Pingrentang is located on the left side of the Xinhua Hall, and behind the Pingren Hall, there are a number of Western-style western-style buildings, which are located on the left side of the first half of the palace.

The overall area of Zhonghua Palace is not small, and it is generally a continuation of the previous Liangjiang Governor's Palace, that is, the area of the Southern Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty.

However, although the place is still the original one, but the internal buildings have not changed except for a few gardens, the buildings have been changed, because before the Chinese army occupied Nanjing, it was already occupied by the Taiping army, and when the Taiping army evacuated Nanjing, it burned down this huge building complex, and most of the original buildings have been burned down.

Today's Zhonghua Palace is basically a new building built by the empire one after another, and due to Lin Zhe's personal preference, the Zhonghua Palace does not follow the traditional form of a strictly symmetrical central axis palace, so there are not too many architectural restrictions, but mainly garden architecture.

The layout of the overall Zhonghua Palace is divided into three parts: the front, middle and back, the front hall part takes the Xinhua Hall as the core, and the Xinhua Hall is also the emperor's daily office space, and it is also the office space of the secretariat, and there are more officials who come and go.

In front of the Xinhua Palace, there is a square, and on both sides of the square are rows of two-story barracks, mainly the barracks of some officers and soldiers of the Royal Attendant Corps.

The regiment was mainly responsible for the Japanese defense of the palace and some of the escort duties of the royal family when they traveled.

The troops stationed in Beijing were mainly composed of the Guards, and the Guards were so large that many of them were formed with field troops as the core. He does not participate in some bodyguard tasks such as escorts on a daily basis, and the main task of the Guards is to do so. It is to defend Gyeonggi and suppress the possible rebellion.

There are two main units involved in the day-to-day royal escort mission. One is the Royal Chamberlain Regiment and the other is the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment, with the former serving as bodyguards and the latter acting as a guard of honor.

The barracks of the royal chamberlain regiment and the Xinhua Hall constitute the first half of the Zhonghua Palace, and then go out to the palace gate.

Beyond the gate of the Zhonghua Palace, there is a huge square, where Lin Zhe used to hold any activities to enjoy with the people, and Lin Zhe usually watched the ceremony above the gate of the Zhonghua Palace.

However, with the exception of military parades. During the military parade, Lin Zhe never obediently watched the ceremony at the palace gate, but personally rode on a horse and galloped in front of the military formation, which was a tradition handed down from the first military parade ceremony that year.

On the right side behind the Xinhua Hall, there are also several buildings, which used to be the office building of the Secretariat, but it was gradually vacant, and later transferred to the inner room of the Palace Affairs Department.

On the left back side of the Xinhua Hall, there is Pingren Hall. The three-storey building used to be Lin Zhe's office, but later it was used as a daily education place for the prince, as well as the office space for the teachers who were responsible for the prince's education.

After Pingrentang, there is a clear boundary. Because when they arrived here, ordinary officials could not enter casually, and only some royal employees of the palace department could enter.

After Heirentang. It is a large grass square, and the scale is about the same size as the square between the Xinhua Hall and the palace gate. Behind the square is the palace gate.

There is also a row of bungalows on both sides of the square, mainly the institutions of the palace. It is mainly the chamber of the palace affairs department, the general affairs office, the medical office and other institutions, including the office space and residence of the employees of these institutions.

However, it does not include the other three palace institutions, the office of the palace secretariat is located in the Xinhua Palace, working with Lin Zhe, the office of the palace intelligence office is located in the courtyard west of the palace, and the royal asset management office is simply working in the commercial center far away from the palace.

After the palace gate, it is where the real harem is, here, under the influence of tradition, only maids and female officials can enter, well, under special circumstances, the imperial doctor can also be taken in, but others are not, even the male guards in the chamber are not able to enter, and it is the female guards of the chamber who serve as guards in the harem.

There are more than 20 buildings of different styles between the rockery ponds, there are Chinese-style attics, there are Western-style western-style buildings, among which the largest building is even the emperor's living residence of the three halls in the traditional sense, and the Huaren Hall in the front of the inner court.

This building is modeled after the Haiyan Hall in the Old Summer Palace, which belongs to the combination of Chinese and Western buildings, built by Cixi in history, and Juren Hall, which was used by Yuan Shikai and many dignitaries in later generations, is also modeled after Haiyan Hall, and even the name has not changed at the beginning.

After Huarentang, it is the queen's residence Kunning Palace, the queen mother's residence Yiluan Palace, and then it is the residence of ordinary concubines distributed on both sides, and the architectural style is mainly Western-style, and the names are also different.

The three prince's offices selected by Lin Zhe are located in the middle of the palace, on the left side of Huaren Hall and directly behind Pingren Hall.

These three small buildings were originally built as the new office buildings of the palace affairs department, but now Lin Zhe has vacated these three small buildings as the prince's office.

