If you thought it was weird a few days ago, it's indescribably weird now.

It is now the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty, the twentieth day of the eighth month of the solar calendar, the eleventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, at eleven o'clock in the morning, on the second floor of the main building of the imperial palace in the imperial palace district of Chang'an City, Gyeonggi Province, the middle earth continent, Zhu Zhaotian, the thirty-second emperor of the Ming Empire, knelt on the ground, looking particularly haggard. His gray beard and gray hair are particularly striking. I used to disbelieve in a white head, because I thought there was no reason for it. But I believe it now, because the emperor turned white overnight.

On the ground in front of him were queens, princes, and princesses frozen in the entire large ice block! He looked at them through the ice, his hands touching the ice, but he couldn't touch them. His tears fell, dripping on the ice, freezing on them.

In the middle of summer, the sun is shining, and the Mingde Hall is as cold as an ice cellar - in fact, the Mingde Hall has become an ice cellar. The palace has re-established the refrigeration system of the Mingde Hall, which was supposed to be at a constant temperature of 26 degrees, but now it is set to zero degrees, and the entire hall is full of cold wind.

Several ministers of recognized virtue asked the emperor to mourn, and they were summarily executed without question.

Several of the more virtuous ministers pointed out the innocence of the prime minister and the empress, and they were also killed.

Whoever comes forward and says anything will be killed.

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The Emperor shouted, "Come, go find the Imperial Doctor!" ”

Several imperial doctors came, and the old and young were all frightened.

The Emperor said, "Bring my queen and my little darling back to life!" ”

It's been ten days since I died!

The imperial doctors were so frightened that they couldn't speak.

The Emperor stood up. He trembled and was about to fall, but the imperial guard next to him hurriedly stepped forward and held him up.

The emperor stared at the imperial doctors and said, "Didn't you say that you can bring people back to life? Then go and revive my queen! ”

He pointed to one of the imperial doctors, who was about fifty years old, and said, "Imperial Doctor Ma, didn't you say that you can't save people without you?" ”

Imperial Doctor Ma: "Your Majesty, when I arrived, the Empress had already passed away for ten hours. ”

Emperor: "Didn't you say that you can freeze people and then resurrect them?" Isn't that what you said? ”

Imperial Doctor Ma: "Your Majesty, the minister is talking about freezing the living and resurrecting them, not the dead." ”

The emperor glared at him and said, "What did you say?" Who are the dead people? ”

The emperor's red eyes were extremely conspicuous in his white hair.

The Emperor grabbed Imperial Physician Ma by the neck, pressed him against the ice, and shouted, "How do you see this is a dead man?" What is like a dead man? ”

The three of them are lifelike, and they really don't look like dead people.

He shouted, "Someone." ”

The Praetorian Guard stepped forward, ready to drag those imperial doctors out and cut them down.

Emperor: "Come on, come and feed my queen, she's hungry." Come on! My little darling is hungry too. ”

As soon as the imperial doctor heard this, he quickly ran away and picked up a life.

Several eunuchs and palace maids hurriedly arrived.

How do you feed this? All three of them were frozen in large, long, transparent blocks of ice.

The Emperor shouted, "Hello, a bunch of waste!" ”

The Mingde Hall is too big, and the power of the air conditioner is not enough at all, and it can reach a temperature of ten degrees. The Mingde Hall has glass walls, and the summer sun shines directly into it, and the air is very cold, but the sun is very bright and sunny, so now I don't know whether it is cold or hot.

The ice cubes containing their mothers melted a little, scattering light, making the queen look like she was not smiling. From this point of view, it looks majestic, from another angle it looks charming, from another angle it looks sad, and then again, it looks a little happy. And the hands of the prince and princess next to her are so small and white, I really want people to touch them.

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Emperor Zhu Zhaotian was lying on the ice, the queen was in the center of the ice, the little prince on the left, and the little princess on the right. His face was pressed against the ice, his left hand was around the little prince, and his right hand was around the little princess. His face and hands were frozen white and red, white mixed with red, red mixed with white.

The Emperor looked up and glanced at the Empress. He was stunned and shouted, "Cameraman, come here!" ”

The eunuch who was hiding from afar, hurriedly ran to the emperor's side, and said, "Yes." Then he immediately ran away, picked up the walkie-talkie on the wall outside the door, and shouted, "Go to the press department and find the cameraman!" Find it! Call them down at once. ”

After a while, several videographers came over, holding large and small cameras. They trotted all the way when they came, and when a man passed me, he looked at me casually, his eyes full of horror.

