Chapter 182: The New Palace
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Early in the morning of November 30, Zhang Wei moved to the new palace accompanied by Zheng Daoyou and others. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The new palace is 1 km west of the palace, covering an area larger than the palace, 2 miles wide from east to west and 3 miles long from north to south; The front and back of the palace are divided into two parts, the front is the place where the emperor works and receives envoys, etc.; Behind it is the place where the emperor and the future empress and concubines lived, which were divided into multiple separate courtyards, during which they were dotted with gardens, fish ponds, rockeries, corridors, sports fields, etc.; To the west of the palace was the headquarters of the General Staff, as well as the offices of the units of the troops, as well as the barracks of the Palace Guard Regiment; To the south are the National Square and the Avenue of Victory; The eastern part is where the government offices are located.
The new palace was designed according to Zhang Wei's requirements, all using traditional Chinese architectural styles, but abandoning the all-wood building, and instead using new building materials such as masonry, cement, and glass, which shortened the construction period and made the building stronger, brighter and more fireproof.
The old palace was later used as the prime minister's office of Chung Do-woo.
Looking at the palace from a distance, the first thing you see is the gate tower and the palace wall, the palace wall is built according to the Chinese tradition, the wall is red, the top is yellow glazed tiles, and the ridge of the wall is also decorated with various squatting beasts, the height of the whole palace wall is 9 meters, which is the same as the height of the first floor of the gate tower; There are also four corner towers with a height of 18 meters at the four corners of the palace wall, which are used as watchtowers for officers and soldiers on duty; The main entrance of the palace faces the Victory Avenue, it is directly named the Arc de Triomphe, which is a traditional palace design, with a length of 60 meters from east to west, a total of two floors, the first floor is 9 meters high, the width of the gate is 6 meters, and there is a side door of 3 meters wide on each side; The rooms on the first floor are the guard's duty room and the reception room for outside visitors; The second layer is 5 meters, the height of the gable is 4 meters, the total height is also 9 meters, the front is a platform, the platform is decorated with a white marble fence around the platform, and many dragon patterns are carved around the columns of the fence; The tiles on the roof are also yellow, which is the same color as the glazed tiles on the ridge of the palace wall; There are two glass-kissed beasts at both ends of the main ridge in the roof, swallowing the big ridge steadily and powerfully, the kissing beast is beautiful in shape, has the role of components, and is an auspicious ornament; There are ten auspicious beasts on each of the four corners, which are vivid and lifelike.
Approaching the gate tower, I saw the moat on the periphery of the city wall, the river is 45 meters wide, the water is clear, and there are goldfish swimming in it; There are 3 white marble bridges connecting the inside and outside, and the gate tower is on the central axis of the palace.
Entering the Arc de Triomphe, the ground road is paved with marble, and the road is flanked by white marble guardrails; There are many precious flowers and trees planted outside the guardrails on both sides of the road.
About 200 meters away from the triumphal arch is the main hall of the palace, the Shenwu Palace, which is the place where the emperor ascends the throne, gets married, receives foreign guests and other important things, the doors and windows of the palace are all made of good wood, but it is inlaid with high-quality float glass, and the interior of the palace is extremely bright; The interior furniture is all made of mahogany; The floor is made of wood.
The height of the Shenwu Hall is 9 meters, the width of the north and south is 15 meters, the length of the east and west is 45 meters, and there are 2 side halls on the left and right; The base is white marble, the height is about 1.5 meters, and there are various auspicious patterns carved on the white marble; the overall appearance is similar to the triumphal arch, with the highest level of heavy eaves palace roof, but the ridge and the four corners of the decoration of the beast build more, creating a dragon, phoenix, lion, elephant, tiger, seahorse and other three-dimensional animal images, symbolizing auspiciousness and majesty; The whole building appears solemn, solemn, magnificent, and majestic to symbolize the supreme imperial power.
On the left side of the Shenwu Hall is Zhang Wei's study and small conference room; On the right is the secretary's office, large conference room, reception room, etc.; On both sides of the flank, there are two separate courtyards, which are the kitchen, the warehouse, and the dormitory for the service staff.
After the Shenwu Palace, it is equivalent to the emperor's inner room, there are not many existing buildings inside, according to Zhang Wei's requirements, for the time being, only 6 villa-type courtyards were built, and the rest of the gardens, ponds, etc., when the house is needed, it can be added again, and now the construction is more useless, and the second is that the construction time is too tight. The furniture in the villa is all modern style, built in accordance with Zhang Wei's requirements, and individual Zhang Wei can't say what he wants, but also buys samples from the system, so that craftsmen can make mahogany according to the sample pattern; Only Simmons mattresses, the current craftsmen have done many times but have not done a good job, Zhang Wei had to choose the mattress purchased from the system, and the bed frame is still made by craftsmen.
Zhang Wei hurriedly visited the main buildings of the palace, and felt very satisfied, the area was large enough, the overall layout was very good, the backyard was very beautiful, and the small villa was very warm, a bit of a feeling of going back to the previous life.
The members of the palace guard corps are all system synthesis personnel, and all of them stay in the barracks on the west side of the palace, and they change the guard on time every day.
The kitchen, sanitation, and garden care staff in the palace are also systematically integrated soldiers, and these people no longer live in the palace and wear entry and exit permits.
The service personnel in the palaces, offices, reception rooms, places of residence and other places are selected from the 16-22-year-old Han girls in the country, these girls' academic qualifications are generally high school and university level, and the maximum service period of each person is 5 years, and they can go out of the palace to marry after 5 years.
Because they work in the palace and come into contact with the king, if they are favored by the king during this period, it will be their blessing, that is, they are not favored by the king, and it is also a good destination to be favored by other military and political ministers, and now everyone knows that the high-level leaders of the Lanfang Kingdom are all bachelors, which is a good opportunity for these girls, so the intensity of the selection can be imagined.
