Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 453 The future of the ancient city

Li Yuxin was overjoyed, but turned her head away from Fang Mingyuan. She just felt her face was getting hot. She was so shameless just now. Why did she suddenly get so excited that she asked Fang Mingyuan for a room? Give her a room in Fan Mingyuan's home.

It was nothing to reserve a room. But Fang Mingyuan agreed without hesitation, which made her feel elated. An indescribable joy filled her chest, making her feel as if she was floating.

Fang Mingyuan didn't think as much as Li Yuxin did. He was still focused on the transformation of the ancient city. To protect the ancient city of Pingchuan, it must be rejuvenated and create economic benefits. As long as it can bring enough to the county

The advantage is that you don’t have to worry about it, and you don’t have to scream for protection. The Pingchuan County Party Committee and County Government will do their best to maintain the ancient city of Pingchuan and make it a permanent money tree. People, in the end, it is still for profit.

In life, only if something can bring benefits to people, people will take the initiative to protect it.

Although most of the residents of Pingchuan Ancient City have moved out smoothly, there are still too many places that need to be renovated. Needless to say, the roads in the city need to be repaired with great efforts!

Most of the roads in Pingchuan Ancient Town are stone paved roads, and a small part are paved with blue bricks. After countless years of use, they have been severely worn and have not been repaired for a long time. There are large and small potholes everywhere.

The drainage system on both sides of the road is close to being abandoned because it has not been repaired for a long time. It can be said that Liu Yu and the others have a heavy workload.

Moreover, Fang Mingyuan also noticed that in the courtyards on both sides of the street, although most of the courtyards still maintained their original condition, there were also many courtyards with a large number of buildings built by residents, which seemed incompatible with the old buildings in the courtyards. And these

, all must be demolished. There must be only one unified style in the entire Pingchuan Ancient City.

"Director Liu, follow here, where is that ancient building?" Fang Mingyuan pointed to an ancient building not far away.

Liu Yu raised his head, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "That's the Confucian Temple in the ancient city!"

"Confucian Temple? Is there a Martial Arts Temple in this city?" Li Yuxin asked curiously.

"Yes, there is also a Martial Arts Temple! But it's not on this street, but on the street over there. This ancient city originally had the county office, the Confucian Temple, the Bell Tower, the City God's Temple, the Dragon King Temple, the Wenchang Palace, the Martial Arts Temple, the Wanghu Tower, etc.

There are many historical sites, but after so many years, and at the beginning of the century, Qinxi Province was also in chaos and war, and many ancient buildings have collapsed. Now only the Confucian Temple, the Martial Temple, Wanghu Tower, Tibetan and other ancient buildings remain.

Liu Yu pointed to the street to the south and said with regret on his face.

"Is Jiang Taigong or Guan Sheng enshrined in the Martial Temple?" Fang Mingyuan asked casually.

"Jiang Taigong? Isn't the Martial Saint Guan Gong?" Li Yuxin asked in surprise. This was the first time she heard that Jiang Taigong was enshrined in the Wushu Temple.

But Liu Yu raised his thumb and said with a look of admiration: "Young Master Fang, it seems that you are a knowledgeable expert. This sentence gets to the key point!"

"Ah?" Li Yuxin was even more curious, "Director Liu, is Jiang Taigong also enshrined in the Martial Arts Temple?" In Qinxi Province, as the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, everyone knows the name of Jiang Taigong Jiang Ziya, but

She really didn't know that Taigong Jiang was worshiped by the Martial Arts Temple.

Although Liu Yu didn't know who this beautiful little girl was, but seeing the close relationship between her and Fang Mingyuan, he naturally didn't dare to neglect her. He quickly smiled and said: "Girl, you don't know something. Now everyone talks about Wu Shengren."

In the early Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty named Jiang Taigong King of Wucheng. In the Kaiyuan period, based on the sacrificial system of the Confucian Temple, Yasheng Shi was first established.

