The blue sky and white clouds are clear, the blue waves are rippling on the Taiye Pond, a line of white cranes are circling and soaring in the sky, and the royal palace with red walls and gold tiles is shining in the sun. Such a beautiful scenery is like a fairyland on earth.
However, although the sunshine is good, the atmosphere in Xiyuan is as cold and depressing as dark clouds.
Both the eunuchs and the maids seemed to have mastered the most exquisite light skills in the world. They walked and did things without making any sound. Each one of them was so trembling that they were walking on thin ice and even wanted to hold their breath.
Without him, Emperor Jiajing was in a very bad mood today.
The "weather" in Xiyuan is not controlled by God, but by Emperor Jiajing. If Emperor Jiajing is in a good mood, the sky will be clear in Xiyuan; if Emperor Jiajing sneezes, the sky in Xiyuan will change; if Emperor Jiajing is in a good mood, the sky in Xiyuan will change.
No, Xiyuan was covered with dark clouds and even turned into a violent storm.
Today, Emperor Jiajing was in a very bad mood, so the weather in Xiyuan was covered with dark clouds, and the palace maids and eunuchs were walking on thin ice.
In fact, Emperor Jiajing has been in a bad mood recently.
The day before yesterday, Anda, the chieftain of the Northern Bandits, led his troops to invade Datong again. Why use the word "you" because this is the fourth time Anda has invaded Datong this year. This time, Anda led more than 3,000 cavalry to invade Datong and plundered them.
Dayong, Weilu and other forts. The cavalry battalion was sitting in the camp and commanding Qianshi Wang Gong led his soldiers to resist the Anda tribe at Pingchuan Dun. However, they were unable to catch him. Wang Qianshi and his men were all killed on the spot. General Zhang
Teng garrisoned troops to help the fort, which was very close to the Pingchuan pier of the battlefield. As a result, he was afraid of closing the fort and could not get out. So I led the cavalry southward from Gaoshan City and Brick Kiln, and plundered Shijing Village and other places in Huairen County.
I robbed whenever I wanted. I robbed four times in the past six months. I thought this was because he regarded the Ming Dynasty border as his own backyard!
Do you think the master, Emperor Jiajing, is terrible?
Not only that!
In recent days, floods have occurred in Daming, Baoding, Hejian, Shunde, and Guangping prefectures in North Zhili. The fields have been flooded. Local officials in North Zhili submitted a disaster report yesterday. The disaster is quite serious.
As for the floods in the north, the south has not been idle either. Droughts have broken out in Nanchang, Linjiang, Ji'an, Ruizhou, Yuanzhou, Fuzhou, Ganzhou, and Nan'an in Jiangxi. In the past year, there has been almost no rain. The fields
The drought is so bad that the crops are not harvested, and the trees are almost dying from the drought. The disaster reports from Nanchang, Jiangxi and other places were only one hour later than those from Beizhili.
There are floods in the north and drought in the south! Why does it rain so much in North Zhili? It would be great for you to go to Jiangxi!
Are you angry or not?
Can Emperor Jiajing be in a good mood?!
However, all the above are just foreshadowing, and not the reason why Emperor Jiajing is in a very bad mood today.
The reason why Emperor Jiajing is in a bad mood today is that he has been refining a furnace of elixir since the beginning of the month. Today is the day to open the furnace to take the elixir. However, in the morning, a strange smell began to come from the elixir furnace.
The elixir is ready, and it should be fragrant! There is a strange smell coming from the elixir furnace, which is not a good sign!
Emperor Jiajing had high hopes for this pot of elixir, because the formula of this pot of elixir was "Eight Gong Danfang".
What is "Eight Gong Dan Prescription"?
Have you ever heard that a person can ascend to heaven with chickens and dogs? The former Han Dynasty King Liu An of Huainan had two ambitions. One was to practice the immortal yellow and white skills to become an immortal, and the other was to rebel and become the emperor with his own ambitions. To this end, he recruited guests and was always prepared.
