The first thousand five hundred and thirty-five chapters are also very annoying.
On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of Xuanping, Shanghai.
The whole of Shanghai today shows a different prosperity than in the past. Before Li Xuan came, he had given special instructions to Songjiang. He went to Shanghai this time because he wanted to see a real Shanghai, and he also did not want his inspection to affect the people of Shanghai.
normal work and life of the people.
At the same time, it was also decreed that Shanghai was not allowed to be extravagant, not to be too ostentatious, and not to specially repair the palace and other special arrangements.
Li Xuan didn't want that just because he went to Shanghai, Shanghai, a city with a population of over one million, would be put under martial law and the lives and work of ordinary people would be affected.
However, even though the Holy Emperor said so, do the officials of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai Special County dare not make any special arrangements?
Impossible!
The Holy Emperor is a holy king and a benevolent king, and he is unwilling to affect the normal life and work of the people because of his inspections.
But as a minister, you must be willing to take the initiative to be blamed.
Otherwise, if the Holy Emperor caused some turmoil during his visit to Shanghai, I am afraid that many people in the government and the public would lose their heads.
Even for the sake of their own lives and political life, the officials of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai Special County did not dare to show any slightest care.
Like other cities along the railway line, Shanghai has been preparing for the start of the Holy Patrol as early as last autumn, not to mention some regular rectification work such as public security and city appearance.
Also because of the special nature of Shanghai, many people have guessed that Shengtianzi may not go to other places, or may just pass by, but he will definitely come to Shanghai and will definitely stay for a while.
Therefore, the preparation work in Songjiang is more arduous and complicated than in other areas.
The first step is to prepare the palace of the Holy Emperor!
Although the Holy Emperor has given instructions in advance that local government offices are not allowed to specially repair palaces and the like, after the Holy Emperor arrives in various places, his first choice is to continue to live in the royal train and will not move the Holy Emperor easily.
Even if you are going to stay somewhere for a few days, your stay will be at the royal palace in Shanghai and not anywhere else.
The royal family owns a large amount of real estate across the country. These real estates are mainly the residences of powerful officials from the pre-Ming Dynasty and the palaces of various vassal princes, including the Forbidden City.
Back then, there were rules for inspecting the property of former Ming vassal kings and dignitaries.
First, the treasury will directly take away all floating wealth, specifically various precious metals and the like, and then some things that are easy to cash, as well as some shops, general industries and the like will also take away and cash them.
Then there are some things left that are not easy to cash out or have no accurate value, such as antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the mansions, which will be included in the royal industry. Those antiques, calligraphy, paintings and other treasures will naturally be sent to Jinling City.
, to enrich the palace, we can’t let the palace of the Tang Dynasty not even have a few antiques and treasures!
As for those mansions, they were naturally left behind!
After the unification of China, the Imperial Household Industry Department received a total of more than 300 luxury residences across the country. These are not ordinary houses, but all luxury residences. They are either the palaces of vassal princes or the residences of former Ming Dynasty dignitaries.
It usually covers an area of several hundred acres.
However, with so much real estate, the Imperial Household Industry Department is also having a headache. The royal family will definitely not be able to use these houses for their own use. The royal family even has the Forbidden City empty, let alone other vassal palaces.
However, the annual maintenance funds for these houses alone amount to an astronomical amount, and the Imperial Household Property Division is unwilling to spend this money under any circumstances.
But you have to sell it. To be honest, there are not many people who can afford it. And more importantly, many of them are former Ming Dynasty palaces. The architectural specifications and decorations are typical royal features. Even ordinary people can't afford it.
With this kind of money, I don’t have the guts to live there.
In the early stage, Li Xuan selected a small number of people and gave them to various founding heroes, but they were basically concentrated in Jinling City or the hometowns of the founding heroes. However, most of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty were
He is from Zhengtai, and there is no vassal palace in that poor place!
In the end, more than a dozen of them were rewarded, and the remaining Li Xuan also spread his hands and asked the Royal Family Industry Department to find a way to deal with it. Anyway, Li Xuan only asked that he would not foolishly pay for maintenance, but he should also try his best to prevent these mansions from being changed.
It was in ruins, but it was still a mansion after all, so it was a pity that it was abandoned.
The Imperial Family Property Division first selected a group of houses that could be sold directly, mainly those residences owned by ordinary Ming Dynasty dignitaries. Although they were also luxurious, there were still people who dared to buy them, and dozens of them were sold in this way.
As for those palaces, only some of them are relatively well preserved and serve as royal palaces with certain representativeness, such as the original Jingjiang Palace in Guangxi and the Forbidden City in Youzhou.
The remaining few were sold directly to local governments to serve as office space for government offices.
And some even the local government is too lazy to accept, or the royal palace is unwilling to accept it, the Royal Family Industry Department has come up with a big trick, just give it away for free!
To whom?
It will definitely not be given to ordinary people.
If it is an ordinary person, the Imperial Family Industry Department dares to give it away, but do you dare to accept it? When they give it away, they clearly require the new owner to perform maintenance. If the maintenance cannot be completed, they will order compulsory maintenance.
