"I'm not going, you can go alone."

Zhang Yan shook her head, now that the royal family is not short of money, she has not encountered any crisis, and there is no place to ask for Xujiazhuang, what is she going to Harbour City to do, look at Fang Qingyan's face?

As for Xu Yuan's disciple, although he is a better talker and has provided a lot of cooperation projects and benefits, he always looks at himself with a rather rude gaze, and he still can't have too much contact with him, so something will happen sooner or later.

"Imperial sister-in-law, there is actually another very important matter, so it is necessary for us to go over."

Zhou Yufeng thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty and I both think that the royal family should increase cooperation with Xujiazhuang, establish a closer relationship, and better study like Xujiazhuang, so the royal family plans to build a royal palace less than ten miles south of the harbor city, covering an area of 100 acres, and will build a main building called "Red Fort", which is 19 stories high. So if I want to see them, I can stay in the Red Fort and spend some time with them."

"Imperial sister-in-law, this royal palace will cost at least tens of millions of silver dollars to be built, the layout and decoration style inside need to be checked, and the royal action has broken ground, how is the construction in the back, someone needs to go over to be an overseer to keep an eye on it, otherwise it costs so much money, but it is not very comfortable to live in, then the royal family is not a big loss?"

In fact, Zhou Yufeng lied.

The royal family did not invest a penny in the project of the royal palace.

It is all Xu Yuan's private pocket, and the estimated amount of money is not more than 10 million silver dollars, but far exceeded, because the supporting facilities, decoration, household appliances and furniture inside, etc., will not be inferior to the White Castle, to provide the most beautiful and comfortable living environment, in order to get the heart of the beauty, lick the dog's sincerity...... No, it can't be described as a licking dog, after all, licking a dog can't chase the goddess, but he has created the most luxurious golden wire cage for the goddess, as long as the beauty lives in it, don't think about flying away, Xu Yuan feels that he is a clever hunter.

In order to cooperate with the conspiracy to achieve this plot, Zhou Yufeng could only lie without abnormality, she knew the weakness of the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan, that is, she was more sensitive to money, and she knew the importance of money to the royal family and the Ming Dynasty.

"The Royal Palace, it costs tens of millions? How can you and Uncle Huang spend money indiscriminately?"

Sure enough, Zhang Yan immediately said with some anger: "The palace renovation is useless so much, and Cihong and they went to study in Xujiazhuang to learn advanced knowledge, and then use it to reform the Ming Dynasty, not to stay in Harbour City as a proton for a long time, this royal palace is unnecessary, hurry up and cancel this project, don't waste precious funds."

"The foundation has been laid, and it is impossible to cancel it."

Zhou Yufeng said: "Besides, Xu Yuan personally instructed to grant land, promised to provide a batch of photovoltaic power panels, household appliances and other items, and also gave a 5% discount on the price, if we cancel this project, wouldn't it completely offend Xu Yuan?" What's more, with the strength and wealth of Xujiazhuang now, our royal family does not take the initiative to approach it to show goodwill, but is more defensive and distance, which is actually even more unwise, building a royal palace, under the nose of Harbour City, is to reduce their hostility towards the royal family."

"So this project, not only can't be canceled, but it's very necessary!"

Zhang Yan suddenly fell into deep thought, and had to admit that what Zhou Yufeng said was very reasonable, which made it difficult for her to refute.

However, the cost of tens of millions of silver dollars is still too exaggerated, and there is no need to be so luxurious, such as the height of the "Red Fort", it is enough to have a nine-story appearance, and there is no need to make nineteen floors, as well as internal decoration, household appliances and furniture, etc., all of which can be reduced or canceled to save construction costs.

One million silver dollars.

All links save a little money, and millions of silver dollars are definitely enough.

"Sister-in-law, if you think it's expensive, then let's go together, supervise the work on site, cut unnecessary things, and save some money, as long as it doesn't look too shabby after completion." Zhou Yufeng said.

"This ......"

Zhang Yan

Immediately embarrassed, first, I felt embarrassed to go to Harbour City, but I still resisted; Moreover, when she heard the word shabby, she felt that for the sake of the majesty and decency of the royal family, it was not good to be too shabby.

Take today's capital as an example, after the renovation of the imperial palace was completed, there were five more nine-storey buildings, which temporarily became the tallest landmark buildings in the capital, but within a few months, there were ten-storey, thirteen-storey, fifteen-storey and even eighteen-storey buildings, rising from the ground, the consistent feature of these high-rise buildings is that they are all higher than the "ninety-five supreme building" of the palace, all of which obviously pressed the palace at one end, and looked more magnificent, as if the emperor was compared.

This made Zhu You's anger terrible, and he sent many officials and Jinyi guards to demolish all these buildings for the crime of "exceeding the system", and not allowing buildings with more than nine floors in the capital.

