Chapter 77 Xiyuan
No matter where you go, there are crowds of people everywhere. You have to admire Yang Su and Yuwen Kai. No matter what, they can lead millions of laborers to build a magnificent city from the ground within a few months. This is something very few people can do.

When he arrived at the Qianyang Palace, Li Jiancheng was stunned and looked up to wonder how high it was.

Yang Su smiled with satisfaction and said, "The base of this palace is nine feet high, and from the ground to the tail of the ridge it is one hundred and seventy feet high, with thirteen rooms and twenty-nine frames."

The base of the hall is about three meters high, and the entire hall looks to be at least fifty or sixty meters high. It is majestic, tall and majestic, far more imposing than the main hall of Chang'an City.

"how?"

Li Jiancheng walked around and exclaimed: "The sills are decorated with patterns, the columns are decorated with hundreds of layers of orchids, the arches are decorated with thousands of columns, the lintels are decorated with embroidered columns, the beams are decorated with ornate ornaments, and the eaves are magnificent."

After showing off, Yang Su also complained. It turned out that the big wood for the palace pillars was not cut down nearby, but was specially collected from Yuzhang. When it was transported, hubs were installed underneath, and it took two thousand people to pull one pillar.

Moreover, it would break down after traveling a mile or two, and hundreds of people would be needed to drag the iron hub to replace it. The march was only about thirty to twenty miles a day, and if one pillar was counted, hundreds of thousands of people would be needed to run back and forth.

The construction of the palace foundations and walls and courtyards required more than 100,000 laborers, and the carpenters, bricklayers, metalworkers, and stonemasons required another 100,000. These people were drawn from various places and had different languages ​​and standards, so it took a lot of effort to get them to agree on a common goal.

Li Jiancheng understood and said that he would report his hard work to the emperor. However, how could the emperor's grace fall on those truly hard-working people? He was simply rewarding Yang Su and Yuwen Kai.

He also took a look around at the other palaces. They were all so majestic and magnificent, and there were countless laborers and craftsmen working on the detailed carvings. Li Jiancheng looked left and right, but he really couldn't see what the humble palace looked like.

Then they had a simple meal outside the palace. Yang Su was a man who would never treat himself badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Li Jiancheng had indeed not eaten anything good during his long journey, so he ate to his heart's content.

Then he went out of the city and headed west to the Forbidden Garden. Luoyang City was where the common people, officials and the emperor lived together, and the Forbidden Garden was the emperor's private garden, which was naturally more exquisite and magnificent than Luoyang.

It continued the layout of one pool and three mountains since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Stones were gathered into mountains and the ground was dug into lakes and seas in the palace. Each lake was ten miles square. The soil in the lake accumulated into mountains, and pavilions and palaces were built on the mountains, winding around them, which was the ultimate in luxury.

There is a sea in the garden called "Da Hai", with a radius of forty miles. In the sea, there are three immortal mountains, namely Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou. The three immortal mountains are all made of long peaks and strange rocks, stacked up in a rugged manner, just like three natural stone mountains, and do not look like they were built by human power at all.

The terraces and pavilions are all made of rare materials, gold and jade, just like brocade and pearls. There is nothing that is not the most beautiful in the world.

There are sixteen gardens along the river, with clear streams flowing through them and famous flowers and rare trees planted everywhere. There are canals with flying bridges, palaces built in the water, secluded windows and curved rooms, and bright walls.

Each courtyard also had a settlement, which was managed by palace servants, where fish and livestock were raised, and vegetables and fruits were grown. There were also rare and precious animals contributed by various states, including rows of cranes, pairs of peacocks, golden monkeys howling together, and green deer playing together.

You can sail on a light boat and sing songs about picking water chestnuts, or you can climb up the flying bridge and play songs about spring outing.

Each of these sixteen courtyards is presided over by a fourth-rank lady. They are all beautiful women presented by various states. The emperor was not in a hurry to bring them into the harem, but sent them here first.

