Chapter 63: Is it a pleasure for the emperor to visit?
Yang Zhen returned to He Mansion.
The new Beijing has not yet been built. He Xi's mansion is actually in the north of Xianghe County. Not in the city. It is convenient to supervise the new Beijing city project nearby. The three newly established departments in Beijing were all located near He Mansion.
A small gathering is formed here.
It has also become prosperous.
Yang Zhen came to the backyard.
He Xi is still busy writing documents. Seeing that Yang Zhen was back, He Xi said, "How is that Zhang Dalang?"
Yang Zhen explained his arrangements in detail.
He Xi sighed and said, "With my famous thorn, but without my famous thorn, what's the difference?"
Yang Zhen said: "I'm afraid so."
He Xi said: "Then follow Mr. Yao's previous plan." Then He Xi picked up a list next to him. This list is nothing else. These are the names of people in the He Xi faction in various counties in Hebei.
Yao Guangxiao always has a solution for many things.
But he didn't say it.
He Xi also understood why Yao Guangxiao didn't say anything.
Because of this matter, there are many problems no matter how you look at it.
If you recruit people in the name of the imperial court, there will be various disadvantages. But if the connections of powerful local people are recruited. Is there no problem? No, I'm afraid the problem will be bigger.
He Xi can provide a guarantee for Zhang Dalang to bring 500 people to Beijing. If He Xi provides assassins for many people, and hundreds of thousands of people come to Beijing in He Xi's name, He Xi will have a big problem. .
After much deliberation, He Xi finally chose the latter.
That is to select people from various counties in Hebei among their own factions and let them do this in their own name or in the name of their family and become labor intermediaries. In fact, as long as it is done. There is money to be made. And it will be very influential in the hometown.
At the same time, He Xi is also building his own fundamentals.
After all, it cannot be said that the northern scholar-officials have no power, and their strength is simply incomparable to that of the southern scholar-officials. Some places in Hebei, Henan, and Shandong have even immigrated there. There is no strong clan power. There are not many scholars either. This can be seen from the North and South List case in the early Ming Dynasty.
There is not much Confucian tradition in general. Many notes from the Ming Dynasty despised the shallowness of northern customs. It can also be reflected.
Therefore, for most ordinary people, it is very realistic that whoever can help them make money will be the boss of the place. Whoever is in his hometown has influence.
Although it is said that some places are powerful. He Xi still wants to understand whether it is good or bad, right or wrong for the imperial court itself. But I felt that instead of using the original government system, it would be better to do it this way. Because there are still a majority of Confucian scholars in the government.
He Xi took a deep look at the list. Keep this list aside solemnly. The names in it will be very important in the future.
He Xi said: "Yang Zhen, what do you think about what I told you?"
Yang Zhen said: "Sir, I already have some ideas about the land in Beijing. Of course it can be done. But the students feel that the price of land in Beijing cannot go up. Because Beijing is the capital after all, The real capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing. If Beijing became the capital, the land price here could be more than ten times higher. But now--" Yang Zhen paused slightly and said: "I'm afraid the price will not meet expectations."
He Xi really wanted to say that Beijing would most likely be the capital in the future.
But even He Xi didn't dare to guarantee it.
the reason is simple.
History has changed.
In Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao's plan for Beijing. Whether Beijing is important or not, it is very important. As an industrial city in Beijing, it is probably the largest industrial city in the Ming Dynasty. If you control Beijing, you will control the military forces of the world. Military power in the world.
Nature is important. Otherwise, it will not be promoted to the companion capital.
But just because we pay enough attention to it, I don’t know whether the capital will be moved to Beijing in the future.
Nothing else, because historically the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, which itself was a very controversial topic. There are mixed pros and cons. It's hard to say whether it's good or bad.
If the accompanying capital system allows Nanjing to control Beijing well, it may not necessarily need to move the capital. The economy in the south of Beijing and Ming Dynasty was better than that in the north. It’s uncertain whether the Industrial Revolution could change this. The disadvantages of the capital being far away from the economic center and the separation of head and buttocks. The Ming Dynasty in history has demonstrated this very well.
I don't think I need to do it again.
He Xi wanted to argue about the concept of the Capital Room, but she didn't dare.
Because if you do this, the impact will be too great. It may even cause political turmoil. Losing big things because of small things.
However, as a result, the land price in New Beijing may only be slightly higher than that in the provincial capital city. There is no way to compare it with Nanjing. There may be too little chance that He Xi wants to recover money by buying land.
He Xi said: "Is there really nothing we can do?"
Yang Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Maybe there is a way."
He Xi asked: "What can we do?"
Yang Zhen said: "Your Majesty, please visit the north." After Yang Zhen finished speaking, he shook his head and said: "The students are a little too whimsical."
It’s not Yang Zhen’s fault.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang had expressed his attitude towards Xunxing very early. He was against the emperor wandering around casually. There is no other reason. After learning from the lessons of the previous dynasties, the Liao, Jin, and Mongolia all started as nomadic peoples. Their culture is very tolerant of the emperor's tours.
As a result, there were incidents in Liao, Jin and Mongolia where emperors went on patrol and had troubles, leading to political crises.
The Liao Dynasty did not have a fixed capital at all, and it was regarded as a patrol wherever it went. King Hailing of the Jin Dynasty, the change of the southern slope of the Yuan Dynasty, etc.
At the same time, the patrols brought a heavy burden to local people.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that patrolling could bring political instability and bring burdens to local governments. Zhu Yuanzhang was against patrolling. Of course, I am not completely opposed to patrolling. If something happens to the country, the emperor will do his part. But if the country is fine and the emperor wants to go out for a walk, then he is the king of Jie and Zhou.
And Zhu Yuanzhang is old.
After much thought, Yang Zhen didn't think it was a good thing to invite Zhu Yuanzhang to visit, and Zhu Yuanzhang's visit would only boost land prices for a period of time.
It's of no use.
He Xi shook his head and said: "No, your idea is very good. I think His Majesty may visit Beijing. And it will be after the completion of Beijing City, which is the 25th or 26th year of Hongwu."
The twenty-three years of Hongwu are about to pass. Beijing City is a big project, and He Xi feels that it will take at least one or two years to build. Even if many new technologies and new methods are used, the construction process will be the same. This year is just preparation, and construction will officially start next year, and it will be completed the year after that, or the year after that.
Even if it is only mostly completed, I don’t know when it will be fully completed.
It should be noted that the historical city of Beijing was still under construction in the Zhengtong period.
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