Luoyang, Henan.

Zhang Yan has been coming to Luoyang for some time, and these days, he has basically inspected the construction site of the entire Luoyang City accompanied by Yin Zhanghong of Henan.

As the old capital of the Han Dynasty, the dilapidated Luoyang City has disappeared, and in front of Zhang Yan is a majestic and huge city.

The new Luoyang City is re-planned on the basis of the old site, and the person who presided over the construction of the entire Luoyang City is the son of the late Jinwu Hu Muban, Hu Mudu, who had been a master craftsman earlier, and was very proficient in the construction of Luoyang City.

The difference is that Pengcheng is a circular city, while Luoyang City, due to its geographical limitations, has abandoned the concept of the future capital city, and has abandoned the use of a circle, but built in a square.

Na Hu Mudu was also a talent, at least in terms of architecture, at least no one could be more professional than him at that time.

Hu Mudu learned the cement invented by Zhang Yan and the construction process of reinforced concrete, mobilized more than 60,000 people, and spent two years and one month to build the prototype of Luoyang City. Just such a prototype, anyone who looks at it will be amazed by such a large capital.

In the past, most of the cities were built of rammed earth or stones, but the current Luoyang City is built of reinforced concrete.

The foundation of Luoyang City was ten meters deep, and the foundation was filled with steel bars, which were later poured with cement to shape the city wall. Outline the city gates. Only then did the rest of the construction begin.

It's a grand project. 60,000 people have been busy here for more than two years before they have today's results. In addition, Hu Muban also deliberately built an underground palace of the same scale as Yanwang Mansion in Luoyang City under the underground of the future Yanwang Mansion in Luoyang City, with a floor of three meters, a total of three floors, and the bottom layer. Then there is a secret passage, through which you can go straight to the shore of Luoshui outside the city.

The construction of this underground palace was carried out in secret, so there were few outsiders, and the 3,000 people who had completed the construction were all replaced by Hu Muban for fear of leaking information, and sent them home.

Today, Zhang Yan is accompanied by Zhang Hong. came to the future Yanwang Mansion.

The Yanwang Mansion is located in the north direction of Luoyang City, and is on the same central axis as the imperial palace in the center of the city. Echoing the Imperial City, its scale resembles a city within a city.

Yanwangfu is backed by the city wall of Luoyang City, the east, west and south three directions are expanded on the basis of the city wall, Yanwangfu is located in the middle of this city wall, in the four corners of the city wall, four small walls are built, there are lookouts inside, there are shooting holes, it is completely built by imitating the platform on the city.

Moreover, the scale of the Yanwang Mansion is also extremely large, covering an area of up to 500 acres, second only to the 800 acres of the palace.

In addition to the Imperial Palace and the Yan Palace, there are also three large-scale mansions, namely the Qi State Mansion located in the east of the city covering an area of 400 acres, the Wu State Duke covering an area of 300 acres in the south of the city, and the Qin State Duke covering an area of 200 acres in the west of the city.

In addition, the mansions where civil and military officials live are also different, the largest covers an area of 100 acres, and the smallest also covers an area of 5 acres.

These mansions are located in different directions of Luoyang City, and like Pengcheng, Luoyang City is also divided into the imperial city, the inner city, the outer city, and the urn city, and all the functions are divided.

This time, the Yan Palace's Mansion and the Imperial Palace were completely divided into two, and they were no longer separated by a wall. In the center is the Imperial Palace, which is surrounded by a high wall, so it is also called the Imperial City.

On the periphery of the imperial city, there are several large mansions located in the inner city, namely the Yan Palace, the Qi State Mansion, the Wu State Mansion, the Qin State Mansion, and five Huguo Mansions covering an area of 100 acres each. These nine mansions, adjacent to the imperial city, occupy almost half of the land in the inner city, and the remaining half of the land is the mansions of civil and military officials, wealthy merchants and famous people in the sea, covering an area of 80 acres to 40 acres, basically those who can live in the inner city are either officials above the third grade, or businessmen who are rich in the world, or well-known cultural celebrities in the world.

Outside, there is the outer city, which is the largest in the whole Luoyang City, and it is also divided into many different exclusive areas, such as a street that can only be engaged in commerce, a residential area that can only live in people, and some markets that are engaged in various bulk items.

In short, the new capital city already has the standards of a cosmopolitan city, with all the facilities you need.

After Zhang Yan and Zhang Hong visited the Yanwang Mansion, it was not early, so Zhang Yan and Zhang Hong went out of the Yanwang Mansion together, rode on horses, and headed out of the city.

