The newly established printing bureau belongs to the Secretariat, and the yamen is naturally within the Secretariat, but the printing bureau wants to print books after all. The printing bureau has papermaking workshops, ink making workshops and printing workshops under the printing bureau, and these workshops cannot be set up in the city.

The emperor specially drew a piece of land on the edge of Zhongwei Bridge for Li Xiao as the place of several workshops. This place is very large, just next to the former Chang'an Old City, close to the Wei River. It is not far from Chang'an City, and is located in the north of Chang'an City, and is separated from Chang'an by a Guangtong Canal.

This abandoned Chang'an City has not been abandoned for long.

When the Sui Dynasty was founded, the old Chang'an City was still used as its capital. However, Yang Jian later felt that the Han Chang'an City was dilapidated and narrow, with severe groundwater pollution, and was no longer suitable for the capital of the new unified dynasty. Therefore, he chose a good land in the south of Longshouyuan, southeast of Chang'an City of Han. The river land is beautiful, with flowers and objects growing, and the land is divine, and it is suitable to build a capital. Therefore, Emperor Wen Yang Jian built a new capital here and named it Daxing City.

During the Tang and Sui dynasties, the capital of Guanzhong was also established, but Daxing City was changed to Chang'an City.

The old Chang'an City was abandoned for only sixty or seventy years, but it was extremely destructive and dilapidated. When Yang Jian moved the capital, he first built a palace city on the new site, and then successively built official offices and private houses. Basically, the old Chang'an City was demolished to build a new capital, so the old Chang'an City had almost been demolished.

The high city walls are no longer there, the towering palaces are gone, and the houses and courtyards in the old city have become empty ruins.

Even the big trees in the city were cut down.

"Sanlang!"

Li Yuanfang had been waiting there with a group of people. When he saw Li Xiao coming on a horse, he hurriedly came forward to greet him.

"Have you selected the address?" Li Xiao asked.

In order to get things done, Li Xiao made some requests to the emperor without hesitation. Not only did he ask for money and a lot of people, but he also asked to temporarily borrow the Corn Supervision staff to assist him. Li Zhi also fully agreed and allowed him to second the Corn Supervision staff first.

Li Yuanfang is his sworn brother and has a wide connection in Chang'an City, especially his cousin Di Renjie is also a law master in Yongzhou. Li Xiao is naturally the first to second him. In addition, many old subordinates from the Corn Supervision Bureau also called him.

Under his hands, these officials from the Corn Supervisory Bureau enjoyed the benefits of the small treasury. They were usually fed, and they were very enthusiastic at this time, and they came as soon as they called.

"I chose it on the south bank of the Wei River. The papermaking workshop needs water, so it is more convenient to get close to the Wei River." Li Yuanfang said.

The Wei River is very important to Guanzhong and irrigated the Guanzhong plain. However, the Wei River is immature and has a shallow and deep flow of sand. It has never been a good canal and often blocks the canal. After the Sui Dynasty unified the north, the old canals of the Han Dynasty had been silted for a long time and could not be used, so it had to use the Wei River. However, the poor transportation conditions of the Wei River forced another canal in the Sui Dynasty.

At that time, it was directed from the northwest of Daxing City, and followed the old path of the Han Dynasty's canal to the east. It reached Tongguan and entered the Yellow River. It was more than 300 miles long and was named Guangtong Canal. Since then, the canal transport was transparent and Guanzhong depends on it, so it is also called Fumin Canal. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, all the grain and goods in Guandong and Jiangnan were transported into Guanzhong by this river.

The Wei River, like the Chang'an City of Han Dynasty, no longer flourished as before.

Except for the three Wei Bridges and the road connecting Chang'an and Weibei, the rest of the Wei River are actually very desolate. However, Li Xiao likes such a desolate place very much.

"Have the Shaofu Supervisor and General Manager sent craftsmen to come?" Li Xiao asked.

The emperor had already pulled out the land and gave money. The key now is to build the workshop first. The paper and ink-making workshops will transfer craftsmen slaves from the original royal workshops, while the printing workshops have their own.

