Chapter 14 The Twin Cities of Beijing
Zhu Jingyuan's father, Zhu Jianyan, the second son of the emperor, currently has a princess and four wives, and the wives are concubines who already have children.
The five wives and concubines gave birth to a total of five sons and six daughters, for a total of eleven children.
Zhu Jingyuan is the fourth among his sons, with three older brothers and three older sisters above, and one younger brother and three younger sisters below.
After graduating, the top two elder brothers and one sister were all arranged to go to various yamen, manufacturers, and health centers for training and work.
The remaining elder brother and younger brother are still receiving the same specialized education as Zhu Jingyuan, and the two elder sisters and three younger sisters attend collective schools in the royal family and the clan.
Zhu Jingyuan just graduated before the end of the year, and he has not yet had time to arrange to go out for practical training, but now that he has the work of negotiating peace, he just doesn't need to be specially arranged.
has an elder brother and sister who have not yet graduated, but Zhu Jingyuan, a younger brother, has already graduated, because the education of the prince and grandson is different from the education of ordinary clans.
They do not receive a group education for a specified number of years at school, but have a dedicated teacher to teach them completely individualized, judging the learning results through daily comprehensive inspections.
Regardless of age, as long as the level of knowledge reaches the standard, and this standard is similar to the level of ordinary undergraduate students in later generations.
Zhu Jingyuan passed the assessment at the end of last year, and there was an elder brother in front of him who had not passed the assessment, so Zhu Jingyuan graduated first.
Zhu Jingyuan is now fifteen years old, and his knowledge is similar to that of a bachelor's degree.
This may seem like a great exaggeration, but the education of the princes and grandchildren is targeted, and the actual efficiency is much higher than that of collective education.
Zhu Jingyuan was enlightened at the age of four, and it has taken him 11 years to complete the knowledge from primary school to 16 years of college, which is equivalent to skipping a total of five levels.
Now there is only Zhu Jingyuan himself at home, and he needs to get up by himself during this time period, eat in advance and then go out for morning exercises.
Zhu Jingyuan came to the restaurant at home and asked for a bowl of meat porridge, two steamed buns, two eggs, and a cup of soy milk.
After eating a simple breakfast unhurriedly, Zhu Jingyuan rested for a while, leaving the two maids who were still confused, and rode out by himself.
Today, Jingshi Shuntianfu is one of the largest cities in the world, with a total population of more than 6 million.
However, the interior of this huge city is divided into two distinct districts, the old and the new.
Located directly south of the original city of Beijing, the center of the city was not far from the middle of the later Daxing District, and is now the economic center of the northern part of the empire, with a population of more than 5 million.
This new city was newly built after Emperor Shizu recovered the capital division.
He apparently foresaw at that time that the population of the capital would swell rapidly after industrialization, to the point that the original city could not accommodate it at all.
Therefore, while he built the new city of Jingshi, he split the functions of the imperial capital.
The new city served as the new economic and cultural center, and the old city as the political and military center.
The new city originally had a city wall, and it was larger than the original Beijing city, but it didn't last for a hundred years before it was already overcrowded.
Only according to the rules left by Emperor Shizu, continue to expand the city in the southwest, south, and southeast directions of the city.
Because there was no shortage of arable land in the empire, and the railways in the urban area were very developed, there were not many high-rise buildings planned for the new city, which led to the rapid expansion of the urban area.
Now the edge of the new city has been paved to the first line of Zhuozhou and Langfang, and some people suggest that it will be built in the southeast in the future, with the goal of converging with Tianjin City......
The situation in the old city was more complicated, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, according to the policy of occupying houses, the original residents of the city were driven away, and all the houses were divided into eight banners and baoyi.
After the recovery of the Jingshi, the Eight Banners and the Baoyi were driven out again, and the Jingshi received by Emperor Shizu was a completely empty city.
Emperor Shizu took advantage of the vacuum in Beijing to make an overall renovation of the buildings in the old city and made more reasonable adjustments to the urban planning.
