Chapter 16: Alchemy of the Living
Tens of thousands of forbidden troops on the outermost part of the palace were killed like a river of blood, and the red-eyed forbidden soldiers killed and cut down when they saw people, and the situation was gradually out of control, and the white turtle and Zhao Hui were too lazy to restrain them, but each took a group of strong martial arts generals to fight bravely, concentrating on trying to kill each other. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The once solemn, peaceful and quiet palace instantly turned into a hell on earth, and countless palace maids and eunuchs screamed and fled in panic, and were slashed and killed by the forbidden army that arrived and fell to a pool of blood. At this time, the forbidden army had forgotten their duty to garrison the palace, and most of them turned into ruffians, burning and looting in the palace until they came to the middle of the palace!
The elite of the 30,000 forbidden army occupied the favorable terrain, stretched out their bows and arrows, stood in formation, as long as there were people in front of them who could not run, they immediately opened their bows and arrows, and after a large number of ruffians and palace maids were shot, they knew the horror of the other party and immediately turned around and continued to fight/flee.
"Boom, the old emperor is really hidden! Duan Hui, a nerd, thought that the old emperor was controlled by him and could do whatever he wanted. Fortunately, the miscellaneous cleverness did not make a rash move, otherwise Ming Ke would have become a headless corpse, and it would not be good to delay the big thing of the Great Khan! A nearby figure hidden in the darkness muttered a whisper, a shrill laugh like a night owl.
"That's not right! At this time, the prince should have brought someone with him, why did only the forbidden army of the white turtle not see the prince's figure? Could it be that he has already entered the palace to kill the old emperor? It's impossible, could it be that the prince has already thought of a way to control the internal guard, control the internal guard? It's better to go over and take a look, so as not to miss the big thing of the Great Khan! After observing for a while, the black shadow left quietly and quickly rushed to the emperor's bedroom.
The layout of the Han Imperial Palace is almost exactly the same as that of the Beijing Imperial Palace, surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall, 960 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, and an area of 720,000 square meters, which is the largest in the world; The entire building of the palace is surrounded by two strong defensive lines, surrounded by a moat 52 meters wide, 6 meters deep and 3,800 meters long; This is followed by a wall with a circumference of 3 kilometers, which is nearly 10 meters high and 8.62 meters wide at the base. There are 4 gates on the city wall, there is the noon gate in the south, there is the Shenwu gate in the north, there is the Donghua gate in the east, there is the Xihua gate in the west, the four corners of the city wall, there are also 4 corner towers, the corner tower has 3 layers of eaves, 72 ridges.
The architecture of the imperial palace is divided into two parts: the "outer court" and the "inner court" according to its layout and function. The "outer court" and the "inner court" are bounded by the Qianqing Gate, the south of the Qianqing Gate is the outer court, and the north is the inner court. The architectural atmosphere of the outer court and the inner court of the palace is very different. The outer dynasty is centered on the three major halls of the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace, and is located in the central axis of the entire palace. It was the place where the feudal emperor exercised his power and held grand ceremonies. In addition, there are Wenhua Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion, Shangsi Courtyard and South three in the east of the two wings; In the west, there are buildings such as the Wuying Hall and the Internal Affairs Office.
The inner court is centered on the three palaces of Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, and the two wings are the Yangxin Palace, the East Sixth Palace, the West Sixth Palace, the Zhai Palace, the Yuqing Palace, and there is the Imperial Garden behind. It is the place where the feudal emperor and his concubine lived and played. The Ningshou Palace in the eastern part of the inner court was built for retirement after the abdication of Emperor Qianlong. In the west of the inner court, there are Cining Palace, Shou'an Palace, etc. In addition, there are Chonghua Palace, North Five and other buildings.
The imperial palace was built in strict accordance with the imperial capital construction principle of "sleeping in the front and sleeping in the back, leaving the ancestor and the right society" in the "Zhou Rites and Examination of the Work Record". The entire palace, brick by brick in the architectural arrangement, is showing the supremacy of imperial power, with the change of shape, the ups and downs of the technique, combined into a whole. functionally in line with the hierarchy of feudal society. At the same time, it achieves the artistic effect of left and right balance and shape change. The roof forms of Chinese architecture are rich and colorful, and there are more than 10 different forms of roofs in imperial palace architecture. In the case of the three main halls, the roofs are different. The roof of the palace building is covered with glazed tiles of various colors. The main temple is predominantly yellow. Green is used for the buildings of the prince's residential area. Other blue, purple, black, emerald, peacock green, sapphire blue and other colorful glazes are mostly used in gardens or glazed walls. There are glass-kissed beasts at both ends of the main ridge in the roof of the Taihe Palace, swallowing the big ridge steadily and powerfully. The beaker beast has a beautiful shape, which is both a component and an ornament. Some of the tiles create three-dimensional animal images such as dragons and phoenixes, lions, and seahorses, symbolizing auspiciousness and majesty, and these components play a decorative role in the architecture. The palace in front of the imperial palace, the architectural modeling at that time required grandeur and magnificence, the courtyard was bright and open, symbolizing the supremacy of the feudal regime, the Taihe Hall was located in the center of the diagonal line of the Forbidden City, and there were ten auspicious beasts on each of the four corners, vivid and vivid. The designers of the imperial palace believed that this would show the majesty of the emperor and shock the world. The inner court at the back requires the courtyard to be deep and compact, so the six palaces in the east and west are self-contained, each with the palace gate and palace wall, which is relatively arranged and orderly, and then matched with the palace lamp couplet, embroidered couch and several beds, are all reflected in the arrangement that adapts to the needs of luxury life. The inner court is followed by the palace garden. In the back garden, there are the pine and cypress that are not withered, there is the exquisite rockery of the beautiful stones, the building, the pavilion, the pavilion and the pavilion are reflected in the meantime, beautiful and quiet.
