Luoyang.

Ziwei Palace.

Countless people poured into the palace to visit the palace, the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival.

The emperor issued an edict to open the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang, allowing the people to visit the Qianyuan Palace, the main hall of the palace, and allowing the people to visit the imperial city.

This is the first time that since ancient times, no emperor has opened the palace to the common people to visit. After this edict, hundreds of people in Luoyang City got up in the middle of the night to line up, and they all wanted to enter the palace to see what the emperor's Jinluan Hall was like.

Even some people around Luoyang, after hearing about it, were excited to come.

Ziwei Palace is different from Taiji Palace in Chang'an.

Chang'an City is built very symmetrically, and Taiji Palace is in the center of the north of Chang'an City. But Luoyang Ziwei Palace is not symmetrical, its imperial city palace city is selected in the northwest corner of Luoyang City, here is the highest place in Luoyang City, the palace is built here, can be condescending to look down on the whole city.

Luoyang Ziwei Palace covers an area of about 6,300 acres, the main gate is Yingtianmen, the main hall is the Qianyuan Palace, and the east and west are Wensi Hall and Wucheng Hall respectively.

The three major halls of the former dynasty are the Qianyuan Hall (Sui called Qianyang Palace), the Kaiyuan Hall (Sui called the Daye Palace), and the Xingyuan Hall (Sui called Huiyou Palace).

The Qianyuan Hall is the first of the three major palaces of the previous dynasty, and its volume and area are the largest palaces in China's history, and there is no one. The Qianyuan Hall is not only the palace of the upper dynasty, but also the hall of the New Year's Day meeting of the Qin Empire and the emperor's enthronement ceremony.

The Golden Palace is splendid.

After the people checked their identities at the palace gate, they lined up to enter, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites led them to visit, and the Northern Ya Forbidden Army maintained order.

Open is the three major halls of the former dynasty and the imperial city of three provinces and six departments of the yamen, but some Ziwei palace is very large, in the real inner outside, there are several palace cities, north of the inner is Xuanwu City, Yaoyi City and Yuanbi City three cities, these three cities guard the north of the imperial palace Ouchi, the triple city pass, there is a forbidden army.

The west side is the west city and the right city, the east side is the east city and the left city, the outermost part has a larger east city than the inner area, and the north of the east city is Hanjiacang City.

To the south of Ouchi is the Imperial City.

The real Ouchi occupies less than one-fifth of the entire Imperial Palace.

And Ouchi is divided into the former dynasty and the inner court.

The former dynasty was the place where the emperor's office was located, and it was also the place where the ministers and the court meeting were summoned, and the inner court was naturally the emperor's bedroom, the place where the concubines and young princes lived, and the Yeting Palace was the place where the palace people lived and worked.

Even if this time it is only open to the previous dynasty, the three major halls are only open to the Qianyuan Palace, but for the people, this is a rare opportunity, and there are a few people in this life who have the opportunity to enter the palace.

If you want to see other palaces other than the Qianyuan Palace, of course, you can, and you can even have a meal in the palace, of course, those are not free, you have to buy a ticket to visit.

And that lunch, though simple, was by no means cheap.

But even so, there are still countless rich people vying to buy tickets.

When visiting, there are still some souvenirs for sale in the palace, which are also some gadgets, such as the four treasures of the study marked with the seal of Ziwei Palace, and the silk cloth embroidered with the palace mark.

There are even Micha for sale in the stables, and sake for sale in the sake brewery.

These things are all stamped with the marks of the royal court, and now they are sold to the people as souvenirs, which are not just a commodity, but have a special status symbol.

There are a lot of people who buy it.

The eunuchs in charge of collecting the money in the province of the inner chamber had sore hands when they took the pen to register, and the eunuchs who counted the money there also had soft hands.

On the other side, at lunch in the palace, there was also a blind date.

The emperor arranged blind dates for those palace people who were over twenty-five years old, especially some palace people who had been unable to contact their families due to the war, and the children of the eunuchs, the children of the powerful clan, and even the children of ordinary farmers from good families had the opportunity to participate in this blind date at lunch.

The most special thing about this blind date is that it is not the people who come to lunch to choose these palace people, but these palace people to select these young children.

If the palace people pick someone and then arrange for the man to come and meet, as long as the man does not refuse and agrees, the matter will be agreed, and the palace will marry them off as their mother's family at that time.

The man's family prepares to come over, and the palace procures a dowry for the palace people, and then marries.

This was proposed by the concubine Changsun clan, and then the queen Shan presided over a harem activity assisted by the four concubines, which was strongly supported by Luo Cheng.

Opening the Imperial Palace, and even engaging in blind dates and buying royal things, these things are very out of line in the eyes of many ministers, thinking that they are out of line, so that ordinary people can also enter the Ouchi to visit, so that the royal majesty is lost.

But Luo Cheng's reason for persuading the prime ministers and ministers is very simple, his move is not to collect money, but just to shorten the distance between Xia and the people, so that everyone can be closer to the Great Qin Dynasty, the Great Qin royal family and hundreds of officials.

As for the money from the sale of royal goods and tickets, it will not be used to build palaces, but to set up some nursing homes in Luoyang City to help the lonely and widowed elderly, to rescue orphans and abandoned infants, and to establish cemeteries for the burial of people without descendants.

Luo Cheng has even decided that the opening of this palace is not only to be held once, but also once or twice a year in the future, so that the people can enter the palace to visit, and the sale of royal goods and palace lunches can also be carried out forever, and the income will be used to help orphans, widows and abandoned babies, collect and bury the poor or merchants and scholars living in Luoyang, and so on.

He also demanded that the yamen of local governments should also hold open days for the yamen every year, so that the people can visit the mysterious yamen, and even hold open office days several times a year, so that the people can watch how the yamen works and how the officials work at close range.

"The comprehensive renovation plan of Luoyang Ziwei Palace proposed by Xiao Shilang before said that the budget would be about one million yuan."

South of Luoyang, by the Luoshui River.

The Imperial Palace was open to the common people to visit, but the emperor came to the Imperial Palace.

This is one of the palaces built by the Sui Dynasty, the palace is not big, but it is well preserved.

"Is it more than one million guan, some people may say that we collected more than one million guan in the salt tax alone last year, which is not much. But I want to say that 1 million guan is a big amount, and a homesteader farmer with 100 acres of land, even if it is a good year, the world is peaceful, but if the annual income is deducted from the expenses, it may not be able to accumulate ten guan money. ”

"A million yuan, how much is this the life savings of a small farmer?"

Xiao Yu said, "Your Majesty, Luoyang Ziwei Palace is the palace inside, and now Your Majesty's home, it can't be repaired." ”

"You can fix it, but that's not how the money is spent. I actually have a way to repair the palace and save this lot of money. ”

"Your Majesty, but do you persuade the world's rich businessmen to donate?" Chen Shuda asked.

When encountering large expenses, it is a very conventional means to persuade those large and wealthy businessmen to donate, and the big businessmen know that this is very unfair, but they can't do anything.

Only this time, the emperor shook his head, "No, persuasion is actually blackmail, which is very bad, we can't make such a head." ”

"So how do you solve this million?" Chen Shuda was puzzled.

The emperor said, in fact, the budget of one million guan is a bit high, and if you change the way, you can greatly reduce the cost. Of course, if you just change the way, you can spend a penny.

Luo Cheng's method is actually very simple, just like he sells imperial goods, originally a first-class good horse can be worth more than ten silk in the border market, and in the Central Plains, it can be worth twenty or thirty silk, but the horses in the palace stable can be sold for a hundred silk horses, and the supply is still in short supply.