Chapter 589: The Old Summer Palace (I wish you all a happy 520, Dazhang asks for support)

Early the next morning, Feng Yunshan continued to lead the army and rushed to the Old Summer Palace. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

For the Old Summer Palace, a treasure of Chinese civilization, it is famous for its grand regional scale, outstanding construction skills, exquisite architectural scenery, rich cultural collection and profound national cultural connotation, and is known as "the model of all gardening arts" and "the garden of ten thousand gardens". However, such an evaluation can be seen at a glance as a foreigner's comment.

Feng Yunshan hated the social atmosphere of later generations based on the views of foreigners, and naturally, in this era, he would never allow this to happen again.

At the same time, the Old Summer Palace, because of its own presence, will definitely not let it be ransacked by Western invaders and burned again, as it was in history!

Under the guidance of more than ten "traitors", Feng Yunshan led 7,000 soldiers to capture the army, passed through a village called Bajia Village, and entered Haidian Town.

According to the introduction of "Manchu Rape", the people who live in Haidian Town are not rich or expensive. Feng Yunshan turned his head to look at the residences on both sides, and it was true, the royal palaces with golden splendor and beauty appeared in front of him. Walk across a spectacular bridge over a canal called the Qing River to a straight Linyin avenue.

On one side of the avenue, gardens and courtyards of the private residences of the nobles of the banner are intertwined, and on the other side, tall unknown green trees are lined up, which is very beautiful.

Linyin Avenue is directly the gate leading to the Old Summer Palace, there is a big square in front of the gate, the square forms a huge convex shape, surrounded by elm trees, Feng Yunshan is in the middle of the square, and suddenly feels how small he is.

The whole square is made of white marble, and there is a huge gilded bronze lion on each side, standing on a marble base more than 3 meters high, majestic, but these treasures that were originally used to dispel evil in the town and garden and help the fortune of the power have now changed owners.

The 7,000 captives were all gathered in the square, and all of them were accommodated, and they were even very loose.

On both sides of the front of the "convex" shape of the square, there are antique palace walls several meters high, covered with emerald green glazed tiles, which are exquisite and exquisite.

Feng Yunshan looked up and saw that there was the Old Summer Palace in front of him. The gate is closed, only to see the ancient trees in the park towering to the sky, the garden is deep and long, and the palace wall is long.

According to the report, Feng Yunshan knew that the Praetorian Qing soldiers stationed in the Old Summer Palace had evacuated and fled back to the inner city of Beijing. However, just in case, Feng Yunshan still asked He Lu, the commander of the 1st Division B, who was accompanying him, to send the division headquarters reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Division to find a way to enter the park to investigate.

The gate of the Old Summer Palace is tall and heavy, a pair of jade carved unicorns are guarding on both sides of the door, and there are three words "Dagong Gate" written directly above, the gate is tightly closed, and dozens of soldiers of the captive army push together, but they have not been able to open.

The palace wall is also several meters high, and very thick, surrounded by a wide corner, fortunately, not far away found a secret door, the reconnaissance battalion used ropes, fell on the city wall, several lean soldiers used ropes, quickly climbed up the city wall, stood at the head of the wall, and before jumping into the courtyard, they found that six soldiers with bows and muskets in the park rushed bravely.

The soldiers of the captive army on the wall hurriedly pulled out their smoothbore guns from behind and shot at these Qing soldiers, and immediately three soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the remaining three soldiers flashed into the bushes in a panic and disappeared.

The soldiers of the captives climbed down the city wall and opened the secret door from the inside, and immediately the four hundred soldiers of the entire reconnaissance battalion rushed into the garden. Two hundred of them were on guard, and the other two hundred opened three gates to let the soldiers of the outside army enter.

As soon as Feng Yunshan heard that the commander of the reconnaissance battalion said that there were still soldiers in the park, he ordered the 9th Division A and the 1st Division B to send 2,000 soldiers each to search the entire Old Summer Palace, and at the same time pay attention to strictly preventing the Qing demons from sneaking up and setting fire to the buildings in the garden.

Feng Yunshan led the remaining 3,000 soldiers, with a few "traitors" of not low status, and went straight to the park.

Feng Yunshan glanced at the leader named Yan Chong who led the way, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

According to He Lu, the commander of the 1st Division, this person belonged to the four royal clans of the Jurchens of Haixi of the Qing Demon, and his Huifa Department originally lived in the Heilongjiang Valley, and then the entire tribe was wiped out by Nurhachi, and his people were incorporated into the blue flag, and they had a lot of resentment against the Manchu Aixinjue Luo clan, and they were captured in the house outside Tongzhou City, and they couldn't stand the intimidation, so they surrendered to the 1st Division and became a member of the glorious leading party - "Manchu traitor".

