Clear Wear and Lie to Win

Chapter 107 Vacation
After reading the last batch of invitation papers, Xu Zhen closed his pen. A year's work is considered to be over.

The 20th year of Kangxi has passed in a blink of an eye, and Yinzhen and Yunrong have already gotten used to the New Year's festival. According to the previous rules, they will be rewarded, and this year is considered to be over.

In the 21st year of Kangxi, Xiaotangshan started to get busy just after the first lunar month. Although the minister of the Ministry of Industry knew that the emperor would not allow construction during the New Year, he was itchy!
As an official with achievements in architecture, he himself is very interested in architecture and has long been looking forward to the early completion of the Xiaotangshan Palace.

So it's a bit unpleasant to pass a year.

It's not easy for the first month to come out, so he doesn't want this!
The following people are active in doing things, and Yinzhen has no intention of disagreeing. This year is the year of the draft, and it is also the year of the three-year exam. Although the exam is in autumn, the examiner has to make a decision in advance.

After several deliberations, Yinzhen decided on a list of backyards. Naturally, this list is not static, but tentative.

In March of the 21st year of Kangxi.

Liang Jiugong: "Your Majesty, the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry is asking to see you."

Yinzhen: "It's about Xiaotangshan! Announce him to see him."

Liang Jiugong: "Cha"

Not long after, Minister of the Ministry of Industry came in, Yinzhen saw that he was not joking, and asked, "Aiqing, what good things do you want to report?"

Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "Back to the emperor, the servant has fulfilled his mission. The construction of the Xiaotangshan Palace has been completed, and the emperor can review it at any time."

Yinzhen calculated that the construction should be completed at this time, so he didn't think there was any surprise, but seeing that the Minister of the Ministry of Industry was so happy, he followed up with a smile and said, "That's right, Aiqing did it myself, Xiaotangshan Palace has worked hard for Aiqing."

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry was moved: "It's the slave's job, this is the slave's duty."

Yinzhen: "Aiqing has done a good job and should be rewarded. What do Aiqing want? Why don't you tell me?"

The minister of the Ministry of Industry would not dare to ask the emperor what he wanted, even if the emperor sincerely wanted it, he would not dare to poke his nose and look at him: "The servant has everything for his duty, and the servant has nothing to ask for."

Seeing his modesty and prudence, Yinzhen thought that since he didn't want it, he should give it to him.

Yinzhen: "Since you presided over the construction of Xiaotangshan, how about it, I remember that there is a house on the east side of the palace that I left on purpose, you choose one yourself, this is a reward from me."

The courtyard on the west side of the Xiaotangshan Palace was specially reserved by Yinzhen for the appreciation of others. The construction of the courtyard was based on the map designed by the Ministry of Industry, and it was built by craftsmen recruited from the people. The reason why the construction of the house was started at the same time was that the construction was completed at the end of last year.

That mansion is a symbol of status, and many dignitaries are staring at it. Now that Yinzhen is going to reward the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he is very happy.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry immediately said with tears of gratitude: "Slave, I thank the emperor for his kindness."

Yinzhen also called people to bring the map of Yuanmingyuan drawn by himself and unfold it.

Yinzhen: "Aiqing, take a look at this map."

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was already attracted by Yinzhen's map, so he was not polite to hear Yinzhen say so.

The map of Yuanmingyuan was drawn by Yinzhen according to the style of Yuanmingyuan where he lived in his previous life, and some places have been modified, such as the sewage system at the bottom, the clean room for people's convenience, and the earth dragon used in winter...etc. Wait for the modification.

After all, the living place is still mainly convenient and comfortable, and the appearance has not changed too much, mainly because Yunrong still recognizes Yinzhen's aesthetics.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry looked at it carefully: "What does the emperor mean?"

Yinzhen: "I hope to see this palace take shape by this time next year."

