Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 518 Design of Daming Palace
After Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, the advancement of various political projects was obviously accelerated. He is a very diligent emperor who dares to accept new ideas. He stayed up many nights, and his brain cells were forced to death a lot.

It wasn't until late November, when Tang Jian's memorial was sent to Chang'an by the envoys of the Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions, that Sun Xiangfu and Yan Lide left a lot of design drawings of the new palace and rushed to Dingxiang together.

No way, Tang Jian’s memorial said that the number of kingdoms that came to Dingxiang to participate in the World’s No. The head of the country will personally bring the troops here, so, together with their guards and entourage, it is likely to reach thousands of people.

This is not considered a big head, many of the rich and powerful in various countries have already organized their own groups to rush to Dingxiang. By then, the number of these foreign audiences will also be quite large.

That is to say, even if the participating teams and spectators within Datang are not counted, the number of people from the Western Regions and Tianzhu countries coming to Dingxiang may reach tens of thousands. For the people who came to see the excitement, Dingxiang may gather more than one million people from outside in August and September next year.

In order to guarantee the eating, drinking, and competitions of so many people, a lot of work needs to be done in advance. Sun Xiangfu rushed to Dingxiang to help coordinate these tasks. As for Yan Lide, he was going to lead the people from the Ministry of Industry to study in Dingxiang The most advanced building-style building, because the government affairs area jointly designed by him and Sun Xiangfu will be a new-style building with a grand appearance and convenient office.

The new palace was named Daming Palace by Li Shimin. The main hall will be the tallest building in Chang'an City. It is 30 meters high and divided into three floors. The height of each floor is nine meters. The decoration on the roof is three meters high. According to the height of a one-story building in later generations, which is about [-] meters, this building is almost as high as a nine-story building in later generations.

The building is 300 meters wide and 200 meters deep. That is to say, the indoor area of ​​each floor is nearly 3 square meters. The first floor will be a super-large banquet hall, which can accommodate [-] to [-] people at the same time. .

The second floor is the meeting hall. There are two very wide and imposing staircases. They go straight up to the second floor from both sides of the outside, with civil and martial arts on the left and military on the right. But if you stand in line, this hall is enough to stand 5 to [-] people.In fact, the hall on the second floor can only be used during the super court meeting.

The most commonly used one is on the third floor, where there are three meeting rooms of different sizes, and several reception rooms of different sizes and specifications, as well as secretary supervisor, living man, Zhongshu Sheren, internal servant supervisor, etc., which are often used by the emperor. Some people's offices, these offices are all around the imperial study room in the middle, which is more than [-] square meters in front.

Among the three conference rooms, the smallest one can accommodate 300 people for meetings. Moreover, when everyone holds court meetings in the future, there is no need to stand. Now that there are many things to discuss, usually standing for several hours, normal people I can't stand it, let alone many senior ministers, and after getting more in touch with comfortable furniture such as sofas, everyone is becoming less and less used to kneeling.

Therefore, in the future, when everyone goes to court, they will have sofa seats, and there will also be their own table. If they want to play or record, they don't need to write or draw on the wat board. There is a pen and paper for recording the key points of the meeting.Sun Xiangfu even thoughtfully thought of placing a red disapproval board and a green approval board on each case table. If a minister speaks and expresses his approval or disapproval, he can directly raise the board to let Gao sit down. The emperor on the dragon chair could see everyone's attitude at a glance, instead of relying on momentum or physical strength to tell the emperor his own attitude.

The exterior wall of the building is snow-white, and there are many large windows for lighting. These windows will all be made of pure transparent glass as the window sashes. It is in Longshouyuan outside the city, but its height is more than ten meters higher than the city wall of Chang'an City. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass of the Imperial Study Room and looking at the whole Chang'an, you will have the feeling that everything is under your feet.

Of course, the Daming Palace does not only have this main hall. On both sides of it, there will be twelve buildings with the same white walls and red tiles, but a few sizes smaller. These buildings are the office buildings of all the institutions of the imperial court.

The buildings are no more than a hundred steps away from each other, and there is no such thing as a wall to divide them. Including ministers who want to go to the imperial study room in the main hall, they only need to be notified by the servants, and the emperor will see it. The office system has been put together. Such a setup will enable the emperor to receive reports from various departments more directly during office hours, and to issue orders to various ministries, making the power of the central government more concentrated.

As for the harem, after the completion of the main hall and office building, it will continue to be built backwards along the Taiye Pool. Similarly, it will be scattered and seated in the form of individual buildings and courtyards, which greatly reduces the occupied area. In the entire palace, it is more convenient to enter and exit, more like a relatively large villa area.

All landscapes and entertainment facilities will be relatively concentrated in the area of ​​Taiye Pool, and the entire original Taiji Palace, Yeting, and East Palace will be open to the public after the completion of the new palace, as a tourist attraction for the people of Chang'an. In the Imperial City Park, Sun Xiangfu even suggested that the imperial garden of the former palace and palace should be converted into a zoo, where elephants, rhinos, colorful birds, peacocks, apes, orangutans, dragons, lions, tigers, and bears were presented from various countries. Animals of this type are isolated in relatively safe and ornamental buildings for the public to watch, and a certain amount of tickets is charged for feeding and maintenance.

