Sitianjian observed the celestial phenomena at night and read the "Book of Changes". Three days later, he finally gave a preliminary expansion plan: the east and west sides expanded outward from four and a half miles, and the north and south sides expanded outward from five and a half miles. Moreover, the four city walls did not conform to the feng shui of the imperial capital, so the inner city walls needed to be demolished, and the current outer city walls were used as the inner city walls to continue to maintain the current structure of the three city walls of the palace, inner city and outer city.

Si Tianjian said that he would do whatever he wanted. Yang Yi didn't say a word and immediately submitted the plan to the court for discussion.

As a result, Cai Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, jumped out to object fiercely. He listed twenty-six reasons for opposition in one go, which was amazing. Yang Yi was almost flooded by the saliva of the Minister of Cai.

In fact, everyone is very clear in their hearts. Whether it is the 26 reasons or 10,000 reasons. In the final analysis, it is simply that construction costs a lot. Cai Dashu probably tends to expand from one side, so the length of the city wall that needs to be built will be much smaller.

According to the expansion method of Sitianjian, the east and west will be expanded by four and a half miles, and the north and south will be expanded by five and a half miles. In addition, the current Tokyo city is seven miles wide and seven and a half miles long, a total of sixty-seven miles will be needed to build a city wall. Moreover, this is demolished and built again, so it will be a big deal.

It is true that the Song Dynasty has money now, but it cannot withstand such nonsense. It would be fine to expand the outer city, but it would also have to demolish the existing inner city wall. Could it be that the demolition of the city does not require money?

Cai Jing was so whispering that he rolled up his sleeves, as if he was about to pinch whoever stood up and argued. Yang Yi looked funny. Anyway, it was not a matter of expansion of the capital for a day or two. It would be no problem a month or a month later, and Yang Yi was not in a hurry. With the intention of watching the show, he saw Lord Cai as the leader.

Cai Jing sprayed for a long time and suddenly found that it was quiet in the court. No one stood up to refute him. Of course, no one agreed with him. A loneliness quietly climbed onto Cai Shangshu's face.

Alas, is this the fate of a master?

He looked at Yang Yi with some help, but Yang Yi pretended not to see anything. Yang Yi had already planned to not interrupt the question of how to arrange this. I am a human being, and I am having fun fighting with others, but letting me fight with shadowless ghosts and gods is obviously not a level one, so I won’t do such a stupid thing.

Moreover, Feng Shui is different from ghosts and gods in the strict sense. The reason why Feng Shui is still popular in the 21st century is that there is really a reason? Even Yang Yi, as a later generation, dared not completely deny the Feng Shui theory. Since he is not sure, he should do it based on the principle that he would rather believe in the existence than not.

The officials of the court did not speak out, and generally held this idea. The imperial capital was the residence of the emperor, and the so-called "the foundation of the deposition of the tripod is forever, and the infinite cause lies in this."

The Feng Shui of the imperial capital is a major event that concerns the country and the country. In the face of such things, officials who do not understand Feng Shui are not based on the position of "the son does not speak strange powers and chaos in the spirit", in other words, if they don't understand, I won't say anything.

Like the Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the terrain gradually lowered from south to north. Tai Chi Palace is located in the north of Chang'an City. Because the terrain of Tai Chi Palace is low, the temperature in Chang'an City is very high in midsummer and the heat is abnormal, making it very uncomfortable to live in Tai Chi Palace.

But what can you do?

The palace city symbolizes the North Star. Feng Shui should pay attention to the induction of heaven and man, and the unity of heaven and man. According to the location of the stars in the sky, the most noble Ziwei Palace is located in the center of the North Sky. It has the North Pole as the center, and there are fifteen stars surrounding it in the east and west vassals.

Ziwei Palace means an imperial palace. The emperor is the emperor, and the monarch on earth and the stars in the sky should correspond. Therefore, the palace can only be arranged in the central position to the north.

So even if you are the emperor, you can only endure it because it can correspond to the stars in the sky, unless you don’t want to be the emperor.

From this we can see that in Feng Shui, it is impossible to build an imperial capital.

The most important reason for Cai Jing's opposition is that the city of Tokyo is currently expanded on the basis of the old city. It is very irregular. Each wall in the outer city has a different length and is not a parallelogram. In Feng Shui, it has lost the basic concept of a round sky and a place. However, the Song Dynasty is as prosperous as it is now. It can be seen that when expanding, we should not pay too much attention to these, but should focus on practicality and saving.

From the perspective of the original intention, Yang Yi agreed with Cai Jing's statement, but the supervisor of the Sitian Supervisor Mo Yan immediately came out to say: "Empress Dowager, although the outer city of Tokyo is not very symmetrical at present, it corresponds to the surrounding earth veins and the stars in the sky. It is because I prospered in the Song Dynasty. This is why there was no symmetrical quadrilateral when the outer city was expanded. But now it is to expand, if as Cai Shangshu said, it is only for practicality and saving, then the Feng Shui of the imperial capital may be destroyed. Empress Dowager, no one can bear the responsibility!"

