"Xinglong, why are you here?" Cui Ning was a little surprised when he saw Wan Xinglong coming in panting.

"We have been busy these days, and the company has invested in several projects of Internet companies. Although domestic Internet companies are just starting out, they are not making money, and have not found the so-called profit model. However, we are all optimistic about these projects and several founders. After all, Longguo also needs its own portal website." Wan Xinglong briefly talked about his recent situation:

"I heard that you are going to visit the Old Palace tonight this afternoon, and then I specially pushed for a social event and rushed over to visit the Old Palace with you at night. I was also very curious about how many secrets are hidden in such a place under the imperial city?"

"Stop talking. Long Da and Long just told me all the legends they knew. There are many of them that I have heard of for the first time, such as divine beasts, ancient wells, palace maids, time travel, Chu Xiu Palace can't sleep. Anyway, it's all kinds of stories that are told through hearsays, and I don't know whether it's true or not."

"I have also heard of many versions, but there are indeed some shadows here at night recently. This should be true. Mr. Zhuge told me that I am practicing Taekwondo, not considered ancient martial arts, and there is no so-called true energy in my body, so I can explore the secret together."

"Then let's go together, but it's less than eight o'clock now, hundreds of thousands of square meters, dozens of palaces and nearly ten thousand houses, and there is no goal."

"Let's go to Chuxiu Palace first." Long Da was very curious. "Why would you sleep in Chuxiu Palace later and see if you are lying outside when you wake up?"

"It's okay to go to Chuxiu Palace, but can you sleep?" Wan Xinglong touched Long Da's head. "I'll tell you two, who is the boss?"

"I"'s voice is surprisingly consistent and unambiguous.

Wan Xinglong and Cui Ning looked at each other, and then Cui Ning greeted the armed police on duty at the door. The armed police should have received a notice from their superiors. After a brief conversation, they looked at a few people, and called to confirm again. The salutes were made. The four people walked into the mysterious old palace through the gate. Behind them, the armed police quickly locked the door.

The Longdu Forbidden City is a royal palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Dragon Kingdom. It was formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of the central axis of the Dragon Kingdom. It is the essence of ancient palace architecture in the Longdu Kingdom. The Longdu Forbidden City is centered on three halls, covering an area of ​​720,000 square meters, with a construction area of ​​about 150,000 square meters. It has more than 70 palaces of all sizes and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and most complete wooden structure ancient buildings in the world.

The Old Palace of Long Kingdom began to be built in the fourth year of Yongle (1406) of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. It was built on the old palace of Nandu, the capital at that time. It was built in the 18th year of Yongle (1420). It is a rectangular city with a length of 961 meters from north to south and a width of 753 meters from east to west. It is surrounded by a 10-meter-high city wall on all sides, and a moat 52 meters wide outside the city.

The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: outer court and inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall, collectively known as the three main halls, and are the place where the country holds a grand ceremony. The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Hall, and Kunning Palace, collectively known as the Three Palaces, and is the main palace where the emperor and the empress live.

The old palace of the Oriental Dragon Kingdom is known as the first of the five major palaces in the world (the old palace of the Dragon Kingdom, the Palace of Versailles in France, the Buckingham Palace of the Eagle Kingdom, the White House of the Mei Kingdom, and the Kremlin of the Eagle Kingdom). The old palace is strictly built according to the principle of building an imperial capital in the ancient "Zhou Li? Kaogong Ji" of the Dragon Kingdom.

The entire old palace was combined into a whole in terms of architectural arrangement using the techniques of body changes and ups and downs. It is functionally in line with the hierarchy of feudal society. At the same time, it achieves the artistic effect of left and right balance and body changes. It can be said to be the greatest palace in a thousand years.

However, some strange events in the old palace did not start from now on. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the last emperor of the previous dynasty, and in the 17th year of his reign (1644), when the rebel army Li Zicheng army captured Longdu, he hanged himself in Meishan. A 34-year-old diligent emperor committed suicide in the palace, which would inevitably cause changes in the energy of heaven and earth.

Then in the Qing Dynasty, there were many stories about strange events in the old palace or the appearance of Chongzhen, but the vicissitudes of time have become legends written by novelists.

The four people walked in the old palace around 8 o'clock at night. According to the regulations of the superiors, in addition to the relevant surveillance opening and the strengthening of duty at the gates of the old palace, all staff inside the old palace were on vacation tonight. In other words, there were only Cui Ning and Wan Xinglong in the dark palace. There was an inexplicable atmosphere in the dark palace.

Chuxiu Palace, one of the six palaces in the west of the old palace of the Long Kingdom, is located east of Xianfu Palace and north of Yikun Palace. It is a Han palace building built in the Ming Dynasty and the residence of the concubines of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Chuxiu Palace is a single-eaved hip-mounted mountain top with five spacious rooms, with a corridor in front of it.

The doves under the eaves and the beams and rafters are decorated with Su-style paintings. The east and west side halls are Yanghe Hall and Shangfu Hall, both of which are three-bedroom and hard mountaintop buildings. The back hall is Lijingxuan with five-bedroom wide-faced and hard mountaintops, and the east and west side halls are Fengguang Room and Yilan Pavilion.

