In the golden autumn season, the sun shines brightly.

When the US economic crisis spread all over the world, in the inconspicuous Central Pacific region and the Tonga Islands that are almost unknown to the world, the newly established Tang Empire is changing the so-called "barren land", allowing it to jump into the super prosperous metropolitan era that only developed countries have, and a prosperous scene.

After two years of large-scale construction, Yanjing City, located in the northernmost part of the Tang Empire, has basically been formed. The wide highway streets with horizontal and vertical vertical divide the city into grids. Each grid has various buildings built according to the different division of labor and uses, roughly divided by industrial zones, commercial zones, administrative office zones, residential zones, green zones, military zones, etc.

The high-rise buildings line up along the roads and streets in each block, and the city's infrastructure is complete. Schools, hospitals, markets, theaters, libraries, stadiums, banks, post offices, street offices, residents' committees, police stations, public toilets, substations, fire stations, garbage stations, pump rooms, gas pressure regulating stations and other infrastructures that the people rely on for survival are complete, the supporting facilities are complete, and the distribution area is extremely reasonable. There is no need to make major adjustments in the next hundred years, because from the beginning, the city has made reasonable plans in advance according to the future urban layout in a century.

If every big city has to carry out earth-shaking large-scale urban planning every 40 or 50 years, as the city becomes more and more prosperous, every large-scale urban planning may not be able to achieve reasonable results. However, for the cities of the Tang Empire, one step is to be in place, saving money, manpower and material resources wasted on many large-scale urban planning adjustments in the next hundred years.

At this time, Yanjing was already a city with a population of 300,000. For developed countries in Europe and the United States, a population of 300,000 is considered a third-tier city at most. But for the Tang Empire, it is a first-tier city.

Of course, there were only four cities in the entire Tang Empire, and the other three cities, including the capital Chang'an, all the population of the three cities is not as large as that of Yanjing.

On the one hand, Yanjing was the first city to be planned and constructed by the Tang Empire, and urban construction was first completed here. The first batch of workers, soldiers, scientific and technological workers, as well as their families, who stayed for the construction of Yanjing. Yanjing was the only place that could be provided with their residences. The other three cities are still under planning and construction, so they are all concentrated here.

On the other hand, Yanjing is also the industrial center, financial center and military center of the Tang Empire. It covers 90% of the light and heavy industrial facilities and all the technical reserve centers of the entire Tang Empire - the National Laboratory. Workers and scientific and technological workers will work here.

At the same time, the Yanjing Fortress built by the northern volcanic group has an extremely powerful fortress artillery group. The Yanjing Comprehensive Military Base is stationed with elite troops of the Tang Empire National Defense Forces. Hundreds of aircraft are placed in the airport, more than 20 warships are parked in the military port, and more than a dozen submarine bases are built in the underground caves of the scattered uninhabited islands around.

It can be said that from the air to the land, from sea level to the depths of the seabed, the army, navy and air forces of the Tang Empire brought a sense of security to the citizens of Yanjing.

For Chinese and overseas Chinese who lived overseas in this era, what they need most is not money, but a sense of security. A place that can provide them with a sense of security is the place they yearn for the most.

Because of this, since the founding of the Tang Empire, tens of thousands of Chinese and overseas Chinese who have wandered overseas have chosen to settle in the Tang Empire, live and work.

Because in this era, Chinese and overseas Chinese were excluded and bullied by the international community, and their minimum dignity cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the only place where they can provide them with the minimum dignity, respect and life and property protection is the Tang Empire.

"The Tang Empire is a paradise for overseas Chinese!"

This advertisement has become the most favorable propaganda slogan for the Tang Empire to attract a large number of overseas Chinese to work, live and settle down. Among them are teachers, international students, technical workers, businessmen, and even many overseas Chinese families and overseas Chinese companies and enterprises that lived overseas in the era have also moved to the Tang Dynasty.

These people from all walks of life undoubtedly made great contributions to the urban construction of the Tang Empire.

When the urban and national defense construction in Yanjing was about to be completed, Zhang Meng immediately made adjustments and transferred tens of thousands of engineering construction troops to Chang'an, Jinling and Daxing to assist the construction workers in these three cities to accelerate urban construction and national defense construction.

As the capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an had more than 50,000 Tongan natives, most of them were not educated and could only engage in physical labor. They played an important role in Chang'an's urban and national defense construction army.

