Chapter 1001: The Hanging Garden
After all, Vermilion Bird City is an old city, so it is impossible to build a large-scale palace complex, the area is limited, and if you want not to lose face, you can only think of ways from other aspects, so a Great Chu Imperial Palace born in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon jumped on paper.
As one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, the Kingdom of Babylon gave birth to a wonderful in the history of architecture, the hanging garden, Leng Zhuo, as a student who graduated from the School of Architecture, naturally had research, and even made a restored model with a vote of brothers in the dormitory when he had nothing to do.
With a population of more than one million, the city is crowded, but it is a major event for the founding of the country, and the people whose land has been expropriated are very willing to sell their houses, and of course they have also received a lot of compensation, and even a special merit card is awarded to recognize the high demeanor of these people.
But even so, the land area obtained is quite limited, after all, this is an inner city, every inch of land is valuable, unless Leng Zhuo is willing to build the palace outside the northern city and re-expand a part of the city, but in that case, the scale of construction is too large, and it will take two or three months to plan alone.
And this sky garden is not so many problems, first of all, the sky garden itself is a palace, but a huge palace, and greatly saves ground space, but occupies the endless sky, and the high-rise building itself is magnificent, magnificent, after all, height, in which time and space means high status.
Once completed, the Sky Garden is definitely a palace overlooking the whole city, and from the outside of the city, the palace looks like it is floating in the air.
The sky garden is a multi-storey building, 880 meters long, 660 meters wide, up and down 9 floors, 95 meters high, symbolizing the dignity of the 95th, facing the direction of Suzaku Street, there is a ladder to the sky, set up 999 steps, straight to the highest imperial palace.
There are twenty-four concubine halls on the second and third floors, although Leng Zhuo doesn't want to divide the harem into high and low, but the space of the hanging garden is also limited, and it is impossible to pile all the twenty-four concubine halls on one floor, so it can only be divided into two layers, eight up and sixteen, for this reason Leng Zhuo also had to hold a meeting in his harem, and after fully getting the understanding of the women, he set it up like this, but Leng Zhuo knew that the upper eight palaces and the lower sixteen palaces would definitely cause the harem ladies to fight.
The fourth floor is the palace of the prince and princess, the palace on the left is the palace, and the palace is the princess palace on the right.
The fifth floor is the main hall of the council, the largest area in the nine-story area, and there are also left and right guards, and at the back of the fifth floor, it is the residence of the palace maids and female officials.
On the sixth floor, the left and right are set up respectively, respectively, the cabinet of the Wen Pavilion and the military aircraft department of the Wu Pavilion.
The seventh layer is also divided into two departments, the left and right, which are the eight major departments of the cabinet and the four major departments of the martial pavilion.
The eighth and ninth layers are more detailed divisions, and the central authorities of the entire Great Chu Empire are all distributed in the eighth and ninth layers.
The sky garden will all be built with huge hard stones, for this reason, Da Chu stopped the repair and construction of several cities, and collected more than a dozen large carriage and horse trading houses to transport these stones to ensure the construction of this sky garden.
Because of the establishment of the country this time, it can be said that it is expected by all, although it is a big construction, but because the treasury of Dachu is full, the money given is sufficient, and Dachu has been in favor of businessmen in recent years, creating countless wealthy businessmen, these businessmen all rely on Dachu and prosper, it can be said that it is the most supportive of Dachu A class, at this time, it is natural to make a strong contribution, not to mention that there is money to make, and even some businessmen would rather not make money, but also willing to join it, after all, participating in the construction of the palace is a lot of qualifications.
Dachu adopts the household registration system, such as the merchant can have a set of credit assessment, and on it is recorded their annual trade volume, as well as credit, after paying taxes, but also printed with the official seal, the bank's seal, the thicker the resume, the larger the project involved, the more large transactions, naturally shows that they have abundant funds, credit is guaranteed, and this is the pass in doing business.
And to participate in the construction of the palace, if you add it to your household registration credit, it is like a golden signboard, and you are worried that you will not be able to make money if you don't buy and sell in the future, if this is the case, it can only be said that this person is not a businessman.
As for the craftsman, Da Chu also set up a craftsman certificate, in the empire, the status of the craftsman is not high, he can only be regarded as a member of the bottom of the society, he completely relies on his craft to eat, it is not very rich, but it is also difficult to be rich.
But in Da Chu, craftsmen are greatly respected, and there is even a special craftsman academy, and the craftsmen are also rated, like the master master level, and can also get additional subsidies from Da Chu, Da Chu has improved the status of craftsmen, and naturally has been supported by this class, knowing that Leng Zhuo is going to build a palace, in Suzaku City, countless elite craftsmen suddenly gathered.
There is no shortage of materials and manpower, and Leng Zhuo's hanging garden quickly rose from the ground, but this hanging garden is not a simple building block, it is finished when it is piled up, and the hanging garden itself is a huge spiritual array community.
Leng Zhuo originally obtained the Spirit Gathering Array, although it was also used in Vermilion Bird City, but it was only the establishment of nine Spirit Gathering Towers, the completion of the most basic Spirit Gathering Array Group, and the enhancement of the spiritual power in Vermilion Bird City, and if he wanted to distribute more Spirit Gathering Arrays, unless he had to renovate the city, it would be better to rebuild a Vermilion Bird City, so Leng Zhuo was not spending more resources and energy.