The Wucheng Temple is also called the Wucheng Temple, which is used to worship Jiang Taigong and the good generals of the past dynasties. The worship of Guan Gong was only popular in the Jingzhou area at first. In the Tang Dynasty, it was only the accompanying worship of the Wucheng Temple. After entering the Song Dynasty, due to

The Song Dynasty court canonized Guan Yu, and Guan Emperor's belief entered the Buddhist and Taoist systems. By the Ming Dynasty, Guan Gong was named the 'Guan Sheng Emperor' by the emperor at that time, and the 'Three Worlds Conquering Demons Great Emperor Shenwei Yuanzhen Tianzun' and many other honors.

, and Guan Yu's loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, and courage were highly praised by emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so later Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Martial Arts Temple and enshrined Jiang Taigong in the Imperial Temple. In the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng posthumously named Guan Yu the Martial Saint, and named Guan Yu the Martial Saint.

The Martial Arts Temple where the main worshiper is worshiped is juxtaposed with the Confucian Temple of Confucius, and together they are called the Wenwu Temple. Later, everyone only knew that the Martial Saint was Guan Gong, and the Martial Arts Temples across the country also worshiped Guan Gong. But the Martial Arts Temple here worships Guan Gong.

Still Taigong Jiang!"

Li Yuxin was stunned when she heard this. It turned out that the history of this martial arts temple was like this. She had always thought that the martial saint was Guan Gong. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but pull Fang Mingyuan's arm and said excitedly: "Mingyuan, you are so powerful. You have been here for so long.

You know everything!”

"Young Master Fang is indeed very knowledgeable. Even many archaeological workers don't know that Wu Sheng was originally Jiang Taigong." This flattery was effortless, so Liu Yu naturally had to echo it a few times. Fang Mingyuan's old face was slightly red, if

It wasn't because he had experienced the Internet boom in his previous life, but he had always thought that Wu Shengren was Guan Gong.

"Director Liu, why is Taigong Jiang still enshrined here?" Fang Mingyuan asked quickly. To be honest, he just asked casually. He didn't expect that Liu Yu really gave him a small surprise. In the future, maybe

This is one of the attractions of Pingchuan Ancient City!

"Although it is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he abolished the Taigong's martial temple and moved the Taigong to the Imperial Temple to worship him, but our place was the heart of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was also the place where Taigong assisted King Wu to conquer the world, so people have great respect for Guan Sheng

The belief in Guan Gong is far less than the respect for Taigong. Therefore, when the Wu Temple was abolished in the Ming Dynasty, the people here renamed the Wu Temple Taigong Temple. In the Qing Dynasty, when Guan Gong was revered as the Martial Saint, people would rather build another one elsewhere in the county.

The statue of Taigong was not removed from the Guan Gong Temple. Later, during the wars during the Republic of China, the Guan Gong Temple was damaged, so people called this place the Martial Temple."

Fang Mingyuan nodded. He spent half his life in a humble state, never found his talent, wandered around, endured heavy burdens, observed the situation, waited for the opportunity, fished on the Weishui River, and finally met the Ming master Jiang Taigong.

One of the founders of the State of Qi and the founder of Qi culture, he was also the grand master of four generations of emperors: King Wen, King Wu, King Cheng, and King Kang. He was also an outstanding strategist, military strategist, and military leader in ancient China who had a long-lasting influence.

The ** family. Classics of all dynasties have respected his historical status. Confucianism, Taoism, law, military, and all other schools have recognized him as a figure in their own family, and he is respected as "the master of a hundred schools of thought." Compared with Guan Gong, of course, a native of Qinxi Province

He is a person who prefers to be famous in his own country.

"So Director Liu, are there any other martial temples dedicated to Taigong in Qinxi Province now?"

Liu Yu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "As far as I know, before the Republic of China, and even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were many temples dedicated to Taigong in Qinxi Province. Of course, they were not all temples dedicated to martial arts.

However, as of now, the only one I know of that still exists is this one in the ancient city of Pingchuan. Alas, of course, even if it survived the war, it was completely destroyed in those turbulent ten years.

That’s almost it.”

Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but let out a long sigh. The ten years of catastrophe not only damaged China's economy and culture, but also caused a huge catastrophe to many cultural relics and historic sites in the territory! In his previous life, he had heard his uncle say that when he was in Fengyuan

In nearby villages and towns, ten large copper jars from the past were excavated. All of them contained copper coins from the Song Dynasty. The total number was hundreds of thousands! However, such a considerable amount of wealth left by the ancients has been

Everyone took it and melted the copper!

