Chapter 453: The Future of the Ancient City

Li Yuxin was overjoyed in her heart, but she turned her head not to look at Fang Mingyuan, but she just felt that her face was faintly hot. I was so ashamed just now, why did my brain suddenly heat up, so I told Fang Mingyuan that I wanted a room. Fang Mingyuan's home, leave a room for yourself, what kind of thing is this. But Fang Mingyuan agreed without hesitation, but it made her feel excited, and an indescribable joy filled her chest, making her feel as if her whole person was about to flutter.

Fang Mingyuan didn't think as much as Li Yuxin, his mind was still on the transformation of the ancient city. In order to protect the ancient city of Pingchuan, it is necessary to rejuvenate it and create economic benefits, as long as it can bring enough benefits to the county, do not have to bother yourself, and do not need to shout hoarsely to protect it, the Pingchuan County Party Committee and County Government will also do their best to maintain the ancient city of Pingchuan, so that it will become a permanent cash cow. People, in the final analysis, still live for profit, and only if something can bring benefits to people, people will take the initiative to protect it.

Although most of the residents of Pingchuan Ancient Town have moved out smoothly, there are still too many places that need to be renovated. Not to mention, the roads in this city have to be repaired with great effort

Most of the roads in the ancient city of Pingchuan are stone roads, a small part is paved with green bricks, after I don't know how many years of use, the wear and tear is very serious, and because it has not been repaired for a long time, large and small potholes can be seen everywhere, and the drainage system on both sides of the road has been close to abandonment because it has not been repaired for a long time. It can be said that Liu Yu has a lot of work.

Moreover, Fang Mingyuan also noticed that in the courtyards on both sides of the street, although most of the courtyards still maintain their original state, there are also many courtyards where there are a large number of self-built buildings built by residents, which are incompatible with the old buildings in the courtyard. And these must be demolished. In the entire ancient city of Pingchuan, there must be only one unified style.

"Director Liu, follow this forward, where is that ancient building?" Fang Mingyuan pointed to an ancient building not far away.

Liu Yu glanced up and said with a smile: "There is the Temple of Literature in the ancient city."

"Confucian Temple, is there still a martial temple in this city?" asked Li Yuxin curiously.

"Yes, there is also a martial temple, but it is not on this street, but on the street over there. In this ancient city, there were many historic sites such as the county office, the Confucian Temple, the Bell Tower, the City God Temple, the Dragon King Temple, the Wenchang Palace, the Wu Temple, the Wanghu Tower, etc., but after so many years, plus the beginning of the century, the province of Qinxi was also in chaos, the war continued, and many ancient buildings have collapsed. Now there are only ancient buildings such as the Confucian Temple, the Wu Temple, the Wanghu Tower, and the Library Building. Liu Yu pointed to the street to the south with a face full of regret.

"Is it Jiang Taigong or Guan Sheng enshrined in the Martial Temple?" Fang Mingyuan asked casually.

"Isn't the Martial Sage Guan Gong?" Li Yuxin asked in surprise, it was the first time she had heard that Jiang Taigong was worshiped in the Martial Temple.

Liu Yu gave a thumbs up, and said with admiration: "Fang Shao, it seems that you are an expert who knows how to do it, this sentence asks the key."

"Ah?" Li Yuxin was even more curious, "Director Liu, is Jiang Taigong also enshrined in the Wu Temple?" "In Qinxi Province, as the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Taigong Jiang Ziya's name is naturally known to everyone, but she really doesn't know that Jiang Taigong is also worshiped by the Wu Temple.

