Among the huge buildings of the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty, there is a special place that is particularly eye-catching. Because the palace with fragrant wood as the main material is the place where the queen of the Han Dynasty lives in the world.

This palace was originally built by Emperor Wen for the love of his life, Empress Aluo. The entire nave is decorated in pink colors, warm and pastel. Its name is "Jiaofang Hall".

The reason why it is named Shobo Hall is because the walls of the palace are painted with powder and mud made from the flowers of the pepper tree.

This was a technique unique to the craftsmen at this time. Not only is the color beautiful, but it also keeps warm and has an aromatic smell that protects the wooden structure of the palace and has the effect of preventing moths.

Take Sichuan pepper to use, but there is another layer of meaning. Because the pepper has many seeds, it takes the meaning of "many sons", and looks forward to the women who live here to spread the branches and leaves for the royal family, and have many sons and many blessings.

Empress Wen Aluo was the later Empress Dowager Dou. She and Emperor Wen of Han spent twenty wonderful years here. Later, Emperor Wen died, and the affection was separated from yin and yang, and the huge grief made her unable to bear to look at this old scene again, and after moving away from here to Changle Palace, she never came again.

Later, the Empress Dowager Dou gave this palace to her granddaughter, the current queen Gillian, to make her bedroom.

However, the beautiful meaning of "more sons and more blessings" does not seem to play a role in this Gillian queen, who has been more delicate than a princess since she was a child.

Time is like electricity, time is like a shuttle, time can change everything, and nature can also change feelings. It's an irresistible law, and no one can do anything about it.

In the harem of Chinese dynasties, there have always been many beauties serving a man, who is the supreme emperor in the world. The emperor can pamper any of these beauties at will, and in such a relationship, the so-called queen of the mother world is just one of them, and there is nothing more special that will make the emperor forget his love for a long time.

Queen Gillian has fallen out of favor for a long time, and this is something that everyone in the palace knows. Although no one dared to reveal it on the surface, they tacitly understood each other.

Spring and summer came, the apricot blossoms fell to see the peach blossoms, the peach blossoms fell, and the pear blossoms were seen again, but the people she was waiting for did not come again.

Passing years of wounds, thousands of tears, who is unforgettable for newcomers and old faces? And no one complained. Recalling the past, the summer is long, and the fans flutter butterflies in pairs. Lost in fate!

In the Jiaofang Palace, the lonely woman tore the fans in her hands into pieces, watching them being swept into the air by the wind, just like her state of mind at this moment, empty and empty.

Those hatreds and resentments have accumulated too much. But the concubine's intentions are still there, Lang's heart is like iron, and everything seems irreparable.

Gillian has more grievances than other women who have fallen out of favor. Emperor Liu Che is her childhood partner, childhood sweethearts grew up together, and she has always believed in and trusted friends.

Liu Che's empathy and farewell to love, and his gradual indifference and alienation from her are tantamount to a betrayal of their childhood innocence, which ruthlessly tears apart their beautiful and unutilitarian feelings.

Gillian once owned that man so wholeheartedly, and enjoyed the exclusive love that no woman in the palace had. But it seems that in just an instant, the colorful gold house that has been built for many years will fall apart, and I want to cry without tears.

Whenever she thinks of this, Gillian's heart is like a sword pierced, dripping blood ...... all the time.

Eminem, the nurse who has watched her grow up since she was a child, couldn't help but sigh when she saw that the queen was crying again. secretly complained that God was unfair, what a good couple they were, but they got it to the point where they are today. If God had given the queen a prince earlier, everything would have been different from now!

"Jiaojiao, come, drink this bowl of lotus seed porridge, Eminem has been boiling for almost an hour, how can his body stand it if he eats so little all day!"

Although he has been in the palace for so many years, such an intimate title has been retained. She values everything about the young lady more than her own life.

Gillian shook her head and turned her face to look at her nurse, Yingying was tearful, and her eyes were a little dull.

"Eminem, he'...... Has he recently gotten a new beauty? Still is...... Or do you keep going to Jianzhang Palace? ”

Seeing that she insisted on not drinking, Eminem had to put aside the bowl of lotus seed porridge that had been boiled with a lot of effort, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief.

"Not really. I heard that the emperor has recently been obsessed with immortal arts, and the palace invited an immortal master surnamed Li, who is said to know the method of immortality and can refine the elixir or something. After the emperor went down to court, he has been on the terrace of Ganquan Palace, cultivating immortals with these people and asking. ”

Gillian heard that Liu Che did not go to other women's palaces, and the resentment in her heart seemed to have decreased a little. Hearing Eminem talk about this, he couldn't help but ask a few more questions.

"Eminem, do you think there are really immortals in this world? Do those immortal masters in the palace really have the legendary skills? ”

"My Queen, how can such a lonely and unheard person like Eminem know about these illusory things! However, sincerity is spirituality, and there are many strange things among the people, but you can't believe it! ”

Seeing that Gillian's sad expression eased, in order to divert her attention, the nurse hurriedly continued.

"This Immortal Master Li invited this time is said to have some magical powers. Legend has it that he is already hundreds of years old, but he is still only thirty or forty years old, maybe he really knows some immortal arts! According to the palace guards, this man once met an immortal at sea when he was young, and the immortal gave him a fresh jujube bigger than a pumpkin. They all say that they have noses and eyes, and they don't know if it's true or not. ”

Eminem just wanted to make her happy, and he just told her something funny. Gillian heard it in her ears, but she couldn't help but move in her heart.

