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Chapter 513 Uncle's Inspection

Yu Yuangui and his party traveled downstream along the Yangtze River, picked up His Royal Highnesses Nankang and Luling Princesses at the Jiankang City Wharf, and sailed towards Jingkou.

"In the past, Jingkou Town was just a place where refugees lived. The shacks were everywhere, the sewage was flowing, the refugees were dressed in rags, and the livestock closed down on the street." Facing the two nieces, Yu Yuangui seemed to be in good spirits. He pointed Jiangshan and said, "Xi Gong mentioned Several times to rectify Jingkou, but due to financial pressure, it has been postponed again and again, probably because the manpower and financial resources needed to start from scratch are all astronomical figures that are unaffordable."

"Cheng Jinyang's ability to develop this wasteland is enough to prove that he has the talent to control the land. Nankang, if you marry him, I will live up to the last wish of the former emperor."

Speaking of this matter, Yu Yuangui looked sad.During the lifetime of the first emperor, he had always regretted not being able to see Nankang get married, and now he can finally make up for it.

The Nankang Luling sisters also looked sad, thinking that their father was no longer alive, and they felt an uncontrollable sadness.

Not wanting to talk more about this topic, Luling smiled and said:
"Don't talk about it, my sister is going to get married, and I don't know where my lover is yet! If my father is under the nine springs, he should worry about me first."

"Luling, if you already have someone you like, feel free to tell uncle." Yu Yuangui was also in a better mood, and said with a smile.

"Uncle can agree if I tell you?" Lu Ling deliberately pretended not to believe it.

"Don't you know in Luling that the eldest daughter is difficult to marry and the youngest daughter is easy?" Yu Yuangui reminded her.

According to the rules of the Great Jin Empire, the royal family has to marry politically with the aristocratic family, and not all marriages of daughters need to be carefully selected.

The eldest daughter often needs to marry better, and the family of the son-in-law must be strong enough to help consolidate the imperial power as a relative in the future.

In this way, the political pressure on the other princesses will be much less, and the scope of independent selection of husbands will be greater.

The subtext of Yu Yuangui's words is to promote the Cheng family as a relative, just like Wang Maohong promoted Xie Anshi. In essence, it is the mutual succession of old political forces and new political forces.

Princess Nankang understood what uncle meant, and said with a smile:

"If it wasn't for the old uncle's request to approve the Cheng family's own recruitment of soldiers, where would the Jingkou Town and the Beifu Army come from?"

This made Yu Yuangui a little ashamed, because he had no intention of it at first, and it was Princess Nankang who persuaded him.

Considering the need to curb the strength of the Wang family in Taiyuan in the military, Yu Yuangui agreed to delegate power to the Cheng family, the capital of the gods. At that time, how did he know that Cheng Jinyang could become a first-rank giant soldier? !
"Anyway, you still have vision in Nankang." He waved his hand helplessly, and said, "In the past, Cheng Jinyang was just a poor student, and even the Cheng family, the capital of gods, couldn't gain a foothold. How could you think of investing in him in advance?" , Uncle is indeed inferior to you in this regard."

"What investment?" Princess Nankang said angrily, "Uncle, he is the teacher's son, what's wrong with me taking care of him? There is no political consideration in it!"

Yu Yuangui quickly admitted his mistake with a smile, while Luling listened to him, thinking to himself:
No, I remember that the old lady didn't like Cheng Jinyang very much at the beginning, thinking that he was too soft-tempered.

After the other party died of his parents and childhood sweetheart and suffered from severe depression, the elder sister began to care about him and asked Dr. Wu Que Mei to check his condition regularly, and was slowly moved by his strength...

She even complained to herself once, saying that if you survive a catastrophe, you will have future blessings, and Jinyang's younger brother has grown up completely.

Now let's say "it's because of the teacher's son." When the teacher was alive, everyone didn't see how much you liked him.

Of course, if she exposes it here, she will definitely be beaten up by the embarrassing elder sister, so Luling turned his head to look out of the ship's side, secretly observing the reflection of his elder sister on the glass.

It's strange, the more she looks, the more beautiful she looks. Although the position of the facial features has not changed, compared with before, she feels like a completely different person.

Is this what is born from the heart?Because of the happiness of being married soon, even the whole person is radiant?
The ship finally arrived at Jingkou, and Yu Yuangui and his party boarded the port.

………………

This is where?

Is this Jingkou Town, or a metropolis like Lin'an Jiankang?
Looking around, you can see a group of high-rise buildings with more than 30 floors standing on the banks of the Yangtze River like a screen. For a while, people have the illusion of dreaming back to Lujiazui, Songjiang.

Cheng Jinyang had already been waiting at the pier to greet them, and asked everyone to board the vehicles parked on the roadside.

Yu Yuangui took the two highnesses into the car, and couldn't help but look out of the car window again.

Where are there so many tall buildings!

However, seeing a large number of professional white-collar workers coming in and out at the main entrance at the bottom of the building, it doesn't seem like a ghost building.

Inside these high-rise buildings, there are really people working in the office...

Noticing the inconceivable sight of everyone in the back row, Cheng Jinyang introduced:

"The office buildings along the river are basically owned by the Zheng family in Xingyang."

"When I came last time, there weren't so many high-rise buildings." Sister Princess exclaimed.

"Well, their civil engineering technology still has a lot of unique features." Cheng Jinyang said with a smile, "I have seen their construction, and it is almost like building blocks in a real sense."

Yu Yuangui fell silent, secretly shocked by the explosive productivity of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

In the past, after Wang Chuzhong's rebellion, Jiankang City was rebuilt, and this family had never seen such care, but now it is doing all it can to please the son-in-law.

"Then it's the Zheng family who will open it for you." Princess Luling asked with a frown, "I don't think the occupancy rate is low. Where did you get these companies?"

"Oh, it was basically brought by the Cui Wang family." Cheng Jinyang replied, "We have preferential tax rates, financial support, and cheap northern refugees, so some industries in the surrounding cities are transferring to Jingkou... Of course, the main reason is that the bosses trust the goodwill of the Cui Wang family."

Yu Yuangui was speechless.

Cui's funds, Wang's contacts, and the steady flow of refugees from the north, the combined effect of these three is simply against the sky.

It is an exaggeration to say that the foundation for rebuilding an imperial capital is ready.

"What is the permanent population of Jingkou now?" He asked abruptly.

"About 140 million people are registered." Cheng Jinyang replied.

Crowd: ………………

140 million is not a huge number for a city.

It is an ordinary city within the empire, with a population of about two to three million.

However, considering that Jingkou Town was just a gathering place for northern refugees with about 10,000+ people almost a year and a half ago, it is very outrageous to think about it, and it feels like a dream and unreal.

Not to mention that this is only the resident population. If you count the unregistered refugees and black households who are wandering around, I am afraid that the development scale of Jingkou Town has far exceeded Yu Yuangui's original expectations.

(End of this chapter)