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After dealing with the incident of Brunei's arrival, Zheng Kezhang began to be busy moving. That's right, the Phoenix Mountain Palace has finally been built.

The Phoenix Mountain Palace is located in the Phoenix Mountain on the shore of the East Lake outside Wuchang City, about twenty-five miles away from the Wuchang Mansion City.

Phoenix Mountain is not high, and the highest point is only more than 50 zhang. The main peak is too steep so there are no buildings, and the slightly lower east peak has a Chaoyang platform for Zheng Kezhang to watch the beautiful scenery on the lake and enjoy the sunrise and moon set.

According to the trend of the mountain, six main buildings are scattered under the Chaoyang platform, the highest of which is the imperial academy where Zheng Kezhang studied and collected books and the bathing Buddha hall separated from it by an artificial lake - although Zheng Kezhang did not believe in gods and Buddhas, but the process of his crossing was very bizarre, so that he could not help but believe that there was another master in the underworld, so he built a Buddhist hall for the concubines and palace people, and the monks and nuns in it were all served by the old eunuchs and palace maids after becoming monks.

On the left side of the bathing Buddha Hall, there is a zigzag but very gentle carriageway leading down to the "Six Palaces District" where the concubines live, of course, the so-called Six Palaces are just a general name, in fact, all the palaces and pavilions are modeled after the setting of Anping Castle called "Courtyard". The number of houses in each "courtyard" varies, and the least such as nobles and beauties, only two or seven or eight halls live; The ordinary concubines of the higher class lived in courtyards with four or five entrances; The first level of the concubine can live in a courtyard with seven or eight entrances, with swimming pools, baths, ornamental rockery ponds and independent small canteens; As for the "courtyard" of the queen and the imperial concubine, there can even be as many as more than ten halls, seventy or eighty palaces, all kinds of facilities are included, and there are independent Taixi-style gardens and Chinese-style classical gardens. There is also a shared building in the Liugong District, that is, where Zheng Kezhang usually eats with his wives and concubines, and Zheng Kezhang deliberately named it "Hecanteen".

Except for the maids who served the queen and concubines, who lived in each "courtyard" with their masters, the rest of the female officials and maids lived in the third building complex "maids"; The "maid's office" is located at a slightly lower position than the "Liugong District", and it is a slope with a drop of one or two zhang, and its area is a little larger than that of the "Liugong District", and even specially opened up a confectionery, pond and other reserved places for future expansion; In addition, there are deep wells, canals and small waterfalls and small ponds formed by the "maid's office", and the pine and cypress and bamboo forests in the mountains are originally located, and the beauty of the living environment is not inferior to that of the "Liugong District", but there will definitely be no shortage of mosquitoes in summer.

According to different levels, the living conditions of the female officials, female histories, and waiters in the "maid's office" are also very different, the senior female officials and female histories can have independent huts and have low-level palace maids to clean and serve, and the low-level ones can only be crowded in the courtyard of the row house to share the bathroom with others, and the lower ones even have several people to share a room; Fortunately, eight of the kitchens are open for twelve hours in a row, so you don't have to open your own kitchen, you can have a hot meal at any time, and hot water for washing can be obtained at any time and place.

On the right side of the imperial study, there is a hiking path and a cement path that winds around the mountain, which can lead to the dormitory where Zheng Kezhang lived and the Jiaotai hall necessary to marry the queen, but the overall area of these two buildings is not large, and the space is relatively independent, so it is not one of the six main buildings in the Phoenix Mountain Palace.

There is a road connection between Zheng Kezang's dormitory and the Liugong District, this two-way cement road can be used by three four-wheeled carriages in parallel, is one of the main traffic roads in the entire palace, and this traffic road forks at a certain node, the main road leads down to the "prince's residence", and the branch road leads to the "maid's office" and the "inner waiter's office" where the eunuchs live.

The smaller "Inner Chamberlain", which is the equivalent of the "Maid's Office", is the fourth large building complex in the palace.

As for the branch carriageway to reach the "maid's office", after bypassing the perimeter of the entire building of the "maid's office", it continues to extend upwards to reach the "Liugong District", and between the "waitress" and the "Liugong District", in addition to this branch carriageway, there is a trail that can only lead to three turns and more than 40 steps.

In the process of leading to the "Prince's Residence", the cement carriage road leads to a branch road again at a certain node leading to the "Inner Warehouse", the fifth largest building complex of the palace. The "inner treasury" stores all the daily necessities of the palace and the offerings of the imperial village and the imperial store in various places, most of which are sealed in the form of gold and silver coins, as long as a small part is in kind - these are all used by the inner court to reward, especially during the New Year's Festival, there are more large imperial gifts to enter and exit the warehouse.

After passing through the square in front of the inner storehouse, the branch road that could be used for two wagons to travel in a staggered manner was also divided into two, one down to the west gate of the palace, and the other to spiral upwards until it returned to the "inner chamber", where the supplies needed to leave the palace and the garbage vehicles that transported sewage and stolen goods were transported through this road.

The "Prince's Residence" is separated from the inner courtyard by a portal, so it can be regarded as an independent area, there are not many buildings in the interior, which can be regarded as the excess between the inside and the outside, and it is inhabited by Zheng Kezang's adult but unmarried daughters, and it is the place where the young princes who have studied young martial arts occasionally return to Beijing to live; Those younger than them lived with their respective mothers, and the older ones either got married, or were knighted and had their own mansions, and were generally not arranged to live in the court.

