Liu Jin returned to his mansion and sat quietly in his study, thinking carefully.
Thinking about future generations, the aerospace industry has always been a pain for the Chinese people, especially the engines, which, like chips, have never been truly conquered.
There are many factors involved, but the most important factor is that the aerospace industry lacks a process from beginning to end and lacks accumulation.
Some things are not achieved overnight. They require a process, a process of accumulation and accumulation. As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. In essence, the principles are the same.
The development of the aviation industry requires a process of accumulation and explosion.
Because we in later generations are rising stars, we lack the accumulation and process of early aircraft research and production. We jump directly to more advanced fighters, which is equivalent to skipping a grade directly to study. Naturally, we are not as solid as others in terms of foundation.
What's more, aircraft manufacturing, especially engine manufacturing, also involves the development of basic materials science, which requires a strong accumulation.
I have traveled back in time to the Ming Dynasty, and now I am watching the world's first airplane fly into the sky. I believe that as long as it continues to develop along this path, I believe that in the future, the aviation industry of the Ming Empire will be unique in the world.
From the slow development of spiral wooden aircraft to larger and stronger aircraft, and then to the invention of jet aircraft, if the whole process goes step by step, it will eventually become an aviation power.
This can be regarded as making up for a small regret in my heart.
"Lao Liu! Lao Liu!"
While Liu Jin was thinking, Zhu Houzhao's voice sounded from far away to near.
This guy has become an emperor, but he still likes to break into his own house just like before, and he doesn't look like an emperor at all.
"His Majesty!"
When Liu Jin heard the voice, he hurried to greet him.
"No need! No need!"
"Come on, come with me to see the Old Summer Palace. It is said that it is almost completed now."
Zhu Houzhao picked up Liu Jin and walked outside, talking as he walked.
"How come it was built so quickly?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he was slightly startled.
The Old Summer Palace was proposed by Liu Jin when Emperor Hongzhi abdicated, in order to build a royal garden for Emperor Hongzhi to retire.
This Old Summer Palace is different from the Old Summer Palace built in the later Qing Dynasty. The biggest point is that the current Old Summer Palace is located on the Xiangshan side of the western suburbs of the capital.
With Xiangshan as the center, a large area of surrounding land is enclosed, and a Ming Dynasty royal garden is built according to the mountain and terrain.
At that time, considering that Emperor Hongzhi had no place to retire after his abdication, this place was chosen to build such a garden for Emperor Hongzhi to retire.
"It's so fast. It's already been almost five years."
Zhu Houzhao curled his lips and said.
"Has it been five years?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately started calculating silently.
The construction of the Old Summer Palace began in the 40th year of Hongzhi. It is now the autumn of the fourth year of Zhengde. It has indeed taken almost five years.
Five years is enough to build a garden, especially now that the Ming Empire's infrastructure is strong and there are many kinds of engineering machines. Let alone repairing a yard, it takes five years to build a garden.
The railway has been repaired.
I took a car and arrived at Xiangshan in the western suburbs.
Before reaching the Old Summer Palace, you can already see the red Fragrant Mountain in the distance. The entire Fragrant Mountain is covered with a large number of maple trees. It is autumn at this time, and the maple leaves turn red, making the entire Fragrant Mountain look like a flaming mountain. It is very strange.
It's beautiful.
In addition to the large number of maple trees on Xiangshan Mountain, a large number of precious plants were also introduced during the construction of the Old Summer Palace, such as ginkgo, bodhi, cedar, plum blossom, cherry blossom, etc. The maple trees were also planned according to the mountain conditions.
Several years have passed since the planting.
When you look at it from a distance, not only the Xiangshan Mountain is golden, but the scenery everywhere else also looks extremely beautiful.
The car that Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin and others were riding in stopped at the gate of the Old Summer Palace. After getting out of the car, Liu Jin looked carefully.
A lot of thought was put into just the gate in front of us. The two big unicorns at the gate are carved from white marble and are made by famous artists. The carvings are lifelike and beautiful.
This kind of white marble is not available near the capital. It was all shipped from other places. If it were made in the past, I don’t know how much manpower, material and financial resources it would have consumed.
