The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

In the south of the city, there are mainly wine, rice and teahouses, Kunqu opera theaters, brothels and Chu houses.All in all, it is a place for wealthy Chinese and foreign businessmen, sailors to guard, relax and provide top-level entertainment.In Yan Song's plan, this place will be the place where Ming culture is exported, and it will also be a gold-selling cave that will generate a lot of money.

You must know that these businessmen who traveled thousands of miles and sailed to Ming Dynasty are all the richest people in the world. A sailor on the ocean, risking his life is also extremely rewarding.After one voyage, they were rich and rich, and they drifted at sea for several months, eager to vent their waste.With Yan Song's shrewdness, if he doesn't squeeze out these people's money, it's unreasonable!

In his plan, Tianjin's Nancheng District will become a new landmark and entertainment center of Daming beyond the Qinhuai River.

Commercial in the east of Tianjin, offices in the north, and red light district in the south.

This is the general pattern of the future city. In order to protect the safety of the city, the western part of Tianjin has become a military center.

Yan Song plans to set up a large camp outside the west gate to station the troops of Tianjin Wei. At the same time, an outer city will be built in the west to protect small merchants and hawkers from the surrounding countryside, and prevent Mongolian cavalry from breaking into the Xuanda defense line once they bypass the Xuanda defense line. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, they will come to Tianjin to harass the city and loot supplies.

Considering Mongolia's current situation of continuous natural disasters and famines, and considering that the previous Mongolian attacks on the city of Beijing were all looted, this situation is by no means unfounded.

Yan Song plans to expand and build an army to guard Tianjin with Zuo Xuanwuwei and Tianjin Wei as the core.Since Tianjin will become the new economic center of the Ming Dynasty, and the economic giant in the north is facing the possibility of a triple attack by Japanese pirates, Mongolia, and the White Lotus Sect, at least 5 troops should be stationed here.

In Yan Song's design, the entire city of Tianjin is not square and square, with strict rules.The city is stretching, and the factories and workshops are dotted with unique ingenuity.

Seeing Yan Song's design, Hai Rui, officials, business tycoons, and missionaries were dumbfounded.

"Mr. Yan Ge really has big valleys!" Qian Guangjin smiled so much that his eyes narrowed: "Such a big deal is completely centered on the economy, especially the financial industry as a pillar industry in Tianjin, which is so important. I am really Eye-opening."

The other tycoons rolled their eyes, saying that you, Qian Guangjin, received all kinds of stares elsewhere, but you have become a leading industry in Tianjin, giving priority to development, so of course you are happy.

"But why is Mr. Yan Ge so worried?" Shen Wansan was a little surprised: "The progress of this project is progressing smoothly, the Bailian believers bowed their heads and listened, and even Wang Bengu was driven back to Beijing. Recently, Mr. Yan Ge is a little worried."

"Ugly!" As soon as Yan Song opened his mouth, these people fell down.

"What's ugly?" Hai Rui stared, puzzled and said, "I think Tianjin New City is quite well designed."

Yan Song sighed: "Although the design of Tianjin is perfect in function, it is not beautiful~gan!"

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He had a look of concern for the country and the people: "I Yan Song designed this Tianjin, a thousand-year plan, how can it be so ugly? I need beauty~gan! I want to make Daming, the world, and future generations all amazed at this great city !"

Hai Rui took off the worn-out mille-soled shoes that he had walked on the construction site for the past few days as a supervisor, and a smell of stinky feet soaked in seawater diffused, causing everyone around to frown.

Hai Rui didn't care about his image, he just sat on the rock, looked at Yan Song who was mad because of the lack of beauty in the design of Tianjin New City, took out a needle without any image, broke the blisters on the soles of his feet, and snorted coldly. Said: "Yan Song, I think you are full. What beauty~gan? What's the use? I am a person who pays attention to practicality and hard work. Those castles in the air are not useful!"

