Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 812 Daming Palace

  As soon as the holy car arrived, countless people followed the holy car and left the palace all the way.

  Fang Jifan, Liu Jian and others walked together.

  Liu Jian kept looking at Fang Jifan with a smile on his face, and coughed: "Jifan, if someone mocks you, don't take it to heart. Men, you must not be afraid of the eyes of the world."

   Speaking of it, Liu Jian admired Fang Jifan very much, except for this guy, who would go crazy every now and then.

  So seeing all the officials mocking Fang Jifan, Fang Jifan felt deep sympathy in his heart.

   Li Dongyang, Zhang Sheng, Ma Wensheng, Xie Qianren, etc. behind them seemed to quicken their pace and followed.

  Zhang Sheng sighed: "They think my nephew is stupid, but the old man doesn't think so, really." He blinked hard, trying to show a sincere look.

"That's right, that's right." Ma Wensheng also sighed with emotion. Although Fang Jifan had tricked himself countless times, Ma Wensheng was still a good guy after all. Book."

  Fang Jifan saw these uncles coming to comfort him one after another.

  My heart is warm.

  It seems that this is a good thing, Fang Jifan did the right thing.

Fang Jifan said: "I didn't take it to heart. I'm not a stingy person. I only have the emperor in my heart. There is our Ming Dynasty. Others, the world slanders me and slanders me. What do I care about? You all know Fang Jifan's temperament if you want to come. , If I was really angry, I would hit someone, you see, I didn't hit anyone, so I'm not angry at all."

   "Hehe..." Everyone laughed, feeling relieved in their hearts: "It's good not to be angry, it's good not to be angry."

   This journey is very long.

   But following Shengjia, who couldn't sit in a sedan chair, walked for more than two hours, and didn't see the side of Daming Palace.

  Liu Jian and the others couldn't bear it long ago. They had to be carried by horses. While looking around, they said, "Why is it so far away? If you go any further, you will have to go to the suburbs."

  Fang Jifan said: "It's not far, it's not far. Isn't this the slow pace of the holy driver? If it is an ordinary time, it will only take more than an hour if the horse whips up."

  Liu Jian and others were stunned. For more than an hour, they swung the whip quickly. Can we old bones swat the whip quickly?

   After walking for more than half an hour, almost everyone has collapsed, but the majestic Daming Palace is already far away.

  In the distance, there is a tower.

  There is a mirror on the tower.

  The mirror is transparent, and through the back of the mirror, there are pointers one by one.

  Emperor Hongzhi had already disembarked from the dragon chariot, looked at the tower from a distance, and could not help but greet the left and right: "Where is the crown prince, and where is Jifan?"

  Xiao Jing was exhausted and out of breath, feeling difficult to breathe, covering his heart, said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty...His Royal Highness...His Royal Highness...He went to serve the Empress Dowager and his old man."

   "Oh, Fang Jifan, Fang Jifan is here."

   But Fang Jifan came in a hurry.

   Without waiting for Fang Jifan to salute, Emperor Hongzhi pointed to the tower: "What is that?"

"Bell Tower." Fang Jifan said: "Not only can this building be used as a turret, but there are big clocks on all four sides of the building. Did your Majesty see the pointer? The big pointer tells the time. Look, there are a total of At twelve o'clock, the big pointer is right on the noon scale? There is also a small pointer, that one, can your majesty see clearly? He aimed at three quarters, that is to say, it is exactly It's a quarter to three. The tower clock cost a lot."

  Fang Jifan blinked and started talking nonsense: "It's worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but the account has not been paid yet."

  Emperor Hongzhi was surprised: "Why didn't you pay?"

Fang Jifan said solemnly: "It was made by those Franji who were in the shipwreck. They came to Xishan. My son, I understand them with reason and affection. Under my son's teaching, they finally They repented and finally accepted the enlightenment. Not only did they volunteer to contribute their efforts to His Majesty's palace, but they also absolutely refused to accept any money. Giving them money, they felt it was an insult to them, and they would never be humiliated. In their hearts, there was only one The sun and the moon are shining, and I am absolutely loyal to His Majesty."

  Emperor Hongzhi looked a little strange, lowered his voice and said, "Did you hit them?"

   "..." Fang Jifan said aggrievedly, "No, I just made sense."

   Forget it, Emperor Hongzhi didn't bother to care about it.

Looking at the bell tower, it is really a whimsical idea, ingeniously capturing the sky, so that, whether it is in the palace or outside the palace, from any angle, if you want to know the time, once you look up and see the bell tower, you can know the current time .

  This... is really a good thing.

  The Daming Palace is the Daming Palace, which looks impressive from afar.

  Behind him, countless ministers have already expressed their admiration. This is the first phase of the project. It is so outstanding? Look, it really is no less than the Forbidden City.

  The moat has already been built.

  Outside the moat, there are still iron bricks, but once you pass the moat bridge leading to the Daming Palace and enter the doorway, you suddenly see the light inside, and looking down, you can see that the ground is covered with ceramic bricks.

   Along the central axis, in the distance, there is a huge palace.

  This palace seems to be made of stone, not wooden.

