After Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, the advancement of various political projects was significantly accelerated, he was a very diligent emperor, and dared to accept new ideas, so Sun Xiangfu was promoted to become his humerus minister, so he was sad, stayed up with him many nights, and his brain cells were forced to die a lot.

It was not until late November, when the Tang Dynasty envoy to the Western Regions sent Tang Jian's recital to Chang'an, that Sun Xiangfu and Yan Lide threw down a large pile of design drawings for the new palace and rushed to Dingxiang together.

There is no way, Tang Jian's recital said that the number of kingdoms that came to Dingxiang to participate in the world's first sports conference may reach more than hundred, and the teams of each kingdom have hundreds to thousands of people, among which there are many countries whose lords will personally bring people and horses, then, plus their guards and a cadre of entourage, it is likely to reach thousands.

This is not a big deal, many of the elite classes in various countries have already organized their own groups to rush to Dingxiang, and when the time comes, the number of these foreign audiences will be quite a lot.

That is to say, even if you don't count the teams and spectators within Datang, the number of people who come to Dingxiang from the Western Regions and Tianzhu countries alone may reach hundreds of thousands, plus the participating teams within Datang, as well as the people who came to see the excitement, Dingxiang may gather more than one million foreign populations in August and September next year.

If you want to ensure that so many people eat, drink, Lazar and competition, you need to do a lot of work in advance, Sun Xiangfu rushed to Dingxiang to help coordinate these work, as for Yan Lide, he is going to lead the people of the Ministry of Industry to Dingxiang to learn the most advanced building-style architecture, because the government affairs area designed by him and Sun Xiangfu will be a new building with an atmospheric appearance and convenient office.

The new palace is still named Daming Palace by Li Shimin, the main hall will be the highest building in Chang'an City, the building is 30 meters high, divided into three floors, the height of each floor is nine meters, the decoration of the roof carved dragon and phoenix is three meters high, according to the height of one floor in later generations, this building is almost as high as the nine-story building of later generations.

The building is 300 meters wide and 200 meters deep, that is to say, the indoor area of each floor is almost nearly 60,000 square meters, and the first floor will be a large banquet hall, enough to provide 20,000 or 30,000 people at the same time, watching singing and dancing.

On the second floor, there is the hall of the court, with two very wide and imposing staircases, which go straight up to the second floor directly from both sides of the outside, with the left and the right, but if you stand in line, this hall is enough to stand for 30,000 to 50,000 people. In fact, the hall on the second floor can only be used during the Super Pilgrimage Meeting.

Usually more commonly used, is the third floor, there are three conference rooms of different sizes, as well as several reception rooms of different sizes and specifications, and then there are secretaries, living rooms, middle scholars, inner supervisors, etc., the emperor often has to call some people's offices, these offices, all around the middle of the front, the more than 1,000 square meters of the imperial study.

Among the three conference rooms, the smallest one can accommodate 300 people for a meeting, and when everyone has a court meeting in the future, there is no need to stand, now there are many things to discuss, usually a stand is a few hours, normal people can't stand it, not to mention many old ministers, and after starting to touch more comfortable furniture such as sofas, everyone is more and more uncomfortable to kneel and sit.

Therefore, in the future, when everyone goes to court, there will be sofa seats, and there will be a separate case, to play or record, and there is no need to write and draw on the wat board, and there will be paper and pen directly on the seat for recording the key points of the meeting. Sun Xiangfu even thought intimately, on each case, put a red opposition card, and a green approval card, there are ministers to speak, express approval, or oppose, you can directly raise the card, so that the emperor sitting on the dragon chair can see at a glance, know everyone's attitude, not rely on momentum, rely on physical strength, to tell the emperor his attitude.

The exterior wall of the building is snow-white, in order to light, there are many large windows, these windows, will all use pure transparent glass as a sash, the location of the third floor of the imperial study, there are large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, even if his location is outside the city of Longshouyuan, but his height, more than ten meters higher than the city wall of Chang'an City, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass of the imperial study, looking at the entire Chang'an, there will be a feeling of everything under your feet.

Of course, Daming Palace is not only this main hall, on both sides of him, there will be twelve buildings with white walls and red tiles, but a few smaller ones, these buildings are the office buildings of all the institutions of the imperial court.

Between the buildings, the distance is not more than 100 steps, there is no wall courtyard and other things to divide, including the ministers to go to the main hall of the imperial study, but also only need to be reported through the inner chamberlain, the emperor is allowed to see, which is equivalent to all the office systems of the Tang Dynasty, gathered together, such a setting, will make the emperor in the office hours, can more directly accept the report of various departments, and issue orders to the ministries, so that the power of the central government, more centralized.

As for the harem, after the construction of the main hall and the office building is completed, it will continue to be built backwards along the perimeter of the Taiye Pool, and similarly, in the way of a single building and a single courtyard, it is scattered and sitting, which greatly reduces the floor area at the same time, making the entire palace more convenient to enter and exit, and more like a relatively large villa area.