Emperor: "Let's take a picture of our family." ”

A couple of videographers picked up their cameras and started taking pictures. Some people have small cameras, some people have long lenses, some people have bigger cameras that can only be supported by a shelf, and they have to get into the black cloth to take pictures.

The Emperor smiled, facing them, his expression completely frozen, and his smile was full of the same as the portraits of the Emperor and Empress that hung all over the world - except that the Empress was in the ice.

There was a camera that came out with the picture at the time - I finally learned that the legendary second camera was real.

The Emperor took it and stared. He said to himself, "Not really." ”

The emperor said to the empress, "Laugh at it." Why don't you laugh? ”

The Emperor stared blankly at them.

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Emperor Zhu Zhaotian suddenly realized: "Are you cold inside?" ”

He shouted, "Someone, someone!" Dig me up. Someone! ”

At this time, there were many people in the hall, but they could hide as far as they could. The palace stipulates that you must be on duty when you are on duty, and there is no rule on how far away. In the hall of tens of thousands of square meters, the emperor was in the middle, surrounded by a few cameramen and eunuchs, and the rest of the hundreds of people were hiding from afar - I suddenly remembered that this was like the atomic theory in "Materialology", with the nucleus in the middle, the electrons outside, and the absolute vacuum in the middle. The outsiders heard the emperor's words and actually began to retreat. How can this be dug and can you survive if it is dug bad?

I was looking curiously at the Emperor from the pillar, when one of the Emperor's close attendants, the eunuch, saw me and said to me, "You go over." ”

I said, "Go somebody else." I'm not a close eunuch, I'm an imperial official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "I ran away and hid at the back of the line.

The chief eunuch in charge pointed his finger at a few people: "You, you, you, and a few of you, go over!" So the men had no choice but to step forward.

They stood in front of the ice cubes, picking at them with their hands. At this time, a few more eunuchs came, thoughtfully brought them hammers and chisels, and then walked back immediately. They chisel slowly.

The Emperor shouted, "Hurry up! He even grabbed a set of hammers and chisels and chiseled them himself.

The dull sound of clanging kept coming. The more they chiseled, the more bizarre the image of the queen became, and the refraction of light was unrecognizable. At the end, approaching the queen's body, the men slowed down, as if they were slowly walking over a cliff.

The emperor still chiseled vigorously, and he chiseled at the queen's face at once, and a red crack appeared on it, and the red crack was particularly conspicuous on the white skin. The Emperor hurriedly pressed the crack with his hand, as if to stop the bleeding for her.

After a while, the Emperor chiseled the ice horizontally, trying to separate a large piece of ice from the Empress's face. He slammed it hard, snapped, and smashed a large block of ice into the air. If you look closely, there is something black and white on the transparent ice cube - it is the queen's eyeball. Poor Queen Zhao Yishu's bright eyes are now a piece of broken ice on the ground.

The Emperor crawled on his knees, finding the ice from a pile of debris. He vigorously plucked the eyeball off the ice, then shoved it back into the queen's eye socket. But at this time, the queen couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

The Emperor stared. He shouted, "Guards, guards!" ”

A group of close guards ran over. When they came, they were also extremely surprised to see the unrecognizable queen.

The emperor said, "Pull this group out and cut them down!" ”

The forbidden army took out all the eunuchs who were still holding hammers and chisels, and they all seemed to understand their fate and did not have any struggle.

The emperor continued to shout: "Come on, cover the empress!" Come on, people, take a blanket and cover it! ”

A few more eunuchs came over and covered the ice with white blankets.

The emperor shouted again: "The forbidden army is coming." ”

Another group of forbidden troops came, and the emperor pointed to the people around him one by one and said, "Pull them out and cut them down." and the forbidden army just now, also cut it together. "It turned out that the emperor wanted to kill everyone who had seen the image of the queen, and the chief eunuch who had followed the emperor for many years died.

At this time, there was only one emperor in the center of the entire hall. Underneath him was debris of ice, and his beloved was covered with blankets.

He just stayed in a daze.

The shape is like a corpse, and the heart is like ashes.

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The emperor suddenly shouted: "Who wants to impeach the prime minister?" Who went to war with his sons? These bastards only fight for the party every day, and sell their fame every day! ”

The emperor said, "Who impeached?" Minister of Households? Minister of Criminal Justice? Minister of Rites? Or is it from the Secret Service and the Intelligence Department? I remember that there is still the second Hongfeng! ”

The emperor said, "Where have they gone!" It's gone! Call them all back to me! All recalled! I'm going to kill them all!" ”

The emperor shouted loudly, coughing incessantly, and as soon as he touched his mouth, his hands were covered with blood.

