The original chessboard street is horizontal and vertical, but although the streets are neat, the buildings are uneven, and there are some private houses and the like, which look different in height and are not very beautiful. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

But now it was different, when the blockading Praetorian Guards were removed, what appeared in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty was four completely different buildings, as well as an unusually bright large square.

The Grand Theater that Zhu Youxiao promised Zhang Yan is on the left behind the Zhengyang Gate, with a tall cylindrical building, giving people the feeling of a mule and horse colosseum.

Entering the inside, it is also the feeling that the whole large building is divided into three floors, each floor is divided into several performance halls, the first floor has the most performance halls, the more you go to the top, the fewer the first, the second floor has six, and the third floor has only three.

The application of a large amount of glass, as well as the erection of kerosene lamps, is as bright as day even at night.

When she saw this huge building, Zhang Yan was stunned.

"Your Majesty...... This...... Is it really for concubines? ”

"Of course, this grand theater will be dominated by Baozhu in the future, and Baozhu will gather artists from all over the world to perform here, so that all the people of Beijing and Westerners can enjoy the opera from all over the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youxiao laughed.

Although a sketch and drama came out that day just to relieve Zhang Yan's boredom, after the idea of building a big theater came up, Zhu Youxiao did not do it hastily, but tried to make it bigger, he wanted to create a holy place in the literary and artistic world.

Just like Vienna, the capital of music, Zhu Youxiao also wants to create such a place for performance in Daming Jingshi. Whether it is performing music, opera, Huangmei opera, sketches, storytelling, etc., in short, all these things are gathered and performed together, and after thousands of years, this place will naturally become a holy place, no matter who the flowers fall to at that time.

After Zhu Youxiao came to this era, he was determined to move future generations, glorify for thousands of years, and change the soil to Wenzhi, which is enough to shine in the annals of history, and destroy Mongolia as a military achievement, enough to boast of future generations, but really to surpass the predecessors and shock the future generations, these are not enough, not to mention others, the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, and the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty are not inferior to him.

In this way, if you want to surpass them, you can only come from other aspects, in addition to the in-depth excavation of cultural and martial arts, you must also bloom more.

For example, Hanyu pinyin, such as punctuation, such as law revision, such as re-surveying books, and architecture, is also a good direction of development.

A grand theater has established his status in the literary and artistic circles of later generations, starting from the grand theater, countless performing arts have gathered here, colliding and merging with each other, facing the world, this kind of change can be called a miracle.

From the perspective of past history, present events, and future directions, any humanistic thing is in a process of continuous secularization, whether it is writing, literature, music, clothing, etc., it is a diffusion from high to low.

Just like the pan-entertainment advocated by later generations, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were also signs of such a large number of emergences, and the emergence of storytellers are all this trend.

And Zhu Youxiao, just through one of his own buildings, added to this trend.

"Baozhu, this is not for you alone, but for the whole world, I hope that Baozhu can introduce other operas, and at the same time carry forward the sketches and stage plays I have given you." Zhu Youxiao said softly.

"Your Majesty, the concubine will live up to expectations." Zhang Yan nodded solemnly, and a vision for the future had already emerged in her eyes.

Think about it, in the future, all the singers will sing here as the highest honor, all the creators in the future will be proud of their works on the stage here, and all the performers in the future will be honored to perform here, and the entire Ming opera literary and artistic circles will take this place as a holy place.

This is really an intoxicating achievement, and he will lead here, thinking of this, Zhang Yan couldn't help but get excited.

Of course, the most important thing is that you don't have to be bored in the palace every day to do nothing, you can see all kinds of interesting performances every day, and you can be happy.

"Your Majesty, what kind of building is it on the other side, and what is it for?" Finally calmed down, and the building opposite the Grand Theater caught her attention again.

"There!" Following Zhang Yan's line of sight, Zhu Youxiao casually explained, "There is a library over there, I plan to make a copy of the books in Wenyuan Pavilion and collect them here, and then collect the books in the world, survey and engrave them, and store them all here, making this the world's largest book collection." Later, the Hanlin Temple also moved here, where laws were made and books were compiled. ”

Zhu Youxiao said his imagination, the revision of the Siku Quanshu during the Qianlong period was a disaster, and I don't know how many books were destroyed. He once heard such a saying, saying that when Ji Xiaolan was choosing, he sat in the pile of books and flipped through them one by one.

Pick up a book, look at it, you can, stay, pick up another book, no, just tear it up, destroy it while repairing, I don't know how many books will die out.

At that time, it was not like modern times, books had electronic versions, and they would not be printed in tens of thousands at a time, and the printing volume of general books was very small, and some even had only some manuscripts, so in this case, it was almost difficult to pass on after destroying one.

Nowadays, the biggest income of the Imperial Daily is not the advertising space in the newspaper, but the water-powered printing houses set up in various places, and a large number of booksellers with silver in their hands line up at the door to print books.

