Chapter 850: Qingqiu’s horse test, slingshot and leaves falling

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There is no "explanation" on the sign in the palace, because the above questions are mostly not applicable to the emperor, concubine, prince, prince, palace maid and eunuch. Although some eunuchs do business secretly, some concubines want to get favor from the emperor, and some palace maids want to know if they have a future, these questions are not easy to answer clearly in the signing poem, so they can only let the draw lotteries guess based on a vague meaning.

Empress Zhou read the poem signed for a while and felt that the last few sentences were obviously a bit unlucky, and she couldn't help but feel sad. Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan stood behind Empress Zhou and read the poem signed together. Concubine Tian was a very smart person, and after reading it, she felt heavy in her heart. However, the palace has been full of strife since ancient times. Even if there were not many truths between husband and wife, the only hope for being a concubine is to be favored, and the only responsibility is to make the emperor happy.

After pondering for a moment, Concubine Tian deliberately smiled and said softly: "Please, the Queen, please be content with your grandson. Although this signature is not very good, it is not bad. In my opinion, the Jade Emperor's instructions are very clear: From now on, there will be a turning point in the country."

Chongzhen immediately spoke, "You try to explain and let me and the queen listen."

Concubine Tian acted coquettishly and said, "If I explain it wrong, please forgive me for my ignorance and reckless words and not to see the crime. If I understand it well, I will be rewarded."

"Sit down and explain," Queen Zhou smiled and said, "It's all a family, no outsiders hear it. Even if you explain it wrong, the emperor will not blame you. Concubine Yuan, you can sit there too. Today, accompany the emperor to visit Xiyuan, but you want to be happy and comfortable, and there is no need to be too polite."

Concubine Tian thanked her seat, took the sign of the poem with both hands, sat down, and said in a leisurely manner: "According to my guess, the 'Spring Returns to the Earth' in the first sentence means that the national fortune has changed. Spring is the season for the revival and growth of all things, and hundreds of insects are awakened to insects, and the plants and trees are in prosperity. In this poem, if you ask about illness, you will recover. If you ask about the country, you will gradually improve. Please think about it, the second sentence, "See the music and singing again, the people who paint the boat" does not mean that the world will see the peaceful scene again? Since the early years of Chongzhen, there has been no such peaceful scene, and now it will be there again, so the word "See again."

Chongzhen nodded frequently and said slowly: "I guess these two sentences so much, there will be no mistakes, but the following sentences do not seem auspicious."

In his heart, Emperor Chongzhen always felt that his decisive strategy of withdrawing troops from Liaodong was correct. If Zhang Zhun went to fight against the Tartars, it would be better to suffer both losses or even die together, and the court could take advantage. Judging from the current situation, Zhang Zhun did not have the time and energy to fight with the court.

The main task of the imperial court is to pacify the bandits in the Central Plains, especially in the three provinces including Shaanxi, Henan and Sichuan. As long as these three provinces are pacified, the national destiny will definitely improve. Thinking of this, Chongzhen's inner hopes became even stronger.

Concubine Tian found that Chongzhen was happy to speak well, and she was very calm inside, and said slowly: "Please rest assured by Your Majesty. In fact, there is nothing unlucky in the last few sentences. The meaning of this third sentence is that there are still police officers outside the frontier, but it does not say that the enemy is in a rampant way and the wind is urgent. The fourth sentence is better, which means that the country's destiny has turned around and several wars are about to be wiped out."

Chongzhen asked half-believingly, "Is this the explanation?"

In fact, he already agreed with this statement in his heart. Zhang Zhun led the Hu Ben Army to fight against the Tartars outside the pass, and there was no threat to the Tartars outside the pass. At that time, all the bandits in the Central Plains and the Jianlu outside the pass would be wiped out, and then I would find a way to deal with Zhang Zhun. There are many ways to get rid of Zhang Zhun, which is much easier than dealing with Huang Taiji.

Concubine Tian said confidently: "Yes, Your Majesty, the four words "The country is warmer" correspond to the first sentence "Spring returns to the earth", which does mean that the country's fortune has gradually improved. "Shang Fengyan" just means that there are still be war smoke that has not yet settled, which shows that neither war smoke nor war is in full swing. Originally, the country seemed to have suffered a serious illness. Now that the disease is back, it is about to be cured gradually, but there are still some problems that need to be continued to be treated."

Chongzhen became more and more happy inside, and he couldn't help but smile and nodded and said, "It's good to solve it, it's good to solve it."

Then he asked anxiously: "What about these five or six sentences!"

Concubine Tian said with a smile: "Your Majesty has been worrying and diligent for more than ten years. He hopes that the world will be peaceful as soon as possible and that the people will be safe, but the world will not come yet, so the fifth sentence says, "Yulou has let down the dream of ten years." Your Majesty is the king of Yao and Shun for thousands of years, and has the will of threatening all people. It's a pity..."

