Bianliang City, Genyue
For the ancient city of Bianliang with a long history, "Genyue", a vast royal garden, is still a new thing with a short history.
Many people in later generations may not know what Gen Yue is, but as long as they have read Water Margin, they should remember the Hua Shi Gang in it.
This is an unknown name because many people associate it with the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that when Huizong of the Song Dynasty came to the throne, he had no heirs. , it would be auspicious to have many men.”
According to the literal meaning, this matter originally only required building a pagoda or a rockery, but Song Huizong, who was so happy about his success, insisted on making a big deal out of it, so he couldn't stop it - because there are thousands of miles of plains near Bianliang and no high mountains. , there are few turbulent water pools, and Huizong believed that neither emperors nor gods existed in form, so he paid great attention to the landscape setting of Gen Yue. They took the rarest and rarest spiritual stones from all over the world, moved the beautiful and rare flowers and trees from the south, set up carved gates and curved sills, and repaired pavilions and pavilions. Over a period of more than ten years, Genyue was built into the most beautiful entertainment garden in history.
This royal garden is located to the east of Jinglongmen in Bianliang, to the west of Fengqiumen (Anyuanmen), to the north of Donghuamen, and to the south of Jinglongjiang River, with a circumference of about 6 miles and an area of about 750 acres. It was built based on Fenghuang Mountain in Zhejiang. It was artificially piled with soil and moved the poetic and picturesque atmosphere into the garden. It used typical and general landscape creation as its theme and adopted the techniques of stacking stones and rolling mountains in the garden. It is a unique example in the history of Chinese gardens. Big milestone. In order to pursue the charm of the Immortal Family, dozens of large caves were set up in the main mountain of the park, Wansui Mountain (Genshan). Realgar and Lugan stones are hidden in the caves. Realgar is said to repel snakes and insects, while Lugan stone can disperse Yin energy, Clouds and mist gather, making the air as dense as the deep mountains and deep valleys.
If it were just like this, the financial resources of the Northern Song Dynasty could still support it. The problem is that Song Huizong wanted to use Taihu stones to pile up various artificial mountains in Genyue. These Taihu stones were transported from Jiangnan, thousands of miles away, to Kaifeng... You can imagine how much manpower, material and financial resources were consumed! In addition, many exotic flowers and plants were also obtained from the southern folk. For this reason, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty set up an additional Yingfeng Bureau in Suzhou to collect rare items and exotic flowers and stones for the emperor in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The boats that transport flowers and stones (every ten boats are one class)... The so-called typical example of losing one's ambition by playing with things is nothing more than this.
At first, the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau paid tribute through the "Hua Shi Gang" with only a limited variety of flowers and stones. However, the artist-emperor Song Huizong Zhao Ji had a very high aesthetic vision. The stone must be exquisite and clear Taihu stone, and it must be decorated with countless exotic flowers and plants, so that you can enjoy the dreamy Jiangnan style without leaving the palace. For this reason, the artist-emperor did not hesitate to give tributes to outstanding flowers and stones with promotions and titles, and showed great favor to them.
As a result, these absurd decrees turned into silent orders, which quickly turned into a nationwide commotion.
——A book once said that under every sleeper of the American railway, there was the body of an Irish worker lying. We also have reason to believe that every stone built to build Gen Yue records a story of the blood and tears of the people of the Song Dynasty.
In order to search for the unexpected flowers and stones, officials from all over the country were running around like dogs with their soldiers, and the mountains, deep valleys, rapids and rapids could not stop everyone's infinite enthusiasm to serve the emperor; whether it was a deep house or a shanty town, As long as there is a stone or a piece of wood that is worth playing with, and an official comes to the door and puts a royal mark on it, this thing will immediately become a royal object worth a hundred times. The owner must protect it properly; if he is not careful, he will be charged with disrespect. Cure it. When it's time to ship the goods, they usually have to tear down the walls and destroy the house, and respectfully ask the thing out. Families who were expropriated for flowers and stones were often made bankrupt. Some families sold their children and daughters and fled everywhere. The history books only recorded that "there were countless people who lost their money because of this." It did not explain why people were bankrupted. In fact, it is very simple: the secret lies in the charges of "imperial object" and "disrespect". This crime belongs to the "Ten Evils", and it will kill someone if committed. If you are aware of current affairs and spend a little money to avoid disasters, hello, me, everyone, celebrate the New Year! If you don't understand the current affairs, the officials can destroy your family and your family with just a frown, saying that you are disrespectful and disrespectful. It’s really a win-win situation!
