After resting in the pavilion for the night, the next day Gao Yuan and his wives and concubines, accompanied by Guo Chen, inspected the newly built royal city.

The city wall of the royal city has been completely built, two zhang seven feet is about six meters high, about the height of three floors, although it is not high, but as an inner city, it is already very good, in addition to the moat surrounding the inner city is up to thirteen meters wide, the river bank is still about ten meters away from the city wall, and two sheep and horse walls will be built along the side of the city wall in the future to strengthen the defense of the royal city. Therefore, the defense of the royal city is still very considerable.

Of course, Gao Yuan also knew that if he really wanted to rely on the royal city to resist the enemy's attack, he would have almost reached the point of exhaustion, so it was useless to build the royal city as solid as gold.

Everyone enters the royal city from the main gate in the south of the royal city, and there are three stone bridges on the moat in front of the main gate, all of which are as wide as two zhang, and the bridge deck is paved with bluestone slabs, which is very flat. After walking across the stone bridge, through the city gate, and entering the interior of the royal city.

Guo Chen first led everyone to climb the city tower and looked down on the entire royal city. The height of the castle tower is four feet and five feet, and although it is not the tallest building in the royal city, it can generally see the layout of the entire royal city.

Although Gao Yuan also knows that the royal city of Lingshou can only be regarded as a small city in this era, but after climbing the city tower, when looking down on the entire royal city, he felt that the scale of the royal city is actually very large, although the plateau has also entered the royal city of Zhao, Qi and Qin, but they are all viewed from a normal perspective, and this time it is from a top view, and the feeling is naturally very different, so it can also be imagined how huge the royal city of Zhao, Qi and Qin is, because the scale of the royal city of these three kingdoms is at least several times more than the royal city in front of him.

However, the royal cities of Zhao, Qi, and Qin are also someone else's, and this palace will belong to them, so Gao Yuan's heart is also quite emotional, and this is why he has a little feeling of being a hegemon.

From the city tower to look at it, the royal city of Lingshou is to use the general central axis of this era to line the layout, which is also the most common layout of ancient Chinese architecture, from the south of the main gate of the royal city, a bluestone avenue through a square that is nearly 100 steps deep, leading straight to the main hall of the palace, in front of the steps of the main hall dumb stop, and on the left and right of the square, there are several rows of side halls, with the hall building, and there are high and low flying bridges to connect, of course, there are many buildings at this time, and build a wooden frame, is stepping up construction.

The main color of the building is gray and white, the tiles of the main hall are blue-gray, the walls are gray-white, only the pillars are painted vermilion, and the tops of the other side halls and side halls are still paved with thatch. This is also the usual practice of this era, except for Qin, Qi and Chu, these big countries have strong national strength, and the palace can be covered with gray tiles, and some of the secondary buildings in other national palaces are made of thatch, but more than seventy percent of the buildings in the palace of Lingshou are paved with thatch, which is still considered simply.

Among the wives and concubines on the plateau, only Li Yinghong and Chunyu Zhongxiu were fortunate enough to enter the palaces of other countries, but Li Yinghong only entered the palace of King Zhao, and Chunyu Zhongxiu went to more palaces, except for the two kingdoms of Yan and Chu, the palaces of the other five countries have been there. Of course, they can only look at the palace from the usual angle, and it is the first time to stand on a high place and look at the palace like this. Therefore, I am also quite excited, after all, I will live in this palace in the future. And people like Lin Wenqing, Yun Yao, Geng Yanyu, Jian Wuji and others were already stunned at this time.

Everyone looked at the city tower for a while, and laughed for a while, before walking down the city tower under the leadership of Guo Chen, along the bluestone avenue in the middle, to the interior of the palace.

The first to enter is the main hall, which will also be the place where the plateau gathers ministers to discuss matters, hold grand banquets, or receive envoys from other countries, the area of the main hall is very large, about more than 200 square meters, and there are four vermilion lacquer pillars in the middle, which can accommodate hundreds of people. And on the left and right, there is also a side hall, also have a size of nearly 100 square meters, which is the location of the plateau to meet officials alone, and there are five or six small rooms as a backup.

After a circle in the main hall, everyone passed through the main hall and came to the harem. The houses here are not large, but there are many of them, and it is the most densely populated location in the entire palace, according to the plan, there are more than 50 houses in total, more than 400 rooms. Among them, there are more than 30 houses that can be used for the wives and concubines of the plateau. There are many scenic spots between the houses, and various flowers and trees are planted, and there is also a small lake with an area of more than 1,000 square meters in the shape of a gourd in the middle.

The dormitory where Gao Yuan will live in the future is behind the main hall, located on the central axis of the palace, and then followed by the queen, that is, the palace where Li Yinghong will live in the future. The houses in both places are already finished. There are only more than 20 sets of houses built, which are basically arranged along the lake, and the interior is being carried out, and the remaining rooms, as well as scenic spots, flowers and plants have not yet begun to be arranged at this time, but only have left a place.

