Chapter 30 Section 30

After transferring to Wanshou, it was time to pay the fine.Wen Lian's 50,000 yuan was the first to be paid, and it was Lishan who paid it for him in order to make up for his loss of office.Among the six staff members of the Manufacturing Office, Wen Lin's father is Shi Zeng, the current Minister of Internal Affairs.The remaining four either had real difficulties and were unable to raise funds; or they felt sorry for the money and asked for a leniency; some of them were thinking again and again, thinking that paying a fine would not necessarily restore the official to his post, so it would be better to keep the 30,000 silver. It's good to make another arrangement.Some people even publicly threatened: The 30,000 silver is filial to Mr. Li, not only can he be revived, but he can also make a good job.That being the case, why bother to be so stupid!

This incident made Lishan difficult.If you don't follow the limit to urge, it's hard to explain the official business. If you follow the limit to urge, you will offend others, and you will be more ridiculed for fear of injustice by others.After much deliberation, the only option is to discuss it with Li Lianying, and plan to make up for it by himself if he really can't pass the test, and take care of both business and personal friendship. The money for the advance was from the sheep, so there was no worry that it would not be able to make up for it in the construction cost, but it was too ostentatious to spread the word, and the officials referred to the previous book, saying how did Lishan pay such a huge amount of money for the advance?According to the decree, "understand the echo", what can be said at that time?Therefore, as long as someone loves Lishan, he will definitely try his best to prevent him from doing so.

Li Shan had thought of this a long time ago. He knew that Li Lianying would disagree, but he still wanted to say it like this. It was nothing more than a way to retreat, forcing him to find a way to settle the matter. Sure enough, after hearing what he said, Li Lianying gave him a lesson first, saying that he was reckless and that he was saving people from a well, but she also admitted that this was a problem for him.So Li Shan took the opportunity to beg and ask Li Lianying to speak kind words to Empress Dowager Cixi and pardon the fine. "That's impossible. Just mentioning it will remind the superiors!" Li Lianying thought for a while and said, "I don't think the superiors will remember this matter, let's 'dry it'!"

That is to say, there is no need to remind those who have not paid the fine, and let it go.However, those who have already paid the fine will not be able to wear it again, how can they be reconciled?Li Shan thinks about it again, it is difficult to have both, and he can only talk about it step by step. So, he thanked again with a grateful tone.Next, I mentioned the second time to explore Qingyi Garden. The first time I encountered rain on the road and I gave up halfway. This time is really the first time.Since Li Lianying's longevity is over, the Empress Dowager Cixi is still very interested in listening to the opera. The Changchun Palace has a foreign troupe coming to perform. It will be half a month later, and he has to serve there. Go whenever the weather is nice.

It was the eighteenth day of October, and there was no wind but excellent sunshine.Accompanied by Li Shan, Li Lianying drove out of Xizhimen, crossed Gaoliang Bridge, and drove northward to Haidian. Passing the Changchun Garden ruins and not far west, she arrived at the foot of Wanshou Mountain and Qingyi Garden by Kunming Lake. Before the British and French allied forces entered Beijing, there were originally five gardens in this area.The largest is the Old Summer Palace, and to the south of the Old Summer Palace is the Changchun Garden, which was originally the villa of Li Wei, Marquis of Wuqing in the Ming Dynasty.At that time, Yuanmingyuan was still the fourth son of the emperor, which was the garden bestowed by Emperor Yongzheng later. The Changchun Garden was much larger than it, and it was the place where the holy ancestors often visited. On November 13, the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Long Changchun Garden is the place to control guests.Qianlong ascended the throne, perhaps because this was the place where the so-called "seizure of the throne" happened, so he didn't often visit the Old Summer Palace. He devoted himself to managing the Old Summer Palace for sixty years, and the Changchun Garden was called "the front garden" because it was located in front of the Old Summer Palace. ".

To the west of these two gardens are Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain, collectively known as the "Three Mountains". Qingyi Garden under Wanshou Mountain, Jingming Garden under Yuquan Mountain, and Jingyi Garden under Xiangshan Mountain are collectively called The "Three Gardens", like Yuanmingyuan and Changchun Garden, were all destroyed in the catastrophe of Xianfeng Gengshen.But the foundation of the palace cannot be destroyed, such as the Qinzheng Palace in Qingyi Garden, the stone foundation is just like it, and the palace can be built with a little tidying up.

