Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 527 Design Drawings
After cleaning up a wave of moths in the temple, Luo Youdu received a white-body craftsman named Yu Hao in Yanhe Hall.

This Yu Hao is quite successful. His architectural craftsmanship is unparalleled in the world. He can be called the number one craftsman in this era. He is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He is good at building palaces and pagodas. The thirteen-storey 360-foot pagoda built for Song Taizong Zhao Kuangyi in history is even more shocking.

Ouyang Xiu commented in "Return to Field Records": his intentions are so lean, and there is only one carpenter since the Kingdom of China.

However, Luo Youdu didn't remember that there was such a number one person in history, after all, the status of craftsmen was not high.

Except for a few top figures like Yu Wenkai who designed Daxing City and Luoyang City in the Sui Dynasty, Lu Ban and Mozi are the sages who are familiar with them.

But as the protagonist of Yu Hao Ding Pagoda, Qian Hongchu has a deep impression on Yu Hao.

Yu Hao was introduced to Luo Youdu by Qian Hongchu.

Knowing that Luo Youdu wanted to rebuild Luoyang City and Luoyang Palace, Qian Hongchu recommended Yu Hao to Luo Youdu and praised him for his carpentry accomplishments.

Qian Hongchu himself didn't know that this recommendation helped him a lot.

Since Luo Youdu revealed his proposal to rebuild Luoyang City, the Ministry of Industry has given several plans, all of which are perfunctory.

Although Luo Youdu didn't understand it, he could tell the good and the bad.

Since then, he has felt that some officials have played tricks in the interior.

Pretending to be ignorant is just to see how many people there are and how courageous they are.

The Ministry of Industry is unreliable, and Yu Hao's appearance just relieves the urgent need.

Luo Youdu asked Wu Tingzuo, who stayed in Luoyang, to cooperate with Yu Hao to design a repair drawing.

After more than two months, Yu Hao's first draft has been completed, so I came here to ask for an interview.

This was Yu Hao's second interview with the saint, even so, he was still a little uneasy.

Yu Hao's status is very low, unlike Yu Wenkai, who came from a family of generals and has status blessings.

Yu Hao is a humble construction craftsman, the existence with the lowest status among scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce.

Being able to get to this point and being appreciated and recommended by Qian Hongchu all depends on his own strength.

But in the face of the existence with the highest status in the world, Yu Hao still couldn't hide his uneasiness, he was very awkward in speaking, and tremblingly, he handed over the blueprint of his plan to the servant.

The blueprint is so big that Luo Youdu's desk can't fit it.

"Show up the drawings!"

Luo Youdu often looked at his own map of the country, and the servant hung up the map with ease.

A majestic city emerges vividly on paper...

A flash of surprise flashed in Luo Youdu's eyes, this is what the capital of the country looks like.

The capital is crowded, which is unavoidable, but Bianjing, where a million people are crowded into more than 200 miles, is not the same as Luoyang, where 44 million people are crowded into [-] square kilometers.

Yu Hao's planning drawings are more than ten times stronger than the previous drawings drawn by the Ministry of Industry.

Luo Youdu really does not believe that the officials of the Ministry of Industry are of low standard.

This is to increase the difficulty of moving the capital in all aspects.

Luo Youdu said: "It looks very good, please introduce it to me, I don't understand these things."

Yu Hao said with a bit of anxiety: "The grassroots think... Senior Yu Wenkai's plan does not need to be changed, and he combines Luoyang's mountains, rivers and landforms. The grassroots think it is already very good, and some adjustments need to be made on the details. Caomin consulted the previous information, those places are easy to accumulate water, those places are easy to be blocked, and the details are supplemented. Here..."

Yu Hao's voice trembled a little at the beginning, but as it involved his own field, his speech became more fluent, his timid eyes became brighter, and he talked about his improvements and opinions incessantly.

How many times in this life are there opportunities to improve and build a city, a palace?
Although Yu Hao came from a low background, he still had his own ideals. For this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he devoted himself to it without sleep or food.

Luo Youdu couldn't stop nodding when he heard that.

Yu Hao came back to his senses, and said a little timidly: "For Luoyang Palace, Your Majesty, what advice do you have?"

Luo Youdu asked back: "How do you say?"

Yu Hao said with some trepidation: "As grand as Emperor Gaozong of the previous dynasty, or as grand and magnificent as Empress Wu?"

Luo Youdu blushed unexpectedly, and said: "Simple and majestic, this... I am a little shy in my pocket. It doesn't need to be too gorgeous, but it must show the majesty of the court."

There was some respect in Yu Hao's timid eyes, and he said, "Cao Min, I understand."

Luo Youdu said: "Don't call me Caomin, I will make you a member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, and assist Situ Xu to finalize the design drawings."

As he spoke, he immediately summoned Situ Xu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Situ Xu was the oldest group of ministers in the temple, and served successively in the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou.

In the past, he would have retired and returned to his hometown a long time ago. In Guo Rongchao, he had asked to be resigned because of his foot disease.

But the climate of the Luoyu court was comparable to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and Situ Xu, with his old bones, would have to last a few more years no matter what.

Situ Xu is nearly seventy this year, but he is still strong.

After discovering the moth in the Ministry of Industry, he cooperated with the court to take down Tao Qiu, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, and his party members, and reorganized the Ministry of Industry.

Only then did Luo Youdu hand over Yu Hao to Situ Xu with peace of mind.

Situ Xu was on the cusp of this crisis and dared not neglect, and urged the Ministry of Industry to revise Yu Hao's design drawings.

It only took half a month before the Ministry of Industry handed over the final version.

Luo Youdu looked at the more detailed final version and nodded in satisfaction.

"Take a rubbing copy of this design drawing, and send it back to me!"

As Luo Youdu said, he said to the waiter: "Notify the Shangshi Bureau and ask them to prepare a banquet. I want to invite Dianshuai, Mashuai, Bushuai, and Cao to the banquet...and Zhang Qiong, Chang Side, Liu Fu, Dang Jin, Shu Yuan, Kang Zaiyu, Kang Baoyi and his son attended the banquet together."

This time, except for Han Lingkun, Han Tong, Gao Huaide, Shi Shouxin, and Cao Bin, the people he invited were all veterans of the Imperial Army Division who had fought and killed with him on the battlefield.

These people are now the core backbone of the Forbidden Army.

When Luo Youdu invited guests, the invited generals naturally did not dare to be careless. They washed and dressed early, and waited outside the palace early. Everyone was acquaintances, and three or five people gathered together to chat and brag.

Han Tong wasn't Luo Youdu's die-hard fan at first, after these years, his son Han Wei's status in the Privy Council has also increased, so he naturally blended into it.

He said to Han Lingkun: "Old Han, what's the matter with His Majesty inviting us to a banquet?"

Before Han Lingkun could answer, Shi Shouxin said first, "What's the point? Your Majesty is lonely in the palace. Come and have a drink with us."

Han Tong rolled his eyes at the brainless guy, and said, "I'm talking about Wen Chen's restlessness."

Han Lingkun snorted contemptuously: "It has nothing to do with us, what else can a group of talkative guys do? When His Majesty really needs us, he will naturally order."

Han Tong was right when he thought about it.

Civil servants look down on military officials, so how can these military officials look down on civil servants?

(End of this chapter)