The eastern capital Luoyang.

This capital, which was built by Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, was destroyed by the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and was then completely rebuilt by Qin Lang during the Zhenguan period. It was luxurious and atmospheric.

Since its reconstruction, countless nobles and nobles have opened their own museums in Luoyang, with more than a thousand families.

Moreover, unlike the mansions of the nobles and nobles in Chang'an, most of the powerful mansions in Luoyang have gardens of large or small. However, due to the restrictions of Lifang in Luoyang, the scale of the gardens in the city is limited, and most of them are small and exquisite. The powerful man built villas in suburban mountains and forests, and other industries.

As the son-in-law of the emperor and the favorite minister of the saint, Qin Lang also gave him a gift in the Eastern Capital. The house was large and covered an area of ​​more than 100 acres. Qin Lang also built it into a garden. It is very different from the Duke of Wei in Pingkangfang, Chang'an. The biggest feature is that it focuses on gardens and forests, making it live in cola.

His Luoyang garden is called Cherry Island, and is famous and well-known. Qin Lang built his 100-acre mansion into a paradise with lakes and islands. It is surrounded by green water, and the house is filled with cherry trees and Taihu stones.

Qin Lang also bought a plot of other industries in the Yichuan Valley southwest of Longmen, Luoyang, and built a manor outside his city. Therefore, mountain springs poured out on the flat ground, so he named Pingquan Villa.

In the ditch where Pingquan Villa is located, there are villas of many high-ranking officials and nobles such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Ma Zhou, Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang, Li Ji, Li Jing, Xu Jingzong, Jia Wuben, Li Daliang, etc.

However, Qin Lang’s Cherry Island and Pingquan Villa were well built, but Qin Lang had no chance to live and enjoy it. This time he returned to Luoyang, he was temporarily recalled, and his concubines and children were still in Guangzhou.

He lives alone on a huge cherry island, but he actually feels a little empty and bored, so most of the time, Qin Lang actually lives in another courtyard in Ludaofang, Luoyang.

This house is smaller, with a area of ​​only ten acres, of which five acres have built a garden landscape, a lotus pond water, and a thousand bamboos have been planted, so it is called a bamboo garden.

Although there are only ten acres of land, there are halls, pavilions, bridges, boats, books, wine, songs and strings, purple diamonds, white lotus in the pond, Taihu stones and bamboos in the garden, it is more comfortable to live alone.

This time when he returned to Luoyang, he lived in Zhuyuan in Ludaofang. Next door was Ma Zhou's house, just across a wall. Sometimes they could have two drinks under the moon at night.

In order to show sincerity, Li Tai specially chose Du Wen, the Wei Palace, to send a post to Qin Lang.

The Wei Palace's military was only an official position under the eighth rank, and the royal officials were generally less powerful than the imperial court. However, Du Wen was not a small person. His father was the chief minister of the Wei Palace, and he was also the new Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works of the court. His uncle was the deceased prime minister Du Ruhui, and his uncle Du Yan was also the deceased prime minister of Zhenguan.

Du Wen's brother-in-law is also the prime minister, that is Ma Zhou. His sister Du Shu married Ma Zhou to Xuxian under Qin Lang's matchmaking.

Therefore, although Du Wen was not old and did not become the emperor's son-in-law like his cousin Du He, he could not start his career directly like his other subordinate Du Gou, and inherit the title of Du Lai Kingdom. Then, when he went to Laizhou to encircle and suppress the pirates in the fifth year of Zhenguan, he was even poked off his left tendon by the needle and Yu's mouth, which became a laughing stock in the capital. However, he was from a good family. His father was the deceased prime minister of the founding country and was the eldest son of the eldest son. Even if the pirates were encircled and suppressed, the emperor not only did not blame him, but also promoted him to the governor of Cizhou for compensation.

But Du Wen was also a famous family after all, and his father Du Chuke's career has been smooth in recent years. He was the governor of Puzhou and had two outstanding political achievements. He was then elected as the chief of the Wei royal palace by the emperor, and now he was promoted to the Minister of Works.

