In the next few days, Zhu Jingyuan, Zhu Jianyan, and Zhu Zhongliang's ancestors and grandsons, on the basis of the plan of the Royal Engineering Company and the Ministry of Construction, selected and discussed the final plan for the new palace and office building.

The office building can't be conjoined because the scale of the target is too large, and if a conjoined building were built, it could become a huge wall that is formally divided.

Therefore, it is still necessary to build a number of scattered high-rise office buildings on the east, south and west sides of Fengtian Palace, Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall according to functional divisions.

At the same time, the Royal Engineering Company exchanged the survey data with the Ministry of Construction, and the two sides began to draw formal construction engineering drawings.

At the same time, around the location and scope of the royal palace and the office building of the Central Government Office, the construction plan for the entire new administrative center began to be formulated.

There should be a place where the clan of the neighborhood lived, and a place where officials at all levels of the central government office lived.

There are also various facilities that provide basic living services for them and their families.

It includes infrastructure such as power supply and water supply, support facilities such as schools and hospitals, as well as living facilities such as shopping malls and parks.

At the same time as moving the capital, it was necessary to impose new restrictions and guarantees on the living standards of the clans, nobles, and bureaucrats.

It's the equivalent of rebuilding a city, which is also a big project.

Even with the engineering construction capacity of this era, it is estimated that it will take several years to complete.

In 1957, Brazilians rebuilt the capital city of Brasilia on the Brazilian plateau, in a period of more than three years.

Compared with Brasilia, Jiangpu County itself has the best industrial base and the most complete facilities.

The pace of construction of the new capital of the Ming Dynasty will certainly be faster than that of Brazilians in the fifties and sixties.

But the size of the new capital of the Ming Dynasty will also be larger than that of Brasilia.

Because this is the capital of a super-empire that controls two-thirds of the world's land and more than 800 million people.

Zhu Jingyuan personally estimates that it can be completed within three years, which can be regarded as relatively fast.

On the morning of June 16, the revised inheritance tax and gift tax laws were again submitted to the emperor for preview.

After the emperor's imperial approval and seal, it was officially finalized and determined to be officially implemented on the first day of the first month of the twelfth year of Ankang.

After the matter of the revision of the tax law was decided, Zhu Jianyan specially issued an order to Zhu Jingyuan, the political envoy of Jianghuai:

"Cooperate with the construction of the new palace, start as soon as possible and do a good job in the demolition and relocation of the people in the area involved in the Jiangpu County project."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately came out of the queue and agreed, and at the same time, he put forward a small suggestion along this stubble:

"Father Qi, Jiangpu County, where the new palace is located, is already located on the westernmost border of Yingtianfu's jurisdiction.

Erchen suggested that Chuzhou and the two counties of Lai'an and Quanjiao under its jurisdiction, and the three counties of Dangtu, Wuhu and Fanchang under the jurisdiction of Chuzhou and Hanshan County under its jurisdiction, and the three counties of Dangtu, Wuhu and Fanchang under the jurisdiction of Taiping Mansion could be revoked and placed under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu in the form of counties.

"These eight prefectures and counties can serve as a barrier to the west of Yingtianfu, and can also drive the construction of the Jiangbei region with Jiangpu as the center.

"Now that there are roads, railways, telegraphs, telephones, and airplanes, the prefecture-level yamen now have the ability to directly administer counties that are more distant and more numerous."

Zhu Jingyuan's actual purpose was to strengthen the Beijing division in the future and increase the scale of the jurisdiction.

It is also to guide the cross-river development of the central urban area of Yingtianfu, and gradually build a cross-river city from a city in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the future, the construction of Tianfu urban area should be expanded along the Yangtze River to the upper and lower reaches.

At the same time, this is also a further adjustment of the existing grassroots administrative divisions.

Zhu Jingyuan is ready to gradually abolish most of the states.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, in most cases, the state between the prefecture and the county is no longer of much significance.

There are two kinds of states in Daming, Zhili Prefecture and Sanzhou.

