It is not easy to live in Chang'an, and Feng Ho is known as soil plaster, and his Jia Mu is one gold, that is, ten thousand dollars per acre of land, which is several times more expensive than Ren Hong's land in Bailuyuan.But in this place where every inch of land is valuable, there is a large forest, and the people of the surrounding counties and townships are drooling when they look at the rich and vast green space, but they can only cultivate those crowded land, but they dare not take a step beyond the thunder pond, because this is the forest garden, the royal garden, and the trespasser is responsible.Speaking of which, Ren Hong has been in Chang'an for a year, but he has never entered Shanglin Yuan, who made the emperor unwell, and even had the opportunity to hunt with the marquis.And the one who led the way for him was to go to the stables of Shanglin Yuan to get the tamed horses and bring them into the Weiyang Palace to order Zhang Chang.Zhang Chang is a frequent visitor to Shanglin Yuan, pointing to Ren Hong along the way: "Shanglin Yuan has been there since Qin, and the famous Afang Palace is among them."
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, because of the withering of Guanzhong, Emperor Gao listened to the advice of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng, recuperated, and opened Shanglin Yuan to the people, so that it could be cultivated and the household registration would breed. ”The next words were related to the royal secrets, and Zhang Chang lowered his voice: "However, when it came to Emperor Xiaowu, the restructuring failed, and the Empress Dowager Dou seized power, so he could only focus on hunting and playing."
He repeatedly used the name of his brother-in-law Pingyang Marquis to travel slightly, taking his guards to Zhongnan Mountain to fight, galloping to shoot deer, dolphins and rabbits, and trampling on crops. ”"The people shouted and scolded the Marquis of Pingyang for cutting off their children and grandchildren, and even sued the county order, who arrested this group of Pingyang Hou's subordinates, only to know that it was the Son of Heaven."
Such embarrassment occurred several times, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty himself encountered danger, or was given a cold reception when staying overnight, and was told that there was no pulp, only urine.He was even suspected of being a thief and was besieged by many young men.So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty waved his hand and moved all the people within the scope of Shanglin Yuan, although Dongfang Shuo came out to ask for the people's life, but Emperor Wu still built a lot of construction and opened the forest.Since then, the royal garden of the Qin period has reappeared, south to Yichun, Dinghu, near the south mountain and west, west to Changyang, Wuqi, north around the Yellow Mountain, frequency Wei and east, hundreds of miles around, including Zhouzhi, Ju, Du three counties.The charred mound of Afang Palace has not yet been completely covered by vegetation, but new pavilions have risen around it.Therefore, after listening to Zhang Chang's introduction, Ren Hong's imagination of Shanglin Yuan is like this: looking around, flowers and plants are numerous, dazzling, unprovoked, and boundless.The morning glow comes from the eastern marsh, and the setting sun sets in the west.And in the vast area, the palace city is so huge: the garden is thirty-six, the palace is twelve, and the view is twenty-five.The rafters of the house are carved and colored, the rafters are decorated with jade, and the chariot takes the pavilion road, which is connected continuously.Flattening the high mountains, building halls on them, stacking pavilions, overlapping and overlapping, everything is prepared for the emperor's amusement.But when Ren Hong entered Shanglin Garden, what he saw was a huge "farm?"
”Ren Hong stood in the car with Zhang Chang, looking at the surrounding scene, and couldn't help rubbing his eyes.In the denser forest, the first thing he saw was one deer park after another, the woodland was separated by a fence, and a large herd of sika deer lived in it, and there were many deer breeders picking up antlers in it, and there was a circle of cherished white deer.When Ren Hong saw these white deer, he remembered Wang Fengguang: "I spent 400,000 yuan last year to buy the white deer skin wrapped in jade, which is from here, right?"
”"Exactly."
Zhang Chang smiled and said: "The Marquis of Xi'an is also obsessed with the 400,000?
I can hear that the spice shop in the Western Regions that you opened in Chang'an City, just buy cumin incense, and you will earn a few gold every day" The original benzoin celery of Bailu has been harvested twice, plus the purchased star anise, cinnamon, etc. are ground into cumin powder This time, the secret recipe of horse manure of Lao Xia was not added, and in this era of scarce ingredients, it was very popular with the families of the powerful.As for the candidate to help Ren Hong do business, it is Lu Jiuyu.Ren Hong only lured Lao Lu with huge profits, so he resigned from his position as a translator in the subject country and started working for Ren Hong.Lao Lu is very sensitive to money and business, and he is his own person and can be trusted.The profit is not small, but no matter how good the business is, it is not as profitable as the white deerskin.And in the bushy place, Ren Hong saw a large group of pigs, not wild boars, but domesticated domestic pigs, their noses arched to the fungus or tubers in the ground to chew, several swineherds holding wooden sticks, and in the back there were talking and laughing to drive the black-headed pigs away from the royal palace pork, how could they grow up eating shi.After leaving the forest area, on the gradually yellowing grassland, there are countless sheep, which are burying their heads in grazing to prepare for the winter fat, and from time to time there are officials coming over, pointing out the fat sheep that they like to let people pull them out and drive them away, probably sent to the palace to kill, to supply the palace with food."
