In early September, it rained in Zhili. After the autumn rain, the weather became cold, and the capital had a bit of early winter.
There is a gate tower between the red walls to the west of Kunning Palace; as soon as you pass the gate tower, the West Six Palaces are outside.
Not long after the emperor ascended the throne, there were not many concubines, and Emperor Taizong's concubines moved away before, so some courtyards in the West Six Palace were empty.
Because Empress Zhang believed in Buddhism, the eunuchs in the palace picked one of the courtyards in the Western Six Palaces and arranged them into a Buddhist temple.
Most of the people surrounding the queen's sedan chair were palace maids and female officials.In addition to a few little eunuchs, there are two eunuchs: one is Haitao and the other is Yang Qing.
The sedan chair stopped when it arrived at the foyer outside the Buddhist temple courtyard. Yang Qing immediately opened the umbrella and blocked the sedan door very steadily; Haitao took a soft silk cloth to pad his wrist and went forward to let the queen help him down.
The queen can cook and do some housework, but she can only work for the emperor. Of course, her hands cannot be rubbed at all because the material of the eunuch's clothes is rough.
The queen was surrounded by a foyer.Haitao turned around and ordered: You are all waiting in the hall, don’t make any noise.
The palace ladies said: Yes.
The queen did not go to the Buddhist temple first, but walked into a wing room along the corridor house under the eaves.Haitao ordered Yang Qing to serve tea, but he followed him into the wing room.
When the queen sat down, Haitao bowed forward and said: I have already asked the inside story of Kuizhou City.It is said that there is a hundred households in the rebel defender named Li Jiaming. He used to be a military officer in Chongqing Prefecture, and later surrendered to the rebels with the Chongqing Guard Commander Xu Hua.But one of the brothers from the Baihu family is in Jingzhou, Huguang.
At that time, there were 50,000 or 60,000 people on the water and land, all of which were Jingzhou troops.Somehow, the general of the official army learned about Li Jiaming, so he sent his brothers from Baijia to surrender and surrender, and sent a message to Li Jiaming: buy Kuizhou City at a price of 1,000 households and 200 taels of silver.As a result, the rebels really opened the city gate!
Buddha blessed our Ming official army.After hearing this, the queen said softly and devoutly.
Haitao echoed: Yes, God is really open to his eyes!There were many mountains in Kuizhou, and the army was unable to move. Fortunately, the city was quickly captured by internal support; otherwise, once the rebels came to help, it would take a year or two, and the official army would have no choice.
The queen nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Haitao said again: The civil and military officials in the Korean Kingdom said so... The rebels of the Han King fought fiercely with the Ming Dynasty's official army. Both sides were Ming military households, and maybe some people knew each other, and the soldiers of both sides were easy to surrender.Therefore, we cannot lose momentum!As long as the Duke of Britain can win the Huguang War this time, even if there are hundreds of thousands of rebels, it will be useless, and the defeat will definitely be unstoppable!
Although Zhang Fu is the main general, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Huguang. How could he be the only one who can make a contribution?The queen whispered.
Haitao hurriedly said: What the Empress said is right.
The queen said again: Today I want to chant scriptures here to pray for blessings.By the way, the Buddhist beads brought back from India last time were said to be beads used by the Buddha (Sakya Mani) and had magic power to keep them on the holy objects, and seemed to be placed in the Kunning Palace.You go and get it.
yes.Haitao said.
At this time, the eunuch Yang Qing knocked on the door outside the wing room and brought the tea.Haitao ordered Yang Qing to serve the Empress, and he went to Kunning Palace to get Buddhist beads in person.
Queen Zhang felt that Yang Qing had heard about the Buddhist beads just now.She suddenly asked, where is Zheng He now?
Unexpectedly, Yang Qing was also a very thoughtful eunuch, and immediately answered: If you go back to the emperor, Zheng He still lives in the imperial city recently, in the inner palace prisons west of the Altar of the Soji Temple.The eunuchs in charge of the palace were not allowed to enter the palace.However, Zheng He was the confidant eunuch of the late emperor. He had many followers in the eunuchs of the Silijian and the various prisons, and knew most of the things in the palace.
