Jiashen (25) in February of the first year of Yuanyou.

Zhao Xu got up early and put on the clothes that Zhu had knitted for him.

Then, under the personal farewell of the two palaces, he boarded the imperial chariot and began his first tour of the capital in this life.

In front of the Xuande Gate, Yanda, the commander of the front division, personally led a commanding cavalry to join the team and acted as the street cleaners for Zhao Xu's patrol this time.

Cai Jing, Su Song, Fan Chunren, Lu Dafang, Deng Runfu and other officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, who passed through the banquet officer, rode horses and followed Zhao Xu's chariot. They were ready to listen to Zhao Xu's orders and prepare for consultation.

The accompanying readers followed Brother Zhong Jianzhong and hung at the back of the team.

After the car passed the Zhouqiao Bridge, it began to slow down.

People on both sides of the street also began to appear.

The Qingdao cavalry led by Yanda and the Kaifeng Fupu soldiers participated in the maintenance of order.

Zhao Xu was sitting in the royal chariot, looking through the curtains at the rows of people kneeling down on both sides of the street.

Cai Jing, who was riding a horse and following the royal chariot, took the opportunity to introduce the situation of Bianjing City: "Your Majesty, since Taizu established the capital, Bianjing has established a capital with the sky as the main purpose of Bianjing... Therefore, Bianjing The new city and the inner city are the Great Zhoutian, the imperial city is Taiwei Yuan, and the inner city is Ziwei Yuan..."

Zhao Xu hummed slightly, he naturally knew this.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, the capitals of all dynasties have been built with the idea of ​​"building a capital like the sky".

For example, in Chang'an of the Han Dynasty, the south of the city resembled the Nandou, and the north of the city resembled the Beidou.

Modern archaeologists used computers to connect the star maps of the Big Dipper, Gouchen, North Pole, Ziwei Youyuan and other constellations and found that they were almost exactly the same as the outline of the Han Chang'an city discovered.

The same was true for Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Its imperial city is called Taiwei, and its palace city is called Ziwei. The Luo River flows through the city, which is called the Milky Way.

This uses the imperial city and the palace city to simulate the sky, the crape myrtle, and the Milky Way.

To show that the emperor’s palace on earth is the emperor’s palace in heaven.

The Song Dynasty was certainly no exception. The imperial city was built in the northeast of Bianjing. It was deliberately designed to be too small for the heaven and earth. It introduced the Jinshui River and the Wuzhang River into the palace. It imitated the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties to "represent the meaning of the Tianhe, Silver and Han".

The difference between Bianjing and previous capitals is...

Zhao Xu looked towards the streets.

In addition to the soldiers from Yanda and Kaifeng Mansion, there were also a large number of red lacquered forks erected on the streets along the direction of Zhao Xu's driving direction, as well as a large number of privately-erected forks outside the stores.

In addition, there are a large number of buildings between the streets and alleys, occupying the original streets.

Not only that, Zhao Xu also saw that some people even invaded the Bianhe River embankment in the city.

This is particularly prominent in the commercial belts on both sides of the Zhouqiao Bridge.

This is the invasion of the street and the invasion of the river.

It was a phenomenon that troubled the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years and could not be changed until its demise.

It is an inevitable trend in the development of commodity economy.

After all, Bianjing has a lot of land and a lot of money.

Every more house and every more space means more stable income.

Tube?

I can't control it!

In the early days of the Kingdom, Taizu used severe punishment to stop the intrusion of streets and rivers - those who invaded the streets and lanes were punished by seventy!

is that useful?

No!

Just let the officials do it.

What's more, the law does not punish everyone. There are so many people intruding on the street, can Guan Zhao's family take care of them?

Therefore, in the ninth year of Kaibao in Taizu's era, Taizu "banqueted the ministers in Huijie Garden, passed through Tongli Square, made the road narrow, and demolished it to benefit the residents who invaded the street."

It can be seen that at that time, illegal construction had already begun to block road traffic.

After Taizong, the intrusion into streets and rivers became unstoppable.

