sweeping the world

Chapter 914 Weiyang Palace

Weiyang Palace is just a general term, covering many pavilions, terraces and buildings, as well as mountains and rivers.

Liu Yan named some palaces according to the names of the Western Han Dynasty, but the function and layout are not completely borrowed, and the name is just a name.

In the Han Dynasty, Weiyang Palace was not the seat of the country's central brain, but Jianzhang Palace was the palace group for office use.

There are many corridors in Miyagi.

What can be called a corridor now is that at least two sides are covered by high walls, and some of them are closed even on the top.

The terrain in the palace city is complex, and the corridors are generally built on the only way to certain palace groups, and their purpose is naturally to increase the difficulty of advancing for the invading enemy.

The high walls on both sides of the corridor are generally built according to the specifications of the city wall, the thickness of the wall is at least six meters, and there are female walls and arrow stacks.

The high wall is not a compact structure when it is more than five meters high, but some secret rooms have been built.

There are many uses of the secret room, hiding soldiers and storing materials are only the most basic functions, and there are windows and some holes on the walls.

After the window is opened, the crossbowmen can shoot arrows or throw rolling stones and trees.

The holes can also allow crossbowmen to shoot arrows, but they are usually used for gold juice or kerosene offensive, and they also have some liquid transportation pipes.

Let's put it this way, if the gates and walls of the palace city are lost, every corridor in the palace city will play its role, and the enemy will be smashed before any corridor. And the city wall is at least ten times higher.

Imagine that the enemy army rushed into the corridor under the rain of arrows, but was doused with kerosene or other combustion aids. The enemy army in the corridor had no place to hide when the fire was a little bit, and they could not enter or retreat. A charred corpse.

Liu Yan has walked through many corridors, and the corridors with a width of six meters do not seem cramped, but the length of the corridors is at least 250 meters, so the comparison seems too slender.

The palace gate of Weiyang Palace is at the end of the corridor that must be passed through. Looking forward from the corridor, all you can see is the tightly closed dark red door panel.

Inside Miyagi, you can usually only see guards on duty near some doorways, but you must not think that only those people are responsible for the safety of Miyagi, and there are countless people who are always on guard in places that cannot be seen.

For example, when Liu Yan looked at the empty corridor, there were no figures on the high walls on both sides, but the secret rooms inside the walls, as well as some dark rooms in the corridor on the ground, could flood a large number of soldiers anytime and anywhere.

The palace gate of Weiyang Palace looks dark red. The wooden structure is only on the surface, and the inside is a thick iron plate. As a result, it takes a dozen people to push the door when it is opened, and the door panel makes a loud noise when it moves. "Crunching" sound.

Even without the use of any machinery, simply adding more oil will not make a harsh and loud opening sound, but any door in Miyagi will make a loud noise when it is opened.

It was originally hoped that there would be such a big movement, that no one would be able to open the door quietly.

Entering the Weiyang Palace, it looks like a square. Except for the aisle paved with bricks and stones, the rest of the ground is green. There are small houses in some areas, and you can see stone lampstands on both sides of the aisle.

Most of the buildings are tool rooms, and a few are entrances to the underlying buildings.

The stone lampstands are not burning now. They will be lit up after nightfall, forming two straight lines of light. There are only two lighted scenes in the darkness, which will look very beautiful.

It's greenery, not grass, which means it's carefully maintained and trimmed so that the grass doesn't grow past the ankles.

At this moment, there are countless people who are busy cleaning the snow. When the gate of Weiyang Palace was opened, they were still working. They stopped working when they saw Liu Yan appearing, and turned to face Liu Yan. Waist into salute posture.

1000 meters from the entrance is a square. If you extend your field of vision, you can see that the square is only a short-distance visual error. If you look down from a high altitude, you will see a huge "Hui" shape. It is the main hall of Weiyang Palace, and there are other buildings around it.

Miyagi is square as a whole. The square outside the city wall is also in the shape of the word "back". There are four straight avenues leading directly to the palace gate of Miyagi. The places where the avenues connect will run through the entire city and lead directly to the suburbs .

Liu Yan is walking on foot, but he is definitely not alone.

