In the second year of the book of heaven, the Ming Hall was finally rebuilt and renamed Tongtian Palace, which was more extravagant than before.

Heaven was not restored, but a Foguang Temple was built on the same site.

As the place where Emperor Wu ascended the throne, Mingtang suffered a fire, which was really a bad omen. Therefore, when rebuilding, Emperor Wu ordered people to cast the bronze tripod of Kyushu and the statue of the zodiac god, and placed it in the corresponding direction of Tongtian Palace.

Emperor Wu visited the newly completed Tongtian Palace, accompanied by officials above the third grade, Shen Mengxi also followed him, Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi were also among them.

Tongtian Palace is built on a huge pedestal, a total of three layers, the first layer of the hall is a square, symbolizing the four seasons, eighty-eight meters on each side, about thirty meters high, the golden pillar is optimus, the gold brick paves the ground, the gold is brilliant, the beauty is magnificent, the direct look makes the eyes dazzled, the people let out the sound of admiration, Emperor Wu also nodded with satisfaction.

The bronze statue of the zodiac god is about one zhang high, placed in the main hall, does not appear tall at all, and there are twelve kinds of animals on the seat, which are vivid and lifelike.

Nine bronze tripods occupy the east, south, west, north, southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest and central nine directions, Jizhou Dingming Wuxing, Yongzhou Dingming Chang'an, Yanzhou Dingming Riguan, Qingzhou Dingming Shaoyang, Xuzhou Dingming Dongyuan, Yangzhou Dingming Jiangdu, Jingzhou Dingming Jiangling, Liangzhou Dingming Chengdu, each one zhang four feet high, subject to 1,200 stones, the largest god capital tripod height one zhang eight feet, subject to 1,800 stones. Jiuding is carved and cast on the products of this state, strange birds and beasts, exquisite.

This Kyushu tripod was first cast in the Xia Dynasty, symbolizing that the world's Kyushu square circle is all returned to Xia, and it is the treasure of the town and the country, and the symbol of royal power. After the successive dynasties, all to support the tripod as orthodoxy, to the time of Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne, Kyushu Ding only eight left, try to find, still not found, and then to pass on the jade seal for the orthodoxy. With the change of dynasties, the other eight statues were gradually lost, and they did not know where to go. This time, Emperor Wu consumed more than 560,000 catties of copper to recast Kyushu Ding, in order to also say "Kyushu Dingding", taking righteousness from the whole world, it is not the king's land.

The second floor is twelve-sided, symbolizing the twelve hours, the upper is the dome, slightly lower than the lower hall, and the third layer is the twenty-four-sided shape, symbolizing the twenty-four solar terms, which is also the dome, on top of which are nine golden dragons supporting a huge fire bead.

Looking at Luoyang at a height of more than 80 meters, the streets in the city are well organized, Luoshui and several rivers and canals wind through the city, everything is in full view, and there is a feeling in my heart that everything is under control, Shen Mengxi turned his head to look at Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu was looking at her world, smiling, and complacent.

"Yue'er, do you feel dizzy?" Emperor Wu asked his daughter quietly.

At this time, most officials did not dare to look down, just stood away from the window, looking into the distance, how could Shen Mengxi be afraid, she had climbed a higher place, how could she be afraid of this height. She shook her head, "Auntie, don't faint." It's very pleasant to look at it from afar, look, Auntie, that's the home of Yue'er Shangshanfang. ”

"You kid, you're bold." Emperor Wu said with a smile.

On March 16, Tongtian Palace was officially completed, and Emperor Wu changed his Yuan to Long Live Tongtian.

Two months later, there were rumors that Huaiyi was arrogant and unreasonable, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and within a few days, Huaiyi broke into the palace with weapons to make trouble, and was restrained by more than 100 palace people and killed on the spot.

When Shen Mengxi heard the news, he was silent for a moment, remembering that day, he conveyed Huaiyi's words to Emperor Wu, and Emperor Wu smiled when he heard it, as if he remembered something, and only said that he knew.

Who burned Mingtang, why Huaiyi fell out of favor, and why he died have all become mysteries, and probably only Emperor Wu can tell.

