In Luoyang, Xijing, after more than a year, the renovation work has basically entered the final stage. The Financial Secretary has successively allocated 4.35 million yuan for the cost of the project, which is equivalent to the current year's fiscal and taxation of Han Dynasty.
One-tenth of the total, in addition to official craftsmen, a total of 150,000 people were recruited for civilian service.
It was just a "maintenance", and the money and food invested by the court were more than the original overhaul of Kaifeng. Of course, this was due to rising prices, and the original repair of Kaifeng severely cut off a wave of wealthy businessmen in Tokyo.
Facts have proved that under high standards and high quality requirements, the investment in building renovation is not much cheaper than rebuilding, or even higher. After all, it also involves the issue of demolition.
The renovated Luoyang City is actually the same as before. Shadows of the past can be seen everywhere, and the original layout has not changed much. In terms of majesty and magnificence, Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is really the pinnacle of Sui and Tang architecture and a bright pearl in the history of architecture.
After this renovation and improvement, future generations may have to call it "Luoyang City of Sui, Tang and Han Dynasties".
In the construction of Luoyang, the government invested, and the main palace city, imperial city, outer city, and various public facilities. Government offices, camps, workshops, warehouses, roads, greening, and underground pipelines were all systematically improved.
Many old city walls and gates have been demolished and rebuilt, but Emperor Murong's main focus was on the reconstruction of the palace in Luoyang. Things that were regrettable in Kaifeng were realized in Luoyang, and Murong Yan
The core idea of super management architecture is to be majestic and magnificent, with a grand layout, to show the beauty of the architecture, and to be worthy of today's Han Empire.
One advantage of the renovation project is that many of the original building materials can continue to be used, which also saves a lot of wood and stone costs.
However, there are several palaces that are completely new and everything is new. Among the new palaces, the main hall of Miyagi City is the most extravagant.
In the early years, Emperor Liu once expressed that he felt that the Chongyuan Hall in Kaifeng was too small and short, and his uncle, who was increasingly obsessed with architecture, also thought so. Therefore, he invested 120% in the construction of the main hall.
enthusiasm.
The finally completed Luoyang main hall is 400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 192 feet high. Its grandeur may be different from the Mingtang in the Wu Zhou era, but in the contemporary era, it is the only one in the world, and
It does not have so many religious overtones. It is only used to reflect the majesty of the imperial authority and is only used for court meetings or ceremonies. Compared with it, the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City can only be described as dwarfed.
Emperor Liu named the completed Luoyang main hall Qianyuan Hall. After spending so much money and manpower to create a wonder, Emperor Liu, who always advocated simplicity and simplicity, unknowingly turned into the palace he used to hate.
appearance.
Although he had repeatedly told Murong Yanchao to control costs, save money and food, and cherish the people's power, in actual operation, it was difficult to achieve perfection.
There were only two additional increases of funds, reaching 900,000 yuan. Adding part of the tax allocation from Luoyang and Gyeonggi Province, the cumulative expenditure reached an extremely huge amount. During the advancement of the project, there were more than a thousand casualties.
More than 200 people died as a result of various accidents, and many were overworked.
Under such circumstances, the imperial censors and officials in the court would naturally not remain silent, and there were countless people who proposed impeachment against the Luoyang project.
When the trouble came to Emperor Liu, he fell silent for the first time. Although he reprimanded Murong Yanchao in a handwritten edict and criticized the waste of money and food in the project and the enslavement of civilians, he still demanded more.
Make rectifications and deal with those officials who are eager for quick success, and at the same time, order double compensation to the civilians who were injured or killed.
Achieving this step is almost the limit. For a project like this that relies mainly on manpower, if you want to avoid hurting or killing people, how is it possible? Emperor Liu is not that naive. He can only prevent and deal with possible problems.
Strengthen supervision, that's all.
When the government was carrying out a large-scale construction project in Luoyang City, the officials and people in the city also followed suit and repaired their houses to coordinate with the layout set by the government. Just like the original construction of Kaifeng, people were allowed to build their own houses.
, but there are unified requirements for building layout.
Uncle Murong seems to be a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The result is that, like Kaifeng, the overall architectural layout of Luoyang is also hierarchical, with obvious levels of officials and civilians.
With the gradual improvement of the new Luoyang City, Emperor Liu also announced in the spring and February of the sixth year of Kaibao (968) that he would visit Luoyang in the west for inspection. In addition, Murong Yan had super power as the governor of Luoyang.
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At the foot of Mang Mountain, at the intersection of mountains and rivers, there is a bamboo hut among the green trees. Outside the courtyard, a waterwheel rotates and creaks with the wind. There are flowers and trees planted in front of the courtyard. There is a plaque on the door with the inscription "Zhao
Hut".
Looking at the surrounding environment, it is quiet and elegant, with a unique artistic conception, as if a master hermit lives there. However, the place where this master hermit lives is too close to the secular world of Luoyang.
In the bamboo hut, there was a sound of reading, and the voice was childish. A tall figure, holding a scroll in hand, was pacing among them, paying attention to the seven or eight children sitting there.
The broad-faced, long-bearded man in gray robe, calm and powerful, is none other than Zhao Pu, the former governor of southwest China who resigned. Last winter, he returned to Luoyang for his mother's funeral. After handling the funeral, Zhao Pu built this grass at the foot of Mang Mountain.
I stayed in the cottage and kept my filial piety. Perhaps I was feeling lonely, so I called my three young children and school-age children from surrounding farmhouses to experience teaching and educating people.
Zhao Pu's knowledge is not high, but that also depends on who he compares with. What he cultivates is managing the world and doing knowledge. The big man is much better than him, but when it comes to being an official and doing things, he can do better than Zhao Pu.
There are not many people who can do better.
Moreover, in his early years, he was often criticized when he was around Emperor Liu because of his lack of knowledge. In view of this, in his later official career, Zhao Pu also read a lot of books, but he did not seek deep explanations.
In later generations, the saying "half of the Analects can rule the world" made Zhao Pu famous. Then many people took it for granted that Zhao Pu only read "The Analects of Confucius", which is true and nonsense.
Previously, when Emperor Liu listened to Xue Juzheng's lecture on the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when he talked about Shi Le, the founding emperor of the later Zhao Dynasty, who planned to advocate Zhang Bin, he compared Zhao Pu to Zhang Bin, which was considered a compliment to him.
Now, after living together in a cottage for several months, Zhao Pu has also cultivated his moral character for such a long time. Although he seems to be calm day by day, his heart is as scratchy as a cat, itching terribly.
Zhao Pu is not a person who can sit still for a long time. If he is really worried for a year and a half, he will definitely not be able to bear it. Therefore, during this period, he is in the world and his heart is in the temple, but he is worried about the situation of the court.
Looking forward to the day when angels will arrive with orders...