Chongzhen hurriedly said, "What a pity? Just talk boldly and don't worry."

Concubine Tian said a little sadly: "It's a pity that civil and military officials cannot share your worries for Your Majesty, nor can you think of Your Majesty's hard work in seeking governance. Your Majesty is like a peerless beauty, pitying himself in the mirror, and not feeling alone in the rabbit's tangible shadow, so the sixth sentence is 'The treasure mirror is empty and the lonely shadow is beautiful'."

Chongzhen and Empress Zhou nodded with a smile and praised her for her good explanation. In particular, Chongzhen was so sweet that he was very sweet in his heart. He had always been very confident and believed that his talent was not as good as Taizu Chengzu, but he was stronger than Wanli and Jiajing. The reason why the country's destiny was because his ministers were not good at doing things well!

After receiving praise from the emperor, Concubine Tian smiled like a flower. She continued with a smile: "The emperor lives in the ninth level, and is in love with thousands of miles. He is looking forward to good news day and night, just like the concubines and people want to know the news of their relatives in their hometown. The good news that the emperor is looking forward to will come soon, so the last two sentences on the sign say: 'Don't blame the deep palace voice for the young man, and a clear cry of geese fly back.'"

Chongzhen hesitated for a moment and said with a wry smile: "I see these last two lines of poetry that it is in vain to look forward to news. It is not good news, but just a lonely goose sounds. Isn't the hope fading? What do you think?"

Concubine Tian hurriedly said, "Please don't worry too much. In my ignorant view, this last line of poem uses the allusion of the wild geese carrying a letter, so the 'geese fly back' means that there is news. What news is the emperor looking forward to? It is a military news. With this line of poem, you can know that the clever sound will come soon."

Queen Zhou quickly said, "I hope this is what you understand!"

Chongzhen's heart became a little cheerful. He was indeed looking forward to the arrival of good news. Unfortunately, the God Sign did not tell him how to send Yang Sichang to supervise the army, so he still couldn't make a decision quickly. He stood up and looked southwest with the female wall. There were indeed picturesque lakes and mountains in the golden sea. The banana garden in the north and Yingtai in the south, the osmanthus in bloom, and the ancient trees were towering. There were many rockery and strange stones, pavilions, palaces, separate halls, curved sills and corridors, yellow tiles and red walls, and reflections of people and water, as if they were real and illusory.

As Chongzhen looked at it, his thoughts left the scenery in front of him and turned to the military for Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng. At this moment, a eunuch from Sili sent a flying message from Zheng Chongjian, saying that he had already arrived in Shangzhou from Xi'an, summoned the generals to teach the advance strategy in person, and encouraged the soldiers to kill the "thieves" and make contributions. He also said: When the soldiers and civilians in Shangluo Mountain heard that the army was "advanced to suppress", they all responded secretly and scrambled to contact each other, willing to help the official army kill the "thieves".

The memorial finally said that he would set off to Wuguan tonight and personally supervise the soldiers to fight. The Shangzhou side was commanded by the minister Ding Qirui, and headed straight to the old camp. In Lantian side, the official army was dispatched at the same time, making the "bandits" unable to rescue each other. The Liaodong Army cavalry cooperated in combat everywhere. If nothing unexpected happened, the Shaanxi bandit army should be severely damaged.

"good!"

After reading this flying song, Chongzhen immediately became happy and looked up at the southwest sky. He was scattered in the battlefield, as if he saw the overlapping mountains of Shangluo Mountains everywhere, and teams of officials were advancing separately. After a moment of meditation, he lowered his head, looked at the date of Zheng Chongjian's worship memorial and calculated it.

He is a person who is very careful about official documents on weekdays. He knew how many days it took to fly from Shangzhou. When he saw that the date of the memorial was July 18th, he knew that the flying song had been delayed for more than ten days on the road. He couldn't help but get angry, but then he forgave in his heart that it was inevitable that the road would be heavy rain and the mountains and bridges were broken, and it would be inevitable that there would be any delay.

Holding the memorial sent from the front in his hand, Chongzhen couldn't help but start to guess alone: ​​Since this flying memorial was delayed on the road, if Zheng Chongjian had a smooth progress in the fight, there should have been a document to report the memorial today. Chongzhen really wanted to see the document to report the memorial!

Thinking of the fierce battles of the soldiers on the battlefield, Chongzhen suddenly became interested in riding horses. The eunuchs who served him thought about his temper every day, fearing that there would be places where they could not serve him. Today, the autumn was clear and cool, and they guessed that he might be happy for a moment, so they rode his favorite horses with horses, so they prepared a saddle and led them under a locust tree outside the gate of Beihai. Chongzhen looked under the big locust tree on the left with a battlement, and whispered: "Trying horses in the sunny autumn is also a pleasure!" Then he walked down the Tuancheng with a very rare smile.