The meaning of Zhili Prefecture is directly subordinate to the Department of Political Envoys, and Zhizhou is the direct subordinate of the Political Envoys.

Sanzhou is subordinate to the prefecture, and the prefecture is subordinate to the prefect.

It is possible to have multiple counties under the jurisdiction of both Zhili Prefecture and Sanzhou, but the number is usually small.

Regardless of whether it is Zhili Prefecture or Sanzhou, there is no attached Guo County.

While administering the counties under the jurisdiction of the state, the governor is also the parent official of the city where the state is located.

The status of Zhili Prefecture is that of a small-scale independent province.

The status of Sanzhou is that it is the "deputy government" that governs a few counties for the government.

The reason for their existence is that in a relatively remote or isolated area, where it is difficult for the official government to directly govern the area, a middle-level state is established to administer the area.

There are usually more counties under the jurisdiction of the prefecture, usually more than five or six, or even a dozen.

There are usually very few counties under the jurisdiction of a state, usually two or three.

The existence of the state is of practical significance.

However, with the development of science and technology, transportation is becoming more and more convenient, and communication efficiency is getting higher and higher.

Many isolated and remote states have been able to be placed under the direct jurisdiction of the government.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, this type of state can already be revoked.

However, the administrative division itself at the state level should not be directly abolished, but its functions should be slightly adjusted.

It can be transformed into the status of a county-level city in later generations.

For counties with a larger population and a higher degree of development, they will be upgraded to states, but they will no longer be under the jurisdiction of other county seats.

This process should be slow, starting with the province of Jianghuai that you manage.

Zhu Jianyan knew Zhu Jingyuan's purpose.

After a little thought about it on the spot, it gave a response that could be tried.

He also instructed the corresponding departments to cooperate with the examination and approval and make appropriate arrangements for the removed officials.

As for the specific readjustment work at the local management level, it is the job of Zhu Jingyuan, the political envoy of Jianghuai.

This adjustment directly abolished one prefecture and two prefectures, and a group of officials from the fourth to sixth grades had to move to other places.

In modern times, it is equivalent to abolishing one prefecture-level city and two regions, and merging eight counties into another prefecture-level city.

This was a great deal for the local bureaucrats, but it was a word for the emperor.

For the relevant bureaucrats of the central court, it was only considered that such an adjustment of administrative divisions would make the already powerful Ying Tianfu expand again.

Although the increase is in the Jiangbei area, it is relatively not particularly wealthy in the local view.

But after all, it is also the territory of Jianghuai Province, and it is a good place compared to other provinces.

However, in the end, none of these officials who had a small law in their hearts came forward to speak.

The officials of several state capitals have changed places, and it is not necessarily impossible to change to a good place, and Prince Dashi has always been generous.

The point is that no one will contradict the emperor and the prince of Dashi on such a non-important issue.

So that's it.

After the early dynasty, after Zhu Jingyuan returned to his office yamen, he asked his secretary to call the prefect of Yingtianfu, the prefect of Jiangpu County, and the treasurer of the government-run engineering construction company of Yingtianfu, and go to the yamen of the political envoy at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to hold a meeting.

Jiangpu County is not a no-man's land, nor is it an old city of Jingshi that was taken over from the enemy.

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to build a new capital here, a completely independent central imperial court administrative region.

Maintaining the isolation of the administrative districts from the rest of the urban functional areas would necessitate the relocation of ordinary people living in the predetermined new capital areas.

The scope of Jiangpu County's jurisdiction is basically the Pukou District of Nanjing in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, with a total area of more than 900 square kilometers.

Zhu Jingyuan's goal is not the entire Jiangpu County, and the new capital administrative area does not need such a large area.

The area of the old city of Suncheonfu is just over 100 square kilometers in total.

There are no buildings with more than six floors in the old city of Suncheonfu, and there are still a large number of clans and high-ranking nobles living in the city, which can still meet all the needs of the central government office for the time being.

