783 White Jade City
"Huh! That's not enough! If you want to fill the city with houses. That's up to me! ”
I muttered a word of smugness, in addition to continuing to keep the craftsmen busy with the decoration of the exterior of the various buildings, as well as the manufacture of the cement road. The craftsmen also asked the craftsmen to change the first floor of the buildings along the street to the appearance of shops...... I was ready to make a low-end copy of the high street, and then I opened a branch on the main street of the town...... Oh no, it's a slightly cheaper shopping street. Even if I consider that there are four-storey buildings everywhere, can I transform a few medium-sized shopping malls into them?
It's just that I'm figuring out how to recruit people. This is what I didn't expect.
Originally, those bigwigs in the court, as well as the disciples of various families and well-informed people, actually asked their connections everywhere to buy a house in this new city after the new city 'White Jade City' was just named by His Majesty~ They probably didn't realize that my four-story structure was designed in the way of later generations of units. The aim is to accommodate more people. After all, my original idea was to gather people from remote areas or people with poor living conditions to live in this new city. Then, using this new city as a starting point, the newly recruited residents are regarded as 'recruiting' workers. Then build a couple of big factories around this new city! My main goal is to make this new city an industrialized city! In this way, whether it is a textile or metallurgical factory, it can be quickly built. I just want to follow the path of the rise of the countrymen in later generations. This is the fastest way I can think of to make the entire Datang's science and technology progress to the era of industrialization!
Unfortunately, this plan is a good idea, and I have already ordered the second group of researchers to start the division of labor to study the knowledge related to light industry and heavy industry. Anyway, there are many structural drawings of textile looms and other structures in the library section of the mall, as long as the researchers can copy them. In terms of heavy industry, it is even easier, not only in my academy, but also in the Ministry of Industry and the imperial court, which are working how to improve and increase heavy industry, mainly the production of iron tools.
It's a pity that these plans were completely disrupted by the court bigwigs and people from all walks of life. They want to think of this new city as a place to live, a city to enjoy, a 'livable city' similar to a shopping street, where people can enjoy it thoroughly! This is completely different from what I expected. However, after my design was circulated, especially in this design, and the fact that I wanted to copy the commercial street into this new city of white jade, it was spread. There are even more people who come to me!
When I learned that their purpose was to occupy a good position in the city in advance, and they also wanted to mix in a new commercial street, I understood that these people not only wanted to enjoy life, but also ~ they were shocked by the speed of making money in the commercial street and red-eyed! It's a pity that the backstage of the commercial street is royal, and the participants are people from the families of the bigwigs of the imperial court. So although more people are red-eyed, they really can't do anything about me and the commercial street! Not to mention the idea of reselling the existing shops on the shopping street to them, it is simply unthinkable! The partners and backstage of this commercial street are the most powerful people in the entire Datang.
In addition, these people who want to buy a building to live in do not understand that the buildings in the new city are simply for many people to live together. So they just treat each building as a 'home'! He even asked me strangely, why didn't this small building be equipped with a fence outside, so that each building could become a small courtyard!
It turned out that they were thinking that they were buying all the buildings to live in.
In addition, after these people and the imperial court rejected my plan to summon ordinary people over, they even asked me not to let ordinary people buy real estate here, and only people with a certain amount of power can buy it. He also suggested that I expand the scope of the new shopping street and strive to build the whole new city into a city where the powerful live!
After all, even the Royal Palace has been moved.
After I got the news, I was not good. I didn't expect Xincheng to be taken a fancy to! And I want to make it a city for the powerful. In that case, it would be a waste of my hard work!
After all, these magnates are completely unproductive waste! They can't be recruited to work as coolies in factories......
So I really had no choice, so I took all the remaining craftsmen and manpower away, and then handed over the matter of recruiting people to live in the new city of Baiyucheng to the imperial court to deal with. Unexpectedly, this medium-sized small city was really bought by the nobles and various wealthy people of Chang'an City. It's all a building that is sold as a small home.
As for why I let go of the new city of Baiyucheng so easily this time. The main reason why the new city has become a 'noble city' is that I found that the new city of Baiyu City was really set up and designed by me as a city like a residential community. After these people bought the title deed from the imperial court, they even made a special trip to me to ask if it was just like the imperial court advertised, it was a small city suitable for living, and every family could build a small courtyard by themselves!
In other words, all the people who buy the building here really treat a building as a strange residence without a small courtyard. even thought of building a brick wall by themselves, and then fenced off the small courtyard as their home. Looks like these people aren't used to hanging out with other strangers! In addition, it also proves that there are a lot of rich and troublesome people in Datang!
I thought it was like this anyway, so I could do whatever I wanted! If you want to become a city of enjoyment, let the commercial street be completely built in this new white jade city! I'm really ready to transfer the main stores of the main shops in the old shopping street to turn this white jade city into a large 'gold cave' city! As for the old commercial street, after the shops inside are transferred to Baiyucheng, I will completely transform the old commercial street, so that it will be directly lowered from a commercial street full of luxury goods that spend money and routines, and become a street that ordinary people can enter!
