Listening to the shouts of his subjects that echoed throughout the sky, Liu Chan suddenly felt a little moved. This may be the people's will.
"Your Majesty!"
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang once again stepped forward to worship and said: "God's will cannot be violated. I respectfully request your majesty to agree and grant me the title of Zen on Mount Tai."
"Your Majesty, I respectfully invite you to enshrine me in Mount Tai."
All the preparations have been made. If Liu Chan still wants to retreat at this time, it would be a bit pretentious. Of course, he is very happy to hold such a Zen ceremony so that the people of the world can feel at ease and peaceful.
Liu Chan paused and seemed a little embarrassed and said: "Since this is God's arrangement, I can't disobey it...I have decided to grant Zen to Mount Tai!" As he said that, he looked at Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and said, "Father, I will grant Zen to Mount Tai."
I will leave it to my Xiangfu to take care of the etiquette and so on."
"Old minister accepts the order!"
Zhuge Liang immediately agreed.
"The Han Dynasty will last for ten thousand years!"
"The Han Dynasty will last for ten thousand years!"
In an instant, the voice of the Han Dynasty echoed over Chang'an City.
Returning to Weiyang Palace again, Liu Chan was in a very good mood. Of course, it was not because he had promised to be granted the title of Mount Tai, but because he could finally have some leisure time.
After all, Fengchan Taishan is a big deal and cannot be done in a few days.
It is estimated that the actual enshrinement of Zen in Mount Tai will take as short as a few months or as long as several years.
The ancients paid great attention to these etiquette and good days.
However, when Liu Chan returned to Weiyang Palace in a happy mood, Queen Zhang Yang came to Xuanshi Palace with some anxiety.
"Yang'er?"
Liu Chan couldn't help but be stunned. Whether Zhang Yang was a queen or a concubine before, she rarely came to the Xuanshi Palace.
"Yang'er pays homage to His Majesty!"
"Hurry and get free gifts!"
Liu Chan hurriedly helped Zhang Yang up and asked in a panic: "What happened?"
Zhang Yang looked a little nervous, and it seemed that he had encountered some kind of trouble.
After Zhang Yang stood up, he frowned and said: "Your Majesty, the second brother just said something..." As soon as Zhang Yang said these words, Liu Chan became a little nervous. He naturally knew who the second brother Zhang Yang was talking about.
Zhang Yuan's second brother is none other than Zhang Shao, who had accompanied Liu Chan in all kinds of troubles when he was in Chengdu. Before that, Zhang Shao was ordered to go out of Yizhou to serve as Yizhou's pastor.
Just——
During Liu Chan's western expedition to Rome, Prince Liu Chen recalled him to Chang'an and made him the Guanglu doctor, in charge of supervising the construction of imperial tombs.
Zhang Shao sent word to the palace at this time.
"Did something happen to the imperial mausoleum?" Liu Chan asked anxiously.
Zhang Yang nodded slightly and said: "Yes, the second brother said that it had been raining for several days near Liangshan some time ago. When I checked the underground palace yesterday, I found that the imperial tomb was leaking seriously."
"This..."
Liu Chan was a little panicked. The Imperial Mausoleum was his mausoleum a hundred years later, and now the late Queen Zhang Yuan was buried in it. When he heard that the Imperial Mausoleum was leaking, he couldn't sit still.
"Let's go!" Liu Chan said immediately: "Let's drive to the imperial mausoleum and see for myself."
"Yang'er wants to go too." Zhang Yuan said.
Liu Chan did not object and nodded: "Okay, Yang'er will go with me."
Before leaving, Liu Chan ordered his consort Zhuge Zhan to tell the prime minister about his visit to the imperial mausoleum. He was not worried about the government affairs of the court now. In the past few years, the prince had been taking care of the government affairs of the court.<
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Noon the next day.
Liangshan——
"Meet Your Majesty!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
Zhang Shao led a group of officials in charge of the construction of the imperial mausoleum and came to the lobby to meet Liu Chan.
"Everyone, please get back on your feet!" Liu Chan raised his hand slightly, then looked at Zhang Shao and asked, "Tell me, what is going on?"
The imperial mausoleum is leaking, this is a big deal.
Zhang Shao hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it has been raining for several days, causing water seepage in the underground palace. It should be caused by stagnant water."
"Are there no drainage facilities built in my underground palace?"
"Back to Your Majesty!" Zhang Shao frowned and said: "The drainage facilities have been planned, but the construction has not yet started. It is planned to start construction next year."
"Yeah!" Liu Chan nodded slightly when he heard this.
