Great Wei Nengchen

Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi are the sons of the prime minister's family, with noble status and a bright future. Even if the three princes and nine ministers meet them, they will take the initiative to salute them. Everyone knows in their hearts that after a few years, there may be a real dragon among the few sons. , Be more polite now, there will be many benefits in the future, otherwise, there may be disasters in the future!

This iron-clad principle is useful to all civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, except for Xiao Yi. Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi, Cao Xiong, and other princes of the Prime Minister's Mansion, as long as they are in front of him, they will take the initiative to salute and show respect. Very obedient!

In general, Xiao Yi is the chief minister of the dynasty, with a heavy army in his hand, and has a high prestige. His wealth is earned by real swords and guns. He has great military achievements and a solid future.

Personally speaking, he married the second lady of the prime minister's mansion, who is the brother-in-law of the Cao brothers. Let alone accepting salutes, it is not a big deal to whip them a few times. When the Cao brothers were sharpening in the army, I have enjoyed this kind of 'treatment', it can be described as a deep memory!

"In the past few years, you have gradually matured. You must work hard and work hard, otherwise the military law will be like a mountain, and you will never show mercy!"

Sitting in the big tent, Xiao Yi didn't have the slightest intention of getting up to return the salute. On the contrary, he scolded his little black face, swinging the whip back and forth in his hand, full of deterrent force!

It's not that he's pretending to be rude, but he really has a last resort. The brothers of the Cao family are so talented that they are ready to seize the reserve. There must be a battle between dragons and tigers. His weight is too heavy. No matter which side he stands on, it will trigger a political battle. What about an earthquake!

In desperation, Xiao Yi had no choice but to choose to be neutral, not to say unnecessary words, and not to approach any young master, to treat each other equally, and to speak coldly to each other, so as not to have adverse effects until the dust settled. benefit!

"Report to Eminent Sima, this is Princess Qiansui's plan, and my emperor's long live consent. The construction plan of Luoyang City, all projects are marked in detail, please act according to the order!"

In addition to the Cao family brothers, the court also sent dozens of officials, including veterans of the Han Dynasty who have experienced several dynasties, and skilled craftsmen who are proficient in design. They also brought a thick blueprint and several models of the palace. !

"Hehe!... The imperial city is majestic and majestic, and the palaces and towers are like a fairyland. Compared with the original Luoyang City, its momentum is three points better. Your Royal Highness is really ingenious!"

After flipping through a few pages of blueprints, Xiao Yi couldn't help but praise him. He never expected that this woman had such abilities. Then, in front of everyone, she tore up the blueprints a few times. Frightened with both hands, the sky was full of fragments. Gone with the wind...

"Tear it up?...Really tear it up!...Great Sima, please forgive me, the subordinates are just following orders!"

Seeing the flying confetti, all the officials were dumbfounded, and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. This was a drawing drawn by Her Royal Highness, and it was torn into pieces just like that. Ghost-faced Xiao Lang is so bold, this is a crime of disrespect!

"You don't have to be afraid, it's just repairing a city, why bother Her Highness the Princess, we, as ministers, should work hard on his behalf... If you blame me, I will take care of everything!"

Xiao Yi's plan to restore Luoyang City is a major event that benefits the country and the people, and no one can let people ruin the plan, not Her Royal Highness, nor the Emperor Lao Tzu!

"Promise!...The subordinate officials obey the orders of the Great Sima and dare not violate them!"

Everyone kowtowed and saluted again, and there was no objection. Her Royal Highness is powerful, and this "killing god" is even more difficult to provoke. Offending the former, it is only dismissed from office. Offending the latter, his head will be killed It's hard to guarantee, let's choose the lesser of two evils!

If you want to build a capital city, you can't do it without an overall plan. If the blueprint sent by the imperial court is torn up, then you can draw a copy yourself. Thinking of this, Xiao Yi took a pen and ink, and started to conceive of himself in the big tent of the Chinese army. Luoyang City in my heart, a unique oriental imperial capital!

In his previous life, he was a man of liberal arts. He failed the drafting exam six times, and he had no experience in building cities. can be copied...