Although Liu Yu didn't know what the origin of this beautiful little girl was, seeing that she and Fang Mingyuan were close to each other, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly smiled: "Girl, you don't know, now when everyone talks about martial saints, they will think of Guan Gong, but from the history of martial arts, the earliest martial saint is Jiang Taigong, Tang Gaozong was named Jiang Taigong as the king of Wucheng. Kaiyuan compared with the sacrificial system of the Confucian Temple, and began to place the ten philosophers of Yasheng, so this martial temple is also called Wucheng Temple, which is used to worship Jiang Taigong and the good generals of all dynasties. The worship of Guan Gong was first only popular in the Jingzhou area, in the Tang Dynasty was only the Wucheng Temple with the worship, after entering the Song Dynasty, due to the Song Dynasty court canonized Guan Yu, the belief of Guan Emperor entered the Buddhism and Taoist system. In the Ming Dynasty, Guan Gong was named by the emperor at that time as 'Guan Sheng Emperor', 'Three Realms Demon Emperor Shenwei Yuan Zhen Tianzun' and a lot of honors, and Guan Yu's loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, and courage were respected by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, so later Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Wu Temple and enshrined Jiang Taigong in the Imperial Temple. The Qing Dynasty Yongzheng posthumously crowned Guan Yu as a martial saint, and the martial temple with Guan Yu as the main worship was juxtaposed with the Confucian Temple of Confucius, collectively known as the Wenwu Temple. Later, everyone only knew that the martial saint was Guan Gong, and all the martial arts temples across the country were worshiped by Guan Gong. But our martial temple here is still dedicated to Jiang Taigong."

Li Yuxin was dumbfounded when she heard this, it turned out that the history of this martial temple was like this, she had always thought that the martial saint was Guan Gong, thinking of this, she couldn't help but pull Fang Mingyuan's arm, and said excitedly: "Mingyuan, you are so powerful, you know everything for such a long time."

"Fang Shao is really knowledgeable, the martial saint was originally Jiang Taigong, and even many archaeological workers don't know it. This sycophant is not bothersome and laborious, and Liu Yu naturally has to echo it a few times. Fang Mingyuan's old face was slightly red, if it weren't for the fact that he had experienced the tide of the Internet in his previous life, he would have always thought that the Martial Saint was Guan Gong.

"Director Liu, is it still Jiang Taigong who is enshrined here?" Fang Mingyuan hurriedly asked, to be honest, he just asked casually, he didn't expect Liu Yu to really give him a small surprise, in the future, it may be a highlight of the ancient city of Pingchuan

"Although it is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, he abolished the martial temple of Taigong and moved Taigong to the imperial temple for worship, but we are here the heartland of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the place where Taigong assisted King Wu to sweep the world, so people's belief in Guan Sheng is far less than their admiration for Taigong. Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty abolished the Wu Temple, the people here renamed the Wu Temple to the outside world, and in the Qing Dynasty, when Guan Gong was honored as a martial saint, people would rather build another Guan Gong Temple in other parts of the county, and did not move the statue of Taigong out. Later, during the war during the Republic of China, the Guangong Temple was damaged, and everyone called it the Wu Temple again. ”

Fang Mingyuan nodded, half a life is cold, Huai Cai has not met, wandering around, enduring the burden, observing the wind and clouds, waiting for the opportunity, fishing Weishui, Jiang Taigong, who finally met the Ming Lord, is not only the mastermind of King Wen of Zhou, King Wu Keyin, one of the founding fathers of the Zhou Dynasty, the founder of Qi and the founder of Qi culture, but also the prince of the four emperors of King Wen of Zhou, King Wu, King Cheng and King Kang, He is also an outstanding strategist, military strategist and politician with a long influence in ancient China. The classics of the past dynasties all respect his historical status, and Confucianism, Taoism, Law, Soldiers, and Zongheng all recognize him as a figure of his own family, and he is respected as the "Hundred Masters of Schools". Compared with Guan Gong, the people of Qinxi Province certainly prefer to be famous in their homeland.

"Then Director Liu, now in Qinxi Province, are there any other martial temples dedicated to Taigong?"

