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  Chapter 984 980 [Your Majesty, it’s time to repair the imperial mausoleum]

  Zhu Cihong returned to Nanjing to report on his work, and found that a lot has changed here.

  The street scene in the city has not changed much. The Baoen Temple outside the city has become the Zhongshan Temple. Meizizhou not only has a dike, but also built a stadium.

  He went to the Ministry of Officials to report, and the new official position was implemented within two days. The speed is so fast, it must be in the honor of Concubine Tian and Concubine Zhu, otherwise it will have to wait for the arrangement.

  The new official position is the director of the Bureau of Officials in Long'an Prefecture, Sichuan, responsible for the selection and transfer of officials in the state government.

  Placed in the Ming Dynasty, it was the Zheng Liupin Tongju who was in charge of the administration of officials in a government.

  The former crown prince is 33 years old, and now he is at the sixth rank, so he has some prospects. After all, in the past, there were many people who were still in the imperial examination in their thirties. It's just that Zhu Cihong's upper limit is definitely not high. If he can reach the third rank, who made his identity so sensitive?

  Zhu Cihong was allowed to enter the palace, but he didn't dare to visit Concubine Tian, ​​and it was a bit awkward to go.

   "Minister Zhu Cihong, I pay my respects to Consort Shun, Empress Zhu." Zhu Cihong's greeting was very formal.

  The name of the Datong New Dynasty basically follows the Ming Dynasty.

  The title of concubine is a certain concubine or empress. If you are already dead, posthumous name + surname + empress, or posthumous name + old + empress.

  Zhu Yuxi was very happy, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't be too polite, sit down quickly!"

   "Thank you for your seat." Zhu Cihong was a little cautious.

  Zhu Yuxi asked, "Have you made up for your elder brother's official vacancy?"

  Zhu Cihong said: "It's done, it's the sixth rank, and the Bureau of Officials of Long'an Mansion is the official."

   "The Bureau of Officials is the best, it manages people," Aimee Zhu asked with a smile, "Where is Long'an Mansion?"

  Zhu Cihong said: "Sichuan."

  Zhu Yu said with a smile: "Sichuan is also good, the land of abundance."

   "It's all thanks to His Majesty's grace." Zhu Cihong didn't explain too much. Long'an Mansion is located in the northern part of Sichuan, which is Pingwu, Qingchuan, and Jiangyou.

  What a land of abundance, very poor!

  The brothers and sisters haven't seen each other for a long time. After exchanging pleasantries, they couldn't find a topic.

  Zhu Cihong looked around, there was only one court lady in the room, and couldn't help asking: "Sister... how is your mother doing?"

Aimee Zhu smiled brightly: "I'm fine. All the older sisters in the palace take good care of me. I have a son and a daughter, and they are also very smart. Last time my younger brother entered the palace, I asked him to send money to my elder brother. Will my elder brother receive money?" arrive?"

  Zhu Cihong said: "I received it. The postman sent the silver to the province, and the official documents delivered by the province were brought to me."

   From Aimee Zhu's smile, it can be seen that she is really living happily.

   There is indeed intrigue in the harem, but it is basically not revealed, and it is relatively harmonious overall.

  Even if Gong Dou can't fight against Aimee Zhu, let alone the princesses of Brunei and Portugal. With the identities of these three, even if the empress died suddenly, even if the emperor favored them, it is impossible for them to have any promotion in title.

  Let’s put it this way, unless the other princes and grandsons are all dead, the sons of the three of them will have a chance to succeed to the throne.

   After chatting for a while, a total of half an hour, Zhu Cihong got up to leave. As a foreign minister, he was allowed to visit relatives in the harem, it was already the emperor's kindness, and it was really inconvenient to stay for too long.

  The female officials and maids took Zhu Cihong away and left the harem. There were guards and carriages waiting, and they sent him all the way out of the Forbidden City.

  While passing by the cabinet, I happened to meet the prince's car driver.

  The carriage that Zhu Cihong was riding in stopped far away to give way. He got off the station in a hurry and stood up, saluting to the prince's car, with mixed feelings in his heart.

