Chapter 1968 The first trip to the Palace of Ten Thousand Nations
The spring was beautiful, the flowers were luxuriant, and Cheng Sanlang and Li Ke were bragging outside the gate of the Wanguoyuan Palace, which had been built very high-end and elegant.
Since spring has entered, the construction progress of the Garden of Nations Palace can be described as a turbulent rush.
After all, during the cold weather, the main job was to put up various kinds of shelves. Now, the weather has warmed up.
There is no need to worry about cement components being affected by the weather, and spring is rainy, which is good for cement setting.
Therefore, thousands of professional construction workers are devoted to their work with the greatest enthusiasm.
Nowadays, most of the Persian-style, Roman-style, and Egyptian-style buildings have been completed.
Moreover, those craftsmen from Fulin and Persian who spent a lot of money to hire are carefully carving architectural sculptures in their respective styles.
Buildings of a style that require a large number of wooden components are also being built.
After all, the commercial banks of the Han and Tang dynasties, which now have extremely strong financial resources, are not short of money. They spend their wealth and silk to purchase various needed building materials from various places in the Tang Dynasty.
After all, the aristocratic families were not all of the Tang Dynasty. After all, there were still a large number of rebellious businessmen who were willing to offer their good goods.
Moreover, the wealthy families, faced with Cheng Sanlang's extremely tormenting demon moth, really couldn't muster the energy to compete with him in the ring.
Especially for the Central Plains families, if Luoyang was the imperial capital, it would only be more beneficial to them, which is why they secretly stirred up trouble in the first place.
That is also to give an explanation to the old friends in the circle of aristocratic families.
But after Cheng Sanlang's unreasonable civil and military fists came down, the Central Plains aristocratic family immediately... well, it can't be said to be cowardly.
However, considering that this year's Luoyang Peony Festival is held, it is for the young talents of the Central Plains' aristocratic families to showcase their talents, create public opinion, and increase their prestige.
Therefore, Mr. Zheng Er, as the representative, secretly conducted some private transactions with Cheng Sanlang.
In a word, it was originally expected that it would take several years to complete the Palace of Nations.
Based on the current smoothness, Cheng Sanlang feels that 80% of the overall project progress will be completed by the end of this autumn.
In other words, there is absolutely no problem for His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to move into the Palace of All Nations at the end of autumn this year.
"It's already this time and no one has come yet."
Cheng Chubi yawned greatly, moved his hands and feet, and looked at the sun in the sky.
"Could it be that the newly appointed Palace Supervisor went astray and did not receive His Majesty the Emperor?"
Li Ke couldn't help but yawned loudly, smacked his mouth and said.
"How about we go in first and let them guard here. If there is any news, just come over and call us brothers."
Cheng Chubi stretched his neck and looked at the wide and flat cement official road in the distance, and said to Li Keyan.
"No need, look over there, our Gar Palace Supervisor has already led a team over, oh, your father is here too."
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At this moment, Galdongzan, the palace supervisor of the Wanguoyuan Palace, was riding his horse side by side with His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, chatting and laughing.
Behind them were several carriages, one with Empress Changsun, Princess Na Yuwen and the naughty kid Li Xiang, and the other with the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan and this little cutie Li Mingda.
Originally, Li Yuan wanted to come over on horseback like his own son, but Li Shimin considered that his biological father was old and the distance was not close. For safety reasons, he resorted to a big move: the cute Li Mingda.
Although Li Yuan also wanted to leap on his horse and whip his whip, but when he saw that Xiao Sizi wanted to whisper to him, he naturally would not refuse.
So the grandfather and grandson also got into the carriage and wandered towards the Wan Guoyuan Palace.
The reason why Gal Dongzan is no longer called Lu Dongzan, Lu, also known as Lun, is the title of a high-ranking Tubo official. Now that he is no longer the prime minister of Tubo, naturally he is no longer called Lu Dongzan.
, restored his original surname Gar.
After he declined the appointment of a Zhongshusheren from His Majesty last time, Li Shimin thought about it and finally settled on a position that was more suitable for him and easier for him to perform meritorious service.
That is to become the palace supervisor of the Wanguoyuan Palace which is under construction. After all, that boy Cheng Sanlang is squatting here.
Ordinary gentlemen are not willing to deal with this guy. In addition, the Wan Guoyuan Palace was completely built with donations from the Tang Dynasty and Han Tang Dynasties, so there has never been a palace supervisor.
After Li Shimin thought about it for a long time, he finally felt that Gal Dongzan was an old acquaintance of Cheng Sanlang, and Cheng Sanlang was in charge of plateau affairs.
In short, for various purposes, Gardongzan was placed here.
Fortunately, this Galdongzan is indeed the most wise man in Tubo. Well, he is also an old man. His son Qinling finally shamelessly got into Cheng Sanlang's circle of friends.
Therefore, Cheng Sanlang and Li Ke, the two persons in charge of the construction of the Wanguo Garden Palace, and Gal Dongzan got along fairly well.
Today, after the court meeting, Li Shimin went to pay his respects to his biological father with his beloved wife Guanyin and his maidservant. As a result, they happened to bump into Gal Dongzan who came to invite Li Yuan to inspect the palace in Wanguo Garden.
Since spring is just right now, and the Wan Guoyuan Palace is here, Li Shimin also visited Luoyang twice when he arrived in Luoyang at the beginning of last year.
At that time, there were still no large construction sites of any shape visible here, but I heard that several parks were almost fully built.
So I got out of the palace and took a stroll here, not only to have a spring outing, but also to appreciate the exotic buildings that Cheng Sanlang had written on paper in the past.
So the whole family came here neatly.
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Li Shimin drove his mount and looked at Gal Dongzan, who had almost faded the plateau redness on his face and looked much fairer, and said with a smile.
"Qing and the two boys seem to get along quite well. I heard that Qing and his son visited Duke Lu's mansion several times."
Hearing these words, Gal Dongzan, who had been chatting and laughing just now, his expression froze. After a long time, he finally said helplessly.
"Your Majesty, I have nothing to do. After all, when working with Xiao Cheng Taibao, you can't be too familiar with each other. As a result, alas..."
Every time I go to Lu Guogong's Mansion, I never say that I can walk on two legs.
Fortunately, after gaining experience, whenever I go to a banquet at Duke Lu's Mansion, I will tell my manager that I must guard outside Duke Lu's Mansion.
The warm and hospitable Cheng family only needs to put the guests down, and whenever someone comes to greet them, they will enthusiastically carry the guests out of the house using the door panels and put them on the carriage.
Otherwise, wait for the next morning to drink up the wine.
Originally, Gal Dongzan thought that his drinking capacity was quite good, but after several Cheng family banquets,
I finally understood that it didn’t matter who it was, even if it was a royal family like the King of Jiangxia or His Highness the King of Wu, or a Tang Dynasty martial arts dignitary like Yu Chigong.
When you step into Cheng's house, you will lie down neatly.