"Well, by the way, it's this land, I have to level it, remember, don't cut down all the trees around me, you have to keep it, here, but after I say that I have a villa to view the lake, if there is not even a tree, wouldn't it be a big scenery?" Standing in front of the large open space to the south of the Chongzhi Palace, he looked at the soldiers who were busy and laboring, and commanded the two officials of the Ministry of Industry beside him.

"Guanhu Villa ......" The two Ministry of Engineering stared blankly at the drawings designed by His Majesty the Ming Emperor, Zhu Qizhen, and muttered the new terms that popped out of Zhu Qizhen's mouth.

Although it was early winter, the foreheads of the two Ministry of Industry officials had been sweating, not because of the weather, but because of the design drawings handed over to them by Zhu Qizhen.

"What's the matter, the two Qing families, isn't there no way to build such a house?" Zhu Qizhen turned his head and saw the ugly faces of the two Ministry of Industry officials and the sweat on his forehead, and couldn't help but ask subconsciously. It seems that it is not too difficult to get this design drawing by yourself, why are the expressions of these two Ministry of Industry officials like they asked the two of them to build the Eiffel Tower in France, isn't it just a villa?

"Your Majesty, the system of architecture should not be taken lightly...... "Book of Rites" contains: the hall of the Son of Heaven is nine feet, the princes are seven feet, the doctor is five feet, and the scholar is three feet...... Therefore, the noble and the lowly are equal, the clothes are different, the court has a position, and the people have a concession...... "The official of the Ministry of Industry A smashed Zhu Qizhen with a mouthful of classical Chinese.

This is not the end, seeing Zhu Qizhen's obvious signs of dizziness, the Ministry of Industry official B, who thought that Zhu Qizhen had been shocked by the great truth, also hurriedly showed his professional knowledge. "Your Majesty, according to my "Da Ming Collection Ceremony"...... One or two grade officials, the hall is five rooms and nine frames, the roof ridge is decorated with tiles, beams, bucket arches, eaves and green blue paintings, two doors and three green oils, and the animal face tin ring. Three to five officials, five halls and seven frames, the roof ridge with tile beasts, Liang Dong, eaves green and blue painted decoration, two doors and three frames, black oil tin ring. If it is six to nine products, then the hall has three rooms and seven frames, the beams are decorated with earth yellow, the door is one with three frames, and the black door is iron ring. All the officials' houses, doors and windows shall not be ......"

"Stop!" Zhu Qizhen, whose face was blue and white, suddenly snorted, and finally shocked the two officials of the Ministry of Industry, and took a deep breath, Zhu Qizhen said in a gentle tone as much as possible. "I don't want to use my brain now, so you can give me a word, can this house be repaired."

The official of the Ministry of Industry, who made Zhu Qizhen's loud cry so frightened that his little face turned pale, nodded his head as if pounding garlic and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, such a house can be repaired, and it does look staggered, the room is small and exquisite, but Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, the body of a true dragon, such a house...... It's really not for you. ”

-------------------- in ancient times, clothing, food, housing and transportation, there were extremely strict regulations, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen's grandfather's grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, in the second year of the throne to become the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had ordered the Confucian ministers to repair the book of rites. The system of crown uniforms, chariots, ceremonial guards, halogen books, calligraphy, and music was reformulated.

It was completed in the third year of Hongwu and was given the name "Ming Collection Ceremony". It is the earliest book written in the Ming Dynasty, an official book of rules and regulations, which records that the materials used for aristocratic women's clothing are 'all kinds of silk silk yarn for use', while the materials for commoner women are restricted, even for dresses, they are also limited to purple coarse cloth (i.e., 'silk') and gold embroidery is prohibited, and the robes are only limited to light colors such as purple, green and peach, and it is forbidden to use strong colors such as bright red, cyan blue and bright yellow. In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was also stipulated that the merchants' homes could only be dressed with silk cloth, and the peasants could use silk yarn and silk cloth. The men's clothing of the Ming Dynasty was represented by a square scarf with a round neck, and the shirts worn by Confucian scholars were very similar to the costumes of Peking Opera scholars on the stage today. It is characterized by wide sleeves, soap (black) color edges, a green round neck, and a soap silk soft scarf drape. Porters and porters wore green cloth shirts and trousers, long handkerchiefs of green cloth, and their tunics were brimmed with wide brims, and their feet wore straw shoes. The official uniform is a cloud satin round-necked robe, and there is another way to wear a cloud satin jacket. This kind of robe is one inch long from the ground, the sleeves are longer than the hand, the sleeves (referring to the sleeves) are one foot wide, the cuffs are nine inches wide, and the feet are typical for wearing bright red shoes.

And many men's popular hair accessories in the Ming Dynasty were pioneered by Ming Taizu. For example, the "net scarf" has the meaning of symbolizing the complete laws and regulations of the country, the "square scarf" symbolizes the peace of the country, and the "melon skin hat", which is almost regarded as a typical Chinese hat by modern Westerners.