Chongzhen's four imperial horses all looked beautiful and had a gentle temperament. On that day, the eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Prison carefully selected from thousands of horses for him according to these two conditions, and selected these four imperial horses. They only trained them to run smoothly and obey their wishes every day, neither trained them to jump over obstacles nor trained them to calm down when they heard the sound of cannons and shouts.

Chongzhen gave four separate twists for the four horses, but he thought they were very elegant names: Taiping Shi, Yulong Media, Yoshira Cheng, Xuan Taijun. He happened to ride a horse in the palace and always rode Xuan Taijun, but now in order to get a good fortune, he ordered the eunuch to lead Yoshira Cheng in front of him.

He took the wooden horse in red paint and gold-painted, jumped onto Kira Cheng, took the jade-handled horse whip from the eunuch, and headed south along the road between Zhongnanhai and the moat. He started to slow down his bridle, and then whipped a whip, allowing Gu Liangcheng to rush smoothly. He ran back and forth, and strangled the horse under Tuancheng.

Although he was a crappy rider and didn't look like a real rider at all, the eunuchs and the palace maids shouted to him long live, congratulations and respects. An eunuch in front of the imperial court helped him off the horse and bowed and said, "The emperor's riding skills are so exquisite, he is so heroic!"

Amid the cheers of eunuchs and palace maids, Chongzhen accidentally saw a crow nest on an ancient locust tree nearby, and a crow was squatting in the nest. He asked a eunuch who took care of his slingshot and handed him the small yellow satin pocket of the Niwan. He took out the Niwan and aimed it at the crow. The bowstring sounded, and the Niwan flew past the crow's nest. The crow flew away, and at the same time, several half-yellow dried locust leaves fell.

A eunuch initially mistakenly regarded the locust tree leaves as the crow feathers knocked off by a marble, cheering long live, and all the large groups of eunuchs and palace maids in the group city also cheered. A eunuch standing behind Chongzhen first saw clearly that the fallen leaves were just leaves. He was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy, so he quickly said: "The emperor's slingshot was really accurate, and the marble flew over the crow's head, which was only two fingers apart!"

Chongzhen handed over the slingshot and bullet sack to the eunuch, and went to Tuancheng with interest, and ordered Concubine Tian to go down to ride a horse. Among his wives and concubines, Empress Zhou didn't like playing and didn't know how to ride a horse. Concubine Yuan could barely ride a horse, but was not skilled. Other concubines rarely had the opportunity to accompany Chongzhen to play, and they didn't come today.

Concubine Tian was a talented person who could ride a horse. After hearing Chongzhen's orders, she quickly bowed and said, "Receive the order!" and bowed to the queen twice, and then got off Tuancheng surrounded by the female officials and personal palace maids of Chengqian Palace. She was very clever in her heart. She just saw that the emperor was not riding Xuantaijun but riding Yoshirachi, so she guessed the emperor's thoughts, so she didn't ride another horse and asked for Taiping.

Chongzhen was a little worried, worried that some disappointing things would happen in such a happy day. He asked with the battlements: "You always rode with me in the past. The Yulong Media was the most honest. Why don't you ride it today?"

Concubine Tian bowed to the yellow satin embroidered saddle and replied: "I think that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will be destroyed by the government army soon, and the world will be peaceful from now on, so today I specially rode the Taiping trench to get auspiciousness. By the way, there is another Zhang Zhun who will definitely die with Jianlu."

Chongzhen was happy and said yes repeatedly, and then looked back at Empress Zhou and Concubine Yuan. Although Empress Zhou was not happy that Concubine Tian was too obedient and ignored reality at all, and only knew how to say good things desperately, she also saw that Chongzhen was unwilling to hear bad words, so she smiled and said to Chongzhen: "I hope the thief will be successful, and I will see the good news soon, and respond to the imperial concubine's words."

Tian Fei's mother was originally a prostitute and was a horse-riding university. Therefore, Tian Fei learned to ride horses and play pipa when she was young. After entering the palace, she had accompanied her to Xiyuan to ride many times, but she kept it from Chongzhen. Recently, she heard that her father Tian Hongyu had done a lot of bad things. The emperor endured it because of her reasons, so she wanted to take this opportunity to buy the emperor happily and stick to it steadily.

She knew very well that if she lost her favor one day, those jealous people who were usually slandering and flattering in front of the emperor will not only make her and her family lose their wealth and glory immediately, but also will not even be able to save their lives. Empress Zhou and Concubine Yuan, which one is a fuel-efficient lamp?
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