"Then let's start with the place where the chamberlain and the maid live. Wang Chengen said, took out a piece of jade talisman and put some of the materials on the square into it, and left.

Wang Chengen is a great eunuch, and He Shen served as a third-class guard in the Forbidden City, while Yan Wu is a small common man with little knowledge, so he beckoned to the army experts in military uniforms, "This time I will trouble everyone." ”

The experts suppressed the excitement in their hearts and said politely, "No, no, no, it's not bad to be lucky enough to come over and gain knowledge." ”

Yan Wu knew that there were all kinds of experts among them, all of whom came to explore the way for the Great Xia army to build a base near the Daming Jingshi, and he was also responsible for the construction of the main control center, monitoring station and injection station of the Great Xia satellite here, as well as the launch of more than 20 satellites of various types. Now the renovation of the Forbidden City is a piece of cake for these experts, and Daxia has already had corresponding research institutions come up with various plans.

After Chongzhen and Empress Zhou saw the prosperity of Great Xia, their concepts have also changed greatly, although they knew and agreed to the Forbidden City reconstruction project plan designed by Great Xia, but the specific implementation, I also want to see it, so I naturally follow behind. The princes and daughters, harem concubines, and attachés and courtiers were arranged to return to their respective resting places.

Reluctantly, the princes and princesses were also excited, because it would soon be their turn to be modified by the Star Monarchs. More than a week of modern life in Daxia made them completely reluctant to abandon it.

During the peak period of the palace maids and chamberlains of the Ming Dynasty, the number of people was as high as 10,000, and it was obvious that they could not all live in the Forbidden City. The guards are all innocent children, and they will not live in the Forbidden City, and will only go to work in the Forbidden City when they are on duty, so those who can have a resting place in the Forbidden City are all guards within the forbidden gate, they can be regarded as the emperor's personal bodyguards, and only officials above the second rank can enter and exit here.

If you can't live in the palace, where can you live?

Living in the north of Jingshan, entering the palace in the morning, and leaving the palace at night before the palace door is locked, except for the attendants on duty. The palace maids are mostly divided into three shifts a day, each shift is eight hours, and when it is their turn to go to work, they can only enter the palace by showing their waist cards.

Among the palace maids and chamberlains, there are some important seats or the emperor and queen, the prince and the princess, and the harem concubines, they will live in the palace. The personal palace maid mainly serves the master's daily life, eats and lives with the master of each palace, and lives in a matching room or ear room close to the master's bedroom, so as to be summoned at any time. The other rooms and warehouses are always at the beckon, and they live in the alleys north of the Forbidden City.

Yan Wu followed the team all the way to the north, he really hadn't been to the Forbidden City of Daming, he felt smaller than Daxia, and it was also a little dilapidated, and there were many traces of burning knives on those red walls, so you can imagine how tragic the battle was more than 20 days ago, and the war had extended to the Forbidden City, and there was a desperate fight between the red walls and golden tiles.

"In fact, what the Forbidden City needs most is a modern central treatment system for electricity, gas and water circulation. With this system, the halls and rooms of the Forbidden City can be used as supporting modules, and they can be modified and placed on them at will, which is much simpler~" An expert whispered.

Yan Wu waved his hand, "Then build!" In the past few days, you have taken turns to rest, and I and the Earth Prisoner and the Earth Slave Xingjun have been working day and night to strive for the early completion of the project and give Daming a surprise." ”

As he spoke, when he arrived at his destination, Yan Wu saw rows of low houses, leaning against the red wall, which reminded him of the previous livestock shed.

When I opened the door of a room, there was a foul smell, the door was closed all the year round, the light and air were not circulated, and the chamberlains and palace maids did not often take a bath, so the smell inside was really not good.

Yan Wu could naturally shield off these strange smells as he wanted, and curiously stepped forward to look, only to see that there was a large bunk in the house, which was obviously a sleeping place, and it seemed that the chamberlain and the palace maid were living in the same room. The difference is that there are rows of shelves nailed to the walls, and in some places there are some personal objects and small boxes, which may contain money and goods from the master's rise, but the environment is really not good.

"Whoever owns everything, take back the money and what is necessary, don't ask for anything else, and immediately distribute all new ones in the palace. This row will be dismantled immediately, and whoever has something in it will come and get it immediately. Wang Chengen beckoned a small chamberlain and gave a few orders. The little chamberlain suddenly shouted a few words at the scene, and it didn't take long for dozens of chamberlains to run over in a hurry, and after giving a salute, they went in and took out their baggage.

