After finishing their meal, the group of people walked along Di'anmen Street and came to the Back Gate Bridge.
From here to the south, a one-mile-square plot of land on the east side of Di'anmen Street was developed into a closed community.
The sales office is right here at the back gate bridge. It is a three-story, high-ceiling hall. In the middle is a sand table of the community and a model of the building. Because it is an existing house, the sand table serves the purpose of displaying the overall image.
"This house looks so spectacular." The princess couldn't help but admired it.
The sales office is a modern building with a reinforced concrete frame structure. The facade is decorated with Roman columns, triangular column top decorations, and a domed roof.
"This is now used as a sales office. After the houses are sold, it can be turned into a clubhouse in the community," Yang Fan introduced.
Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru were amazed. People in the Ming Dynasty had never seen Roman-style buildings. Roman-style buildings gave people the impression of being very solid and spectacular.
Under the Houmen Bridge is an artificial river. To the west is Shichahai, and to the east the river runs diagonally through the community and goes to the southeast.
At this time, many people had gathered on Di'anmen Street. They were all here to see the opening of new houses. Cheng Yu had greeted the Beicheng Soldiers and Horses Division in advance and gave them money. The soldiers sent out at this time were maintaining order.
Originally, Imperial City North Street was not a good place, especially the east and west ends near the city wall, which were all slums.
Because of the design of the capital, the imperial city in the middle cuts off the entire city. The east-west traffic channel in the south is Qipan Street as soon as you enter the Qianmen.
Not far behind Qipan Street is the Daming Gate. The approximate location of the Daming Gate is in the middle of today's square. Whenever something happens there, it must be blocked, such as the access of the emperor and senior officials. East-west transportation is very inconvenient.
Entering the Daming Gate means entering the Imperial City. There are high walls of the Imperial City on both sides of the Daming Gate. The Imperial City extends all the way to Di'anmen in the north.
The original Imperial City North Street was only a section outside the north wall of the Imperial City and was not connected to any north-south streets. As a result, traffic in the East City and West City was extremely difficult.
Yang Fan developed Huangcheng North Street and built a new two-way six-lane cement road. Not only was the road surface hardened, but there were sewers and green belts with trees. It also greatly widened the street. Everything was connected from east to west, and it was built directly to the city wall.
Down.
The main road plus reserved bicycle lanes and sidewalks. The new Imperial City North Street is wide and clean. It connects all the streets running north and south, revitalizing the traffic in the entire North City.
In the middle of the six lanes, space has been reserved for laying tracks. It is currently covered with greenery, and rails can be laid in the future to operate horse-drawn rail buses. By then, this 6.6-kilometer road will make transportation more convenient.
In the future, if Dongdan and Xidan streets are rebuilt according to the same standards, the traffic in the entire northern city of Beijing will be completely revitalized. In the future, horse-drawn rail cars can run from East City to West City, or from West City to East City, half a mile away from each other.
This road has now become the best road in the country during the Ming Dynasty. No matter what the weather, you will never walk on mud or soil. Many people come to this road to see what's new.
Everyone can see that the properties on both sides of this road will definitely increase in value. This is why so many people gathered here today.
From Dongcheng to Xicheng, you can either take Qipan Street or Huangcheng North Street.
Now the new Huangcheng North Street has become the transportation artery between the east and west cities. The community to the east of Di'anmen Street in the middle has suddenly become a core area.
In addition, Xinghe Supermarket is just to the west as a supporting facility. I heard that the Chinese Medical Hall established by General Yang will also set up a hospital here. It will also build an academy that can accommodate 3,000 students. The teachers are all contemporary ones.
Daru. The sum of these supporting facilities directly leads to the realization that if people don’t hurry up and buy a house, they may not be able to buy it.
It turns out that the North Street of the Imperial City is relatively desolate. Yang Fan did not spend much money on land acquisition.
The more lively areas in the north of Beicheng are near the Drum Tower and the East and West Streets of Gulou. The more prosperous areas in the East City and West City are the Dongsi Archway and Xisi Archway.
There is an old saying in the capital: "The east is rich and the west is noble, the south is poor and the north is humble." In the east city, mainly Longfu Temple and Chaoyang Gate are rich businessmen. In the west, there are more officials at Fucheng Gate.
Nancheng is basically populated by poor people, and even the city walls were built after the mid-Ming Dynasty.
There is no comparison between the South City and the North City. The city walls, towers and arrow towers are very low and simple.
As the saying goes, it is better to have a tile in the north city than a room in the south city. The huge difference in housing prices in the north and south cities will be at least double even after more than 600 years.
At that time, there were already more than 200,000 people living outside the south gate of the capital and serving the capital. After the incident of Anda Khan's invasion in order to force tribute, the cabinet felt that a city wall should be built to protect them, so they simply built one.
city wall.
The city wall in the south city is short and broken, and it is just a lake to cause trouble.
The original plan was to build a circle around the inner city, including the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Earth, the Temple of the Sun, and the Temple of the Moon. But then we ran out of money, so we ended it hastily and only built a quarter of the south side. That’s us.
The Nancheng I saw today.
The wealthy people in the northern part of Beicheng basically live in a very small area on the east and west streets of Shichahai and Gulou. The rest of the area is also populated by lower-class people.
Houses in the capital are very expensive, no matter what era. Even in the Song Dynasty, the richest prime minister, the salary of the prime minister could not afford to buy a house in Tokyo. Many prime ministers rented houses.
The same was true for the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty. The houses of the Ming Dynasty had several characteristics.
The first is small. The size of a house is calculated by room. A room is the area surrounded by four pillars.
The size of this room is not necessarily the same. People of different social status have different sizes of rooms when building houses. A room in the palace is definitely much larger than that of ordinary people.
The houses where ordinary people and lower-level officials lived were about ten square meters each. The houses in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were shorter in depth. This was mainly to allow the winter sunlight to shine on the north wall, which would make the winter much warmer and save a lot of firewood.
The second is that the building materials have poor thermal insulation. Most of the houses are made of wood, although in this era the large gables under the windows and at both ends were made of brick. The thermal insulation has been much improved by the pure wooden buildings of the Tang and Song Dynasties. But
Overall, due to problems with window and door seals and window paper, the warmth retention is very poor.
If you use a pure wooden-carved small house like Russia and burn a fireplace, it will be very warm. The thermal insulation coefficient of wood is twice that of cement masonry. But that is when the walls are made of very thick logs.
The wooden structure walls of the Ming Dynasty were very thin, with many gaps, and the paper on the doors and windows was very poor in insulation. People's houses didn't even have suspended ceilings, and you could directly see the beams when lying on the bed. Otherwise, how could there be such a saying as a gentleman on the beams?
The third problem is that the house is small, the courtyard is large, and the floor area ratio is appallingly low. A large courtyard covering an area of 1,000 square meters may only have a construction area of more than 100 square meters. It is an extreme waste of land. The price of a house is mainly determined by the land price.
Therefore, the price of attractive houses remains high.