Under such circumstances, the palace is being rebuilt and the front hall is still planned to adopt the traditional palace style.
But the second half is different. The buildings are all in the style of a delicate courtyard, and are planned to be connected to the existing Royal Courtyard.
After it is completed, the harem part will actually be a huge park. Dozens of buildings of different sizes and styles are scattered throughout the period. According to Li Xuan's requirements, there are various styles, some of which are very traditional.
Jiangnan gardens, northern architecture, etc., as well as various Western architectural styles.
In addition to the style, Li Xuan likes this kind of building layout, but there is also a bigger reason: it saves money!
Although the harem is said to be a huge area, with flowers and plants to be planted, and various buildings of different styles, it actually doesn’t cost much. The most important expense should actually be the various furnishings, but there’s no need to worry about this.
, the royal treasury of the Tang Empire contained a large number of various treasures captured from the previous Ming Dynasty.
The Qianming Palace in Youzhou was evacuated, and even many precious building materials were dismantled and transported to Jinling City to be used as building materials for the reconstruction of the palace.
With a similar fate, the residences of former Ming vassal princes and die-hard ministers in various places were basically evacuated, and some precious building materials were also demolished.
Naturally, these things and building materials were used in the construction of the palace, while various curios were sent to the royal treasury.
Therefore, in the royal treasury of the Tang Empire, there are countless rare treasures, and it is even impossible to accurately estimate their value, because many of them are priceless treasures.
Nowadays, the Tang Empire has obviously not been reduced to selling all kinds of treasures, but these treasures cannot always be left in the warehouse to gather dust.
Therefore, the fate of these treasures is the same as their previous fate: they will become furnishings in the palace, or they will be given to ministers by the royal family, and then taken home by the ministers for display.
Therefore, the largest cost in building the harem, which is the various precious furnishings, actually does not cost a dime.
The cost of leveling the land in the garden, building some rockeries, lakes, etc., and building a courtyard for living is actually not very high, at least not comparable to the grand halls in the first half of the palace.
The main halls in the front hall are not only huge in scale, but also the materials used are strict. The wood used has strict requirements, although part of it was appropriated from the Youzhou Imperial Palace.
However, Li Xuan did not want to directly demolish the entire Youzhou Palace, so he only moved away the furnishings and some materials, while the main building part was still retained and used as the northern palace. After all, it was a huge building.
It can be regarded as a cultural heritage. It would not be good if we demolished it all. At least we can leave some architectural cultural heritage to future generations!
With the Youzhou Palace preserved, there is naturally no way to dismantle a large amount of building materials to rebuild the Jinling Palace!
Since these materials are not solved internally, they can only be purchased from outside. However, these materials are basically extremely expensive outside.
Of course, if the empire is really determined and spends millions of taels of silver at once, the palace will be built in just a few years. If the bidding method is adopted and the money is available, several domestic construction companies
, for example, the Shanghai Construction Company, a subsidiary of the Shanghai Terminal Company, said that as long as enough money is given, the palace can be built in one year!
It's a pity that the empire or Li Xuan is not willing to spend so much money!
The empire's central fiscal revenue exceeds 100 million yuan every year, but the expenditure planned for the palace this year is only 300,000 yuan, and part of the 300,000 yuan will be used for the maintenance of the current Royal Courtyard.
To support the construction of the imperial palace and the harem, as for the money used for the front palace, it will only be less than 100,000 yuan at most.
This little money is only a fraction of the cost of materials...
Based on the current investment, it is estimated that the huge buildings in the front hall of the palace will not be built in the next ten years!
But Li Xuan is not in a hurry, or he doesn’t care!
The large-scale building complex serves no purpose other than highlighting tradition!
If it was really of great use, Li Xuan would have given money to repair it long ago. It would be useful to wait until now!
In the early years, Li Xuan would rather spend more than 100,000 yuan to build the Hanlin Academy. The cost of an office building of the Hanlin Academy was more than the money spent on the front hall of all imperial palaces in the past many years...
Why should Li Xuan pay attention to the Hanlin Academy Office Building?
Because this building is used for the offices of hundreds of secretaries of the Hanlin Academy, and it is in urgent need.
As for various major ceremonies, Li Xuan usually holds them in the large square in front of the palace. This huge square is much more convenient than just a main hall.
Li Xuan even held a military parade in the palace square!
In this case, Li Xuan will naturally spend money where it should be spent. For example, on water conservancy facilities, Li Xuan can spend 15 million yuan with a stroke of a pen, and let the local finance department also take the money.
Spend 20 to 30 million yuan to develop water conservancy projects.
In addition, a ten-year long-term plan was approved, with a total investment of 150 million yuan.
