Chapter Eighty-Seven: Entering the Capital
After the completion of the Deyang Palace, a large gathering of hundreds of officials, Emperor Ming remembered Zhong Liyi's rules, and said to the minister with great feelings: "If Zhong Liyi Shangshu is still in the capital, this palace should not be built." On the first day of the first lunar month every year, the emperor comes to the Deyang Hall to celebrate. Hundreds of officials, ministers, generals, doctors, county officials, envoys of ethnic minorities such as barbarians, barbarians, and Qiang, and more than 10,000 people from the clan came to congratulate. The emperor took the throne in the east, and more than 10,000 people such as hundreds of officials stood in the west. At the beginning of the celebration, the hundred officials were on their birthday, and the emperor gave the ministers wine and food, played nine bin music, performed acrobatic magic, and spent the joy of peace together. How many major political events in the Eastern Han Dynasty were decided in the Deyang Palace.
In addition to the above-mentioned buildings, the palace group of the North Palace also has the Baiguan Dynasty Hall, the Chengguang Palace, the Wenming Palace, the Jiuzifang, the Hook and Shield Department, the Ting Office, the Iron Pillar Gate, the Shengshu Gate, the Dongming Gate, the Wende Palace, the Zhangde Palace, the Xuanping Palace, the Xianyang Palace, the Yunqi Palace, etc. Among them, the hall of the hundred official dynasties is the place where important ceremonies are held and national policies are formulated, and they live in the outer courts, and the Son of Heaven will visit them in person. Seongkojeon Hall is the eastern palace of the crown prince.
There are many outbuildings around the huge Miyagi Castle, which make the Miyagi even more magnificent like the stars and the moon. There is Lingyuntai in the southwest corner of Nangong and northeast of Xuanzhu Gate, and there is an ice room in Taitung, which is specially used by the emperor to cool off in summer; Between the east gate of Nangong and the Wangjing gate in the east of the city, there are Taiwei Mansion, Sikong Mansion and Situ Mansion in turn. The architecture of the Three Princes' Mansion is extremely luxurious, almost surpassing the royal palace. The emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not exercise moderation because they relied on the three dukes, and even encouraged them to build.
In the southeast of the North Palace, there is the Gao'an Pavilion in the west of the Middle East Gate, and the north of the Gao'an Pavilion is the Yong'an Palace; The circumference of the palace is 698 zhang, there are palaces such as Jingfu, Anchang, Yanxiu and so on, as well as Houtai and the garden with beautiful environment; The north of the palace is Yongheli. On the north side of the avenue from the east gate of the North Palace to the east gate of the city, there are arsenals and Taicang from west to east, which are the royal military warehouses and the grain warehouses that supply the central imperial government.
There were many gardens around the palace for the emperor's amusement. In the North Palace, a special hook and shield office was set up to manage the tour of the capital garden. There is an order of one person, with a rank of 600 stones, and he is promoted by the eunuchs, and there are 40 officials and 40 officials. There is Fanglin Garden in the east of the North Palace, and there are Huaguang Hall and Sogo Hall in the garden. Huaguang Hall is in the north of the Chongguang Palace, and Yang Zhen's grandsons Yang Ci and Liu Kuan have successively lectured for Emperor Ling in the Huaguang Palace.
There is the dragon garden in the northwest of the north palace, which has the weaving room of the queen of the Ming Emperor and the horse, which is the place where the queen raises silkworms and entertains in her spare time; When Emperor Huan, the garden was painstakingly managed, so that the scenery of the dragon garden was beautiful, and people forgot to return. The ancient poem says: "The dragon looks like the sea, and the river bridge crosses like thunder." You can imagine the enchanting scene of rippling water and blue sky. In this beautiful and extreme garden, Emperor Huan once sacrificed to the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu with the specifications of the Son of Heaven, at that time used the cloth cloth with patterns to wrap the altar, decorated with gold and silver, set up the seat of the canopy, and used the music of the suburbs to worship the heavens, the momentum was huge, and the scene was grand.
The imperial garden on the west side of the North Palace is called Xiyuan, which is a place for the emperor to play. At the beginning, the scale and structure were not conspicuous, but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ruler revisited the garden and cultivated the garden, so the West Garden was decorated like a fairyland. Emperor Ling was in power, and all the silk silks were put into the Wanjin Hall.
Dong Zhuo took the two young masters into Luoyang and soon controlled the deployment of the capital, in addition to the original palace of the Imperial Forest Army and various guards, the entire periphery is Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, Dong Zhuo entered Kyoto and quickly found a foothold, he cleaned up the Yong'an Palace in the North Palace as his own mansion, eating, drinking, living and traveling in this palace, like the style of the Son of Heaven, all the generals were angry, and the ministers of the court and the central government also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, Dong Zhuo added a lot of guards to himself, led by Hua Xiong himself, and went to and from his residence, And monitoring the movements of the palace, this team has thousands of people, and all of them are in armor, so they are not majestic, Dong Zhuo is in and out of the formation by Hua Xiong himself, following the left and right...,