When Ji Yi was asking Zhao Ji about the right thing in Chongzheng Hall, in the Political Affairs Hall, the prime ministers and important officials were discussing several important government affairs to be dealt with today.

"The Lord of Liao seems to have died in Dongnabo Camp. Yanxi, King Yan, has ascended the throne. Have you all seen this memorial from Wu Haogu?" Han Zhongyan sat high in the central hall, holding the memorial that Wu Haogu had just handed over today first. "This Wu Haogu was in Kaifeng Prefecture, and he did not leave behind the affairs of Jiehe. He was always paying attention to the affairs of the Liao Kingdom. He was very capable!"

As soon as he came up, he took out the memorial handed over by Wu Haogu, and mentioned that there was a reason for the death of Liaozhu. He was also an old bureaucrat. Of course, he knew that Wu Haogu had been targeted by An Tao and Lu Jiawen.

At this time, it is better to quickly leave Kaifeng Prefecture! Since the old emperor of Liao Kingdom is dead, Wu Haogu will immediately leave for Jiehe Shang City to take charge...

Zeng Bu chuckled softly and said casually: "It's very capable. Before Dutingyi's house was built, the money was already made."

Before Wu Haogu sold 420 properties in one go, Zeng Bu didn't care much about Dutingyi and other officials in Kaifeng Prefecture's real estate. But now, he has seen the benefits.

This is comparable to salt and iron and wine making! So he immediately brought the topic back to real estate.

Although Fan Chunli now agrees with the official Kaifeng Prefecture real estate, he is Han Zhongyan's accomplice, so he naturally has to help. "Zixuan, the official has made the decision on Dutingyi, so we don't need to discuss it anymore. Now Wu Haogu should be allowed to return to Jiehe Shangshi immediately... In a short time, many Khitan nobles should be running away.

In addition, the purchase of land for the knights in front of the temple cannot be delayed anymore. The Military and Education Department should be cancelled at the end of the late year, and at that time there will be at least 500 students to be placed."

"Yi Suo said very much, but Kaifeng's real estate and profits must not be ignored. If the business is done properly, it is expected to earn tens of millions a year. If this money falls into your private pocket, it may not be a good thing for the country and the people."

Li Qingchen, who had just become a minister of the disciple, seemed to be a peacemaker, and neither opposed the sending of Wu Haogu out of the capital, nor mentioned the benefits of real estate. The Northern Song Dynasty had no idea of ​​not competing for profit with the people, and the internal and external conditions of the Song Dynasty did not allow such ideas. Unlike the military households and soldiers who brought their own food in the Ming Dynasty, the founding of the Song Dynasty was a mercenary. Everyone had long been accustomed to the rules of using money to serve in the army and having no money to mutiny. If the court did not have enough financial resources to pay the mercenaries who could eat and not fight, it would have cost everyone's life.

Moreover, there were many idealistic elements in Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, and they wanted to seek a "to achieve peace" route to solve the internal and external difficulties faced by the Song Dynasty.

The route of "to achieve peace" is more recognized as the official business and business plus the Juntian Township Soldiers and the Township Agreement Autonomy.

Han Zhongyan could not object to political correctness. He shook his head and was about to discuss the next issue when a public official from the Political Affairs Hall suddenly came in outside the door, holding a memorial in his hand.

"My dear, the Censorate just sent a bullet stamp."

"Issue the seal?" Han Zhongyan was stunned when he heard this, "Why did he send it to the Political Affairs Hall?"

The Song Dynasty's memorials have always been "Tongfeng" and "Shifeng". The "Tongfeng" memorials are usually trivial matters, which can be handled by the Secretary of the Central Committee and the Privy Council below and reported after the matter is completed. The memorials of "Shifeng" must be shown to the emperor first, and then made a decision or discussed with the ministers after reading it.

Of course, the censor's encirclement seal was "real seal". Otherwise, the encirclement seal of the impeachment of the censor's encirclement could still allow the censors to discuss it themselves?

"My husband is a bullet stamp copied by the Censorate." The public official in the hall replied.

The Censorate copied the bulleted seal to the Secretariat. It was a special method of impeachment, which was intended to prevent the officials from leaving the bulleted seal without handling it. At the same time, according to the customs of the Song Dynasty, once officials knew that they were impeached by the Censorate, they would resign and be punished. Therefore, the censors wrote memorials by recording deputy and revealing seals, which would also cause considerable trouble to the impeached officials.

"Who was impeached?" Han Zhongyan asked with a frown.

"It is the event of Jiehe Shibo Department, with imperial equipment and the deputy envoy of Dongshanghemen, Wu Haogu."

Han Zhongyan took a breath and thought to himself: These guys from the New Party have really worked hard to compete for real estate benefits! Now the official family can't stay here. Jiehe Market and Beicangzhou land purchases have to go to Wu Haoqiu!

He glanced at Zeng Bu beside him: "Zixuan, look."

He and Wu Haogu are relatives, so they should avoid them as usual. They can't speak about this when they ask questions tomorrow at Chongzheng Hall, so they are too lazy to even watch.

"Who impeached? Under what name is it?" Fan Chunli asked.

Zeng Bu picked up the bullet stamp sent by the public official and took a look, "It is Zhang Kegong, the inspector of the censor, who impeached Wu Hao's ancient fan and Yaoguo's foundation."

"Shan Yao's National Book?" Fan Chunli was stunned, "What's the matter?"

