Most of the questions raised by Zhu Jingyuan could not be directly decided by Talleyrand and Shire.

So after Zhu Jingyuan finished talking about the way of cooperation and interpreted the logic of cooperation, the meeting really turned into small talk.

At noon, Zhu Jingyuan left Charles and Talelang to eat in the palace, and only sent the two of them back in the afternoon.

Talleyrand went back and hurried to communicate with the rear.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to meet with representatives of Britain and the United States in the afternoon.

Charlotte, Grenville, Frederick, Monroe, Jefferson.

Zhu Jingyuan has a special relationship with Charles, and can deliberately talk in a relatively private environment in the form of small talk.

You can't do that with the UK.

The meeting place with Britain is still in the Ciqing Palace, but it is placed in a relatively formal meeting room.

The course of the talks was also more serious than in France.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't ask at all this time where the British wanted to place the future capital of the United States.

directly asked Lin Zexu to throw out Zhu Jingyuan's request to France bluntly.

It is also the scope that Britain is willing to open up corresponds to the scope of Ming support.

At the same time, even if the financial industry is opened up, Zhu Jingyuan will not borrow from individuals with really low interest rates.

Only the normal loan of the official Daming Bank.

These conditions Grenville, Charlotte and others could not be directly decided.

So the afternoon talks ended quickly.

Grenville also went back and sent a report to London, so that William Pitt could think about what to do.

The top brass in Britain and France were also unable to come up with ideas quickly.

So the negotiations were temporarily suspended.

However, Zhu Jingyuan and the representatives also knew that this kind of thing could not be decided casually, and they didn't take it too seriously.

At noon on November 11 in the third year of Daming Ankang.

Zhu Jingyuan invited Charles and accompanied the designers and craftsmen from France to the construction site of the garden to check the situation.

The entire garden project, including the amusement city, sports field, residential garden, water park, and overseas garden, has been officially named the "Paradise" project by Zhu Jingyuan.

It's extraordinarily simple and crude.

Zhu Jingyuan and his entourage set off by boat from the New Tianfu Wharf and drifted for most of the day at the mouth of the Milky Way River, which is like the sea.

On the morning of the 12th, I arrived at the place where the garden was being repaired.

Now near the sea, a small pier has been built, and a large deep-water pier is under construction.

This seaside is actually still the mouth of the Milky Way, but it is no different from the sea.

The ship slowly approached the dock, and Zhu Jingyuan took Xia Er, the designers and craftsmen ashore.

Transfer to a large coach at the dock's management office and continue inland in the garden area.

After months of renovation and construction, the environment has completely changed.

This place is located in the southeasternmost corner of historical Uruguay, the easternmost point of the Pampas.

The total annual rainfall in this area is similar to that of the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty.

But the rain is not concentrated in the summer, but is relatively evenly dispersed over most of the year.

The natural vegetation here is savanna, not temperate evergreen broad-leaved forests.

In other words, there are not many natural trees, and there are not many places where forests are formed.

It is mainly concentrated on the banks of rivers, near lakes, and a small number of hilly valley areas.

The land chosen by Zhu Jingyuan just meets these conditions, so the natural forests here can barely be connected.

Moreover, the native trees in the area are very special, and most of them are natural landscaping trees.

Mainly rockery, araucarnage, araucaria.

There is no unpleasant pungent smell, and the whole can be cleaned up relatively clean.

Since it is a natural greening tree, these natural trees are used in Zhu Jingyuan's garden planning.

Remove weeds from the gaps in the woods and trees that are not suitable for landscaping, and keep the rest as much as possible.

Most of these trees, which have grown for an unknown number of thousands of years, are unusually large or tall.

Living fossils from the dinosaur era, such as Araucaria, are almost always more than 60 meters tall, and the diameter of the trunk is often more than one meter.

The Shanglu of the Old World was a herbaceous plant, but the "Shushang Lu" of Nanyinzhou was a huge tree.

The canopy of the trees is like a huge canopy, which can cover a very large space.

With these huge trees, there is no need for a special shade area in the garden.

The design calls for the construction of facilities in areas where trees are already sparse as much as possible.

The roads that connect the various projects also pass through this vast forest.

The car in which Zhu Jingyuan and his party were riding walked relatively slowly on the road under the huge forest.

Charles sat by the window, looking sideways at the huge trees outside, and his face was full of admiration:

"Best Friends...... We're like we're driving in a primeval forest.

"The temperature here is significantly cooler than outside, and the air is fresher and more comfortable.

"But there are clean roads and lawns around, and we can drive directly into the jungle by car.

"It's a really amazing feeling, you can't experience it in the Old World at all......"

Zhu Jingyuan is quite satisfied with the current planning and construction research and development:

"The Old World has been tossed by us humans for thousands of years.

"There are not many primeval forests left in the European continent and the Shenzhou continent.

"It's in the New World that this feeling can be seen everywhere."

