Daming 1805

Chapter 14 The Two Cities of the Capital
Zhu Jingyuan's father, the second son of the emperor, Zhu Jianyan, currently has a princess and four wives. The wives are concubines who already have children.

The five wives and concubines bore a total of five sons and six daughters, making a total of eleven children.

Zhu Jingyuan ranked fourth among his sons, with three older brothers and three older sisters, and a younger brother and three younger sisters.

After graduation, the two older brothers and one older sister at the top were arranged to go to yamen, manufacturers, and guards for training and work in various places.

The remaining elder brother and younger brother are still receiving the same specialized education as Zhu Jingyuan, and the two older sisters and the three younger sisters attend the collective schools of the royal and imperial families.

Zhu Jingyuan had just graduated before the end of the year, and he had not had time to arrange for training. Now that he had the job of negotiating peace, it just happened that he didn't need to make special arrangements.

There are brothers and sisters who have not graduated yet, but the younger brother Zhu Jingyuan has graduated, because the education of princes and grandsons is different from that of ordinary clans.

They do not receive collective education for a specified number of years at school, but have specialized teachers to conduct fully individualized teaching, and judge learning outcomes through daily comprehensive inspections.

No matter how old you are, you can graduate as long as your knowledge level reaches the standard, and this standard is similar to the level of ordinary undergraduates in later generations.

Zhu Jingyuan passed the assessment at the end of last year, and there was a brother in front of him who had not passed the assessment, so Zhu Jingyuan graduated first.

Zhu Jingyuan is now 15 years old, and his knowledge is similar to that of a bachelor's degree.

This may seem exaggerated, but the education of the princes and grandsons is targeted, and the actual efficiency is much higher than that of collective education.

Zhu Jingyuan was enlightened at the age of four, and it has taken him 11 years to complete the 16 years of knowledge from elementary school to university, which is equivalent to skipping five grades in total.

Right now, there is only Zhu Jingyuan at home, so he needs to get up at this time, eat in advance, and then go out for morning exercise.

Zhu Jingyuan came to the restaurant at home and asked for a bowl of meat porridge, two steamed buns, two eggs, and a cup of soy milk.

After eating a simple breakfast in a leisurely manner, Zhu Jingyuan rested for a while, leaving behind the two maids who were still confused, and rode out the door by himself.

The current Jingshi Shuntianfu is one of the largest cities in the world, with a total population of more than 600 million people.

However, the interior of this huge city is divided into two distinct urban areas, old and new.

The new urban area is directly south of the original Beijing city, and its center is almost in the middle of the later Daxing District. It is now the economic center of the northern part of the empire, with a population of more than 500 million people.

This new city was built after Emperor Shizu recovered the capital.

He obviously foresaw at that time that the population of the capital would expand rapidly after industrialization, to an extent that the original city could not accommodate at all.

Therefore, when he built the new capital of the capital, he split the function of the capital of the empire.

The new city serves as the new economic and cultural center, and the original old city serves as the political and military center.

The new city was originally built with a city wall, and its scale was larger than that of the original Beijing city, but it did not last for 100 years, and it was already overcrowded.

We can only continue to expand the city in the southwest, south and southeast directions of the city according to the rules left by Emperor Sezu.

Because the empire has no shortage of arable land, and the urban railway is very developed, there are not many high-rise buildings planned in the new city, resulting in the rapid expansion of the urban area.

Now the edge of the new urban area has been spread to the first line of Zhuozhou and Langfang. Some people suggest that it will be built in the southeast in the future, with the goal of converging with Tianjin City...

The situation in the old city is more complicated. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, according to the house occupation policy, all the original residents in the city were driven away, and all the houses were distributed to Baqi and Baoyi.

After the capital was restored, the Eight Banners and Baoyi were driven out again, and the capital received by Emperor Shizu was a completely empty city.

Emperor Shizu took advantage of the vacuum in the capital, and made overall repairs to the buildings of the old city, and made more reasonable adjustments to the urban planning.