"The four-square giant city is divided into inside and outside, with nine gates, each with its own use, a central axis, symmetrical left and right, squares and cities, exactly the same size, connected streets, horizontal and vertical, clear directions, and street signs pointing to them. get lost……"

Two hours later, a huge city construction map appeared in front of everyone. It was magnificent, solemn and orderly. Compared with the graphics designed by Princess Haiyan, it was far superior in terms of aesthetics and practicality. The diehards also have to admit that if it can be built successfully, this will undoubtedly be the largest city in ancient and modern times!

By the way, everyone's admiration for Xiao Yi has also been soaring all the way, especially the fourth son Cao Zhi, who almost knelt on the ground to learn art from a teacher. Everyone knows that Xiao Lang can sing poems and fight against opponents, and can go to battle to kill enemies. Unexpectedly, the design of the city is also first-class, what a genius!

"Everyone, according to the blueprint design, the new Luoyang City has complete functions, perfect defense, and a population of more than one million. It is definitely the largest city in the world. The first construction is..."

After enjoying everyone's adoring eyes, Xiao Yi hung up the blueprints, used his sword to wield his lecture stick, and began to explain in detail the design commemoration of New Luoyang City and the sequence of progress of the project!

According to the normal order, to build the capital of a country, the first is to plan the imperial city palace, then the arsenal, the granary, the official residence, the next is the street, the city, the city wall, the moat..., and finally the residential area for the common people. In a remote corner!

The city designed by Xiao Yi is just the opposite. The first thing to start is the residential area, to ensure that the common people have a place to live, the second is the inner and outer city walls, to defend against the enemy's attack, and the last is the official yamen. , As for the Royal Garden of the Imperial City, there is no design at all on the drawings, only a large blank area is left!

The people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least... This is Xiao Yi's design concept. The purpose of restoring Luoyang City is to form a complete defense system with Xuchang in the east and Chang'an in the west, and control the Central Plains. The rise and fall of the Liu family is not within the scope of consideration!

"Great Sima is pedantic about heaven and man, and the city system he designed is perfect, and the officials are also very impressed... But, dare to ask how the palace where His Majesty lives is constructed?"

After hesitating for a long time, everyone finally put on the courage and raised a question. Isn't it unreasonable that there is no imperial palace in the capital of a country?

"Such a magnificent Luoyang City will not be built in a short time. Let's build the houses and city walls first. As for the imperial city, someone will build it in the future!"

Xiao Yi looked at the design drawing and determined a timetable in his mind... After 20 years, a new king will surely enter the city and fill the remaining blank space!

Chapter 797 Restoring the Eastern Capital

"Pangu opened the world, and the Chinese established the foundation... Yohei!"

"King Yu ruled the floods, and the nine tripods were cast in bronze... Yohei!"

"Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Xia, Shang and Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States gatherings of hundreds of families... Yohei!"

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The spring breeze blew, the ice and snow melted, and a trickle flowed to moisten the earth. When the young grass broke through the ground and the earth turned green again, the restoration project of Luoyang City began!

The scale of the project is huge, and more than [-] people have been invested. There are refugees coerced from Hebei, civilian husbands recruited from various counties and counties, and armored soldiers sent by the imperial court. Under the command of officials big and small, they shouted The old labor chant is busy on the construction site!

When the project started, problems also appeared. First, the houses were severely damaged and tents were in short supply. In desperation, the peasants had to sleep in the wilderness, with the sky and the earth as their beds, and the sun and the moon as their companions. Rely on heating!

Secondly, Luoyang was seriously deserted and could not provide enough food, so it could only be raised from various places. Because of the impact of the war, and the problem of roads, it was very difficult to transport food, and it was even more difficult to distribute it to several 10 people. In order to fill the stomach , have the strength to work, people continue to lower the ration standard!

Wheat cakes, rice bran, beans, wild vegetables, leaves, grass roots... everything that can be eaten is collected, and after a little cooking, it becomes the main food of the peasants. If you can catch a few hares and mice, That's a great appetizer!

There are also construction tools, which are also shabby and heartbreaking. In this era, there are no machinery and equipment, and there are no heavy trucks. There are only primitive tools such as shovels, shovels, pliers, and hammers. Relying on people's flesh and blood, a little Beating stones little by little, moving soil, some people even died of exhaustion on the construction site!

