The day after entering the Shaoxing Mansion City, Zhao Yu took Ma Tingluan as the pacification envoy of Shaoxing Road, and had the right to Shaoxing Mansion and coordinate administrative affairs; Lin Zhiwu was also the chief of soldiers and horses on Shaoxing Road to deal with military affairs. Ma Tingluan Zhishi re-entered the officialdom more than ten years later, and the old man had a second spring, full of enthusiasm, and immediately selected some officials from the staff who followed him to set up a platform and put them into work; Lin Zhiwu ordered the 1st Brigade to guard the Fucheng, and the 2nd Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade took Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengxian, Xinchang and other counties as regiments.

Zhao Yu entered the city, but it was equivalent to Dapeng getting into the cage, and the old people strictly forbade him to go out of the palace for half a step on the grounds that the city was not quiet. And Chen Dun is not as obedient as Ni Liang, what he says is what, but he dares to talk to him with a small mouth, and now he is following him wherever he goes, never leaving, and he can't find anyone to cooperate if he wants to run secretly.

"Why do you always follow me?" The news from all over the place has not yet been delivered, and the situation is unclear Zhao Yu is not easy to make a decision, and he is upset that there is still a tail hanging behind him, and he is very unhappy.

"Your Majesty, your subordinate is the commander of the guard battalion, of course you have to guard it closely." Chen Dun said unhurriedly.

"You...... You're so faithful! Zhao Yu said helplessly after hearing this.

"That's what Your Majesty taught, subordinates...... Where is Your Majesty going? Chen Dun saluted, but before he finished speaking, the little emperor raised his legs and went out of the door, and hurriedly caught up with Dao.

"Don't let me go anywhere else, I can always go around this mansion!" Zhao Yu said angrily.

"It's good, it's okay to relax!" Chen Dun immediately called a team of guards to follow.

Shaoxing Mansion is built according to a small eastern foothill, at the beginning of the core of the small city of Shanyin built by Fan Li, the Yue King Jujian was the palace here for nearly 20 years. Five generations of Wuyue king Qian Qian built a palace on the mountain, to the Northern Song Dynasty is still the Yuezhou State Administration, Song Gaozong stationed in Shaoxing for 20 months, the temporary palace is also here. Therefore, the mountain is swirling and circling, and it is named after the shape of a sleeping dragon. The more the doctor is also buried here, so it is also called the mountain, and the government of the later dynasties is stationed at the east foothills, so it is commonly known as the mountain of the house.

Fushan used to be the palace of Yue Wang Jujian, and it was the location of the county government and the government of the past dynasties, and there were many buildings in the past dynasties. The west foot of the mountain was built as a harem amusement place by Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue in five generations, and then moved here after his grandson Qian Hongliang gave way, and the beauty of the garden was well known as Wu Yue. After entering the Song Dynasty, Jiang Tang knew the Yue, and then Xing Xiyuan, the successors Wang Kui, Shi Hao, Wang Gang increased the pavilions and pond gardens again, and then became a scale, the pavilions and pavilions were scattered all over the mountain, but it was also a good place for leisure and relaxation.

Zhao Yu and Chen Dun are not elegant people, and they have no intention of appreciating the inscriptions of the ancients, nor do they intend to verify what the pavilions and pavilions are, but just follow the road along the mountain road. Although this place has been searched, the guards still dare not be careless, and this mountainous area is not small, hiding people as if they were playing, some people occupy a high point to set up a guard post, and some people are exploring the way in front, searching the grass and woods on the side of the road, and the others follow around him, lest something go wrong.

Fu Mountain is not high, Zhao Yu estimated that it is less than 30 zhang, he quickly climbed to the peak, there is a pavilion on the top of the mountain for rest and coolness, there is a plaque written with the word Wanghai. He walked in, while the guards scattered around to stand on guard, and looked around, only to find that the mountain was located in the northwest corner of the city, which was the commanding height of the city, and the surrounding situation was unobstructed.

Zhao Hao wanted to look into the distance through the telescope, and he could see that the sea surface in the southeast direction was shrouded in mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly, so he could only turn his gaze to the surroundings. As far as the eye can see, the land is divided into countless grids of rivers, rivers and streams, where farmland and villages are dotted and bridges of all sizes connect them.

