Ciqing Palace is located in the east of the Forbidden City, north of Donghua Gate, and next to the Royal Horse Prison.

This place was first called Qingning Palace, which was the residence of the prince. In later generations, Ciqing Palace has disappeared. In the Qing Dynasty, the Qingfang Palace was built on the original site, and later it was expanded into Nansan Palace. Ah, the favorite of fans of the Qingguan drama.

Guys, most of them grew up in Nansan School.

In fact, as early as the last years of Tianqi, because Emperor Tianqi had no children, Ciqing Palace became Empress Zhang's palace. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, Empress Zhang still lived here until the prince took a concubine.

Queen Zhang's name is Zhang Yan, and she is the empress of Emperor Tianqi's main palace.

When Emperor Tianqi was critically ill, Empress Zhang advocated for Zhu Youjian, who was still King Xin at the time, to take the throne. Therefore, after Chongzhen came to power, he respected this widowed sister-in-law very much.

Not only did Chongzhen honor Zhang Yan as "Queen Yi'an", but throughout her reign, Empress Zhang received the highest level of respect and courtesy from the emperor.

Why since ancient times, people have worked hard to achieve the great success of being supported by the dragon? This can be seen from this.

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The sky is bright today, neither too cold nor too hot, and it is the Qingming Festival. It is a good day for an outing to relax. However, activities such as playing arm-in-arm and fluttering butterflies in the Imperial Garden are not suitable for some people.

Well...such as sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

So everyone could only sit down, drink two beers, eat some skewers and chat. On the white marble platform in front of Ciqing Palace, an open-air banquet was being held.

It was said to be a banquet, but in fact it was just some melon and fruit snacks placed on the coffee table. There was no beer or crayfish. It was a more casual medieval buffet.

There was only one host and guest at the buffet, and the rest of the palace maids, female officials, eunuchs, and guards around were all wage earners and had to stand.

Wearing a red-sleeved coat, with a harem and red trousers, and a pearl-emerald phoenix crown on his head, the person sitting on the main seat behind the coffee table is naturally the owner of Ciqing Palace.

"With a mouth like a red cherry blossom, a nose like hanging gallbladder, and white teeth," Empress Zhang Yan was rated as one of the five great queens in ancient China.

On the left side of Empress Dowager Zhang, a young man with a thin face and a mustache, wearing a golden winged crown and a black brocade dragon robe, was none other than the master of the huge Ming Empire: Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian.

At this moment, Chongzhen looked at the two children performing juggling under the platform with a smile. The children were very skilled, sometimes standing on their heads, sometimes folding over, and finally ended the performance with a very thrilling one-legged tumbling action, which won the house full of applause.

"Well, the little man is good at playing. He must have suffered from the master. Let's see the reward."

Empress Zhang is 24 years old this year, which is the best age for a woman. But now is the 17th century when ethics are rampant. Zhang Yan, who has been a widow for several years, speaks in an old-fashioned way and has begun to demand herself with the mentality of an elder.

After finishing the reward, the young sister-in-law turned to look at her younger uncle, and found that he seemed to be smiling and nodding, but he was a little distracted, and there was still a faint trace of sadness between his eyebrows.

With a slight sigh, Empress Zhang stretched out her hand, raised the osmanthus dew on the table and said, "Emperor, please have some tea."

"Oh!" Chongzhen reacted and quickly picked up the rose drink in front of him and took two sips.

"Now that the Tartars have retreated, and the emperor is becoming more and more proficient in dealing with the people in the court, we have finally overcome the most difficult hurdle. When the emperor gets older, things will eventually get better."

After putting down the crystal clear glass helicopter cup in her hand, Empress Zhang said slowly: "Emperor, you must not worry about the government all the time, in case it hurts your mind. It is best to be relaxed."

"I understand, thanks to the Queen's sister-in-law for reminding me."

When the young emperor heard this, his eyebrows stretched a little and he nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the emperor and the empress were chatting happily, the old eunuch who was waiting on the side clapped his hands knowingly, and then the next group of performers came under the platform and prepared to perform a superb Juju opera for the nobles.

At this moment, the emperor sitting on the platform frowned again. At the palace gate behind the actor, a figure was running towards him from a distance.

Chongzhen had good eyesight, so it didn't take long for him to clearly see the bright red bullfighting uniform of the person coming. At this moment, the emperor's face suddenly hardened. It was most likely that he could run wildly in the palace wearing a high-level eunuch uniform.

Even the person who is in charge of the ceremony must be a sign that something big is going on.

Suddenly, Chongzhen stood up from his chair. He had already seen the face of the person coming: the Chief of Ceremonies, Bingbi Fangzhenghua.

The young emperor, who had not encountered any good news since he ascended the throne, had habitually blocked out the possibility of good things happening, so when he saw the panting visitor, he had already rehearsed several unexpected situations in his mind:

Are the Tartars returning? Is there another trouble in the direction of Jizhen? Or is there another police situation in Jiubian?

At this moment, the emperor's face was ashen, and his slightly relaxed attitude had already been thrown out of the window. Empress Chen also waved her hand knowingly, signaling the eunuch to drive away the actor.

Accompanying the overall cooling off is the increasingly closer trend of becoming a Founder.

Soon, when Fang Zhenghua ran under the platform, intermittent shouting came over: "Your Majesty, great joy, great joy, great victory on the front line, great victory!"

