Zhuo Qihua

In the early morning of summer, when the sun was just getting bright, the gate of Xixiang City opened, and people who had already been waiting inside and outside the gate rushed in and out of Xixiang City with their ID cards.Large caravans and convenient carriages to various places around the capital can be seen everywhere in the in and out teams.

And when a group of convoys were escorted into the city by guards on tall horses, they saw the word "Qin" printed on the four-wheeled double-headed carriage guarded in the middle, and the pedestrians, caravans and carriages who came and went gave way one after another.The curtains inside the four-wheeled carriage were drawn, and the outside could not see the situation inside the carriage through the glass windows.

At this time, in the carriage, Qin Wang Nanchen, who was about to turn 18 years old, was lying on his side on the foldable seat and sleeping.His personal bodyguard Qin Shihai and his personal eunuch Xiao Ding sat quietly in the car.When the carriage quickly entered the guarded area where Tianyu Palace was located, Xiao Ding gently pushed his master: "Your Highness, we're here, you should get up."

King Qin, who was sleeping soundly, opened his eyes.The confusion was only for a moment, and the clarity soon occupied his eyes.Sitting up, Qin Wang took the wet towel from Xiao Ding's hand, wiped his face to make himself more awake, then handed the towel to Xiao Ding, took the cup and rinsed his mouth.Qin Shihai has already taken the coat.After a brief wash, King Qin put on his coat, and Xiao Ding tidied his hair. When the motorcade arrived at the gate of the palace, he was already fully dressed.

Qin Shihai got out of the carriage and showed his ID to the palace gate guard.The guards didn't let it go immediately because it was King Qin's carriage.King Qin lifted the curtain of the car to reveal his face, and also took out his ID card.The guards checked that there was no mistake, and also checked that there was no unidentified person in the car, and then let the king of Qin pass after saluting.King Qin's guards stayed outside the palace, and only his two-headed four-wheeled carriage, which symbolized his status, was able to drive into the palace gate.

Xiao Ding was very excited.Since the completion of the Tianyu Palace, every time he returned to Beijing with His Highness, he just had a quick look around. This time His Highness would probably stay in the capital, and he would have enough time to appreciate the grandeur of the Tianyu Palace.

Tianyu Palace was prepared for construction in October, 15th year of Yongan. In April, 16th year of Yongan, Emperor Yongan officially decreed that the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Households, Ministry of Officials, and the Construction Engineering Branch of the Academy of Sciences jointly recruited [-] corvees. It took three years to complete the construction, followed by another two years to perfect the details.The location of Tianyu Palace is more than a hundred miles away from Dongluo City. After Tianyu Palace is completed, Tianyu Palace will be used as the center of the inner city to create a new city, Xixiang City.The entire Xixiang City is completely different from Dongluo City in terms of layout and architecture.

From Tianyu Palace to ordinary houses in Xixiang City, [-]% of them are concrete buildings, and the remaining [-]% ​​are wooden structures, and all wooden structures are mostly ornamental buildings.The roads in the entire Xixiang City are all paved with cement or new blue bricks, and the roads in the city are also finely divided into roadways and sidewalks.Compared with Xixiang City, Dongluo City is disordered and messy.The land in Xixiang City and its surrounding areas is extremely expensive.New high-rise buildings and luxurious villas are still topics that people talk about.In Xixiang City, there are no ordinary carriages or sedan chairs at all, and all the four-wheeled carriages of different sizes run on the road.

The area of ​​Xixiang City is more than three times that of Dongluo City.Xixiang City is divided into inner and outer cities, and the outer city is divided into four districts, namely Donglin District, Xiyang District, Nanying District and Beidao District.

Donglin District is the commercial center of Xixiang City, and also the location of embassies from overseas countries.The most prestigious Baozhilin Pharmacy in Beijing moved to Donglin District.

Xiyang District is an area where culture and education are concentrated. The Bailao Theater, Taiyuan Academy, Royal Military Academy, Royal Medical College, Royal Institute of Technology, Royal Business School and Royal University, which were relocated from the original Dongluo City, are well-known institutions of higher learning at home and abroad. are located here.

Both Nanying District and Beidao District are concentrated residential areas.There are convenient transportation and living service areas here.There are also corresponding basic education schools.Nanying District is an area where dignitaries live, and it can be regarded as an area for nobles and rich people.Most of the people living in Beidao District are ordinary people.Most of the ordinary inns and restaurants for merchants and tourists are located in Beidao District.Most of the high-end inns and restaurants with star ratings are located in Donglin District.

Most of the residences in Nanying District are villas or private garden-style mansions, and there are also a few high-end apartments.Some of these houses can be bought and sold freely, while others only have the right to use them.Two-thirds of the property rights here belong to the royal family.The residences owned by the high-ranking officials who live here are granted by the emperor, and they need to return the house after they retire. Unless the emperor orders the house to be donated to a certain minister, then the property rights of the house belong to the minister.

