At night, the horse-drawn and luxurious carriage made the sound of trampling as it re-entered the palace behind the high wall from the Shenwu Gate.

From the outside, this majestic palace does satisfy many people's fantasy of power, but that is only limited to the front dynasty and not the harem.

The palace you think of covers a huge area, with courtyards, palaces, gardens, and gardens. They are so beautiful and big! There are more than 70 large and small palaces with nearly 9,000 rooms!

Look at the huge square in the front. It's majestic. The majestic halls everywhere are what a heavenly kingdom should have.

But this is only limited to the former dynasty. The harem is really small. The places where the concubines live are not even comparable to the size of those farmyards. The legendary imperial garden is not that big. There must be many people.

Everyone knows that the Imperial Garden is one of the places where fights in the harem are unavoidable. The only way for dozens of concubines to have fun in the palace every day is to walk around the Imperial Garden. They squeeze into the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers, and there are some minor conflicts.

Too normal.

Trivia: The imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was probably the smallest one recorded, with an area of ​​720,000 square meters, which translates into a length and width of less than one kilometer.

Even if it is 900 meters by 800 meters, the city wall on either side is only a fifteen-minute walk away. This size is not even comparable to the area occupied by some modern universities.

The Xianyang Palace of the Qin Dynasty records that it was more than 80 miles long from east to west, and stretched for more than 80 miles from front to back. Calculated at 400 meters per mile, it was a giant with a circumference of nearly 70 kilometers. The area of ​​the palace ruins that was discovered in later generations exceeded

Twenty square kilometers, while the imperial city is less than one square kilometer.

In the Han Dynasty, the Changle Palace was about six square kilometers, the Jianzhang Palace was five square kilometers, and the Weiyang Palace was five square kilometers.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Taiji Palace covered an area of ​​4.2 square kilometers, the Luoyang Palace covered an area of ​​4.09 square kilometers, and the Daming Palace covered an area of ​​3.2 square kilometers.

Such a comparison is that the imperial city is really small now, and it is a clear comparison of how crowded the harem is. Twenty concubines can be crammed into this harem, and any more concubines and beauties would have to be

Sleeping in Datongpu, generally speaking, it was not too uncommon for two or three concubines to live in the same palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

And Zhou Yu returned to Qianqing Palace not long after he left Li Xiyue, and it only took about ten minutes if he was not in a hurry.

After returning to the Palace of Qianqing, a palace maid came to help Zhou Yu take off his clothes and wash his feet. Compared with others, the place where Zhou Yu slept was quite big, at least it wasn't like a small room with one bed in a Qing palace drama.

The sleeping place is like a palace, the kind where you can directly hold a cocktail party, but you usually don't stay here when the weather is cold.

While Zhou Yu was changing clothes and washing up, Cheng Jing reported the situation in front of the bed: "I have ordered the imperial guards and the imperial army to surround Beppu on three levels and three levels outside. All the craftsmen and doctors who make the four ingredients have also been put under guard.

Their family members will all be sent to Huangli Village, and the person who made the bread will also be sent to the Ministry of War. Then someone from the Ministry of War will check whether the bread is suitable to be used as new military rations."

"In addition, the courtyard minister near the other courtyard also arranged for someone to buy it, but it is not suitable to transform it into a workshop. I suggest that the workshop be placed in Huangli Village."

Zhou Yu nodded and asked the palace maid to pour him a cup of tea, and said: "According to the arrangements you said, dozens of people from various places and Taiyuan Hospital will be selected to build a pharmacist college on the other side of Longevity Mountain. According to the grade of the Royal Academy of Sciences, first

Let people study the four elements carefully, and once there are results, let both parties work together to find ways to expand the scale of production."

Cheng Jing looked at Zhou Yu and said, "But Your Majesty, if everything Miss Li presented today has a magical effect, how should I be rewarded for this credit?"

Zhou Yu frowned slightly. It was understandable that Cheng Jing didn't know what to do. After all, Li Xiyue's situation was indeed a bit special and it was normal to not know how to reward him.

This Li Xiyue has not entered the palace and cannot be promoted as a concubine. The reward for being awarded a title is not good because she is a woman and the emperor's woman. If the woman who is not the emperor is made a marquis, it is not impossible. At most, there will be more people who oppose it. Anyway, in ancient times

It was not that there were no women who were knighted, but this was the emperor's woman.

The financial reward alone was obviously not enough, and Li Xiyue had no relatives to show her kindness.

"This is really troublesome." Zhou Yu patted his forehead lightly and said, "But a reward must be given. After all, the credit is not small... Well, let's pardon Li Xiyue and make her the wife of the country of Xi, and reward her with silk, gold and silver."

Jewelry, the Royal Concubine’s ceremonial guard, and the Imperial Concubine’s order, but we don’t have to wait until the results of the research on the four elements are available. As long as there are actual merits, the ministers in the court will not object.”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cheng Jing nodded, and said with a smile: "At first I thought that Miss Li just had a skin, but I didn't expect that the skin was beautiful and the inside was even better. In addition to playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, she was so versatile that she could be called

He is a model of both talent and virtue. If the four elements can really cure malaria sores, then it will be no problem to be called a living saint. This is a real living Bodhisattva and not those clay statues in temples."

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment and then showed a thoughtful expression: "Then it looks like we need to prepare a plaque, a living saint... Okay, it's getting late and I should rest, so you can go down and rest too.

"

Cheng Jing bowed and slowly retreated. Zhou Yu lay down on the warm bed, and the maid next to him also put down the bed curtain, blew out the candles beside the bed, and retreated.

At noon on the second day, Zhou Yu had just finished his business in the morning and was about to take a rest when he saw Xing'an hurriedly coming to him.

"emperor."

Zhou Yu picked up the teacup and took a sip without changing his expression: "What's the matter in such a hurry?"

"Princess Changde asks to see you."

"Changde? What is she doing here?" Zhou Yu was a little surprised but nodded slowly: "Where is she?"

Xing'an said: "Without the permission of the emperor and the imperial concubine, no one except the ministers can enter the palace. Princess Changde can only wait outside the palace gate."

"Let her come in and ask the royal kitchen to prepare some food. I want to entertain my sister."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Xing'an took a few steps back and turned around and left in a hurry. Zhou Yu put down the tea cup and felt a little strange. He didn't know what the princess of Changde wanted to do with him. Logically speaking, the princess of Changde shouldn't stay away now. Why did she take the initiative to find him today?

Come to your door.

You must know that Zhou Yu has been in this world for a long time. Except for the funeral of the Empress Dowager, he has never seen Princess Changde at other times. Although the two of them are half-siblings, they can be regarded as half-siblings.

They are a pair of enemies.
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