Chapter 222 The passage begins
After Yang Song made the decision and named the new capital, he saw what Zhang Juzheng wanted to say, and immediately added: "But there is no need to hurry in terms of time. Take your time slowly. First clean up the foreigners outside the checkpoint, and then encourage the people to move north. Then there is no hurry to build the city slowly in the future."
Anyway, Yang Song has been in Tianqi City for eighteen years, so he doesn't care about staying for a few more years. Moreover, after selecting the site, he will also have to carry out the overall planning and design of Zhongjing. The location of the palace is in the layout design... It is estimated that it will take a year or two for design alone.
After that, there will be material preparation, recruitment of workers, and construction preparation... With so many pre-proper matters, Zhongjing cannot be built just by saying that it is possible!
Everything was settled, and in the end, only the person in charge of the city was left, but Yang Song didn't need to designate this. The Administration Department is the only one who works in the Department of Works.
At the moment when Xia Kingdom is now, many things only need Yang Song to issue an order, and then each department will handle them on its own. There is no need for Yang Song to arrange which department should handle them on purpose.
After a whole day of court meeting in the Political Consultation Hall, the busy starts. All departments in the Xia Kingdom began to operate with all their strength.
Li Jing of the Military Department was responsible for coordinating the reorganization of the military, and the lower military department began to formulate recruitment matters. The rest of the Hou Guard and Guard Department began to find the military department with their respective jurisdictions and began to ask for people.
Yan Ren, the newly appointed Guard Department, handed over the work with Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei will then go to the western mountainous areas to take office after the army is reorganized.
In the administrative department, in addition to the busiest department of the workplace, the rest are also preparing for the people who move north.
The most troubled one is Zhang Juzheng from the Finance Department. He originally expected that the finance department would save a lot of money after the war, but he did not expect that now he would reorganize the army and build a new capital.
The most unfavorable thing for various departments in the Xia State is the Finance and Taxation Department. Not to mention the many things, there are often "surprising" accidents that make them busy.
Regarding the location of the division headquarters stationed by the divisions outside the pass, the headquarters of the Third Mountain Division in the western mountainous area is located on a high mountain east of the Jiehe River. There is a large area of flat land on the top of the mountain here. It was originally the territory of a local lord and was named Zhiyuan City.
The division headquarters of the Second Infantry Division is a city in the middle of the Border River, less than a hundred kilometers away from the Border River. It is also the location of a viscount castle in the original Eight Sons, named Wangjiang City.
The headquarters of the First Infantry Division is the original capital of the Baxter Kingdom, which is the original location of the Cross-He River Bridge. This bridge will also be rebuilt by the Xia Kingdom. The name of the bridge is: Jiehe Bridge, and the name of the city: Jiehe City.
The headquarters of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division was the original Yili City. At this time, Yongsheng City was not far from all parties and could provide support to many parties - if the railway was built, it would be faster.
The Navy Defensive Fleet and Marine Corps are located in Ninghai City by the sea.
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On the first day of April of the 18th year of the Apocalypse, news came out of Tianqi City that it was said that the Xia Kingdom was about to move the capital, and the people were talking about it.
At the same time, the reorganization of the army began, and the generals began to travel frequently around their upcoming troops, hoping that their army would have more old subordinates. Among them, Li Jing, Liu Ji and other important personnel closed their doors to thank the guests.
Three days later, Li Jing announced the reorganization plan of the army, and the generals had no choice but to take the order.
Among them, Zhu Cheng (the commander of the 11th Regiment, including the First Division) was transferred to the Second Division as the commander of the 21st Regiment; Liu Yan was transferred to the Third Mountain Division from the City Guards to the 32nd Regiment; Qi Army (the regiment of the former Cavalry Division) was appointed as the commander of the 45th Regiment of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division...
At the end of June of the 18th year of the Apocalypse, the Xia Kingdom had sufficient reorganization experience, and the army was quickly integrated, and the generals were about to take office.
During this period, because of the reputation of Xia Guo (the bad name), no one dared to invade the country, and only some spies were removed by the Intelligence Department.
Subsequently, the reorganized army immediately carried out a major cleanup of the land outside the pass, and the Imperial Guards and the City Guards also participated as usual.
Although the city guards are not on the battlefield, it is their duty to guard one side, and cleaning up foreigners within their territory is also within their responsibilities.
The indigenous residents who had finally lived a stable life in the land outside the pass immediately suffered a catastrophe and were all spared!
In the dragnet-style cleaning, there was no fish that missed the net. At the end of the 18th year of the Apocalypse, the indigenous military and civilians on this land were completely cleaned up.
At the end of the year, the population of Xia State had reached 27 million, taxes were more than 78 million taels of Xia coins, and the annual steel output reached more than 1.2 million tons.
The ten-year plan formulated in the tenth year of Apocalypse was fully reached in the mid-18th year of Apocalypse!
At the same time, the design of Zhongjing passed Yang Song's review and officially began to prepare for the construction of the city.
At the beginning of the 19th year of the Apocalypse, the administrative orders for migrants from the north came, and the people were in a hurry to sign up, especially the people living on the edge of the mountain, and even those who lived in villages and villages took the registration.
The "rumor" of moving the capital has been confirmed. Many people south of Tianqian Pass have to change their places when they see their kings, and they all want to live in another place.
On the sixth day of the sixth day of the 19th year of the Apocalypse, Zhongjing began construction. Although the progress was slow, demolition, resettlement and cleaning were already underway.
During this period, the exploration fleet sailed southward from the southernmost end of the peninsula and discovered a huge island nearly 500 kilometers away from the southernmost coast. How big it is still to be discovered.
In the 20th year of the Apocalypse, after a whole year of immigration, Xia State had built border cities in addition to the locations of each division headquarters, and many cities were built in the safe rear.
Yongsheng City is the focus of immigration. About 240 kilometers southeast of it, a Lishui City is built by the Lishui River.
A Sitong City is built between the west of Yongsheng City and Zhiyuan City, and a pine and cypress city is built more than 270 kilometers southwest of Sitong City. (Note: Xia State has no hurdles!)
In addition, the Nanshan City between Yongsheng City and Shanhaiguan was also rebuilt and its name has not changed.
After a year of construction, the foundation of Zhongjing in Linhai Basin was laid, and the royal palace in the middle of the city was officially started. The royal palace in Zhongjing covers an area of much larger than that of Tianqi City. It is a 500-meter wide from east to west and 900-meter long from north to south, covering an area of 450,000 square meters. (PS: The Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters)
Originally, Yang Song disagreed with building the palace so big, and he did not have the three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, so there was no need for such a big place.
However, except for Yang Song, all ministers agreed with this design. Some even believed that the scale was still small, preferably five kilometers wide and nine kilometers long.
Finally, after negotiation, it was decided to divide the palace into two parts, the north part used as Yang Song's residence, and the south part was divided into offices for each department.
Even so, Yang Song still thought it was a bit big. It would take him several hours to go shopping in such a big place. Fortunately, most of it was gardens and artificial lakes, otherwise it would be all houses. It would be funny if he got lost at his home in the future.
If you want to quickly contact the territory of such a large country, trains are indispensable, so the railway from Shanhaiguan to the north has also begun to be built.
Chapter completed!