In autumn, the sun is shining.

When the economic crisis in the United States spread to the whole of Shijie, in the inconspicuous Central Pacific region, on the Tonga Islands, which are almost unknown to the world, the newly established Tang Empire is changing the so-called "barren land", making it leap into the era of super prosperous metropolises only in developed countries, a thriving scene.

Yanjing City, located in the northernmost part of the Tang Empire, has basically taken shape after two years of large-scale construction, and now it has basically taken shape, with wide highways and streets that are horizontal and vertical and divide the city into grids, and each grid has a variety of buildings according to the different uses of the division of labor, roughly divided into industrial areas, commercial areas, administrative office areas, residential areas, green areas, military areas, etc.

High-rise buildings line the highways and streets in each block, and the city's infrastructure is fully equipped. Schools, hospitals, bazaars, theaters, libraries, stadiums, banks, post and telecommunications offices, post offices, neighborhood offices, residents' committees, police stations, bus stops, public toilets, substations, fire stations, garbage stations, pump houses, gas pressure regulating stations and other infrastructure that the people rely on for survival are readily available, the supporting facilities are complete, the distribution area is extremely reasonable, and there is no need for major adjustments in the next 100 years, because from the very beginning, the city is planned reasonably in advance according to the future urban layout after a hundred years.

If every big city has to carry out earth-shaking large-scale urban planning every forty or fifty years, as the city becomes more and more prosperous in the future, each large-scale urban planning costs tens of billions of funds may not be able to achieve reasonable results, but for the cities of the Tang Empire, one step in place, saving the money, manpower and material resources wasted in making large-scale urban planning adjustments in the next hundred years.

At this time, Yanjing was already a city with a population of 300,000, and for developed countries in Europe and the United States, a population of 300,000 was at most a third-tier city. But for the Tang Empire, she can be described as a first-tier city.

Of course, there were only four cities in the entire Tang Empire, and the other three cities, including the capital Chang'an, did not have as many populations as Yanjing.

On the one hand, this is because Yanjing is the first city in the Tang Empire to start planning and construction, and the first city construction to be completed here is the first to come to Datang, mainly workers, soldiers and scientific and technological workers, as well as their families, they are staying for the construction of Yanjing, Yanjing is the only place that can provide them with housing, and the other three cities are still under planning and construction, so they are all concentrated here.

On the other hand, Yanjing was also the industrial, financial and military center of the Tang Empire, which included 90% of the light and heavy industrial facilities of the entire Tang Empire and all the Jishu reserve center - the national laboratory, where workers and scientific and technological workers would work.

At the same time, the Yanjing Fortress built by the northern volcanic group has an incomparably powerful fortress artillery group, the Yanjing Comprehensive Military Base is stationed with the elite troops of the Tang Empire Defense Force, hundreds of aircraft are placed in the airport, more than 20 warships are moored in the military port, and there are more than a dozen submarine bases in the underground caves of the scattered uninhabited islands around.

It can be said that from the air to the land, from the sea level to the depths of the seabed, the army, navy and air force of the Tang Empire brought a sense of security to the citizens of Yanjing.

For overseas Chinese living overseas in this era, what they need most is not money, but a sense of security, and a place that can provide them with a sense of security is the place they yearn for the most.

Because of this, since the founding of the Tang Empire, hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese have chosen to settle, live and work in the Tang Empire.

Because in this era, overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese can be excluded and bullied by the international community, and their minimum dignity as a human being cannot be guaranteed, so the only place that can provide them with the minimum dignity and respect for life and property protection is the Tang Empire.

"The Tang Empire, the paradise of overseas Chinese!"

This advertisement became the most favorable propaganda slogan for the Tang Empire to attract a large number of overseas Chinese to work, live and settle down, including teachers, international students, Jishu workers, businessmen, and even many overseas Chinese families and overseas Chinese companies and enterprises living overseas in the era have also moved to Datang.

These people from all walks of life have undoubtedly made great contributions to the urban construction of the Tang Empire.

When Yanjing's urban and national defense construction was about to be completed, Zhang Meng immediately made adjustments and transferred tens of thousands of construction troops to the three cities of Chang'an, Jinling, and Daxing to assist the construction workers in these three cities in speeding up urban construction and national defense construction.

As the capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an had more than 50,000 Tongan aborigines, most of whom were uneducated and could only engage in manual labor. They played a pivotal role in Chang'an's urban and national defense construction army.

