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After three days, Si Tianjian finally gave a preliminary expansion plan: the east and west sides each expanded outward for four and a half miles, and the north and south sides each expanded outward for five and a half miles. Moreover, the four city walls do not conform to the feng shui of the imperial capital, so it is necessary to tear down the walls of the inner city, and use the current outer city wall as the inner city wall, and continue to maintain the structure of the current palace city, the inner city, and the outer city wall.

Si Tianjian said that it would be whatever it was, Yang Yi didn't say a word, and immediately submitted the plan to the court meeting for discussion.

As a result, Cai Jing, the head of the household department, was the first to jump out and fiercely oppose it, and he listed 26 reasons for opposition in one bite, which was breathtaking. Yang Yidu was almost drowned by Cai Dashangshu's saliva.

In fact, everyone is like a mirror in their hearts, whether Cai Dashang lists 26 reasons or 10,000. In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the cost of building in this way, and Cai Dashangshu probably tends to expand from one side, so that the length of the city wall that needs to be built will be reduced a lot.

According to the expansion method of Si Tianjian, the east and west are each expanded by four and a half miles, and the north and south are each expanded by five and a half miles, so together with the current area of Tokyo City that is seven miles wide and seven and a half miles long, a total of sixty-seven miles of city walls need to be built. And this is demolished and built, and the cost is huge.

It's true that the Great Song Dynasty is rich now, but it can't afford to toss so blindly, this expansion of the outer city is just enough, and the current inner city wall will be demolished.

Cai Jing said foaming at the mouth, rolling up his sleeves, looking like whoever stood up and raised the bar was ready to pinch someone, Yang Yi looked funny, anyway, the expansion of the capital is not a matter of one or two days. There is no problem sooner or later, and Yang Yi is not in a hurry. In the spirit of watching the play, watch Lord Cai take the lead.

Cai Jing squirted saliva for a long time. Suddenly found that the court was quiet, and no one stood up to refute him, of course, no one echoed him, and a sense of loneliness quietly crept up Cai Shangshu's face.

Alas, is this the fate of the master?

He looked at Yang Yi with some help, Yang Yi pretended not to see anything, in terms of how to lay out this matter, Yang Yi had already planned not to interject. I'm a human being, and it's fun to fight with people, but let me fight with ghosts and gods without shadows, this is obviously not a level, so I don't do this stupid thing.

And feng shui is different from ghosts and gods in the strict sense, the reason why feng shui is still prevalent in the 21st century, is there really any truth in it, even if Yang Yi is a descendant, he does not dare to completely deny feng shui. Since we are not sure, we should do it in line with the principle that we would rather believe what we have than what we don't.

And the court officials did not speak out, and generally held this idea. Dijing is the residence of the Son of Heaven, the so-called "the foundation of the Dingding is eternal, and the infinite industry is in Si".

The feng shui of the imperial capital is a major event related to the society of the country. In the face of this kind of thing, the officials who do not understand Feng Shui. Who is not in line with the position of "the child is silent and the strange force is confused", in other words, that is. If I don't understand, I won't say it.

Like Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the terrain is gradually lowered from south to north, and Taiji Palace is located in the north of Chang'an City. Due to the low terrain of Taiji Palace, and the temperature in Chang'an City is very high in midsummer, it is extremely hot, which makes living in Taiji Palace "wet" and very uncomfortable.

But what can you do?

Miyagi symbolizes the North Star, Feng Shui should pay attention to the induction of heaven and man, the unity of heaven and man, according to the position of the stars in the sky, the most noble Ziwei Palace is located in the center of the North Heaven, it takes the North Pole as the center, and there are a total of fifteen stars in the east and west to surround it.

Ziwei Palace has the meaning of the imperial palace, the emperor is the son of heaven, and the monarch on the earth and the stars in the sky should correspond, so the palace can only be arranged in the central position of the north.

So even if you are the emperor, you can only endure it if you are uncomfortable living, because this can correspond to the stars in the sky, unless you don't want to be the emperor anymore.

It can be seen that in feng shui, how to build the imperial capital is not at all careless.

One of the most important reasons for Cai Jing's opposition is that the current Tokyo City is expanded on the basis of the old city, it is very irregular, the length of each wall of the outer city is different, it is not a parallelogram, in feng shui, it has lost the basic concept of the heaven and the round place, but now the Great Song Dynasty is as prosperous and prosperous, it can be seen that when expanding, we should not pay too much attention to these, but should focus on practicality and economy.

From the bottom of his heart, Yang Yi agreed with Cai Jing's statement, but Si Tian Jian Zheng Mo Yan immediately came out and said: "Queen Mother, although the outer city of Tokyo is not very symmetrical at present, because it corresponds to the surrounding veins and feng shui and the stars in the sky, it is the prosperity of my Great Song Dynasty, which is also the reason why a symmetrical quadrilateral was not built when the outer city was expanded." But now to expand, if as Cai Shangshu said, only for practicality and economy, then the original feng shui of the imperial capital is likely to be destroyed, the queen mother, no one can afford this responsibility! ”

Empress Dowager Liu is a woman's family, and Mo Yan's words made her feel uneasy, and she even wanted to cancel the decision to expand, so as not to destroy the original feng shui.