Then he fainted.

Everyone didn't dare to come forward at first. Time seemed to pass extremely long, and finally the imperial doctor stepped forward. The imperial doctor beckoned the people outside, and more close eunuchs stepped forward and carried the emperor away.

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At this time, what are those officials of the inner court and the outer court doing?

When the emperor began to kill, the safest thing to do at this time was not to say good things in front of him, but to stay away. In the past few days, no matter which faction has been hiding far away. Their various factions got together to discuss, and then contacted everywhere, so all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky, true and false, true and false.

And the matter of Zhao Jiajun, who thought it was settled, is not over! Zhao Zhengbao, the third elder of the Zhao family, has already taken action, and he rebelled in the name of "Qingjun's side". In the past few days, the emperor has not said anything, and no troops have been mobilized, and the movements of the Handan army have already made a big noise.

The twists and turns came one by one, and Zhao Zhengbao, who fled back to Hebei, had already messed up Hebei.

Hebei Province, also called Yanzhao Province, is called South Zhao and North Yan. The land of Yanzhao has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and the people are fierce. There are three counties in Hebei, which are Yanjing County, Baoding County, and Handan County. No one in the three counties obeyed anyone, so that Hebei had a perennial civil war. It is also like this that the Hebei Army is extremely strong. After the rise of Zhao Guangxin, Handan and Baoding joined forces and overwhelmed Yanjing. For now, the governor of Hebei is a native of Yanjing, but he has no power, and both power and military power are in the hands of the overseers of Handan.

The first note of the first day said that the rebels were already attacking the city of Baoding. People from the military department reported that they were killed.

The second turn of the third day said that the magistrate of Baoding asked for support, otherwise Baoding would not be guaranteed. People from the military department continued to report that they were killed.

The third turn of the sixth day said that the city of Baoding had surrendered without a fight, and the rebels had occupied two-thirds of Hebei. No one dared to report, and after the head of the inner court killed a few eunuchs who disobeyed orders, someone was forced to report. No need to ask, killed.

On the ninth day, the fourth piece arrived. The rebels swung north, aiming at Yanjing.

Yanjing is one of the four capitals of Beijing, since ancient times is the throat of the north, the grassland of western Liaoning, the grassland of eastern Liaodong is in the north of Yanjing, if Yanjing does not defend, then the rebels want to run, want to fight, the north of the Ming Empire will never be peaceful!

Li Yongfu, the head of the Inner Court, convened all the Inner Court and some officials of the Outer Court to discuss countermeasures.

In the end, Li Yongfu said: "Passing on the eunuchs, the eunuchs of the pen, and the eunuchs of the palm print." ”

When the people arrived, so did the things.

He spread out the holy decree, picked up the imperial pen, dipped it in vermilion ink, and wrote word by word:

Fengtian transported, the emperor said:

The Shanxi Army marched east to attack Baoding, the Central Plains Army went north to attack Handan, the cavalry of Liaoxi and Liaodong immediately rushed south to aid Yanjing, and the Shandong Navy rescued Yanjing from the waterway.

Li Yongfu picked up the jade seal of the country and printed it heavily on it, "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity".

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On the tenth day, there was still nothing to do. In the past, we always revolved around the emperor, but now no one dares to revolve around him, and I feel uncomfortable.

The eunuchs and palace maids who had nothing to do gathered in twos and threes gossiping, and the guards stood guard and looked around boredly.

At this time, a strange kind of music came, and the whole palace was filled with that kind of sound. The sound is not like a piano, not like a violin, not like a guzheng, and not like a drum.

The music is mixed with singing – but if you listen closely, you can't make out what is being sung.

As far as the eye could see, the young eunuchs and palace ladies looked confused, and like me, they looked around and whispered; The old palace ladies and eunuchs were all terribly white, and they stood motionless as if they were ghosts in the day.

I turned to my boss next to me, the director of the Guangchu Department, "What's wrong?" ”

I've never seen that terrible look on my boss's face, his mouth wide open, his mouth gurgling, and he couldn't speak.

I nudged him anxiously and continued to ask, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

He put his arm around my shoulder.

I could feel the tremor of his palms.

He said:

"The last time I heard this royal mourning song was twenty years ago, when Emperor Zhaoqian of the Ming Dynasty died!"