"Can the ministers hear me clearly?" The Empress Dowager Cixi said unashamedly, "If you hear it clearly, let's get up." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is not a court meeting today, so everyone doesn't have to be formal. ”

The ministers stood up in thanks, and Cixi did not look at Prince Gong again, but took the treasure inventory and looked through it.

"To say that the French lord is still a particular person, and the pieces sent back are all the fine products in the garden back then."

Cixi flipped through the inventory and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Ah, this 'Forty Scenes' is also there!" Hurry up, hurry up! Find me this scroll! ”

Hearing Cixi's order, Liu Chengyin hurriedly took a large volume of calligraphy and painting from the shelf where the calligraphy and paintings were placed with the stewards and eunuchs of Jianfu Palace, and respectfully held them over.

"There are more than 100 scenic spots in the Old Summer Palace, but unfortunately only 40 are drawn, and everyone has never seen it, come, Liu Chengyin, open it for everyone to see." Empress Dowager Cixi commanded.

"Huh-"

The two little eunuchs carried a long rosewood table and set it up, Liu Chengyin took a scroll of paintings, and the eunuchs in charge of the scrolls slowly unfolded on the table.

Before the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, there were more than 100 garden groups, but only 40 scenes were mapped. "Forty Views of the Old Summer Palace" can be said to be the most accomplished Gongbi color painting in China's history. This set of drawings was drawn by the most famous court painters at that time, Tang Dai, Shen Yuan, Leng Mei and others after 11 years in the ninth year of Qianlong (1744) according to the will of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. In 1860, when the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, this precious set of painted drawings was looted by the French army, dedicated to Napoleon III, and kept in the National Library of Paris, and all of them were stamped with the museum's collection seal, becoming a "national treasure" of France. And this time, for the purpose of friendship between China and France, Napoleon III returned this magnificent masterpiece to China.

After the painting of "Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace", the poem was inscribed by the Qianlong imperial pen and written by Wang Youdun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, which has extremely high painting artistic value and historical and cultural value. The architecture, spring stones and other landscapes painted in "Forty Views of the Old Summer Palace" are all in realistic style, so seeing the "Forty Views of the Old Summer Palace" is like seeing the grand occasion of the Old Summer Palace at that time.

As the scrolls unfolded, a little eunuch sang the name of the scenery in the painting:

"Zhengda Guangming!"

"Diligent and pro-virtuous!"

"Kyushu Qingyan!"

"The Moon Opens the Clouds!"

"Bitong Academy!"

"Tzuyun Puhu!"

"Up and down the sky!"

"Xinghua Spring Hall!"

"Ru Gu Han Jin!"

"Changchun Immortal Pavilion!"

"Peace in all directions!"

"Wuling Spring!"

When she heard the little eunuch report to "Wuling Spring", the Empress Dowager Cixi stepped forward suddenly, came to the picture scroll, and stroked the picture with her hand, looking very excited.

"Emperor, come and see!" The Empress Dowager Cixi pointed to a garden building on the picture scroll of "Wuling Spring", and said with some excitement, "E-Niang was here back then, pregnant with you!" ”

Emperor Tongzhi stepped forward in response, came to his mother's side, and looked at it carefully.

"This is the 'heaven and earth, one spring'." The Empress Dowager Cixi told like a few family treasures, "The name of 'heaven and earth, one spring' began in the Yongzheng Dynasty. The sentence "Heaven and earth is a spring" was originally praised by a courtier, and the source is the fourth of Yang Juyuan's "Shengshou Wujiang Words" in the Tang Dynasty: "Yunshan Nine Gates Dawn, Heaven and Earth are a spring." ’……”

"I remember that at the time of 'Heaven and Earth Family Spring', a painting of Gao Qipei was originally hung, which was collected and stored by order in December of the 11th year of Yongzheng. The palace of heaven and earth is also called "mountain and water", there is also a plaque hanging on it, this plaque was originally hung in front of the eaves of "heaven and earth a spring", the first month of the fourth year of Qianlong was moved to the house according to the order, and hung to the north. There is a bronze medicine king Buddha in the hall. There is also a "multi-son picture" hanging in the apse of "Heaven and Earth One Spring", which was painted by Xu Yang in the 27th year of Qianlong. The northernmost fifteen rooms of "Heaven and Earth Family Spring" are called "Quanshi Self-entertainment", this room Yongzheng seven years to hang the imperial book "Mao Yu Zhai" plaque, and then it is easy to be "Shuirong Fengcui", Qianlong five years finally named "Quanshi Self-entertainment". The small courtyard in the northwest of the "Heaven and Earth Family Spring" hall is called "Xingshuyuan", which is what I often call "Daya Zhai", and here is "Hanmo Zhai", "Sishun Zhai", "Jishantang" and "Fushou Renen" ......"

Emperor Tongzhi listened to his mother's narration and nodded again and again, he didn't notice at all that Prince Gong's face was very ugly at this time.

"The sleeping places of the concubines of the Daxing Emperor are all here: the three rooms on the west side of the hall of the 'Heaven and Earth Family Spring' hall are where Eniang lives, Eniang was still a concubine at that time, and the woman's house (that is, the palace maid's work house) is in the south-west courtyard. The three east rooms and the west three rooms of the apse are inhabited by the nobles and the nobles respectively. The five rooms in the east of 'Quanshi Self-Entertainment' are inhabited by Ming Chang and Yinggui, and the three or four times in the west are Xin Chang in. The three main rooms of the 'Apricot Tree Courtyard' are inhabited by the noble people. In the back of the northwest and east courtyard, there are three main rooms where Li concubines live, and three rooms in the front main house live in nobles. The three main rooms in front of the west courtyard are inhabited by concubines. The concubines and maids are all in the nearby south room or wing room. Each concubine and concubine dormitory of 'Heaven and Earth One Spring' is equipped with beds and ondols, laying floor felt, bed felt, curtains, and mattresses when it is hot in summer. The dormitory also has to build a swing every spring......"

