The first thing to do in this urban planning is to study the geographical and human characteristics of the city. But Ankang has no idea about this at all.

He only knew that the Great Song Kingdom was located in the eastern part of the Central Plains, and the climate was relatively dry compared to the south. Fortunately, there are two rivers on the east and west sides of the city, so there is no worry about drought in the city.

One of the biggest benefits of a dry climate is that it allows for the use of underground space.

Ankang grew up in the south, and people there don't buy a first floor when they buy a house. In the neighborhood where he lives, every resident who buys the first floor will give away a super large basement.

However, no matter how big the basement is, it is of little use. Everyone in a damp space will get sick, and things will get moldy. So the basement is also just a utility room. Besides, who has so many sundries in the house that are not afraid of the tide to put in the basement?

Now in this Fallen West City, the underground space can be fully utilized. Even the underground palace in Gushan City, where Ankang had visited, didn't seem to be so damp.

As for other geography and humanities, Ankang doesn't know anything about it.

He doesn't understand this, but he still understands the functional zoning of the city. When he plays computer games, the first thing he does is to make a plan for each functional area, and then place the functional components such as cinemas, shopping malls, residential areas, and schools in them.

An Kang asked Xiao Liu to find a large white cloth, and then put it on the ground and drew a boxy box with a brush. This is the wall of the city of Meteoric West.

The city lord's mansion should naturally be placed in the center of the city. However, Ankang did not intend to place the City Lord's Mansion in the middle of the entire city. It is more appropriate to put a large square in the center of the city. It is not only the center of people's activities, but also convenient to erect an iconic statue representing the city in the middle of the square.

The castle lord's mansion and various government agencies of all sizes can be set up along the square. It is convenient to visit in all directions.

However, Ankang found that the more convenient the transportation in the ancient city, the more inconvenient the transportation was. Because every street is full of people, horses, oxen, and merchants. It is not even convenient for pedestrians to walk, let alone horse-drawn carriages and ox carts.

So, the streets must be wide. Not only are the streets wide accessible, but Ankang also plans to create a public transport system with two tracks in the middle of the streets.

Now that there was a steam engine, it was of course a matter of course to build a train.

However, Ankang does not plan to start developing a time-consuming and labor-intensive behemoth like a train right now.

Ankang had a brilliant idea, and it came to him when he recalled a collection in the automobile museum he had visited.

Although there are a variety of exciting sports cars and concept cars in the Automobile Museum, the one that impressed Ankang the most was a public carriage. This carriage is twice as large as a normal carriage, but in addition to the carriage, people can be seated in the front and rear of the carriage and on the roof of the carriage. A carriage can seat as many as fourteen or five people.

If the carriage of this kind of public carriage is made longer, it must be no problem to seat twenty or thirty people in one car.

Of course, Ankang wanted to build that kind of car like a modern subway or tram, but those cars were too big. Compared to vehicles, the scale of ancient cities was smaller.

He didn't want public transport to take up all the space in the city.

As for the price of public transport, it must be controlled.

In this era, the rich used horse-drawn carriages to get around their homes, and the commoners did not have horse-drawn carriages at home, so they had to walk. With this set of economical and fast transportation solutions, with this rail transit system that runs through the whole city, the whole city will live.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. That's it.

Traffic comes alive first, and talent will come alive.

Business will only come alive if people come alive.

When business is revitalized, the government will receive more finance and taxes.

Taxation is not about the heavier the better, but about setting the best tax rate for business activities.

Although An Tianhan is not a nerd, after getting along with him for a month, An Kang already knows a little about him. He understands the way of being an official, but he seems to understand the way of economy.

According to An Kang's understanding, An Tianhan can be a judge who enforces the law impartially, but he may not be able to revitalize the economy of the entire city.

Although Ankang doesn't know how to do business, he is a high school student in the 21st century, and he still understands the information about urban management and investment promotion that is promoted on TV every day. Commerce is alive, handicrafts are alive, and the city's economy is alive.

This is what he plans to suggest to An Tianhan in the next step.

With the idea of streets and rail transportation in place, the next step is to build a water supply system and sewage drainage system in the city.

Ankang is fed up with going to the toilet in his bedroom, and he's fed up smelling all sorts of unexpected odors when he goes shopping.

The water supply and drainage system is the symbol of modern civilization.

Although it is useless to fight against the invasion of Ita, Ankang also hopes that everyone can be in a clean environment, and also hopes that people will no longer waste time carrying water and emptying toilets.

There is an advantageous condition for the construction of water supply and drainage systems in the western part of the city, that is, there are two rivers on the east and west sides of the city. These two rivers not only make the city free of drought, but also provide convenient conditions for the transformation of the city.

According to Ankang's vision, the upstream water source can be used for drinking, and the downstream water source can be used for discharge.

In fact, the problem of drinking water is easier to solve, which is to build some water towers in the city and then connect them to each household with pipes.

One of the biggest advantages of ancient cities is that the high point of the city is on the walls of the city. Even water towers do not have to be built, cisterns are built directly on the city walls. Water from the river was brought to the city, and then steam engines and waterwheels were used to pump the water into the cistern. This problem is solved.

Drainage, on the other hand, collects the sewage from each household and sends it through a pipe to a septic tank outside the city, which then leads it to the farmland outside the city to be used as fertilizer. Sewage discharged from the farmland is directly discharged downstream of the river.

This idea of water supply and drainage, in fact, Ankang also refers to the idea of "Ding Wei building a palace". Turn all the processes into a cycle, and this forms a complete ecosystem.

Ankang had to sigh that Ding Wei was indeed a cow.

Although Ding Wei's character is not very good and his historical evaluation is not very good, after all, he still has outstanding contributions to several disciplines. This kind of person belongs to the talented and unvirtuous people.

If I build a team in the future, do I need such people? Absolutely.

Why did Cao Cao put forward the idea of employing people as "meritocracy" instead of "having both ability and political integrity"?

Of course, it is good to have both ability and political integrity, but there are indeed some people who are talented and unworthy. But among such people, there are often some bulls who can influence the situation. If you don't use them, they'll be used by someone else.