Chongqing Mansion, the imperial city of Chaotian Palace.

This is a fortress-style imperial city that is rare in Chinese history, built at the corner of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, where it was originally the place in the city of Chongqing, there was originally a city gate called Chaotian Gate, from which the name of Chaotian Palace Imperial City comes from.

As early as when Li Guo was still the prince of Fujun, he chose this place with dangerous terrain and convenient transportation as his imperial city.

Because the situation of the Dashun Dynasty is a bit dangerous no matter how you look at it, so since Li Guo and below, all of them are full of a sense of crisis, even if they have laid a large piece of territory and established a relatively stable regime, the top leaders of Dashun still think about how to save their lives, rather than how to enjoy the fruits of victory.

This sense of crisis is vividly displayed in the site selection and construction of the imperial city of Chaotian Palace.

First of all, this imperial city of Chaotian Palace is not the usual square, but triangular, is built according to the topography at the angle of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, covering an area of not large, the circumference of the imperial city is only a little more than six miles. It looks similar to the Forbidden City in Beijing, but the difference is actually huge. The Forbidden City in Beijing and Nanjing was mainly the Imperial Palace, that is, the emperor's residence and office buildings.

The Imperial City of Chaotian Palace, on the other hand, included a large number of defensive facilities, military camps, warehouses, small arsenals, official residences (Li Guo and Li Laiheng's direct ministers lived in the Imperial City of Chaotian Palace), palaces, a naval dock, and a shipyard.

Secondly, this imperial city is not part of the capital city of Chongqing, but an independent castle.

The east and west walls of the imperial city were reinforced on the basis of the original Chongqing Fucheng city wall, which was built along the Yangtze River and Jialing River, while the south city wall was newly built to isolate the imperial city of Chongqing. The wall is about two miles long and is made of masonry and rammed earth. The outer side is sloping and only about two feet high, but it is thick enough to resist heavy artillery bombardment.

Outside the southern wall of the imperial city of Chaotian Palace, there is a ditch three zhang wide and two zhang deep, the bottom of the ditch is full of sharpened wooden piles, and only a wooden bridge crosses the ditch, connecting the imperial city and the palace city.

In addition to the three city walls and a moat, a solid fort was built on each of the three corners of the imperial city of Chaotian Palace. The two forts in the southwest and southeast also protrude into a triangle to the south, and the artillery erected on them can form a terrifying crossfire against the enemy attacking the imperial city of Chaotian Palace from the south!

Third, the capital city of Chongqing, south of the imperial city of Chaotian Palace, has also undergone large-scale renovation, and the original city with a large population and dense buildings no longer exists. The Dashun Dynasty, which resolutely implemented the national policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, did not need a capital with prosperous commerce, and the Dashun Emperor Li Guo needed a capital with an easy-to-manage "city-square system".

The entire Chongqing Mansion City was divided into 18 squares, each of which was a small city enclosed by high walls, and each square had four gates, southeast, northwest, and northwest, and was guarded by the Jinwuwei who was responsible for the defense and security of Chongqing Prefecture. There are strict rules on the opening and closing times of the doors. Once the gate is closed, a curfew will begin in Chongqing, and there will be Jin Wuwei patrolling the streets between the squares, and anyone who does not return all night will be questioned by Jin Wuwei, and unless there is official business, they will be locked up.

Among the eighteen squares of Chongqing Prefecture, eight belong to the eight kings of Yizheng and their subordinates, that is, the official squares. The remaining ten workshops were divided into workshops and market workshops.

The workshop includes workshops and craftsmen's residences, each of which produces a large category of handicraft products, divided into weaving workshops, carpentry workshops, shipbuilding workshops, metallurgical workshops, coinage workshops, chariot and horse workshops, armor workshops, blade workshops, gun workshops, and gunpowder workshops, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Dashungong government.

The craftsmen who live in it are divided into "master craftsmen" and "upper craftsmen", and the "master craftsmen" are specially selected skilled craftsmen by the Ministry of Industry to act as the head of the craftsmen, and everyone has the official status and career field of Dashun. The "upper craftsmen" are craftsmen who are recruited from various state capitals to serve temporarily, usually once in March.

