Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 300, Qianqing Palace walks water
"The water is gone~ the water is gone~"

In the imperial palace, along with the raging fire of the Qianqing Palace, the voices kept ringing out one after another. The eunuchs, maids, court guards, etc. in the palace were all alarmed, and quickly tried to extinguish the fire of the Qianqing Palace.

However, the Qianqing Palace is a house with an all-wood structure. There are many advantages of a house built with wood. One is earthquake resistance, and the other is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. However, houses built of wood also have many disadvantages. For example, the most feared thing is fire.

The Qianqing Palace was the place where the emperor lived and worked. The quality of the houses here was naturally very good, and almost all of them were painted. The wood itself was easy to catch fire, and the paint was a combustion aid. Once the fire started, it was difficult to extinguish it.

Especially in the absence of advanced fire extinguishing tools, the eunuchs and guards in the palace can only rely on buckets of water and buckets of water to extinguish the fire, which is simply a drop in the bucket.

In the history of this imperial palace, the palace caught fire and was burned many times. The Hall of Supreme Harmony in the early dynasties of the ministers burned down four times in history. As for the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace, they were also burned many times in history .

The fire in the Qianqing Palace was burning hotter and hotter. Those who tried to put out the fire did not dare to approach even if they carried water, because the temperature was too high and the heat wave was scorching. They could only watch the Qianqing Palace burn in the fire. fall down.

Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi did not work here at Qianqing Palace tonight. Emperor Hongzhi, who only had one wife, would basically go to Kunning Palace to spend the night.

The huge commotion in the palace soon alarmed the sleeping Emperor Hongzhi and Zhang Huanggong, and the little Huangmen hurried over to report the situation.

"What happened?"

Emperor Hongzhi got dressed and asked.

"Return to Your Majesty, the Qianqing Palace is flooded."

Xiao Jing quickly said respectfully.

"what?"

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi felt no sleepiness anymore, and quickly led his people to the Qianqing Palace.

Soon, when Emperor Hongzhi came to the Qianqing Palace, the Qianqing Palace had already turned into a sea of ​​flames. The raging fire was burning very vigorously, illuminating the night and temporarily dispelling the enveloping cold.

"Have you kept all my calligraphy, paintings and books?"

Emperor Hongzhi's face turned ugly. This Qianqing Palace is where the emperor lives and works. Now it has caught fire. Whether it was deliberately set on fire or caused by accident, it needs to be investigated carefully.

Of course, what he is most concerned about now is his calligraphy and paintings, books, etc., which are basically rare and authentic, priceless, among which are some of his favorite calligraphy and paintings.

"Your Majesty, all have been moved out."

Xiao Jing quickly replied that there are enough people in the palace, many things can still be rescued before the fire boils.

"Investigate this matter carefully~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded sullenly, and then walked towards Kunning Palace.

The Qianqing Palace was burned, so it must be rebuilt. This is definitely a huge expense. As the place where the emperor lived and worked, the Qianqing Palace was built to a very high standard. The wood used and so on are all needed. Transporting it from the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area was extremely costly.

Even though the current Emperor Hongzhi has big pockets and plenty of silver, he, who has always been thrifty, can't help but feel heartbroken when he thinks of spending a lot of money to rebuild the Qianqing Palace.

Moreover, he is the emperor, and everything that happens around him will be highly concerned by people. The incident of the Qing Palace leak will definitely spread throughout the capital tomorrow, and various things will appear at that time.

Every time the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace are caught on fire in history, they will be used by interested people to make a big fuss. If the Qianqing Palace catches fire, some people will definitely say that the emperor has no morals and has lost the hearts of the people, so disasters from heaven and the like.

As for the Kunning Palace being on fire, it may be said that the empress has no virtue, is proud of being favored, occupies the emperor's favor, etc., and may even be attacked as interfering in government affairs, harming the royal heirs, and so on.

In short, in many cases, any matter can be used by a caring person to make a big fuss, especially for such a big event as the fire in the Qing Palace.

