Daming 1805

Chapter 482 Eight Years of Ankang

From this day on, Li Hongbin took Zhu Jingyuan to meet his subordinates, handed over the archives and facilities of the official department, and handled the transfer procedures of various materials, while imparting officialdom experience and rules to Zhu Jingyuan.

This handover work lasted for one and a half months, and it was not until early April that Li Hongbin officially left the official office.

However, Li Hongbin still did not return to his hometown immediately, but continued to live in Yingtianfu's house.

If Zhu Jianyan and Zhu Jingyuan needed anything, they could call him again to help coordinate things.

It is equivalent to switching from a real job to a consultant.

However, this consultant is actually of little significance, because there is also Wang Tingzhen, the chief minister of Jiuqing Otsuka, who is on the official secretary.

When Zhu Jingyuan handed over work, he also had to pay a special visit to this theoretical direct superior.

Of course Wang Tingzhen was very polite to Zhu Jingyuan, and also took the initiative to greet him outside the office.

Similarly, he said a lot of things to Zhu Jingyuan with all his heart, and he was in a state of knowing everything without saying anything.

Wang Tingzhen is also going to retire soon, and the extent of her honor after retirement or even a hundred years later depends on whether Zhu Jingyuan has a good impression of her.

Needless to say, the second official and low-level officials below the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, cooperating with the prince to adapt to the work of the Ministry of Officials is the most important thing in their lives at present.

So Zhu Jingyuan himself and Li Hongbin's previous considerations and explanations were not wrong.

Zhu Jingyuan's essential work in the past two years will be very smooth.

If you are just going to spend two years in the bureaucracy, you can ignore everything and let other people do everything.

But the emperor above is watching.

If a prince really just dawdled in the official department for the past two years, he might be replaced.

It is impossible for Zhu Jingyuan himself to be idle.

All things are involved, and things that can be done by myself are done by myself.

Not only is he busy in the official department, but he also visits and greets other departments whenever he is free.

If there is an opportunity, I will go to private gatherings of officials.

The prince who came to the official department can have unlimited motivation to learn, adapt and master everything here.

Because doing a good job has the best reward in the world.

In such complicated and tedious work, more than two years passed in a flash, and it was 15 years in Ankang in a blink of an eye.

The Yingtian New Capital City in Jiangpu County began preparations in the second half of 11 in Ankang, and construction officially began in early 12 in Ankang.

Then, after more than three years of rushing work at full speed, it was finally completed in April 15 in Ankang.

Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty was already 60 years old, and immediately recruited Zhu Jingyuan after receiving the report.

The father and son went to visit the 80-year-old Supreme Emperor Zhu Zhongliang together.

Zhu Zhongliang's body is not bad, and he can still walk by himself, but he is really trembling.

Zhu Zhongliang no longer forced himself to walk, and sat in the special wheelchair that Zhu Jingyuan had specially prepared for him.

Coupled with a few high-end cars with designed doors, the corresponding wheelchair can be pushed up directly.

Zhu Jianyan explained the situation of the new palace to his father:
"Do you want to go and have a look first?"

Zhu Zhongliang waved his hand directly:
"Let Jingyuan go first, I'll go when Jingyuan comes back, second child you go last..."

This is to keep the three generations with the most special identities from getting together.

Now that Zhu Jianyan's mind is calm, he agreed without any hesitation when he heard this arrangement:

"Then Jingyuan, go and have a look first, and do a final inspection.

"If no problems are found, let your grandpa and family members move in directly.

"Then I will officially move there with the entire imperial court."

Zhu Jingyuan also nodded directly, then bid farewell to his father and grandfather, and went to Jiangpu County by himself.

At the same time as the construction of Yingtianfu New City, various supporting projects have also been completed in the past three years.

These include three new bridges across the river.

The middle one is facing the center of Yingtianfu New City, which is the three main halls with new power supply and the surrounding administrative office buildings.

The bridge was named Center Bridge.

The other two are located five kilometers northeast and southwest of the central bridge respectively.

They were named North Bridge and South Bridge respectively.

The distance between the Bei Bridge and the original Yangtze River Bridge is about five kilometers.

The roads extended by the three new bridges on the west bank of the Yangtze River are the three east-west main roads in the new urban area of ​​Yingtianfu.

