The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 516 Repairing the Forbidden City

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The power of idols is infinite, and Yao Qisheng's identities as excellent students have attracted countless young people to follow suit.

As soon as Zhu Linmei's speech ended, the registration office of Gezhi Academy was already full of people.Even he himself did not expect that on the day the school was listed, more than [-] scholars came to sign up.

After leaving Gezhi Academy, seeing that it was still dark, Zhu Linmi told Shi Lin again, "It happens to be in the east of the city, and the Forbidden City has been under construction for a few days. Let's go and take a look along the way."

The north side of the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

As the sky darkened, most of the craftsmen packed up their tools and returned home, but the materials and wooden frames piled up everywhere showed that this was a busy construction site.

Due to the fact that the Forbidden City is too big, limited by time and treasury, Zhu Linmi decided to temporarily repair the palace complex on the northwest side and the section from Meridian Gate to Taihe Gate.

The former is the place where the emperor and the queen mother live, and the latter can be used as a place for court meetings, which can be said to be the most urgent place.

The reason why he took time out of his busy schedule to visit here was because the renovation of the Forbidden City was closely related to the plan to move the capital.Since the Yamen of the chief envoy was also damaged by artillery fire during the attack on Nanjing City, there was no possibility of changing the chief envoy to temporarily serve as the imperial palace, following the example of the Tianxing government.

The construction site was jointly in charge of the construction site by Xia Yuan, the head of the Department of Cleaning Up Officials of the Ministry of Industry, and an eunuch. The two were diligent, and they were still directing the craftsmen near the Chonghua Palace in the Forbidden City. When they heard that His Royal Highness the Fuzheng King was coming, they rushed to see him.

As a result, before Zhu Linming could speak, Xia Yuan said anxiously: "Your Highness, I originally planned to go to you tomorrow morning, but I didn't expect you to come first." He paused, and his tone was quite helpless, "This repair The money used... I'm afraid it won't last for three days."

"What?!" Zhu Linmi was taken aback, "I just allocated 4 taels to you five days ago, and this is all used up?!"

"Return to Your Highness," the eunuch at the side hurriedly said, "Recently, the price of golden nanmu has skyrocketed. In order to save money, the slaves and Mrs. Xia bought more than 3 taels of wood at a time, so..."

"This businessman!" Zhu Linmei asked with a frown, "Can't I use the wood next to me?"

The two looked at each other, and said with a bitter face: "Return to Your Highness, this regulation is like this, and we didn't..."

Zhu Linmi's heart hurts when she heard the words. The Longjiang Shipyard and Gezhi Academy only spent less than 5 taels in total. The Forbidden City has only been repaired in two small areas, and 4 taels have already been filled in!

"Isn't there still about 1 taels, which can only last for three days?"

"This...Your Highness doesn't know something. The bricks of the imperial kiln cost one tael of silver each, the glazed gold tiles are worth four silver coins, and each pot of paint..."

Zhu Linmei suddenly remembered that the floor tiles of the Forbidden City were auctioned at a high price of 80 in later generations. It turned out that this thing was not cheap in the Ming Dynasty.Then he waved his hand and said, "I'll transfer the money to you tomorrow, remember to save it!"

"Remember, lower officials, never dare to spread the word..."

Several people were walking while talking, at this time they were passing under the Shenwu Gate, Zhu Linmi suddenly heard a light click above her head, and then Shi Lin shouted, "Be careful!" and threw him six feet away.

The next moment, with a loud bang, a wooden beam as thick as a bucket fell on the place where Zhu Linmi was standing just now. If Shi Lin hadn't knocked him away with quick eyesight and hands, Daming might be going to attend the funeral for the assistant king tomorrow.

Shocked, Zhu Linmi looked up, and saw a figure jumping between the beams in the setting sun, and disappeared in an instant.

Shi Lin jumped up from the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Linmi, "Are you alright, sir?" Seeing that she was staring at the top of her head with unfriendly eyes, she said, "What's on it?"

"It seems that someone's figure flashed by."

Xia Yuan was so frightened that he knelt aside, and hurriedly said: "How could this happen?! The lower officials have already counted, and the craftsmen at Shenwumen have all finished their work..."

Shi Lin immediately winked at the guard beside him, "Search!"

"Yes!"

However, the personal soldiers searched the north side of the Forbidden City for a long time, but found nothing unusual.Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Zhu Linmei thought it might be her own illusion, so she ordered Shi Lin to stop searching, and told Xia Yuan to pay attention to the craftsmen not to have accidents, so she boarded the car and went back to Yingtian Mansion.

As he drove away, a man emerged out of a pile of logs next to the Forbidden City, shaking his head in regret.The man looked around again, and after a few ups and downs, his body was as light as a cat, and then disappeared into the opposite street.

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While Zhu Linming was busy with basic projects in Nanjing, Dorgon was staring at the courtiers in a daze from the dragon chair.

Since he took power, presiding over court meetings has been his most obsessed thing. The feeling of pointing the country and taking life and death always makes him feel like floating in the clouds.

However, the news that Nanjing fell and tens of thousands of main forces were lost in the south of the Yangtze River just came back. The situation in the Central Plains was extremely bad. He had been discussing with his confidant ministers how to deal with it for two consecutive days, and he stayed up all night.

Today's court meeting, he expected that there would be mourners everywhere, and he wanted to cancel the court meeting, but it was Fan Wencheng who suggested that when the army was newly defeated, His Highness should show a calm posture to boost the confidence and morale of the courtiers, so he reluctantly agreed to come. towards.

"The minister has his own play!" After everyone kowtowed, Liu Zhengzong stood up first and said loudly, "I want to impeach Mr. Qian Qianyi, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites!"

Dorgon raised his eyelids, cheered up and said, "What is Master Liu going to impeach?"

"Returning to Your Highness, I impeach Qian Qianyi for colluding with Nanming and harming our army with inferior weapons!"

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