Emperor Xiaowu when the imperial history of the Bu style, first to the field of livestock for the matter, once because of the wealth to help the side, Emperor Wu worship it as a lang, Bu style is not acceptable, but willing to come to the forest garden to raise sheep, only a year, raised sheep fat meat beauty, since then, in the pasture in the forest garden to raise sheep has become a practice, the palace eat mutton from this."
Zhang Chang was a little greedy when he said this, and swallowed his saliva: "It's a pity that these sheep are never supplied, otherwise the spices and cooking skills of the Hou family in Xi'an will be beautiful with this excellent mutton." ”Ren Hong has the stubbornness of the men in the northwest, and disdains these royal muttons: "Or is the mutton in the northwest the best, and the rest of the places are called mutton?"
Zigao will go to Hexi with me in the future, and even Wusun, so that you will feel that Chang'an mutton has no taste from now on. ”As he spoke, the six stables of Shanglin had arrived.As for the horses, there are more, there are six stables concentrated in the Shanglin Garden, in addition to the Weiyang stable, there are also Chenghua stables, camel stables, riding stables, chariot stables, and large stables.There are 10,000 horses in each stable, and all the horses used by the eight schools of the Chang'an Northern Army come from here, and Fu Jiezi has been a stable supervisor.Zhang Chang still has the mission of selecting horses, so he can only stop here, Ren Hong's car continued to move forward, and finally arrived at a vast lake of more than 40 miles, which is Kunming Pond.In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to find a way to the poison, and was blocked by Kunming in the southwest.The Han envoy thought that the Erhai Sea was the West Sea, and the confrontation with Kunming required a water battle, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty spent manpower here, dug a large pool, used to practice water warfare, and finally found that there were more mountains in the south than water, and practiced in vain.The water fighting skills practiced in this small pond are not used in South Vietnam and North Korea, and can only be used as a royal pond for boating and playing, which by the way makes Chang'an's feng shui better.But at the moment, there are no huge royal boats in the pool, only small boats are busy, and each net can be full of fish and shrimp.Looking at this scene, Ren Hong smiled secretly in his heart: "Liu Che never imagined that this pond and marsh has become the largest fish pond near Chang'an." ”Turning Kunming Pond into a fish pond, this is the idea of Zhao Chongguo, who served as the lieutenant of Shui Heng a few years ago, anyway, the emperor is not in good health when he is young, and he almost does not come to Lin Yuan, this Kunming Pond is empty and empty, it is better to put fish fry to raise fish.In the past few years, the obtained supplies to the palace, the royal guests, the kitchen, to the tombs, the rest of the transport to Chang'an for sale, forced to reduce the price of fish in the nine cities of Chang'an by half.This is what Xia Dingmao, who often takes people to the market to buy fish and meat, said to Ren Hong, I thought it was an exaggeration, but when I saw it with my own eyes today, I realized that what he said was true.As Ren Hong saw along the way, Shanglin Garden was no longer the royal garden of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but had become a breeding farm and vegetable garden, creating value every day."
It seems that Zhao Chongguo, the captain of Shuiheng in charge of Shanglin, is not only a brave general, but also a good official who is good at managing money."
and Nengchen, who contracted the largest fish pond in Chang'an.And in the beast circle on the edge of Kunming Pond, led by Shanglin Yuanling, Ren Hong finally found Lord Zhaotang.This beast circle is an indispensable part of Shanglin Yuan, raising fierce beasts and rare birds and beasts from all over the world, the famous scene of Confucian Yuan Gusheng holding a sword and single-handedly picking up wild boars is here, but Ren Hong found that the circle is mostly empty, and the tigers and leopards raised by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the big ostriches and so on are gone.In the only circle with residents, there are actually three lions that should not have appeared in the Central Plains!
