The Ten Princes' Mansion and Donghua Gate are also one street away, and the vassal kings heard the voice and came out to see, good guy, the Forbidden City is full of smoke and fire, and it is lit again.

Seeing this situation, most of the vassal kings were still ignorant, but King Xiang immediately had a bad premonition: the Fengtian Temple was set on fire before, and the Empress Dowager Sun sent a letter to some of the ministers, asking the emperor to issue an edict.

Well, now, if Cining Palace and Qianqing Palace are reopened, it will be the sleeping palace of Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian, and the emperor can't be blamed.

If the Fengtian Palace is on fire, the emperor will issue an edict of guilt, then if the Qianqing Palace is on fire, does Empress Qian need to issue an edict of guilt? Cining Palace is on fire, so does the Queen Mother want to issue an edict against herself?

King Xiang was thinking about his thoughts, and he didn't know which vassal king instigated the coaxing, calling on everyone to go to King Qin to protect and protect the palace.

In line with the mentality that the law does not blame the public, dozens of princes and county kings left the Ten Princes' Mansion and came to Dong'an Gate, shouting for the Jinyi guards guarding the city gate to open the city gate.

Although Jinyiwei didn't care about defending the emperor at all, he was not yet tiger enough to let the vassal king enter at will.

The two sides confronted each other like this, refusing to give in to each other.

The vassal kings were not really in a hurry to enter, but they were just commanding outside the city gate, playing majestic with the brocade guards, and venting their dissatisfaction with the emperor by the way.

After less than two quarters of an hour of stalemate between the two sides, officers and soldiers from the Dongcheng Terracotta Division, the Xicheng Terracotta Division, and the Zhongcheng Terracotta Division poured into the periphery of the imperial city and blocked all the street intersections and roads.

The commanders of the three soldiers and horses were Guo Chang, Guo Cong and Wu Zhong, all of whom were relatives who followed the emperor closely.

The brothers of the Guo family and the Wu family are still in charge of the Jinyi Guard, which can be said to be completely in control of the defense forces inside and outside the imperial city.

After less than a meal, Guo Chang, Wu Zhong, Wu An, Wu Cheng, Ju An, and Hu Xuan, the six relatives of the emperor's faction, appeared outside Dong'an Gate.

Guo Chang is the emperor's father-in-law, in charge of the brocade clothes guard, and concurrently serves as the commander of the Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses, so he is naturally better than the vassal kings.

Guo Chang waved his hand, and the Jinyi guards guarding Dong'an Gate opened the city gate.

Guo Chang entered the imperial city with three thousand brocade guards, and put the vassal kings in by the way.

However, unlike what the vassal kings thought, Guo Chang personally guarded the area of Wenhua Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion and Cabinet Duty Room with two thousand brocade clothes.

Another 1,000 brocade guards guarded the Wuying Palace, Ciqing Palace and other places.

In other words, these three thousand brocade guards are only in charge of the front palace area, and they don't care about the harem at all.

Wenxin Marquis Guo Cong took another 2,000 brocade guards into the military department, which was specially instructed by Zhu Qiyu. "Zheng He's Voyage to the Water" and "From the Treasure Shipyard to the Water from Longjiang Pass to Foreign Countries" are all in the archives of the Ministry of War.

As for what the harem was burned into, Zhu Qiyu didn't care, and neither did the relatives of these emperors' faction.

The vassal kings cared, but everyone could only stay outside the Qianqing Gate and watch the fire burn. But no one dared to step into the harem.

The etiquette of the Ming Dynasty is so strict, as long as you dare to step into the harem area, you will immediately be unable to speak clearly. When the time comes, the emperor will deduct the hat of the harem for you, and you will not kill you as much as you want.

The vassal kings could only look at the three sides helplessly: because the vassal kings standing outside the Qianqing Gate found that the south side was gone, or that the three major halls in the south had burned down ten days ago, so there was no need to look at the south side.

Then the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace in the west, the idle Yangxin Palace, the Xian'an Palace in the northwest corner, the Renshou Palace in the southeast, and even the Qianqing Palace in the north were all on fire.

The vassal kings were completely dumbfounded, now it's okay, most of the Forbidden City will have to be burned to the ground.

At this time, Empress Dowager Sun was more anxious than the vassal kings. Because since Taizong built the city of Beijing, I don't know what these emperors think in their heads, they all like wood very much.

