Jiashen (25) in February of the first year of Yuanyou.
Zhao Xu got up early and put on the clothes that Zhu had knitted for him.
Then, under the personal farewell of the two palaces, he boarded the royal chariot and began his first tour of the capital in this life.
In front of Xuande Gate, Yanda, the commander of the front division of the palace, personally led a commanding cavalry to join the team and served as the street cleaners for Zhao Xu's patrol this time.
Cai Jing, Su Song, Fan Chunren, Lu Dafang, Deng Runfu and other Kaifeng officials and officials on horseback followed Zhao Xu's chariot on horseback, ready to listen to Zhao Xu's orders and prepare for consultation.
The accompanying readers followed Brother Zhong Jianzhong and hung at the back of the team.
After the car passed the state bridge, it began to slow down.
People on both sides of the street also began to appear.
The Qingdao cavalry led by Yanda and the Kaifeng Fupu soldiers participated in the maintenance of order.
Zhao Xu was sitting in the royal chariot, looking through the curtains at the rows of people kneeling down on both sides of the street.
Cai Jing, who was riding a horse and following the royal chariot, took the opportunity to introduce the situation of Bianjing City: "Your Majesty, since Taizu established the capital, Bianjing has established a capital with the sky as the main purpose of Bianjing... Therefore, Bianjing The new city and the inner city are the Great Zhoutian, the imperial city is the Taiwei Yuan, and the inner city is the Ziwei Yuan..."
Zhao Xu hummed slightly, he naturally knew this.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, the capitals of all dynasties have been built with the idea of "building a capital like the sky".
For example, in Han Chang'an, the south of the city resembles the South Dipper, and the north of the city resembles the Beidou.
Modern archaeologists used computers to connect the star maps of the Big Dipper, Gouchen, North Pole, Ziwei Youyuan and other constellations and found that they were almost identical to the discovered outline of the Han Chang'an city.
The same was true for Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Its imperial city is called Taiwei, its palace city is called Ziwei, and the Luo River flows through the city, which is called the Milky Way.
This uses the imperial city and palace city to simulate Taiwei, Ziwei and the Milky Way in the sky.
To show that the emperor’s palace on earth is the emperor’s palace in heaven.
Of course, the Song Dynasty was no exception. The imperial city was built in the northeast of Bianjing. It was deliberately designed to be too small for the heaven and earth. It introduced the Jinshui River and the Wuzhang River into the palace. It imitated the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties to "represent the meaning of the Tianhe and Silver Han".
The difference between Bianjing and previous capitals is...
Zhao Xu looked towards the streets.
In addition to the soldiers from Yanda and Kaifeng Prefecture, there were also red lacquered forks erected on the street along the direction of Zhao Xu's driving, and there were also a large number of privately-erected forks outside the stores.
In addition, there are a large number of buildings between the streets and alleys, occupying the original streets.
Not only that, Zhao Xu also saw that some people even invaded the Bianhe River embankment in the city.
This is especially true in the commercial belts on both sides of the state bridge.
This is the invasion of streets and rivers.
It was a phenomenon that had troubled the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years and could not be changed until its demise.
It is an inevitable trend in the development of commodity economy.
After all, Bianjing has a lot of land.
Every more house and every more space means more stable income.
Tube?
I can't control it!
In the early days of the Kingdom, Taizu used severe punishments to stop the intrusion of streets and rivers - those who invaded the streets and lanes were punished by seventy!
is that useful?
No!
Just let the officials do it.
What's more, the law does not punish everyone. There are so many people intruding on the street, can Guan Zhao's family take care of them?
Therefore, in the ninth year of Kaibao in the Taizu era, Taizu "banqueted the ministers in the Huijie Garden, and passed through Tongli Square. Due to the narrow road, he demolished and evacuated the invading streets to benefit the residents."
It can be seen that at that time, illegal construction had already begun to block road traffic.
After Taizong, the intrusion into streets and rivers became unstoppable.
After that, officials in successive dynasties thought of taking care of it, and the people below took action and demolished some residential buildings that seriously blocked traffic.
Then, as soon as the limelight passed, someone else built it again.
Moreover, as time goes by, the resistance to demolition of illegal buildings becomes stronger every time.
Because his relative, Xunchen, joined the ranks of the street invaders.
In Bianjing City, if your house is not built illegally, you will be embarrassed to see people when you go out.
Zhao Xu thought about these past events and felt a little headache when looking at the illegal buildings in front of him.
In his previous life, he was helpless against these phenomena in Bianjing.
So he could only lie down and ordered the Kaifeng Mansion to collect the money from the invasion.
This is regarded as recognizing the legal status of those illegally constructed buildings.
However, for now, the traffic environment in Bianjing City is not bad.
This is because Zhao Xu's father rebuilt the imperial city and outer city of Bianjing during his lifetime.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu ordered Feng Jing who was following him outside the curtain: "Feng Jing, tell Yanda to inspect the Bianjing Inner Ring Road first..."
"No!" Feng Jing took the order and left.
Zhao Xu looked at Cai Jing who was following him and said: "Cai Qing, when the emperor was here, he told me that rebuilding the imperial city and the outer city, and opening up the Bianjing inner ring road and the imperial city inner ring road would be the solution. A good solution to Bianjing’s traffic congestion!”
"It is a good way to benefit future generations!"
“Is there any street intrusion in the inner ring of Bianjing today?”
Cai Jing's forehead suddenly broke out with some sweat: "Your Majesty, the situation in the inner ring of Bianjing is not bad now, and there are not many street intrusions..."
