Chapter 715: The shabby Tang Palace

Since Empress Dong Yunyun became pregnant last year, Li Xuan's harem has also had Ye's concubine pregnant and Wang's concubine pregnant.

This also reassures Empress Dowager Bai and others, in the early years, some doctors judged that there was a little problem with Emperor Li Xuan's body, so after Li Xuan got married two years ago, none of the women in the harem were pregnant.

After several years of continuous medical recuperation, he finally recovered.

Although the winning rate is still a little low, as long as her baby son, Emperor Li Xuan, works hard, there is still hope for the royal family, which can be regarded as breaking the dangerous situation of the old Li family for several generations.

I have to say that not only the Empress Dowager Bai is concerned about Li Xuan's descendants, but in fact, the Tang Dynasty is also quite concerned about Li Xuan's descendants, of course, they are not the same as the Empress Dowager Bai.

Empress Dowager Bai's mind is more simple, that is, to continue the incense of the Li family, and at the same time, it is also accompanied by the issue of stabilizing the country's foundation.

But those ministers in the court, they don't care about the Li family's incense, they are more concerned about the heirs of the Tang Dynasty and the national capital of the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that the old Li family has been passed down for several generations, Li Xuan doesn't talk about his brothers, not even cousins, uncles and the like, if Li Xuan has a cousin, or nephew or something, they probably have to suggest that Li Xuan succeed a nephew as a reserve prince.

After all, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, if Li Xuan suddenly dies in an accident one day, the Tang Dynasty without a prince will split in an instant

Now Li Xuan's harem has one after another pregnant people, although over the years, there have been a total of three women pregnant, so far there is only one royal daughter left, but it also makes the Empress Dowager Bai and Liu Bagou and other ministers feel a little at ease.

They are looking forward to that the Ye family or the Wang family can give birth to a prince for His Majesty, even if this prince is not the concubine of Queen Dong Yunyun, but he can be regarded as a prince and a candidate for the prince!

To be honest, even Li Xuanzai is quite concerned.

But he also knows that this kind of thing is not in a hurry, since there is no big problem with his body now, as long as he works hard in the future, he will be able to give birth to a few princes.

In the harem, after holding the eldest daughter Li Wei and teasing for a while, Li Xuan handed over the eldest daughter Li Wei to a nurse, and then left after a few words.

Dong Yunyun has suffered from the wind cold in the past two days, and she has not been in contact with Li Wei for a few days, and although Empress Dowager Bai occasionally comes, she is not diligent after all, so in the past few days, Li Xuan has also come to see it every day.

After all, this is her own daughter, although her mother, Empress Dong and Empress Dowager Bai, also care about her, but they can always feel some surprise, and Li Xuan, as a father, has no choice but to pay more attention to her daily life.

After leaving the harem, Li Xuan came directly to the front hall, ready to start his work this afternoon.

Now the front hall of the Tang Dynasty Palace, has changed greatly from the past, the front hall was actually the government of Zhaoqing earlier, and later after the capital was set here, the Ministry of Industry urgently repaired a number of houses, together with the early use of the palace front hall office complex.

However, this was not an official palace after all, and later the Ministry of Works' Construction Department began to plan and start construction of a number of large-scale buildings in the palace.

However, although these buildings are the same as the traditional layout of the imperial palace, that is, the layout of the Nanjing Imperial Palace and the Forbidden City of Beijing, the scale is much smaller, and even the buildings are different, which is very simple.

The reason for this is very simple, not that the Tang Dynasty does not know etiquette and does not know how to build the palace, but because the pocket is empty, this large-scale construction of the palace is extremely labor-intensive, and now the Tang Dynasty is in the entrepreneurial stage, so it is naturally impossible to invest hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver in the palace.

In addition, with the victory of the Tang Dynasty on the front line, many ministers know that although Zhaoqing is the current capital of the Tang Dynasty, it should not stay here for too long.

After all, the political status and geographical status of Jinling City are incomparable to those in remote places in the south such as Zhaoqing!

The combination of many reasons has led to the fact that although the Zhaoqing Imperial Palace occupies a huge area, most of the entire palace is actually grassland and open space, and the scale of the buildings on the ground is far inferior.

The Chengtian Hall on the middle line is the tallest and the largest in area, which is Li Xuan's daily office, and it is also a place to hold court meetings and major ceremonies.

The buildings in the front hall next to it are smaller, mainly stationed in the office space of the officials in the palace, including the Hanlin Academy, the minister on duty in the imperial study, and so on.

