Daming 1805

Chapter 309 New Tianfu City Moat and Forbidden City
Zhu Jingyuan's inland riverboat floated on the Milky Way for more than ten hours, and arrived at Xintianfu Wharf early the next morning.

Zhu Jingyuan's family rested in the cabin all night, and now they all get up early to enjoy the scenery of Xintianfu.

Theoretically, New Tianfu City is a city along the river, but the estuary is so wide that it is difficult to see the other side with a telescope.

So Xintianfu feels like a coastal city at the same time.

The official wharf of Xintianfu is on the bank of the Milky Way, but Zhu Jingyuan's fleet did not dock here.

Instead, it turned south at a fork in the southeast of the pier and entered an inland artificial waterway with a width of more than 200 meters.

On both sides of this artificial waterway, there are green belts hundreds of meters wide.

To the east of the green belt on the east side of the waterway is a large piece of farmland stretching as far as the eye can see.

In summer, rice is planted north of the Milky Way in Xintianfu, corn or soybeans are planted south of the Milky Way, and wheat is planted on both banks in winter.

Outside Xintianfu City, there are mature corn and soybean fields everywhere, and they are ripe and burnt yellow as far as the eye can see.

To the west of the green belt on the west side of the waterway, there is a high-standard road that can accommodate eight lanes.

On the west side of the road is another green belt, and further west of the green belt is the same mature soybean field.

This strange artificial waterway located in the farmland is actually the moat of the outer city of Xintianfu in name.

That wide road was supposed to be the wall of the outer city.

The original planning of Xintianfu was a multi-storey nine-square grid structure.

The innermost part is the Forbidden City with a side length of one kilometer, and the outer part of the Forbidden City is the Imperial City with a side length of three kilometers.

Outside the imperial city is the inner city with a side length of nine kilometers. Outside the inner city should have been an outer city with a side length of 27 kilometers.

A square with a side length of 27 kilometers is equivalent to the scope of Beijing's Fifth Ring Road. This scale is too big.

Xintianfu's industry is underdeveloped, the agricultural population accounts for the vast majority, and the city is far from expanding to this extent.

So far, the built-up area of ​​New Tianfu City, except for the wharf beside the Milky Way, is still in the inner city with a side length of nine kilometers.

Most of the land that should have been in the outer city area is currently farmland and pastures.

Only in a few places, there are factories related to agricultural product processing, daily necessities, and agricultural supplies, such as cotton mills, canning factories, flour mills, match factories, and agricultural equipment factories.

At the same time, with the continuous improvement of military technology, the defensive role of city walls in war continued to decline.

The construction of the city wall of the outer city of Xintianfu has never really started, and the outer city still exists only in concept.

However, the early plans are still there, and no one has taken the lead in canceling the plans.

The land for the construction of the outer city wall and the moat must still be reserved.

In order to prevent these lands from being occupied, Huangzhuang built a road on the land where the city wall was built.

At the same time, the agricultural reservoirs, agricultural canals, water transport terminals, farmland irrigation and drainage systems and other water-related projects are designed to be grouped into the route planned by the moat as much as possible.

Finally, through these practical functional projects, the construction of the moat itself was completed.

This wide moat waterway, together with the wide road, and three green belts between and around the two, with a total width of more than 600 meters and a square area with a total length of 81 kilometers, form a huge green water leisure park around the city. .

During the busy season, this is the most comfortable rest area, and it is also a good place to dry grain.

During the slack season, it is also a good place for spring outing, walking, fishing, cooling off and sunbathing.

This strange product formed due to various reasons unexpectedly became a special landscape in Xintianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan took it for granted, took this city wall and moat as the center line of industrial construction, and put factories next to this river and road in the future.

Or develop one side as an industrial area and the other side as a residential area.

The moat and the existing high-grade roads are just as excellent channels for exchanging and transporting materials in the industrial area.

The construction standard of the moat is very high, and it can maintain a water depth of at least eight meters, just like the channel dredged outside the pier.

Therefore, a large number of small and medium-sized ships can directly enter the moat canal without docking at the formal pier by the Milky Way.

After Zhu Jingyuan's fleet sailed nine kilometers in the moat canal, they came to a fork in the river.

The fleet turned west here and continued sailing along the river.

At this time, sparse factory buildings began to appear on both sides of the canal.

If you look up to the southwest from here, you can already see the majestic inner city wall.

After sailing another nine kilometers, the fleet entered the moat canal around the inner city under the inner city wall.

The inner city moat surrounds the inner city with a side length of nine kilometers. The width of the water surface has been reduced to 100 meters, and the water depth is still eight meters.

Zhu Jingyuan's boat still didn't stop, and went directly through the water gate and entered the inner city of Xintianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan finally saw the urban area with row upon row of buildings.

The streets in the inner city of Xintianfu are all horizontal and vertical hardened roads, and the size of each block is exactly the same.

