Chapter 1686, the most difficult thing is urban planning
On a street in Dongcheng District, Liu Jin was walking around with Zhu Houzhao in Dongcheng District. Looking around, the entire Dongcheng District was messy and unplanned. There was not even a decent road. The surrounding houses were also built haphazardly. They looked like nothing.
Extremely bad.
Zhu Houzhao intended to use Dongcheng District as a pilot project, focusing on the urban planning of Dongcheng City, and planning Dongcheng District better to create a new era city that conforms to the identity and temperament of the Ming Empire.
"Old Liu, this kind of urban planning is really a headache. I don't know anything about it."
Zhu Houzhao looked at everything in front of him, it was a mess, and he was a little annoyed.
"Your Highness, this city planning, first of all, is to give it a position."
"For example, here in Dongcheng District, there are many factories and workshops here, so its positioning is basically centered around factories and workshops."
"To set up a factory or a workshop, the most important thing is transportation and manpower. Therefore, the first thing to plan is the roads. These roads in Dongcheng District should be included in the plan. Just like in Nancheng District, the roads should be repaired first and widened.
, the entire Dongcheng District will be divided again through roads.”
"This area is used to specifically arrange factories and workshops. Then this area cannot be used to build housing areas. This area is used to be arranged as a housing area, so factories and workshops cannot be arranged in this area. At the same time, corresponding arrangements for housing areas
Carry out some supporting construction and planning, such as planning some commercial streets, schools, vegetable markets, etc., to facilitate everyone's life."
"Actually, urban planning is not difficult. The core point is to focus on location needs and transportation. In addition, the water supply and sewage system in Dongcheng District has not been built. This is also a very important thing and must be fully taken into consideration when planning.
at this point."
"There are millions of people living here in Dongcheng District. Without reasonable planning, it will only get worse and worse, dirty and messy."
Liu Jin thought for a while and recounted his experience in construction and planning of the South District New Town.
"That's it. After hearing what you said, I knew it in my heart."
After listening to Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao suddenly became enlightened.
"Your Highness, it is better to hire professionals to do this city planning. You can hire some students from the School of Architecture and Engineering to do these things. They are professional in this. They must know better than us and can plan better."
Liu Jin smiled. Urban construction planning is not that easy. This is an extremely complex systematic project, and it still requires professional talents to do it.
"Yes, yes, professional things should be left to professionals. That's what you said."
Zhu Houzhao also nodded repeatedly.
He now more agrees with what Liu Jin said. Some things really need to be done by professionals, otherwise they won't be done well at all.
Just like in construction projects, ordinary masons can only build ordinary houses. If they want to build high-rise buildings, they will be confused and have no way to start. At this time, the School of Construction Engineering is needed.
The people are here, they are professionals in this field, and they can clearly arrange all the buildings for you.
"Actually, the biggest fear in this city planning is to encounter troublesome households. Now the land in Dongcheng District is divided very finely. This piece of land belongs to different people. There will definitely be more by then.
A time of trouble and quarrel.”
Liu Jin looked at the streets in Dongcheng District in front of him. They were in a mess. This place was different from Nancheng District.
The land in Nancheng District belongs to Liu Jin, so Liu Jin can plan and develop it slowly by himself, building it extremely beautifully and neatly planning it.
It's different here in Dongcheng District. The land here belongs to many people, including dignitaries and ministers in the court, landowners and gentry in the capital, and some ordinary people in the capital.
It is definitely not easy to carry out unified planning under such circumstances.
For example, if you build a road, you will definitely need to occupy some land. However, the road you build will not bring any benefits to the land owner, so they will not agree easily.
You must know that land in the capital is now very valuable. It is not like the five taels of silver per acre in the past. Now, one acre of land in the capital can be sold for thousands of taels of silver.
Those who have land are rushing to build houses on their land. Even if they are rented out, they can make a good profit every month.
You want to plan a road to go there. Once this road is built, it may take up a lot of land. Can the other party agree?
There is no doubt that even if you give money, the other party may not be willing, because there will be no income after building the road. However, if the land is in your own hands, you can build a house and rent it out, and there are shops on the street that you can rent out or start a small business.
, those are long-term businesses that can continue to be operated and passed down from generation to generation.
This was definitely a very important matter for the Ming Dynasty people in this period.
This is also the reason why Ming people have always attached so much importance to land.
Because the land is ancestral property, if you sell a little bit of it, you will be called a prodigal.
What's more, every inch of land in the capital is at a premium now. People in Dongcheng District quarrel and fight almost every day over a small piece of land.
If you could just swipe your pen and acquire a large area of land for road construction, there might be people who would fight for it with you.
This is also the reason why Liu Jin's real estate has never entered Dongcheng District.
One reason is that land is difficult to buy. Even if you have money, no one may be willing to sell it to you. If you want to engage in real estate, you will definitely not be able to do it without a large area of land.
Secondly, the supporting facilities are not good. The supporting facilities here are too poor. If you re-plan it yourself, others will not cooperate with you. Maybe they will sue you, Liu Jin, saying that you, a cabinet minister, rely on your power and official authority to bully others.
Selling land or something like that would be bad.
So I should just do it honestly in Nancheng District, plan slowly, and build slowly. Anyway, there is enough land in Nancheng District, and it is big enough. It all belongs to Liu Jin, and some of it is land.
"Nail house?"
“What is a nail household?”
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately felt strange and asked quickly.
This is another new word, a new word that comes from Liu Jin.
"In the future you will understand what a nail household is."
Liu Jin smiled and replied,
I can’t explain it clearly now. Only after you encounter this thing will you know what a nail household is.
"Don't say pull me down!"
Zhu Houzhao curled his lips and looked at the Dongcheng District in front of him. There are a large number of factories, workshops, and some beautiful real estate developed by capable people, but most of them are private houses built haphazardly without planning. There are also a large number of
Haphazardly built shantytowns.
The streets are basically dirt. Building bridges and paving roads consumes too much money, time and energy. More importantly, it is easy to offend people, and no one is willing to do it.
Infrastructure still needs to be planned and constructed by the government. If there is no government to do this, it will basically be difficult to accomplish.
It would be better not to involve the fields. Once the fields are involved, even a little bit will encounter countless objections. This will be true even in later generations.
In some rural areas in later generations, because road construction requires some land, but if some people are unwilling, you will go over to obstruct the road construction, or even fight for the land. The interests of these people cannot be damaged, and they can only
Take advantage of others' advantages and interests.
But often such people are the poorest and least promising. They care about everything and calculate everything, but in the end they calculate nothing.
Some people live frugally all their lives, deducting everything and skimping on everything. As a result, their sons become useless, get into gambling or buy horses, etc. They are all born overnight.
Human nature is complex, and urban planning and construction have been difficult problems since ancient times.
But fortunately, the prince Zhu Houzhao is the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. If he comes to do this, he is not afraid of offending people, and his words are often more effective.
If an ordinary official were to be the prefect and take charge of this matter, I am afraid that he would be tied up and have nothing to do in many cases. When encountering the land of some powerful people, he probably would not be able to do it. Maybe he would also think of using ordinary people.
To supplement the land of these powerful people, it will definitely be worse.