Zhao Huan was in a good mood these days. He used to be busy with official business all day and was very workaholic, but now he has also begun to arrange time to accompany several beauties in the harem.

Just talk about Empress Zhu, Empress Zhu is a relatively introverted person. In ancient times, she was very quiet and spoke slowly. She had a preference, which was that she liked to appreciate flowers. Zhao Huan took time to accompany Empress Zhu to appreciate flowers.

Not only that, they also called Tang Ke and Xu Churen and asked them to come up with a plan. What should they do? A garden was built outside Tokyo, specially built for the queen.

This matter was originally a matter of the Ministry of Works. Why did the emperor call Tang Ke, the assistant minister of the political affairs? Because Tang Ke now has a very important identity as the Minister of Commerce. The Ministry of Commerce now has an important department called Shangyu Se, which is specialized in managing it.

Many of the things the emperor is thinking about now are from an economic perspective.

For example, to build a garden, the Ministry of Commerce requires the Ministry of Commerce to first issue a financial plan, then submit it to the Third Department for approval. After the review, the Ministry of Industry will design the garden. The Ministry of Commerce and Yu Department will then conduct specific implementations based on the plan and manage the entire process.

The final settlement amount was deducted from the budget of the Zhengshi Hall, so why should it be deducted from the Zhengshi Hall? Because Zhao Huan set a target for Xu Churen, within two years, the income of the people on Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road and Jingji Road would be over.

The construction of fortifications in the court to boost employment rates was the most basic cognition of an adult in later generations.

Anyway, Zhao Huan copied a lot of money from Qingzhou, and all the money was exploited by the people, so he is now considered to be returned to the people.

In addition to planning the Queen's Garden, there are a lot of fortifications planned by the Political Affairs Hall recently. Since being stimulated by the Qingzhou case, Xu Churen has been injected with chicken blood every day.

For example, when the expansion of Tokyo City was completed, the Zhengshi Hall enclosed all the vast open space and began to make overall plans. This planning plan has been planned in the Zhengshi Hall for more than a month and has also been shown several times for the emperor.

According to Zhao Huan's intention, a piece of land in the south of the city will be specially built. Although there are only two universities this year to next year, it can be planned in advance. At least ten universities will be built in Tokyo in the future.

As for primary and secondary schools, they can be built in outer cities and places close to outer cities, which are easy to manage, safe and secure.

From the overall framework, Tokyo City should extend at least ten times the outer appearance!

In the next twenty years, the population of Tokyo will increase by at least five times, exceeding five million. In order to curb housing prices, the court must reserve a reasonable range.

It is precisely because the housing prices in Tokyo are now outrageously high and seriously threatening the economy of Tokyo, that Zhao Huan decided to accelerate the expansion of territory and break the land supply and demand relationship.

How high are housing prices in Tokyo now?

As early as the middle of the Song Dynasty, with the development of commerce, land prices soared. Take the veteran cadre Ouyang Xiu as an example. After he passed the exam, he rented a house in Tokyo for more than ten years before buying a house.

Su Shi and his son were even more miserable. They came to Tokyo for an exam. The father and son lived in the bathhouse for a whole year before moving out.

Some people have counted that ordinary people in the Song Dynasty could not afford a room for 150 years without eating or drinking.

Qin Guan, Zhang Lei, Huang Tingjian and Chao Buzhi were also called "Four Bachelors of the Sumen". The four Bachelors of the Four Bachelors have no real estate in Kaifeng and they also rent houses. Among them, Qin Guan rents houses in the city center, Huang Tingjian rents houses in Chi Temple in the west of the city, and Zhang Lei and Chao Buzhi rent houses in the southern suburbs.

The status of scholars in the Song Dynasty was already very high, second only to the royal relatives, but they also had such a miserable life. This shows how ordinary people live!

When Zhao Huan wanted to expand Tokyo City, the ministers naturally opposed it. If the expansion was outside, the new city would not have wall defenses in the war, which was very dangerous.

The emperor gave up his bold statement to the ministers that in the next ten thousand years, Tokyo will not be threatened by foreign tribes. The establishment of the five major war zones will completely reverse the situation. From then on, the Song Dynasty will only expand outward and will never shrink internally.

The ministers secretly scolded me for believing in your evil spirit. Emperor, you are not only bragging, but also forcing everyone to brag with you. What else would you do? Oh, yes, you can also kill people!

Finally, Zhao Huan disagreed with the opposition and forced the ministers to agree to his idea of ​​expanding Tokyo.

From the construction of the Art and Art Bureau, to the planning of the school, to the queen's garden, to the basic welfare club, led by the court, some fortifications have been started.

Even the planning of the territory of the new city and the price for sale for private merchants have been set. This is a huge income for the court, and it is expected to exceed 70 million trump cards.

When this number came out, Xu Churen was shocked. It turned out that the court could make money like this?

And according to this plan, I still don’t know how to make 70 million coins!

The biggest problem now is that merchants are willing to buy land, and merchants are seeking profit. If the new city has no money to make money, merchants will naturally not be willing to buy it. Therefore, Zhengshitang now has a very important task, which is to attract all the surrounding population.

Fortunately, there were still good things in the founding of the Song Dynasty. For example, the household registration system of the Song Dynasty was much more humane than that of the previous Tang Dynasty.

The household registration of the former Tang Dynasty was divided into good people and untouchables, but it was gone in the Song Dynasty. There were only Fangguo households and rural households, which are the so-called urban household registration and rural household registration.

Moreover, the movement of personnel is no longer restricted and there is no need for official documents. Rural households can enter and exit cities freely, and even refugees can do so. This is almost the same as in later generations.

This open household registration system is of great help to expand Tokyo City.

All economic behaviors are integrated. Now the prime ministers have deeply understood this sentence, from the expansion of Tokyo City, to the planning of land sales, to the demand for population, they are all connected.

If more people gather, they must be liberated from the heavy labor service and from the single field where they can only make a living by farming.

After thinking through these things, Xu Churen truly began to feel that the emperor's vision and thoughts were as profound as the vast sea and the magnificent starry sky.

No wonder the emperor did not hesitate to kill so many people, risking the great things in the world, and also abolished corvee labor and reduced taxes. Only in this way can the people be liberated and create more value.

When the people have money, the national treasury will naturally be abundant!

After thinking through this, Xu Churen was in a very good mood every day, as if he had opened the door to a new world, and had eaten more food and vegetables. He also began to respond to the emperor's call and conduct strict assessments of the officials below. If they fail, they will lay off employees.

From the expansion of Tokyo City, the prime ministers have truly realized the importance of population. He is not only a resource for war, but also of great value for the development of economic and commercial affairs.

Therefore, on July 13, the Zhengshitang collectively formulated the census plan for the Song Dynasty and the prosperous population plan, and submitted to the emperor this idea of ​​long-term strategic value for the future of the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!