"Prodigal son!" When he heard the news, Fang Mingyuan wanted to catch all those people and use bricks to give them a cure one by one! Copper coins in the Song Dynasty were sold casually, with a dozen pieces sold.

, that little bit of copper money has come back a long time ago! If these copper coins are sold on the international market, even a mountain of copper can be bought back.

"Director Liu, these things in the ancient city must be carefully appraised. If they are considered to be of great cultural relic value, they will be moved to the Confucian Temple in the future. I plan to build a museum there in the future to bring our Pingchuan County

The cultural relics scattered all over the place are concentrated and protected." Pingchuan is a major cultural relics county. Civilization has existed here since the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Before the Song Dynasty, it had always been the largest economic center of China at that time. There were five

The imperial mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty emperor was located here, so you can imagine how rich the cultural relics here would be.

"That's great!" Liu Yu's spirit was immediately lifted. Although Pingchuan County is a major county for cultural relics, the county's finances are stretched and the funds allocated to cultural relics protection every year are pitifully small, let alone the existing funds.

The protection of cultural relics means that the wages of the county staff responsible for the protection of cultural relics are guaranteed to be tight. It is an absolute Qingshui Yamen!

But Liu Yu has a feeling that maybe starting from this year, people like them will turn around and become the focus of people's attention again.

Several people walked while talking, and soon arrived at the gate of the Confucian Temple. A rusty gate locked the way.

"Master Fang, please wait here, I'll go find someone to ask for the key." Liu Yu said with some embarrassment and trotted away.

Looking through the gap between the iron fences, the Confucian Temple was also in tatters, with grass growing everywhere, making it look a bit desolate and gloomy. Li Yuxin looked at the scorching sun in the sky. If she hadn't seen this scene at this time,

She didn't dare to go in at all. This reminded her of Lanruo Temple in "A Chinese Ghost Story" she had seen not long ago.

It didn't take long for Liu Yu to run back again, sweaty and panting, and opened the door.

In the front yard of the Confucian Temple, there are twenty-eight horse-tethering stakes erected on the left and right, and animals that look like monkeys, dogs, and unicorns are carved on the pile heads. Although it has become a little blurry after the invasion of time, but if you look closely,

, you can still see that they have different shapes and rich expressions. From this, you can imagine that this place used to be bustling with cars and horses.

"Master Fang, it can be said that the Confucian Temple in the ancient city of Pingchuan has been there since the city was founded. It has been destroyed and renovated several times. The most recent one was in the 30th year of the Republic of China. The residents of the ancient city at that time raised funds to renovate it. But since the founding of the People's Republic of China,

, there has never been any large-scale renovation. It turned out that this was the location of the county radio station, and it was still somewhat popular. Later, after the county committee and county government moved away, the place completely declined. Come with me,

Ahead is the main hall, Dacheng Hall!" Liu Yu led the way, acting as a part-time tour guide.

The main hall faces north and faces south, and is located on a high platform. The main hall is on the top of a hill, with cornices and corner columns at the four corners. The front of the hall is 13 to 4 meters wide, and the inside is 7 to 8 meters deep. It is all made of brick and wood. The main hall

The middle is the widest, and slowly decreases toward both sides. Fang Mingyuan noticed that the pillar bases of the three rooms in the middle have relief patterns of two dragons playing with beads. Under the eaves are overlapping brackets and painted, the roof is decorated with glazed tiles, and there are several wing rooms on both sides. Just

Nowadays, the paint on the pillars has almost faded away, and the green boards on the ground are also cracked a lot, even revealing the earth color underneath, making them look tattered and tattered. In the side corridors of the main hall, there are still several humanoid stone statues, which have not fallen off.

The head, hands and feet are missing, and the stone tablet on the back of the stone turtle in front of the temple is also missing.

"The renovation work here was entrusted to the province's professional team of ancient building repairers. It's just that their last project hasn't been completed yet, and it will take about a week before they can come." Liu Yu pointed at the main hall and said, "I don't dare.

If we hand this place over to the county team, depending on their skills, they may end up with something nondescript."

