At night, it was a night of continuous spring rain.

The next morning, the sky cleared, which was indeed a rare good weather.

Young scholars from the top ten clans of Jinling, the playboys Chen Wanbao, Xiang Tiange and others, as well as many daughters with princes and princesses, who had a carriage out of the city in carriages.

There was even a senior official in Jinling, who was in his forties or fifties, and the prefect Wang Xu, who came on behalf of the court.

A group of hundreds of people came to Shizigang outside Jinling City to see off the princess Xie Anran and Princess Xiang Ling.

This is the eldest son of the Jinling Prefecture Wang Xu, the current censor Wang Su.

The prefect at the foot of the emperor of the imperial capital is also considered a high-ranking official of the court. Wang Xu has served as the prefect for many years and is even more acquainted with the playboys in Jinling.

The playboys caused trouble in Jinling City and were sued by others, and they all sued Wang Xu first, the prefect of Jinling Prefecture, which gave Wang Xu a great headache.

Like Xiaohunhou, Xie Anran, Chen Wanbao, and Xiang Tiange, the four major playboys in Jinling, caused trouble and went around, he had no choice but to do anything.

The backstage of these playboys is too difficult. The hereditary marquis of Xiaohun is lawless. Xie Anran is the eldest grandson of the princess, the princess, the princess, the princess, the princess, Chen Wanbao is the relative of the queen mother, and Xiang Tiange is the current prince.

What can he do except stare at the prefect and be in a dilemma?

Fortunately, Xie Anran, the second playboy in Jinling, was finally promoted to the magistrate of Danyang County and left the imperial city.

Wang Xu was extremely happy at this moment.

Recently, Xiaohunhou was busy with the court affairs assigned to him by the emperor. He first became the magistrate of Danyang County and received an errand as the "principal examiner of the imperial examination" and had no time to mess around in Jinling City.

Chen Wanbao is busy making paper and making money.

Xie Anran was sent out to be the county magistrate again, guarding the local area and suppressing local snakes, and he could also understand his complicated feelings.

Prince Xiang Tiange studied in the Eastern Palace and rarely went out.

The atmosphere in Jinling City finally showed some signs of improvement.

This made Wang Xu, the prefect of Jinling, quite pleased.

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Recently, there has been a lot of spring rain and there are many residents in Jinling City.

There is a lot of rain in spring, and small streets and alleys are washed away by rain. The ditches for sewage discharge are obviously insufficient, resulting in sewage flowing across the board, and muddy sewage can be seen even on the main street.

Li Yu, Chu Tianxiu, Zuer and Di'er were in the carriage.

Chu Tianxiu saw this scene outside the window in the carriage, and couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Modern people who traveled through ancient times were most afraid of injuries and plagues. Because there were not many medicines to cure, they basically depended on themselves to bear it.

Chu Tianxiu traveled to the Great Chu Dynasty, and she was not afraid of the world and didn't take anyone seriously, just because she was afraid that this thing would suddenly appear.

After all, people are easy to deal with and always have weaknesses. But this disease, no matter who you are.

The sanitary conditions in the main city and the Pingwang Mansion are still good.

However, the small streets and alleys in civilian areas are obviously not good, and they are dirty and messy.

The denser the city, the better the hygiene. Otherwise, there will be no need to know where the plague will cause great trouble.

The prefect of Jinling is responsible for this.

Chu Tianxiu drove to the Jinling Prefect's car and said to Wang Xu: "Mr. Prefect, how many people do we have in Jinling City?"

"Little Marquis, there are 500,000 and 600,000 in the city, and 300,000 to 400,000 in the city and towns within dozens of miles outside the city, which is also considered to be from Jinling. The total number is about one million! The Prime Minister's Mansion once estimated that the population of our Great Chu is estimated to be 70 million."

Wang Xu said proudly.

Jinling City is the largest city in the Great Chu Dynasty and the only city with a population of one million.

The population of the entire Great Chu Dynasty has roughly exceeded 70 million, and it is even growing.

Especially in the Jiangnan area, the population has the fastest growth.

"so much...?"

Chu Tianxiu was shocked when he heard this.

