I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 357 Military Museum

Going west from Xidan is Fuxingmen, and going west from Fuxingmen is... the Military Museum?!
Zhu Houxuan thought casually.

He looked up and saw only residential buildings in front of him and towering city walls not far away.
Oh, there was no Fuxing Gate at that time, let alone the Military Museum.
Although this is the inner city, Zhu Houxun thinks that the houses here are still a bit messy, and the roads are all dirt roads, and the sanitation is also very worrying.

Zhu Houxuan suddenly realized that as the Prince Regent, he paid too little attention to the urban construction of the capital.

Cultural victory is not only about launching various wonderful literary and artistic works, advanced urban construction is also a very important means.

Why did Paris become the center of Europe in modern times? A big reason for this is that Paris had the most advanced urban construction level in Europe at that time, such as the first sewer and the first running water.
It is precisely because of this that it attracts talents from all over Europe and makes all Europeans yearn for Paris.

The current urban construction level of the capital is actually very low. It can be said that outside the imperial city, there is basically no urban planning, let alone sewers.

In fact, in this era, the capital city had a large population but no sewers, and domestic sewage and human excrement seeped into the ground, polluting the groundwater, resulting in the so-called bitter water wells everywhere in the capital city. The so-called sweet water wells in the capital city are not actually sweet, they are just sweeter than the bitter water wells. In fact, they are just unpolluted groundwater.

For example, Zhu Houxun did not drink the water in the city. The water he drank was brought from Yuquan Mountain.

Therefore, it is still necessary to carry out scientific urban planning in the capital and improve the level of urban construction in the capital.

Zhu Houxuan thought about it in a mess, and then his thoughts returned to the Military Museum.

The place where the military museum is located in the future should be a field now! Zhu Houxuan thought silently.

He suddenly realized that building a military museum was also a good choice. Its publicity effect was also very huge. The most important thing was that it could carry out long-term publicity, and the experience and immersion were very good.

Isn't this the Hammer Wonder? As a former Civilization series player, you are very familiar with this.

The Royal Group's engineering capabilities are now sufficient to build a single building that is even larger than the military museums of later generations. This huge single building can be regarded as an amazing spectacle in this era.
Such a big victory should be celebrated by creating a wonder. If not, what's the point of playing for a cultural victory?
And judging from Zhu Houzhao's performance in this war, this will definitely not be Zhu Houzhao's first victory. He will have more victories and more spoils in the future.

Instead of hiding the trophies, it would be better to take them out for display to show off Zhu Houzhao's martial arts and enhance his prestige.

So the more Zhu Houxuan thought about it, the more he felt it was appropriate. Compared with what he could gain, the cost of building a military museum was actually not high. In the real world, wonders can also benefit the country.
Zhu Houxuan quickly made a decision. He wanted to build a military museum. He also had some selfish motives that pushed him to make this decision.
After making the decision, Zhu Houxuan quickly returned to Nangong, where many department heads were waiting for him to convene a meeting.

Zhu Houxuan quickly turned what he thought of today into tasks and assigned them to various departments.

The matter of military uniforms was given to the Textile Department;
The affairs of the military band are handed over to the Propaganda Department;
Those related to construction projects were handed over to the Engineering and Construction Department;
We also selected personnel to set up a military parade office to coordinate and be responsible for related matters.

The work on the Military Museum also entered the drawing design stage. Of course, the final architectural style would be Chinese, and Zhu Houxuan often followed up on the design work of the drawings.

After doing all this, Zhu Houxuan began to plan the relevant personnel who would participate in the military parade.

Among them, the most important ones are the envoys of various vassal states. After all, when anyone is trying to show off, they all hope to have more people around them and more backgrounds, so that their deeds can be spread more widely...

So Zhu Houxuan sent Chen Hong to the Ministry of Rites to inquire about the matter and decided to detain the envoys from the vassal states who came to pay tribute first, and then summon some envoys from the vassal states. If that didn't work, he could also let some Southeast Asian merchants pretend to be envoys from Southeast Asian countries. Anyway, similar things have happened many times in history.

Anyway, there is only one goal, which is to make the military parade as grand as possible, so as to achieve the best publicity effect and gain sufficient political reputation.

After doing all this, Zhu Houxuan immediately wrote a letter to Jiang Jiangong, asking him to preserve the various captured trophies, especially flags, weapons, armor and other items.

At the same time, he told Jiang Jiangong not to treat the Mongolian prisoners too harshly, as they would be of great use to him in the future.

When Zhu Houxuan began to get busy, the contents of these two military reports spread in the capital.
Public opinion in the capital was instantly filled with sarcasm and ridicule towards Zhu Houzhao. It was unknown how many people were fanning the flames. In fact, even if no one was secretly fanning the flames, public opinion in the capital would not have become favorable to Zhu Houzhao, because this record was simply too outrageous.

Zhu Houxuan also fanned the flames privately. He spread the remarks of the civil servants in the Fengtian Hall that day, especially Peng Ze's statement that "the results of the Battle of Yingzhou were equal to the results of Taizong's five northern expeditions combined."

In the following days, military reports came back from Datong Prefecture one after another, and more and more news came to the capital from various channels in Datong Prefecture, which seemed to confirm that the emperor had won a victory in Yingzhou.
Just when public opinion in the capital was changing, even more explosive news reached the capital from Datong Prefecture - Emperor Zhengde killed the Mongolian Khan in battle!
The public opinion that had just changed suddenly went back to normal. No one believed that this could be true.
This is so outrageous, I can't believe it's true.
The victory was greatly exaggerated, and the capture of the Mongolian Khan's grandson was fine, but now even the Mongolian Khan has been beheaded, and the person who beheaded the Mongolian Khan was actually His Majesty the Emperor.
No one with normal intelligence would believe this.
In the eyes of the people in the capital, Zhu Houzhao had always been fond of ostentation, but this time he was even more so, and he didn't care about his face, not only his face, but also his brain.
Just when the capital was in turmoil, Zhu Houxun finally got in touch with Zhu Houzhao.

It was already November, and Zhu Houzhao's eleventh birthday in the Zhengde reign was simply spent in the army.
Zhu Houzhao told Zhu Houxun that he could not return to the capital yet. In the previous battle, the Mongols were defeated and a large number of deserters were produced. Many of these deserters drifted to the countryside of Datong Prefecture and caused trouble. Therefore, he had to stay in Datong Prefecture and command the army to wipe out the remaining Mongolian soldiers. In addition, this battle also produced a large number of wounded soldiers and refugees, all of whom needed to be recuperated and resettled.
(End of this chapter)