Ying Tianfu. Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Zhanji sat on the throne on the third floor, and in front of him to the left and right, respectively, were the officials of the inner servant, Honglu Temple, and Jinyiwei, and the position they stood was more than half a meter shorter than the white marble platform of the dragon chair, which would not block Zhu Zhanji's view of the audience.

The chamberlain is the emperor's assistant, the pronunciation, the Honglu Temple arranges the procedures of the court meeting, and the Jinyi guard is responsible for maintaining order.

To his left and right, in the back of the room, stood the Cabinet and the Masters of the Hanlin Academy, who were in a lower position, almost the same as the second floor.

Every incident that is taken out for discussion will be sorted out by them and provided Zhu Zhanji with detailed solutions. Let the emperor not make wrong decisions because he doesn't understand the importance of things.

Below him, both positions on the second-level platform were empty. It was originally a position that belonged to Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Gaochi, but now that Zhu Zhanji is in charge of the country, Zhu Gaochi is recuperating, and no one is sitting there.

The third layer is where the ministers stand, with Jian Yi as the leader on the left and Zhang Fu as the head on the right.

The position where officials above the third rank stood was actually almost two steps higher than the position where other ministers stood. The whole hall appears to have many layers, forming a three-dimensional meeting hall.

At a time when the trade between the Ming Dynasty and overseas was strengthened, the carpets brought back from South Asia were popular all over the country.

Zhu Zhanji also made wooden floors in the early years, and now the hall is also covered with wooden floors and carpets.

Depending on the color of the carpet, each minister knew where he was standing.

In the center of the main hall is a red carpet area with a width of nearly five meters, which is the dividing line, and it is also the place where the ministers come out to give speeches or debates.

At this time, the official Shangshu Jianyi turned his back to Zhu Zhanji, and stood diagonally on the steps of the second-floor platform, facing the officials.

Officials cannot directly turn their backs to the emperor or Zhu Zhanji, the prison of the state, and even if they want to preside over the court meeting, they can only lean over and face the officials.

In the central red carpet area in front of him, Xia Yuanji, the head of the household, finished reporting on the Guyuan earthquake and is now explaining the incident with other ministers.

The Guyuan earthquake, this is a natural disaster, in the face of this kind of event, the court officials will not have too many positions, nor will they have heated debates, everything is mainly rescue.

In addition to the appointment of the envoy, Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had some differences with Xia Yuanji, and Lu Zhen wanted to let Yuan Fu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, serve as the special envoy, but was strongly opposed by Xia Yuanji.

Xia Yuanji recommended Yu Shiji, the prefect of Xiangyang, as a special envoy, because Xiangyang was closer to Guyuan and had abundant resources, so the imperial court could mobilize grain and grass to support Guyuan.

In the third year of Yongle, there was a severe famine in western Zhejiang, and Zhu Di ordered Xia Yuanji to lead Yu Shiji, Yuan Fu and Zuo Tongzheng Zhao Juren to relief.

They distributed 300,000 stone of grain and provided cattle and seeds for the hungry.

In the process of this relief, Xia Yuanji was quite familiar with the abilities of Yu Shiji and Yuan Fu, and believed that Yu Shiji was more suitable than Yuan Fu to serve as a relief envoy.

Although Yu Shiji is now the prefect of Xiangyang, it is a little inappropriate to leave the place as a landlord. But this also represents a signal, that is, Xia Yuanji wants to remind Zhu Zhanji that this Yu Shiji is a capable person and should be used more.

The audience was debating fiercely, and Zhu Zhanji turned around and asked Yang Rong at the bottom right. "This Yu Shiji and Yuan Fu, who does Aiqing think is more suitable?"

Yang Rong said in a low voice: "Yu uses Zhenwei to measure the flood, and Yuan Zhongren is resourceful and decisive, and they all have different reactions. ”

Yang Rong's character is still very upright, and these two people can be so praised by him, which makes Zhu Zhanji have some interest.

