(There is some information in today's chapter, so I will give you some word count, which is about 6,500 words today.) The next chapter will be even more exciting. ）

Shanglin Yuan in the Jianzhang Palace, more than 20 miles in the week, thousands of households, the north of the Jianzhang Palace is the Taiye Pool, "its Beizhi Big Pond, gradually more than 20 zhang high, the name is called the Taiye Pool, there are Penglai, abbot, Yingzhou, Huliang like the sea in the sacred mountain, the genus of turtle fish. There are gods in the west of Bimen, the platform is fifty zhang high, it is the place where the gold is sacrificed, there are copper immortals Shu palm holding copper plate jade cups, undertaking rain and dew.

As for others such as Ganquan Palace, Changle Palace, and Weiyang Palace, there is no need to talk about it at all. Whichever one it is, it will be ten times or dozens of times bigger than the Forbidden City.

Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up Ganquan Yuan again, with a radius of 540 miles, and specially set up a governor to govern it, which is even more appalling.

Later Zhao Shihu built the Taiwu Hall in Xiangguo, the base is two zhang eight feet high, sixty-five steps long, seventy-five steps wide, and is made of marble. The underground palace was dug under the foundation of the palace and 500 guards were placed. Decorate the roof tiles with lacquer, decorate the tiles with gold, decorate the pillars with silver, and decorate the jade walls with bead curtains, which are ingenious. In the palace, a white jade bed was placed, a tassel tent was hung, and a golden lotus was made to cover the top of the tent. Nine palaces were built behind the Xianyang Palace, and the daughters of the scholars were selected to be placed in the palace, and there were more than 40,000 palace maids, all wearing pearls and jade, and wearing silk and satin. The women learned the art of astrology, and immediately got off the horse and shot the art. and set up a female Taishi, all kinds of miscellaneous techniques and skills, all the same as the men outside. He also asked 1,000 female cavalrymen to serve as attendants of the chariot, wearing purple silk turbans, ripe brocade trousers, gold and silver belts, and multicolored woven boots, holding feather instruments, playing military music, and following him to parade and feast.

How magnificent, how mighty?

After that, like the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui raised Renshou Palace, filled the valley, razed the mountains, and his son Emperor Yang of Sui built the eastern capital Luoyang. There are 206 palaces around, and the upper forest garden is rebuilt, and the surrounding area is 260 miles.

The Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace in the Tang Dynasty are all extremely large palaces. And the Lin De Palace, Hanyuan Palace, the scale of any one of them is much larger than the three major halls of the Forbidden City!

In all fairness, the Forbidden City is really nothing compared to these giant palaces, which can almost be called terrifying, if you rank these large palace complexes in ancient China. I'm afraid the Forbidden City won't even be in the top 30. Its advantage is only because it has been preserved.

That's all.

What's more, putting these aside, there is also an unprecedented, and it is difficult to have a visitor's Afang Palace, like an insurmountable giant peak, standing there.

If you want to meet the standard of what Emperor Zhengde called 'the largest palace in history', at least you have to jump over the Afang Palace.

This major project was presided over by Pan Jitao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Pan Jitao is not only an official, but also an excellent designer. Similar to Yu Wenhua and that kind of role, he is the very few technical officials, and under his leadership. The Ministry of Industry has a fairly large group of skilled craftsmen, as for the national strength, of course, it is far ahead of the Qin Dynasty, to say that to achieve the goal set by Emperor Zhengde, it is really not a vain statement.

In a palace to create the majestic wonder of the mountains, the beauty of the water color, but also to build a mountain, take the world's strange and strange spirit stones, move the beautiful and rare flowers and trees in the south, and set up carved curved thresholds. The pavilions and pavilions can show the beauty of today's peace, and the Ming Dynasty is strong in all countries!

