The lengthy meeting also has a time to end. When the task of the last central department spits out of Yang Shiqi's mouth, the silver moon outside the Fengtian Palace has been hanging high for a long time.

Zhu Yunwen stood up and stretched, feeling that all over his body was sore except for fatigue.

"All what should be explained has been explained. After the ministers left the palace, the Tongzhengsi had arranged a residence and let it go."

"Give me a greeting to Your Majesty."

He turned around and left. Zhu Yunwen, who had a headache, just wanted to fall asleep now. His sleep quality has been bad. He held a long meeting from morning to night for two consecutive days, which was really unbearable.

Zhu Yunwen, who was thirty-two or three years old, couldn't stand it, let alone the group of middle-aged court officials in Fengtian Hall in their forties and fifties, but they were not in the mood to complain about being tired because they had to rest for a night, and there were still several days to wait for them.

Wenhua Hall, cabinet meetings are the place to do practical things.

All departments and provinces have established tasks. In the next time, it is their turn to fight in Wenhua Hall and ask the cabinet for money.

"Don't rush to say anything else. Let's discuss the matter of His Majesty's preparation to move the capital to Peking first."

Amid the noise, Yang Shiqi picked up the gavel on his side and smashed it hard. A crisp echo resounded throughout the palace, suppressing the noisy scene.

"Wei Jun, Minister of Works, and Sun Yu, the left governor of Peking, you two will first consider how much budget and how long it will take to build a new capital in Peking."

The two looked at each other, and Sun Yu asked first.

"I wonder if the standards for creating a new capital are fully in line with Nanjing?"

“That’s natural.”

Yang Shiqi nodded: "Either you don't build it. If you want to build it, you can't just do it in sloppy. Whether it is a capital city, an imperial city or a palace city, you must refer to Nanjing that can only be built better, not badly. You must re-plan it while paving the roads in the new city."

Sun Yu sucked his teeth and thought for a long time before speaking: "The official said bluntly that Peking is a place of long-term wars. It has fought for nearly four hundred years. The city is only for the use of the city blockade, so the circle is relatively small. If a new capital is built, a circle of outer cities must be expanded outside it. The expenses used are huge and cannot be large.

Let’s talk about this outer city first. If you go two circles, you will reach 16 miles from east to west and 11 miles from north to south, and build five feet high. Then you will set up 16 corner towers and four bell towers. This alone will be the first to recruit 300,000 civilians and start construction for ten years.

All the bluestones in the city were transported from Shanxi, and it required 100,000 people.

The construction of the imperial city was built with thousands of skilled craftsmen and hundreds of thousands of civilians. All the required ones were needed. The tall woods and beams were transported from the southwest and transported from Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. The fortune was thousands of miles away, and the consumption was also huge.

The brick paving floor, gold and jade carving beams are required, and cinnabar walls and glazed tiles are required. More than 10,000 craftsmen are required and dozens of kiln factory material workshops are required. After this calculation, please ask Wei Butang to estimate the price."

There was silence in the hall.

Wei Jun swallowed with difficulty and thought to himself, boy, have you known that the emperor was going to move the capital long ago? Otherwise, how could this preparation work be done so well?

I began to think wildly in my mind, and a voice could be heard in my ears.

"Have Weibutang calculated it?"

Death urged?

Wei Jun was angry that he could not figure out such a large expense for a while, but when he looked up, he found that it was not someone else who asked about this, but Xia Yuanji.

The latter's eyes were filled with anxiety.

"I will understand the specific details in a while, at most I can have a rough idea."

Wei Jun made a budget in a hurry.

"If the manpower is sufficient, just counting materials, the outer city is more than fifty miles long and built five feet high. I am afraid that it will not be able to get down for more than ten years, so the expense will be more than 200 million."

Countless sweat began to seep out of Xia Yuanji's forehead.

"Let's talk about the imperial city. The imperial city can be rebuilt with Yuan Dadu City. The big cost is not much. It will be repaired on both sides. It will take a year and cost three to five million.

If the construction of the palace is based on the Nanjing Palace as a model, it covers a very wide area, so some materials need to be filled in, and the rest must be transported from the southwest, and the material yard, kiln factory, and tiles and tiles are added. Overall, it will take about ten years to spend more than 60 to 70 million yuan."

The outer city and the palace city were built together, completed in more than ten years, with a total cost of nearly 300 million.

Overall, the expected time to be built is similar to Zhu Di's original time and space migration, but the cost is less than 200 million.

The reason is very simple. When Zhu Laosi moved the capital, the labor service was not cancelled, and it was still the duty of the people.

At present, the Ming Dynasty was abolished, and there was no saying that one person had to be sent to labor service for a family of people. As for construction, there was no raw material money for logging and exploding mountains and stones. Wood and stone were originally state-owned resources, but the logging workers and stone workers had to pay wages.

Including the food and drink expenses during transportation, the wages for loading, unloading and moving, this is amazing.

The Yongle Dynasty’s idea was to build an imperial palace for the emperor, which was the honor of the people. If you don’t give you money, you have to build it. Can you dare to disobey your order?

This leads to a huge gap in expenses.

"Manpower still costs money?"

