Chapter 309 New Tianfu Moat and Forbidden City

Zhu Jingyuan's river boat floated on the Milky Way for more than ten hours and arrived at Xintianfu Pier early the next morning.

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

Xintianfu City is theoretically a city along the river, but the river mouth is so wide that it is difficult to see the other side with a telescope.

Therefore, Xintianfu feels like a coastal city at the same time.

The official dock 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 southeasternmost part of the pier and entered an inland man-made 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 vast expanse of farmland.

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

Now outside Xintianfu City, there are mature corn and soybean fields everywhere, and they are all ripe and burnt yellow as far as you can see.

Not only were the main buildings taller, wider, and deeper, but the auxiliary rooms surrounding the formal palaces and even the rooms for servants were also enlarged and multiplied.

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

Yingtianfu, Shuntianfu, and Xintianfu.

Other personnel on the ship were also received by local docking personnel and went to temporary residential areas for resettlement.

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

This is the highest-level senior figure Xintianfu has ever received.

"Emperors of all dynasties have to plow the fields themselves. It is only normal for me, the prince, to plow the fields."

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

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

The craftsmen of the agricultural machinery factory, under the guidance of local craftsmen, tried to assemble a tractor using a diesel engine sent from the mainland and adding a chassis and tires produced by Tianfu.

Similar facilities in the Capital Forbidden City were gradually added later, while the new Tianfu Forbidden City existed in design.

A square with a side length of 27 kilometers is equivalent to the scope of the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. This scale is really wrong.

Zhu Jingyuan naturally considered using this city wall and moat as the center line of industrial construction, and placing all factories beside this river and road in the future.

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

Or one side can be developed as an industrial area and the other side as a residential area.

And the air conditioner can be installed later.

"Can we go directly to the fields to harvest and plow now?"

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

Emperor Zhu Jianyan can be regarded as the chairman of the board, and Zhu Jingyuan was appointed governor of Xintianfu, which is equivalent to becoming the general manager.

This strange product formed due to various reasons has unexpectedly become a special landscape of Xintianfu.

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

Niu Jian’s reminder does make sense.

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

Zhu Jingyuan immediately responded with a smile and asked the craftsmen to continue their work.

Then, without stopping at the pier, I followed my grandfather and took the bus directly into the Forbidden City.

There was no one else in the palace now, so Zhu Zhongliang did not go to live in the Renshou Palace of the Supreme Emperor, but moved into Cining Palace with his wife.

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

No one thinks that farming is a bad thing, and no one thinks that being a farmer is a humble profession.

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

Most of the land that was originally supposed to be in the outer city area is currently farmland and pasture.

The maids who have been taken over and those who are about to be taken over also live in their own courtyards with the maids under their jurisdiction.

Occasionally, children carrying schoolbags chase each other and play on the street.

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

Everyone else was in a similar state, so on the first day, apart from eating, I just slept.

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

At the same time, space has been specially designed and constructed to prepare and reserve space for new functions in the new era.

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

After confirming that Zhu Jingyuan and his grandson arrived today, the shopkeepers of Huangzhuang came over before dawn and waited.

During the off-season, this is also a good place for outings, walking, fishing, cooling off and basking in the sun.

Only in a few places, there are cotton textile mills, canneries, flour mills, match factories, agricultural equipment factories and other factories related to agricultural products processing, daily necessities, and agricultural supplies.

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

The craftsman here said casually:

"Yes, yes, but we have to follow on site and be ready to deal with emergencies at any time."

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

Xintianfu Forbidden City is one thousand meters long and wide.

Therefore, a large number of small and medium-sized ships can directly enter the moat canal without docking at the official dock next to the Milky Way.

The Forbidden City of Xintianfu clearly has the same status as Yingtianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan did not live outside the palace, but directly moved into Ciqing Palace in front of Cining Palace.

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

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

There are a large number of vacant houses in the north of the city at any time, and there is no problem in housing workers from the big food countries and locals.

The only drawback is that there is no air conditioning, but the summer temperature in Xintianfu basically does not exceed 30 degrees, and the electric fan is barely enough.

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

Based on this overall layout change, all building dimensions of the New Tianfu Forbidden City have been enlarged compared to the original Forbidden City.

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

Niu Jian, who was following Zhu Jingyuan, seemed to have thought of something:

"Your Highness, if you want to go to the fields to display the machine, it is best to wait until the debugging is basically gone, or to use a debugged sample machine brought from the mainland.

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

Every year on February 2nd, the emperor would take all the civil and military officials to plow the fields.

The innermost part is the Forbidden City, which is one kilometer long. Outside the Forbidden City is the Imperial City, which is three kilometers long.

For example, boilers and heating supply systems, tap water and water purification systems, power supply and control systems, modern sanitary facilities and drainage systems, parking lots and underground storage rooms, etc.

The Renshou Palace was moved backward and placed behind the left side of the Forbidden City. It was also moved overall and enlarged to accommodate the Supreme Emperor.

As before, Zhu Jingyuan settled down at the place and went back to his room to rest.

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

Zhu Jingyuan immediately continued to ask:

In order to be symmetrical in layout with the two empress dowager palaces opposite, the New Tianfu Forbidden City designed a set of new-style palaces for the specific residence of underage princes.

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

The original Yinghua Palace, Shou'an Palace, and Cining Palace were occupied, and the entire palace was moved outward while enlarging the size of the palace courtyard.

"Mr. Niu said it right. Display and promotion should wait until the machine matures as much as possible before doing it.

At the same time, water-related projects such as agricultural reservoirs, agricultural canals, water transport terminals, farmland irrigation and drainage systems are designed to be integrated along the moat planning route as much as possible.

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

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

Samples of tractors assembled locally by Daming have been sent over.

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

There are patches of independent courtyards on both sides of the street. The layout of the courtyards is also highly similar. It is obvious that they were planned and constructed in a unified manner.

"Otherwise, if problems occur frequently at the display site, it may leave a bad impression on the people."

Anything else will have to wait until we get used to the land again and get over the jet lag.
To be continued...