Unless he was staying indoors, there were no less than 50 guards around Liu Yan. Most of the guards closest to him were soldiers in heavy armor, and there were more light guards on the periphery.

It will be Liu Yanjin, a soldier in heavy armor. It is obvious that if there is any movement, they will act as shields. Once a battle breaks out, they will also be a solid line of defense in front of Liu Yan.

As far as Liu Yan's own strength is concerned, no one in the world should be able to beat him single-handedly in a cold weapon battle mode.

However, since he is the king of a country, unless he doesn't take Guo Zuo seriously, there is almost no chance of being able to play in person no matter how brave he is.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has actually been no example of Liu Yan fighting in person.It's not that he's afraid of death, it's that he's leading by example.

The commander of the army is one of the characters who should not fight in person. His responsibility is to coordinate and command the overall situation, not to kill the enemy himself like a soldier.

There are only two situations in which the commander needs to fight in person. The first is to boost morale, and the second is in the danger of dying if you don't work hard.

Otherwise, it is simply not what a commander should do if he gives up commanding the army and shows his bravery.

1000 meters is not short, and it took Liu Yan about 15 minutes to step up the steps leading to the main hall of Weiyang Palace.

When Liu Yan appeared in the square, the captain on duty immediately ran over when he got the news.

The captain's order was not to make a big fanfare, and there was no need to engage in the welcoming ceremony, let alone let the princes and daughters know of Liu Yan's arrival, including those teachers who were responsible for teaching the princes and daughters.

The main hall of Weiyang Palace is still built on a foundation that can be rammed high, resulting in the need to walk nearly a hundred steps to go up.

At the top, there is not only one road leading to the main hall, but a small square with multiple roads connecting to the square, providing access to other places.

"Your Majesty, the princes are at Chengming Palace and the princesses are at Qutai."

Weiyang Palace is a huge palace complex, covering more than ten halls of various kinds, and even more chapters and terraces. Not only are there various forest gardens and soup pools, but the main office of the Shaofu is also part of the palace complex.

You can tell what the Chengming Palace is for when you hear it. It is a small library in the palace. Officials who are qualified to work in Miyagi will go to rest and read books in their spare time. When they communicate with each other, they will leave some manuscripts, some meaningful The manuscript will also become one of the collections of Chengming Palace.

Liu Yan seldom went to Chengming Palace, and he always carried whatever books he wanted to read anytime and anywhere or had someone find them temporarily, so Chengming Palace became the main place where the princes learned knowledge.

It is precisely that the study place of the princes is set in the Chengming Palace, so more officials will go there whenever they are free. They are not qualified to teach the princes directly, but they can try their best to write some manuscripts. It is not certain which princes will read them. Once the prince reads it and likes it, will he ask who the author is?
Naturally, the captain on duty couldn't follow Liu Yan around, Wei Wei Fushou, who got the news, rushed over as fast as he could.

Fu Shou is one of the people who followed Liu Yan to rise up in the insignificant age. He was a mature man when he was with Liu Yan, but he was old after so many years.He was the governor of Yanzhou before, and Yuanshuo was transferred back to the central government to serve as Wei Wei in ten years. Liu Yan rewarded him with a resume of Jiuqing before retirement, and his family tree and epitaph will look better in the future.

By the way, Fu Shou is Fu Wei's father.

Liu Yan wanted to see his children, so naturally he would not enter the main hall, but turned to the road to Chengming Hall.

There is no shortage of beautiful scenery in Miyagi, or it should be said that everywhere is built to be picturesque, the difference is that they have their own styles.

There must be a distance between the palaces and the palaces. It is impossible for the palaces to be connected, and there is a landscape in the middle.

Although Liu Yan stayed in Miyagi for a long time, he seldom went for a stroll. Even if he was going to a palace and passing by, he seldom focused his gaze on the landscape, and was often either watching memorials or I am resting with my eyes closed.

To put it bluntly, I don’t have a lot of family business and often wander around and don’t want to look at the things in my house. I have a big business and a busy career, so I really don’t have time to pay attention to it.It is not built for self appreciation, but for guests to admire.

Entering the room from the outside, the colors begin to become richer, and it is no longer a snowy white outside.

The larger the building, the darker the interior will be.After all, it is not that opening the door and letting in the light can provide light for the entire room.