Zhang asked quietly: Do you have old grudges with Zheng He?
Yang Qing hurriedly said: When I replied to the Empress, I was not the eunuch of the Silijian, but the Eunuch Hai brought me in; I had almost never faced with Zheng He, let alone a grudge.But when the Empress asked, I dared not hide anything, nor was I afraid of offending others. I only had to be loyal to the Empress and speak in everything I knew.
I heard you speak very quickly, it was just a slight statement.Zhang smiled.
Yang Qing suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: I am talking too much, please punish me!
Zhang said kindly: Get up, get up.When did I mean to blame you?
Yang Qing then stood up carefully, but he didn't seem to feel that he was talking too much, and immediately spoke: I heard that Zheng He gave the gift to the Empress, but I felt a little strange. Isn't he the King of Han?
Zhang's face suddenly changed: Zheng He has always been a close servant by the late emperor, why is he the King of Han?
Yang Qing said in surprise: I think the Empress knows it.
Zhang frowned and said: Tell me, what's going on?
Yang Qing said: Long before the 'Jingnan Campaign', Emperor Taizong lived in Peiping. Every time he summoned the Prince of Gaoyang at that time, he would send Zheng He to him; there were many opportunities for the two to meet alone.In addition, Wang Gui, the eunuch around the King of Han, also gave Zheng He property from time to time and had already made friends...
Who did you hear about these things?What is said is true?Zhang asked.
Yang Qing bowed and said: I have been in the Yàn Palace for many years. I used to do some rough work, but I can discover a lot of things over time.Wang Gui and Zheng He had had contacts, but the slave saw it with his own eyes!I dare not say anything false in front of the Empress!
Zhang's face was not very good, and he sat there without a response.
Yang Qing looked up and glanced at the queen quietly, and said: There is another old thing.During the 'Jingnan Battle', Jianwen Dynasty once used a divisive strategy to alienate the father-son relationship between the emperor and the late emperor; he sent a secret letter to the prince's mansion (Zhu Gaochi)...
Zhang nodded and said: I remember that incident.The emperor was not trapped and immediately handed over the spy and the untold secret letter to the late emperor.
Yang Qing bent down and said, "What the Empress said is very true."However, when the Han King heard the news of secret letters, he wanted to take the opportunity to attack, and slander the previous emperor and the previous emperor.Later, Zheng He went to see the King of Han and dissuaded him. The King of Han stopped his flag and did not criticize the current emperor, which was highly praised by the late emperor.
At this moment, eunuch Haitao returned.Haitao walked into the wing room, opened the box in his hand, bowed his body, and held the box in front of the queen.
Queen Zhang looked at the old Buddhist beads in the box with a picky look, but she didn't reach out to touch them for a long time.
This thing is too dirty, put it away again.Zhang said coldly.
Haitao was stunned for a moment, but he didn't say much. He just glanced at Yang Qing slightly and said: I will obey my decree.
Zhang waved his hand again and asked Haitao to approach. She turned her upper body and leaned closer and whispered a few words.
Haitao bent his waist lower and said in a deep voice: I will do it right away, and there will be no mistakes!
Zhang never looked at the Buddhist beads used by the Buddha again, stood up from the chair, and she said: I'm going to the Buddhist temple, let Yang Qing follow him.You go and do business.
Yes, Empress.Haitao said.
...Haitao passed the Queen's imperial edict and went to the Meridian Gate to transfer a small team of Jinyiwei armored soldiers.
They did not enter the palace, but went straight to the inner palace prisons southwest of the palace. It would be not important if they did not enter the palace, as long as they were verbal orders were enough.
Between the houses in the inner palace and the prisons, it was drizzling on the streets, and the rapid steps of the eunuchs and the Jinyiwei suddenly made the place more terrifying and murderous.
The group arrived at a yard and knocked on the door.A little eunuch opened the door and saw Haitao and Armeng. The little eunuch looked awe-faced, nodded and bowed.
The Silijian was a palace yamen established by Emperor Taizong's edict. Its main function was to manage all eunuchs in the palace; its function was to separate eunuchs from the Ministry of Personnel, because eunuchs were in charge of the Ministry of Personnel in the past.