Pan Jitao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, adhered to the emperor's will, personally supervised the construction, and bulldozed all the original large and small hills. Excavate the boulder on the Yan Mountain, excavate the loess around Beijing, transport it here, levy 1.2 million people, carry the people and horses, the boat and car are tired, thousands of miles away, start to build before the construction of the Yanshan Dynasty Palace, from Zhengde 35 years to Zhengde 52 years, accumulate 17 years of work, and then complete. …,

Of course, in this process, there were also a lot of deaths, but after the completion of Liyue, less than 400,000 of the 1.2 million people who were requisitioned at the beginning remained. But Pan Jitao didn't take it to heart - he was such a traditional Confucian scholar, and finally the emperor, who cared about the society and the world, such as the foundation of the country, and so on, he was extremely firm in his position, and he did not give an inch to the emperor. He has been working hard for decades to control the floods of the Yellow River, and he is really a Buddha in ten thousand families, and it can be said that Gongyu does not have much merit, but when he presided over the construction of the Great Imperial Palace, and in order to catch up with the progress of thousands of people, he did not care -- in the eyes of him, or most feudal officials, this is what the people should do for the royal family and the imperial court.

Doctors don't care much about the lives of the people.

The current huge scale is also commensurate with the original ambition of Emperor Zhengde. Although it is not comparable to Shanglin Yuan Ganquan Garden in terms of land area, it is grand, majestic, and the scale is magnificent, just like a giant mountain, which is all-encompassing, exquisite, and is a pinnacle of man-made gardens in the world throughout the ages!

At this time, the sky has just been wiped white, the morning light is cold, a cold plum forest at the foot of the western peak of Long Live Mountain is already a jade bud fragrance, the petals are all open, a gust of cold wind in the morning blows, revealing a cold and faint fragrance, a light sniff, you only feel the boredom in the chest, refreshing and refreshing.

In front of Merlin, hundreds of powerful officials were already lined up in a neat line.

Among these people, there are honorable relatives, and even more are civil and military officials who have traveled here, and those who can follow here are not minor officials - the small officials have been thrown into the capital to do business, leaving only one or two high-ranking officials.

These people all have solemn faces, solemn, and there is a faint excitement, few people talk and laugh, that is, they talk and laugh, but they also lower their voices, whispering, for fear of letting others hear only a few words.

Today is the first time that the ministers have gathered and participated in the early dynasty after they have traveled here.

After they came before, after processing the documents and chapters passed from the capital all day, they were touring the mountains and rivers, and it took more than a month, except for a few important ministers, they didn't even see the emperor's face.

Today, however, there is a great event - the date for the election of ten princes.

The election of the crown prince is now self-sustaining the prosperity of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is not allowed, but this election of ten princes who listen to the government can be regarded as his regression. The civil service of the Ming Dynasty has always liked to work against the emperor, and every small step back from the emperor is regarded by them as a big step in his own progress. That's why everyone is extremely concerned about this matter, not to mention, among the ten princes. There must be a future prince, and to put it bluntly, this is also an investment and reshuffle by the ministers of the court. In the process of standing in line, I put my bet on the prince who thinks I have the greatest hope, and when the time comes, the prince will ascend the throne, and he will not be from the dragon's work?

When the time comes, power and wealth will naturally be at your fingertips.

Doing what Lu Buwei did was the most profitable since ancient times.

And these courtiers. Which one is not a faction and a scheming person, who has already secretly selected the person to support at this time, just waiting for the court to see the poor dagger.

Therefore, these courtiers are all gearing up, and they have already calculated a lot of rhetoric in their hearts, but once there is a change, they will immediately go up and talk about each other.

But there are also many important ministers. It's not so easy in my heart, or rather anticipation.

A trace of worry in Shoufu Yang Shen's eyes has always lingered, and there are so many heirs today. There are a lot of adults, is there a prince's position, and now between the princes, there is already an open and secret fight, gangs and factions, and so on to determine the ten princes who listen to the government? Those who are excluded may not be willing, maybe they still have thoughts in their hearts, but the ten qualified princes are definitely for the throne of the crown prince. Embark on a ruthless fight to the death! …,

At that time, there will certainly be many parties in the DPRK and China, and there will be disputes between the DPRK and the DPRK, so will it not be a great chaos in the DPRK and politics at that time? Let's fight all day long, today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you, no one can do anything. But I am happy with Jiang Bin's Jinyi Guard, and I am afraid that the prison prison will be in an endless stream, and the reappearance of Hongwu and Yongle Dynasties is full of Zhu Zi's 'beautiful scene'.

Doesn't Your Majesty think of this layer? Why do you do this?

