Yang Fan saw off Mrs. Fengsheng. Immediately after receiving the order, Xinghe Tuanlian withdrew from the Forbidden City and stationed at the rear campus of Jingshan in the imperial city.
Yang Fan works in Guande Hall, Jingshan.
According to ancient rituals, shooting is a sign of virtue. This is the place where the emperor reviews archery. It is also the place where military talents are selected.
Yang Fan is still jointly responsible for the defense of the imperial city with Zhang Shize.
During this period, Chongzhen's defense forces against the Forbidden City had been integrated.
The new palace garrison has begun to perform its duties.
Xinghe Tuanlian has completed its mission.
The next day, Chongzhen summoned the noble ministers in the Guande Hall behind Jingshan. He proposed that the children of the noble ministers should enter the Imperial Academy to study martial arts. The children of the princes and uncles in Beijing enthusiastically signed up.
At this time, the new emperor had just succeeded to the throne, and it was the time to recruit people. Enrolling at this time was not only a political statement of support for Chongzhen, but also a step forward for himself.
After graduating from the Imperial Academy's martial arts school, these children will join the imperial city's guard force, responsible for protecting the safety of the royal family. After being trained around the emperor, these children, as the emperor's confidants, may later enter the Beijing camp to become a new generation of officers, or be sent to
Camps and guards in various places served as military officials.
At this time, the situation has become clear. It is already a matter of time to deal with Jiu Qiansui. No one will wait and see. The wall is broken and everyone is pushing back, and the civil service group is also starting to make moves.
In the following days, after the Xinghe regiment training camp was turned into the Jingshan rear school field, it gradually withdrew from the defense of the imperial city. It was no longer responsible for the defense of the imperial city and completely handed over the defense to the reorganized garrison.
Xinghe Tuanlian also stopped providing emergency supplies and catering services to the palace.
After Guande Hall became Yang Fan's temporary headquarters, it was surrounded by tents. The place immediately became lively.
Yang Fan led his officers and soldiers to get rid of all the weeds here, use stone rollers to crush the ground sprinkled with lime powder, dig drainage ditches, dig water wells, and build a new place here in just a few days.
Finally, a layer of tung oil was sprinkled on the ground. In this way, the site is flat, the drainage is smooth, and there is no grass growing on the ground, so that the function of reviewing the three armies can be better performed.
Wang Chengen, who came to inspect, was full of praise after seeing it. The Xinghe regiment had built the place very well wherever they went. After they left, the Jingshan school grounds had a completely new look.
Apart from setting up sentries at the highest point of Jingshan Mountain to watch over the entire city and maintaining a minimum level of vigilance, Xinghe Tuanlian was completely idle.
Yang Fan gave them a holiday in turn, giving one-third of them a holiday every day, allowing them to come to the capital and have a good stroll. The way of civility and martial arts was to relax. The previous period of group training was very tense, and now he also allowed them to relax.
The Xinghe troupe training was well paid, and the military pay was high. During this holiday, they immediately had fun wandering around, listening to plays, going to restaurants, and even visiting the Bada Hutong.
Yang Fan didn't care, as long as he didn't violate military regulations. He just sent out a military police squadron wearing white helmets to monitor the officers and soldiers who were out, and to pick up at any time if there was any problem.
The merchants in the capital soon discovered that these soldiers were good customers. They spoke kindly and paid according to the price. When it was time to bargain, they agreed on the price. They paid very happily, and the copper coins they paid were almost pure copper.
Yes, the silver is also one tael of silver coins, and its fineness is almost 99%.
Everyone rushed to do business with them. They kept such good money and saved it, and circulated the poor money at home. Xinghe copper coins and Xinghe silver coins were quietly circulated.
Yang Fan was also completely free.
Just waiting for His Majesty's decree, he packed up and returned to Zunhua.
Early that morning, Yang Fan and Tu Shanyue left Di'anmen to visit the Shichahai area and take a look at the newly purchased land.
Yang Fan has carefully studied that the northern city of the capital is divided into east and west parts by the Imperial City. As soon as you enter Zhengyangmen, you will see Qipan Street, which is a narrow passage between the east and west cities in the south. It is obviously not suitable for a supermarket, and there are always some activities here.
The market often closes.
The other is Imperial City North Street, which is the middle section of Ping'an Street in the imperial capital today. The street here is wide and is another main thoroughfare connecting the North City to the East and West.
From Drum Tower to Di'anmen, a bustling commercial street had formed, without much land for sale. Yang Fan studied for a long time and found that Houhai Lotus Market and the small triangular peninsula south of Yinding Bridge were the only two pieces of wasteland.
This is the ruins of a royal supply factory. In the early days, we didn’t know what it supplied, but later it was abandoned.
In this era, the Jinsitao area was not a peninsula, but a river separated this area. It was a real island. It was also very large.
Yang Fan asked Xiao Niangpi to go find the Queen to see if she could buy one of the two abandoned pieces of land here. Both pieces of land were large, and although they were still abandoned, they were in a good location.
One piece of land is the current Shichahai Sports School, and the other piece is the golden wire sleeve.
These two pieces of land belong to the royal family, but have not been used for hundreds of years. They have been abandoned since the supply factory collapsed.
If these two pieces of land were not royal, they would have been developed long ago.
Soon the queen gave the news and her majesty agreed. These two pieces of land had been abandoned for a long time and could be sold to Yang Fan, but the price would be higher, asking for two hundred thousand taels of silver.
Yang Fan was a little depressed. The price was obviously too high. Normally it would only be worth five to sixty thousand taels of silver. Yang Fan discussed it with Xiao Niangpi and felt that the matter was complicated.
Your Majesty must have misunderstood Yang Fan, thinking that Yang Fan saw that he was short of money and wanted to repay him with some money. However, he was afraid of hurting His Majesty's face, so he came up with this idea. In the name of buying land, he actually donated money.
When things turned out to be like this, Yang Fan had no choice but to do this. There were exactly two pieces of land, the supermarket adjacent to Huangcheng North Street, and the land with golden sleeves were used to build his own mansion and garden. He and his wife were getting married.
Counting the time, Tu Shanyong will be back soon.
In the future, if I have a piece of real estate in Beijing and a place to live when I come to Beijing, I can't always stay in an inn.
Yang Fan happily gave 200,000 silver coins to the Queen. The next day Wang Chengen personally completed the transfer procedures.
In Kunning Palace, Chongzhen was chatting with Queen Zhou.
There were several plates of fruit on the table, which were supplies supplied by Xinghe Tuanlian before its withdrawal, including pine nuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and amber walnut kernels.
Queen Zhou said: "Your Majesty, Yang Qianhu has made great contributions this time in addition to his great strength. Normally we should reward him with something. It doesn't seem good that you added so much money to those two pieces of land."
Empress Zhou was a little embarrassed. It would be bad if she didn't reward others. She also tried to rip them off, how embarrassed she was.
"What you don't know is that Yang Fan is a rich man with better food and clothing than you and me. He is not short of money. He obviously bought the two pieces of land this time, but in fact he was buying the two pieces of land as a replacement last time.
When I was paying for the military pay, I found that my internal treasury was really tight. At that time, I paid one hundred thousand taels. This time I proposed to buy the land. It was actually a cover. He was afraid that my face would not look good, and I would never be able to reconcile with him no matter what.
The minister asked for money, so I just used this name to repay the favor."
Queen Zhou was moved when she heard this. Yang Fan was such a loyal minister.
No more today
This chapter has been completed!