Sure enough, the next morning, when Emperor Hongzhi went to greet his grandma, the Empress Dowager Zhou, the Empress Dowager Zhou immediately said to Emperor Hongzhi, "Li Guang today and Li Guang tomorrow, it really is a disaster!"

The Li Guang mentioned by Queen Mother Zhou is of course not the parachutist Li Guang of the Han Dynasty in history. This Li Guang is a eunuch in the palace, but this eunuch is different from ordinary eunuchs.

He was an eunuch who gained the favor of Emperor Hongzhi by relying on talismans and Gu.

You heard me right. Emperor Hongzhi, who has been trumpeted and trumpeted in history, who is known as the perfect emperor, was also superstitious about these things, and even favored eunuchs who specialized in doing things.

Here I have to talk about the reason why Li Guang was favored. Emperor Hongzhi has always been in poor health, and he is only in his thirties now, but he looks no different from an old man in his fifties.

There are many reasons for this. One is that Emperor Hongzhi himself is very weak. This is related to what happened to him when he was a child. Another aspect is that he is too diligent in government affairs and lacks exercise. Naturally, his health is not good.

In his thirties, he already felt that his body was failing, so like other emperors in history, he was superstitious in alchemy, immortality, health preservation, etc., trying to obtain a longer life span through some methods.

As for Li Guang, the eunuch, he was conceived under such circumstances and won the favor of Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi, a diligent and frugal emperor, spent a lot of money on Li Guang's head, building Longevity Mountain, repairing Yuxiu Ting, doing half rituals to pray for blessings and disaster relief, collecting rare treasures, precious medicinal materials for alchemy, and so on.

Undoubtedly, these things that Li Guang did were useless. He took advantage of Emperor Hongzhi's favor to embezzle, accept bribes, plunder people's fields, specialize in salt and make tens of thousands of dollars. He built a luxurious private house surrounded by jade springs and mountains and rivers. .

When the Yuxiu Pavilion was built, it was said that it could pray for blessings and eliminate disasters, but at that time, a baby princess born by Emperor Hongzhi died young again.

Everyone in the court, inside and outside the court, hated Li Guang to the bone. In March of the tenth year of Hongzhi, the head of the household department, Hu Jian, and Wang Yunfeng, the sacrificial doctor, wrote a letter to impeach Li Guang during the incident. , please behead his head to eliminate natural disasters, the words are very fierce.

However, Emperor Hongzhi had no doubts about Li Guang again and ignored him at all. This further fueled Li Guang's arrogance and arrogance.

Even the Empress Dowager Zhou was quite dissatisfied with this, so there were these words that her old man asked Emperor Hongzhi to say.

The meaning in her was already very clear, saying that Emperor Hongzhi favored and trusted Li Guang, that's why the disaster happened.

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi bit the bullet and said, "Grandma, it's just an ordinary fire. What kind of disaster is it? My grandson has already been found out."

In front of Empress Dowager Zhou, Emperor Hongzhi had no airs. He was raised by Empress Dowager Zhou when he was young. He had deep feelings and was very filial to Empress Dowager Zhou.

"Just check it out. I'm afraid that you, Your Majesty, will be bewitched by monsters. How can you believe this talisman and alchemy?"

The Empress Dowager Zhou looked at her grandson, sighed and said, she actually knew why Emperor Hongzhi wanted to marry Li Guang again. The Emperor Hongzhi in front of her was only in her thirties and already extremely old, and she saw it in her eyes.

With her sound, after going through four dynasties, she didn't want to die behind Emperor Hongzhi, and she didn't want to hear the emperor's death bell in the palace again, but looking at Emperor Hongzhi in front of her, she was very afraid of such a thing happening.

"Grandson knows, grandson knows, grandma, don't worry."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded again and again, and the Empress Dowager Zhou naturally dealt with it first. As for Li Guang's matter, he was slowly trying to figure out a way to deal with it.

The words that the Empress Dowager Zhou said to Emperor Hongzhi quickly reached Li Guang's ears. Li Guang was actually very timid. When he heard that the Empress Dowager Zhou was talking to Emperor Hongzhi about himself, he was frightened and drank. Chen committed suicide.

　What are you going to do next?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)