Zhang Yan shook her head. Now that the royal family is not short of money, has not encountered any crisis, and has no place to seek help from Xujiazhuang, why would she go to Harbor City to see Fang Qingyan's face?
As for Xu Yuan's disciple, although he is easier to talk to and offers a lot of cooperation projects and benefits, he always looks at me with a rather rude look, and he still can't have too much contact with him.
Sooner or later something will happen.
"Sister-in-law, there is actually something very important that makes it necessary for us to go there."
Zhou Yufeng thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty and I both believe that the royal family should increase cooperation with Xujiazhuang, establish a closer relationship, and learn better from Xujiazhuang, so the royal family plans to build a hotel less than ten miles south of Harbor City.
, build a royal palace, covering an area of hundred acres, and will build a main building called the "Red Castle", which is nineteen stories high. Later, when Cixiang, Nainao and the others were studying in Harbor City (now all year round)
(Study in Harbor City), live in this royal palace, and will not return to the capital until the end of the year holiday, so if I want to see them, I can stay in the Red Castle and study with them for a while."
"Royal Sister-in-law, this royal palace will cost at least tens of millions of silver dollars to build. The layout and decoration style inside need to be checked by someone. Moreover, the royal palace has already broken ground. How will the subsequent construction be like? Someone needs to come over.
Be an overseer and keep an eye on it, otherwise the royal family will suffer a big loss if they spend so much money but the accommodation is not very comfortable."
In fact, Zhou Yufeng lied.
The royal family did not invest a penny in the project of royal palace.
It was all paid out of Xu Yuan's private pocket, and the estimated cost is not just tens of millions of silver dollars, but far more than that, because the supporting facilities, decoration, home appliances and furniture, etc., are not inferior to the White Castle and must be provided with the most beautiful
The most comfortable living environment, in order to win the heart of a beautiful woman, and the sincerity of licking a dog... No, it cannot be described as licking a dog. After all, a licking dog cannot catch up with the goddess, but he built the most luxurious gold cage for the goddess.
As long as the beauty lives in it, there is no way she can fly away. Xu Yuan feels that he is a clever hunter.
In order to cooperate with the conspiracy, Zhou Yufeng could only lie without exception. She knew the weakness of the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan, which was that she was sensitive to money. She also knew the importance of money to the royal family and the Ming Dynasty. She was aware of this aspect.
Very high. After all, money is the core guarantee for maintaining the stability of rule.
"The royal palace costs tens of millions? How can you and the emperor spend money carelessly?"
Sure enough, Zhang Yan immediately said angrily: "It's not even necessary to renovate the palace, and Cixi and others went to Xujiazhuang to study abroad to learn advanced knowledge and then use it to reform the Ming Dynasty, not to stay in Harbor City for a long time as hostages.
Yes, this royal palace is unnecessary. Cancel this project quickly and don’t waste precious funds.”
"The foundation has been laid, it's impossible to cancel."
Zhou Yufeng said: "Besides, Xu Yuan personally gave instructions to grant the land and promised to provide a batch of photovoltaic power generation panels, home appliances and other items at a 50% discount. If we cancel this project, wouldn't we completely offend Xu Yuan?
What's more, with Xujiazhuang's current power and wealth, our royal family does not take the initiative to approach and show friendship, but instead becomes more defensive and keeps distance. This is actually even more unwise. Building a royal palace under the eyes of Harbor City is to reduce their hatred of the royal family.
Hostile."
"So this project, not only cannot be canceled, but it is very necessary!"
Zhang Yan suddenly fell into deep thought and had to admit that what Zhou Yufeng said was very reasonable and difficult for her to refute.
But the cost of tens of millions of silver dollars is still too exaggerated. There is no need to build it so luxuriously. For example, the height of the "Red Castle" is enough to have nine floors. There is no need to build nineteen floors and internal decoration.
, home appliances, furniture, etc., can all be reduced or eliminated to save construction costs.
One million silver dollars.
Save money on every aspect, one million silver dollars is definitely enough.
"Sister-in-law, if you think it's expensive, then let's go together and supervise the work on site, cut off unnecessary things, and save some money. As long as it doesn't look too shabby when it's completed," Zhou Yufeng said.
"this……"
Zhang Yan
She was immediately in a dilemma. First, she felt embarrassed about going to Harbor City and still resisted. Secondly, when she heard the word shabby, she felt that for the majesty and dignity of the royal family, it was not okay to be too shabby.
Take today's capital city as an example. After the renovation of the Imperial Palace was completed, five nine-story buildings were added, temporarily becoming the tallest landmark buildings in the capital city. However, within a few months, they were built one after another.
Ten-storey, thirteen-storey, fifteen-storey and even eighteen-storey buildings are rising from the ground. The common characteristic of these high-rise buildings is that they are all taller than the "95th Supreme Building" of the palace, and they all obviously overwhelm the palace.
One end, and it looks more majestic, as if it outshines even the emperor.
This made Zhu Youjian very angry and sent many officials and guards to demolish all these buildings for "exceeding the regulations" and not allow buildings with more than nine floors in the capital.
