Faced with the negativity of the ministers, Zhao Bing was very angry and helpless. When Qi Yaqing, the Minister of Works, requested to transform Lin'an City at the court meeting to reduce pollution to the city, it immediately sparked controversy. They thought this move was too disturbing the people and should not impress the war. They could just dredge the rivers in the city and clean up the garbage instead of transforming the whole.

In addition to these suggestions for repair and repair, some people think that the current financial situation has just improved, so they spend a lot of money to transform Lin'an City, which is a waste of money; some people think that since "recovering the Central Plains and expelling the Tartars" is the current main task, it is inevitable to remain in Bianjing, and it is not necessary to carry out large-scale renovations on the road; some people even think that Emperor Gaozong decided to go to Hangzhou, and it was guided by experts. There are statements about the landscape and architecture and should not be changed easily.

Everyone actually knew that this was the little emperor's idea, but they did not dare to target Zhao Bing, so they turned to Qi Yaqing, the Minister of Works, and submitted impeachments one after another. They said that he was very happy with merits and bewitched the emperor to build a city in order to achieve his own reputation. This is still polite. Some ministers bluntly said that he was in the name of benefiting the people, but in fact he was to enrich his personal pockets and get benefits from it. What's more, some impeached him was a traitor and a slander in the court.

Fortunately, the several priests and ministers were still quite sober. Of course, they knew that regaining the Central Plains was not something that could be done overnight. Even if they could do it within three or two years, it would take a long time to choose a new capital, create a palace, and then move in. Lin'an City is like an old man, who is no longer able to bear the increasingly heavy burden brought by the development of the city and is waiting to be renovated. However, they prefer to renovate the parts, but they can relocate the handicraft workshops in the city, like dredging the river, and still have reservations about "overdue demolition of houses".

The reasons given by the priests are difficult to refute by Zhao Bing. One is that large-scale transformation costs a lot, but now we must support the Yangtze River defense line, and there are two battles to fight for assistance to the West and expedition of Dali. However, the national treasury reserves are very little and not enough to support it, so the transformation can be carried out in steps; the other is that such a large project must mobilize manpower, which will inevitably affect the summer harvest and summer seeds, and thus increase the burden on the people.

Although they did not say the third point clearly, Zhao Bing also understood that it was cleared. When the government and the people knew that the resistance came from the people, but was actually officials and powerful people in the court. Therefore, "demolition of houses" was a landmine, and whoever stepped on it was injured. Moreover, the emperor of this dynasty wanted to do it several times, but he returned in a defeat. Therefore, he advised him not to have to hit the nails anymore, but he did not say anything about it, and he also made enemies for himself.

Zhao Bing felt that all words were good, but it was not heard. Qi Yaqing, the Minister of Works, who was supposed to be in charge of this matter, was also full of concerns. He has not only become a public enemy of the government and the country, but has also been impeached one after another, which made him physically and mentally exhausted, but he did not dare to disobey him. He became ill in a hurry and asked for leave to raise soldiers at home. Zhao Bing knew his mental illness and intended to avoid this matter, but he had no choice but to force a "patient" to work!

Seeing that the "blueprint" he drew was in danger of being left behind before the draft was finalized, how could Zhao Bing not be annoyed? But the whole family was passive and lazy about this matter, which made him feel that it was unfair to be angry. If he really turned against the ministers and vigorously promoted his "good governance" because of this matter, it would seem a bit unworthy, and it would make people think that he was a child, was not steady enough, and liked to act voluntarily, and became a stick they would beat themselves in the future.

Since he was sure to pay attention, Zhao Bing would not be a person who would give up easily. Since the ministers used the "demolition of houses" to disturb the people and easily aroused the people to change, and did not have much opinion on the relocation of the workshop and dredging the rivers in the city, he decided to start the renovation project first and then start the renovation project. He did not believe that he could not cure these people. It is the rainy season now, and it is obviously not the best time to intercept the dredging of the rivers in the city. And it is the time when the new coins are issued, so it is not suitable to demolish them. So the workshop demolition is the opening battle.

