In order to build a magnificent capital city, the Huai State recruited a large amount of manpower. In the following years, more than 70% of the Huai State's money, grain and taxes were invested in the construction of Jinling City.
A lot of money was invested in it, and when Jinling City was finally completed, it was much larger than Huai'an.
After the construction of Jinling was completed, Wang Qi did not move the capital immediately. The newly built city was not popular and needed to move in the population first to nourish the city.
After the construction of Jinling was completed, Wang Qi ordered 30,000 households from Huai'an to be moved to Jinling to enrich the population of Jinling. Coupled with the tens of thousands of Chu people who were previously settled in Jinling, the population of Jinling directly reached an astonishing 200,000.
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When Wang Qi announced the move of the capital, there were many voices of opposition. It's just that the power of the Huai Kingdom has always been firmly in the hands of the monarch. As long as the monarch wants to do something, he basically can't stop it.
The vast majority of those who opposed the relocation of the capital were the Qingshi families who controlled a lot of power in Huai'an. They have been bound to Huai'an. Once the capital is moved, the family will immediately decline. From the original noble family, they will gradually fall to the middle and lower classes.
It is difficult for them to accept this situation, but if they move to Nanjing together, they will lose their underlying foundation, their strength will also be greatly reduced, and everything will have to start again.
However, no matter how much these people objected, it was of no avail. Sun Wu, Fan Li, Wu Zixu, Qingji, Wen Zhong, Xu Feng and Gongyangshi all agreed to move the capital, so no one could stop it.
So the migration work began. There were originally 200,000 people in Huai'an City. This time Wang Qi moved half of them, and the rest moved from around Huai'an City. .
Wang Qi's migration was also a selective migration. This time, those who migrated to Jinling were basically wealthy households in the city, while those outside the city were local wealthy families. These people are either rich or powerful. In the past, they were pressured by the Huaiguo official, so these people can still be more honest.
If after the Huai State moved its capital, they would soon expand without the suppression of the Huai State Office. The Huai Kingdom's official offices moved to Jinling, and the Huai Kingdom's court would also move away at the same time. Although Huai'an was no longer the political center, Huai'an was also an important city in the Huai Kingdom.
Especially after the upper-level forces leave, a power vacuum will be left, and these noble families will immediately begin to encroach. It won't be long before the families of these ministers will expand rapidly.
Wang Qi would not give them a chance, so all these noble families and wealthy families were moved to Jinling by Wang Qi.
At the same time, Huai'an will not give up. Wang Qi will leave his younger brother in Huai'an to serve as the Huai'an magistrate. The term is four years. After the expiration, he will be replaced by someone from the official office. Like Gusu, this place will serve as the Huaiguo official office. managed city.
Although the Huai Kingdom moved the capital, the foundation of Huai'an is still there. There is a canal outside the city, fertile fields, and a large number of people. Even if it is no longer the capital of the Huai Kingdom, it is still an important city in the Huai Kingdom.
A large number of people entered Dajiang through the canal and then came to Jinling. The migration continued for two years. By the time Wang Qi moved his office and court to Jinling, this emerging city had become prosperous.
After the land near Jinling City was reclaimed, it was distributed to the people of Chu State according to the previously discussed situation. As for those noble families and wealthy families, their lands are all south of Jinling.
These lands have not yet been developed and are in a barren stage. Wang Qi deliberately gave them wasteland. Some of these nobles, nobles, and wealthy families had money and food. How could Wang Qi let them go? Naturally, he wanted to make the best use of the resources and use the power of these people to reclaim wasteland.
To the south of Jinling, it was originally the territory of the Shu State. After the Shu State was attacked and destroyed by the Chu State, it became the territory of the Chu State. After the Chu State was attacked this time, it became the land of the Huai State.
These lands were not developed in Shu State at first.
, after all, Shu State has a small population and does not have enough manpower to develop.
As for Chu State, they are even more lazy to come here to open up wasteland. Chu State has a large area of land that can be reclaimed two thousand miles away, so naturally it will not go so far to reclaim land.
These wastelands were given to the Qingshi family by Wang Qi. In exchange, they could receive 20% more land in Huai'an. Of course, the cultivated land does not belong to these nobles, powerful and wealthy households. The land cultivated by them is divided 50-50 from the government offices.
After the Huai State moved its capital to Jinling, the political and economic aspects began to shift from Huai'an to Jinling. A large number of workshops also began to be established in Jinling, and at the same time the Huai State began to construct the land seized from the Chu State.
This time the Huai State seized hundreds of miles of land from the Chu State. After the Huai State moved its capital to Jinling, under the influence of Jinling, the land here also began to be developed on a large scale.
The relocation of the capital of the Huai State had a great impact on the radiation. Originally, the degree of development of these lands in the Chu State was not high, but after the capital of the Huai State was moved, these places were immediately taken seriously.
The most obvious thing is that after the Huai State moved its capital, a large number of soldiers were also brought to Jinling, and these soldiers would also be re-granted land.
Moving the capital from Huai'an, where the economy is prosperous and agriculture is developed, to Jinling is a severe test. However, with the help of Fan Li, Wu Zixu, and Wen Zhong, Wang Qi quickly stabilized the court.
After the court stabilized and with administrative support, the area around Jinling began to prosper rapidly. Materials from the Huai Kingdom were constantly transferred to Jinling. The arrival of a large number of materials and people promoted the rapid economic development of Jinling.
Although it is not as good as Huai'an now, it is still half as good as Huai'an before. And after moving the capital, the Huai State's control over the land east of the Dabie Mountains and west of Jinling increased rapidly.
After adjustments, Jinling, as the center of the Huai Kingdom, has made great progress in controlling all parts of the Huai Kingdom. In the past, because Huai'an was close to the north, its control over the land of Wu and Yue was somewhat weak. Now the land of Wuyue is under Jinling's nose, and the country's control over the local area has been improved by more than one step.
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The Huai State moved its capital to Jinling, which was an important event in the late Spring and Autumn Period. This showed that the Huai State began to focus its strategy on the Chu State, and the Huai State began to develop westward. This also means that the battles between the Huai State and the Chu State began to become more frequent, and the wars between the countries began to become more intense. As a result, the Chu State began to decline and was eventually annexed by the Huai State.
Historians agree that the transfer of the capital of the Huai State to Jinling and the division of the three families into the Jin Dynasty were the dividing lines of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ——"Historical Dating of Xia, Shang and Zhou"
PS: We are collecting country names. Since the capital has been moved, it is not appropriate to call it Huai Kingdom.
