Zhu Jingyuan's river boat floated on the Milky Way for more than ten hours, and arrived at the Xintianfu Wharf in the early morning of the next day.

Zhu Jingyuan's family rested in the cabin for a night, and now they all get up early to enjoy the scenery of Xintianfu.

New Tianfu City is theoretically a riverside city, but this estuary is so wide that it is difficult to see the other side with a telescope.

Therefore, Xintianfu gives people the feeling that it is also a coastal city.

The official pier of Xintianfu was on the shore of the Milky Way, but Zhu Jingyuan's fleet did not dock here.

Instead, it turned south at a fork in the southeasternmost part of the pier and entered an inland artificial waterway with a width of more than two hundred meters.

On both sides of this artificial waterway, there are green belts hundreds of meters wide.

To the east of the green belt on the east side of the waterway is a large expanse of farmland.

In the summer, rice is planted north of the New Tianfu Milky Way, corn or soybeans are planted in the south of the Milky Way, and wheat is planted on both sides of the bank in winter.

Now outside the new Tianfu City, there are ripe corn and soybean fields everywhere, and they are ripe and burnt yellow as far as the eye can see.

To the west of the green belt on the west side of the waterway, there is a high-standard highway that can accommodate eight lanes.

On the west side of the highway is a green belt, and further west of the green belt are equally mature soybean fields.

This strange man-made waterway in the middle of farmland is actually a moat in the outer city of Xintianfu.

That wide road was supposed to be the walls of the outer city.

The original plan for the new Tianfu was a multi-storey nine-square lattice structure.

The innermost part is the Forbidden City, which is one kilometer long, and the outside of the Forbidden City is the Imperial City, which is three kilometers long.

Outside the imperial city was an inner city with a side length of nine kilometers, and outside the inner city was supposed to be an outer city with a side length of twenty-seven kilometers.

The 27-kilometer-long square is equivalent to the size of Beijing's Fifth Ring Road, which is too wrong.

The industry of Xintianfu was underdeveloped, the agricultural population accounted for the vast majority, and the cities were far from expanding to this extent.

So far, the built-up area of New Tianfu City, except for the pier on the edge of the Milky Way, is still in the inner city with a side length of nine kilometers.

The land that was supposed to be an out-of-town area is now mostly farmland and pastures.

Only in a few places, there are some cotton textile mills, canning factories, flour mills, match factories, agricultural equipment factories and other factories related to agricultural product processing, daily necessities, and agricultural supplies.

At the same time, with the continuous improvement of military technology, the defensive role of the city wall in war continued to decline.

The construction of the outer city wall of Xintianfu has never really begun, and the outer city still only exists in concept.

But the early plans are still in place, and no one is picking up the initiative.

The land for the construction of the outer city walls and moats is still to be preserved.

In order to prevent these lands from being occupied, Huangzhuang built a road on the land where the city walls were repaired.

At the same time, water-related projects such as agricultural reservoirs, agricultural canals, water transport docks, farmland irrigation and drainage systems are designed and integrated into the planned route of the moat as much as possible.

Finally, through these practical functional projects, the construction of the moat body was completed.

This wide moat waterway, together with the wide highway and the three green belts between and on the periphery, with a total width of more than 600 meters and a total length of 81 kilometers, forms a huge green water recreation park around the city.

When the farm is busy, it is the most comfortable rest area and a good place to dry the grain.

When the farm is not working, it is also a good place for spring, walking, fishing, enjoying the cool and basking in the sun.

This strange product formed for various reasons has unexpectedly become a special scenery of Xintianfu.

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Zhu Jingyuan naturally considered it, and took this city wall and moat as the center line of industrial construction, and put all the factories by the river and the road in the future.

Alternatively, one side will be developed as an industrial area and the other side will be developed as a residential area.

This moat, along with the existing high-grade highways, served as an excellent gateway for the exchange and transportation of goods in the industrial area.

The construction of the moat is of a high standard, and like the dredging channel outside the wharf, it can maintain a water depth of at least eight meters.

Therefore, a large number of small and medium-sized ships do not need to dock at the official pier on the Milky Way side, and can directly enter the moat.

After navigating nine kilometers in the moat, Zhu Jingyuan's fleet came to a fork in the river.

Here the fleet turned west and continued along the river.

At this time, sparse factory buildings began to appear on both sides of the canal.

If you look up to the southwest from here, you can already see the majestic inner city walls.

After another nine kilometers of sailing, the fleet entered the moat around the inner city under the inner city walls.

The inner city moat surrounds the nine-kilometer-long inner city, the width of the water surface has been reduced to 100 meters, and the water depth is still 8 meters.

The boat that Zhu Jingyuan was sitting on still did not stop, and directly passed through the water gate and entered the inner city of Xintianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan finally saw the urban area lined with buildings.

The streets of the inner city of Xintianfu are all horizontal and vertical hardened roads, and each block is exactly the same size.

