On the way to Hangzhou, everyone on the train was quite solemn and in a funeral spirit. When we had lunch in the dining car, everyone was also very solemn and there was basically no chatter. Xiang Xiaoqiang said
There was no chance to find Zheng Yucong for a private chat along the way.
We arrived in Hangzhou at around five o'clock in the afternoon. Zhu Yourong led five other people to hold the coffin and slowly entered Hangzhou City with a long funeral procession. Originally, the funeral procession was reduced from more than a thousand to more than a hundred at Nanjing Station.
, the team has been greatly shortened. But now after leaving Hangzhou Station, the team has expanded to nearly a thousand people, all of whom are locals in Hangzhou, as well as celebrities of this generation from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as idle members of the royal family who came to participate.
The team walked slowly in Hangzhou for another two hours and arrived at the Royal Palace located at the foot of Ziyang Mountain by the West Lake. The burial will be held tomorrow, when they will take the train again and head northwest to the city, which is more than 30 kilometers away from the city.
Deqing County. Deqing County is on the edge of the Tianmu Mountains, where the Royal Cemetery is located.
The temporary mourning hall is located in the palace. Local people from all walks of life in Hangzhou who came to pay their respects came in one after another to pay their respects and take a look around. Although they could not go everywhere in the palace, it could still satisfy a large part of their curiosity.
After all, this is the royal palace. If it weren't for this opportunity to pay tribute, they would never have the chance to come in and take a look.
In the evening, Zhu Yourong and Zheng Gongyin, on behalf of the royal family, held a funeral banquet in the palace and in some of the best restaurants in Hangzhou. On behalf of the bereaved family, they expressed their gratitude to those who came to pay homage and mourn. That night, people who followed from Nanjing
These more than a hundred people live in the palace. Although the Hangzhou palace is not large, it is prepared for such things, so there are many guest rooms, and there is no problem at all in accommodating one to two hundred distinguished guests.
Sisters Zhu Yourong, Zhu Youmei, and the father and daughter of the Zheng family, they all have to stay overnight. Five of the six people holding the coffin are the closest relatives of King Yanping, and only the new King of Siam, Bhumibol, is an outsider.
, Logically, there was no need for him to follow the wake. But how could he let go of this opportunity? He had to come in and follow the wake. As a result, Xiang Xiaoqiang did not find a chance to talk to Zheng Yucong alone all night long.
In fact, at this time, it is extremely dangerous to talk to Zheng Yucong alone. At this time, the grandfather's body is not cold yet, he has not been buried, and he is still keeping a vigil. It would be quite dangerous if the two of them are seen alone together.
The bad.
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Xiang Xiaoqiang's current purpose is, firstly, to further enhance his relationship with Zheng Yucong and ensure that Zheng Yucong is always his and cannot run away. In addition, he also uses this to make Zheng Yucong work harder on marrying Zhu Yourong, at least to say it to Zhu Yourong often.
He said good things to keep Zhu Yourong's love for him undiminished. Another purpose was to use Zheng Yucong as a bridge to further cooperate with the Yanping King Zheng Gongyin and the entire huge Zheng family.
In addition to being the leading aristocracy in the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng family is also a very large business empire. The Zheng family controls many companies and brands, from heavy industry related to national defense, to light industry of consumer products, to commercial retail, to finance.
, and other fields, all have more or less operations. Of course, some make money and some do not. Anyway, Xiang Xiaoqiang knows that the Zheng family is one of the major wealth families in the Ming Dynasty. If all the Zheng family’s
The combined wealth is much greater than the wealth of Emperor Zhu Ming's family.
Although the emperor's family was said to be "rich all over the world" in the past, at least in today's Ming Dynasty, what belongs to the royal family and what belongs to the country are clearly stipulated in the constitution, and the wealth of the royal family can also be calculated with fingers. Zhu
There are two main parts of the family's property. One is composed of palaces, royal gardens, gardens, palaces, holiday estates, royal cemeteries, etc. real estate. The other part is the treasures of the past dynasties in the Forbidden City. Of course, there are
There are some financial and commercial investments, including the Royal Bank, and shares in many companies. But these are very few compared to the Zheng family.
What Xiang Xiaoqiang is most concerned about now is that Zheng Gongyin himself owns a large mining company. It mainly engages in the exploration and mining of various non-ferrous metals. Recently, it seems that he also intends to enter oil mining and go to Pachia Island to share a share with Daming Nanyang Petroleum Company.
Soup. And non-ferrous metal deposits and petroleum deposits are exactly what Xiang Xiaoqiang is thinking about now. The mining plan in his mind that has been on hold for a long time is now ready to be put into action.
To be honest, he is not short of money. His main focus is on power, love, and the dream of the Northern Expedition. Even if he is given another 100 million yuan, he will still live like this. But he deeply understands that in a world
In a country governed by the rule of law, money can do many things that power cannot do. When a person is as wealthy as the country, even if he does not hold any public office, he can have an impact on the decision-making and direction of the entire country. And the only thing that can do it is
The method by which Xiang Xiaoqiang could become as rich as the enemy in a few years was the mining project.
Xiang Xiaoqiang has been in Ming Dynasty for half a year. During these six months, through hard work and luck, he has climbed to a higher status, with great power and more wealth. Of course, it is just "more" wealth.
His total wealth is only a few million, which is just a small shrimp in the Ming Dynasty where there are many rich people. But anyway, now he finally has the capital to implement the mining plan, and he also has the ability to protect himself. He thinks that now
It's the best time.
