The sound of rumbling drums and strong horns is rhythmic and sustained as the eastern sky shines fish-white.

The people in the entire Nanling City who had not slept all night or were awakened from their sleep by the sound of drums and horns, they were all stunned when they heard the sound coming from the Miyagi side, and they showed different expressions.

The current inhabitants of Nanling City have exceeded 500,000, and the city is a big city with a population of 2 million in Lu Zhe's naturalization, so that the 500,000 population filling it only accounts for less than a quarter of the space.

The troops that originally stayed in Nanling City had all been transferred to the outside of the city, except for the Miyagi Forbidden Army and the City Defense Army, so a huge camp was built in the direction of Yiling to the west of Nanling City.

For the inhabitants of Nanling Castle, the sound of drums and trumpets came from Miyagi, but the sound of the camp outside the city was heard from Nanling Castle.

Today is the Winter Solstice Festival, which is usually a festival worth celebrating, and today the Qianshou or the army will have their own way of entertainment.

In the Winter Solstice Festival, Qianshou should have bought a few feet of cloth to make a few new clothes before this, and cut a little meat to make some wine; The army holds bonfires and games such as wrestling and juju. This year's Winter Solstice Festival disrupted the usual rhythm of the festival because the ruler of this land wanted to establish a state.

When the first light appeared in the eastern sky, the gate of the camp where the city defense army was located was opened, and a group of carriages and a column of soldiers came out, the soldiers were wearing new dresses today, the kind of straight and close-fitting dresses were full of fashion sense because of the storage of buttons and belts, and the gorgeous epaulettes and armbands looked full of beauty with hanging wool.

The wagons were a bit complicated, many of them loaded with rice and beans, some of which were layers of meat on boards, and boxes of freshly minted five-baht coins and bundles of cloth, which were to be carried out by the soldiers in the city.

It was only seen in the Song Dynasty that the government gave gifts to the common people during festivals, but Lu Zhecai didn't care so much. In the past, he would always find an excuse to send money to the head of Qiantou because of the victory in foreign wars, but this time it was not only the Winter Solstice Festival (that is, the New Year at this time) but also the founding of the king, not only to send money but also to give food and cloth.

To tell the truth, the Song Dynasty will have such a good social welfare is based on the premise of developed commerce, under the tax of 150 million guan (converted to 150 million taels of silver) every year, it is normal for the government to give gifts to the residents of the city during the New Year's holidays, Lu Zhe's annual tax last year was only close to seven million and a half taels, if it is converted according to the economic system of the Song Dynasty, it is only more than 10 million guan, but it can't stand the low prices in these years, and Lu Zhe has captured too many resources under the expansion.

The inhabitants of Nanling City are destined to be the first city citizens in history to receive gifts from the government during the first festival in history. In fact, the Qianshou under Lu Zhe was also the first person in Asia to receive money from the government. In the West, Rome had an official payment 27 years earlier, which was a form of bribery of citizens by Roman parliamentarians (during the Republican era) to start the war with Carthage.

You just said five baht, right? That's because of the development of the Yangtze River, a kind of waterwheel stamping equipment produced accessories, in the East the appearance of this kind of equipment nearly six hundred years later than the West, Lu Zhe some vague hints coupled with the craftsmen to focus on research, it took nearly two years to feel the threshold, recently Lu Zhe returned to Nanling City will naturally go to inspect, a little more open the golden finger. There were tools that could stamp coins, and molds that did not use wax grinding on a large scale were changed from making zuò weapons to five-baht coins.

One and a half taels is really half a tael, about seven to eight five-baht coins, and the value of five-baht coins has always been very high in the Han Dynasty. The decrease in the value of copper coins is due to a significant increase in manufacturing capacity, and a corresponding increase in the price of goods, which is a result of a depreciation.

During the Tang Dynasty, copper coins began to be used in guan, which was not a fixed conversion value. Sometimes it is always a thousand copper coins, sometimes it may be 800 copper coins or 1,200 copper coins, and the Song after the Tang Dynasty has always tended to be stable dìng has always been a thousand copper coins, but after the Song Dynasty, the number of copper coins has always begun to be chaotic again.

In fact, Lu Zhe should not make a large amount of five-baht money now. It should be a lower value of the three plant money, or a standard money similar to the Tang Dynasty, the lower the value, the better, more convenient for circulation and use.

Because iron weapons are to be popularized, bronze weapons will inevitably be gradually phased out, and because the use of iron is becoming more and more extensive, the use of copper will definitely be reduced accordingly, so the copper mined for making zuò coins is absolutely enough for the present.

