Around the tenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Yuan left for Beijing.
I didn't dare to ride a horse or take a car because it was too bumpy, so I walked slowly the whole way, just as an outing in the suburbs of Beijing in advance.
This year is a rare warm winter. After the winter started, it snowed twice, and then the temperature suddenly rose. Until the Chinese New Year, there was no snow or rain, which caused headaches for the court officials. They even held a ceremony to pray for rain and snow.
This was the case in ancient agricultural society. If it snowed continuously, people would freeze to death, and if it didn't snow, people would starve to death. If there is no snow before spring, wheat in the north will be seriously short of water, and artificial irrigation can only be relied on to replenish water.
Zhou Chong stood guard outside Xuanwu Gate from morning to night, and finally saw Wang Yuan and Song Ling'er leading their horses.
"Second brother, you are finally back." Zhou Chong rushed up happily.
Wang Yuan handed him the reins and asked, "I heard that your majesty gave him a house?"
Zhou Chong suddenly exaggerated and said: "That house is so big. When I moved my belongings there, I didn't even know where the main entrance was. After entering the house, I couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. I actually got lost in the village!"
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Wang Yuan smiled and said: "How big must it be?"
Zhou Chong replied: "It covers an area of 100 acres."
"How much?" Wang Yuan thought he heard wrongly.
Zhou Chong explained: "There are really 100 acres. It used to be Liu Jin's house. After Liu Jin's house was confiscated, it was changed into an imperial village. Now there are still eunuchs living there. He said that he would wait for his second brother to come back and go there to follow them in person.
Handover."
Wang Yuan was immediately speechless. The house covering an area of 100 acres is more than 70,000 square meters!
Zhou Chong continued: "The house is outside Xizhimen, not in the city. There are many maids and slaves, too many to count. We will only know if we get the roster."
The Imperial Manor is not a royal manor, but the emperor's farm.
Liu Jin's house was located in the west of the city. At that time, countless people's farmland was occupied and huge houses were built. The surrounding area also became the private land of Liu Eunuch. All the farmers became Liu Eunuch's tenants. After Liu Jin's house was confiscated, the house and farmland were all confiscated.
The royal family, tenants and servants also depended on the emperor.
Zhu Houzhao was very generous this time and directly rewarded Wang Yuan with the village and farmland.
Zhou Chong led Wang Yuan and Song Ling'er through the city to outside Xizhimen, and soon saw the mansion.
Song Ling'er was not surprised at all. She had seen luxury since she was a child, and the Song family's North Yamen was much bigger than this shabby house.
Wang Yuan was speechless. The daily maintenance costs for such a big house were staggering, not to mention having to maintain so many servants.
Moreover, it is seriously over the limit!
From the inside to the outside, it looks like a shrunken and simplified version of the Forbidden City. At the time of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, any eunuch who dared to build a private residence like this would be immediately beheaded for treason.
Throughout history, this house has continued to exist.
During the Qing Dynasty, it was the residence of Prince Zhuang. Because there was a Boxer Boxing Arena in the mansion, it was severely damaged by the Eight-Power Allied Forces.
In the Republic of China, the Beiyang warlord and Jiangxi governor Li Chun plundered the people's wealth, bought the remaining Prince Zhuang's Mansion, demolished it and moved it to Tianjin for reorganization. However, due to Yuan Shikai's obstruction and the destruction of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the reorganized Prince Zhuang's Mansion
The area was severely reduced and it was named "Li Chun Ancestral Hall".
In New China, this place became the Nankai District Cultural Palace, and later became the "Zhuangwangfu Tourist Attraction". It was expanded to an area of 18,000 square meters, and was made nondescript. The plaque even had simplified Chinese characters written on it.
Wang Yuan reluctantly walked half a circle around his new home. The entire house was designed to imitate the Forbidden City.
The northeast used to be Liu Jin's family ancestral hall, but it is now used to store sundries. The northwest is a garden with all kinds of pavilions and pavilions. There are three halls in the middle and south, with seventeen main halls, sixteen attached houses, and some
Scattered servants' rooms.
There is even a Danbi, which can only be used by emperors and princes!
The Li Chun Ancestral Hall was called the "Little Forbidden City" by old Tianjin people because it resembled the Forbidden City. Yuan Shikai stopped it halfway through its reorganization. You can imagine how illegal it was.
Eunuch Liu is so courageous.
"It's better to go back and live in the dormitory." Wang Yuan shook his head. He didn't dare to live in this house unless Zhengde made him a prince one day.
Zhou Chong said disappointedly: "Don't you want such a good house?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "I want life even more."
The handover procedures were no longer completed. Wang Yuan returned to the Hanlin Academy dormitory and wrote a letter of resignation to the emperor. He said that he could have the fertile land around the house, but Liu Jin's old house would never accept it because there were too many illegal buildings in it.
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Zhu Houzhao quickly sent an eunuch to convey the order, comforted Wang Yuan, and said that he would immediately have someone renovate it, and that all prohibited areas would be demolished or modified.
