Mingda and Changyu have only been to their princess mansion once so far, and the rest is either for the palace staff to check the progress, or to see the progress through the drawings given by the Ministry of Works, and communicate with the Ministry of Construction through the blueprints.
Mingda likes water, but she is weak and can't get too close to water, so she only changed the direction of some waterways in the Fuchu, and left the others unchanged.
But Changyu wanted to change a lot. If it wasn't for Mingda's efforts to suppress it, her father was really poor, and she would be impeached for demanding too much from the treasury. She also wanted to use Taihu Lake stones to build a few more rockeries in the mansion. She wanted to build a rockery Groups, preferably the kind that can build gazebos on it, there are passages between rockeries, which can be directly made into a maze.
She drew all the blueprints by herself, and won the praise of the boss who is good at construction in the Ministry of Industry. Unfortunately, such a perfect garden design will not be seen in the short term.
But she can share it with Man Bao Ming Da.
It's just that Mingda and Manbao don't quite buy it.
Ming Da said: "It's too extravagant, so the treasury and the emperor don't pay for it. Such an expense is also huge. I don't know how much hard work it will take to transport these Taihu stones to the capital."
Changyu: "It's not that I don't give money, I'll buy it when I earn money after I get married."
Man Bao was very curious, "Why must Taihu Stone be used? Can't there be a lot of big rocks in the suburbs of Beijing?"
Chang Yu looked at her contemptuously and said: "Stones are also different from stones, just like people and people. People have beauty and ugliness, so stones are naturally the same."
Man Bao retorted: "That must be because you lack a pair of eyes to discover beauty."
She said: "The mountains in our Sichuan region have beautiful hills and towering mountains. You can't say that beauty is inferior to towering, and you can't say that towering is not as beautiful. Don't they all have their own characteristics?"
At that time, she sat cross-legged on the wooden couch and pointed Jiang Shandao: "If I were you, I would look for stones in the capital and Yongzhou, transport them and build them whatever I want. If you don't like them, you can chisel some. Not much, the Taihu Stone is not only expensive, but also needs hard labor over there to dig it out and send it all the way to the capital, the cost of shipping is more expensive than the Taihu Stone itself, why bother?"
Mingda couldn't help laughing at her, "If everyone in the world thinks like you, then there won't be the beauty of brocade, and there won't be the scarcity of gold and jade."
It was rare for Changyu to see Mingda standing by his side, and he immediately said triumphantly: "Look, look, the one who didn't notice the beautiful eyes is not me, but you."
But Mingda didn't approve of her buying a large amount of Taihu stones, so he said, "However, Man Bao's proposal can be given a try. Maybe my sister will come up with a school as well?"
She said: "Isn't it only after the late Jin Dynasty that someone began to appreciate it?"
Changyu said: "The stone itself must be beautiful. The Taihu stone is exquisite and translucent, with various shapes, strange shapes, colorful colors, beautiful patterns, good quality, elegant and graceful; If other stones want to compete with it, they have to look good, otherwise I can't point to a deer and call it a thousand-mile horse, and the world should be against me, right?"
Man Bao clapped his hands and praised: "Well said!"
Then he said: "Isn't this simple? The mountains in the capital and Yongzhou have a quality that Taihu Stone absolutely does not have."
Mingda and Changyu were curious and asked, "What?"
Man Bao said with a serious face: "Hard!"
She said: "Take Taihu stones and smash the stones in the capital and Yongzhou, and the broken ones must be Taihu stones."
Mingda and Changyu were silent together, Changyu was so angry that he scratched her, Mingda couldn't help laughing.
It was just a joke at the time, but Changyu really asked people to look for good stones on the mountains outside the capital, thinking of setting up a rockery in her princess mansion to see the situation.
She pointed at the area she had chosen and said, "Put the rockery here. When the time comes, water will be drawn here, and the garden will have mountains and water. Then open a side door here. Mingda, you also open a door in this direction." The side door, when the time comes, our two families can communicate with each other without going through the door."
Mingda was a little moved.
The queen laughed with them: "If you can't make up your mind, then go and have a look. I saw it at the scene, maybe you have other opinions?"
Mingda and Changyu's eyes lit up when they heard the words, and they couldn't help turning to look at the emperor.
The emperor would naturally have no objection, and nodded repeatedly in agreement.
So Ming Da and Chang Yu went out of the palace together in the afternoon, and Man Bao was authorized by the emperor to go out of the palace to accompany him because it was almost time to leave the palace.
Man Bao had no choice but to ask someone to bring a message to Bai Shan when he arrived at the Hanlin Academy by car, saying that he would not go home together.
Hanlin, who was caught spreading the word, returned to the Hanlin Academy and stood in front of Bai Shan's desk to watch him.
Bai Shan was writing furiously, seeing the shadow on his desk lingering for a long time, he couldn't help but raise his head.
Hanlin said with a straight face: "Master Zhou accompanied the princess carriage to the gate of the Imperial Academy. He has a message to convey to Bai Hanlin."
Bai Shan immediately sat up straight, and said to the convenience: "Master Zhou said that he is not free today, so he will not go home with you."
Bai Shan frowned slightly, but still cupped his hands in thanks.
Hanlin nodded solemnly, and after turning around, he couldn't help but bend his eyes, holding back a smile, and walked away calmly before showing a smile on his face.
Obviously, one princess has one frame, but the three of them must sit together in one frame.
Changyu also kicked the maid who was accompanying him out of the carriage, and the two of them took Man Bao and whispered, "What is it like to get married? Should I ask my aunts, who always say that they will tell us when we are about to get married. "
Changyu whispered to her, "I read in the book that the bridal chamber is very painful."
Man Bao asked her, "What kind of nonsense script did you read again?"
Chang Yu moved his body a little away from her, "It's not a mess..."
Mingda's face was also red, and he whispered: "My aunt gave me a set of Huanxi Buddha."
Her eyes were confused, "It's the Buddhas in the Western Regions. I always knew that my Dajin Buddhism is different from the Buddhas in the Western Regions, but I didn't expect it to be so different. Don't our Dajin Buddhas have to abide by the rules and precepts? "
Man Bao cheered up, she knew this, and immediately said: "The Buddhism of Dajin is not all the same. There are Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism follows the Bodhisattva way. Originally, it is believed that all living beings in the country are equal in nature and wisdom, and even all living beings can be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss; Theravada Buddhism aims at self-improvement and liberation, and respects the original self. But in the southern and northern borders, Theravada Buddhism is still the main one.”
Man Baodao: "There are also many tribes on the grassland who believe in Buddhism, among which the Hinayana Buddhism is the main one, and there are also branches of the two major Buddhisms, which are more different."
Changyu was dumbfounded, Mingda was also dumbfounded, and then asked: "Are you still studying Buddhism?"
Man Bao shook his head honestly, "That's not true, this is what Master Zhiren and Master Jiechen said."
She sighed: "We have been walking with Master Zhiren all the way. It took more than two months before and after. I really have nothing else to say, we can only talk about Buddhism and Taoism."
It was a painful time, Man Bao said. She selectively forgot that she ran to talk to Master Zhiren in the first place.
"We also saw Master Zhiren discussing Buddhism with masters from the Western Regions several times in the Gaochangguo Temple in Xizhou. Although I didn't understand most of them, they were not at all weaker than Yufeng in the court hall. They were super powerful. "
Chang Yu pondered, "What were we going to say just now?"
Mingda: "The bridal chamber."
"Oh, yes, the bridal chamber, let's continue talking about the bridal chamber."