So all the eunuchs were of course very afraid of seeing the eunuchs who directly governed their peak.
Haitao didn't say much, and asked Zheng He clearly where he was, so he took the Jinyiwei straight over.
On a rainy day, Zheng He was indeed staying in the house.He was sitting in front of the window, carefully carving a wooden boat model.
Zheng He looked back and glanced over Haitao and the armored soldiers of the Jinyiwei behind Haitao, and soon said to a little eunuch beside him, "Go out first."
yes.The little eunuch replied.
Haitao walked in and sat directly on the chair opposite the table.
The two people sitting opposite each other didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was very strange.The soldiers of the Jinyiwei also stood behind silently, waiting.
Can we have a look at it?Haitao asked politely.
Zheng He nodded.
Haitao reached out to pick up the wooden boat, looked over and over again, and kept nodding: Very exquisite, very unique.
Zheng He finally spoke: This is a cannibal ship, and its structure is different from that of our Ming Dynasty.After I die, can I do me a favor and give it to Wang Jinghong?He paused and said, "The incense of our eunuchs cannot be passed on, but there must be someone who passes on it."When Wang Jinghong dies, he will give it to Hou Xian.
Can.Haitao nodded, but what Eunuch Zheng said depends on the emperor and the court.The fleet spent millions of taels of taxes to go to sea. Without the national policy of the Ming court, it would not be passed on.
A cold incident happened suddenly, and the two of them were silent for a long time.
After a while, Haitao broke his silence and said: We don’t have the courage to take action on our own.
Zheng He glanced at the Jinyiwei behind him and nodded seriously: What does the emperor mean?
Haitao bowed and whispered: Empress. However, the eunuch Yang Qing seemed to have said something in front of the Empress.
Zheng He stood up and bowed with his fists: Thank you, Eunuch Hai, for letting our family understand.
Haitao turned around, took a wooden box from the soldiers of the Jinyiwei, and opened it with his own hands, which contained a neatly folded white silk.
Haitao stood up, left the box on the table, bent down and bowed to Zheng He, and then left the room.
There is a gate tower between the red walls to the west of Kunning Palace; as soon as you pass the gate tower, the West Six Palaces are outside.
Not long after the emperor ascended the throne, there were not many concubines, and Emperor Taizong's concubines moved away before, so some courtyards in the West Six Palace were empty.
Because Empress Zhang believed in Buddhism, the eunuchs in the palace picked one of the courtyards in the Western Six Palaces and arranged them into a Buddhist temple.
Most of the people surrounding the queen's sedan chair were palace maids and female officials.In addition to a few little eunuchs, there are two eunuchs: one is Haitao and the other is Yang Qing.
The sedan chair stopped when it arrived at the foyer outside the Buddhist temple courtyard. Yang Qing immediately opened the umbrella and blocked the sedan door very steadily; Haitao took a soft silk cloth to pad his wrist and went forward to let the queen help him down.
The queen can cook and do some housework, but she can only work for the emperor. Of course, her hands cannot be rubbed at all because the material of the eunuch's clothes is rough.
The queen was surrounded by a foyer.Haitao turned around and ordered: You are all waiting in the hall, don’t make any noise.
The palace ladies said: Yes.
The queen did not go to the Buddhist temple first, but walked into a wing room along the corridor house under the eaves.Haitao ordered Yang Qing to serve tea, but he followed him into the wing room.
When the queen sat down, Haitao bowed forward and said: I have already asked the inside story of Kuizhou City.It is said that there is a hundred households in the rebel defender named Li Jiaming. He used to be a military officer in Chongqing Prefecture, and later surrendered to the rebels with the Chongqing Guard Commander Xu Hua.But one of the brothers from the Baihu family is in Jingzhou, Huguang.
At that time, there were 50,000 or 60,000 people on the water and land, all of which were Jingzhou troops.Somehow, the general of the official army learned about Li Jiaming, so he sent his brothers from Baijia to surrender and surrender, and sent a message to Li Jiaming: buy Kuizhou City at a price of 1,000 households and 200 taels of silver.As a result, the rebels really opened the city gate!
