After dinner, the group returned to Xie Hejia and prepared to visit the Xie family's compound carefully.

Yuan Qiuhua's father-in-law packed a clam crab seafood pot, brought an abalone rice to his mother-in-law, and brought a garlic base shrimp to Xie Han. She sent the food home and then rushed to the "taro garden" to gather.

The Xie family compound was the mansion of Xie Xingfan, the county governor of the late Qing Dynasty. This more than 100-year-old house, covering an area of 6,600 square meters, has 28 patios, 48 main houses, and 16 wing rooms, and is the largest private house in the existing Ming and Qing dynasties in Hubei Province.

Around the main building of the compound "Taro Garden", it has been surrounded by modern houses, and the entrance and exit must pass through the narrow gatehouse of "Taro Garden", and the first impression is to give people the feeling of vicissitudes and raising in the depths of the boudoir. The gate sits in the north and faces south, there is a stone gate pier on both sides, and a stone lion with a mighty posture, there is a stone drum on the door pier respectively, the front is carved with the divine beast unicorn, the unicorn sends the child figure, the reverse side is carved with the magpie, the magpie is on the map. There are also 4 stone bolts on the front wall. On the top of the stone gate, there is a vivid relief, and the strong and powerful "taro garden" lettering. At the top of the front wall more than 10 meters high, there is a statue of "Kui Xing Dian Dou", which is a beautiful sign that the clansmen hope to have more literati and ink writers. On the eaves of the building, the huge fish carving is fine and lifelike, and the carved beams and paintings are in the form of 5 beams, showing the prominent identity of the owner.

When you step into the entrance building, the first thing you see is an ancient well. Looking at the probe, there is still clear water in the well. This is the first drinking water well of Xie Xingfan's mansion, which was built by Xie Xingfan in the 28th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. For more than 100 years, the well water has never dried up, warm in winter and cool in summer, clear and sweet. The taro garden is the front yard, covering an area of 3,200 square meters, with bluestone slabs on the ground, flowers and bonsai, and net-like embellishments, just like a square.

The entire ancient house is divided into an old house and a mansion, all of which have a triple patio structure. The old house was built by Xie Xingfan's father, covering an area of 1,200 square meters, and the mansion was built after Xie Xingfan retired from the official position and returned to his hometown, covering an area of 8,800 square meters. The layout of the ancient house is vast and exquisite, the house sits in the northwest, faces the southeast, there is a lotus pond in the east, an orchard in the west, a bamboo garden in the south, and a back garden in the north. The east and west are connected by a long corridor, with more than 30 patios and more than 80 houses. There are not only family ancestral halls, family studies, stables, mill houses, weaving houses, firewood rooms, kitchens and handyman rooms, but also "Yiji Pharmacy", family theaters, prison cells and other buildings, which can be described as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The main house takes the ancestral hall as the central axis, the two sides are strictly symmetrically arranged, the construction area is 3600 square meters, the face is 11 rooms, and the depth is five, each can be connected, and each is an independent courtyard. Each group of main halls are tall and empty, the pillar pier stone carving is fine, the column head wood carving is exquisite, the hall pillar hangs different couplets, engraved with hundreds of years of human ethics, family motto and Dali. The wooden beams and columns are thick, the beams are lifted and worn together, and the decoration of lattice fans and floors is simple, but it is full of momentum. Every threshold, door eyebrow, every window lattice, window frame, look carefully, are all preserved completely, or carved stone carvings, or hook and horn prints, everywhere delicate, beautifully carved, let people really feel the good intentions of the original builders.

The central axis is a long alley with a width of 3 meters and a length of more than 80 meters, which is not only a shelter for the female dependents to walk on weekdays, but also a passage to the family ancestral hall. Walk along the laneway to the end, and at the end is the ancestral temple of the Xie family. The ancestral hall still offers the ancestral tablet, the table is filled with fresh offerings, three incense sticks in the morning and evening, and the lantern is lit at night. The ancestral hall is carved with beams and paintings, and the decoration is brilliant, which shows the master's respect for filial piety.

Opposite the ancestral hall is a two-storey wood-carved small theater building, which is the place where the family watches the drama and plays the music of ancestors. On the beams and pillars of the cloister of the family theater, there are extremely complex hollow carvings, exquisite craftsmanship, which is amazing. However, some cultural relics dealers also set their sights on the exquisite wooden components of ancient houses, and the carved dragons and lions in the theater were stolen.

