Chapter 282: Supreme Luxury
The East Palace, known as the radius of nine and a half miles, the nine-fold Tianfu Garden, Xiao Yungui followed the head of the East Palace, Zuo Tianhou Chen Chengying, to the inner mansion to see Yang Xiuqing, along the way only to see the unique garden design in the palace, the exquisite layout planning, the beauty of the building, the remote and elegant scenery. In a garden, Chen Chengying introduced to Xiao Yungui the Taihu Lake stone called "Chair Cloud Peak" and "Xianren Peak", which are relics of Huashi Gang in the Song Dynasty; There is also the scenery of "Quqiao and Sesame Spring", which makes people seem to be really on the side of the mountain, forest and wild spring, and the only thing that overflows the heart is the quiet feeling; "Fangting brocade scales", weeping willows blowing waves, brocade scales playing in the water, looking at the swimming fish, the sigh of Haoliang will arise spontaneously; "Snow Wave Trace" is even more unique, where the water is like a mirror stone like a wave, which is in response to the meaning of Su Dongpo's "chaotic stones piercing the air, stormy waves hitting the shore", and the inscription of "Snow Wave Stone" of Dongpo monks is the finishing touch.
In short, Chen Chengying took Xiao Yungui to visit the Dongwang Mansion, where every palace and pavilion, every pavilion and water pavilion, every cloister bridge, every strange flower, every peak and rock, every clear water, and every swimming fish are all used as an element of beauty, striving to build a comprehensive beauty, showing the magnificence and uniqueness of the East Palace.
Xiao Yungui also knew Yang Xiuqing's intentions, he asked Chen Chengying to take him to the garden, he wanted to open his eyes to this poor brother, and let King Xi have a kind of extravagant admiration from his heart. People are like this, born in sorrow and die in peace, when your luxury heart is raised, your ambition and fighting spirit will also be consumed. Yang Xiuqing planned to let the King of the West see luxury, and like the King of Heaven and the kings, he would pursue a luxurious life and reduce his ambition.
After setting the capital of Tianjing, the king of heaven carried out an almost perverted revenge enjoyment like an upstart in his little paradise! For example, Hong Tianwang has the largest bed on Shijie, which is 8 feet in width - this is much more than the Ning-style bed that Ah Q is going to move to the Tugu Temple in his dream, yes. Ah Q is too lacking in revolutionary style! In Hong Tianwang's view, Lao Tzu is victorious today, and from now on, he will sleep with too many women! How can you match the biggest bed without such a shijie? Doesn't your "Qing Demon" have seventy-two concubines in three palaces, six courtyards? Lao Tzu is more than you! After King Hong set the capital, he determined the rank of the king and the queen, and there were 16 rank levels under the queen's mother, such as love mother, hip girl, wonderful girl, and beautiful girl, with a total of 208 positions; Under the 24 princesses, there are 7 rank levels such as the maiden and the yuannu, with a total of 960 positions. Although many positions are still vacant at the moment, Sect Master Hong has not stopped his beauty pageant. According to Bai Zetang's intelligence, the Heavenly King's Mansion summons a large number of folk women to the Tianwang's Mansion every month.
In addition to beauty pageants, Sect Master Hong also advocates the construction of palaces. Aren't you "Qing Demon" living in the Jinluan Palace? Lao Tzu built the Heavenly King's Mansion bigger than you! The Tianwang Mansion has a radius of more than ten miles, and the total area is more than twice as large as the Ming and Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace in Beijing. The outside is Sun City, and the inside is Golden Dragon City. The three-storey building from the Golden Dragon Hall to the Zuihou side, a total of nine entrances, indicates the meaning of the Nine Heavenly Court. The walls are painted in lacquer. The floors are covered with marble, and the doors and windows are pasted with silk. The pillars are painted in red gold. Intricately carved inside and out. Resplendent and extremely luxurious. Didn't you "Qing Demon" go out and take the Bajiao Bridge? Lao Tzu sat in a sixteen-lift sedan chair, and later sat on a twenty-four sedan chair. Didn't Lao Tzu be poor in the past, but now he will show you! Eating utensils are not gold or silver, and even the toilet and urinal are all made of gold!
