The construction of the old mountain palace has lasted for several years, and now it can only be said that it is beginning to take shape, and it is still too early to be fully completed!

Different from the sloppy attitude during the construction of the palace in Nanjing, Zhu Cihong invested heavily in the construction of the old mountain palace and put a lot of thought into it.

Let's talk about the blood first, but from the area occupied by the old mountain palace, you can know how much Emperor Zhu has invested!

Laoshan Gongque is roughly the territory between Laoshan and Chuhe, including Laoshan. This piece of land is about 36 miles long and nearly 20 miles wide, which is almost 180 square kilometers! More than half of them are mountainous areas, and 80 square kilometers of flat land...... That's 120,000 acres! These lands alone are worth more than three million taels!

The 120,000 acres of land are divided into four parts, one is the horse farm, which accounts for about 80,000 acres, and is located in the middle and east (northeast) parts of the flat area of Laoshan Palace.

The second is the palace, located in the southwest of the flat area of the Laoshan Palace, covering an area of more than 5,000 acres, which is similar to the historical Beijing Old Summer Palace. However, it was not so extravagant, and the construction cost was less than 3 million taels, all of which were contracted by the Royal Chamber of Commerce - the construction cost of the entire Laoshan Palace came from the Royal Chamber of Commerce.

The third is the town, which is also in the southwest of the flat area of the old mountain palace, covering an area of 15,000 acres, not only a market, but also a large number of official residences, yamen and schools - in fact, this is the new administrative center of the Ming Empire!

When the Laoshan Palace is fully completed, Emperor Zhu and the Ming court will live in Laoshan for a long time during their stay in Nanjing.

The fourth part of the flat area of the old mountain palace is the old mountain camp! The camp covers an area of 20,000 acres and includes a castle, several barracks, warehouses and a military mule and horse farm.

The fifth part of the old mountain palace is the old mountain itself, which is not very tall, and now it is also enclosed with a wooden fence and has become a hunting ground.

The reason why Emperor Zhu wanted to establish a "new capital" in Laoshan, which was very close to the economic center of the Ming Dynasty (in fact, it was not a new capital, and had not yet left the Tianfu boundary), was to effectively control the economic center and cultivate the force of the nobles as much as possible, and at the same time to be far away from the proletariat in Nanjing...... Zhu Cihong has never forgotten that he is a feudal monarch, and he doesn't like any bourgeois revolution or proletarian revolution at all!

Of course, he is not afraid now! Whoever dares to revolutionize, he will revolutionize whose life first!

The question is, can Zhu Hexing be able to suppress it in the future? That's worrying......

Emperor Zhu had just come out of the Tangquan Palace where he and Wu Sanmei lived, riding a folded horse, walking in the spacious and quiet Laoshan Palace with a group of palace maids, eunuchs, and guards, and remembered that he took a group of baby soldiers to Laoshan to hunt yesterday.

The so-called "baby soldiers" are the students of the boys' school of Laoshan Middle School and the boy scouts in the Laoshan Camp Junior Camp.

Most of the former are the children of nobles, and the rest are the sons of "good creditors of the Ming Dynasty" who bought many bonds in the sixth year of Hongxing.

And the latter is a young man selected from the eight-sided feudal town, that is, Pingxi, Shuofang, Huaibei, Xuhai, Nanyang, Sichuandong, Sichuanxi, Liaodong and other places - because the war with the Yeerqiang Khanate continues, the road to Beiting is not usual, and there are no children from Beiting to come to Laoshan camp.

Most of the Scouts are military households, but there are also civilian backgrounds. It's basically bitter haha...... Although Scouting is a "ladder to heaven", the conditions are very demanding! Joining the Scout is "sold to the Royal", and you are not allowed to communicate with your family until you are officially enlisted in the army (that is, you are fully scouted and pass the assessment)!

After enlisting in the army, unless he was admitted to the lecture hall and officially separated from the "junior army" establishment, he was not allowed to get married and start a family until he reached the age of 36 and retired from the army.

In other words, as long as you are in the Scouts, you are not allowed to marry and have children.

And once you are admitted to the military academy (you must have a military merit recommendation) and have your own career, you no longer belong to the Scouts, and the officers from the Scout are not allowed to return to the Scout for life!

In other words, most of the officers who commanded the Scout in the future were students of the boys' school of Laoshan Middle School.

