Valley Emperor

On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of Xuanping, Shanghai.

Today's entire Shanghai shows a different prosperity from the past. Before Li Xuanlai, he had specially instructed Songjiang. He went to Shanghai to see a real Shanghai, and he also did not want his inspection to affect Shanghai. the normal work and life of the people.

At the same time, it also decreed that Shanghai should not be allowed to make extravagance, not to be too ostentatious, and not to specially repair a series of special arrangements such as palaces.

Li Xuan didn't want that because he went to Shanghai, Shanghai, a city with a population of over one million, would be under martial law, and the lives and work of ordinary people would be affected.

However, although the Son of Heaven said so, would the officials of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai Special County dare not to make any special arrangements?

Impossible!

The Son of Heaven is a holy monarch, a benevolent monarch, and he is unwilling to affect the normal life and work of the people of Limin because of his inspection.

But as a courtier, you must have the self-consciousness to take the initiative to be blamed.

Otherwise, when the Holy Son of Heaven came to Shanghai, what kind of turmoil would happen, I am afraid that the government and the public would not know how many people would lose their heads.

Even for the sake of their own life and political life, the officials of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai's ad hoc counties did not dare to neglect them in the slightest.

Like other cities along the railway line, Shanghai began to prepare for the Holy Tour as early as last autumn, and some routine rectification work such as public security and city appearance will not be mentioned.

Also because of the particularity of Shanghai, many people have guessed that the Son of Heaven may not go to other places, or just pass by, but Shanghai will definitely come, and it will definitely stay for a while.

Therefore, the preparation work in Songjiang is also more onerous and complicated than other areas.

The first is to prepare the palace of the Son of Heaven!

Although the Son of Heaven has already instructed in advance that local yamen are not allowed to repair the palace or the like, after the holy car arrives in various places, the first choice is to continue to live in the special train for the royal family, and will not easily move the holy car.

Even if you want to stay somewhere for a few days, the place to stay will be in the royal family's residence in Shanghai, and not elsewhere.

The royal family owns a large amount of real estate in all parts of the country. These real estates are mainly the residences of the powerful officials of the former Ming Dynasty and the palaces of various vassal kings, including the Forbidden City.

Back then, there were rules for inspecting the properties of former Ming vassal kings and dignitaries.

The first is the treasury, which will directly take away all the floating wealth, specifically all kinds of precious metals, etc., and then some things that are easy to realize, as well as some shops, ordinary industries and the like will also be taken and realized.

Then there are some things that are not easy to be realized or have no accurate value, such as antique paintings and calligraphy and the mansions, which will be included in the royal family industry section. Those antique paintings and other treasures are naturally sent to Jinling City. , To enrich the palace, we can't let the palace of the Tang Dynasty not even have a few antiques and treasures!

As for those mansions, they were naturally left over!

After the unification of China, the Royal Family Industry Division has accepted more than 300 luxury mansions nationwide. These are not ordinary houses, but all luxury mansions. They are either the royal mansions of the vassal kings or the mansions of the former Ming dignitaries. Casually covering hundreds of acres of land.

However, for so many real estates, the Royal Family Industry Section is also quite a headache. These houses are definitely not used by the Royal Family themselves. The Royal Family is now even empty of the Forbidden City, let alone other vassal palaces.

However, the maintenance funds for these houses are an astronomical sum every year, and the Royal Family Industry Section is unwilling to come up with this money anyway.

But you have to sell it. To be honest, there are not many people who can afford it, and more importantly, many of them are former Ming palaces. The architectural specifications and decorations are typical royal features. Even ordinary people can buy them. For this kind of money, I don't have the guts to live there.

The early treatment was that Li Xuan selected a few batches, and then gave them to various founding heroes, but they were basically concentrated in Jinling City, or the hometown of the founding heroes, but most of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty were It is from Zhengtai, there is no royal palace in that broken place!

In the end, more than ten seats were rewarded, and the rest of Li Xuan was also a hand, and let the Royal Family Industry Section find a way to deal with it. Anyway, Li Xuan only asked, and would never be foolish to pay for maintenance, but he must try to avoid these mansions as much as possible. In ruins, it is also a mansion, it is a pity that it was abandoned directly.

The Royal Family Industry Section first selected a group of houses that could be sold directly, mainly those ordinary houses of the powerful and powerful. Although they were also luxurious, there were still people who dared to buy them, and dozens of them were sold.

As for those palaces, only some of them are well preserved, and at the same time they are representative of the royal palaces, such as the former Jingjiang palace in Guangxi and the Forbidden City in Youzhou.

The remaining few are directly sold to local government offices to serve as office space for government offices.

And some even the local officials are too lazy to accept, or are unwilling to accept the palace and the like, the Royal Family Industry Division has come up with a big move, and it will be sent directly for free!

to whom?

Certainly not for ordinary people.

If it is an ordinary person, the royal family industry department dares to send it, but do you dare to accept it? When they sent it, they clearly asked the new owner to maintain it. If the maintenance could not be completed, they would order compulsory maintenance.