Hearing that the Empress Dowager Cixi actually explained the details of "Heaven and Earth One Spring" to Emperor Tongzhi so clearly, many ministers understood at this time.

Wen Xiang and several ministers of military aircraft looked at Prince Gong in unison, and Prince Gong's face had turned blue.

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In the courtyard, Li Hongzhang looked at the red glow in the sky and chatted with Sheng Xuanhuai.

"Lin Yizhe is very smart, but he may not have thought that he would cause the Dharma Master to return the national treasure this time, but he would cause a big trouble to the sixth master." Li Hongzhang leaned back in his chair, glanced at Sheng Xuanhuai, and sighed loudly.

"Yes! The wind rises from the three seas, and the rain comes from the clear ripples. Listening to Li Hongzhang's words, the two big words "garden worker" instantly appeared in Sheng Xuanhuai's mind.

"Since last year, the queen mother has had this discussion, and the lower officials are afraid that some of the gentlemen in the center will have the idea of welcoming them for their own favor, in that case, there will be no Taiping Lake view in front of the six princes......" Sheng Xuanhuai nodded and sighed.

"The wind rises from the three seas, and the rain comes from the clear ripples!" Li Hongzhang sighed, "This time it's too fierce, I'm afraid the sixth master won't be able to stop it." ”

The officialdom of the Qing Dynasty replied to each other, accustomed to using hidden words, and the words that entered the ears often need to be studied and analyzed to know their original meaning, and Sheng Xuanhuai's words just now are the most obvious metaphors.

"The wind rises from the three seas, and the rain comes from the clear ripples" This sentence is to put it bluntly, in fact, it is simply the word "garden worker"!

Since the Anglo-French alliance invaded Beijing in the tenth year of Xianfeng and forced Emperor Wenzong to avoid Rehe, the situation in the Qing Dynasty has been in turmoil around two great politics.

Since April of the third year of Tongzhi, Prince Gong, as the prime minister and minister of national affairs, led Wenxiang and other important ministers of military aircraft to "prepare for the Tongzhi Yi Affairs", and clearly put forward that "the way to investigate and govern the country is to care about self-improvement." After judging the situation and taking military training as the key to self-improvement, and military training with weapon making as the first priority......", the Qing Dynasty began a vigorous Westernization movement.

In addition to the aura of the Westernization cause, there is always another big politics in the political situation of the Qing Empire that is not good enough for outsiders, but it can make Prince Zigong and Li Hongzhang and other Western-style leaders have a headache, but they are helpless - garden workers!!

In the tenth year of Xianfeng, the British and French troops entered the army, not only forced the holy car to hunt in the north, but also burned the three mountains and five gardens in western Beijing - Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain, and Qingyi Garden, Yuanmingyuan, Changchun Garden, Jingmingyuan, Jingyi Garden - all burned clean (burning the Old Summer Palace is actually just a general statement)!

I don't know if it's because Aixinjueluo's family is from the bitter cold land outside the Guan, anyway, since the Holy Ancestor period, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty must go to the three mountains and five gardens on the outskirts of Beijing every time the heat is scorching. The so-called "Son of Heaven's family affairs are state affairs" - since the three mountains and five gardens have now been burned clean (in fact, the degree of damage is not as serious as the outside world rumored, after the withdrawal of the British and French troops after the Qing court sent personnel to inspect, many places are intact, and there are not many places that are seriously damaged), then the rebuilding of the gardens on the outskirts of Beijing has naturally become an absolute national politics that is almost as important as foreign affairs.

Empress Dowager Cixi had the idea of repairing the garden very early, and in the sixth year of Tongzhi, she consulted the Military Aircraft Department for the first time about the construction and cost of rebuilding the Old Summer Palace, and her plan was immediately led by Prince Gong, including the joint boycott of the Imperial Minister and all the ministers of military aircraft - the reason is very simple, on the basis of this little family in the treasury, the garden workers will not be able to do foreign affairs, and if they can't do foreign affairs, the Qing Dynasty will be in danger of overturning!

It should be known that only the "Three Seas" project requires at least 2 million taels of silver! And the treasury of the Qing Dynasty was so embarrassed that it was impossible to take it out at all.

Cixi saw that her idea was strongly opposed by the ministers, and at the same time knew that the treasury had no money, so she did not insist, and the matter was not settled. But in fact, this thought has not been broken in her heart for a day.

Now that the foreign affairs in various places have been small, and the treasury is also slightly full, this time Lin Yizhe prompted the French emperor to return 4,000 old treasures of the Old Summer Palace, and aroused her idea of repairing the garden!

"The treasures he got were really bad when they came back." Sheng Xuanhuai sighed.

"In fact, I can't complain about Lin Yizhe about this, that is, he didn't try to get the Dharma Master to return the national treasure, and this garden will have to be repaired one day." Li Hongzhang sighed, "It's just that it's just a matter of time." ”

"If the sixth master agrees to repair the garden, the foreign affairs will be greatly affected in the future, but if he doesn't agree to repair, I'm afraid that the sixth master's seat will ......" Sheng Xuanhuai said with a worried face, "The center is not the sixth master!" ”

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