I am looking for my father today to give him an important thing to do.

Cai Yan said: What good can you do if you look for your father? Isn't the academy going to expand again? Zhang Jiedao: The academy will not be expanded for the time being. Wait until the situation is better to build again.

The Son of Heaven wanted to build the palace and let the hundred officials design the drawings, so I handed over this matter to my father. With his father's talents, he should be able to do it.

Cai Yan said: Now the people of Luoyang have a problem eating, where do they get the money and food to build the palace? Doesn't this make the people even worse?

Zhang Jie said: The Son of Heaven intends to give these people something to do through work. It's just money and food, and we have to pay for it.

Cai Yan said: Let's go out? We have also been fighting for many years, how can we have so much money and food to repair the palace? You're not going to say yes, are you?

Zhang Jie smiled and said: Since it is the will of the Son of Heaven, how can I refuse? Xun Kan has promised us to give us 100,000 stones, 100 million money, 5,000 pieces of wood, and 1,000 craftsmen.

Cai Yan hurriedly said: Although I am a woman and it is inconvenient to interfere in politics, I also know the importance of food in troubled times. And let him let us give so much money and food in the court? I think he is uneasy and kind, and now he has promised the Son of Heaven that if you regret it, it will make you very passive. Acting according to his words will cost us so much money and food.

Zhang Jie smiled: I didn't expect my family Yan'er to understand politics very well!

Cai Yan said: How did Shimin reply to the imperial court?

Zhang Jie said: Give it, as long as the Son of Heaven is using money and grain to build the palace. We will give him whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't use our money and food to recruit troops and buy horses.

Cai Yan said: What do you mean?

Zhang Jie said: Does Yan'er want to live in Jiaofang Palace?

Yes!! Cai Yan was shocked. The big Hanjiao palace is where the queen lives, and Cai Yan really hasn't thought about this. So it was a bit of a surprise.

Cai Yan said: Shimin, do you mean that we are going to enter Luoyang? Zhang Jie said: Not yet, it will take about three years! When the desert is cleared, we will enter Luoyang.

Although this Yecheng is good, it lacks the spirit of the Son of Heaven and is not suitable for being the capital. Moreover, Yecheng has no natural defensive barrier, but I am afraid that we will not be able to stay in the palace after we enter Luoyang. At least you can't really move in until the Central Plains is pacified. So let the Son of Heaven cultivate slowly.

Cai Yan said: In fact, it doesn't matter whether you build a palace or not, as long as you are by my side, I will not be a rare pepper palace. If there is a day in the future, I want to change my name. Zhang Jie said: Okay, as long as Yan'er is happy, it can be called whatever name.

Cai Yan said: You leave this matter to your father, I guess my father hasn't slept in the past few days. I must have racked my brains and worked the design drawings.

Zhang Jie said: My father is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and I think he is happier than anyone else. Not everyone has such an opportunity. Father will surely cherish this opportunity to make the new palace the greatest man-made structure in the world.

Cai Yan said: My father is old, and I am afraid that he will not be able to bear it. Zhang Jie said: It should be fine, just a few days. After a while, you will send someone to cook some ginseng soup for his old man. I wonder if he'll be able to give you a brother next year.

Cai Yan said: you, don't joke about your father. But you're going to be a father again, and Yan's has been giving birth in the past few days, so you can go and see her when you have time. Zhang Jie said: I'll go in a while, but I've been busy in the past few days and can't take care of it.

A few days later, Zhang Jie chatted with Yan in the backyard, Yan was about to give birth, and Zhang Jie took the time to accompany her. At this time, someone came to report that Mr. Cai came to find Zhang Jie. Zhang Jie knew that it should be the palace drawings designed. Zhang Jie saw Cai Yong holding a stack of papers, and then opened a silk painting nearly three meters long and two meters wide in the hall.

When Zhang Jie saw this painting for the first time, he was shocked. In the painting is a panorama of the entire imperial palace, with more than a dozen palace groups large and small. It is much larger than the Forbidden City in Beijing in later generations.

Then took out a pile of papers, Cai Yong said: Just a few pieces of paper are drawings of each palace. The largest of these is the Deyang Hall. The hall is three zhang high, and His Majesty is one zhang high. The temple can accommodate 10,000 people. It is the main hall of the Son of Heaven to discuss politics.

Zhang Jie looked at these paintings and said to himself: No wonder everyone wants to be an emperor, this palace is too big!

Cai Yongdao: These are just changes on the basis of the original South Palace, and the North Palace has not been added. Even if it was built according to the map, it still did not reach the scale of the original palace. Originally, there were nearly 100 palaces in the south palace and the north palace, but the old man removed some of the original old palaces. In this way, although the palace is less, it looks more atmospheric, more reasonable, and more beautiful.

Zhang Jiedao: Is it necessary to build such a large palace? How many people do you have to live here? How much food does it cost? Now the world is not peaceful, and the people are miserable. Why build a palace so luxuriously?

Cai Yongdao: How can you reflect the royal majesty if you don't do this? How can you make the four seas surrender? And the Son of Heaven takes the four seas as his home, and he is not magnificent.

Zhang Jie said in his heart: The old guy thinks he is Xiao He?

After Cai Yong left, Zhang Jie then called someone to find Jiang Gan.

Zhang Jie said: Ziyi, I came to you because I asked you to do something. Jiang Gandao: What does the lord want to do?

Zhang Jie said: Send you to Luoyang.

Jiang Gandao: Didn't Xun Kan go to Luoyang on behalf of the lord? Why did you send it again?

Zhang Jie said: The Son of Heaven was going to build the palace, and asked Xun Kan how much grain he could give, and Xun Kan promised 100,000 stone grain and grass, 100 million copper coins, 5,000 wood, and 1,000 craftsmen. What do you say I should do?

Jiang Gan said in a hurry: How can Xun Kan be like this? How important is food in the world now? 100,000 stone of grain can feed 10,000 soldiers for nearly three years. How much can 100 million dollars be used for soldiers? How is Xun Kan so unwise? Could it be that he only has the Son of Heaven in his heart and no lord?

Zhang Jie was very satisfied when he saw Jiang Gan's expression. This shows that Jiang Gan's heart is towards him

Zhang Jie said: Hey! I don't know who I am. Now I can only promise the Son of Heaven with a hard head. Otherwise, Jie will lose his trust in the world. After all, if Xun You is my messenger!

Jiang Gandao: Why don't we give some first? And then slowly give? In this way, we will not lose our trust in others, and it will not put us under too much pressure.

Zhang Jie nodded and said: This time you take 20,000 stone of grain and 20 million money to Luoyang. After you arrived in Luoyang, you stayed in Luoyang temporarily, and what I was most worried about was that the Son of Heaven would use money and grain to recruit troops and buy horses. So you have to keep an eye on them. Money and food must be used for the construction of the palace. Otherwise, we won't be able to get out the rest.

You can hint to the court that as long as the palace is built, we may have more supplies.

Jiang Gandao: What does the lord mean by this? Zhang Jie said: Doesn't Ziyi want to discuss matters in Deyang Hall and seal his wife and son?

Jiang Gan thought for a while and said: Does the lord want to be the emperor?

Zhang Jie said: No, no, we have to take Luoyang first when we send troops to the Central Plains in the future, right? Now that Luoyang is ruined, how can it be built without it? Even if Jie goes to Luoyang to serve the Son of Heaven, there must be a place to discuss politics, right? You can't just keep talking about politics on the ruins, right? Take a look at the latest chapters of "Mr. Storyteller of the Three Kingdoms" and read it for free for the first time.