From that day on, Li Hongbin took Zhu Jingyuan to get to know his subordinates, hand over the files and facilities of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and handle the transfer procedures for various materials. At the same time, Li Hongbin taught Zhu Jingyuan the experience and rules of officialdom.
This handover lasted for a month and a half, and it was not until the beginning of April that Li Hongbin officially left the Civil Service Yamen.
However, Li Hongbin still did not return to his hometown immediately, but continued to live in his residence in Yingtianfu.
If Zhu Jianyan and Zhu Jingyuan need anything, they can call him over again to help coordinate things.
It is equivalent to switching from an actual job to a consultant.
However, this consultant is actually of little significance, because there is also an actual Jiuqing Otsuka Prime Minister Wang Tingzhen in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
When Zhu Jingyuan handed over his work, he also had to pay a special visit to his theoretical direct superior.
Of course Wang Tingzhen was also very polite to Zhu Jingyuan, and also took the initiative to greet him outside the office.
He also said a lot of things to Zhu Jingyuan from the bottom of his heart, and he was also in a state of knowing everything and saying it endlessly.
Wang Tingzhen is also retiring soon. The extent of his honor after retirement or even a hundred years later depends on whether Zhu Jingyuan has a good impression of him.
Needless to say, the assistant officers and lower-level officials below the Minister of Personnel, cooperating with the prince to adapt to the work of the Ministry of Personnel is the most important thing in their lives at present.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan's and Li Hongbin's previous considerations and explanations were correct.
Zhu Jingyuan's essential work in the past two years will go very smoothly.
If you just plan to spend two years in the civil service department, then you can ignore everything and let others take care of everything.
But the emperor above was watching.
If a prince really just hangs around in the official department for two years, he may be replaced.
Zhu Jingyuan himself cannot be idle.
I take care of everything and do everything I can personally.
Not only is he busy in the staff department, but he also visits other departments to say hello when he is free.
If I have the chance, I will also attend private gatherings of officials.
The prince who comes to the Ministry of Civil Affairs can have unlimited motivation to learn, adapt and master everything here.
Because if you do well, you will have the best reward in the world.
In such complex and tedious work, more than two years have passed by in a blink of an eye, and it has been the fifteenth year of Ankang.
Yingtian New Capital City in Jiangpu County began preparations in the second half of the 11th year of Ankang, and construction officially began in the early 12th year of Ankang.
After more than three years of work at full speed, it was finally completed in April of the 15th year of Ankang.
Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty was sixty years old. After receiving the report, he immediately summoned Zhu Jingyuan.
The father and son went together to visit the eighty-year-old Emperor Zhu Zhongliang.
Zhu Zhongliang's health is not bad and he can still walk on his own, but he is really shaky.
Zhu Zhongliang no longer forced himself to walk, and sat in a special wheelchair specially prepared for him by Zhu Jingyuan.
Coupled with a few high-end cars with door designs, the corresponding wheelchair can be pushed directly up.
Zhu Jianyan explained the situation of the new palace to his father:
"Father, do you want to go take a look first?"
Zhu Zhongliang waved his hand directly:
"Let Jingyuan go first. I'll go after Jingyuan comes back. Second brother, you go last..."
This is to prevent the three generations with the most special identities from getting together.
Zhu Jianyan now has a calm mind. Hearing this arrangement, he agreed without hesitation:
"Then Jingyuan, go take a look first and make a final acceptance.
“If no problem is found, let your grandfather and his family move in directly.
"Then I will officially move there with the entire court."
Zhu Jingyuan also nodded directly, then said goodbye to his father and grandfather, and took a car to Jiangpu County.
While Yingtianfu New Town is under construction, various supporting projects have also been completed over the past three years or so.
These include three new cross-river bridges.
The middle one is facing the center of Yingtianfu New City, which is the three main halls with new power supply and the surrounding administrative office buildings.
This bridge was named the Center Bridge.
The other two are located five kilometers northeast and southwest of the central bridge.
They are named North Bridge and South Bridge respectively.
The distance between the bridge and the original Yangtze River Bridge is also about five kilometers.
The highways extended by the three new bridges on the west bank of the Yangtze River are the three east-west main roads in Yingtianfu New Town.
The scope of construction that has been completed in the new city is mainly concentrated in the area between these three main roads.
