The imperial palace in the old city of Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing, as the patriarchal palace of the former Great Liao Empire, is really not as grand as the Ziwei Palace in the Shendu Luoyang.

In terms of size, it is just a world. Fortunately, Zhao Kai's palace is not large in size, with only a dozen concubines, more than 100 eunuchs, two or three hundred female officials, palace maids, dozens of female squads, and twenty or thirty princes and princesses. So when I lived in Ziwei Palace in Luoyang, I only occupied a small part of the palace, and most areas of Ziwei Palace were closed without any use. It seemed cold and there was no popularity when I walked around the palace.

So after Zhao Kai, the grandson, moved into this small palace in Shuntian Prefecture City, it had to feel crowded, but it became much more lively and seemed to be happy.

However, Zhao Kai would not keep going in this broken and small Shuntian Prefecture for the sake of excitement... The emperor stayed and stayed, the imperial family was the best in the world, how could he not do some basic construction?

Besides, Shuntian Prefecture City is not a bastion now!

It is not a bastion, which means that the defense cost is high and the security factor is insufficient. The current Shuntian City is a square castle with a circumference of 36 miles. If you want to tightly deploy defense on the 36 miles long city wall, you can't do it without tens of thousands of troops.

If a 16-sided and 10-pound cannon is built with an eight-sided and sixteen-cornered bastion with an area of ​​the core fortress that is equal to that of Laoshuntian City, a three-sided platform fortress is deployed, dozens of eight-two cannons will be enough. Even if some reserve teams are included, 6,000 people in the entire castle will be enough to guard it.

To capture such a castle, if you don’t know how to attack the city in parallel, do not count as a ballistic, find blind spots, cast large-caliber mortars, and create reliable flowering bullets, you can only siege the hungry rice.

If all of the above are done, then it is not the Tartars, but the British Empire in another time and space, and the French Empire has traveled through time and space!

So on the third day after returning to Shuntian Mansion Imperial City, Zhao Kai placed a model of Shuntian Mansion New City on the terrain sand table of Shuntian Mansion.

"This is Tongxian, that is, the original Tongzhou. I plan to build the Shuntian Prefecture New City on the territory of Tongzhou. I will build a large castle with eight sides and sixteen corners on the west bank of Lushui. The size of the core castle of the ridge and the current Shuntian Prefecture Old City seems to be around 80 square miles. Although it is not big, it is used to build imperial palaces, official offices, official residences, military weapon supervision workshops, military camps, and warehouses. There should be enough territory to build some residential buildings for the people.

As for the industry and commerce industry... I plan to build a mall in the area of ​​Zhiguzhai where the downstream of the Lu River and the Baigou River intersect, called Tianjin City. Tianjin is a ferry crossing, which is usually a convenient place for the gathering of industry and commerce. In the future, the industry and commerce industry on Beijing Road will gather in Tianjin City, and Shuntianfu New City will only be for the emperor to live and stay in the capital of the military and country. What do you think?"

After Zhao Kai finished talking about his capital building plan, he looked at the ministers present with a smile, waiting for their unanimous support.

His idea is of course extremely reasonable, taking into account both national defense and economic development needs.

Xinshuntian Prefecture City, which moved to Tongzhou, is only about 150 miles away from Tianjin, the future northern commercial capital, and there is Lushui between the two places, which is the Northern Canal, so Shuntian Prefecture can easily obtain material replenishment from Tianjin.

The personnel exchanges between the two places are even more convenient and fast. It is only a day after being paved with hard roads.

At the same time, this distance of more than 100 miles can also separate the future capital of the Song Dynasty from the northern commercial center. In this way, the capital will not have too much population and will not be over-commercialized. For a medieval feudal militarism, it is certainly not enough to have no money, but too much money will easily decay.

In addition, Tongzhou (later, Xinshuntian Prefecture) has very convenient water and land transportation. With it as a base, the imperial army can support Miyun and Juyongguan to the north, Jizhou and Pingzhou to the east, Zhuozhou to the west, Yanshan Passes in Yizhou to the south, and Tianjin to the south... If an enemy comes from the sea!

Seeing such a perfect capital construction plan, the ministers in the hall frowned slightly and did not say a word.

The atmosphere in the hall became a little awkward, and Zhao Kai's face gradually became heavy. Just when the official family's dragon face became less beautiful, someone finally spoke.

"The official family, now the national treasury is empty, and the daily expenses are difficult to deal with, and the military pay is almost impossible to pay... Whether to build a new capital and Tianjin Mall should be urgent."

Zhao Kai looked over and spoke to Zhao Kai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue,... a financial expert in the Northern Song Dynasty court.

However, it is hard for a good woman to cook without rice. No matter how hard she can manage her finances, she can’t spend more than 10 million in income as 30 to 40 million!

"What does the construction of a new capital have to do with the emptiness of the treasury?" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "How much does Zhao Shangshu think the new capital and Tianjin Mall cost?"

Zhao Kai frowned and said with a bitter face: "If the city walls of Xindu are built with bricks with rammed earth, it will cost at least millions of yuan... If we count the palaces, streets, government offices, and various houses in the city, it may cost millions of yuan. Today's court really can't afford this money!

