Chapter 1586 Daming Mansion

Daming Mansion was the most important town in the northern part of the Song Dynasty.

In the second year of Renzong's Qingli reign, the Khitan gathered a large number of troops and waited for an opportunity to invade the south.

The news reached Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and the civil and military officials of the imperial court urgently discussed countermeasures. Many people advocated moving the capital west to Luoyang. Others advocated making peace.

Prime Minister Lu Yijian argued against all opinions and said: "The Khitans were able to cross the river. Even though the city was high and the city was deep, how could they rely on it? I heard that the Khitans were afraid of force and were cowardly, so they rushed to Luoyang and died to demonstrate."

"It is appropriate to build a capital with a great name to show the generals to personally conquer and defeat their plans."

Daming Mansion "controls the first day of the river and locks the key to the north gate". It controls a large area of ​​territory north of the Yellow River.

Defending the name blocked the enemy's passage south to cross the Yellow River. It should be said that Lu Yijian still had a very strategic vision in this matter.

Song Renzong adopted Lu Yijian's correct idea and built Daming Mansion as the capital in May of that year and named it "Beijing".

When the Khitan heard that the Song Dynasty had established a capital in Daming, they felt timid and gave up the idea of ​​invading the south.

Daming Mansion is connected to Bianliang and three strategic areas on the Song and Liao fronts - Taiyuan, Zhending, and Hejian. The four roads and four prefectures added together are actually the north of the Yellow River, from the big bend of "Ji" to

The Yellow River now flows north into the vast area between Haikou, Tianjin and Wei.

Because it is a secondary capital, there is also a palace city. The palace city is three miles away, and the entire outer city is ten miles away on a Friday.

After the construction by famous ministers of all dynasties, especially in the sixth year of Xining, because the general cannons of the Zhengguo were to be placed at the top of the city, the Song Dynasty rebuilt the Daming Mansion, widened the city walls, built bastions, and moved the Daming Palace to the top of the city.

The outer city wall of the mansion expanded to eighty miles during the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty.

The city is on a dangerous high ground, with majestic Drum Towers, deep moats and wide moats, and is backed by the Yellow River.

The imperial court's Tianxiong Army was stationed here. After the Pingxia period, the sealing pile warehouses set up by Zhao Xu were also moved here one after another, becoming a large base capable of supplying Taiyuan, Zhending, Hejian, including today's Denglai Navy.

The arrival of Su You excited the officials and people of Hebei. The Empress Dowager and the officials placed the most capable ministers here, which showed that the country attached great importance to Hebei.

It’s not just a lie, Hebei’s good days are coming!

Shen Kuo had been impatient for a long time. This official fan was embarrassed to see Su You, so he made an ugly show of merit, saying that he had lived up to Situ's promotion, that he had really accomplished his political achievements, and that he was not in a hurry to return to the court to become an official.

It should be said that Shen Kuo did not lie. The famous names were connected to Xiangzhou on the left and Yunzhou on the right. Now the canal was dug to Linqing, which connected the connection between Liangshanbo and Daming Mansion. A large number of military horses and weapons could be dispatched to the famous names from Xiangzhou and Yunzhou respectively.

, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

Then start from Daming, follow the Yellow River to Beiwang Town, turn into Hutuo River, and reach Zhending and Daizhou;

Continuing down the Yellow River, you can reach Hejian, Qingzhou and Baoding Army.

This is still the main stream, and there are countless other tributaries, channels, lakes and forks that can be used.

In fact, it should be said that after the Song Dynasty suppressed the Yellow River to the north, the Yellow River's military situation in Hebei was of great benefit.

Shen Kuo has been busy with this over the years, including river management, reserve, turnover, deployment, and technical research in between. He is simply an all-rounder.

Especially for the city defense system, Shen Kuo made a huge contribution. With the reinforced concrete shell, the entire city wall of Damingfu was hollowed out by Shen Kuo. Wells, stables, and storage were set up inside; there were passages, stairs, and hiding places for soldiers.

There is a cave; there are bastions and gun towers above; the city gate is a large platform, and observation balloons can also be launched.

There is a moat outside the city five miles away from the city wall, and there are cement pillars and wooden bridges at intervals, which are artillery sighting marks.

Behind the Yellow River, Shen Kuo also built two pontoon bridges to connect the main road to Puyang.

The floating bridge is also very delicately designed. It is set up between two huge diamond-shaped cement piers in the water. The cement piers and the shore are connected by a suspension bridge. The suspension bridge is raised at a fixed time every day to allow ships to pass.

