Yang Fan saw off Mrs. Fengsheng. Immediately after receiving the order, Xinghe Tuanlian withdrew from the Forbidden City and stationed himself at the rear campus of Jingshan in the imperial city.
Yang Fan works in Guande Hall, Jingshan.
According to ancient etiquette, archery is a symbol of virtue. This is where the emperor inspects archery. It is also a place where military talents are selected.
Yang Fan is still jointly responsible for the defense of the imperial city with Zhang Shize.
During this period, Chongzhen's defense forces against the Forbidden City had been integrated.
The new palace garrison has begun to perform its duties.
Xinghe Tuanlian has completed its mission.
The next day, Chongzhen summoned the distinguished ministers in the Guande Hall behind Jingshan. It was proposed that the children of distinguished ministers should enter the Imperial Academy to study martial arts, and the children of the princes and uncles in Beijing enthusiastically signed up.
At this time, the new emperor had just succeeded to the throne, and it was the time to appoint people. Enrollment at this time was not only a political statement of support for Chongzhen, but also a step forward for oneself.
After graduating from the Imperial Academy's martial arts school, these children will enter the imperial city's guard force. Responsible for protecting the safety of the royal family. After these people were trained around the emperor, as the emperor's cronies, they might later enter the Beijing camp to become a new generation of officers, or be sent to various camps and garrison posts to serve as military officials.
At this time, the situation has become clear. It is already a matter of time to deal with Jiu Qiansui, and no one will wait and see anymore. The wall fell and everyone pushed back, and the civil servant group began to make moves.
In the following days, the Xinghe regiment training camp was turned into the Jingshan rear school grounds, and gradually withdrew from the defense of the imperial city. He was no longer responsible for the defense of the imperial city, and completely handed over the defense to the reorganized garrison.
Xinghe Tuanlian also stopped providing emergency supplies and catering services to the palace.
After Guande Hall became Yang Fan's temporary headquarters, it was surrounded by tents. The place immediately became lively.
Yang Fan led the officers and soldiers to get rid of all the weeds here, use stone rollers to crush the ground sprinkled with lime powder, dig drainage ditches, dig water wells, and build a new place here in just a few days.
Finally, a layer of tung oil was sprinkled on the ground. In this way, the site is flat, the drainage is smooth, and there is no grass growing on the ground, so it can better perform the function of reviewing the armed forces.
Wang Chengen who came to inspect was full of praise after seeing it. Xinghe Tuan has built this place very well wherever they go. After they left, the Jingshan campus took on a completely new look.
Apart from setting up sentries at the highest point of Jingshan Mountain to keep an eye on the city and maintaining a minimum level of vigilance, Xinghe Tuanlian was completely idle.
Yang Fan gave them a holiday in turn, giving one-third of them a holiday every day, allowing them to come to the capital and have a good time. The way of civility and martial arts was to relax. The previous period of group training was very tense, and now he also allowed them to relax.
The Xinghe troupe training was well paid and the military pay was high. During this holiday, they immediately had fun wandering around, listening to plays, going to restaurants, and even visiting the Bada Hutong.
Yang Fan doesn't care, as long as it doesn't violate military regulations. Only a military police squadron wearing white helmets was dispatched to supervise the officers and soldiers who were out, and to picket at any time if there was any problem.
The merchants in the capital soon discovered that these soldiers were good customers. They spoke kindly and paid according to the price. When it was time to bargain, they agreed on the price. They paid very happily, and the copper they paid was almost pure copper. Yes, the silver is also one tael of silver coins, and its fineness is almost 99%.
Everyone is rushing to do business with them, saving such good money to circulate the poor money at home. Xinghe copper coins and Xinghe silver coins quietly circulated.
Yang Fan was also completely free.
Just waiting for His Majesty's decree, he packed up and returned to Zunhua.
Early that morning, Yang Fan and Tu Shanyue left Di'anmen to visit the Shichahai area and take a look at the newly purchased land.
Yang Fan carefully studied it and found that the north city of the capital was divided into east and west parts by the imperial city. As soon as you enter Zhengyangmen, you will see Qipan Street, which is a narrow passage between the east and west cities in the south. This is obviously not suitable for a supermarket. There are always some activities here and the market is often closed.
The other is Imperial City North Street, which is the middle section of Ping'an Street in the imperial capital today. The street here is wide and is another main thoroughfare connecting the North City to the East and West.
By this time, a prosperous commercial street had formed from Drum Tower to Di'anmen, and there was not much land for sale. Yang Fan studied for a long time and found that Houhai Lotus Market and the small triangular peninsula south of Yinding Bridge were the only two pieces of wasteland.
This is the site of a royal supply factory. It was unclear what it supplied in the early days, but it was later abandoned.
In this era, the Jinsitao area was not a peninsula, but a river that separated this area. It was a real island. The area is also very large.
Yang Fan asked Xiao Niangpi to go find the Queen to see if she could buy one of the two abandoned pieces of land here. Both pieces of land are large, and although they are still deserted, they are in good locations.
One piece of land is the current Shichahai Sports School, and the other piece is the golden wire sleeve.
These two pieces of land belong to the royal family, but have not been used for hundreds of years. They have been abandoned since the supply factory collapsed.
If these two pieces of land were not royal, they would have been developed long ago.
Soon the queen gave the news and her majesty agreed. These two pieces of land had been abandoned for a long time and could be sold to Yang Fan, but the price was higher, asking for two hundred thousand taels of silver.
Yang Fan was a little depressed. The price was obviously too high. Normally it would only be worth five to sixty thousand taels of silver. Yang Fan discussed it with Xiao Niangpi and felt that he had made the matter complicated.
His Majesty must have misunderstood Yang Fan, thinking that Yang Fan saw that he was short of money and wanted to repay him with some money, but he was afraid of hurting His Majesty's face, so he came up with such a way. In the name of buying land, it was actually a donation of money.
When things turned out like this, Yang Fan had no choice but to do this. There were exactly two pieces of land, the supermarket adjacent to Huangcheng North Street, and the piece of land with Jinsitao used to build his own mansion and garden. He and his wife are getting married, and Tu Shanyong will be back soon.
In the future, I will have a piece of real estate in the capital, and I will have a place to live in the capital again. I can't always stay in an inn.
Yang Fan happily gave 200,000 silver coins to the Queen. The next day Wang Chengen personally completed the transfer procedures.
In Kunning Palace, Chongzhen was chatting with Queen Zhou.
There were several plates of fruit on the table, which were supplies supplied by Xinghe Tuanlian before its withdrawal, including pine nuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and amber walnut kernels.
Queen Zhou said: "Your Majesty, Yang Qianhu has made great contributions this time in addition to his great strength. Normally we should reward him with something. It doesn't seem good that you added so much silver to those two pieces of land."
Queen Zhou was a little embarrassed. It wouldn't be good if she didn't reward others. She also ripped people off. How embarrassing.
"What you don't know is that Yang Fan is a rich man with better food than you and me. He is not short of money. He obviously bought the two pieces of land this time, but in fact it was a reissue last time. When I was paying for the military pay, I found that my internal treasury was really tight. At that time, I paid one hundred thousand taels. This time I proposed to buy the land. It was actually a cover. He was afraid that I would not look good, and I would never be able to reconcile with him no matter what. The minister asked for money, so I just used this name to repay the favor."
Queen Zhou was moved when she heard this. Yang Fan was such a loyal minister.
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