Now, more than ten years have passed, and Guanzhong's production and economy have long recovered.

Even better than before, far beyond the state before the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out.

The fertile fields are full of traffic, and thousands of farms are filled with stars. The land of Guanzhong is filled with flowers. The merchants from Wei and foreign vendors traveled to and from Wei to the city, wine shops and hotels along the roads are thriving.

The farm provides grain, fruits and vegetables to the city. The city feeds back to the farm with money and goods, and the merchants drive economic exchanges and development, and revitalizes the economy in Guanzhong.

The population migrated from the Kanto states also settled on the land of Guanzhong, thriving and growing, becoming a new generation of Guanzhong people, working hard on this land.

Due to climate change, the Guanzhong area has no warmth of the Western Han Dynasty, and the hydrological situation has also changed, and the grand occasion of the eight waters surrounding Chang'an peach blossoms cannot be reproduced.

Under the attack of the small ice river, the agricultural potential of the entire Guanzhong Plain has been greatly reduced, and it is impossible to restore to the level of the Tianfu Kingdom back then.

Yongzhou's agricultural output value was also surpassed by Yizhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou and Jingzhou in one fell swoop, losing the possibility of becoming a political, military and economic center again.

The gradual migration of China's political center since the Eastern Han Empire is actually an inevitable result.

Of course, Chang'an is not without a chance. If Chang'an wants to return to the grand occasion of the past, he can only wait for the next warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, the warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties is more like the return of Guanzhong in a sense.

And now is the eve of the Little Ice Age, the climate is gradually becoming colder and dryer. Guanzhong will continue to remain silent, agricultural output will continue to decline, and population carrying capacity will continue to decrease.

In the future, Guanzhong will not be able to carry more and more people after the recovery of production, so Guo Peng has consciously migrated more and more Guanzhong population to the four counties of Hexi, and the Yizhou area in the Western Regions to alleviate the pressure on Guanzhong.

The population of Guanzhong has always been controlled within a certain scale, and there is even a tendency to decrease.

Guo Peng did not intend to restore the population in Guanzhong to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Even so, what Guo Peng saw was not the destruction and decline of the past, but the grand occasion of peace and prosperity.

The first thing to be affected is Hongnong County, which was completely destroyed at one time.

In order to completely destroy the Han Empire and destroy the Han Central Committee, Guo Peng planned the destruction of Hongnong City and set fire to the fire of Hongnong City.

The sky-sky torch completely destroyed the centuries-old Hongnong City.

The current Hongnong City was rebuilt after the disaster. The current Hongnong residents are basically residents of Qingyan and the two prefectures that later moved there, and the old Hongnong people almost no longer exist.

After the disaster, Guo Peng allocated funds to rebuild Hongnong City, building Hongnong City more grand and taller than before, and the city could accommodate more people.

At the beginning, Hongnong County's development was mainly agricultural production. Later, after the opening of the Western Regions' trade routes, Hongnong County enjoyed the dividends of the times and began to develop commerce, hotels, and restaurants, and adopt a development model that emphasizes both agriculture and commerce.

Hongnong City is no longer the same as it was back then, neither the customs nor the people of the past.

The Hongnong Yang family, who dominated Hongnong back then, had long become ashes, and the powerful people who divided Hongnong County no longer existed, and the world had been changed.

What Guo Peng saw was a prosperous scene.

This is true for Hongnong, and even more so for Chang'an.

As the legal capital of the Wei Empire, Chang'an cannot be worse than Hongnong. At first glance, Chang'an feels more like the second Luoyang, but the permanent population is slightly less than Luoyang.

Today, Chang'an is no longer a political and military center, and is not developed with its position as a political and military center, but is developed with an important node of the Silk Road and an important commercial city as the foundation.

A large number of people in Chang'an City are migrant populations, but their stay in Chang'an is quite long.

Many big merchants set their headquarters in Chang'an and directly connect with merchants from Anxi, Kushan and other countries from the Western Regions, so the richest group of merchants in the Wei Empire gathered in Chang'an.

With them here, Chang'an City cannot be unrest.

After Guo Peng arrived in Chang'an, he asked his followers to enter the barracks outside Chang'an City, leaving only a few personal guards, and took Guo Chengzhi, Cao Lan and others to enter Chang'an City in a vehicle.

The streets of Chang'an City are spacious and are covered with stone roads. They are very neat and clean. You can't smell the smell when you enter it. The air is very fresh and sweet.

There are many people, but they are in order. From time to time, you can see patrols holding weapons defending the peace and stability of Chang'an City.

Hundreds of watchtowers are covered with stars, showing a strange pattern, monitoring the inside of the city at all times, guarding against any possible unstable factors.

As a capital, the construction standards of Chang'an City are completely comparable to those of Luoyang.

There were many people in the city, and not only were the Wei people, but also many Kushan people dressed differently from the Wei people, and even Romans.

Everyone dresses and looks very different, but they can live here in a relatively harmonious manner, just like Luoyang.

The buildings on both sides of the street are very organized and tasteful. Whether it is shops, public facilities, or official buildings, they are arranged neatly, not crowded, not dirty, and old, and can give people a refreshing feeling.

Walking on the streets of Chang'an City, facing the sunshine shining from the sky, listening to the hawkers along the street, you can feel inexplicably happy.

