Ji Guangda took out the blueprint and pointed out the marked and leveled road surface.
"The main city's pavement has more people using it every day, so I'll start construction last."
Shen Yong glanced at the drawing and nodded.
"Okay, you can arrange it as long as it doesn't affect the construction of the city wall."
"Okay, King Qianhuang, don't worry, I will make the arrangements."
At this moment, Deng Yushan came running to ask for an audience.
"Your servant Deng Yushan has an urgent matter and wishes to see King Qianhuang."
"Come in!" Shen Yong handed the blueprint to Ji Guangda and shouted.
The door of the study was not closed, and Deng Yushan ran in with a buzzing sound.
"I bow to King Qianhuang, may King Qianhuang be well and safe."
"Stand up, no need to bow!"
"Thank you, King Qianhuang."
When Deng Yushan looked up, he saw Ji Guangda standing beside the desk.
He glanced at the thick roster on the table and immediately knew that Ji Guangda was here to report on the new recruits.
Deng Yushan pursed his lips, looked at Shen Yong and said,
"Your Highness, the walls surrounding the palace have been demolished, the residents within the expanded area have been resettled, and all the houses have been demolished."
"This is the specific area and population of each of the surrounding residents' homes, as well as their settlement status."
As he spoke, Deng Yushan handed over the thick account book in his hand.
"good."
Shen Yong nodded, picked up the account book and looked through it carefully.
This was also considered the first batch of people he had to relocate in ancient times, so the arrangements had to be in place so that there wouldn't be major obstacles in carrying out similar things in the future.
As Shen Yong watched, his brows suddenly furrowed.
"Why did they only arrange accommodation but not provide any monetary compensation?"
The expansion of his palace was based on the size of the imperial palace. The houses of those residents whose houses were expropriated were equivalent to the houses of residents around the modern Forbidden City, which could not be bought with money.
The account book records the size of the houses these residents originally lived in, and then houses of corresponding sizes are found for them to move into.
If there is no house of normal size, Deng Yushan will arrange a slightly larger house.
"Money!?" Deng Yushan looked at Shen Yong in surprise.
In the past, when the government needed to expropriate land, it was just a matter of saying a word and pointing out a place for the people to live.
This time he listened to Shen Yong's words and could not let the people live worse than before.
So the houses he arranged for these residents were bigger than before.
Although the residents were reluctant to move away from the vicinity of the palace, they cooperated and moved away when they knew that King Qianhuang wanted to expand the palace into an imperial palace.
"King Qianhuang, you may not know that all officials in Qianhuang City, including soldiers, have not received their salaries for four months."
"The gold and silver in the prefectural treasury have long been used up."
Deng Yushan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "Or we can give each family some food as compensation. I think the people will be very happy."
In years of famine, every family has a shortage of food.
Although Shen Yong recruited new soldiers and offered them a lot of salary, as long as one person from each household served as a soldier, the salary was enough to support the whole family for a month.
Of course, we have to eat sparingly, but who doesn’t have a few relatives?
Those relatives are basically from the vicinity of Bailong City, and they are also short of food and drink there.
Shen Yong frowned and glanced at the piles of gold and silver in the space.
The official silver can be sold at the takeaway mall, and then some silver ingots can be bought from the takeaway mall and distributed.
Shen Yong thought about it and directly posted 10 silver ingots with official seals on the takeaway mall.
[Ding, sold 10 official silver ingots, received RMB, account balance RMB...]
Tsk!
A silver ingot weighs 50 taels and is worth 400,000 yuan.
A 50-liang silver ingot made of 999 pure silver only costs 20,000 yuan in the takeaway mall.
4 million can buy 200 silver ingots of 50 taels each.
The value of 10 official silver ingots increased 20 times in an instant.
Deng Yushan and Ji Guangda looked at each other in confusion.
King Qianhuang didn't say a word, but suddenly laughed, which looked creepy.
Whether it’s okay or not, just say it.
Shen Yong added 100,000 taels of silver to the shopping cart, which would cost a total of 40 million yuan.
I took a look at the balance in the takeaway mall. There was still more than 2.4 billion in total, which was enough to buy the remaining materials and silver.
"Go and recount the numbers and give each household five taels of silver per person as resettlement compensation."
"After calculating how much silver you need, go to the accounting office to get it."
Zhang Wenyuan is currently in charge of the accounting office of the prefectural government.
No wonder I haven’t seen Zhang Wenyuan hanging around him recently. It’s probably because the prefectural government is short of money and made this guy bald.
Deng Yushan's eyes widened in shock.
"Everyone? What about children under 13?"
"Yes, everyone has one, including children."
"This..." Deng Yushan looked at Chen Yong in disbelief.
"There are more than 100 households near the palace that need to be relocated, and each household has at least 12 people. This will cost nearly ten thousand taels of silver."
Tens of thousands of taels of silver were nothing to the wealthy businessmen, but for the impoverished prefectural government, it was a huge sum of money.
The annual expenditure of an ordinary family was at most two taels of silver, but Chen Yong gave each person five taels of silver.
These people just moved to a new home and became rich overnight.
At least each household can get 60 taels of silver, which is not a small amount.
"Just go and make the arrangements. You don't have to worry about the money."
The compensation for more than a hundred households is only ten thousand taels, and it is located in the center of the future imperial palace. This price is too cheap.
This is because the palace is surrounded by the common people, who dare not resist the government. They are happy to be given a good place to live, not to mention that they are now subsidized with silver, so they have even less objections.
If this happened in the capital, and the imperial palace was to be expanded, the wealthy families and clans around the palace would not be so easy to deal with.
Chen Yong had no intention of treating this first batch of relocated households unfairly.
He no longer had to worry about money, and Deng Yushan was no longer worried.
"The people are blessed to have King Qianhuang. I will immediately send someone to take a census."
After a pause, Deng Yushan continued,
"When will we ask the gods for the materials to build the palace?"
"I will also let the workers prepare early."
Chen Yong glanced at Ji Guangda, then looked at Deng Yushan.
"Go now. The road repairs and the expansion of the palace can all begin."
Ji Guangda and Deng Yushan looked at each other, their eyes full of joy.
It’s good that the construction can start. The city wall is being built so fast that they are so jealous.
Don't look back, their city walls have been built, but their roads and palaces are not yet built.
At this time, everyone was trying their best to stand out in front of King Qianhuang. Who wouldn't want to be the first?
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