Standing behind him were the six Shangshu of the second highest rank, and these adults also had different complexions, obviously not knowing what to think.

After waiting for a while, when the time came, the official in charge sang loudly: "Ministers! ”

When the courtiers heard this, without exception, their faces turned into bitter gourd faces.

In front of them was a staircase of more than 500 steps!

Long live the mountain peak of the mountain is as high as ninety steps. One step and five feet in the Ming season, one foot is equivalent to thirty-two centimeters and ninety steps in the later generations, which is equivalent to one hundred and forty-four meters in the later generations, and above this one hundred and forty meters, it is the Yanshan Great Dynasty Palace.

The entire West Peak of Long Live Mountain has become the foundation of this Yanshan Great Palace! The temple base is 100 meters high!

In fact, the front of the west peak of the whole Long Live Mountain, has been built into the appearance of the temple base, is a three-layer huge boulder platform, a total of five layers, each layer has a height of nearly ten zhang, it seems, on each layer, carved fence jade, but there is no building, just on the edge of the platform, built a verandah of vermilion lacquer red tile, a low hand-copied verandah, lining each layer of the platform as high as ten zhang, are so majestic and immense, and the big court hall above the five floors, it is even more overwhelming.

It seems that the wisps of green clouds are floating on the mountainside, just like the palace of the world.

The word is 144 meters high, and in front of the ministers, it is a huge step that is ten zhang wide, hundreds of meters long, and has more than 500 steps. They are all carved from white marble three feet long, one foot high, and two feet wide, and there are tall stone beasts, stone people, stone Weng Zhong and the like on both sides, all of which are about three zhang high, and under it, there are countless Jinyi Wei Han generals holding big flags, golden melon sledgehammers, and various honor guards in their hands, and there are thousands of people, standing majestically, and their eyes do not squint.

This is the royal weather.

Everyone took a deep breath and marched upwards step by step with the arduous determination of the Red Army to embark on the 25,000-mile Long March.

This group of people walked forward on the long staircase, and the speed of their walking was invisibly slowed down by the distance of the road, and as far as the eye could see, the majestic palaces, the wide margins were almost faintly faintly faint in the morning light, and the grand and magnificent buildings seemed to be oppressed by an invisible majesty.

There is no need for these Han generals to poke here at all, just the stone beast Weng Zhong on both sides of the stairs, coupled with the natural majesty of the environment, even these well-informed civil and military officials, every time they come here, they are also trembling in their hearts, and they naturally have an absolute surrender to the royal majesty in their hearts.

But now, I feel more tired.

Most of these courtiers are very old, and they don't have much opportunity to exercise on weekdays, and they are all carriages and soft sedan chairs in and out, and they are supported and surrounded by people, but they have to climb the mountain at this time, and the sin can be imagined. If it is replaced by Emperor Hongzhi of the previous dynasty, most of the old ministers can be done by lifting the pole. But Emperor Zhengde is not such a person.

When they went up, it was already two teas in time, and many old ministers were pale from tiredness, and cold sweat seeped out. couldn't stand still, and the people around him hurriedly went over to help him, allowing him to gasp for breath.

As soon as I looked up, the Yanshan Great Hall was in front of me. …,

On the west peak, there is a huge square with a radius of more than 500 zhang, and the square is covered with huge white marble slabs, in the middle of the square. On the base of the three-story white marble hall is the majestic palace that has been exchanged for hundreds of thousands of servants.

The face is nine wide, five deep, it is in line with the number of the ninety-five, the main hall is one hundred and twenty zhang wide from east to west, fifty zhang long from north to south, and the area is ten times that of Fengtian Palace! It is more than twenty times that of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Lian Zining's era! The grand hall is as high as five floors, and His Royal Highness can tree a banner ten feet high!

Such a huge and magnificent palace. It has almost reached the pinnacle of human architectural history.

Around it, many palaces were also built, and these palaces are also very majestic when taken out individually. At least at the level of the Fengtian Temple in the Forbidden City, but here, it looks very low.

The scenery here is also excellent, standing on the square and looking down, 10,000 acres of red plum are like a waterfall sea, almost in a way of rape to occupy people's eyeballs, a spectacular, incomparably gorgeous sea of flowers.

