Chapter Sixteen
In August, the weather is bright and cool.
It was noon at sunset, and the sun shone through the exquisite carved window paper on the dragon bed. Zhu Youxiao opened his eyes in a daze.
"Comfortable...this is the life that the emperor can live!"
Zhu Youxiao got up from the extremely beautiful dragon bed, stretched his waist, and muttered.
After being washed by two beautiful palace maids, after having a delicious breakfast, Shi Shi slowly walked out of the bedroom.
After asking a palace maid, I found out that the queen had already gotten up and now she has taken a newly formed female guard team of thousands of people out of the palace to pick people.
"Haha, this Yan'er has become the Royal Chief Manager, so excited?"
He smirked secretly, brought his two guns and the Black Iron Divine Sword, and walked outside with great strides, asking someone to lead the snow god horse Xiaobai, and rode it out of the imperial city without any haste.
Zhu Youxiao did not bring any escorts, nor did he need to bring any escorts.
If even he can't handle the danger, no matter how many guards he brings, it will be useless.
Along the way, there were teams of three or five soldiers everywhere, shouting and directing the civilian teams to carry out the sanitation cleaning in the capital. Men and women were sweating profusely.
These men and women are guilty, and they all want to complete the task as soon as possible in order to gain a free body.
Because Zhu Youxiao summoned Lu Jiude last night, gave him some tricks, and gave a series of guidelines and instructions to encourage the public to work actively.
Anyway, these sinners are not real sinners. Now they just want to polish their temperaments, let these people understand the situation and adapt to the great changes in the capital.
Moreover, the fact that people don’t pay for work for the royal family is not in line with Zhu Youxiao’s mind, the initial “Sustainable Development Plan” was formulated.
However, cleaning up the capital and cleaning up a clean capital is a process of renovating these sinners.
It is very necessary to let them know the rules and know who is the one who is the real master of the country in the capital now.
In the future, Zhu Youxiao will not leave anyone idle, including himself and the queen.
When people are too idle, they will think about it and will have various ideas that they shouldn't have.
The people of the Ming Dynasty were actually very simple.
They only ask their family to be able to eat and wear warmly, and they will feel very happy.
If the family still has some surplus food and spare money, they will be grateful to the emperor.
In comparison, the purity of the people in this era is stronger than that of the 21st century!
At least, the situation of material desires and moral degradation is simply invisible among the nearly 200 million ordinary people in the Ming Empire.
Zhu Youxiao looked while walking, nodding and waving to the soldiers and the people along the way, receiving bursts of cheers.
Even those "sinners" who are doing all kinds of dirty and tiring work have no hatred in their eyes.
You know, although it is labor reform now, there are three meals a day to ensure fullness. This is an incredible treatment.
Not to mention, the emperor also promised that as long as he worked actively, he would soon gain freedom.
In this era, ordinary people could not do three meals a day. In normal times, even if they work for wealthy families, they would just be two meals a day!
As he moved forward, Zhu Youxiao also discovered many things that needed to be revised as soon as possible.
For example, all large and medium-sized shops should open as soon as possible.
The two million people gathered should arrange their work and allocate their residences as soon as possible.
Also, a wave of new soldiers needs to be recruited, and a large army that can conquer and fight as soon as possible.
Production restoration of various imperial villages, the start of workshops, the convening arrangements of craftsmen, etc.
Many big things need to be solved in a short time, and Zhu Youxiao felt a little brain-breaking!
"Take it slowly, don't rush, just solve it one by one."
After rubbing his eyebrows, Zhu Youxiao felt the trouble of no one sharing his worries.
Before he knew it, Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses and found that the snow-treading gods had taken him to the square on Chongwenmen Street.
It is very lively and crowded with people.
Most of these people are young women, chattering, like hundreds of thousands of sparrows gathered together, and the grand occasion was unprecedented!
More than a hundred female officials are directing a woman to queue up to register.
Queen Zhang Yan was patrolling the world with a large group of majestic and fully armed deputies of women.
She had just returned from the Fifth Army Colonel and went to the top of the military supplies of the two large army counties to select the military supplies. She brought more than a hundred cars of money, grain and weapons to the top of the square.