"It was the incident that sold a house in the Republic Building two days ago that caused a lot of commotion to the Imperial Army soldiers." Zeng Bu smiled and said, "Isn't it that the Imperial Army soldiers rioting? "

Fan Yao's hat was too big, but Zeng Bu, An Tao and others were not really trying to catch Wu Haogu, but instead took the Kaifeng Prefecture real estate and wealth into the hands of the court.

Fan Chunli frowned, "This matter is considered to be a fan Yaoguo. Wouldn't the imperial guards who were doing small business on Kaifeng Mansion Street be even more harmful to the national foundation?"

Yes, the imperial guards who defended the Song Dynasty are now not practicing martial arts well, and they are all doing all kinds of business to make money, and becoming a soldier has become a side job... If you really want to study this kind of thing, it is that there are problems with the method of spending money to support soldiers that has been implemented since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

Li Qingchen took over the topic and smiled and said, "Let's stay in Chongzheng Hall tomorrow to talk about this matter. Let's discuss who to send to Liao Kingdom to congratulate their new king ascend the throne."

...

The Chongzheng Palace asked questions on the next day soon. Zhao Ji stood high above the imperial throne, looking at the important minister who was not too many people in the hall. He frowned and seemed very dissatisfied.

This year's year name is Jianzhong Jingguo, and the meaning is to be an impartial middle line. We do not have the introduction of the new party or the revision of the old party. However, the officials in the court always cannot understand his painstaking efforts.

But the officials who could understand his painstaking efforts are not standing in this Chongzheng Hall...

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji picked up a memorial directly from the imperial case and opened it. "I received a comment from Cai Jing, the official in Jiangning Prefecture, yesterday, about the imperial guards and real estate."

As soon as he said this, the important officials in the hall were stunned.

What's going on?

Why did Cai Jing make a suggestion? Shouldn’t he be ready to leave and go to Jiangning Mansion? Why did he even make a suggestion that there are imperial guards in Kaifeng’s real estate?

Zhao Ji said: "Cai Jing suggested that Kaifeng Prefecture has many people and narrow land, and the housing prices are high, and the elite soldiers of the imperial guards are all burdened by housing. If you earn more than 50 yuan a year, it is still not enough to buy a house in Kaifeng Prefecture. Therefore, they are all focused on side jobs and leave the training of troops behind. Now that the soldiers are no longer soldiers, the generals are no longer for generals. Is this a matter?"

Yes, I have!

Everyone in the world knows...but is there any trick?

The high housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture are an unsolvable death! On the one hand, Kaifeng Prefecture is the capital of the Song Dynasty, and relies on the well-connected canal system to become the transportation and economic center of the Central Plains, gathering a huge amount of wealth.

On the one hand, because Kaifeng Prefecture is located on a plain and has no danger to defend, the Yanyun land in the north is trapped in the Liao Kingdom. It has to resettle 200,000 imperial guards to ensure the security. Moreover, the Song army is a mercenary, not a rural soldier who serves in the country, but a professional soldier who must bring his family. Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the population of Kaifeng Prefecture was particularly large. Now, the residents in this city have already exceeded 1 million, and probably 1.5 million.

The population of 1.5 million is actually not too large, and there are many metropolises with population of 15 million in later generations.

But the problem is that the Central Plains region where Kaifeng Prefecture is located is also poor and there are too many big cities (also Daming, Yingtian, Luoyang and other big cities), resulting in insufficient grain supply and has to rely on the grain supply from the Southeast Sixth Road.

However, the navigation capacity of the canal transport is limited, and it is already very difficult to supply the existing 1.5 million people of Kaifeng Prefecture. If the city expands to the surrounding areas, the canal transport will not be able to afford the food problems of the residents of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Therefore, Kaifeng Prefecture only expanded once in history, and built the outer city of Kaifeng Prefecture. Now even if the houses are expensive to thousands or tens of thousands of yuan, there is no way to expand again.

In other words, the housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture would have risen so high in the Middle Ages, which is actually caused by the wrong choice of capital position.

To completely solve this problem, it is not feasible to move the capital eastward to the west. When moving the capital to Luoyang, which has dangers to defend, Chang'an can reduce the number of defenders, the transportation there remains even more unchanged, the surrounding land is more barren, and it is impossible to carry a huge industrial and commercial population. This will lead to the separation of the economic center and the political center, which is very unfavorable to the country's finances.

After scanning the helpless ministers, Zhao Ji said, "Cai Jing has given me an idea, either to build a house by the shop or to give it to the elites of the imperial guards by paying installments, and to select these elites into the Palace Front Office to act as warriors."

"Your Majesty," Han Zhongyan asked, "How should the elite of the imperial guards be selected?"

"Martial contest!" Zhao Ji smiled, "Any soldiers who can wear 50 kilograms of heavy armor, hold a long spear in their hands, hold a straight knife on their waist, carry a large shield, add 50 crossbow arrows and a strong crossbow, carry three-day military rations, and marching 100 miles in half a day can participate in the competition. Anyone who ranks in the top ten martial arts will be given a three-bedroom residence worth 3,000 knots, and will be selected as the first in the hall and receive a double salary. Those who rank in the top 11-200 knots can be paid in installments of 2,000 knots, and purchase a three-bedroom residence worth 3,000 knots in Kaifeng Prefecture City, and select as many as 200 knots, as long as they are qualified to participate in the competition, they can also be selected as the first in the hall and receive a double salary.
Chapter completed!