Walking east from Chang'an, Yang Fuguang was filled with wonder. Compared with the declining population in Guanzhong, the wormwood grows from the sky, the broken walls and ruins everywhere, the ruined villages, the deserted fields, and the ten houses in Henan, the thieves are rising, refugees are everywhere, and the hungry people are everywhere, after crossing the Bian River and entering the Shandong Province of Qin's vassal province, the landscape is completely different. Although when they first entered the original territory of Tianping and Xuanwu, these places were only stronger than other places in Henan. But when they passed the Juyeze of Yunzhou, the Si Shui line, especially through Lu, and the ancient Qi land, the whole scene was completely different. It was shocking stability and food and clothing, wealth and etiquette.

It is like a paradise. I don’t know that there are Wei and Jin dynasties, wide and flat roads, neatly planned arable land and canals, and villages like scattered. Along the avenue, there are brand new small towns established. Guanzhong and Henan have been in chaos for nearly ten years, but in the Qidi rear of the Qin vassal state, it seems that it is still in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and even more than the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At least, he did not see from historical books that there were such peaceful, harmonious and prosperous villages that were in the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty and Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty.

In the evening, smoke in the village was curling. Under the dusk sunset, there were even some extremely hardworking villagers in the fields who had not yet been confiscated. Some herdsmen drove cattle and horses home. The women at the entrance of the village called on their children who were playing outside to go home. The calf mooed and searched for the cows. From time to time, there were also local dogs in the village chasing and barking. Occasionally, chickens that had not yet returned home were pecking on the ground.

The smell of fireworks from the kitchen stove came from the air. The aroma of oil from the villagers' cooking was everywhere. People with a keen sense of smell could even immediately smell the richness of the meal. This has the aroma of oil and the aroma of meat, which makes people feel moved when they smell it. This is a rich dinner.

It is hard to imagine that today, the people of ordinary Qin villages could have such a sumptuous meal when it was the New Year and the Festival.

All of this made Yang Fuguang, who was observing carefully along the way, amazed and even jealous. He didn't know how Li Jing did it. In the eyes of outsiders, the strength of the Qin vassal began with the strength of the Qin army. In just twelve years, Li Jing established a million-dollar army from scratch, and even had a reserve system that was so huge that others could not imitate. With so many troops, according to normal circumstances, this would only cause the Qin vassal to lose a lot of strong labor. In the end, it would inevitably delay the farming time, followed by bad consequences such as poor harvests. Just like the Han Wu Emperor, who was praised by countless people. He dominated the Western Han Dynasty and started a war against the Xiongnu who had always threatened the frontier. He fought for decades and finally defeated a powerful Xiongnu. However, while promoting the mighty Han Dynasty, it was the result of the halving of the population of the Western Han Dynasty.

He was even jealous of Li Jing. How did he expand his military strength so rapidly while maintaining the economic and livelihood of the vassal instead of falling but rising?

But after he entered Yanjing, he was completely shocked.

His route this time was to start from Chang'an, pass through Tongguan to Luoyang, then leave Wulao to Bianzhou, enter Song Caoyun in the Shandong Province of Qinfan, then to Qizhou, finally to Qingzhou, enter Dengzhou, then take the sea route from Qingdao Port to Qinwang Island, land in Shanhaiguan, and then go south to Tangshan and Tianjin, and finally enter Yanjing. This route is actually not as convenient as traveling by land in winter, but Yang Fuguang still chose this route. The purpose is naturally to witness the real situation of Qinfan. Choosing this route not only passed the prefectures on the east bank of the Bian River that were newly controlled, but also saw the Shandong Peninsula behind the Qinfan, as well as the Qinfan ports, and the gateway mountain area leading to the northeast.

