Chapter 1118 The First Gate in the World

The three of them finished touring the palace complex and came out from the main gate.

The main gate of the palace is the South Gate. Referring to the style and layout of the Daming Palace, the South Gate of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty was called Danfeng Gate. However, according to the ancient Four Symbols Theory, this is wrong.

In the ancient Four Symbols Theory, the four directions and four seasons correspond to four mythical beasts, namely the Azure Dragon in the East, the White Tiger in the West, the Vermilion Bird in the South, and the Black Tortoise in the North. Therefore, according to the Four Symbols Theory, the South Gate should be called the Vermilion Bird Gate.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, there was already an old palace called the Taiji Palace, and the South Gate of the Taiji Palace was called the Vermilion Bird Gate. The street opposite the Vermilion Bird Gate was called the Vermilion Bird Street. However, the Daming Palace was newly built later, and the name of the Vermilion Bird Gate had been taken by the old palace, so it was renamed the Danfeng Gate.

However, the Han tribe did not take this into consideration. This was the Han tribe, no, it should be the only palace of the Han Empire, so its South Gate should be called the Vermilion Bird Gate.

The Suzaku Gate of the Han tribe is majestic and has the shape of a gatehouse. It is long from east to west, that is, the width of the front is 86 meters. There are five doorways of the same size below, each of which is eight meters wide and can accommodate four carriages with two horses pulling the shafts, or two tractors driving side by side. The

width of the gatehouse from north to south, that is, the thickness of the doorway, is 34 meters. Entering from the front of the city gate, it looks like entering a tunnel.

Each doorway is 20 meters high, 8 meters wide, and 34 meters long. This is just the doorway. If the superstructure of the city tower is not counted, the lower part alone is 37 meters high, equivalent to the height of a ten-story building.

This is just the base of the city gate. There is also a two-story Suzaku Tower on it. There are thirteen huge pillars on the front of the entire Suzaku Tower, with twelve rooms on the front and four rooms deep. Its scale is not even inferior to that of the Hanyuan Hall. Including

the base of the city gate below, plus the Suzaku Tower above, if the height of the roof is counted, this city tower must be nearly 80 meters high. If it were placed in modern times, it would be a small high-rise building with more than 20 floors.

However, the current high-rise residential buildings do not occupy such a large area. Modern high-rise buildings are tall and thin, while this tower looks very sturdy.

In order to build this tall tower, according to Luo Chong's requirements, the keel of reinforced concrete was also used, and then filled with rammed earth, and then covered with large blue bricks for building city walls.

Such a huge building can only be compared with the 80-meter-long flagship of the Fubowei Navy.

Fortunately, the craftsmen of the Han tribe have enough experience, otherwise it may not be built.

Today's tower is like the hall in the palace. Only the main structure has been completed. The tower has only five empty doorways. The red lacquer door with solid wood and copper nails has not been installed. The Suzaku Tower also has no doors and windows, but the roof is covered with tiles, at least it will not leak.

And this Suzaku Gate is very lonely, because there is only one city gate tower now, and there are no city walls on both sides, but there are interfaces left, which can be extended to both sides at any time.

However, the construction inside the palace has not been completed yet. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of materials, the city wall has not been enclosed. Now the vehicles transporting construction materials still go around the city gates.

Directly south of the Suzaku Gate is a straight north-south avenue called Suzaku Street, which imitates the shape of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, this street alone is 150 meters wide. If we follow the modern algorithm of 3.75 meters per lane, even if we add green belts, isolation belts, emergency lanes and other things, we can draw out 30 lanes.

This Suzaku Street is simply an extra-long square! ! !

In front of the Suzaku Gate, there is also a horizontal street running east-west along the city wall, called Chang'an Street. This street is at the same level as Suzaku Street and is also 150 meters wide. The two streets are T-shaped and are the horizontal and vertical main roads of the entire capital, and are first-class main roads.

The government office area of ​​the Han Dynasty was divided along Chang'an Avenue and Zhuque Street. The three provinces, six ministries, nine academies and one bank of administrative units established by Luo Chong before, dozens or even hundreds of branch offices, were all concentrated in this area.

A little further south are the residential areas for officials, as well as other service industries to meet the needs of the people. To

use a modern and fashionable term, it is called the CBD business district, which is also the cultural, political, military, and financial center of the Han tribe.

The Imperial Central Bank, the Han Empire History Museum, the Military Museum, the Science and Technology Museum, the Art Museum, the Imperial Supreme Court, the Gymnasium, the Grand Theater, the Flag Raising Platform, the Square, and so on, all kinds of characteristic buildings are placed here.

Just as the three of them were walking south along Zhuque Street, pointing to the roadside to plan for the future, You Zhi seemed to remember something and suddenly said to Luo Chong.

"Chief, according to the plan on your drawing, the entire capital is along Zhuque Street as the central axis, and is divided into East City and West City on the left and right, and is administratively divided into two counties.

"In terms of architectural planning, the two urban areas in the east and west must each have at least one large square, a large commercial circle, and a large park.

"Last month, a man from the Comprehensive Research Institute came from Hanyang County. He said his name was Gu Cheng, and that the leader asked him to build a clock tower. However, the drawings given by the leader did not specify where to build the clock tower.

"Gu Cheng told me that there are clocks on all four sides of the clock tower. In order to tell time better, it is best to put it in the center of a large square. So I asked him to put the clock tower in the large square in Dongcheng District. Does the leader think it is okay? If not, I will ask him to move it to another place. But the clock tower has not been built yet."

Luo Chong rode on his horse, took a simple map in his hand, looked at it, and then said.

"The clock tower, the square next to the Dongcheng Commercial Pedestrian Street, is fine, let's put it there, but he didn't say what other uses the clock tower will have? "

This question was raised by Luo Chong and Gu Cheng at the beginning. If we build a building like a high tower and install several clocks on it, what will the bottom be used for? If it is useless, wouldn't it be a waste?!

You Zhi said without thinking.

"Oh, he said that it would be better to build the building higher, make it several dozen meters high, and then install a lighthouse on the top, and install clocks on the four walls under the lighthouse. The building below can be used as a watch museum, selling tickets for visits, and a watch shop can be opened on the bottom floor, specializing in selling various watches. What do you think, Chief?"

Luo Chong nodded when he heard it, but he thought to himself, "It seems that this kid Gu Cheng took his words to heart! "

Before Luo Chong asked him to build the clock tower, he once told him that after the clock tower was built, he would study the wall clock, the small alarm clock on the table, and the precision pocket watches and wristwatches.

I think he has already determined his goal, and now he has even thought of the location of the clock shop in advance.

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