However, for the Hanging Garden, Leng Zhuo planned to set up a ninety-nine eighty-one array of spirit gathering arrays, which were also two superimposed spirit gathering arrays, plus the nine spirit gathering towers in Vermilion Bird City, which was a three-layer spirit gathering amplitude, which could condense more than four times the spiritual power.
In addition, in addition to the huge stone construction of the hanging garden, on the top, Gui Dong and other array mages also blessed it to strengthen the magic circle, and inside, there is also a wind array to ensure the smooth flow of air in the internal corridor.
There are many external buildings in the sky garden, but the real core is the interior, the external space is limited, but the internal space is dozens of times that of the external space, and the inner palace composed of corridors like a labyrinth has a treasury, a large grain depot, an armory, etc., and there is also the most complex sewer system.
The hanging garden, as the name suggests, must be planted on it to plant trees and grass, and the most indispensable thing is the water circulation system, for this reason, in the sky garden, but also with a holy beast water core as the core, arranged a huge water array, here will condense a steady stream of water, through the wind whirlwind array to the highest emperor hall, as well as the second and third floors of the concubine hall, and then the water will flow from the small lake on the three floors, the pond murmuring, moisturizing the surface of the entire building.
In order to have sufficient water supply to supply the water array, Leng Zhuo also let the fire vein ants dig underground to connect the groundwater, and at the same time let the sewage in the sky garden flow downstream of the groundwater.
Leng Zhuo, His Majesty the Emperor who wants to ascend to the throne, is not idle at all, the local division of counties, the promotion of officials, the issuance of positive seals, the stabilization of the place, the resumption of spring ploughing, these tasks have been completed by the cabinet, and the huge expenditure budget, there are also the women of the secretariat busy, but just the construction of the hanging garden, so that Leng Zhuo, the chief architect, is busy on all fours.
It can be said that for the founding ceremony, the entire Dachu is busy, time flies, the sky garden is one meter high, and the fertile soil is pushed by by the carts and horses, paved on the floors that have been built, of course, flowers and plants, rare trees.
I have to say that this will be a miracle in the history of architecture, half a year, day and night, even at night, the light emitted by the blazing bonfire will also illuminate this area as bright as day, the entire construction site, there are more than 30,000 people busy up and down, day and night upside down, and after these 30,000 people, it is to requisition tens of thousands of vehicles and horses, and even use military giant beasts and beast cavalry to help transport boulder materials, in order to ensure that it will not stop because of the lack of materials.
And in the quarries in various places, it is even larger, there are tens of thousands of laborers who are constantly polishing the stones, manufacturing qualified stones to send to the Vermilion Bird City, costing more than 200,000 huge stones, up to 95 meters, when the upper and lower nine-story hanging gardens stand in the middle of the Vermilion Bird City, almost every day there will be countless residents who open their eyes, they will see the majestic buildings that rise from the ground.
And the most talked about every day is also this hanging garden, the time passed in a flash, into September, in these months, the eight provinces of Great Chu were almost divided, the officials arrived, began the administration, and in Fuhai Province, with the recovery of Penglai County, the last stubborn Japanese army was also exterminated, and the entire coastal area returned to calm again.
And because last year's plague was widespread in the north, there was a temporary peace in the rare north, but as Ran Min and his party returned to Chuzhou, the plague lost its source and was gradually suppressed, but within the year, it was almost difficult to break out into a major war.
On the Qingzhou side, Situ Hao has strengthened the tandem, and the two major forces of Tianlong and Tang seem to have sensed the strangeness of Da Chu, after all, the founding of Da Chu is no longer a secret, and it is easy to be probed by spies, Li Tang is noncommittal about this, and is even happy to see it, but this news is not good news for the Tianlong Empire.
Finally gained a firm foothold and defeated all the brothers, Situ Hao, whose imperial power could not be shaken, heard the news and was furious on the spot, but now the Tianlong Empire and Great Chu are still separated by the forbidden army of Bai Qi, and they can't touch Chu and Yang at all, so he can only suppress the anger, speed up the penetration of the southern part of Qingzhou, and strive for the surrender of Bai Qi, Zhao Yun and others.
Although Leng Zhuo's establishment of the country is already an open secret, Bai Qi, Zhao Yun and others will be merged into Dachu, but it is still a secret that is still kept secret, and on the surface, Leng Zhuo only strengthened the contact with Bai Qi, Zhao Yun and others, and put on a posture of competing for this forbidden army.
Not to mention, Leng Zhuo's hand has really achieved a lot of results, not only let the Tianlong Empire focus on this side, but even the Tang Dynasty has made a lot of fun, and privately offered rich conditions, planning to buy Zhang Liao's department stationed in Heze Mansion, Leng Zhuo is happy to laugh at this, and when all the truth is revealed in October, I don't know how much these two forces will hate him.
But Leng Zhuo didn't care, because during this time, the Military Aircraft Department had made more than a dozen plans, even considering the worst-case scenario, and at the same time dealing with the offensive of Qingzhou and Zhongzhou on the southern part of Qingzhou, and for this reason, the Qinglong Legion, which was recovering and reorganizing, was ready to go north to support at any time, and even in Xiangyang, the Xuanwu Legion had made plans to land in Zhongzhou, and at the same time, in Ziyang County, the forbidden army that returned here was also gearing up to enter Shuzhou.