When he returned to the Yan manor, Yan Hao wrote a letter and sent it to Jiangxi.
In the next few months, Yan Hao was going to do something big. He really couldn't handle it with himself and Shen Shixing. Feng Ji just happened to come back to give advice.
To hold a birthday banquet, this matter could not be accepted without a million silver.
The emperor was not prepared to pay for it, and Yan Hao could not use his own money, so the simplest way was to pay for it and hire people.
The only way was to allocate resources and use the power of capital.
……
The next day.
Yan Hao woke up early as usual and changed into a set of ordinary clothes.
"Little Nian, call a few guards and get a few horses. We're going out of the city today. Oh right, remember to wear ordinary clothes.”
Yan Nian was surprised. Out of the city? Lord Yan hasn't left the city for several years, right?
However, even though he was very surprised, he still carried it out to the letter. Soon, he got five horses, one of which was exceptionally tall and handsome. Yan Hao didn't know how to ride a horse normally, but that didn't mean he didn't know how to ride a horse. This also showed that Yan Hao was a person who did things, and not an ordinary scholar who didn't work hard.
There were also three guards, all of whom were from the Yan Residence. As the chief assistant of the current dynasty, Yan Hao's followers were naturally not third-rate. They were all elites in the army. It was not difficult for them to fight against ten people alone.
Not long after, Yan Hao and the others left the city gate and arrived at the outer city.
……
Speaking of the outer city of the capital, one had to talk about its history.
Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Yan City and only built the imperial city and inner city. The east and west walls of the inner city used the city ridges of Yuan Capital. The south wall was pushed two miles to the south while the north wall was pushed back five miles.
At that time, the Ming army had driven the Mongol forces into the vast desert, and because the economy of Yan City had not yet recovered in the early Ming Dynasty, the military and economic needs for the construction of the outer city were not very urgent, so they had no time to take care of this project.
Later, Renzong and Xuanzong both had plans to restore the capital to Jinling. They called Yan City "Xing Zai", of course, they had no intention of building an outer city of Yan City.
After Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne, he decided to set the capital in Yan City. He ordered an Annam eunuch Ruan and the governor, Shen Qing, and the minister of the Ministry of Works, Wu Zhong, to lead tens of thousands of civilian workers to carry out extensive reconstruction of the city wall built during the Yongle period. They built a nine-gate tower, added arrow towers outside the city gate and turrets at the four corners of the city wall, deepened the moat, and used bricks to wrap the inner side of the city wall. These projects had exhausted the savings of the previous dynasty, so there was no more money to build the outer city.
(Outer City: "You guys are bullying me, right?”）
He said,"Emperor Taizu built a foundation in Jinling and built an earth city outside the capital to protect the residents. This is truly a foundation that will not be uprooted for ten thousand generations.
At present, there is only an inner city in Yancheng and no outer city. After the change of orthodoxy, Esen (namely, Yexian) drove straight into the city, and the people fled and fled. There was no place to accommodate them. The past can be used as a reference. Moreover, after a long period of peace, the number of people gathered increased. If you want to take precautions against hardship, you must wait until the day of abundant enjoyment.
What's more, in the northwest area, the old site of the previous generation is especially preserved. If you punish those who work hard, it will be a success soon." The so-called " northwest area, former site " referred to the abandoned northern city wall of the capital.
However, when the court discussed Jiang Wan's memorial, he said: "The construction of the city should be held on the day when the army and the people rest.”He put it aside.
It had been put aside for more than sixty years.
Jiajia twenty-first year (1542), Mongolia Anda rise, repeatedly invaded, frontier fortress emergency. At the same time, as the capital city of the Ming Dynasty, Yan City had developed for more than 100 years. Its population had multiplied and its business flourished. Especially since the number of residents living outside the city had already exceeded the number of residents in the city. Among them, the South Pass was densely populated with residents and goods. Therefore, the request to build an outer city was once again raised.
The voices of the government officials and the people demanding the construction of the outer city were growing day by day, and there was a "resident Zhu Liangfu and others in Nanguan who were willing to use their own financial resources"("Ming Shizong Shi Lu" Volume 370) to build the city.
At this time, the historical Yan Hao appeared. In the "Calendar Official Table" and "Jia Jia Zou Dui Lu", there was a "Please Beg to Build the South Pass Wall".
(In the original history, it was Yan Hao who proposed the construction plan in the end, and under Yan Hao's great promotion, the outer city was built. Although Yan Hao was scolded for being a rice worm, he was a very outstanding and capable official.）
This was also the reason why Yan Hao thought of building the outer city. This was the great achievement of his original body.
When Yan Hao and the others arrived at the outer city, they saw extremely chaotic buildings.
When the surrounding commoners and merchants saw Yan Hao and the others, they all looked frightened and wary, afraid that Yan Hao and the others were the kind of powerful people who would prey on the commoners. In the past, there were often many second generation heirs, Jin Wei, and people from the East and West Factories who rode their horses here. They didn't even need to take responsibility for killing people. They were very vicious and vicious.
Yan Hao didn't go in. Instead, he rode around the outer city.
In the end, they arrived at a hill that overlooked the outer city. It stretched for dozens of miles and was extremely wide.
The more Yan Hao looked at it, the more he liked it.
This was definitely a location with an advantage!
It was not a problem to call it an Earth King.
There was a large population at the edge of the capital, and resources were scarce.
"Master, what are you doing?"
"I want to rebuild an outer city here!”Yan Hao waved his whip and pointed at the outer city in the distance. He was in high spirits. Combined with his words, he seemed to be pointing at the country.
"What is it? You want to build an outer city here?" Yan Nian was a little confused. Would this work? Why did it feel so unreliable?
Yan Hao laughed." I didn't think it would work, but now it's working!"”
Yan Nian couldn't believe it. Such a huge construction, how much silver would be used? However, thinking about it in the blink of an eye, Yan Nian's eyes lit up. Heavens, if they were to build an outer city, how much profit would that bring? Just a little bit of it would be so rich!
Yan Nian was enlightened. He flattered," Master, you must be trying to make use of this opportunity to build a city to earn some money, right?" Old Master is really too wise."
Earn a handful of silver?
pfft
Yan Hao almost vomited blood!
He pointed his whip at Yan Nian.
"Come over here, I promise I won't kill you!”
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