MTL - Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei-Chapter 652 capital

"The repair of the North Canal and Tonghui River, according to the repair plan, is mainly divided into two parts: clearing the river silt and widening the river.

"More than 1,000 craftsmen and nearly 50,000 refugees were mobilized one after another. The construction was completed at the end of August last year."

"It's just that in recent years, the water level in the canal is not high, and it is difficult for large river boats to navigate, so now the canal boats are mostly small and medium-sized river boats.

"After the shipping side arrives in Tianjin, it will be replaced by a ship at Tianjin Port—

"The official cement road from Beijing to Tongzhou and Tongzhou to Tianjin has also been completed.

Above the city tower in the east city of the capital, Hong Chengchou slowly reported to the emperor. The emperor was wearing a fox fur, and his eyes were fixed on the east city wharf in the snow for a long time.

There is a large artificially excavated lake at the end of the river, and the wharf is in the lake. It is called Jishuitan by the people. In today's Daheng, it is named Baichuan Lake.

meaning.

After the expansion of Baichuan Lake in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, as well as the renovation and expansion of Daheng, the lake covers an area of ​​nearly 2,000 acres.

dropped a lot.

But obviously, as long as the lake is not dry, Baichuan Lake, which is the end of the river and sea, the lifeblood of the capital, cannot decline.

Now that winter is coming, the sky is snowing, and the lake is still full of boats.

Even in this Baichuan Lake, there are two river navy camps stationed. In this high winter, they swim around the lake day and night every day to ensure that the main waterway is not frozen.

There is an endless stream of boats on the lake, and the wharf is even more noisy. Business travelers from all over the world, people begging for a living on the wharf, officials and soldiers patrolling, and an endless stream of bicycle frames.

Everything from the north to the south converges in this Baichuan Lake, affecting all aspects of the capital.

The rapid increase in the population of the capital is still more and more prosperous in recent years, and everything comes from this.

And here, it can also be said to be the lifeblood of the capital.

A slight fluctuation will affect all aspects of the capital.

A non-agricultural center of gravity is still on the frontier, and it can even be said to be a capital city in a desolate land. In many aspects, it has to rely on transportation from other places.

Such an important place is naturally an important place to guard against.

In addition to the two river navy battalions in Baichuan Lake, the Beijing Army's valiant battalion and the Imperial Army's Yulin Zuowei are stationed near Baichuan Lake.

The Baichuan Lake leads to the Tonghui River from Tongzhou, and the North Canal from Tongzhou to Tianjin is also heavily guarded along the way.

Looking around, the Son of Heaven's gaze was also fixed on the low-rise shacks on both sides of the Baichuan Lake pier.

The design of the city is destined to have a city's population carrying capacity, which is limited by the city wall.

And the more prosperous and prosperous, and destined to increase the population, the city can not carry it, and it has formed a shantytown that gathers an unknown number of people at the bottom.

"Here, no demographics?"

The emperor retracted his gaze and looked at Liu Qiyuan.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the shanty towns here are mainly people from nearby counties and the capital who work here, as well as business travelers from all over the world, as well as people who fled from natural disasters in previous years.

the people who came.

"There are about 100,000 people in total, and the scale is too large to handle. In addition, the shanty towns have been settled and have their own order.

"That is to say, these nearly 100,000 people are not included in the population of the capital?"

God asked again.

"Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor's pupils shrank, and with these 100,000 people, the population of the capital, I'm afraid it's not going to go to a million-

A city with a population of one million, even in later generations, can be regarded as a big city.

Not to mention a capital city that needs support from other places in every aspect.

There is no doubt that the rapid increase in population in this capital has brought more and more terrifying supply pressure.

Clothes, food, housing and transportation, the existence of a person involves all aspects of existence, but the capital is a place where even the most basic food cannot be self-sufficient.

And the most important thing is, not only the capital, but the whole north.

And the root of this problem lies in Daheng itself.

Since ancient times, the change of dynasties time after time often means that the carrying capacity of the land has reached the limit, and there is no way to support people, so there is a **** dynasties.

The wars of changing dynasties not only mean the shuffling of the order, but also a natural population eradication!

War chaos inevitably means countless casualties and disorderly war chaos, which will inevitably cause great damage to the people.

After the war, the population dwindled and the land was empty, which was the beginning of the Great Rule.

However, Daheng stood in the wake of the Ming Dynasty and used a strong army to forcefully suppress the war that should have lasted for decades.

In this way, it means that the population that should have dropped sharply has not decreased too much. Even if the taxation of land is reformed, the carrying capacity of land is limited.

Not to mention, there are still natural disasters lingering today.

Huge population, limited land, stretches

Obviously, the existence of Daheng is against the general trend, and it is sitting on a volcanic crater that can erupt at any time.

This is also the most fundamental reason why the emperor insisted on relocating the population, developing Liao Province, developing the southwestern border and the northwestern Hetao.

If the carrying capacity of the land is not enough, we can only open up the living space, and then coordinate the deployment of the government to ease the limit of the carrying capacity to the greatest extent.

Commerce, maritime trade, are also for this.

The investment in Xinxue is based on the hope that the productivity will increase, so that more people can be fed with limited land.

While the natural disasters in the north continue to be stable, and the current prosperity of the capital, it can be said that the phased results of these strategies have been brought about.

"I heard that the Ministry of Industry has made plans for the renovation and expansion of the capital?

After pondering for a while, the emperor slowly spoke up.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has indeed made a plan."

"tell me the story."

The emperor nodded, but his eyes flickered a little.

He has always had the idea of ​​expanding the capital, but he is really dissatisfied with Beijing, the capital.

In history, the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with Beijing as their capital, all showed their inability to rule in the south of the Yangtze River.

The capital of Beijing, although it is easier to coordinate the military forces of the border towns to deal with the frontier troubles in the northern border, it is also easier to learn to control the border military towns, so that the disaster of the border towns out of control will not happen.

But although these are important, the big trend in the future lies in the ocean.

As long as the productive forces develop, it is not too difficult to set the capital in the south and control the north.

, the southern center, will ignore the northern border, and even shrink the northern border defense

The emperor's thoughts flowed~www.novelbuddy.com~Hong Chengchou also reported slowly.

For them, it is natural that they do not know the emperor's intention to move the capital.

But for today's capital, expansion is inevitable.

Today's capital is not only the center of commerce between the north and the south, but also the Dinghaishenzhen that controls the natural disasters in the north.

In the past, grain was transported from the south to the north to supply the capital, but now the grain is transported from the south to the north to maintain the stability and tranquility of most of the northern provinces under natural disasters.

All grains are transported by sea to Tianjin, stored in the capital, and then distributed to localities.

The same is true for all other materials that need to be allocated by the court.

It is precisely because the whole country is doing this that the current Beijing is different from the usual prosperity, and it has also brought about a surge in population.

In addition, the slow prosperity of commerce has brought together the population, and the current capital, or in other words, this capital, has not undertaken business operations from the north to the south since the beginning of its construction.

Rong's preparation.

Obviously, the current capital can no longer bear the various functions under the changing times. The expansion of the capital, under the influence of these factors, is imminent.

Things.

"The Ministry of Industry will discuss the expansion and renovation plan again."

In the end, the emperor did not express obvious opposition or approval, but left this vague sentence.

"The minister obeys the order."

Hong Chengchou immediately responded.

The emperor nodded, stepped forward, and then headed under the tower.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou and Liu Qiyuan glanced at each other, followed quickly, and followed the emperor's footsteps towards Baichuan Port.