When I came to Taicheng again, although the interval was not long, the style was very different.

Gone are the messy and dilapidated scenes, replaced by open and smooth roads, majestic and orderly buildings. Large blocks of stepping stones are mined from the mountains near the outskirts of Beijing, carved and then polished with fine sand to make them smooth and smooth. On the left and right of the letter walk is a high wall made of blue bricks, which are carved with clearly visible lines, stacked together to outline an elegant and simple image.

In the high wall is the official office of each palace and temple, the form is different, or the eaves are stacked, thick and heavy as a mountain, or the high pavilion is strange, the shape is the same as the jade pillar, there is also a high-altitude hanging corridor, the door hole is deep, the square Heng door, the shadow wall is eye-catching. The different architectural styles of the north and the south are blended into one furnace, which is neither noisy nor incompatible, and many buildings are intertwined and the interests tend to be one. The majesty is undiminished, the elegance is full of taste, the grandeur is full of grandeur, and the eclectic side is all-encompassing.

Of course, some places are still unfinished, and there are high bamboo fences that surround and separate them, and there are guards guarding the fence outside, and craftsmen are busy inside the fence. Occasionally, officials in Taicheng stood inside and outside the bamboo fence, either monitoring the progress, or observing and thinking, and exchanging their aesthetic results with the craftsmen who employed them.

Walking in Taicheng, Wen Qiao also subconsciously watched left and right, and couldn't help but sigh: "The kid is always poor and has trouble, it's really disgusting." But I really have to say that only by thinking diligently can we overcome the difficulties of others! Taicheng now has a new look, it is not as narrow as the old **, Wei Zhou, you are also a great contribution! What is even more rare is that the fortifications are fast, but they do not exhaust the people, and the materials are wasted, which is indeed to be praised! ”

The amount of work in the whole Taicheng is very large, because many palaces and temples are concentrated here, not only to provide office space, but also to provide living space for these Taichens, so the scale of the entire Taicheng is not inferior to an ordinary city. In terms of the proportion of the amount of work, Shen Zhezi's overall vision of Jiankang New City is already grand, and Taicheng still accounts for at least one-fifth of the proportion.

Taicheng is not only an office place, but also occupies a certain military role, wrapping and guarding the Yuancheng, which is the core of the entire Jiankang City and the last line of defense. Last year, Su Jun was the first to break through the defense of Taicheng, and then caused the fall of the entire Jiankang City, so whether Taicheng is stable or not determines to some extent whether the entire Jiankang City and even the entire Jiangdong situation is stable or not.

With such a large amount of labor, the entire framework has been erected in just half a year, and the construction progress has not been delayed elsewhere. Although the main credit is still due to the proper scheduling of the front-line supervisors such as Ji Mu and Shen Ke, Shen Zhezi also contributed to the overall allocation of manpower and material resources and the construction of the operation mode in the early stage.

Hearing Wen Qiao's emotion, Shen Zhezi said with a smile: "The people have their own initiative, as long as they can protect their stability and serve their affairs, they are not inferior to the virtue and politics of Yao Shun's world." It's a pity that there are too few people in this world who have the power of sages, but too many people who have the ambition of sages, and they must always be anxious to establish a life for the people and plan for eternal peace. Such a person does not suffer from laziness in action, but only from diligent thinking, and the people know where their fate is, and they may not rely on the sages in everything. ”

The quickest and most effective way to bring a chaotic world to peace quickly is to let everyone have something to do and everyone to do their part. Comparatively speaking, the impact of the employment rate on the stability of the world was much more important in later generations than in ancient agrarian societies.

Because in ancient times, there was an eternal industry, and that was to let people farm. No matter how chaotic the world is, once the world is unified, the politics is clear, there is no threat of military disasters, the small people work hard, and the imperial court allows the development of productive forces to interfere without arbitrary interference, the vitality of the whole society will quickly recover and usher in a prosperous era again.

However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty has its own paradoxes in this era, and the methods that have worked in other eras will not work in this era. The problem was simple, the imperial court simply did not have enough arable land to house the refugees. Once there is not enough arable land, a large number of people will not be able to return to their fields, the productive forces will not be fully developed, and the vitality will naturally be difficult to recover for a long time.

Shen Zhezi almost strongly advocated the rebuilding plan of the entire Jiankang City, which did not conform to the usual handling methods after the chaos. In the eyes of ordinary people, a big war has caused a huge loss of vitality in the entire Jiangdong, and it is too much to squeeze the people's strength to build a large number of buildings at this time.

But if the old method is used, where will the imperial court find so much arable land? If resettlement is not timely, the livelihood of a large number of refugees will be threatened. Then there will be wealthy families who control the fields, jumping out and using a way to live as bait to compete with the imperial court for these refugee labor.

