When you think of Beijing, you must think of the Forbidden City with red walls and yellow tiles where the emperors lived in the past, and you can also see the green brick and gray tile courtyard where the ancient people lived. But between this royal family and the people, there is also a royal palace that is smaller than the royal palace and larger than the courtyard. In Beijing, there is not only the magnificent Forbidden City, but also the majestic Gongwang Mansion. People's first impression of Gongwangfu is "a Gongwangfu, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty", and from this sentence, it can be seen that the value of Gongwangfu is endless.
But this is not the case, the most valuable Gong Wangfu in Beijing City has been sold for 80,000 silver yuan after experiencing successive masters.
A Prince Gong Mansion, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty
Prince Gong's Mansion on Liuyin Street in Xicheng District, Beijing, used to be the residence of Prince Gong in the late Qing Dynasty, and is now one of the famous tourist attractions in China. As the largest palace in the Qing Dynasty, Gongwangfu was very large, covering an area of about 60,000 square meters. The palace consists of two parts, one part is the mansion and the other part is the garden, of which there are more than 30 architectural complexes, which are very spectacular.
The most prominent point of Gong Wangfu is not that it is the place where Wang Ye lived, but that it has personally experienced most of the Qing Dynasty, and the historical information in it is extremely valuable. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Prince Gong's mansion was repaired for twenty-eight years under the attention of state leaders, and it was the first Qing Dynasty palace in China to open to the outside world.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Gong's Mansion fell into the hands of a university, and around the 1980s, Prince Gong's Mansion ceased to be the residence of the royal family, but a large miscellaneous courtyard with more than 200 households. It was not until 2008 that it was renovated, and it became the "best landscape in the city" in people's mouths, and its prosperity was no worse than the Forbidden City.
The successive masters of Prince Gong's mansion
At first, Prince Gong's Mansion was not called Prince Gong's Mansion, but "Princess Hexiao's Mansion", and the first owner of the palace was not a prince, but a Hezhen in the Qianlong period. While he was a corrupt official, he was also highly valued by the emperor, and the Qianlong Emperor also gave his precious daughter Xu to Hezhen's son. When the princess got married, Qianlong also specially gave the confiscated house of Li Shuyao to his daughter, which was regarded as the princess's mansion.
Later, Hekun began to build a house on a large scale on the land of the Princess Mansion, and it took several years to build it. The completed Princess Mansion completely exceeded the system of the courtiers' mansion, and its degree of luxury was unimaginable. Until the fourth year of Jiaqing, the princess was also expelled from the princess's palace because of her mistake, and the Gongwang Mansion became the residence of King Qing Yongxuan.
Yongxuan was the youngest son of the Qianlong Emperor and the brother of Emperor Jiaqing's half-mother, and when he was promoted from Baylor to King of the County, Jiaqing rewarded him with 75 street houses in the GongWang Mansion. Until the Xianfeng period, the owner of prince Gong's mansion changed from Yongxuan to Yixuan, and since then, this house has been called Gongwangfu, and after Yi's death, his grandson Puwei succeeded Gongwangfu, known as "Little Gongwang".
The restoration failed, and there was a bunch of debts
In 1912, the Qing Dynasty collapsed and Puyi abdicated, and this change completely opened the prelude to the embarrassment of Prince Gong's palace. After Yi Xun, the master of the Gong Palace became Pu Wei, who was an empty and ambitious person, without any serious skills, and his strength was simply inferior to that of his grandfather. Of course, this also made him stupid. Pu Wei was very unhappy to see the demise of the dynasty, so he ran to Qingdao, where he barely survived on the protection of the Germans and Japanese.
Later, in order to restore the Qing Dynasty, he re-formed the Zongshe Party. But the restoration is such a simple thing, he simply does not understand that the demise of the Qing Dynasty is the inevitable result of history, the most needed for the restoration is funds, Pu Wei spent a lot of money on the body, really can not come up with money. Just when he was frowning, he set his eyes on his feet, and as soon as he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, he ran out and sold the Gong King's Mansion for eighty thousand silver yuan.
In 1921, Prince Gong's mansion was mortgaged by Pu Wei to the Xishiku Church in Beijing, which is unprecedented in history, and if the previous masters knew that he had sold the palace for restoration, he would have to climb up from the ground and teach him a lesson. Pu Wei took the eighty thousand silver yuan sold for a while, and finally the money was spent and the purpose was not achieved, I really don't know which tendon he had to do at that time.
The result is that Pu Wei not only owes a bunch of debts, but he can't even feed himself, his pocket is cleaner than his face, and he can't afford eighty thousand silver yuan at all. After more than ten years, the principal of 80,000 yuan plus interest became about 200,000, and even if he was unwilling in his heart, he had to accept the fact that the new owner of the Gong Palace was a church.
epilogue:
In this way, the church spent 80,000 silver yuan to buy the Gong King's Mansion in its hands, and the loss of the Gong King's Mansion represented the official decline of Ai Xin Jue Luo and was completely abandoned by history. Nowadays, Prince Gong's mansion has returned to the embrace of the state and has become a famous tourist attraction in China, not only retaining the architecture of the Qing Dynasty, but also protecting the Culture of the Qing Dynasty intact.