243 BC, at the end of July.

At this time, several months have passed since the various countries attacked Yan. In this battle, Zhao and Qi have gained the most benefits.

In particular, Zhao State not only obtained the richest territory of Yan State except the Du Kang Land, but also exchanged a lot of food and grass from Qi State.

In recent years, Zhao State has been fighting continuously. Although he could seize a lot of food and grass after every victory, it was difficult to support the huge consumption of the army.

In order to continue to launch a war, King Zhao not only consumed the national treasury money and grain, but even almost exhausted the private food and grass.

If there were no large amount of food and grass from Qi, many people in Zhao would probably be starved to death if they could not survive the autumn harvest.

After several months, Zhao State did not make any other moves, but instead focused all its focus on the people in the newly occupied areas.

Only by completely absorbing and digesting these occupied areas can Zhao State be free of worries and truly become stronger.

However, after the war ended, Zhao Jia first went to Handan to discuss with King Zhao. Fan Zeng had a secret discussion for a long time, and then returned to Shenqi's place and began to move the capital.

Originally, Zhao Jia's fiefdom was only Shenqi's place, so it would be better to set up the capital in Zhongyang.

However, after obtaining most of Shangdang County, in order to strengthen control of the newly occupied land, moving the capital became an imperative thing.

Of course, Zhao Jia did not move the capital to Shangdang.

There are two reasons.

First, after several years of operation by Zhao Jia and the continuous migration of refugees, the land of Shenqi has become much more prosperous than before, and the people here also support Zhao Jia, the vassal state.

On the contrary, Shangdang is the land of South Korea after all, and when Zhao Guochu got this land, the former Korean people would have some resistance.

The capital is an administrative center, and it is more appropriate to set up in Shenqi, which supports Zhao Jia as his vassal.

Secondly, although Shangdang is relatively rich, it borders the Qin, Wei and Han dynasties, and its strategic depth is not enough, so it is difficult to set up the capital here to ensure safety.

Therefore, no matter from any aspect, it is the wisest decision to keep the capital in Shenqi.

After careful consideration, Zhao Jia finally set up the capital in Zhongdu.

Zhongdu is backed by Daze Zhao Yuqi, facing Shenshan to the south, connecting to Taiyuan County of Zhao State to the east, and Wu County and Fen River as barriers in the west.

This place is located in Taiyuan County, the intersection of Shenqi and Shangdang County. Zhaoyuqi and Fen River can ensure the supply of water in Zhongdu, and Shenshan Yuli Mountain can ensure the supply of firewood and copper and iron in Zhongdu.

With its excellent geographical location, Zhongdu can become a super metropolis integrating agriculture, mining and commerce. I believe that in time, it will definitely be one of the most prosperous cities in Jiuzhou.

The establishment of the new capital cannot be completed overnight.

Although Zhongdu was a relatively large city before, it is probably not enough to take responsibility for the capital.

Zhao Jia ordered all the buildings in Zhongdu City to be demolished, and then the entire former Zhongdu City was built into an inner city. On this basis, it expanded outward for twenty miles and began to build tall city walls.

Several months have passed, and the construction progress of Xinduyi is still only half. If you want to complete the construction, you may have to wait until the spring of the following year.

This time, Zhao Jia still adopted the strategy of attracting investment and outsourced the city walls, shops and buildings to big merchants and families of various countries, so that the expenditure of the fiefdom government can be greatly saved.

What Zhao Jia has to pay is only half of the gold shops in the capital, as well as preferential policies given to corresponding large merchants and large families.

In the long run, when the capital develops, the gold shops here will inevitably be worth every inch of land. Zhao Jia’s insignificant efforts today will become an extremely heavy price.

On the contrary, those big merchants and big families who participated in the construction of Zhongdu will become the ultimate beneficiaries of Zhongdu's rise.

In this way, it is not good for Zhao Jia in the long run.

However, don’t forget that now is a chaotic world, what is the so-called merchants in the face of power?

If Zhao Jia is willing, he can take back all the shops and land with just one edict.

But Zhao Jia doesn't do that now, and he doesn't plan to do that, just because these big merchants and big families can bring a steady stream of huge taxes to Zhongdu.

The development of the capital is inseparable from the fate of big merchants and big families, Zhao Jia and even the entire fiefdom, and is closely linked to these people.

As long as they operate legally, they will become the biggest boost to the development of the fief.

Qishan Flower Garden.

This villa area, which is more expensive than the sky, has seen a sharp drop in housing prices due to the migration of the capital. Many officials and merchants who bought houses here are suffering serious losses.

This incident has a great impact. After all, those who can buy a house here either have a high position, are valuable, or are the leaders of various tribes of the Huns.

Although the sharp drop in housing prices did not make them lose all their money, it was considered a damaging problem. This incident also caused quite a stir in the entire Shenqi area.

Fortunately, Zhao Jia sent out several good news for Qishan Garden, and promised that he would not build a garden of the same grade within 20 years, and that his mansion would not move out of here within ten years.

Zhao Jia's timely remedies have stabilized the residents of Qishan Garden.

However, this incident also reminded Zhao Jia that since he has promoted real estate, he must consider the bad consequences of the real estate collapse.

In the future, every policy may affect housing prices in various places, and Zhao Jia must be cautious again and again.

In order to stabilize the housing prices in Qishan Garden and near Zhongyang, Zhao Jia did not rush to move the government agencies to Zhongdu, Xindu, but often appeared in Qishan Garden.

At this time, after a few days of busyness, Zhao Jia finally had time to rest in the residence of Qishan Flower Garden.

"Why are you frowning?"

Mi Fu walked to Zhao Jia, gently hugged her from behind, and said in a gentle tone.

Zhao Jia grabbed Mi Fuyu's hand and his frown stretched a little: "The droughts in various places are very serious this year. Even if I organize the army and the people to dig ditches for irrigation, it is still a drop in the bucket."

"The harvest of the people this year is probably not enough to make them survive until the beginning of the next year. If the people do not have enough food to eat, how can the government collect money and grain?"

Flood disasters, even in the 21st century with advanced technology, will seriously affect farmers' food production, not to mention during the Warring States Period when productivity was backward.

Drought is often accompanied by famine, and famine is often accompanied by plague. These three things are fatal blows to the rule of feudal dynasties.

I don’t know how many dynasties caused famine due to drought, which intensified domestic conflicts and eventually led to the outbreak of peasant uprisings.

What's more, this severe drought was not only in Shenqi, but also in Shangdang and the entire Zhao State, and almost no rain occurred everywhere, and many Western crops were killed.

As the autumn harvest approaches, the people do not have many smiles on their faces, but instead worry.
Chapter completed!