Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 67 New Chang'an
After playing around for a while, Liu Yilong finally raised his hand and surrendered to Liu Yizhen.

"The same goes for you when you arrive in Luoyang, hold on tight!"

Liu Yizhen stared at Liu Yilong a little worried.

He himself is also Liu Yu's "vassal king" who accepts his fate, and he understands how much power people like them have in the local area, so Liu Yilong must not play too much.

"Who is your assistant?"

"what?"

"Don't play stupid to me."

Just as Wang Xiu and Du Ji were left by Liu Yu to Liu Yizhen, Liu Yu must have left someone for Liu Yilong.

Liu Yilong said reluctantly: "They are from the Langya Wang family, Wang Hua and Wang Tanshou."

"Then my father transferred General Zhu Chaoshi to Luoyang."

Liu Yizhen nodded in satisfaction.

Wang Hua and Wang Tanshou are from the top wealthy Langya Wang family.In history, after Liu Yilong ascended the throne of God, the talents of the two were also displayed, and they were both good officials with the talents of prime ministers.Zhu Chaoshi is Zhu Lingshi's younger brother, and having him in Luoyang can also guarantee Luoyang's military security.

This set of lineup is luxurious enough, and with their assistance, Liu Yilong is not afraid of being bad.

"I'll write them a letter later, telling them to take good care of you, and if you go to your daughter-in-law again, your legs will be broken."

Liu Yilong instantly had a bitter face.

"No way, second brother? I just want to hug the long-legged and big-breasted woman and recite poems every day to fight against you. Are you going to kill my dream so cruelly?"

The corner of Liu Yizhen's mouth twitched.

Does this sound familiar?
But young people, have you ever thought about a life that even your older brother can't live with?dream!
"A little bit of ambition! Learn from your brother and me!"

Liu Yilong obviously didn't understand Liu Yizhen's boasting about himself.

"Second brother, do you want me to lead troops to Hebei?"

Liu Yizhen rubbed his temples.

"Forget it, don't go back to Luoyang these days."

Liu Yilong has the ability, and Luoyang is also the top priority. Now I have to teach Liu Yilong a little bit.

Liu Yilong chuckled: "I know that my second brother can't bear me!"

"..."

Afterwards, Liu Yilong was invited to eat hot pot. Liu Yilong ate again with great enjoyment, and slept in Liu Yizhen's house that night.

The next day, Liu Yizhen didn't give Liu Yilong time to sleep in, and directly dragged him from the bed and brought him to his side.

"I've met Duke Chang'an and Duke Pengcheng."

Liu Yizhen, with a resentful expression on his face, Liu Yilong first came to find the craftsman who came from Jiankang yesterday.

"Exemption."

At this time, everyone is on a white ground, which is the former Weiyang Palace.

"To rebuild Weiyang Palace will inevitably use a lot of building materials and labor, which will definitely affect the people of Chang'an."

It is estimated that Liu Yu, who is far away in Jiankang, did not expect Liu Yizhen to burn the Weiyang Palace to nothing. Now the difficulty of rebuilding the Weiyang Palace involves much greater expenses than Jiankang thought.

But this kind of building that involves politics must be repaired no matter how difficult it is.

After all, this repair is not a house, but face.

It's just that it can't be solved by a few craftsmen, and it also needs the cooperation and coordination of various resources in Guanzhong.

So Liu Yizhen sent someone to find Wang Xiu as well.

Wang Xiu is not very interested in building a palace now. After all, Guanzhong is full of waste, and it is not worth the loss to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a palace.

"Mr. Guiyang, it's better to be the Taiwei. It is said that Guanzhong is really exhausted now, and it is difficult to make a lot of construction. I think the Taiwei will not be unreasonable."

Although this move may affect Liu Yizhen's reputation, Wang Xiu really does not want to see the people's livelihood in Guanzhong decline.

Prestige can't be found here and there are other opportunities, but Guanzhong is the basic plan of Liu Yizhen and Wang Xiu's plan, and making political achievements in Guanzhong is the right way.

Liu Yizhen did not directly agree with Wang Xiu's opinion, but looked at the surrounding environment and began to think.

After a while, he looked at Wang Xiu and said slowly, "Actually, I've always had an idea."

"Today's Chang'an has experienced hundreds of years of vicissitudes. Not only are the streets cramped and the traffic is congested. Even the foundations have sunk."

"Wang Inspector, do you think it is possible for us to rebuild a city?"

Wang Xiu was almost choked to death by Liu Yizhen's whims.

Wang Xiu is reluctant to build a palace, afraid of hurting the people, so you actually want to build a city? ,

What's more, for a big city like Chang'an, if it is built, I don't know how many people will die and how much it will cost.Don't let the city not be repaired by then, but it will stir up civil uprisings and let the Hu people take advantage of it.

"Just an idea."

Liu Yizhen was very serious and didn't make any jokes.

He now wants to experiment with something new.

Taking advantage of the fact that Guanzhong is far away from Emperor Jiankang Tiangao, if some things are not done now, there will be no chance in the future.

In ancient times, in addition to a large number of prisoners and slaves, the construction of large-scale buildings was generally enlisted as laborers in the name of corvee.

Corvettes include regular soldiers, frontier guards and more soldiers.

The former two are military service, while the latter is a one-month unpaid labor service in the county that requires adult males.

Note that it is necessary.

Now Liu Yi really wants to convert the forced labor of the people in Guanzhong into the taxes they have to pay.

For example, it is stipulated that a commoner must serve one month of forced labor a year, but as long as they do two or three months more labor, they can reduce part of their taxes and even give them money.Of course, if there is no need to conscript them, there is no need to let them waste their time, just pay some money.

This thing is not clever, and in the Tang Dynasty it was called Yiyong.

But there is a prerequisite for doing this, that is, "people-oriented".

Liu Yi really wanted those who participated in labor labor must be landed self-cultivators, not poor landless people.

Otherwise, let others work, and don't give them preferential treatment, and the other party will jump their feet sooner or later.

So this policy has to be used in conjunction with another policy.

That is the equal-field system.

This is also the reason why Liu Yizhen measured the land in Guanzhong before.

Liu Yi had always had such a plan in his heart, and now he happened to continue to explain the reason for building the new Chang'an and try it out.

But Wang Xiu didn't know what Liu Yizhen was thinking, he just kept trying to dissuade him.

"Mr. Chang'an, even if it is to be repaired, it can't be repaired now. How about at least discussing it after the spring plowing is over?"

Liu Yizhen shook his head, instead he dragged Wang Xiu to the yamen, and at the same time called Liu Yilong to come with him.

"Because spring plowing is important, we have to make decisions as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)