The height of the office buildings and residential areas used in the new capital area is now planned to be 20 floors.

If all the existing residents of the old city of Suncheon are directly moved, the land area directly occupied by the new capital administrative area should be greatly reduced by several times.

Zhu Jingyuan, considering the expansion of the scale of the imperial court in the future and the need to continue to improve the work and life security level of senior officials, still prepared to set aside about 100 square kilometers of flat land as the construction land for the new capital.

The old mountains in the central and western part of Jiangpu County are in the northeast and southwest direction as a whole, and the Yangtze River in this section is also in the northeast and southwest direction, but the angle of inclination is slightly different.

The area between this group of mountains and rivers is between four and ten kilometers wide and about eighteen kilometers long, and the overall shape is trapezoidal, with an area of almost 100 square kilometers.

Zhu Jingyuan's goal is this flat land between mountains and rivers.

On the northwest side of this flat land, the Laoshan mountain area with a total area of about 100 square kilometers was originally the forest farm of Huangzhuang.

Now is the right time to enclose this forest farm as a mountain forest farm behind the new royal palace.

Laoshan and the Yangtze River are the boundaries of this area.

The site of the new palace and office building is located in the middle of the southeast foot of the old mountain, which is exactly the middle of this area.

It also happens to be the old town of Jiangpu County, the largest population gathering area in the region.

If a new city and a palace are to be built here, these people will have to move away.

Fortunately for Bijie, the old town of Jiangpu County is not the most populous place in Jiangpu County.

The northeasternmost corner of Jiangpu County, the Jiangbei area north of Pukou, is the Jiangbei New Town planned by Tianfu.

Because the first Yingtian Yangtze River Bridge invested and built by the imperial court was placed here.

North-south highways and railways also pass through here.

It is natural that it has become a key emerging urban area in Jiangpu County.

With continuous construction in the last decade, this area has become the most densely populated place in Jiangpu County.

Zhu Jingyuan naturally chose to continue to retain this new development zone in Jiangbei.

Then move the population of the old town of Jiangpu County here.

This kind of natural plan is in line with the migration tendency of most people in the old town of Jiangpu County, and the work will be better.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the three people Zhu Jingyuan was looking for arrived on time.

When Zhu Jingyuan received the news, he didn't let them continue to wait, and directly let them into the conference room.

Zhu Jingyuan first told the prefect of Yingtianfu the news of the adjustment of the division of Yingtianfu, let him know what was going on, and take over the affairs of the other eight counties as soon as possible.

The number of counties under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Mansion suddenly changed from seven to fifteen.

Moreover, two of the original seven were attached to Guo County, and there were originally only five suburban counties, but this time they directly increased by eight.

Ying Tian's prefect was taken aback by this news, but was soon shocked by the new news.

Zhu Jingyuan explained to the three of them the planning and direction of Jiangpu County's migration.

Clearly told them that the land west and south of Puzikou in Jiangpu County would be assigned to the royal family and the central court in the future.

In the next six months to a year, all the people in this area will migrate to the new city of Jiangpu County.

The construction company is responsible for the construction of sufficient resettlement housing in the new town.

The magistrate is responsible for organizing people to publicize and implement, from the county seat to the townships below, so that the local people are ready to move in advance, and from now on, they will not engage in any construction.

If there is a problem that the two can't solve, they will go to the prefect to be responsible for coordination.

The prefect can't solve it and come back to him.

Although this work was given to him by his father, he could only hand it over to the prefect and the prefect.

Zhu Jingyuan still has a lot of work on his hands, and it is impossible to do everything himself, which is also the role of the bureaucracy.

Ying Tianfu prefect, Jiangpu County prefect, Ying Tianfu Engineering Construction Company shopkeeper three people, heard before that the emperor was going to build a new palace under the old mountain in Jiangpu County.

Originally, they were all very happy, and they were all quite entangled.

With the emperor's palace at the foot of the old mountain, it will definitely attract more people to invest in construction and settle in the old city of Jiangpu County.