This imperial mausoleum does not require too much luxury, but luxurious burials were popular in the Han Dynasty. As the emperor of a country, if the imperial mausoleum is too shabby, it will damage the majesty of the empire.
So——
In addition to the site of the imperial mausoleum being designated by Liu Chan, as for the design of the imperial mausoleum, Liu Chan completely left it to Xu Shu, the imperial censor at the time. Later, Xu Shu followed Liu Chan on his western expedition. This matter was supervised by Zeng Shuzai, the imperial censor.
Now it has been replaced by Dr. Zhang Shao of Guanglu.
After listening to the report from Zhang Shao and others, Liu Chan roughly understood the reason for the leakage of the imperial mausoleum. It was because the imperial mausoleum had been built for more than ten years and the amount of work was very large, but the drainage system had never been built. Even if it rained before, there would be no water.
It had no impact.
But a few days ago, it rained heavily in Guanzhong for several consecutive days.
"Zhang Shao!" Liu Chan suddenly stood up and said: "I have been building this imperial mausoleum for more than ten years. Up to now, I don't know what it has been like. Take me to the imperial mausoleum to have a look. By the way
Let’s see if there is any way to fix this leakage.”
"Promise!" Upon hearing this, Zhang Shao immediately took Liu Chan and Zhang Yang to the site of the imperial mausoleum.
After about a stick of incense, Liu Chan saw the busy construction site ahead. People were everywhere, and a mountain top had been dug up. The scene shocked Liu Chan completely.
"Your Majesty, how big must your imperial mausoleum be?"
Zhang Yang also looked a little frightened, but Liu Chan turned around and rolled his eyes at her: "What do you mean, this is my imperial mausoleum? This is our imperial mausoleum."
As soon as Liu Chan said these words, Zhang Yang was stunned: "I...we?"
Zhang Yang did not understand that the empress and the emperor were buried together in the imperial mausoleum. Of course she knew about this, but according to ancient etiquette, only the first empress was qualified to be buried together with the emperor.
An heir like her is not qualified.
Just when Zhang Yuan was confused, Liu Chan said: "Yes, this is our imperial mausoleum. Now Yuan'er has been buried in the imperial mausoleum. In the future, I and Yuan'er will also be buried here."
"Your Majesty!" Zhang Yang said hurriedly: "This is not in compliance with regulations."
"Regulation?" Liu Chan said calmly: "From now on, what I say is regulation. From now on, all queens can be buried with the emperor."
Several officials accompanying him were a little confused, but no one came forward to advise.
Liu Chan was the emperor of the current dynasty. During his reign, they all admired him for his expansion of territory and the prosperity of the country. Moreover, this emperor also changed many unconforming regulations.
Now we need to change the regulations on joint burials in imperial tombs.
Who dares to step forward to stop it?
While they were talking, everyone had arrived at the construction site. They were standing on the edge of the cliff. In front of them was a large space. The mountain was hollowed out, forming a deep pit.
Strictly speaking, it is a small basin dug out.
At the bottom of the small basin, some buildings can now be seen. From a distance, they look like a luxurious palace complex.
"This is my imperial mausoleum?"
Liu Chan was also dumbfounded and asked Zhang Shao: "No wonder it took more than ten years and the construction has not been completed... I'm so awesome... Who designed this?"
"Go back to your majesty!" Zhang Shao said: "This is a decision made by the former imperial censor after discussing with the prime minister. Your majesty is the emperor of the Han Dynasty. The emperor's mausoleum naturally needs to be luxurious enough. Otherwise, how can we show the majesty of the heavenly family?"<
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It’s a waste of people and money, a waste of people and money.
Liu Chan looked at the palaces under Noda. Apart from being amazed, he also felt that building such a large palace was really a waste of time and money.
"Your Majesty, please come this way!"
Zhang Shao led the way, following a winding path, all the way down and finally to the bottom of the small basin. The first thing that caught his eye was a flat land the size of three football fields, which was already paved.
Cement bricks.
"Your Majesty!" Zhang Shao introduced as he walked forward: "This is the main entrance square of the imperial mausoleum. In the center of the square is the Shinto. On both sides of the Shinto, nine pairs of stone statues will be built according to the wishes of the prime minister."
Listening to Zhang Shao's introduction, Liu Chan was able to imagine what the future would look like.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhang Shao pointed to a city wall in front of him and said: "This is the outer city wall of the Imperial Tomb City, and it is also the third wall of the Imperial Tomb."
"The third city wall?"