On the north side of the front yard are seven warehouses lined up, each with a capacity of up to 30,000 catties, and the rich side is a party. As for the stables, mills, weaving houses, firewood rooms, kitchens and handymen's rooms, there are more than 30 rooms. There is a 400-square-meter home school in the southeast corner of the front yard, named "Lecture Building", and there is a "Kunhua Pond" built in front of the building, which is specially for children and grandchildren to read, looking forward to Kunpeng spreading its wings.

Everyone walked through the alleys, hesitating between the old houses, chatting as they walked. Under the feet is the bluestone road, you can't see the slightest human and animal dung, and you can't smell the smoke and fire wax that is often seen in the countryside.

Wang Zi'an said: My father gave me a trick, like this Xie family compound, it can be completely engaged in tourism development, which is not only a people's livelihood project, but also an image project, and a face project.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Yes, folk customs and folk houses are also rural tourism resources.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Well, the idea is good, what do you think about the specific operation?

Wang Zi'an said: It is proposed to restore the ancient famous residences, build ancient famous residences, build ancient residential parks, and make them landmarks in our county. Invite reporters to shoot, celebrities to collect style, and scholars to advocate. An expert group was formed to hold a demonstration meeting in Beijing. Apply to become a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Strive for the support of the provincial government, and there will be special funds allocated for this.

Yuan Qiuhua said: There is only the unthinkable, there is nothing that cannot be done, everything lies in another way.

Xie Wen said: It is a good thing to have brains and vision! Once the old ancestral house of the Xie family becomes a key cultural relic, it will be protected, and special funds will be allocated to restore it and build it into a park for people to visit. Our place has become lively, just like the downtown area in the city, and the villagers can make a lot of money by engaging in some tourism services.

Wang Zi'an said: It's just an idea now, and if you really want to achieve those goals, to be honest, I don't know how many years this process will take and what kind of efforts will have to be made.

The village chief said: If it is really protected, the residents will not be allowed to renovate and move another brick and tile. If the households living in it want to build a new house, the village will have to approve another house foundation.

Wang Zi'an said: According to the original area, in addition to approving the foundation of the house, the original residents will also refer to the demolition compensation standards of other townships and give a certain amount of relocation fees.

The village chief said: The house is filled in the blank, should the bungalow be demolished, the high-rise building should be built, and the round fort should be built?

Wang Zi'an said: courtyard garden, pavilions, the overall framework is not moving, local planning, and the details are slightly changed.

After 130 years of wind and rain, "Taro Garden" has left many marks of the times.

I heard the old man say that when they were young, on both sides of the 70-meter passage leading to the ancestral hall, some wooden signs such as "Jiangxi Pingxiang Qipin Main Hall", "Jiangxi Shangrao Qipin Main Hall", "Avoidance" and "Quiet" were placed on both sides of the 70-meter passage leading to the family ancestral hall, which were not demolished until the * period. After the liberation, many peasants who "fought local tyrants and divided the land" moved into the prefecture. The cat-arched gables surrounding the taro orchard were demolished to make a canteen, a family study and 4 gardens during the People's Commune period, and they were also destroyed to make farmhouses and pigsties.

Nearly 40 families originally lived in the park, but in recent years, many farmers have built buildings around it, leaving only about 10 families, many of which have locked their doors or stacked farm tools, grain and grass.

Is it just a famous mansion that has been destroyed and discarded? This is a living textbook integrating architecture, design, sculpture, literature, and management, and hundreds of years of folk wisdom have been reduced to the funeral objects of a family. For example, how did the feng shui master plan and design such a layout? how did the craftsmen leave such beautiful paintings on stone and wood? how did the managers of the building organize, manage, and ensure the quality of the entire project? and even the wisdom that the ancestors once possessed was not respected and cherished, how can we talk about national rejuvenation?

How could an ordinary county magistrate build such a big mansion? How many untold stories did such a big mansion hide? Xie Qingyuan frankly told him that the so-called "three years of the Qing Governor's Mansion and 100,000 snowflakes of silver" was the most corrupt period of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the current information and word-of-mouth have not found that Xie Xingfan has a record of corruption, and of course there is no claim to refuse bribes. In fact, Xie Xingfan's father Xie Songpo's hemp business is big, and there are special commercial bills circulating in the territory, which is the real reason for the construction of the Xie family compound.

There is such a legend in the Xie family that when Xie Xingfan was a magistrate in Jiangxi, he used a coffin to steal silver and transported it back by boat many times. It took three years to build the "taro garden" just by burning bricks and tiles. Although the house is particularly large, it is built very simply, except for the theater building and the ancestral hall are slightly decorated, there is no carving. This was extremely rare at the time, and it could not even be compared with the average wealthy person. This is by no means a lack of money, but Xie Xingfan's personal advocacy of simplicity and unpretentiousness.

