Iron Dynasty

After the heavy rain, a pure blue sky emerged from the dense dark clouds, and the sun shines through the gap, which is as moving as if the sky is auspicious.

Qian Dafu looked up at the sky and said, Your Majesty, it looks like it's going to be sunny today, but I can go out. This old slave is called Zhao Long and Zhao Hu.

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard the words. He also went back and changed into a casual suit at this time. For him, he still didn't want to walk outside with great fanfare. It would be too conspicuous to wear a dragon robe.

Moreover, when he was in Qingzhou, he was used to visiting the city and outside the city from time to time. It was very uncomfortable to stay in Xingyuan every day.

When he returned to the bedroom, he stopped by to see Feiyue'er. This girl is very sleepy now, and his movement when changing clothes did not wake her up.

Preventing Xiaohuan from waking Feiyue'er, Xiao Ming went out to the south of the city under the protection of the guards.

For Xiao Ming, the ideal capital is of course Youzhou, but for him, Youzhou is still suitable as a capital for the time being. After all, the current Youzhou is poor and poor, and the infrastructure of the city is very poor.

According to Pang Yukun's words, it is a state, but in fact it is not even a county in Qingzhou.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, Xiao Ming still plans to use Qingzhou as the capital, and then consider moving the capital after the development of Youzhou, but this time is estimated to be about 20 to 30 years.

Your Majesty, there is a lot of fun outside, but our Qingzhou is getting more and more lively. Qian Dafu smiled, which made his originally small eyes become a slit.

Zhao Long said: The people here are all businessmen and wealthy families. They are very shrewd. They know that the emperor has no disadvantage. This Qingzhou is as stable as Mount Tai, and there will be no wars.

It's not just businessmen and wealthy families. During this time, there have been more refugees outside the city. The government office has set up a lot of places to cook porridge outside the city. Zhao Hu added.

Compared with before, the two of them are more energetic now. After all, they no longer talk about the palace guards, but become the imperial guards. This makes many soldiers of the Qingzhou Army envious. In the past, many people were unwilling to be this idler. of.

Xiao Ming now looks a bit like someone who was released from the detention center in the first half of the year. Since he ascended the throne, he has found that his freedom of action is far less than before.

The daily itinerary is basically the government hall, the study room, and the bedroom. The big and small things in Qingzhou City are reflected to him through the mouth of the officials, and he also conveys his will through Qian Dafu.

Suddenly, he turned into a canary in a cage, and Xiao Ming had an instinctive vigilance against this closed environment.

Being familiar with the history books, he knew very well that the emperors of all dynasties were so confused by the powerful ministers and the eunuchs around him, because everything he knew came from the mouths of others.

He can only listen to what others say, so naturally he will get a lot of untrue and opinionated information.

However, Xiao Ming is also prepared for this situation. This is the secret guard, and this is his outside eyes.

It's just that the secret guards also have their own limitations. In this era of traffic basically relying on walking, and sending orders basically relying on roaring, most of the limited secret guards are used to monitor important people, and basically people's lives cannot be reported in time.

Based on this, he has been thinking about ways to obtain real information for the past two days. After much deliberation, this problem can only be solved by allowing the newspaper to achieve fair reporting.

Just as Niu Ben was worried that Xiao Ming would let the powerful family gain power, it is now an obvious fact that every official and general has his own ideas and considerations.

For the army he can only consider the nationalization of the army.

Of course, the nationalization of the army is just a false proposition. For him, the essence of the nationalization of the army is the royal words of the army. He must ensure his absolute leadership over the army and prevent generals from turning the army into his own private army.

After all, in the future, his army will compete for colonies with Western powers, and he does not want his generals to occupy a colony and stand on their own.

As for officials, in addition to dividing two groups of mutual supervision between the DPRK and China, he is also preparing to adopt a top-down supervision model.

This model is the newspaper he thought of. After all, contemporary facts have proved that the disclosure of the media has played a very good role in exposing the corruption of officials, and it is also conducive to supervising officials.

The only shortcoming is that there is only one newspaper office in Qingzhou, which will make some newspaper articles too subjective, so he plans to establish two more newspaper offices in Qingzhou, and open two newspaper offices to businessmen at the same time.

That is to say, there will be three official newspaper offices and two private newspaper offices in Qingzhou, so that the diversified competition will allow some hidden scandals to be uncovered.

Thinking about what to do next, the group reached the south of the city unknowingly. At this time, a building complex was gradually taking shape under the work of the construction camp.

He is more concerned about the palace, which may live in the palace for twenty or thirty years in the future, so the design of the palace is basically from his own hands. In addition to the formal buildings, there are secret passages for escape and the like.

Of course, the original intention of the design is to give the palace some modern flavor, so the construction of the palace uses a large number of brick and wood structures. Compared with the pure wood structure, this structure is much stronger. build time.

After all, using red bricks to build a wall is much easier than a carpenter's job, and among these red bricks, he also asked the craftsman to reserve a porcelain pipe, which will be reserved for future wiring.

It is precisely based on this simple and simple design that the construction speed of the palace is unprecedented. According to this way, it only takes eight months to move in. According to the normal speed, the palace cannot be built in five years and ten years.

Your Majesty, this construction camp is really good. This old slave has never seen a palace built like this in such a short period of time.

At this time, the construction of the city wall and the palace gate of the palace had been completed, and the city wall was also dyed red. A group of people entered along the palace gate. The front was a step, and the steps went up from the bottom to the front of the Zhengdaguangguang Hall.

This Zhengdaguangguang Hall is the place where the palace discusses its affairs. The reason why it was named Zhengdaguangguang is to always alert the officials.

Compared with the luxurious palace in Chang'an, Xiao Ming's requirements for his own palace are simple, so he didn't ask for anything like the white jade stairs, and he used whatever could be sourced locally.

This is the place where the concubines and concubines live, each with a separate courtyard. On the right side of the palace is the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is the place of the eunuchs, and on the left side is the East Palace.

In general, the general layout of his palace is somewhat similar to the palace in Chang'an, but there are also different places. This is the boiler water tower that stands in the palace.

While Xiao Ming was examining his future palace, a great change that swept the Yan Kingdom quietly occurred.