It also completed the outer city of Banla, which was repaired in the Jiajing period, with the position of the west wall of Jinzhongdu in the west as the western boundary, and the earth wall of the northern city wall of the Yuan Dadu in the north as the northern boundary, and then extended a similar distance to the east, and finally closed to form a complete square outer city.
In this way, the old city of Jingshi has formed a four-story square nested structure of the palace city, the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city, and the total area in the city has more than doubled.
In the direction of the four corners outside the city, four huge star-shaped fortresses were built as the external fulcrum for the forbidden army of the Beijing division to garrison and defend the Beijing division.
After the restoration, the old city was used as a political center, so the new residents were only royalty, nobles, officials, and their families and service personnel.
The number of officials is relatively stable, and although the number of clans and nobles continues to expand, they will not all remain in the capital, and most of them will be dispersed to local positions.
Moreover, with the continuous development of industry and society, Jingshi New Town, as an economic and cultural center, is becoming more and more prosperous, and its attractiveness to ordinary people is increasing day by day.
As a political center, the old city has always maintained the typical characteristics of a serious atmosphere, an old environment, a lack of entertainment, and strict management.
Therefore, more and more ordinary clans and nobles gradually moved to a more prosperous new city life.
Many grassroots officials also like to live in the new city, and many unimportant yamen have also moved there one after another.
The residents who stayed in the old city of Jingshi all the year round were mainly the royal family and nobles of the close branches, as well as the real high-level core bureaucrats of the empire.
So far, the population of the Old City is still less than a million, and the area of the Old Town, which has been expanded in the outer city, is still very spacious for this million people.
Nowadays, the normal residents of the old city still live within the city walls, and most of them live in independent courtyards, and there are no high-rise buildings in the old city at all.
The tall walls still have some defensive power against today's weapons, and with the city wall patrols and city gate checkpoints, it is easy to isolate suspicious people.
Zhu Jingyuan went north from Wangfu Street in the east of the imperial city, turned east to Chaoyangmen Street, dismounted at Chaoyangmen to be inspected, and then went out of Chaoyangmen to the East Outer City.
Continue to go straight to the east, dismount again at the Dong'an Gate in the East Outer City, and pass through the Dong'an Gate after being inspected again, and finally come to the outside of the Jingshi City.
Along the way, he met several groups of clans and noble children, as well as two princes and four royal grandsons.
Ordinary clans and noble children receive regular training four times a month, and they take turns in batches and staggered times, and it is just an accident in the morning.
Princes and grandchildren under the age of 30 have daily training once a day, regular training four times a month, and intensive training once a month.
The princes and grandsons of the study stage, together with special instructors, receive training at normal times and do not go to the morning time.
Therefore, the state of these princes and grandsons is obviously the same as Zhu Jingyuan, who passed the assessment at the end of last year, and has not yet had time to be dispatched.
They are the same period as Zhu Jingyuan, but they are not familiar with Zhu Jingyuan, they are also three to five years older than Zhu Jingyuan, the youngest is eighteen years old, and the oldest is twenty years old.
There are no bigger princes and grandsons who have just graduated, because they are over twenty years old and have not completed the course, they will be eliminated in the cultivation of heirs.
"The qualifications of middle-aged people and below should not be cultivated as a prince."
Then they will be transferred to a collective school, go to school with the children of ordinary clan nobles, and train regularly together, and they will not have a chance to be on the throne at all.
Zhu Jingyuan is actually not much smarter than other princes and grandsons, but he has more than 20 years of learning experience in his previous life.
Although he didn't recover his memory in the early days, he was still sensible very early, he was enlightened directly at the age of four, and he learned things very quickly, and he graduated at the age of fifteen.
If it is a group school, even if it is a student who skips a level every other year, he or she will have a year at a time to get to know each other and his classmates.
However, the education of the princes and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty is personalized, and students with different learning speeds will not be able to get together at all.
The other party didn't know what happened in the palace last night, and he didn't know that Zhu Jingyuan was already the prince who had booked, but the relevant procedures had not been completed yet.
So the two sides are the same as usual, like ordinary relatives who are not familiar with each other, simply say hello and go their separate ways.