In the interior of Miyagi, unless it is deliberately kept dark, lighting has never been a problem.

The original ones, either people carrying lanterns or something, or oil lamps on the wall, can always provide light.

Technology can also provide another way, such as using the principle of light refraction during the day, using an unknown number of large or small mirrors to repeatedly refract sunlight to make the indoor light sufficient.At night, mirrors are used to repeatedly refract artificial light... For example, a bright enough fire can also make the room full of light.

Using the principle of light refraction to provide light, the Egyptians have been doing it as early as 3000 BC. It is not difficult to understand the principle.

"Your Majesty..." Fu Shou had no choice but to ask, "Do you want to dismiss your officials?"

At this time, there will be many people at Chengming Hall, some just come to rest and read, and more come to see if they can have an encounter with a certain prince.

"No need." Liu Yan had no extra thoughts: "The widow will not pass through the hall."

If you read the history, you will find a very special phenomenon. In the dynasty before the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Han Miao descendants were the emperors, Miyagi was never a real forbidden palace, only the harem would put an end to it. Outsiders enter, otherwise the restrictions on other areas are actually not strict.

For example, in the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties, the office of the center was located in the palace city, and the ministers and workers could wander freely in places other than the harem if they wanted to.

The other one is that the Miao descendants of the Han family are the emperor. Except for the Song and Ming dynasties, the emperor has never had a record of getting along with ordinary people. If he really wants to target some people, he must be at least from a poor family, but generally Win over the poor to do more than the powerful.

The so-called poor families are not ordinary people, at least they have hundreds of acres of fertile land, dozens of servants, and a wealth of wealth.Those poor scholars are compared with some high families, not ordinary people. Being able to read is a boundary.

Liu Yan has not received any special training since he was a child. Naturally, he does not have any royal bearing, but he is a true emperor.His generosity to his ministers was not due to any education, but rather some thinking developed in modern times, and more to do with his confidence in his dominant position.

Then again, only an emperor who is afraid of his own dominance has no sense of security. He comes up with a set of things other than restricting himself. It’s nothing more than a bureaucrat and a big family. It can be regarded as a qualified IQ Above the line, I know that as long as the people support me, there will be no difficulties to get through, but there are some emperors who are mentally ill and the people have trouble getting through.

Liu Yan didn't want too many people to know that he was coming. Naturally, Fushou needed to do his best to meet Liu Yan's needs. Inevitably, some people would evacuate where Liu Yan would pass by.

While the evacuated people were baffled, they were smart enough to guess why, but they would never say anything.

Liu Yan came all the way to Chengming Hall, but he didn't enter through the gate, but entered a passageway on the second floor.

Every palace in Miyagi must have some compartments, and there must be people on duty inside. They are a group of people who hide in the dark and pay attention to everyone's every move, and are called dark guards by some people.

"What are they learning today?" Liu Yan couldn't see people's faces in the dim field of vision, and when he got the answer from the guard on duty, he nodded: "Nine chapters of arithmetic must be learned."

The author of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" is Zhang Cang, but it was compiled with the wisdom of the predecessors. Confucianism has not been completely rotten, and before it is messed up by those rotten Confucians behind, "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" is not a partial subject. It is one of the knowledge that Confucians must learn.

Liu Yan's position was a bit high, looking down through the tulle, the teacher who taught the princes to learn "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" was Luo Han, who was titled the number one talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River.

Except for Luo Han, Zhang Kang, one of the three, Yu Xi, a famous scholar in Kuaiji, and some people who Liu Yan had no impression of, sat around as the second seats.

Liu Yan now has eleven sons, the oldest is Liu Shen, the eldest son of the imperial concubine, who is eight years old, Liu Ming, the eldest son of a concubine born to a female official, is seven years old, and those who can sit below and learn knowledge are above five years old. There are six sons in total. present.

The order in which the six princes sat was very clear. Liu Shen, the eldest son of the first emperor, sat alone at the front, the son of the fourth concubine sat in the second row behind, and the birth mother sat in the third row.

Liu Yan never thought about how to uphold the same heart, every son and daughter have the same attitude, he is very clear about the consequences of doing so.

(End of this chapter)