The newly opened Kuimen is said to be better than Changmen, but not much better.
If he hadn't wanted to save trouble and be too lazy to get off the boat and change horses, Lin Tailai wouldn't have thought of taking a boat into the city and going home.
After entering the city, the boat wandered in the waterway for an unknown amount of time before seeing the familiar Yinma Bridge.
As the boundary bridge between the two counties in the city, Lin Daguan also has many memories here, beating people and writing poems.
Wang Fuzun continued: "Today, the Central Axis Street is bounded by Yinma Bridge. The northern section is still called Wolong Street, but the southern section has been renamed Jiuyuan Street."
Lin Tailai knew that his nine-year succession would cause some physical repercussions in his hometown.
The ancestor of Wang Yusheng in the same year, Wang Hao, left behind the name Xueshi Street seventy or eighty years ago.
But Mr. Lin did not expect that the response would be so great.
Wolong Street is the north-south central axis of the whole city of Suzhou. This name should have been used for nearly a thousand years.
Historically, it was not until Qianlong went to Jiangnan that the name was changed to Hulong Street in order to please Emperor Qianlong.
And how could I possibly change the name of Wolong Street?
So Lin Tailai sighed: "After all, this is a central axis main road. How can there be a reason to use one name for the northern half and another name for the southern half?
I don’t think it’s appropriate to change the name like this. It’s really inconvenient for people to use two names for one street.”
After Wang Fuzun thought for a while, he said: "So what you mean is to abandon the name Wolong Street and rename the entire street from north to south to Jiuyuan Street?"
Lin Tailai: ""
Could it be that in history, Emperor Qianlong never thought of changing Wolong Street to Hulong Street, and the name change was just a matter of local officials' own initiative to flatter themselves?
People in high positions really cannot express their opinions casually!
"Forget it, let's go to the north of Wolong and the south of Jiuyuan." Lin Tailai finally had no choice but to succumb to the status quo, "The name that has been used for thousands of years cannot disappear when Lin Tailai is here."
Going south from Yinma Bridge, you are close to Canglang Pavilion.
Lin Tailai, who was sitting in the cabin, immediately saw from a distance that in the southern half of the original Wolong Street, now known as Jiuyuan Street, there were two large black objects, standing across the street in an extremely domineering manner.
Wangfuzun, who felt like a tour guide today, had to explain again: "Those are two stone archways, one civil and one military, to show your great achievements."
When he got closer, Lin Tailai could see clearly that each archway had thick eight-legged stone pillars, which were nearly 20 meters wide in the horizontal direction, six to seven meters in the vertical direction, and more than ten meters high overall.
Said to be a stone archway, it is more like two large stone buildings. From the perspective of people of this era, they are definitely huge.
"What a prodigal. How much money did this cost? Who built it?" Lin Daguan felt inexplicably distressed.
There was no shortage of money in the first place, but since I decided to start dredging the lower reaches of the Wusong River this year, I found that I was short of money again.
Otherwise, he would not have taken the idea of ​​Yangzhou salt merchants and asked Wang Yuan to go out to raise money.
Wang Fuzun replied: "The styles of these two stone archways were designed by your steward Gao Changjiang, and their locations were determined by Zhou Futai himself, and then they were constructed by your elder brother."
"Wait!" Lin Tailai said doubtfully: "Zhou Futai personally surveyed the site? Is he so idle that he even does such a thing?"
Wang Fuzun smiled and said: "Our Zhou Futai comes from Shandong, and I know his details very well.
What you may not know is that Zhou Futai is one of the top experts in political education today. He has written ten volumes of "Yang Zhai Encyclopedia", and the governorship is only a side job.
So when your Lin family wanted to build these two archways, Zhou Futai personally inspected the Feng Shui and surveyed the site."
Lin Tailai: ""
I really didn't realize it just now, but Governor Zhou is quite versatile. He is actually a Feng Shui master and can be considered a technical talent.
After being stunned, Lin Tailai joked: "It would have been better if Master Zhou had come a few years earlier. When the construction of Canglang Pavilion Lin Mansion starts, I can ask him to give advice."
Wangfuzun replied: "It's not too late now. Your father has asked Zhou Futai to help rebuild the ancestral house in Linsong Village and the Lin family ancestral hall."
While talking, he abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, entering the house through the main entrance.
To be honest, Lin Daguan, who returned to Suzhou, would rather go to Hengtang Town to inspect Hengtang College or go to the opposite side of Mudu Town to inspect the industrial park.
In Lin Daguan's mind, those places are the foundation of his career, while the city is more about exaggeration and vanity.
But now that he has a wife and a legitimate son, no matter what he thinks in his heart, he must first return to the Canglang Pavilion in the city.
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Chapter completed!