As for the fact that manpower is not a problem, he had already thought about it. In the Battle of the Yellow Sea, more than 20,000 enemy troops were captured and were still encircled on a small island outside the river mouth for adaptation. According to convention, these prisoners will not be incorporated into combat troops. They will generally be organized into logistics troops to engage in "urgent, difficult and dangerous" tasks, such as mining, smelting, salt drying, construction and water conservancy construction, etc., which can be used now.

As for the funding issue, Zhao Bing was really tight at the moment, and he did not dare to expect that the court would allocate funds. Even if the Minister of Revenue was his own person, no prime minister would sign the letter amid the opposition of the crowd, then his edict would be equivalent to a piece of waste paper. In fact, the Ministry of Revenue did not have any spare money. Although the Xia Taxation began to be collected, in order to deal with the possible situation of the issuance of new coins, he had issued an order to delay payment, so naturally there was no spare money.

It is hard to move without money, but people always think of it. Zhao Bing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and could sell land himself! According to what he thought, although the imperial city had been destroyed, the land should still belong to him. At present, he moved the military camp, the Imperial Academy and others to the Imperial Academy to resettle. You should know that the Imperial City occupies nearly a quarter of Lin'an City. Even if he suffers some losses, it can be regarded as land replacement. He gave himself the land occupied by the city defense zone, the Imperial Academy and the Shaofu institutions. As long as he exchanges the land for money, he will have started funds.

Someone may ask, is anyone buying it? Zhao Bing can tell you clearly that not only people buy it, but also have to rush to buy it. You should know that according to relevant scholars' research, the urbanization rate of the Song Dynasty reached 22%, and this level is something that can be praised in modern times. According to the modern view of the improvement of urbanization, the economic model is changing, the urban economy exceeds the rural economy, and the proportion of commerce exceeds the proportion of agriculture.

Zhao Bing also recorded scholars who studied Lin'an's urban planning and found that Lin'an's urban center is a concentrated place of capital and commerce, and the imperial palace is located in a corner, which is very similar to the spatial structure of modern cities and is undoubtedly the result of the urban revolution in the Song Dynasty. The Beigong area is smaller now. Although it is in a downtown city, it can be heard day and night, which is shabby, but I don't know what future generations say. Therefore, Lin'an City already has the characteristics of a modern city. It can be regarded as a first-tier city by classification, so it is naturally a place where population gathers.

However, Lin'an City is really not big, and the population is not large, especially in the eyes of modern people like Zhao Bing. According to statistics after entering the city, there are two counties belonging to the urban area of ​​Hangzhou, one is Renhe County and the other is Qiantang County. The population of these two counties, including the rural population of suburban counties, was about 700,000. After the capital was restored, with the influx of a large number of central officials and troops, the migrant population was only about 900,000, and the people living in the urban area were more than 300,000, and it has not yet recovered to the peak period of 1.5 million in history.

If we follow modern standards, this is the standard of fourth-tier cities. However, the urban area of ​​Lin'an City, that is, the area encircled into the city wall is five miles from east to west, fourteen miles from north to south, or about thirteen square kilometers, with a population density of 30,000 people per square kilometer. Now, the population density of Hangzhou is the highest in the city center, on average 20,000, while the world's metropolises are all around 10,000.

Another issue that cannot be ignored is that the people of the Song Dynasty lived in houses mainly single-story or double-story wooden buildings. The urban population density has exceeded that of modern society with more than high-rise steel and concrete. You can imagine how serious the crowded life in the urban area was at that time and the complex problems that might have brought were. First of all, the land was too expensive, and the difficulty of having one of your own houses in the city was worse than that in modern times.

How expensive is the house? People were quite moved as early as Bianliang. As the capital city where officials and businessmen gathered, the residences in Bianliang were undoubtedly particularly tense. As early as the early Northern Song Dynasty, Grand Secretary Tao Gu talked about this "small residence" situation, "four neighbors are blocked, half-empty boards, stacked box cages, and children are divided." By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the urban population had nearly doubled, and the shortage of housing and land became more serious. The Censor Weng Yanguo pointed out: "The capital's household registration is growing day by day, and the building is close to the public, and there is little gap. Even if you get the price, where can you buy land?"

