Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1637, this is what a city should look like

Although he felt sad for the Tianzhu people, Da Vinci couldn't do anything. Looking at the piety of these people, he seemed to be content with it.

As far as Da Vinci knew, this huge Ning country had a large population, with a population of tens of millions.

However, among them, the number of Han people is only a few hundred thousand. The rest of them are basically indigenous people in Tianzhu. Hundreds of thousands of people rule tens of millions of people. Just thinking about it makes people feel like walking a tightrope. .

However, in fact, Ningguo's rule is extremely stable, and there are very few rebellions. It seems that everyone here is willing to accept the rule of a foreign race.

No matter how hard and tiring they are, they seem to be content with it, and even take it for granted. Not only will they not rebel against these Daming people who are riding on their heads and domineering, And it feels like it's all natural.

Such a strange phenomenon made Da Vinci have to admire the power of religion and the power and terror of the caste system.

Just like Europe in the Middle Ages, under the rule of the church, the entire Middle Ages was dark without a single ray of light, and everyone even took it for granted.

Da Vinci did not stay in Tianzhu for too long, because he felt that great ideas and art could not be bred in such a dark and lifeless soil, and he still wanted to go to Daming as soon as possible.

With more and more contact with Daming people and many intellectuals of Daming, he is more eager to arrive in Daming as soon as possible, go to Daming to learn Chinese civilization, and experience the bright and dazzling Chinese culture.

Starting from Anning City in Ningguo, take a boat all the way eastward, along Ceylon Island, Malacca, Luzon, and Ryukyu, after more than a month of sea voyage.

Da Vinci finally arrived in Songhu of Daming, and I set foot on the mainland of Daming.

Inside the Huangpu River in Songhu, Da Vinci stood on the deck and looked at Songhu in front of him.

On both sides of the Huangpu River, there are many high-rise buildings, and the glass windows reflect the dazzling light under the sunlight; a series of straight and spacious concrete roads extend to the end of the field of vision, and at the same time divide the two sides of the Huangpu River neatly and dotted with stars.

On both sides of the Huangpu River, there are many piers, and countless ships are moored. Various flags are flying above the ships. The Daming Dragon Flag at the top is the most dazzling, waving in the wind and hunting.

Looking from a distance, there are huge chimneys standing here in the industrial area, continuously discharging billowing white smoke into the sky, filling the air here with an industrial atmosphere.

On the spacious concrete road, there is a lot of traffic, there are a lot of four-wheeled carriages, and they are very busy; in addition, you can also see a huge group of bicycles, people riding two-wheeled bicycles on the road quickly, the speed is extremely quick.

On both sides of the Huangpu River, restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, hotels, etc. can be seen everywhere. When standing on a boat, you can even look at people sitting in restaurants enjoying the river view.

As far as the eye can see, the exterior walls are all whitewashed with lime, which is a bit particular, and even uses various colors. When it looks, it feels very good, clean and tidy .

"Finally arrived in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, Songhu!"

Da Vinci got off the boat and set foot on the land of Daming Songhu.

The Huangpu River port wharf is naturally all hardened with cement. Although the wharf is extremely busy, it is very clean.

All the wharves were cleaned very clean, and the people who loaded and unloaded goods were no longer slaves. The use of slaves was not allowed in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the dock workers are a group of people who do not have much technical content, but have a high income, and they have a lot to pay attention to.

"Da Ming people are really extravagant!"

"All the places have been paved with cement. This road is spacious and easy to walk, and it is also very clean and tidy."

Looking at the concrete road in front of him, Da Vinci couldn't help thinking of European cities.

The roads of the city are really indescribable.

Places with bricks and stones are better, at least not too muddy, but there are basically no bricks in many places, and in addition to the special climate in Europe, it is humid and rainy.

When it rains, the road is extremely muddy, full of potholes, like muddy ground, leaving you with no place to step down.

As for when the weather is fine, the road is naturally easier to walk, but when people dump all kinds of excrement on the road indiscriminately, the city will stink, and all kinds of pungent smells will make you feel sick at all. Can't stand it.

This is why the European royal family, nobles and the like like to build castles in the countryside, because the stench of the city is really unbearable.

