After the fire of Ciqing Palace, the original palace buildings were burned beyond recognition, and most of the buildings could no longer be inhabited, so the palace could only be rebuilt on the original site. In the past, the eunuchs of the inner court were usually responsible for this project, but this time, Jiajing Tianzi insisted on handing over the work to the construction team under Yang Ji.

Yang Chengzu came back from the southeast and scraped hundreds of thousands of cash silver for the Son of Heaven, and a batch of materials such as wood was also prepared, from materials to funds, there was no shortage. In order to build the palace, Yang Ji donated another 30,000 taels of silver, plus the allocation of the palace, the reconstruction of the palace, a total of more than 120,000 taels of silver was prepared, which was a major project.

This kind of project is fat for eunuchs, and many people in the palace are worried about it, but Zhang Zuo took the lead in speaking, even the work and materials, all of which are used by Yang Ji, if anyone dares to say a word, when he was invited by Yang Dadu Governor to the East Factory to drink hospitality tea another day, don't blame Zhang Zuo for not reminding everyone first. With his attitude, those eunuchs in the palace who want to stretch out their hands should also consider whether they are strong enough to provoke this great god.

After all, the palace people around Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Xia have changed as a whole, and the cronies around Empress Dowager Zhang have all been removed by Yang Chengzu on charges of guilt. killed dozens of palace people around the queen mother in one go, with this matter in advance, the people in the palace were also a little afraid of Yang Chengzu, and they didn't dare to provoke them casually.

There are also some unreliable rumors spread in private, such as hearing that Yongshou Chitose seems to have an affair with the Grand Duke. Someone has seen Yongshou Chitose twisting the ears of the Metropolitan Governor in the palace. That intimacy is like a pair of men and women in love.

There are also people who say that Empress Xia seems to have been taken advantage of by Governor Yang, and since she was questioned by Governor Dadu, Empress Xia has always had nightmares at night, yelling, shouting that you don't come, and if you come over, I will die to show you and so on. During the day, I am afraid of seeing the light, so I always huddle in the corner, and people become a little crazy. According to some old eunuchs, this is clearly like the performance of a woman after being forced by a man.

The content of these rumors was so bizarre that they didn't spread very widely, and later, even the people who spread the rumors disappeared, and no one said them anymore. In short, a large number of Yang Ji's workers went to the palace to start construction, and the construction site was busy, and those foremen were all selected by Yang Ji, loyal and reliable. Some eunuchs tried to contact it a few times, but found that they were invulnerable, and there was no place for their own hands and feet, so they had no choice but to leave.

Yang Ji has a large business scope and recruits many workers, and those who have craftsmanship have entered the workshop, and those who have enough conditions have entered the barracks. After all, there are some people who only have strength or can only do masonry and carpentry, and such people do not have much role other than being construction workers. Some of them can go to the army to be masters, help carry grain and grass, and set up camp to repair barracks. Most people can only rely on Yang Ji to take over the project and rely on their strength to change food.

With Yang Ji's size, they are not worried about not having jobs, they need granaries to store grain, workers provide dormitories, and welfare buildings such as medical halls and canteens have endless work to do. For example, this kind of big project in the palace, although it is large, but this kind of project, even if it is done by the inner court, is contracted by the eunuchs, and then subcontracted to other foremen. After being contracted layer by layer, the people who work in the end may not be better than Yang Ji's workers.

Doing this kind of project, Yang Ji doesn't want to make money, the materials are all good materials, and the project is also the pursuit of 10,000 years is not bad, those eunuchs who are responsible for the construction have come to see a few times, originally wanted to find faults, but in the end they all became bitter gourd faces.

"This ...... What do you say, Yang Ji can't do this, it's not okay, it's like them, we won't have a way to live in the future. Either they will do all the construction in the future, or we will have to pay the money ourselves. ”

Some little eunuchs went to their godfathers or ancestors to complain, but these old eunuchs who had a very high status in the palace could only shake their heads, "This person, we can't move, the factory and the guard are one, and they have something to do with the princess, and even Zhang's wife and wife were killed by him, what can we do?" Look at it, this person can't be rich all his life, and it won't be too late to wait until one day he reaches the end of his life, and then slowly clean him up. ”

On the construction site, Yang Chengzu buckled an iron helmet on his head, accompanied Jiajing, who was also buckled with an iron helmet, to inspect the progress of the project. He can't read drawings, and he doesn't know much about architecture, but with this attitude, it is enough for the workers below not to dare to be lazy.

Referring to the safety helmets of later generations, all the people who entered the construction area were forced by him to wear this kind of helmet, but he did not know what materials the real safety helmet was made of and how it was made. Most of the workers wore wicker hats, and identities like him and Jiajing were iron helmets of the same shape, which looked like Japanese ashigaru.

Jiajing said as he walked: "I don't understand about this project, but I heard Zhang Zuo say that some people in the palace have already begun to complain and go to him to say bad things about these workers." Either they say that their work is not good, or that there are bandits hidden among these people, and since they entered the palace, they have lost things in the palace. What does this mean, it shows that these people are doing well, and those slaves and maids who should be killed already know that they are afraid. For this article, not only the reconstruction of this Ciqing Palace, but also other buildings in the future will be handed over to Yang Ji to do. Those slaves and maids, who only know the greedy silver, but do not know how to do things, all deserve to die. ”

"Your Majesty, let the people below do things, always let them benefit, if you do things for Banzai, but you can't get a share of oil and water, you won't be able to find people who are willing to do things in the future. The ministers are different from them, this time it is a plea, how dare they touch oil and water, but those fathers-in-law can't compare with the ministers, they don't have so many ways to get money, and it is not easy to get rich. ”

"I know that when the water is clear, there are no fish, but when they get the project in their hands, they turn their heads and contract it out, and they don't care about anything when they close their eyes, which is too much of a bastard. The third brother wrote a letter and also mentioned to me that the situation in the imperial tomb was even more serious, and many people wanted to intervene and get some money from the project funds. If it weren't for the third brother's top, the imperial tomb wouldn't know what it would look like. ”

This kind of thing, the bigger the project, the more places to do your hands and feet, Jiajing now has money in his pocket, and he is a person who likes luxury, so he can use money with his hands and feet. The last time he married Empress Chen, first, he was dissatisfied with this queen, and secondly, the country was insufficient at that time, and the wedding was not luxurious.

But this time he married Xue Niang, which he regarded as the first major event in his life, and he made a budget of 300,000 taels just for the wedding money. In addition, he also planned to modify the sacrificial habits of the Ming Dynasty and change the combined sacrifice of heaven and earth into a sacrifice, which would require the construction of a number of altars, and the cost would be terrifying.

The rebuilding of Ciqing Palace this time is actually to make a budget for the construction of those altars in the future, to find out what the actual cost of each link in the building is, and to use this as a standard, it will be difficult for the eunuchs to cheat money in the future.

This kind of thing that cuts off people's financial paths, only Yang Chengzu has the courage to do it, and Jiajing Tianzi only reassures him. Hearing the emperor mention Lu Bing, Yang Chengzu knew that although the favored minister of the Jiajing Son of Heaven in history had been shelved for four years because of his appearance, now, how could he return and enter the court. In the future of the Ming Dynasty, there will inevitably be his shadow in the court, and as for himself, what he has to do now is to eliminate the inner ghosts first and dig out the internal tumors. That black sheep must be eliminated after all, so that everyone's hearts can be stable.