Because he took the initiative to confess that he had served as one of the Old Summer Palaces, Qichun Garden Langzhong and Xiao Cavalry Leader, he was also a senior Eight Banners general, and he was also familiar with the situation in the Old Summer Palace, so he was specially appointed as the leader of the way.

"Yan Chong, you are familiar with the Old Summer Palace, do you know what is the most precious in this garden?" Feng Yunshan asked.

"Holy King, the Old Summer Palace actually includes three gardens. That is, the first to build in the last years of the Kangxi Yuanmingyuan, and then during the Qianlong period and successively built the adjacent Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, it is too grand, the criminal minister added to the Qichun Garden Langzhong, and also served as the commander of the cavalry stationed in the Qichun Garden, mainly familiar with the Qichun Garden, to the other two gardens, just know the general situation, the specific treasures, but can not say. There are thousands of treasures in the park, and thousands of treasures are priceless. However, according to the understanding of the criminal ministers, the emperor attached the most importance to the Wenyuan Pavilion, which not only contains the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" of the current dynasty, but also seals a strange book of the previous dynasty. ”

"Oh, what is it? Let's hear about it! Feng Yunshan suddenly became a little interested.

"The former Ming Dynasty's "Yongle Canon", both the original and the copy of Jiajing, there are nearly 30,000 copies in total, all industries in the world, all-encompassing, really worthy of being an encyclopedia!" Yan Chong clearly knew the value of the book to the Han Chinese.

"Yongle Canon?" Feng Yunshan exclaimed, as a history lover, he naturally knew the preciousness of the Yongle Canon. This is China's largest encyclopedic collection, more than 20,000 volumes, tens of thousands of volumes, hundreds of millions of words, is the crystallization of thousands of years of Chinese civilization, history, its original was originally said to be lost when the Qing army occupied the city of Beijing, and the copy was also burned when the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, but now they are all encountered by themselves.

Well, this Chinese book will not be lost to the world again. Presumably, when the sticks in the future say what festival and who originated in their stick country, this book alone will be able to shut them up. However, it is difficult to say, according to its urine nature, it must be said that this book was also compiled by them, Feng Yunshan shook his head, or directly let this stick country disappear completely.

So, Feng Yunshan directly asked Yan Chong to lead everyone to Wenyuan Pavilion to protect the "Yongle Canon". In case he entered the Old Summer Palace and was burned by a few soldiers or little eunuchs who stayed behind, who would cry?

Wenyuan Pavilion is in the northwest corner of the Old Summer Palace, south of the water and wood Mingse, west of the willow waves of the warbler. Feng Yunshan, escorted by three thousand soldiers of the captive army, entered through the gate of the palace and soon arrived. Along the way, the courtyard is secluded, the pavilions and pavilions are endless, and there is more beautiful style in the south of the Yangtze River than the Suzhou garden that Feng Yunshan has visited, but it does not lose the atmosphere of the north.

Entering an arched courtyard wall, it is a garden, facing a strange rockery, and then going forward, is a huge pool, many goldfish swim in it, and in the center of the pool, there is a huge Taihu Lake stone, more than six meters high, exquisitely clear, many ring holes.

Seeing Feng Yunshan looking at this Taihu Lake stone, Yan Chong hurriedly introduced: "Holy King, the name of this stone is 'Shi Lingfeng', which was collected by Qianlong from Sanshan Island in the middle of Taihu Lake, specially transported to Jingshi, and polished, it is the largest and most famous Taihu Lake stone in the entire Old Summer Palace. You see, there are processed tailings here, which are placed by the pool for people to inscribe poems. ”

Feng Yunshan took a look, indeed, there are inscriptions of famous officials such as Zhu Jue, Ji Yun, Ji Xiaolan, Hong Liangji, Peng Yuanrui, He Shen, Lu Kang, Wang Ding and other celebrities.

The east side of the pavilion is the imperial tablet pavilion, and the tablet has the imperial system "Wenyuan Pavilion Record".

Bypassing the pool, came to Wenyuan Pavilion, above the door frame of the main entrance, but it was Qianlong's handwritten "Ancient Guanlan" four words, Feng Yunshan knew that after the captive army occupied here, these plaques and handwritten would be taken down, it was a pity, so he said: "This word is not badly written, is it written by Qianlong Lao'er?" ”

Yan Chong replied respectfully: "Holy King, exactly! ”

"Nor do you have to dismantle it, but continue to hang it. Just add the word "Qing Demon" in front of the name of the inscription! Feng Yunshan came up with a bad idea that made people laugh and cry, but He Lu and other generals who accompanied him were very happy when they heard this, and praised the Holy King for his wisdom in unison.

When he entered the cabinet, he saw three eunuchs kneeling on the ground, trembling and trembling, and it turned out that there were more than 20 soldiers from the reconnaissance battalion next to him holding muskets and pointing at the three of them.