The Taihu stones presented as tribute were not small, and they were not large enough to show the local officials' immense respect for Emperor Huizong. Among them, in the fifth year of Xuanhe, in order to transport a mountain stone several feet high, it even took thousands of people to cut rivers and bridges, destroy weirs and remove gates, and it took several months to transport it to Bianjing. There are also stones that cannot even be lifted by thousands of people. They are so big that the city gate of Bianjing must be demolished before they can be transported in. They are as big as a Trojan horse!
Under the conditions at that time, water transportation was necessary to transport such a huge object, and it was also a big test for the navigation ability of inland river ships. I really don’t know how many tragedies of shipwrecks and fatalities occurred. It is conceivable that Song Huizong engaged in flower stones. At the time of the epidemic, on the canal The scene of flying sails is probably not inferior to the luxurious dragon boat used by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty when he went to the south of the Yangtze River. However, the people in the fertile land of the south of the Yangtze River were in dire straits, so much so that Fang La led the crowd to revolt, and the scene of a hundred responses was also given to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. In the last years, the scene of rebellion from all walks of life is no different.
——The Jin soldiers in the north and Fang La in the south are considered by historians to be the two major causes of the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The direct trigger that caused the Fang La Rebellion to break out was Hua Shi Gang, who had caused countless harm.
Therefore, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty built Gen Yue, just like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, and became a typical deed of a super prodigal in the history books.
In fact, in terms of historical merits and demerits, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty is probably not as good as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Although the construction of the Grand Canal was a waste of people and money, the merits will last forever. Subsequent dynasties will rely on the canal to connect transportation between the north and the south; Has it ever had the slightest benefit to the national economy and people's livelihood?
Therefore, after the Great Immortal Guo Jingguo made the request, Song Qinzong, who had just become a superman, readily wrote an imperial edict and granted him the entire Genyue to do whatever he wanted - anyway, as long as the Jin soldiers broke through the city, this garden would be the same It will become a horse ranch for the Tatars. If Guo Dashian can save the court from danger, then if he wants anything in the garden, he can get it himself.
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Although in later generations he had visited the scenic West Lake, Suzhou Gardens and the Summer Palace in Beijing, and had seen the Taj Mahal and the Palace of Versailles from scenic travel films, when he first set foot on Gen Yue, Wang Qiu was still attracted by this Northern Song royal palace. I was deeply shocked by the elegance and beauty of the garden.
——The buildings include pavilions, pavilions, and halls; the mountains include caves, cliffs, and cliffs; the spring pools include rivers, gorges, streams, and waterfalls. There are also trees, lush grass, animals and birds, and its beauty is hard to describe in full. When I came to the garden and looked around, I felt like I was at the bottom of mountains, deep valleys, and deep rocks. I didn’t know that Bianliang, Tokyo, was originally an open and flat land. I forgot about the colorful worldly customs and drifted away with the ambition to reach the clouds... I was stuck there... Reluctant to extricate himself from the divine joy.
In comparison, the seemingly beautiful Grand View Garden in Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" seems too small and ingenious.
It's a pity that he is not here to visit and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Chinese classical gardens, but to burn harps and boil cranes, tear down the garden and collect property to repay Doraemon's debt... Hey, hey, why does it feel a bit like a fire? The British and French bandits in the Old Summer Palace?
In fact, after the second Tokyo-Bianliang Defense Battle broke out, Genyue was now severely damaged. During the siege, the food stored in the city was limited and could not be wasted. Moreover, the stones, bullets and wood needed to defend the city must also be raised on the spot. For this reason, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan had no choice but to order to collect local materials from Genyue and kill all the mountain fowls, waterfowl and sika deer they raised to supply the army and save feed. At the same time, the Taihu stones, which cost tens of thousands of dollars to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River, were transported to the top of the city, polished into stone bullets, and thrown on the heads of the golden figures... Due to the cold weather and lack of firewood and carbon, the soldiers guarding the city had even demolished houses in Genyue. Cut down the wood, chop the fine and rare wood into pieces, and wastefully throw it into the fire for warmth!
