Overlord!

Zhuge Jin's complete and long-term plan for Jiankang City undoubtedly fully demonstrated the potential of his famous talent.

A person's vision is the key to determining the upper limit of his future achievements.

It's just that Jiankang City is well planned, but it's not so easy to build it.A huge city with a circumference of more than 40 miles and a capacity of nearly one million people is really beyond the scope of Jiangdong's current manpower and material resources.

The original intention of Sun Ce to establish the new government office was to move the ruling core from the too remote Wu County to a location close to the Central Plains, so as to facilitate the rule of the newly developed western and northern counties.

But if too much manpower and material resources are to be wasted, the rule will be unstable, and even the struggle for hegemony will be delayed, the loss outweighs the gain.

So Sun Ce looked at Zhuge Jin and asked seriously: "Since the chaos, the people have lost their homes. The borders of the counties in the east of the Yangtze River have been initially determined, and the fighting has not stopped. If you want to build this magnificent city, I am afraid that it will make the people heavy and the people will not be able to live. Do you have any general plan to build the city?
Zhuge Jin immediately asked his entourage to present a rolled-up paper map, which made Jiang Qin nervous again, fearing that he would come to see the map like Jing Ke, regardless of Zhuge Jin's face, he wanted to open the map and check it again .

Seeing this, Sun Ce couldn't help laughing. Since the Embroidered Clothes Guards were formed, their greatest duty was to prevent rape and prepare for assassins, and the defense against assassins was the ultimate.

The Jiangdong Assassin wanted to assassinate himself again, but the difficulty was really comparable to reaching the sky.

Not wanting to embarrass Zhuge Jin, Sun Ce changed the subject with a smile, and said, "This white paper is convenient, and it is indeed far superior to wooden slips. Drawing on paper is far superior to bamboo and wood in terms of size and precision."

Zhuge Jin nodded approvingly, and said: "Zuobo paper is the best in the world for papermaking, but the scale of papermaking is indeed the best in the world in Jiangdong. Whether it is official business, or copying books and calligraphy, It is very convenient. In addition to my government affairs, I have copied five scriptures and sent them to my younger brother."

Sun Ce sighed: "Nowadays it is not easy to learn literature. Scholars and students have to borrow books to copy. And it is inevitable that there will be typos, which will make the original text frustrating."

Zhuge Jin nodded and said: "So in my opinion, at the beginning of the construction of Jiankang City, I, the great Confucian of Jiangdong, should imitate Dongguan's school script, correct the characters of the Five Classics, and carve a stone monument in front of the palace in the city for students all over the world to copy. Proofreading, copying and rubbing, there must be post-Confucianism and late learning, gathered from all over the world, those who watched and imitated, with more than a thousand cars a day, filling the streets."

In this era, the royal family is able to grasp the power of cultural interpretation. An important reason is that the royal family really does not hesitate to set up official positions such as school clerk and school clerk. It completely lost its proper place in this transcription.

The method Zhuge Jin mentioned was exactly the emulation of the great Confucian Cai Yong. During the Xiping period, before engraving a stele in Dongguan, he copied the Confucian classics "Zhouyi", "Shangshu", "Lu Poems", "Yili", " Gongyang Zhuan, The Analects of Confucius, and Spring and Autumn Annals are all written in Feibai calligraphy in official script and engraved on stone tablets for copying by students all over the world.

Calligraphy still needs blank paper to practice.Whenever Cai Yong wrote a book, he would not write without Zuo Bozhi.

His Feibai calligraphy and his habit of using white paper also greatly increased the popularity of white paper.

Zhuge Jin's proposal is indeed good. After carving stones and erecting steles, it will not only improve Jiangdong's cultural and educational level, but also enhance Jiangdong's cultural discourse power, so that the world will no longer dare to regard Jiangdong as a barren land.

More importantly, with thousands of cars passing by every day, the number of people entering Jiankang must not be hundreds of thousands a year?Moreover, they are all literate scholars, who are worthy talents.If one tenth of the population can be left for settlement, the population of Jiankang will increase.

In today's world, there are really few cities with a population of more than 3. Wu County counts as one, and Chengdu should also count as one. Xiangyang, Shouchun, and Ye County are possible, and other cities are dilapidated, with [-] to [-] people. Even a big city.

Through this city with a population of 10, it can also be seen which of the current princes has more potential and is expected to dominate the world.

Because only this kind of big city can develop prosperous industry and commerce, and provide enough wealth for the princes to form a strong army.

This is why Cao Cao had just unified Yanzhou at the end of last year, but he himself did not stay in Yanzhou, but sent his troops south to take down Yingchuan and Runan to manage Xu County.

