In the Zhonghua Palace in Nanjing, a large number of officials came in and out of the Xinhua Palace, which had just been opened for less than a month.

Since the Xinhua Hall completed all the interior decoration last month, last month it was the selection of a so-called zodiac festival, and then Lin Zhe was officially brought from Pingren Hall to the Xinhua Hall office.

Lin Zhe was accompanied by many institutions and departments of the Palace Affairs Department, including the Secretariat, the Chamberlain's Office, and the Economic Planning Commission.

There are about 300 civilian office workers stationed there!

As for the original Pingrentang, it was originally planned to be moved out for other purposes, but now the major government agencies have fixed offices, and in any case, Pingrentang is still located in the Zhonghua Palace, which is one of the palaces, and it is not easy to arrange the cabinet or other departments to settle in.

In addition, considering the emperor's majesty and other issues, others did not have the courage to use the office used by Lin Zhe, so it was idle, and sometimes Lin Zhe would receive courtiers in Pingrentang.

The newly completed Xinhua Hall is very large-scale, occupying nearly 8,000 square meters of ground, with a total of three floors, and a construction area of more than 20,000 square meters.

In order to build this Xinhua Palace, the manpower and material resources spent are quite a lot, but the funds for the construction of this palace and other buildings of the palace and the sources of various materials are quite complicated, and many materials are quite precious and cannot be calculated at the normal market price, even the construction office responsible for the construction of the palace is difficult to truly count how much money was spent on the construction of this Xinhua Palace.

But the entire China Palace, including the square outside the China Palace, is a green belt. In the case of the ministries and government buildings, this huge political zone lasted a total of three years. More than 10,000 people have participated in the construction, and the central government has spent more than 8 million yuan on the surface. In addition, the treasury department of the palace affairs department also disburses funds every three or five times, adding up to about two or three million, in addition to many precious materials paid tribute by local governments, and various works of art from a wider range of sources, some of which were seized by the military, some were taken out by the royal family themselves, and some were paid tribute by officials and gentry.

If you only use the superficial money, it will probably cost about 15 million yuan. But if you take the requisition of free workers, involved in the construction of the army. If all the tributes are included, it is estimated that it will cost more than 30 million yen.

It's just that these are superficial expenses, in fact, the empire really didn't have much money to repair the palace, and it was paid one after another for three years, and even stopped several constructions when the finances were tight, so overall, it did not have much impact on the empire's finances.

It's really only the royal family that really spends money!

took the money out to repair the palace, this is not Lin Zhe's own meaning, but the meaning of the Queen Mother Lin and the old lady. She felt that her royal property was not short of money, and how much money her royal property had was of little practical significance to Mrs. Lin, who was already the queen mother, and it was just a bunch of numbers, so Mrs. Lin was very willing to spend money.

Overall. Although the royal family has been able to get the royal living expenses from the treasury every month in recent years, in fact, they often change hands and paste them into the construction of the palace, and the royal family's expenses are basically out of their own pockets. And millions of dollars are subsidized to the national treasury every year.

Therefore, the royal family has actually not spent a penny from the treasury over the years, not to mention, and has posted millions of dollars.

This is when the emperor deserves this. Lin Zhe prides himself on being a man who has never been seen before or since, but he can be regarded as a wise man.

As a matter of fact. Any ambitious ruler can't go badly there, because they want great things, so they need to govern the country well, so they will do something good for the country and the nation.

The second ruler is the kind of person who has no ambition and gets by, they have no ideals, they don't have anything they want to do, so they are content to live this drunken life, which is undoubtedly no better for the country.

However, for the country and the nation, it is those who cannot recognize the reality and then have empty ideals.

It's not a good thing to have too many ideals, for example, Yang Guang lost the good end of the Sui Dynasty in order to conquer North Korea and expand his territory, Chongzhen also has ideals, but this person's talent and ability are not even third-rate, so instead of destroying the Manchu Qing Dynasty for decades, he hanged himself. Napoleon abroad is too, his ability is naturally there, but his ideal is too big, he wants to unify Europe, and he also wants to conquer Russia, so in the end he crippled France, and Hitler in later generations is a typical example, not to mention crippled Germany, and died with tens of millions of Germans, a typical eye-eyed and low-handed.

There are so many things in front of him, Lin Zhe's character is not a person who wants to die and suffer like Wilhelm II, he is very realistic in dealing with things, and even if he has the arrogance and pride of a time-traveler, but he has never thought of a great ideal such as unifying the earth and conquering the solar system.

His idea at the beginning was quite simple, that is, to live in this era and live well, and then he naturally wanted to unify China and live the addiction of the founding emperor.

Now, he wants to lead China to rise.

