Under Su Jin's order, nearly 100,000 people from the Northwest Fourth Road arrived at Yedon Ridge one after another to set up camp, and several mountains north of Gyeongju became raw material collection places. At the same time, Su Jin's people spent nearly a month in the capital and various parts of the south to hire plasterers at high prices, many of whom were skilled in construction.

After a month of preparation, Su Jin officially dug the first shovel of soil in Yedonkey Ridge, setting off the curtain of the casting of the new city.

Although Su Jin is a layman in this regard, he has never eaten pork and has always seen a pig run, and the planning of the new city is not large, after convening the proficient people among the craftsmen to discuss intensively, and according to the existing financial resources and raw materials, this new city is tentatively set to be surrounded by the three rings of the inner and outer middle and foreign countries, supplemented by the structure of the southeast and northwest Wuxiangfang City.

The ring line is circular, the outer ring is 15 miles in circumference, the middle ring is 10 miles, and the inner ring is 5 miles, a city of this size can accommodate up to 100,000 people, and belongs to small and medium-sized cities; Since the new city is positioned as a commercial distribution center, more than 10 wharves are planned at the outer ring extending to the waterway on the southeast and west sides, so as to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships from the south to the north.

The new city does not have a city wall, and the commercial city wants to be convenient and convenient to enter and exit, and does not shoulder the responsibility of defending against the enemy, of course, the pressure of law and order in the city must not be small, there is no confinement of the city gate, and the people who come and go are all kinds of religions and nine streams, and it is inconvenient to manage.

However, Su Jin already had a countermeasure, and he had already figured out a way to deal with it; The new city is divided into five compartments, each compartment is divided into squares, and each compartment is set up nearby, and branches are set up in the workshop, and the first thing that merchants enter the new city is to go to the yamen to receive the official document stamped by the yamen, so that they can stay in the city to eat and trade, otherwise it is difficult to move an inch; This will allow for a rough control of the identity and number of people who come and go, as well as their whereabouts.

Twelve wide streets extend out of the middle compartment, named after numbers, the northernmost being the first street, and so on, until the twelfth street, and the whole city looks like a large dial from the drawings, and the twelve streets seem to be twelve hands; Each street is a commercial main street, connecting shops, freight yards, markets, and so on.

For the construction of shops, Su Jin always required a brick and stone structure, abandoning rammed earth and wood, one for neatness and firmness, and the other for fire prevention; Dig a culvert under each street and drain straight to the main canal to the outside of the city, the road surface is paved with gravel and asphalt, the main street is more than five feet wide, and the alleys can be parallel to ox carts.

All in all, racking Su Jin's brains, some things that can be copied to this era in later generations, Su Jin has found a way to apply them to Pearl City, and these wonderful ideas in Su Jin's mind really made the officials who were in charge of various projects behind him feel incredible.

The construction of Pearl City began on April 28, and after a month of 100,000 people leveled the land and dug the foundation, the three ring roads and the twelve main streets soon took shape, and the asphalt from the Baoshan oil refining had long been stopped being transported to other places.

The completion of the ring road and the 12 main streets is like the main veins of the whole new city, and all that remains is to weave a picture around these meridians, and the construction of facilities such as fangs, shops, and houses along the streets is a process of weaving a web, which is very time-consuming.

Su Jin ordered Li Zhong to supervise the progress of the project here, and he took time to go to the state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty to lobby, Rou Niang and others carefully painted dozens of city renderings, just to take them to the exhibition, and at the same time Su Jin also put forward preferential business conditions, in order to attract merchants from all over the world to come to Pearl City to open shops.

Su Jin was originally a famous figure in the Great Song Dynasty, and officials from all over the country had long heard of Su Jin's name, and now they were a little puzzled when they saw Su Jin personally calling people to go to business.

It stands to reason that he is a veritable king of the northwest, and it is a bit of a shame to put down his dignity and deign himself to do this, but Su Jin knows bitterly that Pearl City has spent nearly four million yuan of living money, and some other materials and energy invested by his own family are no longer counted, and the follow-up investment is at least one million yuan, and these money come from the savings of Huitong Yinzhuang depositors; Fortunately, there is a silver village, Yingtian and the capital of the two silver villages have nearly three million yuan of storage money every year, in the past few years, the balance of deposits is as high as eight million, Su Jinguang is the construction of the city this time, then moved away five million, if the depositors at this time collective withdrawal, Su Jin will immediately jump off the building to commit suicide.

Although the officials were puzzled, they still had to give face, and everywhere they went, the officials would gather the businessmen of the local chamber of commerce together, and Su Jin naturally chattered about the preferential policies for investment promotion in the new city.

