At the beginning of February, the weather has gradually warmed up, and the fields have already hidden greenery.

Shen Zhezi also took a rare break from many affairs, and rode an ox cart to wander around the lake and pond in Dunan with Ji You and Yu Tiao.

The scenery in the south of Jiankang City has always been lacking and very good, not as magnificent as the north of the city, nor as beautiful as the east of the city. Especially now that a large number of refugees live here, it has become a place where nobles are extinct.

At this time, there are many refugee women and children strolling in the wilderness, carrying bamboo baskets to collect newly emerging wild vegetables. From a distance, although there is no lack of food on the faces of these poor people, they are no longer full of despair. It was probably the flesh and blood of the corpses that nourished the fertility of the land and made this year's wild vegetables grow especially strong.

"The hardest days are over."

Looking at the women and children in the wilderness who were walking briskly, Ji You couldn't help but sigh with emotion, his family lived in this township, and there was indeed no lack of relief in his heart to see the villagers survive the winter and gradually recover.

He pointed to Shen Zhezi on the opposite side and said with a smile: "Wei Zhou, your outstanding military achievements are already glorious in Jiangdong, but in my opinion, being able to live countless people is really worthy of being praised for future generations!" ”

After hearing this, Shen Zhezi chuckled, shook his head and sighed: "How dare you hope to spread the praise to future generations, people's hearts are forgetful, I am afraid that it will not be long before these benevolent people will boil over the sky." I was not ordered to save them, nor did I hope that they would be grateful, so that they would not be too hindered. ”

Yu Tiao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "What Wei Zhou wants to do, it can always be believed. However, your cold view of the world is always contrary to human nature. ”

Shen Zhezi smiled slightly and said no more. For the small people, perhaps the most difficult time has passed, the spring is blooming, the countryside is full of vitality, as long as you work hard, you can survive.

But his test has just come, and trouble will happen one after another.

After the disaster relief, it is natural to arrange production, as long as there are acres of land, then there will be no major turmoil. Cultivation requires land and people. After Shen Zhezi returned to the court at the beginning of the year, the imperial court finally launched a new round of rewards.

After the round of partition, there is not much land left around Gyeonggi that is suitable for cultivation. At this point, Shen Zhezi naturally has no position to blame others, because he himself is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this round of carving-up.

In addition to the marquis of Wujiang, the rewarded land alone is hundreds of hectares! Other people's deeds, big and small, are also rewarded in an orderly manner. In fact, in addition to land, the imperial court did not have any more means to win over and unite people's hearts.

With land, the next natural step is population. Shen Zhezi, as the chief disaster relief officer, suddenly became important in the minds of everyone. During this time, people have been coming to the door to ask for help, wanting to share some of the profits. After all, the old book has been completely burned, and as long as Shen Zhezi strokes his pen, a large number of people will be concealed.

Shen Zhezi is not the only smart person, he can devour the population wantonly, and others naturally have this idea. In particular, the families living in Danyang have suffered heavy losses in this turmoil, and it is urgent to replenish a large number of manpower in order to recover as soon as possible.

Of course, Shen Zhezi can't meet this kind of request, and the reason why he took the initiative to take on this important task is not to work for those people. Only by taking the manpower into your own hands can you have the confidence to make the next plan.

But these people's greed for the population is difficult to contain, Shen Zhezi ignores them, and they will naturally have other means. As a result, there has been activity in the vicinity of various refugee camps recently, and many families have sent people in the vicinity to attract people. For example, the rumor spread is that the imperial court will transfer these refugees to Jiangbei Tunshu to reclaim the famine, or they will be converted into military households and no longer resettle normally.

This kind of rumor has caused great panic among the refugees. Once they crossed the river or became officials, their ancestors had to suffer and bear heavy labor. As a result, refugees have absconded to varying degrees in many camps, and the ban has not stopped.

These bastards, huddled in the back when they encountered trouble, and they should not give up for profit. Shen Zhezi was not polite to this, and expelled all the idle people around the camp, and by the way, he searched various manors on the outskirts of Beijing, and hid more than ten people, and directly killed people and sealed the village!

In the past few days alone, dozens of heads have been cut off, and although they are only the stewards and servants of each family, those bloody corpses are enough to make people horrified.

Such violent tactics did not actually help, but confirmed those rumors from the side, and the refugees fled more violently. But Shen Zhezi didn't kill people to prevent the wind of escape, he just set rules. Don't think that offending him will make you as vague as before, and be prepared to be killed!

Because of this incident, Shen Zhezi's recent reputation has also taken a sharp turn for the worse, from the original ability and political integrity to the name of being angry and stingy. Whoever dares to kill me, I will scold him! This drastic emotional turn of the people of the time is also quite eye-catching.

However, Shen Zhezi didn't care about this, he was not alone, and there was a strong group of Wu people behind him. He is responsible for the interests of the Wu people and demands to return to the capital, no matter how fierce the scolding is, there are people behind him to help scold him back. At least before the summer harvest, even Director Wang could not ignore the demands of the Wu people and seize Shen Zhezi from office.

