After the Chinese New Year, Yinreng had a simple shed built outside the slum area and sent dozens of eloquent yamen runners to go door to door to persuade the people to move.

Yinreng later became involved in real estate investment, so he knew the ins and outs of it very well. So from the very beginning, he posted the demolition compensation regulations in the most conspicuous place in the slums.

Residents who are willing to move to the southern suburbs can receive compensation at eight times the area of ​​their original property. Because the area of ​​properties in the southern suburbs is fixed, they can choose multiple properties or one property, and the remaining amount will be supplemented by silver from the court.

The eightfold compensation condition was a proposal made by Yinreng after careful consideration.

Most families in the slums have a large number of people, with three generations of seven or eight people squeezed into a house of 60 to 70 square meters. The small room separated from it is only big enough for a bed.

When the small courtyard in the outer city was built, Yinreng omitted all the miscellaneous things such as the back house and the hanging flower gate, leaving only three main rooms, two rooms each in the west and east wings, and then the toilet and the entrance door.

It's only about 200 square meters in total.

In this way, the extra space can be converted into money to purchase furniture.

Seven or eight people can live comfortably.

When the relocation regulations were announced, the people in the slums were in an uproar.

The rotten house was replaced with a brick and tile house?! Is there such a good thing?

The house on the outskirts of the city was built by them with their own hands. At that time, they gathered together to express their admiration, wondering which dignitaries could live in such a nice house.

Now that they find out that they are the ones who can live there, it would be strange if they are not surprised.

Everyone surrounded the yamen runners who came to the scene to provide scientific knowledge like crazy. As long as there was someone in the family who had worked as a laborer in the suburbs, there was no one who didn't want to move out of the city.

That's a big brick and tile house! They've been living in this slum all their lives. Let alone moving to a new brick and tile house, even renovating their own doghouse would require them to consider whether they have enough money in their pockets.

As for the location of the house outside the city, it is not a problem at all for people like them who work hard all year round.

It’s just a matter of getting up half an hour earlier and walking to the city.

Some people are happy, while others are not.

What is not happy is that in this area, most of the people who still have some wealth are down-and-out scholars and small business vendors.

The small vendors have been operating here for a long time and have their own fixed stalls and sources of income. If they go to the outer city, not only will they have to start their business from scratch, but the customer flow will also decrease.

It's not just people from this area who usually come here to consume.

Besides, isn’t it much safer inside the city walls than in the wilderness?

As for the down-and-out scholars, they simply didn't want to move out of the city.

For them, once they left the city walls, they were no longer people living in the capital.

A prime example of someone who suffers in exchange for saving face.

Yinreng did not expect to become fat in one go. The houses built outside the city were not enough to support the relocation of all the people in the slums.

After the laborers from outside the city moved there, their lives became better, and there were always acquaintances who were jealous of them.

What Yinreng wanted was to make them jealous.

In early March, the first group of people who moved out of the city took away all their belongings with them, along with their families.

Some people who did not catch up with the first group of relocation were curious and followed them to the outside of the city to see what was going on.

After leaving the city gate, the team headed towards the southern suburbs and soon left the official road. The road under their feet became a road paved with blue bricks.

There was a cry of surprise from the crowd—

“This is blue brick!”

"All the bricks are used to pave the road? How many bricks are wasted!"

"Which prodigal son came up with this idea? How dare he pave the road with blue bricks!"

"Look, there are so many trees planted beside the road! There's even a wooden sign on it. What's written on it?"

"No stepping on the flower beds. Violators will be fined fifty coins!"

"This thing is called a flower bed? There are no flowers on it."

…

Along the way, people were chattering and discussing until they arrived at the southern suburbs residential area.

Clean and tidy small courtyards come into view. The roads are all paved with blue bricks, and flowers and plants are planted around the houses, which makes people marvel.

"This house is for us to live in?!"

"Ma Lao San! What the hell are you pinching me for?!"

The latter sneered,

"I just want to confirm whether I am dreaming or not."

"Then pinch yourself!"

"That's because you're afraid of pain!"

“**!”

"Old man, you can talk to Bai Dalang, right? Ask him if you can go to his house and take a look!"

"Yes, yes, we have to go in and take a look!"

Those who did not catch up with the first wave of relocation saw people with similar conditions as themselves living in such nice houses, and their eyes instantly became red with tears.

Some men still blame their wives.

"I asked to move, but you refused to let me. If I hadn't listened to you, I would be the one living in this house now!"

"I didn't know this house was so good. Who told you not to ask earlier?"

In order to maintain order, Yinreng deployed some officers and soldiers in the southern suburbs in advance. When the people saw them, their restless hearts finally calmed down a lot.

The people who stayed in the southern suburbs for a day returned to the slums and began to spread the word about how good the houses in the outer city were.

This also aroused the curiosity of residents who had not left the city to see the scene because of work.

So in the next few days, a large number of people came to visit the southern suburbs residential area every day.

However, people are prohibited from entering those undeveloped areas, and the only things they can see are the houses that have already been occupied.

It turns out that pink eye is indeed contagious.

In less than ten days, everyone in the outer city knew about the relocation of the slums.

The southern suburbs are bustling all day long, with much more people flowing into them than in the slums.

Some business-minded people started setting up small stalls in the southern suburbs.

Seeing this, Yinreng transferred two officials from the Ministry of Revenue to form the first "urban management" team in the Qing Dynasty, which was specifically responsible for collecting stall fees and maintaining market order.

If anyone dares to cause trouble near the stall, they will be arrested first and then fined according to the severity of the incident.

Those who do business in the slums of the outer city regretted it deeply when they saw this.

If they had known that there would be so many people in the southern suburbs, they would have moved there long ago!

The noise coming from the southern suburbs was so loud that it finally attracted the attention of the people in the inner city.

The living conditions of ordinary bannermen in the inner city are slightly better than those of the people in the slums of the outer city, but not much better.

The powerful families occupied 70% of the inner city's territory, and the remaining land could not meet the needs of the banner people's growing population.

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