"What? Move the capital! Is Your Majesty really saying that? Chen Kejie suddenly stood up from his chair.

"No, no, no! It's not a move to the capital. His Majesty meant to move the royal family out of Beijing. The secretary gasped and said.

"Okay, why does Your Majesty want to move the royal family out of Beijing, and where to move it?"

"I don't know."

This is the attendant military attache at the door walked in, pushed open the door of the prime minister's office, and said: "Your Excellency, His Majesty the Emperor has convened a pre-imperial meeting and asked you to summon the ministers to go to the Old Summer Palace. ”

"Got it, get the carriage ready."

"Yes!" The military attache replied, turning and leaving

When Chen Kejie took the cabinet members to the Zibi Mountain House in the Old Summer Palace, he found that many military generals had already arrived first, Xiang Li Chao, commander-in-chief of the army, Zuo Yu, former prime minister, and Lin Zhengying, the mysterious minister of brocade. As soon as everyone greeted each other, Emperor Lin Hong walked out of the back room and sat down to sit down.

After seeing the emperor take his seat, Prime Minister Chen Kejie said anxiously: "Your Majesty, I heard that you intend to move the capital, but Your Majesty's ministers really don't understand."

Lin Hong saw that Chen Kejie looked anxious and pressed his hand, interrupted his speech and continued: "Don't worry, I didn't think about moving the capital, I mean to move the royal family out of Beijing." So I came to you to hear your opinions. ”

"Your Majesty, where do you want to move the royal family?" Zuo Yu asked.

"I mean to separate the royal family from the government and move to the Xianyang area in the middle of the empire, where a palace will be built to house the royal family." Speaking of the so-called royal family, in Lin Hong's opinion, there are just two of them, he and Queen Liu Xiaoyu, but in fact, when Lin Hong got married, the system arranged his "family", a younger brother and a younger sister, okay! Lin Hong felt very twisted and happy, the two younger brothers and sisters who subconsciously thought that they were relatives made him feel happy, after all, in his previous life, Lin Hong was an only child and had no brothers, and now he felt a different kind of family affection, and the twist was because Lin Hong still couldn't adapt to the sudden extra two brothers and sisters. Now his younger brother Lin Wei is serving in the North American Colonial Military District as the only duke of the empire (the fief is the California region, so it is called the Duke of California), and the eldest princess of the empire, Lin Lin, has married a staff officer of the imperial staff. (I'm in a bit of a hurry, forgive me!) ）

"Xianyang? If you don't understand, please make it clear to your Majesty. Chen Kejie was a little puzzled.

"Beijing has made great progress in recent years, the city has become crowded, as the capital of the empire, Beijing is filled with a large population, I believe that in the near future, Beijing will enter full capacity, I hope that the move out of the imperial family can relieve the population pressure in Beijing."

"But Your Majesty, if you think Beijing is too crowded, we can tear down the city wall and expand it outward!"

"Expansion is necessary, but this wall must not be demolished, this is the history of our nation."

"But"

Looking at the prime minister who still wanted to say something, Lin Hong waved his hand and continued: "Sending the imperial family to Xianyang, another meaning of mine is to promote the development of the central and western regions, compared with the prosperity of the eastern part of the empire, the former Central Plains is now a little backward, I believe that the move of the royal family can greatly promote the development of the central and western regions." In addition, from the perspective of national military strategy, if the enemy's navy has the ability to harass the coastal areas of the empire, then the coastal capital area will definitely become the primary target of the other party, and the royal relocation will have enough strategic space, and the control over North India and Burma will be greatly strengthened. I believe that now that the whole country has laid up a telegraph, I can also know the news of Beijing in Xianyang in time. ”

"Then Your Majesty's arrangement of the name, location, and style of the new palace?"

"Open bidding to domestic construction companies, and the name is Afang Palace."

“”

On January 1, 1850, the Chinese Imperial Congress passed the "Measures on the Relocation of the Imperial Family and Related Matters" proposed by the imperial family, the government will plan a piece of the rest near Xianyang for the construction of the imperial city, and in the next five years, 10 million Chinese dollars will be allocated for the construction of the imperial palace, Lin Hong originally planned to build a new palace at his own expense, but after the congressmen repeatedly proposed Lin Hong had no choice but to accept it, even if Lin Hong's royal group was absolutely able to afford these costs-

"Hey! Did you hear that? ”

"What? Heard about what? ”

"Don't you know? The newspapers all said that His Majesty the Emperor was going to move the imperial family to Xianyang. ”

"What?! Isn't that going to move the capital? ”

"Who knows! But I heard the newspaper mean the imperial court, no! Yes, the cabinet government will remain in Beijing. ”

"It can't be that the cabinet forced His Majesty to leave! No, these ministers, I'm going to go to the police station to report the crime, let's go to those ministers to settle accounts, how can they do this. ”

"Well, that's not good!"

"What's wrong, without the grace of His Majesty the Emperor's reconstruction, how could we have a good life today, no, I must find these guys to make it clear."

The move, which was not considered a big deal in Lin Hong's eyes, sparked a huge march in Beijing, with the people on the march demanding explanations from the cabinet, and some simply raising red flags demanding severe punishment for these treacherous cabinet members.

Seeing that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, Lin Hong had to go to the street in person to stop the situation from continuing to expand, and seeing the emperor personally come out to explain and persuade, the anger of the demonstrators was quietly extinguished, and the crowd began to disperse and people returned to their lives, but the matter of the royal family moving out attracted more discussion in the newspapers. The die-hards and the opposition have been accusing the incumbent cabinet in the newspapers of being a treacherous and fatherless and motherless; Even some political news played the gimmick headline of courtiers erecting saints and disrupting the dictatorship. People did not agree that a city without an emperor could be called a capital, and most of the people in the provinces were angered by the contents of the newspapers, and dissatisfaction with the cabinet was growing among the people. Those who support it analyze the benefits of this matter from an objective point of view. But in the end, Lin Hong had to issue a statement in the Imperial Daily again, reiterating the purpose of the relocation.

This incident is a famous "palace transfer case" in the history of the Chinese Empire, and later generations have commented that the "palace transfer case" to a large extent reflects the initial awakening of the people's democratic consciousness at that time, and they began to express their own opinions and voices with their own actions.

However, the biggest trouble caused by the emperor's internal relocation was the envoys who came to China, who first took the train to Xianyang to present their credentials and then returned to Beijing for talks with the cabinet government, which seemed to them to be simply amusing them. Of course, the new palace has not yet been built, and Lin Hong still lives in the miracle of the Old Summer Palace. The planning and construction of the new imperial city did play a role that Lin Hong wanted, a large number of people began to move closer to the Xi'an area, alleviating the population pressure in the east, and the transportation of building materials, construction recruitment, and land development of the imperial palace greatly promoted the development of the central region