On June 1, 1916, when Ren Chao got up and saw the date period displayed in the calendar book, he suddenly remembered that today was Children's Day in the future. Children's Day commemorates the Lidice massacre of 10 June 1942 and all the children who died in the war around the world, against the killing and poisoning of children, and for the protection of children's rights. Of course, at this time, the Lidice tragedy had not yet happened, so naturally there was no so-called Children's Day. But Ren Chao, as a traveler, has long been accustomed to treating this day as Children's Day. Ren Chao, who is now in his forties, is naturally not a child, but Ren Chao feels that he needs to do something for his children.

So far, Ren Chao has a total of 14 children, 6 sons and 8 daughters. Two of the princesses have been married, and the two older princes have also left the palace as adults, with four princes and six princesses still remaining in the palace. Of the ten children, the two older princesses and one prince were already in high school, and the youngest princess was still in infancy.

Ren Chao is busy with political affairs all day long, but he usually has little time to accompany these children, it can be said that Ren Chao is a good emperor, but he is not a qualified father. Today is Children's Day, and Ren Chao decided to put down a political affair and accompany these children well.

Ren Chao immediately ordered someone to inform the princes and princesses that they don't have to go to class today, and everyone, including the queen and princess, will go to the Summer Palace to play together.

Although these children of Ren Chao are princes and princesses, they did not lock them up in the palace like those previous emperors and invite special masters to teach them to read and write, but let them enter some schools in the capital to receive education like the children of commoners. In the school, these princes and princesses, just like ordinary people, go to class and play together with other classmates.

Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden. Located in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometers away from the city, it covers an area of about 290 hectares and is adjacent to the Old Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden built on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and absorbed the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens, and is also the most well-preserved royal palace garden, known as the "Royal Garden Museum".

Before Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, four large imperial gardens were built in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750). In order to honor his mother, the Qianlong Emperor used 4.48 million 200 silver to rebuild it into Qingyi Garden here, forming a royal garden area of 20 kilometers from the current Qinghua Garden to Xiangshan. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden and the Three Yuanming Gardens were burned down by the British and French forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer amusement place.

Ren Chao, his four wives and ten children, and a family of more than a dozen people came to the Summer Palace by car. Before he arrived at the Summer Palace, Ren Chao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if the Old Summer Palace had not been burned down by the British and French forces! But such an idea can only be imagined. After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the national strength of the Chinese Empire flourished. There was a minister who rebuilt the Old Summer Palace, but Ren Chao refused without hesitation, because the rebuilding of the Old Summer Palace was a huge project that would inevitably cost the people and money. Second, Ren Chao also intends to leave such a place to remind the Chinese people at all times to remember history and not forget the national shame. Increase the sense of crisis of the Chinese people. Ren Chao found that the Chinese people really lacked a sense of crisis, and as long as they lived a good life for a few years, they thought that the world was peaceful. Completely forget the humiliating history of the past. Therefore, Ren Chaocai ordered the Old Summer Palace to be built into a patriotic education base. Of course, the role of building a patriotic education base is quite limited. After all, there are so many people in the country, and most of them will almost never come here to see such a ruin in their lifetime.

Therefore, in terms of education, the Chinese Empire attaches great importance to patriotic education, and from the beginning of middle school, all students in school began to receive military education. However, this military education did not encourage aggression like the militarist education of later generations in Japan. It is not like the Chinese students of later generations who participated in military training. Rather, it is to improve the military literacy of the whole people, and what has been instilled in the people is not an extremely aggressive militarist spirit, but to improve the people's military literacy and strengthen the people's responsibility to defend the homeland and the country. Ren Chao once said that the country is not a country of our own, but a country of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and everyone has the obligation and responsibility to defend our motherland from any foreign invasion.

At this time, the Summer Palace had been developed into a national park, but this park did not belong to the state, but to the private ownership of the Chinese Emperor Ren Chao. In 1910, it was developed as a national park and is open to the public, and anyone who buys a ticket can enter the Summer Palace. That is, in that year, Ren Chao decreed the abolition of any subsidies from the state treasury to the royal family, and all the expenses of the royal family were paid by the ticket income of the Summer Palace and the summer resort in Chengde.

At that time, some ministers objected, arguing that the income from the entrance fees to the royal gardens such as the Summer Palace and the Summer Resort alone would not be able to cover the huge expenses of the imperial family. After all, in addition to Ren Chao, the royal family also has many court guards and palace maids, and the annual food and clothing of so many people is not a small amount, not to mention the salaries of these people.

But Ren Chao said with a smile, if these are not enough, then I will open part of the Forbidden City to civilians, if it is not enough, then I will be outside the noon gate, putting a donation box, begging for all the people who enter the Forbidden City! Of course, these are just Ren Chao's jokes, in fact, those court guards and palace maids have been replaced by system-summoned characters, and these people don't need to pay salaries. And because the living standards of the people in China are gradually improving, there is an endless stream of tourists visiting the Summer Palace and other places every day, so the income from the Summer Palace alone is enough to cover all the expenses of the imperial family.

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and there are a lot of visitors to the Summer Palace, Ren Chao's family is too conspicuous, and Ren Chao's photos often appear in newspapers, so most people know Ren Chao. In order to avoid some unnecessary troubles, Ren Chao ordered in advance to temporarily close the children's playground built on the shore of Kunming Lake in the name of maintenance, so today it has become the exclusive space of Ren Chao's family. Ren Chao's convoy entered the Summer Palace and went straight to the children's playground.

As soon as he got out of the car, Ren Chao smiled and said to the children, "Baby, no matter what happens today, Dad will have fun with you." ”

"Yay! Long live the Emperor! Several children couldn't help but let out a burst of cheers. (To be continued......)

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