On October 20, the 34th year of Taiping, the Ming delegation led by Zhu Jingyuan entered the Persian Gulf.

Zhu Jingyuan finally entered his own territory, came out of the room, and enjoyed the surrounding scenery from the bow of the boat.

Although there is sand everywhere and there is nothing to see at all, Zhu Jingyuan seems to see the future.

Oil is the lifeblood of war and industry, and it can sustain the financial hegemony of the empire.

The entire Persian Gulf is completely controlled by a single big power, and the possible impact on the world can only be understood by Zhu Jingyuan.

Luo Feiya, who was following Zhu Jingyuan, looked at the distant coastline and pouted unconsciously.

Now Zhu Jingyuan's entourage already knows that Zhu Jingyuan is going to stay in the Great Food Country for a few months.

But they didn't know that the Great Food Country was digging for black gold now, and Zhu Jingyuan would not be idle and introduce his family's financial income to the maids.

So Rofia has already remembered the last time she was here.

Three months on, the perception of a deserted and impoverished territory has taken root.

Rofia didn't dare to complain, but prayed in her heart.

I hope that after His Royal Highness sees the situation in the territory, he will soon get tired of the boredom here, change his mind as soon as possible, and go to Daming proper.

The next morning, the passenger ship arrived in Quicksand City, the capital of the Great Food Country.

Luo Feiya followed Zhu Jingyuan to the deck again, and when she looked at the nearby coastline again, she was completely stunned.

Where has that deserted, run-down town gone?

Shi Liu Zhixin, the governor of the Great Food Country, also looked at the coast for a long time.

The entire Quicksand City, in the past three months, has undergone tremendous changes.

The population has multiplied several times and has become quite a lively city.

The point is, now the city is full of construction sites and busy crowds everywhere around the city.

The narrow, dilapidated pier is largely gone, replaced by a newly built concrete pier.

On the other side of the dock, there are several huge circular storage tanks, and many more are being built.

What is even more outrageous is that there are many workers who are building the city wall outside the city, using steel and concrete mechanisms, but the city wall is in classical form......

Zhu Jingyuan was also quite stunned when he saw this scene, and after reacting, he asked Liu Zhixin beside him:

"Is that building a wall? Why are you still building the city walls now? Who gave the order? ”

Liu Zhixin was also a little puzzled, and then quickly reacted:

"King Qiqi, it should be repairing the palace, and in terms of specifications, it is not the city wall, but the outer wall of the palace.

"The matter of repairing the palace has been told by the minister, the standard is given by the imperial court, you have a lot of opportunities, you may have forgotten ......"

Zhu Jingyuan finally reacted, he was reading a telegram at the time, and there were no drawings on it, only a simple explanation.

Da Shiguo sold the first oil, and after having some money, Liu Zhixin suggested building a palace and applied to the imperial court for the construction standard of the palace.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't think much about it at the time, since there was no royal mansion in the Great Food Country, then just build one.

Anyway, the Great Food Country is rich now, and it will be even richer in the future, and the prince of the desert can be defeated himself.

Zhu Jingyuan directly said that he agreed at that time and asked the relevant personnel to deal with the imperial court.

And the scale is required to be as large as possible, if the money is not enough now, you can plan the pattern first, circle the place, and slowly build it later.

Later, Zhu Jingyuan received a report that the imperial court had determined the specifications, and Zhu Jingyuan took a look at it at that time.

The palace is 900 meters long from north to south, 720 meters wide from east to west, with a total area of 648,000 square meters, or about 973 acres.

The palace outside the city, the palace of the vassal king, the palace of the vassal king, and the palace inside the castle are not of the same nature.

The palace in the inner city of Jingshi, tens of thousands of square meters is the limit, after all, the courtyard in the city cannot be too big.

There are no palaces outside the city, and the palaces of foreign vassal kings and vassal kings are also hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of square meters.

Especially the prince-level vassal king's palace, which is basically discounted compared to the Forbidden City of Beijing, and the length and width should not be exceeded.

The Forbidden City is 720,000 square meters, and Zhu Jingyuan's Great Food King's Mansion is 648,000 square meters, and the imperial court has given a nine-percent discount.

Zhu Jingyuan recalled this information and looked at the city wall under construction in the distance again:

"So this is estimated to be ten meters high, and the wall above it seems to be able to run horses, but it is actually my yard?"

Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart, and then soon had new doubts:

"No, isn't the length of the palace nine hundred meters, the length of this wall is definitely more than nine hundred meters......

Liu Zhixin once again explained:

"On the Qiqi King, the length of 900 meters is the palace wall, which is equivalent to the Forbidden City.

"Now the king saw that this was an outer wall, two thousand meters long and wide.

"The palaces of Qin Jinyan's four feudal domains are all two-layered.

"The imperial court obviously refers to this criterion......"

Among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, Qin Jinyan's treatment was markedly different from that of other feudal states.