As for the extent to which it will rise, Lin Zhe feels that it would be good to see China be the world's policeman like the United States in later generations in his lifetime, and as for the conquest of Asia and Europe and the unification of the world, it is too tiring.

It's just that Lin Zhe also knows that his ideal is a bit too big!

It's just that people can't live without ideals, the ideal of most ordinary people is to make more money and play with more women, and Lin Zhe's ideal is to lead the rise of China, and then live a great man's addiction.

Well, if the great man can't do it, then it's barely okay to be a sinner through the ages, anyway, whether it is a name in history or a stench for thousands of years, Lin Zhe has to ensure that people thousands of years later can remember themselves, no matter whether he brings them happiness or disaster.

This great ideal in his heart, Lin Zhe naturally does not expect to be able to achieve it in a short time, he is a more realistic person, although he has these ideals in his heart, but he can also recognize the reality, so he is trying to move towards his ideal step by step, and never expects to be able to complete it in a few years, as for what he can do, he can do whatever he wants.

Sometimes, people are not satisfied with the result of achieving the ideal, but the process of moving towards the ideal!

Such a Lin Zhe, you can't expect him and Emperor Meiji to starve themselves to death in order to buy warships, and countless people can't eat enough, Lin Zhe still delicacies from the mountains and seas every day.

But he will also not be like those faint kings, who disregard the country and the nation for his own enjoyment.

He wants personal enjoyment, and he also wants the development of the country and the nation.

In Lin Zhe's office in the Xinhua Palace, Lin Zhe was meeting with the courtiers as usual, and this time it was Qian Hanxuan, the minister of justice, a young man who was only twenty-nine years old.

Even the military and political leaders of the Chinese Empire were generally young, but they were generally in their thirties and forties, and most of them were over forty or fifty years old.

In the cabinet, there is only one cabinet member under the age of 30, Qian Hanlin!

The reason why he was able to become the Minister of Justice at the age of less than 30 naturally has his merits.

This person is not a mainland province, but a Nanyang Chinese, this person's ancestral home is Guangdong, and then his grandfather is because of business in Nanyang, and later branched out, Qian Hanlin was born in Singapore, his mother is still a blonde French woman, he received a Western-style education when he was young, and was taken to France by his mother to study law when he was a teenager.

At the age of twenty-three, he returned to Singapore to inherit the family's ocean shipping company, but unfortunately his talent for doing business was not very good, the family's shipping company was soon tossed and bankrupt by him, and then had to find a job to make a living in various places, once after arriving in Shanghai, he was lucky to enter Lin Zhe's shogunate, although he was extremely young, but he was the only one under Lin Zhe who knew Western law, so he was quite useful.

With his support, he developed a series of unique laws and regulations in the business zone, and became the first person in the judicial system under Lin Zhe.

Later, he naturally became the Minister of Justice of the Empire, and in 1857 he was only twenty-seven years old when he became Minister of Justice!

It's just that although Qian Hanxuan is young, his appearance is quite old, and he thinks he is in his forties at a glance!

At this time, he was saying to Lin Zhe: "Compared with the previous laws and regulations of the former Qing Dynasty, the current criminal law has abolished many laws and regulations that are not suitable for the times, and the entire criminal law system combines the systems of Britain and France and other countries, and then also refers to the laws of the former Qing Dynasty and the former Ming Dynasty.

Final repairs are currently underway and it is confirmed that it will be promulgated on time in January next year! ”

Lin Zhe said with a smile: "The importance of criminal law is no less than that of civil and commercial law, it is one of the foundations of the imperial legal system, and you must be cautious and cautious on the side of the Ministry of Justice to avoid any chaos at that time!" ”

Qian Hanxuan said: "Weichen understands! ”

At this time, Lin Zhe closed the report in his hand, and then said: "Now that the business is over, I will talk to Aiqing about private matters!" ”

"Private?" Qian Hanxuan was surprised, although he was extremely valued by Lin Zhe, but to be honest, he and Lin Zhe did not have a too close personal relationship, and Qian Hanxuan was also relatively wooden, not very good at handling interpersonal relationships, if it weren't for this character, he would not have tossed his ancestral family business in just one or two years, and finally was forced to go to Shanghai to find a job to make a living.

Therefore, he and Lin Zhe usually have no close contact, and they have less time to see Lin Zhe, and the meeting is basically to talk about judicial affairs.

Now Lin Zhe is talking about private things with him, which makes him a little surprised!

"As far as I know, Aiqing's younger brother is not married yet!" When Lin Zhe said this, his face was a little embarrassed, when the matchmaker said that he was pro, Lin Zhe did it for the first time in his two lives. (To be continued.) )