Chapter seven hundred and twenty four. three years
Rome was not built in one day, but with 400,000 men and women's labor force, Chang'an City can be built in three years!
If there was a high-speed camera far facing the central axis of Chang'an City, and since Wang Hou and Cao Zhang laughed and left, it would be like a group of magical ants appearing on the street. In the crackling and ramming, the 33-meter-old Mr. Cao's statue was piled up bit by bit and rose up from the ground. Finally, it stood in Chang'an City like a giant, and finally it was like being sunburned. The originally cement-colored skin robe turned into bronze.
Under his broad clothes and big robe and majestic gaze, Chang'an City, which was originally towering in the city wall, also changed rapidly. It was also when these ants hurriedly moved and reclamated. Walls like square lattices on both sides of the road emerged neatly. Then the ground that was originally weeds was quickly paved with small stones, and then cement was poured on it, and then smoothed inch by inch.
In this design, Wang Hou also considered urban water supply and sewage discharge for the first time. None of the yards built underground sewage channels. The well water dug out of each yard was lifted up with a water truck, and then led to the intersection with high canals. Each street had a canal. Although it was far less convenient than tap water in later generations, it was much more convenient than Yecheng and old Chang'an.
Then, Wang Yexiang's name was even louder in Chang'an City. There was no night ban in the new Chang'an City, but Timo's night scent must be sent to the Yexiangku in the market on time and at a fixed time every week, the government will send people to transport them collectively outside the city by carts.
Under the influence of composting, the night fragrance pulled out by these Chang'an people was squeezed out of saltpeter by Wang Hou, and then the fermented farm fertilizer was reapplied to the fertile fields of the Wei River near Chang'an, and finally ate them back to the belly of Chang'an people, perfect grain reincarnation.
When Cao Cao accepted Wang Hou as the Great Station of Guanzhong, he probably did not expect that Wang Hou would really pacify Guanxi in the three years he stipulated. In five years, a prosperous Chang'an City really rose again. The city's permanent population was 160,000 households and more than 500,000 people, and it was still increasing. The tax revenue of Chang'an City officially exceeded Yecheng this year.
Wang Hou has begun to return to his original position!
In addition to the feat of building Chang'an City, Wang Hou also unlocked a great achievement. Not only did the Qiang Rebellion that had disrupted Guanxi for more than a hundred years was calmed down in his hands, but even the Qiang Di Hu people, who had a population of nearly one million in Guanxi, quickly fell to only more than 200,000 remaining in the Hexi Corridor and where Wang Hou's tentacles could not be completely covered by Wang Hou's tentacles in Hanzhong.
Of course, these people were not slaughtered, but were almost all Chineseized!
The Qiang people in Longshang, who were fortunately not moved by Wang Hou, now have regrets. Compared with the governor of Liangzhou or the Qiang guards who had ruled Qiang in previous dynasties, the biggest difference between Wang Hou is that they did not allow the suppressed Qiang people to die on their own, but instead gave them valuable job opportunities.
When building Chang'an City, one person can earn a total of half a stone of grain in a month. Twelve cents of money a year are equivalent to eight years of farming in Longshan. With money in hand, the Qiang people who originally lived in tents began to buy houses and land in Chang'an City, and also built two-story cement buildings and small fields with yards.
Moreover, the construction of Chang'an City does not mean that they have lost their jobs. Wang Hou also needs a lot of manpower to manage the Wei River and the Yan River in the Loess Plateau. It is completely different from the previous government's use of work, and they are all given money and grain.
And thanks to the children in Dongqiang for giving Wang Hou the gift that Wang Hou had found the first pillar industry for his newly built Chang'an City!
Oil press!
Looking at the hot-selling soybean oil sold by Wang Hou in the first year, you can tell how blank the oil market in the Han Empire was. This was obtained by friends who picked it from somewhere, and when did the rapeseed flowers from the Western Regions be picked by Wang Hou?
Guanxi also has unique conditions for growing rapeseed flowers. The Loess Plateau of Yulin, Yan'an, was originally the territory of the Dongqiang. However, with the great development of Chang'an, the land near the Wei River was re-irrigated and cultivated, and it was particularly lacking in labor. With Wang Hou's opening policy, most of the 200,000 to 300,000 Dongqiang people walked out of the relatively barren Loess Plateau and went to the Guanzhong Plain to make a living.
The cultivation of rapeseed flowers does not require land and the demand for water is not high. Just loosen the land and sprinkle rapeseeds. After the Dongqiang people withdrew, Wang Hou organized the manpower to establish the Guanzhong Oil Industry Chamber of Commerce, and then organized the seeds on the already deserted and empty Loess Plateau and plant rapeseed flowers on a large scale.
