Chapter Ninety-Six: The Problem of the Forbidden City

The vigorous land reform enabled the Chinese government to win the support of the overwhelming majority of the peasants at once, and it was also well consolidated, and it also had a super strong mass base.

When the policy was first announced, some people jumped out and said that it was impractical and should not be implemented, and when the landlord class was suppressed, these people jumped even more happily, and they unscrupulously expressed their opinions, bluntly saying that the government was destroying the city wall; There are also a large number of people who support the government's policies, such as Song Jiaoren and others, who believe that the government is practicing democracy, because this land reform is very much in line with their program of 'equal land rights', they support the government, and then fight with the opposition.

Due to the further implementation of the land reform, the war of words between the two sides slowly stopped, and the supporters won a complete victory. Britain, France, the United States and other countries have lost their glasses, they could not have imagined that the landlord class in China would compromise like this, and the Chinese government is really too strong to use violent means to reform and succeed. In their opinion, the rise of China can not be stopped, and can only delay the rise of China from other aspects, but Germany and the United States and other countries are very excited, the purchasing power of the Chinese people after the land reform is definitely stronger, and the market potential of China is greater than before, and now China is in the new construction, the market demand is very large, which is exactly what they want.

After the land reform entered the normal track, Qin Yu didn't have to spend too much thought on it, he soon entered the preparations for the military parade, this military parade is related to too many things, and he also wants to officially establish the country by the way during the military parade, the current Huaxia government is transformed from the East China government, and has always used the central government of the Huaxia Republic to claim itself, and the Huaxia Republic has not been formally established, and the national system has not been determined. In order to solve the problem at one time, the military parade and the founding of the country can just be put together, which can not only show their own strength but also officially announce the rise of China to the world, which is a sign of the opening of a new era.

Qin Yu was just busy with a few days of preparation for the parade when he was disturbed by a report, it was the statistical report of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, when the Beiyang government was dissolved, Qin Yu ordered to summon domestic archaeologists to count the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, and he thought that it would be almost done after less than half a year. Then he was directly startled when he saw it, the number in it was more than five times larger than what he knew in his previous life, and there were still many cultural relics that had not been counted, because they were afraid of damage, and the archaeologists only roughly counted them, and even some documents were not counted.

In the previous life, the Palace Museum in Beijing was less than 2 million pieces of cultural relics after recovering the treasures that Pu Yi took out of the palace, accepting private donations, and participating in archaeological excavations, of course, this does not include the cultural relics of the Palace Museum that were moved to Taiwan at that time, and there are about more than 500,000 pieces in Taiwan.

In fact, these are not all, Pu Yi still lived in the Forbidden City after his abdication, and at that time, a large number of cultural relics were smuggled out by palace maids or eunuchs to sell at a cheap price, and Pu Yi brought a lot of cultural relics to the puppet Manchukuo. There is also the transfer of the Anti-Japanese War, in 1931, after the Japanese invading army invaded the Northeast, in order to protect the heirlooms, the Kuomintang government formulated a grand plan for the southward relocation of cultural relics, and in 1933, the spectacular "cultural relics migration" began, mainly based on the cultural relics in the Forbidden City. After 12 years, the treasures were transported from Beijing to Sichuan and Guizhou through Shanghai and Nanjing, and were not transported back to Nanjing until the end of the Anti-Japanese War. Soon after the outbreak of the civil war, these cultural relics that had migrated south had not yet returned to Beijing, and the fine works were "distributed" to Taiwan along with the confidential archives of the Kuomintang. In these transfer process can lose a lot, a large number of cultural relics scattered among the people, among which in Nanjing there is a batch of cultural relics that did not come and were transferred by Japan to occupy, and finally obtained by Japan, and after the Japanese occupied Beiping, they also moved a lot of things from the Forbidden City back to China, so the number of cultural relics in the Forbidden City can not be counted.

Now due to Qin Yu's interference, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City have been well protected and have not been lost, but the number of cultural relics in it also makes him very nerve-wracking, and the cost of maintenance is a huge amount, so he is ready to set up a museum for the public to visit, and by the way, to provide financial income for the study of cultural relics.

If you want to exhibit cultural relics, you have to deal with the Forbidden City, not only to position but also to carry out a series of discussions, the Forbidden City is a behemoth, but also the power center of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. After the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, decided to move the capital to Beijing, that is, he began to build the Forbidden City Palace, which was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420). According to ancient Chinese astrology, Ziweiyuan is located in Zhongtian, which is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, and the corresponding heaven and man are also known as the Forbidden City as the residence of the emperor.

