My father is Jiajing

Chapter 273 Introduction to Prince Yu's Architecture

It's time to show some real skills!

Zhang Tianci, who was commissioned by Zhu Zaigui and followed Zhu Zaigui's advice and guidance, spent a month of hard investigation and re-drawing. He finally came up with the first phase of the capital expansion plan that was about to start construction.

Zhu Zaigui was filled with emotion as he looked at the complete drawings of the first phase of the capital expansion project, which were several hundred sheets of rice paper thick.

Zhu Zaigui praised Zhang Tianci, who already had panda eyes, "You have made a great contribution this time! When the first phase of the project is completed, I will definitely recommend you for the credit!"

Zhu Zaigui unceremoniously painted another big pie for Zhang Tianci.

Although Zhang Tianci had panda eyes, he still responded energetically, "I can contribute this little bit to the expansion of the capital, even if I die, it is worth it!"

When Zhu Zaigui heard what Zhang Tianci said, he burst out laughing.

This Zhang Tianci is really good at talking.

Being able to participate in such a major project will certainly make you famous in history, especially since this is the outer city project of the Ming Dynasty capital. This kind of project only happens once every few hundred years, and not every person responsible for drawing the design can leave their name in history.

But this time Zhu Zaigui gave Zhang Tianci an extremely glorious promise.

Zhu Zaigui promised that as long as the expansion project of the capital could be completed, he would petition the emperor to erect a stone tablet under the main gate of the newly completed outer city of the capital, and write the names of all the important people involved in the project on it so that they could all be remembered forever.

Let future generations know that they were also the heroes who contributed to the construction and development of this great city throughout the ages.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui's move was able to firmly grasp the hearts of these people, making them extremely willing to make the greatest effort for this matter and come up with the most perfect plan.

Zhu Zaigui looked at one of the floor plans of the first phase of the capital's construction and said with emotion: "This picture is so well drawn. If this can come true, it will be a great city that will attract worldwide attention and be passed down through the ages!"

Zhu Zaigui's words immediately resonated with Zhang Tianci. When Zhang Tianci was asked by Zhu Zaigui to make this design, Zhang Tianci thought that all he had to do was to make some minor improvements based on the work of his predecessors, so that the city's defense could be a little better than before.

However, as soon as this idea was expressed, it was directly overturned by Zhu Zaigui.

Zhu Zaigui said to Zhang Tianci at the time: "The intensity of future wars will exceed everything you and I know now. Now we think we can build a strong city that can withstand a million troops, and think that as long as the city walls are built high and thick enough, we can withstand all attacks. In fact, this is the way to death, which is no different from building a huge tomb.

"Because at some point in the future, the power of a bomb may raze a city of dozens of miles to the ground, and hundreds of thousands of people will disappear in an instant!"

"So I think that future city construction should be developed in the direction of cities. The first thing to consider should be livability, and then defensiveness."

"But don't underestimate this secondly, because in the future, as long as the cities are not attacked by weapons that destroy the world, they can build layers of fortifications with houses that are like a forest of steel. Even if a million troops want to attack them, they will have to pay an extremely painful price to be able to capture some cities."

"Therefore, the future construction of the capital will be a brand-new architectural concept, and brick-and-wood structure buildings may no longer be the mainstream in the future. Therefore, the outer city of the capital is a pioneering and innovative feat and an epoch-making architectural upgrade!"

Although Zhang Tianci was somewhat excited when listening to this, he still could not understand what Zhu Zaigui meant. Because the architectural style of brick and wood structure has been passed down for thousands of years, how could it change so easily?
Although it is difficult to find the giant trees from ancient times to make giant pillars and roofs in the Central Plains today, there are still many giant trees that can be used in Yunnan and Guizhou.

As long as the court needed it, couldn't these huge trees be cut down by manpower, pushed into the mighty river, made to flow out of the deep mountains and valleys, and then transported to the capital for use?

However, this view was also overturned by Prince Yu.

Zhu Zaigui said: "Although there are many giant trees, the giant trees in our Chinese land have been almost destroyed by our ancestors over thousands of years. If we don't protect them and change the architectural style, we will still have to use various giant trees as the main building materials to make those exquisite double-eaved hip roofs. These are very beautiful and majestic, but these wooden buildings will be destroyed by fire."

"From ancient times to the present, there have been many dynasties, Qin, Han, Tang and Song, but which imperial capital has survived? Which one of them was not destroyed by war or man-made disasters? Since the Ming Dynasty is pioneering and innovative, we must create architectural concepts that are different from those of the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and re-conceive and design a new architectural style that can influence hundreds or even thousands of years, so that it can complement the ancient buildings and shine in their own way!"

"Moreover, after thousands of years of uncontrolled logging, the old Chang'an is now covered with loess, and no longer has the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties. At the same time, because the Yellow River is rushing down from there, it directly brings the loess and silt that has lost the vegetation to the river. Gradually, the silt in the Yellow River has become a disaster, not only raising the riverbed, but also repeatedly bursting the dike, killing the people on both sides of the river."

“So, what we need to do now is not just to change the way of architecture, but to explore new ways of harmony between man and nature for future generations!”

Zhu Zaigui's proposal was elevated to a higher level, which gave Zhang Tianci a sense of honor and courage to blaze new trails. He thought he could become the master who could change the world by changing the way of architecture.

Zhang Tianci listened to what Zhu Zaigui had just said, and excitedly recalled what Zhu Zaigui had said before.

He replied excitedly: "Your Majesty, as long as the building materials you mentioned can be successfully produced, all of my ideas can come true!"

Zhu Zaiqi smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have already asked someone to test it, and there should be results soon. In addition, in order to cooperate with your new design, I have also changed the general construction ideas."

"The first project for the expansion of the capital this time is the construction of the capital's underground drainage system and some pipeline line systems to be reserved for the future. Even if the ground project is to be started, it will take a year or so. So, you don't have to worry about not being able to use your design, because I will make it come true."

To be honest, Zhang Tianci only had a vague understanding of Zhu Zaigui's answer.

He knew about drainage, and in order to understand this knowledge, Zhang Tianci also made up for it by studying some architectural knowledge of Quanzhou and gaining a detailed understanding of the drainage engineering construction in the Song Dynasty.

But he couldn't understand what Zhu Zaigui said about the reserved construction of pipeline and line systems. Could it be that there will be pipelines and lines that can be buried underground in the future? But what are the uses of these pipelines? What are the uses of these lines?

Is it some kind of mechanical trick that he hasn't understood yet?
Zhang Tianci was very confused about this, but it didn’t matter!

What’s important is that he has to reserve all these spaces and leave behind drawings and information for future construction to prevent future generations from digging around when rebuilding the capital.

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