Buddha blessed our Ming official army.After hearing this, the queen said softly and devoutly.
Haitao echoed: Yes, God is really open to his eyes!There were many mountains in Kuizhou, and the army was unable to move. Fortunately, the city was quickly captured by internal support; otherwise, once the rebels came to help, it would take a year or two, and the official army would have no choice.
The queen nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Haitao said again: The civil and military officials in the Korean Kingdom said so... The rebels of the Han King fought fiercely with the Ming Dynasty's official army. Both sides were Ming military households, and maybe some people knew each other, and the soldiers of both sides were easy to surrender.Therefore, we cannot lose momentum!As long as the Duke of Britain can win the Huguang War this time, even if there are hundreds of thousands of rebels, it will be useless, and the defeat will definitely be unstoppable!
Although Zhang Fu is the main general, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Huguang. How could he be the only one who can make a contribution?The queen whispered.
Haitao hurriedly said: What the Empress said is right.
The queen said again: Today I want to chant scriptures here to pray for blessings.By the way, the Buddhist beads brought back from India last time were said to be beads used by the Buddha (Sakya Mani) and had magic power to keep them on the holy objects, and seemed to be placed in the Kunning Palace.You go and get it.
yes.Haitao said.
At this time, the eunuch Yang Qing knocked on the door outside the wing room and brought the tea.Haitao ordered Yang Qing to serve the Empress, and he went to Kunning Palace to get Buddhist beads in person.
Queen Zhang felt that Yang Qing had heard about the Buddhist beads just now.She suddenly asked, where is Zheng He now?
Unexpectedly, Yang Qing was also a very thoughtful eunuch, and immediately answered: If you go back to the emperor, Zheng He still lives in the imperial city recently, in the inner palace prisons west of the Altar of the Soji Temple.The eunuchs in charge of the palace were not allowed to enter the palace.However, Zheng He was the confidant eunuch of the late emperor. He had many followers in the eunuchs of the Silijian and the various prisons, and knew most of the things in the palace.
Zhang asked quietly: Do you have old grudges with Zheng He?
Yang Qing hurriedly said: When I replied to the Empress, I was not the eunuch of the Silijian, but the Eunuch Hai brought me in; I had almost never faced with Zheng He, let alone a grudge.But when the Empress asked, I dared not hide anything, nor was I afraid of offending others. I only had to be loyal to the Empress and speak in everything I knew.
I heard you speak very quickly, it was just a slight statement.Zhang smiled.
Yang Qing suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: I am talking too much, please punish me!
Zhang said kindly: Get up, get up.When did I mean to blame you?
Yang Qing then stood up carefully, but he didn't seem to feel that he was talking too much, and immediately spoke: I heard that Zheng He gave the gift to the Empress, but I felt a little strange. Isn't he the King of Han?
Zhang's face suddenly changed: Zheng He has always been a close servant by the late emperor, why is he the King of Han?
Yang Qing said in surprise: I think the Empress knows it.
Zhang frowned and said: Tell me, what's going on?
Yang Qing said: Long before the 'Jingnan Campaign', Emperor Taizong lived in Peiping. Every time he summoned the Prince of Gaoyang at that time, he would send Zheng He to him; there were many opportunities for the two to meet alone.In addition, Wang Gui, the eunuch around the King of Han, also gave Zheng He property from time to time and had already made friends...
Who did you hear about these things?What is said is true?Zhang asked.
Yang Qing bowed and said: I have been in the Yàn Palace for many years. I used to do some rough work, but I can discover a lot of things over time.Wang Gui and Zheng He had had contacts, but the slave saw it with his own eyes!I dare not say anything false in front of the Empress!
Zhang's face was not very good, and he sat there without a response.
Yang Qing looked up and glanced at the queen quietly, and said: There is another old thing.During the 'Jingnan Battle', Jianwen Dynasty once used a divisive strategy to alienate the father-son relationship between the emperor and the late emperor; he sent a secret letter to the prince's mansion (Zhu Gaochi)...
Zhang nodded and said: I remember that incident.The emperor was not trapped and immediately handed over the spy and the untold secret letter to the late emperor.
