Valley Emperor

Chen Lifu, who returned to Jinling City, did not have much time to carefully prepare his own policy plan, because he was summoned the next day after returning to Jinling City.

Li Xuan did not summon him in his office or in any conference room, but Chen Lifu who summoned him in the afternoon on the city wall garden of the palace's front hall.

After years of renovations, although the construction period has been delayed again and again, it has been repaired for more than ten years, and the main building of the palace is now basically completed.

Because the original Ming Palace was too dilapidated, the construction of this palace was not actually refurbished on the basis of the original Ming Palace, but a new one.

The completed palace covers a large area. In addition to the original Ming Palace area, the original palace courtyard was added to integrate the two into one.

The architectural model of the palace is also different from the traditional palace.

On the periphery of its palace, there are large tracts of grass and a square paved with slate. It looks empty on the surface, but in fact there are responsible defense facilities.

Those rockeries that seem to be inconspicuous are actually very strong fortresses, and artillery can be deployed inside. Those ditches that look like ordinary drainage ditches are actually trenches.

And these defense facilities are connected through trenches or even tunnels.

Although it is useless on weekdays, if an enemy attacks the palace, these defensive settings are enough to deploy a defensive force of more than 5,000 people for outer defense.

The grass and slate squares on the periphery are basically semi-open in nature, with only simple low walls and railings on the outermost periphery. Of course, although it is only a simple defensive nature, ordinary people are naturally unable to enter, because these areas are already It belongs to the area of ​​the palace, and there are many soldiers of the Guards patrolling the periphery.

Those who can come in are generally people who work in the palace.

The palace of the Tang Dynasty was not only the residence of the emperor, or the place where important ceremonies were held, but also the office of several important institutions.

In the huge square, there are still many office buildings!

At present, there are four major institutions working in the front hall of the palace: the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Study, the Naval Command, and the Army Privy Council.

Of course, the offices of these institutions are all in the outer areas of the palace.

In the middle of the huge lawn and square, is the real palace in the traditional sense. This is different here. The entire palace interior is surrounded by high palace walls. At the same time, these palace walls are not traditional squares. Square palace wall, but irregular rhombus structure.

As for why it is a diamond-shaped city wall, this is naturally because the entire palace is a huge bastion. Above the palace wall, there are many forts, which can deploy a large number of artillery.

The Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty is essentially a huge military fortress!

Of course, the palace is a palace after all. In addition to its military functions, it must also have good political and life functions. Therefore, the interior of the palace still has a traditional front hall, which is also a decoration on weekdays and is only used for large-scale ceremonies. some type of.

The canonization ceremony of Li Yan's crown prince was held in the front hall.

At the same time, the Great Ceremony was also held here.

However, Li Xuan would not summon his ministers here on weekdays.

He usually works in the imperial study!

However, this imperial study is said to be a study, but in fact it is an office building with very complete office functions. On the second floor, it is Li Xuan's office and conference room.

Usually, Li Xuan handles military and political affairs and meets ministers in his office on the second floor, while the conference room next door is mainly for daily morning meetings.

The small court meeting was held in the large conference room of the Hanlin Academy in the front hall.

The great court meeting was naturally held in the front hall.

In addition to the office area, more is the living area of ​​the royal family, which basically occupies two-thirds of the palace area.

In the first half of the office area, there is also a large amount of green area, among which the city wall garden is a place Li Xuan prefers to go to.

This city wall garden is actually built directly on the city wall. The highest point is even tens of meters high. Standing on it, you can see the large lawns and squares outside the palace, and you can also see the city.

Today, Li Xuan is the Chen Lifu who was summoned in the city wall garden!

Li Xuan walked in the front, Chen Lifu followed one step behind, and a little behind, there were the accompanying secretary and a few guards, and there were ordinary guards and secretaries nearby.

Except for Chen Lifu, these people are with Li Xuan every day, and they are used to the scene of Li Xuan summoning his courtiers in the city wall garden, but Chen Lifu is the first time to be holy in this kind of occasion.

At this time, he only listened to the Son of Heaven saying: "In the years when Aiqing worked in Shanghai, I have often heard reports about Shanghai, but I have not been able to see it with my own eyes, which is a pity!"

Over the years, Li Xuan has basically seldom left the capital. Occasionally, he has only gone out to factories in the suburbs of Jinling City or to Dangtu to inspect. Over the years, he has never been to Shanghai once.

As for the scene in Shanghai, he learned more through reports and the dictation of others.

At this time, Chen Lifu said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Shanghai has developed very quickly in recent years, which is very good. Not to mention compared with ten years ago, even when the minister went to Shanghai for inspection last month, he still felt that Shanghai has been in the past two years. It's changed a lot!"

"Oh, yes, what's new?" Li Xuan is still very concerned about the changes in Shanghai.