It also completed the construction of the half-pulled outer city during the Jiajing period, with the west city wall of Jinzhongdu in the west as the western boundary, and the northern city wall of Yuandadu in the north as the northern boundary, and then extended a similar distance to the east, and finally closed to form a Complete square outer city.

Such an old capital city has formed a four-layered square nested structure of Miyagi-Imperial City-Inner City-Outer City, and the total area of ​​the city has more than doubled.

In the direction of the four corners outside the city, four huge star-shaped fortresses were built as external fulcrums for the garrison of the imperial army to guard the capital.

The restored old city is used as a political center, so the new residents are only the royal family, nobles, officials, and their families and service personnel.

The number of officials is relatively stable. Although the number of imperial clans and nobles continues to expand, they will not all stay in the capital, and most of them will be distributed to local positions.

Moreover, with the continuous development of industry and society, Jingshi New City, as an economic and cultural center, is becoming more and more prosperous, and its attraction to ordinary people is increasing day by day.

As a political center, the old city has always maintained the typical characteristics of serious atmosphere, ancient environment, lack of entertainment and strict management.

Therefore, more and more ordinary clans and nobles gradually moved to the more prosperous new city life.

Many grass-roots officials also like to live in the new city, and many unimportant yamen have also moved there one after another.

The residents who stayed in the old city of the capital all the year round were mainly the royal family and nobles of the near branch, as well as the real senior core bureaucrats of the empire.

So far, the population of the old city is still less than 100 million, and the area of ​​the old city with the expansion of the outer city is still very spacious for the 100 million people.

Today, the normal residents of the old city still live within the city walls, and most of them live in single houses. There are no high-rise buildings in the old city.

The tall city wall still has a certain defensive power against today's weapons, and with the city wall patrol guards and city gate checkpoints, it can easily isolate suspicious persons.

Zhu Jingyuan headed north from Wangfu Street on the east side of the Imperial City, turned eastward at Chaoyangmen Street, dismounted at Chaoyangmen for inspection, and then went out of Chaoyangmen to the East Outer City.

Continue to go straight east, dismount again at Dong'anmen in the East Outer City, pass through Dong'anmen after being checked again, and finally come to the outside of the capital city.

Along the way, he met several batches of clans and noble children, as well as two princes and four grandsons.

Ordinary clans and noble children receive regular training four times a month, in batches and staggered times, and it is just an accident in the morning.

Princes and grandchildren under the age of 30 have daily training once a day, regular training four times a month, and intensive training once a month.

The princes and grandsons in the study stage, along with the specialized instructors, received training at normal time, and did not go to catch the morning time.

Therefore, the status of these princes and grandsons is obviously the same as that of Zhu Jingyuan. They passed the assessment at the end of last year and have not yet had time to send them out.

They are considered to be at the same time as Zhu Jingyuan, but they are not familiar with Zhu Jingyuan. They are all three to five years older than Zhu Jingyuan, the youngest and the oldest 20 years old.

There are no older princes and grandsons who have just graduated, because they will be eliminated in the heir training if they are over 20 years old and have not completed the courses.

"The qualifications of a middle-aged person and below are not suitable for training as a prince."

Then they will be transferred to a collective school, and they will go to school with the noble children of ordinary clans and train together regularly, and they will be completely missed the throne.

Zhu Jingyuan is actually not much smarter than other princes and grandsons, but he has more than 20 years of learning experience in his previous life.

Although I didn't recover my memory in the early days, I was still sensible at a very early age. I was directly enlightened at the age of four, and I learned things very quickly. I graduated when I was just 15 years old.

If it is a group school, even students who have to skip a level every other year will have one year each time to get to know each other and get to know each other with their classmates.

However, the education of the emperor and grandson of the Ming Dynasty is individualized, and students with different learning speeds cannot get together at all.

The other party didn't know what happened in the palace last night. He didn't know that Zhu Jingyuan was already the booked prince, but the relevant procedures had not been completed.

So the two sides just said hello as usual, just like ordinary relatives who are not familiar with each other, and then went their separate ways.

(End of this chapter)