The second half of the building is called the inner court, which is the place where the emperor and his concubines live and entertain. The dividing line between the former dynasty and the inner court palace is the Qianqing Gate, the south of the Qianqing Gate is the former dynasty, and the north is the inner court.
The inner court is centered on the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, and the Kunning Palace, and there are the East Sixth Palace and the West Sixth Palace on the east and west wings, which is the place where the emperor handles daily government affairs and the place where the emperor and his concubines live and live. The second half is architecturally identical to the first half. The first half of the building is solemn, solemn, magnificent, and majestic to symbolize the supremacy of the emperor. The second half of the inner court is full of life, and the buildings are mostly self-contained courtyards, with gardens, studies, pavilions, mountains and stones, etc.
The Qianqing Palace is at the front of the inner courtyard of the palace and the back of the Baohe Palace. Qianqing Palace is the main hall of the inner court, 20 meters high. Heavy eaves on the top of the palace. There are warm pavilions at both ends of the Qianqing Palace. It was the place where the emperor read and slept. Twenty-seven beds were placed on the upper and lower sides of the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, which was freely chosen by the emperor and was said to prevent assassins from assassination, and the Qianqing Palace was the sleeping palace of the feudal emperor. Before the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, this place was the place where the emperor lived and handled government affairs. After the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he moved to the Yangxin Palace, but still read the newspapers here, selected officials and summoned his subordinates. The east and west warehouses around the Qianqing Palace, as well as the Duanning Hall for the emperor to store crowns, robes, belts, and shoes, and the Maoqin Hall where books and ink are placed. There is an upper study room for the prince to study, and a south study room for Hanlin bachelors.
Kunning Palace is at the back of the "inner court" of the imperial palace. Heavy eaves on the top of the palace. Kunning Palace is the sleeping palace of the queen of the Ming Dynasty, and there are warm pavilions at both ends. In the Qing Dynasty, it was changed to a place of worship to the gods. After Yongzheng, Xinuan Pavilion is the sacrificial place of shamans. Its Middle East Warm Pavilion is the cave room for the emperor's wedding.
Jiaotai Palace is between Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace, containing the meaning of "heaven and earth are combined, Kangtai is happy". It was built in the Ming Dynasty, it is a square hall with four corners and points, gilded treasure top, dragon and phoenix pattern decoration. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the hall was the place where the queen's birthday celebration was held. The queen received the concubines here. The so-called silkworm ceremony of the empress of the Qing Dynasty needs to check the preparation of the ceremonial ceremony here.
The emperor's dormitory is located in the most heavily defended place in the inner court: there are tens of thousands of forbidden guards in front, and 300 black-clothed guards in the back stand expressionlessly on the square outside the dormitory like 300 gods of death, surrounding the dormitory and protecting the safety of the old emperor.
At this time, the old emperor did not care about the rebellion in the palace, but stared at the busy Taoist priest and the huge Dan furnace standing in front of him with an anxious face behind his back, while muttering to himself in a low voice, and countless Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes and lotus crowns around him were busy adjusting the heat of the Dan furnace and adding medicinal materials.
In an inconspicuous corner of the dormitory, the corpses of several children were discarded on the ground like garbage, their immature faces were full of fear and resentment, their little hands clenched into fists, and their big eyes that had not completely lost their luster stared at the roof of the dormitory where dragons and phoenixes were carved, silently accusing themselves of their grievances and sorrows!
All the children died of disembowelment, and their internal organs were dug up, and a few little Taoist priests with unbearable faces near the Dan furnace put these internal organs into the Dan furnace at the urging of an old Taoist priest!
"The hearts and livers of boys and girls, the essence of the sun and the moon, the aura of heaven and earth, supplemented by the secret method of our faction, the elixir refined will definitely be able to bless Your Majesty with rejuvenation and eternal youth." Seeing that the hearts and livers of the boys and girls were put into the Dan furnace, the old Taoist priest showed a cold smile and said to the emperor.
Hearing this, the old emperor's eyes lit up, and he immediately coughed violently, and there were a few more red blood on the silk scarf covering his mouth. "How long will it take for the elixir to be baked! If this time he succeeds, the emperor will become a national teacher and share the country with me! If it fails! When the old emperor said this, his face tightened and his murderous intent was revealed.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, I once followed the immortals to Penglai in Zhongnan Mountain, and I have been practicing Taoism and alchemy for decades. It was precisely because these conditions were not met in the first few times that tonight was the right time and place. At the beginning, because I saw that His Majesty was a reincarnated immortal, I helped His Majesty and help me to rank in the immortal class in the future, so I took the initiative to enter the palace to help Your Majesty become an immortal. Gold, silver, wealth, wine, and beauty are no different from dung in my eyes, and I ask Your Majesty to mention it again. I only hope that Your Majesty will ascend to the heavenly realm in the future, and on the day when you become an immortal and attain the Tao, you will not forget today's covenant. The old Taoist priest said slowly, the emperor immediately showed a look of trust, no longer said anything, but walked to the Dan furnace with a face full of hope and anxiety, and waited patiently.
"In ancient times, those who became immortals and attained the Tao were all those who had great merits and great contributions to the people of the world, and those who did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the people's safety and well-being, but I have never heard of a selfish guy who can become immortals for his own selfish desires and kill young children and plunder other people's lives! Demon Road! Come on! ”