Daming Town Haiwang

Liu Jin returned to his mansion, sat quietly in the study, thinking carefully.

Thinking about later generations, the aerospace industry has always been a pain for the Chinese people, especially the engines, which, like chips, have never been truly conquered.

There are many factors in it, but the most important factor is that the aerospace industry lacks a process from beginning to end and lacks accumulation.

Some things are not achieved overnight, it requires a process, a process of accumulation, just like the so-called ten years of trees and one hundred years of people, in essence, the principles are similar.

The development of the aviation industry requires a process of accumulation and explosion.

Because we are rising stars in later generations, we lack the accumulation and process of aircraft research and production in the early stage. If we go directly to more advanced fighter aircraft, this is equivalent to jumping directly to study. Naturally, we are not as solid as others.

What's more, aircraft manufacturing, especially engine manufacturing, also involves the development of basic material science, which requires a solid accumulation.

I traveled to the Ming Dynasty by myself, and now I see the world's first airplane flying into the sky. I believe that as long as we continue to develop along this road, I believe that in the future, the aviation industry of the Ming Empire will be unique in the world.

From the slow development of spiral wooden aircraft to larger and stronger aircraft, and then to the invention of jet aircraft later, the whole process goes on step by step, and eventually it will surely become an aviation power.

This can be regarded as making up for a small regret in my heart.

"Old Liu! Old Liu!"

Just as Liu Jin was thinking, Zhu Houzhao's voice moved from far to near.

This guy has become an emperor, and he is still the same as before. He likes to break into his own house directly, and he doesn't look like an emperor at all.

"His Majesty!"

When Liu Jin heard the voice, he hurried to greet him.

"Free! Free!"

"Let's go, accompany me to see the Old Summer Palace. It is said that it is almost completed now."

Zhu Houzhao pulled Liu Jin up and walked outside, talking while walking.

"How did it get built so quickly?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he was also slightly taken aback.

This Old Summer Palace was originally proposed by Liu Jin when Emperor Hongzhi abdicated, in order to build a royal garden for Emperor Hongzhi to retire.

This Yuanmingyuan is not the same as the Yuanmingyuan built in the later Qing Dynasty. The biggest point is that the Yuanmingyuan built now is located on the Xiangshan side of the western suburb of the capital.

With Xiangshan as the center, a large area of ​​land around it is enclosed, and a Ming Dynasty royal garden is built according to the mountain and terrain.

At that time, considering that Emperor Hongzhi had no place to provide for the elderly after he abdicated, he chose this place to build such a garden for the elderly of Hongzhi.

"It's so fast, it's been almost five years now."

Zhu Houzhao pouted and said.

"Has it been five years?"

As soon as Liu Jin heard it, he immediately counted silently.

The construction of the Old Summer Palace started in the 40th year of Hongzhi, and it is now the autumn of the fourth year of Zhengde, which is indeed almost five years.

In five years, it is almost enough to build a garden, especially now that the infrastructure of the Ming Empire is strong, and there are many kinds of engineering machines. The railway was repaired.

Came to Xiangshan in the western suburbs by car.

Before arriving at the Old Summer Palace, you can already see a piece of Fragrant Hills glowing red. The whole Fragrant Hills is covered with a large number of maple trees. It is autumn, and the maple leaves turn red, making the entire Fragrant Hills look like a flaming mountain. is pretty.

In addition to the large number of maple trees on the Fragrant Hills, a large number of rare plants were also introduced during the construction of the Old Summer Palace, such as ginkgo, bodhi, cedar, plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, etc., and the maple trees were planned according to the situation of the mountain. The planting, several years have passed.

When looking at it from a distance, not only Xiangshan is golden, but the scenery in other places is also extremely beautiful.

The car that Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin and others were riding in parked here at the gate of the Old Summer Palace, got out of the car, and Liu Jin looked carefully.

A lot of thought has been spent on the gate in front of me alone. The two big unicorns at the gate are carved by white marble, and they are also made by famous masters. The carvings are so lifelike that they are really beautiful.

This kind of white marble is not available near the capital, and all of them are transported from other places. If it was in the past, I don't know how much manpower, material and financial resources it will cost.