Li Lianying and Li Shan got off the car here.Officials from the Manufacturing Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lei Tingchang and the generals he brought along, as well as the shopkeepers of several major factories, have long been there to serve their errands.After the salutation, Lei Tingchang invited Li Lianying and Li Shan to the temporary working dormitory, where he rested and drank tea while listening to him explain the terrain first. "Qingyi Garden originally had eight scenes, called Zaishi Hall, Mo Miao Xuan, Longyun Tower, Danbizhai, Shui Le Pavilion, Zhiyu Bridge, Xunshi Path, and Hanguang Cave. The scale of the garden depends on the names of these eight scenes. I'll know."

Think about it and sure enough, a hall, a porch, a first floor, a room, a pavilion, in addition to a bridge, a hole, and even a boat, also known as "Xunshi Path", the scale seems to be not as large as ordinary rich houses garden. "I don't understand this level." Li Lianying frowned and said, "Master Qianlong loves to build gardens the most. Why don't you make up your mind to put such a beautiful place with mountains and rivers?" "The manager's question is coming at a critical moment." Lei Tingchang replied: "I also heard from the old man in my family that first, there is the Old Summer Palace, which is busy every day, so I can't take care of other places; second, it is to celebrate the old lady's birthday. It’s not suitable to install the temples and those fancy scenery; thirdly, this area can be used everywhere, and it’s really a bit difficult to fill it with pavilions and pavilions.”

"Oh!" Li Lianying paid close attention to the last sentence, "It means that the place is too loose! Now it is too difficult to fill it with pavilions and pavilions?" "Yes!" Lei Tingchang replied unhurriedly: "But it's not pleasing to be strenuous like that. This mountain and this lake are natural beauty, well arranged, it won't feel loose." He unfolded the picture, pointed and said: "Qingyi Garden has three parts...." These three parts, the first is the Qinzheng Hall in the east palace gate, the west of the hall, and the bedroom behind the hall, where the civil and military ministers and attendants are on duty; The nine-story pagoda is located in the middle of the whole garden; the third is a depression on the east side of Longevity Hill, surrounded by a pool of clear water on three sides of the hillside. The corridor bridge is unique.This is a small garden attached to Qingyi Garden: "Huishan Garden".

According to Lei Tingchang and those future famous craftsmen, the result of careful research, it is believed that the reconstruction of this garden must use the original site. Qinzheng Hall was renamed Renshou Hall, and the emperor's bedroom was built in the west of the hall, and the Empress Dowager Cixi's bedroom was built behind it.Because of the longevity of the Queen Mother, you can celebrate here, and give all the ministers "seats to listen to the opera" as usual, and there must be a large-scale stage. In the middle of the garden, the ruins of the Dabaoen Yanshou Temple, with a mountain on its back and a lake facing the lake, built a large hall, which should be worshiped in the Renshou Hall as the main hall of the Empress Dowager.At the back of the hall, a Buddhist pavilion was built on the base of the pagoda, and pavilions were set up on the left and right along with the mountain.As for the Huishan Garden in the back mountain, it might as well be rebuilt and restored to its original appearance.

Hearing this, it seems that the conversation has come to an end.Li Lianying couldn't help but be disappointed, it's basically the same as before, nothing new, the Empress Dowager Cixi urged "novel and interesting", although you can think of some tricks in the first floor and one pavilion, but the whole layout is still unavoidable and empty, I'm afraid it won't attract you. Seeing this scene, Li Shan first said: "They have an idea, it's not bad! Dropping a sentence book bag is called "ingenuity".Brother may wish to take a look. " To see is to look at a picture.Unfolding a long scroll, Li Lianying's eyes lit up like a meticulously painted "Spring Dawn of the Han Palace", only because there seemed to be a brocade belt around the lake, leading directly to the palaces at both ends. "Sir, please look! Build a thousand-step corridor along the lake, one end connects to Lafayette's bedroom, and the other end leads to His Excellency's hall. Aren't two irrelevant places tied together? " Lei Tingchang can't say enough about the benefits of this long corridor, and the combination of the two palaces is just one of them.The most important function is that the promenade itself is a victory. Although it is more than 270 rooms long, it is made in a winding way. In the future, the jade chariot will stop, and you can look around everywhere, and the mountains and lakes in the shade of the morning sun and the sunset will come straight to your sleeves, as if Longevity Mountain and Kunming Lake are rockery fish ponds in your own garden. Looking north from the lake, you can only see the mountains from a distance, but with this promenade, you can feel that the red pavilion is hidden among the green trees, adding countless emotions.In case of Wanshou or other celebrations, tens of thousands of gauze lanterns are hung on the promenade, shining in five colors, from east to west like stacked beads and pills.All in all, with this promenade, the layout of the garden will be fully alive. Li Lianying expressed his satisfaction, and he also believed that Empress Dowager Cixi would also be satisfied with this design.