Chapter 743 Rebuilding Luoyang City
According to the schedule set by Lu Bu and the cabinet, Emperor Liu Bian, Empress Dowager He Lian, Empress Tang Yan, Princess Wannian Liu Yan and Prince Liu Xi will move to the Luoyang Palace this year. The palace in Yecheng will become the Emperor's Palace, leaving only some palace maids to guard it.
The renovation of Luoyang City is now in the final stage.
Zhu Jun, the governor of Sizhou, was in charge of Luoyang. In addition to dealing with Yuan Shao's invasion, he focused on renovating Luoyang Imperial City and Luoyang Imperial Palace.
Although Lu Bu did not have talent in architecture, he came after more than a thousand years. He had seen the Forbidden City, the Old Summer Palace, and the gardens in Jiangnan. The buildings in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties left a deep impression on him, so that he always felt that the Qin bricks and Han tiles were too rough and not delicate enough.
Regarding the renovation and improvement of Luoyang, Lu Bu once summoned Zhu Jun and would be the master craftsman Li Zhi and Zheng Hun, Minister of Works, discussed together how to build Luoyang to be more beautiful. Lu Bu's epoch-making beauty was not accepted by them at the beginning, but after Jingzhao Yin Zhong Yao's wonderful painting, Zhu Jun, Li Zhi, and Zheng Hun were all amazed and turned to Lu Bu with respectful eyes: "Beng Xian Gong, I didn't expect that you have such magical accomplishments in this, which made us very ashamed."
It is obvious that compared with the Forbidden City that was constantly seeking carved beams and painted buildings during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the two Han emperors Liu Bang and Liu Xiu were relatively more popular. They did not create the Afang Palace like Qin Shihuang, nor did they create the Forbidden City like Zhu Di. In addition, the construction technology of the Han people in the Qin and Han dynasties was not as mature as that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, so the palace of the Eastern Han Dynasty seemed too simple.
Lu Bu looked up at the sky and laughed loudly, "You are right, this is a magical power. It's not that I am specialized in this, but that the god of heaven passed away to me last night, and described the place of heaven to me. Let me describe it to you."
"The Tongtian Sect, which has been developing for two years, has vaguely portrayed Lu Bu into an envoy who can communicate with the gods of heaven. Although Zhu Jun, Li Zhi and Zheng Hun have always disbelief, they have no way to explain the surprises that Lu Bu has always brought them. Seeing that Lu Bu is so honest, they can only choose to believe. The three of them looked at each other and asked, "Beng Xian Gong, then should we repair Luoyang City according to this sketch now?"
Although Lu Bu depicted the city of běijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties for them, he was not going to let them copy it completely, because Lu Bu was tired of the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing dynasties, he said, "I have received the decree of the gods and portrayed this building to you, just for you to learn from it, not for you to copy it as it is. You just need to learn from it on the basis of the original. Just learn from the inspiration I have brought you a little."
Lu Bu then asked Zhong Yao to draw the Jiangnan gardens he remembered and handed them over to Zhu Jun and others for reference.
Lu Bu drew the Forbidden City from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and gave them the Suzhou gardens to them, just for them to refer to it, without intending to copy it, and even more so that they would have to build the Luoyang Royal Palace like the Forbidden City in later generations.
A few days ago, Zhu Jun ordered the painter to pass on the newly built palace drawings to the Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Queen Mother He Lian, and the Emperor Liu Bian all thought it was not as magnificent as the Forbidden City described by Lu Bu. He wanted to continue building a large scale, but was dissuaded by Lu Bu chanting "Afang Palace Fu".
Lu Bu has traveled through time since later generations. But he never considered establishing the capital of Peiping. He had visited Didu Beiping, the sea of the demon capital, the western capital Chang'an, and the southern capital Jinling, and found that they were all in a corner. If they were the capital, they could not take the overall situation.
Especially in Beijing, sandstorms, haze, traffic jams, xenophobia, and heavy rainstorms have become seas. The big city that has exhausted resources across the country is like cancer. It is estimated that it will develop for several years, and it will probably be moved to the capital.