Then Wang Hou's light industry achievements unlocked a major monopoly trophy. The rapeseed oil produced by millions of rapeseed flowers can monopolize nearly 70% of the market, which is only slightly inferior to the cotton textile industry in southern Qingzhou, which accounts for 96% of the cotton fabric production in the Han Empire.
Now there are more than 20 workshops in Chang'an, which is oil pressing, with more than 400 large and small oil pressing workshops. The oil produced is sold directly to Qingzhou and Liaodong, south to Jingzhou, north to Guihua City, which also allows those grasslands who have been eating meat oil for a long time to change their tastes, and west to become even more amazing. They have all opened up to the international market and sold to Persian Kushan.dm
Then there is the Silk Road in the Western Regions that Wang Hou has been thinking about.
In fact, the Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty made money, while the Silk Road of the Han Dynasty lost money. It can be seen from the prodigal Emperor Wu of Han. He cast a golden horse and went to Dayuan to buy a bloody horse. In the end, the horse was not bought, but the golden horse was deducted. He paid a deposit from later generations at the 4S store. As a result, the car was not mentioned, and the deposit was deducted. It was as miserable as it would be.
Although it cannot be said that the Han Dynasty lost money, many common things such as carrots, peppers, sesame, etc. in later generations were bought through the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty still paid real money and silver and bronze, which belonged to the link that was cut by scissors in international trade.
So it won’t work when you get to Wang Hou’s place!
In order to open the Silk Road, Wang Hou even moved out the bone porcelain of the big killer. Half of the bone porcelain produced in Liucheng was transported to Guanzhong through the grassland railway. Also, there were cotton cloth from Qingzhou, iron cloth from Ma'anshan, woolen wool from the grassland, and silk from the Central Plains. In addition, compared with the Silk Road trade of the Han Dynasty court, the folk nature was several times stronger this time. The Xianbei people alone had six Western trading teams.
In international trade, I must be the black hand holding big scissors!
The last achievement of Chang'an City is the cultural industry!
Why did the ancient Roman Empire last for so long? The Western Roman Empire was destroyed and the Eastern Roman Empire could last for so long? Wang Hou summed up one of the things that was that the Romans were particularly good at playing!
Gladiator, arena, big square, opera house! One after another, rich and idle aristocrats spend a lot of money to support gladiators, watch opera music, and spend all their thoughts on playing. Even if the sharp political struggle is a group of big bosses who are engaged in assassination, most of the coup is limited to the capital, unlike the Han Empire, where families and families are crowded with each other, a political storm is enough to tear the empire apart.
Okay, you can play, I'll bring it! The gang next to the West City was wrapped by this rogue man who was a high-speed rail. They were all big swords of the casino club, and then they were next to both ends of the central axis of Chang'an, the Chang'an Grand Theater, the city racing track and racing yard connected to the three gangs, the Chang'an Grand Library, etc., many of them!
After three years of busy life like a contractor, Wang Hou himself can finally stop and enjoy life.
In mid-June, while riding the train that had just opened the Grassland Railway, Cao Hongjie couldn't wait to take her annual leave and come to Chang'an. Even Lu Ji followed her. Today, Wang Hou and his family were so neat that they were sitting in a gorgeous golden carriage and came to the Grand Theater.
Wang Hou finally lived the most "hate" look in later generations, like a rich man!
Later generations enjoyed the level of criticism, and the theater that accommodated tens of thousands of people. There were only twelve rooms on the second floor. Wang Hou's inherent private room was still facing the stage. His vision was not better. In later generations, he would probably not be able to enjoy it without a top 500 identity in the world.
Seeing the famous imperial capital a flower reflecting from the brazier reflected by several large mirrors, Changle, who was particularly fond of watching dramas, excitedly put the telescope high in front of him. Wang Hou also comfortably pulled his two wives who had not seen for a long time in a dark corner. When he was about to do some sneaky and obscene things, the door behind him suddenly slammed, which scared Wang Hou so clever that he almost worshiped Cai Lun and Cai Hou.
"What are you doing?"
Seeing Cao Zhang, who was still covered with red lips on his face, running in panting, Wang Hou asked tragically.
He was so angry that he was breathless. Master Cao San, who didn't know where he was, had no time to tidy up his clothes, and he stuttered and shouted like Deng Ai.
"Sister..., brother-in-law..., it's a big deal!"
Chapter completed!