Liu Che's Maoling has just begun to break ground.

The location of the mausoleum is slightly different from that of the later Maoling of Little Pig, but the general direction is basically the same.

The scale of the project is huge.

How big is it?

The side wall of the mausoleum alone is about 200 meters long, and the height will be more than 40 meters.

It's like creating a city.

And the funds required for this project are also very large.

Since the start of construction alone, Liu Che has allocated more than 20,000 yuan, equivalent to one-twentieth of the Han family's financial income last year.

In addition, 3,000 capable craftsmen from Shaofu were mobilized, 5,000 troops were dispatched, and 7,000 migrant laborers were requisitioned.

Standing in front of the construction site of the mausoleum, Liu Che looked up at this huge project, and his heart was also very entangled.

Putting so many resources into the grave is simply unacceptable to a traverser.

It's just that......

There is no way!

This is the tradition of the Liu family, and it is also one of the policies of the Han regime to maintain system governance.

The Book of Jin once recorded: The Emperor of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne for one year and became a mausoleum, and the world paid three points, one for the temple, one for the guests, and one for the mausoleum.

In other words, Liu Che's project is already very frugal.

According to the system and tradition, the Maoling project will swallow one-sixth of the Han family's financial revenue every year.

Of course, the cost is huge.

If it was only for the emperor to enjoy after his death, such a stupid policy would have been impossible to implement a long time ago.

The old Liu family's mausoleum policy is not only about investment. And there is no output.

First of all, the huge mausoleum project. It will inevitably drive the local socio-economic and people's livelihood development where Lingyi is located.

Such a huge resource, piled up in one place. What are the results?

The magic capital and Shenzhen of later generations have already explained everything.

Raise the power of the whole country and raise a county, this county can't be awesome if you don't want to!

In addition, the Lingyi project is usually accompanied by a migration project.

The old Liu family will spare no effort to move those powerful families who are rampant and domineering in the local area, and it is difficult for the government to check and balance or cannot supervise, to the location of their mausoleum.

This is the strength of the weak and the weak.

From the 36 counties of the Han Dynasty, more than 10 countries are local heroes and giants. It was moved to the location of the tomb.

These people have huge wealth, family and talent.

How can a large family with a fortune of tens of millions not have intellectuals?

This is equivalent to bringing the local heroes and heroes to Chang'an to enrich the manpower and material resources of Guanzhong.

In this way, Guanzhong will always be able to crush all other local counties -- whether in terms of talent, wealth, economy, and technology.

More critically, through migration. The Han regime was able to forcibly artificially create an economic and demographic hotspot in Guanzhong.

According to history, when the Maoling project of Little Pig was completed, the population in Maoling City. Nearly 300,000!

Before the Common Era, a city with a population of 300,000 was basically no worse than a city of 30 million in later generations.

Of course. There are also many disadvantages.

First of all, there is bound to be inflation in the local area. Prices of all kinds have skyrocketed.

Still, this question. has been solved by Liu Che.

Grain, salt, and iron, which are the basic needs of the people's livelihood, are rarely problematic under the supply of the small government and the large peasants at a parity price.

Secondly, the Lingyi project is bound to be a large-scale conscription, and it is the most terrible, the most terrifying and cruel city of all conscription.

Among all the types of forced labor in the Han Dynasty, the repair of tombs was the type with the highest mortality rate, as was the repair of city walls.

Basically, the people who are conscripted to serve here are either sons-in-law, scoundrels with criminal records, or simply prisoners in custody.

These people, who have no human rights, die in vain.

But to build a grave for himself, it will kill thousands or even tens of thousands of people, as a traverser, Liu Che is somewhat unbearable.

Therefore, after the start of the project, Liu Che issued several edicts to the Shaofu, asking for preferential treatment for the people and craftsmen, and it didn't matter if the progress of the project was slow, in short, it was to minimize the deaths and injuries of the workers.

On the other hand, Liu Che stuffed all kinds of Yidi savage slaves that he had recently obtained from various sources into the engineering team, and he had enough consumables.

Anyway, the dangerous work, the heavy work, all the slaves were left to do.

Liu Che also wanted to put some pressure on the bureaucrats in Shaofu when he came to inspect this time.

These guys have to put some pressure on them to know how to do things.

But, these are not the main purposes.

At the mausoleum construction site, after a cursory look, leaving a few cronies and attendants to continue to inspect the project, Liu Che drove away from the construction site and went to Maocheng, southeast of Maoxiang.

It's also an up-and-coming city.

After Liu Che decided on the address of his mausoleum, it was established.

Now, the city is still very small.

Not even the city walls.

The area is not even as small as the nine cities in Chang'an City.

It is about the same size as a market in any county in Chang'an, from beginning to end, there is only one street, and the total length is no more than a mile.

But the buildings that stand on both sides of the street are not simple at all!

The highest institution of learning in the Han Dynasty: Taixue.

The cradle of the Han Dynasty's military generals: Wuyuan!

There is also the largest public library in the future of the Han Dynasty: Lan Tingge.

Finally, there is the memorial hall of the famous generals of the Han Dynasty: Lingyan Pavilion.

It's all concentrated on this street.

In other words, this is the university town of the future.

Liu Che didn't even need to think too much, he could know with his ass what would happen here in the future.

Every inch of land here will become more valuable than gold.

The area around this street will become the most economically developed area of the Han family.

The landlords of the world who hope that they can go further, as well as those merchants who have too much money to spend, will use their own financial resources to completely turn this place into a golden city.

Surrounded by attendants, Liu Che strolled down the street that had just been completed.

On both sides of the street, most of the buildings have shown their outlines.

In the magnificent martial arts garden, there is a complete martial arts arena, a complete arsenal that stores all the weapons and equipment currently in service in the Han Dynasty and still in the laboratory, and a horse horse that can accommodate 500 war horses, and hundreds of sand table models that can deduce various classic battles in history have also been made.

More importantly, the teachers of Wuyuan will shine brightly.

Han Rongdang, Li Ji, Li Guang, Yi Zong, Luan Bu, Guan Fu, Dou Ying, basically all the active or retired Han generals are among them.

Even the name of Prime Minister Zhou Yafu is impressively listed.

As for Taixue, it's even more amazing.

The doctors and officials who have been co-opted and the world-famous sons and hundreds of giants are all listed.

Legalist magnate Zhang Hui even went out of the mountain at the age of eighty to serve as Taixue's legal sacrifice wine.

The Confucian side sent a luxurious lineup including Dong Zhongshu and Hu Wusheng.

The competition for the right to speak and the influence of the future political arena has entered a white heat.

But what really made Liu Che care was the National Public Library named Lantingge. (To be continued......)

PS: The state is not good, I will make up for it tomorrow~