Chapter 284: Dragon City

From May 1888 to October of the first year of Xinghua, a year and a half passed, and the new capital of the Chinese Empire had already built a prototype, some of the necessary buildings had been completed, and the new capital basically met the requirements for moving the capital. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the birthplace of the Chinese Emperor Yan Xueyi - Yuanhe City, everyone who followed Yan Xueyi has a special feeling for it in their hearts.

No matter how deep the feelings of everyone have for Yuanhe City, now it is time to give up.

As one of the two most important industrial cities in the Chinese Empire, Yuanhe City has been polluted by industrial development, and even if the Han Palace is on the outskirts of Yuanhe City, it cannot escape the invasion of environmental pollution.

Masks can be seen everywhere in Yuanhe City and have become a daily necessity for the residents of Yuanhe City, so you can imagine how serious the pollution in Yuanhe City is.

When people go to the street, they rarely walk on the street, almost always walk fast, and they are unwilling to take a while on the street, which is caused by environmental pollution.

The city of Yuanhe, which is so polluted, is no longer suitable to be the capital of the Chinese Empire.

When the Chinese Empire sent troops to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the ministers of the Chinese Empire were deliberating where the new capital should be, and finally it was Yan Xueyi who made the decision: to establish a new city on the plain near Nanyang in Ha Lan Province as the capital of the Chinese Empire.

Yan Xueyi ordered the construction of a total of three cities, the first city was Yuanhe City, the second city was Yongyi City, and the third city was the capital of the future Chinese Empire.

When Yuanhe City was established, Yan Xueyi and his family were still very weak, and even a Manchu Prefecture-level official could wipe out the Yan family, and it was in this situation that from scratch, in ten years, an industrial city with a population of more than 500,000 appeared on the land of China, providing a solid foundation for Yan Xueyi's start.

When Yongyi City was established, Yan Xueyi had become the ruler of Siqi Province, and Yan Xueyi gathered the strength of a province and spent less than five years to build an industrial city comparable to Yuanhe City, which had become the most important industrial base of the Chinese Empire.

When the third city was established, which was the capital of the future Chinese Empire, Yan Xueyi had become the ruler of the entire Chinese land, with 13.84 million square kilometers of land under his rule and a population of 410 million.

More than 100,000 workers are busy on that huge construction site.

In order to build a new capital, the Chinese Empire mobilized a large number of machinery and skilled workers from the four provinces, but the construction of a new capital also required a large number of ordinary workers, which was the easiest thing.

The Chinese Empire had just been established, and the most of the peasants in the country were farmers who made a living from farming and whose families could barely fill their stomachs, and the imperial government did not need to come up with silver, as long as it used grain, it could attract a large number of peasants to come.

In a year and a half, the new capital has been built into a prototype.

Whether it is Yuanhe City or Yongyi City, in the process of their development, the whole city seems to be in order, unlike Western countries, because of the development of the city, the whole city is chaotic, thanks to the city construction time, Yan Xueyi provides a clear urban planning map, from the very beginning of the city's construction, the whole city is in accordance with the urban planning map construction and development.

The same is true for the new capital.

As the most important place in the Chinese Empire, the total population of the new capital will exceed 1 million within 10 years, and after that, the population will exceed 10 million.

The construction plan of the new capital is very distinctive, and the whole city planning is based on the nine palaces, and the whole city is divided into nine areas in the tic-tac-toe: Qiangong, Kan Palace, Gen Palace, Zhen Palace, Middle Palace, Xun Palace, Ligong, Kun Palace, and Dui Palace.

Looking down over the new capital, you can see four straight, two-way, twelve-lane and 60-meter-wide arterial roads that divide the city into nine zones.

The total area of the new capital reaches 30,000 square kilometers, such a huge area, enough to provide tens of millions of people to live here, although the new capital will not have so many residents for the time being, the new capital is not possible to build such a large area at the beginning, for the time being, it is only the construction of the middle palace, but with the increase in the population of the new capital, the new capital has enough expansion area.

The most important area of the new capital is the middle area - the middle palace, the middle palace can be said to be the most important and essence area of the new capital, and the other eight areas of the new capital are like eight satellite cities firmly protecting the middle palace.

The center of the middle palace is the location of the imperial palace, and the imperial palace is also a regular square like the middle palace.

The Forbidden City is the royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is a rectangular city, 961 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded by a city wall of 10 meters high, there is a moat of 52 meters wide outside the city, the Forbidden City is centered on three major halls, covers an area of 720,000 square meters, the construction area is about 150,000 square meters, there are more than 70 large and small palaces, more than 9,000 houses.

Yan Xueyi's palace is not as large as the Forbidden City, but it covers an area of 360,000 square meters, with a construction area of 100,000 square meters.

The construction of the palace is based on traditional Chinese culture, supplemented by modern atmosphere, and the palace after the completion of the construction is not only solemn, tall and magnificent, but also the comfort of its residence is not to be said.

Of course, such a huge palace will take a long time to build, and in a year and a half, the palace has only completed less than one-third of the construction, but it can also allow Yan Xueyi's family to settle in the palace.

On the periphery of the palace is the office building of the Imperial Government, where all major departments of the Empire will soon be located, making the new capital the political center of the Empire.

The area of the Middle Palace is more than 3,000 square kilometers, which is enough for hundreds of thousands of people or even millions of people to live here, so the current construction scope of the new capital is in the Middle Palace.

The two-way eight-lane area divides the Middle Palace area into neat block areas, residential areas, commercial areas, parks and other areas are located in an orderly manner, and outsiders entering the Middle Palace will only be surprised by the environment here.

There is one more thing that should not be forgotten: the greening of the environment.

When the new capital was built, the environmental greening issues have been considered, parks, flower beds and lawns on both sides of the road, etc., so that the new capital is full of greenery.

The steel city will bring people a sense of boredom, if the urban green area increases, this boredom will be reduced, and the green coverage rate of the built-up area of the palace will reach more than 60 percent in the future, although it is not as good as the so-called garden city, but it will not be much worse.

In the future, no factories will be allowed to be built in the new capital and in the surrounding areas to prevent environmental pollution.

A year and a half of construction time has barely reached the standard for the new capital to settle in.

Dragon City, that's the name of the new capital, in the city of Yuanhe, the relocation of the capital has begun.