Of course, these three small buildings were built as office buildings, just like the original Pingren Hall, and although they look like ordinary two-story small western-style buildings from the outside, they are actually not suitable for occupants for the time being.

Therefore, around the Spring Festival, the Construction Department under the Palace Affairs Department repaired and renovated these three small buildings, transforming the pure office building into a residential building.

When Lin Yan came here, he saw a two-story small western-style building that had been completely renovated, and the building area was not large, only a few hundred square meters, but the three small buildings were still far apart, separated by dozens of meters from each other.

Looking at this small building, Lin Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, if it wasn't for today's play, it is estimated that he would be kicked out of the palace this year.

Last year, some people said that they were old enough to continue to live in the inner court that it was not etiquette and that they should move out of the palace.

But now that his father had asked all his brothers who had reached the age of seven to move out of the inner court and then move to this prince, Lin Xuan couldn't judge from the deep meaning, but he knew that it was a good thing for him.

As he grew older, the joy of his childhood had long since disappeared, and now he has understood what it means to be a prince and a country, and he knows that there are many people in the court who want to be able to become a prince, but there are more people who don't want to be a prince.

A few years ago, he couldn't understand why, and in fact he doesn't understand why now, but although he doesn't understand some of the political issues, he knows one thing.

That is, he needs to fight for the position of prince!

Lin Zhe currently has four sons, the eldest prince Lin Ye was born in 1858, 14 years old this year, Li Huifei was born, but was raised by the Queen Mother since childhood. Although his mother Concubine Li Huifei's sense of presence in the palace is very weak, as Lin Zhe's eldest son, coupled with the love of the Queen Mother, he has always had a relatively high status in the palace, in addition, he was the first to go to school, and his studies are quite good, even Lin Zhe himself is much admired, and he is also the biggest competitor of Lin Ye, the prince of the emperor, in the eyes of outsiders.

The second prince Lin Lian was born in 1860, and Concubine Anzhuang is also twelve years old this year, but Concubine Anzhuang's sense of presence in the harem is also relatively weak, so the second prince Lin Lian has always been relatively low-key, and his relatives' forces, that is, the An family, are also relatively ordinary.

But he also has a very unique advantage, Concubine Zhuang's father, An Nuping, is a very typical new official in the imperial officialdom, and is currently the political envoy of Guangxi. Although restricted by the status of a foreign relative, it is impossible for An Nuping to go further in his official career, and the provincial political envoys have basically come to an end, and it is unlikely that he will continue to be promoted to governor or return to the central government.

However, even so, his grandfather's status as a new-school official also made Lin Yan gain the favor of many new-school officials in the empire.

The third prince Lin Ye, born in 1863, although he is only nine years old this year, but his biological mother is the queen Chen Jing, in terms of status, she is the most orthodox candidate for the crown prince in the empire, and many ministers in the empire, especially the aristocracy, hope that Lin Ye, the prince, will inherit the throne.

This has nothing to do with Lin Ye's talent and ability, nor does it have anything to do with Lin Ye's relatives, he can get these supports because he is Lin Zhe's prince, and he represents the natural advantages of the elder system.

The fourth prince Lin Xuan, born in 1867, is only five years old this year, his mother is a concubine, and the concubine is also relatively low-key in the inner palace, and his relatives are not as conspicuous as An Nuping, so whether it is a concubine or Lin Xuan, for the time being, it is still relatively low-key, and it has not been able to enter the sight of those ministers outside.

Now within the empire, the battle for the future of the country is mainly focused on the three princes in front, and the two largest factions are concentrated on the emperor's eldest son Lin Yan and the third prince Lin Ye, one of them is the eldest son, and at the same time excellent in learning, he is the future virtuous monarch in the hearts of many ministers.

And Lin Ye is the rightful prince of the prince, with natural advantages, and is the best choice for a group of ministers who support the elder system, or the only choice at present.

The issue of the empire's establishment of the reserve has been severely suppressed by Lin Zhe for many years, but this does not mean that they are all obediently waiting to do nothing.

Many people have already decided to support the prince in their hearts, but they don't have the courage to say it for the time being.

Lin Zhe also knows about these problems, but he is still ready to wait a few more years.

Limited by the time factor, Lin Zhe has already decided to choose the prince among his three older sons, as for the fourth son and the possible son in the future, Lin Zhe can only say sorry, this has nothing to do with talent and ability, just because they can't catch up with this time.

This delay of more than ten years is already very stressful for Lin Zhe, and if it drags on for a few more decades, it will not be able to make a fuss.

Maybe in the next two or three years, Lin Zhe will decide who the prince will be!

Outsiders naturally didn't know about Lin Zhe's plans, and Lin Yan, one of the contenders for the throne, didn't know either, he only knew that he had been given the opportunity to continue to stay in the palace.

Just when Lin Xuan was in his new residence, in the Kunning Hall in the inner court, the third prince Lin Ye was saluting Queen Chen Jing! (To be continued.) )