For example, the Gonglin Mansion of the Sui Dynasty, the Xingle Hou Shi Mansion, the Chang'an Hou Qin Mansion, the Changding Hou Pan Mansion, and the Hai Mansion of the retired Chief Assistant Hai Shizhang are all imperial residences, and the property rights belong to each of them.Even if they leave the court in the future, this high-end residence they own is their private property, and the emperor will not take it back.And those who live in Nanying District but only have the right to use the house, those who have money will buy a house in Donglin District or Xiyang District, and those who have little money will also buy a high-rise commercial house in Beidao District.Officials in the Mata country have high salaries and housing subsidies. Even small officials who have just joined the job can pay a down payment after saving for a few years and take out a loan to buy a small house in Beidao District.

The inner city is centered on Tianyu Palace, the imperial palace, and is divided into two parts: the imperial palace and the imperial city.The imperial palace is the Tianyu Palace, and the imperial city is the place where the emperor's relatives live.The mansions of King Wu Shao, King Xianyi, King Qin and King Qi who have already left their palaces to build mansions are all in the imperial city.In the future, when the princes reach the age to leave the palace and build a mansion, they will also live in the imperial city.

The Tianyu Palace of the Imperial Palace has expanded from the original three divisions of Tianshou Palace to the current seven divisions.The "Daxing Palace" where the princes studied and lived before leaving the palace.The "Danyang Palace" where the Yong'an Emperor's Empress Palace is located.The "Jiumo Palace" is a place for entertainment and shopping for noble masters in the palace.The "Cardinal's Palace" where the various administrative agencies of the country are located.The "Zijin Palace" where the Royal Foreign Office is located.The Royal Kindergarten, the Royal Grand Theatre, the Royal Martial Arts Field, the Royal Gymnasium, the Royal Guild Hall, and the Royal Racecourse are all located in Zijin Palace.The last division is the "Constellation Palace" where the royal guard training, the imperial ancestral temple, the East Fourth Institute, the Lenggong and some miscellaneous departments are located.

The West Third Academy, which originally existed in Danyang Palace as the location of the draft, and the location of the Leng Palace, which had had concubines and attendants, were all moved into Xingxiu Palace.The West Third Hospital also changed its name to Baihua Palace.In the emperor's draft in the future, it is impossible for Duanmu, the show girl entering the palace, to have the opportunity to meet the emperor before officially entering the emperor's harem.The distance between Xingxiu Palace and Danyang Palace is unknown. Emperor Yong'an hated the West Third Academy extremely, and he would not draft again, so he just left the draft place far away, so don't block his eyes.As for whether the future emperor will move Baihua Palace back to Danyang Palace, that's not something he needs to worry about.

The headquarters of Zhuoyuan Trading Company moved out of the imperial palace and was located in the imperial city.The largest building complex consisting of 3 to 5 floors in the imperial city is where the headquarters of Zhuoyuan Commercial Bank is located.Every month, Huangguixie, Deguixie, Xiguifei, Mingyu, Zhaoyan, Chunyan, Zhuangbi, and Jingfei have four opportunities to leave the palace and go to the headquarters of Zhuoyuan Commercial Bank to work.Concubine Zhuang and Concubine Jing, who had always been low-key and decent in the harem, got permission from the empress to enter Zhuoyuan Business to work for His Majesty.Concubine Xiao and Concubine Wen are in charge of the operation of the Royal Kindergarten and do not participate in the affairs of Zhuoyuan Commercial Bank.

Today, Zhuoyuan Commercial Bank covers hundreds of commercial projects, and its monthly profits and turnover are astronomical.The construction of Tianyu Palace cost a total of tens of millions of taels of silver, but the household department only provided 100 million taels of silver, most of which came from the private treasury of Emperor Yong'an and the profits of the Zhuoyuan Commercial Bank.The Zhuoyuan Commercial Firm has long been on the right track, and Zhuo Ji has long since ceased to be involved in the firm's affairs. His energy is entirely devoted to medicine and education.In recent years, with the strengthening of the country's national strength, it has increased its investment in basic education.Not to mention all parts of the country, but basic education schools have been set up in most parts of the country. Children who have reached the age of 5 can enroll for 5 years for free, and after 5 years, they can take an exam and enter a higher school.Tuition fees are required for continued admission, but for those students with excellent academic performance, the school can encourage scholarships.

