Since Queen Dong Yunyun became pregnant last year, Li Xuan's harem has also seen concubines of the Ye family becoming pregnant and concubines of the Wang family becoming pregnant.
This also gave Empress Dowager Bai and others a lot of peace of mind. A few years ago, doctors judged that there was something wrong with Emperor Li Xuan's body. Therefore, after Li Xuan got married two years ago, no one in the harem became pregnant.
After several years of continuous medical care, he finally recovered.
Although the winning rate is still a bit low, as long as her precious son, Emperor Li Xuan, works hard, there is still hope that he can flourish for the royal family, thereby breaking the dangerous situation of the old Li family's single inheritance for several generations.
It has to be said that it is not only Empress Dowager Bai who is concerned about Li Xuan's descendants. In fact, the Tang Dynasty is also very concerned about Li Xuan's descendants. Of course, their focus is different from Empress Dowager Bai's.
Empress Dowager Bai's thoughts are more simple, that is, to continue the incense of the Li family, and at the same time to stabilize the country's foundation.
But the ministers in the imperial court did not care about the incense issue of the Li family. They were more concerned about the successor of the Tang Dynasty and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
It is a pity that the old Li family has been passed down for several generations. Li Xuan does not have any direct brothers, not even cousins, uncles, etc. If Li Xuan has a cousin, nephew, etc., they will probably suggest
Li Xuan adopted a nephew as the reserve heir apparent.
After all, a country cannot live without a king for a day. If Li Xuan suddenly dies in an accident one day, the Tang Dynasty without a prince will instantly fall apart.
Nowadays, people in Li Xuan's harem are pregnant one after another. Although in recent years, a total of three girls have been pregnant, and so far there is only one princess left, but it also makes Empress Dowager Bai, Liu Bagou and other ministers feel a little relieved.
They expect that the Ye family or the Wang family can give birth to a prince for His Majesty. Even if this prince is not the legitimate son of Queen Dong Yunyun, he can still be regarded as a prince and a candidate for the crown prince!
To be honest, even Li Xuanzai is very concerned.
But he also knows that this kind of thing cannot be rushed. Since there are no big health problems now, as long as he works harder in the future, he will eventually be able to give birth to a few princes.
In the harem, after holding and playing with his eldest daughter Li Wei for a while, Li Xuan handed his eldest daughter Li Wei over to a wet nurse, and then left after giving some instructions.
Dong Yunyun has been suffering from the cold in the past two days and has not been in contact with Li Wei for a few days. Although Queen Mother Bai occasionally comes, she is always not diligent in coming. Therefore, Li Xuan has been coming to visit every day in the past few days.
look.
After all, this is his daughter. Although her mother, Empress Dong and Empress Dowager Bai, also care about her, they can always feel some surprise. As a father, Li Xuan has no choice but to pay more attention to her.
After leaving the harem, Li Xuan went directly to the front hall, ready to start his work this afternoon.
Nowadays, the front hall in the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty has changed greatly from the past. In the early days, the front hall was actually the government office of Zhaoqing. Later, after the capital was established here, the Ministry of Industry urgently repaired many houses to form a
The office building complex in the front hall of the palace used in the early stage.
But this was not an official palace after all. Later, the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry began to plan and start the construction of many large-scale buildings in the palace.
However, although these buildings have the same layout as the traditional imperial palace, that is, the Nanjing Palace and the Forbidden City, they are much smaller in scale, and even the architecture is different and appears to be very simple.
The reason here is very simple. It is not that the Tang Dynasty does not know etiquette or how to build a palace, but because it has empty pockets. Building a palace on a large scale is extremely consuming of manpower and material resources. Now that the Tang Dynasty is in the entrepreneurial stage, naturally
It is impossible to invest hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver in the palace.
In addition, with the Tang Dynasty's successive victories on the front line, many ministers know that although Zhaoqing is the current capital of the Tang Dynasty, it should not stay here for too long. Once the Tang Dynasty takes Jiangnan
If nothing else happens, the capital will be moved to Jinling City.
After all, the political status and geographical status of Jinling City are unmatched by remote places in the south such as Zhaoqing!
The combination of many reasons has led to the fact that although the Zhaoqing Imperial Palace occupies a huge area, most of the entire palace is actually grass and open space, and the buildings on the ground are actually far smaller in scale. The buildings in the front hall are
The five main halls are basically modeled after the five main halls of the Forbidden City. Although they are called main halls, they are actually just a few taller and larger houses than ordinary houses.
The Chengtian Hall on the middle line is the tallest and has the largest area. It is Li Xuan's daily office, and it is also the place where court meetings and major ceremonies are held.
