Nu Yalang of Tang Dynasty

Pang Gong was in low spirits, and after talking to Zhou Jun for a while, he felt a little sleepy, so he asked the latter to go back and rest first.

Zhou Jun came out of the hall. The Qu family and his son had just planted green plants in the courtyard. When they saw the former coming out, they all came forward to salute.

Zhou Jun nodded and walked with the Qu family and his son out of Pang Gong's courtyard.

The group of people walked out of the main gate of the Central Garden and came to the Outer Garden.

Zhou Jun saw many new faces in the garden and asked Qu Sanweng.

The latter replied: "Those are the new slaves signed by the master's family years ago."

Zhou Jun asked: "New slave?"

Qu Sanweng: "King Shou came to Bieyuan with his family on the Lantern Festival, and there were many distinguished guests accompanying him. They were repairing the courtyard and waiting for people. There was really not enough manpower. The master was worried that he would neglect the guests, so he asked me and the master of the Fan family to accompany him.

I took Mr. Qiu to sign some more slaves."

Seeing Zhou Jun's silence, Qu Sanweng thought that the other party had scruples, and said quickly: "Erlang, some of these new servants are familiar refugees from Duckweed House, and some are Gu who have experienced their background in Zhongshi."

He is polite and diligent in his work, and he is also obedient and polite."

Zhou Jun asked Qu Sanweng: "How many servants are there in the garden together?"

Qu Sanweng: "There are more than sixty people at the moment."

Zhou Jun: "Can we stay in Waiyuan?"

Qu Sanweng: "Lao Qiu asked the tribe to give up some places, so we can stay here now."

Zhou Jun pondered for a moment and said to Qu Sanweng: "I intend to expand the garden."

Qu Sanweng was stunned: "Expansion?"

Zhou Jun nodded and said: "This Bachuan Villa is originally a walking garden. Although the layout is exquisite, it really can't accommodate many people. Today, the eldest son of Huihe Ye Huzhi moved in again. I'm worried that there will be more guests in the future, but there will be nowhere to live."

Liveable.”

Qu Sanweng scratched his head and asked: "If you want to expand, how to build it and where to build it?"

Zhou Jun: "With Bieyuan as the center, it is built around the lakeside."

Having said this, Zhou Jun picked up a branch, found a piece of mud, and started writing on it.

He first drew a straight line on the dirt and said, "This is the street."

He then drew many adjacent squares on both sides of the straight line and said, "This is a house."

Qu Sanweng looked at it strangely and said: "This layout is not like a square, but more like a city."

In the Tang Dynasty, private houses were built into a courtyard-style structure based on the number of floors in and out of the house, depending on the wealth of the owner.

In larger cities, due to the existence of the curfew system and the requirement to separate the city from the city, most of the private houses in the Tang Dynasty were in the form of independent courtyards, existing in square and rectangular lanes; while the shops were separated by streets.

The columns are on both sides, forming a city.

In the Song Dynasty, the curfew system was gradually abolished. Coupled with commercial prosperity, population growth and other reasons, Lifang disintegrated into a mix of commercial streets, private houses, shops, and government buildings. They were no longer strictly differentiated from each other, and the architectural layout became more flexible.

The population density in limited space has also been greatly improved.

Therefore, the most common situation in urban planning in the Song Dynasty was dense buildings, crowded population, narrow streets, buildings with eaves, etc.

Zhou Jun's current idea is to use the layout of the Song Dynasty as a template for the expansion project of Bachuan Villa to create a quasi-commercial street that can be used for both commercial and residential purposes, save building materials, and improve land use efficiency.

While Zhou Jun was thinking about it, he told Qu Sanweng about the houses with eaves that he had seen in history books.

Qu Sanweng listened for a long time and finally understood Zhou Jun's intention.

Zhou Jun was also thankful that there were now convenient building materials such as fire clay, which could withstand the building strength of the eaves. Otherwise, if he had only relied on the original rammed earth from the Tang Dynasty to build the walls, he would have needed additional reinforcement and piling.

Zhou Jun then said to Qu Sanweng: "Since building a house by the lakeside involves the proportion of fire clay, wooden beams and masonry, you don't need to build too many houses at first. You can first connect two eaves to test the strength.

