Another reason why the emperor was so eager to move the capital to Beijing, I have to say, was that the Forbidden City was too painful.
It's bare, except for the house, it's just a house, the flowers and plants are the same, and the biggest embellishment is the beautiful palace maids and concubines.
As for the emperor, he was already used to the stunning beauty that ordinary people couldn't match, and he was bored everywhere he looked.
Although the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty was already huge compared to the Song and Song dynasties, compared to the Tang and Han Dynasties, it was only one-sixth of its size.
The number of people in the palace is even greater, which shows how crowded the building is.
It's no wonder that the Manchus liked to build gardens. The cold Forbidden City was disgusting, and the large inner city with many regulations made people even more irritated.
Once you move to Beijing, it is natural to build a garden to cultivate and recuperate.
This time, Chen Dong was just standing in front of the emperor to see if there was a good place to build a garden.
As a stayer in Beijing, Jiang Yueguang not only shouldered the important task of rebuilding the city of Beijing, but also took on the responsibility of rebuilding the entire Beizhili.
What is Zhili means the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the central court. This is the case with today's Northern Zhili.
Since the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, Beizhili had been in trouble. Plague and military disasters were prevalent. What directly destroyed its economy was the Manchu land enclosure movement.
The horse racing enclosure spread to the entire Beizhili.
More than 100,000 people were displaced and demoted as slaves, and nearly 30% of the land in Beizhili was enclosed by the Eight Banners.
Counting population, taxation, land and other matters made people so busy that there was no time to meet with Chen Dong.
Beijing not only includes the city of Beijing, but also includes the entire Beizhili.
"The number of people in Beizhili is only 30% of the number in previous years. Half of the fields are abandoned and the land is covered with weeds. The most important thing now is to build ditches and level the land so that the refugees can settle down and contribute taxes!"
Jiang Yueguang was helpless. He needed a lot of money, cattle, farm tools, etc. to supply the entire Beizhili, but the imperial court repeatedly asked him to concentrate on Beijing.
According to the wishes of the imperial court, Beizhili is too big after all. If we take it into consideration, we don't have three to five years of hard work and years of investment, otherwise it won't be well managed at all.
But the city of Beijing is just a corner of the city, and the people are scattered. With just a little money, it can change its appearance in a short time and become a suitable capital.
As the capital of the country, it is normal for it to receive priority.
"Hmph, you are really short-sighted. If Northern Zhili regains its strength, how can we rely on the south? By then, we will save more than a million taels for the court."
Unfortunately, his arms couldn't hold him back, so he had to complete the transformation of Beijing first.
Anyone with a far-sighted vision can naturally see that the imperial court's future military deployment will only be in the northeast and Shanhaiguan area.
In the future, it is only ordinary to accumulate a hundred thousand soldiers. Coupled with the population of the capital, if only the food from the south is used, the losses will be too great.
Rather than doing this, it is better to directly consume the food of Beizhili.
If North Zhili supplies one stone, the South will be able to transport three or four stones less. Anyone can calculate such an account.
Of course, in order to move the capital to Beijing, the imperial court could not take care of Beizhili.
However, Jiang Yueguang was unwilling to give up and still wanted to better govern Beizhili.
After all, from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, then to Xuanda University, Beizhili, such a big place, it was really beyond his capabilities.
In fact, after learning that Southern Zhili was divided into three, Jiang Yueguang also wrote to the court requesting that Northern Zhili be split into three.
One is the most important Shuntian Prefecture, which has been planned for a long time and is directly subordinate to the imperial center; while Hebei Province became independent and established a central province.
The last one is the Xuanda area, which is the northwest gateway of Beijing and faces the grassland. Naturally, it should be paid attention to and listed separately.
On the premise that the supply of money and food remains unchanged, dividing Beizhili into three parts and allowing suitable people to carry out detailed management and share the pressure can achieve the same goal.
After several days of discussion, the Nanjing imperial court finally shelved the proposal to divide it into provinces.
Firstly, the establishment of provinces has been too frequent recently and there are not enough officials in the court, so this matter still has to be postponed.
Secondly, Beijing is about to become the capital of the country, and with the status of direct control in the north, it is best to be directly under the central government, but it is easy to threaten the central government if the provinces are established.
These past few days have been really painful for Li Yingren.
Relying on his title, he sent people to search everywhere, just to find out the background of the stunning beauty. Even if he was a high-ranking official, he would dare to challenge her.
Strange to say, in three to five days, I made no progress at all.
"What do you do for food? If you don't know, why don't you just ask Yingtian Mansion?"
Li Yingren had a bad temper and was extremely dissatisfied with his subordinates.
It's pity that he is a dignified commander-in-chief of Liaoning and a man from Jinzhou. He can't even figure out a woman. It's really embarrassing.
"Boss, this Nanjing is no better than our Liaodong. You can ask questions if you don't want to catch your tongue, and the yamen does not have information. Even if we pay bribes..."
The soldiers were extremely aggrieved.
Li Yingren regretted this: If Gao Yigong and Li Dingguo were still here, they would definitely be able to help me find out.
Unfortunately, there is no if in this world.
Feeling agitated, Li Yingren had no interest in official banquets these days.
On this day, he returned from the palace in a carriage. Along the way, he was still thinking about how to launch an offensive against Liaodong as soon as possible.
With the Qing Dynasty in decline, he, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, had great potential, and establishing a separate province in Liaodong was no longer a dream.
He was quite excited when he thought that he would see the glory of the Li family.
Suddenly, the carriage stopped.
Just as he was stunned, several men in black broke into the carriage, pulled out a knife and pointed it at his throat.
Although he couldn't see their faces clearly, Li Yingren felt that these people exuded murderous aura and had really killed people.
"who are you?"
Being in the capital, Li Yingren was exceptionally calm.
"Us?" The masked man in black chuckled and said, "To be honest, Commander Li forced us out."
"Do you know me?" Li Yingren was startled and yelled in his heart, "This is bad. This is what I came prepared for."
"So what if we know each other?" The masked man said coldly: "We are here just to warn you not to have distracting thoughts in your mind."
"If your lower body determines what you think, I'm pretty sure you won't have a lower body."
"Whose family do you belong to?" Li Yingren was not afraid and said with his chest raised.
"It doesn't matter whose family you belong to, but General Li must understand that there are some people you can't mess with, especially women."
After saying that, the men in black left, and the car instantly became calm.
Li Yingren broke out in a cold sweat and gasped: "The capital is really deep."
Li Yingren was very upset because he had offended someone because of a woman. Damn it, this would affect his official career!
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