Looking down at the city, it is connected to each other, forming three city defenses, the government office is in the sub-city, and the two counties of Shanyin and Huiji and Luzhi are here, but it is relatively deserted. And in ancient times, the various warehouses of the government were mostly built around the government office, especially in the northeast of the government office, the most concentrated, there were seedling rice warehouses, Di warehouses, branch salt warehouses, Changping positions, etc., there were actually waterways outside the government and the water system inside and outside the city to hook up, and more than 10 boats of the size were moored on the wharf. However, there are few residential houses in this sub-city, except for the government office, which is a military camp, and obviously not everyone can live in it.

Looking out again, it is Luocheng, which is divided into a block of square market, with dense houses, and there are many high-rise mansions and courtyards in between, with gardens and flower beds. On both sides of the street, the wine is high, and the shops are connected. Although the city is closed, there are still many people walking around the streets and businesses are also open. If it is a weekday sure rubbing shoulders and bustling scenes.

Outside the city, however, there were several small towns around the city, like a grass market and people trading. Scattered beyond, villages of all sizes, nestled in the woods, and beyond the villages are fields and ponds, an idyllic landscape that has a different flavor but also a desolate feel. Now is the time of the autumn harvest, they work hard for a year, in addition to the taxes collected by the government, but also to pay tenant rent, they can only have enough to survive, I am afraid that at this moment the heart is also extremely uneasy, what they are most afraid of is the resurgence of the war, no matter who wins or loses, the bad luck is the people.

Zhao Yu looked at it and suddenly sighed, what is this city for? While in Qiongzhou, he expanded the capital city and strengthened its defenses several times, while other prefectures and counties also underwent major repairs and constructions, with the aim of serving as a stronghold, a place of refuge, and a warehouse for stockpiling supplies in the event of an enemy invasion. Emphasis was placed on the function of military defense. And Zhao Yu also led the army to attack Guangzhou and Quanzhou, these two cities are also important towns on the southeast coast, but he thinks that these two cities are his ATMs and the places where wealth gathers, and he doesn't think much about it.

Today, Zhao Hao is not in a good mood, and it is rare that he has not examined the function of a city from a military perspective, but he has realized something from it. As modern people, we are very familiar with this picture, the city as the center of power and the place where power operates, it is very easy to understand and does not need to be argued, and it is often the political, economic, and cultural center of a region, and sometimes the latter is more meaningful than the former. Cities large and small, as centers at different levels, are combined to form a vast network of control.

The difference is that modern cities are no longer built by people, and even the city walls are demolished in order to expand, and the rest have become cultural relics and memories of a generation. But there is no doubt that almost all cities have the majority of power in their societies. However, Zhao Yu never thought about whether the city provided the place for the concentration and operation of power, or whether the power "created" or "generated" the city, but now that it was time for the restoration of the country and the counteroffensive, he could not help but think about it.

In view of the current Shaoxing Fucheng, as early as nearly 2,000 years ago, there was the prototype of the city, after continuous development, now on both sides of the traffic arteries outside the city gate or wharves, ferries, have generally risen and developed the blocks attached to Guo, and the area of the blocks under the city of some cities, the residential population, and the commercial scale are more than the city, and even several times that of the city. However, these annexed blocks are obviously not within the protection of the city wall. Therefore, the main function of the so-called city wall is to protect the city, which is not strictly speaking.

Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that in the political imagery of the imperial era, the city wall was more of a symbol of the authority of the state and the government, and a symbol of power. The majestic city tower, the tall city wall, and the wide city wall together form a picture that symbolizes the authority and power of the dynasty, and play a role in deterring the heads of the Qian, the small and even the rebels, so that the villagers prostrate at the foot of the city wall, and more deeply appreciate the majesty and solemnity of the government. And all the construction of city walls and towers is to gather the form to strengthen the momentum of the government, so the construction is 'about politics'!

In other words, the construction of city walls and towers will help establish the authority of the government, unite the "people's hearts", and ultimately achieve the goal of stabilizing the ruling order. Our emphasis on the wall as a symbol of dynastic authority does not mean that it denies its military significance. In fact, the city walls do serve as military defenses, but they are less likely to be attacked than the many walls that have existed for hundreds of years, and they serve as defenses for a short period of time. In other words, it is the norm for walls to function as a symbol of authority; And to play as a defense facility, it is an anomaly.