Surrounding each hall are wooden corridors.

Now, outside the Cining Palace, the corridors on all sides are burning. For a while, the Empress Dowager Sun and the eunuchs and maids in the palace had no owner, and they didn't dare to rush out, and they were all trapped in the open space in the front yard of Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Sun was hurriedly pulled out of the palace by the eunuchs and palace maids, and she didn't have time to put on her coat. Now standing in the courtyard, when the cold wind blows, I can't help but shiver.

The incident happened in a hurry, and a group of eunuchs and palace maids were also dressed in single clothes, accompanying the Empress Dowager Sun to stand in the courtyard blowing the cold wind.

Only Gao Ping was wearing a brocade robe, and seeing that everyone had no coat, the Empress Dowager was shivering with cold, so she boldly approached, knelt on the ground with the brocade robe, and cautiously asked the Empress Dowager Sun:

"The Queen Mother, the matter is in power, please don't dislike it, first use the brocade robe of the slave maid to avoid the wind and cold."

Empress Dowager Sun glanced at Gao Ping and recognized him as a little eunuch under the name of Ruan An, the head of Cining Palace. It is still a matter of knowing the roots, but now that it is frozen like this, he can't care about being polite, so he ordered Gao Ping to get up and put the brocade robe on himself.

Not long after, Lu Zhong led hundreds of brocade guards to break through the already burning Cining Gate and rush into the courtyard to escort him.

Seeing that the gate was rushed open, Empress Dowager Sun was a little relieved. Lu Zhong knelt down in a hurry, and said loudly: "Don't worry, the queen mother, the last general Jinyi guard Lu Zhong came to the rescue." Please ask the Queen Mother to follow behind the last general, even if the last general sacrifices his life, he must protect the mother well. ”

Empress Dowager Sun nodded in kindness, and when she stepped forward, she was already stiff and difficult to move because of the cold and shock.

Gao Ping stood up again at this time and asked intimately: "The slave is willing to risk death to carry the Queen Mother out of the sea of fire, and please ask the Queen Mother for permission." ”

At this time, there was no other way, and the Empress Dowager Sun had to nod and reply: "You are loyal and brave, this palace is very comforting, and after you get out of trouble, there will be a heavy reward." ”

When Gao Ping heard this, he confessed, so he carried the Queen Mother, Lu Zhong opened the way in front, and a group of brocade guards supported the guards, rushed out of Cining Gate, and then turned to the east, passed through Yongkang Left Gate, Longzong Gate, and came to the square outside Qianqing Gate.

This square is also the place where Zhu Qiyu killed the palace maids and eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace before, and the vassal kings were gathering here to watch.

Seeing that Empress Dowager Sun was carried by the eunuch and escaped, King Xiang and others hurriedly stepped forward to escort her.

And Queen Qian was not so lucky, she was also trapped in the square outside the Qianqing Palace at this time, but no one had come to the rescue.

The Qianqing Palace is also the same problem, the side halls on both sides: Hongde Palace, Zhaoren Hall are all wooden structures; The Qianqing Palace is also surrounded by wooden corridors. It's all a point.

Lu Zhong put down the Empress Dowager Sun, and then asked for rescue.

Although Empress Dowager Sun didn't like the Qian family in Su Rili, she couldn't watch her daughter-in-law being burned to death. So he nodded in agreement and ordered Lu Zhong to lead the Jinyi Guard to the rescue.

Lu Zhongfu led the Jinyi guard to rescue Queen Qian, and led everyone to fetch water to extinguish the fire, trying his best to stop the fire in Jiaotai Palace.

The last three halls are different from the first three halls.

As long as the Fengtian Hall is lit, it will inevitably affect the Huagai Hall and the Jinshen Palace, and finally the three major halls will be burned down together.

However, in the last three halls, the interval between Kunning Palace and Qianqing Palace is larger, and the Jiaotai Palace between the two is relatively small because it is for the emperor and the queen to Jiaotai.

As long as everyone tries their best to curb the spread of the fire in the Jiaotai Palace, they can save the Kunning Palace.

Therefore, while Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian hugged and cried for the rest of their lives, Empress Zhou hugged the prince and the princess of Chongqing early, passed through Kunning Gate, and entered the imperial garden for refuge.

(End of chapter)