"Eminem, I wonder if I can find a way to get close to this immortal master?"

The nurse was stunned, a little strange.

"Jiaojiao, what's wrong? Could it be that you're also interested in those immortal arts?"

A bitter smile appeared at the corner of Gillian's mouth, and she looked at her somewhat reduced face from the bronze mirror.

"Eminem, how can I have the heart to think about that now! If it's possible, I just want to ask the immortal master if there is any prescription for asking for a child, or something...... Alas! ”

The nurse suddenly realized, and secretly scolded herself for why she didn't think of this.

"Jiaojiao, don't worry, since the immortal master stays in the palace, there will always be a chance to get in touch. Wait for Eminem to think of a way for you, ask if there is such a good way, if there is such a fairy formula, it would be great! ”

When the two of them said this, they couldn't help but feel a flame of hope rising in their hearts, as long as the queen had her own prince, the current embarrassing situation would be very different. The nurse hurriedly took the opportunity to let Gillian eat more, and the queen, who was still just in her youth, drank lotus seed porridge in small sips, and at the same time had some longing expectations slowly surging in her heart.

Just when Emperor Liu Che was ambitious to rectify the court and yearn for the way of immortals, Yuan Zhao finally took care of all the favors, temporarily left Chang'an City, and came to his fiefdom ~ Changle Yuan.

His current identity is a little strange, except for the name of an idle marquis, he has no official position and errands. But the Emperor gave him a special decree that he should not be held accountable to anyone except for the progress of the work he had to do in Changle Yuan, except for the regular reporting of progress to the Emperor himself.

Moreover, after listening to Yuan Zhao's experience gained from contact with the Hun cavalry during this trip to the northern frontier, and preparing to have some military ideas in the future, the emperor waved his hand and handed over the command of the more than 800 cavalry battalion soldiers stationed on Changle Plateau to Yuan Zhao.

According to Emperor Liu Che's words, "Boy, this cavalry will be handed over to you to recuperate." No matter what kind of experiment you do with them, I don't care, I just hope you can surprise me in the shortest possible time! ”

Supposedly, how can such an elite power be granted to a private person? Although there are only 800 horsemen, which is not much, this is equivalent to becoming the private soldier of Changle Hou himself! This is absolutely not allowed by the imperial court system.

You must know that the Han system stipulates that the private soldiers of the noble families cannot exceed fifty, and this is a privilege approved by the emperor after the assassination of the minister Yuan Ang in the previous dynasty. If there is an excess of private armies, then there is a suspicion of rebellion!

However, this time, no one in the Manchu Dynasty raised any objections. Because they had all listened in detail to the details reported by Captain Cao Xiang of Yulin Military Academy. The dozen or so horsemen of the cavalry battalion brought by Yuan Zhao shot nearly a hundred Hun cavalry in the gap of the galloping horses in a moment of covering the breakthrough!

Such a comparison of combat power has nothing to do with horsepower, nothing to do with horsepower, nothing to do with horsemanship, and nothing to do with everyone's martial arts, the reason why the record is so is because they have an extra killing weapon in their hands ~ Nine-armed chain crossbow!

This kind of crossbow arrow, designed by the Marquis of Changle himself, has been officially dedicated to the imperial court and has begun to be made in batches. After the practice against the Huns, the effect was wonderful. Sure enough, it is a killer weapon of cavalry combat, a cold-blooded and ruthless weapon of death.

It can be expected that over time, the border army of the Han Dynasty will be equipped with this kind of crossbow arrows, whether it is the improvement of combat power or the coordination of tactics, the improvement is not as simple as a little bit.

After His Majesty the Emperor led a group of generals and ministers of the Imperial Court to the Imperial Garden to personally test the power of the nine-armed chain crossbow, no one dared to be unconvinced!

So, in the hearts of Emperor Liu Che and the ministers, they all had more expectations for the little marquis named Yuan Zhao. Give him this battalion of cavalry, what miracle will he do again?

On the Changle Plateau, the wind is light and the clouds are light, and the sky is high and refreshing. The master father in a green cloth robe stood in the shade of the tree, smiling and watching the little marquis from far and near, galloping on horseback, with a look on his face as if he was greeting a child who had been away from home for a long time.

Today's return is different from the old days. That young man is no longer the lucky one who will be lucky to be crowned a marquis by fate, but a hero who is famous in Chang'an and famous all over the world!

The empty city devised a strange plan, retreated from the strong enemy with three arrows, cut three heads with one sword, and burned six thousand horsemen! Coupled with the mysterious legends in it, whether it is the master father Yan, Nie Yi, Zhao Yuan, Wei Qing and others who have long been familiar with Yuan Zhao, or the generations of Sima Xiangru, Xu Le, and Su Jian, who have met later, at this moment, a new understanding has been added to this figure. Those who were working in the former cloud gang even stopped what they were doing, with admiration, fear, gloom, and expectation in their eyes, .......

After so much time and a lot of hard work, Changle Yuan is no longer the desolate appearance it used to be. At this time in early summer, everything grows and flourishes.

"Okay, from today onwards, all of us can finally have a quiet time to do something that has been delayed for a long time. Hehe! ”

When he jumped off the horse, Yuan Zhao had a happy smile on his face. shook the soil on the placket, as if shaking off the smoke and dust of the northern country, and also shook off the cumbersomeness of the court, and the fame was gone.