Liu Chan was stunned. The city wall in front of him was about one foot high. Although it was slightly shorter than the city wall outside, it still looked very majestic. There were three arches in the middle of the city wall, and the middle arch continued to extend.
Outside the square, there are shrines paved with marble.
Above the three arches, there is also an arrow tower, which is slightly smaller in scale.
Nine steps in front of the arch, there is a river about five steps wide, which should be the moat of a common city.
Three stone arch bridges span the river.
When everyone walked through the arch, the first thing they saw were rockeries, lakes, rivers, and surrounding mounds shaped like hills.
There are small paths around rockeries, lakes, rivers, and hills.
My god.
Is this my future grave?
Liu Chan was completely shocked by the scene in front of him. When he read history in his previous life, he always talked about how luxurious and luxurious the imperial mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was. But now when he walked into his own mausoleum, he suddenly discovered how luxurious his mausoleum was.
, which is no less than what is recorded in history.
"Second brother!"
Suddenly, Zhang Yang pointed to the mounds with curiosity and asked Zhang Shao: "What are those mounds used for?"
She could understand these rockery lakes, but she couldn't understand the mounds of earth. Why were there so many mounds of earth that looked so uncoordinated?
Zhang Shao heard this and said with a smile: "Back to the Queen, those are not mounds of earth, but miniature versions of the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Mountains."
"Three mountains and five mountains?" Zhang Yang was stunned.
"Who means this?" Liu Chan was obviously a little angry, and he asked: "When did I ask the imperial mausoleum to be designed like this?"
Everyone was a little panicked. They thought that when the emperor saw the imperial mausoleum, he would be shocked by these facilities and maybe even praise them.
But——
There was no joy at all on the emperor's face.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhang Shao said hurriedly: "This is what the Prime Minister meant..." He paused and then explained: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. The Prime Minister has explained that Your Majesty advocates frugality, so when designing this underground palace, there was no
It is too extravagant and wasteful. Even if the entire imperial mausoleum is completed, the cost will not be too much."
"Nonsense!"
After listening, Liu Chan pointed to the city wall behind him, the square outside, and the surrounding rockeries, lakes, and the so-called three mountains and five mountains, and asked: "Doesn't it cost money to build these?"
Everyone can see what a huge project this is.
Liu Chan suddenly regretted not coming to supervise from time to time, such as coming to see how the imperial mausoleum was being built.
It’s just that in these years, he has been busy fighting in the north and south.
Moreover, he did not want people to think that he was an extravagant emperor who was too greedy for glory and wealth, and would go to his own imperial mausoleum to inspect it whenever he had nothing to do.
If he had come to see it before, he would never have agreed to build such a large underground city.
But what to do now?
Did you push it?
According to what Zhang Shao said before, this imperial mausoleum has reached the final stage, and the capping project will begin next year at the latest. Compared with the construction of this underground city, the capping project will not actually take long.
According to Zhang Shao's report, the underground of the Imperial Tomb is paved with a five-meter-thick concrete layer. In other words, the underground city in front of us is built on a five-meter-thick concrete layer.
As a time traveler, Liu Chan had read many tomb-robbing novels and movies and TV series in his previous life. Those tomb robbers used various methods to pry open the tombs of ancient people.
Now he has become the emperor of the Han Dynasty. When he first built the imperial mausoleum, Liu Chan proposed that all sides of the imperial mausoleum, that is, the top, bottom, front, left, and right, should be protected with concrete.
For example, if the ground is covered with a thick layer of concrete, and the outside of the wall is also poured with concrete, making it three to five meters thick, in the future, those tomb robbers who want to enter the underground palace will have to cut through the concrete a few meters away.
Five meters of concrete.
Haha——
I'm afraid that even if I try to blow it through with explosives, I still have to waste some energy.
According to Zhang Shao's report, when the underground building is completed by the end of the year, the tomb wall will be built while concrete will be poured outside, all the way to the dome, where a large amount of concrete will also be poured.
According to estimates, it is estimated that it will take three to five years to complete the entire imperial mausoleum. By then, the imperial mausoleum will be wrapped in huge concrete.
Seeing Liu Chan's anger, Zhang Shao hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the prime minister only allocates one-tenth of the annual tax revenue for the construction of imperial mausoleums."
One-tenth?
Hum!
Liu Chan felt very distressed, even one tenth was not a lot.
Calculated according to the new currency currently being implemented, the annual tax revenue of the Han Dynasty in the past three years has been more than 44 million yuan in silver coins, one-tenth, which is almost more than 4 million yuan.
This chapter has been completed!