Zhu Houzhao does not know the history of urban planning in the world, but he believes that it must have been relatively early in the world to set up official planning institutions and intervene in urban development in this era.

The basic role of urban planning includes beautifying the urban environment, improving the living environment, promoting the fairness of urban public functions, and of course, promoting the sustainable and healthy development of the urban economy.

The benefits are obvious, but they must be done.

So the real test of this matter is Song Heng.

Of course, he himself was happy to accept the position of the Beijing Division Planning Department.

Since the reign of Emperor Zhengde, summoning officials and giving special tasks like this has been a symbolic action, and everyone didn't understand it on the first day, but by this time Song Heng himself understood.

Well done, the future is limitless. Jiuqing is not impossible.

If you can't do it well, you can only clean up your so-called talent and roll into the corner and say some sour things that you don't meet.

In fact, if you can have this beginning, it means that the emperor has noticed you. At the beginning, Zhang Tianrui, Gu Zuo, and even Yang Yiqing were all like this.

So Song Heng was very excited about this.

Although he is not a person who pays much attention to fame and fortune, a person always has the urge to do something to achieve his ambitions.

All night after leaving the palace, he threw himself into this matter, and immediately found two friends, and the room was also full of materials borrowed or bought from other places, and by the faint light of the candles, they discussed and discussed together, at least they had to have an eyebrow first.

According to the general logic of doing things, although the emperor gave you this task, it does not mean that you will start moving immediately tomorrow, the key is how to move, where to move, and what is the plan?

These must also form a thing, give it to the emperor to see, and if you nod your head, okay, then implement it accordingly.

So Song Heng and his two friends are studying such a thing, and their current state is a bit like young people who start a garage business, and the potential of people when they are discovering treasures is unlimited, even in the middle of the night, they are also in good spirits.

The two people Song Heng found, one named Song Yue, was actually his younger brother, who did not have the status of a jinshi, he was a lifter, and he had been living here for the past two years for the imperial examination, so that he could go back to their hometown of Shaanxi.

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Another person is named Zhang Chi, who is a colleague with him in Shaofu, and because of his similar temper, he has become a close friend who talks about everything.

Song Heng met the emperor and brought back the official body of the director of the planning department, which actually encouraged the two of them, so Song Heng asked them to help, and the two of them helped without saying a word.

Once they made a difference in this matter, it would be a matter of course for them to enter the emperor's field of vision.

Song Heng was the oldest, but less than thirty, with a short beard, and he pointed to this pile of ancient books and all kinds of materials, and proposed: "Song Yue, Brother Zhang, I remember that Your Majesty mentioned the term functional area, that is, the distinction between business and residence, so our results should also reflect this." Besides, there's so much stuff out there, should we paint it as an image? In this way, His Majesty can see it at a glance. ”

When the clan brother said this, Song Yue understood.

Because although the imperial examination has not yet been fully completed, his painting skills are actually very good.

"Then I'll take the pen. The view in the city is not complicated. ”

Zhang Chi nodded, "It's a good way to draw on paper, but if you want to draw a big city like Jingshi, you have to have a few feet of paper." ”

"It's okay, I'll ask someone to find it at dawn. Besides, what to draw in the specific place, we also have to agree before putting the pen, otherwise how to change it halfway through the drawing? ”

Not bad, the other two nodded.

But to get to the point.

“…… Although I don't know why His Majesty had the idea of planning a capital division. But once it really starts to be implemented, the reasonable distribution of functional areas is a consideration, and we as Shaofu officials should all understand that the most important consideration is actually silver, which must be recovered when spent. Your Majesty's temperament, it is not enough to simply spend money. ”

Zhang Chi was talking, and Song Heng listened quite seriously, his friend had been in Shaofu for a longer time, and he understood the word economy more deeply.

"Since we want to take it back, Brother Song, when we make plans, we must remember to leave blanks."

Song Heng raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?" ”

"According to His Majesty's wishes, only commercial buildings are planned in the commercial area, and merchants and ordinary people gather here, and the income such as rent will naturally rise, in contrast, the residential area does not have such conditions. That is to say......"