Licheng in Qizhou, Yidu in Qingzhou, Penglai and Qingdao in Dengzhou, and Qinwang Island and Tianjin in Peking, these cities were so prosperous that Yang Fuguang was unbelievable. As he walked along the way, in Guanzhong and Henan, he was often uninhabited for hundreds of miles. The most people saw were either the huge army of the vassal states or wandering refugees. However, in the Qin vassal states, especially in these big cities, there were often hundreds of thousands of people at any time. For example, the Zhoucheng in Dengzhou was originally just a small city of more than 100,000 people. But now, an extremely large city has been built along the coast. The city is as big as there are even no walls but only the city gate. The population of the entire Dengzhou city has exceeded one million, becoming the largest city in the Qin vassal state, which is even more than the Qin vassal state center, Yanjing.

Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was once known as a home of millions. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an no longer had a population of one million. Today, Chang'an even adds up more than 100,000 troops, no more than 300,000 people. Especially the wealth of Dengzhou, it is even more unbelievable.

However, after arriving in Yanjing, Yang Fuguang sat on the comfortable and luxurious four-wheeled track carriage, and became more and more surprised.

The prosperity of Dengzhou is full of business atmosphere. There are high-rise buildings everywhere, street markets everywhere, merchant ships everywhere, merchants of all colors are walking on the street, selling all kinds of the latest and most rare goods, and there are also school towns that are larger than many ordinary cities and 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 savored it carefully, he finally understood.

Dengzhou and Yanjing, one is the city of business and the economic center of the Qin vassal state. The other is the military center and the political core of the Qin vassal state.

Yanjing, which has a total of five-story cities inside and outside, will make everyone who sees him for the first time stunned. The gates of the twelve acropolis city are like ten small castles. The length of the earthen wall of the acropolis city can scare a lot of people. Although the earthen wall of the acropolis outside the Yanjing outer city is not regular square, its length is 360 miles long. Compared with the outer city wall of Yanjing, which is 180 miles long, it is almost 100 miles long, and in terms of area, it is four sizes of the outer city. The inner city of Yanjing also has a circumference of 81 miles, which is equivalent to one fifth of the outer city. The core royal city and palace city are two-mini structures arranged in north and south. The palace walls all have a circumference of 36 miles.

In fact, the five cities in the entire Yanjing City are equivalent to the Kyoto in later generations. The acropolis walls are equivalent to the Sixth Ring Road, and the Sixth Ring Road in later generations are 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 first designed Yanjing City, he considered the situation in Dengzhou. Dengzhou's population exceeded one million, and it expanded again and again, but in the end it could not even be planned. Therefore, when Yanjing City was designed, Li Jing simply built it in Dali. After all, as the future capital, Yanjing City could not have even a wall at this time, especially after leaving Yanshan to Taihang, it was still an unstable enemy-control area. Whether for the current security or the future security of the imperial capital, Yanjing could not be a city without a wall like Dengzhou.

But in general, although it is a bit huge, the acropolis is now basically a suburb, and even the outer city is not saturated. This is also a long-term plan for the future. The current acropolis is basically just a twelve satellite towns next to the twelve city gates and fortresses. But this huge vision alone is enough to scare Yang Fuguang from Chang'an.

What's more, there are four cities: outer city, inner city, royal city and palace city.

"Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone!" Yang Shouliang, the pioneer of the adopted son of Yang Fuguang, snorted coldly. In his opinion, the city of Yanjing revealed a clear rebellion everywhere. The Yacheng garrison of a vassal king was named Jing, which was far more usurpated than the Wei Bo Jiedushi's rebellion and changed Weizhou to Daming Mansion. In the Tang Dynasty, only the palace where the emperor resides can be called the palace. To this day, the Tang Dynasty has only ten palaces. The name is the capital and the accompanying capital of the Tang Dynasty. The entire Tang Dynasty has only established five capitals for a while. Now Li Jing has named his vassal king's garrison. What is this called usurpation?

What's more, who has ever seen a vassal king's residence that has five-story cities, especially the royal city and palace city. Especially the palace city has 999 buildings and 999 houses, which is completely the size of the emperor.

The unjust heart is obvious.

Yang Fuguang just frowned but said nothing. If it were a matter of violating the rules and over-rituals in the prosperous era, it would naturally be a great crime. But in this year, what this is worth mentioning is nothing. 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 luxury person, so why did he build such a luxurious palace city, especially at this scale, how much manpower, material resources and financial resources would be used? But why, he had never heard of Li Jing's time to cultivate this palace city, and he had caused any public grievances.

