books44 Chapter 826: Bad Mood.
Chapter 826: Bad Mood.
"Of course you can. When we get to the Oil Peninsula, I'll find a few beautiful women there and make them your concubines, as long as you can handle it."
Ye Kun laughed.
The driver, Chai, laughed awkwardly: "I'm afraid that there are only uncivilized barbarians there, and the women there are ugly and smelly..."
"A free concubine, and you're still being picky?"
Ye Kun smiled and said, "Don't worry, there are beauties everywhere. Even if they are barbarians, we can slowly train them."
In fact, what driver Chai said is correct.
Women from uncivilized areas, no matter how beautiful they are, are not good companions.
They have no hygienic habits, don't know how to dress themselves, can't speak Chinese, and are unable to communicate.
It's not much fun to be with someone like this.
For example, the indigenous people of Datang Island and Dasong Island can basically be classified as savages.
Only civilized areas such as Rome, Parthia, and the Kushan Empire have truly exotic customs.
As they were talking, the great city of Yanran appeared in front of them.
The current governor of Yanran City, Ye Qingshan, is a clansman and cousin of Ye Qingyang, and he had already left the city to welcome him.
If Ye Kun had not ordered not to go out to greet him, this guy would have gone out two hundred miles to greet Ye Kun.
Ye Kun knew Ye Qingshan, and said with a smile: "Brother Qingshan, I haven't seen you for many years. I hope you are in good health."
This Ye Qingshan is actually two years older than Ye Kun.
Ye Qingshan clasped his fists on the side of the road and said, "Thanks to the emperor, I am in good health. The emperor and the queen have come a thousand miles, and I am late in welcoming you. Please forgive me."
"We are brothers, so let's not be polite. Get on your horse and accompany me into the city."
Ye Kun waved.
Back then in the Xiping Mountain camp, Ye Kun and Ye Qingyang’s Ye Family Fort were from the same clan.
So he and people of Ye Qingyang's generation are like brothers.
Ye Qingshan paid his respects to Jiang Yourong and others before mounting his horse and accompanying Ye Kun into the city.
In front of the city gate, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians lined the streets and cheered, "Welcome the Emperor to the great city of Yanran. Long live the Emperor, long live the Empress!"
Ye Kun rode on his horse and clasped his fists together: "Thank you for the welcome, fellow countrymen. Long live the great descendants of Yan and Huang! Long live, long live the great descendants of Yan and Huang!"
Jiang Yourong sat in an open carriage, smiling and nodding at the crowd.
The construction of Yanran City has been going on for exactly eight years.
The two nearby hills were completely flattened.
The quarried stones are used for construction.
Because there is no suitable soil in this place for firing kilns and making bricks, only stones can be used for construction.
Even if there is soil, people would not use it to make bricks, but would keep it for growing crops.
In recent years, there are 20 to 30 thousand foreign laborers, as well as Han soldiers, civilians and technicians, working here every year to open mountains and mine stones and build big cities.
The city was also divided into two parts, inner and outer. All the city walls were made of stone, using a mixture of glutinous rice juice and white lime as an adhesive, which was better than cement.
The adhesive made from glutinous rice juice and lime can guarantee its quality for hundreds of years, far exceeding the shelf life of cement.
The amount of glutinous rice used in building the Yanran City exceeded one million kilograms.
The inner city is pentagonal in shape and covers more than three square kilometers;
The outer city is irregular in shape and covers an area of more than ten square kilometers.
However, so far, the outer city wall has not been completed.
Construction here can only be done in summer, and no work can be done in winter.
The designed population of the city is 300,000, but currently there are only 100,000 people, including laborers and all military and civilians.
Ye Kun looked at the spacious streets and asked, "The population of Yanran City is so large. Should we build a university? Without a university, there will be no high-level talents. It is not fair to young people if they cannot go to university."
“There is no university, only three secondary schools.”
Ye Qingshan shook his head: "In the past few years, we have sent hundreds of students to study in Zhuo County every year."
Ye Kun turned around and said to his entourage:
"I think we can build a university here in Yanran City, offering majors in animal husbandry, dairy production, fur processing, grassland agriculture, etc."
Old Ma, who was brought from Xinlong City, immediately said: "The emperor's suggestion is very reasonable. The development of the northern prairie requires professionals and young people."
Ye Kun nodded: "Then let's open a university and draw talents from all over the country to support this place."
By opening a university, we can immigrate a group of university teachers here.
Ye Qingshan smiled and said, "Children from the grassland are blessed. They don't have to travel far to go to college."
After entering the inner city, we arrived at the gate of the palace.
The palace here used to belong to He Zhongshu.
He Zhongshu led his troops to the steppes of West Asia and marched into the steppes of Europe, and the royal palace here was also taken back by the imperial court.
The palace is very grand and is a garden-style building.
There are more than 200 houses of various sizes.
There is a garden and a warm room.
Ye Kun walked into the palace and said to Ye Qingshan with a smile: "Wasn't it a bit too extravagant for He Zhongshu to be here before? The scale of this palace is larger than the Hanzhong Palace in Yizhou when I was there."
Ye Qingshan said: "Marshal He has made great military achievements and is also the King of the Grassland, a first-class marquis. This is not considered an overstep. The planning and construction of this palace was also reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Personnel."
"As long as it's approved, that's good."
Ye Kun nodded and continued to visit the palace.
Ye Qingshan followed Ye Kun and asked, "Your Majesty, will Marshal He come back in the future? How should we arrange this palace?"
"He Zhongshu is thousands of miles away and will never come back."
Ye Kun shook his head and said thoughtfully: "The palace covers a large area and has a good location. We can renovate it in the future to make it a school and a hospital, and use part of it as a warehouse."
Ye Qingshan nodded and asked, "There are still a lot of things here, which are He Zhongshu's personal belongings. How should we deal with them?"
"Let's find a few empty houses to put these things in for the time being. I'll send a telegram to He Zhongshu, and I can also convert these things into silver and give him the money."
"I'm afraid Marshal He... will be unhappy." Ye Qingshan smiled awkwardly: "Before Marshal He left, he told me to take good care of his palace and keep the things inside safe."
"Then wait for me to ask."
Ye Kun was unhappy when he heard this: "Strictly speaking, all official residences are state property, not personal property of officials. He Zhongshu is no longer the king of the grassland, so this palace should be taken back.
My former residences in Xinye County, Dongba County, Chengdu, and Xiangyang have now been handed over to the court. Why can He Zhongshu keep the palace in the great city of Yanran?"
Ye Qingshan didn't dare to speak, just nodded.
Ye Kun came to the palace hall, sat down and said, "We will take a day off. We will have a meeting tomorrow to listen to the work reports of various departments in Yanran City. Starting the day after tomorrow, we will inspect the factories here and the people's livelihood."
Ye Qingshan clasped his fists and said goodbye: "I have already arranged everything, Your Majesty, please rest first."
In the kitchen, wine and food have been prepared.
Ye Kun washed his hands and changed his clothes, and had dinner with Jiang Yourong and others, but found that Ye Weiwei was lowering her head and was in a bad mood.