As a result, it was opposed by the civil officials, and even public opinion did not support it one-sidedly, and received a lot of criticism, and if the emperor continued to insist on destroying the property of the people, he was afraid that he would lose the support of the people even more, and end up with a narrow and selfish evaluation, if the emperor wanted to prove himself, he could build a 30-storey, 50-storey, or even 99-story high-rise building, instead of suppressing the people's pursuit of a better life.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen had to give up the order to demolish the building, and he was disgraced.

Imperial power is sluggish.

It can be seen from this that in today's Ming Dynasty, the imperial power has declined to such an extent, those rich businessmen and ordinary people are proud of the house over nine floors, and the royal family has become a reference for comparison, and they are not afraid that their heads will fall off.

What's more excessive is that it belongs to a certain film company in Xujiazhuang, and in several historical film and television dramas filmed, there are actors who play the emperor in dragon robes, swaggering on the screen, and the momentum is like the emperor, and this kind of movie, with evidence such as dragon robes, can be directly sentenced to kill the nine clans for the crime of rebellion, but even if Zhu Youzhen watches these movies, his eyes will bulge out, and he can't take the actor in the dragon robe, and he has to nod and say that the performance is good.

Ay!

The times have really changed, some things are no longer sacred, if you don't pay attention to them, I am afraid that the imperial authority will weaken even more seriously.

And that requires a lot of money.

If you want to get more money, you have to deepen your cooperation with Xujiazhuang.

As a result, the royal family had few options.

"Imperial sister-in-law, just go with me, if you want to save some money, you can negotiate new cooperation, you can help supervise the construction of the royal palace, there are too many things that can be done, and they are all very necessary, if I am alone, I can't do so many things, you can help me."

Zhou Yufeng took her arm and said.

"I'll think about it or two."

Zhang Yan said hesitantly, there were already obvious signs of loosening.

……

The other side.

Early winter, October 15th.

Liaodong Peninsula, Port Arthur, this military-based port, has seen a large number of unfamiliar faces in the past few days, including men, women and children.

They all came from the north for a long journey, riding a traditional horse-drawn carriage, a four-wheeled carriage, or pushing a chicken cart, carrying large bags and small bags, large boxes and small boxes of luggage, escorted by three thousand Jurchen elites, traveling forty or fifty miles a day, walking for half a month, and then arriving at Lushun one after another.

By the way, he also sent a batch of sand gold weighing about 200,000 taels.

That's right.

This batch of men, women, and children is the sincerity of the high-level leaders of Houjin to show goodwill to Xujiazhuang.

Among them, there are 21,452 elderly and disabled people.

There were 18,720 children under the age of 12.

There were 6,567 young women.

Plus 3,000 Eight Banner warriors, escorting these old and weak women and children, to Borneo in the South Seas, and so on to settle all these family members, after confirming that there is no problem, they will return to Liaodong by boat in the spring of next year.

That is, the total number of people is 49,739.

And the total population of the Jurchen tribe is only in the early 100,000s, and half of it has been sent away.

But I didn't say before, send one for two

About 10,000 family members just went to try the water, and then it increased according to the situation, why did they send so much at once?

There are two reasons for this:

First, if only 20,000 yuan is sent, the remaining 30,000 or 40,000 old and weak are still a burden, and they have no ability to protect themselves.

Secondly, for the family manor who went to Nanyang, these old and weak women all showed a lot of anticipation and yearning, and made it clear that there were not many who did not want to go, because the family manor, although it was thousands of miles away, was warm all year round, rich in food, and it was also within the system of Xujiazhuang, which was equivalent to joining Xujiazhuang, such a good thing, who would object? So most of them showed a realistic side, which made the high-level executives of Houjin feel prickly.

"Woo woo~"

The sound of the whistle sounded.

There are as many as 28 steam passenger ships that sail into the port and slowly dock next to the wharf, including eight of the latest fully loaded 10,000-ton passenger ships, each of which can carry more than 3,000 passengers, which looks extremely large and magnificent.

The hitchhiker is lowered.

After a little preparation, these old and weak women and children lined up, took their luggage, and walked onto these passenger ships one by one.

"Sister, will we return to this land in the future?"

Bumu Butai, who was holding two little girls in her hands, looked back at the land of Liaodong, and asked with a hint of reluctance and sadness.

"Maybe, maybe never back, who knows?"

Hai Lanzhu, who walked in front, also looked back, but there was no reluctance in her eyes, but she was full of expectations, maybe life in Nanyang will be far more exciting than staying in the bitter cold and boring Liaodong, in addition, if she can, she hopes to find a suitable object, as a future to rely on, she is twenty-eight years old this year, but she has been widowed for many years, there is no joy in life, and then look at her gradually withering beautiful face, often lament: Is it that his life has been spent so peacefully?

She hasn't experienced anything wonderful yet! (In normal history, she married Huang Taiji at the age of twenty-six and was favored for five years, but in this time and space, she didn't have time to become Huang Taiji's Concubine Jinchen of the East Palace, and Huang Taiji took it)

Perhaps, when she arrives in Nanyang, her fate will change for the better.