And now the pedestrian street commercial street sells the golden cave. Let's let them cut the price full!
In other words, this small city was completely completed in a month, with a large number of people and craftsmen, plus my drawings and the scientific and technological support of the college. I'm going to expand the model of the commercial street directly, and then finally transform Baiyucheng into a city like a commercial street......
However, when I learned that all the residential buildings in this small city had been sold, I still sighed that the number of rich people in this era is really huge!
In addition, after a recent visit, I found that although Baiyucheng was all sold, a large number of merchants also came out to enter Baiyucheng, occupying all the shops along the street. However, there are many other power generation problems related to the power problem, and the design flaws of this new city are really numerous!
Originally, I thought I would ask the craftsmen to revise it. But now that it's a shopping street, it's an enlarged version of it. In addition, people from all walks of life are already in a hurry to move in. I decided to make every effort to arrange manpower and directly turn this white jade city into a commercial street the size of a city!
As for the industrialized city I want, let these craftsmen and coolies work together to rebuild it! White Jade City? Just leave it to the people in the court to toss around blindly!
"Hmmm! There are changes here, and the problem with the water pipes has finally been solved. And ~ I remembered something called a radiator again......"
After talking to the craftsmen, I took out a heater that had been dismantled from the mall. It's so simple and so magical. After all, after the problem of water pipes was solved, we only needed to leave the excess water pipes for them to demonstrate, and then told me that they would go back to discuss what it would look like to continue cleaning next time.
As for why I started researching radiators, it was because when I was about the same time as the craftsmen, I realized that it was late autumn, and it was getting colder and colder, so I had to think about the way out in advance!
Although this is near Chang'an City, it is still cold in winter! So when I rebuilt a unit building, and then began to regret Baiyu City, why didn't I think about burying a heating system in advance!
In fact, the structure of the boiler is extremely simple. And central heating, after having a steam engine, is still very easy to do! In addition, we are also planning to add central heating radiators to the design drawings of the new city!
As for the White Jade City that forgot to leave holes, let them use a honeycomb coal stove for heating! Anyway, these people are all nobles or famous families of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no shortage of money to buy honeycomb coal.
In addition, after the college sent the researchers to the workshop of the Ministry of Industry to cast iron pipes, with their efforts, the problem of making water pipes was really solved. That is, because there is no unity of weights and measures seen by these craftsmen!
Subsequently, these people soon cast and copied several radiators. After all, that thing is even less tech-intensive! So when I started to draw a new design again. I added a lot of things to the drawings.
In addition, the Ministry of Industry has prepared a lot of materials, so I plan to take advantage of the abundant manpower and materials, and start to choose another open space a little farther away to build a new city again. It was after this first experience that I was able to design the new city into a perfect industrial city.
It is said that these people, with the help and guidance of craftsmen, began to be busier to build new cities. As for Bai Yucheng, it was arranged for Nie Xiaoqian to personally press the formation to design the commercial street.
I named the new city 'February City'. This is the most important step I have taken in the development of heavy and light industry!
So in the blueprint, I simply split the urban design into three. One is a living quarter, dedicated to the residents of the city.
The other part is the cheap shopping street and snack area. It is so that the people who move in in the future can live comfortably.
The last part is to choose the location of the factory! I am going to build a power plant first, and then I will build the most important smelting and metallurgical part of the heavy industry.
In fact, if you break it down, it is not only a small city where heavy industry is concentrated, but also developed together with light industry!
When it comes to heavy industry, I mainly rely on the researchers in the academy! They were the ones who developed the way to make real steel smelt in large quantities.
When I mentioned this, I have to be glad that there are really a lot of smart people and people who are good at all aspects of knowledge in this second batch of researchers! It turns out that since ancient times, those blacksmiths knew that if they wanted to make more durable metal~in fact, it was steel~ The main factor was the temperature during smelting. In the past, however, there was no way to record a specific temperature. But they can occasionally use some special fuel, luckily increase the temperature in the smelting furnace, and then make real 'steel'.
And the researchers of our college, because the weather slowly became colder, began to use their own Zhuangzi, and under the flickery of the now famous stove merchant 'Li Chongwu', they also directly used honeycomb coal stoves in the college to keep warm.
However, a few researchers were still interested in the structure of honeycomb coal, and they gradually discovered that the main material of honeycomb coal was the coal block called 'coal' in this era.
However, after these people tried to use the coal directly, it was probably because of the origin of the coal they bought, which was mixed with a lot of impurities. Although the temperature was a little higher when it was used and burned, it was abandoned because it was too choking.
But these researchers got bored, and began to study how to make this 'coal' the same as the honeycomb coal sold by my family, without smoke and at high temperatures. However, after studying several cars, although they did not develop a car powered by water, they accidentally discovered a product that they called 'coke'. In other words, if I pick it up and ignite it casually, it will really produce more power and greater temperature.
Therefore, because of the birth of coke and the accidental discovery that 'coke' can burn at a higher temperature, the problem of steel production has directly increased several times!
Isn't this an unexpected surprise?