Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Ming Dynasty, November of the 12th year of Yongle.

Zhang Xin kept on talking, explaining to Tang Sai'er whatever she remembered, even when she felt there was still a lot left to explain.

Zhu Gaochi has already made all the preparations for his trip.

Zhu Zhanji's various tricks of trying to get Zhang Xin to Wudang by playing dirty tricks on Zhu Di were ineffective.

He was bruised and battered when he left for the last time.

Zhu Zhanyong quietly negotiated with Xu for the opportunity to escort her.

As for the Eastern Factory, Wei Guan had already told Zhang Xin that he wanted to go with Zhang Xin.

Over at the experimental workshop, the alchemists and doctors, led by Wen Beijiao, were planning to go to Mount Wudang to collect folk songs, seek immortals, and ask for advice and make a pilgrimage.

Therefore, Xu and Zhu Di did not add any more manpower.

A group of nearly four thousand people set off in a mighty procession.

When he arrived at the city gate, he met merchants and common people from the capital who had come to see him off spontaneously.

Zhu Gaochi went out to comfort her and came back with an obviously stuffy nose. He mumbled to Zhang Xin:

"There are quite a few familiar faces. The owner of the restaurant we used to go to gave everyone a yellow silk umbrella with 9,999 embroidery works by ordinary people and lots of notes with wishes pasted on it. They made Erpang cry. What a loser!"

"Wake up, snot. I don't think you're going to be anything good."

Zhang Xin took out a handkerchief from her bosom and handed it over.

Zhu Gaochi did not refuse, but snorted loudly.

"The common people are so simple and honest. After so many years, they still miss the old days."

Only after Zhu Gaochi calmed down did Zhang Xin begin to express his feelings.

She had eye problems, and Zhu Gaochi was afraid something might happen if there were too many people around, so he didn't let her go out, but she could still hear what people were saying outside.

Many of them were people she had come into contact with when she was the Crown Prince's Consort.

"How could I not think about it? Back then, even merchants in Yan didn't want to come."

Wanxiu had walked all the way with Zhang Xin, and he knew very well how much Zhang Xin had done.

To be presumptuous, even if the emperor had not been the emperor in the first place, the Yan area would have been managed exceptionally well. Now that the capital has been moved to the capital, it is just icing on the cake.

"That's true. When we got married, the roads in the capital were not paved with stone slabs. When we arrived in the capital, there were no yellow mud roads in the city."

Zhu Gaochi agreed very much.

"The sandstorm has also subsided."

Wanxiu added one more sentence.

When she was in the palace with Zhang Xin for the first year, even in the palace, when the season came, her face would be covered in yellow as soon as she went out.

Later, Zhang Xin made some money and hired people to plant trees in large areas in the windward direction of Beijing.

Now all those small trees have grown lush and leafy, forming a whole windbreak.

The Yan area, which was once desolate, sparsely populated and covered with dust, has now been transformed into a prosperous city where the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Wanxiu personally feels that at least half of the credit should be given to Zhang Xin.

"Yes, yes, our Zhang Dahua has done a great deed."

Zhu Gaochi nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"Poor! Why hasn't Yong'er come back yet?"

Zhang Xin patted Zhu Gaochi lightly and asked.

"My father-in-law and mother-in-law may have some more words to say. It's okay. He rides a horse very fast."

Zhu Gaochi speculated for a moment.

Old Man Zhang and Mrs. Bao wanted to go with them, but Zhang Xin wouldn't let them, fearing that they would have a hard time on the journey due to their age.

In the end, he could only follow the royal convoy to the city gate.

Zhu Zhanyong turned around and sent them home.

This old man must have some explanation.

"Oh, I am so sorry for my parents. Let them have nothing to do with it—oh, I won't say any more."

Zhang Xin swallowed her words halfway through.

"Bah! Think again!"

Zhu Gaochi did react.

"I know, I know! Since you have nothing else to do, go ahead and tell me about Wudang Mountain."

Zhang Xin readily followed the advice and found a comfortable position for herself, leaning back and letting Zhu Gaochi spread the news about Wudang Mountain.

"it is good."

The so-called knowing yourself and your enemy means you will be victorious in every battle.

Zhu Gaochi has always been a man who is good at knowing things.

While people outside arranged the itinerary, he spent every day studying the strange people and things in Wudang Mountain.

As for the unusual people and unusual events, Zhu Gaochi had talked about it with Zhang Xin when he was watching it. Today, he will mainly talk about the Golden Palace and its surrounding areas that Zhu Di ordered to be built on Mount Wudang.

There is a saying in China nowadays, which goes, "Repair the capital in the north and Wudang in the south."

The construction of the Golden Palace in Wudang Mountain began in the second year after Zhu Di ascended the throne, at the same time as the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City was completed in the tenth year of Yongle.

The construction of Wudang Golden Palace officially began in the 11th year of Yongle.

In fact, the national treasury can bear both sides at the same time.

But there were indeed not enough people, so they had to focus on repairing the Forbidden City first.

Another aspect is materials, such as some large timbers for roofs and huge stones. Once suitable ones are found, they will be supplied to the Forbidden City first.

It just so happened that in the following years, the things needed for the Wudang Golden Palace were gradually prepared. After the people in the capital finished repairing the Forbidden City, they went over to repair the Wudang Golden Palace.

A total of 300,000 people passed through Wudang.

There are also some gold and copper components of the Golden Palace, which were cast in the capital and then transported to Wudang Mountain.

The entire Golden Palace was to be built in imitation of the Fengtian Hall in the Forbidden City. The roof of the Golden Palace was a double-eaved hip roof like the Fengtian Hall, and the craft room was made of copper and gilded, so more than 700 kilograms of gold and 40,000 kilograms of fine copper were drawn from the national treasury at that time.

All these matters were handled by Zhu Gaochi.

The entire Taoist temple on Mount Wudang, when completed, will be a large-scale architectural complex with nine palaces, eight pavilions, thirty-six nunneries, seventy-two rock temples, thirty-nine bridges, and twelve pavilions, with a total of thirty-three large buildings with more than six thousand rooms.

"Are there really so many?"

It was the first time that Zhang Xin heard such a specific number. In her previous life, she didn’t pay much attention to Wudang Mountain.