Chapter 125: The New City is Rising

The sun shines warmly on the land of Hedong, and after a series of new policies have been implemented, the hunter valley where people from all walks of life in Hedong and Hebei have gathered, and finally entered the regular world. +β—†+β—†Diǎn+β—†Small+β—† Say, o

After deciding to sell houses and lease land to stabilize the people's will, reopen trade routes, enrich the public treasury, establish military academies, vigorously promote education, and build windmill grain and agricultural production lines. The entire Hunter Valley has seen a thriving and new prosperity.

Many merchants from Hedong and Hebei who could still come to the Hunter Valley through other mountain roads were amazed as soon as they entered the Hunter Valley after Liu Xing ordered the Beidong secret passage to be reopened and the merchants were ordered to enter the valley.

Because many of the traders had been here in the past, they had the impression that the Hunter Valley was just a paradise town with more than 200 households.

This time, what they saw was that the entire western street was under construction, and the surrounding mountains were also crowded with people during the day.

Among the nine streets in the west, one hundred and thirty-five stone walls have risen rapidly in less than half a month on the westernmost three streets. On the other six streets, another 270 five-story stone walled buildings are rising rapidly.

On Xisandao Street, there are as many as six or seven hundred shops of all kinds. From restaurants and teahouses to cloth shops, from antique shops to porcelain shops. The variety is complete, and it is almost the same as the legendary Bianjing City.

To the surprise of the merchants from other places, in the most conspicuous place of Xizhi Erdao Street, a huge plaque appeared on it, which read "Tongbao Silver Number".

The merchants didn't know what the "silver horn" meant, so they went over to watch and inquire. After asking, they learned that the Hunter Valley now only accepts gold and silver, not money, and official banknotes have been turned into straw paper.

For merchants, the currency devaluation of the Great Song Dynasty has always been the biggest key to the damage to their net worth. When they heard that the Hunter Valley would henceforth only accept gold and silver and not money, the merchants rejoiced and celebrated that there was a place of trade that would help them preserve their wealth to the fullest.

Then I saw the notices posted by the Marshal's Mansion on various streets, clearly telling everyone that "Anyone who enters the Hunter Valley can take out an official loan to buy a house." There is no tax on doing business, and the government and business are jointly preferential. After a series of new policies and so on, many merchants decided to stay and not leave......

Because he was convinced that gold and silver transactions were more credible and practical than copper coins and official banknotes, and a series of new policies promulgated by Liu Xing were policies to encourage business and real estate.

Many merchants from other places soon became the largest group of new customers of the "shop-floor sales store" of Marshal Liu Xing's Mansion on Xisith, Xiwu, and Xiliusan Streets.

In just 10 days, 1,500 unfinished shops on the three streets of West 4, West 5 and West 6 and the shops that were being rented on the three streets of West 1, 2 and 3 were purchased or leased by foreign dealers or directly placed a deposit, and all of them were turned into new shops.

Faced with such a situation, Liu Xing immediately issued several orders in succession, ordering the regulation of town management. Xizhi Street is defined as a food street, and only teahouses and restaurants are allowed. Xizhi Erdao Street is a tailoring street, and only silk cloth villages, tailor shops and other shops are allowed.

Xizhi Sandao Street, defined as Jinbao Street, encouraged merchants from all over the world to set up blacksmith shops and jewelry shops in partnership with the Marshal's Mansion. Xizhi Sidao Street is a grain and agriculture street, and grain stores, salt shops, etc., are all classified into business there. Xizhi Wudao Street is a craftsman street, where all craftsmen such as carpenters, plasterers, and craftsmen are all planned there.

Xizhi Qidao Street is a carriage and horse street, and the people are encouraged to set up their own carriage and horse shops, sedan chair men's lines, and foot men's lines. Xizhi Badao Street was finally determined by Liu Xing as the residence of the Transit Division, the Craftsman Division, the Marshal's Mansion Soldiers and Horses Division, and the officials and subordinates of the Three Divisions, and was named "Three Divisions Street".

