Amidst the sound of the carriage wheels turning, Geng Hao began to tell what happened. The noise in the carriage was just right. The two people sitting in front of Geng Hao could hear it clearly, but people outside could not hear it, not even the groom.
After hearing Geng Hao's narration, Yuan Gong felt very complicated. He didn't know whether he was happy, relieved, or angry, or maybe a combination of all of them.
"Pingle Prefecture Governor Chen Yongsheng had been an official in Guangxi since the Hongwu period. When Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he became the local governor of Pingle Prefecture, so he had many followers. Chen Yongsheng hinted to his subordinates to tie him up and surrender to the rebel king. Otherwise, with Chen Yongsheng's power in the local area, it would be difficult for him to be coerced for a while.
The Marquis of Jiangyin had found out all these inside stories and reported them to General Zhang Fu, who was in charge of the Pin
The city of Guilin, with its green mountains and clear waters, is extremely beautiful under the clear autumn sky.Jianhu Lake (Rongshan Lake) was covered with misty waves, and pagodas, pavilions and towers were dotted in between. On the parade ground in the south of the city, flags were flying and white smoke was rising. The training of the Han army looked very spectacular.Some simple wooden houses were newly built near the parade ground to accommodate the Sheng Yong and Ping An tribesmen who arrived one after another. The barracks had not yet been completed, and there were many tents nearby. The neatly arranged gray and white tents contrasted with the white clouds in the sky, which was quite spectacular.A shout came from not far away. When Zhu Gaoxu turned around on horseback, he saw two rows of soldiers, some squatting and some standing, firing their muskets at the same time. With the sound of "bang bang bang...", puffs of white smoke were blown into the
"I worried that my excessive love would damage my Buddhist practice, and I was afraid I would leave the city when I went into the mountains. How can I have both in this world, without disappointing the Tathagata and you..." Zhu Gaoxu stared out the window for a long time, and suddenly chanted two lines of poetry.He had long forgotten some lines of poetry that he had seen and liked on the Internet before; but he had been thinking hard over the past two days, giving his brain no rest, and some of the things hidden deep in his memory gradually became clearer.Zhu Gaoxu took off his armor and wore a dragon robe. He did not wear a hat in the house and only had a net scarf on his bun. The black net scarf he wore was a feature of the Ming Dynasty and was used to fix the bun. I often saw this kind of thing when I watched Korean costume dramas on TV. Zhu Gaoxu recited poems with his hands behind his back, and he seemed to have a sense of pretentiousness.Miao Jin, w
In early September, it rained in Zhili. After the autumn rain, the weather turned cooler and the capital city already had a bit of the atmosphere of early winter.There is a gatehouse between the red walls to the west of Kunning Palace; after passing the gatehouse, the outside is the West Six Palaces. The current emperor has just ascended the throne and has not appointed many concubines, and the concubines of the former Emperor Taizong have also moved away, so some courtyards of the West Six Palaces have been vacated.Because Empress Zhang believed in Buddhism, the eunuchs in the palace chose one of the courtyards in the six western palaces and turned it into a Buddhist temple.Most of the people gathered around the queen's sedan chair were palace maids and female officials. The rest included a few junior eunuchs and two eunuchs: one was Hai Tao and the other was Yang Qing.The sedan stopped at the entrance hall outside the temple courtyard. Yang Qing
Hai Tao and his group came out of the courtyard and went their separate ways. The Jinyiwei soldiers returned to the Meridian Gate to take up their duties, while Hai Tao and an eunuch continued to move forward. The brick and stone streets between the courtyards of the various prisons were gleaming with the sheen of accumulated water.The rain was not heavy, but both eunuchs were holding umbrellas. Haitao's umbrella was pulled down very low, covering his upper body very tightly, so that the eunuchs who occasionally passed by on the road could not see his face. However, the hem of his robe was completely wet by the splashed water.They came to the Imperial Stables to look for Wang Jinghong.Since the Yongle Dynasty, the Silijian has been in charge of the personnel of all the eunuchs in the twelve palaces, four departments, and eight bureaus, becoming the most powerful eunuch office. In the past, Zheng He, Wang Jinghong, Hou Xian and others were all eunuchs in t
King Zhao rebelled?!In mid-September, outside the desolate Hongwu Gate, a piece of news came like a bolt from the blue!Tan Qing, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, first informed the eunuchs guarding the Meridian Gate and asked them to go to the palace immediately to tell Hai Tao, the eunuch of the Imperial Household Department; then Tan Qing took Yang Yong, a general of the Northern Pacification Division, and a group of people and hurried to the Hongwu Gate.This late autumn seems destined to be an eventful one.When Tan Qing arrived at Hongwu Gate, he saw that the soldiers on duty had surrounded three strangers. One of them was a middle-aged man with rough skin, his hair tied up with a dirty cloth, and he was wearing a dusty cloth. The other was a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a boy of several years old beside him. All three of them were covered in dust and looked like they had walked a long way.The soldie
The eunuch Hai Tao from the Imperial Household Department delivered the imperial edict and led the Minister of the Supreme Court Xue Yan to the palace.The spacious brick floor between the majestic palaces of the imperial city was very dry. It had been cloudy recently, and it hadn't rained for a few days; Haitao couldn't help but think of the rain when Zheng He died more than half a month ago.Xue Yan was tall, handsome, and had a good complexion. He had served as an envoy during the reigns of Jianwen and Yongle, and envoys were selected for their appearance. Xue Yan was also quite talented in criminal law, or at least had a lot of experience. He had been doing this since the reign of Hongwu and had served three emperors.Because of this, Haitao was in a state of anxiety. Yang Qing, who was on the list of treasoners, was not only promoted by Haitao to the Imperial Household Department, but Haitao did accept money from him, more than once! Haitao also asked Y
The study room of the jade shop was filled with a dusty and old smell.Yang Yong of Jinyiwei is short in stature but good-looking. His features are regular and his face is very fair. With an expression of admiration, he bowed, "Sir, you have a wonderful plan. From now on, I will worship the Prime Minister in court!"Gao Xianning immediately shook his head and said, "General Yang has informed me of so many things, so I can only speculate and make wild guesses. How can I make a good plan?"Gao Xianning was not very interested in being a prime minister, because there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty. If his teacher Qi Tai was not with the King of Han, and the King of Han treated him with both soft and hard tactics, threats and favors, Gao Xianning would not have wanted to come out again... At that time, it seemed that Gao Xianning came to serve as an official because of Ji Gang's orders. He found him out; secretly, he still wanted to do it for the sake
The capital was far from finding out the truth about the rebellion of the Prince of Zhao, but Xue Yan, the Minister of Justice, proposed a "false accusation". Emperor Zhu Gaochi immediately seized on this theory and sent the chief minister Hu Guang to appease Gao Sui.Zhu Gaochi didn't dare to care too much at the moment, and he couldn't clear out various forces on a large scale; at this critical juncture of a decisive battle that affected the fate of the country, Zhu Gaochi only wanted to maintain the temporary stability of all parties, in order to devote as much power of the court as possible to this battle!The emperor not only sent an envoy to appease King Zhao, but also instructed Duke of Wei Xu Huizu to write a letter to He Fu himself, asking He Fu to put the overall situation first and that as long as he made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, he would be treated fairly after the war.At the same time, the court sent eunuchs to Changsha Pre