The day after entering Shaoxing Prefecture City, Zhao Bing appointed Ma Tingluan as the appeasement envoy of Shaoxing Road, and was in charge of Shaoxing Prefecture affairs, and coordinated administrative affairs; and also used Lin Zhiwu as the general manager of Shaoxing Road military affairs to handle military affairs. Ma Tingluan re-entered the officialdom after more than ten years of retirement. The old man was full of energy and immediately selected some officials from his escorts to set up a platform and devoted himself to his work; Lin Zhiwu ordered the first brigade to protect the prefecture city, and the second brigade and the cavalry brigade to take Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengxian, Xinchang and other counties in regiments.
Zhao Bing entered the city but Dapeng got into the cage. The old men strictly prohibited him from walking out of the government office on the grounds that the city was unstable. Chen Dun is not obedient than Ni Liang. He dared to argue with him with a slight mouth. Now he follows him wherever he goes, and he never leaves him. He can't find someone to cooperate if he wants to run away secretly.
"What are you always following me?" The news from all over the country has not arrived yet. Zhao Bing is not able to make a decision. He was so upset that he was still hanging his tail behind him. He said unhappily.
"Your Majesty, my subordinate is the commander of the guard camp, so of course I have to protect myself." Chen Dun said slowly.
"You...you are so loyal to your duties!" Zhao Bing said helplessly after hearing this.
"That's good taught by Your Majesty. I... Where is Your Majesty going?" Chen Dun saluted, but before he finished speaking, the little emperor raised his leg and went out of the door, and quickly chased after him.
"I won't let you go anywhere else. I can go around this government office!" Zhao Bing said angrily.
"Okay, it's good to relax!" Chen Dun immediately called a team of guards to follow.
Shaoxing Prefecture was built on the eastern foot of a small mountain. At first, it was the core of the small town of Shanyin built by Fan Li. King Jujian of Yue was the palace here for nearly twenty years. Qian Xuan, the king of Wuyue in the Five Dynasties, built the palace on the mountain. In the Northern Song Dynasty, he was still the office of Yuezhou Prefecture. Emperor Gaozong of Song was stationed in Shaoxing for twenty months, and the temporary palace was also here. Therefore, the mountain circled around and looked like a lie dragon and was named after it. The Yue Dafu Wen Zhong was also buried here, so it was also called Zhongshan. Later, the prefecture was stationed in the eastern foot of the past dynasties, so it was commonly known as Fushan.
Fushan was once the palace of King Jujian of Yue, and it was also the location of county government offices of all dynasties. There were many buildings in all dynasties. The western foot of the mountain was built as a place for harem entertainment by Qian Liu, the king of Wuyue in the Five Dynasties. Later, his grandson Qian Hongnei gave up his throne and moved here, and the beauty of the garden was famous in the Wuyue period. After entering the Song Dynasty, Jiang Tang learned Yue and then developed Xiyuan. The successors Wang Kui, Shi Hao and Wang Gang added pavilions and pools, which became a large scale. The pavilions and towers were scattered in various parts of the mountain, but they were also a good place for leisure and leisure.
Zhao Bing and Chen Dun were not elegant people. They had no intention of appreciating the inscriptions of ancient people, nor did they intend to verify the details of pavilions and towers. They just followed the mountain road. Although they had searched here, the guards still did not dare to be careless. Moreover, the area of ​​this mountain is not small, and it was like a person hiding it. Some people occupied the high point and set up a guard post, while others were exploring the way forward, searching for the grass and woods on the roadside. Others surrounded him and followed him, for fear of a mistake.
The Fushan Mountain is not high, and Zhao Bing is probably less than 30 feet long. He quickly climbed to the top of the mountain. There was a pavilion on the top of the mountain for rest and cool off. There was a plaque with the words "Looking at the sea". He walked in, and the guards scattered around to watch, looking around but found that the mountain was located in the northwest corner of the city, which was the commanding heights in the Fushan City, and the surrounding situation was clear at a glance.
Zhao Bing was about to look into the distance through the telescope, and he could see that the sea in the southeast was shrouded in mist, and the gray area could not be seen clearly, so he could only turn his eyes to the surroundings. The water was sparkling wherever he saw it, and countless rivers, rivers and streams divided the land into countless grids, and the farmlands and villages were distributed, and bridges of all sizes were vaguely connected to each other.
