1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 362
Under the anticipation of countless readers, the November issue of "People's Literature" was published as scheduled, and the second half of "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" finally revealed the true face of Mount Lu.

Two days after "People's Literature" was launched, the overwhelming tide of comments and letters from readers came again.

After more than a month of word-of-mouth fermentation, "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" has become the ceiling of historical novels in the hearts of many readers.

Those who are interested naturally cannot help but compare this novel with "Li Zicheng", which won the Yanbing Literature Award, and "Emperor Kangxi" by Er Yuehe, which is very popular.

The conclusion drawn is that the latter two cannot be compared with "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" no matter in terms of the plot of the novel itself, or its literariness and ideological quality.

Fans of this novel even chanted the slogan "New Ming History".

In the past, Lin Weimin's advice to this kind of fanatical fans was "don't worry about killing them".

From later generations, he understood the truth of "one pink tops ten black".

But when it was his turn, he felt, what's wrong with the readers?
It's all my fault if it's wrong, I just blame my novels for being too good.

All parties are guilty, and the blame lies with me.

Let me bear the criticism from the outside world alone.

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

Yao Shuzhi admired the letters from the readers who just arrived at the editorial office today, her face beaming with joy, "These readers are getting more and more exaggerated!"

Zou Changyi, who was new to the editorial department, asked, "Are the readers of the previous editor-in-chief also like this?"

Yao Shuzhi thought for a while, "It's rare, this time everyone really wants to praise the people to the sky!"

He Qizhi said: "But I don't quite understand it. Weimin's novel is good. I don't think it can compare to the fierceness and extremeness of "Chasing the Murderer". That kind of novel will win the readers' preference."

Liu Yin smiled and said, "You don't understand this, do you?"

Hearing what she said, the colleagues in the editorial department immediately cast curious eyes, wanting to hear her big talk.

After enjoying enough of everyone's attention, Liu Yin said: "Watching "Chasing the Murderer", as long as you can understand Weimin's ideas and creative intentions, then you will have a sense of pleasure, but watching "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" is different."

When Liu Yin said this, she deliberately paused, and Yao Shuzhi asked cooperatively, "Why is it different?"

"Many people who read this novel are interested in the history of the Ming Dynasty itself. Weimin said a word to me that day, and I think it is very good to use, called 'knowledge barriers'.

I can read this book, but you can't, and it's easy to form a condescending sense of superiority.

Let's talk about the novel "The Great Ming Dynasty 1566", which is said to be history, but in fact it is covered in the skin of history, talking about tricks and reforms.

The threshold for real reading is actually not high.

But everyone thinks that this novel has a threshold, even those who study history have approved the content of the novel, let outsiders read it, how powerful it is!

The sense of recognition in my heart came naturally.

So it's no surprise these days the rhetoric is popping up. "

After Liu Yin said these words, she took a sip of tea leisurely, and the colleagues around her deeply agreed after hearing this.

"Sister Liu is really good!" Zou Changyi boasted.

Yao Shuzhi sneered, "You really think it's her thinking? Lin Weimin said these words."

Liu Yin rolled her eyes at Yao Shuzhi, "It's boring!"

While colleagues were discussing Lin Weimin and his novels, Lin Weimin was receiving guests.

"If you have time in the afternoon, come and have a look with me, I'm sure you won't regret it."

Li Guangfu looked a little excited.

He has been looking for houses for Lin Weimin this year, and he doesn't need to come to Lin Weimin to buy a large courtyard. He can make decisions by himself, and he doesn't need to ask Lin Weimin for instructions.

But today is different, in the words of Li Guangfu.

"If you wait ten or eight years, you may not meet such a good opportunity!"

Lin Weimin was moved by what he said, thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I'll go for a while, you wait for me!"

As he spoke, he went to Qin Chaoyang's office to say hello, and then took Li Guang out of the door.

The car drove past Shichahai, onto Xizhimen Street, and stopped just as it reached Xinjiekou.

Lin Weimin asked uncertainly, "Is this the film?"

"It's here, it's here!"

Lin Weimin found a place to park the car and got off with Li Guangfu.

Li Guangfu took a few glances at the entrance of the alley, and said to Lin Weimin, "Teacher Lin, this is the only place, take a look!"

Lin Weimin looked in the direction of Li Guangfu's finger. Li Guangfu introduced: "To the west is Gaojing Hutong. From there to the east, there is a piece of residential houses to Sanguan Temple. The north is across the street from Yongtai Temple. It is about 70 meters wide from east to west. Meters, about 80 meters long from north to south. This piece of house was the former Yongxin Baylor Mansion."