Zhu Jingyuan's motorcade crossed the Central Bridge and entered directly into the central area of Yingtian New City.
As soon as you enter this area, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment around you, as if you have completely changed the world.
As industrialization continues to deepen and the efficiency of urban life continues to accelerate, ordinary people are becoming more and more sensitive to construction costs.
Newly built buildings both inside and outside the major cities of the Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more simple.
Walls that go straight up and down, simple and crude geometric lines, fewer and fewer colors and paintings.
It is also getting closer to the typical urban architecture of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
However, in many cases, the choice of the wealthy class is where the cultural atmosphere is directly displayed.
Luxurious manor villas for nobles and wealthy businessmen, because they don’t care much about cost and pursue a symbol of identity and status.
So there are still complex and cumbersome traditional Chinese buildings.
However, there are not many such buildings and they are often concentrated in certain areas.
In most places, there are increasingly simplified modern buildings.
After passing the Central Bridge, the houses in Yingtianfu New Town in Jiangpu County are all traditional oriental buildings.
At the same time, in the old urban areas of the major cities of the Ming Dynasty, you can often see complex wires and pipes crossing overhead, circling between different houses, and even completely chaotic. From time to time, you can see various lines. warning sign.
Because the old cities of most cities in the Ming Dynasty were spontaneously upgraded during the industrial revolution.
The city itself has been built a long time ago. When adding running water and wiring, it is impossible to tear down the houses and uninstall them.
So I had to make do with being dragged between the messy houses, and most of the facilities could only be exposed on the ground.
Even in the subsequent improved construction plans, some high-level wires and water pipes began to be intentionally buried underground, but when entering the old house, they had to be dug out again and raised into the yard.
In many old urban areas of the city, you can often see various wires tangled together.
Just like the old town of the city that Zhu Jingyuan saw in later generations.
Even if there are still many old houses, they are also traditional oriental buildings, but if a bunch of wires are wrapped around the cornices, it will directly destroy the traditional classical artistic conception.
But in Yingtian New Town in Jiangpu County, there is nothing in the space between these oriental buildings. Apart from various buildings above the ground, there are green areas.
It seems like this is an ancient oriental city that has not experienced industrialization.
Of course, Yingtian New City is not without facilities from the industrial era, but they are all uniformly hidden.
The entire city of Yingtian New Town in Jiangpu County was newly planned, designed and constructed.
Under Zhu Jingyuan's supervision and suggestions, many new concepts from later generations were adopted, and a lot of space was reserved for the future.
First of all, the underground railway was built directly at the same time as the city was being built.
Then there are the multi-layered underground pipe spaces that were set aside from the outset with very large margins.
It is required that all power supply lines, telephone lines, telegraph lines, as well as urban water supply pipelines and natural gas pipelines, as well as large-scale underground drainage projects, be uniformly arranged in a specially designed huge underground pipeline network system.
The main space of this underground network pipe system can accommodate workers standing and walking and small vehicles passing directly.
This is not only to facilitate equipment maintenance, but also to facilitate the subsequent addition of new lines and pipelines.
For example, subsequent Internet lines and even fiber optics in later generations.
The unified natural gas supply system was laid out in advance during this construction.
This large underground pipe also serves as an air raid shelter.
These pipe networks are directly connected to the basement of the building and can be accessed directly from the building by taking the elevator or taking the stairs.
The underground pipe spaces in the areas below all buildings also have a certain degree of radiation protection design.
All new buildings are designed with unified pipe wells, so there are no messy lines outside and above the buildings.
Zhu Jingyuan got off the bus at a built residential area and, accompanied by Lei Hong, Minister of Construction, visited the interior of the residential area.
Traditional oriental courtyards are basically large courtyards within small courtyards, with several openings and several entrances.
But this residential area did not adopt that model.
Instead, the buildings were scattered among green spaces and gardens.
All buildings share a huge courtyard, which is also a typical residential design of later generations.
Zhu Jingyuan found a public wash basin in front of a flower bed in the middle of the community.
I just turned the faucet and watched the tap water flow out.
Lei Hong smiled and introduced:
“Most of the hard-demand areas now have water, electricity and ventilation, and they can be moved in at any time.
“We built two or three reservoirs and two small hydropower stations in Laoshan to exclusively supply water and electricity in the palace.