Charles nodded seriously in agreement, then looked at the direction before and after, and asked with some curiosity:

"The environment of this place is very nice, although it is now the height of summer, but it is not stuffy at all.

"But the only problem is that this is the southern hemisphere, the sun is in the north, and the ocean is in the south.

"If the gate of the manor is facing the sun, you will have to carry the ocean on your back.

"Conversely, if the manor is facing the ocean, it will have to turn its back to the sun.

"Why not take the address of this palace to the south of this huge estuary, so that the estate faces the sun and the sea at the same time.

"Or move northeast, build on the coastline toward the Atlantic, with the estate facing east?"

Zhu Jingyuan has not opened his mouth this time, and the French designer Pierre Fontaine has given an explanation:

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, in fact, it is reasonable for the garden by the sea to be arranged in this way.

"Let most of the estate's buildings face the sun in the north and the sea in the south.

"This way it doesn't get too humid in the summer and doesn't dry out in the winter.

"If you want to enjoy the sea view from the room, you can also design a terrace at the back of the building with a large enough window.

"You don't need to face the door at all.

"If you're on the beach, it doesn't matter which way the building is oriented."

After hearing this, Charles looked at Zhu Jingyuan:

"Is that so?"

Zhu Jingyuan said with a smile:

"Designers know more than us, if we can't be sure, let's leave it to professionals to choose and make it simple."

Shardon was relieved:

"That's right, where do we want now?"

Zhu Jingyuan replied casually:

"Let's go to the shore of the lake first, and then continue to walk along the way, and go to the place where Europa City is going to be built to see how it is."

"Oh......"

Charles nodded and continued to take in the scenery around him.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's general plan, between the inland lagoon and the sea outside, on the horizontal flat bottom between this lake and the sea, the basic living and residential facilities will be built in the middle.

On the east side of the widow, there are games and entertainment facilities, and on the west side, sports facilities and a zoo.

A seaside resort will be built on the seaside facing the sea, and a water park will be built inland, facing the lake.

Zhu Jingyuan also planned an aquarium and an aquarium dedicated to raising and displaying freshwater and marine animals, respectively.

The current work is mainly to level the ground and build roads between the different blocks.

Various building facilities have just been erected.

Zhu Jingyuan and Xia Er took a car that drove two kilometers inward to the lake, where the aquarium was planned to be built.

The lagoon in the park has a total area of about 35 square kilometers.

The overall morphology approximates an isosceles triangle.

The bottom edge is east-west, and when it is less than seven kilometers long, it is about twelve kilometers in the north-south direction.

Zhu Jingyuan's convoy turned east on the shore of the lake and continued for more than three kilometers until it reached the strength of the existing road.

Then turn north, between a narrow mountain range and a lake, continuing for more than ten kilometres.

At this time, a gap appeared in the narrow mountain on the right.

A man-made canal flows through this gap and flows into the Paradise Lake.

After several months of emergency repairs, the canal, which is only 10 kilometers long and not of high standard, has been officially opened.

Zhu Jingyuan's car also stopped here.

After the group got off the bus one after another, Zhu Jingyuan stretched out his hand and pointed to the gap in the mountain on the right side, and said to the French designers:

"On this hill, a castle was designed and built, and a palace was built at the foot of the hill by the lake.

"Whether it's a castle or a palace, the goal is to live comfortably."

In the Middle Ages, the main function of the castle was not to live.

Rather, when necessary, to avoid the riots that often occurred in the Middle Ages.

When a civil revolt broke out, they went up to the mountain to live in the castle, and when the limelight had passed in a few months, they came down the mountain.

If the overall social situation is stable, the Tessie nobles will not go to live in the castle on the hill.

The inside of the mountain is cold and damp, the light is very dim, and you may need to light candles during the day.

Not to mention the living facilities, there is no electricity and no other power source.

The key is the water source, and the castle is usually on the highest peak of a mountainous area, with no way to connect to springs and streams.

It is also extremely difficult to dig a well, after all, the castle is on a mountain, and to dig a well is to dig a mountain.

What's more, some castles are built on stone, and there is no way to dig wells normally.

In addition, the water source at that time was seriously polluted, and the old men of the Middle Ages often used low-alcohol wine instead of water.

After the Renaissance, the nobles gradually stopped pursuing the fortress on the mountain.

Began to get more and more accustomed to living on the plains.

The Palace of Versailles is also a new palace at the foot of the mountain.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that these French craftsmen directly brought the drawings of the Palace of Versailles.

Now Zhu Jingyuan is going to build a palace at the bottom of the mountain, and at the same time build a small castle on the top of the mountain.

However, the castle is no longer designed to defend against outcasts, but rather to live comfortably.

The French designers and craftsmen immediately started to write down Zhu Jingyuan's direct request with notes on the spot.

Then, according to the exploration map provided by Daming, confirm more actual conditions on the site, and prepare for the design of castles and palaces.

(End of chapter)