These days, Zhang Yan has been living in the camp outside the city, because the construction of the city has not yet been completed, so there is construction waste everywhere, and the people live in various buildings at will, and they have become the first guests in Luoyang City.

After returning to the barracks, Zhang Hong asked people to serve warm hot wine, poured a full wine glass for Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan picked up the wine glass, drank it all, and then said to Zhang Hong: "I have been here for almost a month, and I am very satisfied with the construction of the new capital. ”

Zhang Hong waved his hand and said: "Serving His Royal Highness King Yan is what I should do, and these credits are not my alone, Hu Mudu's credit is the greatest, I am only responsible for coordinating in the periphery, and the entire construction project is personally grasped by him, in addition, the rest of the officials, large and small, have merit, all of them are indispensable, if King Yan really wants to reward me, it is better to directly divide these rewards equally, and reward them to Hu Mudu and others, which also shows that His Royal Highness King Yan has clear rewards and punishments." ”

Zhang Yan smiled and said, "If every official in the court can think like you, how good it would be." Over the years, I have put you in this dilapidated place in Luoyang, which is really hard for you. After the construction of the new Luoyang City is completed, it will become the capital, and Henan Yin will suddenly become a person with real power. There is no one more suitable for this position than you. ”

"Thank you Your Royal Highness King Yan for your trust in your subordinates, your subordinates will do their best to govern the land of Gyeonggi in the future!" Zhang Hong said directly.

At this moment, a brocade guard walked in from outside, and when he saw Zhang Yan, he hugged his fists and said, "His Royal Highness King Yan, Zhou Yuncong is asking to see you outside." ”

"Oh? Let him in. After Zhang Yan heard this, he suddenly had a trace of excitement. Because he knew that Zhou Yuncong generally did not have any important things, and he would never come in person easily, and he came in person, which means that there are very important things.

After a while, Zhou Yuncong walked in from outside the tent, and after seeing Zhang Yan, he directly bowed: "Subordinate Zhou Yuncong, see His Royal Highness King Yan!" ”

"Excuse me, you must have something important to do this time, right?" Zhang Yan asked.

Zhou Yuncong nodded, took out a letter from his arms, stood up from the ground, walked straight to Zhang Yan's side, handed the letter to Zhang Yan, and said: "This letter was written by Sima Yi, he asked me to deliver it to His Highness as quickly as possible, but due to a heavy snowfall on the way, it was delayed for some time, and it was not delivered until today, I hope Your Highness will forgive me." ”

"It doesn't matter." As Zhang Yan spoke, he opened Sima Yi's letter, and after hurriedly browsing it, his brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan", and the expression on his face looked a little ugly.

After reading it, Zhang Yan put down the letter in his hand, squirmed his lips, and said slowly: "I really didn't expect that Liu Bei's death would bring about so many series of changes, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei actually took refuge in Sun Quan, isn't this a good sign......"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yan handed the letter in his hand to Zhang Hong, and said, "You can also take a look!" ”

Zhang Hong took the letter, and after reading it hurriedly, he immediately said: "It turns out that Sima Yi, the champion of the imperial examination back then, was deliberately placed in the enemy by His Royal Highness. Judging from Sima Yi's letter, it seems that he has mastered the entire situation of Jingzhou, as long as His Royal Highness sends troops, he can take Jingzhou without bloodshed, so that no matter how much Sun Quan is eyeing him, he will not dare to act rashly. His Royal Highness can actively train the naval army in Jingzhou, accumulate strength, wait for a good opportunity, and when the time is ripe, our army will attack Sun Quan from the east, west and north respectively, even if Sun Quan has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to resist the army of our army. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yan nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then I will not stay in Luoyang for a long time, I will go to Nanyang, sit there, and start to dispatch troops and generals, ready to subdue Jingzhou!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yan immediately wrote a reply letter to Sima Yi, and then handed the letter to Zhou Yuncong, and said: "If you work hard for another trip, after Jingzhou becomes the territory of our army, you don't have to run back and forth so hard, I will transfer you back and stay by my side." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness!" Zhou Yuncong took Zhang Yan's reply, said goodbye to Zhang Yan, rushed back to Jingzhou overnight, and returned to Sima Yi.

Early the next morning, after Zhang Yan had breakfast, he rode a white dragon horse and hurried to Nanyang, preparing to make a move on Jingzhou.

At the same time in Jingzhou, Liu Qi was still guarding his father's spirit, but rumors were already flying all over the city inside and outside Xiangyang City, and I don't know who leaked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to surrender to Sun Quan, and worked hard for Sun Quan, seized the four counties of Jingnan, and prepared to wash the news of Jingzhou in blood.

In short, everyone in Xiangyang City is panicked, and they don't know what to do...... (To be continued......)