The investment promotion policy of Pearl City is indeed preferential, first of all, the shop is free to use for one year, and if you want to do business here in the following year, you can have the right of priority to buy the shop, or pay the rent; The second point is the preferential taxation, although the official tax rate of the Great Song Dynasty is different due to different commodities, but it is roughly between two out of a hundred and five out of a hundred, Su Jin declared that the Northwest Fourth Road has the right to agree to the emperor's own tax rate, and the overall tax rate is set between one and two out of a hundred, and the tax rate has been preferential a lot; The third preferential policy thrown out by Su Jin is even more peculiar, anyone who has been doing business in Xincheng for five years and has a good reputation will be awarded the title of honorary citizen by the government and can recommend one of his sons to become officials.

The three preferential policies start from the interests and face, which does have greater temptation, Su Jin understands the minds of the businessmen, and it is their common idea to pursue profit and hope not to be despised, and Su Jin uses their ambivalent psychology.

In addition, most people are very interested in the few city color pictures that Su Jin took out, looking at the pictures, the trees are shady, the streets are open, and the shops are spacious and beautiful, giving people a peculiar feeling, so perfect that people can't believe it; Su Jin naturally saw this, and sincerely invited everyone to visit the new city in August, and those who were satisfied could sign an agreement to receive the shops on the spot, and those who were not satisfied would be sent back.

After three months of construction, 100,000 people and tens of thousands of troops sweat like rain, a brand new city stands on the northwest land, Su Jin took the lead in moving the road envoy Yamen to the new city, as soon as the chief official came, other subordinate officials and Yamen could only move one after another, Su Jin had already reserved a place for them, and the middle compartment was specially built for the Yamen to relocate here.

With the relocation of the supporting yamen officials at all levels, the family members and guards of these people also followed.

At the beginning of August, when the merchants from all over the world arrived in the new city, Su Jin personally went to the wharf to greet them, led five or six hundred merchants around the new city, and introduced the facilities of the new city one by one as guides for them.

The group of people had not closed their mouths since they entered the new city, and everything in front of them made them feel like they were in a dream, the wide and straight street that exuded a peculiar smell, and the black road felt a little elastic when stepped on, so that they could not move forward, for fear of falling in.

"Master Su, what is paved on this road? What a strange smell, and a little soft. ”

"This is an asphalt road, which is paved with a kind of oil residue called asphalt, don't look at you stepping on it and feel soft, this kind of road is not slippery in snow, does not sink in rain, and is dust-free on sunny days, at least in ten years, it will definitely not become potholes, it is a hundred times better than the official road, I don't believe you can try." Su Jin said with a smile.

Some businessmen really got a bucket of water to pour on the road, and then pulled the horse on it and stepped on it, and after a long time of making a fuss, they didn't see anything unusual on the road, they reached out and touched it, the water is water, the road is the road, there is not even a black mark, it is simply two non-sticky things.

"This ...... It's amazing. The merchants were dumbfounded.

"Come with me, the magic doesn't stop there." Su Jin was triumphant and strode forward.

"See? The two-storey building next to the road is a shop, and there is a yard behind it that can be used as a house or warehouse, these houses are made of blue bricks and bluestone, and the outside is brushed with white mud, isn't it beautiful? Su Jin asked, pointing to the house on the side of the road.

"This ...... Is this a shop? I thought it was the official yamen. An old man with few teeth opened his mouth in disbelief.

Su Jin said with a smile: "Where are there so many yamen, they are all shops prepared for you, are you still satisfied?" ”

Everyone was speechless, and Su Jin didn't need them to answer, their expressions had already betrayed their hearts, and there was no need to answer at all.

The surprise continues, whether it is the isolation belt of rows of flowers and trees on the side of the street, or the empty large wooden barrels used to collect garbage placed every few dozen steps, all of which make people sigh at the difference of this new city, and when it is almost dusk, the wooden poles standing on the side of the road that Su Jin has not explained to everyone come in handy; More than a dozen ox carts full of wind lamps approached, lit the wind lanterns, and hung them on the wooden poles with a string of long hooks, and suddenly the dim streets were bright, and everyone walked on the brightly lit streets, as if walking in heaven, and they were amazed one by one, and the words of praise blurted out without hesitation.

Some of the people who accompanied him had read books for a few years, and they were amazed that the poetry and ink were tumbling in their stomachs, and they had a strong creative impulse, so they took advantage of the public and said: Heaven and earth are beautiful, and people are crying ghosts and gods; The heavenly cloud palace, the underground pearl city.

The crowd applauded and applauded.