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Immediately stood up, shaking his head like a rattle: "Wrong! Wrong! Lord Hai Rui, although I know this will hurt your self-esteem as an official of Ming Dynasty, but I still have to say that Ming Dynasty crushed Western Europe in terms of national strength and culture. The country, but only in terms of architectural design and beauty~gan, Daming architecture emphasizes symmetry and majesty, but it lacks agility and exquisiteness, that is, it lacks the beauty~gan that Mr. Yan Ge wanted. A delicate, elegant and beautiful city will give It leaves a deep impression on people.”

"Yeah..." Yan Song was shaking his head and sighing, but Chen Yuanyuan, who followed him, heard about this and sent someone to hand over a note with a name written on it.

"Oh?" Yan Song's eyes lit up: "This person can really do it!"

On that note was a person named "Xu Wei"!

Xu Wei, Xu Wenchang!

Xu Wei, a native of Shanyin, Shaoxing Prefecture (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang).Originally written as Wenqing and later changed to Wenchang, he was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, dramatist, and military strategist in the Ming Dynasty.

Together with Xie Jin and Yang Shen, Xu Wei became the three talents of the Ming Dynasty. His calligraphy and painting art can be regarded as the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty, which has an important influence on later generations.

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Xu Wei in history can be said to be a fighter of the [Dao Yan] faction.

But the current history, rolling wheels, has already been pitted into the abyss of confusion by Yan Song.

At this time, Xu Wei had already become Yan Song's brain-dead fan. After passing the imperial examination last time, he followed Yan Song's footsteps in the southern tour of the world and went south to Shandong.Then Yan Song arranged to follow Bao Zheng to work in Shandong for two years, and presided over part of the overall planning of the "Shandong Five-Year Construction Plan".

Moreover, during the work period, he also showed his architectural talent and designed many beautiful and practical buildings.

Talents like this who come to design Tianjin will certainly greatly enhance the design beauty of Tianjin, making Tianjin a work of art full of oriental calligraphy and painting, like the "September [-]" forest in Suzhou Garden.

Yan Song had a good impression of Xu Wei, so he sent someone to recruit Xu Wei to Tianjin, hired him as the art director, and let him display his strengths.

The so-called broken iron shoes can't find a place, it doesn't take much effort to get it.

Yan Song was thinking about Xu Wei's idea, but he didn't expect that three days later, a ship from Rome brought an unexpected person.

A ship from Rome, Italy, sailed into the coastal waters of Tianjin and lowered a small boat.

On the boat, a middle-aged man with unkempt hair, tattered clothes, a big beard, and bright eyes with curly hair was very desolate. He was imprisoned on the boat by iron chains, and several religious inquisitors stared at him.

He was of medium height, with broad shoulders, a thin body, a large head, high eyebrows, ears protruding from his cheeks, a long and melancholy face, a low nose, and sharp but small eyes. .

As the boat approached the shore, Dou and Nimad, who had received the news in advance, went up to meet it.

"The Holy See, has the second batch of heretics been caught so quickly and sent to Daming?" Immediately, they felt inconceivable.

A sullen, executioner-like inquisitor showed a gloomy smile: "I heard that you sold that mad mathematician (Descartes) for 2 taels of silver and exchanged it for 20 gold louis." Wealth is highly valued by the top of the Holy See. The archbishops in red immediately instructed us to ship all the prisoners who were imprisoned by the Holy See to be sent to the stake and send them to Daming."

Another inquisitor, who was escorting the transport, was so excited that he laughed and said, "This Daming is really rich and stupid. There are as many of these lunatics as there are in Europe, and they can be transported to Daming to exchange for huge amounts of silver and gold?"

He pointed at the decadent bearded middle-aged man, and taunted: "We have as many of these things as we want in Italy! You should be thankful that God did not abandon you, but exiled you in this foreign land .”

He glanced at the construction site of Tianjin Port, which was in full swing, and asked in confusion, "Huh? What are they doing?"

Several religious inquisitions were completely shocked by the situation in front of them.

There are more than 30 people in Tianjin Port, using various tools, shouting neatly, pushing reinforced concrete and other building materials they have never seen before, and building a sea area.

The middle-aged man looked up, and a bright light burst out in his eyes: "Bai~chi, they are building a port!"