Chapter 37 The Construction of the City of Beijing

Zhu Qizhen's attitude towards Ruan An is very different.

Before, I just wanted to find a eunuch from Annan to use it and set up a shadow.

But Ruan An, as the chief designer of Beijing City, in Zhu Qizhen's view, is simply a brilliant talent, and in later generations, how can he hang an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This is also a matter of human values, such as Li Shimian. Li Shimian has been admonished several times, and he bears the name of the world, and the common people regard them as stars. But Zhu Qizhen didn't feel much of it.

But for those who can design the city of Beijing and build it single-handedly. But I think he is a genius first-class engineer and artist.

You must know that the city of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties has not changed much, and the Beijing city built by Ruan An is the old city of Beijing that Liang Sicheng is thinking about.

In such a comparison, Zhu Qizhen's respect for Ruan An is naturally different.

Zhu Qizhen asked: "How is the construction of Beijing City now?" ”

Ruan An said: "From the fourteenth year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong ordered the construction of Beijing City, and in the eighteenth year of Yongle, the palace city of Beijing was grassed, and the city wall was the city wall of the Yuan Dynasty. It was quite inconvenient, the slave maid and Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, had already discussed the construction of the Beijing city wall, but the Empress Dowager stopped all urgent matters and all the projects were dismissed. ”

Zhu Qizhen asked again: "When will the three major halls be restored?" ”

Every time the imperial gate listens to the government, Zhu Qizhen walks from the Qianqing Palace to the Taihe Gate, and he has to pass by the three major halls that have been burned bare, how uncomfortable it is.

Ruan An said cautiously: "This is not what the slave maid can predict, the drawings of the three major halls are all there, but they owe the golden silk nanmu." Only the imperial court allocated silver taels. The slave and maid promised to repair the three major halls within a few months. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard it, he only heard one problem, that is, the problem of money.

Buying golden silk nanmu is also a very difficult thing in this era, you have to go deep into the mountains to find such a hugging golden silk nanmu, and finding golden silk nanmu is only a beginning.

How to bring the golden silk nanmu out of the deep mountains is a very big problem.

Zhu Qizhen watched some twists and turns, and there were words about Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, who were struggling with wood picking.

The Empress Dowager ordered to stop all urgent matters.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen has just ascended the throne, in order to appease the army, the empress dowager rewarded the army three times and twice, appeased all the nobles, and built the mausoleum of Emperor Xuanzong.

In the ninth year of Xuande, Emperor Xuanzong also went out of the fortress once.

In the imperial court, although it is not overstretched, it is not the time for large-scale construction. said: "If you reduce the number of workers and slowly repair, how long will it take for the three major halls and the Beijing City Gate." ”

Ruan An buried his head in a careful calculation and said: "If it is really as His Majesty said, between eight and ten years, Beijing City can be perfected. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Eight years and ten years? If you count it historically, I am afraid that the defense of Beijing also has the merit of this person. ”

After all, the city of Beijing is to be repaired.

This is a matter of national image, and we must not let Beijing become a huge unfinished building.

Carefully calculated, the 14 years of orthodoxy in history, that is, a few years after the full completion of Beijing, should be less than ten years.

After Zhu Qizhen asked, he politely sent Ruan An away.

Ruan An has a feeling of being flattered.

Wang Zhen was even more jealous, and said, "Why does the emperor do this to Grandpa Ruan? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I didn't know that there was such a talent among the internal officials. can command hundreds of thousands of people to work together, even if it is placed in the army, it is also a general. ”

"How can you not pay attention to it."

Wang Zhen didn't quite understand, but he also knew that Ruan An would be different in the future.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "How is Ruan An's reputation?" ”

Wang Zhen saw it and said: "Ruan An is a wooden person, unreasonable, with a clean breeze on his sleeves, although he has the talent to create, but he is still not reused in the palace, so I know how he is a person." ”

Zhu Qizhen sighed lightly in his heart, and said secretly: "Technocrats, most of them are like this. ”

Zhu Qizhen suddenly thought of something and asked, "Is there still a place in the palace?" ”

When Wang Zhen heard this, his heart jumped violently.

The twenty-four eunuchs of the inner court, the only ones who can really be called confidential departments are the celebrant supervisor and the imperial horse supervisor.