As a result, as a large number of people were shaded, the manpower that the imperial court could control became less and less, and it was more and more restrained by the clans. And those families who have a lot of manpower and material resources can't abandon their prejudices and cooperate with each other sincerely, so these manpower and material resources that should be used to do great things are wasted in the disputes and strangulation with each other.

Therefore, the first principle of Shen Zhezi's disaster relief was to seize the vitality of these refugees and prevent them from being scattered outside the rule of the imperial court. It is indeed not a good choice to rebuild Kangcheng at such a time, but the problem is that if it does not do so, the imperial court simply does not have the means and ability to retain these populations!

In fact, whenever troubled times are coming, those in power always engage in civil construction, which in a sense is actually a means to strengthen personal control. Control must be strengthened because it is about to get out of control, but this ill-timed hard-line approach often provokes a violent backlash, which in turn makes the turmoil more intense.

But this is not an unsolvable problem, if we can find a target to wage war while strengthening the personal control of the small people, on the one hand, we can divert contradictions through war, and strengthen our personal control, and on the other hand, we can plunder wealth to supplement ourselves through war, this method is feasible. And in later generations, there is more than one quite successful template.

However, in ancient times, there was a rather helpless limitation, that is, in the external environment of the region, there was no object that could be used and worthy of plunder, and the biggest fat sheep was Huaxia himself. Therefore, whenever this method is used, it is often when civil strife begins.

The reason why Shen Zhezi dared to do this was because there was a ready-made object right now, that is, the Qianhu who occupied the Central Plains. Although it is not enough to launch a large-scale war against the Karma at the moment, the existence of the Karma itself is a reverse deterrent, so that these people in Jiangdong do not dare to blatantly flip the table. Once there is a large-scale civil war, everyone will play together.

Wen Qiao sighed that such a big fortification did not cause labor and money, but in Shen Zhezi's opinion, it was a matter of course.

First of all, it is an inaccurate concept that labor and money are inherently inaccurate, and without a standard, they are often used by opponents as an excuse to suppress opponents, and once it rises to military confrontation, labor injuries will definitely be even greater. But at that time, no one will mention this stubble again, the winner has a way, and the loser has no way. But now, despite the clamor of the people, no one dares to provoke a war.

Secondly, what do the people need in the aftermath of the chaos? They need a job, they need a full meal. If the imperial court has enough arable land, it is of course the best way to choose tun land. But the problem is that there is not enough arable land, so as long as it can meet their survival needs, why bother with the difference in form?

The third is that any kind of labor is valuable. As long as people can be organized into production, even if they cannot produce food themselves, the fruits of these labor can be exchanged.

Perhaps Jiankang City is not self-sufficient enough in the process of construction, and if it is used to blockade Jiankang's food import, Shen Zhezi will be self-defeating if he does so. But the problem is that the granary in Wuzhong is the basic plate of his family, and there is no such hidden danger at all.

On the contrary, he can use this exchange of interests to break the long-standing geographical barriers in Jiangdong, such as bringing a large number of Wu people to Jiankang, and letting Jiangzhou people join the current situation. Far from being a bad thing, it can make the various regions of Jiangdong strengthen their exchanges and complement each other to become a closer whole.

The people have jobs and livelihoods, and people's hearts will naturally settle down. As for the laborers, whether it is the heavy workload of reclamation or the heavy workload of repairing the city, this point is really difficult to compare. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, the four major events in life, grasp any point, and your efforts will be rewarded.

Compared with reclaiming wasteland from scratch, there has been no harvest for a long time, and the construction of Jiankang City is perfect, so as to attract material resources from all directions. From the present point of view, the latter is more operational, and the former is the real labor and money, because even if the imperial court organizes the reclamation, it may not even be able to distribute the agricultural tools and grains, but once the matter of the tuntian is established, it will be followed by taxes attached to the acres of land. Empty-handed, without food to do seeds, this is what really forces people to a dead end.

Shen Zhezi only used a more roundabout means to achieve the purpose of relief, and through orderly scheduling and clear division of labor, these people had the experience of obeying disciplined life and production. In the future, if there is a need to restrain it into an army, then there is already a preliminary foreshadowing.

To tell the truth, he did have plans to organize a large engineering regiment to cross the river. Because in the field of wave warfare, the absence of a large number of cavalry is an extremely fatal flaw. If you can take it step by step and advance layer by layer, the effect is far better than the surprise attack, and it can also be more beneficial to the control of the reconquest.

With the power structure of the Kahu, when faced with a tough, enterprising and invincible opponent, it is likely to collapse on its own, if not lose on the battlefield.

But this idea also has a flaw, that is, it relies too much on logistics and local support in Jiangbei. In this regard, Shen Zhezi did not have a good idea, and the negotiation with Tu Zhong's family was also a test of the waters, and it remains to be seen how effective it will be.