Coming out of Wuli Temple, you can see the tall Zhongdu City Wall stretching in front of you.
"This, this isn't even five miles. Two, two miles can hold up the sky." The second brother commented.
As a result, the brothers walked along the city wall for a full five miles before reaching the nearest Nanzuo Jiadi Gate.
"So, it turns out it's such a five-mile place." The second brother suddenly realized.
"Let's go to the city." Zhu Di looked at him with a look that showed concern for mentally retarded children.
After arriving in Zhongdu, the fourth child became much calmer. I don't know if he had become a role player and had the burden of being an idol, or if he was touched by something.
The guards at the Zhongdu City Gate conducted extremely strict checks. All pedestrians and merchants entering and exiting were required to show directions, were searched strictly, and their luggage and goods were carefully checked.
If there is any problem, they will be immediately arrested and thrown into jail, then interrogated, convicted, and sent to a construction site for one-stop service.
"Brother, grandma's, it's more strict than Nanjing." After entering the city, the second brother, who was touched all over his body, muttered in a low voice.
The fourth child couldn't comment on this, because he didn't know what it was like to go in and out of Nanjing.
But he knew why the third and sixth brothers didn't come, and they actually even checked that place...
Soon, the two people's slightly messy moods were 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 city for hundreds of years. A picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is enough to explain it all.
The outline of Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty was as square as a chessboard, with clearly defined roads and straight and regular blocks, making the urban pattern particularly spectacular.
Zhu Yuanzhang held the belief of building a capital for all generations. He wanted both the prosperity and elegance of Bianliang and the grandeur of Yuan Dynasty.
And he must surpass himself in both aspects, so that he can be worthy of expelling the Tartars and restoring the great Ming Dynasty of China!
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Of course, except for the palace, most of the grand buildings have not yet been completed, and many of them are just foundations. At present, we can only feel the grandeur of Zhongdu City. As for the magnificence and prosperity, we have to imagine.
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!
That Hongwu bell is sixteen feet tall and five inches tall, six inches thick, ten feet wide and five inches wide, and thirty-four feet wide. In later generations, it is five inches tall and three meters in diameter.
Sixty-three. Weighing hundreds of tons.
The bronze bell was built in winter by piling soil into a slope as high as the bell tower, then pouring water on it to turn the slope into ice, and then the workers used manpower and animal power to pull it up little by little.
When the two came, the hoisting of the big bell was completed and the craftsmen were making final adjustments.
Suddenly, the worker struck it with a hammer, and the huge Hongwu bell emitted a sound of "faint Khotan, thunder and lightning, shocking the universe, and those who heard it far and wide were stunned", which dazzled the two brothers.
In the huge shock, Zhu Di couldn't help but murmured: "This is what a real man should do."
"What, what, you want to cast a big bell in the future?" Zhu Xi asked after hearing this. In fact, he also liked this bell tower and was planning to build one when he became a vassal.
"Are you kidding? Can this thing be cast randomly?" Zhu Di shook his head and said, "I just lamented the greatness of Emperor Hongwu."
"Bells cannot be cast randomly..." Zhu Xi remembered it. He thought to himself, then if I just build the bell tower without casting the bell, wouldn't it be no problem?
I'm really smart...
After admiring the big clock, the two of them walked along the straight avenue in the city and watched.
In fact, the current Zhongdu City is really only suitable for viewing from a distance, not for close viewing. Because up close, it looks like a big construction site!
Moreover, it is an extremely dirty construction site filled with stench, fishy odor, construction waste, domestic waste, human and animal excrement...
Throughout Zhongdu City, there are nearly 300,000 craftsmen and civilians, who are engaged in heavy labor all the time under the supervision of wolf-like and tiger-like officers and soldiers.
What they saw in front of them were all unkempt and ragged civilian workers, carrying heavy wood and stone on their shoulders and hands, transporting it from the stockyard to various construction sites. If they move a little slowly, the supervisor's whip will fall mercilessly.
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The bare-chested masons, sweating profusely, held up big hammers and jingled holes into the huge rocks. This was not only a physical job, but also a technical job. If you were not careful, you could break the rocks.
At worst, he would be severely beaten by the supervisor, and at worst, he would be beheaded.
There are also tampers, wall builders, ditch diggers, beam builders... Countless craftsmen and civilian workers, under the high pressure of supervisors and officers and soldiers, are like a group of submissive ants, performing their duties in obscurity.
As Zhu Xi and Zhu Di watched along, the biggest feeling was that everyone was extremely tired. Even the officers, soldiers and supervisors were too tired to speak. They seemed to have no expressions and could only use their strength to crack their whips...
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The craftsmen and peasants who were skinny and skinny were so tired that their backs were bent due to high-intensity labor, and they were so tired that they lost their personality.
They ate, drank and defecated on the construction site, and also defecated on the street, filling the construction site and the street with a stench. The two brothers covered their noses and were still in tears...
The dirty, hot and humid environment breeds an overwhelming number of mosquitoes and flies, spreading diseases wantonly.
Many craftsmen and civilians are visibly sick. In the shade at the base of the wall, many dying patients lie quietly...
Without doctors to diagnose and treat them, the government left them to fend for themselves. Many people died quietly.
After their death, a special corpse collection team would roll up their corpses in straw mats and take them to the cremation site and burn them.
Just like that, the corpse collection team didn't come every day. The two brothers saw with their own eyes several highly decomposed corpses lying on the side of the road.
Fortunately, they both grew up in the military camp. If it were Lao Liu here, he would have to spit out the gall.
What made them even more unbelievable was that the officers, soldiers and supervisors mistreated civilian workers and craftsmen to the point of disregarding human life.
They saw with their own eyes that a motley group of officials, surrounded by a young senior official in a scarlet robe, were inspecting the future construction site of Zhongshu Province.
As a result, a group of craftsmen were found to have unqualified construction quality... Even though it was a high-quality project wherever they were moved, it was still classified as unqualified under Zhongdu's strict standards.
The supervisors whipped the two craftsmen and the construction team of six civilian workers until they were reduced to human form.
The two brothers thought that this was the end of the matter. Unexpectedly, the young high-ranking official whispered an order, and the officers and soldiers tied up the person and took him to the street.
Then the officers and soldiers pulled out their knives, and with a click, they chopped down the eight people.
The two brothers looked at the eight heads in shock, rolling on the ground. The others turned a blind eye and were doing whatever they were supposed to do.
Obviously, they have long been accustomed to such scenes.
After killing today's people, the young high-ranking official was about to ride away when a human head rolled to his feet, and he kicked it away.
Then he mounted his horse with an expressionless expression, as if he had just kicked a ball.
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