Under the starlight, in the extremely desolate imperial mausoleum, Chang Yu looked at the distant mausoleum and thought about the interesting things about Lao Zhu's family. Unknowingly, he felt the urge to urinate. He looked left and right, and then walked towards a nearby bush.
Go, as soon as the faucet was turned on, I heard someone sighing: "Am I really stupid?"
It was actually Wuzhong's voice.
"No, you're just a little stupid..." Tu Yuan comforted him seriously. Chang Yu couldn't stop laughing secretly. He shook his hands and shook his pants, and couldn't help but cursed in a low voice.
"Who?" Wu Zhong whispered, turned over, and saw Chang Yu walking over with his pants lifted: "Little Hanhan, you're still up so late."
Oh my gosh, if it had been anyone else, Wu Zhong would have punched his eyes shut, but he didn't dare to do this. He gritted his teeth and said, "It's a long night with no intention of sleeping..."
Tu Yuan was going crazy beside him.
"Hey, it's been a long night of unintentional sleep. Why, you still plan to find a girl to have fun?" Chang Yu curled his lips, and Wu Zhong touched his head: "I can't find a female ghost in this barren mountain..." Just as he said this
Suddenly he let out a sigh and stared due east: "Am I seeing something wrong?"
What's wrong? Chang Yu and Tu Yuan were very confused. They looked in the direction he was looking. Under the night sky, the trees were so dark that they couldn't see anything. However, they could always hear the cries of some birds and animals.
"Don't you want to say you saw a ghost?" Chang Yu looked for a long time and saw nothing, so he thought that Wuzhong was deliberately playing a trick on him. Unexpectedly, Wuzhong suddenly became excited and said, "I don't know about ghosts, but it's really possible that it's a will-o'-the-wisp..."
He pointed to the east and said, "Can't you see the fire somewhere?"
Fire... Chang Yu was startled, and squinted his eyes to take a closer look. Good guy, there were faint spots of light looming in the shadows of the trees, but they were too far away and you wouldn't even care if you didn't look carefully. The visual distance was at least three or four miles away.
How could there be fire in the middle of the night, and it was still in the mausoleum area? This made Chang Yu couldn't help but shudder. The imperial mausoleum is a restricted area. Even if it is now dilapidated and desolate, you are not allowed to do whatever you want in there. Of course, during the day
Villagers from the surrounding areas come here to herd sheep and other things. As long as they are not caught in front of the government officials, they will be fine. The tomb guards generally don't care.
Tomb keeper?
The imperial mausoleums are naturally guarded by the tomb guards. In the past, there were troops dedicated to guarding the mausoleums. However, hundreds of years have passed in the blink of an eye. The people who guard the mausoleums have become the descendants of the defenders. They gathered in villages beside the imperial mausoleums for a long time.
Chengmin.
Seven years ago, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Fengyang and not only set fire to the imperial mausoleum, but also killed, looted, and burned the surrounding villages of the tomb-keepers.
Those who guarded the tomb also died or fled, or were robbed and used as cannon fodder, or directly became thieves.
There is no village in ten miles, and no people in ten villages.
But no matter how dilapidated the imperial mausoleum is, it still needs someone to guard it, so Fengyang Mansion paid for a few people to guard it. In fact, there was nothing to watch or guard. These people could just open up wasteland and raise sheep in the mausoleum area to be self-sufficient.
Even in one hundred and eighty years, they can gather into a village.
But now there are only a few people.
But it was already dark when Chang Yu arrived, and he didn't see the tomb guards at all. It was very likely that the other party didn't notice them. After all, the mausoleum covers an area of 20,000 acres, with ruins and trees. There were thousands of people, let alone hundreds.
It would be difficult to notice even if one is not paying attention at this late night. The most important thing is that the guardians of the mausoleum do not live in the mausoleum area. They live in the abandoned village next to it.
Besides, even if you live in Ling District, you still don’t sleep with the lights on in the middle of the night?
Chang Yu could be sure that all of his men were in the camp, and the light and dark sentries were walking nearby. Even Su Jing was not wandering around in the carriage. Even if she was wandering around, she would not run that far and still light a lamp or fire.
So what is that bright light? Chang Yu's curiosity arose and he said to the two of Wuzhong people: "Let's take a look, maybe it's really a will-o'-the-wisp. Hehe, I haven't seen what a will-o'-the-wisp is like before."
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Oh my gosh, what he said almost made Tu Yuan and Wuzhong wet their pants. Although they had killed countless people, they were still people of this era, and they should respect ghosts and gods and stay away from them.
On the other hand, the big eunuch's eyes were shining, which made the two of them really... at a loss.
Of course Chang Yu is not afraid of will-o'-the-wisps. Even real will-o'-the-wisps are actually just phosphorus fire, so there's nothing to be afraid of.
But he has never seen anything like phosphorus fire. It is said that it can move with the wind, so he really wants to see it.
"Look at how cowardly you two are. Come on, let's get Duoji and Li Muchian to come together. With the Sanqing Buddha on our side, we have to avoid all kinds of monsters, let alone some will-o'-wisps." Chang Yu looked disdainful.
Wuzhong couldn't stand the excitement: "Besides, those two opera chasing ghosts are not as good as my sword." He glared fiercely at the looming fire in the distance: "Even a real ghost, I was killed by him."
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"It's okay to brag, but don't wet your pants later." Chang Yu curled his lips, Tu Yuan chuckled beside him, Chang Yu scolded: "You're just kidding, your butt means your face."