   Unexpectedly, the prince got off the car there, and recognized him immediately.

  Zhao Kuanghuan walked up quickly, cupped his hands and said, "So it's the brother of the Zhu family. It's been a while since we last saw you."

   "Don't dare," Zhu Cihong hastily bowed, "My minister Zhu Cihong, I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

  Zhao Kuanghuan said with a smile: "There is no need to be formal, I still remember that when I was young, you taught me to climb trees and catch cicadas, and more than ten years have passed in a flash."

  Zhu Cihong also laughed: "I was not sensible when I was young."

  The two of them had nothing to say, just a few words of reminiscence, and they said goodbye.

   Zhao Han, like Zhu Yuanzhang, is very kind to the prince.

  At the beginning, Zhao Kuanghuan was allowed to read the cabinet proposals, and he was also allowed to attend every imperial meeting. Now he goes directly to the cabinet to observe politics. He can sit next to a certain cabinet minister and watch how the cabinet ministers work. If the prince is sitting beside him, the cabinet ministers will review the official documents and explain to the prince why they should be handled in this way.

  The cabinet ministers didn't bother, but enjoyed it, because they could instill their own political ideas into the prince while explaining.

   Zhao Kuanghuan came to the cabinet and first went to call on the cabinet ministers.

   Those who are relatively close, such as Fei Chun, can still joke with the prince.

   In order to "spread rain and dew evenly", Zhao Kuanghuan learns from different cabinet ministers every day. Today it was Wu Yingji's turn. Mr. Wu Ge worked extremely fast and spoke very fast, explaining while writing. The content goes straight to the point, there is basically no nonsense, and the key points are revealed in a few words.

   "Uh..." Wu Yingji suddenly stopped talking.

  Zhao Kuanghuan hurriedly read the content, and after only reading the first few paragraphs, his expression brightened.

  A doctor of the Ministry of Rites asked Shangshu to determine the address of the imperial tomb, and said that the Ministry of Industry should design and build the imperial tomb early.

   This is a normal thing, and the imperial tomb should be built in advance. Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum was started in the 14th year of Hongwu. Zhu Di's mausoleum was started in the seventh year of Yongle. He often went to his own graveyard and renamed the mountain "Tianshou Mountain" himself.

   Several years ago, the ministers proposed to survey the imperial tomb, and all these memorials were kept by Zhao Han. After a long time, no ministers mentioned this matter again.

   Now it suddenly appeared again, as if Zhao Han was afraid of sudden death.

  Wu Yingji thought about it carefully, and wrote with a red pen on the ticket paper: "Submit to His Majesty for the imperial order."

  He couldn't represent the cabinet to make decisions about this thing, so he asked a member of Zhongshushe to show the memorial to Zhang Bingwen next door. Zhang Bingwen also wrote "Submit to His Majesty's imperial decision", and then the memorial continued to be passed around in the cabinet.

  The next day, Zhao Han took it in his hand, glanced at it casually, and Zhu criticized, "Stay in the middle."

   A few more days later, the routine imperial meeting.

Chen Maosheng was probably pushed out by the cabinet ministers, and he took the initiative to talk about this matter: "Your Majesty is in the heyday of spring and autumn, and the mausoleum is naturally in no hurry to build. But the address of the imperial mausoleum is related to the fate of the country, and must be surveyed in advance. Near Nanjing, Fengshui is the best The most important one is Zijin Mountain. But there is already Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, will it be a taboo? If not, where should Zijin Mountain be chosen? If not Zijin Mountain, where should I choose the imperial mausoleum of the Datong Dynasty?”

   This is not to choose a tomb for Zhao Han alone, but to choose a tomb for all future emperors of the Datong Dynasty.

Zhao Han said unhappily: "Just bury Zijin Mountain, Fengshui doesn't matter, the main reason is that it is close to the capital, and it will be convenient to build a tomb for funerals in the future." Then, Zhao Han suddenly laughed, "What are you doing with this expression, the saint respects ghosts and gods?" Far away, I also respect Fengshui and stay away. The dragon veins of the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty were dug up by coal diggers every day, and no Ming Dynasty civil servants said that Fengshui was broken."