Zhang Chi raised his eyes, "Just as the west city is good and the south city is bad now, the new city area that will be expanded in the future will actually have a good or bad difference." And in the good functional area, we must pay attention to the blank space, so that in the future, these places will be hard to find, and the silver spent by the imperial court can be recovered. So ......"

He pointed to the area around the city that never sleeps, "It seems that the periphery of the city that never sleeps is going to be vacated and sold at a price." Under the Zhengyang Gate, a concentrated shed was built near the water and clouds, and it was also necessary to demolish it and sell the vacant land to powerful merchants. Brother Song, can you report to Your Majesty the meaning of 'land sale'? ”

Song Heng could fully understand what he meant, because they had already discussed this issue in the Shaofu before.

"Looking for an opportunity, I will report to Your Majesty." Song Heng said on the street: "My idea, no matter how the Jingshi is planned, it still has to meet two basic functions, one of which is to let the people who enter the city have enough houses to live, so the residential area should also be well planned, so that people from other places can see that the Jingshi is worthy of being the first good place, so that when Your Majesty will go out of the palace in the future, you can recognize our achievements." ”

"The second function is business. Shaofu invested a lot of silver to build the city that never sleeps, so the business can not get out of the city that never sleeps, the street to the south outside the Zhengyang Gate, the people are also used to playing here, so I think that this can be used as a basis to expand and rebuild the north-south street, along the street are shops, and the back of the shops is planned as a house and courtyard for living. It's distributed like a chessboard, and it's good to go out to the market? ”

"Good is good." Song Yue was puzzled, "It's just that, aren't those houses enough for many people to live in?" Or build it denser? ”

"It can't be dense." Zhang Chi resolutely rejected this proposal, "The gathering of too many poor people will hurt the value of the city that never sleeps as a commercial area, so the courtyard in this vicinity should be large and wide, and it is close to the imperial city, too dense and not safe enough." Dedicated residential areas, or a little further away. ”

"And the question of the silver." Song Heng copied his hand, "There must be a house that is enough for many people to live in, and this amount of money is not a small number." ”

Zhang Chi stood up deeply, frowning and pacing, and for a moment he suddenly thought of something, "Can you let the people build their own houses at their own expense?" The court only needs to set aside a vacant land and guide the people to build it. ”

"How is this going to be guided?"

Zhang Chi slapped his palms, "The way depends on people's thinking." Most of the people who go to the city to work today do not want to work all their lives, and their main goal is to provide for their children to go to private schools and take the road of imperial examinations in the future. In fact, the problem of private schools itself is becoming more and more prominent, yes, that's it! Attract with a private school. ”

Zhang Chi said more and more energetically, "In the concentrated residential area, the imperial court can build some private schools in a scattered manner, and each private school only recruits students to study nearby, so that the investment of the imperial court will be greatly reduced, and the vacant land next to the private school only collects a small amount of money for the construction of private schools, and then those vacant land is handed over to the people to build their own houses." ”

"Nope." Song Heng shook his head, "Many people don't have that much silver. And the houses made by different people must be different, and they will still be very messy at that time. ”

"It's feasible, Brother Song, you believe me. Only in this way can those who live in a concentrated area take the initiative to disperse, otherwise who would want to build a house by themselves? The imperial court did not have enough money to build so many dwellings at once. ”

Song Heng thought for a while, "Then this will be an option to be determined, and wait for His Majesty to report to His Majesty to see what His Majesty means." ”

Song Yue interjected, "Brother clan, in fact, this method is good. I think Your Majesty will agree, and this will save a lot of money on the construction cost. ”

"Good. But after all, I have to report to Your Majesty. What about the other issues? ”

Zhang Chi shook his head, "I don't have it for the time being." ”

"Okay." Song Heng pulled out a piece of paper, "Your Majesty actually mentioned another word, let's discuss it together and see where this functional area is more appropriate." ”

"What's that?" Both of them were curious.

I saw Song Heng write two words on the paper: industry.