Minister of the Ministry of Industry has no objection to Yinzhen's proposal, but there is one point: "Your Majesty, there may be something wrong with this matter."

Yinzhen: "Oh? What's wrong?"

Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "The slave is very interested in the map given by the emperor, and hopes that he can supervise the workers to come out of such a palace, but the slave made a rough plan. This palace is much more exquisite than Xiaotangshan. It consumes a lot of money, and the servant is afraid that it would be inappropriate for the Ministry of Households to send out such a coin all of a sudden."

Yinzhen: "Don't worry about my love, the construction of this palace will go to my private treasury."

The minister of the Ministry of Industry felt relieved now: "This slave obeys the order, and this slave will definitely live up to the emperor's expectations."

Yinzhen: "Then I am waiting for good news from Aiqing."

Yinzhen got the news of the completion of Xiaotangshan, and ordered the construction of the Old Summer Palace. Thinking about the weather in March, although the sky has warmed up a bit, it is still a bit chilly, so he asked Yunrong's wishes, so Yinzhen took his daughter-in-law The children went to Xiaotangshan.

Xiaotangshan didn’t just go as soon as he said it. How to arrange for the big and small dynasties, and taking those people with him is a problem. After all, Xiaotangshan is not in the city, and the ministers get up in the middle of the night to rush to the palace. Now, it would be quite unreasonable to ask these ministers to go to the Xiaotangshan Palace outside the city to go to court.

After all these arrangements were made, half a month passed, and I had an idea in early March, and I set off for Xiaotangshan in mid-March.

Regarding the fact that the emperor took the empress and a pair of children to Xiaotangshan for vacation, the other people in the harem were not without ideas, but if they had an idea, they had an idea. They didn't have the guts to go to where the emperor or the empress said they would go.

The emperor seems to want to live a two-person world with the queen, let alone the queen, they are all women, so they naturally know what women think, no woman is willing to put the woman her husband has slept with under her nose.

Even if it doesn't have any threatening power, it looks very irritating.

Both Bobo and Beibei are very interested in going to Xiaotangshan. Bobo is at the age of being interested in everything. Although Yinzhen will take him out to see the world from time to time, but Yinzhen is busy, he is busy. It is not necessary to go out of the palace once a month or two.

I am very interested in the trip to Xiaotangshan.

As for Beibei, she didn't have any idea about Xiaotangshan. She became interested only after listening to her brother talking a lot. Otherwise, she couldn't speak a word well, so she could expect her to express some opinions.

The family of four happily set off to Xiaotangshan.

Immediately afterwards, many families in the capital began to move to Xiaotangshan. After all, the emperor no longer lived in the Forbidden City. If they wanted to climb up, they naturally had to keep abreast of the emperor's latest intentions.

The officials allowed by the emperor to accompany him, that is, the officials who can accompany him at public expense are limited after all, and there are many ambitious officials, so naturally he tried every means to move to Xiaotangshan.

Because of this incident, the land price in Xiaotangshan has risen again on the basis of already high enough, which is also caught off guard.

Xiaotangshan is really well built. Yinzhen feels much more comfortable living in it than in the palace. Xiaotangshan is most famous for its hot springs. On the first day when Yinzhen came here, he went to the hot springs with Yunrong. It is not impossible to soak in the hot springs in the palace. Bath, but compared with the naturally formed hot springs, the nature is much worse.

Yunrong also likes the feeling of soaking in hot springs, if everything is not too much, Yunrong really wants to soak in hot springs every day.

Although Yinzhen is not idle, but working in Xiaotangshan does feel a little more relaxed.

Therefore, Yinzhen could still smile at the officials who came with him from time to time, scaring the officials to think what happened to the emperor!

It's not that Yinzhen doesn't smile at officials. If he smiles, he usually laughs heartily when he encounters something particularly happy, or occasionally sneers when something is particularly unhappy.

When he saw Yinzhen, he laughed casually, but he didn't like it.

(End of this chapter)