The scope of completed buildings in the new urban area is mainly concentrated in the area between the three main roads.

Zhu Jingyuan's convoy passed through the central bridge and directly entered the central area of ​​Yingtian New City.

As soon as you enter this area, there is a feeling of enlightenment around you, as if the world has changed completely.

Due to the continuous deepening of industrialization and the continuous acceleration of urban life efficiency, ordinary people are becoming more and more sensitive to construction costs.

The newly built buildings both inside and outside the main cities of Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more simple.

Straight up and down walls, simple and rough geometric lines, fewer and fewer colors and paintings.

It is also getting closer to the typical urban architecture of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

However, in many cases, the choice of the wealthy class is the place where the cultural atmosphere is directly displayed.

The luxurious manor villas of nobles and wealthy businessmen, because they don't care much about the cost, they pursue the symbol of status and status.

So there are still complex and cumbersome traditional Chinese buildings.

However, there are not many such buildings, and they are often concentrated in certain areas.

Most of the places are more and more simplified modern buildings.

After crossing the Central Bridge, the houses in Yingtianfu New City in Jiangpu County are all traditional oriental buildings.

At the same time, in the old town of the main city of Ming Dynasty, it is common to see complicated wires and pipes crossing overhead, circling between different houses, and even being completely in a mess. warning sign.

Because the old cities of most cities in Ming Dynasty were upgraded spontaneously during the industrial revolution.

The city itself has been built a long time ago. When adding running water and pulling wires, it is impossible to tear down the houses and unify them.

So we can only make do with the messy houses, and most of the facilities can only be exposed on the ground.

Even in the subsequent improved construction plan, some high-level wires and water pipes were consciously buried underground, but when they entered the old house, they had to be dug out again and raised into the yard.

In the old towns of many cities, it is common to see various wires tangled together.

Just like the old city of Zhu Jingyuan that later generations have seen.

Even if there are still many old houses, they are also traditional oriental buildings, but if a bunch of wires are wrapped around the cornices, it will directly destroy the traditional classical artistic conception.

But in Yingtian New City in Jiangpu County, there is nothing in the space between these oriental buildings, and the above ground is a green area except for various buildings.

It seems that this is an ancient oriental city that has not experienced industrialization.

Of course, Yingtian New City is not without the facilities of the industrial age, but they are all hidden in a unified way.

The entire city of Yingtian New City in Jiangpu County is newly planned and newly constructed.

Under the supervision and advice of Zhu Jingyuan, many new ideas from later generations were adopted, and a lot of space was reserved for the future.

The first is that the underground railway was built directly while the city was being built.

Then there is the multi-level underground plumbing space that has been reserved from the outset with very large margins.

It is required that all power lines, telephone lines, telegraph lines, as well as urban water supply pipelines and natural gas pipelines, as well as large-scale underground drainage projects, be arranged uniformly in a specially designed huge underground pipeline network system.

The main space of the underground network pipeline system can accommodate workers standing and walking and small vehicles passing directly.

This is not only for the convenience of overhauling equipment, but also for the subsequent addition of new lines and pipelines.

For example, subsequent Internet lines and even optical fibers for future generations.

A unified natural gas supply system has been laid out in advance during this construction.

This large underground pipeline also serves as an air-raid shelter.

These pipeline networks are directly connected to the basement of the building, and can be directly accessed from the building by taking the elevator or taking the stairs.

The underground pipeline space in the area under all buildings also has a certain radiation protection design.

All new buildings have been designed with unified pipe wells, so there are no messy lines outside and above the buildings.

Zhu Jingyuan got off the car in a completed residential area, and accompanied by Lei Hong, Minister of the Ministry of Construction, visited the interior of the residential area.

The traditional oriental courtyards are basically large courtyards with small courtyards, with several openings and several entrances.

But this residential area did not adopt that model.

Instead, the buildings were scattered in a piece of green space and gardens.

All the buildings share a huge yard, which is also a typical community design of later generations.

Zhu Jingyuan found a public washbasin in front of a flower bed in the middle of this community.

Just turn on the faucet and watch the tap water flow out directly.

Lei Hong introduced with a smile beside him:
"Now most of the hard demand areas have been connected to water, electricity and ventilation, and they can live in directly at any time.

"We have built two or three reservoirs and two small hydropower stations in Laoshan to supply the water and electricity in the palace alone.