On both sides of the street are stretches of independent courtyards, and the layout of the courtyards is also highly similar, obviously planned and constructed in a unified manner.

Inside each courtyard is a two-story main building, plus three single-story side rooms in the east, west, and south.

In the morning light of the rising sun, smoke rose from many courtyards.

Occasionally, there are children chasing each other with their schoolbags on the street.

A new day in New Tianfu City is coming.

The other accompanying ships in the fleet docked at the public docks in the inner city.

The equipment and supplies carried on the ship to be sent to Xintianfu were officially unloaded here one after another.

The other personnel on board, also received by the local docking personnel, went to the temporary residential area for resettlement.

The courtyards for ordinary families in Xintianfu City were built in batches by Huangzhuang according to uniform specifications, and then gradually distributed to families in need.

There are a large number of vacant houses in the north of the city at any time, and there is no problem in arranging workers from the Dashi country and the local people.

Zhu Jingyuan's boat continued to move forward, sailed along the waterway into the imperial city, and docked at the exclusive royal pier.

The organizational form of Xintianfu is similar to a company, and each Huangzhuang can be regarded as a company.

The emperor Zhu Jianyan can be regarded as the chairman, and Zhu Jingyuan was appointed as the governor of the new Tianfu, which is equivalent to becoming the general manager.

Now Zhu Zhongliang, the retired old chairman, brought his grandson Zhu Jingyuan and the general manager to take office.

This is the highest level of high-level figures that Xintianfu has ever received.

It is impossible for the shopkeepers of various Huangzhuang here not to pay attention.

The entire Forbidden City and the Imperial City have been tidied up, and all the places that the royal family may use have been prepared to ensure that the two of them can move in and use it directly after they arrive.

It was confirmed that Zhu Jingyuan's grandfather and grandson arrived today, and the treasurers of Huangzhuang came here before dawn and waited.

Today is purely a welcome event, according to the request of Zhu Zhongliang, grandparents and grandchildren, without too much ostentation.

As for the official meeting, after Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan have rested, we can arrange according to their ideas.

Zhu Jingyuan followed his grandfather off the boat, and waved hello to the waiting shopkeepers, as if they had met each other.

Then, without stopping at the pier, I drove directly into the Forbidden City with my grandfather.

The Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty is an official palace as a symbol of the imperial court and royal status of the Ming Dynasty. Currently, there are three places in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Yingtian Mansion, Shuntian Mansion, and Xintian Mansion.

Although the palace in the Western Cape is similar in layout to the Forbidden City, it does not have the same status.

The Forbidden City in Xintianfu is clearly the same as Yingtianfu.

Moreover, the Forbidden City in Xintianfu is the largest among the three Forbidden City, and the specifications are also the highest.

The Forbidden City in Xintianfu is 1000 meters long and wide.

Compared with the Forbidden City in Beijing, it is much wider and covers an area of ​​more than a quarter larger.

After the Renwu Dynasty, the simultaneous existence of the three elders, the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, became the norm.

They must have a special place to live in the Forbidden City, and they must pay enough attention.

In the Forbidden City of the capital, three palaces, Renshou Palace, Cining Palace, and Ciqing Palace, were respectively repaired and used.

Because the building itself has not been rebuilt, the layout is not standardized enough, and it is a bit scattered on the whole, and the left and right sides have long been asymmetrical.

When the Forbidden City in Xintianfu was built, the layout of the palace was adjusted according to the current situation.

The Ciqing Palace was moved from the left to the right, and placed in the place of the Cining Palace, and the Cining Palace was moved backwards. The two palaces were arranged in front and back, and were placed behind the right side of the entire Forbidden City.

Occupy the original Yinghua Palace, Shouan Palace, and Compassionate Palace, and move them outward as a whole while enlarging the scale of the palace courtyard.

The specifications of the two palaces are exactly the same, and they are respectively for the Empress Dowager and the biological mother of the emperor.

The Renshou Palace was moved backwards and placed behind the left side of the Forbidden City. It was also moved outwards as a whole and enlarged in scale for the residence of the Supreme Emperor.

At the same time, after the Renwu Dynasty, the prince disappeared conceptually.

In front of the Taishang Emperor's Renshou Palace, the place was first prepared for the prince, including the early Chunhe Palace and the later Ciqing Palace.

In the future, there is no need to prepare an independent exclusive palace here.

In order to be symmetrical with the palaces of the two empress dowagers on the opposite side, the Forbidden City of Xintianfu designed a group of new-style palaces for minor princes to live in.

On the basis of this overall layout change, all the building dimensions of the new Tianfu Forbidden City are enlarged compared with the original Forbidden City.

Not only the main body of the building is taller, wider, and deeper, but the auxiliary rooms around these formal palaces, and even the rooms for the servants have also been enlarged and multiplied.

The interior space of the building has become much larger, and the squares outside have been relatively reduced, reducing the running distance in the palace.

At the same time, the space prepared and reserved for the new functions of the new era was specially designed and built.

