Li Shimin removed the unhappiness brought by Xue Rengui's reckless man just now.

However, he was still shocked by Xue Rengui's lightning speed and his power as powerful as a bull.

Although he repeatedly lamented that his bravery was not as good as before and was old, Li Shimin knew better than anyone else that this was just an excuse.

Even in his heyday, can I really ensure that I can defeat Xue Rengui?

This is indefinitely.

Sure enough... there are still more perverted people in this world.

After entering Xining City, I initially felt that the specifications here were not much different from Chang'an.

However... after looking closely, I found that there are many differences.

There are more than a hundred yards in Chang'an, and then high walls are built between each yard. Here, every street leads to all directions.

All the streets are built particularly open.

This is obviously a reference to Chang'an's failure.

After all, with the popularity of carriages, Chang'an City has begun to feel overwhelmed, because most of the original streets were to deal with the demand for abortion, but they did not realize the problem of carriage walking.

This led to a terrible thing, the high walls and narrow roads between each yard restricted the passage of cars and horses. During peak hours, almost every yard gate would be in a very congestion.

But here, obviously... there is no such problem. At least this situation is much better than Chang'an.

Anyway, Xining’s land is not valuable, so it’s all done if it’s big. You can go through ten carriages in parallel on the long street, while the small street is the standard of four cars in parallel.

In order to prevent Yu Weiran, a sidewalk was set up, which allowed bicycles and people to walk.

All pavement surfaces are made of mud and stone, which are relatively smooth and flat.

Li Shimin rode his horse and couldn't help but say, "It seems that this place is more carriages and bicycles than Chang'an, but... if Chang'an wants to change it, he is afraid that it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. How many city gates are here?"

"Yes, there are twenty-one city gates in the entire Xining City." Chen Zhengtai responded.

Li Shimin said suspiciously: "There are so many city gates. If there are attacks from the enemy, wouldn't it greatly increase the pressure on defense?"

Chen Zhengtai said: "My son thinks that defense is not about trapping, but about attack. Offense is the best defense. In addition, this is also to prevent too few city gates. A large number of cars and horses entering and leaving the city will inevitably cause huge blockages. It may not be much at the beginning, but with the increase in the population in the future, the congestion situation will become even worse. Therefore, the number of city gates entering and leaving the city is deliberately increased."

Li Shimin nodded, thinking that it makes sense. The construction of this city requires choices, it depends on whether you want more convenience or more security needs.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Chen Zhengtai obviously did not take safety too seriously, but instead focused more on convenience.

Li Shimin even suspected that if this guy didn't think he would look a little different from the city than he didn't build the city wall, he would definitely not even want to build the city wall.

Li Shimin continued to move forward, but realized that there were railway tracks surrounding the entire city neighborhood.

Li Shimin looked suspicious: "Why, there are railways here too?"

"This is what Erchen planned to build tracks in the city, and then... a smaller train is not to transport goods, but to transport passengers. Didn't Your Majesty find that there are many areas near the city? Some places are workshop areas, some livestock markets, and some satellite towns. Erchen thought that with this city, it is impossible to accommodate all the population, so there must be long-term plans to separate people's living, production and trade places, but how to transport them from each other? Therefore, the railway track has a role. Erchen plans to operate some small trains on the railway track in the future, and set up a station entrance to allow people to pass without obstacles."

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, he couldn't understand... It turned out that this steam train could do this.

Just to transport people in the city?

This is an unprecedented idea.

But for Chen Zhengtai, it is obvious... Since Xining is a new city, it is actually a benchmark for a new lifestyle. It is unnecessary to just build the city into something similar to Chang'an and Luoyang.

"In other words, only mansions are built in the city?"

"It's more than a mansion." Chen Zhengtai said: "In fact, now all industries are prosperous, so many lands must be reserved to prepare for the future. Your Majesty saw that every street has a special booth. My son-in-law planned to set up a place dedicated to maintaining public order here, including 135 booths in the city, to prevent sluts. In addition, in order to provide people with a place to rest, there are special parks in the south, south, west, and north of the city. Even... we must plan a clinic for the future to prevent patients from being treated nearby..."

Li Shimin smiled: "You have thought of everything."

"If a person has no future intentions, he will have immediate worries."

Li Shimin looked at the straight road in front of him: "Where does this place lead to?"

"The leads to another palace." Chen Zhengtai said seriously: "A corner of the palace is the prince's palace of his son minister."

Li Shimin stopped his horse and moved forward. Perhaps because of his arrival, the Tiance Army had been placed on both sides of the Central Axis Avenue. Some people in the city had settled, and they came out of the streets next to the avenue and looked around.

After riding the road for half an hour, I arrived at the end of the Central Axis Avenue.

Sure enough, a different palace appeared in front of Li Shimin's eyes.

Xining’s urban construction is very large. Logically speaking, this is a taboo. Your city is even more built than Chang'an. This is more amazing. It is obviously a suspicion of usurpation.

But it’s different if there are other palaces. Here, it’s half of the emperor’s feet.

This other palace is very magnificent, not under the Tai Chi Palace. Li Shimin said: "It's just a palace, it's too wasteful."

Chen Zhengtai thought to himself, no matter how much money is spent, it is not a huge tree or a precious thing. The only thing he spends is land. My Chen family is here, and there is some land.

The buildings here are mostly made of bricks and stones and tiles. Because of the casting of the city, many brick kiln workshops were specially built. After entering the palace gate, countless buildings were found scattered, and roads paved with cement bricks and stones extended all the way, pavilions and pavilions, vaguely among flowerbeds and trees.