In the past, Zhu Qizhen thought that the melon skin hat only existed in the Manchu Dynasty, and it was not until he traveled to the Ming Dynasty that he knew that there was already such a hat in this era. Well, it seems to be off topic again.

In short, after quiet thinking, Zhu Qizhen still said firmly and unwaveringly: "It doesn't matter, if I think it's suitable, then it must be suitable, remember, when the spring of the next year begins, I will do what I want, and it will be completed in the middle of next summer, can you be sure?" ”

"Your Majesty can rest assured that such buildings are not temples and halls, and the timber and stone required do not need to be specially harvested. In this way, the preparation of materials can start now, and if the construction starts as soon as the snow melts and the ice subsides, it will be completed in about four months at most. Although the Ministry of Industry Officer A's literary skills are very profound, it does not prevent him from studying and loving his own work, and after a quiet exchange with the Ministry of Industry Officer B, he definitely came up with such an answer.

"As for the cement thing that Your Majesty said, the ministers have also checked it, and it is indeed a good material for construction, but it is far away in Xuanfu, and the craftsmen in Beijing are not familiar with this thing, I am afraid that it is ......."

"It's nothing, I'm getting ready to build a big cement workshop in Tianjin, uh...... Anyway, I will send craftsmen from Naxuanfu, and when the time comes, there will be those craftsmen who are familiar with the use of cement, so there is no need to worry. Zhu Qizhen smiled, waved his hand very confidently and smiled.

Zhu Qizhen is from the future, although he doesn't dare to say that he has all the liberal arts and sciences, but at least under the exam-oriented education in his previous life, he has obtained a wide range of knowledge that far surpasses that human beings in this era can have.

To use a very vulgar saying to describe Zhu Qizhen's rich knowledge, that is, he has never eaten pork, and he has always seen pigs running away. Zhu Qizhen knows many things, but he doesn't know why.

But at least, he knew the surface, such as this villa near the lake, he just made a sketch by himself, and then handed it to the painters of Daming, so that those painters could perfect it. Then hand over the finished design drawings to the Ministry of Works. In this way, the new home in Zhu Qizhen's imagination will appear six hundred years ago.

-------------------- to tell the truth, Zhu Qizhen hated the flat plate pigeon cage building in later generations, and after coming to ancient times, the so-called palace where Xuanfu lived was actually the courtyard of a giant in Xuanfu, but for Zhu Qizhen, he liked this kind of building and environment very much, and there was a kind of ancient style and elegant beauty.

But when I came to the Forbidden City, the huge building was as empty as a basketball court, and no matter how small it was, it would be the size of a volleyball court. And in the palace, each palace has a special eunuch waiting, living in that kind of room, and there is a eunuch who Zhu Qizhen is most unhappy to look at next to him, Zhu Qizhen feels deeply uncomfortable, so he decided to move out and temporarily live in Xiyuan outside the Forbidden City.

In fact, it is what later generations called Zhongnanhai, and the emperor who developed Xiyuan in the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Di. Zhu Di was an immediate emperor, and even before the capital of Yanjing, he came to the north many times to patrol and hunt. Either he went far away to fight the Mongols, or he came to Yanjing to run his new capital.

This created a problem, like Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, before the new capital was built, the emperor did not have a formal place to accept the worship or deliberations of the ministers, which was very inconvenient. At the beginning, every time Emperor Yongle went to Yanjing, he still visited the old palace, that is, the old residence of Yanwang Mansion before becoming the emperor, but with the continuous advancement of the construction of the new capital, it was finally decided to "withdraw the old palace and make a new one". In August of the fourteenth year of Yongle, the Forbidden City built the three halls of Fengtian.

In order to solve the office space during the construction of the new palace, "it is ordered to be the west palace and the place to look at the court". In August of the 14th year of Yongle, Dinghai was used as the West Palace, and its location was on the site of the Longfu Palace in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the West Garden of the Ming Dynasty.

After the completion of the new palace, the official court meeting was held in Ouchi, and the Taiye Pond and its surrounding area, which ran through the west of the central axis of the imperial castle, were still built as the West Garden. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Yan Mansion regained its original function as a royal garden.

The Chongzhi Hall is one of them, but it is only a temporary office space built before the construction of the Forbidden City is completed, so it is naturally built relatively narrow and concise. This made Zhu Qizhen feel good to live in, but he was still very dissatisfied, so Zhu Qizhen decided to get a villa to live comfortably.

After all, Zhu Qizhen knows that this is the future Zhongnanhai, the future political center of China. Living here is in line with the psychological satisfaction of a traveler from a later generation.

Zhu Qizhen was at this moment of crooked silver, but a guard came to report, Shi Heng and several other ministers came in succession, saying that there was something important to discuss, hearing this, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly. "Okay, let them go to the Chongzhi Hall and wait, and I'll go back in a while." After Zhu Qizhen gave an order, he slowly and leisurely walked in the direction of Chongzhi Palace, and asked Yuan Bin, the henchman beside him. "Guess, why did Chief Shi come to find me?"

(To be continued)