Jinling City is located south of Chaohu Lake, on the bank of the river, with convenient transportation. After decades of development by the Huai Kingdom, the surrounding area has become relatively prosperous.
After annexing a large amount of land from the Chu State, the Huai State wanted to control those lands, so the best way was to move the capital. At the same time, after the capital is moved, lands such as Shudi and Chaodi will also undergo large-scale development.
After Wu Zixu received the edict to build Jinling City, he took his people directly to Jinling without stopping in Huai'an.
Wang Qi has already discussed with Sun Wu, Fan Li, Wu Zixu, Wen Zhong and other ministers. Everyone supports moving the capital to Jinling. Strategically speaking, the Huai Kingdom is too large and Huai'an is located in the east, which is not conducive to rule. Jinling, on the other hand, had relatively good control over all parts of the Huai Kingdom.
And compared to Huai'an, which is surrounded by plains and has only the Huaihe River as a line of defense, Jinling's security is much higher.
Although Huai'an has never been captured since the founding of the Huai State, it does not mean that the city of Huai'an is safe. There is only the Huaihe River to the north of Huai'an. Jin and Qi have attacked from the north several times. If the Huaihe River is lost, Huai'an will face the armies of Bang and Zhou.
If those generations of Huaigongs had not been wise kings and had elite soldiers and generals under their command, Huai'an would not be as stable as Mount Tai.
As long as we cross the Huai River, the distance from Huai'an to Huai'an is just a flat plain, and there is no danger to defend. This is also the reason why the kings of the Huai Kingdom in the past dynasties have accumulated heavy troops in Huaibei.
Once Huai River is lost, the Huai State will have to fight a battle to defend Huai'an.
Relatively speaking, Jinling is much safer. To the north of Jinling is the Chao area. Chao Lake, Chao capital and the remaining mountains of the Dabie Mountains make it easy to defend and difficult to attack. To the east is the land of Wu and Yue, to the south is the land of Shu, and only to the west is the land of Chu.
This is a heaven-given capital.
However, the Chu State was broken by the Huai State War and could not recover for decades. After the Huai State moved its capital to Jinling, it was the Chu State that should worry.
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Wu Zixu led 10,000 troops and 70,000 people to build Jinling City. Because it was built as the future capital, the location and scale of Jinling City were very particular. The former Jinling City will be used as a sub-city of Jinling City.
A large amount of food supplies were transported from Huai'an to Jinling. With the support of the Huai State, the construction of Jinling City went smoothly.
Wu Zixu chose a slightly raised place on the south bank of the river. The terrain here is tens of meters higher than the surrounding area, and the surrounding area is as gentle as a turtle's back. The moat is directly diverted from the river.
After determining the construction location of the city, Wu Zixu delineated the foundation, then built a moat, dug river channels, and diverted water from the river. Then he used rafts to transport supplies. In order to facilitate the transportation of supplies, Wu Zixu even dug the roads in the city and diverted the river water to let the river flow. The raft can go straight into the city.
Various materials are transported on rafts, which greatly reduces the difficulty of transportation and speeds up construction. As the capital city, Nanjing has walls five feet high and its foundations are also made of boulders.
Wu Zixu sent people to dig out huge stones in the mountains, and then transported the huge stones to the foundation of the city wall by water transportation. After building the foundation, the city wall was piled with rammed earth.
Even in order to increase the adhesion, glutinous rice was boiled into juice and mixed into the city wall. After tamping, the city wall was as strong as a rock.
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When Wu Zixu was building Jinling City, Fan Li finally started to implement Qingmiao Loan after a year of preparation and visits to various parts of the Huai Kingdom.
Fan Li requested Wang Qi's order and transferred a group of students from the academy. He then trained these students, told them the rules of Qingmiao Loan, and taught them arithmetic to calculate Qingmiao Loan. Of course, Fan Li was not planning for them to implement Qingmiao Loan.
Instead, he planned to let these students inspect the Huai Kingdom to supervise the implementation of Qingmiao Loan in various places. These students are young and enthusiastic when they are not polluted by stereotypes and customs, and will not collude with local officials. If they are allowed to work at the grassroots level, various problems may arise, but if they are allowed to inspect and supervise, then It's just perfect.
After listening to Fan Li's explanation, Wang Qi immediately agreed to the suggestion, and appointed these students as inspection censors to specifically inspect the implementation of the Huaiguo Qingmiao Loan, and all inspection censors have the right to directly write to the monarch. Inspecting the imperial capital
A troop of soldiers accompanied him to protect him.
Don't think this is making a fuss out of a molehill. After so many years in power, Wang Qi has a deep understanding of those nobles and ministers. If killing someone is the simplest and most effective way, they will never mind.
At the same time, in order to deter these people, Wang Qi ordered that all patrol censors, no matter whose jurisdiction they were killed or besieged, all surrounding officials would be severely punished. The families of ministers within a fifty-mile radius will also be subject to scrutiny.
Except for this one, the patrol censor can only serve for a maximum of three years. If the patrol censor has personal interests, he will also be severely punished. In order to prevent the inspection censors from showing favoritism, the inspection scopes of all inspection censors overlap with each other and are changed every year.
After training these censors, Fan Li told these people the tricks commonly used by most officials. After some training, he let them take office. .q.
Just before these inspection censors took office, Huaiguo's Qingmiao Loan began to be implemented.
Although Wang Qi and Fan Li had already rectified the officialdom before implementing the Qingmiao Loan, and used the logistical problems to prepare for the capture of Chu State, and found out many corrupt officials, there were still some people who took desperate risks.
After discovering these people, Wang Qi directly ordered severe punishment, confiscated their property, and then moved them to Jinling to build a city. These distributed people were completely different from the conscripted farmers. After the construction of Jinling is completed, if it is not dead, the land will be redistributed to open up wasteland.
How can anyone not die just by building a city? Whether they can survive or not depends on their fate.
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In the second year after Wu Zixu built Jinling City, a large number of officials and their families came to escort him. This situation did not begin to decrease until the fourth year of building the city.
When the construction of Jinling City was completed, the number of officials and their families who were sent to participate in the construction of the city was close to tens of thousands. It can be said that almost half of the grassroots officials in Huai State were arrested. As for the people who survived in the end, less than half of them survived.
In Jinling City, Wu Zixu built the city very quickly with the strong support of Huai State.
The city wall of Jinling City is twenty miles long and five feet high. It has bluestone as the foundation and rammed earth as the wall. The city is divided into a palace city, an inner city, and an outer city. It took more than 100,000 people to complete, and it took seven years to complete.
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The ancient city of Nanjing, also known as the ancient city of Jinling, was built in the late Spring and Autumn Period. In the 18th year of Huaiwen Xianggong's reign, the capital was moved to Jinling, and Jinling began to exist.
Nanjing is a "World Historic City" designated by UNESCO in 1981. It is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation. Six dynasties have established their capitals here in history. Nanjing is a world-famous historical city. It is as famous as the world-famous ancient cities such as Rome, Athens, and Cairo. It is also the one with the longest history among the six ancient capitals in China. It is known as the "Six Dynasties Resort and the Ten Dynasties City".