Both Su family brothers were both Beijing officials, but Su Dongpo never bought a house in Kaifeng in his life, but he only bought a few houses in other small places. His son got married in Kaifeng and had no new house. Su Dongpo was very anxious and finally borrowed a friend's house to get the wedding. Su Che worked for decades, and he didn't buy a house until he was seventy years old. He was the Censor Zhongcheng, equivalent to the Speaker of the House of Commons. He could not afford a house in Beijing. Until his later years, he built three rooms in Xuchang, a second-tier city south of Kaifeng.

Before buying a house, Su Che wrote a poem that said, "My hair is half white, no ruler in the world", and said, "I have never had a house, and my sons think it is said." This means that I have lived for most of my life, my hair is gray and I haven't built a house, so I can't raise my head in front of my sons, and they still complain about me.

After Hangzhou became a temporary capital in the Southern Song Dynasty, the real estate market was very hot, and the housing prices in prosperous areas were astonishingly high. As early as the southward time, a large number of urban refugees traveled southward. The demand for housing in the Jiangnan area was extremely strong, which led to the "rich family building a house corridor" and even "the military department set up a pavilion". It can be seen that the real estate market was booming at that time.

Therefore, the housing prices in the capital are not affordable by ordinary people. Even many officials cannot afford to buy houses and can only rent a house to live. In the final analysis, this situation is caused by land prices. The supply is still not low, so Zhao Bing thought that as long as he turned over the land, he still had no money to renovate it?

Zhao Bing felt that his idea was really good. He served the inner government and the young mansion. The land they moved out was naturally still owned by him. After they sold it, they even had the cost of urban transformation. In this way, he had someone and had money, but he was worried that he would not be able to do anything? But after asking, it was really not as simple as he thought.

According to the current law, although "all under the world is the king's land", in fact, China has always recognized the private property rights of land. Even the emperor cannot theoretically encroach on land and residences. The royal family also belongs to official land and cannot be used at will without the consent of the court. In other words, those lands are not his own in theory. If they want to use them, they must be approved, and the development of the warehouse must be used for money.

However, there are people in the court who are easy to do. Zhao Bing and Chen Zeweng, the Minister of Revenue, were really relatives. They still had to help their niece and son-in-law, and actively offered suggestions for him. He said that he could mediate from it, granting the military camp outside the Genshan Gate to the little emperor as a land for relocation of polluting enterprises, and providing appropriate compensation for demolition. As for the land vacated in the city, he could not approve it to the emperor in violation of regulations unless he participated in the auction. Although he was apologized, he also said that he could only help so much.

Zhao Bing also had a headache. Since his government was a rare commercial-driven government in history, he saw that the real estate market was profitable, and he also actively participated in it and set up special institutions to operate the lease of official land and public housing. Now the government sells state-owned land to developers, using the method of bidding, auctioning, banning, that is, bidding, auctioning, and listing. The Song Dynasty court also sold land in this way, but it was not called bidding and auction at that time, but it was called "real sealed investment".

The court announced the land parcel and the reserve price. Interested buyers wrote the price they could pay on paper, put it in an envelope, and threw it into the standard box designated by the court. After the quotation period, the court unboxed it and publicly read out the quotation of each person. The person with the highest bidder can buy the land. In other words, if Zhao Bing wants to use these lands, he must also participate in the bidding.

Zhao Bing smiled bitterly. Why is it so difficult to do something good? Chen Zeweng gave the same method as he didn't say it. Even if he put down his figure and went to bid with the developers, people would say that he would use his power to suppress others and compete for profit with the people. If he fails, he would still have to laugh at him. A dignified emperor is not as rich as a businessman, which really damages his reputation as a rich local tycoon. But the reality is that he really can't afford that money at present. In addition, there are officials in the Song Dynasty who are not allowed to do business. Although he turned a blind eye in the past, he was keeping a close eye on it. He could not do it knowingly, at least he could not do it openly!
Chapter completed!