“The water sources in other areas come from large water plants built on the riverside, and the electricity comes from the unified power grid.
“Although the sources are different, in accordance with His Highness’s requirements, they all adopt the highest cleanliness standards.
"Tap water directly adopts the indicators of drinking water."
Zhu Jingyuan also smiled and nodded, washed his hands by the flower bed, and walked around in the garden.
Then went to a fenced yard next to the garden.
There are several buildings in the yard that are obviously different from other houses.
The buildings outside are all about 70 meters high, and they are all designed with a total of sixteen to twenty floors.
These buildings only have six floors, but they occupy a much larger area.
There are many toys in the yard that are obviously prepared for children, as well as a small stadium.
When Zhu Jingyuan walked into the courtyard, Lei Hong directly followed him and continued the introduction:
“This is a kindergarten within the residential area and primary schools in several nearby residential areas.
“If the imperial court moves in as a whole in the second half of this year, it can be put into use directly next year.
“As per your request, there will be one kindergarten in every residential area and one primary school in every eight residential areas.
“There are dedicated overpasses on the streets between residential areas where all residential areas lead to primary schools.
"It makes it easier for children to go to school safely and reduces the possibility of traffic accidents..."
Zhu Jingyuan walked around the elementary school and felt that it basically met his requirements.
The appearance of these buildings is oriental, but the interior classroom and office designs are very similar to the classrooms and offices of the school I used to attend in my previous life.
It is probably a design convergence driven by efficiency and practical goal requirements.
Zhu Jingyuan saw a group of specialized acceptance personnel inspecting the walls, doors, windows, wiring and pipes of the primary school on site.
Zhu Jingyuan watched for a while and found that all parameters were fully qualified, even basically excellent.
Apparently it was because the buildings in Yingtian New City were built to exceed the standard.
After all, it was a project that the emperor and Prince Dashi were personally eyeing, and they had given sufficient budget and found the most skilled workers.
After Zhu Jingyuan left the elementary school, he went to a nearby residential building.
This apartment building has a total of eighteen floors, but the actual living floors are the sixteenth floor above.
The bottom two floors of the building were designed into a rather spacious hall.
There is a small movie screening room and a public restaurant inside.
Lei Hong watched Zhu Jingyuan looking around in the middle of the hall, and continued to introduce the situation here:
"Sixteen-story buildings like this are residential buildings prepared for the officials and clerks of the central court.
“We have also prepared public rest areas and restaurants according to your requirements.
“On weekdays, breakfast and dinner are provided by the imperial court, and lunch is provided on rest days.
“Let people who don’t have a family, and who don’t want to cook for themselves because they find it troublesome, can go directly to the restaurant to eat.
"In addition to the infrastructure inside each residential building, there are also dedicated living, leisure and entertainment buildings."
Zhu Jingyuan was also very satisfied. This was what he wanted, the facilities in the imperial Yamen compound.
Zhu Jingyuan took the elevator upstairs in the apartment building and opened several rooms to take a look inside.
The housing standard for officials is three bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms and one kitchen, with an indoor usable area of 120 square meters.
According to the standards of later generations, they have all been finely decorated and equipped with necessary furniture, and you can move in directly.
After Zhu Jingyuan visited the Liyuanmen apartment building, he went to see the Guanyuanmen community.
The apartment buildings for low-level officials from the seventh to the ninth rank are basically consistent with the form of the official gate.
However, the total number of floors has been reduced to eleven, the usable area of each house has increased to 160 square meters, and another room has been added to the interior, turning it into a layout of four bedrooms and two living rooms.
The standards for mid-level officials from the fourth to the sixth rank have been raised a notch, and the floors have been lowered to six floors. From one-story two-family homes to one-story single-family large flat floors, the usable area has increased to 240 square meters. .
The standard for high-ranking officials from the second to the third level has been upgraded one level, from a large flat floor to a two-story duplex structure. Only three families live in a standard six-story building.
The top officials of the Ming Dynasty, the second-ranking ministers and the first-ranking Jiuqing, began to live in separate houses.
All these houses are "dormitories" in nature, owned by the Central Court of the Ming Dynasty, and are not sold or rented to the outside world.
If officials are dissatisfied with these dormitories, they can spend their own money to apply for land outside the built-up area and build new houses to live in.
(End of chapter)
