Iron Dynasty

After the heavy rain, a pure blue sky was revealed in the thick dark clouds, and the sunlight came out from this gap, as moving as auspicious from the sky.

Qian Dafu looked up at the sky and said, "The emperor, it looks like it is going to be clear today, but I can go out. The old slave is called Zhao Long Zhao Hu."

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard the words. He also went back and changed into plain clothes. For him, he still didn't want to go outside with a big fanfare. It was too eye-catching to go out wearing a dragon robe.

Moreover, when he was in Qingzhou, he was accustomed to frequently searching inside and outside the city, and it was very uncomfortable to stay in the yard every day.

When he returned to the sleeping hall, he stopped by and took a look at Fei Yue'er. This girl was very sleepy now, and the movement when he changed clothes did not wake her up.

Stopping Xiaohuan from waking Fei Yue'er, Xiao Ming went out on his own and headed south of the city under the protection of the guards.

For Xiao Ming, the ideal capital is of course Youzhou, but for him, Youzhou is still suitable as a capital for the time being. After all, the current Youzhou is poor and poor, and the infrastructure of the city is very poor.

According to Pang Yukun, it is a state, but in fact it is not as good as a county in Qingzhou.

So after thinking twice, Xiao Ming still plans to make Qingzhou a Kyoto, and he will consider moving the capital after Youzhou develops, but this time is estimated to be about 20 to 30 years.

"The emperor, there is a lively fight outside, our Qingzhou is getting hotter." Qian Dafu smiled, which made his originally small eyes become a seam.

Zhao Long said: "They are all merchants and wealthy people. They are very smart, knowing that the emperor is always disadvantaged. Qingzhou is as stable as Mount Tai and there will be no war."

"It's more than just businessmen and wealthy people. During this time, there have been more refugees outside the city. The government office has a lot of porridge places outside the city." Zhao Hu added.

Compared with the past, the two of them are now more energetic. After all, they no longer talk about the royal guards, but become the imperial guards. This is envious of many soldiers of the Qingzhou army. Many people were unwilling to be this idle guard. of.

Xiao Ming is now quite like someone who was released from the detention center in the first half of the year. Since he became the throne, he has found that his freedom of movement is far less than before.

Every day's itinerary is basically the Palace of Discussions, the study, and the palace. The small and large things in Qingzhou City are reflected to him through the mouth of officials, and he also conveys his will through Qian Dafu.

Suddenly, he suddenly became a canary in a cage, and Xiao Ming was instinctively wary of this enclosed environment.

Reading history books well, he knew very well that the past emperors were confused by the officials and the eunuchs around him, because everything he knew came from others.

He can only listen to what others say, so he will naturally get a lot of information that is untrue and has the opinions of the ministers.

However, Xiao Ming is also prepared for this situation. This is the secret guard, this is his outside eyes.

But the secret guards also have their own limitations. In this era when transportation is basically reliant on walking, and orders are basically relied on shouting, most of the limited secret guards are used to monitor important people. Basically, people's lives cannot be given timely feedback.

Based on this, he has been thinking about ways to obtain real information for the past two days, and after all deliberation, this problem can only be solved by allowing the newspaper to achieve fair reporting.

Just as Niu Ben worried that Xiao Ming would let the wealthy clan gain power, it is now obvious that every official and general has his own ideas and considerations.

For the army, he can only consider the nationalization of the army.

Of course, the nationalization of the army is just a false proposition. For him, the essence of the nationalization of the army is the royal word of the army. He must ensure his absolute leadership of the army and prevent generals from turning the army into their own private soldiers.

After all, his army will compete with Western powers for colonies in the future. He doesn't want his generals to become independent after occupying a colony.

As for officials, in addition to splitting up two groups of mutual supervision between North Korea and China, he also plans to adopt a top-down supervision model.

This model is the newspaper he thought of. After all, contemporary facts have proved that media disclosure has played a very good role in exposing officials' corruption, and it is also helpful to urge officials.

The only shortcoming is that now there is only one newspaper in Qingzhou, which makes some newspaper articles too subjective, so he plans to establish two more newspapers in Qingzhou, and open two newspapers to businessmen at the same time.

In other words, there will be three official newspapers and two private newspapers in Qingzhou. In this way, diversified competition will allow some hidden scandals to be unearthed.

Thinking about what to do next, a group of people arrived in the south of the city without knowing it. At this time, a complex of buildings was gradually taking shape under the labor of a construction camp.

He is more concerned about this palace that may live for 20 to 30 years in the future, so the design of the palace is basically from his own hands~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In addition to the formal building, there is a secret way to escape. such as.

Of course, the original intention of the design is to give this palace some modern flavor. Therefore, the construction of the palace uses a large number of brick and wood structures. This structure is much stronger than the pure wood structure. Construction time.

After all, using red bricks to build a wall is much easier than a carpenter's work, and among these red bricks, he also asked the craftsman to reserve a porcelain tube, which will be used for wiring in the future.

Based on this simple and quaint design, the construction of the palace is unprecedented. According to this, it takes only eight months to move in. According to the normal speed, the palace is not built for five years, and it cannot be built in ten years.

"The emperor, this construction camp is really good. The old slave has never seen a palace like this in such a short time."

At this time, the walls and gates of the palace have been built, and the walls have been stained red. A group of people walked in along the gates. The front is a step, the steps from bottom to top, leading to the front of the Zhengda Guangming Hall.

This upright hall is the place where the palace discusses politics. The reason why it is named upright is to keep the officials alert.

Compared with Chang'an's luxurious palace, Xiao Ming's requirements for his palace were simple, so he didn't ask for anything like white jade steps, and used anything that could be obtained locally.

This bypasses the Zhengda Guangming Hall is where the concubines live. Each has a separate small courtyard. To the right of the palace is the Ministry of the Interior, which is the place for the eunuchs, and to the left is the East Palace.

On the whole, the layout of his palace is similar to that of Chang'an, but there are also different places. This is the boiler water tower that stands in the palace.

And while Xiao Ming was looking at his future palace, a huge change that swept Yan's country quietly happened.