Valley Emperor

Jinling New East City, a new urban area that has been newly developed in recent years, can be said to be completely different from the old city of Jinling.

The old city of Jinling looks like a traditional Chinese city. Although after years of continuous renovation, the appearance of the city has changed very well, but the layout of the buildings is still traditional.

But in the new east city, this urban area is different from the traditional city. First of all, this city has no city walls.

And this is probably the biggest difference from other cities, but the reason why there is no city wall is because of this.

First, Xindongcheng was not opened as an urban area at first. At the beginning, it was a wharf. Later, relying on this wharf, a large port area was built. Relying on port facilities and other buildings, many merchants settled in. A large number of enterprises have gathered, and in the end, a large number of state-owned enterprises have gathered together to build their headquarters here.

And this has led to the whole exhibition of the new Dongcheng!

Today, in fact, the overall size of the new east city is not much smaller than that of the old city. Even the resident population is nearly 100,000, and the old city is now only a population of more than 100,000.

The entire Jinling, the current resident population has reached more than 200,000.

This population size is actually not that big for the whole of China. After all, according to the latest survey and statistics of the Datang Household Department, the population of Datang is over 150 million, and this data does not include Ryukyu Prefecture, Lu For the natives of the Song Mansion, Banten Islands and other overseas territories, because the empire did not recognize the natives as the descendants of the Tang Dynasty, the statistical population generally only counts the descendants of the Tang Dynasty.

It has a population of over 150 million, and Jinling is currently the largest city in Datang, with a population of just over 200,000, which is actually not much.

But if you take into account the technological factors such as transportation in this era, there are more than 300,000 permanent residents living in a city, which is almost a terrible thing.

Although many history books record that ancient cities had a population of over one million, as long as anyone with basic common sense knows that this is impossible, this is just like the war in ancient times when there were millions of troops. Whoever believes is stupid!

The Tang Dynasty and the Ming army fought in the unification war for so many years, and the combined regular field armies of both sides did not exceed one million, and these people were still widely distributed throughout the country, and a large-scale battle was often There are tens of thousands of people, and most of them are basically just over a hundred thousand people on one side.

Among the many battles between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, the most massive ones should belong to the Northern Expedition and the Southwest Campaign, but in the Northern Expedition, the Tang army was only tens of thousands, and the Ming army was only 100,000.

In the Southwest Campaign, the Tang army numbered 100,000, and the Ming army was only 100,000!

A battle on a scale of hundreds of thousands has never happened, let alone a scale of over a million people.

The population of a certain place mentioned in the history books is hundreds of thousands or millions. In fact, most of them refer to the population of a certain administrative region, such as the capital of Tang Dynasty. In a sense, you can also say that it has a population of more than two million, but in reality On the other hand, the vast majority of the population lives in rural areas outside the cities.

Therefore, to say that Jinling, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, has a population of more than two million, it refers to the entire Chengtian Mansion, not just Jinling City!

Chen Lifu and the East and West Chen villages where they are located are the most typical examples. They are serious people from Jinling, but Dongchen Village and Xicun Chen Ke are both outside the city, more than a dozen miles away from the city.

Besides, if a person wants to live, it is impossible to have only one place to live, he has to eat!

Ordinary ancient people had to eat, either to farm or to work. Naturally, in the city, they did not expect to be able to farm. The scale of the city was so large that it was impossible to have too many fields.

If you don't farm, you need to buy food, and if you need money to buy food, you need to work!

So the question is, in an industry that is almost zero, and employment in the city basically depends on public affairs, services, commerce, and handicrafts, how many jobs can be provided?

Not much actually!

In addition to the factor of employment, there is also the issue of material supply!

A city, no matter what era it is, its living materials basically need to rely on external supplies, and let’s not talk about other things. The grain alone is a rather terrifying number, and it is limited by the grain output of this era. Due to low efficiency and low transportation efficiency, we want to rely on external input of food to maintain the consumption of millions of people.

That is almost impossible, and it is more than worth the loss!