He hooked his finger at Sun Lin who was not far away, and instructed him to find out the information about the two of them as officials.

Sun Lin quickly asked people to find out the files of the two and submit them.

Yuan Fu has been relatively smooth as an official, has always been an official, and has risen steadily.

In contrast, Yu Shiji's experience is much richer, and he was implicated in his family's crimes, demoted to an official, and later sent out of Beijing to serve as the prefect of Xiangyang.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji quickly finished reading the information, Wang Yan reminded: "Your Highness, this Yu Yongzhen and Yuan Zhongren are both Jinshi, and their relationship is irreversible, and they are still sons and daughters. ”

Zhu Zhanji felt more and more interesting, and asked with a smile: "In this case, Lu Zhen and Xia Yuanji each recommended one person, obviously to win them over, which shows that both of them have good abilities." ”

Wang Yan nodded and said, "Both of them have given relief many times, are familiar with the relief process, and are both credible people. ”

Under the high platform, the dispute between the two sides has come to an end, and after Jian Yi expressed his support for Yu Shiji, he entered the voting session.

At this time, Xia Yuanji, who had been prepared for a long time, obviously gained more support, and Yu Shiji, whom he recommended, received more votes.

Subsequently, Jian Yi set Yu Shiji, and then reported to Zhu Zhanji for review.

Zhu Zhanji has the right of veto, and if he does not agree with any resolution or decision, the ministers will have to reconsider it.

However, since Zhu Zhanji also agreed with these two candidates, and the ministers elected Yu Shiji, he naturally did not oppose it for no reason and agreed.

On the cabinet side, Xie Jin immediately worked hard to write a holy decree.

After discussing the affairs of the household department, it was the turn of the Ministry of Rites.

It's April now, and this year there is autumn, and now it's time to decide on the various school officials, school officials, and examiners.

The Ministry of Rites needs to come up with candidates, discuss them with the Ministry of Officials, and then bring them out for the courtiers to deliberate. Every candidate, as long as there are no evil deeds or bad deeds, will basically not be rejected.

However, there is a very important problem here, that is, everyone is assigned to a different area, oil, water, and fame.

The Northwest, the North, the Southwest, naturally no one wants to go. Because the population is sparse and the literary style is not flourishing, there are naturally fewer officials who can pass the examination.

The two lakes, the Central Plains, including Sichuan, belong to the middle area, and although there are not many jinshi who are admitted every year, they will not be less.

The southeast region is the area that everyone wants to go to, because every Jinshi is mostly from here.

As an examiner, the jinshi who came out of his area of responsibility were all to apprentice, this kind of ready-made teacher, no minister would be unwilling to be a teacher, which was a lot of political wealth.

At present, the imperial court has not distinguished between the north and the south, and has divided the people into the north and the south, and strictly controlled the southern 60 percent and the northern 40 percent, which was determined after Zhu Gaochi came to power.

Since then, for hundreds of years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have basically taken scholars according to this ratio.

The candidates selected by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials will be posted on a list after today, and written in the newspaper, and if someone opposes it, they will also be impeached within half a month.

Half a month later, officials who have not been impeached will be assigned a place.

Therefore, today's Ministry of Rites is only discussing the candidates, although it is very peaceful, but when the court meeting in half a month later discusses the personnel arrangements in various places, it will definitely be noisy.

After everyone was selected, Jian Yi asked Zhu Zhanji again, and Zhu Zhanji still agreed.

However, Zhu Zhanji said: "Lone's five younger brothers have now reached the age of marriage. There are also major royal clans, and there are not a few people of appropriate age. Therefore, the Ministry of Rites should discuss with the Zongren Mansion to count the number of people as soon as possible and select concubines for the clans of appropriate age. ”

Lu Zhen stood up and responded: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Choosing a concubine is not a complete blind marriage, because the major royal palaces actually have a certain degree of autonomy, and they may have already had a goal in mind to marry their children.