"Holy King, these three people are the eunuchs on duty in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and they didn't escape for some reason." After the commander of the reconnaissance battalion came over to see Feng Yunshan, he said.

"They are also hard-working people, ask them, if they are willing to submit to our holy country, they will continue to stay, but they need to be supervised at all times, if they are unwilling, let them leave the Old Summer Palace." Feng Yunshan didn't want to embarrass these poor insects, most of these eunuchs were poor among the Han people in the north, and they were just sent to the palace to escape food since they were children.

Ignoring the three of them, Feng Yunshan and the others continued to walk towards the pavilion.

Wenyuan Pavilion is the pavilion of Zhengyu upper and lower six wings, each passing into a bright two-storey dark three-storey pavilion, dark green corridor columns, a mountain-style roof, covered with green sheared glazed tiles. The appearance is simple and elegant, and it contains deep meaning.

Yan Chong introduced, which this Wenyuan Pavilion was originally Qianlong for the storage of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" and modeled after the Ningbo Fan's Tianyi Pavilion Library and built, the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" in the Pavilion was written in Zhejiang high-grade cultural paper, a total of 36,000 copies were copied.

Ascending the attic, on the second floor, Feng Yunshan, under the escort of He Lu and more than 20 palace guards, followed a eunuch who led the way and Yan Chong, and saw the collection of books in the attic.

The bookshelves are full of antique thread-like books, and in a large room, only 5,000 volumes of the "Siku Quanshu" can be placed, and only a complete set of "Siku Quanshu" will occupy eight rooms.

Moreover, what shocked Feng Yunshan and the others was that the library with light near the window was fine, and on the wooden shelf in the middle of several dimly lit study rooms, Hao Ran placed three night pearls larger than pigeon eggs, emitting a soft glow, illuminating the entire study room, although the light was not very strong, but it was more than enough to identify the books. Seeing Yan Chong's unimpressed look, Feng Yunshan felt that he was just a dirt bun, which was rare and strange.

However, now these are under their own control, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are their own.

For the main collection of the book "Siku Quanshu" in this Wenyuan Pavilion, Feng Yunshan knew that this book was compiled by more than 300 scholars organized by Ji Xiaolan and others selected by Qianlong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and thousands of people wrote and bound it. Therefore, Feng Yunshan attaches more importance to the unmodified "Yongle Canon".

In the past, the huge work of so many words could not be printed, but could only be copied, resulting in the war and chaos will be permanently lost in the long river of history, but now, with its own, printing technology is also becoming more and more advanced with the invention of the steam engine, presumably it should not be difficult to print a few more copies.

Feng Yunshan suddenly felt that he had a sacred responsibility on his shoulders.

He Lu instructed them to send a battalion of the 1st Division to garrison the Wenyuan Pavilion, and instructed them to be careful with fire. Then, Feng Yunshan, He Lu and others, led 2,500 soldiers and soldiers to follow Yan Chong and continue to march towards the inner garden.

Along the way, he has seen the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace, such as Zhengda Guangming, Diligent and Qinxian, Kyushu Qingyan, Wisp Moon Kaiyun, Natural Pictures, Bitong Academy, Ciyun Puhu, Shangxia Tianguang, Xinghua Spring Pavilion, Sitting Stone Linliu, Quyuan Wind Lotus, etc., Feng Yunshan felt like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, dumbfounded.

Feng Yunshan turned his head and looked, He Lu and the other soldiers of the captive army were even more dumbfounded!

These gardens, almost the whole Jiangnan beauty is all included in the garden, many attic pavilions, but not as delicate and small as the Jiangnan garden, the scale of the building is rich and grand, highlighting the royal style, can be described as a unique through the ages.

And among the pavilions, all kinds of rare treasures are dazzling. Feng Yunshan just saw some coral agate, cloisonné Tang Sancai, and various clocks and clocks with extremely gorgeous decorations, and he was still a little excited. Later, it was numb. There are so many treasures, so many that I don't even feel much about the egg-sized night pearl, Tang Bohu's calligraphy and paintings, the baby-sized pure gold Buddha statue, and the one-foot-high mutton fat and Tianyu carved pagoda.

He Lu couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder the world is full of rebellions, it turns out that the Manchu Tartars have looted all the treasures of the world, the people's fat and the people's ointment to this Old Summer Palace." It's better than letting corrupt officials take possession of it, and they are still scattered everywhere and can't be recovered. ”

Feng Yunshan and the others continued to the north and entered and exited the Xianliang Gate, which is also known as the Second Palace Gate. As soon as he entered, the reconnaissance battalion exploring the road in front found that more than 50 skilled eunuchs in the garden had come out of the corners of the park, holding knives and wooden sticks, blocking the inner door.