Their diligence even surpassed that of the Tang National Defense Army, although Chang'an's city was the largest in terms of scale planning, and the construction time was more than half a year later than that of Yanjing, when Zhang Meng did not have more workers assigned to Chang'an for urban construction, relying only on some Jishu workers to make guidance, these simple Tongan people worked hard.

When the construction of Yanjing City was completed, it was a miracle that Chang'an City had completed 80% of the city's infrastructure construction.

However, when you think about it, it makes sense.

In order to make a comprehensive plan for Chang'an City, Zhang Meng demolished all the thatched huts where Tongans lived, and started construction of dozens of floors of residential areas.

Because Zhang Meng promised to give all Tongans a house to live in, these residential buildings are regarded by the simple Tongans as their new home in the future. They were quite happy, because they had never had the luxury of living in a brick and cement house like a king, and the minimum residential buildings planned by Zhang Meng were all twenty storeys above and with elevators, which was one of the main reasons for the Tongans to work hard despite their hard work.

Of course, Zhang Meng also promised each of them a job, clothes to wear, rice and white flour to eat, no longer have to run naked and eat fruit beasts, and their children can also go to school, seek medical treatment, and serve in the military, which is another huge motivation, so that the Tongan people actively participate in the construction of roads, schools, hospitals, military bases, grain depots and other cities after building their own buildings.

It is precisely because of the sweaty day and night work of tens of thousands of Tongans that the construction of the capital Chang'an City has been accelerated by more than 30%.

The capital Chang'an was the administrative center of the Tang Empire, because Chang'an Island was the largest island, several times larger than Yanjing Island, so the size of Chang'an was able to accommodate a million people to live and live.

As a landmark building of the Tang Empire, the original Tongan Royal Palace was demolished and expanded on a large scale, and 25 historical architects were hired from the Palace Museum of the Republic of China to restore the original appearance in a one-to-one scale according to the drawings of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty and rebuild the Daming Palace.

The Daming Palace has a circumference of 7.65 kilometers and an area of about 3.2 square kilometers, which is four times the size of the Forbidden City and is equivalent to three Versailles, twelve Kremlins, thirteen Louvres, fifteen Buckingham Palaces, and five hundred football fields. There are a total of 11 city gates, there are sandwich cities on the east, west and north sides, and there are three palace walls in the south to guard, and the Danfengmen Street outside the wall is as wide as 176 meters, which is the widest street on Shijie.

The massive Daming Palace is the most magnificent and largest palace complex in ancient China, and it is also the most magnificent and largest palace complex in the history of Shijie. The reconstruction of Daming Palace is of great political significance to the Tang Empire, and there is no better way to express Zhang Meng's desire for the resurgence of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this project was once opposed by Zhang Xinhai on the grounds that it was too space-consuming and too expensive.

Zhang Xinhai learned from several architects that the reconstruction of Daming Palace would require at least 600 million yuan, equivalent to 120 million Tang Yuan, which was an astronomical amount for Mr. Zhang, and he naturally wanted to oppose it if he had always been thrifty.

However, for Zhang Meng, he didn't think so.

First of all, although the Daming Palace is restored in a one-to-one ratio, the cost of materials is quite cheap, and it can be bought cheaply from the United States. Even if you don't buy it, the materials that Zhang Meng hoarded on a large scale before are enough.

In this way, the construction of Daming Palace actually only needs to pay for design fees, labor costs and machinery and equipment, and only 30 million Tang Yuan is enough.

In addition, in Zhang Meng's thinking, the construction of the Daming Palace will bring considerable GDP growth to the Tang Empire, stimulate the development of related industries in China, and provide at least 5,000 jobs.

At the same time, Zhang Meng is well aware of the huge profits of the tourism industry in the future, especially the beautiful scenery of the Tonga Islands, once the largest Daming Palace complex in Shijie is restored, the annual tourism income is also considerable.

What's more, the significance of Daming Palace is extraordinary, and it is an important symbol of the rise of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng's rhetoric immediately persuaded Zhang Xinhai to start the construction of Daming Palace.

"I think you just want to be refreshed, you have to find so many high-sounding reasons!"

Avoiding Zhang Xinhai, Zhang Wei immediately stopped Zhang Meng and directly exposed Zhang Meng's little selfishness.

Zhang Meng let out a long sigh and said earnestly: "When I think of the money I have earned that I can't spend in hundreds of lifetimes, my heart is entangled!" Do you know? The most painful thing on shijie is that the person dies and the money hasn't been spent! ”

Zhang Wei suddenly rolled her eyes helplessly, looking defeated by him.

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