When I came to Taicheng again, although the interval was not long, my style was very different.

The originally messy and dilapidated scene has disappeared, replaced by open and flat roads, towering and orderly buildings. Large blocks of steps were mined from the mountains near the suburbs of Beijing, carved and polished with fine sand to make it smooth. Xin walked on it, and looking at it from left to right, there was a high wall made of blue bricks, with clearly visible patterns on the blue bricks, stacked together to outline an elegant and quaint image.

Inside the high walls are the official offices of each palace, temple, and their shapes are different, either stacked eaves and tiles, as thick as mountains, or high pavilions, like jade pillars, and high altitude suspension corridors, deep doors and doors, with four sides of the world, and the screen walls are eye-catching. Different architectural styles from the north and south are integrated into one, neither do they have to be overwhelming or incompatible. Many buildings are reflected in their brilliance and interest. They are majestic, elegant and interesting, grand and grand, and are all-encompassing.

Of course, some places have not been completed. The high-end bamboo fence has raised up to separate the place. There are guards outside the fence and craftsmen are busy inside the fence. Occasionally, officials in the Taicheng City stand inside and outside the fence, either monitoring the progress or observing and thinking, and communicating their aesthetic gains with the craftsmen.

Walking in Taicheng, Wen Qiao subconsciously watched from both sides and left and right, and couldn't help but sigh: "You guy is always poor and troubled, which is really annoying. But I really have to say that only by thinking hard and doing things can you overcome the difficult achievements of others! Taicheng is now full of new looks, and it is not as narrow as the old ones. Wei Zhou, you are also making great contributions! It is even more rare that fortifications are fast, but they do not exhaust the people. It is really worthy of people!"

The entire Taicheng project volume is extremely large, because many palace and temple offices are concentrated here to provide office space and provide living space for these Taicheng officials. Therefore, the scale of the entire Taicheng is no less than an ordinary city. In terms of the proportion of project volume, Shen Zhezi's overall concept of Jiankang New City is already grand, and Taicheng still accounts for at least one-fifth of the proportion.

Taicheng is not only an office place, but also occupies a certain military role, covering Yuancheng, which is the core of the entire Jiankang City and the last line of defense. Last year, Su Jun took the lead in breaking through Taicheng's defense, which led to the fall of the entire Jiankang City. Therefore, whether Taicheng is stable or not determines to some extent whether the entire Jiankang City and even the entire Jiangdong situation are stable or not.

Such a large amount of labor has been built in just half a year, and the construction progress in other places has not been delayed. Although the main contribution is Ji Mu and Shen Ke and other front-line supervisors, Shen Zhezi also made an indelible contribution to the coordinated distribution of manpower and material resources and the construction of operation methods in advance.

Hearing Wen Qiao's feelings, Shen Zhezi smiled and said, "The people are proactive. As long as they can protect their stability and provide them with their own affairs, they are not inferior to those of the virtues of Yao and Shun. Unfortunately, there are too few people with sages in this world, and too many of them have the ambitions of sages. They always have to be anxious to establish their lives for the people and plan for eternal peace. Such people do not worry about being lazy or doing things, but only worry about being diligent in thinking. They know where their destiny is. They may not always respect sages in everything."

The fastest and most effective way to make a chaotic world calm quickly is to let everyone have something to do and everyone perform their own duties. Relatively speaking, the impact of the employment rate on the stability of the world in later generations is far higher than that of the ancient farming society.

Because in ancient times, there was an eternal industry, that was to let people farm. No matter how chaotic the world was, once the world was unified and the politics became clear and clear, without the threat of military disasters, the common people worked hard and the court allowed the development of productivity without interfering, the vitality of the entire society would quickly recover and usher in a prosperous era again.

However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had its own paradoxical features. The effective methods in other eras were not possible in this era. The problem was very simple. The court did not have enough arable land to accommodate refugees. Once there was not enough arable land, a large number of people could not be repaid to the land, and productivity was not fully developed, and vitality would naturally be difficult to recover for a long time.

Shen Zhezi almost disagrees with the public and advocated the reconstruction plan of the entire Jiankang City, which actually did not conform to the usual methods of handling the chaos. In the eyes of ordinary people, a war caused a huge loss to the entire Jiangdong energy, and a large-scale construction was required at this time, which was really a waste of people's strength.

But if the old methods are used, where will the imperial court find so much arable land? Once the resettlement is not timely, a large number of refugees will be threatened. Then a wealthy family who master the fields will jump out and use a way of living as bait to compete with the imperial court for these refugee labor.

