Chapter 716: New Capital City

From the second half of the third year of Jiajing to the end of the third year of Jiajing, the relocation was basically over.

Star City is also considered to be a city.

However, the city has not yet been named.

This city is located at the tip of the Indochina Peninsula, facing the Straits of Johor. Built on a large plain, although there are islands guarding the Straits of Johor, in general, there is no danger to defend.

Therefore, the design of the head of this city is divided into two parts, one is the city wall, and the other is the palace.

The construction of the city wall was a brick wall.

It is three zhang high, on the city wall, four horses can be parallel, there is a fort in hundreds of steps, and the city wall is tortuous. It's not a straight line, looking down on the city wall from the sky, it seems to be a cogwheel shape, but more people think it's a flower shape, and all this city is also called Flower City.

The construction of the flower city began to be planned in the fifteenth year of Zhengde, and it took six years to complete it in four years in Jiajing.

In the past six years, the host of Star City has changed several people, and it was finally completed under the auspices of Zhang Han and Xu Ai. Of course, the finishing touches have not yet been completed in many places, such as the cannons at the head of the city.

After Zhu Houhuang ended the war of Japan, after discovering the lack of iron and copper, the speed of Dongyong's cannon was significantly reduced. So in the past year, the Dongyong Shipyard has completed the construction of a batch of Dongyong-type ships, but there is a lot of artillery supply.

Zhu Houhuang finally decided, first the sea and then the land, and then the city.

The artillery was first assigned to the navy, then to the Yongjun, and finally to the city.

In this order, the city needed artillery, and it took several years to get it right.

The city has nine gates, which correspond to each other. There is also a water gate, which allows ships to enter the city directly, but battleships cannot. It had to be a specialized vessel, because sailboats couldn't get into the water gate.

There is an aqueduct in the city that flows from west to east into the sea, which is also convenient for everyone's daily life, and it is also a convenient waterway.

However, this aqueduct entered not elsewhere first, but the Imperial Palace.

Zhu Houhuang admired the style of the Han and Tang dynasties, so the scale of the entire city was magnificent, especially in the construction of the palace, especially from Kyoto, Japan, invited a lot of construction masters to join.

The palace is not on the central axis of the city, but sits on the north and faces south, and the main hall is the tallest building in the entire city, and in terms of topography, the place where the palace is located is originally a hill, but the earthwork required to build the city is so large that all the hills are dug up, but even so, the terrain here is higher than other places in the city.

They also laid a foundation more than a foot high here, and from the foundation, the height of this place was almost the same as the height of the city wall.

The whole hall is the wind of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and from the railing outside the hall, you can overlook the whole city. The palace can be seen from anywhere in the city.

Speaking of the great foundation, I have to mention cement.

As soon as Zhu Houhuang came to Dongyong, he thought about making cement, but now, a few years later, it was finally invented, of course, Zhu Houhuang is not a construction professional, and he doesn't know how much difference this cement is from real cement. However, because of the existence of cement, the reinforced concrete proposed by Zhu Houhuang has been applied.

Of course, with the iron price of this era, Zhu Houhuang can't afford it, so he can only use it in this hall.

Thousands of people can be placed side by side in the entire hall, three feet high, and dozens of large pillars are side by side. And Zhu Houhuang's throne should be more than a foot above the ground. It can be said that it looks down on the whole audience.

This hall was named Nandou Hall by Zhu Houhuang.

Originally, Zhu Houhuang wanted to be the Beichen Palace.

Politics is like Beichen. Beichen has always been regarded as the Son of Heaven, but although Zhu Houhuang has great authority, he is not the emperor, not the Son of Heaven, it is better to keep a low profile, so the Nandou Hall of Destiny, opposite to Beichen, not only shows that he has no disobedience, but also explains that he is fighting against the Son of Heaven.

However, in the entire palace, this Nandou Hall can be seen, and the back hall is not built at all, and the large wall encloses the entire palace position.

But in the palace, there is actually nothing.

There are only a few courtyards, and the rest are open for horses.