In modern times, there is a term for the difference between urban and rural areas, but it refers more to the difference in economy, culture, and education. However, Zhao Yu realized that the ancient Chinese city wall was not only a symbol of the authority of the dynasty and the government, but also a kind of boundary, and a city wall drew the difference between inside and outside. In this kind of "Hui" shaped city surrounded by double walls, the inner city wall separates the king from the people, and the outer Guo city wall separates the people from the countryside. Although the city and Guo may not be in the shape of a "hui" on the outer coat of a small city, Guo may not have built an earthen wall, but is more likely to use the inherent mountains and rivers to connect them as a barrier.

However, there is no doubt about the boundary role of the city wall and Guo Yuan. In the government office area in the geographical center of the city, it is likely that there are mountains and ponds, which are empty and sparse; At the city gate and ferry terminal at the geographical edge of the city, there may be staggered cars and horses, dense shops, and bustling; The spatial division within a city often does not comply with the "economic rationality" of land use or the "ecological rationality" of adaptation and survival, so Zhao is convinced that for most cities that have developed a certain number of out-of-city neighborhoods, the city is actually mainly used for 'shengguan'.

The official offices, barracks, residences and gardens of officials, gentry, and officials occupied the most advantageous and important positions in the city, and constituted the main body of the city's neighborhoods. For the common people, the city is not the best choice to live because it offers fewer opportunities to earn a living and the cost of living is higher. This is not the case outside the city, where relatively low land prices, easy transportation, lower taxes, and extensive connections to the countryside offer more opportunities for livelihood.

This naturally creates a functional divide between the inside and outside the city: the interior of the city is mainly administrative, cultural, and gentry residential areas, while the outside of the city is dominated by commercial, handicraft, and common people. As a result, the commercial facilities in the city were mainly for officials, gentry, and other people living in the city, while the retail shops outside the city were oriented to the countryside, and the wholesale business was mainly for 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 the classes are invisibly divided by economic means.

Through the construction of central cities at various levels centered on the capital, the dynastic state declares the legitimacy or legitimacy of the dynasty, highlights the state power over the subjects, and distinguishes between Chinese and non-Chinese, internal and external. Although the security and defense function of the city wall cannot be underestimated, it is more important as a symbol of the authority of the state and the government, and a symbol of power.

At the same time, the dynastic state also used walls to separate the functional areas of the city from different groups of residents, including one or some social groups in the city or a certain space of the city, and excluding other groups from the city.

In this way, Zhao Yu concluded that the cities and their forms and spatial layouts in ancient China were to a large extent the spatial distribution of dynastic state power, mainly based on certain institutional arrangements, and were the product of the joint action of power operation and various socio-economic factors, rather than the result of natural or inevitable selection. The formation of Zicheng, Luocheng and Fuguo blocks is mainly based on the provisions of the system; The blurring of functional divisions, and the inversion of the center and periphery, are only in line with the Chinese rationality of power.

In other words, it is power that creates the city, and the system arranges the spatial structure of the city. Furthermore, there were many specific considerations for the construction of central cities at all levels centered on the capitals, but the most basic motivation was mainly to assert the legitimacy or legitimacy of the dynasty, to highlight the power of the state over the subjects, and to seize more power on a larger spatial and social scale.

In the Wanghai Pavilion, Zhao Yu was stunned for a long time, pondering such a conclusion, which also made him understand that he had been tossing in the mausoleum area for so long and annihilated the two 10,000 troops of the Yuan army, but it was like a fallen leaf falling into the water, and there was no repercussion at all, that is, no patriots responded to it, and no people donated money to support. On the contrary, he took Shaoxing Mansion lightly, but it caused a shock, and he also knew that Wang Shibei had returned, and he also knew that the emperor had personally conquered it, and the change of attitude was so fast that people were caught off guard.

Zhao Hao now thinks that the 'fall' of Shaoxing Mansion is not only a gain or loss of a city, but a sign of a change of power, so that his past strategic choice may have deviated......