The three of them didn't know about the others and ran towards the fire. The fire was three or four miles away, flickering in and out. However, the mausoleum area was overgrown with weeds and rocks. It was quite difficult to walk deep and shallow at night.
, sometimes I am afraid of stepping on a poisonous snake or something...
After walking like this, it took less than a mile to make tea.
Damn, I should have known he was coming on horseback. Chang Yu was muttering when Wuzhong suddenly let out a sigh: "Why are you missing?"
The fire is gone!
The three of them stared at each other for a long time and found no more fire.
"Damn, it's really a bit evil." Chang Yu cursed. Next to him, Wu Zhong and Tu Yuan looked around with pale faces and weapons in their hands. When Chang Yu saw this, he wanted to scare them with a yelp, but after thinking about it, he was really scared.
After peeing, how can the two of them raise their heads to see people in the future?
The three of them waited for a long time but still did not see the fire light again, so they returned angrily. They happened to see Li Muxian getting up to relieve himself. Wu Zhong asked: "Brother Niu, are there any ghosts in this world?"
"Yes." Li Muxian shook his head and said, "It's you, you damn ghost."
Damn... Chang Yu got goosebumps. Wuzhong wanted to fuck Li Muxian like a thunderbolt, but Su Jing, who was in a carriage not far away, stopped him: "Is it sick if you stay up late at night and make others unable to sleep?"
"He's not sick, he's just a little stupid," Chang Yu joked. He wanted to liven up the atmosphere, but Su Jing didn't give him any face: "How can you do better?"
Chang Yu immediately fell silent, rubbed his nose and whispered to Wuzhong and Tu Yuan: "It's gone, it's gone..."
Damn, I’m so cowardly. Wu Zhongxin is quite unconvinced. Usually if he goes out of his way a little bit, he will be punished by Chang Yu, but that nun doesn’t fart even once every day...
The soldiers on duty nearby or those who were awakened were also laughing inwardly. It was really an eye-opener for the murderous eunuch of Dongchang to be shivered by a nun under his command.
Of course, they also know that the eldest eunuch is not a coward. To put it bluntly, it is called connivance, and to put it ambiguously, it is called pampering.
As for why this is the case, it is simply because this nun with an extreme personality is his talisman and has saved his life several times. Of course, there are many people in the yamen and factory guards who can go through fire and water for Chang Yu.
But Sujing is different from them. She is not from the Yamen and does not receive salary from the court. She can leave Jianghu at any time to satisfy her grudges. The reason why she stays with Chang Yu is because of the friendship between the two.
As for whether it's friendship or love, that's another matter.
I didn't sleep well all night, but I still got up early. As soon as it was dawn, everyone went to the mausoleum to pay homage, put incense and kowtow, chant sutras with Dorje, and follow Li Muxian's method. It took almost half an hour to complete a set of streamlined procedures.
As the sun rose, the soldiers returned to their camps to make fire and cook food.
Chang Yu walked around Lingqiu, and his eyes suddenly became enlightened. Li Muchian sighed in a low voice: "It's time to practice."
"You have to pay for it?" Chang Yu choked to death with just one sentence and did not dare to speak again.
The imperial mausoleum has been burned by Zhang Xianzhong for seven years. Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to repair it. Of course he did.
Then why not repair it? It’s not because we have no money. In the past few years, the national treasury has been at its bottom due to the wars. We can’t get military pay. How can we still have the money to repair the ancestral graves? If we repair it at this critical moment, there will be a lot of curses. We can’t even pay the soldiers’ wages and there is no money.
You don’t have anything to eat or drink, yet you go to build your ancestor’s grave...
Doesn’t this force the army to rebel?
Emperor Chongzhen was not the old witch like Cixi. No matter how poor or poor he was, he could not delay his birthday.
In the past year or so, Chang Yu had made a lot of love for the emperor, and he had made tens of millions just by raiding the homes of several major Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, which sounds like a huge sum of money.
That’s because you don’t know how big the hole is in the imperial court!
The nine-border army was owed more than five years of military pay at the longest, not to mention the combat troops who were fighting in the interior chasing Zhang and Li to suppress the bandits, so much so that the generals were forced not to send troops unless they were paid!
Tens of millions of dollars were used to fill various holes in military pay, people's livelihood, disaster relief, etc., but all was gone without a splash! If Chang Yu hadn't continued to deceive and cheat to extend his life, the imperial ministers would not be able to pay their salaries.
And not to mention building tombs for ancestors, it was Emperor Chongzhen’s own home. The Forbidden City was already dilapidated at this time, with leaky houses, collapsed walls, peeling walls, peeling paint on doors and windows...
Doesn’t Emperor Chongzhen want to redecorate it?
I think, but for such a big palace, the maintenance cost is also a huge number. Future generations will have to rely on selling tickets to pay for the maintenance. If all depends on government funding, it will also be a very big financial pressure!
After walking around the mausoleum, Chang Yu climbed up a broken wall next to him and looked around with his hands behind his back. He saw everything was deserted. He looked at Fengyang Fucheng due north in the distance and fell into deep thought.
With a casual glance, he saw Wu Zhong and Tu Yuan holding Ji Jike and others pointing fingers in the distance. Chang Yu glanced in that direction and suddenly remembered what happened last night, so he jumped off the wall and walked away to catch the ghost.
go.
Wuzhong was shocked and realized that a ghost was coming from the sky.
If not, then you were so frightened that your face turned pale. Chang Yu laughed and scolded, while Wuzhong frowned, "No way, I'm just a little more pretty recently."
Damn it! Chang Yu and others are nauseated!
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