The civil officials present had a black line on their faces, and now that Zhu Youzhen advocates a policy of high salaries and honest pensions, the year-end rewards they get every year are not small, and they despise His Majesty's mentality of picking the door even more.

Liu Wanchun, the head of the household, still couldn't help but ask again: "Your Majesty, do you really want to make sure that a piece of mountain land is set aside under this Qixia Mountain to build a place for the vassal kings to live, will this damage the face of the imperial court?" ”

"What kind of face is damaged, my palace is also there, let them live next to my palace, is it called losing face", Zhu Youzhen said this, Gao Hongtu and other civil officials glanced at each other, and asked Zhu Youzhen in surprise: "Your Majesty, do you have a palace in Qixia Mountain?" ”

Gao Hongtu and other civil officials know that their majesty is famous for being thrifty, although the treasury is full after moving south, but they have been reluctant to rebuild several dilapidated palaces in the palace city of Nanjing, and the construction of the imperial tomb is not mentioned.

"Why don't I have a palace in Qixia Mountain, isn't the palace left by Chengzu and Shenzong during their southern tour of the palace my palace, you don't have to say more, this matter is so decided, Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, stays, and the rest are all retreating, the residential area of the vassal kings in Qixia Mountain should not be called a residential area, it should be called Qixia villa area, this Qixia villa area is designed by me personally, and the villa designed by me personally is not a loss of face to the imperial court."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the civil officials remembered that there was indeed a palace in Qixia Mountain in Nanjing, but it was the palace where Chengzu and Shenzong were stationed during their southern tour, and the recent one has been several decades, coupled with the rain and humidity in Nanjing, the palace has long been deserted and dilapidated.

But these civil officials did not expect that His Majesty would even want such a dilapidated palace, and even use it as an excuse to settle the vassal kings.

But now it is the emperor Zhu Youzhen who wants the vassal kings to live in Qixia Mountain, and the civil officials have reminded them, so now Zhu Youzhen still insists on letting the vassal kings live in Qixia Mountain, and the civil officials will not have any more opinions, after all, they also want to do this, not to mention that the court expenses can save a lot of money, and they don't have to spend energy to grind their lips for the demolition and the people of Nanjing.

As for the disgrace, it is just the face of the court, Your Majesty has slammed the door so far, and they have no choice, if the vassal king is to blame it at that time, they will only say that it is arranged by the holy will.

The civil officials seemed to have seen the complaining appearance of the vassal kings, and they also seemed to see their helplessness to throw the pot on His Majesty when the time came.

Zhu Youzhen has begun to draw drawings of modern villas and supporting gardens with ceramic tiles and stone as the main materials, while Song Yingxing reported on the current situation of Daming's construction technology, including the development progress of cement and concrete.

Cement and concrete this material belongs to inorganic materials, naturally stronger than the manufacture of organic materials, although the Ming Dynasty can not synthesize organic materials in large quantities, the only breakthrough in organic material manufacturing technology is only the manufacture of glycerin, but inorganic materials are much easier, especially cement, but it is a proportional mixture of quisilicate and lime and gypsum, while concrete is based on cement cementitious material, plus sand and gravel as the skeleton.

"We now have all kinds of new materials, no white marble, no gold bricks, can make the best building materials for him, you can use cement, concrete and other stone dyeing as the basis, find the best craftsmen based on this, and then go to Wei Guogong to customize a batch of glazed lattice windows, with reinforced concrete in less than three months, it is estimated that this kind of house can be built."

Zhu Youzhen said to Song Yingxing carefully.

And Song Yingxing didn't expect that the steel bars produced by the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau could still have this kind of use, but he was also very interested in using this in construction.

During this period, Ying Tianfu has officially divided a piece of mountainous land of about 2,000 acres under Qixia Mountain in the outer city of Nanjing, and Song Yingxing also temporarily stopped other affairs of the Ministry of Engineering and led the construction team to work in this area, and after half a month, the first three-story concrete building was made, and then within two months, all the small buildings were copied with a stream as a horizontal line, and several district mark buildings were specifically divided.

Under the outer wall of the building is pasted with the tiles carved by professional craftsmen, which is elegant and not messy, and the upper end of the outer side is the concealed color developed by the Ming Ordnance to paint the firearms, which is basically green, and is painted on the upper end of the wall to make the whole small building particularly solemn and natural.

The windows are orange and blue double-arched glass windows, quiet and luxurious.

The main entrance of the small building is made of mahogany boards combined with colloidal pressing, and a layer of polished paint is brushed on the outside, which makes the texture of the mahogany particularly obvious, as if it is a high-quality mahogany of hundreds of years.

And the stone steps under the main gate are also exquisitely carved to the gate there is a stone paved path of about 20 steps outside the gate, there are stone tables and stone benches on the side of the path, as well as precious flowers such as Hui Lan Zhi Zhi, the gate is an iron gate, and there are spears standing on it, which looks extremely majestic.

Outside the small building is a path paved with bluestone slabs, the path is close to the stream, and the bridge across the creek is another small building.

Each small building has an independent wall, and there is a garden-style garden behind the building, which covers a small area of half an acre or even less than half an acre, with swimming pools, juju fields, and theaters and other entertainment and sports facilities, and even their own modern single parallel bars and dumbbells, as well as children's wooden horses and Daming skateboards and swings.

Zhu Youzhen took Gao Hongtu and other civil officials to this Qixia Mountain for inspection on this day, Gao Hongtu looked up and saw that there were only rows of green buildings hidden among the lush green trees and green bamboos in front of him, just like a group of graceful women hidden in the mountains and fields.

Zhu Youzhen snorted with disdain when he saw Gao Hongtu and other civil officials on their faces, as if they had gone to Qinhuai River and saw famous prostitutes dancing, thinking that this kind of rest in the future is just an ordinary resort community, and at this moment, these civil officials may have seen too much of the heavy eaves building, and now they are naturally surprised to see the green building without glazed tiles and vermilion walls.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen didn't expect to have such a beautiful pavilion, Wei Chen dared to ask Song Ge Lao, how much silver has been spent now, but is there any money to build a palace?"

Gao Hongtu couldn't help but ask Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen said: "He is the first assistant, and you also have the obligation to report to him." ”

In this way, Song Yingxing replied: "It didn't cost much, and if you sell the courtyard of Baoguo Gong on the west side of the imperial city and his garden in Mochou Lake, it will be worth the current cost." ”

(End of chapter)