Seeing the fine mahogany trees and huanghuali trees being burnt to black, Wang Qiu, Guo Jing and other time travelers couldn't help but cursed these Forbidden Army red guys for hoarding natural resources... Next, they took advantage of these All the Imperial Guard soldiers drove away, and he occupied the remaining palaces and pavilions in the garden, using Doraemon to Various futuristic engineering props were dismantled, and all scenic spots were razed to the ground at an alarming speed. They collected the carved window frames, beams and columns, coffee tables, jade calligraphy and paintings, and art treasures inside, and then all of them were collected. Throw it into Doraemon's automatic pawn machine...
Obviously, Doraemon and the others "demolition under orders" were much faster than those Imperial Guardsmen who picked up scraps.
But unfortunately, the cash they got from pawning Gen Yue's property didn't seem to be as much as they imagined.
"...The Persian glass wine glass... is only 900 yen? Oh, that's right, glass will be so cheap in the future, and this glass wine glass still looks very new, and it doesn't seem to be an old antique... Guanyao Lotus basin, two Ten thousand yen... engraving book, three thousand yen... silk sachet, one thousand yen... Song Huizong's autographed copybook by Zhao Ji and Cai Jing, ten thousand yen... The automatic pawn machine seems to have regarded it as a fake... ”
Seeing a lot of odds and ends being thrown into the automatic pawn machine, but only a handful of Japanese yen bills being taken out, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel discouraged.
——The reason why antiques become antiques is fundamentally because they have withstood the passage of time and the accumulation of history. And the famous "local specialties" produced in the Song Dynasty, from the calligraphy and paintings written by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty to the newly released porcelain from the official kiln, no matter how beautiful and ingenious they are, they will not be the same without the baptism of time. May become an antique...unless a treasure from an earlier era can be found...
If dealing with a pawn shop in modern time and space, Doraemon can also use time baggage to make fakes - this fat blue guy has even made weird tricks like umbrella fossils - but when dealing with automatic pawns that are also magical props from the future If there is no chance, this opportunistic approach will not work.
Moreover, in the pawn industry, no matter what era it is, it is very cunning to lower prices for customers... There is nothing we can do about it.
Of course, as the royal garden built by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty with all his efforts, there are many things that are worth a lot of money, such as the high-grade woods used to build the main hall and make furniture, from rosewood, huanghuali, mahogany to gold. Silk nanmu, everything is available. The price of each ton of wood is hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan. That is, from several million to tens of millions of yen... Especially the precious Hainan huanghuali, although it is not nearly extinct in the 21st century, it is already very rare to meet the standards of maturity. Not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, private logging was banned, and only small-rooted wood could be used as medicinal materials. As a result, it was naturally very scarce, and even occasionally there was no market for it.
In addition, Wang Qiu and the others also found a batch of more expensive agarwood in the most luxurious pavilions and pavilions in Genyue Garden. This thing was so rare in ancient times that it could hardly be used as wood, but could only be used as medicinal materials and decorative materials.
As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, princes and nobles had begun to burn agarwood to smoke their clothes before going to court. In the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to pursue the ultimate spiritual life, those extravagant scholar-bureaucrats advocated the four major leisure activities, namely tasting incense, fighting tea, serving flowers and hanging paintings. This cultural lifestyle that combined wealth and education greatly stimulated The Song Dynasty people's consumption demand for agarwood. Since there were many imitators of the Four Great Agarwoods, high-quality agarwood was scarce and difficult to find. At that time, there were legends such as "one tael of agarwood, one tael of gold" and "a piece of agarwood in Champa City, worth ten thousand gold". By the Ming Dynasty, it became "one inch of agarwood, one inch of gold"... You know, the weight of gold per unit volume is much heavier than that of agarwood. The weights of gold and agarwood of the same volume are very different. It can be seen that this thing How precious your son is. If it weren't for the royal gardens of the Northern Song Dynasty, there would be no way to find so many agarwood trees!
