Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 269
The Shiwang Mansion is just across the street from Donghua Gate. The vassal kings heard the voice and came out to see, my good fellow, the Forbidden City is billowing with smoke, the flames are soaring into the sky, and it has been set on fire again.

Seeing this situation, most of the vassal kings were still ignorant, but King Xiang immediately had a bad feeling: Fengtian Hall was set on fire before, and Empress Dowager Sun persuaded some civil servants to write a letter, asking the emperor to issue an imperial edict.

Well now, if the Compassionate Ning Palace and the Qianqing Palace are built again, they will be the sleeping palaces of Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian, so the emperor cannot be blamed for this.

If the Fengtian Palace is established, the emperor will issue an imperial edict, but if the Qianqing Palace is established, does Empress Qian need to issue an edict?The Palace of Compassion and Ning is in danger, will the Empress Dowager issue an edict to punish herself?
King Xiang was thinking about something on his mind, and he didn't know which vassal king was instigating it, calling on everyone to escort the king 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 outside Dong'an Gate, shouting for the guards guarding the gate to open the gate.

Although Jin Yiwei didn't care about defending the emperor at all, he was not so aggressive as to let the vassal king in 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 go in, they were just bossing around outside the city gate, playing awe-inspiring prestige to the royal guards, and venting their dissatisfaction with the emperor by the way.

The two sides stalemate for less than a quarter of an hour, and officers and soldiers from Dongcheng Bingma Division, Xicheng Bingma Division, and Zhongcheng Bingma Division rushed to the outskirts of the imperial city and blocked all streets and roads.

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

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

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

Guo Chang is the emperor's old father-in-law, in charge of guards in brocade clothes, and concurrently as the commander of the East City Army and Horse Commander. Naturally, he speaks better than the vassal kings.

Guo Chang waved his hand, and the Jin Yiwei guarding Dong'an Gate opened the gate.

Guo Chang entered the imperial city with three thousand Jinyiwei, and let the vassal kings in by the way.

However, unlike what the vassal kings thought, Guo Chang personally brought two thousand brocade clothes to guard the Wenhua Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion and the cabinet value room area.

There are another [-] Jinyi guards guarding Wuying Hall, Ciqing Palace and other places.

In other words, the three thousand Jinyiwei only take care of the front palace area, and don't care about the back palace at all.

Wen Xinhou Guo Cong brought another two thousand Jinyiwei to the Ministry of War, which was specially ordered by Zhu Qiyu. "Zheng He's Envoy's Water Journey" and "Sailing from the Treasure Shipyard from Longjiang Pass to the Foreign Lands" are both stored in the archives of the Ministry of War. If Xiaoxiao's generation takes the opportunity to burn them down, it will be a lot of fun. .

As for how the harem was burned, Zhu Qiyu didn't care, and neither did the relatives of the emperor's faction.

The vassal kings cared, but everyone could only stay outside the gate of Qianqing, watching the fire burn.But no one dared to take a step into the harem.

Daming's etiquette is so strict, as long as you dare to step into the harem area, you will be speechless immediately.When the time comes, the emperor will label you a dirty harem, so he can kill you as he wants.

The vassals could only look around in three directions helplessly: because the vassals standing outside the Qianqing Gate found that the south side was gone, or the three halls in the south had been burned out ten days ago, so there was no need to look at the south side.

Then the Empress Dowager's Compassionate Palace in the west, the idle Hall of Mental Cultivation, the Xian'an Palace in the northwest, the Renshou Palace in the southeast, and even the Qianqing Palace in the north are all occupied.

The vassal kings were completely dumbfounded. This is all right, and most of the Forbidden City will be burned to nothing.

At this time, Queen Mother Sun was more anxious than the vassal kings.Because from the beginning of Taizong's construction of Beijing City, I don't know what these emperors were thinking, but they all liked wood very much.

Surrounding the main halls are wooden corridors.