This kind of thing has to be reported to the Zongren Mansion, and the Zongren Mansion will make statistics, and then the emperor will be asked to give him a marriage. Therefore, if the Ministry of Rites wants to choose a concubine, it must first communicate with the Zongren Mansion, and the statisticians cannot be higher than the Oolong incident in which the vassal king has been engaged to his children and has been included in the selection of concubine candidates.

In the past, the Zongren Mansion was held by the prince of the clan himself, but after Emperor Jianwen, in order to limit the power of the vassal king, the position of Zongzheng became vacant.

Although today's Zongren Mansion is still known as the first yamen of Wenchen, their position is also ranked first outside the Chengtian Gate, and they are still above the officials.

But in fact, this yamen has declined, and most of the affairs are under the control of the Ministry of Rites, except for the officials.

In short, this matter is mainly managed by Lu Zhen, and there is no escapability.

Next, it is the most important military affairs today, Zhu Di's expedition to the west, and now the main focus of the Ming Dynasty is on serving the western expedition.

When Zhu Di was there, he implemented a strict policy of poisonous vegetables, strictly prohibiting civilian officials from interfering in the war.

However, because the military department belongs to the civilian system, they are responsible for providing logistics and services for the army, which is equivalent to indirectly controlling the logistics of the army.

Therefore, although civilian officials have not had the opportunity to directly intervene in the military, the struggle for power around the control of the military has never stopped.

Now that Zhu Di is on the expedition, the major generals of the Northern Route Army have also been determined, but it does not mean that the civilian officials have given up their extravagant hopes of military control.

After all, they control the logistics of the army.

In this regard, even Zhu Di is helpless, because it is impossible for him to make civilian officials give up the restraint on military generals, which would be too dangerous.

The yellow robe of the former Song Dynasty has only been a few hundred years. In the hundreds of years after this event in history, even the emperor did not dare to let the generals hold too much power, and civilian restraint was necessary.

Therefore, Zhu Di's arbitrariness is only within a certain range. He still has to rely on civilian officials to control logistics, and refuses to let the generals themselves have the power to lead troops, transfer troops, and economic power.

The generals needed to be restrained, so they gave the civilian officials a chance.

At the court meeting, they gave various plans for the movement of garrisons in the northwest. And after some debate, he came up with a compromise plan.

The military department will transfer 50,000 people from the military guards in the northwest, and after the cavalry goes out, they will be responsible for guarding the grain and grass of Jiayuguan.

In this round of disputes, the generals made Zhu Zhanji a little disappointed. None of them, including Zhang Fu, realized that this decision should not be made by civilian officials, even if the decision was correct.

Tactically, and even strategically, this resolution is correct.

Politically, this resolution is a big mistake.

So when this matter came to Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Zhanji was just a faint no, which immediately disappointed everyone.

As the speaker of the parliament, Jian Yi asked: "Your Highness, now that the Northern Route Army is about to go on an expedition, and a large amount of grain and grass has arrived at Jiayuguan, only Hamiwei and other northwest military guards cannot completely guarantee the deterrence of all ethnic groups in the northwest. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded with a smile and said, "Gu knows this matter very well, and he also knows that increasing infantry to Jiayuguan is conducive to reducing the pressure on the cavalry. But...... Gu has already decided that ten complete military guards will be transferred from Xuanfu and Datong to garrison Jiayuguan. ”

Jian Yi was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, please think twice, Xuanfu will go to the Datong area and guard the Northern Desert checkpoint, and the most important thing is to do it." ”

Zhu Zhanji said loudly: "The military guards in the northwest have dispatched 50,000 people, these people are scattered and lack training and cooperation, how can they follow the order?" Who can lead the way? All of you Aiqing are civil officials, don't regard those soldiers who understand each other's speech as literati, thinking that you can lead the army by going casually.

Secondly, this time Zheng Heng led the army to the expedition, and now he is in contact with the Warats and Tatar tribes in Mobei, and each of them has to send troops to the expedition. When their forces were exhausted, the defensive pressure in the Xuanfu area was naturally reduced.