Liu Yu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "As far as I know, before the Republic of China, and even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were still many temples dedicated to Taigong in Qinxi Province, of course, it was not entirely in the name of the Wu Temple, but now, I know that there is only this one in the ancient city of Pingchuan." Alas, of course, even those who survived the war were almost destroyed in those turbulent ten years. ”

Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but sigh, the ten years of catastrophe not only damaged the economy and culture of China, but also a huge catastrophe for many cultural relics and monuments in the territory In his previous life, he heard his uncle say that in the villages and towns near Fengyuan, ten large copper cylinders were dug out, all of which were copper coins from the Song Dynasty, with a total of hundreds of thousands, but such a considerable amount of wealth left by the ancients was all taken away and melted copper

When he heard the news, Fang Mingyuan couldn't wait to arrest all those people, and use bricks to give them the copper coins of the Song Dynasty one by one, just sell them casually, sell a dozen pieces, and the copper money would have come back a long time ago, if these copper coins were sold in the international market, they would be able to buy back a copper mountain.

"Director Liu, these things in the ancient city must be properly identified, if there is a collection of cultural relics, they will be moved to the Confucian Temple in the future, where I plan to build a museum in the future, and the cultural relics scattered all over our Pingchuan County will be protected. "Pingchuan is a large county of cultural relics, there has been a civilization here since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, before the Song Dynasty, it has always been the political and economic center of China at that time, from the five imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty emperors are located here, you can imagine how rich the cultural relics here will be.

Although Pingchuan County is a large county of cultural relics, the overstretched county finances give very little money to the protection of cultural relics every year, not to mention the protection of existing cultural relics, that is, to ensure that the salaries of these staff in charge of cultural relics protection in the county are tight. It is the absolute Shimizu Yamen

But Liu Yu has a feeling that maybe from this year, they will turn over and become the focus of attention again.

A few people walked while talking, and soon came to the gate of the Temple of Literature. A rusty gate blocked the way.

"Fang Shao, you wait here, I'll go find someone to ask for the key. Liu Yu said a little embarrassed, and trotted away.

Looking through the gap in the iron fence, the Temple of Literature is also dilapidated, and there are wild grasses growing everywhere, which looks a little desolate and gloomy. Li Yuxin looked at the scorching sun in the sky, if it weren't for this time, seeing this scene, she wouldn't dare to go in at all. This reminded her of the Lanruo Temple in "A Chinese Ghost Story" that she watched not long ago.

It didn't take long for Liu Yu to run back with sweat and panting again and open the door.

In the front yard of the Confucian Temple, there are 28 bolted horse piles erected on the left and right, and animals that look like monkeys, dogs, and unicorns are carved on the heads of the piles. Although they have become a little blurry after the invasion of time, if you look closely, you can still see that they have different forms and rich expressions. From this, you can imagine that there was once a lively scene of traffic and horses here.

"Fang Shao, the Confucian Temple of the ancient city of Pingchuan can be said to have been there since the founding of the city, and then several times destroyed and repaired, the most recent one was the 30th year of the Republic of China, and the residents of the ancient city raised funds to repair it at that time. But since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been no large-scale renovation. Originally, this was the location of the county radio station, and it was more or less popular, but after the county party committee and county government moved away, it completely decayed. You come with me, the front is the main hall Dacheng Hall" Liu Yu led the way in front, the role of a part-time tour guide.

The main hall seat is north to south, is located on the high pedestal, the main hall is the top of the hill, there are cornices at the four corners, there are corner pillars, the front of the hall is thirteen or fourteen meters wide, there are seven or eight meters deep inside, all are brick and wood structure. The center of the main hall is the widest, slowly decreasing to the sides. Fang Mingyuan noticed that the three pillars in the middle had a relief pattern of two dragons playing with pearls. Under the eaves, the dougong is overlapped and painted, etc., the roof is decorated with glazed tiles, and there are several wings on both sides. It's just that now the paint color on the pillar has almost fallen, and the green board on the ground is also a lot of cracks, and even the earth color below is exposed, which seems to be tattered, and in the side corridor of the main hall, there are several humanoid stone statues, either the head has been lost, or the hands and feet are missing, and the stone tablet on the back of the stone turtle in front of the hall has disappeared.

"The repair work here is entrusted to the professional team of the province for the repair of ancient buildings. It's just that their last project hasn't finished yet, and it will take about a week to come. Liu Yu pointed to the main hall and said, "I don't dare to hand over this place to the county team, with their craftsmanship, I'm afraid that what will be made in the end will be a nondescript thing." ”

Fang Mingyuan nodded, this kind of ancient building construction technique has now been mostly lost or only in the hands of a few old craftsmen who have been passed down from generation to generation.