Needless to say, it is Wang Zhen's own land, Wang Zhen never wants others to interfere, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor is in charge of thousands of soldiers, and these thousands of soldiers are the elite of the elite.

And the imperial horse eunuch was not in Wang Zhen's hands at all, he just placed his righteous son Cao Jixiang in the imperial horse eunuch with the acquiescence of the empress dowager.

The old eunuchs who are really in power all listen to the Empress Dowager.

Wang Zhen hurriedly said: "Gonggong Ruan is responsible for the construction of Beijing City, he is in a high position, how to rise again, he naturally wants to enter the ceremonial supervisor, but he just looks at it as a slave and maid, and with the ability of Gonggong Ruan, he can enter the ceremonial supervisor, which is beyond his ability." ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, but Ruan An himself may not like the personnel struggle in the office. He said, "Well, let him be sent wherever there is anything to build." ”

Wang Zhen secretly said in his heart: "This is more than promoting him to the celebrant supervisor, this is Jian Zai's heart." ”

Speaking of which, Wang Zhen actually had a trace of jealousy towards Ruan An.

No matter what he thought, he didn't expect Zhu Qizhen to value Ruan An so much, and his attitude towards Ruan An was not like a eunuch, but a minister.

This kind of respect is rarely received even by Wang Zhen.

"That's right." Zhu Qizhen said: "Forget about business, you are in charge of the East Factory." ”

Wang Zhen said: "It is the slave and maid who are in charge. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Give me the eunuch who guards Hepu Town, you choose a capable young man from the East Factory, you must endure loneliness, and you must guard Hepu Town for more than ten years, more than twenty years." ”

"I want him to collect all the intelligence on Annan after he arrives in Hepu."

"When we wait for the future use of soldiers, we can use it."

"This matter cannot be leaked."

Wang Zhen immediately said: "The slave understands. ”

Although Zhu Qizhen knew that the current Jinyiwei was under Wang Zhen's control, he still wanted to let the East Factory and Jinyiwei check and balance each other, Jinyiwei in the north and the East Factory in the south.

After saying this, it was almost noon.

This morning, Zhu Qizhen met two people, Zhang Zhong and Ruan An, plus the time for the others was about the same.

Zhu Qizhen returned to Kunning Palace, the Sun family had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Zhu Qizhen coming, he pulled Zhu Qizhen to sit down, and naturally there were eunuchs and palace maids who filled a table of dishes. said: "Your uncle is also like a palace today, have you seen it today?" ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to the chopsticks and paused slightly, he thought about it carefully, just glanced at the crowd, or Wang Zhen reminded him, he remembered that this person was his uncle.

The Sun family has five sons, and this year's age is appropriate, the eldest son Sun Jizong is already in his thirties, which is not suitable at all, and the third and fourth are of the right age, so they were selected as guards. It is also Zhu Qizhen's third and fourth uncles, named Sun Shaozong, Sun Xuzong.

Judging from the intelligence of Dongchang Jinyiwei, these two people have mediocre qualifications.

Zhu Qizhen's mind is still in dialogue with Zhang Zhong and Ruan An. I didn't react for a while, and hurriedly said: "I've seen it, if the queen mother is interested, you can come to the Qianqing Palace and meet the two uncles." ”

Sun was a little moved, but then shook his head and said, "Forget it, this is not in accordance with the rules, and I have seen it every year during the New Year's Festival." I won't bother you, the one from Cining Palace is staring at me. ”

As soon as he said this, Sun felt that he came up and said: "My son has to go to Cining Palace every day to listen to training, it must be very hard, just be careful and patient." ”

"My son is already the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can take away this position."

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately put down his chopsticks and said, "Queen Mother, how can you say that, it is an honor for a child that grandma is willing to teach a child." ”

Seeing Zhu Qizhen like this, Sun smiled lightly and said, "My son, don't worry, I can speak with confidence in the palace." These people are my people. ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't know what to say for a while, they were all your people, why did he say what he said here, Cining Palace immediately knew.

But Zhu Qizhen is not easy to fight with her.

Although Sun is still young, he is already an old man's mind, and he can't change it at all. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager didn't care about this at all.

Zhu Qizhen could only coax and deceive and fool this matter.