Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1676, Urban Management and Urban Construction Planning
"Pilot restructuring?"

"How to change?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Houzhao asked quickly.

This made a round trip in the capital, and I have some understanding of the current situation in the capital.

The population of the capital is really too much. The three major urban areas of the old city, Dongcheng district and Beicheng district lack government management and planning, so the roads are congested, dirty and messy, and thieves are rampant, and gang forces have not been eradicated.

In addition, because the Shuntian government office did not plan and change in time, it blindly followed the previous system and methods. Although the manpower has been increasing, it has always been very busy, but it has not been able to deal with the many big and small things that happened in the capital. things come.

"First of all, we must first divide the responsibilities of the Tianfu Yamen. The current system is obviously no longer able to meet the needs of the capital's development."

"According to the development needs of the capital, some yamen can be abolished or added accordingly, and at the same time, the relevant powers and jurisdictional areas can be clearly divided."

"For example, there are a lot of cases in the capital, so we can take out the prison department separately, set up a special prison office, and divide the capital into districts. Each district becomes a small police station, and the appointments correspond to Officials and a certain number of catchers and government servants are responsible for the security of this area."

"In addition, set up a serious case team separately to solve serious cases and major cases, and deal with those vicious gangsters. Only in this way can we better maintain the law and order in the capital."

"For another example, you can set up a separate small yamen, called the urban management yamen, which is specially used to manage the streets, traffic and sanitation of the city. Wait for management."

"Where small stalls and hawkers are allowed to set up stalls, which places are not allowed, and which time periods are allowed, and those time periods are not allowed, corresponding planning and management must be carried out."

"Just like here in the new town of the South District, the night food stalls are concentrated in that street, and a special vegetable market is established to meet the needs of life. There must be a plan and rules, and the common people cannot be allowed to set up stalls indiscriminately. , seriously affecting the traffic, image and sanitation of the city."

"Another example is to set up an urban construction office to plan the construction of the entire city and make unified requirements. Houses cannot be built randomly, but must comply with the regulations. The planning of roads, the construction of drainage systems, and the construction of water supply systems Wait for it to be included."

"In this way, while the scale of the city continues to expand, there will not be a large number of messy shantytowns, and there will be various phenomena of random construction."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also spoke out some systems and methods of urban construction and management in later generations.

In the cities of later generations, peddlers occupying roads and doing business are very troublesome.

They can't do much business, but they often occupy the roads, causing road congestion and difficult vehicle traffic, and they also specialize in doing business on streets with heavy traffic, making these roads even more congested.

Even if there is congestion, they often set up stalls and do business without paying attention to hygiene. They dump the garbage casually, and they don't even sweep the floor when they leave.

Why do you say that cities should have urban management? Even though the city management is often reported about its brutality, the random setting up of stalls by small vendors has indeed seriously affected the traffic and sanitation of the city, no matter it is impossible.

As for urban construction, it is even more necessary.

If there is no urban construction management, there will be a large number of shantytowns and slums without even thinking about it. In cities where every inch of land is expensive, everyone will scramble to occupy the land. Just look at some urban villages in big cities. understood.

Almost every inch of land has been taken up, and the windows of the buildings built next to each other cannot even be opened, and it is impossible to manage it. Sometimes it is really difficult for the government to do things.

The good thing about the current Ming Dynasty is that the land is vast and the population is sparse. Except for the big cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, and Nanjing, other places are sparsely populated. The land is vast and the population is sparse. The development of the city will not too fast.

Now urbanization is just beginning and has not yet developed to a certain level. As long as we plan well, there is still time and we can do better.

With a population of more than one billion in later generations, any city will have millions of people, and a large city will have tens of millions of people. If there are more people and less land, resources will be tight, and the pressure of survival will be great.

But Ming Dynasty is different. It has a vast land and few people. The key is that it can also plunder huge wealth from overseas. There are many resources and less pressure to survive, so many things can be better planned and arranged.

"Well, it is indeed necessary to take care of it, plan and plan well."

"The gap between the old city, Dongcheng District, Beicheng District and the new city in the South District is so great that it even makes people wonder if they are in the same place."

Zhu Houzhao nodded in agreement after listening.

Only by taking a closer look and investigating in person can you see the most authentic side of the capital.

