The palace is mysterious, and many people want to know what the palace looks like, but in feudal society, it is far from being possible, as open as later generations, even in later generations, there are many secrets and top secrets, which have nothing to do with the people.

The construction of the whole palace is a stepped shape, and the first thing to do is the harem, because the harem affects the small concubines who can live in the palace temporarily, Renzong is not a wanton person, the number of the harem is quite a lot, but it is not so much that it cannot be accommodated, and even the contradictions are controlled to some extent

The queen is considered to exist in name only, but she still has a name, under the queen, the highest status is the concubine, and Miao Guifei actually controls everything in the court.

It's just that Miao Guifei herself is not a competitive person, coupled with the abundance of money, the management of the harem is relatively stable, and others may compete for favor, but it is almost impossible to surpass the concubine or even the queen.

Not to mention that Miao Guifei herself managed well, even if Zhao Xin and Ding Haijun stood behind, it was impossible for Renzong to ignore it, Jun didn't see it, even the palace was built with the money of Ding Haijun.

In the winter of the seventh year of Qingli, it was relatively stable, nothing happened, and there were not many disasters in the whole seven-year year of Qingli, and occasionally there were some production reductions or disasters, and the central government quickly provided relief and solved them.

In fact, after so many years of being an official, everyone knows the solution to many things, but the specific difficulty lies in the fact that when there is no money, it is necessary to cover the lid, which requires an operational ability.

The problem that money can solve is not a problem, and even because of the abundance of finances, there is no longer even the previous competition between the reformers and the conservatives.

During the reign of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, it should be a relatively stable era in the Northern Song Dynasty, and both courtiers and emperors have mastered a better era.

The emergence of the reformers, and even the opposition between the reformers and the conservatives, are also controlled to a considerable extent, which can be seen in addition to the control of Renzong, and the ability of the courtiers.

In this era, the reformers and the conservatives have not yet become incompatible, and they consider the problem more from the actual situation.

Not to mention those who are waving flags and shouting at the bottom, their level has not yet reached the upper level, and these bigwigs at the top almost all have a clear understanding that the financial situation of the Northern Song Dynasty has deteriorated to a very serious extent.

The main difference between the reformers and the conservatives lies in the fact that the reformers believe that while they have not deteriorated to the point where there is no way to recover, they should rely on the existing funds to make some changes, mainly to change income, and when the income increases, the problem will be solved naturally.

Conservatives have no more options, but they naturally believe that rash changes will usher in greater deterioration.

The contradictions between the two sides were irreconcilable, and finally the continuous struggle began, but now, with the intervention of the Dinghai Navy, on the premise of not solving the problem, there has been a huge increase in funds, and with funds, it is easy to do things, and any change will have a reason, and it will be more moderate.

In fact, in more than 3 years, there have been a lot of changes in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, whether it is from the newly established bureaus, or from some temporary institutions, increasing income is only one aspect, more changes have already begun, from top to bottom changes, compared with changes from bottom to top, more intuitive, more powerful, should have caused huge changes, but because of the relationship between income, it has been moderated.

Under the premise that there is no problem with funds, and under the premise that the fiscal revenue is more than a certain extent, the contradiction itself no longer exists, whether it is a reformist or a conservative, their purpose is the same, to improve the problem of the Northern Song Dynasty, but one choice of means is fierce, ready to complete the one-time reform, one means is relatively mild, take your time, see the problem exposed, or the opportunity to solve the problem, in the reform.

Now, with a better solution, and without their contradictions, of course, there is no problem.

In fact, the contradictions in the entire court have been eliminated, and under a more suitable system, the efficiency of the Northern Song Dynasty government has been greatly improved on the original basis, which in itself is a good thing.

Income, output, and all kinds of new products from the Dinghai Navy, these are gathered together, and the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, at the end of this year, life is very good.

