"Don't worry, Benxiang will naturally promote you in the future, from now on, you are the confidant of Benguan. You're still a master now, and when the opportunity comes, you'll be promoted to a squire. ”

"Thank you Yang Xiang!" The principal smiled.

……

The next day, Fengtian Temple.

"Your Majesty, according to the preliminary estimates of the ministers and the officials and old craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry in the past few days, it will cost more than 10,000 taels of silver to build the Jixia School Palace!" Shan Anren, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said, "It is necessary to recruit millions of people from all over the country, and it will take more than half a year. ”

"This is a huge project, which will cost the Ming Dynasty's huge national and people's strength." Li Shanchang sighed when he heard this, "Especially the stargazing platform, which is towering into the sky to build, is extremely difficult to build and costs a lot of money. ”

"This is a rendering of the Jixia School Palace after it is completed, please take a look at it for the emperor." Shan Anren said.

A eunuch walked down, took the drawing from Shan Anren's hand, and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The drawings were very large, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered two guards to open them and watch them with the ministers.

I saw that the Jixia School Palace, covering an area of 10,000 acres, was located on the top of Zhongshan Mountain. Majestic and magnificent. It is divided into nine colleges, namely the Taoist Academy, the Yin and Yang Academy, the Mojia Academy, and the Zongheng Academy.

College of Agriculture, Faculty of War, School of Medicine......

Among them, there is a military academy with a hall of the art of war, which is used to practice the art of war in peacetime.

Huge battlefield sand table, used for sand table drills.

There are eighteen kinds of weapons in the martial arts arena.

The Mojia Academy has a place for the disciples of the Mohist family to practice the tricks.

Agricultural colleges, farms for research of new varieties of crops, fish ponds for breeding fry.

The medical school has specially opened up a piece of land in the back mountain for medical students to plant exotic flowers and plants, panacea.

The Taoist temple has an alchemy furnace and an alchemy room.

The Yin-Yang Academy has a compass and an artifact from heaven and earth.

The largest stone used in the construction of the Jixia School Palace weighs 100,000 catties.

The stargazing platform is even more between the white clouds, with a huge sundial on it to determine the hour. In the center of the armillary sphere is a round sphere surrounded by four dragon pillars. Standing on the stargazing platform can be more convenient for stargazing, and you can overlook the great rivers and mountains of Yingtianfu.

The ministers were all amazed when they saw it: "This Jixia School Palace will definitely become another miracle of my China like the Great Wall." Thousands of years later, there will be many people in later generations who will pay homage and write poems to commemorate them. ”

"We are very satisfied with this rendering." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to put away the drawings and said, "This kind of feat that will benefit future generations for thousands of generations, even if it costs more, it is worth it." ”

"There are now 100,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and only 10,000 taels are needed to build the Jixia School Palace, and the Ming Dynasty can still take it out." Zhu Yuanzhang has been poor all his life, and he has never been so rich.

So he spent the money lavishly, and he didn't know that he was distressed at all.

"I think that the imperial court couldn't even allocate millions of taels of silver for disaster relief, but now it can take out 10,000 taels to build the Xia Xue Palace...... It's really a sea of life, giving people a feeling of being in a different world. Jin Xingshangshu Lu Chang also sighed.

"As for the consumption of people's power that you said, there is no such thing as a drain on people, but this move not only does not harm the people, but is beneficial to the people." Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "We heard that recently, the people of the Ming Dynasty have been rebellious and lazy......

"There are a lot of idle people in Yingtianfu, leading dogs and birds all day long, haunting fireworks and willow alleys."

"Your Majesty." Liu Bowen stepped forward and said, "In the past, the people had a difficult life and serious taxes, and they could only work day and night in order to have enough to eat, so there were not many idle people in the country. ”

"And now that the people are richer and the taxes are reduced, there will definitely be more idle people."

"The people of the world have never lived so richly as they do now."

"In particular, Yingtianfu is the center of foreign trade in the Ming Dynasty, and the people can earn a lot of silver as long as they work a little harder. There are even people who can earn money that they can't earn in their previous lifetime with rent alone. ”

When they have nothing to do, they start to enjoy life. As a result, there was a bird market and a dog market in Yingtianfu. Restaurants, music squares, green buildings and other industries are unprecedentedly developed. ”

"Especially in the Qinglou industry, there are ten green buildings in the entire Yingtianfu, and on the banks of the Qinhuai River, flower boats are paved all over the river. Most of the women among them are foreign women, and everyone wants to be fresh. ”

"They also select the top 10 oirans every month, and most of them are women. Those Fanbang women not only learned our language, but even recited poetry. As we all know, fireworks willow lane gave birth to famous poems of talents, just like the three changes of willow back then. ”

"Although the other provinces are not as rich as Ying Tianfu, they are also very different from before."

"Just requisition the idle people of Ying Tianfu to build the Jixia School Palace, and the idle people from other provinces will transfer stones and wood to give them things to do." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "As long as they are given silver, it is not considered a harm to the people." ”

"In those years, the king of Shang built Lutai, and Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall. They did not give the people money, but they were whipped to force them to work, so we cannot be compared with them. ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Qunchen said.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the emperor cultivate a hobby in life and inform the world." At this time, Yang Xian stepped forward and said.

"Why should we develop a hobby?" Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

"The so-called upward ......and downward effects," Yang Xian said, "If the emperor has a hobby in some way, the subjects of the whole country will follow suit." After having this hobby, you can correct the unhealthy trend of the people of the world who like to look for flowers and ask willows. ”

"For example, Tang Zhuangzong likes to sing, so the people of the whole country like to sing, Tang Xizong likes to juju, and juju is popular all over the country. There are things such as singing and juju, and their interest in looking for flowers and willows is naturally small. ”

"We were born as farmers, and we don't have any special hobbies?" Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded.

Don't have any hobbies yet? Yang Xian secretly said in his heart when he heard this, you like other people's wives as much as Cao Cao, and many concubines are second married, so now Da Ming likes this tune.

"Is it frugal to live?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said, "Reading every day and night, is it counted if you can't release the volume?" ”

"It doesn't count." Yang Xiandao, "Only entertainment hobbies other than life and study are counted." ”

"In addition to these good qualities, we can't think of any special habits we have for a while, and we will discuss this matter later." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Yes!" Yang Xiandao, "However, the minister still suggested that the emperor can cultivate Keju's hobbies, which can strengthen the body and greatly improve the physical fitness of the whole people." ”

"Your Majesty, the establishment of the statues of the Three Emperors throughout the country also requires a lot of silver." At this time, Liu Bowen stood up and said, "There is also money to restore law and order in various provinces, so now is not the time to talk about hobbies." ”