"The king, the minister thinks that the big wedding should be at the same time as the relocation of the capital. At that time, the princes came together, and Weijia Hai was in the sea to show that my Chu State was restored and strong. "Sikong Zhaogu is not just a Sikong, as a Zhao clan, he fully understands the meaning of moving the capital.

"Huh?" Xiong Jing, who was thinking about having children, looked at him, if the big wedding and the relocation of the capital at the same time, the wedding day would be the year after tomorrow.

"The king, the minister thinks it's okay." Feng Ren also said. "At this time in the year after tomorrow, Ji Ying can become a ......"

"Ji Ying's recovery can be divided into ten years, why rush for a while." Xiong Jing Man didn't care. "And now that the war is not stopped, and the cultivation has been embellished, how can the manpower build the old Ying? What does the relocation of the capital have to do with the restoration of our Chu State? ”

The courtiers wanted to move the capital as a grand event, but Xiong Jing blocked everyone with a word, and he suddenly thought of one thing, a very important thing: "Is this cost of recovering from the imperial court or from the royal palace?" ”

It's okay not to mention money, but it hurts feelings to raise money. Zhao Gu immediately closed his mouth, and Feng Renjiao also chose to keep his mouth shut. Everyone knows that when the taxes were separated, in order to keep the coal mines, iron mines, and build the government, the royal court had already given up the benefits of the mountains and seas and ponds, and the land rent and customs tax of the counties and towns were also left in the local area. The Zhu clan and the Yushi only need to contribute some local products, and there is no cost, and the royal court only collects the payment.

And the royal court's money depends entirely on various industries, either domestic trade or foreign trade. However, both domestic trade and foreign trade are restricted by the imperial court, and domestic Jujia cannot be sold too expensive, and foreign countries like Qin cannot sell Jujia at all, only overseas is not subject to any restrictions. It costs a lot of money to build the city, Shouying built the city in that year, sealed the twelve counties of Chunshenjun Huai, and the manpower and material resources of the twelve counties of Huaibei took one or twenty years to complete. Now if you want to restore Ji Ying, you really want to build it to the scale of Shouying, and even if there is concrete to build it in two years, it will cost more than 100,000 gold.

"Where's the Division?" The courtiers were silent, and Xiong Jing shouted Shi Yan.

"The minister is here." Shi Yan is a minister of the royal court, and he is in charge of the royal court's finances and mansions.

"The one who restores the royal city, how much is Fei Jin?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Feng Ren and Zhao Gu, both of whom had participated in the construction of Shouying.

"My lord, it doesn't cost much to build a city with concrete." Feng Ren said, he knew Xiong Jing's concerns.

"Not much geometry?" Xiong Jing asked.

"The royal city does not need to ram the earth, the palace does not need to be a big chapter of pillars and beams, 3,000 gold can dig ditches to level the land, 10,000 gold can build walls and build roads to end the palace, and 20,000 gold can decorate the temple, the community, the treasury, the court, the bedroom, the small bed and the concubines' palaces. So thirty-five thousand gold is enough. ”

Feng Renjiao can only estimate the approximate number, and the underground part of 3,000 gold is more accurate, because the width of the city of King Ji Ying is no more than four miles, and the length is no more than five miles, digging ditches, laying sewers, leveling the land, and building roads, these are not very much.

The palace walls and palace rooms are the big heads. The palace wall plus the middle wall and the wall of the gates that separate the palace from the garden are twenty or thirty miles long; The palace of Jiying is much larger than the Forbidden City, and there are hundreds of pavilions and pavilions in the palace, and if the construction area is converted into a city wall, the length is not less than sixty or seventy miles. One hundred gold is a mile, and ten thousand gold is not too much. This is still the price of concrete, if the rammed earth and wood structure are used, 100,000 gold will definitely be wanted.

