Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 714 Have you seen the Lanting Collection Preface?

Sure enough, as Zhao Huan expected, Zhao Ying's investigation came to the Ministry of Households, but there was no result.

The reason is that the Ministry of Households bought the restoration of the palace to the people.

And the folks who built the palace walls gathered together when they were alive, and made their own living when they were not alive. Naturally, it was a bad debt, and it was impossible to find out.

Cheng Chu is a person who likes to get to the bottom of things. After careful investigation, he didn't find anything. Few people know the paint craftsman well. The person he introduced also said that he met outside the city by chance.

There is no way to investigate this matter.

"I am incompetent." Cheng Chu said apologetically, he failed to do any of the things that the officials gave him, it was too creepy for these people living in the sky to fight against each other.

Zhao Huan shook his head with a smile and said, "It's not your fault."

"Kong Duanyou started a tabloid in Bianjing back then, and he did it very carefully. Didn't you find out in the end? As long as this person still moves, he will definitely make arrangements, and there will be loopholes if he moves."

"When hunting, the hunter and the prey compete with patience."

"Don't be impatient."

Cheng Chu tasted the product carefully, and it was really the case. Last time, Kong Duanyou also started with a fairy. The tabloid did it. Cheng Chu didn’t know where to start. Didn’t he find the tail by himself in the end, and caught it all at once?
He thought for a while and said: "Sure enough, the official family is still the official family. It is thorough when you look at things. This is exactly the case. I will pay attention to it."

"Go and deal with Zhao Mingcheng's case first, and remember to be gentle." Zhao Huan asked Cheng Chu to go down to investigate Zhao Mingcheng. Since there was no progress in the haunting, he started the investigation from the Jinshi Society headed by Zhao Mingcheng.

Zhao Mingcheng is very fond of epigraphy, epigraphy is the archaeology of the Song Dynasty.

Last time, Zhao Mingcheng, who had made a lot of money by taking advantage of Zhao Huan's efforts to build Yanjing, set up a Jinshi Institute to satisfy his hobbies.

The society is a unique social culture of the Song Dynasty.It is a bit like the learning clubs, news clubs, dance clubs, basketball clubs and other interest clubs on the university campuses of later generations.

For example, most of the archers of Yue Fei's Hejian Army came from the Bow Society.

It is a very interesting social phenomenon in the Song Dynasty to gather together because of hobbies and hobbies, and this social phenomenon first originated from Zhao Kuangyin.

When Zhao Kuangyin was in Chenqiaoyi, he was added a yellow robe by his brothers in the sworn club.

Then the military power was released with a glass of wine, and the military power released by Zhao Kuangyin was also the brothers of these sworn clubs, and they were also the nobles who mobilized the eight sects to enter Beijing after Zhao Huanyu drove away from Bianjing last time.

Yue Fei is now surrounded by Wang Gui, the military commander and confidential secretary.It is Yue Fei's elder brother of the sworn society.

This sworn society culture is a symbol of social vitality and a source of social instability.

And Zhao Mingcheng's Jinshi Society is very large.

Zhao Ying put a letter on the imperial case, and said suspiciously: "Officials, Zhao Mingcheng made a small fortune because of the note approved by Li Dazai, but I think this small fortune cannot support such a big Jinshi school." The booth of the society. I sent someone to check it out. This Jinshi Society named Yatang has more than 300 members alone, and the richness of antique calligraphy and paintings is comparable to Guanlan Pavilion."

Where is Guanlan Pavilion?
It was during the process of Yue Fei's suppression of bandits and Li Gang's business reform that he dug up thousands of moth houses in the East and Hebei roads of the Song Dynasty, and dug up countless auction houses.

That is the wealth of the Song Dynasty for more than 160 years.

Zhao Huan opened the letter. Although the number of antique calligraphy and paintings in this Jinshi Society is far inferior to that of Guanlan Pavilion, the quality is surprisingly high. Society rush to buy.

Zhao Huan even saw the authentic work of Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection"!
"Really or not, isn't Wang Xizhi's "Preface to Lanting Collection" brought to Zhaoling by Tang Taizong?" Zhao Huan asked in a bit of astonishment, pointing to this list of purchases.

Could this group of guys have dug up Tang Taizong's grave?
Zhao Ying glanced at it and said: "The officials said this "Lanting Xiuxiu"."

"At the beginning Tang Wendi Li Shimin fought Wang Shichong in Luoyang City and defeated him steadily. Then Dou Jiande came to support him. Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande at Hulao Pass. Wang Shichong saw that he had no chance of winning, so he chose to present "Lanting Collection Preface" as a I paid for my life and chose to surrender."

"Then Li Yuan spared Wang Shichong's life. After Li Shimin became emperor, he liked the "Lanting Collection Preface" very much, so he ordered Yu Shinan, Ouyang Xun, Chu Suiliang, Feng Chengsu and other scholars from the Hongwen Museum to copy the number of copies. Give it to the minister."

"After Emperor Wen of the Tang Dynasty, the original "Orchid Pavilion Collection" disappeared without a trace, and then this "Lanting Xiuyu" was used as the authentic work, because it was the Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian who stamped it, so this is also called Shenlong Benxiu purification."

Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ying with a look of surprise on his face. He, who usually does not show off the mountains and water, actually knows so much about the Preface to the Lanting Collection and the Xiuxiu.

Moreover, the posthumous title of Emperor Wen of Tang Taizong Li Shimin is also too much!
Zhao Huan frowned slightly. Is stamping well-known pictures, calligraphy and paintings a common hobby of the emperor?This Zhongzong also likes to poke his own chapter, the more famous he is, the more he likes to poke.

"I didn't see it, you know quite a lot." Zhao Huan nodded and said to Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying replied with a smile: "I know all about valuable things. This thing is always valuable, but I don't know the origin, and I'm still looking into it."

"According to rumors, it was passed down from generation to generation, and the family had to sell it because of the downfall of the family. However, according to my guess, it is estimated that it was something thrown out of the ground by people who were fighting against each other."

Zhao Huan couldn't help thinking of the Great Song Dynasty Mausoleum, which is still a wasteland.

In 160 years, more than a thousand scholars and generals who left their traces in history are still dead.

Except for Zhao Kuangyin's grave, the others couldn't even pour out anything.

Before Zhao Kuangyin died, he was still repairing the pile warehouse. The Liao Kingdom was gaining momentum at that time. In order to redeem the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Zhao Kuangyin did not hold a big funeral when he died, and there were few things to be buried with him. Pitiful.

Zhao Huan's behavior of buying Yanyun sixteen prefectures by Tong Guan is quite understandable. After all, it is Zhao Kuangyin's ancestral precepts, and Zhao Huan once discussed with Zhong Shidao which is more lethal, the plague or smallpox. It is said that the result is the most important, the process is not important to him.

No matter what means the Sixteen States of Yanyun used to get it back, it would be a great achievement.

It's a pity that Tong Guan bought it for a long time, and Datong Mansion, Yuguan, Beigukou, and Juyongguan in Taihang Eight Paths are all in the hands of Jinren, which means they didn't buy it.

"Have you seen this Lanting Xiuyu?" Zhao Huan suddenly asked with a smile.

"Why do the officials want to visit the Jinshi Institute?" Zhao Ying said in shock: "Officials, absolutely not!"

(End of this chapter)