The five buildings in the front hall began to be completed in the summer of this year, because the scale of the building is relatively small, and there is no luxury, so although it is atmospheric, it does not cost much, and the working hours are relatively fast.

After Li Xuan and hundreds of officials moved into these five office buildings one after another, the original old buildings such as the government were directly demolished, and then a large area was bulldozed and replaced with grasslands and gardens!

After the front hall, there is the harem, the scale of the harem and the layout are basically imitating the Forbidden City, but all kinds of buildings are smaller, even if it is the courtyard where the Empress Dowager Bai lives, it is just an ordinary courtyard, and the entire palace is divided into more than 20 small courtyards.

The entire Zhaoqing Imperial Palace, in fact, looks like a royal palace, and the layout also imitates the layout of the traditional imperial palace, but because there is no land, but the buildings inside are ordinary buildings, so it looks quite small and even shabby.

It is not only the Tang Imperial Palace that is shabby, but also the official yamen at all levels.

On the left and right sides of the palace are the official offices of various institutions of the Tang Dynasty, mainly the cabinet ministries, the Privy Council, the Naval Command, the Inspectorate and other departments.

Some of these buildings were the official yamen of Zhaoqing Mansion during the Ming Dynasty, some were simply requisitioned private buildings, and a few were newly built.

But it's all about the scale, and the building isn't luxurious!

This can be seen from the cost of almost the entire palace and the construction of many official yamen, a total of more than 100,000 taels of silver, although most of the labor costs and material costs are not calculated, but the overall cost is still not much!

Interestingly, although the cost of the official office is the official financial expenditure, the cost of building the palace is the expenditure of the imperial treasury, that is to say, strictly speaking, this palace is actually the private property of the royal family itself!

However, it is such a simple and even cold palace and the place where the official yamen is located, which has formed the decision-making center of the Tang Dynasty today, if a super bomb is thrown over one day, I dare not say 100%, but at least it can reimburse more than half of the high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty, well, including Li Xuan's royal family.

Li Xuan has never been interested in building the imperial palace, which can be seen from the fact that the walls in the palace are even just ordinary walls, and they are not at all the walls comparable to the city walls used in other palaces.

However, although the walls of the palace are not thick, the garrison force in the palace is quite strong, in the palace, there is a guard infantry battalion stationed all the year round, not far from the palace, one on the left and one on the right are stationed respectively an infantry battalion of the Guards and related auxiliary forces.

What many people don't know is that the Guards who are actually stationed in the palace are fully equipped with guns and cannons, and a whole field artillery battalion is stationed in the palace.

Compared to the city wall, Li Xuan was more willing to believe that the guards under his command would keep him safe!

After arriving at the front hall, Li Xuan first reviewed some of the excerpts that had not been processed in the morning, and then met with several middle and senior officials who reported on their work or were about to take up new positions.

Get ready to host today's Gozen Strategy Meeting!

Today's imperial strategic meeting is not a separate army meeting or a navy meeting, or even a separate military meeting, but a strategic meeting related to the entire Tang Dynasty, so the specifications of the people attending the meeting today are quite high.

The generals are all major generals and above, and the civil officials are all scholars and even scholars.

The ministers of several important departments in the Privy Council, several chiefs of staff of the Guards, several important generals in the Navy Command, the Ministry of War and the Admiralty in the cabinet, and even the Ministry of Industry and Taxation are all among them, and many of these people are also the ministers on duty in the imperial study, so with the words of Liu Bagou and others, the current seven ministers on duty in the imperial study are all here.

With the arrival of His Majesty, Li Xuan strode into the conference room in a sound of congratulations, and after passing everyone into the conference room, Li Xuan walked directly to the top and sat on his own exclusive dragon chair, and then waved his hand slightly and said: "Everyone, Aiqing, give me a seat!" ”

When Li Xuan has a meeting, he usually gives a seat to the ministers under him, and under normal circumstances, he will not let the ministers under him kneel at every turn, and sometimes it is inconvenient to stand in a meeting, because when Li Xuan is in a meeting, he needs to see a large amount of data and even documents, and even needs these ministers to record some things on the spot.

So in most cases, Li Xuan's meeting mode is like this, Li Xuan himself sits on the raised dragon chair, and below him, there is a huge rectangular table, and the officials sit on both sides of the rectangular table.

For Li Xuan's style, this group of important ministers of the Tang Dynasty are also familiar with it, and they will soon be seated one after another!