Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate and Xuanwu Gate, three city gates south of the nine city gates in the capital.

There are nine cities on four sides, with a corner missing from the northwest. Two gates are opened on the walls on the east and west sides and the north side, but three gates are opened on the south side.

Since the construction of the outer city during the Jiajing period, these three city gates have become passages between the inner and outer cities of the capital, becoming the gates surrounded by the city. To the north of the three gates is the inner city, and to the south of the three cities, the outer city is the outer city.

It is this city wall and the three gates that separate two worlds, which are completely different.

Although the inner and outer cities are separated by a wall, they are two completely different worlds. The outer cities built during the Jiajing period were originally called Chongcheng, and they planned to wrap the entire capital in. In the end, due to insufficient financial resources, they only included the south of the capital and converted to the east and west corner towers.

But only the south part was built, and the outer city had a circumference of twenty-eight miles and had seven outer city gates.

From then on, the inner and outer cities of Beijing were added together, and the area was larger than that of Nanjing, which was the capital of the capital. Among the capitals of various dynasties in China, it was the third largest city in history after the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty and the Luoyang City of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The inner city of Beijing was rebuilt when the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, and the buildings in the inner city also showed a grand atmosphere of a vast and powerful and vast celestial dynasty.

The Forbidden City and the Imperial City with red walls and yellow tiles, painted and carved beams are wrapped in the center of the inner city, dazzling and dazzling.

The streets and alleys in the outer city are also vertical and vertical and orderly.

Those who can live in the inner nine cities are all famous nobles, high-ranking officials and great businessmen, the upper class and elite class of the Ming Dynasty. There are also many prosperous markets, department stores gathered, and merchants gathered, which adds a lot of fun.

But the outer city across a wall is completely different.

Since the construction of the outer city began, it has not really planned seriously, and in the end it was not planned carefully. After only one section of the southern end was built, it had to pause, and then the remaining sections were never completed. Moreover, the construction of the outer city was also to deal with the increasingly serious northern Tartars and the Japanese pirates in the south. It was very hasty and hasty when it was built.

The outer city is full of streets and alleys, low and simple bungalows in the cold and low places, and those dirty and messy markets.

The outer city was actually a slum in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty from the beginning, and the people living here were all the people and craftsmen at the bottom of the capital. Until now, the outer city of the capital is full of shacks built randomly, and refugees from all over the place are everywhere.

There are several places in the outer city, and a large number of foreign refugees gathered. They are slums in the slums. There are the most secret prostitutes in the capital, and the vast majority of thieves, hooligans, liars, and many religions and other ranks of the capital are concentrated here.

This is also the worst place in the capital, with murders, thefts and robberies often occur.

At the same time, the hygiene here is the worst, with a lack of public toilets and bathhouses, and even very few wells. Those poor people who are not fed, have no idea of ​​doing hygiene, and they drown everywhere and garbage everywhere.

It's dirty and messy, it's the outer city.

After becoming the governor of Zhili and the governor of Shuntian, Liu Jun was already planning to clear the outer city.

After this period of preparation, Liu Jungang completed the census of the capital. This census included the census and the economic census. It took more than half a year to complete the census after using the joint operations of the Imperial Guards, the Five City Military Commanders, the Guards, the Jinyiwei, the Dongchang, the Five City Censors, and the Shuntian Mansion.

The total population of the capital reached more than 1.28 million. Among them, the number of households in Shuntian Prefecture reached more than 700,000. In addition, there are palace maids, eunuchs, singers of the Jiaofangsi, etc. in the royal palace, which also has more than 50,000, and the capital army has more than 100,000. In addition, there are many foreign traders, monks, refugees, and other migrant populations.

In other words, among the more than one million people in the capital, only about half of them have a Beijing household registration. If the Beijing army is eliminated, there will still be no less than 300,000 Beijing drifters.

Most of these migrants from Beijing are refugees with all kinds of religions and nothing. They can barely maintain their support by fighting zero and tutoring, and even cheating, selling sings, selling 0 begging, etc.

These 300,000 people actually have little effect on the capital, but they have increased the consumption of various materials in the capital and seriously damaged the capital's public security and hygiene.

In response to this situation, Liu Jun proposed a plan for the renovation of the outer city.

"Building several large factories in the suburbs provides many essential daily necessities for manufacturing in the capital, reducing the capital's dependence on goods outside, and also providing many jobs to solve some refugees. Initially, new carbon factories, iron factories, steel factories, flour factories, textile factories, etc. will be built."