After half a ring, Wang Chengen waved his hand, "Demolish!"

He Shen nodded, put his hands together, and suddenly a chain phantom jumped out of his body, and instantly scurried towards the hundred-meter-long low house.

Yan Wu felt that his clothes had been pulled, and when he looked back, he was a short white-bearded expert, and suddenly remembered the entrustment from Daxia's side, and hurriedly called, "Please be careful, these bricks and tiles, what Daxia still wants, are rare and good things." ”

He Shen smiled, "I've long remembered it in my heart, and I can't forget it." ”

Why did the bricks and tiles in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty ask for them? One is because they are expensive, and the second is because they are really rare.

There are three major halls in the Forbidden City: the Huangji (Taihe) Palace, the Zhongji (Zhonghe) Palace, and the Jianji (Baohe) Palace, they are the palaces used by the emperor to exercise power or hold grand ceremonies, all of which are the essence of the Han palace architecture, with the main hall as the main body, and the French style of symmetry is adopted to arrange the halls, pavilions, pavilions, corridors, pavilions, doors and other buildings.

There is an old saying in the capital of Great Xia, "The land in the three major halls of the Forbidden City is made of gold bricks." "But as a famous tourist attraction, the Forbidden City of Great Xia receives 16 million tourists every year, and it can be said that many people have seen the real appearance of the floor tiles in the three major halls of the Forbidden City, which are not golden, but blue-gray. The surface is smooth as if it has been polished by water, a bit like a dark blue stone, and it must not have anything to do with gold bricks anyway.

But why do the common people say that it is a gold brick? Because this kind of floor tile is worth 400,000 Daxia coins each! The reason is that its craftsmanship is really rare, and it takes more than two years to make a brick alone. Why is it so expensive? In addition to the loss of the production process, it is also because this kind of brick knocks soundly, there are no holes in the break, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it can control watermelon.

The soil used to make bricks must be clay from a special place in the Gusu region, and this kind of soil must be dried for a year before it can lose its "soil nature".

After that, brick making requires repeated stepping on the mud, removing the bubbles in the clay to become a dense mud mass, which is repeatedly beaten and dried in the shade after being loaded into the mold. The process of drying in the shade also takes seven months, and finally it can be fired in the kiln.

Then it is fired, first smoked with bran grass for a month to remove the moisture in the mud embryo, then slowly heated, burned with a piece of firewood for a month, burned with a firewood for a month, and finally burned with pine branch firewood for 40 days before leaving the kiln. Finally, when the kiln is released, it must be soaked in good tung oil, and finally the surface is very shiny, and the task is completed. In this way, from the soil to the bricks, the time spent on the above processes is more than two years!

After all, this is a brick to enter the three major halls, so how can it enter the eyes of the Ming Emperor if it is not so refined. In addition, these bricks also need to go through strict inspection, each kiln can produce no more than 7,000 bricks at a time, if a batch of bricks is found to have 6 pieces of bricks do not meet the established requirements, this batch of bricks must be invalidated, and re-fired.

So the back of these gold bricks not only has the year name, but also the name of the craftsman, and each square brick has its own origin.

In the history of Great Xia, the Forbidden City bore the brunt of the wars, and many places were in disrepair, the most important thing is that they could not find good materials and craftsmanship, and the craftsmen were lost. So when I learned that the Ming Emperor needed to renovate the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, the happiest thing was not the banks of Daxia, but the Forbidden City Museum of Daxia, and finally I could find the materials that met the repair, so this time I specially sent experts to prepare to take over the replacement materials.

Although the materials used in the places where the chamberlains and palace maids live are not as particular as those in the main hall, they are also good materials for folk tribute, which is rare to see.

Bricks, tiles, door rails, window frames, cornices, carved beasts, cross beams...... These things that don't pull a few things in Daming Land are all good treasures that money can't get in the world.

Looking at the complete decomposition of a row of Daming chamberlains, the bricks, stones, wood, tile carvings, doors and windows were neatly arranged, the experts were so excited that tears came down, and they muttered, "Good things~Good things~"

Since it is a good thing, there is no free to say, the unjust head of the reconstruction of the Forbidden City of Daming this time, in addition to the Daxia Bank, is the Forbidden City Museum of Daxia, and it has raised the grade by one level.

After a few moments, the rows of low houses of hundreds of meters were broken down to the ground, leaving the ground with bare floor tiles.

Under the guidance of experts, a trench was opened on the ground, and all kinds of pipes and pipelines were buried, as the first project of the Ming Dynasty to enter the modernization, all of which seemed so unreal in the eyes of the Ming people.