In the area closest to the center of the Hunter Valley, Liu Xing ordered all the residents to be moved, leaving only the Marshal's Mansion. A new barracks for the Qinwei Battalion were built in the south of the Marshal's Palace, and a new barracks for the Tiance Guard were built in the north.

In the planning of Jiutiao Street in the east, Liu Xing also quickly decided: after the construction of all the residences on West Jiujie Street is completed and the people move in, East Jiujie will be renovated according to the model of West Jiujie. All the aborigines will exchange the original residential area for the houses in the Shiwei Building, and a certain amount of compensation will be paid for each zhang.

As a result, the order was issued, and it was not only the real estate transactions in the valley that became extremely busy. Many aborigines, whose houses were too big and whose families did not have so many people, actually directly put up their houses that were determined to be rebuilt and resold them.

In just a few days, a small town in the middle of the mountains quickly turned into a noisy new city that seemed to be isolated from the world, but in fact controlled most of the salt merchants in Hedong......

Faced with this situation, Liu Xing felt happy in his heart: at least the master's Hunter Valley did not engage in forced demolition to cause resentment among the people, and the aborigines also obtained the benefits they deserved from this major reconstruction. There is no "hatred of the second generation" that has been forcibly demolished, only a batch of "demolition of the second generation", which is the foundation of people's security and people's livelihood......

And in these days, Yue Fei was originally going to immediately lead his troops out of the valley to attack Shizuizhai.

However, because some merchants in Shizuizhai entered the Hunter Valley and saw this scene that seemed to be a world away and thriving, they returned to Shizuizhai to publicize it. As a result, many Xi merchants in Shizui also fled from Shizui Village and went into the Hunter Valley to buy a house and start a business, but Liu Xing stopped them.

The reason for Liu Xing to stop Yue Fei from sending troops is very simple: since the merchants of Xi Ren have all gone to his own hunter valley to buy houses and buy houses, there is no need to use soldiers and horses to reopen the trade route.

When the number of Xi merchants reached hundreds, Liu Xing summoned some of these high-profile merchants to the marshal's mansion and invited them to a feast. At the banquet, a cooperation agreement was quickly reached with those Xi merchants, and the salt shop jointly operated by the government and merchants gave them some small shares, and let the Xi merchants be responsible for transferring salt from Hebei from the Taihang Mountains.

In this way, the remaining more than 2,000 Xi soldiers in Shizui Village will be directly cut off. And at the same time, he also completely grabbed the food and grass supplies of the 2,000 Xi soldiers......

Squatting in the warehouse of the largest salt store in the valley, the "Minsheng Salt Store", Liu Xing looked at the salt blocks in front of him that were only piled up into a hill in a few days, and his heart was full of joy.

Just as Liu Xing was laughing happily, Su Quan and Liang Xing hurriedly ran in from outside.

As soon as he ran to Liu Xing's side, Liang Xing spoke first and said with a anxious face: "Marshal, I just received a report from the Tiance Guard, the Jin soldiers have broken through the north gate and west gate of Taiyuan, and are now fighting with the brothers who defend the city led by Chief Manager Wang and Zhang Xuan. Look, shouldn't our army attack right away? ”

Turning his head to look at him, Liu Xing said, "What are you attacking?" In the past ten days, the golden dogs in Wutai City have been about to die without a fight. If our army sends troops to rescue Taiyuan now, what if the 80,000 gold soldiers in Wutai City follow our army out of the city? If that's the case, not only will our army not be able to save Taiyuan, but it will also suffer from the enemy on its back, do you think this commander will let his brothers take that risk? ”

Hearing this, Liang Xing was still anxious and said: "But if you don't save it, I'm afraid that Taiyuan will be occupied by the golden dog in a few days at most!" At that time, in the land east of the river, there are really only five stations left and one place is the last fortress to prevent the golden dogs from occupying the east of the river. At that point, the Golden Dog will inevitably assemble and press our army all over it. Marshal, that's a big deal! ”