Heading east from Chang'an, Yang Fuguang's heart was full of amazement. Compared with the withering population of Guanzhong today, the artemisia grass grows, the bones are in the wilderness, there are broken walls and ruins everywhere, ruined villages, barren fields, and Henan has ten rooms and nine emptiness, thieves are swarming, and the homeless people are everywhere, and the hungry people are everywhere, after crossing the Bianhe River and entering the Shandong Province of the Qin Domain, the landscape is completely different. Although when they first entered the territory of Tianping and Xuanwu, these places were only a little stronger than the rest of Henan. But when they crossed the Juyeze in Yunzhou, crossed the first line of Surabaya, especially through Ludi, and entered Guqidi, the whole scene was completely different, it was shocking stability and food and clothing, wealth and etiquette.

It is like a paradise, with wide and flat roads, neatly planned arable land and canals, and dotted villages along the avenues, and new small towns have been established. Guanzhong and Henan and other places have been in chaos for nearly ten years, but in the rear of the Qin Domain, it seems that it is still in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, and there is even a scene that exceeds the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. At least, he didn't see from the history books that there could be such a peaceful, harmonious and prosperous village in the Zhenguan period when the Tang Dynasty ruled the world and the Kaiyuan Dynasty when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous.

In the evening, the village is full of smoke, and in the afterglow of the sunset, there are even some extremely industrious villagers in the fields who have not yet lost their jobs, and there are also shepherd boys driving cattle and horses home, women at the entrance of the village calling for their children who are playing outside to go home, calves mooing and looking for cows, and from time to time there are village dogs chasing and barking, and occasionally you can see chickens that have not yet returned home pecking on the ground.

The smell of firewood under the kitchen stove was in the air. The smell of oil from the villagers' stir-fried vegetables is everywhere. Those with a keen sense of smell can even smell the heartiness of the meal right away. This has the aroma of oil, the aroma of meat, and the smell of it makes people's hearts move, this is a rich dinner.

It is hard to imagine that in today's world, the people of an ordinary village of the Qin people can have such a sumptuous meal when they are not celebrating the New Year or the festival.

It's all there. All made Yang Fuguang, who was observing carefully along the way, amazed and even a little jealous. He didn't know how Li Jing did it, in the eyes of outsiders, the strength of the Qin domain began with the strength of the Qin army. And Li Jing has built a million-strong division from scratch in less than twelve years, and even has a reserve system that is so large that others can't imitate it, so many troops, according to normal circumstances, this will only make Qin Fan lose a lot of strong labor. The worst thing will inevitably be to delay the agricultural season, which will be followed by bad consequences such as grain harvest. Just like the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was admired by countless people. He dominated the Western Han Dynasty, waged war against the Xiongnu who had been threatening the frontier, fought for decades, and finally beat a powerful Xiongnu away, but at the same time, it was the result of halving the population of the Western Han Dynasty.

He was even jealous of Li Jing, how did he manage to expand his military strength so rapidly while maintaining the economy and people's livelihood in the domain?

But after he entered Yanjing, he was completely shocked.

His route this time was from Chang'an, through Tongguan to Luoyang, then out of Wujiao to Bianzhou, into Song Caoyun in the eastern province of Qinfan, then to Qizhou, and then to Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and then from Qingdao Port to Shanhaiguan Qinwangdao landing, and then south to Tangshan, Tianjin, and then entered Yanjing. This route is actually taken in winter, and it is not more convenient than the land route, but Yang Fuguang still chose this route. The purpose was naturally to witness the true situation of the Qin Domain. Choosing this road, we can not only pass through the prefectures on the east bank of the Bianhe River that were newly controlled, but also see the Shandong Peninsula, the rear of the Qin Domain, and see several major ports of the Qin Domain, and also see the gateway mountain area to the northeast of the Qin Domain.

Licheng in Qizhou, Yidu in Qingzhou, Penglai and Qingdao in Dengzhou, as well as Qinwangdao and Tianjin in Beiping, these cities are prosperous and unbelievable. Along the way, in Guanzhong and Henan Zhudi, often hundreds of miles of uninhabited, see the most people are not the huge number of troops in the town, or wandering around, but in the Qin Domain, especially in these big cities, often at every turn is hundreds of thousands of people, such as Dengzhou's state city, originally only a small city of more than 100,000 people, but now, here has already been built a huge city along the coast, the city is large and even has no city walls only city gates, the population of the entire Dengzhou City has exceeded one million, It became the largest city of the Qin Domain, which even surpassed Yanjing, the center of the Qin Domain, in terms of population.

Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was once also known as the home of millions. But after the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an no longer had a population of more than one million. Today's Chang'an, even if the hundreds of thousands of troops are combined, it does not exceed 300,000 people. Especially the wealth of Dengzhou is even more unbelievable.

However, after arriving in Yanjing, Yang Fuguang sat on the comfortable luxury four-wheeled rail carriage, and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

The prosperity of Dengzhou is full of commercial prosperity, there are high-rise buildings everywhere, there are street markets everywhere, the port is full of merchant ships, the market is full of merchants of all colors, selling all kinds of latest and rarest goods, there are also more than many ordinary state cities the size of the school city, there are countless students. But the prosperous Dengzhou is also a city without even a city wall.

Compared with Yanjing, I always feel that something is missing.

When he thought about it, he finally understood.

Dengzhou and Yanjing, one is a commercial city, the economic center of the Qin Domain. The other was the military center and political core of the Qin domain.

Yanjing, who has a full five-story inner and outer city, will make everyone who sees him for the first time stunned. The twelve Acropolis gates are like ten small castles. The length of the earthen wall of the Acropolis can even frighten a group of people, although the Acropolis earthen wall city set outside the outer city of Yanjing is not a regular square, but its length is three hundred and sixty miles long. Compared with the 180-mile-long outer city wall of Yanjing, it is almost 100 miles long, and in terms of area, it is four sizes of the outer city. The inner city of Yanjing City also has a circumference of 81 miles, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the outer city. The core of the royal city and the palace city are twin structures arranged in the north and south. The walls of the palace were thirty-six miles in circumference.

In fact, the five cities of the entire Yanjing City are zoned. It is equivalent to Kyoto in later generations. The wall is equivalent to the Sixth Ring Road, and in later generations Kyoto Sixth Ring Road is 192 kilometers, the Fifth Ring Road is 99 kilometers, the Fourth Ring Road is 63 kilometers, and the Second Ring Road is 48 kilometers.

When Li Jing designed Yanjing City, he considered the situation in Dengzhou. Dengzhou has a population of more than one million, and it has expanded again and again, but at the end of the year, it can't even plan the city wall. Therefore, when Yanjing City was designed. Li Jing simply built in Dali, after all, Yanjing City is the future capital, and the military and political center at this time is impossible to even have a city wall, especially after the north of Yanshan and Taihang in the west, it is still an unstable enemy-controlled area, whether it is for the security of the present or the safety of the imperial capital in the future, Yanjing cannot be a city without a city wall like Dengzhou.

But overall, albeit a bit huge. But the Acropolis is now basically a suburb, and even the outer city is not yet saturated. It's also a long-term plan for the future. The current Acropolis is basically just twelve satellite towns around the twelve gates and fortresses. But this huge long-term plan alone was enough to scare Yang Fuguang, who came from Chang'an.

What's more, there are four castles, namely the outer castle, the inner castle, and the royal castle and the palace castle.

"Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by!" The adopted son who followed Yang Fuguang, the vanguard of the Shence Army, made Yang Shouliang snort coldly. In his opinion, the city of Yanjing reveals a clear rebellion everywhere. The Yacheng garrison of a vassal king, but named Jing, is far more arrogant than when Wei Bo Jiedu made the king rebel and changed Weizhou to the Daimyo Mansion. In the Tang Dynasty, only the palace where the emperor is stationed can be called a mansion, and until now, there are only ten mansions in the Tang Dynasty. And called Beijing, it is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the entire Tang Dynasty has only set up five capitals for a period of time. Now Li Jing actually named his vassal king's residence Jing, isn't this called arrogance?

What's more, who has ever seen the residence of a vassal king have a five-story city, especially a royal city and a palace city. In particular, there are 9,999 buildings and 9,999 houses in the palace city, which is completely the scale of the Son of Heaven.

The heart of disobedience is obvious.

Yang Fuguang just frowned but didn't say anything, such a thing as violating etiquette, if it was in the heyday, it would naturally be a great crime. But in this day and age, this is nothing, and it is not worth mentioning at all. Yang Fuguang also paid more attention to Li Jing's palace city, but what he paid attention to was that Li Jing was not a luxurious person, why did he want to build such a luxurious palace city, especially at this scale, how much manpower, material and financial resources would be used? What can he do, but he has never heard of how much time Li Jing spent repairing this palace city, and what public grievances he had.

