Clam Pearl

In the third year of Daqi 240, due to the nearly 400 years of the old city of Shangjing, the imperial palace was dilapidated, the city expanded, and the population increased rapidly. There was no land in the inner city to expand the 29 palaces.Emperor Qi Hui made a decision to build the Four Seasons Palace in the four corners of Shangjing, southeast, northwest, called: Shuhua, Yuhua, Wenhua, and Taihua.

The four palaces on the outskirts of Shangjing all occupy an area of ​​more than [-] mu, wasting manpower and material resources, and there is no historical data to test it. According to the account of Sima Gongnu in Beijing, four thousand shi of brown rice was consumed per day during construction.The construction of the Four Palaces began on the same day in the same year until the demise of Daqi, and it was still not completed.

Architecture is not only the epitome of an era, but the entire architectural form of the Four Great Palaces presents a characteristic that Daqi people admire, broad, luxurious, and exquisite.

Liang, at the end of Tianshou's 17th year, the winter snow will stop.In the early morning of this day, Shangjing opened the four doors early.

At the second quarter of the hour, Shangjing began to clean the streets and hang curtains, and at the third quarter, the Third Division of Shangjing sent troops to guard the main roads and forbidden streets.

At a moment's notice, Emperor Tianshou boarded the jade chariot, surrounded by Yi Zong, and slowly left Qiyuan Palace.

Followed by the Tianshoudi Yiyi, and the centralized and loyal ministers around the emperor slowly followed. This team of chariots and horses moved slowly one by one, and the team was ten miles long.

Emperor Tianshou hugged the stove and sat in the chariot. Now, his mind is still in a mess.In my heart, I hated the old eunuch Feng for not being able to suppress the news, and he learned about a secret treasure through the publicity.

That night, there was a night of interrogation. On the second day, when Emperor Tianshou arrived at the court, he was congratulated by all the ministers who were full of joy.Nowadays, everyone needs some good news and good things to calm people's hearts, and most importantly, at such a moment and in such a situation, that incident has brought a touch of color to the dispirited court.

The money that has not yet been met has been decided by the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War before the amount is known.

After coming down from the imperial court, Emperor Tianshou urgently recruited his benefactor Taifu Master Hu Ji and Shuizedian.

At this time, Emperor Tianshou was upset. If there is a secret treasure, it must be a good thing. If not, it may cause some turmoil. After all, there have been countless natural and man-made disasters this year, and now it is hard to get off.

Master Hu Ji really lived up to the name of the emperor teacher, he just thought for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. If there is a secret treasure, it is a good thing. If there is no secret treasure, you have to do something good, so as to calm people's hearts."

Emperor Tianshou was puzzled, and asked carefully. Master Hu Ji smiled, and wrote two words "Xiangrui!" on the imperial case with a pen

In this way, today Emperor Tianshou set up a big battle, and with a full guard of honor, the important officials of the Manchu Dynasty slowly left the city.Gu Yan, Duke of Pingzhou, was not listed here, he had taken sick leave, and only Gu Maode, because he had a fifth-rank official job, followed at the tail of the team and shared a vaulted cart with several colleagues.

Unbeknownst to the officials, in the guard of honor of Emperor Tianshou, there was a small car with a cage inside, but inside the cage were two pure white deer, which were the "upper" in the five auspicious signs. Rui".

Master Hu Ji found the white deer from somewhere, and it seems that he has been raising it for a long time. When the Emperor Tianshou saw the white deer, he had speculations.Master Hu Ji knew that the emperor was suspicious, so he smiled and said, he knew that this year was unstable, so he looked for this thing early. He originally wanted to offer it to Shangyuan to reassure the people.

The Tianshoudi, who was cheating for the first time, felt uneasy at the moment. On the one hand, he was looking forward to the secret treasure, and on the other hand, he was afraid of being disappointed. However, in the two moods, there was also an indescribable feeling of excitement. The two "Shangrui" , is actually in the team, no matter what, today will return with a full load, he has worked out a series of celebration methods with his teacher, and it is foreseeable that he will usher in a stable moment.

