Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 108 Zhongdu, Great and Cruel!

When you come out of Wuli Temple, you can see the tall city wall of Zhongdu lying in front of you.

"This, this is not five miles, two, two miles is enough." The second brother commented.

As a result, the two brothers walked for five miles along the city wall before reaching the nearest Nanzuo Jiadi Gate.

"Yuan, so it's five miles away." The second brother was stunned.

"Let's go to the city." Zhu Di looked at him with a look of caring for mentally handicapped children.

Speaking of Zhongdu, the fourth child became much calmer.I don't know if I have become a role, and I have the burden of an idol.Still touched by something.

The guards at the city gates of Zhongdu are extremely strict in interrogation. All pedestrians and business travelers entering and leaving must show their waypoints, and they must be strictly searched and their luggage carefully checked.

As long as there is a problem, they will be arrested and thrown into prison, and then interrogated, convicted, and sent to the construction site to serve in one train.

"Grandma, grandma's, it's stricter than Nanjing." After entering the city, the second brother, who was groped all over his body, muttered in a low voice.

The fourth child was even more unable to comment on this, because he had no idea what it was like to enter and leave Nanjing.

But he knew why the third and sixth didn't come, they even checked that place...

Soon, the slightly messy mood of the two was shocked by the magnificent scene in front of them.

How grand is Zhongdu City?Let's put it this way, its design combines the advantages of Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty and Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty.

Bianliang was the most prosperous and elegant capital in those hundreds of years, and a picture of Qingming Riverside is enough to explain everything.

The outline of Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty is square and neat like a chessboard, with clear roads and regular blocks, making the urban layout extraordinarily spectacular.

With the belief of building a capital for all generations, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted not only the prosperity and elegance of Bianliang, but also the magnificence of Yuan Dadu.

Moreover, he has to excel in both aspects, so that he is worthy of expelling the Tartars and restoring China's Great Ming Dynasty!

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Of course, except for the imperial palace, most of those grand buildings have not yet been completed, and many of them have only laid a foundation.At present, we can only feel the grandeur of Zhongdu City, as for the prosperity and prosperity, we still have to rely on our imagination.

But it's not just imagination.The newly cast Hongwu bronze bell that Zhu Xi and Zhu Di saw in front of the unfinished bell tower is the best proof!

The Hongwu bell is sixteen feet five inches high, six inches thick, ten feet five inches in diameter, and 34 feet in circumference.In terms of the size of later generations, it is as high as [-] meters and [-] meters in diameter.Weighing hundreds of tons.

In winter, the bronze bell is built with soil to form a slope as high as the bell tower, and then poured with water to turn the slope into ice, and then the workers use human and animal power to pull it up little by little.

When the two came, it was just in time for the hoisting of the big bell to be completed, and the craftsmen were making final adjustments.

Suddenly the workers hit it with a bell hammer, and the huge Hongwu bell made a sound of "disgusting, thundering and lightning, shocking Taixu, and those who heard it far and wide will not be stunned", which dazzled the two brothers.

In the huge shock, Zhu Di couldn't help murmuring: "A man should be like this."

"Why, why, you will also cast a big bell in the future?" Zhu Xi asked after hearing the words.In fact, he also likes this bell tower very much, and he is planning to build one as usual after the feudal queen.

"Are you kidding, can this thing be cast randomly?" Zhu Di hurriedly shook his head and said, "I just lament the greatness of Emperor Hongwu."

"Clocks cannot be cast randomly..." Zhu Xi remembered.Xin said, then I just build the bell tower and don't cast the bell, isn't there no problem?
I'm so smart...

After admiring the big clock, the two walked around the city along the straight avenue and looked at it.

In fact, the current Zhongdu City is really only suitable for viewing from a distance, not up close.Because from a close look, it is a big construction site!
Moreover, it is an extremely dirty large construction site full of stench, fishy smell, construction waste, household waste, human and animal feces...

In the entire Zhongdu City, there are nearly 30 artisan households and civilian husbands, under the supervision of officers and soldiers like wolves and tigers, they are carrying out heavy labor non-stop.

What they saw in front of their eyes were all unkempt and ragged peasants, carrying heavy timber and stones on their shoulders and transporting them from the yard to various construction sites.If you move a little slower, the supervisor's whip will fall mercilessly.

The bare-chested stonemasons, sweating profusely, held up big hammers, clanging holes in the huge stone.This is not only a labor of strength, but also a skill, and the stone will be cut off if you are not careful.In some cases, they were severely beaten by the supervisor, and in severe cases, they were taken to beheaded.

There are also those who rammed, built walls, dug ditches, and erected beams... Countless craftsmen and peasants, under the pressure of supervisors and officers and soldiers, are like a group of submissive ants, performing their duties in obscurity.

Looking at Zhu Xi and Zhu Di all the way, the biggest feeling is that everyone is extremely tired.Even the officers, soldiers and supervisors were too tired to speak, as if they didn't even show their expressions, so they could only use their strength to wave their whips...

The skinny craftsmen and peasants, even under the high-intensity labor, are so tired that they are so tired that they lose their personality.

They ate, drank and defecated on the construction site, and defecated everywhere on the street, making the construction site and the street full of stench, and the two brothers covered their noses and were so smoked that they burst into tears...

The dirty and hot environment breeds overwhelming mosquitoes and flies, spreading diseases wantonly.

Many craftsmen and peasants are visibly ill with the naked eye.In the shade at the base of the wall, there are many dying patients lying quietly...

Without a doctor to treat them, the government left them to fend for themselves.Many people died quietly like this.

After their death, there will be a special corpse collection team, which will roll up their corpses with straw mats, drag them to the incarnation field and burn them.

In this way, the corpse collection team does not come every day.The two brothers saw with their own eyes several highly decomposed corpses lying dead beside the road.

Fortunately, the two of them grew up in the military camp. If the sixth child were here instead, he would have to vomit all his gall.

What made the two of them even more unbelievable was that the abuse of civilian husbands and craftsmen by officers, soldiers and supervisors had reached the point where human lives were ignored.

They saw with their own eyes that a group of miscellaneous officials, surrounded by a young senior official in scarlet robes, was inspecting the construction site of the future Zhongshu Province.

As a result, a group of craftsmen was found to be substandard in construction quality... Although they were all high-quality projects, they were still classified as unqualified under Zhongdu's strict standards.

The supervisors whipped the construction team composed of these two craftsmen and six peasants to the point of inhumanity.

The brothers thought it was over.Unexpectedly, the young high-ranking official ordered in a low voice, and the officers and soldiers tied him up and took him to the street.

Then the officers and soldiers drew out their knives, clicked, and chopped the eight people down.

The two brothers looked at the eight heads in shock, rolling on the ground gruntingly.The rest of the people turned a blind eye, what to do.

Obviously, they have long been used to such scenes.

After killing today's people, the young senior official was about to ride away when a head rolled to his feet, and he kicked it away.

Then he got on the horse with a blank expression, as if he had kicked a ball just now.

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