Return To 1977 Chapter 444: Town items

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As the saying goes, no matter how proud you are, you have to keep your tail between your legs.

Hong Yanwu's ecstasy blurred the truth and caused unnecessary trouble.

As soon as Mr. Shan heard that he bought it from the "Chinese Arts and Crafts" store, he knew that it must have been lost from the Forbidden City by accident.

After all, he was a researcher at the Forbidden City, and his sense of professional responsibility immediately exploded. Mr. Shan even suggested that Hong Yanwu be handed over to the country. He expressed his willingness to talk to the acquisition department of the Forbidden City and they could give him a higher price to take away the items.

Ouch, I got carried away, what am I afraid of?

Hong Yanwu immediately became sad and begged for mercy.

"No, Mr. Shan, we brothers finally got this thing back. Is it easy? Just don't say a word, and we will drag it to the Forbidden City. There is nothing there, but this is not missing. Two pieces. Let me tell you, this thing is not old enough. According to the national policy, it is not considered a cultural relic. I thank you, please don’t force me. I finally picked up a big leak, and I still want to keep it as a family heirloom... …”

Seeing that he reacted so violently and spoke so pitifully. Mr. Shan and Wang Hanping couldn't help laughing together.

But Mr. Shan still insisted, "This thing of yours is indeed a national treasure. It's rare that a pair is not broken, and it is enough to enter the 'Treasure Museum'. That's why you should hand it over to the Forbidden City." , so that more people can see it..."

Hong Yanwu strangled his neck. "That's not necessarily the case, my Mr. Shan. Don't lie to me. I know a little bit about what's going on in the industry. Not all really good things are on display for the public. Besides, if they can be exhibited, then Are they all real? For example, certain calligraphy and paintings, certain porcelain..."

These few sentences hit the mark. Mr. Shan hesitated for a moment.

Hong Yanwu took advantage of the situation and quickly asked for help.

"Mr. Shan, to be honest, it is fate that this thing comes into my hands. You will know if you go to the 'Chinese Arts and Crafts Store' and take a look. Aren't our goodies sold for takeout with clearly marked prices? That's called exporting. To earn foreign exchange, foreigners buy most of them, because our stuff is unique and they don’t have it. In fact, if it wasn’t so inconvenient for me, we would have bought it overseas. It's a great service to the country. Actually, I know what you're worried about. Aren't you just afraid that I'll resell it or hide it? Don't worry, I promise to keep it well, no matter how much it costs. Not selling it. Second, I promise that I will definitely find an opportunity to display it to the public in the future. If someone wants to see it, I will open the door for people to see it every day. If that is the case, it may be more suitable for you than leaving it to the Forbidden City. What is the original intention..."

These few words were well said, and Mr. Shan looked really hesitant.

At the critical moment, Wang Hanping stepped forward to help Hong Yanwu and said a few words.

"Old Dan. No matter how rich the Forbidden City is, you can't just keep everything in it, right? They bought it with their own money, so forget it if they don't want to hand it over to the public. You're not working anymore, why are you still worrying about this? Well! What's more, the young man is right. Sometimes these things can be better protected in private hands than in public hands... Well, can you say that?"

At this point, Mr. Shan just nodded and said nothing.

Hong Yanwu breathed a sigh of relief. He was grateful to Wang Hanping for speaking up. He also felt that Mr. Shan, an expert, was quite open-minded and willing to listen to others' advice. He was not a stickler for the past.

But he never expected that Wang Hanping had a special reason for saying this. Not just talking about his two pots of peach trees. Because immediately after, Wang Hanping told him a big event in detail.

Hong Yanwu waited until he finished listening and finally understood the meaning of Wang Hanping's words. He was even more surprised by the real intention of the two old gentlemen to come to him.

I dare say Mr. Shan and Wang Hanping bumped into Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan transporting things together today. It was not a coincidence. The two old gentlemen were actually waiting at the gate on purpose. The purpose is to tell Hong Yanwu a big deal.