But for the current Ming Empire, this is nothing. With trains, cars, and various lifting machinery, transporting stones and so on is trivial.

Not to mention that it is used to build royal gardens, even some wealthy people in Ming Dynasty can afford this white marble now.

In fact, a large amount of white marble was used in the entire Old Summer Palace, and the scale was so huge that almost several white marble mines were moved here.

In addition to white marble, Hetian jade and Myanmar jade are also widely used and can be seen almost everywhere.

Just at the gate, a green passage was paved with good Burmese jade. The jade on the ground would be of great value in future generations.

But now it is just paved at the gate like ordinary stones, and only the most noble people can walk this road. As for ordinary people, they are naturally not qualified to walk on it, and can only walk on the side road and the door. .

Myanmar was occupied by the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling. The scale of Zhang's colony was very large, not only occupying Myanmar, but also occupying the later Bengal and other East Tianzhu regions.

I heard that a royal garden was going to be built for the retirement of Emperor Hongzhi. The two brothers were finally generous. A large amount of jade was sent over without money. At the same time, there were also a large amount of precious wood felled from Myanmar, such as teak, rosewood, Red sandalwood, etc. are also shipped in one ship after another.

The two brothers finally became decent brother-in-laws.

They also knew that the reason why the two brothers were able to achieve today was mainly due to the blessing of Emperor Hongzhi back then. Otherwise, with their arrogant and domineering characters, they would have been killed long ago.

Of course, in addition to this Burmese colony, other overseas colonies and vassal states also expressed their opinions after hearing the news. Even Ismail I of the Persian Empire ordered someone to send him off after hearing the news. A ship of lapis lazuli came.

Lapis lazuli is the most expensive dye in this period, even more expensive than gold. In the West, painters have always been willing to use lapis lazuli dye only when painting the Virgin.

In the Ming Empire, the dyes made of lapis lazuli are also very expensive. The price of cyan and blue cloth is more than ten times that of other cloth, and it is also very rare. .

The Persian Empire directly sent a ship of lapis lazuli, which shows that the Persian Empire respected the Ming Empire. Ismail I was obviously very grateful to Emperor Hongzhi for his help to the Persian Empire during his reign.

The Western United Commercial Bank sent a large number of gems. Ceylon Island is rich in gems, and the Western United Commercial Bank has a large number of gem mining and storage. They sent several shipments of gems to decorate the Old Summer Palace.

The Inca Empire and the Aztec Kingdom directly sent people to send several boats of gold and silver over to express their loyalty and respect to the Son of Heaven.

King Ning of Ning Kingdom also sent a large amount of precious stones, gold, ivory and some excellent Indian craftsmen, so that he could add some exotic colors and art to this Ming royal garden.

The South African colony sent a large amount of diamonds, gold and precious stones. Now the South African colony has also discovered a large number of gold mines and diamond mines. The scale is huge and the output is also very large.

Even the Li family's Chaling colony presented a large number of Persian Gulf pearls to Emperor Hongzhi to decorate the Ming royal garden.

Some colonies and vassal states have limited financial resources and do not have any special products. They also try to get some exotic flowers and plants, and try to transplant them to the capital to add an exotic color to the royal garden.

The North Korean side is also very concerned about this matter, collecting a large number of rare treasures and offering them; the same is true for the Japanese side. The treasure sent here.

It can be said that the Old Summer Palace in front of us has almost integrated rare treasures from all over the world, and after the careful design and layout of Ming craftsmen, it took a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build.

In order to build this royal garden, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin took out hundreds of millions of taels of silver, which was almost piled up with treasures.

You can see a thing or two just from the gate.

The big unicorn of white marble, the road paved with emerald green jade, the big pillars of golden nanmu, and the patterns painted with a lot of precious dyes, among which the blue color of lapis lazuli dye is used in large quantities.

This kind of color was very rare in the past dynasties, and only the current Ming Empire can use this extremely expensive dye on a large scale, which is more expensive than gold, to decorate a huge royal garden.

PS: I feel uncomfortable all the time, my nose is blocked all the time, and my nose is runny~ I always feel that something is wrong. The weather is not too cold, but my nose is always runny.