The natural environment in northwest China continues to deteriorate, the area of Gobi and deserts gradually increases, and grasslands are degraded seriously. Water resources are severely scarce, while big cities such as Didu are still expanding sharply, and the natural ecological environment is facing the danger of collapse. The attraction of the political center brings agglomeration effect and is becoming more and more intense, and will not stop due to the deterioration of the environment. The water resources around Didu are no longer self-sufficiency and need to be diverted from the Yangtze River Basin thousands of miles away to solve the problem. Once war occurs, this fragile ecology will be easily destroyed, paralyzing the country's political heart.
From a military perspective, Didu Beiping is located in the narrowest area of China's territory and is most easily captured. The northwest is the Mongolian grassland, which is 400 kilometers away from the border area. There is no large city and industrial base distribution, and there is a lack of solid barriers. It is the most fragile link of the Didu defense system. It can go to sea more than 100 kilometers in the southeast. Although the Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsula are guarding the two wings, there is no chance of victory in the face of a maritime power. If the war is unfavorable, it will face three directions of encirclement. Historically, běijing was twice captured by the British and French coalition forces and the Eight-Nation Alliance to resist the r
The i War began with the Lugou Bridge Incident in Peiping. Compared with Guannei, the northeast was the earliest to fall, and later served as a military supply base for the invasion of the inland. Therefore, this area is the most unsafe area in China. Putting the capital in this area is military-reasonable. China has a vast hinterland, so it must consider the strategic depth and the capital must be chosen in a relatively safe place. After the fall of Nanjing, the people moved their capital to Chongqing. China did not lose its country in an instant, but insisted on it tenaciously until the last moment, preserved the dignity of the nation and established its post-war great power.
Lu Bu has fully measured it. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the end of the second century, Luoyang was the most suitable place to build a capital.
Luoyang is the most upright place in the world. If you occupy this place, you can radiate around it.
"Reborn in Lu Bu, Unified the Three Kingdoms, " Luoyang is located in the Central Plains, with mountains and rivers crisscrossing, and the west is Qinling Mountains and the west is Qinchuan in Guanzhong; it is Songyue in the east; it is Taihang in the north and has the danger of the Yellow River; it looks at Funiu in the south and has the magnificence of Wanye, "the rivers and mountains are arched and the situation is superior to Chang'an", and its resources are far better than Yecheng and Beiping in its stability.
Luoyang is adjacent to Mangshan in the north, opposite Yique in the south, Hulao Mountain in the east, Yao Mountain in the west, and Yushan in the west, Qingyao Mountain in the nearest, Jingzi Mountain, Zhoushan, Yingshan, Longmen Mountain, Xiangshan, Wan'an Mountain, Shouyang Mountain, Songshan and other mountain ranges. They are dangerous places, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
There is Luo River in front of Luoyang, the Yellow River in the north, and the Yi River. The Ji River intersects with it. There are dense rivers and canals in the territory, which belong to the three major water systems of the Yellow River, Huai River and the Yangtze River. The Yellow River, Luo River, Yi River, Qing River, Ci River, Tielunhe River, Jian River, and Yu River, and more than 10 rivers winding through it. The water resources are definitely much better than those of Peking. Moreover, because there are many beautiful mountains nearby, the flood is much milder than those of Yecheng and other places. Moreover, many rivers alluvial out of fertile plains for reclaiming.
Two years have passed, Luoyang has been renovated and completely wiped out the filth left by the Ten General Assistants. Dong Zhuo has radiated amazing brilliance, as if a new city has stood up again on the flat ground.
The newly renovated Luoyang City is a grand scale. The style and layout are strictly prohibited. The palace is magnificent and arranged in an orderly manner. The twelve city gates are majestic and spectacular. Twenty-four streets are crisscrossed and reach all directions. Four street trees such as millet, lacquer, ocad and tung are planted on both sides of the street. Drainage channels are built, and sprinkler trucks are used to clean the streets on time.