Thinking of this, Emperor Tianshou felt comfortable all over, and the poisonous gas in his body that had been uncontrollable was also slowly dissipating at this moment.

Because of the proper preparation in advance, the road was paved with loess, and there was no idle time, so the emperor's car drove very smoothly.After the team left the city, they began to speed up, and before the scheduled noon, finally, the first team arrived.

After the team arrived, they first spread a white forbidden curtain and surrounded the ruins of the Shuhua Palace that had been burned down.

The original Shuhua Palace covered an area of ​​thousands of acres. Unfortunately, under the fire of the first emperor, only a dozen huge buildings in the palace still have broken walls. The Fengtian Palace is in the middle of the Shuhua ruins. Poor, in the past there were huge buildings, but today these buildings are only a mile or two away.It didn't take long for the team that went ahead in a hurry to wrap up the curtain.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Emperor Tianshou's car arrived at Shuhua Palace, but he didn't go in. Only after all the officials arrived, they slowly cleaned their hands together, burned incense together under the instructions of the heavenly official, and prayed for a while. After a while, they walked into Shuhua Palace together.

It was also the first time for Emperor Tianshou to come to this Shuhua Palace. He had heard in the past that he entered the ruins one by one today.He felt a little desolate in his heart. This building once belonged to a great era, but now this building belongs to the vanished history. Today, the view of history has not yet existed in this period, but Emperor Tianshou has faintly touched it.

The officials followed from afar, and whether the relic was there or not, it had little to do with them. At most, they regarded this trip as an outing, just for a stroll.

So, they lined up together, looked around, and some of them even chatted in low voices.

Gu Maode acted like he had nothing to do with himself in the team, but under the loose official robe, both of his hands were trembling.Not fear, but a trembling of excitement.

Finally, the auspicious time that the heavenly officials hoped to have arrived, a eunuch came and sprinkled five kinds of seeds around, and burned some paper money to bribe the ghost who had died unjustly in Shuhua Palace.After the sacrifice, someone helped out an old eunuch from behind the team.

As soon as the old eunuch came out, the officials stopped discussing and just looked at him excitedly, seeing him stumble around and look around, and even shed tears.

No one can understand Eunuch Feng's inner world at this moment. He spent the youngest years of his life here, and he has an impression of every plant and tree here.

Eunuch Feng looked around and found the palace very accurately. At this moment, his heart was throbbing and uncomfortable, and he didn't know why the man asked him to do this.

Looking up to the sky deeply, Eunuch Feng took a long breath, maybe this was his last breath in the world.After inhaling, Eunuch Feng pointed to the bottom of Fengtian Hall and said, "It's over there, go dig it!"

Tianguan glanced at him, then looked at His Majesty sitting not far away, His Majesty nodded, and Tianguan waved his hand behind him.

So, forty or fifty strong warriors all took off their outer robes and walked slowly together to the former site of Fengtian Temple, moving stones and pillars.

For a while, some dust flew up, but at this moment, no one dared to cough or make loud noises, because Imam sat there without blinking his eyes.

After moving for about an hour, the floor tiles of Fengtian Hall were finally exposed. At this time, the Tianguan came to ask Eunuch Feng where the bricks were.Eunuch Feng shook his head lightly and said, it's so burned that it can't be seen, it's all warped!

So, someone found a cavalry, a shovel, and a shovel, and began to pry the floor tiles one by one. After a while, someone shouted: "I found it! I found it!"

Emperor Tianshou stood up abruptly, and the crowd surrounded him, but they didn't see that the eunuch Feng, who was submerged in the crowd, had already sat limply on the ground.

Emperor Tianshou came closer and saw a row of stone steps that were faintly exposed under a floor tile that had been pried open. He was a little excited and said, "Pry them all open!"