His father was the King of Wei, so his son naturally joined the King of Wei's Mansion. Although he was a young military officer, Du Wen was also the confidant of the King of Wei.

He came to deliver the posts in person because the Du family and the Qin family have a good relationship.

Du Wen rode his horse all the way to Shanglinfang with the invitation. Shanglin was originally the name of Luoyang Palace Garden during the Han and Wei dynasties. It was located west of Luoyang City in the Han and Wei dynasties and east of Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Located in the northeast of Luoyang City, next to the Luo River in the south, there is also a beach called Jinsha Beach, and there are two beaches on the other side. There are jade beaches beside Tonglifang and silver beaches beside Cihuifang.

Between Yifang Street, the three cities of Luoyang are located in the northwest.

There are also royal gardens in Shanglinfang. This is the old land of Shanglinyuan in the Han and Wei dynasties, so basically the people living in this yard are prime ministers and princes.

Du Wen rode out of the Wei Palace located southeast of Luoyang Imperial City, first walked east along the South Bank Street of Luoshui, crossed the Luoshui pontoon bridge to the other side of the beach beside Cihuifang, and then came to Shanglinfang.

After entering Shanglinfang, there were all the palaces of princes and prime ministers. The flying pavilions were double-eaved and very strict. He took the initiative to get off the horse and lead the horse.

I can no longer ride a horse here because almost every house is in front of me.

Officials above the fifth rank of the Tang Dynasty are called Tonggui, and those above the third rank are called relatives.

Officials above the third rank can arrange halberds inside the door and horses are used in front of the door.

This horse is a bit like a horse-rejecting thing. It is placed on both sides of the street in front of the mansion to remind pedestrians to dismount and walk slowly.

Of course, if there are important officials with great achievements, there are even stone arches built specially on both sides of the door.

Du Wen came along, and horses stood in front of the gate of the aconitum in every house. No one dared to offend him easily, so he led the horses all the way.

When we arrived in front of Qin Lang's Duke's Mansion, several consecutive archways stood on the roadside, with three stone archways on both sides.

There was also a horse with red knees standing under the archway.

There were even servants from the Qin family standing down the archway with green clothes and sticks.

Du Wen politely explained his purpose, and the servant helped him move the horse and let him go.

After passing three archways and six horses, we arrived at the front of the Duke of Wei's mansion in Luoyang. The gate of the aconitum mansion was deep, and there were two rows of halberds in the door.

There are eight gate halberds on each side, a total of sixteen.

This is the highest number of halberds in the size of the ministers. Only first-rank officials can rank sixteen halberds in the gate.

If there is no first-rank official position, even princes, successors, county kings, and Shangzhu Kingdom cannot be listed as sixteen halberds. If they can lead the second-rank official position, they can only be listed as fourteen halberds like the Grand Governors, Grand Protectors, Jingzhao, Henan Prefecture Maid, Guanglu Dafu or above, and the General of the Army above.

The Tang Dynasty was very important to official positions, and many of the treatment specifications followed the official positions. No one could do with honors or titles, but they had to carry corresponding duties.

The highest specifications of the gate halberd are twenty halberds, twenty halberds each of the palace gates and temple gates, and eighteen halberds are arranged in the East Palace gate.

The Qin Lang Mansion's sixteen halberds were listed in the gate, not because he was a Duke of the State and was not enough to be listed in the Sixteen halberds, but because Qin Lang's original rank was the first-rank Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and the highest-ranking Sikong was also the first-rank.

If these two first-rank positions are not available, even if he is the position of governor of the two ranks, he is also appointed as the position of Xuanfu and the position of Minister of the Procuratorate and the position of Chief Secretary of the Procuratorate, he can only be ranked fourteen.