Because water conservancy facilities are related to people's livelihood, to the life and death of more than 150 million people, and also to the foundation of the rule of the Tang Empire.
Therefore, no matter how much money he spends, Li Xuan is willing to do so. After all, the money is taken from the people, and it is natural to use it for the people.
If he collects hundreds of millions in taxes a year and then spends tens of millions to build himself a palace, Li Xuan estimates that he will be guillotined by the mob sooner or later!
Well, more importantly, if the main hall is not repaired, it will not affect Li Xuan's enjoyment of life. He does not live in the front hall, but in the harem. Now the harem is under construction~
Once it is repaired and the place becomes larger, it should be able to accommodate more people. At that time, Li Xuan plans to develop the literary and artistic undertakings of the Tang Dynasty and increase the size of the Royal Dance Troupe from the existing fifty to one hundred.
After all, as an emperor, you should spread the rain and dew widely and enjoy the happiness of the people!
Spreading rain and dew to more people is Li Xuan’s important task!
This is a great responsibility and cannot be taken lightly!
After accompanying Li Xuan to inspect the unfinished palace backyard construction site, Liu Bagou went back. After returning, he began to hang up the door sign for retreat as usual.
However, if other officials asked to see him because of the current turbulent situation, they would not see him.
Now he has learned about the Shengtianzi's plan. The Shengtianzi is going to take advantage of this opportunity to carry out in-depth reforms of the existing judicial system and completely cut off the connection between administration and justice.
If the Holy Emperor wants to do this, Liu Bagou will naturally support it.
Anyway, no matter what he does, it will not harm his own interests.
Liu Bagou's status in the Tang Dynasty was transcendent. Even as the Minister of Agriculture, he never participated in the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture. When he participated in politics in the imperial study, he would not favor the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Agriculture.
The entire cabinet.
What's more, Liu Bagou can now see that the administrative problem within the empire is indeed more serious now. Corrupt officials appear one after another. The Inspectorate arrests many corrupt officials every year.
But there is still no way to stop this situation.
Official corruption is a stubborn disease and it is impossible to completely eradicate it. Since it cannot be eradicated and there is no other good way, the only feasible way is to start with supervision.
Now, the Supervisory Yuan is too closely connected with the cabinet and is very susceptible to influence from the cabinet. This naturally affects the independence of the judiciary and creates great obstacles for supervision.
Under such circumstances, if the Holy Emperor wants to carry out in-depth reform of the judicial system, it will be a matter of cleanup.
Liu Bagou could see it, and a few other people could naturally see it from the clues. After all, there are still many smart people in this world. From the clues, it can be inferred that in the end of this storm, the conflict has already
It points to judicial independence.
Sure enough, when many people guessed the clues, this matter was completely exposed!
Fan Chenglin, the current censor of the Right Capital of the Inspectorate, formally presented to the Emperor Sheng an outline of the reform of the Inspectorate. The content of the outline was mainly about the reform of the Inspectorate, but it was not just internal reform. More importantly, he proposed that the personnel of the Inspectorate should be changed from now on.
The personnel department was transferred to the personnel organization within the Inspectorate. At the same time, the local Inspectorate was no longer under the jurisdiction of the local governor, prefect, county magistrate and other top leaders, turning the dual leadership into the direct leadership of the Inspectorate.
This person is the second-in-command of the Inspectorate, and his rank is the second rank. He is a real high-ranking official in the empire, a heavyweight, and his political status is not weaker than that of ministers of various ministries.
The only ones with a higher political status than him are the ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room, such as his immediate superior, Yushi Zuodu, the Inspector of the Yuan Dynasty, and Shi Wuyan, the minister on duty in the Imperial Study Room. However, it is obviously impossible for Shi Wuyan to do so in the early stage.
He made his statement personally.
But the weight of ordinary people's words is too weak, so Fan Chenglin, the second-in-command of the Inspectorate, has become the best candidate. His words can fully express the opinions of the Inspectorate without leaving any room, and can be followed up later.
Negotiate with other departments without being too passive.
Shi Wuyan stayed in the Inspectorate for seven or eight years, and finally succeeded Song Tieshu, the former censor of Zuodu of the Inspectorate, until he became an official. Then he successfully took over as the censor of Zuodou of the Inspectorate, and naturally entered the imperial study room and became the minister on duty.
, this person was finally able to become the censor of Zuodu and the minister on duty in the imperial study. In addition to hard work, it was also related to his caution.
Naturally, we will not take a stance easily on the current debate on judicial independence!
But this person is one of the few people who knows that Emperor Sheng wants to completely reform the judicial system. He even arranged many things under the hint of Emperor Sheng.
Without the arrangement of such a heavyweight as the minister on duty in the imperial study room, how could such a big disturbance have been caused in just half a month!