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Chapter 488: The New Political Center

Compared with Zhenzhou, which is almost a messy construction site, Wuyi seems much more orderly. After a large number of people pour in, Wuyi has become a big city no less than Zhenzhou. The original county town is now basically no ordinary people live in. In addition to various government offices, those who can live in the inner city are basically senior officials under Wuwei.

Wuyi is now divided into three parts: inner city, outer city and city wall.

Needless to say, being able to live in the inner city is a symbol of identity and power. In the outer city, more people live are middle and low-level officials and people working for the government, and then a group of wealthy classes. The rise of Wuwei defeated a group of original privileged classes, but also created a new group of wealthy people. Compared with the past, these new rich people no longer have the big landlord class. Wuwei's policy is to mercilessly clean up the landlord class with a large amount of land, measure the land, and clean up Dingkou. After such sharp blades were cut over and over again, the big landlord class had disappeared in the core area of ​​Wuwei. Most of these emerging rich classes were related to business.

Think about it, even a large family like Cangzhou Governor Hou Zhen owns only 5,000 acres of land, so there is no need to mention the rest. Five thousand acres is a red line set by Wuwei. If it exceeds this number, it will immediately enter the target of the government's attack.

Wuwei's supply and marketing cooperatives monopolize all industries that are related to national economy and people's livelihood, but they do not prohibit business development in other fields. A large number of flexible-minded people seized the opportunity in this turbulent society, relying closely on the Wuwei government, and gained a lot of wealth in a very short period of time.

In the city, there are a large number of ordinary people in the former Wuyi. They are actually not poor, and they are even richer than some ordinary officials living in the outer city, because they have obtained a lot of relocation expenses during the expansion of the city. Some simply sell their houses in the city, and then buy a piece of land in the city at a smaller cost and build a house. The remaining part is enough to allow them to live a life of food and clothing without worries.

Xiao Chong's family, who is now an officer under Liang Han, is a typical example. It has to be said that this family belongs to the group of people who are lucky.

During the first expansion, Xiao Chong's parents moved to the outer city and got some money. Then, the outer city was crowded and every inch of land was worth every money, they sold the house in the outer city and ran to Daqingshan, which was relatively remote at the time, bought a large piece of land, built a house, and became a self-sufficient farmer.

Unexpectedly, at the foot of Daqing Mountain, because of the long-term settlement of Zhending County, many powerful and wealthy people built villages. The family sold most of the land they had purchased at the beginning, leaving only a house for themselves, and made a big profit again. However, Xiaochuang's family has become an absolute wealthy family. Their family bought more than a dozen shops in the outer city, and now they rely on renting these shops to live a life that everyone envied. In addition, their son is now an eighth-rank Xuanjie Captain. Seeing the bright future, their family is a typical example of the old hen and duck in the blink of an eye, and then climbed to the branch and turned into a phoenix.

In fact, under the rule of Wuwei, there were quite a few people like Xiao Chong's family, and it was this group of people who became Li Ze's most loyal subjects.

When Xiao Chong was drinking water, he didn't forget to dig wells. At that time, Xiao Chong was fighting in Dezhou with Li De, and he couldn't bear to spend a penny to send it home. The family carefully saved it to prepare to marry a wife and pass it on to the family line. Now it feels funny when I think about it.

His family is a popular brand now. I don’t know how many families have daughters, hoping to marry into his house.

In the inner city, with the former Zhenmao Mansion as the center, the newly expanded yamen have been established, and the general's mansion has just been hugged tightly.

Tacitly understood, everyone knew that these buildings were about to become the future Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of War, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Rites and other important organs.

Apart from the bureaucracy, three huge military camps were arranged in triangular shapes in the inner city.

The three military camps are stationed in Li Ze's personal guard Yicong. After several expansions, Li Ze's personal guard Yicong went from the initial one thousand to the current five thousand. They are not only responsible for the safety of the inner city, but also responsible for protecting the safety of these important official offices and the safety of important official residences.

Li Gan was the leader of this personal guard Yicong. The original Min Rou and Li Mi had already left the post.

Min Rou will inevitably obtain one of the generals of the twelve guards in the next military reform. This is a tacit matter for everyone. Li Mi took over as the commander of the Zhenzhou garrison, which allowed more people to see Li Ze's intention to control the emperor.