"Huh?" The young emperor, who had his hands behind his back and a gloomy face, was suddenly stunned. Then he turned to look at Queen Chen with a surprised look on his face, as if he wanted to confirm his judgment: Did I misunderstand?

Empress Chen also looked confused, her beautiful face was full of confusion, and seemed to have a look of fear, and she looked helplessly at her brother-in-law.

Fortunately, the answer was soon revealed. I saw Fang Zheng running up the steps in a flash, and then "pop" kneeling in front of the emperor, breathing heavily and saying: "I, your Majesty, go forward, the front line...

Big, great victory, General Cao, Cao, Cao Chuan, that formation beheaded, beheaded Amin, captured four, four thousand, thieves level..."

With a bang, the emperor shook his head and took a step back. His chair was knocked to the ground. The next moment, the emperor took a step forward with a cold face, pointed at Fang Zhenghua and cursed fiercely: "Idiot, speak clearly, yes

Which general soldier did Amin kill again!?"

"Your Majesty, Amin was beheaded. It was our Ming Dynasty's commander-in-chief who beheaded Amin!"

"ah!"

The emperor was stunned for a moment with his mouth wide open. After smoothing out his thoughts, he bowed and pointed at Fang Zhenghua and asked in a deep voice, "Is it possible that someone's war report has come to deceive me again?"

Seeing the emperor pointing at the tip of his nose with a slightly trembling finger, Fang Zhenghua understood. The emperor seemed calm, but in fact his heart was already boiling: "There is a head, Your Majesty, there is a head on the road! Amin's, and

Four thousand strong Tartars are on the road!"

The young emperor, who looked surprised and couldn't believe the answer at all, stood up slowly, glanced around at the people around him, and finally looked at his sister-in-law.

After confirming that he had no auditory hallucinations, the emperor's face turned red for a moment. He coughed a few times in excitement, and then asked: "Who brought the news?"

"Your Majesty, this is Wen Zongbo."

"I will attack your mother!"... If Chongzhen had not been young, he would have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage due to brain teasers: "Then Wen Tiren is the Minister of Rites, how can he get the battle report!?"

"Your Majesty, this battle report was sent to the city by servants of the Wen family!"

The young emperor coughed a few more times in haste, and then he realized that he could no longer communicate with Fang Zhenghua like this: "Where is Wen Tiren?"

"I'm waiting outside Ciqing Palace to announce the good news to the Emperor!"

"Then hurry up and pass it on!"

"promise!"

The next moment, a young eunuch with nimble legs and feet ran towards the palace gate like crazy.

In this way, in full view of everyone and in the emperor's fiery eyes, Wen Tiren came to the emperor at a slightly faster speed than usual.

"Wei minister pays homage..."

"No courtesy, no courtesy, come and give Wen Qing a seat!"

The extremely impatient emperor immediately interrupted Lao Wen's etiquette.

Seeing that the emperor's appetite had been completely whetted, Old Wen stopped talking and explained the cause and effect of the matter.

Lao Wen's story is this: Because he had an old relationship with Xiong Wencan, a certain general named Cao who came to Qin Wang this time sent someone from Tianjin to bring some local Fujian products to Lao Wen not long ago.

At the same time, Cao Zongbing also complained about the situation in a letter to Lao Wen. Among them, the Southern soldiers were not acclimatized and trapped him in Tianjin Guard, and the war situation was chaotic, and he felt that he had nowhere to act, etc.

At this time, Wen Shangshu, who was proficient in the art of war, wrote a reply to Cao Cao: Don't come to Jizhen to participate in the battle. Cao Cao might as well send out surprise troops to directly attack the three cities of Yongping from the south and cut off the enemy's rear route.

It may not work wonders.

Then things went on step by step: after seeing the letter brought by Wen's messenger, General Cao followed his words and relied on his subordinates' sharp firearms and sneak attacks to catch the Tatars in the three cities of Yongping by surprise.

The Tatars had no idea that divine soldiers would come from the south to attack us.

After defeating the Tatars in the three cities of Yongping, General Cao led his troops with high morale and went straight to the three camps. When the Tatars on the top of the city saw Amin's head, they immediately lost all morale and began to flee out of the city.

Then General Cao, who occupied the third camp, soon welcomed Shuo Tuo, who had fled from Zunhua.

In this way, General Cao, under the guidance of military strategist Wen Shangshu, adopted a division strategy and achieved an unprecedented victory, leaving behind a total of four thousand Tatar heads, including Amin.

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After listening to Wen Tiren's story, Chongzhen was so excited that he couldn't control himself and asked repeatedly: "Ai Qing, do you have any evidence for what you said?"

"Yes, yes!"

Wen Tiren took out a letter from his arms.

This letter was written in neat handwriting, and it looked like it was written by a master who often handles official documents.

This is a normal situation. Since many generals in ancient times were not good at writing letters, the generals dictated the letter, and the master wrote the letter on his behalf. Finally, they stamped and signed the letter and that was it.

This letter was written in the tone of General Cao. The content above was nothing more than a thank you to Wen Shangshu for showing him the way out, which enabled him to capture a large number of Tatars. So as soon as the battle ended, he

He wrote a letter to Shangshu Wen at the city gate of Santun Camp to announce the good news.

The letter also said: At the same time as the letter was written, Sun Chengzong's army had also joined forces at the foot of Santunying City. Therefore, the good news from the generals at the front would soon arrive in the capital. General Cao would also arrive in the capital soon.

He came to the capital with 4,000 heads to congratulate the emperor.
Chapter completed!