Chapter 10: The First Entry into the Palace

First of all, let's introduce the situation of Tianjing City, Tianwang Palace and the palaces of various princes where Huang Xu is now. It is said that at this time, Tianjing City is like the Beijing city of the Qing Dynasty, it is the economic, political, and cultural center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although the world is not peaceful, but the Taiping army has set the capital here, there are still a lot of large-scale construction moves, and businessmen from the south and north also gather here from time to time, and this has indirectly created the prosperity of Beijing today. Tianjing's urban planning is divided into inner city and outer city, the inner city mainly includes the palace of the heavenly king, the east palace, the west palace and other palaces, which is the politics of the whole kingdom of heaven, the center of power, there are four city gates in the southeast, northwest and southwest, and the most important palaces are of course built in those more conspicuous positions, from the direction of the division, the palace of the king of heaven is in the middle, the east palace is in the east, the west palace is in the west, the king of the south and the king of the north have all died in battle, so now the south is the wing palace, the north is the prime minister's mansion of the heavenly machine. As mentioned earlier, the king of heaven is Hong Xiuquan, please note that only the palace of the king of heaven is called the palace here, and the others are all palaces. The East King is Yang Xiuqing, the West King is Wei Changhui, the Wing King is Shi Dakai, and then the Tianji Prime Minister Gu Shen, Gu Shen was originally a Confucian student, and was unfortunately captured by the Tianping Army when he went out to lecture at a time, and was originally to be executed according to the law, but Hong Xiuquan and others because of their good writing, can be regarded as an outlier in the Taiping Army that lacks intellectuals, and can't bear to kill them, so they let him be responsible for some civilian work in the Taiping Army, and then gradually reused, and finally the official reached the high position of the Prime Minister of Tianji, this person, if you want to say military talent, it is not at all, Political talent is extremely outstanding, most of the rules and systems of the Celestial Empire are now from his hands, looking at the hundred officials of the Celestial Empire, the civil officials should be headed by them, and no one should be able to beat them. And the outer city is another city gate defense line that surrounds the inner city, there are some ordinary people, businessmen and some ordinary ministers living in the outer city, there are nine gates in the outer city, and today Huang Xu and Shao Genqing/Chang Post are one of the places where they dispute. The outer city is mainly to defend the safety of the inner city, and it is the first barrier to resist the invasion of the enemy.

The above people basically formed the core leadership collective of Tianping Taiguo during this period.

In fact, before coming to Tianjing, Huang Xu asked Hong Zhengyan for some basic information about the Kingdom of Heaven, after all, there will be some deviations between the historical records of later generations and the real situation, and only by understanding the real situation can we plan countermeasures, and the above Gu Shen is what Huang Xu did not expect. Huang Xu sat in the car, trying his best to slowly sort out a clue, since he promised Hong Zhengyan to help, then he had to do it well, but it was not easy to do it well, at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be said to be full of mountains and rains, the king of the east and the west are suspicious, and the plot is wrong, the king of Yi is far away in the front-line army, Gu Shen, the old fritter, swayed on both sides, and cannot be counted on, now the most important thing depends on Hong Xiuquan's attitude. In history, Hong Xiuquan did a bad decision at this time, but it can't be regarded as a bad decision, the secret edict Wei Changhui killed Yang Xiuqing, although it is also a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, but the consequences caused by this have also been seen by all of us, which indirectly caused the lack of talents in the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, laying the root of the failure, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from this time on, it gradually began to decline from the peak.

Huang Xu was still hesitant to reveal some of the future direction of history to the current rulers of the Celestial Empire, but would that change the course of history. Thinking of changing the words of history, Huang Xu was taken aback, it turned out that he had become the key to this history, forget it, no matter, everything will wait and see what happens, and then make plans, but looking back, if he easily changes history, will he mess up a lot of things and become a sinner through the ages.

Huang Xu thought about these questions over and over again, and his brain was numb.

"Princess Qiyu, the dormitory has arrived, please get off the princess." Before he knew it, the car had stopped at the gate of Hong Zhengyan's dormitory. Xiao Qian's voice sounded outside. Because it has arrived in the inner palace, there are palace guards in the palace, so the guards are no longer needed, and the guard general General Yu has also returned to his original post, the imperial guard camp of the king of heaven.

"Brother Huang, we've arrived. In a moment you will rest in my dormitory, and I will go to see my father, and you must not run around, for it will not be good if people see you. If you need anything, just ask Xiaoqian directly. By the way, everyone should know the princess of this country, just like we read in the book, obediently, there are many people waiting around, dozens, hundreds, as soon as they go out, they hug each other, maybe this is called momentum, the momentum of being a princess. Hong Zhengyan is still haode, but she picked a few particularly loyal to fill the façade, in fact, she really didn't treat these girls as a girl, usually very good to these girls, especially Xiaoqian, so, these little girls have become her Hong Zhengyan's loyal confidants, to put it bluntly, their loyalty to Hong Zhengyan is better than that of the king in their eyes.

Huang Xu also got out of the car after Hong Zhengyan, and immediately cast a strange look around, no wonder that a strange man and the princess returned to the princess's dormitory in the same carriage. When you think about it, it's incredible. And it's normal to have such an eye to greet you.

"Alas, alas, everyone is waiting for a good princess, don't look around, what kind of system." Xiaoqian now shows the majesty of the girl foreman.