In addition, although the military department has the power to transfer troops, it must make a decision in the light of the actual situation, and the opinions of the military generals should be the main focus on this matter. You didn't understand the specific situation in the court, so you made a decision to transfer troops as a civilian official, which was too reckless and did not make an example. ”

The civilian officials looked at each other, and the military generals led by Zhang Fu understood, and he immediately bowed: "Your Highness is wise, this matter should be decided by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and implemented by the Ministry of War." ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "In addition, give an order to Gu Yuanwei, and his generals will lead troops to rescue the victims and maintain law and order." ”

In this day and age, it is already an exaggeration to be able to mobilize local troops in the event of a natural disaster, and it is even more impossible to transfer troops from other places to rescue.

First of all, today's military households are restricted in their status, and they regard serving as a soldier as a profession, just to earn a living.

The local guards are chaotic, they only care about their own acres and threes of land, and they want them to risk their lives to save people, unless they are from their own country.

They are not the people's soldiers, and they have noble sentiments of serving the people.

It is also beneficial for locals to save locals, but if you send troops from other places to rescue the disaster, I am afraid that you will rob the people who have been affected by the disaster.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji did not consider letting the army save people at all, and could only arrange for the transportation of materials to the disaster relief.

Zhang Fu immediately agreed, and glanced at Wu Kezhong, the right governor of the Right Military Governor's Mansion, and nodded silently.

In this expedition, the strength of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army and the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army was the mainstay, and most of the governors of the two prefectures went out with the army.

Wu Kezhong, the right governor of the Right Army, is currently the largest general of the Right Army in the capital. And he will also return to the Liangzhou garrison after the autumn to prepare for the official departure of the Northern Route Army next year.

Wu Kezhong is the eldest son of the late Gongshun Bo Wu Yuncheng, who was the first Mengyuan nobleman to join the Ming Dynasty.

After he took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, he was loyal and became the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the northwest. With his efforts, all ethnic groups and tribes in the northwest surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and those who did not accept it were also exterminated by him one by one.

As a result, Wu Yuncheng was also promoted from commanding affairs all the way to the governor of the right army and the governor of the left, in charge of the military administration in the northwest.

In the fifteenth year of Yongle, Wu Yuncheng died of illness in Liangzhou, Wu Kezhong's son inherited his father's honor, and even his duties were only demoted from the left governor to the right governor, and he was still stationed in Liangzhou.

Liangzhou, also known as Yongzhou, is the Wuwei of later generations. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was an important town in the northwest, and its geographical location was very important.

Wu Kezhong's family is loyal, brave and good at fighting, and because of the identity of the Mengyuan people, they are recognized by all ethnic groups in the northwest, and they are a rare family of generals.

However, he also behaved very low-key because of his identity as a Mengyuan person. Although he is now in the capital, he rarely participates in political affairs, and even when he attends the court meeting, he rarely expresses his opinions, let alone argues with others.

The other ministers knew his temperament and would not provoke him for no reason, in short, he was a transparent person in the court.

Zhu Zhanji saw the silent exchange between him and Zhang Fu, and asked: "Wu Aiqing, Liangzhou is a military town, and now it is a military artery in the northwest, is there any difficulty now?" ”

Wu Kezhong, an upright Mengyuan man, heard Zhu Zhanji's inquiry, stood up and bowed down and said: "Your Highness, now a large amount of grain and grass has arrived in Jiayuguan, and the minister's territory has also benefited a lot. ”

Fortunately, this is a Mengyuan man, if he is an ordinary general, I am afraid that he will think about the law to get more benefits at this moment.

In the early days, one of the very important reasons why the Ming Dynasty liked to use generals was because of this.

The generals of the Han people want titles, benefits, and family prosperity.

But whether it is Tubo, Mengyuan, or Jurchen, their requirements are very low, as long as they have something to eat, they can work hard for the Ming Dynasty.

Now there is only a national concept, no national consciousness, and in order to survive, these people kill their own clan, and they are more ruthless than anyone else.

