According to the custom of Great Yan, the emperor's concubines were mostly chosen from the families of commoners and low-ranking officials. Empress Qian, the original wife of the first emperor Chen Huaishen, was the best born in the palace at that time, and her father was a third-grade official in the dynasty. And Liu was just a woman from a peasant family in the suburbs of Beijing.

Queen Qian is elegant and gentle, and she is very liked by the first emperor, but she has never been able to give birth to children. When the first emperor was nineteen years old, he gave birth to his eldest daughter, Princess Fengqing, and the following year, he gave birth to the prince Chen Jianjun. Chen Jianjun is the saint of today.

The first emperor Chen Huaishen succeeded to the throne at the age of nine, because he was too young when he succeeded to the throne, and the actual ruler was the then Empress Dowager Zhang. When Chen Huaishen was seventeen years old, the Empress Dowager died, and he began to take over government affairs in an all-round way.

At that time, Chen Huaishen was particularly fond of a eunuch named Wang Chen. This father-in-law grew up with Chen Huaishen since he was a child, and he can also be regarded as Chen Huaishen's enlightenment teacher in writing.

When the Empress Dowager was alive, Wang Chen did not dare to make waves. As soon as the Empress Dowager went, Wang Chen began to weave henchmen in the palace and interfere in court affairs.

At this time, an old tribe of Mobei Mongolia, Warat, grew stronger and stronger, and frequently went south to harass the Great Yan border. Wang Chen was so happy that he instigated Chen Huaishen to drive his own expedition, Chen Huaishen was young and vigorous at that time, and he did not listen to the dissuasion of his ministers and waved his army to the north. Before leaving, in order to stabilize the government and appease his mother, Empress Dowager Sun, Chen Huaishen made his two-year-old son Chen Jianjun the crown prince and let his half-brother Chen Huaijue supervise the country.

When the army marched north, it was just in time for Lianyin and rain, and the march was very difficult. In addition, Wang Chen repeatedly made wrong decisions and delayed the military plane, which led to Chen Huaishen's defeat and capture. This is the most humiliating stroke in the history of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Warat captured the Great Yan Emperor, and the strange goods were inhabitable, and made all kinds of unreasonable demands to the Great Yan. At that time, the Empress Dowager Sun consulted with the ministers of the court and decided to appoint Chen Huaijue as the new monarch, and mobilized the capital to defend and refuse to leave the country.

Seeing that Beijing had quickly completed the transfer of the throne and calmed down the situation, Chen Huaishen had lost its use value in his hands, and just a year later, he sent Chen Huaishen back to Beijing.

Warat's move was ill-intentioned. But Chen Huaijue had to welcome Chen Huaishen back.

Chen Huaishen was revered as the Emperor Taishang, named to recuperate, but was actually imprisoned in Nangong. Empress Qian, Liu, and Princess Fengqing were also sent to the South Palace to accompany the Emperor.

The crown prince Chen Jianjun is still the crown prince. But he was moved out of the palace by the new emperor Chen Huaijue, and even the Empress Dowager Sun couldn't protect him. Empress Dowager Sun had to send Jin Ling'er, one of the most trusted palace maids around her, to Chen Jianjun's side and asked her to protect the prince well. The crown prince Chen Jianjun was four years old when he left the palace, and Jin Ling'er was twenty-one years old.

After leaving the palace, Chen Jianjun's life was very difficult. Clothes and food were often deducted, and the attendants around him were often driven away or killed by Chen Huaijue under various excuses. Many times, the young prince Chen Jianjun would be forced to witness the eunuchs and palace maids being killed in front of the steps. Only Jin Ling'er was spared because she was the Empress Dowager Sun's person. Chen Jianjun cries every night, thanks to Jin Ling's childhood companionship, often holding him in his arms and enduring the long night together, Chen Jianjun survived carefully under the pressure of his uncle.

Chen Huaishen also had a very bad time in Nangong, lacking food and clothing, starving and cold, and when it was the most difficult, he even needed Queen Qian and a few concubines to do embroidery and sewing together, and took out the work to ask the eunuchs to go outside the palace in exchange for materials, so that the family barely survived. But Chen Huaishen was not completely depressed, but tried his courage and looked for an opportunity.

Six years have passed since then. In the seventh year of Chen Huaijue's ascension to the throne, Chen Huaishen contacted the old courtiers and took advantage of Chen Huaijue's serious illness to mutiny and seize power and re-ascend the throne as emperor. Chen Huaijue fell seriously ill and died. But others say that he was actually strangled to death in his illness.

At this point, Feng Qing and Chen Jianjun have returned to the life of brocade clothes and food. It's just that when they were young, both of them had suffered greatly and were frightened, so their bodies have always been relatively weak.

Feng Qing was always with his father when Chen Huaishen was imprisoned in Nangong. Although Chen Huaishen later had more princes and princesses, Fengqing was always his favorite daughter. Fengqing's concubine Zhou Jing was personally selected by Chen Huaishen, and his appearance and character are very outstanding, and he is very affectionate with the princess. Although the love is affectionate, because the princess is weak, the two have only one son.

For Chen Jianjun, Chen Huaishen also cares about it. Although he also invited Liu Jue, a Hanlin scholar with outstanding reputation in Shilin at that time, to enter and leave the East Palace to teach the prince, Chen Huaishen was often okay with the prince's homework, and he was not very coercive.

Therefore, Chen Jianjun has developed a "benevolent and peaceful" character. In fact, benevolence and peace are the rhetoric on the table. Some people also said behind his back that he was timid and fearful, hesitant and cowering.