If there is a building, then it must be decorated. The wall of the Chu Palace is a pepper wall, which is painted down for nearly a hundred miles, and countless peppercorns and mirages are used; The palace room must also have a Luo Luo, a red curtain and a green tent, jade and jade, these things can be extravagant and frugal, 20,000 gold is just a bottom, and you may not be able to see the water drifting when the time comes.

Although Feng Renjiao's estimate was to calculate the less, 35,000 golden Xiong Jing was completely acceptable, but Shi Yan was not satisfied with this budget. He smiled at first, and then said, "That's a lot." ”

"How much?" Feng Renjiao has already counted the least, and I don't understand why there are too many Shi Yan.

"Yes. The minister thought that ten thousand gold was enough. "Shi Yan listened to Feng Renjiao's words with his eyes down, and at this time, his eyes rolled, and he cut off most of the budget in one sentence." At the time of this war, the construction of a large palace will be criticized. The ministers thought that the king's bedroom, the queen mother's bedroom, the queen's wife, the concubine's bedroom, the bedroom, and the servant's residence were enough. As for the outside of the road gate......" Shi Yan looked at Feng Renjiao and Sikong Zhaogu at this time, and said with a smile: "Except for the Taimiao, the rest of the royal courts will not be built. ”

"This ......" including the left and right histories, everyone was shocked. Xiong Jing smiled and said, "Good! Outside the road gate, they are all owned by the imperial court, and since they are owned by the imperial court, they are built by the imperial court, which has nothing to do with the royal court. ”

Sheji and Zhengchao don't spend much money, but there are also many treasury and official offices in the treasury gate, which is not much less than the palace room in the road gate. If these are not built, thousands of dollars can be saved.

"The palace is decorated with something, and the minister thinks that he can take it from Shouying, so why do you need to put it again?" Shi Yan did pick the door and buckle home. Prioritize second-hand rather than new. "In this way, 1,500 gold can dig ditches and level the land, 4,000 gold can build walls and roads to build the palace, and 3,000 gold can decorate the main bed, small bed and concubine palaces, 10,000 gold is enough."

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded again, feeling very good. Originally, he wanted to build a big building, and he planned to build a majestic Yingdu, but he was extremely disappointed, and he felt that if he was according to Shi Yan's budget of ten thousand gold, this palace would not even be as good as Shouying.

"King, Ji Ying is the Great Ying of my Chu State, how can he be simple because of ugliness?" Zhao Gu couldn't stand it anymore, and bowed and admonished.

He told Xiong Jing to ignore him, and what he thought in his mind was that if it was so simple, the construction period would not need to be until March next year, but December this year.

"King, Ji Ying really can't be too simple, when the wedding is celebrated, the envoys of various countries congratulate him, if it is simple, he will be laughed at by the world." Right Shi also doesn't like Shi Yan's slamming the door, which is detrimental to the national body.

"King, if the cost of building a city is used to build a boat...... Shi Yan knows what Xiong Jing likes to do, as long as he mentions the sea boat, don't say that he will build a palace room, or demolish the palace room, and he will not hesitate. Of course, he also liked to build sea boats, and to make money by transporting silk, iron, paper, and paper, and even if he returned with a boatload of muslin or Indian 'kumari', it was also profitable.

The palace is a bottomless pit, no return on how much money is spent, Haizhou is an investment, although the return on investment is getting smaller and smaller, and the annual profit is getting less and less, but it is also profitable.

"Yes, yes." Xiong Jing did not hesitate to agree with Shi Yan's opinion. "With 25,000 gold, more than 30 gluttonous-class cargo ships and more than 10 Chaos-class gunboats can be built. The mind has been decided, and the cost of the royal city cannot exceed 10,000 gold. In addition to the road gate, except for the Taimiao, the rest of the ditches, roads, land, palace rooms, palace walls, ...... are not built. ”

"How can the king be like this?" The vacant position has always been vacant, and Zhao Gu took office precisely because of the restoration of Ji Ying and the construction of Xiangfan Ercheng. "If it is not built outside the road gate, if it rains or snows, dare to ask the king how to look at the court every day?"