He conspired to rebel while practicing immortality and elixir all the time. Among the disciples he recruited, the eight most talented people were Su Fei, Li Shang, Zuo Wu, Tian You, Lei Bei, Wu Bei, Mao Zhou and Jinchang. These eight people were famous at that time.
The alchemists, all of whom were young-looking, fair-haired, and energetic, were collectively called the "Eight Masters" by the world. The Eight Masters gathered together to refine elixirs, and finally made the elixir. On the day when the elixir was released, Liu An, the king of Huainan, rebelled, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zong Zheng
came to arrest, at the critical moment, Liu An swallowed the elixir and went to heaven hand in hand with Hachigong. Because the matter was in a hurry, Liu An was in a hurry to eat the elixir. Many of the elixir fell to the ground and were eaten by his chickens and dogs.
After eating, the chickens and dogs who had eaten the elixir also flew up to the sky with Liu An. This is the allusion of "one person attains enlightenment, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven".
The recipe used by Emperor Jiajing to refine this elixir was the same recipe that Ba Gong used to refine the elixir at that time, also known as "Bagong's recipe".
This is a real fairy recipe! Every alchemy material used in this recipe is a treasure worth tens of thousands of gold.
Therefore, Emperor Jiajing had high hopes for this furnace of elixir. However, the peculiar smell coming from the furnace this morning was like a basin of ice water. The Emperor Jiajing, who looked excited and expectant, was poured out by his father.
Heartbroken.
Therefore, the "weather" in Xiyuan this morning is cloudy.
Therefore, all the maids and eunuchs in Xiyuan are walking on thin ice, fearing to get into trouble.
"Bang, bang, bang"
Suddenly, there was a sound of several cases being overturned and tea cups being broken in the Yongshou Palace. The two young eunuchs who were on duty at the palace gate were so frightened that their hearts almost jumped out of their throats. They looked at each other with pale faces.
They all knew in their hearts what was happening in the palace. This would be the time for Emperor Jiajing to open the furnace to extract the elixir. The sound of tables being lifted and lamps being smashed came from the palace, which meant that the refining of the elixir had failed!
In fact, when there was a strange smell coming from the elixir furnace in the morning, everyone knew that this furnace of elixir had failed.
However, because it is not the time to open the furnace to take the elixirs in the morning, everyone still has a little hope in their hearts. This is the Bagong Dan recipe. How can those previous elixir recipes be compared with the Bagong Dan recipe? Past experience in alchemy
It may not be applicable to the Bagong Dan recipe. Maybe there will be an odor when using the Bagong Dan recipe to refine the elixir.
Now, the other boot finally landed. As expected, the refining of the elixir failed, and Emperor Jiajing's hopes were completely shattered.
At this moment, a young eunuch walked towards Yongshou Palace from Wuyi Palace outside, holding a memorial.
"What kind of memorial is this?"
The two young eunuchs in front of the Yongshou Palace looked like frightened birds and asked with frightened expressions on their faces.
Don’t let this be bad news!
The two little eunuchs prayed silently in their hearts.
However, the more worried he became about something, the little eunuch holding the memorial whispered back, "This is a report on the Japanese invasion of Taizhou. It is an urgent report from 800 miles away. There is no delay. Please pass it on to the inside."
Japanese invasion?!
Is there a Japanese invasion in Taizhou?!
Isn’t this going to cost us our lives?!
The two little eunuchs guarding the gate looked at each other with pale faces, and at the same time opened their mouths and uttered a silent word.
"you go"
"you go"
The two young eunuchs said in unison.
At this time, none of them wanted to go into the palace to convey the message. They all knew in their hearts that Emperor Jiajing was very angry because of his failure in refining alchemy. If they went to convey the message at this time, wouldn't it just hit Emperor Jiajing's anger?! Moreover, not to mention that Emperor Jiajing would be angry when they went in to convey the message!
, what you are reporting is a bad thing like Japanese plague!
This is adding fuel to the fire! The risk factor has doubled!
If you go in at this time, the wind will rustle and the water will be cold. Once a warrior is gone, he will never return.