Chen Jianjun only insisted on one thing, that is, after ascending the throne, regardless of the age gap, he named Jin Ling'er as a concubine and stayed there all day long. Later, under the persuasion of the Empress Dowager Liu and the ministers, she began to pamper other concubines and gave birth to the current crown prince Chen Youcong and several other princes and princesses.

This old matter, the royal family has whitewashed it in many ways, such as Chen Huaijue forcing his nephew Chen Jianjun out of the palace, saying that the prince was unwilling to live in the forbidden palace of his uncle in order to avoid suspicion, so he asked to build a mansion, completely ignoring the reality that the prince was only four years old at the time.

For another example, Chen Huaishen contacted the palace gate of the old minister to seize power, saying that Chen Huaijue was seriously ill and the prince was young, so Chen Huaishen was invited to take charge.

However, this kind of palace forbidden secret news quickly spread among the people and became an open secret.

Zhang Rongkun has been walking around Beijing all year round and knows a lot about these secrets. Usually he mentioned these things to Zhang Weizhao, but at that time, the master and apprentice felt that the royal family had a big shelf and a lot of trouble, and they were not their target customers, so they just listened to it as a story.

You must know that Zhang Rongkun has always been known for daring to be ruthless and using fierce medicine, and the royal clan and harem concubines are mainly warm and recuperate when they are sick, so although Zhang Rongkun was invited to the Tai Hospital to distinguish pharmacology with the Tai Doctor, he did not enter the palace to treat the royal family.

And now, Zhang Weizhao is going to be summoned to diagnose the princess's pulse, and it is best to know these royal secrets, so that he can know the taboos of the customer and not step on the minefield by mistake.

Zhang Weizhao prepared to stop according to Dong Zhenzhen's instructions, and three days later, he was indeed summoned into the princess's mansion. It's just that the process is much simpler than Zhang Weizhao thought. It only took two quarters of an hour to diagnose the princess's pulse and prescribe a prescription for warmth. The princess spent a longer time listening to Zhang Weizhao's anecdotes in the process of practicing medicine.

Zhang Weizhao's eloquence is very good, which is different from Dong Zhenzhen's goodness. Dong Zhenzhen is good at observing words and feelings, doing what he likes, and seeing what people say. And Zhang Weizhao is extremely organized, keen and meticulous, and eloquent. When telling the story, it also penetrates the medical theory.

The princess and daughter-in-law Wu both like Zhang Weizhao's storytelling. When it comes to women's concerns, Wu also asked Zhang Weizhao to take the pulse, and Zhang Weizhao also told her some maintenance methods, which are actually how to regulate emotions and improve mental health. You must know that a woman like Wu who stays in the back house all the year round, her husband works outside the home, and she can't see her a few times a year, has a high chance of emotional problems.

Even the princess is a person who does not have a lot of psychological energy. From Zhang Weizhao's point of view, the fright and pain experienced by the princess in her early years have not been properly handled, but are buried deep in her heart, isolated, and no longer touched it. And some of the princess's superficial symptoms, such as easy exertion, fatigue, sweating, and poor sleep quality, are all related to this.

It's just these observations, of course Zhang Weizhao won't rashly reveal them, but just prescribed some decoctions to help the princess consolidate Peiyuan according to the common practice in internal medicine.

But when she was about to say goodbye, the princess suddenly asked her, the world often says that if a person behaves abnormally, he is evil, what is this evil?

Zhang Weizhao thought about it for a while and said that she felt that the root of evil was not the illusion of mountain spirits and ghosts to hurt people, but the condensation of resentment and sorrow in the world. If people are treated unfairly, or experience separation, illness, or old age, death, and the pain is not relieved, and the grief and anger are frustrated, it will unite and hurt people's hearts.

The princess asked again, how can we drive away evil?

Zhang Weizhao replied that it is necessary to resolve it with a pure and righteous spirit, and hold it with a compassionate heart, so that the heart pulse is smooth and the depression dissipates.

The princess was very receptive to Zhang Weizhao's statement, but she just sighed that those who can withstand the sorrow of others may have to be people with profound cultivation.

Zhang Weizhao nodded yes, and added with a smile: "You have to be someone who specializes in art." ”

The princess was thoughtful.

After Zhang Weizhao returned, 1510 reported to the master about his experience in the princess's mansion. Zhang Rongkun frowned rarely, and after pondering for a long time: "The princess doesn't want to consult herself, but it seems to be selecting talents for others." If anyone can make the princess worry about him so thoughtfully, only those in the palace are there. ”

When Zhang Weizhao heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

However, Zhang Rongkun expected it to be true, and the next day later, an internal official suddenly came to the door, announced the Empress Dowager's hand, and summoned Zhang Weizhao, a Taoist doctor of Xuanmiaoguan, to serve in the palace because of the phoenix body's disobedience.

At this point, Zhang Weizhao was a little dumbfounded. She wants to develop high-end VIP customers to increase revenue and expand her influence. But she didn't expect her recent clients to jump so high across classes.

If she was studying in the UK and someone suddenly told her that the Queen of England was going to hire her as a health consultant, she must have felt that this person was paranoid. However, now, she is about to enter the Forbidden City to provide professional services to the Empress Dowager, the most noble woman in the empire.

Although he had expected that when he really heard the news, Zhang Rongkun didn't say anything, but Zhang Weizhao could feel that the master was still a little worried about himself. The palace is prohibited, where is there to walk the rivers and lakes?

This time, it was her turn to comfort Master: "We are doctors, and we use medical skills to save people wherever we go. After I entered the palace, I only did my duty as a doctor, and everything else had nothing to do with me. ”

Zhang Rongkun let out a breath from his chest and nodded slowly.