Ren Hong took a closer look at the animals in the circle, it was indeed not a Tibetan mastiff, but a male lion that had been replaced like a fake, but his mane had lost a lot, he was so hungry that he was dying, and the other two lionesses were also listless.At this time, he also heard the cry of the tiger circle not far away: "General Hou, if the lion sent by King Shache is not fed, it will starve to death." ”The king of Nasha probably heard that the emperor of the Han Dynasty liked rare birds and beasts, so he specially brought two Indian lions from Zhengbin west of the Green Ridge and sent them all the way to Chang'an.It's a pity that Shache King got the wrong object, and the current Son of Heaven doesn't come to Lin Yuan once in ten years, and Zhao Chongguo, who manages this place, likes livestock that can create value, rather than a beast that is locked in a circle every day in addition to eating meat and basking in the sun.When Ren Hong was discussing the establishment of the Western Regions Capital last year, he met Zhao Chongguo in Shangshutai and knew that he had resolutely broken through the siege during the Battle of the Tianshan Mountains and saved Li Guangli's defeat, suffering more than 20 wounds, and even leaving a few indelible arrow marks on his face.This veteran with a scarred face, standing in front of the beast circle on the edge of the Kunming Pool with his hands in his hands at this moment, said to the crying tiger circle with a calm face: "Sifu, I have long told you that Captain Shui Heng is in charge of Shanglin, and he must hand over at least 100,000 yuan to the imperial court every year. ”Zhao Chongguo pointed to the poor lion in the circle: "Don't raise useless beasts." ”"The fish sold in Kunming Pond to the nine cities of Chang'an make tens of millions of profits every year.Farmers and herdsmen planted vegetables and fruits, and officials and slaves divided the gardens to raise dogs, horses, birds and beasts.Horses can be supplied to the schools of the Northern Army, dogs are guarded by the doormen, and the Son of Heaven has to take 100 deer, 500 sheep, 500 rabbits, and countless rabbits from the forest every time he sacrifices and feasts in the great dynasty. ”"The only thing that doesn't make a profit but costs money is the beast in your tiger circle."
The tiger circle wants to cry without tears, since Zhao Chongguo was the captain of Shuiheng, his position is useless: "But this is an auspicious beast sent from a foreign country" Zhao Chongguo's words were very indifferent: "No one to watch the rare beast, it is just a useless thing, three to eat a sheep every day, a year is more than three hundred, but also by a special person to take care of, if it breeds into a flock, it will not take long, can eat thousands of sheep a year." ”"Rather than making such a bottomless hole bigger and bigger, it is better to fill it in the first place.The heart of the king of Shache has been delivered, and since the Son of Heaven cannot come to see it, the generals also took a look, and after being surprised, they sent someone to draw the picture, so there is no need to keep it anymore.Like the tigers, leopards and black bears before it, let's dispose of it. ”Ren Hong suddenly, good guy, no wonder the Shanglinyuan Zoo, which was full of elephants, rhinos, black bears and tigers during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was empty, it turned out that the real murderer was here!
But that sentence is very good, dogs eat people and don't know how to check, and the soldiers are often hungry, why spend a lot of money and food to raise fierce beasts, Zhao Chongguo did the right thing."
No!"
With tears in his eyes, the tiger circle husband asked people to go down to prepare a strong crossbow to send the three lions on the road, but asked for instructions: "General Hou, what about the flesh and skin of these lions?"
”Every living creature in Shanglin Yuan belongs to the state, even if the deer and sheep die naturally, the skin and flesh must also be returned to the public.At this time, Ren Hong, who had been listening not far away for a long time, spoke: "Even in the Western Regions, lion skins are also cherished, peeled off and made into blankets, and spread in Weiyang Palace, so that the Son of Heaven can see what these exotic beasts look like." ”"As for flesh and bones, in my humble opinion, who knows if this exotic beast is as poisonous as a horse's liver?
It must not be made into a banquet and sent to the palace, so bury it to make vegetable fat. ”Unless forced to survive, wild animals can not eat them, so don't eat them."
And do as I say."
Zhao Chongguo waved his hand to let the tiger circle retreat, looked at Ren Hongdao: "The Marquis of Xi'an invited Fu Jie to come to Shanglin to find me, is it not to protect the Qiang captain?"
”Zhao Tang's master is really straightforward, Ren Hong said: "Exactly, although I know that the general is busy, but Hong knows a little about Qiang affairs, and was suddenly awarded this position, I have doubts, listen to the official words of the subordinate country Su, Qiang affairs are not decided, when I ask the general Hou, I will be cheeky to disturb, I hope the general will not hesitate to give advice." ”Zhao Chongguo bowed his head, he was willing to point out the next descendant, but he was really busy today, and he had to go to the next stop non-stop, so he pointed to the carriage and said to Ren Hong: "I still have to go to Shanglin Sanguan, Xi'an Hou might as well go with me, and talk about it in detail on the car." ”After saying that, he boarded the car by himself, Ren Hongcai climbed up, and the car moved, Ren Hong was about to speak while holding on to the railing, but Zhao Chongguo spoke first."
The old man was born in the army, and he didn't like to beat around the bush when he spoke, so he said it bluntly.Do you know the reason why I oppose you as the captain of the Qiang Protector in China and North Korea?
”"I wish to hear about it."
When Zhao Chongguo laughed, the arrow marks on his face were also moving: "Because according to what I have seen and heard for many years, the position of Captain Huqiang is not afraid of not doing anything, what I am afraid of is" "I want to make a difference too much." ”PS: Emperor Wu made Kunming Pond, taught water warfare, Emperor Zhao was small, could not resume the conquest, raised fish in the middle, gave the tombs to worship, and paid Chang'an City, the fish was cheap.Three auxiliary yellow figures