Chapter 888

"Where are they?"

"Back to the king, we have reached Mianchi."

Where Liu Yan stands is the balcony on the top floor of the tallest building in Miyagi, which can overlook the end of the new Chang'an city.

This building is tower shaped, with a total of 13 floors. Including the lightning rod at the top of the tower, the total height is more than 45 meters.

The higher the altitude, the stronger the wind. Moreover, it's winter. It still feels very cold. Liu Yan can stand it only with fur. The rest also wear coats that are thick enough or can cover the wind.

They now stand facing the south. In addition to seeing the palace city and the orderly residential areas outside, they can also see the Qinling Mountains in the distance.

When the land is enough, there are only two purposes for building tall buildings. One is for military purposes, and the other is to stand high and see far.

As the ruler of Liu Yan, I don't know when he fell in love with climbing high and looking far. Take a look at the scenery of the rivers and mountains under his rule.

The whole new Chang'an was shrouded in snow white. It was a heavy snow last night.

This year's snow season came very timely. There was a rainy season before the snow, indicating the end of the drought and the return of the climate to normal.

People cleaning up snow can be seen everywhere in the palace city. Palace maids work under the command of female officials in the back palace, while soldiers of the forbidden guards work outside the back palace.

After all, Liu Yan still committed the disease that would happen to all the passers-by, that is, refusing the existence of eunuchs.

Eunuchs are eunuchs, not eunuchs. Eunuchs are eunuchs, but eunuchs are not necessarily eunuchs.

For example, in the ancient pre-Qin period, Zhongche mansion order (equivalent to Da Nei manager) was not a eunuch, which can explain why Zhao Gao had a biological daughter.

There are also eunuchs in Liu Yan's harem, but they are female officials. Either others or Li Kuang's wife Zhuo Xiang, who once served as Linzi Ling.

In fact, it's not right to let his wife take the post of official in the harem. The emperor is afraid of being wearing a green hat. Don't his subjects worry about wearing a green hat? However, the current situation is special. Zhuo Xiang, who has good ability, can only serve as a eunuch. After this period of time, she will re select unmarried female officials.

Inside the city, the streets were also clearing snow, and slaves worked.

Slaves were divided into those who wore foot cuffs and those who did not. The people who supervised their work came from the government, and the army did not do such work.

The owner of each building can clean up the snow on the roof, or several families can work together.

Because it's winter and there have been several snows recently, there are not many tourists in parks and squares in the city, so we can't see the lively scenes in spring, summer and autumn.

People in parks and squares are usually fathers or mothers with children, or making snowmen, or chasing and playing.

At the same time, there are also emotional people who get straw mats to watch snow and drink in the square or park, occasionally chant poetry and Fu loudly, or are interested in dancing a set of ornamental swordsmanship.

If you make any original good poetry or Fu and have a few drinks by yourself, the people around you will also applaud, but the most popular and favorite is sword dancing.

Liu Yan likes to watch the people under his rule play leisurely. Every time he climbs up to look at the distance, he will order the personnel to set up the telescope equipment first. Looking at the various life postures of the people under his rule will make him feel that all his efforts and efforts have their due value.

The palace city is not always flat. In fact, some mountains are specially covered according to the ancient requirements, especially some buildings such as the main hall. Even if they are not built on the top of the mountain, they will deliberately pile up high foundations to build the palace.

If the terrain is high, the buildings will look more magnificent. The next thing is to prevent waterlogging. This is why even if there is no natural terrain, the foundation will be artificially raised if the palace que group is selected.

The size of the whole palace city accounts for about one tenth of the size of the new Chang'an city. In addition to the palace que groups, pavilions and zhangtai, there should also be necessary supporting facilities such as forest gardens, gardens and soup pools.

Leisure places account for 34 / 10 of the palace city. The next 23 / 10 is actually the office area, the necessary Garrison and martial arts place, and then the rear palace area. Naturally, the ancestral temple area can not be lacking.

The so-called harem is not a place for Liu Yan to hold women. It includes the main bedroom hall and side halls for various purposes, the residence of each Prince and princess, the main hall of the queen, the pavilions and platforms of each imperial concubine and the following grades.

Yes, in addition to Liu Yan and Cui Wan who are qualified to live in the palace, people of high rank, including the prince, Princess and concubine, Zhaoyi, Jieyu, jing'e and Rong Hua, can only live in the pavilion or zhangtai. The other one who is qualified to live in the palace is the prince.

Because Liu Yan has no elders, the palace for his elders is probably in a sealed state. It will not be rebuilt until he is willing to abdicate or die and Cui Wan is still alive.

At present, four hundred and seventy thousand people who have obtained the registered residence in new Changan City, including the garrison, the floating population and the slaves, are more than one million and five hundred thousand people, but still only fill about sixty percent of the whole city. Many cities are either reserved for empty space or the building has only built a framework.

