I had stomachache today and I lay on the bed for a day. I said I won’t write anymore today, but I thought that everyone was still waiting, so I still coded two chapters and posted them together.

The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.

Farewell to the old year with the sound of firecrackers. This year's New Year's Eve is particularly lively. The night sky of Xiangyang City is still the sky, and the fire trees and silver flowers are extremely beautiful.

After the advent of gunpowder, although the Li family presented the formula to the court, Li Ji still retained the civilian part after not involving military firearms. Li Ji's firecrackers and fireworks are famous all over the world.

This year, the nobles in Xiangyang bought more firecrackers and fireworks than they did last year. More than 300 new nobles were added to Xiangyang City.

Who doesn’t show off? If you have a true aristocrat, the first thing you do is to design an exquisite and connotational family emblem. The second thing you do is to decorate the lights and have a big banquet for guests.

From a few days ago until New Year's Eve, nobles held banquets every day in Xiangyang City and set off fireworks. Last year, it seemed quite mysterious and special. The fireworks that only the nobles used suddenly became ordinary.

After Li Ji's output increased significantly this year, the price was also reduced in time. Therefore, although fireworks are still not cheap, ordinary people can already buy firecrackers.

"This year is probably the last New Year's Eve in Xiangyang."

The family had already changed into new clothes and sat in the hall to watch the New Year.

Even the servants at home changed into new clothes today.

Wearing new clothes to celebrate the New Year is a rare time for ordinary people to wear new clothes, especially those children, who usually don’t have such opportunities.

Although for families like the Li family, new clothes can be worn at any time, changing to new clothes on New Year’s Eve still has many special meanings. According to the Li family’s convention, the new clothes for the family during the New Year are made by Cui Yingying and others.

The new capital Hanjing will be moved after the spring next year. The Li family’s new house in Hanjing has been built long ago. There are luxury houses in Xinjing and manors in the suburbs of Beijing.

"Hanjing has been built in just a few years, which is incredible." Cui Yingying held her fifth child and gave birth to five children, she became much richer.

"There are many people participating. During the Sui Dynasty, Daxing City was built, and it took a short time from construction to settlement. As for the construction of Hanjing, more people participated. Before the disaster in the north, many victims were transferred to Dengzhou to build the new capital with labor-for-relief. Moreover, so many businesses also participated. A new capital was split into many parts and handed over to so many people to build, so it would naturally be faster to build it." Li Chao felt that it was not very fast.

After all, although Hanjing was large, the top priority was that several large palaces were large. But it was not big, and the highest hall was only a few floors. With new technology and new materials, everything became much simpler.

The large pillars that were thickly clad among a few people were poured with bricks, cement and steel bars. Including those huge beams, they were also poured with cement steel bars.

There is no need to spend a lot of money to get those giant trees and huge rocks. This alone saves the project a lot of time.

The huge palace is now just a frame structure, with beams and pillars poured with steel and cement, making a palace built in just one year.

What Hanjing is really time-consuming is actually those little things.

The stone slabs on the ground, the transplanting of flowers and plants in the palace, and the later painted buildings took up more time, otherwise, they would have been able to move the capital long ago.

"I heard that Xinjing is very beautiful. I have always wanted to go and see it, but I have no chance." Du Shiniang also said.

"After the year, we can move over first. Anyway, everything we should have done there has been done. Now, some decorations in the palace have not been completed yet."

When the Sui Dynasty built the Daxing Palace, the first part of the imperial palace and the imperial city was built. At that time, the palace and government offices were moved there, and the people moved there one after another. The walls of the outer city were not completed even after more than 20 years.

But Hanjing is different. The four parts of the imperial palace, imperial city, outer city, and Guocheng are separated.

The outer city and the Guocheng are very large, but the architectural layout is completely different in Chang'an City. It adopts no longer a closed lifang layout, but an open block, a series of streets connecting all parts of the city, and shops have been built on both sides of the street.

The outer city and Guocheng of Hanjing also have special markets, but these are large and special markets, such as grain markets, livestock markets, etc. Street markets are places for daily shopping, restaurants, departments, groceries, clothes, cloth, etc., and have begun to move from special markets to street markets.

It is more convenient for the people and makes business more prosperous.

There are shops on both streets, and the back of the shops are workshops or warehouses. The front shops and warehouses are workshops and warehouses behind them. This design is most common in later generations, but in this era, it was a very epoch-making move by Li Chao.

After the strict closed layout of urban lifangs in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Li Chao's street market layouts became more free and open. Without the tall walls, the streets became wider and more lively.

It was precisely because of this design that Li Chao successfully recruited many merchants to develop and build Xinjing. The merchants were responsible for the construction of some of the infrastructure, city walls, streets, city protections, etc. in Xinjing. They hired craftsmen to prepare materials and buildings themselves. The reward given to them was to give them a piece of land in the city so that they could build shops and houses according to the imperial court's design plan.

When merchants got the land, they began to sell shops, workshops, warehouses to merchants, and private houses to the people, and obtained funds from it. This method made it easier for them to advance funds to build a new Beijing project for the court.

The court did not have to pay money, and all they took out was the planning and layout of the entire Xinjing and empty land, and the merchants did not lose. It was naturally not profitable to build city wall moats and streets for the court, but they could make a lot of money to build shops and houses.

Now Xinjing is about to build a city, and the court has indeed not invested a penny in it, and even made a lot of money.

Li Chao fulfilled his promise to Li Shimin, and built a new capital within five years without the imperial court's penny. But now, it has not been used for three years.

Among the more than 100 businesses that built new Beijing, Li Ji Construction was naturally the largest, invested the most, and acquired the most land. At the beginning, others thought that the Li family was losing money and gaining publicity, but now, they really discovered how much Li Ji Construction made.

Li Jizhan now has several streets, multiple residential areas, and a large number of vacant plots are in their hands. Selling those residential buildings alone is enough to recover their costs. Li Ji doesn’t have to sell shops of several streets, and you can earn more by renting them but not selling them.
Chapter completed!