Their hard work even exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty National Defense Forces. Although Chang'an had the largest urban scale and construction was launched more than half a year later than Yanjing, when Zhang Meng had no more workers assigned to Chang'an for urban construction, relying solely on some technical workers to provide guidance, these simple Tonga people worked hard.

When the construction of Yanjing City was completed, Chang'an City had actually completed 80% of the urban infrastructure construction, which is a miracle.

However, after careful consideration, it is reasonable.

In order to comprehensively plan Chang'an City, Zhang Meng demolished all the thatched houses that the Tongan people lived in and started construction of dozens of stories high residential areas.

Since Zhang Meng promised to live in all Tonga houses, these residential buildings were regarded by the simple Tonga people as their new homes in the future. They were quite happy because they had never expected to live in a house covered with bricks, tiles and cement like a king. Moreover, the lowest residential buildings planned by Zhang Meng were twenty floors up and equipped with elevators. For Tonga people, this huge temptation was one of the main reasons that prompted them to work hard without fear of hard work.

Of course, Zhang Meng also promised that he would give each of them a job, wear clothes, eat rice and white flour, and no longer have to run naked or eat fruits and wild animals to live. Their children could also go to school, seek medical treatment, and serve in the military. This was another huge motivation, which made the Tonga people actively join the construction of various urban construction such as roads, schools, hospitals, military bases, and grain warehouse bases after building their own buildings.

It is precisely because of the tens of thousands of Tonga people's sweating day and night that the construction of the capital Chang'an City has accelerated by more than 30%.

The capital Chang'an is the administrative center of the Tang Empire. Because Chang'an Island is the largest island, several times larger than Yanjing Island, Chang'an's scale can accommodate one million people to live and live.

As a landmark building of the Tang Empire, the original Tonga Palace was demolished and expanded on a large scale. Twenty-five historical architects were hired from the Palace Museum of the Republic of China to restore the original appearance one-to-one ratio according to the drawings of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt the Daming Palace.

The Daming Palace has a circumference of 7.65 kilometers and an area of ​​about 3.2 square kilometers, which is four times that of the Forbidden City. It is equivalent to three Versailles Palaces, twelve Kremlins, thirteen Louvres, fifteen Buckingham Palaces, and five hundred football fields. There are 11 gates in total, with Jiacheng on the east, west and north sides, and three palace walls guarding the south. Danfengmen Street outside the wall is 176 meters wide, making it the widest street in the world.

The huge Daming Palace is the most magnificent and largest palace complex in ancient China, and it is also the most magnificent and largest palace complex in world history. Reconstructing the Daming Palace has great political significance for the Tang Empire, and there is no better expression of Zhang Meng's desire for the resurgence of the prosperous Tang Dynasty than this.

Of course, this project was once opposed by Zhang Xinhai because it was too much space and too expensive.

Zhang Xinhai learned from several architects that it would take at least 600 million to rebuild the Daming Palace, equivalent to 120 million Tang Yuan. For Mr. Zhang, this is an astronomical figure. He has always been frugal, so he naturally has to oppose it.

However, for Zhang Meng, he didn't think so.

First of all, although the Daming Palace recovered one to one ratio, the material costs consumed are quite cheap and can be bought cheaply from the United States. Even if you don’t buy it, the materials that Zhang Meng hoarded on a large scale before were enough.

In this way, the construction of the Daming Palace only requires only the design fee, labor fee, machinery and equipment costs, and only 30 million Tang Yuan is enough.

In addition, from Zhang Meng's thinking, building the Daming Palace will bring considerable GDP growth to the Tang Empire, stimulate the development of relevant domestic industries, and provide at least 5,000 jobs.

At the same time, Zhang Meng is well aware of the huge profits of the tourism industry in the future, especially the beautiful scenery of the Tonga Islands. Once the world's largest Daming Palace complex is restored, the annual tourism revenue will be quite considerable.

What's more, the Daming Palace is of great significance and an important symbol of the rise of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng's remarks immediately convinced Zhang Xinhai, allowing the construction of the Daming Palace to start.

"I think you just want to have fun on your own, so you have to find so many high-sounding reasons!"

Avoiding Zhang Xinhai, Zhang Wei immediately called Zhang Meng and directly exposed Zhang Meng's little selfishness.

Zhang Meng sighed and said earnestly: "When I think of the money I have earned for hundreds of lifetimes, I am so entangled! Do you know? The most painful thing in the world is that I have not spent the money even after I die!"
Chapter completed!