Patches of plum blossoms are sparse and decorated with jade, colorful and blooming, and some are as bright as the morning glow. Some are as white as snow, and some are as green as jasper, forming a spectacular scene of Meihai condensing clouds, which is very good-looking.

In the distance, there is a vast wild goose pond, which is frozen at this time. Among them, the withered lotus leaves are also a few different feelings. The south of the wild goose pond is the big slope, the southeast cypress tree of the slope is dense, the number of moving is tens of thousands, the branches and leaves are Fusu, such as the dragon and snake covered by the building.

Many of the ministers are standing here, looking at the picturesque scenery from afar, which can be regarded as a relief.

After a while, the breath was almost slow, and the ministers lined up again and walked towards the big court.

The closer you get to the front, the more you feel its grandeur, and when you slowly climb the steps, when you reach the front of the hall, standing in front of the whole eighteen huge dragon stone pillars in front of each ten zhang high and more than three zhang in diameter, you feel that you are so small, it is really not worth mentioning.

Many courtiers came here for the first time, and their eyes were full of disbelief and horror, they just didn't believe that human beings could build such a heavenly palace!

Yanshan Dynasty Hall is the highest point of the entire Liyue, and it is also the core, and it is the meaning of its existence, and it can even be said that the existence of the entire Liyue is to set off and make the Yanshan Dynasty Hall more magnificent and majestic.

The ministers slowly entered the main hall, the space in the hall was huge, dozens of giant pillars with the outer coiling dragon were as thick as the outside, but the outside was gilded, and the huge pillars that looked luxurious and very luxurious stood here, the golden light flowed, and it was extremely gorgeous. And when people stand underneath, they seem to be standing under the feet of the legendary ancient giant gods.

From the entrance of the palace to the throne of His Majesty the Emperor, the left and right sides add up, a total of eight giant pillars, and the specifications of the Fengtian Hall in the capital are different, around the emperor's throne, there are no four giant pillars to surround and set off, but behind the throne, it is a diameter of more than three zhang, I am afraid that dozens of people can be surrounded by extraordinarily thick giant pillars. This pillar stands in the center of the main hall, standing up to the sky and the earth, making people dare not look up. It is wrapped with a heavy copper plate, and outside the copper plate, there is a large amount of gilding, nine human waist thick, dozens of zhang long, and a coiled dragon carved from gold, surrounding the pillar.

And His Majesty the Emperor's imperial platform is not a platform that was raised out of thin air.

In the golden pillar is about a zhang high from the ground, there is a dragon claw stretched out, the dragon claw is a foot square, and it is also vivid, the dragon scales and textures on it are clearly visible, just like the real one. On top of the dragon's claw, a huge golden throne was placed, and the space on it was not small, but even ten people were standing open.

When everyone saw it, they couldn't help but be amazed, such ideas, such casting skills, it can be said that they are ingenious! …,

It's incredible.

The Ministry of Works' Shangshu Pan Ji has a proud face, and the most proud thing about people like him is not how old an official is, but what new good things have appeared from his hands. The idea of the dragon's claws holding up the throne was exactly what he had come up with after a few days of exhaustive consideration.

Everyone is here for the first time, and they are very curious to look around, this hall is extremely large, although it has been lit countless huge palace lamps, and the lights in it are bright. It's all at a glance, but it still gives people a sense of emptiness and mystery, which is just too big!

Waited about a cup of tea. A sharp voice came: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!" ”

And all the ministers knocked at him.

Emperor Zhengde's car stopped behind the palace, surrounded by dozens of palace people, and was supported by two palace maids to go up the throne along the white marble ladder, Ma Yongcheng stood still, and shook off the dust: "The ministers get up." ”

Everyone got up and looked at the emperor's face, obviously out of the capital. In this Liyue to relax and enjoy, there are not so many troubles about the government, and I have changed to a new territory, and I am also in a good mood, and I will raise it well, and my face is ruddy and my complexion is very good, and it is obviously a serious illness that has improved a lot.

Emperor Zhengde swept the hall. Look at the square in front of your palace, the mountains and mountains that are already farther away, and then look at the huge dragon claws below. The towering pillars around him were full of pride.