"The water source in other areas comes from large waterworks built on the riverside, and the electricity comes from the unified power grid.

"Although the sources are different, according to His Highness's request, they all adopt the highest cleanliness standard.

"Tap water directly adopts the index of drinking water."

Zhu Jingyuan also smiled and nodded, washed his hands beside the flower bed, and walked around in the garden.

Then went to a fenced yard next to the garden.

There are several buildings in the yard that are obviously different from other houses.

The height of the buildings outside is about 70 meters, and they are designed with a total of [-] to [-] floors.

These buildings only have six floors, but they cover a much larger area.

There are also many toys in the yard that are obviously prepared for children, as well as a small-scale stadium.

When Zhu Jingyuan walked into the courtyard, Lei Hong immediately continued to introduce:
"Here are the kindergartens inside the residential area and the primary schools in several nearby residential areas.

"If the imperial court moves in as a whole in the second half of this year, it can be put into use directly next year.

"According to your request, each residential area shall have a kindergarten, and every eight residential areas shall have a primary school.

"There are dedicated overpasses in the streets between all residential areas leading to primary schools.

"It is convenient for children to go to school safely and reduce the possibility of traffic accidents..."

Zhu Jingyuan walked around the primary school and felt that this place basically met his requirements.

The appearance of these buildings is oriental, but the design of the classrooms and offices inside is very similar to the classrooms and offices of the school I used to go to school in my previous life.

It is probably the design convergence that occurs under the guidance of efficiency and actual target requirements.

Zhu Jingyuan saw a group of special acceptance personnel inspecting the walls, doors, windows, wiring and pipes of the primary school on the spot.

Zhu Jingyuan watched for a while, and found that all parameters were completely qualified, even basically excellent.

Obviously, it was built because the buildings of the entire Yingtian New City exceeded the standard.

After all, it was a project that the emperor and Prince Dashi personally stared at, and the most skilled workers were found with sufficient budget.

After Zhu Jingyuan left the elementary school, he went to a nearby residential building.

This apartment building has a total of eighteen floors, but the actual living floors are the upper sixteen floors.

The bottom two floors of the building were designed as a rather spacious hall.

There is a small movie theater, and an internal communal restaurant.

Lei Hong watched Zhu Jingyuan looking around in the middle of the hall, and continued to introduce the situation here:
"The sixteen-story buildings are all residential buildings for the officials and secretaries of the central court.

"A public rest area and restaurant are also prepared according to your requirements.

"On weekdays, the imperial court will serve breakfast and dinner uniformly, and lunch will be provided on rest days.

"Let those who don't have a family, and those who don't want to cook for themselves because of the trouble, can go directly to the restaurant to eat.

"In addition to the infrastructure inside each residential building, there are also dedicated living, leisure and entertainment buildings."

Zhu Jingyuan was also very satisfied, it was all what he wanted, the facilities in the courtyard of the court yamen.

Zhu Jingyuan took the elevator upstairs in the apartment building, and opened several rooms to have a look inside.

The housing standards for officials are all three bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms and one kitchen, with an indoor usable area of ​​120 square meters.

According to the standards of later generations, all of them have completed the fine decoration and installed the necessary furniture, and they can be directly rented in.

After Zhu Jingyuan visited the apartment building of Liyuanmen, he went to see the community of Guanguanmen.

The apartment buildings for low-level officials from the seventh rank to the ninth rank are basically in the same form as the officials' gate.

It's just that the total floor has been reduced to eleven floors, the usable area of ​​each house has increased to 160 square meters, and another room has been added to the room, resulting in a layout of four bedrooms and two halls.

The standard for mid-level officials from the fourth rank to the sixth rank has been raised by another level, the floor has been reduced to six floors, and the use area has increased to 240 square meters.

From the second rank to the third rank, the standard of senior officials is upgraded to another level, from a large flat floor to a duplex structure with upper and lower floors, and only three families live in a standard six-story building.

Shangshu of the second rank and Jiuqing of the first rank, the top bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, began to live in houses with a single family.

All these houses are "dormitories" in nature, owned by the central court of the Ming Dynasty, and are not sold or rented out.

If officials are not satisfied with these dormitories, they can spend their own money to apply for land on the outskirts of the built-up area and build new houses to live in.

(End of this chapter)