The environment is harsh, the food is insufficient, and the tools are simple. Faced with all kinds of difficulties, people still burst out with great enthusiasm. They don't need officials to supervise them at all. The peasants sweat and work for more than eight hours a day. Most importantly, no one complains. Tired, and no one escaped, which is unique in the projects of all dynasties!

Only those who have experienced war know the value of peace, and those who have seen the destruction of the city will be more enthusiastic about construction. In the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people, what they built is not just a Luoyang city, but a beautiful home for them in the future!

"Thousands of horses and horses, galloping freely, peerless famous generals, fierce battles on the battlefield... nothing can match the sweat of the people. Construction is always greater than destruction, and it is more heartfelt!"

Looking at the labor scene in full swing, Xiao Yi couldn't help tears in his eyes. There were constant wars in the land of China, and many civilizations were destroyed once, but the descendants of Yan and Huang rose repeatedly from the ruins, relying on their diligence, intelligence, and hard-working spirit!

In the vast history, there have been many brave and warlike nations, the Huns, Turks, Mongols, Jurchens in the East, the Romans, Macedonians, Aryans, Gauls, Slavs in the West... , With their bravery, they all built huge empires, but they were short-lived, and soon disappeared without a trace!

Only the Han people in the east are brave and industrious. In addition to fighting on the battlefield, they can endure hardships and stand hard work, and know how to build their homes. Therefore, we have the Great Wall that spans thousands of miles, the Grand Canal that connects the north and the south, and the four great inventions that affect mankind... Thousands of years have passed, China is still China, proud of the universe, immortal!

With a lot of emotion, compassion and compassion, shed a few tears of sadness, and finally the one who is useless - is the white-faced scholar!

With great ambitions and good plans, he can solve countless difficulties one by one - he is an army of iron and blood!

Difficulties are for customer service, not for lamentation. Xiao Yi used his brain and used the wisdom of the traveler to solve various difficulties. If the tent is not enough, then dig the cellar and choose a place with thick and dry soil. Dig a three-foot-long and one-bath-wide pit, lay hay on the bottom, cover tree branches on the top, keep out the wind and keep warm, and live in a dozen people without being crowded!

If there is not enough food, then find a way to raise it. Xiao Yi used his personal relationship to contact the Zhen family in Hebei, the Liang family in Jixian County, and the Mi family in Xuzhou. Send it to Luoyang City!

At the same time, Xiao Yi led thousands of soldiers in the army to launch a large-scale hunt in the Beiman mountain area. In the royal garden back then, because no one hunted, the beasts multiplied extremely fast. Tigers, wolves, goats, elk... They are in groups, just to supplement the nutrition of the peasants, how can they do high-intensity physical work without eating meat!

The tools are simple, so you can invent them yourself. At any rate, you are a person who has gone to college, and the basic knowledge of mechanics is no problem. Heavy trucks cannot be built. Using the principle of sliding, it is still no problem to get a few gantry cranes, as well as shovels and dump trucks. , leather ash bucket, iron foam...all are cross-age inventions, simple and easy to use, people are dumbfounded, some craftsmen even painted a portrait of Xiao Yi, worshiped in the morning and evening, and called it "the ancestor of the craftsman" ! '

The small problem has been solved, but there are still three major problems that bother everyone and affect the progress of the project:

First of all, in order to restore Luoyang City, all parts of the country are raising supplies, and then transport them along the Yellow River waterway and land at the Luoshui Wharf. The problem is that there is still more than 30 miles from the wharf to the Luoyang construction site, and so many materials are transported , is not an easy task!

Secondly, repairing a huge city requires a lot of wood and loess, and these things have to be transported, especially the huge logs, which grow in the deep mountains, which are difficult to cut and even more difficult to transport!

Finally, Luoyang has been ravaged by war, and there are broken bricks and tiles everywhere. If you want to build a new urban area, you must clean up the ruins and need a lot of manpower to transport them!

Some people have estimated that the three transportations combined will require at least 30 people, and it will take more than two years to barely complete it. As for the cost of money and food, it is countless!