My Daming New Empire

Zhu Zhanji decided to build a large-scale construction project to rebuild Yingtian Mansion. The first step is to rebuild the major yamen of the imperial court.

The previous houses were all bungalows, and each yamen occupied a vast area, occupying a large area of ​​land, and the land utilization rate was too low.

However, if a high-rise building is built, it doesn't need to be too high, three to six floors is enough, which can greatly improve the office conditions of officials and save a lot of land for Ying Tianfu.

The patent department has a large number of people, and the house is the most tense, becoming the first government office to be built.

Because the rank is relatively low, this yamen will not be built on Chengtianmenwai Street, but will be located on the north side of Chang'anfang.And it will build five floors, only slightly lower than Fengtian Temple.

And this five-story building, which covers an area of ​​[-] square meters, has attracted the attention of countless people since the beginning of construction.

Everyone knows that this will be a new beginning in the history of Ming Dynasty architecture.

This house has an obvious combination of Chinese and Western styles, with a Baroque architectural framework, but it also has an oriental roof and eaves.Moreover, this is only the side facing the street, and there is an oriental courtyard pattern and garden pattern behind it.

This method was proposed by Zhu Zhanji, but it was not his original creation, because he had seen this style of buildings in Harbin in his previous life, and they only had roofs and eaves without Chinese style.

To some extent, Baroque architecture has a structure that perfectly matches the Chinese style.They pay attention to symmetry in appearance, which is consistent with the Chinese style.

In terms of internal architecture, they pay attention to the use of space and light, which is far superior to other architectural styles, and only the Mediterranean style can match.

Like the new Chinese architectural style of later generations, although it looks beautiful, the use of light inside the house lags behind by hundreds of years.

And the Mediterranean style is incompatible with Daming's architectural style. In the eyes of Daming people, that architectural style is too ugly.

More importantly, today's Baroque architectural style has not yet taken shape in the West. Now that the Ming Dynasty has carried forward this style, it has become the new Daming architectural style.

Here, Zhu Zhanji abandoned the exaggerated artistic style of the Baroque style, and did not want their form of deliberately designing some lines into curved surfaces in pursuit of visual effects.

Chinese architecture still pays attention to squareness, but it is nothing more than the details that pay more attention to meaning.

The original meaning of the term Baroque refers to a kind of irregularly shaped pearl, which had a derogatory meaning at that time. At that time, people believed that its gorgeous and ostentatious style was a derogation of the Renaissance style.

But now this style is determined under the leadership of Zhu Zhanji. Daming people already like complicated styles. This kind of flamboyance and showing off is in line with the mentality of today's Da Ming's No. [-] in the world.

Especially on the main structure, it is still the wide eaves design style of Daming since ancient times.

The roofs of ancient Chinese buildings played a particularly important role in building facades.Far protruding eaves, elastic eaves curves, slightly recurved roofs formed by lifting frames, and slightly raised corners (looking up at the corners, the corner rafters spread out like bird wings, so it is called "wing angle") As well as the changes of many roof forms such as hard mountain, hanging mountain, Xieshan, hipped hall, Cuanjian, cross ridge, scorpion roof, double eaves, etc., coupled with brilliant glazed tiles, the building has a unique and strong visual effect and artistic contagious.

Through various combinations of roofs, the shape and outline of the building become more abundant.Looking down from a high altitude, the effect of the roof is better, which means that the "fifth facade" of Chinese architecture is the most attractive.

Therefore, when the blueprint of the Patent Department's building was released to the public, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

This new house is stronger, thicker, and more practical.Moreover, after the glass is installed, the light inside the house is far better than today's house, and there is no need to light up the office during the day.

Of course, this gorgeous, heavy building is mainly office space.At the same time, the architectural style of the houses in which the common people live has become a difficult problem.

Today's people are still very poor, and most families have no money left.Regardless of whether it is a new Chinese style or a unit building, the construction cost is much higher than most of the houses built with mud bricks and loess today.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't want to be like the later generations, who will raise the price of the house to the sky, so that the common people will have to spend their whole lives running around for a house.