She hurriedly asked, "Mo Jianzheng, if you expand according to your current plan, will you be able to ensure that the original feng shui pattern in Tokyo will not be destroyed?" ”

Mo Yan replied solemnly: "Queen Mother, this is a matter related to my Great Song Dynasty Jiangshan Sheji for thousands of generations, how dare the minister have the slightest carelessness, the minister's stargazing position at night, and then correspond to the terrain around Tokyo, check the easy number, and repeatedly calculate, before daring to come to this conclusion." ”

"Okay, that's good, do you have any other opinions? If there is no other opinion, then follow Mo Jianzheng's plan. ”

Regardless of whether others have opinions or not, Yang Yi himself will definitely not be able to speak out, even Cai Jing's mouth moved, and he didn't say anything more.

Mo Yan's words couldn't be more obvious, whoever ignores the feng shui of the imperial capital is ill-intentioned, no matter what problems there are in the future, you have to bear this responsibility;

Who can afford to take on this responsibility? People like Cai Jing are more tactful, and he won't go to this thunder again.

After some discussion, the basic framework of the expanded capital was decided.

Yang Yi's expansion and lifting division can also be officially opened.

In the Ministry of Rites, Yang Yi once again recruited Shen Qingzhi, Sima Bofang, Wade, Su Jiawulang and others to announce the official start of the expansion work.

"Now that the framework has been planned, the east and west sides will be expanded outward for four and a half miles, and the north and south sides will be expanded outward for five and a half miles.

After Yang Yi finished speaking, Shen Qingzhi hesitated for a moment and said, "My lord, Chang'an City in the former Tang Dynasty was more than nineteen miles long from north to south, and more than seventeen miles wide from east to west. Now, if it is expanded according to the plan of Si Tianjian, the expanded Tokyo City is only eighteen and a half miles long from north to south, and only sixteen miles wide from east to west, which is slightly smaller than Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty;

The population of Chang'an City in the former Tang Dynasty was only about 500,000 at the most, and the population of our eastern city has reached 1.5 million, and this number is still growing year by year. ”

Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "No need, the matter of feng shui, since Si Tianjian has already made a conclusion, it is useless to fight, in addition, this official personally believes that whether it is from the perspective of city management or from the perspective of military defense, the bigger the city, the better;

As far as urban management is concerned, the city is too large, the population is too large, and the pressure on water supply, drainage, transportation, sanitation and other aspects will increase several times, which will lead to a large increase in management costs.

From the point of view of military defense, it is easy to disperse the defense capability if the city is too large, resulting in emptiness everywhere, and if a large number of troops are stationed in the city, it will further increase the burden on the city, which is very unwise;

Now it has the scale of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, which is basically enough. As for the pressure of population expansion in twenty or thirty years, there is no need to expand the capital at that time, as long as a few more small cities are built in the surrounding area like Taiyuan Mansion to divert the population, in terms of military defense, the capital and these satellite cities are each other's horns, which is also conducive to defense. ”

Shen Qingzhi, Sima Bofang and the others thought about it carefully, and had to admit that Yang Yi's words were very reasonable.

At present, the length of Tokyo is only seven and a half miles from north to south, and the width from east to west is only seven miles, with a total area of about 50 square miles, which can already accommodate a population of 1.5 million;

If the east and west are expanded by four and a half miles, and the north and south are expanded by five and a half miles, the total area will reach 296 square miles, an increase of nearly six times compared with the original, and it will not be a problem to accommodate three million people in the future.

Overall, although it was still a little smaller than Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Yi thought it was enough.

He took out a pen and paper, drew a rough drawing, and then said: "The traffic congestion problem in Tokyo City has always been very prominent, and this problem must be solved in this expansion, and now that the inner city wall is to be demolished, then after the demolition, the vacant land cleared can no longer be sold, and a 20-zhang wide avenue should be built on both sides of the moat to relieve the current traffic pressure of the inner city congestion." ”

The inner city wall was built in the Tang Dynasty, it also has a moat, and considering that once the outer city is lost, it will rely on the inner city to continue to defend, so it has always been reserved for both the inside and outside of the inner city wall.

Now that the inner city wall is going to be demolished, then its defensive function does not need to be considered, and Yang Yi immediately thought of using it to build an inner ring road.

Since the original Tokyo City was expanded on the old castle and there was no complete plan, there were almost no north-south or east-west avenues in the whole city, so the ideal way to relieve the traffic pressure in the city was to build more ring roads.

Twenty zhang is roughly equivalent to sixty meters, and one on each side is one hundred and twenty meters wide, with this inner ring road, the current traffic situation will have a huge improvement, so this point Yang Yi is not negotiable, and it is directly stipulated.

(To be continued.) )