The crowd did not disperse and was still crowded. Yun Guang, who was standing not far away, waved his hand, and a eunuch flicked his whip in the air to threaten them. Only then did the officials remember that the emperor was over there, so they were all together like the tide receding. Push it to the original place.

The cold winter wind was blowing, but no one felt the cold here. As the floor tiles were removed one by one, finally, a row of stairs that could accommodate five people in parallel was exposed.

The Tianguan reported in the past, but the Emperor Tianshou did not give up, but ordered people to continue to pick up, so another hundred warriors were added to the old site.

I don't know how long it took, and suddenly someone shouted again: "It's amazing, a magical beast has appeared! A magical beast has appeared!"

There was a buzzing sound at the scene, everyone hated that their neck was too short, because the emperor was over there, and they didn't dare to go over there, so they could only point their toes and watch from a distance.

Emperor Tianshou also stood up, but his courtiers didn't allow him to go there. He had no choice but to order the heavenly official to go and see.

That day official was also trembling with excitement, trotting all the way down the stone steps, a moment later, that day official ran back, knelt on the ground and shouted heartbreakingly to Emperor Tianshou, "God bless my emperor, There are divine beasts underground, divine beasts!!!!!!"

"Sure enough!" His Majesty stood up and wanted to see.

But the heavenly official stopped him: "Your Majesty, there is an underground palace below. You only need to dig another hour to see everything. Your Majesty is a body of gold. Before everything is revealed, we should wait a little longer."

His Majesty had no choice but to sit down and look back at his teacher, only to find that his teacher was looking over there too with excitement.

His Majesty laughed, all the worries disappeared at this moment, so he pointed at the other end and laughed and cursed: "Then what are you waiting for, go dig it!!!!!!"

After another round of digging, the tunnel finally fully revealed its face. As the underground palace got deeper and deeper, it was impossible to dig it anymore.But that's it, people have been able to fully see the gate of the underground palace, and they can see the two long-dead beasts.

That is really a mythical beast. In the minds of these self-proclaimed knowledgeable people, this is the first time they have seen such a large turtle shell and a three-meter-long turtle back.

I don't know how many years these two divine beasts have been guarding here?Their mission has already been completed, and now there are only remnants left, but they are still guarding the palace gate behind them.

The heavenly official calculated with his fingers, and then ordered someone to fetch the red cloth. Since the red cloth was not wide enough, he found someone to sew it up, and then went down to cover the big cloth with the beast. Burning incense and praying again, even the emperor went over and performed a half salute to ask the gods and beasts to move the place.

After the tossing was over, the heavenly official did some calculations again, and said, only people with the five zodiac signs of rabbit, chicken, pig, dog, and horse must go down to invite the beast to the ground.

So after some more questioning, a warrior who fit the zodiac signs took the red cloth and carefully wrapped the beast. At this moment, neither Jinshang nor the officials were interested in the original purpose of this trip anymore. .They were very excited, their hearts were beating up and down, and they felt that there must be something extraordinary behind that, behind the underground palace. This thing must be magical, and it must have a certain vague relationship with the sky.

As the divine beasts were invited out, the table that was put on the place where the pair of divine beasts were placed was quickly placed on the table for worship, and ten farm cattle that were found temporarily were slaughtered on the spot, and their heads were cut off to be enshrined on it.

The corners of Gu Maode's mouth twitched.That thing, he sat on it with his butt for a long time!

After the guard beast was invited out, Eunuch Feng was also dumbfounded!He stared blankly at the exposed stone gate. He was familiar with the craftsmanship of the stone gate. It was the taotie pattern that was popular in the past. Nowadays, there are no such patterns on bronze and stone tools.

At this moment, the sky suddenly brightened. Really, today is very strange. It used to be groggy, so why is it so bright today.

Emperor Tianshou looked at the stone gate and nodded to the Tianguan, so seventeen or eight warriors walked down the steps and slowly pushed the stone gate up.

As the stone door slowly opened, the ground was very deep, and His Majesty's neck was also long supported.