Wang Yuan continued to write a letter to refuse, saying that Liu Jin's old residence was built to imitate the Forbidden City, and he would never dare to take it unless it was completely demolished.
Zhu Houzhao did not send anyone to convey the order, but directly ordered the reconstruction. After the reconstruction was completed, he threw it to Wang Yuan.
During the Spring Festival, it was time to visit Shangguan, colleagues, seat masters and room masters. However, Wang Yuan, citing physical inconvenience, only wrote more than ten letters and asked Zhou Chong to take him to visit, and did not send a single gift.
I learned this from Wang Yangming. As an official, Wang Yangming was described as "not giving anyone a penny."
Others don’t have to worship, but Wang Yangming must go.
On this day, Wang Yuan came to Wang Yangming's private residence and found that several people had already been admitted, and they were all disciples of Xin Xue.
The most outstanding one is Fang Xianfu, who resigned a month ago but has not yet left the capital.
When Wang Yangming was the head of the Selected Works Department, Fang Xianfu was already a member of the Selected Works Department. You can understand that Wang Yangming developed his immediate boss into his own student, and he was a formal apprentice.
In addition, there was Huang Wan, the governor of the rear army governor's office, who also became Wang Yangming's student.
It is really amazing that after being exposed to Xinxue, both Fang Xianfu and Huang Wan fell ill at the same time. They both chose to resign and go home to recuperate, and both devoted themselves to studying in their hometowns for ten years.
It wasn't until Wang Yangming resigned in anger that they emerged as officials again. One became a minister of the Ministry of Personnel (cabinet minister), and the other became a bachelor of Hanlin and the minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing. They actively worked for Wang Yangming's comeback!
There is also a person here named Zhan Ruoshui, who is Wang Yangming's best friend in his life. He is also a disciple of Xin Xue, but it is not Yangming Xin Xue, but Baisha Xin Xue.
Shangshu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.
Wang Yuan came to visit his teacher and met three ministers in history.
Because Wang Yangming was not gregarious and was still in a key position, he was already somewhat awkward with Yang Tinghe.
Last autumn, Yang Tinghe planned to send Wang Yangming to Nanjing. Fortunately, Huang Wan and Fang Xianfu came forward and went to Yang Yiqing to intercede. Coupled with Li Dongyang's support, he stayed in Beijing and got promoted along the way - Yang Tinghe wanted to transfer Wang Yangming to Nanjing.
He must be promoted. Even if he ends up staying in Beijing, he still has to hold his nose and give him a promotion.
Combined with Yang Yiqing's two consecutive resignations at the end of the year, it can be imagined that there is a huge conflict between Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing.
Yang Yiqing became disobedient and threatened Yang Tinghe with resignation.
"Ruoxu is here," Wang Yangming introduced with a smile, "This is Zhan Ganquan, this is Fang Shuxian, and this is Huang Zongxian. They are all my friends and they are all studying the science of mind."
Wang Yuan immediately clasped his fists and said: "Greetings to all uncles, please forgive me for being injured and unable to perform the full salute."
Although Fang Xianfu and Huang Wan were disciples of Wang Yangming, their relationship was that of both teacher and friend, and Wang Yuan could not directly call him senior brother.
"Wang Erlang, please don't be polite," Zhan Ruoshui said with a smile, "Your teacher often talks about you. You and I have known each other for a long time."
Fang Xianfu and Huang Wan both had family affairs with Wang Yuan. This kind of relationship between fellow disciples was unbreakable.
It's a pity that both Fang Xianfu and Huang Wan have resigned from their jobs and plan to go home and study hard. Historically, if Wang Yangming had not been forced to resign, they would have been too lazy to go out. It was only because the teacher was bullied that they ran away.
When they came out, they each became ministers.
In this time and space, if Wang Yangming's official career goes smoothly, Fang Xianfu and Huang Wan are likely to never come back again. How can being an official bring joy in studying and studying?
As for Zhan Ruoshui, he is about to go to Annan as an envoy (to be crowned king), and he doesn’t know what year or month he will be back. Historically, just two years after returning to Beijing, Ding You returned home after his mother died, so he simply went to study the mind and stopped serving as an official.
It wasn't until Wang Yangming resigned that he came back, and by the way became minister.
The three of them were Wang Yuan's natural political allies, but they were all useless for the time being. They were overly obsessed with spiritual studies, which greatly reduced their desire to serve as officials.
But it doesn’t matter, Wang Yangming is very good at recruiting disciples. Even after Li Dongyang resigned and Wang Yangming was thrown to Nanjing, he still accepted a lot of students, including the director of the Academic Affairs Department of Nanjing Imperial College and others as disciples.
At this moment, the four big guys were sitting and discussing, and Wang Yuan could only listen honestly. He was confused by some of the content, because he had never read the book he was talking about, and the top scholar in this class was just a parallel importer.
(My son also had a fever in the middle of the night last night and was in the hospital until morning. The money he owes will have to be replenished tomorrow.)