Fang Mingyuan nodded. Most of the construction techniques of this ancient building have been lost or are only in the hands of a few old craftsmen who have been passed down from generation to generation. They recklessly renovated it and ended up looking completely different. It's better to just leave it like this.

After leaving the Confucian Temple, Fang Mingyuan and the others followed Liu Yu and came to "Wanjuan". This was the county library back then. It was a small building with a Japanese-style brick and wood structure. There was also a stone tablet in front of the building.

There are three big characters "library" inscribed by Kang Youwei himself.

"This is an empty building now, and all the books have been moved to the new county library." Liu Yu sighed softly, "Nearly 3,000 people used to live in the ancient city, but there was no decent library.

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"More than three thousand people!" Li Yuxin exclaimed, "So many people lived here originally?"

"Yes!" Liu Yu glanced at Fang Mingyuan. This was what he admired most about the Fang family. It was really a generous move. More than 3,000 people moved out of the ancient city and settled in the county. The Fang family spent a huge amount of money on this.

The subsidy fee for the residents here is more than 30 million yuan. If you include the cost of building buildings for these people in the county, the money is just like water. If you include the cost of repairing this ancient city, it is simply a waste of money.

What a waste of money.

But without the Fang family to come forward, with Pingchuan County's current financial capacity, it is unclear whether this ancient city will be taken seriously by the next century. The longer it is delayed, the greater the damage to the ancient city will be. When residents relocate

Before, the entire ancient city was about to turn into a mountain of garbage.

The Fang family has done such a great thing, but for some reason they are unwilling to publicize it. The county does not seem to be keen on publicizing this matter. Liu Yu originally thought that through this matter, more people can

Many people are paying attention to the protection of cultural relics and historic sites in Pingchuan County.

"Ah, by the way, I almost forgot, Mr. Fang, come with me!" Liu Yu patted his head and said, turning around and walking south.

Fang Mingyuan and Li Yuxin looked at each other in surprise. They didn't know what this man was thinking of, but since he had left, they naturally had to follow him.

After walking for about a hundred meters along the dilapidated stone road in the city, he came to the door of an old house high up in the city. Fang Mingyuan noticed that on both sides of the door of the house, there were two "

"Shangma Stone", there is still a rusty bronze door knocker on the door, the vermilion on the doorpost has peeled off, the color has faded, leaving cracks like knife carvings, losing the style of the past. It can be seen from this that the owner of this place

How wealthy and magnificent he was back then, and many years later, he still shows how wealthy and wealthy he once was.

"This is the best house in Pingchuan County during the Republic of China. It was owned by Ma Yan, the guard commander of Fengyuan City at that time. It has been around for nearly a hundred years now. It is also one of the best-preserved old houses in the ancient city. This house

The house has three courtyards, with a total of more than 20 large and small rooms, and a back garden at the back. Although it has been occupied by the original residents building houses, it can be cleared out in the future. I think Fang Shaoruo plans to build a house in this ancient city.

If you are looking for a house here, this place is very good! Not only is the house relatively large, but it is also located in the center of the city." Liu Yu explained with a smile.

"Director Liu really took the trouble!" Fang Mingyuan said with a satisfied smile, "Since it was Director Liu who hired me, I trust the professional perspective and will use this place as my residence in Pingchuan in the future. However,

I have to ask Director Liu to help me choose two more houses in this ancient city, which will be of great use in the end."

Liu Yu immediately beamed with joy and responded continuously.

Fang Mingyuan stood on the bluestone steps in front of the door, looking down at the whole city, feeling full of ambition!

He believed that after the ancient city of Pingchuan was renovated in the future, as long as he lived in it, the private owners who had already become rich in Pingchuan County would definitely be attracted to move in here. However, Fang Mingyuan had already thought about the courtyards in this ancient city.

Two thousand years ago, people were only renting, not selling, and they had to set extremely strict rules for the people who stayed in them, just like European countries treated those ancient castles. Not only did their identities and wealth have to be reviewed,

Moreover, a high deposit must be paid to ensure that these courtyards cannot be built privately or modified at will.

In the future, this ancient city of Pingchuan will become a well-known tourist resort and high-end villa area in Pingchuan County! The residences here will become the places where rich people throughout Qinxi Province flock to!