On both sides of the street are independent courtyards, and the pattern of the courtyards is also highly similar, which is obviously planned and constructed in a unified manner.

Inside each courtyard, there is a two-story main house, plus three single-story matching rooms in the east, west and south.

In the morning light of the rising sun, the smoke of birds rose in many courtyards.

Occasionally, children chase each other with school bags on the streets.

A new day is coming for the new Tianfu City.

The rest of the accompanying ships in the fleet are docked at the public docks in the inner city.

The equipment and materials carried on the ship to be sent to Xintianfu were officially unloaded here one after another.

The rest of the ship's personnel were also received by local docking personnel and went to the temporary residential area for resettlement.

The courtyards in the new Tianfu City for ordinary families were built in batches according to the unified specifications of the Huangzhuang, and then gradually distributed to families in need.

There is a large number of vacant housing in the north of the city at any time, and there is no problem at all to accommodate workers from the big food country and the local people.

Zhu Jingyuan's boat continued to move forward, sailing along the waterway into the imperial city, and docked at the royal wharf.

The organizational form of Xintianfu is similar to that of a company, and each Huangzhuang can be regarded as a company.

Emperor Zhu Jianyan can be regarded as the chairman, and Zhu Jingyuan was appointed as the governor of Xintianfu, which is equivalent to becoming the general manager.

Now Zhu Zhongliang, the retired old chairman, has brought Zhu Jingyuan, his grandson, and the general manager to take office.

This is the highest-level high-ranking figure that New Tianfu has ever received.

It is impossible for the shopkeepers of the various imperial estates here not to pay attention to it.

The entire Forbidden City and the Imperial City have been cleaned up as a whole, and all the places that the royal family may use have been prepared to ensure that the two of them can move in and use it directly after they arrive.

It was confirmed that Zhu Jingyuan's ancestors and grandchildren arrived today, and the shopkeepers of Huangzhuang came over and waited before dawn.

Today is a pure welcome event, and according to the requirements of Zhu Zhongliang's ancestors and grandchildren, there is not much pomp and circumstance.

As for the formal visit, it will be arranged according to the ideas of the two after Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan have rested.

Zhu Jingyuan followed his grandfather off the boat and waved hello to the waiting shopkeepers, even if they had met.

Then he didn't stop at the pier, so he followed his grandfather and rode directly into the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty is the official palace as a symbol of the status of the Ming court and the royal family, and there are currently three places in the Ming Dynasty.

Yingtianfu, Shuntianfu, and Xintianfu.

The palaces of the Western Cape, although similar in layout to the Forbidden City, do not have the same status.

The Forbidden City of New Tianfu is clearly the same status as Ying Tianfu.

Moreover, the Forbidden City of Xintianfu is the largest and the highest specification among the three Forbidden Cities.

The length and width of the Forbidden City of Xintianfu are both one thousand meters long.

Compared with the Forbidden City of Beijing, it is much wider and covers an area of more than a quarter of the city.

After the Renwu Dynasty, the coexistence of the three elders of the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces at the same time became the norm.

They have to have a special place to live in the Forbidden City, and they have to pay enough attention to it.

In the Forbidden City of Jingshi, the three palaces of Renshou Palace, Cining Palace, and Ciqing Palace were renovated respectively.

Because the building itself has not been rebuilt, the layout is not standardized enough, and it is a little scattered on the whole, and it has long been asymmetrical.

When the Forbidden City of Xintianfu was built, the layout of the palace was adjusted according to the current situation.

Ciqing Palace was moved from the left to the right and placed in the position of Cining Palace, Cining Palace was moved backwards, and the two palaces were arranged back and forth, placed behind the right side of the entire Forbidden City.

Occupy the original Yinghua Palace, Shou'an Palace, and Cining Palace, and move out as a whole while enlarging the scale of the palace courtyard.

The specifications of these two palaces are exactly the same, and they are for the Empress Taishang and the biological mother of the emperor, respectively.

Renshou Palace was moved back and placed behind the left side of the Forbidden City, and the whole was also moved out and placed on a large scale for the Emperor Taishang to live.

At the same time, after the Renmu Dynasty, the crown prince disappeared from the concept.

In front of the Emperor Taishang's Renshou Palace, the first place was prepared for the crown prince, including the early Chunhe Palace and the later Ciqing Palace.

In the future, there will be no need to prepare an independent and exclusive palace here.

In order to be symmetrical in the layout with the palace of the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces opposite, the Forbidden City of Xintianfu has designed a group of new-style palaces for the minor princes to live in.

On the basis of this overall layout change, all the building dimensions of the new Tianfu Forbidden City are larger than the original Forbidden City.

Not only were the main bodies of the buildings taller, wider, and deeper, but the auxiliary rooms around these formal palaces, and even the rooms for servants, were enlarged and increased.

The interior of the building has become much larger, and the outer squares have been relatively smaller, reducing the distance between the palace and the palace.

At the same time, the space prepared and reserved for the new functions of the new era was specially designed and constructed.