"The first owner of Baylor Mansion was Mian Si, who was the No.11 son of Qianlong and the fourth son of Prince Cheng Yongxuan.

Prince Cheng Aixinjueluo Yongxuan was Jiaqing's elder brother, and his mother was Empress Nala, who died young at the age of 25 without heirs.

Qianlong then ordered Yongzheng's fourth son, Miancai, to succeed Yongzheng as his heir.In the fourth year of Jiaqing, Yongzhen was posthumously named Baylor, and Miansi was gradually promoted to Baylor in the 18th year of Daoguang.

Yongzhen was not granted a title during his lifetime, and lived in the palace all the time without a mansion.

The mansion in Xizhimen was built in the early Jiaqing period. After Yongzheng was posthumously granted the title of Baylor, Miansi was only a town general at that time, so the building regulations were relatively low.

For the royal family of the Qing Dynasty, the Baylor Mansion with such low regulations was leftovers.

But for us ordinary people, this Yongxin Baylor Mansion is as high as the sky.

After liberation, it became the second dormitory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although it is now a courtyard, the buildings in the courtyard are generally kept in good condition.

After buying it, as long as you tidy it up a bit, it will be the best mansion. "

After Li Guangfu introduced the situation of Baylor Mansion, he did not forget to sigh at the end, "In the past, how could such a mansion be sold to ordinary people like us? Only the top dignitaries can live in it."

"Can I go in and have a look now?" Lin Weimin asked.

"Yes! I will show you outside first, mainly to show you the size and location of this house."

Lin Weimin nodded.

What Li Guangfu said just now is flawed.

In fact, not only in the past, but also in the present and later generations, such a mansion is not something ordinary people can live in.

The famous Prince's Mansion, Baylor's Mansion, and Beizi Mansion in Yanjing City were basically confiscated after liberation and became the offices of various government agencies.

After the mid-80s, the agencies moved into new office buildings, and these places became cultural relics protection units, and they couldn't be bought even if they wanted to.

Lin Weimin was thinking wildly in his mind, and followed Li Guangfu into the gate of Yongzhen Baylor Mansion.

Li Guangfu first went in to find someone, surnamed Deng, who was the logistics director of the Academy of Sciences, and they were able to stroll around the yard smoothly.

The gate of Yongzhen Baylor Mansion is a pattern of three rooms and five doors, with gray tiles and hard hills, rolling sheds and hoops.There is a gate with vermilion gold pillars, there are sparrows on the top of the eaves pillars, and there are paintings on the walking board.

Lin Weimin took a closer look and couldn't tell the difference.There are brick carvings on the eaves, but unfortunately they were covered with lime.

There are huge drum-holding stones on both sides of the gate, and there are three-level bluestone hanging belts in front of the gate, and then there is a blue stone corridor, which leads directly to Xizhimen Street.There are a pair of horse-mounting stones in front of the gate of the mansion, and there are several iron rings for fastening horses on the back eaves wall of the inverted house.

The buildings in the mansion are divided into east, middle and west roads, which is the standard configuration of noble mansions.

Inside the mansion gate is the outer courtyard of the middle road, the front is the vertical flower gate, and the east and west sides are the moon gate, from which you can enter the east and west roads.

The stained glass on both sides of the vertical flower door and the carved drum stone set off each other, which looks very beautiful.There is a wooden screen inside the vertical flower gate, bypassing it is the second courtyard.

There are five north rooms in the courtyard, which are flower halls, with front and rear corridors, and there are doors in the north and south, which are also called passing halls.

On both sides of the hanging flower gate are chaoshou verandahs, and the north end is connected with the front corridor of the flower hall.Pass through the flower hall and enter a small courtyard, and there is another hanging flower gate in the north.

Entering this door is the Sanjinyuan. The north room has five front and back corridors, which is magnificent. This is the central building in the mansion. It was originally an ancestral hall, but now it is also allocated to the staff of the Academy of Sciences.

There are three east and west wing rooms in the courtyard, a standard courtyard.There is a flower wall on the north side of the ancestral hall, which divides the mansion into two courtyards.

The central part of the backyard is the northernmost part of the central part of the mansion. It is the back garden, which has a large area, with earth hills and flower houses, but it is a pity that they are all abandoned now.

In the west of Tushan, there are three rooms in the north, front and back, which were originally garden study rooms.On the west side, there is a hut and a couplet, which were the servants' rooms in those days.The central and western parts of the backyard are separated by a wall and connected by a door.