It was another righteous son who had already guessed his doubts, and explained on the side, "Li Jing's palace is magnificent and magnificent, but in fact, it took less than two years to build it, and even only 100,000 people were moved, and they were all refugees. ”

"How is this possible?" Yang Shouliang couldn't believe it, they came from Chang'an, how could they not know that repairing the palace is not as good as repairing an ordinary city, and the most important things in the palace, such as the palace pillars, all need that kind of towering giant wood, as well as stones, and also use huge stones, and also have to burn special palace bricks, as well as glazed tiles, etc., which require a lot of manpower and financial and material resources. Especially those giant trees and boulders, many of them have to be cut down from the far southwest and other places, and then go down the Yangtze River to the Jianghuai, and then go north from the Jianghuai canal, each giant tree requires countless manpower and material resources, which is also the reason why it takes so much time and effort to build an ancient palace for the city, and it also needs a large number of people. Such a project requires too many people, and often hundreds of thousands of people are needed at every turn. For example, in the Sui Dynasty, it was because of the construction of canals, the construction of the eastern capital, the conquest of Liaodong, and the excessive burden of servitude to the people, which led to a great peasant uprising.

Yang Shouyi explained to them: "Li Jing's palace city, and even the entire huge Yanjing City, has not used a single giant tree that is more than a hundred years old, and even the entire city has very little wood, and no huge stones have been used. ”

"How is this possible?"

"Because Qin Fan has long had a new building material, cement."

"Is it the kind of material used by the Qin Domain to build roads in the past few years, and the thousands of miles of Qin Domain's territory that are like spider webs?"

"That's right."

Yang Shouliang still can't believe that the Qin army has worked hard to build roads and cities over the years, and has built countless roads and towns, precisely because of this very convenient and fast new building material. But building such a huge Yanjing City is not an ordinary road town.

"Cement alone is naturally not enough, you also know that the mining of the Qin Domain is also very developed, they have the most iron ore, the most iron factories, and steel mills. Li Jing built Yanjing City, which was poured with cement and steel bars, and used them to replace giant trees and boulders. In this way, they can easily build a high-quality giant tree that is comparable to or even far beyond the ordinary hundred or even a thousand years, and the eighteen-story bell tower, with a height of thirty-six zhang, was completely built in only one year. If it were an ordinary method, such a tower would take years, or even more than ten years. ”

He continued to explain: "When outsiders see the huge size of Yanjing City, they all think that Li Jing has used a lot of people's power, and they think that Li Jing has begun to change. In fact, no, Li Jing built this city, I heard that not only did he not spend a penny before and after, but even earned a net of 80 million copper coins, and also absorbed as many as 100,000 displaced people to work here, so that they could use their own wages to settle in Yanjing. Moreover, we also found out that the construction of the entire Yanjing City also drove tens of thousands of workshops in the territory of the Qin Domain to receive business, so that these workshop owners made a fortune, and at the same time, the more than 100,000 workers in these tens of thousands of workshops also earned a sum of money. At the same time, these workshops paid a large amount of taxes to the Qin clan after earning money, and the income of those workers increased greatly, which also greatly promoted the sale of other businesses. All in all, Li Jing used an incredible method to not only build a huge Yanjing City, making it a place to show the strength and majesty of the Qin Domain, but also becoming Li Jing's power to firmly nail the power of Hebei, looking outside the fortress in the north, looking down on Hebei in the south, and looking east of the river in the west, making it an unbreakable super fortress fortress of the Qin Domain, protecting the northeast of the Qin Domain and the rear of Shandong. ”

Moreover, Li Jing also magically directly earned 80 million to support the continuous war of the Qin Domain over the years. At the same time, more taxes were earned later. It also absorbed more displaced people, giving them a place to live. ”

Yang Fuguang was already a little numb, and sighed, "Far more than that, look at this brand-new Yanjing City, which now also has a population of more than one million." With such a Yanjing City, the feudal towns of Hebei and Hedong will never be able to confront the Qin Domain. Li Jing is indeed too magical, how did he do all this, Yanjing City, Hejian City, it is estimated that in the next step, Li Jing will also build a giant city in the south of Hebei and in the north of Daibei. With a point control surface, the most rearly connected network, Li Jing is building a sky net and a ground network! ”

Yang Shouliang has been thinking about how Li Jing can build a super city without spending a penny, and he can still earn 80 million. Seeing Yang Fuguang close his eyes, he quietly asked his brother Yang Shouyi. Yang Shouyi just told him a few words, "Real estate, businessman!" Then let him scratch his ears and cheeks there, and he couldn't tear his sister apart! (To be continued......)