He is very clear that the hype of housing prices is related to the living habits of ordinary people. The country needs a large amount of consumption to take money out of ordinary people's pockets to stimulate consumption and the market.

But today's Ming Dynasty is superior to later generations, as long as the overseas territories continue to flow back resources, as long as Daming's technological level remains ahead.

For at least one or two hundred years, the siphon effect produced by Daming can nourish the entire Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji finally decided that even if the imperial court did not earn a tael of silver, the housing of the people in Yingtian Mansion should be settled first.

First of all, the facade facing the street should be built as a three-storey building with a shop in front and a house in the back. This kind of building does not need to consider water supply and drainage, but it can solve the congestion problem in Yingtianfu.

The second is the neighborhood, which was first remodeled by the wealthy neighbors. The houses uniformly adopt a two-story or three-story new Chinese style to reduce the floor space.

The saved land and the houses built can be sold at a high price to make up for the loss of the court.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji asked the Ministry of Industry to actively study the improvement of water and sewage equipment, and strive to build a water tower in each neighborhood in the future to supply the daily water for the entire neighborhood.

After the breakthrough of this technology, five or six-story unit buildings can be built, which greatly improves the land utilization rate of Yingtianfu.

Of course, the most important thing is not to turn the house into a commodity. If the house is turned into a commodity, the order of the whole society will be in chaos.

The best way is to turn the house into a status hierarchy, and people can distinguish it at a glance.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there are royal family, clan, nobles, officials, scholars, common people (merchants, farmers, etc.), and now there are more overseas students, envoys, and employees.

In addition to clothing, the house should also become an important criterion for distinguishing identity.

Zhu Zhanji asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites to standardize various regulated buildings, and at the same time issued an order to carry out unified planning for urban construction throughout Daming and stop the construction of various new houses.

Every different region should have a different architectural style. This kind of architecture requires practicality and solidity, and can be preserved for a long time.

In later generations, urban homogenization was very serious.In many parts of the country, no matter in the south, north, east or west, the houses are almost exactly the same, without any novelty at all.

This is not advisable. Although it can save some thought, it is a great waste of resources.

If each city has its own style and characteristics, then after a few hundred years, the development of tourism across the country will be far more popular than later generations.

More importantly, the construction of sewers in each city must first be put on the agenda. To build a city, the first thing is not to build a beautiful building, but to have powerful functions.

Rivers cannot be flooded when it rains, and if it does not rain for a period of time, water shortages will begin again.

Urban construction needs a forward-looking vision. Whether it is greening, drainage, garbage disposal, water and electricity supply, or road construction, sufficient space should be reserved.

Ying Tianfu should be called a model, a model for the entire Ming Dynasty, so that cities in other places can initially have the urban functions of future generations.

In terms of roads, the original Ming Dynasty only had horse-drawn carts and ox carts, and the roads were narrow.

Zhu Zhanji wants to build a city train in Yingtianfu, and many buildings will be demolished.

If there are cars in the future, the current roads will be even worse.

Therefore, in the urban transformation of Yingtianfu, these issues must be fully considered, and reserved lanes for cars and railroad tracks.

There is a big problem here, that is the restriction of the city wall.

The ancient cities were small and crowded because of the restrictions of the city walls.The city wall has played an irreplaceable role for a long time.

However, when dynamite has been invented, new guns have been invented, and the power of war has increased a lot, is the role of the city wall still so important?

of course not!

When the time entered the hottest July, Zhu Zhanji proposed the possibility of canceling the construction of the city wall in the future Ming Dynasty at the Great Court Meeting on the first day of July.

This proposal was opposed by almost everyone. The city wall is the safe reliance of the people of this era, and it is also the reliance of these ministers.

Don't want the city wall, what's the difference between stripping yourself naked and facing the opponent's sword?

In order to persuade these ministers, Zhu Zhanji brought all the civil and military officials to the Qilin Gate in the east of the outer city of Yingtianfu.