There are three courtyards on West Road, which are the main living areas. There are seven inverted houses facing the street in the front yard, as well as rockery jujube trees and so on.The house facing the street on the east and west sides of the mansion gate is the only south house in the mansion, where servants live.

To the north of the front yard are two parallel courtyards.On the east side of the West Road is a courtyard with two entrances, with a vertical flower gate on the front and three east and west wing rooms on both sides.Two are outside the vertical flower gate and one is inside the vertical flower gate.

Entering the vertical flower gate is a courtyard. There are five north rooms with front and rear corridors on the front, and three east and west wing rooms.It is more spacious and taller than the east and west wing rooms in front, and the two are connected mountain rooms.

Further back is the second entrance courtyard. There are five rear-covered rooms in the front, which are wider in width but shallower in depth.There are also two east and west wing rooms, and the doors of the rooms are all opened on the outside of the south gable, which is also very rare.

The narrow yard on the East Road is the horse house of the year, which mainly stores people-carrying vehicles such as saddle carts and ordinary mule carts, as well as vehicles such as mules and horses. Nowadays, bungalows have also been built for workers to live in.

Turning around the house, Lin Weimin was a little dizzy. Even the Baylor Mansion, which covers an area of ​​five or six thousand square meters, was like this. He really dared not imagine how magnificent the prince's mansion was.

There is still less world to see!

Lin Weimin sighed in his heart, and they walked back to the gate.

Director Deng asked with a smile on his face: "Mr. Lin, what do you think?"

Yongzhen Baylor Mansion is the second dormitory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but it is not up to the level of cultural relics. Now the Chinese Academy of Sciences plans to dispose of this house and build a new dormitory for the employees, and only requires foreign exchange.

Hearing Director Deng's question, Lin Weimin didn't hide his thoughts.

"very good."

Director Deng laughed, "Then if you have time later, why don't you go to our courtyard and have a chat?"

"I won't go to your courtyard. Can your courtyard handle the formalities?"

Director Deng's face was full of surprise, "Are you sure you want to buy it?"

Lin Weimin had a relaxed and freehand smile on his face, "In Yanjing City, there are not many opportunities to buy Baylor Mansion. After passing this village, there will be no such store, so I will not hesitate."

"But at this price..."

When Director Deng said this, he stopped talking. He thought of Lin Weimin's famous nickname in the capital.

——Lin Wanwan, can you still use foreign exchange?
It's just that the arrogance of not even asking about the price still amazed Director Deng.

"We have to go through the Ministry to sell this yard, and the procedures may take a while." Director Deng said.

Lin Weimin nodded, and chatted a few more about the specific matters of the yard sale. One wanted foreign exchange, and the other was not short of foreign exchange. The conversation was very pleasant.

It covers an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters, with three spans from east to west and five entrances from north to south.There are nearly [-] rooms in the courtyard, pavilions, pavilions, rockery gardens, and Yongxin Baylor Mansion. Director Deng, on behalf of the Academy of Sciences, offered Lin Weimin a price of [-] meters.

If this price is calculated based on the price of buying a large courtyard, it is simply too expensive.

For the Academy of Sciences, it is difficult for them to find a unit or individual to take over at such an expensive price. The biggest possibility is to sell it to foreign guests, overseas Chinese or patriotic businessmen.

Lin Weimin's appearance was just right, he was a native of the country, and he had ready-made foreign exchange in his hands, so the procedures were not so troublesome.

Not to mention the addition of the words "Baylor's Mansion", because of the magnificent scale of the mansion, the price of 20 meters is also very conscientious for Lin Weimin.

Anyway, I have been in Yanjing for so many years, and I finally lived in a decent courtyard.

After waving goodbye to Director Deng, Li Guangfu came to the car and reminded: "Mr. Lin, your 20-meter knife to take down this house is just the beginning, and I'm afraid there will be a lot of money in the future."

Yongxin Baylor Mansion has been divided into dormitories for more than 30 years. Although the building is generally in good condition, after all, so many years have passed.

It would cost a lot of money to restore the Baylor Mansion to its former glory.

Lin Weimin smiled and said, "I've already bought a courtyard house. Is this money still missing?"

Li Guangfu thinks about it too, when did Mr. Lin lose money?

"Guangfu, next year you have a heavy task!" Lin Weimin said suddenly while he was thinking.

Li Guangfu: ...

(End of this chapter)