86_86695 One of the characteristics of ancient urban architecture is that it was built because of the walls. No matter how large the city is and how large the population of the city is, a city must be wrapped under the city walls, which is in line with the social environment in which the ancient city lived. The walls of ancient China were different from those of Western countries. In Western countries, there are cities first, and then there are city walls, while in China, there are city walls first, and then cities. From this point alone, the level of architecture and urban planning in ancient China was much higher than that of the Western world, because China's urban construction was carried out after planning, which was obviously more scientific and reasonable.

Like the ancient city of Yiqiē, the county seat of Zhijiang in the Ming Dynasty was also encased under a city wall. The city wall of Zhijiang County, like the ancient Chinese city wall, has three functional significance. The first is the military-defensive nature. Although Zhijiang County is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, in the late Ming Dynasty, when natural disasters were frequent, there was no shortage of various township bandits and mountain bandits. The preservation of the city wall effectively prevented the attack of bandits and protected the safety of the residents of the county. The second is the nature of flood control. Zhijiang County is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and in the event of a flood, the protection of the city wall can provide a safe place for the county's residents to take refuge. The third is to divide urban and rural areas, so that residents can be effectively managed.

The walls disappeared after the industrialization of society. The reason is also very simple, under the conditions of industrial society, all three functions of the city wall disappeared. After the appearance of high-explosive shells, the military defense function of the city wall was obliterated. After the advent of cement, modern dikes replaced the flood protection function of the city walls. After the realization of socialized large-scale production, a large number of rural people have moved to cities, increasing the scale of cities and blurring the boundaries between urban and rural areas. Therefore, as Wang Shuhui, who was born and raised in an industrial society, he has never seen a complete city wall that still maintains its traditional functions.

The city wall of Zhijiang County was built during the Hongwu period and is 5 years long. 8 km, all-stone structure, 4 to 6 meters high. When Wang Shuhui saw this city wall, although he did not feel how majestic the city wall was, it was obvious that unlike the high-rise buildings widely distributed in modern society, the tall city wall was still quite visually impactful against the backdrop of a piece of one- and two-story houses.

Looking at the thick and strong walls of this ordinary county, Wang Shuhui really couldn't imagine how those poorly armed peasant armies and Manchu Qing armed forces in the late Ming Dynasty captured these cities. At least in Wang Shuhui's view, it was really not easy for the peasant army and the Manchu army to break through such a city wall without training in modern and modern earthwork, and without high explosives, which were essential materials for attacking the city.

He really couldn't figure out how much dung those civil and military generals in Liaodong had in their heads to throw away several strategic cities in Liaodong with perfect defense systems and huge city walls. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military expenditure of the nine sides accounted for 10% of the entire national finance, but those million-dollar armies on paper were all collapsed at the touch of a button.

The military strength in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, except for Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, it seems that even the so-called Liaodong Iron Cavalry is like a ****, and it immediately collapses when it encounters the Manchu barbarians. It can be seen that no matter how advanced the weapons are, no matter how thick the city walls are, they are all bullshit in the hands of the decadent and degenerate landlords and bureaucratic interest groups in the late Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, it's still a human problem. The problem of people has been solved, millet plus rifle can fight against the Japanese invaders, millet plus rifle can defeat the party **** of artillery plus tank, and millet plus rifle can defeat the joint **** of more than a dozen advanced industrial powers. Of course, the realization of such a goal also requires a strong organizational force and the foundation of national industrialization. But in the final analysis, whether it is army building, organizational building, industrial construction, or human problems. The Ming Dynasty was not without talents, and the Chinese people were not without a sense of right and wrong. It is not because the rotten strata with vested interests hold the state apparatus that talent cannot be used and the people are unwilling to support it.

The carriage in which Wang Shuhui sat was roughly the same as Zhu Youzi's carriage, except that it did not have many fancy wrought iron decorations on the outside like the carriage Zhu Youzi chose. The outside of the carriage is wrapped in black leather, reflecting the sunlight, which is a bit of a Mercedes-Benz car.

Two coachmen sit in the driver's seat at the front of the carriage, three second-class housekeepers sit on chairs in a row behind the coachman, and two second-class housekeepers sit in the back of the car to load luggage or sit on a human shelf. Although Wang Shuhui's carriage looks very similar to Zhu Youzi's carriage, it does not have the same pomp as Zhu Youzi, there are twenty tall and neat, uniformly dressed and high-end family members hugging each other, just a single carriage, so the soldiers guarding the city gate quickly came up to stop the carriage, wanting to get some oil and water.

Seeing the soldiers guarding the door stepping forward, the five second-class soldiers immediately jumped out of the carriage, took out the black steel telescopic baton that Wang Shuhui had purchased in bulk from Hyundai from their waists, stretched the baton open, and was about to start fighting. Wang Shuhui saw the situation outside the carriage from the car window, opened the car door and asked the family members to retreat, and beckoned the soldiers who had just been frightened into a cold sweat to come to the car door. Before Wang Shuhui could speak, Liu Huaiji, the fourth uncle of his mother's family, got out of the car and shouted to the soldiers who had just come over, "I blinded your dogs, and I collided with the county lord and the guest of honor, are you dogs guilty!" Hearing this, the two soldiers immediately fell to their knees and did not dare to raise their heads.