Xie Xingfan married 6 wives and had 6 sons, 5 of whom smoked opium and had a poor family. By the time of the Republic of China, the Xie family still had eight maid rings, and there were dozens of family members who were raised for the nursing home. By the time of liberation, the Xie family had 16 descendants, and only 5 still had land, and they were classified as "landlords". So far, the Xie family has multiplied to more than 100 people in the 8th generation, basically all of whom are farmers. Xie Qingyuan said with emotion, "You can't be rich for three generations", "One generation is an official, and three generations beg for rice", these are all historical laws.

Walk out of the house, and then look back, twelve roof ridges and horns, a bit like the horse head wall of the Hui school building, the high courtyard wall is connected into a whole, magnificent, you can imagine how proud of the city and the countryside in the past, the scholarly family, the official eunuch family, but unfortunately today, everywhere the chicken and duck walk, firewood and grass pile.

The people of the land are really too utilitarian and too results-oriented. It becomes a monument when it is necessary to demonstrate the power of authority and wealth; In the case of the proletarians, it becomes an object to be smashed, and today, when it can only be maintained for money, and not for money, even if the cost of a year's maintenance is only the expense of some people for a week's table, it has become a forgotten corner, so contemptuously thrown in the field, and if one day it can bring profit, it may be disguised as a beckoning cat, and attract countless tourists, even if the makeup is unrecognizable.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Investment is not poverty alleviation, not charity, and still less robbing the rich and helping the poor. Culture is important, but if there is no sufficient economic foundation, what can be used to support tradition? The market, in addition to being a combination of returns, is also an equivalent exchange, and it is also an equivalent measure based on economic conditions.

Wang Zi'an said: If the "Xie Family Compound" is successfully declared for provincial protection, it will become the first provincial protection unit of ancient buildings in Longshan. The fire protection and maintenance protection projects of the compound have been approved by the provincial government, and the maintenance and protection projects can also be approved by the state. In order to further protect the "taro garden" in an all-round way, the county will advocate the establishment of the "Xie Family Compound" cultural relics management office.

Yuan Huanxuan said: If you want to apply for approval, you need to allocate special funds, which requires your father to come forward, he knows how to build momentum, how to promote, and how to influence decision-making. The most important thing is that he must plan together with the former secretary of the municipal party committee Lei and the current chairman of the provincial people's congress, he is in charge of this work, and it is very important to win support, which is related to whether the project can be approved and whether it can be included in the key support projects of the provincial party committee. His children and relatives, as well as the cadres he promoted, were all powerful figures in important departments, holding projects and funds. He sent a sentence to break your leg.

Wang Zi'an said: My father has invited CPPCC members to dinner in the name of my township, and I have also preached the restoration of ancient famous residences, and officially invited CPPCC members to the countryside to investigate and investigate, and reported in the form of CPPCC proposals.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Your father and son have done it, generous, magnificent, high-speed, and the most visible benefits in a short period of time.

Wang Zi'an said: The student wants to ask the teacher to run an errand and do me a big favor.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Just talk.

Wang Zian said: You and Secretary Xie of the Municipal Party Committee are former colleagues, and the relationship is very good. The student wants to bother the teacher to go to the teacher himself and ask for his opinion as a sign of respect. After all, this is his hometown, which involves his family, and the relocation compensation of the clansmen, and the expropriation of land.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Do you want him to do the ideological work of his family and play a leading and exemplary role?

Wang Zi'an said: Quite the opposite. There are such big celestial characters standing behind them, they are all big masters, and they are very big, and they are the leaders at every turn, and they are on the phone, showing the sword of Shang Fang, so that the little official abandons the sedan chair and fled, so that the little soldier is shot off the horse.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Don't underestimate these Tian Shelang. If it weren't for Chairman Lei's nephew, maybe the national highway highlight project would have been ruined, or even become a scandalous project.

Wang Zi'an said: A few years ago, Chairman Lei gained power, and Secretary Xie lost power. If someone comes to check the arrears at the end of three days, violates the rules, asks for salary, compensation, and can complete the project according to the contract?

Yuan Huanxuan said: As long as you respond to the development direction proposed by the municipal party committee and the county party committee, and conform to the innovative ideas of the leaders, you can be appreciated from above, promote the implementation, and you can get any project funds, and officials can also carp jump the dragon gate. Secretary Xie was promoted to secretary of the municipal party committee, and the head of Hua Township was promoted to deputy county magistrate, and the Matthew effect has been presented.