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty (the second year of Xianfeng in 1852 AD), Empress Xiaoqinxian (i.e. Empress Dowager Cixi) entered the palace and lived in the back hall of Chuxiu Palace (now Lijingxuan), and gave birth to Emperor Tongzhi here.

After the Qing Dynasty abdicated, Wanrong lived here and incorporated Western elements into the decoration and furnishings. It is precisely because of the fate of Empress Dowager Cixi and this palace that Chuxiu Palace attracted particularly attention.

Due to the arrangement of the superiors, except for the locks of several cultural relics displaying places, all the palace gates were open. Cui Ning and the other four stood in front of Chuxiu Palace, imagining a woman who had planned and guided the country more than a hundred years ago. She couldn't help but feel particularly emotional.

"Brother Cui Ning, Brother Xinglong, do you think Guangxu and Xuantong are the descendants of Nurhaci? Looking at history, whether it is Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, or Kangxi and Qianlong, they are all true heroes and heroes from all ages. Can the shores of the territory be the king's ministers? Why can't even handle an old lady when it comes to Guangxu and Xuantong? None of the civil and military ministers in the court dare to come out to oppose Empress Dowager Cixi?"

"Isn't history just like this? When we look at history now, many people are outrageous, but in many things, when we look back at ourselves, aren't there any stupid moments? It's also bloody to say that Cixi's rule behind the curtain.

At that time, in July of the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), Emperor Wenzong Yizhu, who was the Emperor Xianfeng, died at the age of 31. On his deathbed, Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Jingshou, Sushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying, was the minister who supported the six-year-old prince Zaichun (i.e. Emperor Tongzhi) as the emperor.

In September of the same year, Empress Dowager Ci'an and Cixi colluded with Prince Gong Yixin and others to launch a coup. In history, it was called Xinyou Coup, Qixiang Coup or Kyoto Coup in Longguo. Sushun, the head of the eight ministers of Guru, ordered Zaiyuan and Duanhua to commit suicide, dismiss Jingshou and other five ministers, and implemented a cross-brow and ruled the country, opening a sad page in the history of Longguo.

Later, in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Longdu and the Old Summer Palace was burned. Cause and effect were all directly related to Cixi. This woman can be said to be a sinner in the history of the Dragon Kingdom, but everything is the past."

After listening to Wan Xinglong's answer, one or two young men of Long Dalong still had some questions, so Cui Ning asked a very objective question:

"If you were born in the Qing Dynasty and you were a civil servant with no power, what could you do when facing Cixi and Prince Gong, who had military power?"

"Resist, what else can I do?"

"The head of the eight ministers who are in charge of their lives, Sushun is exactly the same as you think. You all know his result. Then let's continue with this topic. If the eight ministers with the most powerful emperor's will be killed, killed, or even threatened with the lives of dozens of people in the family, what else can you do?"

Long Da and Long One or two met again, Long Da spoke:

"Hold on, resist if you have the chance"

"You are right. Guangxu thought so, and did the same." Cui Ning said carefully:

"But Mr. Jiang told me that there are also records in history, that is, the change of each dynasty has certain fate and cause and effect. We cannot think of the predecessors from the perspective of later generations, and they are all stupid, and they all have shortcomings. If they are not in the situation, any view is pale."

"Before the establishment of the Qing Dynasty in the previous dynasty, as one of the tribes, the Yehenara clan was a major surname of the Manchus and one of the surnames with relatively good origins.

The ancestor of the Yehenara clan was a Mongolian who married into the Hulun tribe. The Yehenara clan's Nara means love. The reason why this surname is called the Yehenara clan is because the original kingdom was established by the Yehen River.

According to historical records of the Long Kingdom, in the late Yuan and Ming dynasties, a war broke out between the Yehenara clan and Aisin Gioro. The Yehenara clan was the one who won the victory, and this clan once became the most powerful tribe in the Northeast. This status was maintained for many years, until the Aisin Gioro clan, Nurhaci, appeared, and the situation was reversed.

After becoming the leader of the tribe, Nurhaci led his tribe Jianzhou Jurchens to unify the Jurchen tribes, among which the battle with the Yehe tribe was the most intense. After the victory, Nurhaci ordered the poisoning of the Yehenara clan to avenge his previous shame. He even burned many Yehenara clan members to death by stolen. Then the remaining tribe members were let to eat their flesh. Before being killed, the leader of the Yehenara tribe swears to the sky and said to Nurhaci: "Even if there is only one woman left in my Yehenara clan, I will avenge this great revenge in the future and destroy your entire clan!"

It was this vow that made Aisin Jueluo remember it in his heart, guarding against the Yehenara clan everywhere, and even avoiding the Yehenara clan.

With the defeat of Yehenara, he was ruled by Aisin Jueluo for more than two hundred years. It was not until a man named "Xinger" was born, and the Yehenara was able to wait for the opportunity to turn around. This Xinger was later Cixi."
Chapter completed!