What big deal is this?

For something great.

How amazing is this thing?

It is related to the safety of the entire capital.

This sounds ridiculous. But it has to be said on both sides. If this thing is really spoken out, the young people of the next generation may not take it seriously. But the older generation in the capital absolutely approve of it.

What on earth is that?

Okay, let’s not sell it. To put it bluntly, that thing is a huge piece of wood, golden nanmu, the sacred tree that guards the capital!

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the capital has been known as the "Five Towns".

It is rumored that according to the Taoist theory of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, five town objects were set up in the east, west, south, north, and middle directions of the capital to deter demons and ensure the safety of the capital. peaceful.

The center belongs to the earth, and the town object is "Long Live Mountain", which is actually "Jingshan" which gathers earth to form a town. The north belongs to water, and the town object is the bronze bull beside Kunming Lake in the "Summer Palace". The south belongs to fire, and the town object is the Yan Dun of "Yongding Gate". The west belongs to gold, and the main object is the Yongle Huayan Bell of "Juesheng Temple" (Big Bell Temple).

As for the Orient, which belongs to wood, the main object is the golden nanmu tree in the "Shenmu Factory" we are talking about.

According to the "Research on Old News of Rixia", "Shenmu Factory is about two miles outside Guangqu Gate. There is a large tree leaning on the ground. It is high enough to hide a person and a horse. It is the relic of the palace in the early Ming Dynasty. According to legend, its wood There is God.”

There is also "The large trees accumulated in the Shenmu Factory of the Capital are all from the Yongle period. The largest one is called 'Zhang Biantou', which is two feet in circumference and lies more than four feet away. You can ride under it and it is so high that you can become invisible. Over time, It has been exposed to wind and rain and is gradually decaying."

These words clearly record the true situation of the "Shenmu Factory" at that time.

The specific location of "Shenmu Factory" is actually located south of the second gate of Tonghui River outside Guangqumen. It was roughly the "Shuangjing" area of ​​the East Third Ring Road today.

The place name of this place changed several times, and later it was called "Huangmuchang" and "Huangmuchang" respectively, and finally it was called "Huangmuzhuang". Nowadays, even few people who live there know its origins.

But this place was extremely famous in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

When Emperor Yongle Zhu Di built the Forbidden City in the early Ming Dynasty, he sent people to Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi to purchase large quantities of high-quality wood. The wood was transported through and through, and finally transported to the capital along the Grand Canal. The place where the wood was uniformly stacked is "Shenmu Factory".

These large trees are rare things in the world. Among them, the "Zhangbiantou" tree is the largest. It is said that it has magical power and can ward off evil and cure diseases. It has since been called the "sacred tree" by the people.

In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong also visited the "Shenmuchang" twice to view the "Shenmu". He once inscribed the "Shenmu Ballad" and made it into a stele, which included "Leave afar to the South China Sea to come to Yandu, Jia Yi Qing Qing" The sentence "Qi suppresses the Han people". It also officially confirms the theory of "suppressing things".

In order to prevent the "sacred tree" from being eroded by wind and rain, Emperor Qianlong ordered that a square imperial monument with red walls and yellow tiles be built on the west side of the "sacred tree". pavilion. At the same time, seven connected gallery rooms with tile and wood structures were built to cover the "sacred tree" and surrounded by bluestone railings.

Later, after liberation, in 1953, a musical instrument factory was built at the location of "No. 6 Huangmuchang". The sacred tree and the royal stele were all enclosed in the courtyard of the musical instrument factory.

Although at this time, the surroundings of the "Shenmu Factory" had been turned into vegetable gardens, and the corridors and royal stele pavilions built for the sacred trees were also in disrepair, and the pavilions were crumbling and leaking from the wind and rain. But the "sacred tree" in the room still makes a sound when knocked on.

Following the "movement" period, the imperial monument was buried in the vegetable cellar of the canteen of the musical instrument factory.

