"What?"

Lu Yuanze asked: "Qingning, what does this mean? Is this fortification really completely unstoppable?"

Gu Qingning looked at the burned beams and pillars, shook his head and said: "No, I mean that the original drawings are useless, if you want to build this Heavenly Treasure Hall in the spring of next year, you can only change your strategy, otherwise it will be in vain, and the time will not be enough, and the Ministry of Industry will suffer huge losses." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He was pleasantly surprised: "So Qingning, you already have a new strategy, can you minimize the loss?"

Gu Qingning walked in the palace room covered with ashes and dust, stepping on the ground for a while, observing the cohesion structure for a while, counting the remaining palace pillars for a while, and said, "Yes." There was only one way to complete the work in just over five months. ”

"What's the solution?"

She reached out and touched the palace pillar, dusted off some dust, looked at the integrity of the pillar, and turned back and said, "Stone-for-wood." ”

"Stone for wood?" Lu Yuanze thought for a while: "Qingning, you mean to replace the main material for building the palace, wood, with stone bricks?"

She nodded and said, "Yes, it takes a lot of time to make the Nanmu of the palace just to collect, but if the wood used to make the palace structure is replaced with stone bricks, and directly stacked with stone bricks, and clay with loess, this not only saves time, but also builds the palace wall more firmly, and the bricks and stones are built with white marble, carved and decorated, and the palace roof can still be built with wooden pillars as beams......"

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Yuanze interrupted her in annoyance, pacing and saying, "Qingning! Aren't you joking? How can it be built entirely of stone bricks? This is the Heavenly Treasure Palace...... It's also a mausoleum! Building a house out of stone is an ominous taboo, let alone building a palace?"

"Then we won't build a palace. Gu Qingning was straightforward and said, "What we want to build is no longer a Guanghe Palace, we want to build a real altar to worship the heavens!"

Lu Yuanze calmed down: "What's the difference?"

Gu Qingning smiled: "It's no difference. The construction of this Guanghe Palace is nothing more than to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, worship the gods, hold ceremonies, pray for blessings and pray for the sky, so that the temple of the heavenly treasure and the altar of the gods are the same...... How many times can these matters be held in the temple, especially the ceremonies of the heavens and the gathering of the nations, are not often held outside the golden hall of the Ming Hall? Therefore, the most important thing for this fortification is the appearance, no matter what the altar is, this altar group banquet hall must first be grand and practical. It just so happens that the seat of this Guanghe Palace is high enough, and the three layers overlap, I also checked it just now, the pedestal made of bluestone and white marble has not been damaged by the fire, and it only needs to be expanded three times the size, just enough, and then the emperor will preside over the sacrifice to the sky on this altar in front of the main altar, and the hundred officials and foreign VIPs are on the lower two floors, how beautiful is this scene?"

"If the construction of the palace is changed to the construction of the altar, the entire three-story altar of worship to God occupies only half the size of the Guanghe Palace, and the construction time is one-third of it, and the time to expand the foundation is enough. Just imagine, the altar of sacrifice to God is built with a stone base, the outer white marble, the glazed gold top, not only gorgeous and indestructible, symbolizing the great Qi for thousands of generations, the inside is connected with loess, on behalf of the emperor and the queen of earth, there is the meaning of respecting the gods and praying for the sky, the outer altar of the altar of heaven becomes square into a circle, always receives light, the vault is heavy, symbolizing the prosperity of the four seas. And here has been a fire, for the fire of the five elements, and the brick and stone is made of earth, not destroyed by fire but stronger, bathed in fire into wood, both soil and gold, even in line with the principle of the five elements. In this way, even if you discern with opponents, you will have enough arguments. The most important thing is that there is enough time, the emperor can sacrifice to the sky as timely, you can get what you want, all parties agree, why not?"