Xia Yuanji was annoyed at the time: "When building a new capital, the manpower costs will be over 100 million, and this money cannot be spent. The Ministry of Revenue will use 20 million to support the war and go to the southwest to capture a group of laborers and hand it over to the Ministry of Works."

The act of spending hundreds of millions of domestic recruitment of civil servants is unacceptable to the cabinet now, because it could have spent less money to plunder millions of slaves who didn't have to spend money, and it would not be a pity for death.

The wolfish nature of plunder has penetrated into the heart of the cabinet.

Wei Jun didn't care: "As long as there are enough people to do heavy work, at most, tens of thousands of craftsmen can save half of the expenses in building a palace and some decorations."

"That's it."

Xia Yuanji waved his hand: "I will draft the book immediately and submit it to His Majesty for approval. The Ministry of Revenue will immediately send the money to the General Staff. The Arsenal and the Ministry of Works' Weapons will fully produce arms. The warehouses and grain are opened in Jiangxi and Zhejiang. If artillery and other items are lacking, the amount of money will be made. The Ministry of Revenue can directly approve it."

Xia Yuanji could only make a few dollars in production equipment, and this account was calculated clearly in his heart.

The three of them were having a hot chat and had a very positive attitude, but the other ministers present had been stunned for a long time.

In more than ten years, the total expenditure of hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions is determined like this?

Everyone is a third-rank governor. The salary of a year is only 1,000 taels, and it seems that it only takes 10 million to become an official for ten thousand years.

True, there is no harm without comparison.

The emperor is so willing to spend money, but you will give us an additional salary. When everyone is happy, they will praise you every day. What is the emperor of the age? As long as you are willing, the emperor of the age, and even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors can do it.

Isn’t it good to spend money on our blades and replace it with a reputation that will last forever?

"Move everything."

Sure enough, I felt a lot of emotion and opened my voice, "Gei Yang, why don't we all ask Your Majesty to persuade you? The cost of moving the capital is too great. The national dynasty has just become more surplus now. Isn't it too extravagant to be so boring?"

"Yes, yes, there are many disadvantages to moving the capital but no benefits."

Many people also expressed their conspiracy. In addition to feeling sorry for the money, nearly 80% of the nearly 100 court officials in the Fengtian Hall are from Jiangnan.

Jiangxi accounts for half, Zhejiang and Nanzhili are also many.

These people's homeland property is basically purchased around Nanzhili, and they have to be sold when they move north.

I can’t think about it, my heart hurts when I think about it.

If you say you can't say it directly, then find a reason.

"The north is barren and a long-term war. After moving the capital north, all the food and clothing expenses must be delivered from the south of the Yangtze River. The waste along the way is huge."

As soon as the official from the capital spoke, he was pulled by his colleagues around him.

The former was a little angry, and then he saw the eyes of everyone as if they were looking at jokes.

Then, the Beijing official's face turned red.

I almost forgot that the north is now not the north of the Hongwu year.

With the development of the Guandong and Liaodong Plains, the north has achieved self-sufficiency in the first two years. Even with Moting Animal Husbandry, Liaodong, Pingjin and Bohai Rim Fishing and hunting industries, the north is not inferior to Jiangnan in terms of meat and dairy food. There are also large areas of self-operated private breeding in rural Hebei.

Food, clothing, daily porcelain and iron utensils, and the north are rapidly recovering their vitality, and their dependence on the south is not the same as decades ago.

This is the Jianwen Dynasty, not the Yongle Dynasty of original time and space.

"Actually, the officials think that moving is necessary."

At this time, Sun Yu sighed: "Since the Emperor ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitan, the land of Hebei has been occupied by foreign races for nearly five hundred years. Here, the Khitan left and the Jurchen left and the Mongolian. To put it bluntly, the people of Hebei, Hu Feng was even better than the Han Feng.

When I founded the Wen Dynasty, a large number of Han people in Jiangnan moved north to Hebei and Liaodong. There were many Han people but few Yi. At this time, we should move the capital north to deepen the dependence of the people in the north on the national dynasty.

Otherwise, it would be lighter than north and more important than south. Could it be that my Ming Dynasty was only half of the world in Jiangnan?"

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Shiqi knocked on the big case again and interrupted the argument.

"It's not that you are calling you to discuss the good or bad of the capital relocation matter. It's a must-do, and there's no need to worry about how to support the capital after relocation. The affairs of the Ministry of Works and Peking have been decided like this. The issues of your provinces and the cabinet need to provide much support. We should raise the matters before National Day and establish a project. If there is no problem with the cabinet, we will submit the imperial examination for the imperial court."

Yang Shiqi could see clearly that the minister in front of him was really interested in opposing the moving of the capital for the country.

Not all selfish.

There are pros and cons to move, and you can find the reason for good or bad. There is no need to compete for the right or wrong.

Those who supported Sun Yu and others to move the capital north were mostly northerners, and those who opposed the capital were all southerners.

Let these two parties make objective analysis, and each one can tell a lot of truths.

Life is a story about the appearance of the officialdom.

Fortunately, don’t make a noise. The emperor has decided to move and the settlement has been completed.

Why, it will take more than ten years
Chapter completed!