It was not the first time he had seen it, in fact, since he came here, he had to go out and walk around almost every day, and every time he saw it, his heart was filled with great satisfaction, and sitting here, surrounded by magnificent palaces, and hundreds of officials below were subdued. The beautiful rivers and mountains in the distance made him feel happy.

"It's a pity that there is one less country to come to the court, if you get those barbarians here, will you be so scared that you can't even speak?" Emperor Zhengde, who was so happy, touched his upper lip and said secretly in his heart. Some of them are too late.

He looked at Pan Jitao and smiled slightly: "Pan Aiqing, you are away from Yue, this palace is very well built." I'm satisfied. I want to reward you heavily! ”

Emperor Zhengde has always been very satisfied with Wenchen, which is already a very high comment.

Pan Jitao hurriedly knelt down and said humbly: "Doing your best for Your Majesty is within the duty of a minister, and I dare not say anything about rewards." ”

"Hey, what do you say, merit will naturally be rewarded, not to mention, I heard that in order to supervise the construction of this place, you have been here longer than at home in the past few years, I am not an unkind person!"

Zhengde waved his hand, and Ma Yongcheng behind him took a step forward, and said in a sharp voice: "Passing the decree, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Pan Jitao, loyal to the country, exhausted his efforts, rewarded 100 catties of platinum, 1,000 taels of silver, 500 taels of gold, gave seven Liang crowns, added a cage scarf Diao Chan, four folds of the pen, and used gold for a cicada before and after." Give a jade belt and a jade pendant. Give a python robe! ”

This kind of reward, there is real money and silver, there are python robes and jade belts, both real and representative, there are also representatives of honor and power, it can be said that the inside has face, but it is an extremely rich reward. In the past few years, when the border was victorious, the rewards were very few, and compared with this, it was not worth mentioning at all. Obviously, in the eyes of Emperor Zhengde, this palace courtyard is much more important than a big victory with foreign tribes.

This is not over, Ma Yongcheng paused, and said: "In addition, I heard that Pan Qing's family has a good son, who is weak and weak, talented and learned, and specially given a Jinshi background." ”

"Wow!"

As soon as the words fell, the ministers looked at Pan Jitao differently, envy, eagerness, jealousy, and so on.

If the above reward is not enough to make people excited, the following one is a bombshell, and who of you who is well-informed doesn't know? Master Pan is good at governing the country but not good at governing the family, the only son of his family, let him be spoiled when he was a child, he does not learn and has no skills, but he is a famous gentleman, and he lingers among the brothels of the Qinglou all day long. Fortunately, it was just incompetent, not brutal and vicious, and it didn't do anything angry and resentful. It is true that the young man is weak, but such a gentleman can deserve the words 'Zhuo Youcai Xue' in the emperor's mouth, which really makes people panic. …,

And this is the origin of the Jinshi! This is equivalent to this guy who can't even show talent, and he has become a genuine Jinshi and the first. Note that it is the Jinshi origin, not the same Jinshi origin, which are two completely different concepts and levels. Before that, although he was a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, to put it bluntly, he was just a flat-headed ordinary man, and he was not qualified to be an official at all. And now, with the Jinshi background, you can be an official just like those scholars who have studied hard for more than ten years and decades before they got into the Jinshi!

Lao Tzu's sentence of heroes and heroes is actually really narrow. There are few second-generation officials, and there are many scum, and Mo Gai is like this throughout the ages. This is true not only of the country, but also of other countries. In the families of the ministers, there are also many unsuccessful heirs, but at this time it is the Ming Dynasty, not the Wei and Jin dynasties of the gate valve system, as long as they are literati, the only way to be an official is the imperial examination! The father is an official, and his son can't get into the Jinshi, so he is still a civilian in this life!

Even if he is the son of Shoufu Yang Shen, he has to participate in the imperial examination honestly, and you want to cheat and be accommodating, that's a dream! The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was strict, and the civil service system in the future was far ahead, and once the problem was traced, it often set off a great storm in the court! And Emperor Zhengde has always been at odds with civil officials, every time during the imperial examination, Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fanzi are like rats out of the hole, going out to listen and question, just to catch those who cheat for personal gain!

It is conceivable that with the shadow of their parents, once they become officials, they must be on the rise, but what is missing is such an opportunity to be officials. From this, it can also be seen how precious this Jinshi background is! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )