Blame the emperor for opening his mouth

Han Pavilion Gate to buy strange stones

On this day, Yang Wenduan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, dispersed early and just sat down in the palace. I received a note from the political hall. In front of the palace, Wu Xi, the deputy envoy, asked to worry about his father Wu Tingding.

Speaking of this Wu Ting, the words are long. In that year, after the Jin soldiers captured Kaifeng in Tokyo and abducted the second emperor, the main force went south, crossed the Yellow River, occupied the Huai River valley, and forcibly crossed the Yangtze River, went straight to the southeast, and pursued Gaozong all the way. Another unit attacked Shaanxi and advanced to the southwest. In the process of defending Shaanxi and Sichuan, two brothers were brave and good at fighting, stood out, and quickly became the right-hand men who defended Sichuan and Shu. This is Wu Jue and Wu Ling brothers.

Wu Jue died young, and Wu Ling's brother fought against the Jin soldiers in the Sichuan-Shaanxi area. By 1165, Wu Lan had been named Taishi and King of Ping'an, and died of illness at the age of sixty-six. Later, he was posthumously crowned as the king of letters.

Wu Ting is the fifth son of Wu Lan. He is the second-generation head of the Wu family's army, and he joined the war from his father at the age of 23 and has made many miraculous achievements. Xiaozong Dynasty, leading his father's position, sitting in Shaanxi, Gansu Yiwei Bashu, and later served as the pacification envoy of Lizhou (now Guangyuan City, Sichuan) West Road, and Zhilizhou, resisting the enemy and preparing the border, Weizhen Southwest, and the imperial court leaned on the Great Wall.

At first, although Wu Ting was shrewd and strong, the situation at that time was not good. Since the death of his uncle Wu Jue, the Wu family army was divided into three by the imperial court, and his father Wu Lu only got one of them. Due to the successive major wars such as the southern invasion of Yanliang and the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, in order to defend Sichuan and Shu and consolidate the rear, the imperial court had to reuse and rely on Wu Lan, Liu Qi and other generals, so that the military power of Shuchuan returned to the hands of the Wu family again.

Despite this, Wu Ting lived on thin ice as usual. He was in power in Shuchuan, and his son, to be precise, the second son Wu Xi, had to stay in Lin'an City to "serve" the Son of Heaven. Everyone knows that this is a hostage. In the fourth year of Shaoxi (1193), Wu Ting became ill from hard work and died in Xingzhou (now Luoyang, Shaanxi).

Wu Ting died, and the most famous of the third generation of the Wu family was this Wu Xi, but he was serving in the capital, and the Privy Council made Zhao Ruyu and others discuss and send non-Wu surnamed generals to Xingzhou to take over, and in doing so, it easily solved the problem of the Wu family army becoming big in Sichuan and Shu. It is far better than when Wu Jue died and Wu Ling was still alive, it was much better to collect the right to collect troops with a hard stand.

Everything is just waiting for the emperor to decide. However, the emperor just didn't make a decision, and in a hurry, he stayed to meet the emperor. asked His Majesty to make a decision as soon as possible, but unexpectedly, the emperor was angry and roared angrily - Wu Qing is obviously still alive, why did you lie to me that he was dead?!

This sentence thundered all the courtiers and made the ministers want to cry without tears. Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Isn't it obvious that there are lice on the bald head...... Even if you're really a golden mouth, you can't talk nonsense like that.

Not dead!

So everyone had to be silent.

In this case, the Ministry of Rites can't give Wu Ting a seal, and the Ministry of Officials is not good at approving Wu Xi's leave, there is no way, Wu Xi is so angry that he scolds his mother in his heart, he really can't afford it, so he can only put on a white car and take his wife and children to Xingzhou for funeral.

During this period, the Emperor Taishang only missed his son in a daze every day, but he adhered to his demeanor, he never took the initiative to visit the inner house, and because of his demeanor, he never took the initiative to meddle in court politics; Li Fengniang is obsessed with fighting for the interests of the Li clan, and she doesn't care about the lives of others, especially the lives of Chuan Wa'er; Prime Minister Liuzheng was so angry that he was so angry that he pretended to be thirteen in the pavilion of Zhejiang Pavilion outside Lin'an City, pretending to be extremely devoted, and all government affairs were thrown aside.