It can be said that Mao Jie did not propose the strategy of "following the emperor's orders but not ministers, cultivating farming and planting, and raising military resources" for him. There was no farmland in Xu County, but Yanzhou, which was completely destroyed and deserted for thousands of miles, was in his hands. , Cao Cao can never unify the Central Plains.

And Boss Cao is really unreasonable. For this kind of hero, he was given to death just because others reported Mao Jie's arrogance.

Of course, there are too many people who have made great contributions to Boss Cao and were forced to death by Boss Cao. Lou Gui, Xu You, Cui Yan, Xun Yu, Yang Xiu, Hua Tuo, Boss Cao's life is to be ruthless.That sentence would rather tell me to bear the world, don't let the world bear me.Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is the most accurate summary of his life.

However, it is precisely because of his character that the Yan and Yu scholars in the north have been exiled to the south.

Sun Ce said: "I heard that Liu Biao established an academic officer in Jingzhou and sought out Confucian scholars. Thousands of scholars from Guanzhong, Yan, and Yu returned. Qi Wukai, Song Zhong, etc. wrote "Five Classics Chapters and Sentences". Even the classical Biji was filled in the state, and the culture and education seemed to be prosperous for a while."

"I, Jiangdong, should indeed promote enlightenment in order to recruit scholars. One of the three monarchs of the party, the lord of the Chen family in Yingchuan, Mr. Chen just wanted to enter Jiangdong, so he presided over the matter, called Jiangdong's great scholars, carved stones and erected steles, Pentateuch text."

While the two were talking, Jiang Qin had checked the map and handed it to Zhuge Jin.

After Zhuge Jin and Sun Ce unfolded the map together, they stood by the cliff of Zhongshan Mountain, pointed to Xuanwu Lake in the north, and said, "General, this map is the planning drawing for Jiankang City. We have calculated the needs for building the city. If you don't agree with what the general said, it will cause the people to live in dire straits."

Sun Ce's eyes lit up, he smiled happily, and said with a smile: "This is a good thing, why did you say that?"

Zhuge Jin explained: "In the past, when the government built a large number of buildings, the people often had no means of living. It was because of the heavy corvee, especially the tax. For example, before ZTE, the common people had to serve the country with more taxes, including the pawns, the soldiers, and the soldiers. After two years of military service, you have to serve as a pawn for one month every year to serve the local corvée. If at this time, the government constructs large-scale construction projects and imposes corvée, so that the people will not be able to rest for years, how can security not suffer heavy casualties?"

Sun Ce nodded, which is why the Western Han Dynasty's universal military service system was abolished after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Han inherits the Qin system, which refers to the system of the Western Han Dynasty. Like the Qin Dynasty, it still belongs to the classical empire, and all people are required to serve in the military.However, the inconvenient transportation made it impossible for military service to be used in practice.

So in the period of Emperor Wu, the Juyan defenders began to gradually convert into professional recruited soldiers.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the previous system of national military service in the Han Dynasty was completely abolished, and it was changed to a recruitment system, which greatly relieved the pressure on the people and developed agricultural productivity.

Therefore, the continuous Han-Hungarian war ended completely in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Le Shi Yanran, the Northern Huns fled far away, and the Southern Huns surrendered.

However, although the Eastern Han Dynasty reduced the burden on the people, the corvee still existed. It was because of the large-scale construction of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty that the people starved to death.

And Zhuge Jin said: "But in my Jiangdong, the general and Jiangdong's elders have three chapters. The country only collects regular taxes, and the people are not burdened. Military service and corvee service are all recruited by the method of recruiting people to serve the government. Instead of requisitioning rice and grain, all of them were collected in money, which allowed Jiangdong to gather financial resources and have more spare power to carry out government affairs."

Sun Ce recognized this very much. Since what was collected was not rice, but copper coins, the government's finances were far richer than other dynasties.

The government can come up with enough funds, concentrate financial resources, and promote larger projects.

Zhuge Jin said: "I heard that the general said the method of replacing vibration with work, so I thought that promoting the construction of Jiankang City at this time will not only not starve the people's livelihood, but will even the wealth and relieve the hunger of the people's livelihood."

"En?" Sun Ce was surprised, equalizing the wealth?
Sun Ce really hadn't thought about this.

Is Jiangdong's focus now on fairness?of course not!

Now Jiangdong's focus has always been on efficiency!

efficient!

The most important thing is efficiency!
Not to mention other things, the hundreds of miles of land below Zhongshan Mountain and beside Xuanwu Lake is a real land of abundance, the most prosperous land in the whole world in future generations.Even now there is no miasma, no beasts.

But what is the situation here?
Hundreds of miles of land is barren, and the millions of acres of land that can be reclaimed are all barren.

Whoever can reclaim this piece of land into good fields, like Sun Quan, can produce enough grain for the people of several counties in Jiankang.