——Those who have played Japanese Warring States games such as "Nobunaga's Ambition" may know that there is a treasure in Todaiji Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The "Ransheshi" who is known as the most famous incense in the world, only Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Oda Nobunaga and Only a great hero like Emperor Meiji could cut off a piece of it and enjoy it. Its value is no less than that of Jiuding in ancient China... But to put it bluntly, this so-called "Lan Sheshi" is just a piece of fine agarwood. .
It can be seen that agarwood, a top luxury product, was already priceless in ancient East Asia, and in modern times it is even more expensive to buy. So much so that classmate Wang Qiu couldn't resist the temptation of getting rich and secretly hid a few pieces of agarwood in his personal space.
Political Commissar Guo Jing, on the other hand, behaved very ethically. Faced with so many exquisite antiques, he was stunned not to take any of them.
Of course, even in a royal garden like Gen Yue, except for a few of the most splendid palaces, it is impossible to use huanghuali and golden nanmu to build houses everywhere. But even the cheaper ginkgo, paulownia, teak, pine and oak used in secondary buildings, due to their large quantity, after being dismantled and stuffed into Doraemon's automatic pawn machine, The amount of money received is also considerable.
The valuable things that Wang Qiu and others plundered from Gen Yue included not only all kinds of precious wood, but also some Tianhuang stone and chicken blood stone that were not very precious in the Northern Song Dynasty, but were already valuable and valuable in later generations - because they were used by the emperor. These Tianhuang stones mined from Fujian are almost all the finest Tianhuang jelly, which is said to be completely transparent, like solidified honey, and extremely moist. There is also a piece of "Orange Peel Red Field" that is as bright and transparent as an orange peel. Its texture is tender and moist, slightly transparent, and its texture contains radish patterns. It can be called the best of the best... And those bloodstones are also bright red in color and texture. Gorgeous, but it has only one meaning for Doraemon - after throwing it into the automatic pawn machine, more money will come out!
Hey, who made them just a bunch of vulgar citizens who are basically inelegant? !
In addition, Wang Qiu and the others also found some duan inkstones and rice paper as tributes from the palace, as well as some high-quality pens and ink, which they could exchange for some money after stuffing them into the automatic pawn machine. Finally, thousands of sika deer were originally released in this garden. Although the venison had already been stewed in a large pot by the Imperial Guards to reward the Five Internal Organs Temple, the antlers and deer skin were still left, and they could be pawned for some money.
In addition to the miscellaneous valuables mentioned above, the more eye-catching gold and silver vessels, pearls and gems are basically hard to find, but Wang Qiu and the others are already quite satisfied - you know, the Gen Yue allocated to them by the emperor at this time, It is not an intact royal garden with treasures everywhere, but a "crime scene" that has been looted. Due to the poor eyesight of the foragers, although there are still many good things left in the Genyue Imperial Garden, most of them are bulky household items that are difficult to move and convert into cash. As for the most eye-catching gold and silver coins, gems from the Western Regions, and silk jewelry, But it had already been taken away by the guy who got there first, and now it is almost impossible to find it.
In fact, even the tyrannical behavior of Guo Jingguo, the real protector of the country, who monopolized Gen Yue and prohibited soldiers from coming to cut down trees and demolish houses for burning fires and collecting treasures, has aroused public outrage-many things in the Song Dynasty have always been There is no limit to seeking death. Just like when the Jin soldiers besieged the city, the rich and powerful families in the city were still busy hoarding food and driving up the price of food, but they had no idea that they were about to be confiscated and enslaved by the Jin soldiers. Many greedy people in the Bianliang Forbidden Army still regard Genyue as their treasure trove of wealth. Although they have been plundered several times, there should still be a lot of money left... But now they have been completely destroyed by some kind of real protector of the country. Taking away the son, not allowing others to continue to share the profits, and cutting off everyone's way of making extra money... How could such a thing be possible?
If it weren't for Guo Jingguo, Daren Guo had already shown some magical powers on Dongshui Gate before. First, he turned the goose-feather snow into a sunny day, and then used his mouth cannon (sound coagulant) to defeat the golden soldiers, which shocked some people with evil intentions. I'm afraid someone has already knocked on the door! Since martial arts are not good, then letters are needed... Therefore, Zhang Shuye, the commander-in-chief of the capital's garrison, quickly came to find Guo Jing, the immortal, under the instigation and instigation of some colleagues and subordinates. "Ask for an explanation."