But as the signboard of Meng Yuan's generals, Zhu Zhanji certainly knows the importance of their signboard. He opened his mouth and said: "Aiqing is high-spirited, but Lone will not be ashamed of you." I heard that the green religion is thriving in the northwest now, and the suppressed Tibetan Buddhism can only retreat to Mobei. Lone allocated 2,000 taels of gold for you in Liangzhou, reshaped the golden body in the capital, and transported it to the northwest as a missionary tool. ”

In recent years, because of the economic plundering of the Ming Dynasty, there was a serious shortage of gold in the northwest. Whether it is Tibetan Buddhism or the Green Religion, they all like to use gold tools to show their strength.

But through trade, the Ming turned all their gold into spices and silk for it.

The Green Sect has a base camp in Central Asia, and it can still transport gold from there, but Tibetan Buddhism is sad, and many of them can only use copper to cast magic vessels.

With the experience of later generations, Zhu Zhanji knows very well that the combat effectiveness of the Green Religion and Buddhism is not the same. Buddhism can still control it, but the Green Religion is simply a flood beast.

Therefore, in order to suppress the Green Religion, Zhu Zhanji preferred to support Buddhism to fight them.

Before the advent of the train, the Ming Dynasty's control over the northwest was limited, and the cost of direct action was too high, and it basically depended on the various ethnic groups to spontaneously resist the invasion of the Green Sect.

Therefore, at this stage, it is still necessary to use the power of the northwest as much as possible to deal with the Green Sect.

This western expedition is mainly aimed at the green religious forces, and with Zhu Di's suppression, it is necessary to support the Buddhist forces in order to fundamentally eliminate them.

When Wu Kezhong heard this, he immediately bowed down and thanked him: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji suddenly broke off the idea of civilian officials meddling in military affairs, Jian Yi had no choice.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, the grain from Nanyang is constantly being transported in, and he has earned more than 20 million yuan of goods when he goes to sea this time.

What's more, the bank is controlled by the royal family, and he can directly allocate money and grain without relying on the household department.

At present, the household department can only unite with the imperial power and meddle in military and political affairs.

Taisun was far more shrewd than he thought, and didn't give them a chance at all.

The royal family doesn't support it, and they can't do anything about it.

It was the turn of the Criminal Department to deliberate, and Gu Zuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, came to the hall, faced Zhu Zhanji and Jian Yi, and directly reported the results of the Shandong major case tried by the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Third Division of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Zhu Zhanji also knew about this result yesterday, but he was actually not very satisfied.

Not a single official was sentenced to death, and more than 20 officials were demoted and transferred. More than 10 were dismissed from their posts and distributed 3,000 li. There are more than a dozen who are not light or heavy, but they just lost their official positions, and they didn't even need to be distributed, and they even still retained the Wenxun rank.

The results of such treatment are too light to even play a punitive role.

However, this case is contrary to the official evaluation procedures of the imperial court, and Gu Zuo, even if he is Zhu Zhanji's person, believes that it is not appropriate to punish too harshly.

On the one hand, the imperial court wanted more people and more taxes in various places, but on the other hand, it vigorously encouraged immigrants and suppressed food prices.

It's hard for local officials......

As for the Kong family's bad work here, and Zhu Gaochi is involved, the lid of this case cannot be lifted casually.

What's more, the Kong family is not stupid, they just took advantage of this loophole, if you want to say that it is a great evil, they are indeed bad for the foundation of the court.

But they did it very smartly, and there was no evidence of their involvement.

Of course, the six major grain merchants who actually participated in it could not get away with the crime, but now they have been arrested and their family property has been seized. As a result, the imperial court confiscated more than one million stone of grain, nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and distributed them to 3,000 li.

What else?

You can't kill them all!

On the contrary, the Confucian family used the labor of the imperial court to repair water conservancy for their own family and used natural disasters to occupy land, which is the responsibility that the Confucian family cannot shirk.