At the same time as the disaster relief, Shen Zhezi also completely demolished Jiankang City, south of the Vermilion Bird Truss, except for some Taichen residences such as Wuyi Lane, other places have almost become a blank land! That's what the refugees are mainly doing when they get helped.

Of course, this is not Taichung's idea, Taichung just hopes that Shen Zhezi can provide disaster relief and ensure that this year's farming and production can be carried out normally. But Shen Zhezi felt that this didn't show his skills, so in the name of cleaning up, he demolished a little bit a day, and then demolished it all. One consequence of this is that Jiankang City can't be repaired!

People say that Wei Jin is more generous, but behind it is outrageously low efficiency! After the Su Jun Rebellion in history, Jiankang City was also dilapidated, but it was also repaired and lived. Even Taicheng and Yuancheng were not overhauled until Xie An's reign.

In other words, those courtiers in Taichung, their own office is leaking, they can ignore it, how can they expect them to be diligent in political affairs?

Now this Jiankang City, originally built from the old site of Dongwu when Chen Min was in turmoil, the city is narrow, and later after the prosperity, it is even more chaotic.

To be honest, even if these people live in a kennel, it is none of Shen Zhezi's business.

However, the rebuilding of Kangcheng is not only of political significance, but Shen Zhezi also needs to use this protracted project to sort out the forces on his side and achieve a more stable framework, so that he can more efficiently transfer manpower and material resources to Jiangbei and officially start the Northern Expedition.

To use a more appropriate analogy, the rebuilding of Cannes was a relatively complete ruin, reinforcing the imperial power to a certain extent. In this way, only the support of the emperor is needed to obtain a relatively stable rear.

After all, Shen Zhezi's foundation is in Wuzhong, and due to geographical limitations, Wuzhong cannot become the rear base of his Northern Expedition, so he needs the blessing of the imperial power.

There are three major problems in rebuilding Cannes.

The first is land acquisition, Jiankang is not a border land, it can be said that every inch of land is the owner's thing. It is very difficult to completely expropriate these lands.

The second is money and food, in the past, the urban construction of Jiankang City was not big, and the main reason was that there was no money. After Su Jun conquered Jiankang, he obtained hundreds of millions of dollars, 70,000 or 80,000 horses of silk, and 500,000 grains.

It may seem like a lot of money, but it is a surplus that the central government has accumulated for several years. It only takes one battle to be consumed!

Yu Liang has been in power for several years, leaving only this part of the family fund, which was originally a reserve to solve the trouble of Liyang, but it was robbed by the rebels! The rich rival country can be said to be extremely rich in other eras, but to be honest, the accumulation of the Shen family over the years alone is more than that!

The third is the issue of resettlement after reconstruction, as Gyeonggi is the central capital, which is of great political significance, and even if it is just a simple resettlement of farmland, there are intricate problems in it.

Now the small circle prepared by Shen Zhezi is the three people on the ox cart, including himself. The Ji family is a native family in Danyang, and the task assigned by Shen Zhezi to Ji You is to recover the land, and as for the problem of attracting investment, it will be solved by Shen Zhezi and Yu Tiao.

In fact, the money and food used in this disaster relief was the first amount of money that Shen Zhezi attracted. Only those people in Wuzhong Township who have already made great profits will give him an upfront investment without seeing the prospect of profitability.

"The next step is to dredge the rivers around the suburbs of Beijing, fill in these Tutang wetlands, and operate several large trunk roads. This matter must be completed before the spring flood. ”

Shen Zhezi is now eager to break it into two quarters of an hour to use, and naturally he is not in the mood to play, and when he travels with these two people today, the main thing is to sort out his plan again.

The two people in the car followed Shen Zhezi's point and saw that a large number of high hills had been piled up in the field, which were all soil and stones cleaned up in Jiankang City. There is no need to take materials elsewhere, although the fortification is not small, but Shen Zhezi said that it was completed before the spring flood, and with the hundreds of thousands of disaster-stricken Dingkou, it will definitely be completed on schedule.

"As for money and food, don't worry. As long as Taichung decides to build a new capital, it will inevitably use a large number of bricks and tiles, civil engineering materials, and a large number of people will naturally live here to build workshops. But whoever can get into this room must first lose some rice grain to Jiankang. The four sides collect grain, which can be used sufficiently. ”

The imperial court had no money and food, and a large number of fortifications inevitably needed to be outsourced. The reason why Shen Zhezi was able to move the Wuzhong family was also because he guaranteed to set aside enough projects for the Shang Alliance. On the other hand, the reason why he dared to build such a big project was also because of the guarantee of Jiangdong's No. 1 Haofu Group.

As long as the early framework is put up, it is impossible for those wealthy families who strive to make progress at the time of Jingjiang to sit idly by.

It is true that the imperial court has no money, but there are people and land, as long as these people are active and the land is used, it is a huge wealth! The construction of Jiankang City is not an overnight effort, the precipitation of private capital gathered here, long-term activity, will inevitably burst out of huge energy.

Shen Zhezi sent Du He across the river to operate first, in addition to the needs of defense, there was also a very important point is to plunder the population and build a framework for tuntian. Take rice and grain as a deposit for the construction of the new capital, then it is almost an inevitable choice to stock up on grain nearby!