Fang Jifan really spent countless efforts to build the palace.

He first invited many famous craftsmen to discuss. In addition, he also found people from Franji's captives and drew drawings with Fang Jifan.

Since we need to create, we need to build the best.

This is Fang Jifan's principle. Let his father-in-law and mother-in-law enjoy it. It is Fang Jifan's lifelong wish. Who makes himself...the three views are strange and correct?

After a while, the sketch was over. Zhu Houzhao has followed Fang Jifan these days. He didn't quite understand what Fang Jifan was going to build. The question was why Fang Jifan suddenly became so interested in this.

After the sketch is basically drawn, it needs to be sent to the Ministry of Industry for verification.

After all, it was the emperor's residence and it was not careless at all, even if Fang Jifan paid for it.

...

Emperor Hongzhi went to ask the Empress Dowager in the early morning to ask for peace, and then went to the Warehouse, Liu Jian and others, and asked him to see him as usual.

Everyone sat down. Emperor Hongzhi was in a good mood. He picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "I had a dream last night and dreamed of a golden dragon falling from the sky. Do you think it is strange or not."

"Is that true?" Liu Jian was also surprised. He was actually interested in this dream interpretation. Although he was busy with official business, he liked to study this occasionally.

Since the Ministry of Works selected the location of the new palace and sent it to Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi heard that there was such a lucky place. Perhaps because Emperor Hongzhi took this matter to his heart. The so-called "thinking on the day and dreaming on the night" really made him dream.

Emperor Hongzhi was about to speak vividly, but an eunuch came outside and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works has sent a sketch of the new palace, which was drawn by the Commander Fang and the craftsmen himself. It was said that it was a sketch, but it was just a rough prototype."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled slightly: "This succession is really serious."

Liu Jian and others were also smiling, but they muttered in their hearts, what exactly does this guy want to do?

Emperor Hongzhi summoned Chen Yan, the Minister of Works, to come in, and Chen Yan presented the sketch.

It was said that it was a sketch, but there were a lot, dozens of drawings, and a stack of them. Emperor Hongzhi took the first one and then looked at it, followed by the second and third...

The more I looked, the more confused I became. I couldn't help but look up at Chen Yan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works: "Is this... really presented by Fang Qing's family? Is it feasible?"

"It's feasible." Chen Yan said: "I have seen that although there are many rare buildings, they can be created."

"It covers an area of ​​more than a thousand acres?" Emperor Hongzhi said in horror.

You know, this Forbidden City is just a thousand acres of land.

But Fang Jifan actually wanted to create a new palace of the same size as the Forbidden City?

This guy... is crazy, how much does it cost?

Crazy, absolutely crazy...

Emperor Hongzhi's scalp was numb, and Fang Jifan... What a generous gift this is.

Emperor Hongzhi stared at Chen Yan: "Chen Qing's family, tell me, how much would it cost to build a new palace with this drawing?"

"This... is not counted." Chen Yan smiled bitterly: "But if I want to use the Forbidden City as the scale of carved beams and painted buildings, I dare to predict that it will cost at least tens of millions of taels of silver."

Tens of millions...

Emperor Hongzhi felt crazy: "This guy must be joking!"

Tens of millions of taels of silver, but the silver tax revenue in the three years of the Ming Dynasty is definitely an amazing wealth.

In fact, this silver can be collected because of the Fang family's coal mining and many industries in Xishan.

But this is almost equivalent to directly throwing all the Fang family’s belongings into it.

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but say, "This... is too thick. Tell Fang Jifan to reduce the scale!"

Liu Jian and others were also stunned when they heard this.

Tens of millions of taels... What is the Fang family planning to do? They plan to destroy all their wealth overnight?

This is almost like selling out the market.

If the Marquis of Pingxi knew about this, he would probably come back from Guizhou immediately and shoot this spoiler to death.

Everyone suddenly realized that Fang Jifan was serious. Look at his lively atmosphere, it didn't look like he was playing a flower gun at all.

Did you really get a brain disease?

Just when everyone was surprised.

Chen Yan, the Minister of Works, smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, Commander Fang said that this is his intention, and he has made up his mind. Everything in the Fang family is the emperor, and it is natural for Your Majesty to repair the palace. If Your Majesty refuses to let him repair it, he would rather die!"

"..." Emperor Hongzhi's face turned green.

If he doesn't let him sell his money, he would rather die?

Liu Jian and others immediately coughed one after another.

Such a son-in-law is good, really good.

All the son-in-laws were compared at once.

Even if Mount Tai is the emperor, who can do this in this world?