For a huge royal palace, there are hundreds of maintenance personnel all year round, and the daily maintenance can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands. And traditional craftsmanship is expensive.

It's not that the rich can't afford to live at all!

So even if it is a gift, few wealthy businessmen are willing to take advantage of it!

Therefore, donations are mainly donated to serve as school buildings for local government schools, and it is no longer mandatory that schools must be maintained 100% as they are, but basic maintenance still needs to be done.

There are also some houses that even the local government-run schools are unwilling to take over. Under Li Xuan's guidance, a fee-based opening has come to allow the public to play, or simply turn into commercial facilities, and then charge various fees to act as maintainance fee.

Anyway, the royal family industry department is not willing to bear huge maintenance costs every year.

In this way, in fact, the Royal Family Industry Section is kept on hand, and the number of royal palaces that spend money on maintenance every year is not very large, and there are only more than 20 in total, and there are all over the place. Of course, when necessary, they can also use a large number of palaces that have been used for other purposes before, and they can be used to pick up after a little preparation.

However, the royal palace in Shanghai is not the mansion of the former Ming Dynasty kings. On the contrary, it is a large-scale manor built by the royal family many years ago.

The officials in charge of real estate operations in the Royal Family Industry Section are not fools either. Whether the property is valuable or not depends on the place. From Shanghai, you can tell that the house price will rise at a glance.

In addition, the industry and commerce in Shanghai is so important, and it is also an important transportation location. The royal family will definitely pass through here in the future. Therefore, when Shanghai opened its port for business, the royal family's industry department has already encircled more than 300 acres. The land is used to build the palace, but although the place is large, the scale of the building is actually not large, covering an area of ​​only more than ten acres, while the rest of the place is a large area of ​​green gardens.

However, for so many years, although the Shanghai Palace has welcomed members of the royal family every year, the Son of Heaven and several princes have never lived here.

Over the years, the three princes who have come to Shanghai more often are mainly three princes who have been overseas, but none of these three princes have ever lived in the Shanghai Palace.

The eldest son of King Qi, Li Wei, of Beihai Province, likes to stay at the Wusongjiang Hotel.

Li Ying, the second son of King Zhao of Banten Province, likes to live in his private mansion. He has a mansion in Shanghai, and he lives in his mansion every time he travels to and from Shanghai.

As for the third prince of Luzon Province, King Qin, he turned sixteen years ago, and he belonged to Luzon Province. He did not belong to the Americas as many people thought before. That is because of the power of the empire in North America now. It is still too weak, and although steam engines have appeared, large-scale transoceanic passenger ships have not yet appeared, and it is still relatively difficult to travel to the Americas.

So Li Xuan first sealed the third son of the emperor in Luzon.

Every time King Qin Li Bin traveled to and from the fief and the capital and passed through Shanghai, he did not live in the Shanghai Palace. Why? Because neither of his two older brothers lived there, anyone with a bit of political consciousness would not carelessly go to the Shanghai Palace to live.

Like his eldest brother Qi Wang, he chose to stay in a hotel, but it was not the Wusongjiang Hotel, but the old luxury hotel in Shanghai, the Shanghai Traders Hotel. In order to maintain the high-end competitiveness of this hotel~www.wuxiaspot.com~especially In order to compete with the Wusongjiang Hotel and several other hotels for the title of the first hotel in Shanghai, a new main building was rebuilt a few years ago, with a total of six floors and a height of several tens of meters. It can be said to be average, but the interior decoration design is the top luxury decoration.

In addition to being luxurious, various new technologies have been adopted on a large scale. Every time King Qin Li Bong passed through Shanghai, he stayed in the new building of the Shanghai Traders Hotel.

So, has anyone lived in the Shanghai Palace over the years?

Of course there is!

Since the opening of the Jiangnan Railway and the steam liner, occasionally there will be royal concubines and princesses who come to Shanghai specially. They usually live in the Shanghai Palace. If you want to say that none of these concubines are from Shanghai, neither are their relatives. Will come to Shanghai, then why come to Shanghai?

Because it is bustling and lively here, you can easily buy all kinds of goods from all over the world.

Well, people come to Shanghai for shopping!

It is a woman's nature to spend money on shopping, no matter ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, high or low!

Of course, what's more important is that Li Xuan is more accommodating in this regard, and he won't even let his woman go back to her mother's house or go out for a walk like other feudal dynasties.

Well, in fact, he was not allowed in the early years. It was not until the railway was opened and the steam liner became more accommodating.

This is mainly due to the inconvenience of transportation in the early years, the concubine went home to save her relatives, and it also cost a lot of money.

If you want to say how much money a woman can spend on a trip home, you can only say that your drawings are broken.

And Li Xuan is more than one woman. There are hundreds of famous concubines and concubines. Li Xuan himself does not know how many there are.

If so many women go back to their parents' homes to save money on relatives, even the emperor Li Xuan will have a headache!