This is why Europeans invented high heels, the purpose is to prevent stepping on some indescribable things and facilitate walking in the city.

But even if castles are built outside the city, the European royal family and nobles like to have parties, dances and the like. After a party, it becomes filthy, so it is often necessary to prepare several castles. The other one, wait until it's cleaned up and come back again.

The most distinctive feature of the European cities in this period was that they were messy and foul-smelling. On the contrary, it was the European countryside and countryside. Because of their special climatic conditions, the countryside and countryside were very good, with fresh air and green grass.

In Da Vinci's impression, the city has always been like this, very dirty and very smelly.

However, the moment he set foot on the land of Songhu, he completely changed his view of the city.

Not to mention high-rise buildings, just the clean, tidy, and neatly planned city in front of you. There are even a lot of trees, flowers and plants planted on both sides of the road.

At this moment, the trees are luxuriant and the flowers are in full bloom. In some places where sweet-scented osmanthus trees are planted, when the sweet-scented osmanthus trees bloom, the fragrance of the flowers overflows, and the whole street is filled with the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Here, you can't see any dirty things at all, and you can't see women dumping those indescribable things in the streets and alleys, and even the four-wheeled carriages that go back and forth have a horse behind the buttocks. The scorpion is specially used to hold the dung of horses.

On the streets, you can see trash cans everywhere. People dump all their garbage into these trash cans, and then there will be special garbage trucks to transport the garbage away.

"This is what a city should look like!"

Da Vinci couldn't help but sigh.

Before he came here, he couldn't even imagine that the city could still be like this, and it could be so clean.

He can even say that the roads here are cleaner than those in European homes.

There is also the city in front of me, which has no walls at all, and the roads extend to the end of the field of vision, straight and straight, as if they are not worried about being invaded at all.

Walking on the streets of Songhu very casually, the shops on both sides are also clean and tidy, and the products inside look so exquisite.

The Daming people on the street all have ruddy complexions, neat and clean clothes, and are polite to each other, and one can clearly feel the confidence exuding from the Daming people all the time.

This kind of self-confidence comes not only from the strength of the Ming Empire, but also from their self-confidence in their own country, their own nation, and their own civilization.

In contrast, what I saw in Europe, the city is not only very dirty and messy, even most of the people are dressed in tatters, dirty, and often appear barbaric and rude.

As for the complexion, there is no way to compare it at all. You can't see the confidence and pride of Daming people at all in the aura exuding from his body.

Compared with the Ming city in front of me, European cities are like clowns, and like dirty fish markets, there is no comparison at all.

And in terms of scale, the Songhu in front of us is even more enormous.

On both sides of the Huangpu River, there are neatly planned buildings everywhere, industrial areas, living areas, etc. Any area, in Europe, would be a big city.

As for the Songhu in front of me, I heard people talking about it when I was on the road. It is said that this Songhu has a huge population of more than 300 million.

With 300 million people gathered in one city, it was hard for Da Vinci to imagine how huge the city was, but it was even more unbelievable that a city with such a large population could be so clean and tidy.

You must know that in Europe, sometimes, the population of a country is only a few million people.

However, on Daming's side, they have a population of several million in just one city. It is said that Songhu in front of them is not the largest city in Daming.

The capital city, Tianjin, and Jinling of the Ming Dynasty are all bigger than Songhu in front of us, and have a larger population.

"Millions of people are crowded in a city, and it is incredible that it can be so clean and tidy!"

"What's even more incredible is why people in Daming aren't afraid of all kinds of diseases?"

"The more and denser the population is, the greater the risk of various diseases being transmitted. Do Ming people not understand this truth?"

Da Vinci fell into deep thought. He also studied medicine. Europe has a small population and small cities, and a large part of it was affected by the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

More than a hundred years ago, the Black Death swept across Europe. This disease claimed one-third of the European population and lost 2500 million people.

Countless big cities turned into dead cities overnight. Since then, the population of Europe has dropped sharply, and cities cannot develop. A city with tens of thousands of people is considered a big city. As for a city with hundreds of thousands of people It is a great big city, often the capital of a country.

Songhu in front of me has a population of several million. It seems that the people of Daming are not afraid of various diseases at all, or that these diseases will not spread in the cities of Daming at all.

(End of this chapter)