The sacred tree that holds the important responsibility of being in charge of the East is treated even worse. Because they thought it took up space, the factory leaders finally ordered the workers to saw it into several sections and throw it in the yard to dry like tatters. Let it be exposed to wind and rain again.

Later, Wang Hanping undoubtedly discovered this situation when he was invited to work as a woodworking instructor in a musical instrument factory. After finding out the whole story, he felt extremely distressed and talked to Mr. Shan, hoping that he would come forward to let the Forbidden City remove the "sacred wood" Take it away and place it properly.

But after the people from the Forbidden City saw it, they said it was just a bunch of rotten wood and had no cultural relic value, so they left it alone. In this case, the wood can only be left like this.

It wasn't until a few days ago that the new leader of the musical instrument factory suddenly approached the "Red Star Furniture Factory" and said that he wanted to exchange the wood in their yard with the furniture factory for thirty desks. Seek benefits for those cadres in the factory who have returned to their posts after being rehabilitated.

Of course Wang Hanping wanted to agree, but the leader of the "Red Star Furniture Factory" felt that the musical instrument factory had no need to curry favor and did not allow him to speak at all, so he refused directly.

The leaders of the furniture factory said that they have no shortage of wood, let alone bad wood that has been exposed to wind and rain. If you want a writing desk, you have to buy it with money and industrial coupons. Since they are all public entities, we can offer some discounts, but bartering is out of the question.

This attitude immediately made the leader of the musical instrument factory angry. When he left, he said, "Don't be so arrogant in your furniture factory. We also have carpenters in our musical instrument factory. Do you really think that without you, we will have to eat pigs with hair on them? I also told you, we will just use those 'bad wood' Make it yourself and paint the piano paint, I guarantee it will be more beautiful than what you make..."

Of course this does not matter to the ears of the leaders of the furniture factory. But Wang Hanping was stunned after hearing this.

That was the remaining material used to build the main hall in Ming Yongle. Natural nanmu, specially used for the pavilions of the palace. During the Qing Dynasty, high-grade golden nanmu was already difficult to find, and even those were reluctant to misappropriate it.

Well, I finally made a desk and painted it with piano paint! How could such a good thing end up like this?

Not to mention that if Master Luban knew about it, he would be so angry that he would jump out of his grave. From now on, this matter will also poke the spines of future generations.

With no master left, Wang Hanping quickly approached Mr. Shan for advice.

Mr. Shan was very anxious when he heard this. The two of them discussed it over and over but found no solution, and finally came up with a solution that was not a solution.

Just use the money Hong Yanwu spent to build his house to buy wood from the musical instrument factory.

Of course, this is definitely not to misappropriate the house construction funds privately and trick Hong Yanwu.

What Mr. Shan actually means is that the wooden attic in the flower hall has to be rebuilt anyway. His original plan was to spend 2,000 yuan to buy fir, elm and camphor wood to build the attic.

Now if we can take down the golden nanmu and use it to build this building, that would actually be better. Although the rules for the attic are smaller, it still won't waste the materials like making a writing desk. From a perspective, Hong Yanwu still took advantage of it.

But there are two points in between. First, we must tell Hong Yanwu about this matter, and we can't do it even if he doesn't agree. The second is that according to the conditions of thirty desks in the musical instrument factory, the two thousand yuan for the wood is not enough. Hong Yanwu has to be persuaded to give him more money, and he has to get some industrial coupons.

After discussing this, they waited for Hong Yanwu to return home at the gate of the Hong family. Little did he know that what was waiting for him was that he was getting things home.

But this further proves Hong Yanwu's vision and financial resources. So after saying this, both Wang Hanping and Mr. Shan laughed.

They just think that this kind of good thing that kills two birds with one stone is probably a sure thing, and Hong Yanwu will definitely not object.

It backfired. After hearing this, Hong Yanwu thought about it for a long time, took a deep breath, looked embarrassed, and shook his head.