Wang Zi'an said: That's right. For my township, the restoration of the ancient famous residence is indeed a tiger eating the sky, but as long as the important leaders are tempted, the above attaches great importance to the ancient famous residence is not only the strength of our township, but also the façade of the county, but also the city's signboard, propaganda is overwhelming, causing the attention of the whole province, it will raise the city, the county's strength to build, funds, projects continue to come, what are you worried about?

Yuan Qiuhua said: I will make a long speech, and I will applaud and give some reward! But what kind of courage do you have to do such a big thing well? I really doubt it! I am afraid that in the end, it will either be completed in half or the building will be completed!

Yuan Huanxuan said: Just because a teenager is bad doesn't mean that he will be a bad guy in the future, and you don't want to beat people to death with a stick! Especially when you step into society, the changes in young people are earth-shaking, and their outstanding performance and past have already been judged to be like two people.

Wang Zi'an took a step back and bowed deeply to Yuan Qiuhua: For the past, I formally apologize to you and ask for your forgiveness!

Yuan Qiuhua said: As long as you apologize, do I have to accept it? As long as you bow, do I have to forgive? Act in public!

Xie Wen said: When he comes to your door and talks and laughs with you, he is lifting you up, don't expose his scars with cynicism.

Yuan Qiuhua said: You mean, you want me to slap him and curry favor with him, and it is better to grovel to him and wag his tail and beg for mercy?

Wang Zi'an said: Don't I know what kind of person you are? It is mainly for those around you, those who tend to be inflammatory, those who are snobbish, and those who are afraid of the hard.

Yuan Qiuhua said: Is it for the sake of your position that you will retreat from me? Or will it be for the sake of your face and raise your noble hand to me?

Yuan Huanxuan said: The past has become an experience, which cannot be changed and let go. Please correct your mindset, live in the present, and plan for the future. Because what you did three years ago determines what you get now, and what you do now determines what you get three years from now.

Wang Zi'an said: Secretary Xie's old house is also within the scope of restoration of the ancient residence and needs to be relocated. How can it work without asking him beforehand?

Yuan Qiuhua said: Business is official, you go to his office, discuss with him alone, and take all actions, but follow his arrangement.

Wang Zi'an said: In the case that he does not know the real thoughts of the people, I am so straightforward and does not give him any room for maneuver, did I not deliberately embarrass him? He is now in a high position and great power, and if everyone opposes it, he will implement it if he agrees, and if he vetoes it, he will run aground.

Xie Wen said: What should be considered, must be thought of. The older a person gets, the heavier his hometown complex becomes, and he can only help his father and fellow villagers and accomplish good things. To put it simply, otherwise, what face will we see our fathers and fellow villagers? How will we return to our roots and bury our bones?

Yuan Huanxuan said: Qingming worships ancestors, goes to the grave to sweep the tomb, has he come back this year?

The village chief said: In previous years, I went back every year, but this year I became the secretary of the municipal party committee, but I didn't go back, but just let my son come back.

Yuan Huanxuan said: Oh, this is a deliberate avoidance, deliberately keeping a certain distance from local officials. I heard that his wife was eighty years old and didn't invite guests to a banquet.

Wang Zi'an said: If Chairman Lei is replaced, the big swing can collect millions, and the small office can also collect hundreds of thousands. Alas, he planted it in this way. A group of central reporters took this as news, and the continuous reports caused a storm in the city, and no one could save it!

Yuan Huanxuan said: Lao Xie is well-known for his honesty and integrity, so far he has not eaten a meal from me, received me a pack of cigarettes, and only drank a few cups of tea.

Wang Zi'an said: The teacher will come to the city for a meeting in a few days. I also have to bother the teacher to find him, discuss with him, and consider. When you come back, give me a hint, or suggestion, or reply. If he wants to come back for an inspection, I can arrange for a research team to report back to him. If he wants to go home alone, I can report to him alone.

Yuan Huanxuan said: What you confessed, whether it is successful or not, I can't pack the ticket, just talk about it, it's just to test his tone.

Wang Zi'an said: The teacher has given the students enough face, the great grace is not grateful, there is a love and salary, you have something to say, and the students should follow the work of dogs and horses!

Yuan Qiuhua stretched out his right hand, his little finger straightened, bent and straight: Refreshing!

Wang Zi'an stretched out his right hand and hooked his little finger: If you want to get it, pull the hook, pull the hook, the gentleman said, the horse is difficult to chase, who is afraid of who will regret it!

Yuan Qiuhua's little finger pushed three times, pulled three times, pressed his thumb on his thumb, and pressed it hard: stamp a seal, you can't run away, hang yourself with a hook, you can't change it for a hundred years, it's the devil to deceive people!

Wang Zi'an clasped his hands into fists and made a circle: Before the official announcement of this matter, I have to ask you to help me keep it secret!