Zhao Xu smiled: "In other words, someone invaded the street?"
Cai Jing swallowed and could only reply: "I will be punished by death..."
Zhao Xu laughed and said nothing.
Cai Jing was trembling and could only say: "I will arrange for people to demolish the houses that have invaded the street as soon as possible..."
Zhao Xu laughed: "Demolish it today and build it tomorrow?"
Cai Jing immediately said: "Your Majesty, I will never allow such a thing to happen!"
"I will inspect the inner ring regularly from now on..."
Zhao Xu then said seriously: "Let's take a look first, don't rush to conclusions..."
"We will discuss this matter again after we return to the palace!"
Who can build illegally the inner ring road in the inner city? Which one is simple?
Even if Cai Jing took control during his tenure, Zhao Xu is guaranteed to relapse as soon as he leaves office.
Because this is human nature.
In modern society, under various regulations and supervision, it is still impossible to prevent people from building illegally.
What's more, now?
Cai Jing let out a sigh of relief. He was really under pressure just now.
Because the officials seem to know Bianjing City very well.
He even knew that it would be demolished today and built tomorrow.
"The Detective Department, in the hands of His Majesty, is even more powerful than the late Emperor..." Cai Jing sighed in his heart.
In his opinion, these things must have been reported by the Detective Department.
Otherwise, how could the emperor know about such a thing when he lives deep in the palace?
But how did he know that in modern times, Zhao Xu had seen countless unearthed cultural relics and many scholar-officials' notes complaining about Bianjing's traffic.
…
Half an hour later, Zhao Xu's imperial driver passed through the south-facing Imperial Street, the central axis that runs through Bianjing, and arrived at the Zhuque Gate.
At the same time, we arrived at the inner ring road of Bianjing.
"Your Majesty, the inner ring road of Bianjing was ordered by the late Emperor of Kaifeng Mansion to start from the foot of the city wall outside Bianjing City and reserve ten steps as a road to facilitate the transportation of carriages, horses, merchants and goods in Bianjing..."
When the imperial chariot came to the inner ring road under Zhuque Gate, Cai Jing introduced it from the side.
"Yeah!" Zhao Xu nodded.
Cai Jing continued to introduce: "In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the late emperor issued an edict again, ordering Kaifeng Mansion to move thirty steps outside Bianjing City and demolish the official houses along the way as a way..."
Zhao Xu opened the car curtain and looked forward.
On the inner side of the inner ring road of the inner city, there is a brick wall.
However, this road is not as wide as ten steps, only about five steps, which is just enough for a police car to pass through.
In the outer city of Bianjing City outside Zhuque Gate, the outer city inner ring road surrounding the city wall is twenty steps wide. That is the real Bianjing Expressway.
The one in front of me can only be said to be barely okay.
Looking at the road in front of him with walls on both sides that had not been broken through and no flags scattered around, Zhao Xu waved his hand: "Keep walking..."
Yu Jia then set foot on this inner ring road.
On the other side of the wall, the cavalry led by Yanda followed closely and at the same time dispersed all the pedestrians who were leaning against the wall.
The chariot moved forward slowly.
Along the wall, we started walking around Bianjing.
It’s hard to imagine, right?
In this feudal society, there is a ring road that surrounds the entire capital.
But that's what it is.
It is also an inevitable trend under the development of commodity economy.
The inner cities are too crowded, the roads too narrow, and the traffic too congested.
Ring roads are bound to appear, because only by building such ring roads can Bianjing traffic be improved and economic development promoted.
Even if the court doesn't do anything, merchants will continue to use their connections to promote the emergence of such a traffic artery.
The imperial driver walked east along the side of Zhuque Gate, and soon arrived in front of the old Song Gate in the east of the city.
This is the most prosperous place to enter the city in Bianjing.
Because all the officials, civilians and merchants who entered Beijing from Jianghuai entered the city from here.
And Jianghuai is now one of the main engines of the Song Dynasty's economy.
The status is similar to that of modern Guangdong.
Naturally, when the imperial driver arrived here, Zhao Xu saw from a distance that a wall had been destroyed.
In the gap in the wall, there is a house with a door about three sills. The door of this house is closed, but a wine flag remains at the door.
The cavalry led by Yanda appeared from the gap in the wall.
Cai Jing followed Yu Jia, already starting to sweat.
He knew that this was just the beginning. The further you go, the closer you get to the commercial center of Bianjing.
In this way, there will be more cases of breaking through the wall and encroaching on the inner ring road.
He could only swallow his saliva and explain: "Your Majesty... that is the Fan family's property..."
"Fan family?" Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes: "Lamb wine, Fan family?"
Cai Jing hummed, feeling even more wary of the Detective Department - does the emperor even know about such a thing?
Zhao Xu smiled: "He really has great magical powers!"
Cai Jing could only explain: "Since I took office, I have demolished it three times..."
In other words, it has been rebuilt three times.
Zhao Xu smiled: "I heard that the Fan family of Lamb Jiu seems to be a former servant of the Wang family of Jiyang County..."
So, Zhao Xu ordered Feng Jing: "Feng Jing, go and call Cao Ye..."
"promise!"
So, a moment later, a young companion of sixteen or seventeen years old with a face full of panic was called in front of Zhao Xu.
It was Cao Ye, Cao Yan's grandson who came to Zhao Xu to study with him.
"Your Majesty..." Cao Ye was sweating profusely: "Please listen to my explanation!"
(End of chapter)