As a result, as a large number of people were hidden, the imperial court could grasp less and less manpower, and was increasingly restrained by aristocratic families. Those aristocratic families that controlled a large number of manpower and material resources could not abandon prejudices and cooperated sincerely with each other, so these human and material resources that should have been used to do great things were wasted in the disputes and strangulations of each other.

Therefore, the first principle of Shen Zhezi's disaster relief was to seize the vitality of these refugees and prevent them from being scattered outside the rule of the court. Rebuilding Kangcheng at such a time is indeed not a good choice, but the problem is that if you do not do so, the court will have no means or ability to retain these populations!

In fact, whenever a troubled time is about to arise, those in power always have to engage in civil engineering. In a sense, it is actually a means to strengthen personal control. Because it is about to lose control, it is necessary to strengthen control. However, this inappropriate tough method often causes a violent rebound, which makes the turmoil more intense.

But this is actually not an unsolvable problem. If you can find a target to start a war while strengthening the personal control of the common people, on the one hand, transfer conflicts through war, and strengthen control over the personal control, on the other hand, plunder wealth to replenish yourself through war. And in later generations, there will be more than one quite successful template.

However, in ancient times, there was a very helpless restriction, that is, there was no one to be found in the external environment within the region that could be used and worthy of plunder. The biggest fat sheep was Huaxia itself. So whenever this method was used, it was often when civil strife was started.

The reason why Shen Zhezi dared to do this is because there is a ready-made object at present, that is, Jie Hu, who occupied the Central Plains. Although it is not enough to launch a large-scale war against Jie Hu, the existence of Jie Hu itself is a reverse shock, which makes people like Jiangdong dare not blatantly overturn the table. Once a large-scale civil war is launched, everyone will finish it together.

Wen Qiao lamented that such a large fortification did not cause any waste of money, but this was taken for granted in Shen Zhezi's opinion.

First of all, it is an inaccurate concept that wastes people and money. There is no standard and is often used by opponents as an excuse to suppress opponents. And once it rises to military confrontation, the labor injury will definitely be greater. But then no one will mention this again. The winner has the right way, and the loser has no way. But now, even if someone clamors, no one dares to provoke a war.

Secondly, what do the people need after the chaos? They need a job and they need a full meal. If the court has enough arable land, choosing to settle is of course the best way. But the problem is that there is not enough arable land, so as long as they can meet their survival needs, why bother with the difference in form?

The third is that any kind of labor is valuable. As long as people can be organized to produce, even if they cannot produce grain, they can still be exchanged for the results of these labor.

Perhaps Jiankang City is not self-sufficiency during the construction process. If it is used by others, it will block the grain import of Jiankang. Shen Zhezi will do so to himself. But the problem is that Wuzhong Grain Store is the basic foundation of his family, and there is no hidden danger at all.

Instead, he can break through this kind of exchange of interests to break through the long-standing regional barriers of Jiangdong, such as attracting a large number of Wu people to Jiankang, and allowing Jiangzhou people to join the current situation. Not only is it not a bad thing, it can strengthen exchanges in various regions of Jiangdong, complement each other, and become a closer whole.

When the people have a job and a way out, people's hearts will naturally calm down. As for the hard work of hard work in the people, whether it is a large workload for land reclamation or a large workload for city construction, this is really not easy to compare. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, and four major events in life. If you grasp any point, your efforts will be rewarded.

Compared with the reclaiming wasteland from scratch, there is no harvest for a long time, and the construction of Jiankang City is perfect, thereby attracting material resources from all directions. At present, the latter is more operational, while the former is a real waste of money and money, because even if the imperial court organizes the reclaim, even the agricultural tools and grains may not be distributed in full. However, once the matter of farmland is established, taxes will be attached to the fields. Empty hands and no grains are used to make seeds, which is the real force that forces people to the dead end.

Shen Zhezi only used a more roundabout means to achieve the purpose of relief, and through orderly dispatch and clear division of labor arrangements, these people have the experience of obeying discipline and living and production. If there is a need to restrain them into an army in the future, there is already a preliminary preparation.

To be honest, he did plan to organize a huge engineering regiment across the river. Because if he fights in the wild, there is no large number of cavalry system, which is an extremely fatal flaw. If he can go step by step and progress through layers, the effect will be far better than the surprise attack, and it will be more beneficial to control the land of recovery.

With the power structure of Jiehu, when facing a resilient, aggressive and unbreakable opponent, even if he does not lose on the battlefield, he is likely to collapse himself.

However, this idea also has a flaw, that is, it depends too much on logistics and local support from Jiangbei. Shen Zhezi did not have a good idea about this, and his negotiations with Tu Zhong were also a test of the waters. The results remain to be seen.
Chapter completed!