"The streets and shacks in the outer city should be gradually renovated in batches. After planning, the shacks will be demolished, new lifangs will be rebuilt, markets, shopping streets, and residential areas will be built. By selling shops and stalls in the rental market, funds will be recovered, residential houses will be sold, and some simple housing will be built to rent them at a low price to those poor people in Beijing and properly resettled them."

"In addition, the capital must also move some people to surrounding Tongzhou, Changping, Jizhou, Yongping, Baoding and other places to alleviate the population pressure in the capital. In short, we must control the population of the capital to one million."

Liu Jun proposed an amazing plan for his subordinates in the yamen of Shuntian Prefecture. He comprehensively transformed the outer city, established many large factories for people's livelihood products in the suburbs, and reduced the population of the capital.

Many officials in Shuntian Prefecture never thought that the prince would have such a huge plan. In their opinion, this was even a plan that was somewhat inconsistent with reality. With such a big plan, they didn't know how to start.

The most important thing is, how much does such a big plan cost? And where does the money come from?

Many officials persuaded Liu Jun, believing that this plan was not desirable. It was a big project, which was a waste of money and other things.

Liu Jun only smiled at their shallowness. People in later generations all understood one idea, that is, urban economy. In later generations, the government had long regarded the city as a commodity in operation, or even an extremely favorable commodity.

If you run a city well, the benefits will be huge.

Of course, it takes a lot of money to start such a plan, but its future benefits are huge.

Just like people in later generations know that real estate is the most profitable business, and land is the most precious resource in the land business, and this resource has always been in the hands of the official.

Building a building can make a lot of money, but if you can build a market, it will be profitable.

Renovate an old urban area and build a brand new urban area. It is full of unlimited business opportunities. As long as it is operated well, it is a great project that benefits all parties. Various taxes, various stimulating demand for commodities, various jobs, etc.

For the current scene of a stagnant pool of water in the capital, a half-dead Beijing city and a group of hungry and insensitive people, what they need is such a change.

And to change all this, all you need is a leverage.

What Liu Jun needed to do was to start this plan, and then take out a lot of money from the Sihai Bank to build many factories outside Beijing. For a capital with a population of more than one million, the various commodities he needed were massive. Everything was needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

In addition, Liu Jun has now controlled the capital. The army also needs to change clothes, and Liu Jun can control all kinds of military orders. It is imperative to draw some of the forces of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory and establish a branch in the capital.

Especially for military industries such as iron smelting and steelmaking, it requires a lot of manpower.

When these factories in the suburbs of Beijing are built, they can attract a large number of people in Beijing to work. When these people who were originally helpless have a job, they have the ability to support their families. The public security situation in the capital will improve, and when they have money, they can increase consumption. The market will flourish and the tax revenue of the court will also increase.

Various markets and shops were set up in the inner and outer cities, and some large workshops were built outside the city. Liu Jun even made a plan to gather all the brothels and casinos in the capital to move them to a specially designated outer city area. At that time, only this area in the capital could open brothels and gambling shops, and no other places allowed to operate these businesses.

The court will increase its efforts to supervise these industries, impose at least 20% of the heavy taxes, issue them franchise licenses, and crack down on illegal operators who do not have licenses in designated areas.

However, Liu Jun did not plan to make it happen overnight, and he also walked step by step.

What he has to do now is to build factories in the suburbs first, and then recruit those refugees who are idle and have become public security risks in the capital to work.

At the same time, Liu Jun also set up a special fund in Shuntian Prefecture to take the lead in starting to rectify and clean up the harsh public security and sanitation environment in the outer city.

Everything starts with building public toilets, public bathhouses and cleaning.

"A public toilet must be built every 100 steps in the outer city every 100 steps, which must be free. A garbage dumping point must be set up in each street and alley. In the future, it is strictly forbidden to urinate on the street and litter everywhere."

"From today, urban management bureaus will be set up in the inner and outer cities, and special personnel will be recruited to be responsible for the management of public toilets and street sanitation in each street. The streets will be cleaned every day, and the garbage from the garbage points will be transported outside the city for centralized treatment every day."

"Send a special person to be responsible for patrols and punish those who violate regulations and urinate and take off garbage."

After this order, the officials of Shuntian Prefecture were even more surprised. The previous plan to renovate the outer city made them feel that it was too large and extremely unrealistic. But now this order doesn't make them feel that it is too subtle.

It’s really a matter of the world, do you still have to care about the people’s shit and fart?

A member of the Military Affairs Office of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet of the Grand Secretary of the Government, or the Governor of Zhili and the Governor of Shuntian, actually wanted to take care of the people's urination and urging and throwing out garbage everywhere?

But Liu Jun ignored their surprise. He issued a tough order, demanding that the Urban Management Bureau be established immediately and the recruitment of urban management and sanitation workers be so serious that he had never been able to do so.

