Chapter 16: The Secret of the Phoenix Palace
The emperor was thunderous and angry, but he suffered the palace people who served around him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wang Xi's father-in-law is the most sorrowful, where his duty lies, he must be inseparable from the emperor, but if he is not careful, he may incur the danger of losing his head.
Yao Qinghua finished sorting out the records with Li Shanggong in the Shanggong Bureau, and when he walked into the women's room of the Shanggong Bureau to rest, he suddenly heard a faint knock on the door.
It turned out that Wang Xi's father-in-law actually found her here.
"Erhong girl saves the old slave." As soon as Yao Qinghua opened the door, Wang Xi's father-in-law bowed to the ground.
"What's going on?" Yao Qinghua hurriedly welcomed the prince in.
"The emperor is going to Fengzao Palace again tonight. The old slave has already discovered that every time the emperor leaves the Fengzao Palace, his temper will get worse and worse every time. The old slave was worried that tonight, after the emperor entered the Fengzao Palace again, he was afraid that the old slave would not be able to protect his head. The Erhong girl has always been resourceful, and the emperor often nagged me in private, saying that in this palace, only the Erhong girl was his confidant, so I took the liberty to come to ask the girl to help me tonight, and Fengzao Palace went away. ”
This Wang Xi's father-in-law has been in the palace for many years, and he has already cultivated into an old fox, so it is said that he should have a lot of experience in the court, and he should have a mind that does not panic, but seeing him panicked like this tonight, he must be desperate.
In Beijing that day, he had to take care of him all the way, and like Furui and Concubine Xian, he was also Yao Qinghua's old friend in the palace.
For his plea, Yao Qinghua categorically could not stand idly by.
But seeing that he was so frightened and helpless, what unexpected danger would she have if she went with her tonight?
But the innate curiosity of Yao Qinghua, a scholar, forced her to make up her mind quickly.
Even if you are unfortunate enough to go to "receive a boxed lunch" tonight, you must check the secrets in this Fengzao Palace.
By the way, it's time to give Wang Gonggong a science popularization, the meaning of "getting a boxed lunch": this is the Internet language of netizens in the 21st century, which means that those actors in TV dramas and movies were beaten to death, poisoned, in short, dead, or other tricks, you can go and get a box lunch, and later "get a boxed lunch" specifically represents the meaning of a person's death.
Yao Qinghua suddenly felt that the word "receiving a boxed lunch" was so suitable for him.
I came to the Ming Dynasty inexplicably, it was like a play, and at first glance it was not the protagonist, it was just a one-trick actor, if I really "received a box lunch" tonight, I was a little reluctant to let the little emperor Sun Zhu Zhanji, anyway, I can't see him in the past half a year, maybe I have the opportunity to see him before I die.
Thinking of this, Yao Qinghua helped the prince and asked, "Who lives in the Fengzao Palace?" Hasn't Empress Xu been dead for two years? ”
Before the queen died, the emperor promised the queen to take her back to Beijing, which was full of the past of their husband and wife, before the funeral. Therefore, Empress Xu's coffin has been placed in the palace and has not been buried. The queen began to fall ill in late June two years ago, and died in July. So from June to July every year, the emperor's temper has become moody, and recently he has frequently gone to Fengzao Palace, and I don't know if he is evil or thinking of something sad. As soon as the emperor leaves the palace, he will immediately kill a group of palace people. ”
Wang Gonggong took Yao Qinghua all the way and said in her ear all the way.
Passing through the long palace corridor and bypassing the imperial garden, you can see the three gilded characters of "Fengzao Palace" faintly shining in the night, the lights in the Fengzao Palace are bright, and the emperor's Luan drive has been placed outside.
Since Zhu Di publicly announced that he would no longer stand for life, no one in the Fengzao Palace where Queen Xu lived before her death was eligible to live in it, and everything in the palace was the same.
It's just that, before, there was a living hostess who was busy preparing everything for her husband, but now, only a dark coffin was silent on the mourning bed.
Yao Qinghua gently walked into the hall and found that Zhu Di had left all the palace people and sat alone in front of the queen's tablet, muttering and talking. Outside the hall, there was a kind-hearted palace maid on duty in Fengzao Palace, and she motioned Yao Qinghua to dodge away quickly with her eyes, but driven by curiosity, she secretly hid behind the coffin and listened carefully. No one dared to come in and drive Yao Qinghua away, she happened to be at ease.
I only heard Zhu Di sigh: "Wan'er, why is everything going wrong for me as soon as you are not there?" They all say that you are my lucky star, can I achieve nothing without you? ”
Yao Qinghua was deeply surprised, and never thought that such an emperor, who regarded himself very highly and was civilized and martial, would be so arrogant, which shows that he relied on the queen deeply.
At this time, Yao Qinghua, a scholar, once again used the high-speed search engine in her brain to start looking for Xu Wan'er's life in Zhu Di's mouth.
Xu Wan'er's history books contain: When she was young, she had a chaste and quiet personality, was good at reading, and was called a female talent. is the eldest daughter of the founding general Xu Da, Zhu Yuanzhang heard about her talent, found Xu Da, and said to him: "You and I are friends in cloth, not to mention that since ancient times, monarchs and ministers can become in-laws." Your eldest daughter will marry the fourth child of our family. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da were partners who herded cattle together when they were teenagers, and later worked hard together in the world. He was named the Duke of Wei. The emperor personally asked for his son's marriage, and Xu Da, as a courtier, naturally did not dare to disobey. Xu Da thanked him again and again, and the marriage was decided.
In the ninth year of Hongwu, Wan'er was registered as Princess Yan.
This Princess Xu, with the blood of the general Xu Da flowing in her body, is usually quiet, but after all, she is the daughter of Jiangmen. Just when Zhu Di rebelled, the imperial court sent Li Jinglong to besiege Beijing, and at this time, Zhu Di went to Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, to ask for help. It was this Princess Xu who put on her battle armor in the crisis and saved Beiping.
Because Li Jinglong's army was claimed to be 500,000 at that time, the situation in Beijing was really critical under his day and night attacks. Beijing was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, with tall walls, wide moats and deep waters, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. So Li Jinglong ordered the army to attack the nine city gates of Beijing, and the Lizheng Gate in the south was the focus of the attack, and the situation was very critical at that time. The men in the city had already gone to the city to fight, and there were no men in reserve, so she personally led the women in the city to help the battle and fight hard. As soon as she climbed the city wall, the morale of the defenders was suddenly greatly boosted, and she immediately suppressed the momentum of the imperial army attacking the city.
At the same time, the resourceful Princess Yan ordered the soldiers of the Yan army to splash water on the city wall overnight, it was a cold winter, the water was very lumpy and frozen at night, and the frozen city wall was cold and slippery, and the next day, Li Jinglong's army could not climb and could not be defeated.
This Princess Xu, with this battle, has left a name in history.
In this way, a lonely city with only 10,000 defenders resisted the day and night attacks of hundreds of thousands of people.
And this Princess Xu also relied on this battle to leave a name in history.