The capital has the coercion of the imperial city, the luxury and grandeur of the rich and powerful district, the prosperity and order of the new city in the southern district, the congestion and mess of the ordinary old city, and the chaos of the Dongcheng district, with no plan and no order .

Similarly, here in the capital, there are officials drinking tea and reading newspapers in the excellent restaurant, and there are also officials in the Shuntian government office who are so tired that they have no way to rest on the first day of the new year.

This is just the capital city. Shuntian Mansion is in charge of a very large area, and it also covers the surrounding Huairou County, Miyun County, etc. What kind of situation these places are like, they also need to visit and conduct on-the-spot investigations.

"The government must play an active role in the daily life of ordinary people."

Zhu Houzhao remembered what he had seen in Hezhong and Central Asia provinces. The local government had done something, so Central Asia and Hezhong provinces could develop a stable large ranch economy.

If there is no government to play the role of guidance, guidance and help, it is estimated that in Central Asia, even if there are vast grasslands, it is obviously inappropriate for you to let a group of Han people go nomadic, and Han people will not like nomadic life. .

It is necessary to constantly explore a road suitable for local development based on the actual situation of the local area, and this is the responsibility and obligation of the government.

Liu Jin also smiled when he heard Zhu Houzhao's words.

I didn't say everything, I still want to leave Zhu Houzhao some room to play, and see if his highness, the prince, has the ability to do it well.

I have already reached this point, I believe he should also know what to do next.

A few days later, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month passed, the annual leave ended, and the yamen of the court began to work. Yin Linpan of Shuntian Prefecture wrote a letter to resign, saying that he was old and frail, unable to do what he wanted, and hoped to return to his hometown to take care of himself.

Originally, Emperor Hongzhi was going to replace him, but now he resigned himself, which is naturally the best. At the same time, he quickly appointed Zhu Houzhao, Prince of Ming Dynasty, as the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately met with strong opposition from many ministers.

These ministers believe that the prince is the prince of the country, even if he is involved in government affairs, he should stand in the court instead of serving as a small prefect. You can't learn much.

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin knew exactly what these ministers were thinking.

If the prince starts from the magistrate, to the magistrate, and then to the chief envoy, step by step, he will have a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty and all aspects, and he will be clear about many things in the officialdom.

When I become the emperor in the future, it will be difficult to fool me if I want to.

If the prince had been brought up in the hands of the women in the palace, he would learn under the teachings of their Confucian masters, occupying the upper court to listen to everyone's way of governing the country and so on.

The emperor who came out like this must be the one who is more foolish. For example, Emperor Hongzhi was like this. Everyone almost lied to him.

Moreover, these ministers in the DPRK basically came from Jinshi and the Imperial Academy. In fact, they don't have much experience in governance and management.

The princes have been trained step by step, and the requirements for them will be even higher at that time. If you don't have any skills, you probably won't be able to get along with them.

This is also the reason why they objected, because this kind of cultivation route violated the prince cultivation route that all dynasties have followed, making them at a loss and very uncomfortable.

However, their opposition to Emperor Hongzhi was completely ignored, and they still asked Zhu Houzhao to manage Shuntian Mansion to see what Zhu Houzhao could manage here.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao took over Shuntian Mansion, he immediately started a series of vigorous reforms. First of all, as Liu Jin said, he divided the capital into several areas. According to these areas, correspondingly set up yamen in charge of these areas. The level is the same as that of the county government.

Then there is a separate division of the Prison Yamen, which is in charge of public security and the arrest of bandits, the establishment of an urban management office, which specializes in the management of urban sanitation, transportation, and greening, etc., and the establishment of an urban construction office, which specializes in planning and managing the construction of the city.

These three yamen, the prison yamen, existed before, but they were not listed separately. They were placed under the management of the government yamen, with unclear responsibilities and unclear divisions. The public security situation in Beijing is not optimistic.

The two yamen of urban management and urban construction are newly established, and they are two new yamen specially used to manage the city.

Zhu Houzhao still knows that it is necessary to proceed step by step, and he did not divide it into details at once, but only sorted and managed these three areas first, tried it first, and then slowly improved it after seeing the effect and situation.

(End of this chapter)