But now the area they are focusing on is the new urban area.

Now, it's true that the palace will be built here, but the scope of the construction is beyond what they thought.

All south of the new city was requisitioned by the emperor......

The three of them had nothing to say, and honestly agreed, saying that they would do a good job in the demolition work.

After the three of them received the order, they did not stop in Yingtianfu and went directly to Jiangpu County together.

For Zhu Jingyuan, in addition to demolition, there are equally important things to do.

But for the three of them, cooperating with the construction of the emperor's palace and preparing for demolition are the most important things.

The prefect of Tianfu directly moved his yamen to Jiangpu County temporarily, and he would not go back until he finished this work.

The prefect and the prefect directly granted land to the construction company and asked them to immediately organize manpower to start construction and build the building.

The construction company immediately went to make bank loans to buy more equipment and materials.

While directly recruiting more workers and craftsmen to work, we are trying to acquire residential projects under construction.

There is no design to speak of in this part of the demolished house, all of which are the most mature and typical building types at present, and the existing typical drawings are directly used for construction.

Under the impetus of the two-level yamen and official engineering companies, the construction speed of the Yingtianjiang North New Area has soared unprecedentedly.

On the other hand, the Royal Engineering Company also acted quickly.

The new main hall and side hall that are planned, as well as the office building of the Central Government Office, are basically in the northern area of the old city of Jiangpu County.

There are some large settlements that cannot be built until the locals have moved out.

However, the site of the harem area of the new palace is at the foot of the old mountain, which was originally a royal forest farm and has no residents, and now the construction can be started directly.

Where dams and hydropower stations are to be built, they are also in the forest farm, and they can be started directly.

Although the official construction drawings have not yet been released, the site preparation before construction can be started in advance.

The infrastructure of the entire new city can also be sorted out in advance.

In addition, various materials and equipment needed for the construction of the project began to be continuously transported by train and cargo ships.

At the same time, the Royal Engineering Company cooperated with Jiangpu County to organize manpower to start demolishing the city wall of the old city of Jiangpu County.

The work that can be done now is done in advance, and the work that can only be started later is not prepared.

In this way, driven by the power of the highest level of the Ming Dynasty, all projects are advancing at an astonishing speed.

By the end of the 11th year of Ankang, just over five months had passed since the start of construction, and the demolition houses for the residents of the old city of Jiangpu County had been completed, and the unified basic decoration had been completed, and they could move in with furniture.

Residents of the old city of Jiangpu County began to gradually migrate to the new city after the Lantern Festival in Ankang for 12 years.

The price of houses in Daming is not high, and there is no tradition of "demolition and relocation".

Now the imperial court is changing a new house of a similar size for free, and the location is still in the most popular Jiangbei New Town, plus a subsidy for the purchase of new furniture and electrical appliances, most of the people in Jiangpu County are happy to move.

A small number of people who are difficult to leave their homeland cannot withstand the soft grinding and hard bubbles from the town mayor to the prefect to the prefect yamen and the suppression of traditional imperial power.

After all, this is the project of the emperor himself, and the opposition of individual people is meaningless at all.

At the same time, because it is a project that the emperor himself is directly concerned about, although the ordinary people involved did not get rich by demolition, they did not suffer a loss, and they changed their new houses and new furniture for free.

As soon as the residents of the city left, the construction team immediately followed into the city and began to demolish the buildings that were hindering the construction.

At the same time, new inheritance and gift tax laws were officially introduced.

After the end of the New Year's leave, the registration of the change of asset ownership, which has been suspended for more than half a year, will be restarted.

However, the corresponding inheritance and gift taxes will also be strictly collected at the same time.

The relevant personnel of the Gusu Qianzhuang incident, who had been imprisoned for more than half a year, were also released after the Lantern Festival.

Mr. Liu and Mr. Wang admitted that last year's wedding was a tax avoidance.

The equity transaction procedures were re-handled in accordance with the normal procedures, and the tax payable was paid in accordance with the normal standards.

(End of chapter)