Chen Lifu said: "Chen went to Shanghai last month and presided over the opening ceremony of the third bridge on the Wusong River, the North Shore Bridge. This North Shore Bridge was started by Chen when he was the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture. After three years of construction, it was only completed this year. When completed, this North Shore Bridge is also the first reinforced concrete bridge in Shanghai, with high design standards and high construction standards!”

"I remember that when I went to Shanghai for the first time, there was only a simple wooden bridge on the Wusong River. Later, in order to develop the north bank, the Wusong River Bridge was built. Then, as the traffic between the north bank and Shanghai urban area became increasingly busy, Wusong River was built again. Jiang Second Bridge, but this is still unable to meet the busy traffic connection, and this is the North Shore Bridge."

"This North Shore Bridge, the length, width and load-bearing capacity of the bridge, are far more than the Wusong River Bridge in the early years, and now it has become an important passage between Shanghai urban areas and the North Shore!"

Chen Lifu started from the North Shore Bridge, and then gradually spread it out, talking about the development of Shanghai over the years.

He said that Shanghai's urban rail carriage transportation has been fully rolled out. From Huating Development Zone, rail carriages can be routed to the North Shore Development Zone, and the required fares are extremely low.

At present, Shanghai's urban transportation, especially people's daily travel, is already undertaken by rail carriages. Countless rail carriages transport tens of thousands of people to various places in the city every day.

What Chen Lifu said about Shanghai, to Li Xuan's ears, already had a feeling of modern Shanghai in later generations, and even surpassed it.

Except for the limitation of technology, especially the limitation of electrification technology, there are no trams, no electric lights, and no elevators in Shanghai. Therefore, the buildings generally cannot be built too high. Generally, they are mainly two or three floors. Occasionally there are seven or eight-story high-rise buildings, but there are no taller buildings, because without elevators, it is very inconvenient for people to travel up and down if the floors are higher.

The Shanghai in Chen Lifu's mouth made Li Xuan also interested in going to see it!

"It seems that Shanghai's development has been good in recent years. If you have the opportunity, you must go and see it!"

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Chen Lifu said: "If Your Majesty can come to Shanghai, it will be a blessing for the people of Shanghai and even the whole Songjiang!"

Well, it is also the blessing of his Chen Lifu and other officials from Shanghai. The development of Shanghai is good, and His Majesty can see that they have served in Shanghai and made contributions to the development of Shanghai. , his career will naturally be smoother.

But Li Xuan also knows that he has a special identity, so he can leave if he wants to leave. Although he has some thoughts today, he doesn't talk about it anymore. Instead, he continues to ask Chen Lifu about Shanghai, Songjiang Prefecture and the whole of Jiangnan. .

Although he knew a lot of things through the report, after all, he still didn't hear Chen Lifu's own words to understand it more intuitively.

After talking about Shanghai and Jiangnan, this topic is inevitably extended to Guangdong!

After all, everyone knows that Li Xuan recruited Chen Lifu to return to Beijing to report his work, just for Guangdong.

In this regard, Chen Lifu also expressed some of his thoughts.

Although most of them are clichés to Li Xuan's ears, such as increasing agricultural development in Guangdong, not only in the Pearl River Delta, but also in other areas of Guangdong, whether it is eastern or western Guangdong or In northern Guangdong, the development of agriculture is still relatively backward, and needs to be followed up in time.

The Pearl River Delta region, more precisely Guangzhou urban area and surrounding areas such as Foshan, should further focus on the development of industry and commerce, especially the manufacturing industry.

In the development of industry, Guangzhou has a great geographical advantage. Relying on the Pearl River Basin, it can radiate the entire Guangdong and Guangxi regions. At the same time, relying on shipping, its products can be transported to Fujian, Zhejiang and other regions, not to mention overseas trade.

Guangdong, which is so close to Nanyang, has a natural geographical advantage in overseas trade, which is incomparable to Shanghai.

Over the years, among the exports of the Datang Empire, the export volume of Guangdong has occupied a huge proportion. There are more ocean-going merchant ships moored in Guangzhou Port than in Shanghai.

Although more than 100 domestic ocean-going trading companies with overseas trade licenses are headquartered in Shanghai, in fact, Guangzhou is the home base of more trading companies.

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In the past year, due to the war between the Tang Empire and the Portuguese, overseas trade in Guangdong has also been affected to a certain extent. In this regard, the solution proposed by Chen Lifu is not to deliberately expand domestic demand, because in the domestic market In terms of competitiveness, Guangzhou and Shanghai are still incomparable.

The solution proposed by Chen Lifu is more interesting, that is to meet the difficulties!

Today's overseas trade has been affected, but it does not mean that this overseas trade cannot continue. On the contrary, there are even greater opportunities behind this difficulty.

This opportunity is India!

Li Xuan was a little surprised by this idea. Now the main argument in the domestic political arena is to solve the problem by stimulating domestic demand when overseas trade is affected.

However, Chen Lifu said that he will rise to the challenge, and he will still mainly focus on the Indian market to open up a new channel for Guangdong's overseas trade!

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