The Forbidden City is 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 720,000 square meters. There are 890 houses with a total of 8,707 rooms. It is surrounded by a 10-meter-high castle wall and a 52-meter-wide moat. There is a city gate on each side of the city wall, among which the noon gate in the south and the Shenwu gate in the north are now exclusively for visitors to visit and enter. The layout of the palace buildings in the city unfolds along the central axis to the east and west. The red walls and yellow tiles, the carved beams of the paintings, are splendid. The palace tower, high and low, spectacular and majestic. The southern half of the city is centered on the three major halls of Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Palace, and the two sides are supplemented by two halls of Wenhua Hall and Wuying Palace, which is the place where the emperor holds a court meeting, called "the former dynasty". The northern half is centered on the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, the Kunning Palace, the East and West Six Palaces and the Imperial Garden, the outer east side has the Fengxian, the Huangji and other halls, the west side has the Yangxin Palace, the Yuhua Pavilion, the Cining Palace, etc., it is the place where the emperor and the concubines live, hold sacrifices and religious activities and deal with daily government affairs, called "Hou Bed". In addition, there are Zhai Palace, Yuqing Palace, Chonghua Palace, etc., with a total area of 163,000 square meters in the front and back parts of the palace. The layout of the whole group of palace buildings is strict and orderly, and every inch of bricks and tiles follows the feudal hierarchical etiquette system, reflecting the supreme authority of the emperor.

The Forbidden City is too big, so big that it is intimidating, even Qin Yu is embarrassed, in order to protect the Forbidden City, he has transferred nearly 10,000 troops to martial law. The Forbidden City is a mysterious and noble place in the hearts of ordinary people, in their consciousness it is the center of the country, and only the royal family can live there, so the Forbidden City has a very great influence in China.

After getting this statistical report, Qin Yu put down his work and summoned a group of high-level officials to talk about the Forbidden City, after all, this matter is not a trivial matter, and Qin Yu is not sure how to deal with the Forbidden City in his heart, he is just sure to build a museum.

"Now that we move here, we will face the treatment of the Forbidden City, the former center of power, what do you think of the Forbidden City?" After Qin Yu saw that everyone was coming, he got to the point.

Chen Fu said excitedly: "Chairman, why don't you move in, no one dares to say anything based on your identity and status, and only you have the qualifications to move in." ”

"Nonsense, I'm not the emperor, how can I go in and live, how can I mess around where the emperor lived in the past." Qin Yu said with a stern face, in fact, his heart was beating very fast when Chen Fu spoke, but it quickly calmed down again.

"Chairman, since you don't move in, why don't we let the government help you move in, this is also in line with our conditions for being the central government." Qin San said with glowing eyes.

When Qin San finished speaking, there was a commotion in the hearts of everyone present, Forbidden City, what a magical place this is, if they can live in it, it will be the glory of their lives.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Don't think about living in, think about the current situation, especially in the south, the revolutionaries who pay attention to democracy will not let us live in the Forbidden City, and it will also cause strong dissatisfaction among the people, can you live in it if you are not the emperor?" So let's close it and open them to the public in a few years. ”

"I also think it's good to seal it, after all, there is no emperor now, and there are no ministers anymore, so it's still sealed, and it will be opened when the time is right, after all, this is a great building in our China, and we must protect it anyway." Cai Yi looked at Jiang Fangzhen and said.

"Isn't it impossible to move in, and those weak so-called democrats can outcompete our army? What about going in, even if we enter the city of Beijing, we should enter there, and this is what we deserve. A man with a bit of a grumpy temper said.

"Okay, don't fight, the Forbidden City will be included as a national cultural relic, and it belongs to the people of the whole country, so I decided to seal it and open it after our national body is decided, no matter what, the Forbidden City will not let people move in in the future." Qin Yu thought for a while and said, in fact, he had always had the desire to enter the palace in his heart, but he was suppressed by his reason.

Everyone who wanted to say anything didn't dare to think about it, Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Ye went to build the Forbidden City under the pressure of the army, and the people in the army always thought that Qin Yu should move to the palace to live, but the two of them pressed hard because they were afraid that one day Qin Yu would lose his mind because of power, and there would be countless moths to put out the fire, which was not what they wanted to see.

Although Qin Yu decided to do this, it was still necessary to discuss some details, and after talking about it for an afternoon, he decided on the issue of the Forbidden City.

On January 27, 1913, the Chinese government issued the "Plan for Several Questions on the Forbidden City" and announced that the Forbidden City would be renamed the Forbidden City from today. The "Plan for Several Questions Concerning the Forbidden City" stipulates that the Forbidden City belongs to the state and the people of the whole country, the government will send people to protect it, and will also impose a two-year ban, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City will be counted in a unified manner, and a museum will be established to open the public after two years.

The announcement of this plan made the democrats in the south very excited, in their opinion, this is the news released by the government, Qin Yu will not be the emperor, that is to say, the democratic system will be implemented in the future, and they have publicly praised the government for doing a good job.