In the first stage, the five-baht coin made by stamping equipment should be about 800,000 pieces, because it is a stamping mode, and the difference between the five-baht coin and the style in history has also appeared.

It is one of the steps that Lu Zhe has long set to send gifts to the citizens of Nanling by the city defense army, although there are gifts in other places, but they are no longer available to the whole people, and the gifts for the head of Qiantou are the old men over 60 years old, children under the age of 3, and the families with people serving in the army are also enjoying benefits. Of course, these deliveries were carried by Nanling to transport the materials, and then the government of each county was supervised by the people who went to Nanling.

Nearly 30,000 city defense troops drove horse-drawn carriages to give gifts from house to house, and the result was that soldiers in beautiful dresses could be seen everywhere in the residential areas of Nanling City pulling horse-drawn carriages and swaying. The soldier answered what was the reason for the gift, and when he heard that it was a gift from the king of the country, most of the Qianshou would ask if there was a plan to expand the army, and which of the good boys in his family had been looking forward to serving the king.

When the city defense army delivers gifts, they will also explain some things, such as who should be restrained when watching the ceremony of sealing the king, etc., and the head of Qian, who heard these words, was in a daze again.

Hey!? It turned out that the rulers of this land were willing to let the head of the Qiantou go to watch the ceremony, and this kind of thing would not have been believed if they had not heard the military people talking about it with their own ears.

The people who had heard the wind more or less before thanked the soldiers of the city defense army and began to shout their women, children and other family members to hurry up and eat, and immediately rushed to the square in front of the palace after eating.

Some people left their homes only to find that the streets were already full of people dragging their families in the direction of Miyagi, and they also saw many soldiers without dresses continuing to do so.

Because Lu Zhe used the law to bind people to the rule that people can only walk on the right side of the road, all the streets in the direction of Miyagi are full of people on the right, and occasionally when someone rushes to the left road, there will be soldiers leaning over to prompt them, and after receiving the reminder to obey the regulations, they will be detained by the soldiers immediately.

The city inevitably needs a square, this is Lu Zhe's concept when the city was built, so there are not a few large and small squares in Nanling City, many squares are leisure park models at all, and some squares will also build fountains and other facilities, so the citizens living in Nanling City will always go to have fun in their leisure time.

The largest square in Nanling Castle is, of course, the east side of Miyagi, where the square is large enough to accommodate at least 200,000 people, and the gate of Miyagi is not known for some reason, and it is also made far higher than the gate of Miyagi in other directions, so that people are deeply aware of their own insignificance when they stand underneath, and only think that they have entered the kingdom of giants.

According to Lu Zhe's plan, there is actually a towering monument on the square, and some statues ranging from three to five zhang will also be placed...... It's not so easy to do.

There is no need to guess what the giant monument is, but Lu Zhe grew up in the social environment of the "Celestial Empire", and it is the Monument of the Unknown Soldier.

There is no doubt that the statue is depicted according to a real person, and Lu Zhe will inevitably be the tallest and most powerful of them, and the rest will be carved by some civil and military generals.

Lu Zhe did this out of a bad taste, after all, there were 28 generals of Yuntai in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there were 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty, and he still doesn't know how many "generals" and how many "heroes" he will have, but isn't it more interesting to choose to erect statues?

When this decision was promulgated, Lu Zhe was full of bad taste, but for the group of civil and military forces under him, it was no less than a thunderclap in his ears.

How could anyone who was not shocked and full of anticipation when they learned that they could be listed in history with Lu Zhe for a statue as long as they worked hard? You must know that it is the statue before Miyagi, and the east gate is the place where civil and military officials must pass when they go to participate in the court, not to mention that the statues erected here will be erected forever with the existence of this country, just thinking about the statues that officials will look up at themselves when they walk past here, it should be a look of excitement that is about to pass out.

must be a member of the erected statue, it is not only a glory but also a symbol of status, but they only know that there must be their own allegiance among the many statues, but who else Lu Zhe has never revealed, so everyone will inevitably start a lot of speculation.

I heard, I just heard that ......, Lu Zhe will announce the list of some personnel at today's ceremony of the founding of the king, these people are the first batch of people who will be determined to permanently exist with the empire (referring to the statue), many officials have speculated about this, thinking that the consul Xiao He and the military advisor Kuaitong will inevitably be among them, and the original commanders of the military generals are also popular candidates. (To be continued......)