Speaking of it, the number of slaves staying in new Chang'an was a little large, reaching 670000. They have to finish their work before they are transferred to other places to continue their work.

In order to take care of as many as 670000 slaves, there are as many as 160000 troops stationed in new Chang'an, which is 160000 of the non forbidden guards. Counting the forbidden guards, the whole Chang'an City has nearly 300000 troops.

Ten years after Yuan Shuo, Liu Yan expanded the number of the forbidden guards, no longer limited to the system army, and would select suitable candidates from the standing army. Under the repeated expansion, the number of the forbidden guards has increased to 130000.

The forbidden guards stationed in new Chang'an are not only responsible for the security of the palace city, but also for the protection of the capital. They will go on an expedition when necessary.

"What is the Taiwei office's plan for Huan Wen to put down the war and return home?" Liu Yan heard footsteps and could tell that it was Xu Zheng: "what's the new news about the war over Gupta?"

The visitor is Xu Zheng. He is not dressed in full arms. He is also dressed in fur or made of polar bear fur given by Liu Yan. From different angles, he can be white or dark yellow.

In fact, polar bear's hair is "colorless". In short, its hair is actually a small transparent tube. As for people's eyes, the color of polar bear's hair will appear "white" because the inner surface of the hair is rough and uneven, which refracts the light very disorderly. When you stay in ice and snow, it is naturally white. And each hair can scatter the incoming sunlight.

So it extends a very messy problem. The polar bear's hair actually reflects different colors with different environments, and even looks at different colors from different angles.

Why does Liu Yan have polar bear fur? He has been sending a fleet to explore the Bering Strait!

Liu Yan is serious about finding the North American continent. There are a lot of things derived from it. One of them is to harvest the fur from polar bears. More importantly, he found the modern island named Guam.

Xu Zheng is talking in his mind.

According to the normal procedures, Huan Wen didn't get the central command to return home without permission. It depends on how Huan Wen returned home.

The first is that Huan Wen returned home with his army. No matter what the reason, as long as he brought more soldiers than the pro guard limit, he would undoubtedly be regarded as a rebellion.

If Huan Wen is alone or only with a personal guard attached to the number limit, no matter what the reason is, he can not escape a definition of dereliction of duty. But there is something to say here, such as this time.

"Your Majesty, the general of the southern expedition has largely wiped out Gupta, but there are only some insignificant endings left." Xu Zheng couldn't figure out what Liu Yan had in mind. Bearing the risk, he continued: "the general of the southern expedition returned home this time with only ten Pro guards, and the rest were the officers and men of the expeditionary army who won special merit. The number was 62."

What Liu Yan asked seems to be how the Taiwei department should deal with it?

"I happened to get news from Gupta." As Xu Zheng spoke, he kept staring at Liu Yan's heel: "vargathaga took the initiative to retreat from the occupied land, and the general team withdrew to China. Two satraps sent people to Fahrenheit city to find yuan Changshi to discuss the withdrawal, mainly to get... Compensation in other aspects?"

Liu Yan had previously speculated that vargatoga and two satraps would take the initiative to withdraw troops.

Liu Yan appreciated vagadoga's knowledge of current affairs and the courage of the two satraps to bargain for benefits.

"How to ensure the complete acquisition of the territory of the Gupta Dynasty is the matter of the Taiwei office." Liu Yan's voice didn't sound ups and downs, so he couldn't tell whether he was in a good mood or bad: "how to deal with the follow-up things is the responsibility of the prime minister's office and Honglu hall."

Xu Zhengming knew that Liu Yan didn't have long eyes on the back of his head and still saluted. He relaxed and said, "speaking of Honglu hall, they have been busy recently."

"Yes..." Liu Yan's mouth hooked up: "tens of thousands of people from afar..."

Liu Yan didn't mention the prisoners of war in mainland A-San. At that time, he was only responsible for watching the prisoner offering ceremony. Someone would introduce every prisoner who was qualified to be introduced to him, including his country, status, name... And so on.

The relevant subsidiaries of Honglu hall have been busy for a long time. They are mainly busy with the ceremony of declaring the emperor. This event alone is worthy of their utmost enthusiasm. It will not only eliminate any accidents, but also do things perfectly.

"The big man doesn't have the rule of welcoming foreign guests and entertaining them with thousands of times of treatment." Liu Yan knows the customs of modern countries towards official diplomats, such as how much reception money they give according to different specifications: "tens of thousands of people come, and the businessmen in Chang'an will be very happy."

Of course, Xu Zheng knows that what Liu Yan said is right. He has heard that those foreign visitors have started buying since they landed. They are also buying all the way to new Chang'an.