The new year is coming, and Fang Nan and the People's Army are still busy.

As a result of the efforts made a year ago, except for Sichuan, Shaanxi, and some parts of Shandong (Liaodong region), all other parts of the land of China have been controlled by the People's Army.

Wherever the KPA passed, the vast majority of the forces surrendered to their sincerity, and only a very small number of forces tried to stop the KPA and were easily defeated by the KPA.

There are still bandits and bandits in many areas occupied by the KPA, because of the cold winter, the KPA temporarily spared them, and now that the weather has warmed, the KPA will wipe them out one by one.

Before the end of February (Gregorian calendar), the People's Army will occupy all areas of the Chinese land except Liaodong, and before the end of spring, Liaodong will also be under its control.

After discussing with the high-level leaders of the People's Army, Fang Nan preliminarily decided that the time for the founding of the People's Republic of China would be placed on August 1, and now it is about to enter February, and there is still half a year to prepare.

In charge of the Ministry of Rites, Minister Cheng Xinyuan is about to take some officials of the Ministry of Rites to Wuchang City, which is about to be renamed Zhongjing.

In addition to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites, the next ministries will gradually move to Wuchang City, Wuchang City is the geographical center of the Chinese land, and communication is very inconvenient in today's era, and the capital is set in Wuchang City, which greatly facilitates the People's Army's control of various places.

When the new year arrives, the People's Army officially begins to use the dual calendar, one solar calendar and one lunar calendar, the lunar calendar is the traditional lunar calendar, and the solar calendar is the new calendar.

The People's Army was founded this year, the country name is "Xia", then this year is the first year of the Xia calendar, in addition, in order to facilitate the arrangement of historical dynasties, Fangnan also added a historical era, the historical era to the first hereditary dynasty on the land of China Xia Jianguo year as the beginning, this year is 3663 years.

The People's Army took the lead in using the dual calendar, and after the People's Army officially established the country, the dual calendar will be popularized so that the people can also start to use it, the traditional lunar calendar has not disappeared, and the people should be more likely to accept the newly added solar calendar.

The news that the People's Army was going to move the capital to Wuchang City was not blocked, so that the housing prices in Wuchang City began to rise sharply, and many businessmen who did business in the entire land of China decided to move to Wuchang City, even if most of the industries were in Guangdong Province, businessmen also bought houses in Wuchang City, and occasionally went to Wuchang City to live.

There are not many idle mansions in Wuchang City, most of the mansions were originally owned by the powerful gentry and businessmen of the old era, a few years ago the People's Army came over, and the powerful gentry and businessmen fled to arrest them, and these houses were owned by the People's Army.

A small number of the houses were occupied by officials of the People's Army, and a small number of the houses were set aside for other purposes, and the other houses could be sold, and the sale of the houses alone made the People's Army a lot of money.

Fang Nan also instructed Han Jia, the president of the Fang Chamber of Commerce, to buy a batch of houses from the People's Chamber of Commerce, which is responsible for managing the sale of houses, at the normal price, and wait for the appreciation before making a move, which is a good opportunity to make money.

The construction of the new central government building in the new urban area of Wuchang City had already been completed, and Hu Zhuang took some officials of the military department to work in the central government building.

In addition to the central government building, there are other related buildings in the new city area, and not far from the central government building is the "Imperial Palace" of Fang Nan's new home, which is far inferior to the imperial city of Beiping City.

The imperial city of Beiping City began to be built in the fourth year of Yongle (1406) of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, and was built based on the imperial city of the original Jinling City, and was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420).

The Imperial City is a rectangular castle with a length of 961 meters from north to south and a width of 753 meters from east to west, surrounded by a wall 10 meters high on all sides, and a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the city.

The buildings in the city are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court, and the center of the outer court is the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace, collectively referred to as the three major halls, which are the places where the big ceremonies are held.

The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, and the Kunning Palace, collectively known as the Hou Three Palaces, which are the main palaces where the emperor and empress live.

The whole imperial city covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, with more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses.

In order to build this imperial city, the Ming court used a lot of manpower and material resources to create the most magnificent building complex in the land of China, one such building complex is enough, Fang Nan does not want to be as extravagant as the Zhu family, it is enough to build a small palace.

Fangnan's future residence planning covers a total area of about 200,000 square meters, which seems to cover a large area, but at present, there are relatively few buildings, and there are only six main buildings with two main and four slaves for the time being, all of which are three-storey.

Fang Nan will work in the palace a few times, and most of the time he will work in the central government building, and in the future, as the country stabilizes, Fang Nan will gradually decentralize his power, only deal with important affairs, make himself easier, and don't need to worry about being overlooked at all.

In addition to the Imperial Palace and the Central Government Building, there are also official residences in the nearby area, which are mainly modern villas, focusing on convenience and comfort, and the main buildings in the new city are connected to running water, sewage pipes, and even flush toilets.

It is relatively easy to build a house, it takes a long time to build a pipeline, but fortunately, the pipeline does not need to be compared with the gun pipe, and the water pressure is not too large.

It is impossible to build water pipelines on a large scale for at least three years, and it will have to wait for the development of industry.

As an urban area, it is naturally impossible to only have the palace, the central government building, the official residence complex, there are squares in the new city, there are other buildings in, commercial buildings are mainly three-storey, ordinary residential houses are still one-storey, the main problem is water and domestic sewage treatment, if the water pipeline can be built on a large scale, then the residential houses will also be mainly three-storey.

Some of the ordinary residential houses are reserved for middle and lower-level government officials, and high-ranking officials can be arranged to live in the mansion complex, and the number of middle- and lower-level officials is even larger, but there is no way to arrange them all.

Although everyone is equal, there will always be a distinction between high and low status, people determine their status by the amount of money, government officials determine their status according to their rank, and equality of all means that everyone is equal before the law.

High-ranking officials live in better mansions, and middle- and lower-level officials can only live in ordinary houses that are poorer, and if middle- and lower-level officials have money in their families, as long as they are not illegally gained, they can also buy luxury houses to live in.

With the arrival of the new year, some buildings in the new town will be sold to the public, and many people see the importance of the new town and are ready to buy houses in the new town.

[Note: Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom covers an area of 180,000 square meters, so the protagonist's palace is not large, and the buildings are relatively small]