As far as he knows, the historical peak of the Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty was only 50 to 60 million people, and it could never rise again.

The upper limit of population is directly linked to the upper limit of land.

The Great Chu Dynasty has only been in power for more than 70 years, how could it have surpassed the peak population of the Western Han Dynasty so quickly?

Chu Tianxiu thought carefully and found that it must have a huge relationship with the capital of Jinling City.

During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no major development in Jiangnan. Most of the population was concentrated in the Central Plains north of the Yangtze River, with Jiangnan wide and small populations.

It was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that Sun Quan ruled over the Eastern Wu and began to develop south of the Yangtze River. However, because he was busy with war, he was unable to achieve enough strength and development was not enough.

After the Han Dynasty, at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Five Barbarians invaded China in the north, and a large number of Central Plains gentry fled to Jiangnan, which slowly completed the development of Jiangnan.

However, the history of Great Chu is somewhat different from that of the Western Han Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu of Great Chu and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, completed the great cause of hegemony and pacified the world, felt that Chu land, which led 8,000 Jiangdong children to raise an army, was his blessing initiation.

All the kings and princes and old ministers all hoped to establish their capital in Chang'an or Luoyang.

But Xiang Yu slapped his mind and acted arbitrarily, and decided to set the imperial capital in Jiangnan where he was born and chose a location in Jinling City.

He also recruited the top ten families in the world, with a wealthy family of more than 100,000 jin, and moved a large number of people to Jinling City.

A large number of gentry populations in the Central Plains were forcibly migrated to the vast and deserted Jiangnan area in advance.

Deforest, burn forests into fields, and build new towns.

A large amount of land was vacant in the original Central Plains, which also gave the people the opportunity to recuperate.

After seventy years of continuous development of four or five generations, farmers are often recruited to go to the south of the Yangtze River to reclaim land and obtain new arable land.

In addition, most of the time during this period, the world was peaceful, with Jinling City as the core and continued to go south. The Dongwu area in Jiangnan was developed greatly, and a large number of farmers had been reclaimed in Lingnan and Fujian and Yue areas.

It should be because of this strange decision that the Great Chu Dynasty achieved two huge benefits - it greatly alleviated the pressure on the population and arable land in the Central Plains, and obtained a large amount of land and population in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although the Emperor of Great Chu and the officials were not much better than the Western Han Dynasty, thanks to the decision of Taizu Xiang Yu, a large-scale development of Jiangnan was carried out in advance.

The Great Chu Dynasty now has a population of 70 million, and its national strength is significantly higher than that of the Western Han Dynasty in history.

This Jinling City has also become the world's largest city, gathering a huge population of millions. With its dense population, it far exceeds the original design of Jinling City.

There are many people gathering here, and it may not be a good thing in the face of the epidemic.

The most dangerous place in Dachu’s epidemic prevention is probably Jinling City.

"Mr. Wang, the spring rain is full of plague. The sewage discharge in Jinling City needs to be improved! Dig deep into the sewage discharge and arrange special personnel to deal with the dirt. If the hygiene is not good, spring plague is easy to occur."

Chu Tianxiu said with concern on her face.

Wang Xu was a little surprised that Xiaohunhou's thoughts were too erratic. He just talked about the population of Jinling, but suddenly it turned into pollutant discharge and plague again.

Moreover, how could Xiao Hunhou, the big playboy in Jinling, care about preventing the plague?

Could it be that you are afraid of death?!

Not to mention, Wang Xu really guessed it right.

The entire Great Chu who could easily threaten the life of Xiao Hunhou would probably have nothing else except the plague that was unaware of.

Even the princes and kings in various places who led tens of thousands of troops to control one side could not hurt Xiaohunhou's hair.

Can Chu Tianxiu not worry?

Wang Xu asked in confusion: "How can we prevent this? The spring plague is without traces and traces? Besides, it is the matter of the imperial physician Song Yi. Digging ditches and discharging sewage requires the government to allocate funds, which is very expensive, so it is very difficult to allocate money."

Song Yi, the leader of the imperial physician in the palace, was appointed as the imperial physician order. He was also the eldest disciple of the old miracle doctor Chunyu Chun.
Chapter completed!