Chapter 54: The Ghost Sees the Ghost
Xiao Quan took the women to visit the Forbidden City, the first of the world's five major palaces, this great palace contains how much hard work and sweat of working people.
The labor life of the emperor in ancient times was good, look at the house where you live, how many square meters you get! is still in the center of this imperial capital, and the land price is at least 10 million per square meter, right?
Of course, these ancient concubines and queens behind him don't think so, they live here until they die, looking at their appearance, they probably sigh that things are wrong.
Xiao Quan saw that they were a little boring, so he found a relatively remote and uninhabited place, and asked, "Some of you have lived here all your lives, and you see so many palaces lined up here, but do you know how many houses there are here?" β
"I know that there are said to be nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half houses here. The difference of one and a half is because the palace of the Jade Emperor in the sky is 10,000, and the emperor, as the master of the world, cannot trespass, so one less room was built. Qu Xiaofeng said rashly.
"You haven't lived here in your life, how do you know?" Zhao Huirou asked.
"Sister Zhao, didn't you hear that person when we passed the turn just now? There are 9,999 and a half rooms here. Qu Xiaofeng said again.
"Miss Zhen'er, do you think so too?" Xiao Quan asked. Wan Zhen'er was not far from the time when the Forbidden City had just been built, and it was the most "primitive" version of the Forbidden City, which should be different from what we see now.
"I don't know how many there are, when I lived here, I just felt that there were thousands of palaces here, boundless, no one knew how many." Wan Zhen'er said.
"Miss Ruyi, how many do you think?" Xiao Quan asked again.
"I don't know how many houses there are, anyway, I've been here for more than ten years, I just feel that this place is boundless, and I don't know how many palaces there are." Ulanala Ruyi said.
Xiao Quan saw that the atmosphere of the two of them had gone to the top of sadness, so he hurriedly said: "Actually, I know how many houses there are here, which can be regarded as the end of this problem in your previous life." β
"And how many houses are there?" Qu Xiaofeng asked, but the eyes of all the women were staring at Xiao Quan.
"According to the director of the Palace Museum, at this time, there are 8,728 houses in the Forbidden City, and a total of 643 rooms in the Forbidden City's Duanmen, Dagao Xuandian, and Yushi Yamen."
"It's not 9,999 and a half, right?" Xiaoli looked at the pavilion Yuyu around and said.
"That curator is really idle and has nothing to do, nothing to do and play counting the number of these houses." Zhao Huirou tilted her head and said.
"Hey, his job is to protect the artifacts here, maybe counting houses is his hobby? By the way, Miss Huirou, how is this palace compared to the Great Song Palace when you were alive? Xiao Quan asked.
"Hmm...... I feel that this place seems to be much bigger than the Great Song Palace where I live. Zhao Huirou thought about it and said softly.
"The Great Song Dynasty's palace in Tokyo is actually only half the size of the Forbidden City." Xiao Quan reminded.
"Oh, I said."
"Let's go to Shufangzhai first, you all know who you were when you were alive, but Xiaoli still doesn't know who she was when she was alive!" Xiao Quan suggested again.
All the women agreed, and then followed Xiao Quan in the direction of Shufangzhai.
There were more and more people on the road, and there were quite a few brigades going straight to this side.
"Shufangzhai was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, but there was no record until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and there was no record for more than 100 years in the middle, during which there must have been many people living here. If you're living here in between, I'm not sure who you are. Xiao Quan said to Xiaoli beside him and the women behind him as he walked.
At this time, there was a tour guide in front of them explaining the history of this Shufangzhai, and said that the concubine of the Tongzhi Emperor had lived here.
"Could I be the concubine of the Tongzhi Emperor?" Xiaoli hurriedly asked.
"Impossible, your palace clothes are not from that time at all, the period of Emperor Tongzhi is very close to now, and it is only thirteen years, I have studied a lot of palace clothes during this period, absolutely without you, you can't be her." Xiao Quan immediately vetoed Xiaoli's statement.
He is a rising star in the archaeological field in this space, and he specializes in the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and his research on it is very detailed.
"Emperor Tongzhi has only been in office for thirteen years, which is the same as the year Yongzheng Ye was in." Wulanala Ruyi chatted with Wei Yingluo and said.
