"The emperor is messing around!" The Empress Dowager Cixi knew very well that as soon as this Zhu edict was issued, the world would blame the Empress Dowager of the two palaces, so she disagreed.

"Wait for the mourners to come and tell him." On the same day, the Empress Dowager Cixi summoned the emperor to ask for Zhu's edict, and after reading it, she praised him for his good writing, but did not agree with him to do so, because Yu Xiuyuan's matter was harmful and useless.

So Zhu Yu and You Baichuan's twists and turns were "drowned" together!

In a few days, a great event came. Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, rode into the play, Suzhou recovered, Ma Wenlu, the leader of the rebellion, was executed, and Bai Yanhu fled to Hami. After ten years of postponement and five years of military use, the Guanlong rebellion was finally settled.

In terms of meritorious deeds, Zuo Zongtang also paid homage to the prime minister, and also co-organized the university scholar to stay as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and changed from the captain of the cavalry to the rank of captain of the first-class light car. Zuo Zongtang admired Liu Songshan's achievements and was willing to change his position to Liu Songshan's heirs.

The imperial court rewarded Liu Songshan with a first-class light car captain. In addition, Liu Songshan's nephew Liu Jintang, as well as Zhang Yao, Song Qing and other generals who were born in the Yu Army and accompanied Zuo Xi's expedition, were all greatly rewarded.

However, Guan Long used troops to collect merits, and the happiest people were not Zuo Zongtang, nor the soldiers of the Western Expedition, but the officials of the Internal Affairs Office of Guibao and Wenxi.

The two main reasons held by those who advised them to stop repairing the garden have disappeared.

"Didn't you say that 'the military of the Western Expedition has not been settled, and the drought and flood in the north and south are heard'?" Guibao was elated, with some pride, "What else do they say now?" ”

In the palace, this is also the idea, first of all, the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that it was the turn of the royal family to spend money! Ping Hongyang, Ping Twist Army, Ping Hui Chaos, borrowed foreign debts from Li Jin, I don't know how many generals have been fattened, although the wedding cost a lot of money, it is everyone's face, and the royal family has never been able to benefit.

Now save millions of military salaries a year for the Western Expedition and repair the Old Summer Palace on a small scale, why not?

As a result, she began to get involved in the design of the gardener. She doesn't care about other places, she cares about the project of "Heaven and Earth One Spring".

This is the old road of the middle road of the Old Summer Palace, moved to build in the "three gardens", exclusive to the Queen Mother's Wanchun Garden, built a "four-volume hall", two courtyards in the east and west, each around the verandah, and the main hall communicates.

The original site faces the water in the north, there is a moon building, changed to the water pavilion, and the tin name is "Chengguang Pavilion". In the west, near the Shengping Department, a theater hall was built, with a stage, a theater room, and a room for the workers to rest.

The place called the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces is actually the Empress Dowager Cixi alone, and even the decoration of the cubicles and the carved patterns are all drawn by her own hands.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is very fast, and has already connected six contractors to subcontract the project of the Old Summer Palace.

Mingshan face: "The project is divided into two phases, the first Ming is Anyou Palace, Tiandi Family Spring and Qingxia Hall, which will be on the beam within the year; The second phase is the Great Palace Gate, the Zhengda Guangming Palace, the Qinzheng Palace, the upper and lower Tianguang and other places, which will have to start next spring. ”

"Isn't it 'Tai Sui Chong' next year, isn't it appropriate to start work?" Empress Dowager Cixi asked.

"Talk back to the Queen Mother," replied Mingshan, "as long as you don't move the beam." Besides, 'the Holy Son of Heaven is cared for by a hundred gods', and next year will be the 40th birthday of the Queen Mother, and it will be all right. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi also believes in feng shui, and she has been muttering a little in her heart, but now she feels reasonable when she hears Mingshan's two words.

Yes, she was thinking, Tai Sui Chong, she also has to look at the place, the queen mother, the emperor's affairs, Tai Sui can't help but be emotional. Afraid of what?

However, the Spring and Qing Summer Halls of Heaven and Earth belong to the scope of Wanchun Garden, which is considered to be built by the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, and the emperor should also have his own place of rest.

The Empress Dowager Cixi had a heart for her son, so she immediately asked: "The construction of the upper and lower heavens will not be started until next year, and we must first build one or two places for the emperor, so that we can live next summer." ”

"Yes!" Mingshan replied: "The minions have been carefully planned, and it is so good that the 'Shuanghe Zhai' has not moved anything, and I want to repair it as soon as possible, so that the emperor can use it for stationing." ”

"Shuanghezhai?" The Empress Dowager Cixi quietly recalled that it was the "Grand Duke of Kuoran" in the "Forty Beautiful Views of the Old Summer Palace".

In the north of the largest pond in the Old Summer Palace, "Fuhai", back to the mountain and facing the lake, in addition to the main hall of the double crane Zhai, there are also Guiyue Bridge, Qiaoqian Residence, Yingshan Tower, Phiyun Path, Yiyin Hall, Qixiu Pavilion, Yunshi Song and so on, a total of eight scenes.

She still remembers that there is a land behind Shuanghe Zhai, and the water pavilion in the northwest is called Jingjiaxuan, and one summer, she often watched the lotus there by the railing.

The Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly asked, "How much money do you have for your service?" ”

When it comes to this layer, Mingshan is on his mind. After giving an order, the reaction was extremely cold, but at this time, he could only answer truthfully: "There is less than 100,000 silver in front of me." ”

"Less than 100,000 silver?" The Empress Dowager Cixi was surprised, "Who are the people who are serving the service?" ”

"The sixth master took the lead in serving 20,000, and the slave didn't dare not be undedicated, but he didn't dare to go past the sixth master, and it was also 20,000." Mingshan replied like this, implicitly expressing his dissatisfaction with Prince Gong.

This is like the monk Huayuan's "opening book", the first pen is written less, and there is no more along the way, if Prince Gong serves 200,000, he will never donate more than 20,000.

The Empress Dowager Cixi pondered for a while, and said categorically: "As long as you do your best, there is nothing that cannot be done." ”

Mingshan is temptation, and the result of temptation should be said to be satisfactory.

The implication of the Empress Dowager Cixi is that she is desperate to build the garden! With this support, there is no shortage of materials.

Mingshan took the position of the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, let go of things, and transported a large cart of wood, bricks and tiles to Haidian, and the materials were owed first.

Like the Empress Dowager Cixi, the emperor also personally participated in the planning of the details of the garden, and often used a red pen to draw the layout and decoration patterns of the house, and handed it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for approval. At the same time, I really want to see the project again, and take a stroll around the downtown by the way.

Driving out of the city, has been to walk the Zhengyang Gate that is always closed, the police enter and foot, the road is open, and I have never seen the noisy and noisy downtown scene.

Therefore, the emperor turned the corner of the curtain, looked intently, and his heart was as chaotic as outside the car, and he couldn't tell whether it was curiosity, confusion, or amusement?

But there is a thought, often flooded, it is better to hear than to see, the market described in the books, often unimaginable, now I see it with my own eyes, almost all understand.

The emperor is sometimes the loneliest person in the world, he has no friends, he barely has a little friend taste, only one Zai Ze, but although Zai Ze is not a year or two older than him, he knows a lot more than him. (To be continued.) )