Now the two groups of teenagers are together, riding horses, hunting, and hunting with flintlock pistols, which is really lively. However, after working for a long time, I didn't have a few small animals - most of the small animals that Emperor Zhu bought with money are now living happily in the woods of Laoshan.

It seems that the activity of hunting in Laoshan still needs to be done a lot more...... We have to let a group of "sons of daughters" practice more with the boy scouts, and the Ming Dynasty will rely on them to support them in the future!

"Emperor, Yanshan Palace has arrived." Huang Xiaobao's voice sounded in Zhu Cihong's ears at this time.

When Emperor Zhu looked up, he saw a half-Chinese, half-Western-style palace with a brick and wood structure standing on a hillside in front of him.

This is the Yanshan Palace, the dormitory of Emperor Zhu in the Laoshan Palace, and the reason why the name "Yanshan" is used is to express that he has not forgotten to recover the land of Yanyun.

Yanshan Palace is not too far from Tangquan Palace, that is, more than four miles, and the hill where it is located is not high, it is a mound, which belongs to a hill on the edge of the northern foot of the old mountain. After this hill, there is a small valley, and a courtyard is also built in it, which is called Jinzhu Ju, which is the residence of the alternate attendant of Donggu Gege, which is now called Jin Dongzhu.

In order to "elect" Jin Dongzhu into the palace, Emperor Zhu held a special draft, and he was not selected nationwide, but he was selected in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. It's quite grand, but there are only two people selected in the end, one is Jin Dongzhu, and the other is Xu Erlin, Xu Guangqi's cousin and granddaughter? She doesn't look too beautiful, she is a gentle and graceful water town girl, a little bit of beauty, but she is very talented, and she dresses up as a man and wants to participate in the Taixue college entrance examination in Hongxing for five years. However, I was not able to enter the examination room, but I still completed the examination paper outside the venue with the approval of the examiner.

The exam paper finally came to Emperor Zhu's hands, and he actually did very well in the exam, which made Zhu Cihong interested in this talented woman, so during this draft, he wrote a personal letter to invite her to participate.

After she got the letter, she actually came to Nanjing......

So Zhu Cihong now has six wives and concubines, and Princess Jianning, who is about to enter the palace, is his seventh wife and concubine...... It's so corrupt!

When the increasingly corrupt emperor entered the Yanshan Palace, Sun Fugui, Hou Fangyu, and Ban Bushan were already there, waiting to be summoned.

"Princess Jianning is here?" Zhu Cihong didn't expect Shunzhi to give Ajige the title of Princess Gulun Jianning, and I don't know if it was the one who married Wu Yingxiong in history? So they were a little interested, and when they saw Hou Fangyu, they asked.

"It's already here," replied Tian Shuchen, who is now the head of the Laoshan Palace, "and is dressing up and changing into the clothes of our Han women." ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded, "Then I'll see you later...... Your name is Bamburshan? He looked at the envoy again, and asked with a smile: "Are you the one who loves the Xinjueluo family?" ”

"Below is the grandson of the Great Qing Dynasty Taizu." Bamburshan replied.

"Will you be able to see Blessing when you go back?"

"Yes," Bamble said kindly, "below is the Minister of the Great Qing Guard." ”

"That's good...... When you go back, tell Fu Lin that you should pick up the Yellow River as soon as possible! Zhu Cihong smiled, "When the weather turns cool in late autumn this year, there will not be much water in the Yellow River, and it will be no fun to pick it up!" ”

"Why did Your Majesty say that?" Cold sweat came out of Bamburshan's forehead.

Emperor Zhu still looked happy and didn't care, "What kind of camps are you building on both sides of the Yellow River, isn't it just to facilitate digging estuaries?" I don't know how many times I've done this, I don't know? ”

Bamburshan was dumbfounded, in fact, he had only heard about it, he knew about the construction of the North and South Yellow River camps, but he really didn't know the plan to dig the Yellow River dam.

Just when he didn't know how to explain, the voice of the eunuch came to mind: "Princess Gulun Jianning has arrived." ”

Ajige had already dressed up, and came timidly and shyly, but he didn't twist at all, and followed an elderly palace maid to come in and knelt down for Emperor Zhu, and after kowtowing a few times, he knelt there and looked up at Zhu Cihong.

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