Yang Qing bent down and said, "What the Empress said is very true."However, when the Han King heard the news of secret letters, he wanted to take the opportunity to attack, and slander the previous emperor and the previous emperor.Later, Zheng He went to see the King of Han and dissuaded him. The King of Han stopped his flag and did not criticize the current emperor, which was highly praised by the late emperor.
At this moment, eunuch Haitao returned.Haitao walked into the wing room, opened the box in his hand, bowed his body, and held the box in front of the queen.
Queen Zhang looked at the old Buddhist beads in the box with a picky look, but she didn't reach out to touch them for a long time.
This thing is too dirty, put it away again.Zhang said coldly.
Haitao was stunned for a moment, but he didn't say much. He just glanced at Yang Qing slightly and said: I will obey my decree.
Zhang waved his hand again and asked Haitao to approach. She turned her upper body and leaned closer and whispered a few words.
Haitao bent his waist lower and said in a deep voice: I will do it right away, and there will be no mistakes!
Zhang never looked at the Buddhist beads used by the Buddha again, stood up from the chair, and she said: I'm going to the Buddhist temple, let Yang Qing follow him.You go and do business.
Yes, Empress.Haitao said.
...Haitao passed the Queen's imperial edict and went to the Meridian Gate to transfer a small team of Jinyiwei armored soldiers.
They did not enter the palace, but went straight to the inner palace prisons southwest of the palace. It would be not important if they did not enter the palace, as long as they were verbal orders were enough.
Between the houses in the inner palace and the prisons, it was drizzling on the streets, and the rapid steps of the eunuchs and the Jinyiwei suddenly made the place more terrifying and murderous.
The group arrived at a yard and knocked on the door.A little eunuch opened the door and saw Haitao and Armeng. The little eunuch looked awe-faced, nodded and bowed.
The Silijian was a palace yamen established by Emperor Taizong's edict. Its main function was to manage all eunuchs in the palace; its function was to separate eunuchs from the Ministry of Personnel, because eunuchs were in charge of the Ministry of Personnel in the past.
So all the eunuchs were of course very afraid of seeing the eunuchs who directly governed their peak.
Haitao didn't say much, and asked Zheng He clearly where he was, so he took the Jinyiwei straight over.
On a rainy day, Zheng He was indeed staying in the house.He was sitting in front of the window, carefully carving a wooden boat model.
Zheng He looked back and glanced over Haitao and the armored soldiers of the Jinyiwei behind Haitao, and soon said to a little eunuch beside him, "Go out first."
yes.The little eunuch replied.
Haitao walked in and sat directly on the chair opposite the table.
The two people sitting opposite each other didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was very strange.The soldiers of the Jinyiwei also stood behind silently, waiting.
Can we have a look at it?Haitao asked politely.
Zheng He nodded.
Haitao reached out to pick up the wooden boat, looked over and over again, and kept nodding: Very exquisite, very unique.
Zheng He finally spoke: This is a cannibal ship, and its structure is different from that of our Ming Dynasty.After I die, can I do me a favor and give it to Wang Jinghong?He paused and said, "The incense of our eunuchs cannot be passed on, but there must be someone who passes on it."When Wang Jinghong dies, he will give it to Hou Xian.
Can.Haitao nodded, but what Eunuch Zheng said depends on the emperor and the court.The fleet spent millions of taels of taxes to go to sea. Without the national policy of the Ming court, it would not be passed on.
A cold incident happened suddenly, and the two of them were silent for a long time.
After a while, Haitao broke his silence and said: We don’t have the courage to take action on our own.
Zheng He glanced at the Jinyiwei behind him and nodded seriously: What does the emperor mean?
Haitao bowed and whispered: Empress. However, the eunuch Yang Qing seemed to have said something in front of the Empress.
Zheng He stood up and bowed with his fists: Thank you, Eunuch Hai, for letting our family understand.
Haitao turned around, took a wooden box from the soldiers of the Jinyiwei, and opened it with his own hands, which contained a neatly folded white silk.
Haitao stood up, left the box on the table, bent down and bowed to Zheng He, and then left the room.
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