Although he has been in the capital for many days, Chen Huaji has never seen this magnificent royal building up close, even from a distance. In his heart, although the imperial power is noble, it is not as high as the people's will, and although the forbidden city is strong, it cannot warm the small house.

After crossing the Long Live Mountain, Chen Huahe opened the sedan curtain and said: "Xiaolou, how do you think this Shenwu Gate compares to the gate of the small temple?"

Qin Xiaolou's sedan chair and Chen Huahe marched side by side, listening to him, he also lifted the curtain and said: "Second brother, you really know how to laugh, the palace gate is extraordinary, where can a small temple be compared!"

Chen Huahe said with a smile: "The living and the dead can enter the temple gate, the living can enter the temple gate to gain enlightenment, and the dead enter the temple gate to die, open the door to receive all sentient beings, and be full of joy." But this Forbidden City Gate, people in the world are scrambling to enter, but non-official families are not allowed to enter. From the previous dynasty to the present, how many people who have entered this gate have been able to get out alive?"

Mu Zuo was born in the army, and he was not used to sitting in a sedan chair, so he changed his head to a tall horse halfway. Listening to the two of them, he couldn't help but clasp his wrist to the south and said: "Two virtuous brothers, there are millions of people in the Qing Dynasty, but I can be personally received by the Queen Mother Lafayette, I'm afraid there are only a handful." We don't care if he lives or dies, lives and dies, and if he can step into the core of this imperial power, even if he dies, he will die as he deserves!"

Aged and smiling, not speaking. The group got off the sedan chair and dismounted, and walked into the palace from the Shenwu Gate.

This Forbidden City is built in the center of the capital according to the principle of "Left Ancestor, Right Society, Facing the City, and the Future Market" contained in the "Zhou Li Examination of the Work Record", and is built in the center of the capital. Because Ziweixing is located in Zhongtian, it is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, and in order to seek the correspondence between heaven and man, it is called the Forbidden City based on the residence of the emperor.

The land of Jingshi was originally the fief of Zhu Di, the king of Yan. In the first year of Yongle in the previous dynasty, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Yanjing Beiping is the emperor's 'land of dragon rejuvenation', and it should follow the practice of Ming Taizu to Fengyang and set up as the accompanying capital." So Ming Chengzu vigorously promoted the status of Yanjing Beiping Mansion, took Beiping as BJ, changed Beiping Mansion to Shuntian Mansion, and called "Xing In".

In the fourth year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu issued an edict to build the BJ Palace, and in the eighteenth year of Yongle, the BJ Palace was completed. After several fires and several reconstructions, it has experienced many disasters.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the army to capture BJ, and the Ming Dynasty fell. After the Qing army entered the customs, Li Zicheng retreated to SX and burned the Forbidden City, leaving only the Wuying Palace, the Jianji Palace, the Yinghua Palace, the Nanxun Palace, the surrounding corner towers and the Huangji Gate were not burned, and the rest of the buildings were all destroyed.

After that, the Qing court gradually rebuilt the destroyed part of the Forbidden City, which was not completed until the 34th year of Kangxi's reign.

The group was led by the eunuch, passed through the Xianxi Gate, and arrived in front of the Chuxiu Palace. There are palace maids who step in to report, Chen Hua and foot in the palace courtyard, two vigorous ancient cypresses on the side go straight into the sky, and can't help but look around at the most exquisite Chuxiu Palace in the West Six Palaces.

Originally, I thought that the Admiral's Mansion was already resplendent and beautiful, but who knew that it was here, and only then did I know what it was dwarfed by and royal style!

Aged and full of peacock green, sapphire blue colorful glazed tiles, the roof ridge glazed kissing beast, steady and powerful, auspicious and majestic. The oil decoration of the outer eaves is a Soviet-style color painting with light and elegant color, painted with flowers, birds, fish and insects, landscape characters and fairy stories. The doors and windows are faint and faint incense, under a closer look, they are all carved from golden silk nanmu, and the auspicious lines of "longevity and longevity, five blessings hold longevity" are engraved on it.

Oh, the palace maid announced that several people entered the house to meet him. Mu Zuoxing was the first, Chen Hua followed him, and Qin Xiaolou followed. Walk through a pair of copper deer and a pair of copper dragons, step up to the pedestal, and enter the inner hall.

When Mu Zuo saw it, he hurriedly knelt down on his knees and kowtowed: "The queen mother is auspicious, the slave Mu Zuo asks you to be safe!" Seeing this, Chen Huahe and Qin Xiaolou also quickly knelt down.

Cixi sat down with a soft "um", and said slowly: "Okay, let's all get up." ”

The three of them stood up, standing still with their hands down. Chen Hua and quietly looked at it, and saw that although the Queen Mother was old, her eyebrows and eyes were shining, her eyes were slightly hanging, her cheekbones were towering, and her skin was not at all as rough as the folds that should be at this age, but very well maintained, white and exquisite.

Mu Zuo bowed his head and said respectfully: "This is the Chen Huaji I mentioned to you, and the one next to him is his brother, called Qin Xiaolou." ”

Cixi's eyelids raised slightly, her right hand held up a tea bowl, sighed gently, took a sip, turned her face to the palace maid on the side and said, "This milk, tell it to go down, there is no need to be so hot tomorrow." Imperial Physician Wang has already instructed that as soon as the water temperature is high, the essence of this person's milk will be less, how can I use it to rejuvenate my face?"

Chen Hua listened to it in his ears, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: "It turns out that this old woman actually drinks human milk like a child every day......"

"You, the little divine doctor who healed Changji's serious injuries?" Cixi was still slow and methodical.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, exactly. Aged and nodded slightly.

"Seeing that you are not very old, I can't imagine that your medical skills are even better than the doctors of the Tai Hospital. Cixi raised her eyebrows and asked, "Where did you learn medicine?"

"This time, the Taiyi has contributed the most, I just happened to catch up with the Taiyi medicine to take effect, and I can't worry about it. The Queen Mother praised it falsely. "Aged and said.

"Yo. It's quite modest. Cixi smiled slightly, "It's just that the Tai Hospital's wine bags and rice bags, you don't need to be too humble." This young man, sometimes a little arrogant, there is nothing wrong with that. ”

Qin Xiaolou couldn't help but interject: "I said yes, Queen Mother, my second brother is too modest, too much courtesy." Obviously, I have a lot of ability, but I have to say that it is the credit of the imperial doctor! The queen mother, I tell you, I can see it all in my eyes, you are right, the imperial doctor, it is the wine bag and rice bag......

Qin Xiaolou was babbling and wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Mu Zuo: "Xiaolou! The Queen Mother is presumptuous! How about the imperial doctor in the palace, the Queen Mother has her own judgment, how can we evaluate it at will?"

Qin Xiaolou was about to refute, Cixi put down the cup in her hand and said with a smile: "Changji, it's okay, it's okay." I was in the inner garden of this deep palace, and the people in front of me were all princes, ministers, palace maids and eunuchs, who spoke cautiously in front of me, as if they were afraid that I would cut off their heads if I said something wrong! It was very boring...... You, your name is ......"

"My surname is Qin Xiaolou!" Qin Xiaolou saw Cixi speaking for him, his chest straightened at the moment, and he said loudly, "Big brother, look at it, the Queen Mother Lafayette said that it was okay! If you have the ability, you naturally have to say it so that everyone knows! It's like the Queen Mother lives in this Chuxiu Palace, if you don't announce that we are here to meet us, how can we know what is good in this palace?" As he spoke, his eyes blinked, and he smiled slyly: "Hey, Queen Mother, there must be a lot of large and small palaces in the palace, why did you choose to live here?"