It can be said that King Hong nests in the Heavenly King's Mansion every day and rarely deals with military and political affairs. Sneaking through his lavish life, his main research is to worship God and how to live more luxuriously.
In this way, the power of the kingdom of heaven naturally fell into the hands of the East King, and the East King's Mansion was equipped with six Shangshu, Bo Shu, Chengxuan, and hundreds of servants. These people are the bureaucracy that maintains the entire military and political operations of the Heavenly Kingdom.
And the difference between Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan is that he is also pursuing a luxurious life, but he has not given up military and political affairs, because he is smarter than Hong Xiuquan, and he knows that the source of all his luxury lies in the power he holds in his hands! Therefore, anyone who wants to share power with him is tantamount to moving the confinement of the king of the east!
Yang Xiuqing prepared a dismount for the King of the West, and also prepared sugar-coated cannonballs, he hoped that Xiao Chaogui, a native bun who had been fighting, would start to compare with each other and begin to pursue a luxurious life after seeing the luxury of the East Prince's Mansion.
But his wishful thinking was wrong, the current King of the West is not the original King of the West, how can Xiao Yungui not see the earthly buns in the world? Looking at the beautiful Dongwang Mansion, Xiao Yungui couldn't help but sigh at the speed at which the heroes and heroes of the Heavenly Kingdom were corrupted and degenerated, which was really jaw-dropping.
After thinking about it, Xiao Yungui was also relieved, once the poor people became rich, they would change their ways to declare his wealth, and the mud legs made in the mountains of Guangxi would definitely be more luxurious than the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They are far from the sons and daughters of the party who worked hard to start a business in later generations.
"I want the whole of China, not the luxury of a short time!" Xiao Yungui secretly slandered, and there was no word on his lips and Chen Chengying perfunctory, although Chen Chengying said many times that he could help Xiwang expand the layout of Tianjing's Xiwang Mansion, but Xiao Yungui didn't have this mind, and if he had money, he would use it to run factories, schools, and guns, what would he do with these useless things?
Coming to a five-story building, Xiao Yungui looked up and saw that this building had five floors, and the carved dragon painting building was magnificent, but in the eyes of Xiao Yungui, who was accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings in later generations, it was nothing, Xiao Yungui muttered to himself in his heart, is this building earthquake-proof?
The name of this building is called Duobao, and when you enter the inside, you can see that it is full of all kinds of gold, stone, jade, calligraphy, painting, and antiques, and it is really worthy of the name of Duobao Building.
Duobaolou has been on the fourth floor, three steps, one sentry, five steps and one post, there are no less than 100 East Hall staff guards here, everyone is armored and weapon, which makes Xiao Yungui secretly uneasy in his heart, what if Yang Xiuqing has murderous intentions?
Going up to the top floor of the hall, I saw Yang Xiuqing leaning on a huge camphor wood soft couch, with a white tiger skin under it, Yang Xiuqing held a jade jue inlaid gold wine glass, and the wine in the cup was amber. Seeing the wine glass in Yang Xiuqing's hand shaking, Xiao Yungui's scalp was numb for a while, and it was often played in the play, if the cup was broken, would the East Hall guards downstairs rush up to kill him?
Fortunately, Yang Xiuqing didn't drop the cup, he saw Xiao Yungui coming down, and waved his hand lightly. Chen Chengying and other people serving in the palace all retreated downstairs, and only the East King and the West King were left in the palace.
The mutton fat jade wine bottle was opened, and Yang Xiuqing poured another glass of amber wine for Xiao Yungui, and then raised his hand to signal Xiao Yungui to drink it himself.
Xiao Yungui was also not polite, walked to the jade tooth case, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, followed by Yang Xiuqing and pointed to a yellow silk chair next to the soft couch, and motioned for Xiao Yungui to sit down. Xiao Yungui pulled the hem of his clothes, sat down gently, and looked at Yang Xiuqing's dark and thin face, Xiao Yungui said in a low voice: "Brother has been reduced." ”
Yang Xiuqing's face was grim. said lightly: "Don't you dare to be, do you still have my brother in your heart?" ”
Xiao Yungui's face tightened, it seemed that Yang Xiuqing really had a thorn in his heart, remembering Zuo Zongtang and Qian Jiangjiao's words, he cried loudly at the scene. Then he knelt down in front of the soft couch and cried in the dark. Barely able to speak.
