【Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Series 560, Original Works of Little Buddha History, Please Do Not Reprint】
To say how exquisite Li Xiucheng's life is, first of all, we must know the basic conditions of Li Xiucheng, after all, most of the people who pay attention to it have money or power, and if the average person pays attention to life, everyone will disdainfully say: "Blind exquisite!" "Poor and exquisite!" Li Xiucheng was capitalistic, especially after the Tianjing Incident.
After the Tianjing Incident, Li Xiucheng's life underwent great changes, from a mid-level official to a leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with heavy troops, deputy commander of the Taiping Army, and even often stayed in Tianjing to help Hong Xiuquan deal with military and political affairs. After being crowned king, Li Xiucheng can be said to have embarked on the peak of his life, and his life was no less exquisite than that of Yang Xiuqing before the Tianjing Incident.
According to relevant records, after Yang Xiuqing was crowned king in the early days, there were more than a thousand people in the honor guard and the escort team, and the car used needed 48 people to carry, which was very close to the scale of Hong Xiuquan's travel, and it should be known that Yang Xiuqing was not a simple Eastern King at that time, and he still had the aura of "Heavenly Father". But when we look at Li Xiucheng's travel team, I am afraid that we will feel that Yang Xiuqing was really a pediatrician. After Li Xiucheng became king, every time he traveled, the honor guard and the escort team added up to several thousand people, and the palanquin sitting on was carried by 56 people, and Xiao Fo sometimes thought that the palanquin could not be as big as a house.
At the first time of Li Xiucheng's reign, in addition to changing the number of his followers, he also expanded the mansion of Tianjing City. Li Xiucheng had previously lived in the hetianyi mansion of the assigned Ming Wa Lang, on this basis, Li Xiucheng expanded and encroached on the houses of his neighbors, but this still did not satisfy Li Xiucheng, so he found another piece of land, let his brother Li Ming work as a supervisor, and rebuilt the Zhongwang Mansion.
In fact, there are more than two Zhongwang mansions in Li Xiucheng, and there are one and three Zhongwang mansions in Suzhou, which shows that Li Xiucheng regards the royal palace as his own face, as a symbol of status and reputation.
The Zhongwang Mansion in Suzhou can be said to be the most worth mentioning of the three royal palaces. After Li Xiucheng occupied Suzhou, he was bent on turning Sufu Province into his own base area, and naturally he wanted to have his own mansion in the base area, and the place he looked up to was not elsewhere, it was the famous Humble Administrator's Garden. Although the Humble Administrator's Garden is a famous garden in Suzhou, in Li Xiucheng's view, the place is too small to match his status, so he recruited thousands of craftsmen and asked them to rebuild and expand the Humble Administrator's Garden throughout the year, and to transform the Humble Administrator's Garden into a Zhongwang Mansion that includes the official office, the courtyard house, and the garden pond.
According to records, the Suzhou Zhongwang Mansion has not been completed from the beginning of construction to the time Suzhou fell into the hands of Li Hongzhang, and it has not been completed for three years, which shows its huge scale and grandeur. At that time, Li Hongzhang, who was in a high position, was also amazed to see the Zhongwang Mansion in Suzhou, "the Zhongwangfu Qionglou Yuyu, the Qulan Cave House, the True Immortal Cave House", "Three or four gardens, two or three opera stages, a realm that has never been seen in ordinary life".
For Li Xiucheng, who is so particular about living and traveling, his own clothing must be paid attention to. The Englishman had long-term contact with Li Xiucheng, had a detailed record of Li Xiucheng's clothing, and even painted a portrait of Li Xiucheng.
When I first met King Zhong, I found that his costume should be said to be very plain. He did not wear a royal crown, but only an ordinary crimson cotton tunic, a red turban of ordinary style, plus a headdress of his characteristic casual clothes, counting a large precious gemstone adorned in front of his forehead, and eight rare round gold carvings, each four arranged in a row on either side of the gem.
He said that Li Xiucheng's clothing was simple, but Xiao Buddha felt very exquisite and eye-catching, and the casual headdresses all had a ruby and eight rare round gold carvings, and it should be known that the soldiers were not decorated, only a turban.
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