ancient rhythms could reassert themselves china was safe from turmoil within and enemies without. the wise turned his hand to designing the new fulcrum around which his celestial kingdom would turn. the home of his divine breed the emperors would echo that cosmic status he called it said. heavenly forbid and city. before the first towns could be laid your vision would require ten years of planning design and stockpiling. the plans called for nearly a thousand buildings pavilions called chance and gardens.

offices drafted an army of one million laborers and scoured the empire for the finest craftsman ten thousand in all. in a process unchanged in century of fine clay bricks a home to a precise fit on sunday. after they have made a journey of more than a thousand miles from the foundry where they are banked. it took twenty million of these bricks to pave the coal jobs alone. the palaces themselves are built almost entirely of timber. decorative wooden pillars came from tropical hardwood forests and took up to four years to reach beijing.

this magnificently. three hundred times. twenty thousand men and thousands of mules and horses. the builders waited for winter. on the roadway.

for after a decade of the complex took just three years to build a. mythical creatures took their place on rooftops to ward off lightning. and crown a new imperial city arisen in the north china plain. behind . guarded by fearsome lions palaces ceremonial hot.

war his nobles ministers generals. his divine person. on the terraces of the palaces largest building. the majestic whole of supreme homage. in these carefully choreographed ceremony. marker stones reminded each tanda bera general and bureaucrat of his station. at the crack of a with and the cry kowtow the magic would begin thousands fell to their knees as one pressing their heads against the paved floor while straining for a glimpse of a god the exulted son of having.

basking in waves of adoration the emperor retreated behind clouds of incense to the magnificent golden thread. these were moments of cosmic ritual ceremonies meant to radiate harmony out into every corner of the empire. for leaders like young a brilliant scholar and general the livia dragon was a fitting mantle. for other employees however crushing weight proved too much. behind the whole of supreme harmony the emperor's living quarters

a domestic labyrinth presided over by an army of castrated male servants eunuchs who once numbered twenty thousand weak emperors surrendered influence to these grasping manipulative slaves. at the palace women did not fare as well. most lived out for long lives as chambermaid. with death there only deliverance from the gilded cage. from the hall of heavenly purity. day to day demands of state. it was the machinery of empire. run from the fabulous nine dragons.

that was ultimately seized by a county of competitors in the units. she was a clerk. who by the end of her life dared to sit on the sacred chest. called the dragon empress but. she squandered the vitality of the once mighty sons of heaven indulgence and corruption. with her grandson who in china's two thousand year lineage of others came in. with the rise of the republic in one nine hundred twelve the new president made a prisoner in the forbidden city. soon after he outlawed the monarchy altogether.

but. it was the end of pomp but not of richard i. just saw now a new kind of pilgrimage takes place here every day thousands pour into the in a court. not to kowtow to a god. but to pay their respects to a monumental pos especially if captured in a stone and. not. as the break with a. group

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