Jinling New East City, a new urban area that has only been newly developed in recent years, can be said to be completely different from the old city of Jinling.

Jinling Old Town, that is the appearance of the traditional Chinese city, although after years of continuous transformation, the appearance of the city has changed very well, but the layout of the building is still the traditional appearance.

But in the new eastern city, this part of the city is different from the traditional city, first of all, the city has no city walls.

And this is probably the biggest difference from other cities, but the reason why there are no city walls is also because of this.

First of all, the new East City, at the beginning was not developed as an urban area, at the beginning, here was the wharf, and later relied on the wharf, built a large port area, relying on port facilities and other buildings, and there are many businesses settled in, bringing together a large number of enterprises, and in the end, a large number of state-owned enterprises are piled up here to build their headquarters.

And this has driven the development of the entire new East City!

Today, in fact, the overall size of the new East City is not much smaller than that of the old city, and even the permanent population is already nearly 100,000, and the old city is now only more than 100,000 people.

The current permanent population of Jinling has reached more than 200,000.

After all, according to the latest survey statistics of the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty is more than 150 million, and this data does not include the indigenous people of overseas territories such as Ryukyu Province, Luzon Province, and Banten Islands, because the empire does not recognize the indigenous people as the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the statistical population generally only counts the people of the Tang Dynasty.

With a population of more than 150 million, and Jinling is currently the largest city in Datang, it has a population of more than 200,000, which is not much.

But if you take into account the transportation and other technological factors in this era, more than 300,000 permanent residents live in a city, which is almost a pretty terrifying thing.

Although many historical books record that ancient cities had a population of more than one million, as long as a person with basic common sense knows that this is impossible, this thing is the same as the ancient war with millions of troops, who believes and who is stupid!

The Tang Dynasty and the Ming army have fought in the war of unification for so many years, and the regular field armies on both sides do not add up to one million, and these people are also widely distributed throughout the country, and a large-scale battle is often tens of thousands, and the most are basically more than 100,000 people on one of the sides.

Among the many battles of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, the largest should belong to the Northern Expedition and the Southwest Campaign, but in the Northern Expedition, the Tang army was only tens of thousands, and the Ming army was only about 100,000.

In the Southwest Campaign, the Tang army had more than 100,000, and the Ming army was only 100,000!

A battle of hundreds of thousands has never happened, let alone more than a million people.

The population of a certain place mentioned in the history books is hundreds of thousands or millions, in fact, most of them refer to the population of a certain administrative region, such as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, in a sense, you can also say that it has a population of more than two million, but in fact, the vast majority of the population lives in the countryside outside the city.

Therefore, Jinling, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, has a population of more than 2 million, which refers to the entire Chengtian Mansion, not just Jinling City!

Chen Lifu and the two Chen villages in the east and west are the most typical examples, they are the people of Jinling, but the East Chen Village and the West Village Chen Ke are both outside the city, more than ten miles away from the city.

In addition, in order for a person to live, it is impossible to have only one place to live, he has to eat!

Ordinary ancient people wanted to eat, either farming or working, and naturally they didn't expect to be able to farm in the city, the scale of the city was so large, it was impossible to have too many fields.

If you don't farm, then you have to buy grain, and you need money to buy food, then you need to work!

So the question is, in an industry that is almost equal to zero, and the employment in the city basically depends on public service, service, commerce, and handicrafts, how many jobs can be provided?

Not much, actually!

In addition to the factor of employment, there is also the problem of material supply!

Cities, no matter what era the city is, then its living materials basically need to rely on external supply, not to mention anything else, food alone is a rather terrifying number, and limited by the low grain production and low transportation efficiency of this era, it wants to rely on external food imports to maintain the consumption of millions of people.

That's almost impossible, and it's not worth the cost!

Not to mention that the legendary ancient city can't do it, even the current Jinling City under the Tang Dynasty can't do it!

Today's Jinling City can be said to have great advantages over ancient cities, first of all, as a political center and commercial center, commerce is quite developed, and there are also a lot of factories, regardless of whether it is a large factory or a small and medium-sized workshop, etc., which can provide a large number of jobs.

In terms of material transportation, relying on the Yangtze River shipping and the Jiangnan water network, it is also quite developed, and it can be said that almost the entire Zhili area of grain and other materials are concentrated in Jinling City.

In major areas such as ports and urban areas, there are also rail carriages as the core transportation force, and short-distance transportation is a large number of freight four-wheeled carriages.

In terms of roads, the Tang Dynasty also vigorously developed cinder roads, and other places dare not say it, but in Jinling City and the surrounding areas, the development of cinder roads is quite popular.

The number of various means of transportation coming and going inside and outside the city every day is quite large, and even caused serious traffic jams, and this situation is still established in the Tang Dynasty set up special traffic regulations, and the main traffic intersections have patrol police to direct vehicles and pedestrians.

It is almost inconceivable to maintain so many transport vehicles and people in a place without special traffic laws and traffic commands.

In addition to the fact that there are no trains and steam ships, in fact, the transportation system of Jinling City has reached the peak of traditional transportation capacity!

But even then, it's difficult!

In fact, the new Dongcheng District was gradually developed to a certain extent because the old city was difficult to bear the heavy responsibility, and in order to ease traffic, there was no special city wall.

The headquarters of Datang Western Company is located in the easternmost part of Yanjiang Road in Xindongcheng District, although the place is a little remote, but who made their company's exclusive wharf here.

And the headquarters building of this Datang Western Company is also quite peculiar, that is, the foreign style of this building is too strong1

The headquarters of Datang Western Company is not the kind of traditional building used by many institutions, nor is it the two- or three-story brick building chosen by many enterprises in recent years, but a new style of building!