Because of the problem of financial resources, Zhu Houhuang carefully built the front palace, of course, the front palace is not only the Nandou Palace, but also a large square in front of the Nandou Palace.

A square was used by Zhu Houhuang to review the army. Looking at the Nandou Hall from this square, it is the most spectacular, but it is not magnificent enough to be powerful. And directly opposite the Nandou Hall is the Prime Minister's Mansion.

There is no main hall in the Prime Minister's Mansion building, but the layers of courtyards also show that this is an important place in Dongyong. And to the west of the square, there is the Privy Council. To the east of the Privy Council is the Imperial Palace.

With this square as the center, large and small yamen have settled in this area, as well as the government school.

Of course, it's not called Fuxue now. This is Yongguo Taixue, but Dongyongfu is divided into two, the essence has been brought over by Zhu Houhuang, and the rest of the people continue to be members, but it has become Yongnan Mansion School.

In the whole city, there is only this building, and the rest of the city is a large open space.

Before Zhu Houhuang moved here, it was still a wasteland.

However, since around October, after Zhu Houhuang moved into the Nandou Palace, the entire city gradually became vibrant. First of all, Li Liangqin carried out a military operation, marched westward, exterminated one hundred and ten tribes, and controlled the entire plain in his hands.

Before, Dongyong's military presence here was not good, but it only occupied some coastal islands and even some coastal land, except for more land, which was controlled by tribal chiefs.

Some of the cantonments along the coast were only enough to provide rations for the laborers and slaves who built the city. Nothing more is in supply.

Therefore, before Zhu Houhuang could gain a firm foothold, he began to control the land, and even divided the army to force the captured natives to settle the fields.

Zhu Houhuang is still very satisfied with this capital.

This area can be said to be the center of the South Seas, extending in all directions, with advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is easy to attack from all sides, and it can be used as a base for attacking, but the disadvantage is that it is easy for others to attack you, and the so-called land struggle is also.

However, Zhu Houhuang was determined to unify the entire South Seas with this as the center and create a great power. But even if Zhu Houhuang is confident, he is prepared.

Therefore, the walls of the new capital city are extremely strong, and it can be called a fortress, even if it is attacked by a sneak attack, it can hold out for a long time.

However, the first thing Zhu Houhuang had to do was to fill the capital.

He first ordered that officials at all levels in Dongyong should move all their families to Xincheng, and even specifically ordered Annan to relocate all the local clans. It can also be regarded as a way to weaken the local power.

Local authorities have done the same.

For example, the Xu family in Luzon, the former Bo Ni royal family in Kuching, and even some of the Cham nobles who opposed Champa were all relocated.

Some maritime merchant families rooted in Penghu, and even Wang Zhi also moved the Wang family to the new capital.

In fact, although Zhu Houhuang's order weakened the local power, moving to the new capital is not necessarily a bad thing. Because the new capital city is the center of the future Dongyong. Coupled with the unique geographical location, it is sure to thrive.

Although the benefits of modern times have been lost, the prospects for the future are limitless.

In this way, there is also a slight popularity among the new city.

Zhu Houhuang stood on top of the Nandou Hall and looked down on the whole city, it was already nightfall, and there were many starry lights, and he didn't know if it was a light or a starlight.

Zhu Houhuang issued an order to change Star City to the southern capital. And summoned the officials from all over the country to come to the southern capital to hold the first great court meeting of Yongguo, and the time was set on the first day of the fourth year of Jiajing.

For a while, the officialdom of Henggang Yongguo became boiling.

Zhu Houhuang has always been pragmatic and doesn't like to look good, so the major events in Dongyong are usually decided by Zhu Houhuang when he convenes the heads of several departments. The Great Dynasty will have nothing to do before.

And the Hajj itself was full of ambitious actions.

If it is said that when Yongguo was in Dongyong, it was just a grass platform team, and the convening of this great court meeting shows that Dongyong has changed from a grass platform team to a normal country.

It has been nearly ten years since Zhengde was thirteen years old.