But there are still professionals in the construction of workshops. The one who specializes in the construction of the Tang Dynasty is the supervisor of the construction project, and the supervisor of the craftsmanship is the supervisor of the construction project. The generals of the craftsmanship are under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu Supervisor.

If you want to build a workshop, it is better to build the workshop as soon as possible and put it into production. Of course, they have to send people as quickly as possible.

"What? The young mansion and generals refused to send people? Why?" Li Xiao asked in surprise.

Li Yuanfang said helplessly, "The craftsman said that the culprit was busy preparing to build the Yong'an Palace recently, and he could not draw anyone to give it to us."

Repair the Yong'an Palace?

Li Xiao thought to himself what the hell is Yong'an Palace? And didn't Li Zhi just issued a million chunk of bonds and borrowed money from his subjects all over the world to support the Goguryeo War and this year's disaster relief, why did he build the palace at this time?

You should know that in ancient times, there were no good comments on the construction of palaces, and it was easy to get involved in large-scale construction, extravagant and lewd reputations.

Seeing Li Xiao’s confused look, Li Yuanfang hurriedly explained to him that it was not the Yong'an Palace that had just started to be repaired now, nor was it Li Zhi’s idea. In fact, the Yong'an Palace has been in place for decades.

Xiang was first established during the Zhenguan period. At that time, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan was still the Supreme Emperor. Because the Supreme Emperor was still there, there were two emperors in the Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin also felt awkward, so he thought of building a new palace next to the Tai Chi Palace for the Supreme Emperor to live in, so he named it Yong'an Palace.

Construction officially began in the eighth year of Zhenguan. The designer of Yong'an Palace was Yan Liben, a famous architect in the court. However, in May of the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan died in the Da'an Palace, so the construction of Yong'an Palace was stopped.

Shortly after the Yong'an Palace was built, it was renamed Daming Palace, but sometimes people still call Yong'an Palace, Daming Palace.

Li Zhi is now in power, and it is actually a profound meaning to propose the reconstruction of the Daming Palace at this time.

This year, there was a severe drought in Guanlong, Shannan, Heshuo and other places, and the summer harvest was severe. Many people had no harvest. There were already refugees in many places, and refugees began to gather in Chang'an.

The ministers in the court also had their own ideas about the resettlement of disaster victims. Some people proposed that officials from all over the country strictly guard the territory and that the victims should not leave the boundary and wait for the court's food for disaster relief.

Some officials believe that doing so will kill many people. After all, Guanlonghe Shuoshan South is not a convenient place to transport food, and waiting for disaster relief is to die. Instead of blocking the state boundaries like this, it is better to let hungry people come to Chang'an. After all, there is still a lot of food stored in Chang'an, and the food transported from Guandong to Chang'an is more convenient and time-saving than transporting it to Guanlonghe Shuo prefectures.

Of course, there are still many risks when a large number of hungry people gather in the capital.

If someone incites the people to make trouble, things will be difficult to control.

So the more economical prime minister Li Ji put forward a suggestion to use labor for relief.

Those victims who had no income this year were allowed to come to Chang'an. The court set up some disaster camps around Chang'an to temporarily resettle these people and distribute food for disaster relief. However, the food was not given in vain, and the young and strong people among the victims were arranged to build the Daming Palace.

The young and strong people among the victims went to build the Daming Palace, which was equivalent to cutting off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and reducing the source of turmoil. On the other hand, using labor for relief, it was just right to use these victims to build the Daming Palace. After all, it is not easy to build a palace in normal times, so they have to avoid the farming season, and each recruitment is limited.

Now it is just right, using work for relief, killing two birds with one stone, which not only facilitates relief for disaster victims, controls the situation, and can also repair the Daming Palace, which has been shut down without any end. Isn’t that just right?

Li Yifu even suggested that if you issue some more disaster relief bonds, you should use the land captured by Baekje and the prisoners as collateral for the bonds.
Chapter completed!