Zhang Yan made up her mind to select three thousand female officials today and form a three thousand female guard team to prove that she is also capable of doing great things.
She didn't want to disappoint the emperor.
Zhu Youxiao watched from a distance for a while, nodded slightly, and did not alarm the queen, and walked along Chongwenmen Street alone.
Now that the capital has basically stabilized, he thought of looking inside and outside the capital, checking for gaps and filling in gaps, and seeing if he had anything he hadn't thought of, in order to be mentally prepared.
If you don’t plan anything, you won’t stand.
He has a clear understanding that the greater danger has not arrived yet and he has to be prepared.
He never had the habit of being passively beaten.
Zhu Youxiao planned to take about a year or two to control all the areas north of the Yellow River in his own hands.
This is his ultimate goal at the moment.
Anyway, he will never sit idly by and besieged by anyone in the capital. If he wants to beat him, he will hit others by himself!
"Well, what's going on?"
When he arrived near the city gate, Zhu Youxiao saw densely packed and ragged refugees.
Their faces were numb, they stood or sat with a slut, and gathered on the roadside in a desolate manner, waiting for the government to treat them.
Zhu Youxiao frowned and looked up at the huge city gate, and was even more surprised!
Outside the city gate, there are more refugees, at least tens of thousands of people!
The dense and endless view can't be seen at first glance!
Because Lu Jiude strictly enforced the emperor's orders, the gates of the capital were open all day long, and they were allowed to enter and not leave.
In this way, the refugees who came to the capital had a place to go, and they all wanted to enter the city to survive.
Because no emperor would allow too many people to starve to death in the capital in history.
According to the calculations of refugees here, there are definitely more than 200,000 refugees gathered near the gates of various cities in the capital!
This is a big hidden danger!
The big hidden dangers of emergencies such as diseases, plagues, and riots!
"Luckily I came out, otherwise..."
In Zhu Youxiao's mind, he regarded the population of ordinary people as more important than anything else. At least within his sight, he would not allow any ordinary people to starve to death.
Only with enough population will there be everything.
Otherwise, everything will be flowers in the water and moon in the well.
"May I have your name?"
Zhu Youxiao immediately rushed forward and asked a headed city gate official.
"ah!"
This city gate official followed Lu Jiude to meet the emperor yesterday. When he saw that the emperor was here in person, he was shocked!
"Report to Your Majesty, the last one is Wang Qinian, the new deputy general of the Yonggu Army!"
He quickly shook his armor, knelt down on one knee, and bowed to his head and bowed.
"Well, Wang Qinian, I have seen you."
Zhu Youxiao is now unforgettable and recognizes the general who was following Lu Jiude yesterday at a glance.
"You go and tell Lu Jiude in person to organize all refugees inside and outside the capital, register and join the cleaning work of the capital city."
"Remember, when registering, everyone must give away a set of clothes, shoes, and daily necessities, so that they can take a bath with hot water and put on it. Three meals a day must be guaranteed!"
"If you need any materials, please ask Lu Jiude to order people to pick them up, and the materials will be supplied to him without limit! It is necessary to handle them without any mistakes."
"After the sanitation in the capital was sorted out, the millions of people gathered together would be dispatched to all the stonemasons and other civil craftsmen in the capital to command everyone to renovate all the big and small roads in the capital, and then use bluestone, blue bricks, and three-combination soil to repair it!"
"The same is true for sewers, ditches, and ditches everywhere. They will deepen all of them. They will also be built with bluestone, blue bricks, and three-piece soil!"
"Also, let the craftsman leader survey, draw a little place at the corners of the roads in the capital, and build a large public toilet first. This is very important!"
"Did you remember?"
Zhu Youxiao looked at the other party and said coldly.
"Your Majesty, I remember."
Wang Qinian looked very smart and powerful, and had a flexible mind. He replied immediately.
"Well, go ahead. Let's explain the matter clearly as soon as possible." Zhu Youxiao asked him to get up and waved his hand to let him leave.
Wang Qinian bid farewell to the emperor and immediately returned to the city gate, handed over the task of blocking the capital to a general, and then left.
"Well, Wang Qinian is also a talent, much better than military officers like the British Duke of God."
Chapter completed!