"A palace of alcohol, half of the History of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"
If there is any royal palace in Beijing that best represents the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is no doubt that the royal palace is definitely among them. From the gradual prosperity of the Qing Empire to the collapse of the Qing Empire Building, the Palace of alcohol has witnessed every historical process.
There are three alcohol palaces in Beijing, namely the Taiping Lake Alcohol Prince's Mansion (now the Central Conservatory of Music), the Shichahai Alcohol King's Mansion (now the former residence of Song Qingling), and the Regent Alcohol King's Mansion (now the west bank of the West China Sea in the Forbidden City). Since the third Alcohol King's Mansion had not yet been completed and the Qing Dynasty had perished, the Regency Alcohol Palace had not been "enjoyed" by the Prince of Alcohol.
Of the three alcohol kings, the most representative of which is the second alcohol king's palace, the Shichahai Alcohol King's Palace.
The first generation of the shichahai palace was the Kangxi Emperor's scholar Nalan Mingzhu, who had a son named Nalan Rongruo. Well, that is, writing down
"If life is only like the first sight, what is the sad wind and autumn painting fan" of the Naran prince.
According to legend, the mansion built by Nalan Mingzhu is so magnificent that it is considered by posterity to be the prototype of the Grand View Garden of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The luxury of the Ming Mansion (also known as the Ming Mansion) is a testament to the taiping prosperity of the Kangxi Dynasty. Of course, Nalan Mingzhu's ability to build such a luxurious mansion was inseparable from his title of the first greedy of the Kangxi Dynasty.
The so-called tree is a big move, and the Naran family can guard such a large mansion, all relying on the naran pearl to have power in the DPRK. Once the Ming Dynasty lost this kind of dependence, Mo said that the family wealth would not be preserved, and even the roof tiles sheltered from the rain would be difficult to preserve.
During the Qianlong period, there was another "first greed" - Hezhen.
He yan's corruption not only reached a new height, but also greedily went beyond the borders of the country and became the world's first corrupt official.
When a generation of new ministers changed their old sons, and when the wings were full, the Naran family had already gone down. Nalan Cheng'an, the grandson of Nalan Mingzhu, had neither the wisdom of Mingzhu nor the talent of his father, so he gradually lost his position in the DPRK and became a decoration.
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves.
Nalan Cheng'an guarded such a mansion, and had long been targeted by Hezhen. It is really a bit ironic that the first greed of the Qianlong Dynasty "targeted" the first greed of the Kangxi Dynasty!
He Yan designed to frame Nalan Cheng'an and raid his home and drive him out of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Ming Mansion became the residence of Hezhen. As the world's first greed, Hezhen really did not live up to this name!
In the hands of Hezhen, the scale of the "Ming Mansion" was further expanded, with the addition of a garden and the purchase of hundreds of houses.
In The Year of Jiaqing, the same thing happened to Hezhen again. The Jiaqing Emperor instead gave the Ming Dynasty to Prince Cheng, Yongxuan.
During the Guangxu period, Prince Cheng was devastated. In the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888), the Ming Mansion was reclaimed from the Line of Prince Cheng, and after repairing, it was given to the guangxu Emperor's biological father YiZhen as the Prince of Alcohol, and the Ming Mansion finally became the Prince of Alcohol after three generations of construction by its masters.
The picture shows the location of the three alcohol kings
When Yi Zhen got the "Ming Mansion", she was exactly 48 years old, and Empress Dowager Cixi had already fallen into power.
Empress Dowager Cixi was suspicious by nature and had an inexplicable "attachment" to power. Zai Xiang (Guangxu) was able to become emperor not because he had a very powerful father, but because he had a very powerful aunt, Cixi.
To firmly grasp the power in her own hands, Cixi is bound to strictly prevent "her father from interfering in the government", that is, Yi Zhen interfering in the government.
Yi Zhen did not die for a day, and Cixi did not let down her vigilance for a day. Although there was talk and laughter on the surface, the surveillance of him was the most severe in the Guangxu Dynasty. Yi Zhen also knew that this "little sister-in-law" was vicious and cruel, and after helping Cixi kill the eight ministers, she had always been low-key and low-key, and even did not dare to ask for Cixi's reward.
In 1888, his own son gave the "Ming Mansion" to Yi Zhen, who also twisted and twisted for several months before finally moving into this mansion with a history of nearly 200 years.
After living in the "Ming Mansion", Yi Zhen only cared about reading every day and did not ask about political affairs outside the window. The things that Cixi gave him could be pushed and pushed, and those that could not be pushed off were completed with all their hearts, and they did not dare to have a trace of slackness.
In the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1892), Yizhen suddenly fell ill and died soon after. After Yi Zhen's death, the Palace of alcohol was passed on to his son Zaifeng, the father of the last emperor Puyi.
After Puyi inherited the unification, the Prince of Alcohol's Palace became the "Hidden Dragon Residence", that is, an emperor was born from here. After the emperor succeeded to the throne, the Qianlong Mansion could not be inhabited, and Zaifeng had to move out of the Palace of the Alcohol King and find another place.
At this time, the Qing government had already fallen, and after the change of gengzi state, it owed a large amount of debt, and even the army defending Gyeonggi could not afford to support it. However, his son inherited the throne, and Zaifeng became the regent, the most powerful person in the Qing Dynasty. With such a status, how can you not lose yourself?
After Zaifeng came to power, he formulated the Sixteen Articles of the Regent's Ceremonial System of the Overseer, article 15 of which stipulates:
"On the west bank of the Zhonghai (the lake west of the Forbidden City), build the regent's palace of the Jianguo."
The Regency Palace of the Guardian State is the third Alcohol King's Palace.
In order to "treat" himself, how much blood did Zaifeng lay in the Regency Palace?
The entire Regency Palace has 314 houses, a total of 1564 rooms, and the project cost 3.93 million taels of silver. The Regency Palace was just electric lights (at that time, just entered China, counted as a luxury), it installed 587 sets, you know, the whole of Beijing at that time a total of 30,000 electric lights.
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that before the Regency Palace was completed, a series of major events occurred: the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the regent went into the wilderness, the Qing Dynasty fell, and China entered the Republic of China period.
The regency palace, which was built with huge investments, was in stark contrast to the "poor and destitute" Qing government. This mansion seems to have squeezed out the last drop of blood of the Qing Dynasty!
Ironically, this richly packaged mansion, like the evening sunshine of "punching the face and filling the fat", is also a "vain" tofu slag project.
In the late 1970s, the third generation of the "Alcohol King's Mansion" underwent a series of renovations. Originally, it was also necessary to maintain the original architectural style, but during the renovation process, the staff found that the foundation of the entire Alcohol King's Mansion was loose and sloppy, and some of the pillars even had cracks during the construction process. Such a house is simply cutting corners and cannot be retained for a long time.
Across the middle sea is the Forbidden City, and under the eyes of the emperor, the construction officials are still so corrupt; what is the scene where the emperor can't see?
In 1912, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, and the unfinished regency palace became the office of Yuan Shikai, the president of the Republic of China. Since then, it has been used as a government office and is still in use today.
As for the Qianlong Mansion, that is, the second generation of the "Alcohol King's Mansion", the Ming Mansion, after the fall of the Great Qing Dynasty, it became the residence of the Prince of Alcohol. After liberation, the King of Alcohol was divided into two: one part became an office space, and the other part became Song Qingling's residence.
A small palace of alcohol, through the rise and fall of dynasties, has also followed the ups and downs. Houses don't talk, otherwise they'll say, "Power is really good." ”