Chapter Ninety-Three: Long Live Mountain Outside the Window
The things that this cousin said went from the court to the people, from home to abroad, big and small interesting stories, and news from far and near, but it made up for Wang Lun's demand for news from Tokyo.
After being rewarded by Wang Lun, this cousin worked even harder, and kept filling wine and food for Wang Lun. When he looked at the sky, the cousin came to Wang Lun and said mysteriously: "Today, the teacher and the girl are free, and I am afraid that I will show up to perform." If the son has good poems, he can hand them to the teacher and the girl. If you can be favored by the teacher and the girl, and sing harmony with her poems, it is hard to find. ”
Following the direction of the hallman's finger, Wang Lun looked up and saw two huge signs hanging outside an attic, which was very eye-catching. The left and right lines read: "Singing and dancing fairies, romantic flowers and moon kui." "It is expected to be the resting place of Master Li.
Wang Lun was noncommittal to the cousin's words, but Shi Jin frequently looked sideways at Wang Lun. But he wanted Wang Lun to compose a poem and win the opportunity to get close to Master Li.
"Let's go and get the pen and ink!" Although Yang Lin didn't just say it, the meaning of this statement was very obvious.
Li Kui hadn't drunk like this for a long time, so he took a big sip of wine and shouted, "The emperor's woman...... Cough...... Ahem......"
Before Li Kui finished speaking, Shi Jin poured a glass of wine into Li Kui's mouth. Li Kui was afraid that this wine would be wasted, so he coughed, couldn't speak, and drank the water and wine.
Wang Lun knew what Li Kui was going to say, so he couldn't help but glare fiercely. Turned to the cousin and "Sixiu" and said, "My brother is a rough man, which makes a few people laugh!" ”
The "Four Shows" have all seen the world, and they are not surprised by this, that is, they usually talk about the emperor. Several people hurriedly got up, and even said that they didn't dare, Wang Lun had to spend another sum of money.
At this time, Wang Lun was not easy to refuse, and let the cousin go to get pen and ink.
Li Kui is not shocking and endless, and it is inconvenient for outsiders to be there after all. Wang Lun gave the "Sixiu" a piece of silver to no one and asked them to retreat.
Because Wang Lun was generous and polite, the seats arranged by the cousin for Wang Lun and others were excellent. Open the window of the east building, and standing on the third floor, you can see the Long Live Mountain that Song Huizong is building.
Long Live Mountain was the name of the people at this time, and Wang Lun knew that it had another name - Genyue.
Wang Lun often talked about the past and the present with others in later generations, and remembered that a friend (destined to be a book friend) once said it when he was drinking. If you have traveled through the Song Huizong period, you must go to Genyue to see. Genyue is a concrete image of Song Huizong's labor and wealth, comfort and pleasure.
The current Genyue has only started construction for more than a year, because Song Huizong is particularly concerned about it, and he is very strict with the people who are the prisoners and the worship bureau. Although it was 10 o'clock at night, the hard labor on the construction site was still working.
Seeing Wang Lun looking at Gen Yue on the other side, Shi Jin also walked over, "Brother, what is that place?" ”
"Hey! Don't even ask! Surely it must be the Emperor's Palace! Without waiting for Wang Lun to answer, Li Kui hurriedly said beside him.
"This is the Long Live Mountain built by today's officials, but it is the result of the slanderous words of shameless Taoists!" Lamenting in his heart, Wang Lun introduced to Shi Jin.
Because Bianliang is located in the plain land of the Central Plains, there is a lack of mountains, forests and springs. Taoist priest Liu Mingkang told Song Huizong: The terrain of Tokyo is gentle, the situation in the northeast of the imperial family is slightly lower, and the yin qi is extremely strong, which affects the reproduction of the imperial family. If you want to solve it, you have to build "Gen Yue" to raise the ground, and Song Huizong agreed to this Taoist priest's proposal.
In order to cater to Huizong, Prime Minister Cai Jing set up a special institution to build Genyue, which was in charge of the eunuch Liang Shicheng and the minister Zhu Mian, so a catastrophe that swept the world began. Then this imperial decree, skillfully seized and plundered, pointed to the deer as a horse, announced personal vendettas, and made something out of nothing, resulting in countless unjust, false and wrongful cases. In order to transport Huashigang, the ship was destroyed and some people died, and some were uprooted from their homes. Even more absurd, smashing down the city walls and so on.
Yang Lin was surprised when he heard what Wang Lun said, and he also got up to look, and happened to see dozens of laborers pulling a strangely shaped boulder. Looking further aside, there are countless rows of boulders of different shapes.
"With a group of stones of this size, I don't know how much manpower the emperor used. I'm afraid that if someone misses the farming time, they will starve this year! ”
Yang Lin was kind-hearted, and he also sighed.
Under the lights, Wang Lun clearly saw an old man fall to the ground. A young man tried to help, but was beaten by the overseer and allowed everyone to walk over the old man.
"It's just a drop in the bucket!" couldn't bear to look at it anymore, Wang Lun turned his head and said, "Now everywhere in the southeast, there are countless such things!" ”
When Wang Lun read the book, he remembered that when the Jin people besieged Bianliang, Qinzong ordered to take 100,000 birds from Wansui Mountain and throw them into the Bianhe River. In order to guard the capital, the citizens flocked to this mountain, "demolishing houses for wages, chiseling stones for ponds, and cutting bamboo for fences." Thousands of deer, the guards of all killing". After the Jin people occupied Bianjing, they ordered to take the land of Genyue as the northern city wall, and changed the scenery of Longjiang River to Chenghao, and the pond and marsh were flattened, and the ruins did not exist. In later generations, Beijing's Beihai Park, the Forbidden City, Zhongshan Park, and Zhongnanhai all had Genyue relics, and Wang Lun had seen them with his own eyes.
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was notorious in later generations, and Gen Yue can also be said to be notorious. Not to mention ordinary people, even a commander like Yang Zhi, a powerful man like Fang La, who was also cornered because of Hua Shigang, shows its harm.
It was the Song Dynasty Huizong who built a lot of construction and worked the people and lost money, which led to the peasant uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty has experienced nine emperors for more than 160 years. The peasant uprisings recorded in the historical books include the uprising of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun in Sichuan during the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, and there was also an uprising in the period of Renzong of the Song Dynasty and the Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty.
There were more peasant uprisings during the reign of Song Huizong than the sum before this, not counting the peasant uprisings indirectly caused by Song Huizong during the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be said that the construction of Genyue and the conscription of Huashigang shook the foundation of the Song Dynasty's rule.
Because of the striking resemblance between Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, later generations say that before Song Huizong was born, his father Song Shenzong was looking at Li Yu's portrait and said that Song Huizong was the reincarnation of Li Yu.
They also have a high artistic talent, talent, and literary style. One is in poetry and music, and the other is in calligraphy and painting, each leading the way.
In governing the country, they are equally incompetent, equally mediocre, and equally the kings of the country. Li Yu's Southern Tang Kingdom died at the hands of Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of Song Huizong Zhao Ji, and Zhao Ji's Northern Song Empire died under the iron hooves of the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom.
In Wang Lun's view, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is worthy of sympathy. And Song Huizong Zhao Ji is an out-and-out faint monarch who is spurned by others.
The four of them sat down here, eating, drinking and chatting, but Wang Lun was always depressed because of Gen Yue's affairs. Shi Jin and Yang Lin saw it, Wang Lun was not very interested, and carefully persuaded peace.
Half an hour later, the cousin walked in from outside, but it was Master Li who was about to appear.
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