"When Taizu Dingding arrived, the walls of the city walls and the walls of the inner city no longer existed. The city was narrow, and there were many people who built houses across the city walls..."

Well, when the city could no longer live in it, they lived outside the city, and new cities were formed outside the city.

Therefore, Bianjing can be divided into an inner city and an outer city.

"It is precisely for this reason that Taizu just thought of moving the capital to Luoyang or Chang'an..."

"However, Luoyang and Chang'an are both in ruins. The palaces are in ruins, the city walls are destroyed, and the people are scattered..."

Cai Jing said this, quickly skipping this slightly taboo topic, and continued: "When it comes to Taizong and the Zhen Temple, the world is gradually settled, and people from all over the world are coming to the capital..."

"As a result, the number of people in the capital has increased day by day. So far, the number has reached one million!"

"At the time of Renmiao, six million dans of grain were transported from the southeast every year, which was enough to support the capital... Nowadays, 8 million dans of grain are transported every year, which is especially insufficient!"

When Cai Jing finished speaking, the entire third floor of Baojin Building was silent.

This is the first time that most people know how Bianjing City became what it is today.

It did not become what it is today in one day or two days.

Rather, it has been development and change that lasted for hundreds of years!

After hearing this, Lu Dafang also sighed and said: "I once knew Chengdu, but today Chengdu is probably the same as Bianjing..."

Chengdu, like Bianjing, is a city where neighborhoods have collapsed, curfews have collapsed, and the urban population continues to soar.

Fan Chunren also sighed: "The same goes for Hezhong Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion..."

Lu Haowen in the accompanying reading said softly: "I followed my grandfather and once lived in Yangzhou, and the same is true in Yangzhou..."

Cheng Yi recalled the city of Luoyang and lowered his head, as did Luoyang.

This is the epitome of society in the Song Dynasty today.

Cities are attracting more and more people, and the number of urban households is growing.

Now nearly 30% of the household registration belongs to the urban population.

At the same time, the money that households in the city paid each year for travel exemptions and service exemptions accounted for 30% of the world's annual income.

They also contributed a large amount of commercial taxes to the Song Dynasty.

In fact, urban industry and commerce had become one of the economic pillars of the Song Dynasty.

Upper decision decided by the economic background.

When more than 30% of a dynasty's annual income comes from the city.

This dynasty will naturally form a foundation conducive to the development of industry and commerce.

Because Brother Kong Fang would make even the most stubborn scholar-bureaucrats and emperors choose to acquiesce to this situation.

And Zhao Xu is now an outlier among the Zhao family.

He no longer has any attachment to the small-scale peasant society that he longed to restore in his previous life.

He now wished that the Song Dynasty would adopt the national policy of mercantilism overnight.

Then... spread the empire and colonize the world!

Unfortunately, this kind of thing cannot be rushed.

He must first let the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles eat and drink enough to taste the best sweetness.

Just like what he said on a TV series he watched in modern times.

Only by feeding the officials and powerful people first can it be possible to feed the common people.

otherwise……

Although he thought so in his heart, Zhao Xu was heartbroken.

"The system of the ancestors and the laws of the ancestors are so beautiful!" he sighed.

"In today's Bianjing City, there are no images of chess and borders..."

To put it bluntly, apart from the main roads dominated by Imperial Street, the current Bianjing City is filled with piles of illegal buildings.

Traffic jams are the most common thing in Bianjing City.

So much so that there are even officials responsible for traffic guidance and traffic command in Bianjing City.
Chapter completed!