"Yes, Sister Xiaoqian." The sisters answered the promise and hurried after the princess to the palace. Despite this, while walking, he didn't forget to look back at Huang Xu who was walking behind. made Huang Xu very uncomfortable.

Finally arrived at Hong Zhengyan's bedroom, Hong Zhengyan was anxious to see Hong Xiuquan, but simply told Huang Xu not to run around, stay in the palace with peace of mind and wait for her to come back, and then left in a hurry.

After Hong Zhengyan left, the dormitory suddenly quieted down, only Xiao Qian waited by the side, waiting for his summons.

"Xiao Qian, do you know what is interesting in this Heavenly King's Palace?" Huang Xu asked Xiaoqian boredly.

"Childe, the princess instructed before leaving, please don't run around, just bear with it, and when the princess comes back, she will take you back to familiarize yourself with the environment in this palace." Xiao Qian didn't dare to let him run around, otherwise, if the princess blamed her, she would be scolded again, besides, let him go out, if he saw something that shouldn't be seen, met some people who shouldn't be touched, did something that shouldn't be done, and caused trouble for the princess and the king, then she Xiaoqian couldn't afford to be guilty.

"Xiaoqian, just tell me, anyway, your princess is not here now, I will go and come back soon, you princess will not know" Huang Xu said bitterly.

"No, no, no...."Xiao Qian's head shook like a drum.

"Xiao Qian, look, what is this" Huang Xu took out a toothbrush and shook it in front of Xiao Qian's eyes. To be honest, Huang Xu is poor now, it's just a ding-bang of poverty, and the only thing that is a little tempting is the toothbrush. These days, if you don't have money, you know that it's good to have money, so it seems that you have to find a way to get some money to spend. "For you, Xiaoqian."

"Really? Childe really wanted to give such a valuable thing to the slave, but the slave didn't dare to ask for it. Xiao Qian's eyes lit up first, and then she shook her head, she knew the value of this thing, she had heard Miss say before, Huang Gongzi gave her a toothbrush, and took it out for her to see, Miss cherished it very much.

"Xiaoqian, this thing is not as valuable as you imagined, in our place, it is a necessity of life, you can just take it." Huang Xu directly handed her the toothbrush.

"No, I can't, if the princess knows that I took Huang Gongzi's things, the princess will blame." Xiao Qian shook her hand and didn't reach out to pick it up.

"Don't be afraid, with me, your father-in-law is mainly to blame, and I will bear everything." Huang Xu shoved the toothbrush to Xiaoqian.

"Then I'll take it," Xiao Qian was so happy in her heart.

"Remember to help me spread the word among your sisters, and if anyone needs it, they can come to me to buy it." Huang Xu didn't forget to strike while the iron was hot.

"Gongzi Xie, I will definitely help Gongzi bring the words." Xiao Qian made no secret of her joy.

"Then you can take me out for a walk now" Huang Xu saw that the time had come, and took the opportunity to say.

"This, okay, the slave and maid will take the son out." Xiao Qian gritted her teeth and let go.

Huang Xu is really happy in his heart, a gadget, not only to achieve the purpose of wanting to go out, but also to let Xiaoqian help promote it, it is really a double win.

"Where does Childe want to go? Although the place of the palace is big, there are not many interesting places. Although Xiaoqian agreed to take him out, she couldn't be unscrupulous.

"Then just walk around." Huang Xu didn't want to embarrass her too much.

"That son, please."

Xiao Qian led the way in front, and the two went out of Hong Zhengyan's bedroom together.

Huang Xu strolled in the palace of the Heavenly King, to be precise, he was strolling around the princess's dormitory, looking up at the sky in the distance, this back and forth, the sky was close to evening, the sun had gradually sunk in the west, and the zuihou light was trying its best to light up the surrounding clouds, forming an extremely spectacular sunset scene. I don't know when I will be able to zaijian to the sunset in my hometown, Dad, Mom, are you okay? My son misses you very much, and Huang Xu can't help but feel emotional. Thinking about it, the faint sadness in my heart lingered for a long time.

"Childe, we've all been out for half an hour, maybe the princess has come back, if the princess can't see Childe when she comes back, she may be worried." Xiao Qian saw that it was not early, so she persuaded Huang Xu to go back early.

"Xiaoqian, I'll stay for a while, or you go back first, if Yan'er comes back, you can tell her, I'm here, I'll go back in a while, so she doesn't have to worry." Huang Xu was sad in his heart, and said to Xiaoqian lifelessly.

"Childe, that Xiaoqian is here to serve Childe, if the princess sees that we are not there, she should find it, and this is not far from the princess's bedroom." Xiao Qian seemed to hear the faint sadness in Huang Xu's voice.

"Xiexie, Xiaoqian." Huang Xu was very grateful for her empathy at this moment.

After speaking, he ignored her anymore and looked into the distance by himself, he felt that his heart was suddenly panicked, and he felt a feeling of being out of breath, and the corners of his eyes on both sides gradually became wet, and he wanted to cry. To be honest, as a qualified special combat member, Huang Xu has always been very confident in his mental endurance. But today I don't know what's wrong, it's so easy to get emotional.

"Yo, isn't this Xiao Qian in my sister's palace?" A very abrupt voice rang out. Xiaoqian was startled, and hurriedly looked at the source of the sound.