man from outside the carriage got in with water. Two quilts were spread on the couch of the carriage, and a haggard old man lay on it.

The man's name is Zuo Houping, he is from the capital city, and the old man lying on the wooden couch is his old father, who broke down from running away from the famine last year, and before he died, he clamored for Ye Luo to return to his roots, insisting on returning to the capital from the comfortable Jingzhou.

Zuo Houping helped the old man up: "Father, come and drink some hot water. If you persist, one day we will be able to enter Gyeonggi."

The old man drank some hot water and was short of breath but fortunately he didn't cough again. After hearing what Da'er said, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said angrily, "It's great, finally I'm back to the hometown where I was born and raised. "

"Father, you must persevere!" Having reached this point, Zuo Houping had no choice but to encourage the old man. He was really afraid that after taking 99 steps, his father would not be able to make it to the last step, and it would be troublesome if he died halfway. up!

When his father died, he would enter the coffin with regrets, which he did not want to see.

After the old man rested, the brothers drove a few carriages and continued on their way.

Three days later, they finally arrived in the capital.

There were several convoys at the gate of the city waiting to enter the city after the inspection, and Zuo Houping could only wait in line honestly.

He asked his brother to watch the convoy, and he himself went to the front team to check the situation. After asking, the first few convoys were all caravans.

When they heard that Gyeonggi had been recovered, they organized a team to deliver supplies, just to make some money in the unpopular capital.

When the merchants react, the capital will not know how fierce the competition is.

Zuo Houping returned to his carriage and said with emotion to his brother: "A businessman's nose is always the most sensitive. Whenever he smells a business opportunity, even the flames of war can't stop them from earning money. We are returning to the capital at the request of our father this time." , I don’t know if it’s right or wrong?”

After hearing his words, the Zuo family brothers felt uncertain: "The empress and prince are all in the capital, so the capital should be safe."

Being an emperor can't put a country's prince in a dangerous place, right? Didn't the sage say that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall? If the Gyeonggi area is really in danger, the queen and the prince will definitely not stay in the capital.

Of course, it is not credible to say that the capital is absolutely safe. In times of war, any place may be unsafe.

The capital is a bit different from what they imagined.

When they stopped at the gate of the city and waited to enter the city, they discovered that the road under their feet was not ordinary.

As a result, after entering the city, the main street running from east to west was completely paved with this kind of concrete road.

The street is flat, and the horse-drawn carriage does not feel the bumps when walking on it, which is very comfortable.

The only dissatisfaction is probably that there are many carriages transporting sand and soil passing by on the road, so there is a lot of dust on the street.

"The road that was previously potholed by carriages and pedestrians has been completely paved. This thing called cement is amazing!" Li Houping noticed the situation outside from the car window.

"Transporting so much sand and gravel into the city, is the city under construction?" The second child of the Li family was even more curious about where the sand and gravel transported into the city were used.

No one in the car answered this question, because everyone had just entered the city, and no one knew what was going on in the city.

No need to ask anyone, they soon noticed a lot of laborers coming out of the alley by the side of the road. They were all paving the road in the alley. It was already lunch time, and these laborers were going to eat.

Li Houping noticed that the clothes of many people were different from those of the Central Plains people. "Second brother, look at the clothes of these people. I think they look like the clothes of Beidi. Could it be that these laborers were taken captive from Beidi?"

"It's possible!"

The brothers were chatting while driving the car to look for an inn in the city.

I searched many streets but did not find any inn, so I had no choice but to ask the yamen servant on the side of the road.

They learned from the yamen servants that there are no inns, restaurants, or grocery stores in the capital at present.

The enemy's strong wall and clear field are done very well.

"There are no shops, what should we do if we want to stay?"

The yamen servant patiently pointed to the yamen not far away: "There are not many other things in the capital, but there are many houses. If you come to the capital and have no place to live, you can live in the homes of ordinary people, or go to the yamen to buy a yard or a shop." !"

Li Houping hesitated for a moment, and then said: "If you don't understand, just ask. We used to have a house in the capital, but the imperial court moved south, and the house under our name was also abandoned in the capital. Now that we are back, we can still live in the original house." house?"

Asking this sentence, it can be seen that he also knew Xia Jing's announcement to the world, and he also knew the content of it.

The yamen servant finally came across someone who asked for directions, and he replied patiently: "If you want to live in your own house, it's not impossible, but now the entire capital city didn't come to the capital for a month at that time, the real estate and money under his name After returning to the public, if you want to live in the original house again, you can only go to the government office to register and buy your own real estate back."

When the Li family heard this, they all wanted to stand up and scold their mothers. This is even more rampant than thieves.

"This house originally belonged to our family. Why do you want to go back to your own house now, and you have to pay money to live in it?"

The yamen servant only accepted the questioning on the street this time, and after listening to his words, he explained: "From the day the capital fell, when you abandoned the capital and fled south, all the property in the capital went into Beidi's pockets." , the queen empress led the crown prince to snatch it back from Beidi through untold hardships, and the property she snatched back was sold at a low price to those of you who want to make a home in the capital, what's wrong?"

"Besides, the money from selling the shop and the house was used by my mother to build the capital, such as paving roads, repairing the city wall, digging ditches, etc., all using the money in this account."

So Niangniang is called taking from the people and using it for the people.

The brothers of the Li family gasped when they heard this. All the properties in the Gyeonggi area are under the queen's name. So how much will she earn from this property in the next few years?
can not imagine!