Because they had to get along day and night, and there were a lot of confidential things involved in the palace, Zhang Wei asked all the personnel hired from outside to gather in front of the Martial God Temple and prepare to review it with the system.
Half an hour later, the personnel were concentrated, and Zhang Wei came to the front of the main hall.
There are a total of 100 palace maids, and the height is generally between m, and in this era, the height of these people is not short.
None of these palace maids had ever seen the emperor, and they all looked nervous.
But when they saw Zhang Wei, they were all surprised, this king was too young, he felt about the same age as himself, and one of the women laughed "poof".
Zhang Wei stood in the corridor in front of the main hall and looked at these girls and said: "I am the king of our country, welcome everyone to serve the palace in the future, I hope you can do your duty, I will not embarrass everyone for no reason, just treat this place as home, if there is any difficulty, find the director of the palace, he will help you solve it." ā
After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he looked at everyone and found that some people were three-inch golden lotus; Some just slightly bind their feet to make them more slender; Some are Tianzu, which makes Zhang Wei feel very uncomfortable, everyone knows that Zhang Wei doesn't like to bind his feet, why is there still a foot-bound in this palace maid?
So he asked Zheng Daoyou: "Premier Zheng, why is there still a foot-bound in this palace maid?" ā
"At the beginning, His Majesty was not at home, so there was no telegram to ask, for fear of affecting your work, the staff chose a part of everything, so some of these people were bound feet, some were bound feet, and some were Tianzu."
Zhang Wei didn't want to blame the staff anymore, so he had to say: "Our country has banned foot binding, but there are still people in the people who don't listen to the advice, and the impact is very bad, so I decided to start from the palace and play a leading role for the people, otherwise the wind of foot binding will never be banned, and those who bind their feet cannot be hired, and they will be arranged to go home." ā
Zheng Daoyou had no choice but to reply: "Yes, Your Majesty!" ā
Then he went to arrange for someone to pick out the women who were bound for their feet, and specially arranged for someone to escort them safely to their home.
A total of 25 foot-bound women were selected, and these women were still crying when they left, they not only missed a good job opportunity, but also missed the opportunity to change their lives, and the palace maids who stayed behind felt lucky. Zhang Wei believes that through these people going back to publicity, the people's foot-binding style should be affected to a certain extent, and it is more effective than coercive orders.
Zhang Wei did not find hostile red dots in the remaining crowd through the system, so he was completely relieved.
These people were wearing traditional palace maid clothes, which seemed very unfavorable, and Zhang Wei thought about it for a while and decided that it was simple to change them into military uniforms.
So I communicated with Xiao Yu'er, and Xiao Yu'er suggested changing the SS uniform with a black jacket, white shirt, and black riding boots, but in order to distinguish the royal service personnel, the armband was changed to yellow.
Zhang Wei felt that it was too hot to wear riding boots in this tropical region, and it was cool to wear black leather shoes with semi-high heels.
Xiao Yu'er suggested: "Your Majesty, it is better to look good in riding boots, usually wear leather shoes, and wear riding boots when there are important occasions." ā
Zhang Wei adopted Xiao Yuer's suggestion, and each person was issued with trousers, shirts, coats, hats, leather shoes, riding boots, armed belts, etc., and directly purchased 100 sets and put them in the west hall of the Martial God Temple.
Zhang Wei said: "I feel that everyone's clothing is very difficult to work, and now everyone goes to the west hall to change their clothes and remove all the ornaments on their heads for 10 minutes." ā
Zheng Daoyou complained: "Your Majesty, let these palace maids wear military uniforms, and they are nondescript in the palace, do you regard this place as a military camp?" The palace should look like a palace. ā
"Haha, Prime Minister, just wait and see, it will definitely shock you in a while, if these beauties go to the street, it will definitely be the most beautiful scenery in Shangjing City. Besides, in the future, we can't treat the palace as a concentration camp for captive beauties, we must make this an ordinary mansion on the spot, and when the conditions are ripe, we must open it to the people on a regular basis, don't be so mysterious, we don't even need eunuchs, but your thinking has not changed. ā
It took nearly half an hour for these girls to change their clothes, and after they came out in line, Zhang Wei's eyes were straight.
It's been more than 1 year since I came to this world, I've been busy with the war, and I never have the time and mind to contact girls, and I don't like the clothes of girls now, and I don't like girls with bound feet, these girls who don't have bound their feet put on beautiful military uniforms, riding boots, tie up armed belts, beautiful faces, delicate white skin, and black military uniforms, which really made Zhang Wei feel a little uncontrollable, until Xiao Yuer's coughing and wheezing reminded Zhang Wei to wake up.
"Haha, Premier Zheng, how do you feel?"
"Your Majesty really has a vision, and it's really good."
"Let them be in charge of welcoming guests on the second floor of the Arc de Triomphe tomorrow, they will definitely blind many people's eyes."
"Yes, Your Majesty, then choose the 50 tallest of them to be the guests of the Arc de Triomphe." Zheng Daoyou said, and took a few more glances at these sassy palace maids.
"15 of the tallest 30 are responsible for my study, small conference room and west hall, and the other 15 are responsible for my backyard's living and hygiene, etc., divided into 3 shifts, taking turns on duty, each shift is 8 hours, and someone must be on duty at night, and the remaining 45 are arranged by you to the main hall and other meeting rooms."
"Yes, Your Majesty, but we haven't arranged for a palace manager yet."
"Let the original palace director Fan Laifu continue to serve as the palace director! Your Prime Minister's Office is looking for a senior staff officer from the General Staff to be in charge. ā