Not only the "palace city" where you live, but also the "royal city" outside, and the city walls of the city where you are located are beyond.

Especially the Zhou Palace, the palace and the royal city of the old five Zhu Hu are the most of all the vassal kings.

Now that Zhu Jingyuan is the highest-ranking vassal king, the standard of the palace has been greatly improved compared with the king of Zhou.

Zhu Jingyuan's memories related to the house in his previous life were mixed with the cognition of this life, and he subconsciously sighed in his heart:

"So 680,000 square meters is actually a house, and 4 million square meters is my yard?

"How do you decorate and decorate such a big house and yard......"

However, Zhu Jingyuan quickly came to his senses, and the biggest problem with building such a large palace in such a place is actually the water source.

Domestic water and greening are big problems.

In this great desert, there is not much water on the ground, and there may be more oil than water in the ground.

Groundwater is left over from the prehistoric Ice Age, with little to no replenishment, and unrestricted pumping of groundwater can lead to land subsidence.

It can only be engaged in seawater confinement.

The oil that is extracted is used as an energy source for the transformation of seawater.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jingyuan regretted it a little and chose the palace here.

The climate next to the Mediterranean Sea should be much more comfortable than here.

However, this Great Food King's Mansion is actually the official symbolic formal ceremonial palace of the kingdom, so it needs to be approved and regulated by the imperial court.

The core of the current Great Food Country is in the Persian Gulf, so it is indeed the most suitable place for the capital and the official palace to release the quicksand city.

If you want to live comfortably, then save a few more years of money and find a place with a good environment to build a palace manor.

Zhu Jingyuan clarified the meaning of this palace in his heart, and people relaxed again.

Zhu Jingyuan stretched out his hand and pointed to the big construction site, and looked around at his courtiers, staff, guards, personal maids, business house managers and craftsmen:

"From now on, this will be the royal palace of our Great Food Country."

A group of people around, regardless of whether they understand architectural planning or not, were shocked by Liu Zhixin's introduction before.

640,000 square meters of palace city, 4 million square meters of royal city.

This scale is also among the highest in the world.

How much does it cost to build and decorate according to the standards of the palace?

Can this big food country have so much money?

At the same time, the docks had been emptied, leaving only the officials of the palace, the guards who kept the law, and the workers of the docks.

The Zhoushan Island passenger ship slowly approached the pier under the guidance of workers.

The passenger liner is fixed and the ramp is lowered.

Guan Tianpei took the guards to get off the ship first, and confirmed his identity with the Great Food Country, checked the situation around the dock, and set up defenses around the dock.

Zhu Jingyuan walked down the gangway with a group of people around him.

Zhu Jianfeng and his wife followed closely behind.

After landing on the ground of the dock, Zhu Jianfeng looked around and said with emotion:

"It's the end of October, and it's still so warm here, the temperature must be 20 degrees......

Zhu Jingyuan, who was not far away, heard the voice and glanced at his ninth uncle a little strangely, why did this guy get off the boat here?

Are you still going to come to my palace as a guest? Shouldn't you go back to Beijing directly?

Zhu Jingyuan thought about the situation in Jingshi, so he replied casually:

According to the introduction of royal officials, only in the days of the end of the year, the temperature may drop below 10 degrees in the early morning.

"The rest of the winter, the temperature was in the teens to the twenties.

"Winter is the most comfortable time here, so Uncle Nine might as well spend the winter here."

Zhu Jianfeng was stunned for a moment, and then agreed directly with a smile:

"Then I might as well be respectful, I just want to see how this big food country has become rich......"

At this moment, Zhu Jingyuan was stunned:

"Uh...... Uncle Nine, it's good if you're happy......"

The highest official left behind by the Great Food Country, Xu Minghui, the trial of the Great Food Country, took the officials of the Great Food Country to formally meet with Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to adjust the jet lag and rest, so after a simple hello, he immediately sent Zhu Jingyuan and his entourage to the palace to rest.

For other salutes, there are naturally servants to clean up and carry them, so people like Zhu Jingyuan don't have to worry about it.

Even Zhu Jingyuan's personal maid doesn't need to think about this kind of thing by herself.

It will take time to build the new Great Food King's Mansion, but the original Gunwang Mansion has been renovated.

The decoration level of the entire palace has changed from a dilapidated and improvising state to a level of sophistication and luxury.

Zhu Jingyuan has been living in a similar style house, and he has never seen the appearance of the Great Food King's Mansion before, but he has no special feeling.

Luo Feiya, who followed Zhu Jingyuan's side, now feels a little out of order.

The little girl was directly confused in her heart, is the place where she came three months really here?

Why did that poor big food country suddenly become so rich?

Even if you entertain your own prince, the treatment is different from that of entertaining guests, so you can't even decorate the house undecorated.

So in the three months since I left, have you found any huge treasures here?

Or is it the Prince of Great Food himself who brought a huge fortune here?