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Text 129. Inside the garden

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    Paris on the banks of the Seine is fashionable and elegant, the temples on the Acropolis of Athens are precipitated by their depth, and Bangkok, filled with sandalwood, is filled with the sound of Buddha So what about the ancient capital Yanjing in 1680?

    Kangxi was sitting on a newly made cloth-covered sofa chair, leaning against a yellow silk cushion embroidered with the Kowloon pattern and gold thread. He was thinking about the phantom city in his mind. The ancient and solemn Forbidden City was only a symbol of imperial power, and was only for tourists to visit in future generations.  It is also something that is kept secret by the public at this time.  Relatively speaking, the vast outer city area is still a very creative space.

    The rippling Shicha Sea has weeping willows on its shores, and the mountains in the distance are as beautiful as black. However, what is built around the three seas and along the water is the back garden of a group of royal nobles. It has nothing to do with the common people, and Kangxi usually had no interest in visiting privately.  There, there was no clue about the famous three mountains and five gardens in later generations.

    The "Changchun Garden" in history was the first royal garden built by Emperor Kangxi for himself in the west of Beijing to avoid noise and listen to politics. Emperor Kangxi always spent more than half of the year there.  It was precisely because of the pioneering construction of Changchun Garden that the rise of Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Old Summer Palace, and Qingyi Garden began. The contribution of the palace to the wastefulness cannot be underestimated.

    However, Kangxi really liked the simple gardens like the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River.  After all, he is the son of a rich man who cannot sit in the palace, let alone an emperor who cannot even leave the palace gate a few times a year, let alone go to the landscape gardens of Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River.  Taking into account the cost, the cost of the southern tour is really real with a frugal budget.

    Kangxi secretly thought about starting to build "Changchun Garden" based on the ruins of Qinghua Garden in the Ming Dynasty. However, before that, Kangxi ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to purchase and redeem a large amount of wasteland, which would be adjacent to the planned "Changchun Garden"  Similar territories were all recorded by Kangxi.  Kangxi's actions were also a plan to seize the opportunity, hoard real estate and speculate on it to make money, in order to reduce the huge financial pressure caused by the construction of Changchun Garden.

    However, after the emperor specially summoned several Hanlin scholars for discussion, he drafted an edict to reiterate that it was strictly forbidden for officials and government agencies to arbitrarily enclose land and encroach on people's private property. If there was any violation of the prohibition, the officials would be dismissed from their posts and their illegal gains would be confiscated.

    Kangxi¡¯s back and forth on the issue of the ownership of state-owned and private real estate is quite intriguing, because he himself was not sure about this matter.  From the perspective of fairness and justice, Kangxi strongly supported the protection of individual private property. However, from the perspective of overall urban construction planning, the existence of private land at certain times would indeed delay the overall development of the city.  Except in certain sparsely populated and undeveloped areas, this contradiction is not yet apparent.  However, in densely populated central cities, the contradiction between overall regional planning and individual vested interests has become increasingly prominent.

    When Kangxi ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to purchase idle land, there was an old man named Shi Yuwai who did not agree with the conditions proposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He said that he was used to living in the local area for decades and did not care about the money, but he just did not want to leave his former residence lightly.  According to the wishes of the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, using the name of the royal family would scare away his family.

    Unexpectedly, the timing was unlucky. The emperor had just issued an edict to restrict the government's power to bully others by using "power", which put everyone in a dilemma.  This piece of land turned out to be quite important. According to the overall planning sketch of Ye Tao, the imperial painter and chief designer, a temple for the empress was to be built, and it was also enclosed in a large garden for the female family members to burn incense and play.

    There are indeed many smart people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they don't go to the door to persuade them. They just negotiate the prices of the land, properties, houses and courtyards of the surrounding families separately. After the other families have moved away, this unique family is left alone.  The old man's wife's family.  Well, the Ministry of Internal Affairs no longer negotiated terms, but ten miles away, it mobilized the Construction Department to erect road barriers, block off the main external access roads, and begin the construction of the outer palace wall infrastructure.

    Even if the ancient landlords had their own land and could grow vegetables and produce grain, it was impossible to live a self-sufficient life without going to the market to buy daily necessities.  As a result, the main roads were closed and the byways were blocked, making it impossible for the servants, women, servants and carriages to get out.  The old man was dumbfounded.

    Kangxi didn't know about it at first. When he heard about it from the grapevine, he only heard that officials of all sizes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were having a banquet to celebrate the successful completion of the "preliminary demolition" work of the Changchun Garden project. The center of the topic was only one sentence,  The old man's family has moved away.  Kangxi suddenly sighed. Kangxi asked in detail about the cost of the relocation. He learned that the money prices for the purchase and sale of properties and houses were all based on the market price, with a slight increase. He did not neglect the people. The emperor only  Don't worry a little bit,it doesn't matter if you don't discuss this matter, it is the same in ancient and modern times.

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    ¡°After experiencing a funeral, leaving a job, traveling to many cities, I finally came back from wandering,

    Don¡¯t say much, sometimes words are poorer than words.
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