Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Outing

The south of Beijing is deserted, sparsely populated, and the remnants of snow cover the ground, the weather is cold, and there are no pedestrians, Chang Yu took more than 200 horses to gallop along the wilderness under the city wall, and encountered hares and pheasants to frighten and run, and everyone was even more archery with bows, just like a winter hunting map.

Although most of the eunuchs have archery, there are a large number of them, and there are a lot of gains from chasing and intercepting horses, which leads to the mood of the people, and it is natural that they work in the deep palace on weekdays, how can they be so happy.

Looking at the smiles on their faces, Chang Yu was also very pleased, slowly lowered his speed, and watched them hunt from a distance, this seems to be a game, how is it not a kind of riding and archery actual combat training.

Looking at the towering Beijing city wall in the distance, Chang Yu once again had the feeling of being like a dream, and secretly made up his mind to give up my life and keep you safe!

The crowd galloped all the way, or hunted, along the east of the city to the south of the city, and from the south of the city to the west of the city, and everywhere they saw was desolate, except for the pedestrians who could be seen passing through the city gate, the rest were almost uninhabited.

There are mountains in the west of Beijing, there are many springs in the mountains, the water system is developed, and there are many lakes and rivers, but fortunately, the cold water surface freezes in the deep winter, and it does not affect Chang Yu's subordinates.

In order not to cause unnecessary influence, Chang Yu gradually moved away from the city wall, and let his horses go to the wilderness.

This place is even more desolate, and there are many mass graves, gloomy and abnormal, Chang Yu raised his eyebrows, obviously shocked by this mass grave, and couldn't help but glance sideways at Chunxiang and the others who had been accompanying him, but saw a desolation between the eyebrows of several people.

In an instant, Chang Yu realized, and he thought of the origin of this mass grave.

This place is the famous Zhongguancun in Beijing in later generations! The so-called Zhongguan is the eunuch, and the mass grave here is the special cemetery of the eunuch.

Yes, Zhongguancun used to be a mass grave for eunuchs, and eunuchs who died of old age and sickness inside and outside the palace would be hastily buried here.

Obviously, most of the eunuchs knew about this place, and the atmosphere was a little gloomy, perhaps thinking that they would only deserve to be buried here in a few years.

Chang Yu ordered to continue northward, but after walking for a few miles, he saw many manors standing alone in the wilderness in the distance, guessing that they should be the private property of those nobles in the city.

Looking at it from afar, thinking of this, a sudden excitement in his heart made him run towards a large manor, and more than 200 horsemen immediately followed behind him.

Sure enough, when Chang Yu went around this manor, he finally determined that this was the Tsinghua Garden (now the west side of Peking University), which was called Li Garden, and was also one of the predecessors of the Old Summer Palace.

And the manor not far from the side is the spoon garden (Peking University) is built by the calligrapher and painter Mi Wanzhong, and later for the Qing Dynasty officials to go to the Old Summer Palace to wait for the restplace, the name of the Xian Yuan

These two manors were built in the Wanli period, when the Old Summer Palace did not even have a single tile, and it was famous in Kyoto because of its grandeur, and even the Summer Palace in the western suburbs was not as famous.

In particular, Tsinghua Garden, this garden was built by Li Wei, Marquis of Wuqing (Bo) during the Wanli period, if this Li Wei is also a legend, he was a mason, but because his daughter was good-looking and was elected to the palace, and later became the biological mother of the Wanli Emperor, the Empress Dowager Li, so the whole family ascended to heaven.

The title of the Ming Dynasty has a high gold content, and he accumulates a knight with merit, and those generals on the battlefield die for a lifetime to fight for an earl, Zhang Juzheng is so awesome that he is just a prince, but Li Wei can easily get a marquis as a relative, which shows his background.

And this person is extremely hateful, he is a famous scourge in the past 10,000 years, greedy for money like life, scourge loyalty, disaster to the country and the people, relying on the power of the Empress Dowager Li, forming a party for personal gain, colluding with treachery, oppressing the people, the crime is extremely unspeakable, Zhou Kui is simply a big good citizen compared to him.

However, once a son of heaven and a courtier, plus try to ask who the sky spared, the vein of Marquis Wuqing has been broken at this time, at this time Li Wei and his son Li Gao have already seen the king of Hades, and the marquis of Wuqing is the young Li Cunshan, and he gave this name, is it that Li Wei finally realized that he wanted to accumulate virtue before he died.

However, in the capital where a p can smoke several nobles, Li Cunshan at this time is only a marquis of Wuqing among the nobles, and there is no difference between him and ordinary wealthy families, and even his strength is the same.

This manor is good, Chang Yu kept thinking about it, he just glanced around, and he had already found that the outside of the manor was dilapidated, and the pale caretaker who was scared by the peek out of the crack in the gate all showed that the Li family was sunset, and he didn't want to wait for it at this time.

After a short rest outside the manor, Chang Yu took people to go to the west, since he came out for a walk, then have a good time, the Old Summer Palace has not yet had a shadow, but the Summer Palace has long been famous, at this time there is no admission fee, how can you not go to see.

The Summer Palace can be described as an old manor, the earliest can be traced back to the palace of the Jin Dynasty gold lord Wanyan Liang, the Yuan Dynasty Guo Shoujing opened up as a reservoir, the Ming filial piety mother built the Yuanjing Temple, the Ming Wuzong built the palace to lay your royal garden, the end of the Ming Dynasty for Wei Zhongxian to occupy, at this time has been abandoned.

Chang Yu and his entourage hunted around the Summer Palace, and after a hasty tour, they went north, and he wanted to take advantage of the dark to turn around the outer city of Beijing.

The desolation in the north of the city is even worse than in the south of the city, there are still fireworks in the ten miles away from the capital, and the vast wilderness is ten miles away, and the forests are chaotic, but it is just in response to the crowd riding and shooting, and the prey is also very harvested.

Seeing the sunset, Chang Yu led the team to turn around and run towards the east of the city, wanting to return to the direction of Panjiayao, but when the team had just rushed to the northeast of the capital to the direction of Dongzhimen, he suddenly saw a group of people galloping from the direction of Andingmen, and visually saw more than 300 people.

After an afternoon of galloping and hunting, Chang Yu's subordinates were tired, and at this time, when they saw the galloping men and horses in the distance, their eyes were puzzled and a little panicked.

Even Chunxiang and the others were at a loss

Wei Changyu was unusually calm, thinking that after all, it was the Beijing camp, after all, it was the basic city defense of the capital, and he wanted him to take two hundred knights in one afternoon, crossing the sword and holding a bow around the city, so the movement naturally attracted the attention of the soldiers patrolling the city.

It's just that there is no reaction in the south and west of the city, maybe it is thought that a certain noble family took the family to hunt in the snow.

But I didn't expect to finally come to investigate in the north, after all, the two city gates in the north of the city are dedicated to military vehicles, which is of great significance, and the vigilance is relatively large.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were getting closer and closer, Chang Yu waved his hand to stop his subordinates, waiting for the arrival of the other party with cold eyes.

The elite soldiers arrived in a blink of an eye, and more than 300 soldiers came across the sword, with a fierce momentum, and ran to Chang Yu's team more than 20 meters away before they could stop.

"Who are you waiting for?"

Half a ring, one person came out of the team and shouted in the direction of Chang Yu.