Empress Dowager Liu was a woman, and Mo Yan's words made her feel uneasy and even wanted to cancel the decision to expand so as not to destroy the original Feng Shui.

She asked quickly: "Mo Zheng, if you expand according to your current plan, can you ensure that it will not destroy the original Feng Shui pattern in Tokyo?"

Mo Yan replied solemnly: "Empress Dowager, this is related to the country and country of our Song Dynasty for generations. How dare I be careless? I watch the star position at night, and then correspond to the terrain around Tokyo. I check the numbers and calculate repeatedly before I dare to draw this conclusion."

"Okay, okay, that's great. Do you have other opinions? If you don't have any other opinions, then follow the plan of Mo Jizheng."

Regardless of whether others have any objections or not, Yang Yi himself will definitely not speak out. Even Cai Jing's mouth moved, and he didn't say anything else.

Mo Yan's words are very obvious. Whoever ignores the Feng Shui of the Imperial Capital has ulterior motives. No matter what problems there are in the future, you will have to bear this responsibility;

Who can afford this responsibility? A person like Cai Jing is relatively slick, so he will never take the blame for this thunder again.

After a while of discussion, the basic framework of the expanded capital was decided.

Yang Yi’s expansion training department can also be officially opened.

In the Ministry of Rites, Yang Yi once again gathered Shen Qingzhi, Sima Bofang, Wade, Su Jiawuro and others to announce the official start of the expansion work.

"Now the framework has been planned, with four and a half miles outwards on both sides of the east and west, and five and a half miles outwards on both sides of the north and south. In this framework, it depends on you how to implement it."

After Yang Yi finished speaking, Shen Qingzhi hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, the Chang'an City in the former Tang Dynasty was more than 19 miles long from north to south and more than 17 miles wide from east to west. If it is expanded according to the plan of Sitianjian, the expanded Tokyo City will be only 18 and a half miles long from north to south and only 16 miles wide from east to west, which is slightly smaller than the Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty;

The population of Chang'an City in the former Tang Dynasty was only about 500,000. At present, the population of Dongjucheng has reached 1.5 million. This number is still growing year by year. If this continues, in another twenty or thirty years, Tokyo City will face the dilemma of overcrowding again. Sir, the opportunity is rare. Why don’t we strive to expand the city at one time to ensure a hundred years of worry-free life.”

Yang Yi thought for a while and said, "No need, since Si Tianjian has made a conclusion, it is useless to argue. In addition, I personally believe that whether from the perspective of urban management or military defense, the bigger the city, the better;

As for urban management, if the city is too large and the population is too large, the pressure on water supply, drainage, transportation, sanitation and other aspects will increase several times, which will lead to a significant increase in management costs. If the management is not in place, it will be dirty and messy, which is extremely easy to breed various epidemics;

From the perspective of military defense, it is easy to disperse defense capabilities too large, resulting in empty space everywhere. If a large number of troops are stationed in the city, it will further increase the burden on the city, which is very unwise;

Nowadays, it is basically enough to have the size of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. As for the pressure of population expansion in twenty or thirty years, there is no need to expand the capital. As long as we build a few more small cities around like Taiyuan Prefecture and divert the population out, in terms of military defense, the capital and these satellite cities are mutually supportive, which is also conducive to defense."

Shen Qingzhi, Sima Bofang and others thought about it carefully and had to admit that Yang Yi's words made sense.

Now Tokyo City is only seven and a half miles long from north to south and only seven miles wide from east to west. It has a total area of ​​about 50 square miles, and can accommodate 1.5 million people;

If the east and west expand four and a half miles and five and a half miles from north to south, the total area will reach 296 square miles, which will increase nearly six times the area compared to the original. It will not be a problem to accommodate three million people in the future.

In general, although it is still a little smaller than the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Yi thought it was enough.

He took out paper and pen, drew a rough and simple drawing, and said: "The traffic congestion problem in Tokyo has always been very prominent. This problem must be solved in this expansion. Now that the inner city wall is to be demolished, the cleared open space cannot be sold after it is demolished. A twenty-square-wide avenue must be built on both sides of the moat to alleviate the current traffic pressure of congestion in the inner city."

The inner city wall was built during the Tang Dynasty. It also has protection and river construction. Considering that the outer city is lost, it has to rely on the inner city to continue to defend, so there have been always spaces left in both the inner and outer walls.

Now that the inner city wall is to be removed, its defense function is no longer needed. Yang Yi immediately thought of using it to build an inner ring road.

Since the original Tokyo City was expanded on the old city and there was no complete plan, there were almost no roads connecting north and south or east to west. In this case, the most ideal way to alleviate the traffic pressure in the city is undoubtedly to build more Ringcheng Roads.
Chapter completed!