To meet the demand for new housing and commercial space, Zhou expanded the city and simultaneously widened the streets of the old city, which had become so clogged by illegal structures that large carts could not even pass through some of them.
為了適應居住與商業發展的需要，周世宗擴建汴京城，同時大刀闊斧地將大梁舊城中侵佔街衢、蓋違建，以致大車無法通行的街道拓寬。