The martial arts arena that Zhu Houzhao wants to build will naturally not be like the training room of later generations, what he needs is a large place, the kind that can run horses, and it is naturally impossible to have a small place. Although there are many palaces in the East Palace, it is definitely impossible to run horses. Unless the garden is bulldozed as Gu Dayong said, Zhu Houzhao will not do this kind of thing.

"If you don't use the garden, then you can only go to the West Garden!" Gu Dayong said after thinking about it.

The so-called West Garden, in fact, is the north, middle and south of the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing, collectively known as the West Garden, is the main imperial garden of the Ming Dynasty, is an important place for the emperor to rest, live and deal with government affairs. Beihai is the largest, with a total area of about 70 hectares, accounting for more than half of the whole garden. The layout is centered on the pond island, and buildings are arranged around the pond. There is Qionghua Island in the southeast, and there is Guanghan Palace (early Ming Dynasty) built on the island, which becomes the composition center of the whole garden and is the commanding height and symbol of the whole garden. There are also the Hall of Joy and the Hall of Celebration on the island.

There was a place for Zhu Houzhao to run a horse in that place, and after pondering for a while, Zhu Houzhao dispelled this idea, if he really went to Xiyuan, the movement would be much bigger.

After thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao could only give up this idea, and after a moment of silence, Zhu Houzhao said: "Go to the animal park!" ”

The so-called animal park is actually the place where Zhu Houzhao keeps pets, which has the meaning of the leopard room in the future, and most of the pets raised here are Liu Jin and the pets they collected. You must know that the Ming Dynasty is the heyday of the feudal emperors in history to raise animals, and there are many places to raise animals in the capital, such as the tiger city, the elephant house, the leopard room, the pigeon house, the deer farm, and the eagle room.

The leopard house was not founded by Wuzong, but was a place for nobles to raise tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts for fun, which was already practiced during the Yuan Dynasty. There are also tiger room, elephant room, eagle room and other places, the house is also called Fang, such as sheep Fang, Xiang Fang, Tiger Fang, etc., such place names still exist in Beijing in later generations, it can be seen that this is the atmosphere at that time. Zhu Houzhao's leopard room is said to be a place for Zhu Houzhao to have fun, rather than his private zoo.

In the Ming Dynasty of this era, it was not Zhu Houzhao himself who had a private zoo, many powerful people also had it, and there were many things to raise, but later the leopard room became a point of Hei Zhu Houzhao.

As for Zhu Houzhao living in the leopard room, it was naturally because he didn't like to live in the Qianqing Palace, lewd or something, as if someone had seen it. The emperor lives in the leopard room, what is strange about the concubine and the past, and what do you say Zhu Hou takes care of, anyway, all the basins are deducted. In fact, Zhu Houzhao only lived in the leopard room, and his civil and military affairs were never wasted.

Zhu Houzhao even wanted to build a place similar to a leopard house, a place to practice martial arts, and it would be more enjoyable to do something.

After thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao still threw this idea out, obviously his father and mother would not agree to this request.

When he came to his own zoo, although he had been prepared for a long time, Zhu Houzhao was still startled, there were really a lot of things in it, there were eagles, dogs, and even wolves. While strolling around and watching, Zhu Houzhao felt that he could raise a panda. However, thinking that pandas have extremely high requirements for the living environment, Zhu Houzhao dispelled this idea again, don't get the capital to die when the time comes.

"Bulldoze the zoo!"

After walking around, Zhu Houzhao told Gu Dayong that Zhu Houzhao really didn't have any interest in these things, and he didn't like to carry cage birds, nor did he like to watch animals fight. After turning around, Zhu Houzhao found that the place of the beast park was not small, and Zhu Houzhao decided to build his own martial arts arena here. It's smaller, but it's enough.

When Gu Dayong heard Zhu Houzhao's words, he was immediately startled, don't want the zoo? He knew how much thought Zhu Houzhao had put into this.

On weekdays, when I'm in a bad mood, I wander around here and watch the fighting beasts, and now I'm actually going to bulldoze it? Of course, Gu Dayong is worried that it is not this, but that the role of the zoo is gone, what should they do? These eunuchs coax Zhu Houzhao to have fun in the beast park on weekdays, if the animal park is gone, then how can they coax His Highness to have fun here? Their intentions in the zoo are not small!

"Any questions?" Seeing that Gu Dayong didn't reply happily, Zhu Houzhao suddenly frowned and asked in a low voice.

"The slave will call someone to do it immediately!" Gu Da shuddered with his body, and hurriedly said, "It must be done as soon as possible!" “

Although it takes some time to practice martial arts, there is a place to practice martial arts, which is a fairly large courtyard, which should be as big as a football field in later generations, and there are various equipment for practicing martial arts on both sides. There were all kinds of weapons on the weapon rack, Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction, walked over, reached out and took a spear in his hand, waved it a few times and threw it aside, it was too light.

Reaching out again and picking up a Qinglong Glaive Knife that was much taller than himself, he swung it a few times, but it was still too light, and he picked up a big iron rod again, which was still very light.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look back at Gu Dayong: "These weapons are too light, aren't they a little heavier?" “

Seeing Zhu Houzhao holding those weapons, Gu Dayong was frightened, although Zhu Houzhao also practiced martial arts in the past, but he used weapons that were one size smaller, after all, Zhu Houzhao's age is here, and his height is not so tall, it is not appropriate to use normal weapons. Now that Zhu Houzhao is holding a normal weapon, Gu Da was surprised in his heart, but hurriedly said: "Your Highness's divine power is amazing, this is already the heaviest weapon, and if you want to be heavier, you can only build it from scratch." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, gently walked to the end of the weapon shelf, and reached out to pick up a mace.

This is a short mace, it is an underground weapon, and the mace on the horse is long, like a spear, gently tossed, Zhu Houzhao still feels light.

In this era, the forging process was not good, the steel process was not good, it was impossible to want small and heavy weapons, and there was no legendary black iron. With his current height, this mace is quite suitable for himself. Zhu Houzhao thought of a person, this person is the second good man in the world in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yuwen Chengdu, his weapon is the phoenix winged gold hammer, in fact, it is also a long-handled big head, a variant of the long-handled mace.

The same is true of the imprisoned dragon stick of the backer king Yang Lin, Zhu Houzhao can't help but have a strong interest in this kind of weapon, one inch long and one inch strong, and the heavier the movement, the better.

"Let people build a mace, not a wooden handle, but with the best iron, as for the weight, let's be eighty pounds!" Zhu Houzhao gave Gu Dayong an order.

Zhu Yijun wanted to get a heavy weapon to practice, otherwise he would not be blind with such good strength, thinking that he was sitting on a horse and wielding a mace, the scene was not too beautiful.