So Cao Lan looked at everything in Chang'an City and was inspired.

"I just often hear that the markets in Chang'an City are prosperous and things that cannot be bought in Luoyang City can definitely be bought in Chang'an City. I also heard that the market restrictions in Chang'an City have been changed and shops are allowed to be opened outside the market. At that time, I was thinking that Chang'an City must be a chaotic place, but now it seems so neat and orderly."

“Only neat and order can prosperity be brought about by the fact that market prosperity has never been the main reason for prosperity.”

Guo Peng also looked out the window: "But the two governors of Yongzhou have indeed made great contributions to restore Chang'an City to this level."

The first governor of Yongzhou was Chen Gong. He served for many years. In the ninth year of Yande, he was promoted to the Central Committee as Minister of War. The position of governor of Yongzhou was replaced by Mao Jie.

Mao Jie did not change the general direction of Yongzhou in the Chen Palace's plan, and generally continued the Chen Palace's construction plan, giving people a feeling of Xiao Gui Cao's follow-up.

If you insist on saying what Mao Jie changed, that is, Mao Jie changed the restrictions on the market and allowed shops to be set up in non-market areas, so that the business could be separated from the restrictions on the market and began to develop on a large scale, which caused considerable debate.

But no matter what, during their tenure, they insisted on developing the economy of Yongzhou, and vigorously developed commerce with the advantages of the necessary place of the Silk Road.

Judging from the proportion of commercial taxes in various states counted nationwide in the 13th year of Yande, the three prefectures in the Western Regions had the highest commercial taxes, followed by Liangzhou and Yongzhou.

However, the agricultural tax in Yongzhou is much higher than that in Liangzhou and the three prefectures of the Western Regions. The foundation is here. With such a high agricultural tax, it can still account for 30% of the commercial tax. It is conceivable how far the commercial level of Yongzhou has developed.

Yongzhou's business connects Liangzhou and the Western Regions to the west, and the prosperous land of Guandong to the east, and to the south, it can also enter the prosperous Hanzhong and Yizhou, which are prosperous and developed. The transportation is well developed, and the extroverted economy and the internal circulation economy are both well developed.

The merchants of Yongzhou sold goods from Kanto and Yizhou to Kushan and Anxi merchants who came from afar, and bought some goods from Kushan and Anxi from them, and resold them to Kanto and Yizhou.

So the commercial taxation in Yongzhou can be so far.

At that time, when Mao Jie succeeded as the governor of Yongzhou and announced that he would break the boundaries of the market and allow commercial facilities to be opened outside the market, it caused considerable controversy in the court.

In fact, Mao Jie caused widespread controversy when he was doing this in Liangzhou earlier, and was also sent by the court to investigate, suspected of having abnormal interest exchanges with local merchants.

Later, nothing was found out, and Wang Can, the Minister of Finance, spoke up to support Mao Jie, and Liangzhou's commercial reform was implemented in accordance with the trend.

Unexpectedly, Mao Jie had to do this when he arrived in Yongzhou.

Many people raised objections and asked Guo Peng to severely punish Mao Jie, believing that Mao Jie violated the tradition of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce and was reversing history.

It would be fine if you do this in Liangzhou. Yongzhou has such a good agricultural foundation and he is even more capable, which is simply a mess.

They also mentioned a lot of acts of wealthy merchants from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to accumulate wealth through the benefits of salt and iron mountains and lakes to intervene in central politics. They believed that Mao Jie must have accepted bribes this time to give convenience to some merchants who wanted to seek evil.

Mao Jie had actually submitted a statement to Guo Peng before, explaining his approach and intentions. Guo Peng did not object and agreed to his attempt.

However, after the incident, many officials criticized Mao Jie. Guo Peng sent officials from the Third Division to form an investigation team to investigate Mao Jie, so that Mao Jie could be investigated safely and steadily, and not afraid of being slanted by the shadows.

The last time he returned without success, this time, the three corps used their old tricks again and formed a joint investigation team to investigate Mao Jie. They investigated Mao Jie's property and also investigated Mao Jie's family property. All those who could be investigated were investigated, but it was indeed not found that Mao Jie himself and Mao Jie's family had illegal actions.

By the way, the interests of the three merchants and a central official were found.

It happened that the joint investigation team felt that it was very shameful to find out nothing, so they saved their face and pulled down the doctor of a department of the Ministry of Finance to kill it.

It's a little bit of face saved.

But Mao Jie really had no problem at all, and his family had no problem with economic crimes.

The entire family is honestly farming the land, farming and studying to pass on the family, and working hard to the officialdom. It is obvious that the entire family's ideas are unified in the officialdom.

Mao Jie had no problem. He hated Mao Jie's people who wanted to kill Mao Jie failed to kill him for the second time.

Relaxing the boundaries between the markets is indeed his pure political behavior, without considering personal economic interests.

Although this behavior has been criticized by many conservatives, Mao Jie has never changed his mind. After being investigated, he continued to implement this policy and once again received support from Wang Can, Minister of Finance.

He has relaxed the boundaries of the market in Chang'an City. With Chang'an as the center, several transportation hub cities in Yongzhou have relaxed the boundaries of the market, just like the commercial reforms in Liangzhou.
Chapter completed!