Everyone thought Liu Jun had taken the wrong medicine, but no one knew that Liu Jun really attached great importance to this matter because just a few days ago, Liu Jun just received a report.

At the junction between Shandong and Hebei, Linqing, one of the most prosperous cities on the Grand Canal, suddenly broke out in plague. This plague, known as the bighead plague in the report, emerged from Henan and quickly flowed into Linqing along the canal and broke out in full swing.

In just less than half a month, Linqing City was already shrouded by a plague. Thousands of people died in Linqing. Once infected, they would die within one or two days. This disease was extremely contagious. Overnight, it was more contagious than the house and the whole family died.

Now Liu Jun has sent troops to block the surrounding areas of Linqing, prohibit entry and exit, blocked the canal, stopped navigation of the North Canal, and temporarily blocked the news of the plague.

Among the few historical knowledge about the late Ming Dynasty that Liu Jun remembers in his previous life, one of them was about the plague in the late Ming Dynasty. The plague in the late Ming Dynasty was one of the important reasons for destroying the Ming Empire, including the Little Glacier, the Silver Crisis, and the corruption of the administration.

As he remembered, plague broke out in various places at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the infection was severe, and finally a severe plague broke out in Beijing. By the time Li Zicheng entered Beijing, more than 200,000 people had died due to the plague. It can be said that the entire capital was not conquered by Li Zicheng, but the plague destroyed Beijing's last defense.

These days, Liu Jun has been searching for information about the plague in the Ming Dynasty.

According to the found information, in the early days of Wanli, a large-scale plague broke out in the northern region. At that time, the plague swept across the north and countless people died of this plague.

And in the Chongzhen Dynasty, due to wars and plagues broke out again.

Among them, Shanxi is the hardest hit area of ​​the plague.

In the seventh and eighth year of Chongzhen, thieves in Xingxian County, Shanxi killed and injured the people. The year was so popular that the plague was plague in heaven and died day by night. Within one night, all the family died and the people fled, and the city was empty.

Ten years after Chongzhen, a plague broke out in Datong Prefecture, and the mortality rate of patients was very high. A plague pandemic broke out in Lu'an Prefecture, and the autumn epidemic broke out... There were no one who died in the whole family.

This plague that has been in danger since the seventh year of Chongzhen has never been eliminated. Until now, it has become more and more violent and violent.

The plague has long since moved from Shanxi to Hebei, Henan and Shandong.

Since Linqing reported the epidemic, Shunde Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture in Zhili have also reported the epidemic one after another. This time the plague is coming with great force, the infection is extremely fast, and the rate of death toll is extremely high.

Now this plague has begun to spread to Zhending, Baoding and Shuntian abnormalities to the capital.

Based on Liu Jun's understanding of these infectious diseases, he knew very well that the more populous the city, the more severe the infection. A huge city like the capital with a population of more than one million will be a huge disaster once the plague is introduced.

Think about the great epidemic in Beijing in history, 200,000 people died, and the mortality rate has exceeded 10%, or even almost 20%.

Liu Jun didn't know how to treat the plague, nor did he know which kind of plague that was spread now. But he knew that the Black Death that had erupted in Europe in history killed tens of millions of people, and the population of Europe was halved at that time. In the late Ming Dynasty, the plague was rampant in the late Ming Dynasty, and 200,000 died in the Great Epidemic in Beijing alone.

The first factory to be built in the suburbs of Beijing is the mask factory.

Liu Jun didn't know how to treat the plague, so he could only prevent it. While stepping up doctors to study the prescription, he made masks while stepping up cleaning up and rectifying the hygiene of the capital.

Now the slums in the outer city of the capital are dirty and messy, which is the hotbed of plague. Before the plague reaches the capital, it must start cleaning immediately.

Liu Jun could not imagine what a terrible contagion situation would be if the plague was introduced into the capital after it was introduced to the capital.

In the face of this kind of plague, even the Chu army, which is invincible and invincible, will be helpless.

"The mask factory has to work day and night. Within a month, I want everyone in the capital to wear a mask!"

"Notify the officials of the prefectures and counties in the northern provinces and prefectures to carry out epidemic prevention work immediately and carry out sanitation cleaning in their respective jurisdictions. Tell them that wearing masks can prevent epidemics, and boil water you drink first, and wash your hands and bathe frequently!"

Liu Jun explained to his subordinates worriedly that he said all the knowledge about epidemic prevention that he knew, and then asked them to record it, and then compiled it into an epidemic prevention manual based on some suggestions from the imperial physician. He quickly passed it to government officials in various places, asking them to strengthen epidemic prevention work together.
Chapter completed!