Ye Qingchen's idea is not to increase additional expenditures, not to improve the treatment of these officials, not to say that he is unwilling to give some rewards, no matter what, the entire financial situation is also the result of everyone's efforts, and the people below put forward a request, and after a small amount of cuts, they took out a big red envelope of 5 million yuan.

This may be before, a year's official salary of the red envelope, but it has become a temporary reward, issued to officials at all levels, this time the scale of the red envelope, I am afraid that no year can compare with this, even the price of Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty has been affected, a lot higher.

At the same time as sending money and goods, this year, there is another good thing, after 3 years of construction, starting from the sixth year of Qingli, and continuing to the eighth year of Qingli railway construction, to achieve a phased result.

After more than 2 years of construction, on average, about 4,000 kilometers of railway lines were opened to traffic, and more than 2 years of time, it was 10,000 kilometers.

Compared with the hundreds of thousands of kilometers of railways, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of kilometers of high-speed railways in the country in later generations, this is not at all in the stream, but for the Northern Song Dynasty, which was still in the feudal era, it was a difficult data to calculate.

The first long-distance railway was the railway from Bianliang to the northwest, with a length of only 1,000 kilometers, but it greatly solved the problem between the Central Plains and the northwest of the Northern Song Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, with this railway, the Hetao Plain in the northwest will become an unbreakable part of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a speed of 800 miles, in 3 days, more than 30,000 troops can be transported from Bianliang to the northwest, if from Jingzhao, it will be faster.

What does this mean, it means that with only a few bastions and guards, it takes two or three days to resist the arrival of the army, and both the cost and the consumption on the road are very small.

This is one, follow-up, with Bianliang as the center, several key railways were built, for example, from Bianliang to Zhejin Mansion, from Bianliang to Jiangning Mansion, of course, the current construction level of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no way to cross the Yangtze River.

At present, the longest railway bridge built by the Dinghai Navy is about 1,200 meters, which is already the limit, after Wuhan on the Yangtze River, with the large-scale expansion of the river, there is no way to build a bridge, and the railway is not able to go to Jiangning Fu under the premise that the technology has not been effectively solved.

Eight railways of 1,000 kilometers to 1,800 kilometers long ran through most of the places in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there was no mutual contact for the time being, just from Bianliang to these places, but the penetration of these railways played a great role in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the past, Gyeonggi was called Gyeonggi because it was close to the capital and because it had strong control.

Gyeonggi generally does not exceed 100 li, basically a fast horse for two or three hours, a horse-drawn carriage for a day of continuous travel, can reach the place, so that it can be more effectively controlled.

But now, with the advent of the railway, the distance of running day and night has reached a terrible 1,500 miles in one day and one night, which means that when the distance of 1,500 miles around Bianliang is included in the range, this means that most of the Northern Song Dynasty are included in the range.

The Northern Song Dynasty was only 4 million square kilometers, 1,500 li, and if it was a square, it would be 2.25 million square kilometers of land.

Of course, the railway connection is mainly based on the railway line, and at most affects the surrounding area of one or twenty, or thirty or forty kilometers.

Eight railway lines, at most half of the area covered by this, but this included almost all the provincial capitals of the Central Plains, as well as some important cities and prefectures, and the inclusion of them represented the increase in the power of the central government of the Northern Song Dynasty.

This point has not yet been shown for the time being, or rather, these first assistants of the Northern Song Dynasty have not yet realized that they will increase their power to the Northern Song Dynasty, they just saw the benefits of the railway, and the effects it brings, so they did not hesitate to invest in the railway construction project.

If it is possible, then the 35 million guan of the three divisions will not be left, and all of them will be invested in the construction of the railway, and 35 million guan will be able to build at least a few thousand kilometers of railway.

It's a pity that although the Northern Song Dynasty has a lot of land and resources, there are many railway lines that can be built, but those who can be built are the Dinghai Navy.

