[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them":3,"chapter-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-327":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Transmigrated to the Northern Song with Them",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2319217,4535,"Chapter 327: Move the Capital to Beijing, Establish the Forbidden City; the Jurchens Seek Survival Through Risky Moves","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-327",327,"\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhao Yu renamed Yanjing as “Beijing,” officially establishing it as the new capital of the Great Song, and adopting Zhang Chun’s suggestion to name the new imperial palace “Zijincheng,” large numbers of Han people chose to move north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They included Song officials, artisans, laborers, shrewd merchants, and members of powerful clans sent ahead to prepare for their families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the influence of these Han settlers, the Yan-Yun region was no longer dominated by Hu and Han-adjacent peoples, but gradually became truly Han-populated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was not a misfortune for the region’s original inhabitants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The influx of Han people into Beijing brought enormous commercial opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just consider housing prices—they had multiplied many times over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All one needed to do was sell their original home and secure generations of food and clothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—The new Beijing was not built atop the old Yanjing, but primarily on a much broader area north of it, with the former Yanjing absorbed into its boundaries as a part of the new city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Specifically:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Officials from the Ministry of Works carefully surveyed the surroundings of Yanjing, studying topography, hydrology, and geology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The site selection for the new Beijing was critical, requiring consideration of defense, fengshui, transportation, and future urban development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They consulted numerous ancient texts and drew on historical precedents for capital locations, ultimately choosing the alluvial fan plain of the Yongding River—its terrain higher in the northwest and lower in the southeast, avoiding flood threats while facilitating drainage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This location had mountains to the north as a natural barrier, open land to the south for urban expansion, and the Gaoliang and Jinshui Rivers flowing along its eastern and western sides, ensuring ample water supply and convenient water transport—an ideal site for a capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, as a capital governed by Confucian ritual, its planning strictly followed the principles of “Harmony between Heaven and Humanity” and “Imperial Authority at the Center”:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After site selection came the planning and design phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ministry of Works assembled the nation’s finest architects and craftsmen to draft detailed blueprints for the new Beijing and Zijincheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The layout of the new Beijing followed traditional capital norms: square and symmetrical, centered on a north-south axis dividing the city into eastern and western halves. Its streets crisscrossed, with main roads wide and level enough for seventy carts to travel side by side, while secondary roads and alleys tightly connected all urban districts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, the construction of the new Beijing fully incorporated fengshui principles:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Centered on Zijincheng, the axis extended from Yongding Gate to the Bell Tower, with all major buildings symmetrically arranged along it to emphasize the emperor’s “central” and “supreme” authority;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Yanshan Mountains to the north as a backrest, the Yongding River to the left and the Chaobai River to the right, the Nanyuan park to the south, and the Bell and Drum Towers to the north, forming the traditional fengshui pattern of the “Four Spirits Guarding”;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The imperial city enclosed Zijincheng, the inner city enclosed the imperial city, and the outer city protected the southern sector, creating a “city-within-a-city” hierarchical structure reflecting the graded order of “imperial authority Cengcenggongwei .”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The design of Zijincheng was of paramount importance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike traditional wooden structures, both the new Beijing and Zijincheng employed the most advanced and mature reinforced concrete construction of the era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This structure was sturdy, durable, highly fire-resistant, and far superior in defense to wooden buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ensure quality, the Ministry of Works dispatched personnel early on to select the finest steel and cement from across the Great Song—steel with high strength and toughness, cement with rapid setting and high hardness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Zhao Yu demanded not only quality but also speed, the Ministry of Works planned for 500,000 artisans and 3 million laborers to work simultaneously, divided into specialized teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the new Beijing would adopt the sewage and water supply system proposed jointly by Zhang Chun’s five daughters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this, Ma Xiao Jiao invented tap water, faucets, showerheads, flush toilets, bathroom fixtures, basins, flush valves, valve cores, bathroom accessories, and bathtubs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—In fact, China’s earliest water supply project was designed by Su Shi. Twenty years earlier, during his exile in Huizhou, he addressed the problem of residents in Guangzhou drinking alkaline, brackish water by proposing to channel spring water from the Dishi Rock on Pujian Mountain into the city via bamboo pipes, and he drew detailed construction plans. The project was completed two years later, becoming China’s earliest ancient water supply system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, what Zhang Chun’s five daughters devised was not such a simple water system, but a highly advanced sewage and water supply network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be clear, the reason Zhang Chun’s five daughters went to such lengths was merely for their own convenience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, they had already begun developing this system during the construction of Yanfu Palace, though it was still immature then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After more than a decade of research and refinement, the system had now become highly mature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the primary material used in Zhang Chun’s five daughters’ sewage and water supply system was not iron or steel, but ceramic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They did not avoid steel out of preference—they simply lacked the steelmaking technology to produce durable steel pipes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ceramic, however, was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, since the Qin and Han dynasties, China had widely used ceramic pipes—for example, Han-era Chang’an had ceramic drainage systems—and Song-era techniques were even more advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, ceramic pipes had limitations—brittle, vulnerable to heavy impact—but for underground installations primarily transporting liquids, these drawbacks were minimal, even negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be noted that during the planning of the new Beijing, the five daughters even reserved space for future electrical wiring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because Ma Xiao Jiao had recently invented direct current and arc lamps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a few years, the new Beijing would enter the era of electric lighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In sum, the new Beijing was both a fortress of immense defensive strength built from reinforced concrete and a human paradise blending advanced technology with traditional wisdom, radiating prosperity and comfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the new Beijing’s blueprints took shape, 500,000 artisans and 3 million laborers flooded into this land like a tide, their roles clearly defined, their coordination seamless, and under the meticulous organization and supervision of the Ministry of Works, construction of the new Beijing and Zijincheng proceeded steadily…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, having renamed Yanjing as the Great Song’s Beijing, Zhao Yu also adjusted the other capitals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eastern Capital remained unchanged: Kaifeng Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Western Capital shifted from Luoyang to Chang’an.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Capital moved from Shangqiu to Jiangning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Zhao Yu ordered the Western and Southern Capitals to accelerate construction so the court could better control the west and south.\u003C\u002Fp>",1110,"2026-06-20T15:06:50.687Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","96fbeb19c3fe41432b270518f1e9fbbf2368ce92f91c9c3e9c6466996dd19b19","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-328","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-326",348,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-cover.jpg"]