Out of the Confucian Temple, Fang Mingyuan and they continued to move forward with Liu Yu and came to the "Ten Thousand Books Building", which was the county library back then, a small building imitating Japanese-style brick and wood structure, and there was a stone tablet in front of the building, with three big characters of "library" inscribed by Kang Youwei himself.

"It's an empty building now, and all the books have been moved to the new county library. Liu Yu sighed softly, "There were nearly 3,000 people living in the ancient city, but there was no decent library."

"More than 3,000 people," Li Yuxin exclaimed, "so many people lived here in the first place?"

"Yes" Liu Yu glanced at Fang Mingyuan, which was also what he admired the Fang family the most. It's really a big deal, more than 3,000 people moved out of the ancient city and moved into the county seat, the Fang family paid a huge amount of money for this, and the subsidy cost for the residents here alone is more than 30 million, and then counting the cost of building buildings for these people in the county, the money is spent like flowing water. If you want to count the cost of repairing this ancient city, it will simply cost the old nose money.

But without the Fang family, with the current financial capacity of Pingchuan County, I am afraid that in the next century, it is unknown whether this ancient city can be taken seriously. The longer it drags on, the greater the damage to the ancient city. Before the residents moved, the entire ancient city was on the verge of becoming a mountain of garbage.

The Fang family has done such a great thing, but they don't know that Weishenme is reluctant to publicize it, and the county doesn't seem to be keen on the publicity of this matter, Liu Yu originally thought that he could use this matter to make more people pay attention to the protection of cultural relics and monuments in Pingchuan County.

"Ah, by the way, I almost forgot, Fang Shao, you come with me" Liu Yu patted his head and said as he turned around and walked south.

Fang Mingyuan and Li Yuxin looked at each other in surprise, not knowing what this one remembered, but since he was gone, a few people naturally had to follow.

I walked along the dilapidated stone road in the city for about 100 meters, and came to the door of an old house high in the city. Fang Mingyuan noticed that on both sides of the door of this house, there were two "upper horse stones", and there were rusty bronze knockers on the door, and the vermilion on the door post had peeled off, and the color had faded, leaving a knife-like crack, losing the style of the year. It can be seen from this that the owner here was rich and magnificent, and after many years, he still reveals the solidity and wealth of the past.

"This is the most haode house in Pingchuan County during the Republic of China, its owner is owned by Ma Yan, the commander of the Fengyuan City Garrison at that time, and it has been nearly a hundred years now, and it is also one of the most complete old mansions in the ancient city. This house is a three-entry courtyard, with a total of more than 20 large and small rooms, and a back garden at the back. Although it has now been occupied by the original occupants, it can be cleared out in the future. I think that if Fang Shao plans to find a house in this ancient city, it is very good, not only is the house relatively large, but also the location is in the center of the city. Liu Yu explained with a smile.

"Director Liu is really bothered," Fang Mingyuan smiled with satisfaction, "Since it was recommended by Director Liu, I believe in the vision of professionals, and I will use this as my residence in Pingchuan in the future." However, I have to trouble Director Liu in this ancient city, and then help me choose two mansions, which will be of great use to me. ”

Liu Yu was immediately overjoyed and responded in a row.

Fang Mingyuan stood on the bluestone steps in front of the door, looking down on the whole city, full of ambition in his heart

He believes that after the ancient city of Pingchuan is renovated in the future, as long as he lives in, it will inevitably drive the private owners in Pingchuan County who have become rich first to move here. However, Fang Mingyuan had already thought about it, the courtyards in this ancient city, two thousand years ago, were only rented and not sold, and like European countries treated those ancient castles, they had to set extremely strict rules for these people, not only to review their identities and wealth, but also to pay a high deposit, to ensure that these courtyards were not built privately or modified at will.

In the future, this ancient city of Pingchuan will be a well-known tourist attraction and high-end villa area in Pingchuan County, and the mansion here will become a place where the rich people of the entire Qinxi Province are flocking to