Although Wang Shuhui himself didn't like Liu Huaiji's approach, because he didn't know how to deal with the natives of the Ming Dynasty, he felt that although the beginning was not good, it was also an entry point. He got out of the carriage and said to the two soldiers kneeling on the ground, "Don't be polite, you two, today I went around the city with the county lord, but it was just to distract you, you have never seen the frame of my house, it is not a sin, get up quickly." When the two soldiers heard this, they stood up slowly.

Wang Shuhui looked at these two little soldiers, they were no different from the vast majority of people in this era. The two soldiers were wearing tattered mandarin duck jackets that could no longer see the background color, and they wore a dirty Fan Yang hat. The face is sallow, the body is weak, and the bones are thick. Wang Shuhui sighed in his heart, the general malnutrition of Chinese in the late Ming Dynasty, from Zhijiang Wang Beiyuan to Zhijiang County on the way, did not see a single healthy person, everyone is a sub-health state on the verge of illness.

Wang Shuhui thought for a while and said to the two soldiers, "Do you know which cloth village is the largest in Zhijiang County and where it is." One of the soldiers looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old at most, with a pair of flexible eyes, and he looked quite smart, and after listening to Wang Shuhui's question, he immediately replied, "Master, I know, I know." ”

Liu Huaiji, who was standing next to him, immediately reprimanded, "You rude dog, what kind of master, you want to be a guest of honor, do you understand." Remember, be called a guest of honor. ”

Wang Shuhui saw that the fourth uncle was like a mother, and he couldn't even speak happily, and he was very unhappy in his heart, and this kind of unhappiness showed impatience on his face. Zhu Weiyan, who was sitting in the car but had been paying attention to Wang Shuhui, immediately found out, he coughed lightly, asked a little girl who came with him to jump out of the carriage, ran to Liu Huaiji's ear and said a few words, and led Liu Huaiji back to the carriage.

Wang Shuhui casually rewarded this little soldier with a silver dollar, and began to ask him about the affairs of Zhijiang County.

In the carriage, Zhu Weiyan saw the fourth uncle coming back and ordered a few children to go outside the carriage and play nearby. When the children all went out and saw that only the fourth uncle and himself were left in the carriage, he said, "The fourth uncle thinks it is the majesty of the prince or the majesty of the county lord." ”

Liu Huaiji was a little stunned when he heard this, and replied, "The old slave didn't understand what the county lord said. ”

Zhu Weiyan frowned, and said to Liu Huaiji, "Uncles have just had a good life for a few days, and several uncles' families and relatives have also come to live in the house. Speaking of which, it was another garden of the Zhijiang Palace, but the uncles didn't know what the family was like a few years ago, and my father and I even had to rely on the uncles for food. Now that the house has been renovated, whether it is our father and daughter, or the family of several uncles, the food, clothing and housing are not only better than when the original palace was good, I don't know how much, even the aunts and uncles are in charge, managing the kitchen and the warehouse. In his hands, he carried the money and food of hundreds of people. Where did these benefits come from, did they come from the name of my father Zhijiang Wangshu, or did they come from the imperial court, no.

These benefits come from Wang Yibin in your mouth, my future husband. Neither my father nor I have ever had a little bit of a royal family in front of Brother Wang, but my uncles are always talkative and have repeatedly offended Brother Wang, where does this come from. At the end, the little girl's pretty face was flushed, and she looked a little angry, don't say it, she really has a bit of the prestige of the royal county lord.

When Liu Huaiji heard this, his face turned a little pale, and his lips trembled for a while. Speaking of which, I am still afraid of the hard life of the original low, and the good days of the past few days have indeed made a few of their brothers a little poor and a little fluttering. Several people were a little dissatisfied with Wang Shuhui, who seemed to have a kind personality and didn't know etiquette.

Zhu Youzi is a confused personality again, which makes these uncles think they are uncles, and they do have some disdain for the guide when they treat Wang Shuhui. After listening to his niece's fierce scolding, Liu Huaiji understood in his heart, what kind of prince and county lord are all nonsense, no one Wang Yibin, where did he come from such a good life. Liu Huaiji, who understood it, was ashamed in his heart, and at the same time, he was secretly worried that his brothers' expressions in the past few days had angered Wang Shuhui.

Zhu Weiyan saw that the fourth uncle was honest, so she tidied up her sideburns and said, "The fourth uncle is a reasonable person, and I don't know how much of the world I have seen outside. Several uncles are also capable people, but they are dedicated to serving my family. Our father and daughter are not heartless people, and Brother Wang is the most kind-hearted, so he is naturally grateful to his uncles.

But uncles should remember that the biggest in this family is not my father, nor me, but my future husband, my father's future son-in-law's brother Wang. Since the fourth uncle understands this truth, he must explain clearly up and down after he goes back, so as not to offend Brother Wang again. Brother Wang Shige has a calm personality and a loose temperament with a clear demeanor. But I don't care about those, as long as there is any more offending to Brother Wang, any relatives and favors will be gone. Let the first-class family members make a hundred boards, and then the whole family will sink directly into the river, uncle must remember! ”

Hearing this, Liu Huaiji nodded busily, and cold sweat couldn't stop flowing down his head