The plan for this new Luoyang City is very large. With the original Baguan of Luoyang as the outermost ring wall of the city of Xin Luoyang City, Luoyang City could accommodate at most one million people, and now it is estimated that it can accommodate more than four or five million people. In the second century AD, it was definitely the largest city in the world.
Luoyang City has four walls, surrounding the city, outer city, inner city "rebirth Lu Bu unified the Three Kingdoms", palace city, and outside the four walls, there is a moat.
The surrounding city is the scope covered by the outermost wall of Luoyang City with the Baguan Pass as Luoyang City. In this way, the scope of Luoyang City has been greatly expanded, such as Pingxian, Yanshi, Gongxian, Gucheng, and Henan counties have all become the jurisdiction of Luoyang City.
Most of the non-critical but large-scale factories, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry colleges, commodity distribution centers, large garrisons, and most of the poor are distributed in other cities in the city of Daluoyang. Only important people are allowed to stay in the outer city of Luoyang, especially the key personnel and institutions, especially the inner city.
The outer city has a circumference of nearly a hundred miles, and there are three gates each from southeast, southwest and northwest, all of which include water gates. The city gates are built on top of the city tower, looking out building, and fortress. The main houses, shops, and markets are residential and commercial areas of Luoyang.
The inner city is twenty miles in circumference, with two gates on all sides. It mainly arranges yamen, official offices, military camps, arminations, schools, etc. There are zhongyāng army garrisons and the residences of senior generals such as Lu Bu.
The inner city is divided into ten wings and two hundred wings, and the outer city is divided into twenty wings and four hundred wings. The road system is a tic-shaped square grid, with dense streets and alleys. Residentials, shops and workshops are all mixed with streets. The bustling commercial area is located in the southern area of the city that can connect to the canal transport and lead to Luoshui.
The palace city is also called the Forbidden City. It has a gate on each side and a corner tower is built on four corners, which is connected by the original Nangong and North Palace through the Imperial Road.
Nangong was the political center and the place where the court congratulated the government. Beigong was the bedroom of the emperor, empress, empress dowager, and concubines. During the reign of Emperor Guangwu of Han, Nangong was the main one. Since Emperor Ming of Han, Beigong has gradually become the heart of the empire, and most emperors live in Beigong.
There are five rows of palaces in the Nangong, located on the central axis of the entire palace, five magnificent palaces, namely: the Quefei Hall, Chongde Hall, Zhongde Hall, and Qianqiu Wansui Hall "Entertainment Show" and Pingshuo Hall. In addition, there are two rows of halls on both sides of the central axis, about thirty, which are very magnificent. There are gates on all sides of the Nangong, called the gods of all directions, namely the Zhuque Gate in the south, the Xuanwu Gate in the north, the Canglong Gate in the east, and the White Tiger Gate in the west.
The layout of the Beigong is more magnificent, with the palace magnificent and quaint. The main halls located on the central axis include Wenbao Hall, Anfu Hall, Hehuan Hall, Deyang Hall, Xuanming Hall, and Pinghong Hall. In addition, on both sides of the central axis, there are nearly twenty halls, which are also a huge group of palace buildings. The names of the four gates are the same as that of Nangong. After the Beigong was built, the palace was majestic, the gate was high and magnificent, and the scope of the Beigong should be about three miles long from north to south and about two miles wide from east to west, which is larger than Nangong. Because the Beigong occupies a favorable terrain and is magnificent, it is close to Taicang, Wuku and Zhuolong Garden, it finally became the main political center of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Because the eunuch system was completely abolished, the emperor Liu Bian took the initiative to reduce the number of concubines. The only members of the royal family in the palace were the Queen Mother He Lian, Emperor Liu Bian, Empress Tang Yan, Princess Liu Yan, and Prince Liu Xi. The total number of female officials, palace maids and female guards in the palace was less than 1,000, which was much smaller than the original scale of tens of thousands of people.
After consultation with the ten auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, they decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity to reduce the abuse of national resources by the royal family, leaving only the Beigong as the imperial palace, and converting the Nangong into a cabinet, and all the yamen of the six departments of the cabinet were in it.
Chapter completed!