This kind of new architecture and traditional architecture, regardless of whether it is Chinese or Western, are obviously different, the biggest feature is large, high and square!

Many high-level people in Datang who are qualified to enter and leave the Royal Palace know that the headquarters building of Datang Western Company is basically built according to the Hanlin Building in the Royal Palace.

And the Hanlin Building, that is the architectural style designed by Li Xuan himself!

So, what is the new architectural style of Hanlin Building and Datang Western Company?

Well, it's actually a boxy building that is particularly common in later generations!

And these two buildings, in fact, are also the earliest application of cement in the Tang Dynasty!

Last year, the Datang Royal Institute of Technology took a lot of effort to finally figure out how to make cement in the lime, and after this came out, people naturally would not hide it, and immediately authorized the patent to the Royal Assets Division, and then invested in the establishment of a cement plant and began to officially produce cement.

But don't think that cement can be popularized in this way, it's not!

Why?

Because it's expensive!

The cost of raw materials is actually like that, although it is more expensive than quicklime, but it is not too expensive, but the patent is expensive!

The Royal Institute of Technology is not a good church, it took so many years and countless funds to get this cement out, and the patent has a term of 20 years, they naturally want to recover the cost during the patent period, not to mention, but also to make a solid profit, so that there is money to invest in follow-up research and development.

Therefore, in the price of cement today, the cement of one hundred taels of silver, the cost of raw materials, production and even transportation adds up, in fact, it is at most a few taels of silver, but what is the rest of the money?

At least fifty taels of silver are taxes!

No way, the taxes of the Tang Dynasty are so high, basically 50% of the selling price of any commodity is taxes!

However, the taxes they collect are not directly collected in the selling price, but in the various circulation links of the goods, and ordinary people are not aware of it at all.

There are more than 30 taels of silver, at least 20 taels of silver is the cost of patents, and more than 10 taels of silver is the gross profit of the enterprise!

Well, it's not just cement, it's mostly other goods!

Of course, what we are talking about here is only the essence, in fact, when the enterprise calculates the cost, it will calculate the tax, the procurement cost and so on, and will not only calculate the actual value of the item itself.

If you count them all, the cost of 100 taels of cement is more than 80 taels of silver, and they only earn more than 10 taels of silver in gross profits, and they are actually not black.

In addition, the cost of this thing, the tax is good to say, it is calculated according to the proportion, but the patent royalty is not calculated according to the proportion, people are calculated according to the output, and how much royalty needs to be charged for every ton of cement produced.

Therefore, the high price of cement is directly related to the high price of royalties, otherwise the price of cement would not be so expensive.

This cement is expensive, ordinary people naturally can't afford it, and after some sales, only the military has ordered a batch to build permanent fortifications, such as forts or something.

But the military's market is destined to be not big, and if you want to make money, you have to rely on the private market, but how to open the private market? Naturally, it is not possible to take the lower route, you can only go to the upper route.

As the actual boss behind the cement factory, Li Xuan naturally wanted to promote his own cement, so he built a Hanlin building with cement.

This Hanlin Building, it can be said that the latest embodiment of contemporary science and technology, the main materials of the building, the use of stone, the use of cement, the use of windows is the largest area of glass that can be made at present, and then the layout of the building is also the most scientific calculation to ensure lighting and ventilation.

The three-storey building has a total height of more than 20 meters, and the most important point is that the floor slab is not made of wood, but concrete and steel floor.

This is a rectangular building about 60 meters long, 40 meters wide, and more than 20 meters high.

In addition to the grandeur of the main building, the details of the depiction will naturally not be bad, after all, this is the palace building, although it is said to be used for the Hanlin Academy and the imperial study of the officials who entered the palace and other officials who entered the palace, but it is also a palace building.

So it looks magnificent!

The exterior wall is decorated with a large number of white marble carvings, and there are two bronze unicorns in front of the gate, but the exterior can only be considered ordinary, and the real thing is the interior.

When you walk through the door, the first thing you see is not anything else, but a huge hall, this lobby, but a three-story hollow lobby!

On the front wall there are large glass windows made of clear glass, and there are huge curtains on the side of the glass windows!

These are curtains that are more than 20 meters long from the top of the building to the bottom, and they are even hinged to allow the curtains to move freely.

The floor is sleek marble, and overhead are some of the largest claw lamps ever made in our time.

The lobby has two and a half spiral staircases leading to the second and third floors!

In the whole building, it is this lobby that is the most shocking!

When you walk in, you can feel your insignificance!

As for the layout of the building outside the lobby, there is nothing to say, just ordinary offices and conference rooms.

The whole building can accommodate nearly 300 office workers, just enough to accommodate the ordinary office staff of the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial Study.

The Hanlin Building was just completed in August last year, but this is nothing, the most important thing is that the whole building was built with a lot of advanced technology and equipment, from laying the foundation to the completion of the main building, it took a total of three months!

However, the interior decoration took several months, and it was not officially put into use until the beginning of this year.

The headquarters of Datang Western Company was built at the end of last year, and their company headquarters is smaller than the Hanlin Building, and it is impossible to pay attention to details like the royal building, so the construction speed is faster, and it took a total of five months to put it into use.

But even so, for a civilian office building, the headquarters of Datang Western Company still amazed the generals of the navy!

Some people even muttered that this Western company is really rich, richer than our navy!

But isn't it, the total market value of the Datang Western Company is more than 60 million taels of silver, and the annual military expenditure of the Navy is only a few million taels of silver.

It's just that the market value belongs to the market value, and the market value of Datang Western Company is 60 million taels of silver, which does not mean that their company really has 60 million taels of silver.

It's not their fixed assets that are valuable, it's the trade license!