After that, officials in successive dynasties thought of taking care of it, and the people below took action and demolished some residential buildings that were seriously blocking traffic.

Then, as soon as the limelight passed, others built it again.

Moreover, as time goes by, the resistance to the demolition of illegal buildings becomes greater and greater each time.

Because my cousin Xunchen joined the ranks of the street invaders.

In Bianjing City, if your house is not built illegally, you will be embarrassed to see people when you go out.

Zhao Xu thought about these past events and felt a little headache when looking at the illegal buildings in front of him.

In his previous life, he was helpless against these phenomena in Bianjing.

So he could only lie down and order the Kaifeng Prefecture to collect the money from the invasion.

This is regarded as recognizing the legal status of those illegally constructed buildings.

However, for now, the traffic environment in Bianjing City is not bad.

This is because Zhao Xu's father rebuilt the imperial city and outer city of Bianjing during his lifetime.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu ordered Feng Jing who was following him outside the curtain: "Feng Jing, tell Yanda to inspect the Bianjing Inner Ring Road first..."

"No!" Feng Jing took the order and left.

Zhao Xu looked at Cai Jing who was following him and said: "Cai Qing, when Huang Kao was here, he once told me that rebuilding the imperial city and the outer city, and opening up the Bianjing inner ring road and the imperial city inner ring road would be the solution.

A good solution to Bianjing’s traffic congestion!”

"It is a good way to benefit future generations!"

“Is there any street intrusion in the inner ring of Bianjing today?”

Cai Jing's forehead suddenly broke out with some sweat: "Your Majesty, the situation in the inner ring of Bianjing is not bad now, and there are not many intrusions into the streets..."

Zhao Xu smiled: "In other words, someone invaded the street?"

Cai Jing swallowed and could only reply: "I will be punished by death..."

Zhao Xu chuckled and said nothing.

Cai Jing was trembling and could only say: "I will arrange for people to demolish the houses that have invaded the street as soon as possible..."

Zhao Xu laughed: "Demolish it today and build it tomorrow?"

Cai Jing immediately said: "Your Majesty, I will never allow such a thing to happen!"

"I will inspect the inner ring regularly from now on..."

Zhao Xu then said seriously: "Let's take a look first, don't rush to conclusions..."

"We will discuss this matter again after we return to the palace!"

Who can build illegally the inner ring road in the inner city? Which one is simple?

Even if Cai Jing took control during his tenure, Zhao Xu is guaranteed to relapse as soon as he leaves office.

Because this is human nature.

In modern society, under various regulations and supervision, it is still impossible to prevent people from illegally building.

What’s more, now?

Cai Jing let out a sigh of relief. He was really stressed just now.

Because the officials seemed to know Bianjing City very well.

He even knew that it would be demolished today and built tomorrow.

"The Detective Department, in the hands of His Majesty, is even more powerful than the late Emperor..." Cai Jing sighed in his heart.

In his opinion, these things must have been reported by the Detective Department.

Otherwise, how could the emperor, who lives deep in the palace, know about such a thing?

But how did he know that in modern times, Zhao Xu had seen countless unearthed cultural relics and read many scholar-officials' notes complaining about Bianjing's traffic.

…

Half an hour later, Zhao Xu's imperial driver passed through the south-facing Imperial Street, the central axis that runs through Bianjing, and arrived at the Zhuque Gate.

At the same time, we arrived at the inner ring road of Bianjing.

"Your Majesty, the inner ring road of Bianjing was ordered by the late Emperor of Kaifeng Mansion to start from the base of the city wall outside Bianjing City and reserve ten steps as a road to facilitate the transportation of carriages, horses, merchants and goods in Bianjing..."

When the imperial chariot came to the inner ring road under the Zhuque Gate, Cai Jing introduced it from the side.

"Yeah!" Zhao Xu nodded.

Cai Jing continued to introduce: "In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the late emperor issued an edict again, ordering Kaifeng Mansion to move thirty steps outside Bianjing City and demolish the official houses along the way as a way..."

Zhao Xu opened the car curtain and looked forward.
To be continued...