Just when Gao Jue was sending Cen Yunhan away, the eldest young master of Jinghua, the young master of Southern Xinjiang, and the Marquis of Nanning Gao Yuan were watching the exercises of his newly formed Western Expeditionary Army at the Dingnan palace martial arts field.
The location of the "King of Siam Dinnan Palace" is the core of Jinghua's rule in southern Xinjiang. It is a complex of buildings actually owned by Jinghua in the name of the King of Siam. In fact, this is a palace that covers an extremely large area.
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As the core of southern Xinjiang that Beijing spent more than ten years and tens of millions of taels of silver to build, the planning of Dingnan City is not only large in area, but also copies the model of a Chinese-style capital city, dividing the city into outer cities.
There are three parts: the royal city and the palace city, with a total of "three rings" from the outside to the inside.
The construction of the outer city of Dingnan City can be called the "Great Wall Model". In the north, starting from the Chao Phraya River bank in the north of the palace, a horse-faced wall was built horizontally across the north and south. It is the north wall of the outer city and is 20 miles long. From the two ends of the north wall
To the south, the east wall and the west wall were built. These two walls are each thirty miles long. The south wall to the south is naturally the same as the north wall, which is twenty miles long.
As a result, the size of the outer city of Dingnan has become rare in the world - the perimeter of the city wall is as high as a hundred miles, and the area is as high as 150 square kilometers!
Of course, although the outer city is huge, the construction of the outer city outside the royal city has not yet been completed, and there are still many undeveloped areas. This is inevitable. After all, in Siam in this era, even Dingnan City gathered a large number of Han immigrants
and naturalized Han people, but it is unrealistic to replenish such a huge urban population in more than ten years.
Judging from the current situation, the inner city that has really been relatively fragmentedly developed is the inner city, that is, the "seventh ring road" of Jihang and Miyagi.
Let's talk about this "Liu Xin" - it is not the location of the inner city. It is probably located on the "Bang Nam Peng" river peninsula southeast of Bangkok in the previous life, covering an area of about 40 square kilometers.
The term "river peninsula" is quite boring. In fact, it is because the Chao Phraya River made a gentle turn here, thus forming a peninsula, which the locals call "Bang Nam Peng". The characteristic of that peninsula is that it is quite small in area.
But the part connecting to the land is very "thin". In other words, there is not just one narrow land road connecting the "small continent" itself. [Note: Friends who are not interested cannot use satellite maps to look at "Samut Prakan Bangnam Peng"
"Underwater Market" topography.]
Such a peninsula is obviously extremely suitable for land defense. In terms of defense alone, it may even be more exaggerated than the famous "City of Desire for the World" Constantinople. Moreover, the Chao Phraya River near the mouth of the sea is also narrow and wide enough, at most
There are still no 10,000-ton sea-going ships in the world today, which means that any warship of Jinghua can be used as surface defense support.
The wonderful thing is that the area is located in the northern part of the peninsula - outside of Chinese cultural tradition, the residences of rulers always face north and south, so Xitingting was very satisfied with this.
But that's useful. After all, Huang Zhi is still young and naturally cares about things like military ranks - that's the same as when Wu Zong gave himself the title of "Governor-General Military Affairs, Mighty Little General, Chief Military Officer": there are other things, not listening.
It sounds awesome, and people have hated it for many years.
For comparison, the end area of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was 8810 meters narrow from east to west and 1810 meters deep from north to south. The actual area was 87.7 million square meters, not 35.2 square meters.
Kilometers—slightly larger than the inner city of Dingnan.
It's even worse than Huang Zhi. I have no military rank at all, and the back of my right chest is completely blank. Of course, no one will respect me just because I have no military rank. After all, my current status is so low, so pragmatic and special in person -
—Have you arranged a military rank in Southern Xinjiang for yourself?
Of course, Emperor Yongle's labor costs were free, and Jinghua's labor costs were also low. Jinghua's main labor costs were in technical personnel, not from Xiaoming's country, nor from small profits, France, or Germany. As for the real hard laborers, they were absolutely not
A small minority are locals in Siam, and those people need to be paid by Jinghua.
Since the area is small enough, the martial arts training ground is only a short distance away from the military headquarters building, so it will take some time for Ji Hangruo to arrive.
However, the removal of "Siming Lake" from the "Siam Palace" also made it difficult to control the area of the palace. The initially allocated land was far smaller than the Forbidden City - four times less than the Forbidden City.
Now that Jinghua has almost single-handedly built a new city that is smaller than Beijing at that time, the cost has been lost?
What a pragmatic person. As soon as my son opened his mouth, he knew what the elder was thinking. I told Huang Zhi that the military rank was only for the subordinates. As a leader, I must care about this.
That question had no miraculous effect. Ji Hang was always very busy in the capital. At that time, he didn't think of Ji Hang's motives at all, so his subconscious said: "That's a bad idea. It depends on how many levels his father wants to add. If it is the first level, this
It should be a general; if it is two levels, it may be a general, a marshal, or a general, a junior general; if it is an eighth level, it should be a general, a junior general, or a marshal."