As far as Mata country is concerned, the implementation of 9-year compulsory education is still a long way to go, but it is not difficult to achieve.And today's students no longer take the imperial examination to become an official in the court as their lifelong pursuit.They have more choices.They can go to medical school and become a doctor after graduation.You can enter a military academy, become a military attache after graduation, or enter a military industrial research institute.You can enter the Institute of Technology, and enter the Academy of Sciences or related institutions after graduation.You can enter the Royal Business School and enter the Commerce Department under the Ministry of Households after graduation.You can also enter the Royal University and study agronomy, animal husbandry, drama, linguistics, horticulture, tea art, cloth art and other disciplines. After graduation, you have the opportunity to enter the yamen directly under the imperial court, and you can also choose corresponding institutions. The employment opportunities are also very wide.And the students who graduated from these majors, the best of them can still become important ministers of the court.

In today's Mata country, passing the imperial examination is no longer the only way to gain status and identity.Today, none of the special-level and first-level researchers in the Fourth Academy has the same identity, status, and treatment as a first-rank official.They can even break the rules and enter the court as officials.Those important officials of the imperial court can live in luxury houses in Nanying District, and these researchers are also eligible to be allocated luxury houses. They also have enough income to buy high-end houses in the East and West Districts.Those who can marry or marry into the Academy of the Fourth Academy are not enviable.Students without professional knowledge are not as popular as those with strong professionalism when they become officials in the court.It can be foreseen that in the near future, the imperial examination system in Mata will undergo a leap-forward change.

Qin Wang and Qi Wang were allowed to go out of the palace to build a mansion when they were 14 years old.It's just that Qin Wang had just left the palace, and before he was familiar with his mansion, he was sent to the Fourth Army in the Northwest by an imperial decree from his father.After two major reforms in the military system of the Mata State, there are no longer such individualized troops as the Cangnan Army and the Lin Family Army.Matata's military is divided into three major branches: Army, Navy and Air Force.Among them, the army is divided into five armies from the first to the fifth according to the southeast, northwest, and middle, and then divided into five auxiliary armies.The highest military attache of each major service in the sea, land and air is a general, and each general will be transferred to defense after ten years of appointment.If sacrificed in battle, the lieutenant will take over temporarily.

King Qin was sent to the Fourth Army for training when he was 14 years old, starting as a soldier.When King Qi turned 14 two years later, he was also sent by his father to practice in the Third Army in the Southwest by an imperial decree.King Qin went there for 4 years, during which only Tianshou Festival and Changqing Festival were able to come back according to the order.In recent years, Mata country's military input has been mainly in the Third Army and Fourth Army.The third army fought against Qi Xuanguo, and the fourth army fought against the northern barbarians.Against the northern barbarians, the fourth army can be said to be devastated, and now the northern barbarians have been driven to the desolate land further north.The former northern barbarian king Yelu Longshu and his prince Yelu Zongyi had already died under the gunfire of the Mata army.Now the northern barbarians are falling apart, struggling to survive after losing their original land.

In the southwest region, the Mata country landed from the sea and invaded the Qi Xuan country, which constantly harassed the southwest frontier defense.Relying on the firearms suitable for jungle warfare researched by the Military Industry Research Institute, the Third Army cooperated with the Mata State Navy to invade Qixuan State by land.Last year, the monarch of Qi Xuan was captured and Qi Xuan surrendered.In the northwest, after the threat of the northern barbarians was completely eliminated, the Mata country opened the road to transnational commerce on land.The development of land and sea trade routes has brought greater economic growth to the country.Today's Mata country is no exaggeration to describe it as the coming of all nations.At a time when most countries in the world are still living a primitive life, Mata country has entered "modernization".

In four years, King Qin quickly grew from a soldier who concealed his life experience to a captain.This is his own hard earned combat exploits.Of course, these military exploits were also obtained with the scars on his body.King Qi also participated in the battle in the third army, and this time he also received an imperial edict from his father, calling him back to Beijing.However, the southwest is farther from the capital than the northwest, and King Qi is still on the road at this time.

Emperor Yong'an sent King Qin's escort to the Fourth Army to pick him up, which was some kind of signal.The general of the Fourth Army knew that King Qin would not come back this time when he returned to Beijing.On the contrary, Emperor Yong'an did not send King Qi's escort to the third army to pick him up and return to Beijing.

Tianyu Palace was too big, King Qin's carriage drove for another quarter of an hour before arriving outside the palace road of Danyang Palace.King Qin got out of the carriage, rearranged his appearance, and only brought Xiao Ding into the main gate of Danyang Palace.The Fengtian Hall of Emperor Yong'an is also more than double the size of the original Fengtian Hall, and the functional divisions are also more detailed.King Qin came to Fengtian Hall after walking a long way, and he was not surprised to learn that his father was not in Fengtian Hall.King Qin was waiting in Fengtian Hall, and a father-in-law in charge of Fengtian Hall went to Xiangfu Palace in Shunjiao to report to His Majesty that King Qin was back.

