"Walking in the water~Walking in the water~"

In the palace, along with the raging fire in the Qianqing Palace, the sounds of one after another continued to sound, and the eunuchs, palace maids, palace guards, etc. in the palace were all alarmed, and quickly tried to extinguish the fire in the Qianqing Palace.

However, the Qianqing Palace is an all-wooden house, and the house built of wood has many advantages, one is earthquake-resistant, and the other is warm in winter and cool in summer, but the house built of wood also has many disadvantages, such as the most afraid of fire.

As the emperor's living and office place, the quality of the houses here is naturally very good, almost all of them are painted, the wood itself is easy to catch fire, and the paint is combustible, once the fire burns, it is difficult to extinguish at all.

Especially under the premise that there are no advanced fire extinguishing tools, it is simply a drop in the bucket to extinguish the fire by relying on the eunuchs and guards in the palace to extinguish the fire.

In the history of this palace, there have been many times that the palace was burned down and destroyed, and the ministers burned down the Taihe Hall in the early dynasty four times in history, and as for the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace, there have also been many times in the history of the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace.

The fire in the Qianqing Palace became more and more vigorous, and the people who tried to extinguish the fire did not dare to approach even if they carried water, because the temperature was too high and the heat wave was scorching, and they could only watch the Qianqing Palace fall down in this fire.

Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi did not work here in Qianqing Palace tonight, and Emperor Hongzhi, who only had one wife, basically went to Kunning Palace to spend the night.

The huge movement in the palace soon alarmed the sleeping Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhang, and a small yellow door hurriedly came to report the situation.

"What's wrong?"

Emperor Hongji got dressed and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Qianqing Palace is gone."

Xiao Jing hurriedly said respectfully.

"What?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he didn't feel sleepy anymore, and quickly led people to the Qianqing Palace.

Soon, when Emperor Hongzhi came to the Qianqing Palace, the Qianqing Palace had become a sea of fire, and the raging fire burned very vigorously and vigorously, illuminating the night and temporarily dispelling the shrouded cold.

"Have you kept all my calligraphy and paintings, and books?"

Emperor Hongzhi's face became ugly, this Qianqing Palace is where the emperor lives and works, and now it is on fire, whether this is deliberately arson or accidentally caused by it, this needs to be investigated.

Of course, what he cares about most now is his calligraphy and paintings, books, etc., which are basically rare and genuine, and they are priceless, among which there are a few of his favorite calligraphy and paintings.

"Your Majesty, they've all moved out."

Xiao Jing hurriedly replied that there were enough people in the palace, and many things could still be rescued before the fire boiled.

"Investigate this matter well~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded with a gloomy face, and then walked towards Kunning Palace.

The Qianqing Palace was burned, it must need to be rebuilt, this is definitely a huge expense, as the emperor's residence and office, the Qianqing Palace was built to a very high standard, just the wood used in these materials, etc., all need to be transported from the Yunnan-Guichuan area, which is extremely expensive.

Even though the current Hongzhi Emperor's pockets are bulging, and some of them are silver, he has always been diligent and thrifty, and he can't help but feel a heartache when he thinks of spending a lot of silver to rebuild this Qianqing Palace.

And he is the emperor, anything that happens around him will be highly concerned, and the matter of the Qianqing Palace will definitely spread throughout the capital tomorrow, and all kinds of things will appear at that time.

In history, every time the Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace and the like are on fire, they will be used by people with intentions to make a big fuss, if the Qianqing Palace is on fire, there will definitely be people who say that the emperor is not virtuous and loses the hearts of the people, so disasters and the like are sent from the sky.

As for the fire in Kunning Palace, it may be said that the queen is immoral, pampered and arrogant, occupies the emperor's grace, etc., and even will be attacked for interfering in court politics, harming the royal heirs, and so on.

In short, many times, any matter can be used by people with intentions to make a big fuss, and this is even more so for a major event like the fire in the Qianqing Palace.