However, this crime can be big or small, no matter how big it is, it can't hurt the foundation of the Kong family

Because according to the Great Ming Law, it is not a sin to take advantage of natural disasters and suffer to buy heaven and earth. Occupying the imperial court for labor is only a fine.

There is also the matter of the Confucian family's ancestral grave, which is not directly related to the main branch of the Kong family.

This matter was not done by Kong Yanjin and them, but by Qufu County Ling Yan Shutong, who had greater responsibility in this matter.

Labor was requisitioned by the government, and digging ancestral graves was also done by labor, and at most one housekeeper of the Kong family came forward, and they also gave the rest of the Ma family two taels of silver as compensation.

This matter can be publicized and suppress the reputation of the Kong family, but in terms of it, the Kong family is not directly responsible.

Therefore, the final result of the triage of the three divisions was only to fine the Kong family, and the household department would check their 10,000 hectares of land in various parts of Shandong, and if there was any forcible occupation, they would all be confiscated.

This case has obviously formed a consensus in the civil system, and the Kong family is not guilty of the mistake and is fined.

When the results were reported, Zhu Zhanji said: "I thought that the case of grain corruption in Shandong and the case of officials' refusal of grain could be turned into a case. However, the Kong family forcibly occupied fertile land, requisitioned labor, and dug people's ancestral graves, which should be dealt with separately. Therefore, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple should distinguish the facts and not mix them up. ”

Baiguan understood when he boarded, Zhu Zhanji was still chasing after him and refused to give up.

But think about it, Zhu Gaochi is still unconscious, if Zhu Zhanji doesn't hate the Kong family, it will be in vain.

However, even if it is handled separately, the latter few things are not a big deal, and they have done their best to drag the Kong family out of the suspicion of rebellion.

Therefore, after re-discussion, they made a summary of the conclusion of the Shandong case, but the other faults of the Kong family were dealt with in a separate case.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji agree, and according to the results of their deliberations, let the cabinet begin to write the holy decree.

Officials from the north were exiled to Mobei, and the nearest ones were in Beihai, and as far as Siberia in later generations.

And most of the officials in the south were exiled to Luzon and Star City, the Old Port.

After the exile of all officials, their official status is not revoked, but they are demoted to three levels and retained. As for some low-level officials, when they went to Nanyang or Mobei, they all became academic officials and taught the local people to read and write.

Then, it was the turn of the Ministry of Works. Zhu Zhanji originally thought that the affairs of the Ministry of Industry were now on the road of normalization, whether it was building cement roads, repairing rivers and canals, or preventing floods, and now all these affairs have embarked on the road of a virtuous circle.

But when Wu Zhong proposed that the construction of the Bao'en Temple Tower should be funded again, Zhu Zhanji suddenly remembered that this is the most difficult project in the Ming Dynasty.

Since Yongle, there are a lot of big projects in the Ming Dynasty, in terms of cost, the first is of course to build the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and the funds spent on the Great Wall over the years have exceeded 10 million taels of silver.

It was not until the fourteenth year of Yongle that Mahamu and his son were arrested, and Warat was attached to the Ming Dynasty like the Tatars, and the construction of the Great Wall was stopped.

In the original history, the construction of Beiping City was also a big project, but in this era, because the capital was not moved, the cost of building Beiping City was not as much as the cost of building Wudang Taoist Temple.

The construction of the Wudang Taoist Temple cost 3 million taels and 200,000 laborers, but it was a complex of 33 buildings, including a golden roof of an all-copper building.

The Bao'en Temple Tower, this tall tower, now costs more than one million taels, but it is still far from being fully completed.

In later generations, Zhu Zhanji also heard of this tower, which is said to be a typical representative of oriental architecture, and was once known as the Seven Wonders of the architectural world, on a par with the Great Wall.

However, this tower has long been reduced to ruins in later generations, and during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in order to prevent the Qing army from shelling Jinling with the help of the tower, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom blew up this tower.

The reason why this tower is expensive is not because of its difficult construction, but entirely because of Zhu Di's requirements.

