Night, Beijing, Chongwenmen.

In addition to the six new city gates, the original old city gates have also been renovated on a large scale to meet the needs of urban development.

Like this Chongwen Gate, in addition to retaining the city tower and the original three door openings, three new door openings were opened on the left and right, respectively for trams, rickshaws (including rickshaws, trolleys, bicycles, etc.) and pedestrians, the two side door openings under the city tower are for motor vehicles, and the royal road in the center of the city tower is usually closed, generally only for the royal family and military and police people and vehicles to pass.

Correspondingly, the main street inside and outside the city gate was also renovated and expanded into a wide road for ten cars or horse-drawn carriages to run in parallel, and many buildings were built on both sides of the road, the lowest of which had four or five floors, and the highest one had more than ten or even twenty floors. At this time, it is the beginning of the lanterns, the big electric lights on the side of the road illuminate the road surface as if it were daytime, and the high-rise buildings are even more flashing with thousands of colorful lights, and the road is full of traffic, pedestrians are weaving, and it is a prosperous atmosphere.

Qianhua was bored looking at the lively scene downstairs of the castle, and the flashing and changing colored lights up and down the castle tower shone on her face, all of a sudden red, suddenly green, and all of a sudden white......

"Your Highness, here they are." The female official Ye Jingying softly reminded His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was in a daze.

"Ask them to come up."

Qianhua wore a simple plain dress today, wearing a wide-brimmed women's hat with plain flowers, which at first glance was not much different from the ordinary "new women" who came and went on the street below.

Although the Hanfu movement has been carried out for many years, there are still a few people who are used to wearing that kind of clothes on the street, and Western clothes are still a popular dress for both the elegant and the vulgar.

"Your Highness has been waiting for a long time." With the sound of high heels taping on the ancient stone staircase, Countess Luo Sulan, the Minister of Culture and Education, who was dressed similarly to Qianhua, leaned out from the side of the stairs.

"Lord Luo, you're here." Qian Hua nodded in place.

"Greetings to Your Highness."

Under the watchful eyes of the guards, Luo Sulan was not the only visitor who knelt down to say goodbye.

Behind Luo Sulan to the left is her typical husband Zhang Zhigao, the current president of the Chinese People's Party, and behind Luo Sulan's right is the current Minister of Industry and Commerce Tian Zhenghong, who has a standard old horse face, and directly behind is Ma Feng, the tall, handsome, and personable current Minister of Agriculture and Forestry wearing a pair of thin gold-rimmed glasses—all of whom are the backbone members of the Wenyi system.

"Everybody's here, let's get even."

Qianhua Zhilu said that at this moment, these elders in front of her said that they were asking her for peace, but it was better to perform etiquette in front of outsiders to the virtual image named "Crown Prince", who was a symbol of the country.

Do you plan to make a contract with the person "Qianhua", or do you just want to use the avatar of "Crown Prince" to make a profit?

The answer will soon be revealed.

"The walled garden won't open until a week away, so let's exercise our privilege and visit it in advance, shall we go this way?" Qian Hua pointed to the city wall on the east side of the castle tower, which was also the direction that had been arranged in advance, and the security work and everything had been arranged.

Of course, Luo Sulan and the others had no doubts, and walked over.

I saw that the original bleak and cold city wall, at this time has been decorated with countless splendid flowers and plants to take on a new look, between the buttresses of the orchid chrysanthemum Tuxin, between the flowers rockery pond, between the ancient cannon small pine reflecting bamboo, from time to time there are several white stone piers, occasionally a few exquisite pavilions, sometimes a few tea sheds, and suddenly a few stone carved chessboards...... It is really a good place to relax in your leisure time and beautify the good scenery of the city.

"The unique and magnificent city wall in the world is a pity to be demolished." Zhang Zhigao sighed as he walked.

"It's really nice to use it as a green belt." Russell Lan echoed.

"In the final analysis, we still have to turn the old city into a bonsai, otherwise if it continues to develop as it is now, the city wall will still have to be demolished to make a ring road...... Tian Zhenghong seems to have studied this.

"Bonsai?" Qianhua was a little curious, "Lord Tian must have some plan." ”

Tian Zhenghong's horse face is inevitably a little weird when he smiles, but fortunately, everyone is used to it.

"Since His Highness is interested, I will casually talk about this immature idea."

"I'm listening, just sit here." Thousand birches pointed to a circle of stone piers among the flowers.

"At present, the transformation of the old city has achieved remarkable results, and there is nothing bad, but with the further development of the old city, the traffic is becoming more and more tense, the city wall and other monuments will become more and more obstacles, and the old city will inevitably undergo major surgery, according to the way we look in that time and space, surrounded by a circle of circular lines and countless complex overpasses, and the temperament of the ancient capital and the ancient city will also be lost."