Then someone took the torch again, and the heavenly official led a group of subordinates in together. They claimed that they had the help of gods.

I don't know how long it took, and I don't know who exclaimed, and then they all exclaimed.

Then the official stumbled out that day, and when he came out, he staggered because he was too flustered, and suddenly he fell on a big horse, and his front teeth were knocked out. At this moment, he couldn't care about it at all. , with tears in his eyes, he turned to His Majesty and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't dare to dig anymore, the bottom, the bottom is the Emperor of Heaven, it is the miracle of the Emperor of Heaven!!!!!!"

"What!" His Majesty yelled, stood up abruptly, and was about to run over.

The heavenly official hurriedly stopped: "You can't come down, you can't come down, your majesty must take a bath and change clothes, and kneel at every step."

Another heavenly official ran out from below, and everyone had tears on their faces. After a lifetime of feudal superstition, they finally saw the gods. They swore that they had never been so close to the gods in their lives.

"Does this have to be the case? Do I have to kneel at every step?" Emperor Tianshou asked.

The celestial officials nodded, and a group of celestial officials nodded in unison. Someone said: "Even if your majesty kneels down next time, it's not enough to show respect to the emperor of heaven. Your majesty, woo woo woo..." This person is already incoherent, regardless of the beginning of high or low class Nonsense.

His Majesty nodded and ordered people to prepare.

The heavenly official saw the excitement on Master Hu Ji's face, and added another sentence on his own initiative: "Your Majesty will go down, and the eight loyal ministers in the court need to bathe and follow."

So, together with His Majesty and the eight old men, they all went to take a collective bath in the temporarily prepared tent behind.Thanks to the emperor's trip, everything was prepared, otherwise it would be a lot of trouble.

At this moment, Gu Maode was already excited and not excited, he was a little tired from standing, so he found a place to sit on the ground, and a superior officer looked at him, and he said: "I am weak at the moment, I am so frightened, I have to stand Can't stop."

As soon as he took the lead, a group of people with limp feet fell to the ground together.

Another hour passed, and with a burst of drumming, His Majesty finally came out.

Gu Maode watched the Tianshou Emperor walk out, following the paved blanket and walking piously step by step, his heart has gone from fear, excitement, and all emotions to numbness.

The bottom was arranged by him and his father and close personally. After the arrangement, it is not to blame him for being cruel, some people are afraid that they will never see the sun again.

Behind him is the career of the Gu family for thousands of years, but it is a bit of sacrifice. For Gu Maode who grew up in the family, it is an inevitable price. Gu Zhao doesn't know about the lives of those who went out. If he knew, it would be bad for him again. A kind of torture.Everyone in the family knew that Gu Zhao respected human life, so they didn't tell him that this was the reason why Gu Yan kept hiding it.

As Emperor Tianshou knelt down, the officials also knelt and waited silently.

Gu Maode knows exactly what's down there.After opening the stone gate, there is an underground hall. The hall was originally empty. Later, he led people to find countless jade stones and carved them into stone steps. Those heavenly star stones were placed one by one on the jade steps.

In the middle of the underground palace, there are two mountain and river copper tripods. In the middle of the tripod is a pure gold table, on which is enshrined the pure gold "Record of the World", which weighs more than a thousand taels of gold.The cover of the book is inlaid with five kinds of precious stones, and the cover alone costs 100 taels.

Naturally, whether gold and jade, or beasts, everything is just an accessory, and the most important thing is the content of the book.That's the real priority!

At the end of Tianshou's 17th year, the relics of the Emperor of Heaven appeared in the world. After approaching the sky step by step, the Emperor Shun fainted on the spot from excitement, woke up and cried on the ground.

Afterwards, the crowd helped the Emperor Tianshou out of the underground palace. Suddenly, deer cries were heard at the former site of Shuhua, and two white deer suddenly ran out from a ruined palace, singing congratulations to the Emperor Tian from a distance.