Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1685, the most difficult thing is urban planning
On a street in Dongcheng District, Liu Jinzheng accompanied Zhu Houzhao to wander around and look around in Dongcheng District. The whole Dongcheng District was in a mess, without planning, and there was not even a decent road. The surrounding houses were also built indiscriminately. Extremely bad.

Zhu Houzhao intends to use Dongcheng District as a pilot, focusing on the urban planning of Dongcheng City, planning the Dongcheng District better, and creating a new era city that conforms to the identity and temperament of the Ming Empire.

"Old Liu, what kind of urban planning is this? It's really a headache. I don't have any plans."

Zhu Hou took care of everything in front of him, it was a mess, and he was a little annoyed.

"Your Highness, this city plan is first of all to give it a positioning."

"For example, here in Dongcheng District, there are so many factories and workshops here, so its positioning is basically around factories and workshops."

"The most important thing to run factories and workshops is transportation and manpower. Therefore, the first thing to plan is roads. These roads in Dongcheng District should be included in the planning. Just like in Nancheng District, the roads should be repaired and widened first. , and then divide the entire Dongcheng District through roads.”

"This area is used to specially arrange factories and workshops, so this area cannot be used to build housing areas. If this area is used to arrange housing areas, then factories and workshops cannot be arranged in this area. Carry out some supporting construction and planning, such as planning some commercial streets, schools, vegetable markets, etc., to facilitate everyone's life."

"In fact, urban planning is not difficult. The core points are based on positioning needs and transportation. In addition, the water supply and sewage systems in Dongcheng District have not been built. This is also a very important thing. It must be fully considered when planning. at this point."

"Millions of people live here in Dongcheng District. If there is no reasonable planning, it will only get worse and worse, and it will become more and more dirty."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also shared his experience in the construction and planning of the new city in the South District.

"So that's the case. After hearing what you said, we already know it in my heart."

After listening to Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao suddenly became a little hesitant.

"Your Highness, it's better to hire professionals to plan the city. You can hire some students from the School of Architecture and Engineering to do these things. They are professionals in this area. They must know better than us and can plan better."

Liu Jin smiled, urban construction planning is not so easy, this is an extremely complex systematic project, and it still needs professional talents to do it.

"Yes, yes, professional things are left to professional people, that's what you said."

Zhu Houzhao also nodded again and again.

He now agrees with what Liu Jin said. Some things really need to be done by professionals, otherwise they can't be done well at all.

Just like doing construction projects, ordinary masons can only build ordinary houses. If they want to build high-rise buildings, they will be confused and have no way to start. At this time, the School of Construction Engineering is needed The people here are here, they are professionals who have learned this, and they will arrange all kinds of buildings for you clearly.

"Actually, in this urban planning, the most fearful thing is to encounter nail households. Now the land in Dongcheng District is divided into extremely fine areas. This piece of land and that piece of land belong to different people. There will definitely be some more by then. A time of trouble and gossip."

Liu Jin looked at the streets of Dongcheng District in front of him. It was a mess. This place was different from Nancheng District.

The land in Nancheng District is owned by Liu Jin, so Liu Jin can plan and develop slowly by himself, and the building is extremely beautiful and neatly planned.

The Dongcheng District is different. The land here belongs to many people, including dignitaries and ministers in the court, landlords and gentry in the capital, and ordinary people in the capital.

Unified planning under such circumstances is definitely not an easy task.

For example, building roads will definitely occupy land, but the roads built will not benefit the landowners, and they will definitely not agree easily.

You must know that the land in the capital is now very expensive, not the five taels of silver per mu of land in the past, and now one mu of land in the capital is sold for thousands of taels of silver casually.

Those who have land are also scrambling to build houses on their own land. Even if they are rented out, they can get a good income every month.

You want to plan a road to go there. Once the road is built, it may occupy a lot of land. Will the other party agree?

Undoubtedly, even if you give money, the other party may not be willing, because there will be no income after the road is built, but if the land is in your own hands, you can rent out the house you build, and there are shops on the street that you can rent out or do small business , that is a long-term business that can continue to operate and be passed down from generation to generation.

This is definitely a very important thing for the Ming people in this period.

This is why Daming people have always attached so much importance to land.

Because the land is ancestral property, if you sell a little bit, you will be called a prodigal.

What's more, the land in the capital is very valuable now. Almost every day in Dongcheng District, people quarrel and fight because of a little corner of the land.

If you just flick a pen and get a large piece of land for road construction, someone may fight you desperately.

This is also the reason why Liu Jin's real estate has never entered Dongcheng District.

Because one is that land is hard to buy, even if you have money, someone may not be willing to sell it to you. If you want to engage in real estate, you must not have a large area of ​​land.

The second is that the supporting facilities are not good. The supporting facilities here are too bad. If you re-plan by yourself, others will not cooperate with you. Maybe you will sue Liu Jin at that time, saying that you are a cabinet minister relying on your power and official authority to force people. It's not good to sell land or something.

So I should honestly do it in my Nancheng District, plan slowly, and build slowly. Anyway, there is enough land in Nancheng District, and it is big enough, all of which belong to Liu Jin, and some are land.

"Nail household?"

"What is a nail house?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he immediately felt very strange, and asked quickly.

Another new word, a new word that popped up from Liu Jin.

"In the future, you will understand what a nail household is."

Liu Jin smiled and replied,
Now that I have explained it, I still can’t explain it clearly. As for this matter, you will know what a nail house is.

"Don't say pull it down!"

Zhu Houzhao curled his lips, and then looked at the Dongcheng District in front of him. There are a large number of factories and workshops here, and there are also some beautiful real estate developed by powerful people, but most of them are private houses built randomly without planning. Randomly built shantytowns.

The streets are basically made of mud. Building bridges and paving roads is too costly, time-consuming and energy-intensive. More importantly, it is easy to offend people, and no one is willing to do this.

The infrastructure still needs to be planned and constructed by the government. If there is no government to do this, it is basically difficult to do it.

It is better not to involve the field, once the field is involved, even a little bit will be opposed by countless people, this is the same even in later generations.

In some rural areas in later generations, because road construction needs to occupy a little land, but some people don’t want to, you go to obstruct the road construction, and even cry to grab the land. These people’s interests cannot be damaged at all. Taking advantage of others' benefits and interests.

But often such people are the poorest and the least promising people, who care about every detail and calculate everything, but in the end they don't calculate anything.

Some people live frugally for a lifetime, withholding everything and saving everything. As a result, their sons are worthless, and they are infected with gambling or buying horses.

Human nature is complex, and urban planning and construction have been difficult problems since ancient times.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao, the crown prince, is the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. If he comes to do this, he will not be afraid of offending people, and speaking is more effective in many cases.

If an ordinary official were to be the magistrate, I am afraid that many times he would be tied up and have nothing to do with this matter. When encountering some powerful lands, it is estimated that there is no way to do it. Maybe he will still think about using ordinary people. To supplement the land of these powerful and powerful people, in that case, it will definitely be worse.

(End of this chapter)