Because Zhu Di required that in addition to the main structure of the tower be built with bricks, the outer layer should be decorated with glass, and personally determined the style of the tower.

In the tenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di ordered the construction of Bao'en Temple outside the Jubao Gate in the south of Yingtianfu, which was originally built on the ruins of Changgan Temple and Ashoka Pagoda in the third year of Chiwu of Wu Kingdom (240 years).

The construction of Dabao'en Temple is extremely elegant, and it is built in full accordance with the standards of the Imperial Palace. The foundation is first nailed into a thick wooden pile, and then set on fire to make it into charcoal, and then compacted with an iron wheel rolling stone, and a layer of cinnabar is added to the charcoal to prevent moisture and kill insects. There are more than 20 palaces, 118 galleries and 38 prayer rooms in the temple.

Because of the invention of cement, the construction of this temple has become extremely smooth, and most of the buildings have already been built.

But the temple's top priority, the pagoda of Bao'en Temple, is now experiencing great difficulties.

This is mainly because Zhu Di requires the whole tower not to be made of wood, and all the inside and outside are connected with various colored glazed components.

The tower is octagonal in shape, with a total of nine floors and a height of 78.02 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 26-story building.

The shape, size, color and ornamentation of almost every glass component used in the glazed pagoda are different, so it is extremely difficult to make and fire.

Not to mention this era, even in later generations, to build such a tower with glazed components, even the staircase handrails are patterned glaze, you can imagine how difficult it is.

Zhu Zhanji is a pragmatist, and although he knows that the significance of this tower is far more than just a building, he actually does not approve of such a move that costs the people and money.

A stadium with 100,000 people costs only 200,000 taels, and the cost can be recovered in a few years.

And this tower, which has now cost more than a million taels, is still far away from being completed. It is impossible for this kind of royal building to collect admission fees for people to visit like later generations, let alone recover the cost after completion, and it will cost countless people every year to maintain it.

But this is Zhu Di's request, and he can only cooperate with the implementation.

The difficulty is still in the firing of components, the color of each piece of glazed glass burned out has requirements, a total of hundreds of thousands of glazed components, the difficulty of this project is very huge.

Hearing that the funds for firing the glaze had been spent again, Zhu Zhanji sighed, and could only allocate another 200,000 taels of silver to let the craftsmen continue to burn.

This matter cannot be stopped, this is a political task, and we must do it if we are willing to do it, and we must still do it if we are not happy.

The disturbing pilgrimage meeting finally ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at half past eleven o'clock in the Hereafter.

After nearly five hours of long deliberations, everyone looked a little tired.

Zhu Zhanji was okay and could still sit, everyone else could only stand, and those ministers who were sixty or seventy years old stood for nearly five hours at once, and many of them looked very painful.

What's even more uncomfortable is that you can't go to the toilet during the court meeting, otherwise it will be a loss of etiquette. In order not to go to the toilet, the ministers can only not eat and drink, can they not feel uncomfortable when they come down like this?

Seeing that almost all the ministers hurriedly ran towards the toilet in the martial arts arena of the Wuying Hall as soon as they dispersed, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but show a hint of a smile.

He was also thinking about whether to build another council hall in the future when the gymnasium was completed, so that all the ministers could sit there and discuss matters when they had a grand meeting.

But that's for another story......

When the dynasty was dispersed, he left Chen Xuan, the governor of the Daming Bank, and Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, to have lunch together.

As for the relief in the northwest, whether it is the household department or the bank, they need to fully cooperate, and Zhu Zhanji does not want to stir up public resentment because of which side is dragging its feet.

What's more, if the westward expedition is delayed because of this, it will be troublesome.

(Write a detailed chapter of 8,000 words about the Great Dynasty Meeting, and I won't write more about this kind of description in the future, it's too verbose.) And every time there is a big meeting, there are many discussions, it is impossible to describe them one by one, and it is good to understand what kind of process it is. In the future, I will still write about things. Thank you all for your congratulations, and I wish you all a long and healthy mother)