"Looking at the court?" Xiong Jing smiled. "If the court is stingy and does not build a proper court, it is not possible to open an umbrella to look at the court, they are arbitrary."

Xiong Jing's answer made Zhao Gu dumbfounded, and when he was about to say this indecent thing, Xiong Jing had already stepped off the high platform.

“…… The layers are tired, and the mountains are higher. The netizen Zhu is embellished, and the engraved square is connected. There are houses in winter, and the rooms are colder in summer. The valley is restored, and the flow is murmuring......" With a smile, Xiong Jing remembered Qu Yuan's "Conjuring". The so-called spiritualism is to call back the soul of the deceased after death. "The Conjuring" was only made for the former monarch Huaiwang, who was in Xianyang, and it was necessary to make a big show to recall his soul.

In "The Conjuring", clothing, food, housing and transportation are written about the luxury of kings, especially the '28 squire, which is more than a substitute. (The twenty-eight-year-old girl knelt on the edge of the bed and waited for the night, and when she was tired of shooting, she changed it). Changing them one by one, it makes people's blood boil just thinking about it.

Inside the gate of Ji Ying Road, Xiong Jing inspected his future dormitory, and he couldn't help but be complacent. He loves Mi Xuan, but there is a red flag at home, so there must be some small colored flags to set it off, right? He is like this, thousands of miles away in the Ming Hall of Shouying Lanhua Palace, the prospective queen Mi Xuan has been dazzled by the Persian jewelry that Hu Tanshao has posed.

"What is the price?" She pointed to one of the pieces of gold jewelry, in the complete Susa style. The large golden clover is inlaid with dazzling turquoise, and under the large clover hangs a golden ring with a golden horse rider facing away from each side of the ring, and under each horse are four small rings, which are tied to delicate gold chains, and under the chains are stones of various shapes.

East Asian jewelry is dominated by jade, and Persian jewelry and even Scythian jewelry are all dominated by gold. Although jade is warm, it is obviously inferior to gold in color. Hearing that Mi Xuan inquired, Hu Tanshao smiled habitually, the corners of his mouth rose, and he bowed and said: "The queen is noble, how can you talk about cheap business." The wicked, and the good merchants, will give the queen the real price. ”

The jewelry is shiny, and Mi Xuan is just worried that the jewelry is too expensive. Hearing Hu Tansuozhi say this, she stopped asking for a price, and left everything she liked. Jewelry, rouge, spices (water), utensils, ingredients, clothing, and the treasures brought by Hu Tanshaozhi were all picked out by her, and then joyfully carried them to the west room.

Every time Mi Qian picked up something, Hu Tanshao would sing a song, and the people around him would write down the name of the item, and the officials of the big mansion standing on the side would also record it, thinking that it was a comparison. After Mi Xuan left, the two sides began to reconcile accounts.

The official was still planning to make a plate, and Hu Tanshaozhi smiled and said: "According to the calculations of the cheaters, the queen took away thirty-three pieces of jewelry and treasures, a total of 18,600 gold, and 15,000 gold can be given at the foot." ”

"What do you mean?!" The official of the mansion thought that he had not heard the number clearly, and asked in a daze.

"According to the bad man, the queen took away thirty-three pieces of jewelry and treasures, and a total of 18,600 gold was needed, and 15,000 gold was enough." Hu Tanshaozhi repeated. As he spoke, he presented a gem to the official, who was frightened by his price, and did not dare to accept it, so he withdrew from the Ming Hall of Lanhua Palace and ran to Ruoying Palace. The king is not there, and Shi Yan is not there, so he can only ask the queen mother for ideas.

"Fifteen thousand gold?!" Concubine Zhao, who had just woken up, was also stunned when she heard this number, and her expression was calm again.