After the end of the feudal dynasty, the monarchy of that year disappeared from the emperor and disappeared into the long river of history. However, although history has become a thing of the past, every piece of history will leave some legacy, so when the emperor disappeared, in the center of the former capital, there was still a magnificent Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City, now known as the Forbidden City, is currently the most important tourist attraction in China, and it is full of bread and bread, brick by brick, recording the glory of the feudal era.
But then again, although the Forbidden City has lost its former golden splendor, by chance, experts touched the floor tiles here, and as a result, they couldn't help but inhale a cool breath. It turns out that the glory of the Forbidden City is not only reflected in the gold and silver jewelry and the emperor inside, but also in the floor tiles that many people have not noticed.
When it comes to the glorious atmosphere of the Forbidden City, many people may think of the emperor in the Forbidden City, and as interpreted in the TV series, there are golden splendor everywhere and all kinds of antiques everywhere. It should be said that this kind of scene has existed in the past, and it is more magnificent than we imagined, but the feudal emperors of that year are gone, so the natural golden splendor and antiques have disappeared.
However, although the Forbidden City has lost its former glory, the prosperity of the Forbidden City has not disappeared, but our eyes cannot see it, because they are deeply hidden underground.
At the beginning, everyone did not find out, even the experts and professors in the Forbidden City did not know much, but by chance, the experts needed to repair the floor of the Forbidden City, and as a result, when the experts opened the underground to take a look, they were immediately frightened. It turns out that the grandeur of the Forbidden City is not only reflected above, but also below.
It is worth saying that the experts did not find gold and silver jewelry in the ground, nor did they find great antiques, just brick after brick. But it is these bricks, they have a very unique arrangement structure, and the fine workmanship of each brick makes modern people a little ashamed.
Maybe everyone will wonder when they see this, how much value can a brick have? And we have not heard that the Manchu Emperor carried out large-scale construction of floor tiles, could it be that the experts were mistaken? The answer is not wrong.
According to expert analysis, the underground structure of the Forbidden City was not carried out by the Manchu Emperor, but by Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng, who moved the capital to build the Forbidden City.
According to the analysis of experts, Zhu Di was personally responsible for supervising the design of the floor tiles of the imperial palace, of which the designers of these bricks were all the royal gold brick designers of the palace, and in the design process, these bricks should not only pay attention to their artistic color, but also pay attention to absolute solidity. When studying, it was found that a brick was dug out of the dirt and finally developed and formed, the process had to go through dozens of procedures, and there must be no damage, even if a bubble was generated during the development process, then the brick needed to be scrapped.
According to the data, the development cycle of a random floor tile in the Forbidden City takes 720 days. And what is even more terrifying is that in order to design such a brick, the value of its consumption even exceeds that of a gold brick, and even Zhu Di at that time could only produce 7,000 bricks in a short period of time, so the construction of the entire Forbidden City's floor tiles cost at least half of the country's wealth, and it also took a lot of time.
So the question is, if such a brick is converted to the current value, how much is it? The number is very scary, about the equivalent of 800,000. To be sure, 800,000 a brick, which is much more terrifying than an 800,000 square meter house, which is simply a luxury that ordinary people dare not think.
Of course, in addition to these best bricks, in terms of laying, Ming Chengzu also has very strict regulations, and the ground is a horizontal seven vertical eight structure - horizontal 7 floors, vertical row 8 floors. This structure makes the structure of the floor tiles very tight, which is extremely difficult if you want to destroy the formation, and it will cause huge noise and vibration during the casting process.
According to the historical records, when Ming Chengzu completed this huge amount of work, he once mobilized 200,000 excellent craftsmen, and in order to avoid some of them cutting corners, the name and place of origin of the responsible person were actually recorded on each floor tile, and if there was any problem, Ming Chengzu would directly kill other people's entire families. Under such terrible high pressure, it finally took 14 years to basically complete the foundation structure of the entire Forbidden City.
Seeing this, many people may wonder, why did Ming Chengzu spend so much effort and spend so much wealth to build floor tiles? The answer is simple. Because when Ming Chengzu rebelled, he once besieged the city of Nanjing, but there was no choice, and the city of Nanjing, which was built like an iron barrel by Zhu Yuanzhang, was destroyed by the attack.
Therefore, Ming Chengzu has always had a psychological shadow, afraid that one day his own city wall will be besieged by others, and he is also afraid of being easily breached by others. So, he frantically made up for it in every way, hoping to build a comfort zone that couldn't be penetrated.
Moreover, when Ming Chengzu attacked the city strategically, he participated in the war many times, and the best way to break through a city was to dig tunnels. Therefore, he has always been very strict about the requirements for floor tiles in the Forbidden City, which is also for his own safety.
I have to say that after reading these contents, even experts have to admit that Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty ancestor of that year, was indeed a fierce person. At that time, in order to seize the world, it can be said that he had stabbed the heavens, and the killing was even more to the point of cramping, and after he got the world, he was extremely defensive of everyone, and even the floor of the Forbidden City was repaired into a knife and gun, and this person was really a cruel person.
Therefore, now that we are looking back at the Forbidden City, we should not only focus on the gold and silver jewelry and antiques inside, in fact, the real valuable things may not be on the surface, but may be buried in the ground.
Even, perhaps the satirical novel of that year said very reasonable, everything in the Forbidden City is the most valuable, even a brick on the ground, can make a person eat and drink for a lifetime, according to this historical record, that is really not wrong. After all, a brick requires so much manpower and material resources, and the poverty and extravagance of the feudal era are really not exaggerated.
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