In addition to the improvement of basic public facilities and the modernization of dirty and messy urban areas, the development of industry and commerce and large-scale public utilities is not encouraged, the vast majority of historical sites are retained, greening and cultural relics protection work is strengthened, and the development of educational and cultural undertakings is encouraged, so that the old city will become a leisure and tourism area, an old commercial area and a cultural and educational area with a rich cultural atmosphere. In addition, the royal gardens in the northwest of the old city will be enlarged, and the forested upper forest garden will be built to make it the lungs of the capital to block the wind and sand and purify the air......"

"Fortunately, at the beginning, we chose to do the new official street outside Yongdingmen, which has already affected the southward movement of the city center, and in the future, we may move the administrative center slightly to the west in order to get closer to the royal garden area. After that, it is planned to build a large-scale public utility and high-tech commercial area in the southwest of the old city, a high-tech industrial zone in the southeast of the old city, and a new high-density residential area in the south of the old city......

Hearing this, Qianhua smiled slightly: "It sounds like a pretty extravagant plan." ”

"There is also a larger plan for the industrial belt of the Bohai Rim city, do you want to listen to it?" Tian Zhenghong is clearly whetting people's appetites.

Qianhua shook her head: "Another day, after you make a complete plan, I think I will have one on my desk." I know that you are not here today for these questions, I probably like to get straight to the point, just like my father. ”

Luo Sulan and the others looked at each other for a while, as if they were discussing who should play with their eyes, and finally Luo Sulan opened his mouth first: "In this case, I have a question for Your Highness." ”

"Please."

"What do you think of China and the Chinese in this world?"

Qianhua pretended to be puzzled: "I'm sorry, I didn't understand?" ”

"In other words, do you regard China in this world as your motherland, and do you regard the Chinese in this world as your compatriots except for the members of the group?"

There was a short, dreary silence on the part of the city wall, far from the main road, and the sound of car horns, tram bells, gramophone music, and night market shops on the street was faintly blurred and unreal.

Is the Chinese Empire in this world its true motherland? That republic in another time and space is the real motherland, isn't it? In the same way, one's true compatriots, in addition to the members of the group, should also be on the other side of the other dimension. This branch space-time that has been recreated, whether it is China or Chinese, has nothing to do with the "future" of that time and space. This China is not the predecessor of the other China, and this Chinese is not the ancestor of the other Chinese, and from the perspective of inheritance, there is indeed no connection......

I really hadn't thought about these two questions carefully before, but when the other party asked them, I suddenly realized that the answers to these two questions were related to a more important position.

Looking at the sea of lights in the distance, Qianhua threw the ball back too politely: "What do uncles and aunts think?" ”

Zhang Zhigao said categorically: "Your Highness, we believe that since we have created this new China, we should be responsible for the future and destiny of this new China and all the people. In any case, we have betrayed the motherland of that world, and we no longer have contact with our compatriots in that world, and now, this is our home, our motherland, and the people here are naturally our compatriots. ”

"And then?"

And then ...... We should conscientiously plan for the future and destiny of this country and earnestly work for the welfare of its citizens. ”

Qianhua sneered: "President Zhang wants to say that some of us have neither seriously planned for the future and destiny of the country, nor really wanted to work for the welfare of the people." ”

"Your Highness, don't you think?"

Qian Hua faintly looked at the night sky, and spat out a series of words with a beautiful voice and sharp and bloodthirsty content: "We play this game with our lives, and everyone is just a puppet in our game, no, maybe just numbers."

"They deserve to die for us, because the world in which they live now is what we have created.

"What's not to understand?

"If we fail, we will take it as we can, and we will be out of the way, so what is there to be afraid of now? If we are afraid of sacrificing our families, then why haven't we sacrificed our family members who abandoned them in that time and space? At that time, you could sacrifice your closest people, so why can't you do it now?

"We are drawn here by our beliefs, and this world is changed by our beliefs, and it is also revolved around our beliefs, if we can't get close to our dreams with all our strength in life, why are we here? What kind of game can be played with life as a bet?

"Even if the world is destroyed and the lives are destroyed, what can we do? People here are not people, life here is not life, for us, everything is just numbers, we have stood on the level of God, these people should and must be our slaves or tools.

They should give everything, including their lives, for God's needs.

"If they can destroy the gods, which is good, then it means that the gods do not exist, and the world realm will be restored to purity and continue to evolve according to its natural laws, which is not bad......"

Seeing the nervousness, disappointment, or anger on everyone's faces, Qianhua smiled and spread her hands: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be what you call the thoughts of 'some people'." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then His Highness's idea is ......" Luo Sulan's eyes were full of anticipation.