Not to mention that the legendary ancient city can't do it, even the Jinling City under the rule of the Tang Dynasty can't do it!

Today's Jinling City can be said to have great advantages over ancient cities. First, as a political center and a commercial center, the business is quite good. At the same time, there are many factories, no matter whether it is a large factory or a small and medium-sized workshop. And so on, these are able to provide a large number of jobs.

In terms of material transportation, relying on the shipping of the Yangtze River and the water network in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also quite good. It can be said that almost the entire Zhili area's grain and other materials are concentrated in Jinling City.

In major areas such as ports and urban areas, there are also rail carriages as the core transportation force, while short-distance transportation at close distances involves a large number of freight carriages.

In terms of roads, the Tang Dynasty also vigorously displayed the cinder road, which I dare not say elsewhere, but in Jinling City and the surrounding areas, the exhibition of the cinder road is quite popular.

The number of various means of transport going to and from the city every day is quite large, even causing serious traffic jams. This situation is still based on the establishment of special traffic regulations in the Tang Dynasty. The main traffic intersections are patrolled by police vehicles and pedestrians. under traffic conditions.

It is almost unimaginable to maintain so many transport vehicles and people in and out of places without special traffic regulations and traffic commands.

In addition to the lack of trains and steam ships, in fact, the transportation system of Jinling City has reached the peak of traditional transportation capacity!

However, even so, it is difficult!

In fact, to some extent, the new Dongcheng District was gradually opened because the old city could not bear heavy responsibilities, and in order to ease traffic, there was no special city wall.

The headquarters of Datang Western Company is located in the easternmost part of Yanjiang Road in Xindongcheng District. Although the place is a bit remote, who made their company's exclusive wharf here?

And the headquarters building of this Datang Western Company is also quite peculiar, that is, the foreign style of this building is too strong 1

The headquarters of Datang Western Company is not the traditional building used by many institutions, nor the two- or three-story brick building used by many companies in recent years, but a new type of building!

This new type of architecture and traditional architecture, regardless of whether it is Chinese or Western, are obviously different. The biggest feature is that they are large, tall and square!

Many high-level people from Datang who are qualified to enter and leave the Royal Courtyard know that the headquarters building of Datang Western Company is basically built according to the Hanlin Building in the Royal Courtyard.

And the Hanlin Building, that is the architectural style designed by Li Xuan himself!

So, what are the new architectural styles of the Hanlin Building and the Datang Western Company?

Well, in fact, it is a boxy building that is particularly common in later generations!

And these two buildings are actually the earliest application of cement in the Tang Dynasty!

Last year, the Datang Royal Institute of Technology worked hard and finally figured out how to make cement out of lime. After this was done, people would naturally not hide it, and immediately authorized the patent to the Royal Assets Section. This special investment established a cement factory and began to formally produce cement.

But don't think that cement can be popularized like this, isn't it!

why?

Because it is expensive!

The cost of raw materials is actually the same. Although it is more expensive than quicklime, it is actually not too expensive, but the patent is expensive!

The Royal Institute of Technology is not a Kaishantang. It took so many years and countless funds to get this cement out, and the patent has a 20-year term. Naturally, they want to recover the cost within the patent period. Not to mention, and we have to make a fortune firmly, so that we can invest in subsequent research.

Therefore, in the current price of cement, one hundred taels of cement, raw materials, production and even transportation costs add up, in fact, at most, it is only a few taels, but what about the remaining money?

At least fifty taels of silver are taxes!

No way, the tax in the Tang Dynasty is so high, basically 50% of the price of any commodity is tax!

However, they do not collect taxes directly in the selling price, but in the various circulation links of the goods, and ordinary people do not notice it at all.

There are still more than 30 taels of silver, at least 20 taels of silver is the cost of the patent, and more than 10 taels of silver is the gross profit of the enterprise!

Well, this is actually not just cement, most other commodities are like this!