In Huayang Palace, the noble lady already knew that her son had returned.Resisting her impatience to see her son immediately, the empress first ordered the palace servants to make chicken soup for her son, and he could drink it when he came over.The eighth prince, Nan Rong Chenji, now lives in the Prince's Residence of Daxing Palace.Except for King Qin and King Qi, the other princes are very similar in age, seven or eight years older than King Qin.Now, these princes all live in the prince's residence, they can go back to Danyang Palace to spend one day with their parents every week, but they have to return to the prince's residence at night.

The eldest daughter of the emperor, Princess Changle, Nanrong Bi'er, was in her twentieth year. In that year, Emperor Yong'an decreed that she be married to an assistant professor of the Royal University.From the outside, the princess is definitely married off.But those who know the inside know that the princess and the son-in-law are in love with each other.Emperor Yong'an didn't need his daughter to marry for the Mata country, nor did he need to dislike his daughter's use of her status as a princess to contact courtiers.It is most suitable for a princess to marry a teacher who is a scholar.

Emperor Yong'an did not build a princess mansion for the princess, he re-enacted the rules for the marriage of royal heirs.When the princess and Wang Geer get married, they still retain the royal title, but they no longer build a separate Princess Mansion and Wang Geer Mansion.The real estate in the dowry does not exist as the Princess Mansion and the Wang Geer Mansion.After the princess and brother Wang get married, they will live in their husband's house. If they don't want to, they can live outside alone.The princess and Wang Geer also enjoy ordinary married life like ordinary people when they get married.The princess and Wang Geer enjoy royal treatment, and the son-in-law also has an extra salary.In a word, when the princess and brother Wang are married, there will be no extra rules except that they still have titles and royal benefits to show their extraordinary status.

Without the Princess Mansion and the Wang Geer Mansion, the son-in-law can live a normal married life with the princess and Wang Geer, which is not only conducive to the harmonious relationship between the husband and wife (husband), but also conducive to the stability of the royal family.

However, the rule that concubines cannot be officials and cannot engage in politics remains.At the same time, Emperor Yong'an also stipulated that the son-in-law could not hold important positions in the Fourth Academy, and could not serve as the principal of the academy directly under the Royal Academy.In a word, once you are married, you can take care of your husband and children with peace of mind, and don't think about using your identity to seek power and profit with your husband's family and form a party for personal gain.

The 17-year-old second princess was just married at the beginning of the year. The son-in-law is a popular drama actor in Mata country, and the second princess is a fanatic fan of the other party.The second princess' biological mother is Jin Ni, who has a low presence in the palace.Because of taking care of the Seventh Prince Nanrong Chenhu, he has a much closer relationship with Zhaodan Tong Yifeng and Chundan Qi Yiguo.Nanrong Chenhu went to the Royal Kindergarten after he was three years old. Tong Yifeng did not take back Jintong's right to take care of his son, but still allowed Jintong to take care of his son. Until now, Jintong would still make clothes for the seventh prince himself from time to time.

For this marriage, Jin Tong is hesitant, the other party is an actor no matter what.But Tong Yifeng has a high opinion of the other party.The other party is different from ordinary actors. He is also an excellent student of the Drama Department of the Royal University, and he is knowledgeable.In the future, it is very likely that he will stay in school and become a teacher of the Drama Academy.Thinking of this, Jin Ling agreed.

The third princess, the fourth princess, and the fifth princess have not yet reached the age of fifteen, and have not been married yet.However, according to Emperor Yong'an's thoughts, the husbands of these three palace lords will not be high-ranking and powerful.The fifth princess, Princess Ningguo, is the princess with the highest status in the palace, second only to the eldest princess "Princess Zhenguo".His husband's family will naturally have a higher status than the other four palace lords, but they will not be important officials of the court or core scientists of the Fourth Academy.

Ever since Concubine Xigui gave birth to a pair of children, there has been no dragon heir born in Danyang Palace.Emperor Yong'an has never been drafted again.Most of the time, Emperor Yong'an lived in Xiangfu Palace.In other palaces, Emperor Yong'an occasionally went to spend the night.Every month, he will go to the places of Huangguixie, Deguixie and Xiguifei to balance the harem.

Since Zhuo Ji left the West Third Hospital and became an official member of Emperor Yong'an's harem, 12 years have passed, and the 29-year-old Zhuo Ji has never conceived a dragon heir.Those who longed for him to give birth to dragon heirs for His Majesty gradually gave up this expectation.Emperor Yong'an was already in his forties, and even though no courtier had explicitly proposed the establishment of a crown prince, even Emperor Yong'an himself understood that the matter of the crown prince could not be delayed any longer.