All the landscape, entertainment facilities, will be relatively concentrated in this area of the Taiye Pool, and the original entire Taiji Palace, Yeting, East Palace, after the completion of the new palace, will be open to the public, as the Imperial City Park for the people of Chang'an to play and sightseeing, Sun Xiangfu even suggested that the original palace of the imperial garden, transformed into a zoo, will be presented from all over the state, elephants, rhinoceros, colorful birds, peacocks, apes, orangutans, dragons, lions, tigers, bears and other animals, with relatively safe, can be seen in the building, isolated, For the public to watch, charge a certain amount of tickets, do the cost of breeding and maintenance.

As for the original office areas of the imperial court in the 12 squares of the government, it is natural to develop high-end real estate in the city and alleviate the increasing pressure on the housing demand in Chang'an City.

Sun Xiangfu's entire proposal was approved by Li Shimin, so Yan Lide, who was mainly responsible for the construction, came to Dingxiang to learn the construction technology of this new building building, because Sun Xiangfu's top construction team is in Dingxiang, which currently has the most advanced and beautiful buildings in Datang.

Of course, even if Yan Lide and a cadre of officials from the Ministry of Industry learn quickly, the imperial court also has manpower and money to smash it, but it will take at least two or three years to really build the main building complex of the entire Daming Palace, and the entire building complex will be completed, at least more than five years, but it will not be like in history, Taizong stopped repairing for more than a year, Gaozong took over, and the repair was basically completed in ten and a half months.

Because, the new style of architecture, need a lot of technology, a lot of technology, is no longer the same as the previous building, erect columns, build beams, cover tiles, floor tiles, erect walls, it is simply done, after it is completed, not to say that it is a permanent building, with a few tens of hundreds of years, it should be no problem.

With the cement road and the horse changing stations along the way, it is fast to catch up with the road, even in winter, Sun Xiangfu also took a nap in the carriage for four days, and arrived at the foot of Shanyang City, this kind of twelve hours of non-stop running, even if the speed of the carriage is slightly reduced, on the cement road, it can reach about 500 miles a day.

Before he came, Sun Xiangfu did not write a letter to inform Shanyang's side, in fact, the letter may not be faster than his carriage, and when he arrived in the city, Sun Xiangfu found that there was no one at home.

After the housekeeper Liu Song welcomed Sun Xiangfu into the door, he said, "Master, the second master and the third lady have gone to the Agricultural College." ”

"Agricultural college? Is it covered over there? ”

"The main building has been built, other facilities, the people of the Wang family should be built slowly according to the requirements of the second master, but the second master does not want to waste the time of the whole winter, has already released the word in the city, next spring, the agricultural college will officially enroll, if you want to successfully enroll, you must first go to the agricultural college to get a basic information of agriculture to study by yourself, and wait for next year, pass the opening exam, before you can enroll, these days, he and the third lady they are all over there to send information!"

"Well, go get busy! By the way, let people clean up all the guest rooms in the house, and prepare a sumptuous dinner, I want to feast guests. ”

After Sun Xiangfu finished explaining to Liu Song in front of the mansion, he returned to the convoy again and said to Yan Lide, "Yan Shangshu, you are affected, come with me directly to the Agricultural College to have a look!" ”

When it comes to architecture, Yan Lide is an expert in this era, and he not only knows how to build houses, but also an expert in feng shui. Just by the way, let's take a look! Perhaps Sun Xiangfu's own design of this academy can bring him some inspiration in architecture.

Soon, the convoy began to drive towards the east of Shanyang City, in the direction of the Agricultural College, and the news that Sun Xiangfu had returned to Shanyang also began to spread in the city.

The scale of the College of Agriculture, no less than the medical school, almost occupies a square of Shanyang City, across the distance, Yan Li, who was in the same car with Sun Xiangfu, saw the teaching building standing within the courtyard wall, which is a rare three-story building on the side of Shanyang.

"Zhengming, is it also to save floor space by using this kind of building-style building as a school?"

"Not only can it save the building area, but it will also make it more convenient to build heating facilities, and if it is dispersed into many brick buildings, there will be many snow-covered roofs, so that the coal consumed by us for heating will more than double, and it will be built into a building, which will save over time, which is not a little cost."

"I can't think of building a house, I have to think about these issues, and the old man has been taught."

"Hehe, not only these problems, large buildings, reasonable safe passages, fire protection facilities, are also essential, although the building will use more masonry, less wood, but there are also times of fire, and once this kind of building-type building catches fire, it is not like an ordinary one-story house, everyone can run out to escape, usually everyone needs to take the stairs downstairs, and, the building is big, burning, smoke is likely to accumulate indoors, this thing, but it is easier to kill than flames, so, when we build the new palace, These issues must also be taken into account. ”

"Fire?" Hearing a new word, Yan Lide asked in some surprise.

Sun Xiangfu hurriedly explained, "Eliminate hidden dangers and prevent fires. ”

Yan Lide praised when he heard this, "Zhengming is really thoughtful, it seems that after the old man goes to Dingxiang, he really wants to take a good look at the internal structure of those new buildings." ”