As a result, they met with opposition from the civil servants, and even the public opinion was overwhelmingly unsupportive and received a lot of criticism. If the emperor continues to insist on destroying the people's property, I am afraid that he will lose the support of the people even more and be judged as narrow and selfish. If the emperor wants to
Prove yourself that you can build thirty, fifty or even ninety-nine-story high-rise buildings instead of suppressing people's pursuit of a better life.
In the end, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to give up the order to demolish the building and fell into disgrace.
The imperial power was weakened.
It can be seen from this that in today's Ming Dynasty, the imperial power has declined to an extent. Those wealthy businessmen and common people are actually proud of their houses with more than nine floors. The royal family has become a reference for comparison, and they are not afraid of losing their heads at all.
What's even more outrageous is that a certain film company in Xujiazhuang has shot several historical films and TV dramas, in which actors wearing dragon robes play the role of the emperor, strutting on the screen, looking very much like the emperor, and
This kind of movie, coupled with evidence like the dragon robe, can be directly sentenced to death for the crime of treason, but even if Zhu Youjian watches these movies, his eyes will bulge, he cannot use the dragon piercing
How about the actors in robes? I have to nod and say they did a good job.
Why!
Times have really changed, and some things are no longer sacred. If we don't pay more attention to it, I'm afraid the imperial authority will weaken even more seriously.
And this requires a lot of money.
If you want to get more money, you have to deepen your cooperation with Xujiazhuang.
Therefore, the royal family has few options.
"Royal sister-in-law, just come with me. You can save some money, negotiate new cooperation, or help supervise the construction of the royal palace. There are so many things you can do, and they are all very necessary. I am the only one who can do it.
Humans can’t handle so many things, please help me.”
Zhou Yufeng took her arm and said.
"I'll think about it."
Zhang Yan said hesitantly, and there were obvious signs of loosening.
…
the other side.
Early winter, October 15th.
Liaodong Peninsula, Lushun Port, a port mainly used for military purposes, has seen a large number of unfamiliar faces come here in the past few days, including men, women, old and young.
They all traveled long distances from the north, riding traditional carriages, four-wheeled carriages, or pushing chicken carts, carrying large and small bags and large boxes of luggage. Under the escort of three thousand elite Jurchens, they traveled four or five times a day.
After walking ten miles and half a month, we slowly arrived in Lushun.
By the way, a batch of alluvial gold weighing about two hundred thousand taels was also sent over.
That's right.
This group of men, women, and children is the sincerity shown by Houjin's senior management to show their goodwill towards Xujiazhuang.
Among them, 21,452 are elderly and disabled people.
There are 18,720 children under the age of twelve.
There were 6,567 young women.
Together with 3,000 Eight Banners warriors, they will escort these old and weak women and children to Borneo in Southeast Asia. After all these family members are settled and confirmed to be OK, they will return to Liaodong by boat in the spring of next year.
That is, the total number of people is 49,739.
The total population of the Jurchen tribe is now only over 100,000, and now half of them are gone.
But didn’t I say before that I would give two as a gift?
It’s enough to have about 10,000 family members go there and try the water. The number will increase later depending on the situation. Why did so many people get sent away at once?
There are two reasons:
First, if only 20,000 are sent, the remaining 30,000 to 40,000 old and weak will still be a burden, and they are even less able to protect themselves. The Jurchens are still young and strong, and they still have to devote their time to protecting them, and it is even more difficult to protect them.
It means that the burden has not been reduced.
Secondly, these old and weak women were quite looking forward to visiting their family manor in Nanyang, and few of them made it clear that they did not want to go, because although the family manor was thousands of miles away, it was warm all year round and had abundant food.
And it can be regarded as being within the Xujiazhuang system, which is equivalent to joining Xujiazhuang. Who would object to such a good thing? So most of them showed a realistic side, which made the senior leaders of Houjin feel heartbroken.
"Woooooo~"
The whistle sounded.
Steam passenger ships sailed into the port one after another and docked slowly beside the pier. There were twenty-eight ships in total, including eight of the latest fully loaded 10,000-ton passenger ships, each of which could carry more than 3,000 passengers.
People look extremely huge and magnificent.
Put down the boat plank.
After a little preparation, these old and weak women and children lined up in a queue, picked up their luggage, and boarded these passenger ships one by one.
"Sister, will we ever return to this land in the future?"
Bumbutai, who was holding two little girls in her hands, looked back at the land of Liaodong and asked with a trace of reluctance and sadness.
"Maybe, maybe I'll never come back, who knows?"
Hai Lanzhu, who was walking in front, also looked back, but there was no reluctance in his eyes. Instead, he was full of expectation. Maybe life in Nanyang would be far more exciting than living in the bitter, cold and boring Liaodong. Besides, if possible,
She hopes to find a suitable partner to rely on in the future. She is twenty-eight years old this year, but she has been widowed for many years and has no joy in her life. Looking at her fading beauty, she often laments: How can I live my whole life?
Did you just get through it peacefully?
She has not experienced anything exciting 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 has not had time to become Huang Taiji's East Palace Dafu Jinchen Concubine
, Huang Taiji is like a dog)
Perhaps, after arriving in Nanyang, her destiny will change for the better.