Chongqing Mansion, Chaotian Palace Imperial City.
This is a fortress-style imperial city that is rare in Chinese history. It was built at the corner of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River. It was originally within the city of Chongqing. There was originally a city gate called Chaotian Gate, Chaotian Palace Imperial City This is where the name comes from.
As early as when Li Guo was still the prince of Fujun, he chose this place with difficult terrain and convenient transportation as the location of his imperial city.
Because the situation in the Dashun Dynasty is a bit dangerous no matter how you look at it, everyone from Li Guo on down has a strong sense of crisis. Even if they have conquered a large area and established a relatively stable political power, the senior officials of Dashun are still thinking about how to save their lives, rather than how to save their lives. How to enjoy the fruits of victory.
This sense of crisis was vividly demonstrated in the site selection and construction of Chaotian Palace Imperial City.
First of all, the Chaotian Palace Imperial City is not the usual square shape, but a triangular shape. It was built according to the topography of the angle between the Yangtze River and the Jialing River. It covers a small area, and the circumference of the imperial city is only a little more than six miles. It looks similar to the Forbidden City in Beijing, but in fact the difference is huge. The Forbidden City in Beijing and Nanjing is mainly the imperial palace, which is the emperor's home and office building.
The Chaotian Palace Imperial City included a large number of defense facilities, military camps, warehouses, small arsenals, official residences (direct officials of Li Guo and Li Laiheng lived in the Chaotian Palace Imperial City), palaces, a naval dock and a A stronghold including a shipyard.
Secondly, this imperial city is not part of Chongqing Fucheng, but an independent castle.
The east and west walls of the Imperial City were reinforced on the basis of the original Chongqing Fucheng wall and were built along the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, while the southern wall was newly built to isolate the Chongqing Fucheng from the Imperial City. This city wall is about two miles long and is made of masonry and rammed earth. The outer side is sloped and is only a little over two feet tall, but it is very thick and can withstand heavy artillery bombardment.
Outside the south wall of the imperial city of Chaotian Palace, there is a trench three feet wide and two feet deep. The bottom of the trench is filled with sharpened wooden piles. There is only a wooden bridge across the trench, connecting the imperial city and the prefectural city.
In addition to three walls and a trench, a solid fort was built at each of the three corners of Chaotian Palace. Among them, the southwest and southeast forts also protrude into a triangle to the south. The artillery mounted on them can form a terrifying crossfire against enemies attacking Chaotian Palace Imperial City from the south!
Third, Chongqing Fucheng south of Chaotian Palace Imperial City has also undergone large-scale transformation. The original city with a large population and dense buildings no longer exists. The Dashun Dynasty, which resolutely implemented the national policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce, did not need a capital with prosperous commerce. What Emperor Li Guo of Dashun needed was a capital with a "market system" that was easy to manage.
The entire city of Chongqing was divided into eighteen quarters, each of which was a small city surrounded by high walls. Each quarter had four gates in the southeast, northwest, and southeast, and were guarded by Jinwu Guards, who were responsible for the defense and public security of Chongqing. There are strict regulations on the opening and closing times of the gates. Once the gates of the houses are closed, a curfew will be imposed in Chongqing Prefecture, and Jinwu guards will patrol the streets between the houses. Anyone who does not return home all night will be questioned by the Jinwu guards, and will be locked up unless they are on official business.
Among the eighteen offices in Chongqing Prefecture, eight belong to the eight political kings and their subordinates, that is, the official offices. The remaining ten squares are divided into workshops and market squares.
The workshop includes workshops and craftsmen's residences. Each workshop produces a large category of handicraft products, including weaving workshop, woodwork workshop, shipbuilding workshop, metallurgical workshop, coin casting workshop, carriage and horse workshop, armor workshop, and weapon workshop. , Gunpowder Factory, Gunpowder Factory, are all under the jurisdiction of Dashungong Government.
The craftsmen living there are divided into "Dajiang" and "Shangfanjiang". "Dajiang" is a skilled craftsman specially selected by the Ministry of Industry to serve as the head craftsman. Everyone has an official status and job field in Dashun. "Shangban craftsmen" are craftsmen recruited from various states to serve temporarily, usually once in March.
