Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 850 Open Palace
Luoyang.

Purple Palace.

Countless people flocked to visit the palace, the fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival.

The emperor issued an edict to open the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang, allowing the people to visit the Qianyuan Hall, the main hall of the palace, and allowing the people to visit the imperial city.

This is the first time in history, since ancient times, there has never been an emperor who opened the palace to the people to visit.With this edict, countless people in Luoyang City got up and lined up in the middle of the night, wanting to enter the palace to see what the emperor's golden palace looks like.

Even some people around Luoyang came here excitedly after hearing about it.

Ziwei Palace is different from Taiji Palace in Chang'an.

The construction of Chang'an City is very symmetrical, and the Taiji Palace is in the center of the north of Chang'an City.But Ziwei Palace in Luoyang is asymmetrical. Its imperial city is located on the northwest corner of Luoyang City. This is the highest point in Luoyang City.

Luoyang Ziwei Palace covers an area of ​​about [-] mu. The main entrance is Yingtianmen, the main hall is Qianyuan Hall, and the east and west are respectively Wensi Hall and Wucheng Hall.

The three main halls of the former dynasty are Qianyuan Hall (called Qianyang Hall in Sui Dynasty), Kaiyuan Hall (called Daye Hall in Sui Dynasty), and Xingyuan Hall (called Huiyou Hall in Sui Dynasty).

Qianyuan Hall is the first of the three halls of the previous dynasty. Its volume and area are the largest palaces in Chinese history, none of them.The Qianyuan Hall is not only the hall of the Shang Dynasty, but also the hall where the Qin Empire's New Year's Day meeting and the emperor's enthronement ceremony were held.

The golden palace is brilliant.

After checking their identities at the palace gate, the common people lined up to enter, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites led them to visit, and the Beiya imperial guards maintained order.

The three main halls of the former dynasty and the yamen of the six departments of the three provinces of the imperial city are open, but the Ziwei Palace is very large. There are several palace cities outside the real inner palace. To the north of the inner palace are Xuanwu City, Yaoyi City and Yuanyuan City. The three cities of the wall city, these three cities guard the north of the imperial palace, the triple city pass, and the forbidden army.

On the west side are Xige City and Youjia City, on the east side are Dongge City and Zuojia City, and on the outermost side there is an Dongcheng City that is larger than Dainai. To the north of the Dongcheng City is Hanjiacang City.

To the south of Da Nei is the imperial city.

The real Ouchi only occupies less than one-fifth of the entire imperial palace.

And Ouchi is divided into former dynasty and inner court.

The former court was the place where the emperor worked and held council meetings. The inner court was naturally the place where the emperor’s bedroom, concubines and young princes lived. In addition, the Yeting Palace was the place where the courtiers lived and worked.

Even if only the Qianyuan Hall was opened this time, and the three halls only opened the Qianyuan Hall, this is a rare opportunity for the common people. How many people in this life have the opportunity to enter the imperial palace.

If you want to watch other foreign palaces other than the Qianyuan Palace, of course you can, and you can even have a meal in the palace. Of course, those are not free, you have to buy a ticket to visit.

And that lunch, while simple, was by no means cheap.

But even so, there are still countless rich people vying to buy tickets.

When visiting, there are also some souvenirs for sale in the palace, and they are all small things, such as the four treasures of the study with the seal of Ziwei Palace, and the silk cloth embroidered with the palace mark.

There are even royal horses for sale in the royal stables, and royal wine for sale in the royal wine shop.

These things are all stamped with the mark of the imperial court, and now sold as souvenirs to the common people, it is not just a commodity, but a rather special status symbol.

There are a lot of people who buy it.

The eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were responsible for collecting the money were sore with their pens to register, and the eunuchs who counted the money over there were also soft-hearted.

On the other side, during the lunch in the palace, there was also a blind date with a different face.

The emperor arranged blind dates for those palace people who were over 25 years old, especially those who could no longer contact their families due to the war. Opportunity to join this blind date over lunch.

The most special thing about this blind date is that it is not the people who come to have a blind date for lunch who choose these palace people, but these palace people choose these young children.

If the palace people choose someone and arrange for that man to come and meet, as long as the man does not refuse and agrees, the matter will be considered agreed, and the palace will be their natal family and marry them off.

The man's family is going to come over with a gift, and the palace buys dowry for the palace people, and then they get married.

This was a harem activity proposed by the concubine's eldest son, then hosted by the empress Shan and assisted by the fourth concubine, which received strong support from Luo Cheng.

Opening up the palace, even engaging in blind dates and buying imperial items, these things are outrageous in the eyes of many ministers, and they think it is unseemly, so ordinary people are allowed to visit the palace, which will lose the majesty of the royal family.

But Luo Cheng's reason for persuading the prime ministers and ministers was very simple. He did not do this to make money, but just wanted to shorten the distance with the common people, so that everyone could get closer to the Great Qin Dynasty, the Great Qin Royal Family and officials.

As for the money from selling royal objects and tickets, it will not be used to build palaces, but to set up nursing homes in Luoyang City for the elderly, orphans and abandoned babies, and a cemetery for the unborn Garden and so on.

Luo Cheng has even decided that the opening of the palace is not only held once, but will be held once or twice a year in the future, so that the people can enter the palace to visit, and the sale of imperial objects and palace lunches can also be held continuously, and all the income will be used Come to rescue orphans, widows and abandoned babies, to bury the poor without successors or merchants and scholars living in Luoyang, etc.

He also demanded that government offices in various places should hold open days every year, so that the people can visit the mysterious yamen, and even hold open office days several times a year, so that the people can see how the yamen operates and how the officials work. .

"The comprehensive repair plan for Ziwei Palace in Luoyang proposed by Minister Xiao before said that the budget would be about 100 million yuan."

South of Luoyang, by the Luoshui River.

The inside of the palace is open to the public to visit, but the emperor came to the palace of Xianren.

This is one of the palaces built in the Sui Dynasty. The palace is not big, but it is well preserved.

"Is 100 million guan too much? Some people may say that we collected more than 100 million guan in the salt tax alone last year, which is not much. But I want to say that 100 million guan is a big sum. A self-cultivating farmer with [-] acres of land is considered a good year." , the world is also peaceful, but if the annual income is deducted from the expenses, it may not be able to save ten guanqian."

"One million guan, how many small farmers have saved their entire life?"

Xiao Yu said, "Your Majesty, Ziwei Palace in Luoyang is the palace's chief palace, and now His Majesty's house cannot be repaired."

"It can be repaired, but this is not how the money is spent. Actually, I have a way to repair the palace and save this huge sum of money."

"Your Majesty, are you asking for donations from wealthy families and businessmen?" Chen Shuda asked.

When encountering large expenditures, it is a very common method to persuade those big and wealthy businessmen to donate. The big businessmen know that this is unfair, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Only this time, the emperor shook his head, "No, persuading donations is actually extortion, which is very bad, and we can't make such a start."

"Then how to solve the 100 million strings?" Chen Shuda was puzzled.

The emperor said, in fact, the budget of 100 million guan is a bit high. If we change the method, the cost can be greatly reduced.Of course, if you change the method directly, you can save a penny.

Luo Cheng's method is actually very simple, just like he sells imperial property. Originally, a high-quality horse can be worth more than ten pieces of silk in the border market, but in the Central Plains, it can be worth twenty or thirty pieces of silk. If the horses in the village are sold, one hundred silk horses can be sold, and the supply exceeds the demand.

(End of this chapter)