Examples include boiler and heating supply systems, running and purification systems, electricity supply and control systems, modern sanitation and drainage systems, parking lots and underground storage rooms, to name a few.

The similar equipment of the Forbidden City of Beijing was gradually added later, and the new Tianfu Forbidden City existed by design.

The only drawback is that there is no air conditioning, but the temperature in Xintianfu in summer is basically not more than 30 degrees, and the electric fan is barely enough.

And the air conditioner can be added later.

Generally speaking, the Forbidden City of Xintianfu is a more regular and modern palace complex that has been redesigned in the new era.

Now there is no one else in the palace, Zhu Zhongliang did not go to live in the Emperor Taishang's Renshou Palace, but lived in Cining Palace with his wife.

Zhu Jingyuan did not go to live outside the palace to live in the palace, and directly lived in the Ciqing Palace in front of Cining Palace.

In this way, the grandparents and grandchildren live in the front and back yards, and they can chat directly at any time.

These superlative palaces are not a courtyard per se, but a large complex of buildings guarded by several smaller courtyards.

Zhu Jingyuan's two royal concubines both had their own separate courtyards to live in, and their maidservants lived in their courtyards.

The maidservants who have already received the house and are about to be accepted also take the maidservants under their jurisdiction to live in a courtyard.

The rest of the ordinary servants lived in other rooms around the area.

Zhu Jingyuan, as before, settled down in the place, and went directly back to the room to rest.

Anything else will be done until you get used to the land and you're done with the jet lag.

Everyone else is in a similar state, so this first day, except for eating and sleeping, is paralyzed.

Zhu Jingyuan lay in the palace for two days and basically returned to his normal state.

Then he summoned two staff members, took the special car he brought, and went to the agricultural machinery factory outside the city together.

Samples of tractors assembled locally in Daming have been sent.

Under the guidance of local craftsmen, the craftsmen of the agricultural machinery factory tried to assemble the tractor with the diesel engine sent from the local area, plus the chassis and tires produced by Xintianfu.

As soon as Zhu Jingyuan came in, the craftsmen here immediately stopped and stood up and saluted together.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately returned the salute with a smile and let the craftsmen continue to be busy.

Then he leaned over, looked at a few tractors in half, and asked about the current situation:

"How? Can the assembled machine run? ”

The craftsman in charge of the assembly immediately replied:

"I can run, it's a little bit of a problem, and I still need to continue to debug ......"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately continued to ask:

"Can you go straight to the ground now to harvest and plough the fields?"

Here the craftsman said casually:

"Yes, we can, but we have to be on the scene and ready to deal with emergencies."

Niu Jian, who was following Zhu Jingyuan, seemed to think of something:

"Your Highness, if you want to go to the field to show the machine, it is best to wait for the commissioning to be basically fine, or use the debugged sample machine brought from the local area.

"Otherwise, if there are frequent problems at the exhibition site, it may leave a bad impression on the people."

Zhu Jingyuan really wanted to go out and show off the new machine.

Xintianfu is now in the busy season for farming, and it is planting corn and then ploughing the field to grow wheat, which is just right for display.

Niu Jian's reminder does make sense.

Although Xintianfu is theoretically a corporatized operation, all the people are employees of Huangzhuang.

Whether to switch to a new machine or not is decided by the management team of Huangzhuang, not by the people themselves.

However, if the users of the machine are still ordinary people, if they do not have a good impression of the machine, their enthusiasm for work may be affected.

Zhu Jingyuan bowed his head lightly and said:

"Mr. Niu is right, the display and promotion should be done as much as possible when the machine is mature.

"Then let's continue to debug and assemble the machine, and I'll practice with the sample machine first......"

Lin Zexu and Niu Jian were taken aback:

"Your Highness, you want to show the tractor yourself?"

Zhu Jingyuan said as a matter of course:

"It is true that we want to show ourselves that agriculture is the foundation of the country, and we cannot pay too much attention to it.

"The emperors of all dynasties have to plough the fields themselves, and it is normal for me, the prince, to plow the fields."

The two staff members suddenly realized in their hearts that this was indeed the truth.

Even though the degree of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty is getting higher and higher, the importance of agriculture has not decreased.

Ordinary people, no matter how big they are, no matter how rich their families are, they are accustomed to saying that they are farmers.

Zhuge Liang also cultivated Longmu, and when a farmer farmed, he could be regarded as a recluse.

Every year on the second day of February, the emperor would take hundreds of civil and military officials to plough the fields.

No one thinks that farming is a bad thing, and no one thinks that farming is a lowly profession.

In Zhu Jingyuan's last life, it was the impact of Western business culture that changed and even destroyed this cognition.

At present, this perception is still the logic of course.

It's just that I've started to industrialize a little, and I'm going to replace ploughing cattle and ploughing horses with tractors, but the essential purpose is to plough the land.

Just like the film equipment that Zhu Jingyuan put out, it was first taken to record a lecture on the book of the Ministry of Rites.