"It's been thirteen years, but it's completely different. During the time of Emperor Yongzheng, the Qing Dynasty was thriving, and when Emperor Tongzhi was in decline; A man in his forties ascended the throne with a strong body, and his father also gave him a good foundation, and finally died suddenly; The other ascended the throne and became emperor at the age of five, during which the Qing Dynasty was turned upside down, and he lived as a puppet under the protection of his powerful mother, and finally died of smallpox. Xiao Quan took the opportunity to talk to the two of them.
"Huh? Then he is really miserable, how can the emperor of the Qing Dynasty be a puppet? Who is her mother? Ulanala Ruyi asked again.
Xiao Quan glanced at Concubine Zhen, who was laughing with Qu Xiaofeng, Zhao Huirou and several other girls, and said, "That's the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi in modern Chinese history!" Emperor Xianfeng took the imperial capital with his harem concubines because the British and French forces occupied the imperial capital, and soon died, and Cixi rose from then on. She got rid of the eight ministers left by Xianfeng through a coup d'Γ©tat, and then listened to the government with the Empress Dowager Ci'an. At this time, Guangxi made a disturbance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan and others soon occupied Nanjing and the southern expedition to the north, the Central Plains broke out the Twist Army uprising, the green madmen in the northwest and Yunnan broke out a rebellion, the Western Regions were invaded by Rakshasa and Kokand, the world was in chaos, fortunately there were the four famous ministers of Zhongxing and Prince Gong to help, only to put down the civil strife. However, this Cixi relied on her hand to get Prince Gong to step down, and assassinated Ci'an, and she listened to the government alone for 40 years, during which she lost several wars against foreign powers, signed more than 1,000 unequal treaties, ceded millions of square kilometers of land, and compensated more than 2 billion taels of silver. After Tongzhi's death, he supported Emperor Guangxu to become a puppet, and poisoned Guangxu to death before he died to prevent him from counterattacking. Three years after her death, the Qing Dynasty came to an end. β
After speaking, Xiao Quan said to a few of them: "That Concubine Zhen is Emperor Guangxu's favorite concubine during his lifetime, but the Empress Dowager Cixi dislikes her very much and often beats and scolds her, as a result, as soon as the Eight-Nation Alliance came, Cixi wanted to escape with Guangxu, and threw her into a well in the Forbidden City, and soaked for more than a year before coming out. β
Wulanala Ruyi was originally the queen of the Qing Dynasty, and she was very concerned about the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, and she hated the hateful Cixi in her heart.
At this time, Xiaoli came out of Shufangzhai, and her soul was unwilling, as if she had really met a ghost.
Seeing this, Xiao Quan followed, and Ruyi and the other women he had just talked to also followed.
Xiao Li sat on a railing chair and didn't speak for a long time, Xiao Quan gestured to the women, telling them not to talk yet, trying to scare her.
All the girls pursed their mouths and laughed, Xiao Quan walked over, leaned into Xiaoli's ear, and then said loudly: "Hey! What are you doing! β
Xiaoli was startled, covered her chest, looked back at Xiao Quan, glanced at him, and wanted to hit him with her hand.
It's just strange that Xiao Li's hand can't touch Xiao Quan like in the TV series, and her hand passes through Xiao Quan's body.
"You're scared the hell out of me! Dislike! Xiao Lijiao said angrily.
"Haha, what's wrong with you? The face is so bad? It's like hell! Could it be that you're really here? I wondered, how could a ghost be scared like this? β
Xiaoli was even more embarrassed and angry, and said, "What the hell did you see!" I saw myself in it. β
"Huh? Tell me, what the hell is going on? Xiao Quan hurriedly asked.
When the girls heard this, they also wanted to hear about the adventure, so Xiaoli said, "I saw myself in it just now, and I was wearing this dress on my body, as if I liked this dress very much." β
All the women were talking, but Xiao Quan said: "It seems that the clue is in your dress, if we can find out who has worn your clothes, we may be able to find your identity." Let's play for a while, and when I go back, I'll draw you a portrait, and then send it to the computer database for comparison, and maybe I can find your identity.