Such as boiler and heating supply systems, tap water and water purification systems, power supply and control systems, modern sanitation facilities and drainage systems, parking lots and underground storage rooms, etc.

Similar facilities in the Forbidden City of the capital were added gradually later, and the Forbidden City of Xintianfu existed by design.

The only downside is that there is no air conditioner, but the temperature in Xintianfu basically does not exceed [-] degrees in summer, and the electric fan is barely enough.

And the air conditioner can be installed later.

Generally speaking, the New Tianfu Forbidden City is a more regular and modern palace complex redesigned in the new era.

Now there is no one else in the palace, Zhu Zhongliang did not go to live in the Taishang Emperor's Renshou Palace, but lived in the Compassionate Ning Palace with his wife.

Zhu Jingyuan also didn't go to live in the palace outside the palace, and directly lived in the Ciqing Palace in front of the Cining Palace.

In this way, the grandparents and grandchildren live in the front and back yards, and they can drop by and chat directly at any time.

None of these highest-level palaces is a courtyard itself, but a large building complex surrounded by multiple small courtyards.

Zhu Jingyuan's two concubines lived in their own courtyards, and their maids lived in their courtyards.

The maidservants who have already taken over the houses and those who are about to be taken over also live in a courtyard with the maidservants under their jurisdiction.

Other ordinary servants live in other rooms around.

Zhu Jingyuan was the same as before, when he settled down in the place, he went back to his room to rest.

Anything else can be said after re-adapting to the land and finishing the jet lag.

The other people are also in the same state, so during the first day, except for eating and sleeping, they are paralyzed.

Zhu Jingyuan lay in the palace for two days and basically recovered to normal state.

Then he summoned two staff members, took the special car he brought, and went to the agricultural machinery factory outside the city together.

The samples of tractors assembled locally in Ming Dynasty have already been sent over.

The craftsmen of the agricultural machinery factory, under the guidance of the local craftsmen, tried to assemble the tractor with the diesel engine from the local, and the chassis and tires produced by Jiaxin Tianfu.

As soon as Zhu Jingyuan came in, the craftsmen here immediately stopped and stood up together to salute.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately responded with a smile and let the craftsmen keep busy.

Then he leaned over, looked at several half-length tractors, and asked about the current situation:

"How? Can the assembled machine run?"

The artisan in charge of assembly came and immediately replied:
"It can run, but there is a slight problem, and we need to continue debugging..."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately continued to ask:

"Then can I go directly to harvest and plow the field now?"

Here the craftsman casually said:
"It can be, but we have to follow the scene and be ready to deal with emergencies at any time."

Niu Jian who was following Zhu Jingyuan seemed to have thought of something:
"Your Highness, if you want to go to the field to display the machine, it's best to wait until the debugging is basically gone, or use the debugged sample machine brought from the mainland.

"Otherwise, if there are frequent problems at the exhibition site, it may leave a bad impression on the common people."

Zhu Jingyuan really wanted to go out and show off the new machines.

Xintianfu is now in the busy season of farming, and the corn is being plowed, and then wheat is being plowed, which is suitable for display.

Niu Jian's reminder is indeed justified.

Although Xintianfu is theoretically a corporate operation, all the people are employees of Huangzhuang.

Whether to switch to new machines is decided by Huangzhuang's management team, not by the people themselves.

But the users of the machines are ordinary people. If they don't have a good impression of the machines, their enthusiasm for work may be affected.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly and said:

"Mr. Niu is right, the display and promotion should wait until the machine matures as much as possible.

"Then everyone will continue to debug and assemble the machine. I will use the sample machine to practice first..."

Both Lin Zexu and Niu Jian were taken aback:
"Your Highness, you want to show the tractor yourself?"

Zhu Jingyuan said of course:

"It is indeed to show myself that agriculture is the foundation of the country, and it cannot be overemphasized.

"The emperors of all dynasties have to plow the fields themselves, and it is normal for me, a prince, to plow a field."

The two staff members suddenly realized that the truth is indeed such a truth.

Even though the degree of industrialization in Daming is getting higher and higher, the emphasis on agriculture has never been lowered.

Ordinary people are used to saying that they are peasants no matter how big they are as officials and no matter how rich their families are.

Zhuge Liang also used to cultivate Longmu, and being a farmer can be regarded as a seclusion.

Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, the emperor takes all the civil and military officials to plow the fields.

No one thinks that farming is a bad thing, no one thinks that farmers are a lowly occupation.

In Zhu Jingyuan's last life, it was the impact of Western business culture that changed or even destroyed this perception.

At present, this cognition is still a matter of course logic.

It's just a little bit of industrialization, and we are going to replace the cattle and horses with tractors. The essential purpose is still to cultivate the land.

Just like the film equipment assembled by Zhu Jingyuan, it was first used to record a lecture on the Analects of Confucius by the Minister of Rites.

(End of this chapter)