Shifang is the commercial area of Chongqing Prefecture, divided into two cities, east and west, the market is not large, and officials above the fifth grade are forbidden to enter, so as not to be infected by corrupt commercial activities...... Of course, the family members of officials above the fifth rank can enter the market, but they are not allowed to engage in commercial operations, and can only sell the goods produced by the grange or rice.

And it is absolutely forbidden for nobles and officials to do business in Dashun!

The businessmen operating in the eastern and western cities all have "city registration" and are strictly managed by the Chongqing government of Dashun.

There are many monopoly goods, iron, salt, tea, wine, gunpowder, cowhide, saltpeter, sulfur, etc., a lot of all kinds of things, all of which must be monopolized!

Therefore, it is impossible for Dashun's industrial and commercial activities to develop, which is of course the result of the deliberate pursuit of the Dashun court. Because the development of industry and commerce will have a corrosive effect on the landlord soldiers of Dashun, a landlord soldier can also divide more than 100 acres of land, and the land rent income is only a few tens of stone rice, this income not only has to support the family, but also to bear the rations of the last time, but also to bear the cost of their own equipment armor and cold weapons, in fact, it is still very tight.

If you loosen your hand in spending money, it's easy to get into debt!

The profession of landlord soldier looks beautiful, but it has to test the soldier's ability to operate, and cutting people and managing are two routes.

And those who lick the blood from the knife edge tend to see the money clearly, and they will not be able to spend it, and if they are in a highly commercialized society, it is easy to go bankrupt.

Although he has worked hard to the extreme, Li Guo is still a little melancholy, and when he goes to court today, he is still sad.

Because hard work does not equal good results! The news from the three fronts of Hanzhong, Yong'an (Kuizhou), and Zunyi was not good.

Chen Yongfu, Liu Jinzhong and Gao Yigong all suffered defeats!

Now that the equipment and training of the Ming army are getting better and better, and the salaries and supplies are getting more and more sufficient, of course, it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with......

"Emperor," after Liu Zongmin and Sun Kewang finished reporting on how tight the front line was, Zuo Funiu Jinxing came out and continued to report, "Huang Shu is back. ”

"Oh," Li Guo nodded, "was it sent back in a coffin, or in a box?" Have you figured out your nickname? Do you want to chase it down? ”

When Huang Shu was sent to Burma, the Manchu Dynasty was not optimistic about the civil and military forces, and he did not return for several months, so everyone thought that he was killed by the Burmese!

"Emperor, he came back alive."

"Still alive?" Li Guo shook his head, "He's really fateful...... Forget it, it's not his fault that the errand was not completed, and he was rewarded with 10 stones of rice to suppress the shock. ”

"Emperor, he seems to have done his errand."

"What?" Li Guo was stunned for a moment, "He, did he do a good job?" Isn't that cheating on the forehead? ”

Li Guo is a wise man who rules by hanging the arch!

Even if he is confused for a while, there is still a "political eight father"!

"Your Majesty, he also brought a Burmese mission to pay tribute...... The mission was coming along the river by boat, and Huang Shu came to Chongqing first to report the good news. ”

Li Guo rarely showed a smile, "Then hurry up and let him go to the palace, he will be rewarded!" ”

"The emperor, the crown prince, several princes," Niu Jinxing asked again, "The envoys from Burma are coming, should we prepare a treaty?" ”

"Article ...... About? Li Guo blinked his eyelids, "What is this?" ”

What an unequal treaty! Li Guo saw that he was about to progress from the leader of the peasant uprising to the great colonist, and he didn't know about the unequal treaty, and there was no one else.

"It's a clan contract!" Niu Jinxing said seriously, "This is the practice of the Celestial Empire, and Zhu Ming also did the same, signing a "Treaty of Clans" with Annan last time, and recently signed a "Treaty of Clans" with Siam. ”

"Since it's customary," Li said, "then you should prepare one too?" ”

The crown prince Li Laiheng interjected: "How can you get this treaty?" ”

"Easy!" Sun Kewang took over the topic, "Copy one according to Zhu Ming's "Treaty of Clans", change the name of the country, and then ask the Burmese to sign it!" ”

The method is so good, this co-rule of the eight kings is different!