Daming 1805

Chapter 479 Breaking Ground
In the next few days, Zhu Jingyuan, Zhu Jianyan, and Zhu Zhongliang's grandfather and grandson selected and discussed the final plan for the new palace and office building on the basis of the plans of the Royal Engineering Company and the Ministry of Construction.

The office building cannot be conjoined, because the scale of the target is too large. If a conjoined building is built, it may become a huge city wall that divides the formality.

Therefore, it is still necessary to build a number of dedicated high-rise office buildings scattered and arranged on the east, south, and west sides of Fengtian Hall, Wenhua Hall, and Wuying Hall according to functional divisions.

At the same time, the Royal Engineering Company exchanged the survey data with the Ministry of Construction, and the two sides began to draw formal engineering drawings for construction.

At the same time, around the royal palace and the office building of the central government office, the location and scope of which have been determined, the construction plan for the entire new administrative center city area began to be formulated.

There must be a place where the clan of the nearby branch lives, and a place where officials at all levels of the Central Government Office live.

There are also various facilities that provide basic living services for them and their families.

Including basic facilities such as power supply and water supply, security facilities such as schools and hospitals, and living facilities such as shopping malls and parks.

While moving the capital, new restrictions and guarantees should be imposed on the living standards of the clan, nobles, and bureaucrats.

It is equivalent to rebuilding a city, which is also a big project.

Even with the engineering construction capabilities of this era, it is estimated that it will take several years to complete.

In 1957, the Brazilians rebuilt the capital Brasilia on the Brazilian plateau, and it took more than three years.

Compared with Brasilia, Jiangpu County itself has the best industrial foundation and the most complete facilities.

The construction speed of Ming's new capital will definitely be faster than the Brazilians in the 60s and [-]s.

But the scale of Ming's new capital will also be larger than Brasilia.

Because this is the capital of a super empire that controls two-thirds of the world's land and has a population of more than [-] million.

Zhu Jingyuan personally estimated that the completion of the project within three years can be regarded as relatively fast.

On the morning of June [-], the revised inheritance tax and gift tax laws were again submitted to the emperor for preview.

It was formally finalized after the emperor's imperial approval and seal, and was confirmed to be officially implemented on the first day of the first month of the 12th year of Ankang.

After the revision of the tax law was finalized, Zhu Jianyan issued an order to Jianghuai Chief Envoy Zhu Jingyuan:
"Cooperate with the construction of the new palace, start and do a good job of demolition and relocation of the people in the areas involved in the Jiangpu County project as soon as possible."

While Zhu Jingyuan immediately stepped forward and agreed, following this stubble, he made a moderate suggestion:

"My father, Jiangpu County, where the new palace is located, is already located at the westernmost border of Yingtianfu's jurisdiction.

"Erchen suggested that Chuzhou and its two counties of Lai'an and Quanjiao under its jurisdiction, Hezhou and its Hanshan County under its jurisdiction, and the three counties of Dangtu, Wuhu, and Fanchang under its jurisdiction under Taiping Prefecture should be revoked the corresponding state capitals in the form of counties. It was placed under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu.

"These eight counties can serve as a barrier to the west of Yingtianfu, and can also drive the construction of the Jiangbei area with Jiangpu as the center.

"Now that there are roads, railways, telegraphs, telephones, and airplanes, government-level government offices now have the ability to directly govern counties that are farther away and more numerous."

Zhu Jingyuan's actual purpose is to strengthen the future capital and increase the size of the jurisdiction.

It is also guiding the development of the central urban area of ​​Yingtianfu across the river, gradually building it from a city in the south of the Yangtze River into a city across the river.

The construction of Yingtianfu City in the future should expand upstream and downstream along the Yangtze River.

At the same time, this is a further adjustment to the existing grassroots administrative divisions.

Zhu Jingyuan plans to gradually withdraw most states.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, in most cases, the existence of states between prefectures and counties has little meaning.

There are two states in Ming Dynasty, Zhili State and Sanzhou.

