Coming out of the Wuli Temple, you can see the tall city wall of the central capital in front of you.

"This, this is not five miles, two, two miles to support the sky." The second brother commented.

As a result, the brothers walked a full five miles along the city wall before they reached the nearest Nanzuojia Gate.

"Originally, it turned out to be such a five-mile." The second brother was stunned.

"Let's go into town." Zhu Di looked at him with a caring eye for mentally handicapped children.

After talking about Zhongdu, the fourth child calmed down a lot. I don't know if I have become a horn and have idol baggage. Still touched by something.

The guards at the gate of Zhongdu City were extremely strict, but all pedestrians and merchants who entered and exited had to show directions, and they had to be strictly searched and their luggage and goods carefully checked.

If there is a problem, he will be directly arrested and put in prison, and then interrogated, convicted, and sent to the construction site to serve in a dragon.

"Milk, grandma's, stricter than Nanjing." After entering the city, the second brother, who was brutally touched all over his body, muttered in a low voice.

The fourth child couldn't comment on this, because he didn't know what it was like to enter and leave Nanjing.

But he knew why the third and sixth children didn't come, and they even checked that place......

Soon, the slightly messy mood of the two was shocked by the magnificent scene in front of them.

How magnificent is the middle capital? Let's put it this way, its design combines the advantages of Bianliang and Yuan Dadu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Bianliang was the most prosperous and elegant capital in those hundreds of years, and a picture of the Qingming River is enough to explain everything.

The outline of the Yuan capital is as square as a chessboard, the roads are distinct, and the blocks are straight and regular, making the urban pattern appear extraordinarily spectacular.

Zhu Yuanzhang holds the belief of building a capital for all generations, not only the prosperity and elegance of Bianliang, but also the grandeur of the Yuan capital.

And he must surpass in both aspects, so that he is worthy of expelling the Tartars and restoring the Great Ming Dynasty of China!

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Of course, with the exception of the Imperial Palace, most of those grand buildings have not yet been completed, and many of them have only laid a foundation. At present, I can only feel the grandeur of the middle capital, and as for the richness and prosperity, I have to rely on imagination.

But it's not just imagination. In front of the unfinished bell tower, Zhu Fan and Zhu Di saw the newly cast Hongwu bronze bell, which is the best proof!

The Hongwu bell is 16 feet high and 5 inches, 6 inches thick, 10 feet in diameter and 5 inches, and 34 feet in circumference. In terms of the dimensions of later generations, it is as high as five meters one and two, and the diameter is three meters and six three. It weighs hundreds of tons.

In winter, the bronze bell is piled up with soil to form a slope as high as the bell tower, and then splashed with water to turn the slope into ice, and then the workers use manpower and animal power to pull it up little by little.

When the two arrived, it was just in time for the hoisting of the bell to be completed, and the craftsmen were making the final adjustments.

Suddenly, the worker struck it with a bell mallet, and the huge Hongwu bell emitted a sound of 'faint Khotan, thunder and lightning, shocking too void, and those who heard it were not stunned', and the brothers were dazzled.

In the huge shock, Zhu Di couldn't help muttering: "The husband should be like this." ”

"Why, what, in the future, you will also cast, cast a big bell?" Zhu Fan asked when he heard this. In fact, he also likes this bell tower very much, and is thinking about building one after the feudal lord.

"Just kidding, can this thing be forged?" Zhu Di shook his head when he heard this: "I just sighed at the greatness of Emperor Hongwu." ”

"The bell can't be cast ......," Zhu Fan remembered. The heart said, then I don't have a bell tower to build a bell, isn't it a problem?

I'm really smart......

After admiring the bell, the two walked along the straight avenue in the city.

In fact, the current Zhongdu City is really only suitable for a distant view, not a close view. Because up close, it's a big construction site!

And it is full of stench, fishy, construction waste, domestic garbage, human and animal feces...... The dirty construction site.

In the entire Zhongdu City, there are nearly 300,000 craftsmen and people, under the supervision of the wolf-like officers and soldiers, who are constantly carrying out heavy labor.

All they saw was unkempt and ragged men, carrying heavy loads of wood and stone from the yard to the construction site. If you move slowly, the overseer's whip will fall mercilessly.

The topless stonemasons sweated like rain and held big hammers, clanging to gouge holes for huge stones. This is not only a hard work, but also a technical work, and the slightest carelessness will chisel a stone off. At the worst, he was severely beaten by the overseer, and at worst, he was dragged to beheaded.

There are also those who rammed, built walls, dug trenches, and erected beams...... Countless craftsmen and people, under the high pressure of the overseers and officers and soldiers, are like a group of submissive ants, performing their duties in obscurity.

Zhu Fan and Zhu Di looked at it all the way, and the biggest feeling was that everyone was extremely tired. Even the officers and soldiers and the overseers were so tired that they couldn't speak, and they seemed to have no expression in their expressions, so they could only muster up their strength and whip them......

The skinny craftsmen and folk husbands were so tired that their backs were stiff and their personalities were so tired that they lost their personality under the high-intensity labor.

They eat, drink, and defecate on the construction site, and they also defecate on the street, which makes the construction site and the street full of foul smells......

The dirty, humid and hot environment breeds an overwhelming number of mosquitoes and flies, which spread diseases wantonly.

Many craftsmen and folk men are visibly sick. In the shade of the wall, there are many dying patients......

Without a doctor to treat them, the government left them to fend for themselves. Many people just died quietly.

After their death, there will be a special corpse collection team, which will roll their bodies in a straw mat and pull them to the transformation field to burn them.

In this way, the corpse collection team does not come every day. The brothers saw with their own eyes that there were several highly decomposed corpses lying on the side of the road.

Fortunately, they grew up in the barracks, and if they were to change the sixth child here, they would have to vomit out all their bitter gall.

What made the two even more unbelievable was that the abuse of the people and craftsmen by the officers and soldiers and the overseers had reached the point of disregarding human life.

They saw with their own eyes that a group of miscellaneous officials, surrounded by a young high-ranking official in a scarlet robe, were inspecting the construction site of the future Zhongshu Province.

As a result, there was a group of craftsmen who were found to be substandard in the quality of construction...... Although it is a high-quality project in any place, it is still classified as unqualified under the strict standards of Zhongdu.

The overseers whipped the construction team composed of six craftsmen and six craftsmen into human shapes.

The brothers thought that was the end of it. Unexpectedly, the young high-ranking officer whispered an order, and the officers and soldiers tied up the person and escorted him to the street.

Then the officers and soldiers drew their knives, clicked, and cut down the eight men.

The two brothers looked at the eight heads in shock, grunting and rolling on the ground. The rest of the people turned a blind eye to what to do.

Obviously, they have long been accustomed to such scenes.

After killing today's man, the young high-ranking official was about to ride away, when a human head rolled at his feet, and he flew up and kicked it away.

Then he got on the horse with a blank face, as if he had just kicked a ball.

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