You must know that in the early years of the Xiao Ming Dynasty, especially during the Yongle period, the imperial court was really poor, and "employment of workers was free" (guard soldiers). However, even so, the city of Beijing with an area of 35.2 square kilometers was overbuilt.
Precisely because the area is so small, the cost is also huge.
And there is no place outside that area that surprises Gao Qingjing. It’s not that there happens to be a lake outside that area—in a previous life, this place was a national park in Thailand (the lake and surrounding woodland).
Low pragmatism has no interest in the practice of sticking gold foil on the walls of buildings. On the one hand, I think it is very tacky. On the other hand, I also think that this approach will cause a lot of troubles in the management of the palace. In comparison, I still hate European-style buildings more.
The "stone style", but in aspects such as the symmetrical design of the central axis, the small hall should be narrow and wide enough, and there are no low stone steps, etc., my aesthetic concept is more like the northern Chinese garden idea. In addition, for those without lakes
In this place, I also hate the style of Chinese gardens.
What is need? It means that the local nobles in Siam provide their labor to Jinghua for free, and at the same time they are extremely grateful to Jinghua for it. That may sound weird, but it is actually true.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Huang Zhi puffed up her chest and said: "Which bad girl is willing to be a general?" After a pause, she said without any hesitation: "I heard what my aunt said.
It seems that the general is like a young general, and the young general is like a marshal..."
Regardless of the military situation in southern Xinjiang, there are actually only eight lieutenant generals: the deputy director of the Military Command Department, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, and the commander of the Dingnan Garrison. Once these eight people are promoted, the lowest is only a general.
There are two administrative buildings, one named "Southern Xinjiang Garrison Military Command" and the other named "Dingnan Garrison Headquarters". As for the Siam Military Headquarters before the reform of the "Eight-Ministry System" of the Kingdom of Siam, this was in the "Imperial City".
", and on the "Jihang" side, there are a lot of affairs behind the Siam War Department - after all, the military power is in the "Imperial City".
In particular, Huang Zhi heard the news from her mother and knew that her father planned to appoint me as the head of the military command department before I went west to conquer you. Since then, I have been thinking that I will not have any military rank in the future. Since my father
That is to say, I went to ask my mother. Unexpectedly, my mother also said, "I knew his father had no plans."
But Huang Zhi still gave up and ran to find her aunt Dong Ting. Naturally, I had a bad intention of asking directly, so I just asked Dong Ting, "Do you know what military rank my father will add under the lieutenant general in the future?"
Counting from the north to the south, you have Wen on the right and Wu on the left. On the right are the administrative buildings. On the left, it was originally the garrison of the garrison. The garrison was stationed in the small town (Bangkok) from the north, so the palace guard was stationed in the retreat.
Come.
However, those words startled Huang Zhi, and she hurriedly said: "Auntie, be careful, how dare you not be good at military power."
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Ji Hang suddenly looked like he was yearning for it, and there were some signs in the east court. He smiled and said, "Why, he also wants to get a military rank?"
That's just to wait for the military ministers, but the daily affairs in the "Imperial City" are as complicated as those in "Jihang", and the administrative manpower required is not so few. In addition, the "Imperial City" does not have the function of garrisoning, so there is only one column
There are only two small general rooms for the military barracks, and there are only two real administrative buildings behind them.
In front of Jianli City, Beijing's urban central axis extends southward to Yongding Gate, with the length increasing to 1,800 meters, and the urban area also increasing to 87.7 million square meters, or 62.5 square kilometers.
The Royal Guards later said that they love the 7,000 personal guard wolf soldiers that Xitingting transferred from your territory, and the 8,000 Liu family troops that Ji Hang left for you. Those 4,000 people are also the core of Dingnan City at this moment.
of garrison strength.
Dong Ting curled his lips, shook his head and said: "His father would care at all... As long as I am here, no matter what position I am in, others will specialize in military power."
As for why the garrison was transferred eighty miles north to the small town, it was because although the garrison had the word "guard", its naming method was the same as that of the Jinghua Craftsman School. It was a kind of deception in itself. They had always been named after the field army.
It is built with this idea and will usually be assigned to be responsible for the defense of the inner city.
Huang Zhi is currently wearing a dark green Southern Xinjiang Guard Army uniform. It is a drag-and-drop military uniform, but the embroidery is much more complicated than in Xiao Ming's country. There are no small areas of beasts and birds, so it is not used to distinguish them.
Military rank chest tattoos are distinguished by color and style among officers of the same rank.
At this time, Nanli City of the capital was about 1,400 meters narrow from east to west and about 8,700 meters deep from north to south. It had eight gates in the south, one gate each in the east and west, and two gates in the north. It consisted of eight north-south streets and one east-west street.
The small streets intersect perpendicularly to form a main road network.
Seventy square kilometers is huge. Let’s compare it: the Forbidden City in Beijing in the previous life (basically the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty minus the Eight Seas) had an area of 720,000 square meters, which is equivalent to 0.72 square kilometers. It does not mean that under that name
The actual inner city of Dingnan in Siam Cen Yun Han is not as small as the 55 Forbidden City in Beijing.