Another adopted son had guessed his doubts and explained, "Li Jing's palace is magnificent and extremely grand, but in fact it took less than two years to build it, and even only moved 100,000 people, and they were all refugees who fled."

"How is this possible?" Yang Shouliang couldn't believe it. They came from Chang'an, so how could they not know that building palaces is no better than building ordinary cities. The most important things in palaces, such as palace pillars, all require towering giant trees, stones, and huge stones, and special palace bricks, glazed tiles, etc., which require a large amount of manpower and financial resources. Especially those giant trees and huge stones, many of them have to be cut from far southwest and other places, then along the Yangtze River to the Jianghuai River, and then heading north from the Jianghuai River to the canal north. Each giant tree requires countless manpower and material resources. This is also the reason why the construction of ancient palaces was so time-consuming and labor-intensive and required a large population. Such projects required too many civilians, and often hundreds of thousands of people at any time. 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 labour of civilians was too heavy, which led to a great uprising of peasants.

Yang Shouyi explained to them: "Li Jing's palace city, even the entire huge Yanjing city, has never used a giant tree that has been more than a hundred years old, and even the entire city uses very little wood, and there are no huge stones."

"How is this possible?"

"Because Qin Fan had a new type of building material, cement."

"Is it the kind of material used by Qin Fan who has been working hard to build roads in recent years, and the Qin Fan who has built thousands of miles of land, like a spider web?"

"That's right."

Yang Shouliang still couldn't believe that the Qin army worked hard to build roads and cities over the years, and built countless roads and towns, which was precisely because of the fact that they had such very convenient and fast new construction materials. However, the construction of such a huge Yanjing City is not an ordinary road town.

"It is naturally not enough to use cement alone. You also know that the Qin vassal mining was also very developed. They had the most iron ore, the most iron plants and steel mills. Li Jing built Yanjing City by pouring cement and steel bars, and used them to replace giant trees and huge stones. With this method, they could easily create high-quality giant trees comparable to or even far beyond the ordinary hundred or even thousand years. It is not the tall bell tower, and the eighteen-story bell tower is thirty-six feet high, and it was completely built in just one year. If it were an ordinary method, such a tower would take several years or even more than ten years."

He continued to explain: "When outsiders saw the huge size of Yanjing City, they thought Li Jing had used a lot of people's power and thought Li Jing had begun to change. In fact, there was no. Li Jing not only did not spend a penny in building this city, but also earned 80 million stags of copper coins. He also absorbed up to 100,000 refugees to work here, allowing them to use their own wages to make them settle in Yanjing. Moreover, we also found out that building the entire Yanjing City also led to the business of tens of thousands of workshops in the Qin Fan area, which made these workshop owners make a fortune, and at the same time, they also made tens of thousands of workshops in the tens of thousands of workshops.

More than one million workers also earned a sum of money. At the same time, after making money, these workshops paid a lot of taxes to the Qin vassal, and the workers' income increased greatly, and they also greatly promoted the sales of other businesses. In short, Li Jing used an incredible method to not only build a huge Yanjing city, making it a place to show the strength of the Qin vassal, but also becoming a firm nail to Hebei, looking outside the frontier in the north, overlooking Hebei in the south, and looking east in the west, making it a super fortress fortress fortress in the Qin vassal, protecting the northeast and the rear of Shandong."

"Also, Li Jing also made 80 million directly to support the Qin Fan's continuous wars over the years. At the same time, he also made more taxes and absorbed more refugees, giving them a place to settle down."

Yang Fuguang was already a little numb and sighed, "It's far more than that. Look at this brand new Yanjing City, which now has more than one million people. With such a Yanjing City, the vassal states in Hebei and Hedong will never be able to fight against the Qin vassal. Li Jing is indeed too magical. How did he do all this? Yanjing City and Hejian City. I guess in the next step, Li Jing will also build a giant city in southern Hebei and in the north of Dai. With the point control, the final connection is connected to form a network. Li Jing is building a sky and earth network!"
Chapter completed!