Chapter 41 first quarter

As the king of subjugation, Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, had countless actions that harmed the country and the people, and the most criticized one was the Da Zheng Hua Shi Gang. Zhao Ji is an artist, even though he is rich in the world, his entertainment methods are quite tasteful-playing with stones, admiring flowers and plants. It is easy for subordinates to know the leader's hobbies, and there is a place to start flattering, so Cai Jing and others patted their chests and said that now the treasury is rich, and it can't be burned by playing with flowers and stones. There is no dispute with the people, the emperor, you can rest assured to play.

Therefore, in more than 20 years, Zhao Ji built huge royal garden projects such as Mingtang, Baohe Hall, Yanfu Palace, Longevity Mountain, and Longevity Mountain (Genyue), during which it gathered flowers, bamboos, strange stones from all over the world, and exquisite craftsmanship. Coincidentally, the gardens and mountains are densely forested, thousands of rocks and ravines, towers and pavilions, strange birds and animals, all of which are a fairyland on earth. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in the south are the largest source of resources for Zhao Ji's garden projects. For this reason, Zhao Ji specially set up Yingfeng Bureau and Suzhou-Hangzhou Zaozao Bureau, and appointed Zhu Kui, who is proficient in flowers and stones, as the supervisor to search for flowers and stones in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Zhu Xi is a native of Suzhou. His father, Zhu Chong, was poor in his early years. Later, he met a strange man who taught him the secret recipe and opened a pharmacy. With the money, the main interest and business of Zhu and his son were transferred to garden architecture. With interest and financial resources, the father and son soon became the most famous garden design experts in Suzhou. The political prosperity of the Zhu family and his sons benefited from Cai Jing.When Cai Jing was demoted to Hangzhou, he passed by Suzhou and wanted to make meritorious deeds to build a temple in Suzhou, but the budget was too high and he had to find someone to sponsor him. Someone introduced him to Zhu Chong.Although Cai Jing was in trouble at the time, in the eyes of the Zhu family and his son, Cai Taishi was an absolute potential stock and worthy of investment. Therefore, not only the exclusive sponsorship, the father and son also undertook the construction of the entire temple pavilion. The project was completed very beautifully. Climb up the big tree of Master Cai.Later, Cai Jing came to power and found two official positions for the father and son in Tong Guan's army, and since then he has switched from business to politics.

Later, the imperial court set up Yingfeng Bureau and Suzhou-Hangzhou Zaozao Bureau in Suzhou. The right time, place, people and various factors allowed Zhu Kui to seek the best job in the world. Of course, strange flowers and stones cannot come from the wilderness as Cai Jing and others said. Most of them come from private collectors. The main method of Zhu Zongguan is to forcibly expropriate. Enter Parmon—forfeit. If it is confiscated, it will be confiscated. Those who can collect strange stones and weeds are mostly middle-class families. Taking away a stone will not hurt the muscles and bones, but how to remove these rare stones from the garden at home is a big problem, Mr. Zhu I can't control that much, even if you push the wall and demolish the house, you have to get rid of the stone.

In this way, for the expropriated people, Mr. Zhu and the others did not come to ask for stones, but to carry out demolition. If you want to avoid disaster, it's easy, just send a red envelope to Manager Zhu, of course the weight of the red envelope is not light. During the period of Yingfeng Bureau and Suzhou-Hangzhou Zaozao Bureau, Zhu Xi amassed money wantonly. When Qinzong came to power and his house was ransacked, there were ten farms, 300,000 mu of fertile land, and more than 100,000 shi of annual rent. Half Wu County". Although the flowers and stones were collected for free, how to transport the huge stones to the capital is a technical problem. At that time, Yingfeng Bureau moved a Taihu stone as high as four feet (about fifteen meters), and one stone cost thousands of dollars. Sergeant, many bridges, city walls, and water gates on the way can't be passed. Manager Zhu still uses the old method-demolish.

In the past twenty years, the continuous flow of flowers and stones from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Tokyo has become a landscape in the pavilions of Zhao Ji and his favorite ministers, but it has also become a nightmare for the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There are no relevant economists to make accurate data judgments on how much Hua Shigang's damage to the empire has been, but it has the most direct impact. ——Forced Fang La. Wang Fuzhi, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, said that Fang La's rebellion had nothing to do with the economic situation of the empire at that time, nor did it have anything to do with the new law implemented by Cai Jing, it was because of Hua Shi Gang.