Li Shimin nodded all the way, thinking that the palace was quite unique.

You should know that Tai Chi Palace was established on the basis of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was just a constant rest and was already a little broken.

However, this new palace uses a lot of glass and glass, consumes a lot of bricks and stones, and even uses a large number of porcelain pieces. Anyone that can be produced in brick kilns and porcelain kilns is used on a large scale. Although there is no large number of wood carvings in Tai Chi Palace, no matter how good the new palace is, it is much better than the Tai Chi Palace.

Moreover, the size of the other palaces is definitely not below the Tai Chi Palace, which greatly satisfy Li Shimin.

Along the central axis, there is a main hall. When Li Shimin entered the hall, there were not many furnishings inside. After all, it was just a new palace and a royal property that Chen Zhengtai could create by himself. Li Shimin was still very excited and said with a relaxed heart: "This... costs a lot."

Chen Zhengtai said: "This new palace was built with Xining. Therefore, I really can't figure out how much it costs. Anyway, it costs a lot and is very valuable."

Li Shimin nodded: "You have trouble. But this palace is too big."

He sighed: "If the railway can be built, I can come here every year and stay for a month or two, it's okay."

"If this can be done, it would be great. But... I am in trouble now. The garrison in this palace and the care of the palace, I dare not overstep the situation, so..."

Chen Zhengtai lowered his head, looking very expectant.

If you give you such a big palace, you have to send someone to guard it. It is so big inside, should you maintain and maintain it?

This other palace is also an imperial palace, which demonstrates the emperor's majesty. As the emperor, do you want to modify it well...

Moreover, others really can't do such things, so Li Shimin can only make his own decisions.

It’s impossible for Chen Zhengtai to train the imperial guards to guard your family. It’s impossible for Chen Zhengtai to send eunuchs and palace maids to come here to take care of them.

When Li Shimin heard this, he was indeed in deep thought.

Chen Zhengtai could not do such a thing for him, so he could only come in person.

He frowned, then looked back at Zhang Qian: "There is a palace prison here, which requires five hundred eunuchs and one thousand three hundred palace maids to be transferred. In addition, he ordered the Left Dragon Martial Army and the Right Dragon Martial Army to be stationed here. He ordered the royal ministers to be transferred here to be responsible for the matters of other palaces. Fortunately, I have money in the treasury now, otherwise... I would not be able to support this other palace built by Zhengtai."

Chen Zhengtai stood aside and breathed a sigh of relief.

But Zhang Qian couldn't help frowning.

In this way, from eunuchs to palace maids, to imperial guards, as well as some ministers and their families, this is a perfect plan. For this other palace, it will be worth at least 15,000 people.

Of course... this specification is actually less than that of other palaces in Luoyang.

But even so, it is already a huge expense for the palace.

More than 10,000 people need food and drink, so it is impossible to send it to Chang'an. They have to buy it. The people in the palace...the prices of things purchased are often much more expensive than others. And those guards cannot let them migrate their families. Most of these guards are good families, and they will be able to leave home for a year or two. If they have been here for many years, no one can stand it. Since then, will it have added 10,000 households to the city?

The guards received the emperor's salary and wanted to support their families. What is this... or money...

The Chen family built a different palace and gained the favor of His Majesty, gained a large population, and had a large procurement demand.

How much has this year been?

In addition, under normal circumstances, the palace still needs to be repaired, and some horses are usually raised in the palace to prepare for emergencies. So, should some personnel be migrated to the Ministry of Works and Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple, Sinong Temple and other institutions?

It is another palace, so there must be someone. With people, there must be institutions. With institutions, there must be larger institutions to manage the institutions below...

What is this? This is etiquette, rules, and imperial power. The royal family must have the royal style.

To put it bluntly, those who raise horses in the palace must have officials who raise horses. If someone wants to eat food, they must have officials who store and distribute food...

Zhang Qian looked speechless. How much population and expenses is this?

Moreover, the palace must not be saved, so let’s talk about other palaces. In such a big place, even if the emperor is not here, will it be dark all year round and not light the lights at night? Of course, it has to be lighted, this is the royal style. Even if there is no emperor living there, it must be brightly lit. Until midnight, the lights cannot be turned off. So... just this smallest item, how many candles do you need?

Not to mention, the emperor or noble people in the palace may come here for a while every year in the future.

At that time, I don’t know how many ministers and servants I will bring to you. When you travel like this, don’t be surrounded by tens of thousands of people.

For Hexi, this place simply increased the high-end population supported by tens of thousands of emperors, and suddenly... the level and commercial demand of Xining City began to grow.

At this moment, Zhang Qian suddenly felt that the other palace in Xining seemed to be a bottomless pit. He looked at Li Shimin resentfully, but he knew that he could never discourage His Majesty's interest and kept saying yes.

"What is the name of this palace?"

"You might as well call it Tiance Palace. This is your Majesty's other taboo. If you use this name, this palace will be shining brightly."

"Okay." Li Shimin said: "That's it."

Li Shimin then said happily: "Okay, I'm running all the way, but I'm tired. Please take a break. I'll see me tomorrow."

Chen Zhengtai was satisfied at this time, and his face was full of joy. He nodded and left.

Li Shimin looked at his other palace with great enthusiasm. Of course, this was just a hall, and there was a garden inside. He couldn't help but say to Zhang Qian: "Zhang Lishi, what do you think of this palace?"

"Your Highness must have taken a lot of effort." Zhang Qian said carefully: "It's just that this palace is too big and it costs a little bit."
To be continued...