Shen Kuo built these things with his own money. With the capital injection from the Hebei Development Bank and the court's deliberate preference for commodities, supplies and immigration, Daming Mansion immediately became a major commercial town in Hebei.

Shen Kuo turned the spaces at the bottom of the inner city wall into shops and established four large markets in the southeast, northwest and northwest.

The east side of the road connects to Denglai, which is the seafood wholesale market; the west side connects to Xiangzhou, which is the livestock and agricultural products wholesale market; the south side connects to Bianjing and Puyang, which is the luxury silk and gold and silver market; the north side connects to Sanfu, which is the military-related quilts, leather,

Enamel, copper and iron market.

Thousands of merchants gathered together, and cars and horses came together. Now Daming Mansion truly looks like the capital of Beijing.

Su You expressed that he was very satisfied. Shen Kuo took turns to introduce the transfer department of the four capitals, Chang Pingcang, Ti Dian Xing Jiao, Fu Yin, Tianxiong Army generals, and local celebrities, and then waved Shen Kuo off.

The next day, when Wang Kechen, the newly appointed transport envoy of the Four Routes, came to see Su You again, he was told by Secretary Wang Yanbi that Su You had gone out for an inspection.

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In the market north of Daming Mansion, there was a scribe in his forties who was surrounded by several young people and a middle-aged man. He was dressed in ordinary clothes but elegant. His left hand holding the horse was behind his back, and his right hand held a

While munching on the pancakes stuffed with leek oil residue, I watched with interest as the old blacksmith in the blacksmith shop ahead changed a horseshoe for a New Army soldier.

The north of the city is where craftsmen gather. Most of them are cobblers, tailors, blacksmiths, and carpenters. They produce leather goods, quilts, repair carts, weapons, and replace shoes. The business is quite prosperous.

The old blacksmith skillfully took off the shoe from the horse's hoof, threw it together with the hoof nail into the small wooden box next to it, and said to the soldier: "This is enough to cover the cost of repairing the hoof."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a few people standing in front of the shop. He turned to the half-year-old child who was pulling the bellows and shouted: "Wheat cake! Why don't you wink at all? Say hello to the officials!"

I saw the young man named Maibing said "Oh", stood up, wiped his hands on his apron, came over and made a cross: "What do you want to take care of, sir?"

Su You thought for a moment: "Let me take a look. Your name is Maibing? Is that your elder?"

Wheat Cake said: "That's me, Weng Weng, my craftsmanship is very good!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Before Su You could say anything, the old craftsman became unhappy: "Let the officials see the craftsmanship for themselves. Do you, Hu Qin, need it?"

Maibing shrank his head, still a little scared of his grandfather.

Su You smiled: "I think the coal you used is good and has been refined. Why don't you change the horseshoes of our horses too?"

Maibing said hello, tied the horses of several people to the horse posts nearby, turned over the horseshoes to check, then went to the shop to dig out a few shoes and put them on the small table, and asked Su You and others

The person greeted: "Why don't the officials just sit down and wait? I'll be done in a while."

Su You also sat down politely, took another bite of cake, and joked: "You can't even change a horseshoe?"

Wheatcake's face suddenly turned red: "I can! But...but these horses are so good, I haven't even started yet, so I don't dare to do anything."

Su You nodded: "It's okay. You can let Weng Weng do the previous work. You won't have to worry about not getting the shoe right."

Wheatcake was eager to give it a try, and turned around and shouted: "Weng Weng, the official asked me to remove the shoe, can it be done?!"

The old man glanced at a few horses and said, "I'm proud of you. I'll give you a horse like this to practice with. I don't dare to charge you for it. Thank you!"

"Hey!" Maibing was so excited that he ran into the shop to get tools.

"I'm here to help you!" the soldier also said.

The horse's shoes were not replaced all at once. The warrior and the leather rope of the wheat cake fixed the horse's three legs to avoid kicking injuries, and then removed the shoe from the remaining hoof.

The soldier also took the opportunity to look at the horses' hooves and judged: "These are the horses of scholars."

Su You suddenly became interested: "Commander, tell me, how did you judge it?"

The soldier said: "Because the four hoofs are replaced at about the same time and wear about the same, the right front hoof is more worn than the other three hoofs."

Su You didn't understand what this matter had to do with the civil and military affairs. Wang Cai said: "I understand. The horses of the civil servants walk lightly and slowly. The four hooves are almost worn, and the right front hoof is even more worn. The horses use their hooves to plow the ground." Milled on the ground."
Chapter completed!