There is another very important purpose. Xiang Xiaoqiang has a feeling that the unification war against the Northern Qing Dynasty will not last long. During this time, the Ming Dynasty needs more wealth and more strategic materials. There is basically no oil worth exploiting in the Ming Dynasty.
, this can only be used from Nanyang for the time being. But those mineral deposits, those iron, copper, aluminum, tungsten, manganese... and gold, silver, which are crucial to the victory or defeat of the war, are under Xiang Xiaoqiang's control. Painted in later generations
Xiang Xiaoqiang estimates that 20% of the densely packed mineral deposits on the China Mineral Distribution Map have been developed by the Ming Dynasty, which is pretty good. Now, it’s time to wake them up from their slumber.
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The next day, the royal funeral procession escorted the coffin onto the train and drove northwest to the Deqing County Royal Cemetery. They arrived in less than an hour.
Hangzhou is located at the southernmost point of the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The plains end here. To the north and east is the Jiangnan Plain with dense water network, and to the south and west are the mountains of Zhejiang. To the south is Kuaiji Mountain and to the west is Tianmu Mountain.
A large mountain range that stretches for hundreds of kilometers. It starts from Hangzhou and goes south to Guangdong for thousands of kilometers. There are no plains anymore, it is all endless mountains.
The Ming Dynasty Royal Cemetery is not like the martyrs' cemeteries and cemeteries of later generations, where a piece of land is specially enclosed and green cypress trees are planted. This kind of royal cemetery has a feeling similar to a "national park", covering a large area.
And it is open. From Deqing County to Anji County, the mountainous area of dozens of square kilometers all belongs to the scope of the royal cemetery. The tombs of every emperor, concubine, and prince in the past dynasties will occupy a small area here, and the tombs and
The distance between the mausoleums is very far, and there is a beautiful mountainous area in the middle. The royal family has a special organization to take care of each mausoleum, but the mountains and forests between the mausoleums are still open, and people from the surrounding villages can also go in to collect medicine and hunt. But they cannot
It's just farming here.
The Emperor's Mausoleum of the Southern Ming Dynasty is no longer as majestic as the Thirteen Tombs of the Northern Ming Dynasty. It cost a huge amount of money and has been much reduced in scale. However, it still consists of smaller underground palaces and above-ground buildings, which maintain the most basic conditions of the Emperor's Mausoleum.
.Especially in the past hundred years, due to the availability of explosives and cement, the cost of building mausoleums in mountainous areas and excavating underground palaces in mountains has been reduced a lot. It is no longer a waste of time and money to build an imperial mausoleum and the national treasury.
Empty.
First, the wooden coffin of King Yanping was slowly placed into the stone coffin, and then the coffin was filled with special moisture-proof and antiseptic materials. Finally, a heavy stone coffin cover was put on it. A photographer and a group of people were selected to enter.
The photographer carefully carried the video camera and camera and took pictures with a solemn expression.
There are many lamps and candles lit in the cool and humid underground palace, and countless flames are swaying. The underground palace is brightly lit. Burial objects and treasures have been placed in some specific locations of the underground palace.
Finally, the time came to close the underground palace. Everyone came out of the underground palace, and then a crane was set up to lift the giant stone and slowly put it into the entrance of the corridor. At this point, the entire underground palace was completely closed. Royal Cemetery Engineering Company
Several employees dressed in mourning clothes solemnly and solemnly put cement on the edges of the boulders and corridors to seal the gaps. Several cameras around them occasionally flashed their spotlights. At this point, the work of the mausoleum contractor was completely completed and the entire burial was completed.
it's over.
There were many people attending the funeral, but there were very few people who could actually follow them into the bottom palace and see the coffins and funeral objects placed, no more than ten. Because of Xiang Xiaoqiang's status and his influence with Zhu Yourong and Zheng Gongyin.
, he became one of the few people who could enter the underground palace. He also became one of the few people who could watch the Ming Dynasty royal funeral in full.
In later generations, he could only imagine the scene when ancient emperors were buried through archaeological programs on TV and introductions by tour guides at tourist attractions. But he did not expect that now, in the Ming Dynasty in the 1930s, he could still see
To see an emperor buried in such a well-preserved and original style is like looking at a living fossil.
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On the train back to Nanjing, everyone seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief, and they were not holding their bags like when they arrived. Many big shots were chatting easily, and they were also carrying coffee and tea as they shuttled through the carriages.
Find the person you want to find.
Xiang Xiaoqiang saw an opportunity coming.
He first asked Hu Jiong to go to the carriage of the royal nobles to find Shi Shi Ge Ge. The Fourteen Ge Ge was his subordinate and the backbone of the Xiang Party. Xiang Xiaoqiang and Shi Shi Ge Ge would not attract attention when they met. After a while, Shi Shi Ge Ge
Four grids are coming.
Then, Xiang Xiaoqiang asked Shi Shigege to go and see where Zheng Yucong was and what he was doing. If it was convenient, could he invite Zheng Yucong to have tea in the dining car?
Shi Shigege looked at him rather suspiciously. But he explained to Xiaoqiang that because he was about to purchase military vehicles, he planned to consider Yuhuacong Company. Because Yuhuacong was owned by Zheng Yucong, so now he wanted to first
Secretly communicate with Zheng Yucong.
Because Shi Shi Ge Ge didn’t know what happened on that dark and windy night, nor did she know that Zheng Yucong’s stocks had been stolen by Stomachache that night. So this argument seemed reasonable to her. Fourteen