But at the same time, they were very glad that fortunately... their son is not like this. If he is such a stupid thing, there is no need to pass on the family line and he will beat you to death.

Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "This is not possible, no, if this is the case, I am really uneasy. Why is this child so real? He is too honest and loyal..."

Emperor Hongzhi stood up, walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and suddenly felt a little bit of a sense of shame. He was ashamed. When the princess got married, she gave her a lot of dowry. Now... she is so heart-wrenching towards herself.

"If this person is too loyal, it won't be possible. If he is so stupid, he will bully him. The honest man will suffer." Emperor Hongzhi raised his head and frowned, worried about Fang Jifan's future fate.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang were only stunned.

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Fang Jifan was a man who did it at will. With the sketch, he was about to start recruiting people.

Fang Jifan visited the craftsmen with superb skills, those skilled craftsmen, and some design abilities one by one. The Ministry of Works has been very good at building palaces for the emperor, so who dares to interfere?

After that, countless stonemasons and carpenters were also present.

The so-called cost of tens of millions of taels of silver is actually much more than this. Fang Jifan wants to build this palace more luxuriously. If the Forbidden City requires tens of millions of taels of silver, then Fang Jifan will also need at least 30 million taels of silver.

Of course, 30 million taels and 10 million taels in the Forbidden City are all imaginary numbers, because there are many deductions in the palace cities in the palace. Even if it is a piece of wood, it is only ten taels of silver, but it may be sixty or seventy taels. If you encounter a bad person, you will even have more.

Since Fang Jifan personally presided over the construction of the palace, no eunuchs or officials did anything wrong, so Fang Jifan estimated that five million taels would be enough.

But even five million taels of cash was not something Fang Jifan could take out as soon as he said he could. He had to raise money everywhere and try his best to squeeze out his own property.

This is a huge project. After recruiting countless craftsmen, laborers were recruited everywhere, and then the ground leveling and foundation laying. Not only that, under all the main buildings, floor heating, special drainage ditches, brick kilns, and even... Fang Jifan had to try firing ceramic tiles.

Concrete is also necessary. In Xishan, countless attempts to make concrete have been made, but now it is ready-made.

There is no need to stuff steel bars into buildings. First of all, steel is too expensive these days, and secondly, this garden is a ground floor building, so there is no need to use steel bars.

These are just the basics. Fang Jifan still needs to find a famous teacher from Jiangnan to achieve every step and scenery.

Fang Jifan spent all his energy on this. As a son-in-law, what Fang Jifan did influenced many people, so that the market for recruiting son-in-law in Beijing entered a cold winter.

After all... With this role model, it seems that other son-in-law are not very fond of it.

What's wrong with the lieutenant's brain-related tricks? What's wrong with being stupid? But he's really honest. Come on, will your daughter marry you and build a house for your brother-in-law?

Fang Jifan naturally ignored other people's ridicule and complaints, or used him as a model.

After a busy schedule, a group of scholars from Xishan Academy even came here to supervise the project. These students have advantages. They can understand the drawings on the top, and when they are on the bottom, they serve as a bridge to communicate with craftsmen. They can teach craftsmen and workers to build through the drawings.

Of course, it was mainly because Fang Jifan was a little worried about these craftsmen. The students were so simple and should not dare to greed for their own money. Well, if they found out, they could be beaten to death.

After countless efforts, at the end of the month, Fang Jifan shoveled down the first shovel of soil, and the new palace broke ground.

Fang Jifan also breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Liu Wenshan was recruited. Fang Jifan personally asked for the emperor's order for Liu Wenshan and transferred him from the Hanlin Academy to be responsible for the construction of the Governor's New Palace.

Next, he was finally able to relax for a while, and Fang Jifan finally had the opportunity to become a hand-off manager.

But...every time I see Manager Yang and Wang Jinyuan, their resentful eyes seem to be telling something, but they look like they dare not.

Fang Jifan had to shrugged at them, and couldn't help thinking, I'm sorry, I spent so much money to make you worry, but Fang Jifan is a person who regards fame and fortune as clouds.

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Guiyang.

Pingxi Hou Mansion...

The Marquis of Pingxi received a letter from Manager Yang.

He happily said to Liu, who was with him, "Manager Yang has not had a letter for a long time. Today... but I don't know what happened. Don't you know that every time Manager Yang comes to compile a book, there are happy events, saying that our family's successor has made contributions. Today, I don't know what great things have been done by the successor of the feudal family."

Liu smiled sweetly and couldn't help but say, "Master, please take it apart and take a look."
Chapter completed!