My Daming New Empire

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The Qilin Gate is named after the two stone unicorns located in the tomb of Liu Yuchuning, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty.It was built in the 23rd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to make up for and strengthen the defense of the Nanjing Ming City Wall.

The main body of the city wall is made up of hills and earth, and bricks are only added to the weak defensive areas such as the gates. The height of the city is about 8 to 10 meters, and the width of the city wall is 6 to 8 meters.

Because Zhu Gaochi now lives in the hot spring courtyard, and most people from the south of the Yangtze River pass through here when they go to Beijing, the gate is very highly utilized.

However, due to the large flow of people and vehicles, the original construction of the city gate was a bit narrow, so it was planned to be demolished and rebuilt.

Zhu Zhanji first asked civil and military officials to inspect the city wall to be demolished, and then asked the Taoist priests of the Institute of Chemistry to install a total of 100 catties of picric acid explosives and more than [-] mercury fulminate detonators at the main nodes.

Twenty catties of dynamite is only a small barrel, but the power of picric acid dynamite is even greater than the famous TNT dynamite of later generations.

After the twenty catties of explosives were detonated, a section of the towering city wall collapsed.

This scene shocked everyone and overturned their mental illusions.

The city wall is the bottom line of their psychological safety, but in fact, in ancient wars, only the war of destroying the country can play a huge role. Most of the time, spies have already infiltrated and made the city wall useless.

Just like Zhu Di, if Li Jinglong hadn't opened the city gate, would he have successfully become emperor?uncertain.

In their minds, the city wall, which is as stable as Mount Tai, is so vulnerable to the new explosives. Does the city wall really work?

Being able to make these ministers reflect has actually achieved Zhu Zhanji's goal.

People's thinking concepts cannot be changed in a short period of time. Even in later generations, after 20 years of reform and opening up, and having accepted so many external impacts, it was not until the new century that people's thinking changed.

Daming's propaganda ability is of course not as strong as the ruling party, and Zhu Zhanji didn't think about changing everyone completely from the beginning.

His purpose of doing this is just for another purpose, which is to build a new city outside the city walls.

The cost of rebuilding an old city is much higher than building a new city on flat land.Building a new city on flat land, whether it is the laying of sewers at the beginning or the widening of roads, will not have any obstacles.

Moreover, these ancient cities have been built. Although they are very backward, they can still be preserved as future scenic spots.

Instead of tearing it down, tearing it down, tearing it down like later generations...

In a country with an ancient civilization of thousands of years, there are so few buildings over 500 years old. This is a kind of sadness.

This kind of cultural fault is actually more terrifying than the fault of economic development.

If the economy has not developed, it will continue to develop in the future. It is nothing more than a matter of time.

However, once the cultural gap is formed, it will be countless times more difficult to find it in the future, and it may not be successful.

The appearance of muskets has completely changed the war mode of the entire East.

This is not just a few thousand or tens of thousands of firearms in the original history, and no more than ten thousand craftsmen.

Today's musket manufacturing in the Ming Dynasty has become large-scale, institutionalized, and standardized.No matter who is in power, it is impossible to ignore the role of muskets.

In the past, cavalry could attack infantry several times their own by force.But now, the cavalry is only more mobile than the infantry.

The cavalry with only sabers, not to mention the musketeers who are no less than themselves, even if the number of musketeers is reduced by half, the cavalry is still no match.

The mode of warfare has changed. Even if there is a rebellion in the future, there will be no resistance to muskets.

Even if foreign races have muskets, if they want to invade, it is impossible for them to have as many people as Daming.

No matter how you look at it, Daming is now invincible, Zhu Zhanji has this confidence.

So now, the city wall has indeed lost its proper meaning, and has become more of a city decoration.

Faced with Zhu Zhanji's strong factual persuasion, the ministers passed the future urban construction strategy on July [-]th after half a month's deliberation.

In the future urban construction, different architectural styles will be created according to the customs and climate of different regions.

And, most importantly, cities with different populations.Corresponding standards have been formulated for the construction of sewers, water purification pools, and biogas digesters.

In addition, there are corresponding standards for the width of the road and the planting of greenery.

Zhu Zhanji does not expect every city to be a garden city, but he is absolutely unwilling to sacrifice the environment because of urban development.

Da Ming doesn't need to chase anyone, and he doesn't have the pressure of being chased, so it is enough to develop in an orderly manner.

This construction strategy does not involve the reconstruction of the old city, let alone the removal of the city wall, but only provides a standard for the future construction of Daming.

As for the real urban transformation strategy, the corresponding standards will not be formulated until Ying Tianfu has accumulated experience after the transformation.

When the time entered August, the Ministry of Industry and the Internal Superintendent first started to build two communities for ordinary people outside Qingliangmen, on both sides of the road leading to the Jiajiang Industrial Zone.

These two communities were built by the Ministry of Industry and the Internal Supervision for ordinary people working in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone. The standard of occupancy is to have a house in the inner city of Yingtianfu and work in the workshop for more than a certain period.

Others just watched the construction of the patent department building, but the construction of these two communities really made the people of Yingtianfu excited.

The new house is a standardized five-story unit building of later generations, but the difference is that it does not have the rigidity of Soviet-style buildings, but is more like the Forest Building in Singapore in the new century, but the materials are incomparable.

According to the population structure of Daming, almost every house is a three-bedroom and one-living room version, and then there is a large balcony, and each room has a glass window.

Then there is a separate kitchen and toilet, and physiological problems can be solved without leaving home.

Because the structure of the house is a bit stupid, it doesn't matter if you plant trees on the balcony, not to mention flowers and grass.

Moreover, the greening in the community strictly follows the standards, and there are small squares where you can play and chat.

On the roof of each building, above the load-bearing wall, there is a water tank made of cement pool, which is painted to ensure the water quality, and there is a special steam engine to provide water.

Such a house, not to mention in this era, will not be outdated even if it is pushed back hundreds of years!

Being able to live in such a house without spending money makes ordinary people in Daming not crazy.

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Although Yingtianfu's urban construction does not seem to have much effect, before a country's economy has developed, such a transformation seems to be a waste of money and people.

However, don't forget that this is the era of imperial power, and Zhu Zhanji's transformation of the entire Yingtian Mansion is equivalent to the epitome of the transformation of Ming Dynasty.

Through this kind of transformation, not only can the officials' confidence in him be enhanced, but also the interests of the officials can be tied to themselves.

Alone, one can have ideals and aspirations, but in real life, one can never live without eating, drinking and sleeping.

The quality of life determines a person's environment, and the influence of this environment on a person is very important.

Ying Tianfu's transformation is such a change that makes all ministers dependent on Zhu Zhanji's rule in a new environment. In this way, no one will oppose him.

Moreover, even if there are frustrated people who are dissatisfied, they dare not let others know, let alone follow blindly.

In addition to these, there is another important reason, and that is to show Zhu Di.

He wanted to make the transformation of Yingtian Mansion into a certain scale before Zhu Di returned to Daming, and let Zhu Di take a good look at it. There was nothing wrong with choosing him to supervise the country.