As for the Tianjin Mall, it will not be less than millions of yuan... and now the sea route is not in my hands, and Shandong has not recovered it, so the canal is not very useful, and it is useless to build Tianjin Mall."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "What Zhao Shangshu said is also reasonable, but you are not a businessman. How can you know what the merchants think? Tianjin Mall is of little use now, but what will happen in the future? I will dominate the world sooner or later. By then, Beijing will be the best in the world, and Tianjin will be the commercial port of the country... I am afraid that every inch of land will be worth every inch! Now I will invest some money in Tianjin, and I may be able to collect rents and collect for a thousand years. Why not do it? Maybe the income from selling Tianjin land can be used to build Shuntianfu New City and Tianjin Mall."

Is this possible?

Lu Yihao, Chen Ji, Zhao Kai and others all felt it was a bit unreliable. Chen Ji gave a speech: "As the saying goes, there is no businessman, no businessman is traitor... If the court wants to use the money of merchants to build Shuntianfu New City and Tianjin Mall, it must be very cautious to avoid being deceived by him."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "Don't worry about the right prime minister. I have been dealing with merchants for a day or two... My residence is stopped, my commercial port, I will talk to them without the court's penny."

Lu Yihao smiled bitterly and said, "I am incompetent and did not mention that the official family is good. Even if the official family wants to use the money from the court to build a new city, there is really no money available in the court treasury..."

"No money is available?" Zhao Kai asked, "Can you send out any more public tickets?"

"Officials," Zhao, Minister of Revenue, gave a troupe, "The so-called cloth tickets are just to eat the food of the Yin Dynasty. There will be no cloth in the future, and there will be no tickets now. Since the Wu Kingdom cut off its annual tribute, it is difficult to cash the cloth tickets based on Wu Jin... Now the cloth tickets on the market have plummeted, and merchants are reluctant to accept it."

There is also a currency crisis!

"The annual tribute of Wu will be restored soon!" Zhao Kai smiled, "When I finish the job of signing titles, moving the capital, and resettling the troops, I will personally raise the troops and go south to ask for money... No, it's going south to ask for crimes! So the cloth tickets will definitely increase, so you can rest assured!"

"Official family," Chen Ji said with a frown, "It is the cost of granting titles, moving capital, and resettling the government soldiers, and the court cannot take it out..."

"I can't get this out?" Zhao Kai was stunned, "Is he really that poor?"

"Official family," Chen Ji smiled bitterly, "The travel expenses for moving the capital are still on credit and have not been paid (paid to Min Li and Gang Shang)... The rewards that had to be put down when they were granted are not settled now.

However, the biggest gap is the travel expenses for the relocation of the soldiers, as well as the cost of opening the newly opened Zhechong Mansion on Hebei, Beijing, Datong and other roads... These are all available for expenditure.

Therefore, the dozens of Zhechong Mansions in these three places now have only government offices and soldiers, and they cannot open schools, schoolyards, arsenals, grain warehouses, and horse farms, and they cannot build castles."

Zhao Kai was stunned when he heard this, "Didn't the expenses and the relocation of the government troops by Yingtianlu? Why do you ask me for money?"

Zhao Kai explained: "The official family could have raised their own funds by Yingtian Road before, because Yingtian Road has money... Shaanxi Road, Hedong Road, Jingxi Road has money supervision, that is, half of Hebei Road has iron supervision, and Shaanxi Road has many salt ponds, Hedong and Hebei, Jingxi Road has commercial roads and many commercial markets, and restaurants. In addition, wine tax, tea tax, etc.

The three Lukes have an annual income of nearly 8 million yuan. They can not only subsidize the land, but also open charity warehouses, renovate official roads, establish official schools, repair water conservancy, and relieve famines. However, Beijing Road, Hebei Road and other places are now in a depressed state, and they can’t collect much money at all!”

Civil officials of the Song Dynasty were still very good at making money. Even if the military households in Shaanxi, Jingxi, Hedong and other roads did not pay land taxes, they could still loot millions of income through commercial taxes, mining taxes, monopoly sale, minting, etc.

However, Hebei (occupied area), Beijing, and Datong have been repeatedly ravaged by the Jin thieves and the Song army, and their economy is almost collapsed, so the officials of the Yingtian Envoy Department cannot make money.

"Then..." Zhao Kai thought for a while and said with a smile, "Then let the soldiers of the palace pay some money themselves, they have money!

Can't they afford to move? Hebei and Beijing have become like this now, and they have a share! After this battle, they all made money and could not afford to pay for travel expenses? As for opening schools, schoolyards, arsenals, grain warehouses, horse farms, and fortresses, they are all for them. If you don't have money to build a land and make a road, let them pay for it themselves!"

"Officials, how are they willing to pay?"

"Yes, why are the military servants willing to pay for this money?"

"Officials think twice..."

"Officials and military families in the government are all heroes..."

The ministers below all spoke out to advise... The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were very powerful! They held a knife in one hand and held a large amount of land in the other hand, which meant that the original scholar-officials had become soldiers, so how could they afford to provoke them?
Chapter completed!