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The project of Mingtang is over, but the assassination case of Shen Mengxi is still not clear, most of the people involved in the case have died, and many things have no evidence.

Yan Jikang has passed the weak crown, the ancients attached great importance to the men's crown ceremony, presided over by the father and brother in the ancestral hall, and also selected guests to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. But at this time, Yan Jikang was already alone, so Shen Mengxi named him the word "Sheng'an" after he worshiped his parents' spiritual position. Yan Jikang didn't care about the crown gift, thanked the princess for giving the word, and lived in the princess's mansion every day with peace of mind, carving woodblocks every day.

At this time, the classics were mostly hand-copied, and the engraving prints were generally only used for Buddhist scriptures, amulets, calendars, etc., and the family gate valve was even more disdainful of using engraving. Yan Jikang had only heard of engraving before, and had not actually touched it, but after his first engraved "Heart Sutra" was recognized by Shen Mengxi, he was out of control and became obsessed with engraving, and then began to engrave "Diamond Sutra".

Halfway through the carving, he got the news that his brother and brother had died on the way to exile, and he was seriously ill.

After more than two months of tossing and turning, Shen Mengxi couldn't stand it, looked at Yan Jikang, who was languishing to death, and reminded him, "I said, you have to get better quickly!" You owe me two more things! ”

Yan Jikang hugged Shen Mengxi's waist and cried, and after crying, he seemed to have figured it out.

After that, his condition quickly improved, and after he recovered, he began to engrave again, he immersed himself in his own world, forgetting all the pain and troubles in the world, and his engraving skills improved rapidly.

After carving the "Diamond Sutra", he is ready to start carving the four books and five classics.

Shen Mengxi looked at the stacks of engravings and said, "Twelve, you do a good job, let's open a printing house or publishing house when we go back." Yan Jikang didn't care about all this, and nodded indiscriminately. - He only carves and forgets himself.

Inspired by Shen Mengxi, in the past two years, Yan Jikang began to tinker with movable type printing, from clay movable type, wooden movable type to lead movable type, copper movable type have been tried one by one. Shen Mengxi soaked all kinds of paper in Wuling space and repeatedly studied papermaking methods, but the space bookstore was too small, and there were too few books related to papermaking, so they tried to make paper with bamboo and bark, but they did not make much progress.

She also really founded Luoyang Bookstore, printing various books with movable type, and deliberately assigned two subordinate officials to be responsible.

Although the printing effect of books is not as ideal as that of handwritten books, it is slightly rigid and stiff, but it is better in terms of high efficiency and low price, so that many ordinary students can also afford to buy books. The bookstore also hires civilian students from four disciplines to do proofreading and binding work, and the remuneration is gratifying; and cooperated with Sun Yicheng to prepare to print medical books such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Qianjin Fang"; He also began to prepare for the printing of the Book of Songs and Lisao, and even cooperated with Qin Tianjian to prepare a large number of calendars for the coming year.

To be honest, in the past few years, Shen Mengxi has made a lot of money in engraving, papermaking, and printing.

She has a fiefdom and a grange, and she doesn't value money very much, but the loss and deficit are ugly, so this year she worked hard to find a painter to develop an overprint color New Year painting with Yan Jikang, ready to make a lot of money together with the calendar.

Buddha statues, ladies, door gods, and the god of wealth have all designed a number of versions, and the calendar also found Taoist priests to calculate the solar terms, taboos, directions, etc., in short, put a lot of effort.

At the end of the month, Luoyang, Chang'an's Fang City, and even the whole country, there are exquisite calendars, wall calendars, New Year's paintings, low prices, and hardcover versions of high-priced products, exquisite paper, unseen, for a time the family rushed to buy.

Facts have proved that as long as you put your heart into it, you can still make money, Shen Mengxi looked at the account book and thought beautifully.

Shen Mengxi specially sent exquisite Buddha statues and the God of Wealth to Emperor Wu in exchange for more rewards.

Shen Mengxi's entrepreneurship, in the eyes of Emperor Wu, is just a unique way to raise a face, she didn't interfere, just smiled indulgently and said: "It's okay, Yue'er is happy!" "She also assigned a master of the palace's royal paper mill to use for her.