As for the original office areas of the imperial government in the [-] squares such as Buzheng and Lianzheng, it is natural to develop high-end real estate in the city to relieve the increasing pressure on housing demand in Chang'an City. If it works well, it may be possible to build a new palace. Half of the cost is earned back.

Sun Xiangfu's entire proposal was approved by Li Shimin, so Yan Lide, who was mainly in charge of the construction, came to Dingxiang to learn the construction technology of this new type of building, because the top construction team under Sun Xiangfu were all in Dingxiang, at present, has the most advanced and beautiful buildings in Datang.

Of course, even if Yan Lide and the officials from the Ministry of Industry are quick to learn, the court still has manpower and money to spend, but it will take at least two or three years for the entire main building complex of the Daming Palace to be completed. , at least for more than five years, but it will not be like in history, Taizong stopped the repair for more than a year, Gaozong took over, and the repair was basically completed in ten and a half months.

Because new buildings require a lot of technology and crafts. It is no longer a building like before, erecting pillars, building beams, covering tiles, laying bricks, and erecting walls. It should be no problem for a building to take tens of hundreds of years.

With the cement road and the horse-changing station along the way, the journey is fast. Even in winter, Sun Xiangfu took a nap in the carriage for four days before arriving at the city of Shanyang. In the case of running, even if the speed of the carriage is slightly lowered, it can travel about [-] miles a day on the cement road.

Before coming here, Sun Xiangfu did not write a letter to inform Shanyang. In fact, the letter may not be faster than his carriage. When he arrived in the city, Sun Xiangfu found that there was no one at home.

After the butler Liu Song welcomed Sun Xiangfu into the door, he said, "Master, the second master and the third lady have gone to the Agricultural College."

"Agricultural College? Has it been built over there?"

"The main building has already been built, and other facilities, the people of the Wang family will slowly build according to the requirements of the second master, but the second master does not want to waste the whole winter, and has already sent word in the city that next spring, the Agricultural College will officially enroll students , if you want to successfully enter the school, you must first go to the Agricultural College to get a basic agronomy materials to study on your own. You can only enter the school after passing the entrance examination next year. In the past few days, he, Miss San and the others have been distributing materials over there of it!"

"Well, go get busy! By the way, let people clean up all the guest rooms in the house, and prepare a richer dinner. I want to entertain guests."

After Sun Xiangfu finished explaining to Liu Song in front of the mansion, he returned to the motorcade again and said to Yan Lide, "Yan Shangshu, you are troubled, just follow me to the Agricultural College to have a look!"

When it comes to architecture, Yan Lide is an expert in this era. Moreover, he not only knows how to build houses, but is also an expert in Fengshui. Although the Agricultural College is not Sun Xiangfu's home, who told him to catch up!Let's take a look by the way!Perhaps the academy designed by Sun Xiangfu himself can bring him some inspiration in architecture.

Soon, the convoy began to drive towards the east of Shanyang City, towards the Agricultural College, and the news that Sun Xiangfu had returned to Shanyang also began to spread in the city. After hearing the news, Chu Suiliang and other officials rushed to the The academy rushed over.

The scale of the Agricultural College is no less than that of the Medical College, almost occupying a square in Shanyang City. From a long distance, Yan Liben, who was in the same car with Sun Xiangfu, saw the teaching building standing inside the courtyard wall. This is Shanyang Here, a rare three-story building.

"Zhengming, using this kind of building as a school is also to save the floor space?"

"It not only saves the building area, but also makes it easier to build heating facilities. Moreover, if it is scattered into many brick buildings, there will be many snow-covered roofs. In this way, the coal we consume for heating , it will be more than doubled, and it will be built into a building, and the savings will be saved for a long time, which is not a little cost."

"Unexpectedly, when building a house, you have to consider these issues. The old man has been taught."

"Hehe, it's not just these problems. Large buildings, reasonable safety passages, and fire-fighting facilities are also essential. Although more bricks and stones are used to build buildings and less wood is used, there are also times when fires occur. And this type of building Once a building catches fire, it is not like an ordinary one-story house. Everyone can escape by running outside. Usually, everyone needs to take the stairs to go downstairs. Moreover, if the building is large and burns, the smoke is likely to accumulate indoors. Flames are more likely to kill people, so when we build the new palace, we have to take these issues into consideration."

"Fire?" Yan Lide asked in surprise when he heard a new word.

Sun Xiangfu hurriedly explained, "It means to eliminate hidden dangers and prevent fires."

Yan Lide praised after hearing the words, "Zhengming is really considerate. It seems that after the old man goes to Dingxiang, he really needs to take a good look at the internal structure of those new buildings."

(End of this chapter)