Shifang is the commercial district of Chongqing Prefecture, divided into East and West cities. The market is not large, and officials above fifth rank are prohibited from entering to prevent officials from being infected by decadent commercial activities... Of course, officials above fifth rank are not allowed to enter. Their family members can enter the market, but they are not allowed to engage in commercial operations. They can only sell the products produced by the farm or their salary.
It is absolutely forbidden for nobles and officials to do business in Dashun!
Businessmen operating in the east and west cities all have "city registration" and are strictly managed by the Chongqing government office in Dashun.
There are many products to be sold exclusively, such as iron, salt, tea, wine, gunpowder, cowhide, saltpeter, sulfur, etc. There are a lot of various things, and they are all sold exclusively!
Therefore, it is impossible for Dashun's industrial and commercial activities to develop. This is of course the result that the Dashun court deliberately pursued. Because the development of industry and commerce will have a corrosive effect on the landowners and soldiers in Dashun, a landowner and soldier can only be allocated more than a hundred acres of land, and the land rent income is only a few tens of kilograms. This income not only supports the family, but also pays for a lot of time. Food rations, and the cost of own armor and cold weapons are still very scarce.
If you are a little looser with spending money, you can easily get into debt!
The profession of landlord soldier looks beautiful, but it tests the soldiers' management ability, and killing people and managing them are two different routes.
And those who lick blood from the edge of a knife tend to see money clearly and spend it in vain. If they are in a highly commercialized society, they will easily go bankrupt.
Although he had worked hard to the extreme, Li Guo was still a little melancholy. When he went to court today, he still looked gloomy.
Because hard work does not mean good results! The news coming from the three front lines of Hanzhong, Yong'an (Kuizhou), and Zunyi was not good.
Chen Yongfu, Liu Jinzhong and Gao Yigong all suffered defeats!
Now that the equipment and training of the Ming army are getting better and better, and military pay and supplies are becoming more and more abundant, of course it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with...
"Your Majesty," after Liu Zongmin and Sun Kewang reported how tight the front line was, Zuo Fu Niu Jinxing came out from the station and continued to report, "Huang Shu is back."
"Oh," Li Guo nodded, "Did it come back in a coffin or in a box? Have you thought about your posthumous title? Do you want to posthumously seal it?"
When Huang Shu was sent to Burma, the civil and military officials in the court were not optimistic about it. He did not return for several months, so everyone thought he had been killed by the Burmese!
"Your Majesty, he is back alive."
"Still alive?" Li Guo shook his head, "He is really lucky...Forget it, it's not his fault that the errand was not completed. I'll reward him with 10 shi of rice to calm his shock."
"Your Majesty, he seems to have finished his errand."
"What?" Li Guo was stunned, "He, he finished the errand? Could it be that he was cheating?"
Li Guo was a wise king who ruled from the ground up!
Even if he is confused for a moment, there is still "the eighth father who discusses politics"!
"Your Majesty, he also brought a Burmese mission to pay tribute... The mission is coming by boat along the river, and Huang Shu came to Chongqing first to announce the good news."
Li Guo showed a rare smile, "Then let him go to the palace quickly, he will be rewarded heavily!"
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince, and the princes who discuss politics," Niu Jinxing asked again, "the envoys from Burma are coming soon. Should we prepare a treaty?"
"Treaty?" Li Guo blinked his eyelids, "What is this?"
What an unequal treaty! Li Guo was on the verge of progressing from a peasant uprising leader to a great colonizer, but he didn't know about the unequal treaties. It was like no one.
"It's just a vassal contract!" Niu Jinxing said seriously, "This is the practice of the Celestial Empire, and Zhu Ming did the same thing. Last time he signed a "vassal treaty" with Annan, and recently he signed a "vassal treaty" with Siam. treaty"."
"Since it's customary," Li Guo said, "then why don't we also prepare one?"
Prince Li Laiheng interjected: "How to get this treaty?"
"Simple!" Sun Kewang took over the topic, "Just copy Zhu Ming's "Treaty of Suspensions and Vassals", change the name of the country, and then ask the Burmese people to sign it!"
The method is really good, the eight kings co-governing is different!
