Lin Yuan and Zhao Yun unloaded their swords and walked directly into Deshou Palace.

Deoksugung Palace is very large, about 100 meters long and 80 meters wide, and is all paved with gold bricks.

In the palace, there are thirty-six carved dragon golden pillars, which are as thick as three people hugging each other.

And at the top of each golden pillar, there is a basin-sized night pearl.

These 36 night pearls serve as lights and illuminate the entire hall.

This is the first time Lin Yuan has seen such a handiwork.

Even Zhao Yun on the side was completely shocked.

You know, a fist-sized night pearl is worth a fortune, but here there are 36 basin-sized ones.

Its value is simply unimaginable.

And those gold bricks that are paved on the ground need to cost at least millions of taels of gold to melt into gold water before they can be cast.

And that's not all!

The thirty-six golden dragon pillars are made of pure gold, and each one weighs no less than 5 tons, which is converted into 5 million taels of gold.

Thirty-six is 180 million taels of gold!

What an astronomical sum of money!

According to Lin Yuan's understanding, the Southern Song Dynasty had a developed economy, but its annual income was only 20 million taels of gold.

A Deoksugung Palace cost 10 years of income.

And that's not even counting those jewels above the palace, the beams of pure gold silk nanmu.

In short, this Deoksugung Palace is simply an eye-opener.

After Lin Yuan finished reading it, he was amazed.

Have emperors since ancient times enjoyed it like this? Building a palace at random cost the country 10 years of income.

He suddenly understood why the emperors in history built a lot of buildings, which caused the public resentment of the people in the world to boil.

There is only one reason, that is, it is too much money.

Qin Shi Huang's Afang Palace, built with the wealth of the world, was not built until Qin Shi Huang's death, and was finally burned clean by Xiang Yu.

It was also the Summer Palace of the Qing Dynasty, which took 15 years to build in the hands of Qianlong, and was still repaired and expanded by Xianfeng Cixi in the back, which lasted for a hundred years.

Its scale has reached the peak of all dynasties.

Lin Yuan felt that he must take these things as a warning.

"Zilong, remember, no matter how big our territory develops in the future, we must not build a large scale and do things that hurt people."

"The last general has written it down!"

At this time, Deoksugung Palace was already full of seats, and many seats were empty.

However, these seats are not just to be sat in.

Every seat has been arranged in advance.

When Lin Yuan entered Deokshou Palace, a little eunuch was in charge of receiving him and leading him to his seat.

His seat, the military general's seat group on the left-hand side, is located in the third of the second row, which is very forward.

Zhao Yun, on the other hand, was arranged to the back of the sixth row of free seats.

From the back of the sixth row, they are all for family members, and there is no seating arrangement, so everyone can sit casually.

After Lin Yuan sat down, he found that Han Shizhong was sitting in front of him, Yue Fei was in front of him, and the first in the first row was Zhang Jun, the right minister and privy envoy.

In fact, the generals sitting in the first row are all first- and second-class with real power.

Such as the generals of various war zones, these people are above the court, and they also serve as the chief lieutenant or the privy council.

For example, Yue Fei is a strategic envoy of Jinghu North Road, and he is also a lieutenant, and Han Shizhong is also a lieutenant.

Famous generals such as Wu Jie, Wu Ling, etc., all know the affairs of the Privy Council, or know the affairs of the Privy Council.

There is also a group of people that Lin Yuan has not seen before.

This group of people is the general of the forbidden army in Lin'an City.

There are the left and right Jin Wuwei generals, and the left and right Wei generals.

The official rank of these people is similar to that of Yang Yizhong's commanders in front of the palace, they are all from the second rank, and their duty is to guard the safety of Kyoto and the palace.

And Lin Yuan's champion general, Zheng Sanpin.

That's why they're seated in the second row.

But it's okay to do this, with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and the like around you, it will be a little safer.

Not long after Lin Yuan sat down, more and more people walked into the main hall.

Many of them are family members without official ranks, middle-aged women dressed solemnly, young men with good manners, and some young and beautiful girls.

These people came to this night banquet for different purposes.

The middle-aged woman is in order to have a relationship with Zhao Gou's queen.

Young boy, come here to be familiar with your face and pave the way for your future career.

And those beautiful girls are completely here for blind dates.

Some have taken a fancy to the sons of some big officials, who are in the right family and have strong marriages, and some want to be favored by the royal family members and fight for a knighthood for the family.

Others came for Lin Yuan this time.

Lin Yuan sat on the seat and felt a fiery gaze from time to time behind him, like a man's back.

He ignored this, and drank to himself.

And at this moment, a female general walked directly to Han Shizhong's seat and sat down.

Her face is very delicate, with apricot eyes and peach cheeks, and a hint of heroism between her eyebrows, adding a bit of feminine energy.

Walking to Han Shizhong's side, the woman directly grabbed the latter's ear and grabbed it.

"You damn you, and you drink so much wine?"

"Madam, today is Your Majesty's banquet for hundreds of officials, you let me have a good drink." Han Shizhong was a little forgiving.

The other generals around him seem to have long been surprised.

Lin Yuan was slightly surprised, he was already eight points sure that the female general in front of him was Han Shizhong's wife, Liang Hongyu!

After Liang Hongyu sat down, she also found Lin Yuan behind her, with a hint of curiosity on her face.

"You are Lin Ziyi?"

"I've seen Mrs. Han!" Lin Yuan bowed.

He admired Liang Hongyu very much, as a woman, but she made many achievements that men could not make.

There are only 4 such strange women in all dynasties.

Mulan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Fan Lihua of the Tang Dynasty, Mu Guiying of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Liang Hongyu of the Southern Song Dynasty are collectively known as the Four Great Women.

Liang Hongyu nodded, and began to look Lin Yuan up and down, seemingly satisfied.

"Not bad!"

"On the way to capture Zhang Bangchang alive, you flooded the 200,000 allied troops of the Jin Kingdom, I have heard about it, and you tell me clearly now, is this matter true?"

"Really." Lin Yuan smiled and nodded.

Liang Hongyu's eyes widened, as if she had arrived at a hint of incredulity.

"200,000 coalition troops? Are you sure you didn't lie? Or did you also use hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle you? ”

At this time, not only Liang Hongyu was interested, but even Yue Fei and Han Shizhong on the side also pricked up their ears.

Lin Yuan's deeds of capturing Zhang Bangchang alive and flooding 200,000 troops are too mythical, and everyone has not witnessed it with their own eyes, and they are somewhat suspicious in their hearts.

"I ......" Lin Yuan was about to answer, and at this moment, a male duck's voice suddenly came from outside Deokshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has arrived!"

Lin Yuan quickly shut up and looked out of the palace gate.

Greeted by a group of palace maids and eunuchs, Zhao Gou and a beautiful woman wearing a phoenix crown walked in from outside the hall.

More than a dozen royal clans wearing python robes or phoenix hairpins followed closely behind.

Zhao Gou and the phoenix-crowned woman walked in the forefront, they went all the way, all the way to accept the courtesy of civil and military officials, and they were generous and extraordinary.

Lin Yuan glanced at the beautiful woman, this person should be Queen Wu.

Under everyone's attention, Zhao Gou and Empress Wu walked up the dragon ladder and sat on the dragon chair above.