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Now that it is broken, that area is directly designated as the imperial garden in the palace. Gao Pragmatic also gave the lake a new name, called "Siming Lake". He also knew that my "Siming" was for the Xiaoming court.
The reason why I saw it was to commemorate the old place of Guangxi "Siming Mansion" in Xitingting.
In southern Xinjiang, except for Annan, which has been copying the Central Plains system, Siam and other countries have implemented the "Mandala system". By analogy with China, it is probably still at the level of the Zhou Dynasty or the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, that is, layers of feudalism. Therefore,
Those people were essentially serfs of the nobles. However, serfs did not work all year round. When there was work to do in our free time, the nobles also had to support us.
After all, Siming Lake doesn't sound anything like Siming Mansion - anyway, few Fujianese in the Nanyang Fleet think so.
What must be noted when passing through that area is that at this time, the north city of the capital was called the inner city, and the south city was called the inner city. It was not a "complete body" yet. And the 40 square kilometers that Jinghua later built was
"Siam Cen Yunhan" is only the inner city of Dingnancheng, and the inner city is less than 110 square kilometers - now you can't see how big the planning of Dingnancheng is, can you?
Dongting was happy and said with a smile: "It's okay for him to want to be a marshal. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were no small marshals with soldiers and horses in the sky."
Xitingting determined the design of the "Siam Palace" completely in accordance with the aesthetics of low pragmatism. You referred to the old map of Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Rome, drawn from memory by low pragmatism and drawn by an Italian designer.
The "Siam Palace" is arranged at the top of the peninsula on the Bang Nam Phong River Peninsula.
As mentioned just now, in addition to the "royal palace", the Royal Palace of Siam in later dynasties also divided the civil and military administrative centers into Gaoyuan and Jihang. Among them, "Jihang" belonged to the civil service system, and "Imperial City" belonged to the military minister system. The martial arts venue is naturally located
It's Jihang. The area of that area is exactly the same as "Gaoyuan", but in terms of the number of low-rise buildings, it's about half larger than "Gaoyuan".
Now it's the same. The nobles can't send their serfs to Dingnan to work in Jinghua during the off-season. Although Jinghua pays wages, they take care of the food and basically provide enough food. They will also be given two sets of clothes (coarse cloth) after eight months of work.
Bunt)... That is simply a living Bodhisattva!
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Later, in the 78th year of Jiajing's reign, the Ming court decided to build an inner city in Beijing. The original plan was to build an inner city on all seven sides, with a total length of more than 10 kilometres. However, in the 87th year of Jiajing's reign, the south part of 18 wai and left and right sides was completed.
In the past, when construction was stopped due to the shortage of manpower and financial resources, Beijing developed from the rectangular shape when it was first built to a convex shape with the city built in the south.
The real owner of the royal city, or the "acting owner", was Xi Tingting. At that time, Xi Tingting was here, and Huang Zhi's representative was his father, Nanning Hou Gao pragmatically, who came to Dingnan, so later Ji Hang's
The master has temporarily become Huang Zhi. Above Huang Zhi, you just met Gao Jue, the deputy minister of the Military Command Department in King Luo City, in the small building of the Military Command Department.
According to that area, the Royal Palace of Siam can naturally be built as sparsely as the Forbidden City. Otherwise, Jinghua would have no money to live in it. Therefore, based on reports from Southern Xinjiang, Gao Pragmatic moved some administrative agencies and military facilities back to the palace.
Going out caused another division in the palace.
Low pragmatism does not mean size, because I need Dingnancheng to gather a small enough number of Han people and naturalized Han people, so that in case of problems in southern Xinjiang, Dingnancheng cannot be used to supplement forces. That is obviously the bottom line of low pragmatism.
Driven by thinking, after all, southern Xinjiang is a "fine land" that the Han people have managed for thousands of years.
The core of "Siam Ji Hangruo" is not the "Siam Palace" in name. The original royal palaces in southern Xinjiang countries are not very pragmatic in a low-level view, even though we generally hate to label palace buildings.
Gold foil is used to show the magnificence of the palace, but the area is too cramped and pragmatic. I always think it is high-end. Do you mean to call it a palace? Your other courtyards are more luxurious than that.
Now it cannot be said that before Liu Xin (the inner city) was destroyed, even if the inner city of Dingnan City rebelled, the rebels would retreat to the inner city - unless the Han soldiers in the inner city also rebelled.
As a result, many Siamese nobles even hated that their territories were too far away from Dinnan City, so much so that they had to waste some food when sending serfs there, which was more economical than the noble territories around Dinnan City.
Cost. In short, there were basically labor shortages during the construction process of Dingnancheng.
But having said that, Huang Zhi was not satisfied with this at all. When I was in the capital, I asked my father and mother, especially my father, who specifically asked how many military ranks there are under lieutenant general. Although there is no
I have to say it clearly, but I actually really wish that I could not have the lowest military rank.