Zhili Prefecture means that Zhili belongs to the chief envoy, and Zhizhou is the direct subordinate of the chief envoy.

Sanzhou is subordinate to the prefecture, and Zhizhou is a subordinate of the prefect.

Regardless of Zhili Prefecture or Sanzhou, there may be multiple counties under its jurisdiction, but the number is usually not many.

Regardless of Zhili Prefecture or Sanzhou, there is no Fuguo County.

While the Zhizhou manages the counties under the jurisdiction of the state, it is also the parent official of the city where the state is located.

The status of Zhili Prefecture is a small-scale independent government.

The status of Sanzhou is the "deputy government" that governs a few counties for the government.

The reason for their existence is that in a relatively remote or isolated place in an area, where it is difficult for a formal government to directly govern, an intermediate state is established to take charge of this area.

There are usually more counties under the jurisdiction of the government, usually more than five or six, or even a dozen.

There are usually very few counties under the jurisdiction of the state, usually two or three.

The existence of the state has its practical significance.

However, with the development of science and technology, transportation is becoming more and more convenient, and communication efficiency is getting higher and higher.

Many isolated and remote states have been able to be directly administered by the government.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, this type of state can already be revoked.

However, the state-level administrative division itself should not be abolished directly, but its functions should be slightly adjusted.

It can be transformed into the status of a county-level city in later generations.

For a county with a large population and a high degree of development, it will be upgraded to a state, but it will no longer be under the jurisdiction of other counties.

This process has to be done slowly, starting from the Jianghuai Province that is managed by oneself.

Zhu Jianyan knew Zhu Jingyuan's purpose.

After thinking about it for a while, the scene gave a response that could be tried.

And ordered the corresponding departments to cooperate with the approval and make appropriate arrangements for the officials who were withdrawn.

As for the specific adjustments at the local management level, it is the job of Zhu Jingyuan, the chief envoy of Jianghuai.

This adjustment directly cancels one prefecture and two states, and a group of fourth-rank to sixth-rank officials will all be moved.

In modern times, it is equivalent to abolishing a prefecture-level city and two regions, and merging eight counties into another prefecture-level city.

For the bureaucrats in the corresponding places, this is a great event, but for the emperor it is just a word.

For the relevant bureaucrats of the central court, it is only considering that such an adjustment of administrative divisions will make the already strong Yingtian Mansion expand again.

Although the areas that have been added are all in Jiangbei, they are all places that are relatively not particularly wealthy in the eyes of the locals.

But after all, it is also the territory of Jianghuai Province, which is a good place compared to other provinces.

However, none of these officials who had a small law in their hearts came forward to speak out.

Officials from several state capitals may not be able to find a better place if they change places. Prince Dashi has always been generous.

The point is, no one would contradict the emperor and Prince Dashi on such an unimportant issue.

So this matter is so certain.

After the morning court, when Zhu Jingyuan returned to his office, he asked his secretary to call the magistrate of Yingtianfu, the magistrate of Jiangpu County, and the shopkeeper of the government-run engineering construction company of Yingtianfu to come to the Chief Envoy's Yamen for a meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon. .

Jiangpu County is not a no-man's land, nor is it the old city of the capital that was taken over from the enemy.

Zhu Jingyuan wants to build a new capital here and build a completely independent central court administrative region.

To continue to maintain the isolation of the administrative district from other urban functional areas, the ordinary people living in the planned new capital area will have to be moved to other places.

The area under the jurisdiction of Jiangpu County is basically the Pukou District of Nanjing in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, with a total area of ​​more than 900 square kilometers.

Zhu Jingyuan's goal is not the entire Jiangpu County, the new capital administrative region does not need such a large area.

The area of ​​the old city of Shuntian Prefecture is only a little over one hundred square kilometers.

There are no buildings with more than six floors in the old city of Shuntian Prefecture, and there are still a large number of close clans and high-ranking nobles living in the city, which can still temporarily meet all the needs of the Central Government Office.

In the administrative district of the new capital planned now, the height of the office buildings and residential areas used will be relaxed to [-] floors.