A huge feudal prince's palace requires hundreds of maintenance personnel all year round. Daily maintenance can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands. If it encounters major repairs, it may not even cost hundreds of thousands because there are many materials inside.
And traditional craftsmanship is extremely expensive to repair.
If you are not extremely rich, you cannot afford to live there!
So even if it is a gift, few wealthy businessmen are willing to take advantage of it!
Therefore, donations are mainly donated to serve as school buildings for official schools in various places. It is no longer mandatory for schools to maintain 100% of their original appearance, but basic maintenance still needs to be done.
There are also some houses that are not even willing to be taken over by the local government-run schools. Under Li Xuan's guidance, they have opened a fee-based system to allow people to visit, or simply turn them into commercial facilities, and then charge various fees to serve as services.
Maintenance costs.
Anyway, the Imperial Family Industrial Department is not willing to bear huge maintenance costs every year.
As a result, the number of royal palaces that the Imperial Household Industry Department actually keeps on hand and spends money on maintaining every year is not very large. There are only more than 20 in total, and they are located all over the east, west, north and south. Of course
When necessary, they can also use the large number of palaces that were previously used for other purposes, and they can use them to pick up the guests after a little preparation.
However, the royal palace in Shanghai is not the residence of the former Ming dynasty princes. On the contrary, it is a large-scale manor built by the royal family many years ago.
The officials in charge of real estate operations in the Royal Family Property Department are not fools. Whether the real estate is valuable depends on the place. In Shanghai, you can tell that housing prices will rise just by looking at it.
In addition, the area of Shanghai is so important for industry and commerce, and it is also an important transportation location. The royal family will definitely pass through here in the future, so when Shanghai opened its port for trade, the Royal Industrial Department had already secured more than 300 acres.
The land is used to build the palace. However, although the place is large, the actual scale of the building is not large. It only covers an area of more than ten acres, and the remaining area is covered with large green gardens.
However, over the years, although the Shanghai Palace has welcomed members of the royal family every year, the Holy Emperor and several princes have never stayed here.
Over the years, the three princes who have come to Shanghai more frequently are the three princes who have left the country, but none of these three princes have ever lived in the Shanghai palace.
The eldest son of the emperor of Beihai Province, King Qi Li Yan, liked to stay at Wusongjiang Hotel.
As for the second son of King Zhao of Banten Province, Li Han, he likes to live in his own private mansion. He has a mansion in Shanghai, and he always lives in his own mansion every time he travels to Shanghai.
As for the third prince of Luzon Province, King Qin, when he turned 16 a few years ago, he conquered Luzon Province. He did not conquer America as many people thought before. This is because of the current power of the empire in North America.
It was still too weak, and although steam engines had appeared, large-tonnage ships such as large-scale transoceanic passenger ships had not yet appeared, so it was still relatively difficult to travel to the Americas.
So Li Xuan first sealed the third son of the emperor in Luzon.
Every time when King Li Bian of Qin passed through Shanghai between his fiefdom and the capital, he did not stay at the Shanghai Palace. Why? Because neither of his two brothers lived there. Anyone with some political consciousness would not carelessly go to the Shanghai Palace.
live.
Like his elder brother King Qi, he chose to stay in a hotel, but it was not the Wusongjiang Hotel, but the Shanghai Traders Hotel, an old luxury hotel in Shanghai. In order to maintain high-end competitiveness, the hotel especially wanted to compete with the Wusongjiang Hotel.
There are several other hotels competing for the title of Shanghai's No. 1 Hotel. A new main building was rebuilt a few years ago, with a total of six floors and a height of tens of meters. In contemporary Shanghai, it can only be said to be average, but the inside
The decoration design is the highest level of luxury decoration.
In addition to luxury, it also adopted various new technologies on a large scale. Every time King Qin Li Fang passed through Shanghai, he always stayed in the new building of Shanghai Traders Hotel.
So, has anyone stayed at the Shanghai Palace over the years?
Of course there is!
Since the opening of the Jiangnan Railway and steam passenger ships, there will occasionally be royal concubines. The princesses come to Shanghai specially, and they usually live in the Shanghai palace. You have to say that none of these concubines are from Shanghai, and they are not allowed to visit relatives.
I would come to Shanghai, so why would I come to Shanghai again?
Because it is bustling and lively, you can easily buy all kinds of goods from all over the world.
Well, people come to Shanghai just for shopping!
It is a woman's nature to spend money on shopping, regardless of ancient or modern times, China or foreign countries, and no distinction between high and low!
Of course, what's more important is that Li Xuan is more accommodating in this regard. Like other feudal dynasties, he will not even let his women return to their parents' homes or go shopping.
Well, in fact, he was not allowed to do so in the early years. It was not until the opening of the railway and steam passenger ships that he became more accommodating.
This was mainly due to the inconvenience of transportation in the early years. Not only was it troublesome for the concubines to go home to visit their relatives, but it also required a huge amount of money.
If you want to ask how much money a woman can spend on a trip home, you can only say that your plans are poor.
Moreover, Li Xuan had more than one woman, and there were hundreds of famous and titled concubines. Even Li Xuan himself didn't know how many concubines there were without names or titles.
If so many women went back to their parents' homes to save money, even the emperor Li Xuan would have a headache!