Sun Ce was not stingy, and it was no problem to make him a Marquis immediately.And he will never be as ruthless as Cao Cao. After the founding of the country, he will definitely have the status of ten thousand households!
Therefore, Sun Ce has always encouraged the people of Jiangdong and the tyrants of the aristocratic family to vigorously develop production and reclaim as much fertile land as possible!Regardless of whether he has hundreds of acres of land, thousands of acres of land, or tens of thousands of acres of land, he is treated equally and pays the same tax per mu.

This has become a carnival for the powerful and powerful, and they have gone all out to open up wasteland, making Wu County barren.While government income increased, their wealth also expanded dramatically, several times or even dozens of times higher than in the past.

But even so, there are still large tracts of uncultivated land in counties and counties along the Yangtze River such as Moling, Shicheng, and Jiangcheng.

It may be too early to talk about equal wealth now.

Zhuge Jin asked with a smile: "Has the general read the documents sent to the general's mansion recently?"

Sun Ce shook his head and said, "Recently, I have been busy dealing with Liu Biao and Huang Zu, forming a naval army, and suppressing the rebellion. I really have no time for others. The general's affairs are all handled by Chang Shi."

Zhang Zhao was entrusted with all important military and political affairs in Jiangdong. Sun Ce trusted his loyalty and ability very much. Therefore, except for matters related to strategy and policy, Sun Ce has never been involved in government affairs.

Zhuge Jin said: "I work for the general, and I have seen the documents of the shogunate. Now it is November, and the tax items for October have been reported one after another. Does the general know the size of the Zhu family's grain collection in Wu County this year?"

"Zhu Clan? The clan of Captain Zhu Huan?"

Zhuge Jin nodded, and said: "It is Zhu Xiaowei's clan who was in Yuzhang to supervise the generals and suppress the rebellion."

Sun Ce asked, "How many ten thousand shi is the harvest?"

"47 stone!"

"How much?!" Sun Ce exclaimed, his tone full of disbelief.

"47 shi!" Zhuge Jin said decisively: "Nearly 50 shi of grain! The tax paid by his family is worth millions of dollars!"

Hearing this, the guards standing aside were deeply shocked, looked sideways and talked loudly.

Nearly more than 40 shi of grain!Enough for [-] troops and [-] farmers for two months.

These grains alone are enough to supply the entire Jiangdong army to fight north and south, and support the counter-insurgency war for two months.

Zhu Xiaowei's family is rich enough to reach a county or even a county in the north!

Even if Liu Bei conquered Xiapi, he could not raise more than 40 shi, grain and grass.

After the shock, Sun Ce was also quite relieved. In the Song Dynasty, the situation of "rich households stretching across several roads, with annual incomes of millions of dendrobiums, has never existed since the opening of Jiangdong".

The Zhu family with four surnames in Jiangdong has already risen and made a fortune.

Although their family's land is not as much as that of the wealthy family in the Song Dynasty, it is the most fertile land in Wu County, which is a land of fish and rice!In particular, they have been building water conservancy projects and irrigating paddy fields since last year, and this year is bound to usher in a bumper harvest!
The 47 shi of grain can be harvested with only [-] mu of fertile land.

Sun Ce remembered that the Zhu clan had thousands of clan members. It is impossible for each of these people to belong to the same family. It is normal for a family to have several brothers.Calculated, the Zhu family should have hundreds of guests.

On average, each household has hundreds or even more than 200 acres of fertile land.

Sun Ce laughed excitedly. This is equivalent to each household being a family of small landlords, comparable to the sons of the six counties of the Han Dynasty, the knights of the Three Rivers, and the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Only a family with sufficient wealth can provide for the children and teenagers in the family to study and practice martial arts, and cultivate them into talents.

Sun Ce seems to have seen hundreds of Zhu's children become talents, become officials in prefectures and counties, and engage in business.

Just one Zhu family is like this. At that time, the wealth of the entire Wu County will definitely be able to supply the current Jiangdong Wu County.

With such a well-developed agricultural foundation, it is possible to build a prosperous industry and commerce centered on Jiankang, Wuxian, and Wuxi.

At that time, handicraft production and industrial scale will develop rapidly.

Even scholars can produce tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

Sun Ce was still shocked and yearning for the commercial prosperity of Wu County. Zhuge Jin said: "The wealth of the counties in the east of the Yangtze River is uneven. The rich are like Wu County, and the rice barn is full. But the poor are still fighting frequently, the people's livelihood is famine, and the refugees are everywhere. If the government provides relief , It was a waste of financial resources. But if the method of recruiting labor is used, it will not only resettle thousands of hungry people, but also attract money and food from Wu County to flow into Danyang." (End of this chapter)