Li Mi has always been Li Ze's personal bodyguard commander and Li Ze's confidant Cao Xin's daughter-in-law. She is responsible for the security guards in the town and protect the emperor's safety. As long as you are not blind, everyone knows why this is for.

Xue Ping had no choice but to do anything about this.

Qin Zhao could not have reduced his identity to seek this position, but Li Hai, who was qualified to compete, refused Xue Ping's invitation in person, because he wanted to follow Weizhou Governor Pei Ju to avenge King Fu Li Xin. This excuse is impeccable, but until this year, Li Hai still stayed in Wuyi without a nest, which only means that Li Hai was already joining Li Ze, and Li Ze had other appointments to him. Cheng Xu, another general under Xue Ping, who had a higher status, could not compete with Li Mi in terms of qualifications. The only possibility was to think about the position of Li Mi's deputy.

When you step into the inner city of Wuyi and see the architectural layout of the inner city and the buildings that have just been built, Xue Ping gritted his teeth in a deep regret. In Zhenzhou, you have no money, but when you arrive in Wuyi, you will have too much money to use up. These newly built houses are tall, majestic, and extremely strong.

Until now, Wuyi has not built a wall of the outer city, but these houses living in the inner city are like huge fortresses. What's wrong? Even if the enemy attacks the inner city and wants to capture these special layouts of buildings, it is probably not something that can be accomplished in a short time.

When you walked into the Jiezhen Commander's Mansion, a solemn atmosphere came to you. The wall was built as wide as a city wall. Fully armed soldiers stood solemnly. On the four corners of the watchtower built with huge stones, a crossbow machine revealed a grim face from behind the pile wall. Two rows of soldiers extended from the gate to the entrance of the lobby.

Li Ze was standing at the door of the lobby, smiling as a large group of civil and military officials entered one after another.

When I stepped into the lobby, the thick bluestone slabs that I had stepped on under my feet had turned into thick carpets, soft as if I were stepping on cotton. Even if these people had seen the world, they couldn't help but be amazed at this time. Such a carpet that covered the entire lobby was probably worth more than the wealth of many medium-sized families.

Seeing Xue Ping staring at the carpet with dissimilar eyes, Li Ze laughed and said, "Mr. Xue, this carpet is not bad, right?"

"Of course it's good. If what I know is good, we can't produce this kind of carpet in the Tang Dynasty, right? This should be Persian goods that came from across the ocean. This piece alone is worth tens of thousands of gold!" Xue Ze said with a sarcasm in his tone.

Li Ze did not think it was offended, but instead laughed: "Shishou, you are wrong. What you are talking about is the old Huangsheng. This carpet is a genuine Dezhou product, made by our own people. How about the pure wool carpet of Shishou, how about Shishou, the handmade, dyed, and pattern? "

"It was made by Texas?" Xue Ping's face looked strange.

"Of course. I dare say that the Persians can't make such pure wool carpets! There are rich people in our house. Everyone takes care of their own business. They buy a few of them and go to the house to spread them. They are high-end, elegant and high-end, hahaha! But now this thing is still priceless and needs to be customized. But after all, you are different. You can be given priority to the top and you can decide whatever color and pattern you want. By next year, you can mass-produce in large quantities, but by then, these characteristics will be gone!" Li Ze said happily: "On this item alone, we will purchase more than 100,000 kilograms of wool from outside the mouth this year, and the price of wool will rise. Those who are outside the mouth will raise more sheep!"

The people in the house laughed, and even Xue Ping was still laughing at this moment. This is a rude strategy for Wuwei. Starting from the economy, they tied the wild Hus and the wild Hus who were originally wandering around and unruly, with the economy to a place. Because the places under Wuwei's current rule are not allowed to transfer to grazing everywhere, and they have to raise a large amount of livestock, so they can only use the method of raising a captive. Wuwei has sent many experts in this field to teach these Hus to grow crops and plant grass. When their income is higher, they are tied to this place and cannot move. When a few years pass, these people will naturally become settled households like mainlanders, which is very beneficial to the rule of the entire government. Unlike in the past, it is basically impossible to complete a task like counting the population.
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