The construction of the Dinghai Navy was convenient, and it did not hide it from the Northern Song Dynasty, and expanded the scale as much as possible, and almost all of the technical jobs that did not require any professional skills were handed over to the Northern Song Dynasty, but even so, the 4,000-kilometer-long railway a year was already the limit.

There is no construction team, even if it is more money, can the railway be constructed, even if the railway is in the 21st century, it is also a relatively strong technical job, not just a casual person, 2 years, although the Northern Song Dynasty has also trained a group of workers, but there is still a huge difference from starting alone.

There is no way to expand, but what has been built, it is already very good, mainly freight, countless buried in the mountains, or no one cares about industrial raw materials, ores, are constantly transported to the Dinghai Navy, those stones, which look ordinary, and never even picked up, are quite expensive.

Although the price is high and the bottom is high, but the simple Northern Song Dynasty through the sale of various ores, at least more than 200 million yuan per year, it is also a fact, most of this money has been left in the local government, for the expansion of mines and workers' wages, the remaining part, used for local construction, but these projects, for the Northern Song Dynasty central finance, at least created more than 15 million guan.

Freight can be said to be the fastest growing project of the railway, simply transporting these minerals, so that the return rate of the railway is controlled at a higher level, but it is the fastest passenger transport in later generations, and the development is not fast.

Not everyone can realize the role of the railway, and not everyone can afford to buy a train ticket, but in this New Year of the eighth year of Qingli, railway passenger transportation is opened on a large scale.

If there are people in this era who are in contact with new things relatively quickly, except for the people who set the navy, it is these Beijing officials in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Dinghai is purely seen, and in the same way, there is also some special training, these Beijing officials are more thoughtful, and at the same time, they have more contact.

The miraculous effect of the railway, almost all the officials in Beijing know, although they don't know what the principle is, but it is good to be useful.

Many of the Beijing officials have settled in Beijing, but to a certain extent, the hometown is distributed in various places, among the Chinese customs, the most important festival of the Spring Festival, often accompanied by ancestor worship and return to the hometown and many other things, for the Beijing officials, unless it is very close, other times, often take several years, before they can ask for leave, or take advantage of the opportunity to go.

But now, as long as you are along the railway, you can return, according to the 1,800-kilometer-long railway, even if it is a relatively comfortable passenger car, it is guaranteed to be about 600 kilometers a day, and you can reach your home in 3 days.

Is 600 kilometers difficult, according to the speed of 25 kilometers per hour, a day's time, that is, 600 kilometers.

In the capital, except for a small number of key government offices, there are many days of holidays, at least one month, and more than two months, but at this time, except for a little closer, there is no way to go back at all.

50 miles a day, or the speed of a car, swaying for half a month, is only more than 300 kilometers, 1800 kilometers, don't even think about it.

Now they can all go back, which is a huge temptation for Beijing officials who have not gone back for many years, even if they are no longer on the railway line, as long as they can go to the vicinity, they basically go back, and most of them are in the south of the Yangtze River, because of the barrier of the Yangtze River, the railway line can only go to the Yangtze River, which is inconvenient.

Even if this is the case, the people near the Yangtze River have all gone back, after all, the opportunity to go home is rare.

The Spring Festival of the eighth year of Qingli is probably the Spring Festival that Beijing officials have stayed in the capital at least, and similarly, some relatives and friends of Beijing officials have also known the benefits of the railway through their channels, and the large-scale concentrated return to their hometowns has begun, which has also given birth to passenger transport from another aspect.

The railway department has not paid attention to it before, and even the passenger transportation that has been constantly compressed has also shown its power, perhaps, there is a deep digging part in this.

The Bianliang Spring Festival in the eighth year of Qingli passed relatively peacefully, and even a little lazy, Renzong, who spent his days quietly here, did not realize that in the north, there were at least a million Song people, who were fighting for the territory of China, and many cities and houses, thousands of kilometers away in the north, radiated fire, and even the cold could not cover this heat.