If all the corresponding residents in the old city of Shuntianfu are directly moved here, the land area directly occupied in the new capital administrative region should be greatly reduced several times.

Zhu Jingyuan considered the future expansion of the court organization and the need to continue to improve the work and living standards of senior officials. He still planned to set aside about [-] square kilometers of flat land as the construction site for the new capital.

The Laoshan Mountains in the central and western part of Jiangpu County are generally in the northeast-southwest direction, and the Yangtze River in this section is also in the northeast-southwest direction, but the angle of inclination is slightly different.

The area between this group of mountains and rivers has a width of four kilometers to ten kilometers and a length of about eighteen kilometers. The overall shape is trapezoidal, and the area is almost one hundred square kilometers.

Zhu Jingyuan's goal is this flat land between mountains and rivers.

On the northwest side of this flat land, the Laoshan mountain area with a total area of ​​about [-] square kilometers was originally the forest farm of Huangzhuang.

Now it is time to enclose this forest farm as the back mountain forest farm of the new royal palace.

Laoshan and the Yangtze River are exactly the boundaries of this area.

The location of the new palace and office building is in the middle of the southeast foot of the old mountain, which happens to be the middle of this area.

This also happened to be the old city of Jiangpu County, the largest population gathering area in this area.

To build new cities and palaces here, these people will have to move away.

Fortunately for Bijie, the old city of Jiangpu County is not the most populous place in Jiangpu County.

The most northeast corner of Jiangpu County, the Jiangbei area north of Pukou, is the Jiangbei New City planned by Yingtianfu.

Because the first Yingtian Yangtze River Bridge invested and built by the imperial court was placed here.

North-south highways and railways also pass here.

As a matter of course, this place has become a new urban area that Jiangpu County will focus on locally.

With the continuous construction in the past ten years, this area has become the most densely populated place in Jiangpu County.

Zhu Jingyuan naturally chose to keep this new development zone in Jiangbei.

Then move the population of the old town of Jiangpu County here.

This kind of natural plan is in line with the migration tendency of most people in the old city of Jiangpu County, and it will be easier to do work.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the three people Zhu Jingyuan was looking for arrived on time.

When Zhu Jingyuan received the news, he didn't keep them waiting, and let them into the conference room.

Zhu Jingyuan first told the prefect of Yingtian about the adjustment of the division of Yingtianfu, let him know what happened, and took over the affairs of the other eight counties as soon as possible.

The counties under the jurisdiction of Ying Tianfu suddenly changed from seven to fifteen.

Moreover, two of the original seven are in Fuguo County, and there were only five in the suburban counties. This time, eight were directly added.

The prefect of Yingtian was taken aback by this news, but he was soon surprised by the new news.

Zhu Jingyuan explained the plan and direction of Jiangpu County's migration to the three of them.

Tell them clearly that the land to the west and south of Puzikou in Jiangpu County will be assigned to the royal family and the central court in the future.

The people in this area will all migrate to the new town of Jiangpu County in the next six months to one year.

The construction company is responsible for building enough resettlement houses in the new city.

The county magistrate is in charge of organizing people to carry out publicity and implementation. From the county seat to the villages and towns below, they have been notified, so that the local people are ready to move in advance, and no construction will be done from now on.

If the two have problems that cannot be resolved, they will go to the magistrate to coordinate.

The magistrate still couldn't solve it and came to him again.

Although this work was entrusted to him by his father, he really could only entrust it to the magistrate and county magistrate.

Zhu Jingyuan still has a lot of work in hand, it is impossible to do everything by himself, this is also the function of the bureaucracy.

The prefect of Yingtianfu, the magistrate of Jiangpu County, and the treasurer of Yingtianfu Engineering Construction Company had heard before that the emperor was going to build a new palace at the foot of the old mountain in Jiangpu County.

Originally, they were very happy, but also quite tangled.

With the emperor's palace at the foot of the old mountain, it will definitely attract more people to invest in the construction and settle down in the old city of Jiangpu County.

But now the area they are focusing on developing is the new urban area.