On this day, Han Yanxuan was bored in the pavilion division, and the inner palace knew Lin Yinian to announce his entry into the palace. He followed him excitedly, thinking that the emperor had political affairs for him to handle.

The Pavilion is not far from the Imperial Palace, and it is opposite the Dongfu. Although the level of the governor's cabinet is not high, it is uploaded and distributed, and the court is contacted inside and outside. Most of them are royal relatives and relatives.

Han Yanxuan has been working here for six years, and he is also quite proficient in various affairs. However, it was the first time that the concubine had asked him to do something.

When I entered the Chengbi Palace, I saw the emperor and queen drinking, and there were palace maids playing the piano next to them. He hurriedly knelt down and saluted, and the emperor Zhao Dian did not raise his head, did not make a statement, but only heard Queen Li say: Han Aiqing, get up.

The palace announced that you entered the palace today, and I want you to go to Huzhou to make a few stones for my mother's temple. If you need money, go to the third division. What do you say?

Emperor Zhao Dian just swallowed a sip of wine, and when he heard the queen ask him, he nodded hurriedly, okay, okay, Han Aiqing, you can do it.

Han Yanxuan never thought that this Empress Li's maiden garden would buy a few pieces of Taihu Lake stones, and the court would pay for it, and he also asked him, the minister in charge of etiquette in the court, to do it, but the ridiculous thing is that the emperor actually allowed it.

Although he was a little unhappy in his heart, there was no way, could he object? The emperor doesn't even care if his son lives or dies, he only listens to his wife, if anyone openly contradicts him, he will definitely die a super ugly death.

The next day, Han Gemen and a waiter in the queen's palace rode to Xuanzhou.

Taihu Lake stone is mainly from the area around Taihu Lake and is used for scenery decoration. He knew that he couldn't be sloppy in doing things for the queen. I discussed with the small charge: run a few more places and choose some high-quality products. The route is from far to near.

When he arrived in Xuanzhou, Zhizhou Zhang Yan personally received him. After that, I personally accompanied the production area to choose. The second stop was Wu County, and the last and third stop was his hometown of Huzhou.

After a few days, he became an expert in buying Taihu stone. Taihu Lake Stone is also known as hole stone, rockery stone, is commonly used in the garden exquisite and transparent ornamental stone, is one of the famous four major play stones, strange stones, because of the abundance in the Taihu Lake area and famous in ancient and modern times. When choosing, we should look at its shape, feel its environment, taste its rhyme, and understand its virtue. Specifically, we should pay attention to four words, that is, thin, leaky and wrinkled. Thin, that is, the stone body is thin and rugged, with strange shapes, clear lines, and condensation. Leakage, that is, the stone body is exquisite, through the hole, up and down, giving people a sense of modesty and well-behaved. Wrinkles are the undulating posture of the surface of the stone body, the wrinkles are changeable, the twists and turns are vivid, the strange is in the grid, and the rhyme is seen in the difference. Transparent, that is, the stone body is clear, the holes are transparent, the texture is vertical and horizontal, the stone is delicate and clean, the stone color is colorful, and the luster is dazzling. Seeing deep through and seeing light through it, it gives people a clean and elegant, pleasant and interesting feeling.

Everywhere he went, he was accompanied by the main officials of the yamen, who went directly to the place of origin and carefully selected one by one. We all know that it is selected by the palace, and the price given by the merchants is very reasonable. The transportation was also taken care of by the local yamen, and when the settlement was made, the Qincha Han Gemen paid for it with a large stroke of the pen, which was deducted from the taxes paid.

When he was in Xuanzhou, Sihu joined the army and sent him 5,000 jiaozi, saying that it was a hardship fee, which was included in the cost of buying stones. Han Gemen refused: No, we are here to do things for the emperor, we can't take the opportunity to make benefits, and we can't let the people say that the officials in the capital are corrupt officials. He also found a chamberlain and asked him to return the money as well.

He said: We just want to do a good job in the palace, and at the same time save money for the court.

After more than ten days, Han Yanxuan's affairs were done, and there was no reaction from the palace and the imperial court. He had no choice but to sit in a daze again in the pavilion. However, Liu Jianxiu, the deputy envoy of the third division, said a fair word when calculating this expenditure:

This Han Gemen has a very good character, he is not greedy or occupied, and he does things very beautifully.