Sure enough, early the next morning, when Emperor Hongzhi went to greet his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Zhou, the Empress Dowager Zhou, the Empress Dowager Zhou immediately said to Emperor Hongzhi: "Today's Li Guang, tomorrow's Li Guang, sure enough, disaster will happen!" ”

Of course, the Li Guang mentioned by the Empress Dowager Zhou is not the flying general Li Guang of the Han Dynasty in history, this Li Guang is a eunuch in the palace, but this eunuch is different from ordinary eunuchs.

He was a eunuch who specialized in relying on talismans to gain the favor of Emperor Hongzhi.

You heard it right, Emperor Hongzhi, who was praised as the perfect emperor in history, was also superstitious about these, and even favored eunuchs who specialized in doing a thing.

Here I have to talk about the reason why Li Guang is favored, Emperor Hongzhi has always been in poor health, and now he is only in his thirties, but he looks no different from an old man in his fifties.

There are many reasons for this, there is something to do with Emperor Hongzhi's own weak health, which is related to what happened to him when he was a child, and the other aspect is mainly that he is too diligent in government affairs and lacks exercise, so his body is naturally not good.

In his thirties, he already felt that his body was not good, so like other emperors in history, he was superstitious about alchemy, immortality, health preservation, etc., trying to obtain a longer life through some methods.

And Li Guang, the eunuch, was conceived under such circumstances and won the favor of Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi, a thrifty emperor, spent a lot of money on Li Guang's head, building a long live mountain, cultivating Yu Xiuting, praying for blessings and eliminating disasters through semi-rituals, collecting rare treasures, precious medicinal materials for alchemy, and so on.

There is no doubt that these things Li Guang did must have no effect, he took advantage of the favor of Emperor Hongzhi, wantonly embezzlement, accepted bribes, plundered people's land, and made tens of thousands of salt profits, and built a private house that was extremely luxurious, surrounded by jade springs and mountains.

When the Yuxiu Pavilion was built, it was said that it could pray for blessings and eliminate disasters, but at that time, a young princess that Emperor Hongzhi could not afford to give birth to died again.

In March of the tenth year of Hongzhi, Hu Zhen, the head of the household department, Wang Yunfeng, the priest of Langzhong, and Ye Shen and Zhang Jin of the imperial history wrote to impeach Li Guang for the crime, and asked him to behead him to eliminate natural disasters, and the rhetoric was very intense.

However, Emperor Hongzhi did not doubt Li Guang again and ignored him at all, which even fueled Li Guang's arrogance, and he had no one in his eyes, and he was very dissatisfied with him both inside and outside the court.

Even the Empress Dowager Zhou was quite dissatisfied with this, so there were these words that her old man said to Emperor Hongzhi.

The meaning in her is already very clear, saying that Emperor Hongzhi favored Li Guang, so disaster came.

After listening to this, Emperor Hongzhi also stubbornly said: "Grandma, it's just an ordinary fire, where is the disaster, grandson has already let people find out." ”

In front of the Empress Dowager Zhou, Emperor Hongzhi did not have a trace of shelf, he was raised by the Empress Dowager Zhou when he was a child, he had deep feelings, and he was also very filial to the Empress Dowager Zhou.

"It's good to find out, I'm afraid that Your Majesty, you, will be bewitched by demons, how can you believe this talisman and alchemy?"

Empress Dowager Zhou looked at her grandson, sighed and said, she actually knew why Emperor Hongzhi wanted to renew Li Guang, the Emperor Hongzhi in front of her was already very old when he was only in his thirties, and she saw it in her eyes.

She has experienced four dynasties, and she doesn't want to die behind Emperor Hongzhi, and she doesn't want to hear the bell of the emperor's death in the palace again, but looking at Emperor Hongzhi in front of her, she is very afraid of such a thing.

"Grandma knows, grandchildren know, grandma, don't worry."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded again and again, Empress Dowager Zhou was naturally here to deal with it first, and as for Li Guang's matter, he was slowly trying to find a way to deal with it.

The words of the Empress Dowager Zhou to Emperor Hongzhi also quickly reached Li Guang's ears, Li Guang was actually very timid, and when he heard that the Empress Dowager Zhou was looking for Emperor Hongzhi to talk about his own affairs, he was directly frightened and committed suicide.