Seeing such a rough man as King Xi crying so earth-shatteringly. To Yang Xiuqing's surprise, he couldn't help but put down his wine glass, sat up in Siping, and said gently: "What are you crying about?" ”
"Brother, do you still remember the hard days when the two of us chopped wood and burned charcoal in Bauhinia Mountain? It was so cold that winter, and the good charcoal sold was made by Li Dahu's family for a few pennies. The two of us were so hungry that we only dared to buy a siu mai for a penny, and the two of us shared it. Xiao Yungui cried while talking about the past, and his voice was sad. It made Yang Xiuqing's heart sour.
At this moment, in the position of the East King, it seems that the only person who dares to talk to the East King about the past is the West King who wears a pair of pants with him, and for a moment Yang Xiuqing suddenly felt in his heart that only in front of this person was the real himself.
After sighing lightly, Yang Xiuqing got up and helped Xiao Yungui up, let him sit down and said: "I remember, it was really cold that year, so cold that there were snowflakes floating on the top of Bauhinia Mountain, and my eye disease was the root of the disease that fell at that time, and if you look in the snow for a long time, you will get snow blindness." "The Daoguang period was at the end of the Ming and Qing Xiaoice Ages, when the climate was abnormal, but there was snowfall on the high mountains in some parts of Guangxi.
Xiao Yungui wiped his tears, and sighed: "At that time, my brother told my younger brother that we would be rich together in the future, and Chaogui has not forgotten the oath at that time. ”
Yang Xiuqing hummed and said, "It's good that you remember, then why do you want to let Brother Tian go down to earth?" Don't you remember our agreement? ”
Xiao Yungui's heart shook slightly, Xiao Chaogui's memory in his mind did remember the agreement between Yang Xiao and the two, at the beginning of the uprising, Yang Xiuqing entrusted his father to go down to earth and seize the authority that belonged to Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, and everything was going smoothly, but at the critical time on the eve of the uprising, Yang Xiuqing's old illness relapsed, and he couldn't be a director.
During the difficult time when Hong Xiuquan fled to other places, Feng Yunshan was imprisoned, and Yang Xiuqing fell ill, Xiao Chaogui mobilized charcoal burners to donate hundreds of strings of money to dredge the government to rescue Feng Yunshan from prison, and actively participated in organizing and planning the Jintian Uprising. On the eve of the Jintian Uprising, in order to strengthen the regimental organization, Xiao Chaogui returned to Wuxuan's hometown to recruit the congregation and mobilize his brothers to participate in the uprising. He resolutely destroyed his house and sunk the boat, expressing his determination without hesitation. Driven by Xiao Chaogui, the masses sold their property one after another, rushed to Jintian, and enthusiastically participated in the group camp. He sat in the headquarters of Pingzaishan, and for every major event that happened in various places, he made instructions or decisions in the name of Brother Tian. He organized the congregation with great courage and developed liliang. And all this is the unified deployment after he and Yang Xiuqing on the sickbed discussed, and it is with the careful planning of the two that the Jintian Uprising can be carried out smoothly.
But then Yang Xiuqing recovered from his illness, and at this time, Brother Tian's prestige faintly surpassed that of Heavenly Father, and it was agreed by Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui to reduce the number of times Brother Tian went to earth in the future, and even made a few rare appearances, and Brother Tian only took care of trivial things, so as to gradually reduce Brother Tian's prestige.
Unexpectedly, the king of the West didn't discuss with him today, and suddenly sacrificed the matter of Brother Tian's descent to earth, so how could Yang Xiuqing not be angry?
Seeing Yang Xiuqing's angry face, and then seeing him pick up the wine glass again, Xiao Yungui began to be frightened again, don't drop the glass. (To be continued......)