As a substitute for a low house, what was it? When long containers flew out of the jade pendant in Yan Wu's hand, everyone was stunned.

In Daming, no one would have thought that the original house could also be built without wood and masonry~

That's right, the house that Daxia Bank gave to the waiters and palace maids in the Forbidden City of Daming is a beautiful high-end container modular mobile house.

This kind of modular house that can be assembled and superimposed at will to form any function was taken by Queen Zhou at a glance, a container, high configuration, all electrical appliances and furniture in place, but 30,000 Xia coins, and other functional modules are cheaper, and they were immediately adopted by Queen Zhou, who likes to be clean and hygienic, and is ready to provide them to the inner guards, chamberlains, and palace maids as a place to rest and live.

This 20-square-metre apartment container is divided into two sections, with a common area at the left end and a rest area at the right end. The common area at the entrance has a shoe cabinet, vanity sink and mirrored cabinet, where one stands with his back to the bright window and door. Next to it is a small room with a bathroom and a long hallway, followed by two private small bedrooms. Each bedroom has a wardrobe, locker, single bed and a small table and chairs. Small tables and chairs can be stowed away, there are shelves on the wall, air conditioner and TV, and there is even a tall clothes pole running high above. The high space gives this private space an infinite design, and there are even flower stands and small fish tanks in the bedroom.

On the outer side of the container is a row of translucent windows, and there are also several windows in the two private rooms, but each has a curtain, so you can't see the inside when you close the outside.

Although a container can accommodate four people, as long as the single bed is changed to a high and low bed, Queen Zhou, who is full of confidence in Daming, still proposed to use a single configuration, because it is these loyal palace maids and chamberlains who guard the royal blood of Daming at the last moment. With the fusion of the Three Realms, there will be no more wars in the Ming Dynasty, and it is time for them to accept the royal grace.

The advantage of the container is that it can be accumulated upwards, one layer, two layers, or even three layers, so that the limited ground area can be utilized. With the consent of Emperor Chongzhen, a two-tier container was used so that it could accommodate twice as many people without being higher than the walls of the Forbidden City.

The number of chamberlains and palace maids who are qualified to live in the Forbidden City is not very large, and the total number is less than a few hundred, so the project is completed quickly, and it is good to accumulate and stack the containers one by one. As for the drainage and electricity, naturally there are professional arrangements, and almost that night, everyone can live in it.

The Forbidden City was quiet for a week, and the thick palace gate finally opened, followed by the Ouchi guards who should have changed shifts a long time ago.

Countless onlookers outside the door wanted to see something from these people.

It's been a week, and no one has gone out in the Forbidden City, so where does the food and drink come from? How to dispose of the garbage in the palace? Why is there no noise? Is the emperor okay?

If it weren't for the fact that the east, west and south gates of the Forbidden City were guarded by immortal mounts, these Ming generals would have rushed in with the boldness. Those hundred-meter-long giant beasts guarded the gate of the Forbidden City, completely suppressing the courage of everyone in the Great Ming Jingshi to the lowest point, and their own past was not enough for them to swallow in one bite, although one of them was a deer. But who can say clearly about the fairy beast? If you can't make it right, people will eat meat? Isn't the abbot of the bhikshu country in Journey to the West just a white deer?

Freshly dressed and brocade robes, when the laid-off Ouchi guards appeared in everyone's eyes with a new attitude, they immediately caused a big uproar.

This is a change from top to bottom, right?Where did the things come from?Why is the color of the brocade clothes so bright?Is it silk or silk cloth?Why has no one seen this kind of clothing?What kind of leather boots are on those feet?It looks very powerful~

Most of the Ouchi guards in the palace gate are also innocent people, and many of them are also children of the family, and they were immediately invited away on the way home.

Liu Haiming came out of Xi'an Gate and was facing Fuchengmen Street.

Liu Haiming was carrying a big bag, obviously there were a lot of good things in it, a large piece of bulging, and the people on both sides looked at the mighty guards, and they all quietly hid back, not daring to come forward to say hello, but they couldn't help but look at him, because there were too many things that the people of Jingshi had never seen. Someone discussed in a whisper, "Is this the Son of Heaven's army?" "Don't talk nonsense, this is the Ouchi guard, the military attache on an errand in the Forbidden City, it's amazing~"

Liu Haiming casually called a car, he didn't want to get the new shoes on his feet dirty, Li Chuang left a lot of horses in the Beijing Division, and Guan Ningjun didn't look down on the inferior horses, many people used them to catch the car, and it was okay to pull something. When the handlebar saw that business was coming, he immediately came over to say hello.