After leaving the "Prince's Residence", you will pass through a well-guarded gate, and you will arrive at the sixth largest building complex in the palace, that is, the Qinzheng Hall used by Zheng Kezhang in the previous court, the outer study room for handling government affairs, the palace square and the Laiyuan Hall for ceremonies, the Zichen Palace, and the office area and cabinet of the Inner Court Manager's Office, the Branch Office, the Office of the Internal Construction Bureau, the Tongzheng Yuan, the Tai Hospital, the Hanlin Yuan, the Secretary Supervisor, the Zongzheng Mansion, the Bide Yuan and other offices of the Outer Dynasties, the Middle Dynasties, and the Inner Courts, as well as the Enlightened Academy of the Emperor and the Imperial Daughter.

After the Jinshui River that surrounds the palace square is the irregular inner palace wall built around the Phoenix Mountain, the total length is about twenty-two miles, four zhang high, but the wall is not thick, the bottom is only one zhang wide, the top is only four feet, after setting up the inner and outer wall battlements, only enough for one person to go straight or two people to exchange sideways, so the inner palace wall does not set up any enemy tower and sentry tower, just open two archway style imitation Han and Tang style gatehouses in the corresponding position.

Outside the inner palace wall is the living water that is drawn down on the Phoenix Mountain and the water of the East Lake to form a circle of artificial lakes, the widest part of the lake is about 20 zhang, the narrowest point is 12 zhang, the average depth of the lake is two zhang, it is considered to give a certain guarantee to the inner palace wall with low defense, but in order to ensure traffic, there is a long causeway that can be used for four four-wheeled carriages in parallel at the east and west gatehouses to communicate with the outside world.

Outside the moat is a series of small and miniature fortresses that cover each other, as the real defense system of the entire palace, even if it is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of enemy regiments, the garrison Janissaries can also resist for three months to half a year, so it is specially designed for anti-artillery, it is rumored that each fortress can resist the direct bombardment of five-inch cannons, and there are special warehouses to store rice, noodles, beans, salted fish, condiments, horse feed, gunpowder, lead bullets and other military and living materials.

Outside some of the forts, there are waterways connecting the inner moat and the East Lake to provide additional protection, of course, there are also some forts that do not, but all the forts that do not form a moat are open and uncovered lawns, and no one who crosses them can escape the surveillance of the forts, and it is even more difficult to pay a great price to get through the forts in wartime.

Then there is the outer palace wall, which is just a form like the inner palace wall, and even because it is connected to the surface of the East Lake, it is not complete, but in order to prevent outsiders from intentionally or unintentionally breaking in, in addition to the guard post on the lake embankment, there is also an obstacle area behind the lake embankment with thorns, bamboo sticks and broken glass, and there is also a pier on each wing, and there are a number of East Lake patrol boats and several imperial boats for swimming in the lake of the Praetorian Guard Naval Division.

In fact, Zheng Kezang's dormitory and imperial study each have a secret passage that can lead directly to the secret wharf by the East Lake, in addition, there are more than ten mountain secret rooms inside the palace that can be hidden, but Zheng Kezhang believes that when these last resorts are really used, the Huaxia Dynasty he established is not far from the end??????

The huge palace with a radius of more than ten miles naturally needs a large number of personnel to organize and take care of it, and before moving into the Phoenix Mountain Palace, the Huaxia court only had more than 300 female attendants and more than 200 chamberlains, and with such a number, it was impossible to take into account even one-tenth of the entire palace, so Zheng Kezhang had to expand the scale of the palace against his heart.

Since Zheng Kezhang did not want to castrate the Chinese, he was not prepared to further expand the number of chamberlains except for the castration of a thousand young black slaves. Therefore, in order to ensure the operation of the palace, Zheng Kezhang ordered to recruit girls between the ages of 14 and 18 from families above the meritorious level to serve in the palace. This is not a draft, and women with bound feet are not welcome, and this is not just a rough maid who only recruits sweeping, Zheng Kezhang has prepared a complete set of court etiquette courses for them to work and study. Speaking of which, this system of maids is more like the one implemented in the European courts, except that the Sun King of France only selects maids from the nobility, but Zheng Kezang expands the scope to the entire meritorious class and above.

Zheng Kezhang hopes that the maid system will achieve two subtle changes: first, it will affect the folk atmosphere of foot binding, making foot binding the mainstream; Second, he wanted to postpone women's marriage and childbearing years until after the age of eighteen, but this obviously conflicted with the needs of farming and warfare that he had always advocated, so he only half-concealed and half-concealed the rank of meritorious people, dignitaries, and knights.

With the maids, naturally they have to manage their female officials, Zheng Kezhang does not want to permanently bind these girls in the court, so they cannot be directly promoted from the maids, female officials, for this reason, Zheng Kezhang ordered to recruit the wives and mothers of officials above the Shijue and the five grades in Beijing as female officials in the palace, of course, in order to avoid some accusations, Zheng Kezhang stipulated that the age of the female officials of the palace must be over forty years old, which can not only ensure the reputation of both parties, but also enable the officials to get an additional sum of money, which is also another way to give the officials benefits. However, Zheng Kezhang knew that the court was the most filthy and conspiratorial place, so he repeatedly emphasized that the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, and female officials, female histories, and female attendants who discussed state affairs and personnel without authorization would be severely punished??????