Chapter 19 Turning Hands into Clouds Turning Hands into Rain

The heavy rain is like a note, and in the eyes of everyone, it seems that there has not been such a heavy rain in the capital for many years. The heaven and earth seem to be shrouded in a layer of impermeable water curtain, but there is no trace of wind, the water droplets fall straight to the ground from top to bottom, merging into a trickling river, along the corner of the Qianqing Palace, the gap between the steps and flows happily to the open space in front of the main hall. In a short time, a layer of water had accumulated in the clearing, reflecting the entire depressed and chilly palace figure.

The sudden rain caught many people off guard, and at this time of the year, Beijing was already a yellow sand, but this year's spring was indeed extraordinary. More than a dozen eunuchs hiding under the porch to avoid the rain were all chattering, this rain was really late. If there had been such rainfall in the early years, then the Ming Dynasty would not have been so dry that there was no harvest and thousands of miles of red fields. The news that the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of Bingbi were going to leave the palace one after another to supervise the army spread far and wide. This is also an unprecedented precedent in the Ming Dynasty, except for Wang Chengen and Zhang Yunhan, all the others were sent to Baoding, Fangshan, Juyongguan, the gateway cities of the Beijing Division.

A thief may no longer be called a thief. The former rogues now have their own country names and year names, and hundreds of thousands of troops are rapidly encroaching on the territory of Shanxi, or it will not be long before they will come to the city. Within one day, Emperor Chongzhen practiced more than ten edicts from King Qin, asking the military attaches to lead their troops to aid the Beijing Division.

The northern provinces have no troops to send, and the commanders are not