Chapter 15 Chapter 15 The Palace
The spring and March of the Houjin Kingdom are as bright and brilliant as the clear sky in the sky and the flowers blooming in the earth; Nurhachi's footsteps are also moving towards a new milestone.
A mighty group of people set off from Liaoyang and moved into the newly expanded Shenyang City; from the people and livestock, to the leaders of the Eight Banners, soldiers, and princes and ministers, they all moved into Shenyang with him.
Shenyang City, which was originally only half the size of Liaoyang City, has far surpassed Liaoyang City after expansion; the newly built city walls are thick and solid, with towering towers and a vast city perimeter. You can feel the majestic momentum from a distance. , so that he nodded with satisfaction when he saw it from the horse, and secretly praised in his heart: "Huang Taiji can really do things! This city, although it took a long time to build it, it really has a scale and momentum. Already!"
He even faintly felt that this new city was built with the aura of a king, with the aura of pioneering and vigorous development, with the aura of solid foundation, and with the aura that has been passed down for thousands of years; looking at it from afar, his heart rose. I felt a special feeling, and really wanted to call Huang Taiji to say a few words, but when I thought about it, I immediately dismissed it: "Don't praise him, lest he get arrogant!"
With the heart of "tempering", he held back the words in his heart, and he didn't say anything until he entered the city; and after entering the city, riding his horse on the wide and tidy streets, his satisfaction increased again. For a few minutes, although he still didn't say it, a smile was already on his face.
After walking through several streets, he arrived in front of the newly built palace—his personal residence has also been completed, and the scale is of course much larger than his previous palaces...
In the past, the single-family wooden building has been replaced by a two-entry palace courtyard. There are three couplets in the front of the palace gate. There are three couplets in the main hall, and three couplets in the side halls in the east and west; the whole palace courtyard is spacious and open, clean and bright, with many houses in an orderly manner, with distinct layers, and is clearly separated from the front court.
As the front court for his administration, a magnificent hall was built. The overall shape is a pavilion-style octagonal double-eave building, with white stone abutments, steps, railings, and vermilion columns. The orientation is facing south from the north; the front of the hall is paved with A large square with neat flagstones.
Accompanying him around for a week, Huang Taiji, who personally inspected each building, asked him for instructions: "Father Khan, please name the hall—"
He thought for a while and replied, "Let's call it 'Dazheng Palace'!"
However, he then said: "This hall is beautifully built, but the large square in front of the hall is empty, it seems a bit out of harmony!"
Huang Taiji immediately explained: "This is for the convenience of Father Khan to set up tents for each banner when the generals and Baylors of the banners are called to discuss matters, so no houses are built, no flowers and trees are planted!"
This made sense, of course Nurhachi accepted it, nodded and stopped talking; however, the next day, he sent someone to find Huang Taiji early in the morning, and said to him: "I thought about it all night and decided to go to Huang Taiji. Add ten pavilions to the square—”
This is the result of repeated thinking: "In the old customs in the past, when King Khan convened a meeting, each of them would set up a tent and sit on the ground-but that was the old custom when the city-state palace was not built, the old nomadic custom left by the ancestors; Jin’s home country and city-state are complete, the old customs of nomads have changed, and the buildings in the palace must be adapted to the current customs!”
The specific method has also been well established: "The front of the Dazheng Hall is divided into two columns on the left and right, and five pavilions are built on each side, namely the left and right wing king pavilions, two yellow flag pavilions, two red flag pavilions, two white flag pavilions, and two blue flag pavilions!" Huang Taiji immediately took the lead. Order: "I will do it right away, my son! First draw the picture of the pavilion, and send it here to ask Father Khan for instructions!"
So, things proceeded quickly; soon after, the project started according to the plan. With the full cooperation of the husbands and servants, the soil was excavated and the foundation was laid, the beams were erected, and the tiles were painted. Although the project has added a lot of noisy work, it is also very lively, prosperous and vigorous.
And the Daming Palace is also full of noisy work, and the sound of beating and planing saws is endless——Emperor Tianqi’s carpentry is getting bigger and bigger, and all the dexterous eunuchs are transferred to serve as his Assistant, to help him do carpentry, and keep increasing the number of staff, so the original workshop was too small, so a bigger one had to be built; there was no place to display the finished works, so he ordered to build a new one The hall with a very large space is specially used to display his works.
As if to echo the Shenyang Palace of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Daming Palace also started construction—but the purpose and purpose were completely different, and what was worse, the ears of Emperor Tianqi were filled with the sound of logging He never heard any other voices - not only did he not hear Wei Zhongxian's evil deeds at all, but he also did not hear the screams of the Donglin people who were illegally arrested by Wei Zhongxian and entered the Fusi of Jinyiwei Town when they were tortured. Nothing.
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