They have mastered their skills, and when the emperor visits the Western Garden in the future, he will be the "guest" here. They will try every means to attract guests to stay overnight. This is a good idea that the emperor came up with.

Yuwen Kai was there, he came up to greet Li Jiancheng and showed him around. Of course, they didn't dare to go into the Sixteenth Courtyard, because the guest could only be the emperor, and they would only be dead if they went in.

After looking around, Li Jiancheng said, "Spring and summer are naturally beautiful, but in autumn and winter, the flowers will wither and the trees will die."

Yuwen Kai smiled proudly and said, "What's the difficulty? When the trees in the palace wither in autumn and winter, we cut silk and satin into leaves and decorate the branches. When the color fades, we replace them with new ones, and it always feels like spring."

"If Your Majesty comes to travel in winter, we will remove the ice and use the cut lotus flowers and lotus leaves as a decoration."

Li Jiancheng looked at Yuwen Kai in silence for a moment and said, "You are a great talent." "No, no."

The world of glass and the universe of jewels are just like this.

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Li Jiancheng told the emperor what he had seen and heard. As expected, the emperor did not care about the common people at all, but kept asking about the layout of the western garden of the palace.

Then he cheerfully ordered rewards for Yang Su and Yuwen Kai, and even Li Jiancheng was rewarded. This shows that it is better to say something that makes the emperor happy than to give advice.

The emperor then issued an order to relocate tens of thousands of residents within the city of Luozhou and wealthy merchants from various states to fill the area.

That is to say, tens of thousands of wealthy merchants, landlords, craftsmen and ordinary people will become citizens of Dongdu.

Those who collapsed or died were about fourteen or fifteen years old. This was the price of building a capital city in just one year. When Li Jiancheng left the palace, he felt that the fall of the Sui Dynasty was not unjust.

The road was filled with dead bodies, and the ditch was filled with blood like a river.

When will the crying cease? The resentment is overwhelming and cannot be erased.

Li Jiancheng originally thought that the emperor's good mood would last for a few days, but he did not expect that at the court meeting the next day, he angrily issued an order to strip Yang Lun, the Duke of Shao, and Yang Ji, the Prince of Wei, of their titles and exile them to the border counties.

Just because these two members of the royal family consulted a sorcerer to predict good and bad luck and held a ceremony to pray for blessings, they were reported by Yang Yue for cursing the emperor out of resentment. Yang Yue said, "They secretly harbor evil ways, soothe the emperor and his relatives, and openly curse them, without any shame, and their emotions are beyond human reason. They are against the previous dynasty, and they are sinners of the emperor and father, and cannot be pardoned by a minister. Please punish them according to the law."

No one knew what Yang Yue was thinking, and no one knew what the emperor was thinking. In short, the two members of the royal family who had always been law-abiding were exiled.

Li Jiancheng felt something was not right, so he hurried to see his master Li Jing and asked him to pay more attention to the rumors in the market. Li Jing was now the magistrate of Chang'an, so it was natural for him to do such things.

Sure enough, a few days later, Li Jing invited him over, and after dismissing everyone, he said, "Someone in the market suddenly taught the children to sing nursery rhymes, and the sound of the rustling sound rose again, and the flying swallows circled the old beams."

Xiao and Liang, it was obvious who these two keywords pointed to. Li Jiancheng said, "Master, you must keep a close eye on the nursery rhymes about the surname Li. This is not a trivial matter."

Li Jing nodded solemnly, Li Jiancheng stood up to say goodbye, and then went straight to the Duke of Liang's Mansion.

Since Xiao Cong was appointed to an important position, his talents have been fully utilized and he even drinks less. He was discussing the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with his retainers.

But when he saw Li Jiancheng coming, he made time to tell his servants to set the table for dinner. While eating, Li Jiancheng told him about the nursery rhyme and reminded him, "In the future, we can discuss matters in the government office. When we return home, we should close the door and refuse visitors."

Li Jiancheng felt someone behind the screen, then stopped talking and looked at Xiao Cong. Xiao Cong frowned and looked at the door, then his brows relaxed and said, "It's okay."

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