Go out of Xihuamen and go north to Ganmingmen and go west, and after crossing Yuhe Bridge, it is the northwest corner of the imperial city. Not only are there animal breeding farms like Leopard House and Elephant House and Tiger City.

There are also various transportation, Guangying, Guangji, Guanghui and other collections, as well as internal teaching factories, Silijianshangfang and other places where eunuchs can study.

In the past, there were other rooms such as West Winery, West Flower House, Sutra Library, Orchard Factory, Pigeon House, etc.

Later, all these Zhu Cilang were revoked and all of them were assigned to pigeon houses for use.

So after crossing Yuhe Bridge and Lingxing Gate, Zhu Cilang saw rows of pigeon cages, which were already cooing endlessly, and there were still many pigeons flying in circles in the sky.

It is indeed the name of the Pigeon House.

As the central place of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial palace had few hundred letters to communicate every day, and as many as thousands. All messages had to be transferred through the inner pigeon room.

Moreover, pigeons use their habit of returning to their nests to deliver letters, which means that pigeons always like to return to their original nests.

Establish a pigeon transmission system, find two places to raise pigeons separately, and then transport them from one place to another regularly. Using the instinct of pigeons returning to their nests, you can achieve the purpose of sending letters.

Therefore, if you want to send a letter to the imperial city, you must first raise pigeons in the imperial city. Every time, a special person will transport the pigeons to another place. Once something happens, you will release the pigeons, and the pigeons will automatically return to the imperial city where they originally lived.

This is the principle of sending letters for carrier pigeons. There are too many pigeons raised. It is said that the pigeon factory in Jinyiwei is larger than that in the palace, and is divided into four districts: southeast, west and north.

This is how other pigeons deliver letters across the country are achieved.

So although the pigeons are noisy and they still occupy space in the imperial city, no one suggested moving outside the city.

Because if the news was outside the city, it would be a few hours later, which Zhu Cilang would definitely not tolerate!

Zhu Cilang, the Ming Dynasty’s pigeon transmission system, drew on the concept of express distribution centers in later generations. It is impossible for a county or township to ask for pigeons from the palace if they need to send a letter.

The Ming Dynasty has set up information distribution centers in important relay cities such as Xi'an, Nanzhili, Chengdu, Chenyang, Guangzhou, Longya, etc., and a dedicated person encodes the messages carried by the carrier pigeons flying from other places to identify and transmit them according to the hierarchical direction.

Therefore, most of the pigeons in the palace are transported to this information relay city. Only a small number of troops and special mission personnel who go out to fight have the right to take the pigeons from the imperial city to set off.

From the dove room to the north is the beast park of the Daming Imperial City. As soon as I passed the dove room, Zhu Cilang smelled a pungent smell and rushed straight to his forehead, and then heard the sheep calling the pig hum.

Zhu Cixuan touched his nose and asked, "Why do you still raise pigs and sheep in this palace?"

Gui Xi bowed: "It is mainly for His Majesty and the nobles in the palace. Things coming in from outside are afraid of being unsafe and are troublesome, so the inner palace will raise some commonly used livestock."

Zhu Cilang said oh, and he thought these were used to feed tigers and leopards.

Keep going in, it is the Silijian Classic Site, which is the place where the Silijian eunuchs are trained. You would never have imagined that the Silijian eunuchs school was actually opened in the zoo.

Because Zhu Cilang limited the number of eunuchs, not many people were studying here, they were all eunuchs who entered the palace before the eighth year of Chongzhen.

Although the policy was formulated, if you want to not see eunuchs in the palace, you probably have to wait until Zhu Cilang died, because in the eighth year of Chongzhen, many eunuchs were castrated into the palace by young children, and they were big on the same side as Zhu Cilang.

Further inside is the leopard house established by Wuzong. Some people say that the leopard house is a place where Wuzong reviews memorials and studies military affairs, while others say that this is a place where Wuzong enjoys it.

In fact, the leopard room is a leopard room, and Wuzong cannot work in the zoo anymore.

When he got here, there were more animals. Zhu Cixuan looked at the signs on the door: "Why are you still locked? There are wooden strips on the window?

How can I breathe like this? Are you not stuffy?"

Gui Xi bowed: "Your Majesty, in order to avoid the animals coming out, I have to seal it. Your Majesty rest assured that there is a hole in this and put food and water."

Zhu Cilang suddenly understood: "No wonder this place smells so irritating. It would be strange if you can raise animals like this!

Why not use iron bars to reinforce and remove the doors and windows? A ventilation outlet should be left behind and a ventilated water outlet is left for the animals outside. Animals that are good at digging and drilling holes should be sealed with cement and stone slabs.

We have to clean every day to ensure the cleanliness of animals. It’s better for you to get sick and die if you raise animals like this?"

Gui Xi nodded: "Yes!"

Zhu Cilang looked like this indeed: "Stop talking about animals, even if you keep him like this, you will go crazy if you keep him like this every day! This won't work!"

Gui Xi hurriedly said, "Yes, I will improve it now, and let them transform it in the future..."

Zhu Cilang waved his hand: "Forget it, what is it like to build a zoo in the imperial city? Build another one in the Yuquan Palace and move all these animals over and leave it to the Emperor for fun. There will be no animals in the imperial palace in the future.

The entire palace is in chaos! The pigs and sheep are still there, so I feel relieved if I feed them myself."

Gui Xi asked carefully: "That giant panda..."

Zhu Cilang didn't even think about it: "Of course the giant panda should be kept, it is a national treasure! It is not an ordinary animal. After you free it up, you will build a garden. I will come to see it often!

Forget it, don’t practice here. I’ll see that Wansui Mountain is good. Keep it there. I want to see it closer.”

Gui Xi slandered in her heart. Just as she said that animals were not allowed to be raised in the palace, you made an exception and gave them national treasures! Any emperor who met a favorite animal was treated by national treasures!

However, on the surface, Gui Xi still responded to her promise.

Zhu Cixuan continued: "It just happened to cut off all the pine trees on Wansui Mountain and plant all kinds of bamboo!"

Zhu Cilang was also happy. He had wanted to cut the bamboo on Wansui Mountain for a long time. Today, he finally found a more reasonable excuse, which is not bad! A national treasure has solved several problems and is worthy of being a lucky creature of the highest level.

There are actually quite a lot of animals here, but they just look time-consuming, so they can only lie in the cracks of the door and windows to look inside. Moreover, these people are really careless about raising things. The fur is rolled together, and the feces and urine flows in the room. Some animals are skinny and bones.

Zhu Cixuan looked at these thin animals and looked at the fat eunuch kneeling on the ground over there: "Well, is your name Sun Yue?"

The fat eunuch smiled silly: "No, my name is Sun Yunpeng."

Zhu Cilang laughed: "Listen to your name is like raising animals!

Have you stole all the food of the animals so that they are so thin and you are so fat?"

Sun Yunpeng's khan immediately came down, his face pale: "Your Majesty, this is a camel that eats grass. Even if I can eat it, I will not eat grass! They are thin because of the unfitness of the climate. Your Majesty, I am wronged."

Zhu Cixuan waved his hand: "The grass is not something you eat, but it is a fact that animals are not well raised. Use more snacks! Forget it if other animals cannot be raised well, but can camels be raised well if they are animals?"

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