He looked down at the city, and formed three city defenses. The yamen was in Zicheng, while Shanyin and Kuaiji counties and road management were all here, but they were relatively deserted. In ancient times, various warehouses and warehouses of the government were mostly built around the government, especially the northeast of the government, which were the most concentrated, including the Miaomi Warehouse, the Brass Warehouse, the Salt Warehouse, Changping Warehouse, etc. There were water roads outside the yamen connected to the water systems inside and outside the city, and more than ten ships were moored on the dock. However, there were few houses in this yamen, and except for the yamen, there were military camps, and it was obvious that not everyone could live in.
Looking outward is Luocheng, which is divided into pieces of markets with dense houses. There are many high-rise courtyards and garden gardens. The streets are filled with wine and shops. Although the city is closed, there are still many people walking around on the street and businesses are open. If it is a bustling scene that is sure to be flocking and bustling.
There is another scene outside the city. There are several small towns around the city, such as the grass market not scattered, and there are still people trading. There are villages of different sizes scattered farther away, hidden in the woods. Outside the village are fields and ponds. The pastoral scenery is also different, but it is hard to hide the desolation. Now it is the time of autumn harvest. They work hard for a year. In addition to the taxes collected by the government, they also have to pay tenant rent. What they can only have enough to live. I am afraid that they are extremely uneasy at this moment. What they fear most is that the war will rise again. No matter who wins or loses, the people will be unlucky.
Zhao Bing suddenly felt aroused, what is this city used for? When he was in Qiongzhou, he expanded his city and strengthened the city defense several times. Other prefectures and counties also carried out major renovations and construction, with the purpose of being able to serve as a stronghold for defending, a place for shelter and a warehouse for stockpiling materials when the enemy invaded. The focus was on the function of military defense. Zhao Bing also led his army to attack Guangzhou and Quanzhou. These two cities were also considered important towns on the southeast coast, but he believed that these two cities were his own ATMs and a place for wealth gathering, and he did not think much about it.
Today, Zhao Bing was in a bad mood, and it was rare that he had not examined the functions of a city from a military perspective, but he learned something from it. As modern people, we are very familiar with this picture. As the center of power and the place where power operates, cities are very easy to understand, and there is no need to argue. They are often the political, economic and cultural center of a region. Sometimes the latter has a greater significance than the former. Cities of all sizes are combined as centers at different levels to form a huge control network.
The difference is that no one builds a city in modern cities, and even demolishes the city walls for expansion. The rest become cultural relics and becomes a memory of a generation. However, almost all cities gather most of the power in their society, and this point is undoubtedly true. However, Zhao Bing never thought about whether it was the city that provided a place for the concentration and operation of power, or whether power "made" or "generated" the city. But now it is the moment of restoring the country and counterattack, he has to consider it.
Judging from the current Shaoxing Prefecture City, the prototype of a city was found nearly two thousand years ago. After continuous development, it has generally emerged on both sides of the main traffic roads outside the city gate, or on the wharfs and ferries, and has developed blocks with bonds. Some cities have the area, population, and commercial scale of the urban blocks under the city are more than that of the city, or even several times that of the city. However, these blocks with bonds are obviously not within the protection scope of the city wall. Therefore, the main function of the so-called city wall is to protect the city, which is strictly speaking, does not conform to the facts.
Therefore, Zhao Bing believed that in the political image of the imperial era, the city wall was more important as the symbol of the authority of the state and the government, and it was a symbol of power. The majestic city towers, tall city walls, and wide city moats together formed a picture symbolizing the authority and power of the dynasty, playing a role in deterring Guizhou heads, small children and even rebels, making the villagers crawl at the foot of the city wall and appreciate the majesty and sorrow of the government more deeply. All constructions such as city walls, towers and piers are to gather the shape and promote the momentum of the government, so the construction is "about politics"!
In other words, building city walls and towers helps establish the authority of the government, unite the "people's hearts" and ultimately achieve the goal of stabilizing the ruling order. We emphasize that the city wall is a symbol of the authority of the dynasty, and does not mean that it denies its military significance. In fact, the city wall does play the role of military defensive facilities, but compared with the numerous city walls that have existed for hundreds of years, the chance of being attacked is not high, and the time for its defensive facilities is also short. In other words, it is normal to play the role of city walls as symbols of authority; but it is a differentiation to play the role of defensive facilities.
