Chapter 53: Waste of Public Currency

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"Ceramics Exhibition, we Chinese are a nation of food, and our ceramic skills have been inherited for thousands of years. So they put together the exhibition from ancient pottery bowls to the most exquisite porcelain today, and by the way, I also collected some export porcelain from the pre-Ming Dynasty, as well as modern and French porcelain. Qingyu smiled, and her eyes lit up as she spoke.

"Isn't it said that it is an exhibition of ancient paintings? Gone so soon? "Xianfeng has recently heard Chery often talk about ancient painting exhibitions.

"No, the exhibition is in the east, and the ancient paintings dare not see the wind, nor can they get close to the pool, for fear of the tide. It's not easy to preserve, but it can't be left unattended in the basement as before. Now the art academy has been classified according to dynasties, and it is taken out in batches, that is, it is breathed, and it will be exhibited for half a month, and then it will be taken back. Change the batch to exhibit! Therefore, after watching the porcelain exhibition, you can take a look at the art exhibition again, this time the exhibition is about the Tang and Song Dynasty calligraphy and paintings. Qingyu hurriedly explained that in order to restore these paintings, she spent a lot of money and invited a professional team from abroad.

"At the beginning, I said that you were not interested in visiting the garden, and I thought that such a big garden was too wasteful, but the royal rules could not let you open the people to go in, and it happened that these treasures in the palace also needed to be taken care of, so the two good things were combined and turned into a museum to share with the people. How many people are there to see now? ”

Xianfeng thought that since he opened the museum, Chery was full of resentment towards Qingyu. Now I don't even eat lunch in the palace, and Jian Dong'er's car is waiting at the door of the Prime Minister's Yamen, and then the couple goes to see the exhibition together. Then, while drinking tea with him, he sighed there, why so many good things, they actually put them outside for people to see. But they talk every day, go every day, and exhibit something, they love to see.

"It doesn't matter. For us, as long as more and more people like it, it is success. Tell me, over the years, have we ever looked at a treasure seriously? Qingyu looked at her husband.

Xianfeng thought for a moment and shook his head, they were too busy, and they worked hard to maintain this crumbling empire every day, how could they have the time to think about that? He didn't even know what was in the treasury of the palace.

"Neither of us has the hobby of Chery, so these treasures may not even be treasures to us, just some waste that costs money to protect. If we ignore it, we have really turned to ashes, and we are the sinners of the nation. What to do, let the people who really like them appreciate and protect, this is what we should do most. Qingyu smiled.

Qingyu thinks that she may have a liking for these national treasures, but for them, she really doesn't have time to like them. There is also the famous Old Summer Palace, she has been there, she once went to see the ruins of the wall in the 21st century, and when she looked back, she looked at the Garden of All Nations made by Qianlong's ruined son, she was actually really shocked, worthy of being the Garden of All Nations. And in every palace room, there are national treasures, and those things are placed on the surface so casually. At that time, her heart hurt, so later, when the Old Summer Palace was burned, it became a paradise for everyone.

It was then that she came up with the idea of opening a museum, and it was impossible for the royal garden to be converted into a fee-paying park. So, she first set up a research institute to restore and collect the treasures in the garden. The things on the surface were put away, and then, she spent a lot of money to build an underground treasure trove. The people invited are all skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Internal Affairs' manufacturing office, and they are divided according to categories. The cultural relics in the palace were also sent to the Old Summer Palace in an orderly manner.

Restoration can't all be pointed to those skilled craftsmen, but also all kinds of cultural and museum people. She needs real experts to identify, clean, and restore these national treasures.

As soon as the wind was released, the craftsmen and some antique lovers really cried and shouted to go into the garden to help. If you give money to you, as long as you can get them close to those national treasures.

Qingyu likes these live Lei Feng so much, of course, she has also conducted countless assessments, selected everyone from all walks of life, and gave a few carriages and horses every month, as well as food. It was up to them and the craftsmen in the office to stay with the playmates.

In the first few years, Qingyu really gritted her teeth and watched the Old Summer Palace become a behemoth that could eat money, but she still persisted. To put it bluntly, Xianfeng doesn't like to be obedient, and now there are no real cultural relics in the Forbidden City. Except for the palace, which is a real antique, the others were all sent to the Old Summer Palace, and Xianfeng didn't have time to see it anyway.

That is, since last year, all the treasures have finally been cleaned up, and the past and present lives of each treasure have been verified. She took the opportunity to tell Xianfeng that she wanted to turn the Old Summer Palace into a museum. Let more people see the treasures of the courts of the two dynasties.

Xianfeng didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time, anyway, those things were hidden and wasted.

Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't rent out the garden, but she could hold an exhibition. Now the money she spent can finally be recycled.

There are now three kinds of tickets to the Old Summer Palace, the most expensive is the full ticket, which can be seen for three days, and the exhibitions in each hall can be seen. The second class is the special exhibition ticket. There is no special printing, but you can only enter one exhibition hall. It is impossible to tear up the ticket and go to another exhibition hall; The third type of cheapest is to only visit the garden, but there is a boat in the garden, and if you want to get on the boat, you have to pay another fee......

Anyway, there are many treasures in the palace, and things are changed every month. Tickets are quite expensive, but they can't stop people from all walks of life. This has also become a very stable income in the palace. Of course, all the money is also put in the museum's account, and this money is to be used for the self-sufficiency of the Old Summer Palace. There's also a dedicated army there to guard it!

Qingyu is slowly conveying a message to Xianfeng, these treasures saved by the two dynasties do not belong to the royal family, but to the people of the world. So slowly, the museum will become a professional department. In the future, countless people will go in to see the culture left by their ancestors. This is the immortal soul of China for 5,000 years.

"So, Chery scolds me every day, regretting that he shouldn't be the prime minister, but should go to the museum, and now he spends half of his time there every day, and Jian Dong'er soaks in the art exhibition hall every day, eager to take a camera to take pictures of those paintings."

"That's great, we're almost getting our money back. Going back and showing you the ledger, now they have a bit of a surplus on their books. ”

"Alas, you, if you tell people that you hate these treasures and waste public coins, they will cry."

"Did Chery cry, didn't he say I want money and want to be crazy?"

"He didn't cry, but he was distressed, if you let him be the dean, he wouldn't say anything." Xianfeng laughed, only Chery guessed that Qingyu was not so awe-inspiring and righteous as she told her, she just wanted money. However, he didn't care about that, he only cared about it, he couldn't sleep in those things.