Well now, it is true that a palace is going to be built here, but the scope of the building is beyond their imagination.

Everything south of Xincheng was requisitioned by the emperor...

The three of them had nothing to say, and agreed honestly, expressing that they would do a good job in the demolition work.

After receiving the order, the three of them didn't stay in Yingtian Mansion, and went directly to Jiangpu County together.

For Zhu Jingyuan, apart from demolition, there are equally important things to do.

But for the three of them, the most important thing is to prepare for the demolition to cooperate with the construction of the emperor's palace.

The magistrate of Yingtianfu directly moved his yamen to Jiangpu County temporarily, and he would not go back until he was going to finish the job.

The prefect and county magistrate directly approved the land to the construction company, asking them to immediately organize manpower to start building the building.

The construction company will immediately go to the bank to make a bank loan to purchase more equipment and materials.

While directly recruiting more workers and craftsmen to work, outsourcing part of the construction of Renwu to private construction teams, while trying to acquire residential projects under construction.

There is no design to speak of for this part of the demolished houses, and all of them adopt the most mature and typical building types at present, and directly use the existing typical drawings for construction.

Driven by the two levels of government offices and the official engineering company, the construction speed of Yingtian Jiangbei New District has soared unprecedentedly.

On the other hand, the Royal Engineering Company also took action soon.

The planned new main hall and side hall, as well as the office building of the Central Government Office, are basically located in the northern part of the old city of Jiangpu County.

There are some large-scale residential areas here, and there is no way to start construction until the locals move out.

However, the location of the harem area of ​​the new palace is at the foot of the old mountain. This place was originally a royal forest farm and there were no residents living there. Now construction can be started directly.

The places where dams and hydropower stations are to be built are also in the forest farms, and they can be directly started.

Although the official construction drawings have not yet come out, the site preparation before construction can start in advance.

The basic supporting facilities of the entire new urban area can also start to organize the construction site in advance.

There are also various materials and equipment required for engineering construction, and they will immediately begin to be continuously transported in by trains and cargo ships.

At the same time, the Royal Engineering Company cooperated with Jiangpu County to organize personnel to start demolishing the city wall of the old city of Jiangpu County.

The work that can be done now is started in advance, and the work that can be started later is not prepared.

In this way, under the driving force of the highest level of Ming Dynasty, all projects are advancing at an astonishing speed.

By the end of 11 in Ankang, just over five months after the start of construction, the demolition houses for residents in the old city of Jiangpu County had been completed, and the unified basic decoration had been completed, and they could move in with furniture.

Residents in the old city of Jiangpu County began to gradually migrate to the new city after the 12th Ankang Lantern Festival.

House prices in Daming are not high, and there is no tradition of "demolition and relocation to get rich".

Now the imperial court is offering a new house of similar size for free, and the location is still in the most popular Jiangbei New City. With the addition of a subsidy for the purchase of new furniture and electrical appliances, most of the people in Jiangpu County have moved happily.

A small number of people who are hard to leave their homeland can't stand the pressure from the mayor to the magistrate to the magistrate's yamen and the traditional imperial power.

After all, this is the emperor's own project, and the opposition of individual people is meaningless at all.

At the same time, because it was a project directly concerned by the emperor himself, although the ordinary people involved did not get rich through demolition, they did not suffer any disadvantages, and they were replaced with new houses and furniture for free.

As soon as the residents in the city left, the construction team immediately followed into the city and began to demolish the buildings that hindered the construction.

At the same time, the new estate tax and gift tax laws have officially started to be implemented.

After the Chinese New Year vacation, the asset ownership change registration, which had been suspended for more than half a year, resumed.

However, the corresponding inheritance and gift tax should also be strictly collected at the same time.

Those involved in the Gusu Bank incident, which had been locked up for more than half a year, were also released after the Lantern Festival.

Liu Yudong and Wang Baoqing admitted that their wedding last year was for tax avoidance.

The equity transaction procedures were handled according to the normal procedures again, and the due taxes were paid according to the normal standards.

(End of this chapter)