  Chen Maosheng said: "There is a folk saying that in the previous Ming Dynasty, there were many disasters, and finally the army was defeated and the country was destroyed. It was because the coal diggers moved Feng Shui."

  Chen Maosheng is the one who sticks to his heart the most, but he still believes in Fengshui and ghosts. He felt that the imperial mausoleum should be carefully selected in order to preserve Datong forever.

   Zhao Han joked: "Fortunately, our country is not located in Beijing, otherwise there would be coal digging everywhere, and the country would be unstable after a few shovels."

   All the ministers were speechless, they thought the matter was very serious, but the emperor didn't have a straight face.

  Zhao Han suddenly restrained his smile: "The imperial mausoleum should be located at the eastern foot of the Zijin Mountain. It should not disturb the people there."

  Fei Chun asked: "The location of His Majesty's mausoleum, has it also been determined?"

  Zhao Han shook his head: "I'm not buried there."

   All the ministers looked at each other, Zhao Han had chosen the location of the imperial mausoleum for the Datong Dynasty, but he didn't bury Zijin Mountain himself. What does it mean?

  Zhu Shunshui thought that Zhao Han was going to build a large-scale mausoleum, and quickly advised him: "Since your Majesty ascended the throne, he has been benevolent in governing and loving the people, keeping everything simple..."

   "Stop," Zhao Han didn't wait for Zhu Shunshui to finish, "I don't value those, and I won't learn from Qin Shihuang."

   "What does Your Majesty mean..." Liu Ziren couldn't help asking.

Zhao Han stood up abruptly, and said in a loud voice: "Qin Shihuang used the entire Lishan Mountain as his mausoleum, and Cao Mengde built countless suspicious tombs. In my opinion, they are all too petty. I want to sleep in the sky and use the earth as my mausoleum." , use the sun, moon, mountains and rivers to town the tomb!"

  What do you mean?

   All the ministers were completely confused, expressing that they did not understand.

  Zhao Kuanghuan looked at his father in a daze. Although he didn't know what he meant, he seemed very powerful.

Zhao Han didn't explain at all, and he didn't need to explain. He just said: "Since you are in a hurry, I will also make arrangements. Order the Ministry of Industry to build 30 yuan each in Nanjing, Shanghai, Dengzhou, Lanzhou, Manila, and Malacca. Stone stele. One big one, twenty-nine small ones. The big one is twelve feet high, five feet wide, and one and a half feet thick. The small one is nine feet high, three feet wide, and one foot thick. Don’t engrave any inscriptions for now. These steles , The quantity is definitely not enough, and I will make another batch when I am about to die. At that time, I will tell you where the stone tablet should be planted and what should be engraved on the stone tablet. "

  The more the officials listened, the more confused they became, and they simply stopped asking. Anyway, the emperor has so many tricks, and they couldn't figure it out for the rest of their lives.

  Zhao Han's idea is very simple. Before his death, wherever the territory expanded, his tombstone would be there.

  The ashes and the dragon robe were burned together, and the ashes were divided into nine parts, and eight border areas and Nanjing were selected. The ashes were scattered on the ground and trees were planted, so that they would not be afraid of being dug up and flogged.

  Each place where the ashes were thrown, erected thirty large stone tablets.

  The front of the main stele reads "The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of the Republic of China in Datong", and the back reads "Yongzhen Heshan". The twenty-nine small steles are all engraved with the content of "Datong Ji", and no word is allowed to be changed.

  Forests of steles everywhere, people are allowed to worship.

  Especially in the Forest of Steles in Nanjing, people can review the "Datong Collection" while sweeping the emperor's tomb!

  A very outrageous plan, but Zhao Han felt very happy.

   Even if the Datong Dynasty is overthrown, the old Zhao family will no longer rule China. After the change of dynasty, the sons and daughters of Huaxia will still come to worship him, and the mention of the emperor Zhao Han is full of enthusiasm.

  (end of this chapter)