Of course, what is said here is just the essence. In fact, when companies calculate costs, they will include taxes, procurement costs, etc., and will not only calculate the actual value of the items themselves.

If you count them all, the cost of cement for 100 taels is more than 80 taels, and they only earn a gross profit of more than 10 taels, and they are not black.

In addition, as for the cost, it’s okay to say that the tax is calculated according to the proportion, but the royalties are not calculated according to the proportion, they are calculated according to the output, and each ton of cement needs to be charged. How much the royalties are.

Therefore, the high price of cement is directly related to the high price of royalties. Otherwise, the price of cement would not be so expensive.

This cement is expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it. After a lot of sales, only the military has ordered a batch to build permanent fortifications, such as artillery batteries.

But the military's market is destined to be small. If you want to make money, you have to rely on the private market, but how to open the private market? Naturally, it is impossible to take the lower-level route, only the upper-level route can be taken.

As the actual behind-the-scenes boss of the cement factory, Li Xuan naturally wanted to promote his own cement, so he built a Hanlin Building with cement.

This Hanlin Building can be said to be the latest manifestation of contemporary technology. The main material of the building is stone, the adhesive is cement, and the windows use the largest area of ​​glass that can be made so far. Then the layout of the building It is also through the most scientific calculations to ensure lighting and ventilation.

The Hanlin Building, which is only three stories high, has a total height of more than 20 meters, and the most important point is that its floor is not a wooden floor, but a cement reinforced floor.

This is a cuboid building with a length of about 60 meters, a width of 40 meters, and a height of more than 20 meters. The whole building looks magnificent!

In addition to the grandeur of the main building, the depiction of the details is naturally not bad. After all, this is a palace building. Although it is said to be a building for the officials who enter the palace, such as the Imperial Academy and the Minister on Duty of the Imperial Study, it is also a building. It belongs to the palace building.

So it looks magnificent!

The outer wall is decorated with a large number of white marble carvings, and there are two bronze unicorns in front of the gate.

When you walk in the door, what you see first is nothing else, but a huge hall, this hall is a three-story hollow hall!

There are large glass windows made of transparent glass on the front outer wall, and there are huge curtains beside the glass windows!

This is a curtain that is more than 20 meters long from the top of the building to the bottom. In order to allow the curtain to move freely, there are even hinges installed.

The floor is a glossy marble floor, and overhead are some of the largest shofar lamps that can be made in contemporary times.

The lobby has two semi-revolving stairs leading to the second and third floors!

In the whole building, this lobby is the most shocking!

When you walk in, you can feel your own insignificance!

As for the building layout outside the lobby, there is nothing to say about it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is just an ordinary office and conference room.

The entire building can accommodate nearly 300 people working, just enough to accommodate the ordinary office staff of the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial Study Room.

The Hanlin Building was just completed in August last year, but this is nothing. The most important thing is that the entire building was constructed with a lot of advanced technologies and equipment. It took three months from laying the foundation to the completion of the main building. It's only time!

The interior, however, took several months and was not officially put into use until the beginning of this year.

The headquarters of Datang Western Company started construction at the end of last year, and their company headquarters is smaller than the Hanlin Building, and it is impossible to pay attention to details everywhere like the royal buildings, so the construction speed is faster, and it takes a total of It was put into use after five months.

But even so, for a private office building, the headquarters of Datang Western Company still amazes the generals of the Navy!

Some people even muttered, this Western company is really rich, richer than our navy!

That's right, the total market value of the Datang Western Company exceeds 60 million taels, and the navy's annual military expenditure is only a few million taels. Even if all the warships are sold for money, none of the Datang Western companies is worth much.

It's just that, the market value returns to the market value. The market value of Datang Western Company is 60 million taels, which does not mean that their company really has 60 million taels. To be honest, if all the fixed assets and cash are added up, it is actually The scale of tens of millions of taels of silver, and that's all, the shareholders have invested in the last two years. Before that, the total assets were only more than one million taels of silver.

It is not their fixed assets that are valuable, but the trade license!

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