Liu Haiming looked at it carefully, although he didn't know this handlebar style, but his face was loyal, his hands showed the skin outside his clothes, and he knew that he had suffered a lot at a glance, and the horses were well cared for, so he sat down, and he also didn't want to stain his new clothes and pants.

"Mahayana hermitage, do you know?" Liu Haiming said.

"You know, Wudinghou Hutong, the villain is not familiar with Xicheng every day these days?"

"Okay, let's go~"

The carriage ran on the dirt road, and the handlebars of the cart were almost like bangs.

"This official, you are dressed like this, and you came out of the palace again, you are on an errand by the side of the Son of Heaven, right?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, you can also know about the affairs of the Heavenly Family?" Liu Haiming blocked back with a word, he didn't like others to inquire about the affairs of the Ming Dynasty through him.

"No, no, no, Xiaomin was originally a common people captured by the Tartars, but when they came to the north, they became slaves on their farms, and life and death were worse than death, and their wives and children were humiliated to death by the Tartars. With the help of the immortals, the Son of Heaven went to the north, destroyed the Tartars' lair, and rescued tens of thousands of us. After returning to the south, I had the opportunity to settle down in Beijing, and I wanted to thank the Son of Heaven. "The handlebar style is still fluent, and he explained his origin in three or two clicks, not to ask about the affairs of the heavenly family.

"All is well with the Son of Heaven. These days the Jingshi is surrounded by a thick fog, is there anything going on?"

"People from outside can come in, but people from Jingshi can't get out. This Jingshi saw that there were more and more people, but there were fewer and fewer things to eat, and some of the shops were in chaos and were suppressed. Although there are no soldiers, everyone is afraid of accidents, and people's hearts are a little unstable. ”

"Don't worry, it'll be fine right away. By the way, starting at noon the day after tomorrow, the emperor will start to give meals at the three gates of the east, west and north of the imperial city, everyone has it, and you can also go to get it, to ensure that it is all good things that you have not eaten. Liu Haiming smiled.

"Really?!There is not much surplus food in the villain's house, and those who have complete wives and children are even more difficult, but the adults are serious?"

"If you go the day after tomorrow, you will know that Chengtianmen does not give food, it is the place where the imperial court does business, don't go. ”

"The villain knows~"

......

It didn't take long for the car to stop outside a small road near the Dacheng Nunnery in Wudinghou Hutong, "Official, the road inside is too narrow, and the villain's car can't get in, so please get out of the car and take two steps." The handlebar accompanies smiled apologetically.

"Okay, how much is it~"

"Don't dare to talk to the official, if you want to have extra food, just reward the villain and get over it. ”

"How do you know I have food on me?"

"The official laughs at the villain, isn't it? There is not much food in this Jingshi for a long time, and most people have one meal a day. The villain has already smelled the fragrance in the package behind the official, presumably it is all food~"

Liu Haiming smiled, he was strong in martial arts, and he was not afraid of this handlebar-style evil thoughts at all, and said with a smile, "Count your nose spirit." After saying this, he pulled open a place on his pants with his right hand, took out a finger-long object and threw it to the handlebar.

"Take it, I won't give you the car money~"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you~" The handlebar style doesn't understand why this official can take something out of his pants casually, obviously there is no pocket on it, only shiny and beautiful metal lines, and it can be opened with a pull, this is a fairy spell, right? Sure enough, there is a heavenly guard blessed by immortals.

Looking at the distant figure in the alley, the handlebar type remembered to pick up the thing that the official threw to him just now, and immediately looked at it.

Transparent, I don't know what material is in the packaging, a meat sausage with two finger thickness and middle finger length is inside, which suddenly makes the handlebar-style saliva flow, "My good boy~ This is smoked sausage, right? Oh my God, there is such a good thing! It is an object that only Tartar nobles can eat." "When he was a slave to the Tartars in the north, he saw how the Tartars made horse intestines, and the appearance was very similar to what was in his hand, except that the length of the horse sausage was more than a foot, and the thing in his hand was obviously a trumpet.

The current Jingshi is extremely short of food, not to mention things like bacon sausages, which can be exchanged for a human life when put outside.

The handlebar type stuffed the sausage into his clothes, not daring to stay in place. Let's go!

He thought of the little widow in the house he rented, and his heart suddenly itched. Her family hasn't eaten much in a few days, hehe~