Listening to her words, Lu Yuanze's heart was shocked, he was deeply surprised, he bowed, and sighed: "Qingning's strategy can be described as a strange theory for the ages! Such a construction will definitely create the world's first altar to the heavens, if it is expanded later, this is an immortal fame......

Gu Qingning looked at him and said with a light smile: "This merit is much greater than the construction of Guanghe Palace, after the completion of this altar, maybe you can be directly promoted to Shangshu, the position of Si Cheng can be expected, and it may be famous in the annals of history, how about it?"

I don't know if it's because of surprise or joy, Lu Yuanze was a little at a loss, looked left and right, and then replied, "I naturally expected this, but ...... Qingning, this is all your credit...... Are you really willing to help me?"

She turned her head and smiled bitterly: "I don't want to, I still hate you, I also want to take this credit for myself and make a name, but what can I do? As a woman, can I seek fame and fortune in officialdom? I just want to protect myself." Lu Yuanze, you remember, I give you this great credit, you owe me, you have to keep my family safe. ”

Lu Yuanze's eyes were deep, and if he was sad, he respectfully bowed to her: "I remember, I will not be ungrateful." ”

After that, Gu Qingning and him looked around here, discussing how to rebuild, the two walked in the ruins, moving all kinds of stones and trees, Gu Qingning did not avoid dust and dirt, and after a survey and survey, she was stained with a lot of mud and ashes, but she seemed to enjoy it and did not mind, and talked eloquently about the engineering works, and her voice was eloquent and detailed.

Lu Yuanze knew that her talent far surpassed that of others in the Ministry of Industry, a woman, pretending to be a little eunuch, but she still showed her style, especially in the ruins of the palace, her serious expression was moving, he kept looking at her, and he didn't feel distracted.

This huge palace room, the walls are broken on all sides, there is a sense of desolation, the top of the palace is not covered with bricks and tiles, and the horizontal wood of the beams is burned by fire and can not bear the load, and it has been broken. While the two were discussing the fortifications, the side beams on the top creaked and broke from the burning place, and a section of beams that were more than one person tall and hugged together suddenly fell and smashed down.

"Qingning be careful!"

Lu Yuanze pulled Gu Qingning away in time, and as soon as the two of them turned around, the section of horizontal wood just smashed on the sand mound beside them, and rolled to the side a few times due to the slope of the mound, and rolled to a corner of the wall.

If it hadn't been pulled apart, the beam would have hit her head......

Gu Qingning was frightened, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly. Lu Yuanze also had palpitations, took her into his arms, hugged her, kissed her forehead, and comforted her gently: "It's okay, it's okay, Qingning, don't be afraid ......"

She raised her head, the two of them met their eyes, Lu Yuanze stared at her with tender eyes, at this time they were intimate, love sprouted, and both of them were a little lost......

Gu Qingning came back to his senses first, broke away from his embrace, calmed himself, looked up at the top of the palace, and saw the light of the sky through the beam and wood frame, which seemed particularly dazzling at this time.

She retracted her gaze and went to check the fallen beams, which rolled to the corner of the palace wall, where there was already a pile of ruins, nothing more than burned wood utensils, which were later soaked in water and rotted into mud, making it difficult to set foot on, so the people who cleaned up the fire did not move here first. Smashed by this heavy beam, the mud sank deep.

Gu Qingning bent down to push the horizontal wood to see if he could reuse the intact place, after all, it was a precious wood.

In order to relieve his embarrassment, Lu Yuanze took a few breaths, looked around, and asked suspiciously: "Qingning, do you smell a rancid smell? This smell is not like the smell of wood that has been burned by fire?"

Her eyes widened at this time, her face was as white as paper in an instant, and she almost fell to the ground, forcing her body back and retreating abruptly, trembling and pointing to the muddy depression that the horizontal wood had smashed out......

A clump of black hair was evident in the ruins, clearly human hair......

She lost her mind in horror, shook her head tremblingly, and said, "No, no, it's the rotten ...... of corpses."