   Actually.

  The wooden palace is actually the most time-consuming.

  If it was in the Han and Song dynasties, it would be relatively simple to build.

   But with the felling for thousands of years, in the hinterland of Daming, almost all the huge trees that could be used to build palaces were almost completely felled.

  Everyone likes wooden houses, and the craftsmanship of splicing the planks is not fine enough, but any big wood has been harvested long ago.

   Therefore, when the Forbidden City was first built, almost all the wood used to make the palace was transported from Yunnan and other places. The time spent on the way and the transportation cost were extremely high.

  Fang Jifan is very down-to-earth, directly adding concrete with bricks, and then painting and painting on the outside.

  In order to maintain the transparency of the hall, Fang Jifan also adopted the method of floor-to-ceiling windows. This huge masonry structure hall imitating Fengtian Temple has glass directly on the floor, which is extremely transparent.

   Not only that, in order to have sufficient sound insulation effect, Fang Jifan used triple-layer glass to ensure that the discussions in this hall can be isolated from the outside.

  Behind each side of the glass is a roller blind. If you want to do something secretly, or if you don’t want to bask in the sun, the new Fengtian Temple will be immediately isolated from the outside as soon as the roller curtain is pulled.

  The bigger the palace, lighting is the biggest problem. Even the Fengtian Temple, because the hall is too deep, and it is made of wood, is dark and damp. After a hundred years, it has already had a faint smell of decay.

  This is also why, whether it is Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty or Emperor Jiajing, they are rushing to build new palaces and move.

  Emperor Hongzhi looked at the 'Fengtian Temple' in the distance: "Is that Fengtian Temple?"

  Fang Jifan said with a smile: "If Your Majesty likes to call it Fengtian Temple, it should be Fengtian Temple."

  Emperor Hongzhi smiled: "Go, go in and have a look."

All the officials followed, looking dumbfounded all the way, this...Although it was only the first main hall to be completed, the Daming Palace was only the first phase, with a prototype, but what they saw along the way was not exactly the Forbidden City Is it stylish?

  Not only that, many 'gadgets' have been added to give people a bright and majestic feeling.

Everyone went up the Fengtian Hall along the white jade steps. This Fengtian Hall, because of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looked in from the outside, it was even more majestic. Emperor Hongzhi could even see the deepest part of the hall from here. The high golden throne and the throne, looking from here to the throne, there...is extraordinarily solemn.

  Emperor Hongzhi walked a few steps quickly and entered the palace.

  Fang Jifan coughed: "Take off your shoes, take off your shoes."

   "What?" Everyone looked at Fang Jifan.

  Emperor Hongzhi also looked suspicious.

  Fang Jifan hurriedly said embarrassingly: "Your Majesty, you don't need to take off your shoes. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. How can the Son of Heaven take off his shoes? I'm talking about them, it's them."

  In fact, in the Han and Tang Dynasties, ministers had to take off their shoes when they entered the palace, but in the Ming Dynasty, this traditional culture was missing.

   Beijing is cold.

  When the boots are taken off, everyone wears foot wraps, which are commonly known as socks in later generations, but... people's feet smell. If everyone took off their boots and went in, wouldn't it stink?

   But take off your boots...

   Does it make people barefoot?

   Everyone hesitated.

  Fang Jifan smiled and said: "Please don't worry, it's warm inside, not only are there mirrors on all four sides, the sunlight from outside can come in, here, there is also floor heating.

  Everyone was startled, floor heating?

   This is a big deal.

Fang Jifan ordered people to lay heating pipes underground, and then set up a boiler in a remote corner of the Forbidden City. In this way, countless heating pipes can be sent to Daming Palace through countless pipes underground. Commonly used palaces everywhere.

  This floor heating is different from the fire dragon in the Snapper.

  Fire Dragon only supplied the Nuan Pavilion. After all, when the Forbidden City was built, this was not thought of. But it was too late to renovate the palace on a large scale, so the palace had to renovate the Nuan Pavilion, which was the favorite place of Emperor Hongzhi.

  But the Daming Palace must be forward-looking. Therefore, Fang Jifan had people spread the floor heating in advance.

  In order to make the floor warm and comfortable, each temple is also covered with tiles.

  Therefore, don’t look at the Fengtian Temple, which is full of tiles. When everyone looks at the smooth tiles, they like it very much, and the tiles are matched with floor-to-ceiling windows. The visual effect is simply great.

  The tiles are slowly moistened by the heating of the floor heating, so...

  Fang Jifan was the first to take off his boots and even his foot binding socks, and then, in front of everyone, he stepped on the tiles.

  Although it is early spring at this time, the city of Beijing is still cold.

  Although Fang Jifan is barefoot, the soles of his feet are combined with the tiles, giving him a warmth that penetrates directly into Fang Jifan's feet. Floor heating is a qualitative leap in improving the quality of life.

  Everyone looked at Fang Jifan suspiciously, this...can you really... step on it?

  This Fang Jifan, can't it be a prank?

  Looking at the ministers being so reserved.

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "I will give it a try too. Fang Jifan, remember, if you are naughty, I will not spare you!"

  (end of this chapter)