The Du Wen family only had ten spears. Although his father was the Minister of Works, he was only the third rank of ministry, and he did not have the honor of the state of the country. He was not the second rank of the guardians. His father could be ranked ten spears, but he still had a honor of the guardians. Otherwise, if he was only the third rank of the minister, he would not be qualified to be ranked.

A halberd can divide the dynasty into three or nine levels. They are also dukes, but some are dukes who are the real dukes, some are dukes who are just empty dukes, and some are also dukes who are first-rank officials, second-rank officials, third-rank officials, and some are plus pillars, plus pillars, and plus guards.

Anyway, you will know their level by looking at the number of halberds listed in each door.

There are archways outside the Qinlang Mansion, horses, sixteen halberds inside the door, and the plaques on the Aconitum Gate are all written by the imperial pen. This must be a true Duke and a third-rank or above ministry, which can add the character "安安". Generally, dukes can only write "安安安" and "安安" and "安安" in the name of "安安" and "安安" in the name of "安安" in the name of "安安".

Du Wen stood in front of the gate and looked at the temperament of Qin Lang's mansion. He was very envious. Then he held the invitation and walked around the side door to submit the letter.

For example, the gates of top noble families like Duke Wei’s Mansion will not be opened to welcome them unless the emperor arrives or the imperial edict arrives.

Du Wen took out the invitation at the side door. Mending didn't even let him go in, but asked him to wait there. He took the invitation to report to the manager.

Sitting in the hospitality tea room, drinking tea that tasted very good, Du Wen secretly envied, thinking that the Du family was also a founding grandfather, and even two prime ministers in one family. The Du family is one of the six major surnames in Guanlong, known as the top family in Wei Du Qutian, the capital city, but it is not as talented as Qin Lang.

Think about how the Qin family in Licheng used to be just a little gentry and how could he compare with the Du family? But the Qin family is in the limelight. Whether it is the five surnames and seven surnames in Shandong, or the six surnames in Guanlong, they are all suppressed by him.

The Qin family won the honors for their military merits, and both father and son were generals and prime ministers. In fact, military merits are of great importance, but the more important thing is that Qin Qiong and his two men stood in the team back then, and followed the saints to make the contribution to the Longjing rebellion, which is what happened today.

Although the Du family also had the merit of following the dragon and had two prime ministers, both prime ministers died early, which was very unfavorable to the Du family. Now the Du family only has his father, the Minister of Works, and the Du family's son-in-law Ma Zhou, the Secretariat of the Secretariat.

Du Wen thought secretly that if the Du family wants to rise again and become a first-class powerful noble in the court again, it is not enough to rely on the achievements left by their predecessors. They must make new contributions, and ordinary new contributions are not enough.

It must be based on the dragon's merit and the support of the merit.

My father took a fancy to King Tai of Wei and thought that King Wei would be able to replace Chengqian as the crown prince. This was the Du family gambling and the only way for the Du family to return to the top aristocrats.

When Qin Lang and his son supported the King of Qin together with them to serve as the throne, I wonder if Qin Lang is willing to support the King of Wei with the Du family again and repeat what happened back then?

Looking at the magnificent Duke of Wei's Mansion, Du Wen suddenly felt a little unconfident.

"Mr. Du, sorry, we Alang is not on Cherry Island today."

"Where is Duke Wei?" Du Wen stood up.

The manager hesitated for a moment, and finally looked at the famous post written by King Wei Li Tai. The King of Wei's calligraphy is really good, and the cursive script is extremely accomplished. "My son has not lived on Cherry Island in Shanglinfang recently. Young Master Wen can go to the bamboo garden in Ludaofang to see it, maybe there."

Du Wen didn't expect to be idle, but he still smiled, "Thank you, I'll visit Zhuyuan!"

He took the invitation back and went out and led his horse away.

The manager watched him walk away and recruited a servant, "I went to Zhuyuan to report to Alang, and said that the young master of Shu Shang's family was going to visit and got the famous post from King Wei."

"Why tell him that Ah Lang is in Zhuyuan?"
Chapter completed!