After confirming that there is no problem, expand the construction to both sides."

Qu Sanweng agreed and said to Zhou Jun: "The fire clay used in the garden was all provided by that Silla man Jin Youji. I heard that he went to Dongdu. In a few days, I will go to Chang'an to find

He said it."

After hearing this, Zhou Jun was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said to Qu Sanweng: "I'm afraid Jin Youji won't be able to come back. As for the fire clay, I'll look for another source. Qu Weng will just choose the site."

And design is.”

Qu Sanweng was confused, but when he saw Zhou Jun's serious expression, he didn't dare to ask in detail, so he just agreed.

After bidding farewell to Qu Sanweng, Zhou Jun returned to his small courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Hua Yue, Rou Xing and several other girls he didn't know, gathering together to talk and laugh.

The first time they saw Zhou Jun, the girls were as frightened as quails and kept hiding behind him.

On the contrary, Rou Xing, who had just become a wife, was much more courageous than before, so she stepped forward and said Wan Fu to Zhou Jun.

Huayue pulled the girl who was hiding behind and introduced them one by one. Zhou Jun listened and found that these women were all from new servant households.

After chatting with everyone for a few words, Zhou Jun returned to the study room in the courtyard, spread out the paper, and began to recall the natural disasters during Tianbao's fifth year in the Tang Dynasty.

In official histories such as "New Book of Tang" and "Tang Huiyao", the number of natural disasters recorded during the Tianbao period was far less than that during the Kaiyuan period.

But this does not mean that the Tianbao Year will be more prosperous than the Kaiyuan Year.

On the contrary, the number of natural disasters during the Tianbao period increased compared with the Kaiyuan period.

A large part of the reason why there are fewer disasters recorded in official history is because the imperial officials and local officials worked together to deceive the emperor, creating an illusion that the world was peaceful and without trouble or disaster.

Among them, one of the most famous events was the flood and drought that occurred in the twelfth year of Tianbao and lasted for one year and eight months. There was no harvest in Guanzhong, Henan, and Hedong, and people starved to death everywhere. There were even Yi

The situation of eating human meat and selling human flesh privately.

In order to conceal the disaster, Yang Guozhong actually showed Li Longji a bunch of plump ears of wheat, saying that it was a big plump warehouse and the price of grain was cheap.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This unprecedented disaster with serious consequences was not officially recorded in official history until after the Anshi Rebellion, and even if it was recorded by historians, the affected areas were only described as only in

The specific disaster situation in the Guanzhong area is even more unclear.

It was not until the emergence of other historical materials that later generations of historians became aware of the wide scope and great impact of this disaster in the twelfth year of Tianbao.

Therefore, if you want to understand the natural disasters during the Tianbao period, you must not only read the official history, but also have a lot of information, which comes from Buddhist and Taoist records.

For example, the "Biography of Eminent Monks" written by Huijiao, a Liang monk in the Southern Dynasty, and the "Extended Biography of Eminent Monks" written by Daoxuan of the Tang Dynasty after the Liang Dynasty. The volumes of "Magic" and "Xingfu" in it all record the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty.

, those natural disasters not included in official history.

In the complete edition of "History of Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties" published by Zhonghua Book Company in the previous life, these two volumes were used as appendices to the official history and were printed at the end of the book. Zhou Jun happened to be reading this version.

Zhou Jun carefully recalled the history books, and he discarded some of the natural disasters that happened in the time and region because he couldn't remember them clearly. Finally, he selected seven natural disasters that occurred in Tianbao's five years and wrote them down in the Yinglong Heavenly Book.

After finishing writing, Zhou Jun put the Yinglong quotation compiled by Kong You at the beginning of the book.

Then he held the pen in his left hand and covered up the handwriting. Zhou Jun copied the entire heavenly book and finally set the manuscript on fire.

At this point, Tianbao's five-year Yinglong Heavenly Book is completed.

At this time, Hua Yue also finished talking to Rou Xing and the others and walked into the house.

Zhou Jun handed the Yinglong Heavenly Book into Hua Yue's hands and told Yi Yi's residence in Chang'an.

Huayue opened the book and read it. Knowing that the matter was important, she said that the next time she went to the city with the Qu family to do business, she quietly went to Yisi's residence and put the book at his door.

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