After the idea of building a large theater, the legend of the Library of Alexandria came to life, and his heart was moved, and he simply became ruthless and built such a thing.

With the popularity of the Ming script, if it is completed, its collection of books will definitely become the world's first, which is not only an honor, but also the inheritance of the Ming culture.

"The library, this is going to be crammed here, I'm afraid it's not millions of books." Looking at the huge building, Zhang Yan's small mouth is wide open, covering an area of dozens of acres, when will this have to be filled, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it in my lifetime.

"Haha, Orb, when there are more hidden in it in the future, I will let our son come here as a librarian, how about it, haha!" Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh heartily.

"Librarian, do you want your son to come and read a lot of books?" Zhang Yan looked at the emperor puzzled, not knowing why he had this idea.

Looking at Zhang Yan's puzzled expression, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but scratch his nose, this is not good in this era, and no one understands some stalks.

After explaining the library, Zhu Youxiao's interest suddenly came up, pulled Zhang Yan, and walked towards the other two buildings.

"Orb, look here." Walking back along Zhengyangmen Street, Zhu Youxiao and the two came to the building behind the Grand Theater.

"This is called the gymnasium, you see, there are a lot of venues in it, there are football fields, basketball courts, polo fields, horse races, competitions, running, archery, swimming, all kinds of competitions, I plan to hold a national sports meeting in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when the cabinet changes, a big game in the whole Ming Dynasty, what do you say!" Zhu Youxiao said excitedly.

After the military competition, he has always had this idea, according to the Olympic Games of later generations, to have a Ming National Games, with the influence of the Ming Dynasty at this time, not to mention much, it is no problem to spread the influence of this Games to the entire Southeast Asia and Pacific region.

Even with his ability, it is not impossible to become a worldwide sport, and the sense of accomplishment of thinking that a sport similar to the Olympics was created by himself is simply not an outsider.

Well, of course, no one can understand this era, so I still don't say it.

"This is good, this is good." Zhang Yan clapped her hands and said, her favorite is this kind of large-scale event, think about the past, every time there is a festival, her mother takes her to the temple fair, this is her favorite activity, but since her mother died, she has never been there.

"Haha, if you like it, then we can see the vigorous posture of Daming Jian'er together." Zhu Youxiao laughed, and then pulled Zhang Yan through Zhengyangmen Street and came to the opposite side, in front of the building behind the library.

"Baozhu, look, this building is called the Research Institute, do you know the group of houses at the foot of Zhongjing Mountain in our Imperial Garden, there is the Tiangong Research Institute, they will all move here in the future, and no one will be able to disturb us in the future."

"Really, that's great." Zhang Yan was pleasantly surprised, Tiangong Research Institute may be a theoretical translation and research in many cases, but many other studies are really resounding.

For example, some muskets and artillery, such as the ratio of gunpowder, the formula of new gunpowder, the ratio of steel, the cutting of rifled muskets, etc., are all noisy research, which often affects the people of the harem.

Now that they have moved away together, the happiest thing is this group of concubines.

"Of course it's true." Zhu Youxiao smiled and nodded.

Nowadays, with the increase of personnel and the increase and expansion of research projects, it is no longer suitable for the Tiangong Research Institute to be placed in the palace, not only is it inconvenient to enter and exit the exchange, but also the exchange of raw materials and sites is also inconvenient.

Although it is still in the city, the site has expanded a lot, and many machines can be used without scruples, and it is also convenient to go to the steel mills, gun factories, hydraulic transmission mechanisms and other places in the western suburbs. Many large-scale experiments can also be carried out in the suburbs, such as cannon power verification, horse breed improvement, rice seed improvement, etc.

"Orb, you're following me." After introducing these four buildings, Zhu Youxiao was still unsatisfied, and ran forward with Zhang Yan, until he crossed the spacious research institute and came to the end of the street.

Compared with before, Zhengyangmen Street is much shorter, and at the end of here, there is a huge square, but as soon as she saw this, Zhang Yan's eyes were attracted by a huge platform made of white marble at the edge of the square.

On the table was a tall iron rod, which was slender and swaying in the wind. This platform is located at the entrance of the square, facing the center of the Daming Gate, and is also on the central axis of Beijing.

"Your Majesty, this is ......" Zhang Yan asked suspiciously.

"This, this is the flagpole, the place where the national flag will be raised in the future, the sun and moon double wheel flag of the Ming Dynasty will be hung here every day in the future, whenever the sun has just risen, it will be raised!"

Looking at the iron, Zhu Youxiao's eyes were confused, and he muttered. He couldn't help but think of the national flag class on Tianmen Square in the later generations, and thought of his former military career.

Feeling that the emperor seemed to remember something, Zhang Yan unconsciously leaned over, and the whole person leaned into Zhu Youxiao's arms.