The several front hall buildings next to it are smaller and are mainly used for the offices of officials stationed in the palace, including the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial Study Room, the ministers on duty, etc.
The five buildings in the front hall were completed one after another this summer. Because the scale of the buildings is relatively small and they are not particular about luxury, although they are grand, they do not cost much and the work hours are relatively fast.
After Li Xuan and hundreds of officials moved into these five office buildings, the original government offices and other old buildings were directly demolished, and then large areas were bulldozed and turned into grasslands and gardens!
After the front hall, there is the harem. The size and layout of the harem are basically modeled after the Forbidden City, but the various buildings are smaller. Even the courtyard where Empress Dowager Bai lives is just an ordinary courtyard, and the entire palace
, which is divided into more than 20 small courtyards.
The entire Zhaoqing Imperial Palace actually looks like a royal palace, and its layout also imitates the layout of a traditional palace. However, because there is free space, the buildings inside are all ordinary buildings, so it looks quite petty and even shabby.
It was not just the Tang Dynasty Palace that was shabby, but also official yamen at all levels.
To the left and right of the imperial palace are the official offices of various institutions of the Tang Dynasty, mainly the cabinet ministries, the Privy Council, the Naval Command, the Inspectorate and other departments.
Some of these buildings are the original official yamen of Zhaoqing Prefecture during the Ming Dynasty, some are simply private buildings directly requisitioned, and a few are newly built.
But all of them are not very big in scale, and the buildings cannot be said to be luxurious!
This can be seen from the cost of building almost the entire palace and many official yamen. The total cost was only more than 100,000 taels of silver. Although most of the labor costs and material costs were not included,
The overall cost is still not much!
What's interesting is that although the cost of the official office is paid by the official finance, the cost of building the palace is paid by the royal family's internal treasury. That is to say, strictly speaking, this palace is actually a private property built by the royal family itself!
However, it is such a simple and even cold-looking palace and the place where the official yamen are located, which has formed the decision-making center of the Tang Dynasty. If a super bomb is thrown one day, I dare not say 100%, but at least
It was also able to reimburse more than half of the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty, well, including Li Xuan's royal family.
Li Xuan has never been very interested in building a palace. This can be seen from the fact that the walls in the palace are just ordinary walls, not walls comparable to city walls like other palaces.
However, although the walls of the palace are not thick, the garrison force inside the palace is quite strong. In the palace, there is a guard infantry battalion stationed all year round. Not far outside the palace, one on the left and one on the right are stationed respectively.
Infantry battalions of the Guards and related auxiliary units.
What many people don't know is that the Guards are actually stationed in the palace, and they have a full range of guns and artillery. An entire field artillery battalion is stationed in the palace.
Compared to the city wall, Li Xuan is more willing to trust the guards under him to keep him safe!
After arriving at the front hall, Li Xuan first reviewed some of the papers that had not been processed in the morning, and then met with several middle- and senior-level officials who were reporting on their work or who were about to take up new positions. After handling these chores, Li Xuan walked into the room.
A huge conference room!
Prepare to host today's imperial strategy meeting!
Today's imperial strategy meeting is not a separate army meeting or naval meeting, or even a separate military meeting, but a strategic meeting related to the entire Tang Dynasty, so the standards of the people participating in the meeting today are quite high.
The generals are all major generals and above, and the civil servants are all ministers and even bachelors.
The ministers of several important departments in the Privy Council, several chiefs of staff of the Guards, several important generals in the Naval High Command, the cabinet ministers of the Ministry of War, the Minister of the Navy, and even the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Taxation are all
Among them, many of these people also serve as ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room, so together with Liu Bagou and others, all seven of the current ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room are here.
As soon as His Majesty arrived, Li Xuan strode into the conference room amidst a roar of greetings. After passing through everyone and entering the conference room, Li Xuan walked directly to the top and sat on his own exclusive dragon chair.
Then he waved his hands slightly and said: "Everyone who loves me, please give me a seat!"
When Li Xuan holds meetings, he usually gives seats to his ministers. Under normal circumstances, he will not let his ministers kneel down. But sometimes it is inconvenient to hold meetings standing up because Li Xuan
When Xuan holds a meeting, he needs to see a large amount of data and even documents, and even needs these ministers to record some things on the spot.
So in most cases, Li Xuan's meeting mode is like this. Li Xuan himself sits on a raised dragon chair. Below him, there is a huge rectangular table, and officials sit on the rectangular table.
Both sides.
This group of important officials of the Tang Dynasty were all familiar with Li Xuan's style, and they quickly took their seats one after another!