It's all over now, outside the Palace of Compassion and Ning, all the corridors on all sides are on fire.The Empress Dowager Sun and the eunuchs and maids in the palace were at a loss for a while, and they didn't dare to rush out rashly, they were all trapped in the open space in the front yard of the Compassionate Ning Palace.

Empress Dowager Sun was hurriedly dragged out of the palace by the eunuchs and maids, before she had time to put on her coat.Standing in the yard now, the cold wind blows, and I can't help shivering.

The incident happened in a hurry, and all the eunuchs and maids were also wearing single clothes, standing in the courtyard with the Queen Mother, blowing the cold wind.

Only Gao Ping was wearing a brocade robe. Seeing that everyone had no coats, and the Empress Dowager was shivering from the cold, he bravely approached, knelt on the ground holding the brocade robe, and pleaded carefully to the Empress Dowager Sun:

"Empress Dowager, you are in control of everything, please don't be disgusted, first use this brocade robe of servant girl to avoid the wind and cold."

Empress Dowager Sun glanced at Gao Ping, and recognized him as a young eunuch under the name of Ruan An, the head of the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility.He still knew the basics, but now that he was frozen like this, he couldn't care less 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 Jinyi guards, broke through the already burning Ci Ning Gate, and rushed into the courtyard to escort them.

Seeing that the door was rushed open, Empress Dowager Sun felt a little more at ease.Lu Zhong was in a hurry not to kneel down, and said loudly: "The empress dowager, don't worry, the last general Jin Yiwei Lu Zhong came to rescue him. Please follow the empress dowager, even if the last general sacrifices his life, he must protect the empress. comprehensive."

Empress Dowager Sun nodded her head, and when she started to move forward, her legs were already stiff due to the cold and shock, making it difficult to move.

Gao Ping stood up again at this time, and begged intimately: "This servant is willing to risk his life and carry the queen mother on his back to rush out of the sea of ​​fire, and please allow the queen mother."

At this time there was no other way, Empress Dowager Sun could only nod her head and replied, "I am very pleased with you for being loyal and brave. After you get out of trouble, you will be rewarded a lot."

Hearing the words, Gao Ping confessed his crime, so he carried the Queen Mother on his back, and Lu Zhong opened the way in front. A group of Jinyi guards surrounded him and rushed out of the Cining Gate. On the square outside the Qianqing Gate.

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

Seeing that Empress Dowager Sun escaped with the eunuch's back, King Xiang and others rushed forward to escort her.

Empress Qian was not so lucky, she was also trapped in the square outside Qianqing Palace at this time, but no one came to rescue her.

The Qianqing Palace also has the same problem. The auxiliary halls on both sides: Hongde Hall and Zhaoren Hall are all wooden structures; there are also wooden corridors around the Qianqing Palace.It's all on point.

Lu Zhong put down the Queen Mother, and then asked for help.

Although the Empress Dowager Sun disliked the Qian family very much on weekdays, she couldn't help but watch her daughter-in-law burn to death.So he nodded in agreement and ordered Lu Zhong to lead Jin Yiwei to rescue.

Lu Zhongfu led Jin Yiwei to rescue Empress Qian, and led everyone to bring water to put out the fire, trying to stop the fire in Jiaotai Hall.

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

As long as the Fengtian Hall is destroyed, the Huagai Hall and the Jinshen Hall will inevitably be affected, and the last three halls will be burned together.

However, among the last three halls, the Kunning Palace and the Qianqing Palace are separated by a relatively large distance, and the Jiaotai Hall between the two is relatively small because it is used by the emperor and the empress.

As long as everyone tried their best to control the spread of the fire in Jiaotai Palace, they could save Kunning Palace.

So while Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian were embracing and weeping for the rest of their lives, Empress Zhou hugged the prince and Princess Chongqing early, passed through the Kunning Gate, and entered the Imperial Garden for refuge.

(End of this chapter)