When they turned to the lake, they had already completed half of the palace, and the buildings in the area of the Jongmyo Temple, the Sacrificial Temple, and the Inner Library were still under construction, so they could rest in a small pavilion by the lake for the time being, so they did not need to go over to inspect it today.

At this time, Guo Chen said: "My lord, now the buildings in the palace have been largely completed, but the names of the gates and palaces of the royal city have not been determined, and the lord still needs to decide so that the construction can begin." In addition, this will be the lord's bedroom, and the other palaces are where the ladies live, so the ladies can choose their own residence first, and if you have any detailed requirements, you can put forward them in advance, and I can arrange manpower to make improvements. ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said, "Bring the drawings, I have already thought of some names, and I can determine them." He turned his head to the wives and concubines and said: "Go and see for yourselves, if you like that house, you can determine it now, and if you have any detailed requirements, you can put it forward now, and you can move in directly in the future, of course, you will take the name yourself." ”

When the other wives and concubines heard this, they were also interested, and immediately walked out of the pavilion and went to each house to watch, so that they could be sure which one they chose. Only Li Yinghong and Chun Yu Zhongxiu did not move. Because after Gao Yuan became the king, he must have made Li Yinghong the queen, so her residence had already been determined, and when she visited just now, others helped her come up with a lot of ideas, and Guo Chen also recorded them one by one.

And Chunyu Zhongxiu is not Gao Yuan's wife and concubine now, although he also followed Gao Yuan and others into the palace to inspect it, but at this time he was embarrassed to choose his own residence.

At this time, Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Zhong Xiu, you should also choose a house." ”

Chun Yu Zhongxiu's face was slightly red, and he said, "I'm afraid this is not good." ”

Li Yinghong stood up and said with a smile: "What's wrong, I'll take you to choose, if you have any requirements, just put it forward now, and when we move to Lingshou, you will also move directly into the palace to live." As he spoke, he pulled Chunyu Zhongxiu and left.

This time Chun Yu Zhongxiu is not easy to refuse, not to mention that in her heart, she has long regarded herself as a person from the plateau, and naturally wants to choose a residence for herself in the palace, so she is half-pushed, and is pulled out of the pavilion by Li Yinghong to choose her own residence.

At this time, Guo Chen spread a layout plan of the palace on the stone table, and Gao Yuan said: "After they have chosen a residence, first build the residence they have chosen, and other houses that are not used for the time being can be put away first, and there is no need to rush for a while." ”

There are more than 30 houses that can be used to live in the harem, and even if Chun Yu Zhongxiu is added, there are only six wives and concubines on the plateau, and it is estimated that there are no more people, of course, there are not so many houses, so the construction of the houses that are not used temporarily can not only reduce the construction time, but also save the cost of manpower and material resources. Now I can save a little is a little.

Guo Chen hurriedly said: "Yes, the lord's opinion is very good. ”

Gao Yuan pointed to the palace gates one by one on the drawings and said the names, and Guo Chen hurriedly wrote them down on the drawings.

In fact, the name of the palace gate mentioned by the plateau is basically the palace name of the Forbidden City of the Forbidden City in later generations.

The main gate of the palace is called the Wuchao Gate, the back door is the Shenwu Gate, the main hall is called the Taihe Palace, the left is the Wuying Palace, the right is the Wenhua Palace, the place where he lives is the Qianchun Palace, and Li Yinghong's residence is naturally called Kunning Palace, etc., and after a while, most of the palace gate palace names will be determined. The rest of the palaces are all buildings built at a later stage, so they can be put aside for the time being and determined later.

And Guo Chen also admires himself, because these names are indeed of course level, but they are not called randomly. Of course, he didn't know that this was a name that had been determined after thousands of years of development, and of course it would not be bad.

After more than half an hour, the wives and concubines returned to the pavilion one after another, and each of them naturally had already chosen their own residence, and even Chunyu Zhongxiu also chose a residence accompanied by Li Yinghong. And Guo Chen hurriedly wrote them down one by one on the drawings.

The wives and concubines chose to live in houses close to the lake, after all, everyone likes the scenery near the water, but there are more than ten houses along the lake, which is enough, so the wives and concubines did not have disputes.

After turning for more than half an hour, everyone also had a lot of ideas about the requirements for their own residences, but after returning to the pavilion, everyone wrote them out in detail and handed them over to Guo Chen, who arranged the construction.

The wives and concubines are very interested, and they are exchanging with each other about the residence they have chosen, discussing the layout of the residence, and some people are looking at the palace gate and palace name taken by the plateau, and at the same time they are thinking about what kind of name they should give their residence.

After sitting for a while, and it was noon, the people left the palace and returned to the inn to rest and eat.