A few days after accompanying Queen Wang to visit the West Lake, Zhang Lingyang's Luan began to return north.

Half a month later, Luan arrived in Luoyang, the new capital.

Looking at the Luoyang Palace that had been built, and walking around inside, Zhang Lingyang directly called Xiao Fuzi and instructed: "Xiao Fuzi, you go and ask the Queen Mother and the Queen, see that they fall in love with that palace?" You're good to set up in advance! ”

"Slaves obey!"

After Xiaofuzi retired, Zhang Lingyang summoned Zheng Yongji, the governor of southern Henan, and asked, "Zheng Aiqing, when will Luoyang City be completed?" ”

Zheng Yongji replied: "If you go back to Your Majesty, the main building will be completed by the end of this year, and as for the entire Luoyang City, I am afraid it will take two or three years." ”

Zhang Lingyang nodded, understanding that this was already the fastest time. In this era, there was no such thing as high-rise buildings, so the time to build a house was not very long. But after all, this is a big project, so it can't be completely completed in a year and a half.

Now Zheng Yongji said that the main building in Luoyang City can be completed within the year, which is also based on the participation of more than 100,000 local people.

That's it, basically spent all the 10 million taels of silver allocated by the previous internal funds.

But now it seems that the ten million taels of silver are worth it.

Zhang Lingyang didn't feel sorry for the 10 million taels of silver, because with the purchase of the mansion in Luoyang by the powerful and wealthy merchants in Beijing, the 10 million taels of silver had already been recovered. When Luoyang City is completely completed, all the silver can be recovered, not to mention, and it can be more profitable.

As for how much profit can be made in the end, we have to see how much the housing prices in Luoyang City can increase at that time.

Not only that, but the local people also earn a lot of money through their work, and although this money does not really make them rich, it can improve the life of the family.

So Zhang Lingyang is very satisfied.

Out of the palace, Zheng Yongji led Zhang Lingyang around Luoyang City for most of the circle, but in addition to the buildings near the palace that have been built, the entire Luoyang City is still a big construction site.

"Do you have enough people now?" Back at the palace, Zhang Lingyang asked Zheng Yongji.

"This is already the limit!" "The main problem now is the limited production capacity of cement plants, which has created a situation where cement supply exceeds demand. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang nodded noncommittally and said, "I can order someone to import cement equipment from Xiyi." But you'll have to speed it up! ”

"Weichen understands, but Your Majesty!" Zheng Yongji said suddenly, "Your Majesty ordered the introduction of so many cement equipment, I'm afraid it's not very suitable!"

Wechen also visited the cement factory and found that it was extremely dusty, and if he stayed there for a long time, Wechen was worried that it would cause harm to the staff's body! ”

Zhang Lingyang did not have a good way to deal with this situation, but just instructed the staff of the cement plant to take corresponding precautions during working hours.

"The construction of Luoyang City will trouble Zheng Aiqing, but I hope that Zheng Aiqing will not forget the things about the people's livelihood in southern Henan."

"Wechen understands!"

Thinking that Zheng Yongji was not a person who couldn't understand the importance of things, Zhang Lingyang stopped admonishing him.

Starting the next day, Zhang Lingyang began to take the Empress Dowager Xu and the concubines in the palace to start playing around Luoyang.

Speaking of which, there are a lot of places of interest and historic sites in Luoyang City, whether it is the White Horse Temple, which is known as the first temple in the world, or the Longmen Grottoes located in the southern suburbs of Luoyang, it is worth visiting.

"It's just a pity, the season is not suitable for this time, and I didn't see the peony!" On the way back to Beijing, Zhang Lingyang was still worried about not seeing the peony.

If you want to say what is most famous in Luoyang City, it is not the White Horse Temple, nor the Longmen Grottoes, but the peony.

Peony is a well-deserved king of flowers, and it is synonymous with grace and luxury since ancient times, and is deeply loved by princes and nobles.

It is strange to say that in the whole world, only the peony in Luoyang City is the most beautiful, in Zhang Lingyang's opinion, it may be due to water and soil.

Compared with Zhang Lingyang's stubbornness, Queen Wang was in a very good mood, so she persuaded her: "Don't worry about the emperor, after a few years, the capital will be moved to Luoyang, what flowers will the emperor not see?" ”

"That's what the queen said!" Zhang Lingyang nodded and said, "When the time comes, I will order that peonies be planted in the queen's bedroom, so that whenever I have time, I will accompany the queen to enjoy the peonies, I don't know what the queen thinks?" ”

"The concubine thanked the emperor first!" Queen Wang was naturally overjoyed.

Zhang Lingyang's sentence sounds like nothing at first, but when you think about it carefully, there is another deep meaning in it.

What is Peony?

Peony is the king of flowers.

What about the queen and the king?

The queen is the mother of a country.

Planting peonies in the queen's bedroom, doesn't it mean that the queen's position will be safe and secure in the future, and no one will want to move?

Queen Wang could guess the meaning of Zhang Lingyang's words, and those concubines who knew the news naturally understood the meaning of these words.

On this day, I don't know how many dishes were smashed.

Zhang Lingyang didn't care about this at all.

Zhang Lingyang wants to tell those ambitious concubines in this way: The queen is always the mother of a country, and it is better to put away your little caution as soon as possible.

Returning to Beijing from Luoyang, this way is no longer a waterway, but after leaving the Tiger Pass, crossing the Yellow River from Xingyang, and then passing through Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde, Guangping, Baoding and other state capitals, before returning to the capital.

The scenery on this road is actually not good, and several state capitals along the way are basically located on the North China Plain, and there are not even a few decent mountains, let alone any scenery.

If the lush crops in the fields on both sides of the road are considered a landscape, then along the way, Zhang Lingyang has indeed experienced 'a lot' of scenery.

Compared with the south of the Yangtze River, both southern Henan and Hebei are relatively much more withered.

The city does not have the prosperity of Jiangnan, and the people do not have the wealth of Jiangnan, but in general, it is better than the people of Shandong.

Hebei is a Zhili Province, which is located on the edge of the capital, so the officials of the imperial court are still relatively concerned about the livelihood of Hebei. It is also for this reason that the officials in Hebei do not dare to act too recklessly.

On the side of southern Henan Province, whether it is Zhu Kaishan, the former governor, or Zheng Yongji, who is now demoted to southern Henan, they are all capable ministers, and under their governance, the people's livelihood will naturally not be too withered.

If the eighteen provinces of the Great Monday are now arranged in a sequence, then the provinces south of the Yangtze River must be in the first sequence, while Huguang and southern Henan, Hebei, and Sichuan and Shu are in the second sequence, and as for the other provinces, this is in the third sequence.