There is a saying that urban-rural differences in modern times, but it refers more to the differences in economy, culture and education. However, Zhao Bing realized that the ancient Chinese city walls were not only a symbol of dynasty and authority, but also a boundary, and a city wall drew a distinction between inside and outside. In this "Hui"-shaped city surrounded by double city walls, the inner city wall separates the king and the people, while the outer city wall separates the people from the countryside. Although the city and the capital may not be represented as the "Hui" shape with the outer city outside the small city, the capital may not have built a land wall, but is more likely to use the inherent mountains, rivers, and land objects to connect as a barrier.
However, the boundary role of the city wall and Guoyuan is unquestionable. In the yamen district of the city geography center, there are probably mountains and pools, empty and deserted; while at the gate of the city geography and the ferry terminal at the edge of the city geography, there may be cars and horses intersecting, shops are dense and lively; the spatial divisions inside the city often do not adhere to the "economic rationality" of land use, nor do they conform to the "ecological rationality" of adaptation and survival, so Zhao Bing is convinced that for most cities that have developed a certain scale of city blocks outside the city, the city is actually mainly used to "supreme officials".
The government offices, barracks, officials, gentry, yamen residences and gardens occupy the most superior and most important position in the city and form the main body of the city's neighborhood. For ordinary people, the city is not the best choice for living, because it provides fewer opportunities for living and higher living expenses. Otherwise, outside the city, relatively low land prices, convenient transportation, lower taxes, and extensive connections with the countryside all provide more opportunities for living.
This naturally forms the functional division between the city and the outside of the city: the city is mainly administrative, cultural and educational and gentry residential areas, while the city is outside of the city is commercial, handicraft and ordinary people living in the city. Therefore, the service objects of commercial facilities in the city are mainly officials, gentry and other people living in the city, while retail stores outside the city are facing the countryside, while wholesale commerce is mainly facing long-distance trade. This phenomenon also reveals the different functions of commerce in the city and commerce outside the city. The former is an integral part of urban economic life, while the latter is mainly an integral part of rural life and regional economic activities, and classes are invisibly divided by economic means.
By building central cities at all levels centered on the capital, the dynasty state declares the legitimacy or orthodox authority of the dynasty, highlights the state power that is above the subjects, distinguishes between China and non-Huaxia, and transforms the internal and external. Although the security and defense function of the city wall cannot be underestimated, it is more important to be the symbol of the authority of the state and the government, and is a symbol of power.
At the same time, the dynasty countries also used walls to separate the functional areas of the city from residents of different identities, including one or some social groups in the city or a certain space of the city, and excluded other groups from the city. Obviously, the various walls in the city have created relatively closed and exclusive spaces of different sizes to achieve the purpose of control. Power is manifested through the spatial monopoly of certain groups and the exclusion of certain vulnerable groups into other spaces.
In this way, Zhao Bing concluded that ancient Chinese cities, their forms and spatial layouts were largely the spatial distribution of dynasty state power, mainly formed based on certain institutional arrangements, and were the product of the joint action of power operation and various socio-economic factors, rather than natural or inevitable result of choice. The formation of Zicheng, Luocheng, and Fuguo blocks was mainly based on institutional provisions; the fuzzification of functional divisions and the inversion of centers and marginal areas were only in line with Chinese-style power rationality.
In other words, power creates cities and systems arranges the spatial structure of cities. In addition, all Chinese dynasties have used a lot of manpower and material resources to build central cities at all levels centered on the capital. Although there are many specific considerations, the most basic motivation is to declare the legitimacy or orthodox authority of the dynasty, highlight the state power that is above the subjects, and seize more power in a larger spatial and social scope.
Zhao Bing was stunned for a long time in Wanghai Pavilion, and came to this conclusion. This also made him realize that he had been struggling in the mausoleum area for so long and annihilated two 10,000 teams of the Yuan army. But it was like a fallen leaf falling into the water, and there was no response at all. No patriotic patriots came up to respond, nor did the people donate money and supplies to support him. Instead, he easily took Shaoxing Prefecture City, which caused a shock. He also knew that the king had returned to the north and the emperor had personally fought. The change of attitude was caught off guard.
Chapter completed!