But for the current Ming Empire, this is nothing. With trains, cars, and various lifting machinery, transporting stones is trivial.
Not to mention it was used to build royal gardens, even some wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty can now afford this white marble.
In fact, a large amount of white marble was used in the entire Old Summer Palace, and the scale was so large that several white marble mines were almost moved here.
In addition to white marble, Hetian jade and Burmese jade are also widely used and can be seen almost everywhere.
Just at the gate, a green passage is paved with fine Burmese jade. Any piece of jade paved on the ground will be valuable in future generations.
But now it is just paved at the gate like ordinary stones. Only the most distinguished people can walk on this road. As for ordinary people, naturally they are not qualified to walk on it and can only walk on the road and door next to it.
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Myanmar was occupied by the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling. The Zhang family's colony was very large, not only occupying Myanmar, but also occupied the eastern Tianzhu areas such as Bangladesh in later generations.
Hearing that a royal garden was going to be built for Emperor Hongzhi to retire, the two brothers were finally generous and sent a large amount of jade for free, as well as a large amount of precious wood harvested from Myanmar, such as teak and rosewood.
Rosewood, etc. were also shipped in ship after ship.
The two brothers finally became decent brothers-in-law.
They also knew that the two brothers were able to be where they are today mainly because of the blessing of Emperor Hongzhi. Otherwise, the two brothers would have been killed long ago due to their arrogant and domineering character.
Of course, in addition to the Burmese colony, other overseas colonies and vassal states also expressed their opinions after learning the news. Even Yinsmayi I of the Persian Empire ordered people to send him away after hearing the news.
A shipload of lapis lazuli came.
Lapis lazuli was the most expensive dye in this period, more expensive than gold. In the West, painters would only use lapis lazuli dye when painting the Madonna.
In the Ming Empire, dyes made from lapis lazuli were also very expensive. The price of cyan and blue cloth was more than ten times that of other cloths, and they were also very rare. Most people simply couldn't afford it and couldn't buy it.
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The Persian Empire directly sent a shipload of lapis lazuli, which shows the Persian Empire's respect for the Ming Empire. Yin Simayi I was obviously very grateful to Emperor Hongzhi for his help to the Persian Empire when he was in power.
The Western United Trading Company sent a large amount of gems. Ceylon Island is rich in gems. The Western United Trading Company mines and stores a large number of gems. They sent several ships of gems to decorate the Old Summer Palace.
The Inca Empire and the Aztec Kingdom directly sent several ships of gold and silver to express their loyalty and respect to the Emperor of Heaven.
King Ning from the Ning Kingdom also sent a large amount of gems, gold, ivory and some excellent Tianzhu craftsmen to add some exotic colors and art to the Ming Dynasty royal garden.
The South African colony sent a large amount of diamonds, gold and gems. Now a large number of gold and diamond mines have been discovered in the South African colony. The scale is huge and the output is very large.
Even the Chaling Colony of the Li family presented a large number of Persian Gulf pearls to Emperor Hongzhi to decorate this Ming Dynasty royal garden.
In some colonies, the vassal state had limited financial resources and did not have any special products. They also tried their best to get some exotic flowers and herbs and transplanted them to the capital to add exotic color to the royal garden.
The Korean side was also very attentive to this matter and collected a large number of rare treasures and donated them; the same was true for the Japanese side. The Japanese king and the shogun paid great attention to this matter and sent people to collect a large number of rare treasures.
The treasures were delivered.
It can be said that the Old Summer Palace in front of you almost integrates rare treasures from all over the world. It was carefully designed and laid out by Ming craftsmen and cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build.
In order to build this royal garden, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin spent almost hundreds of millions of taels of silver, almost all of it, and piled it up with treasures.
You can see it just from the entrance.
There are large white marble unicorns, roads paved with green emeralds, large golden nanmu pillars, and patterns painted with a large number of precious dyes, among which a large amount of blue lapis lazuli dye is used.
This kind of color was very rare in the past dynasties, and only the Ming Empire can use this extremely expensive dye on a large scale, which is more expensive than gold, to decorate a huge royal garden.
PS: I feel uncomfortable all the time. My nose is always blocked and my nose is runny. I always feel like something is wrong. The weather is not too cold, but my nose is always runny.
