Qingchuan History

Chapter 237 East Palace Medicine Garden
In the fourth year of Yongkang, on November 22, it snowed for the first time in Yindong.It was just the first snow, but from the first day, it was as vast as a goose feather, and the blizzard lasted for nine days and nine nights, and the momentum was so fierce that it had never been seen in nearly a hundred years.

When the snow stopped on the tenth day, bones also appeared in Suoning City, which had never been frozen to death. Of course, they were homeless people, and they were also in remote places in the city.And no matter whether the people in the city or the country are busy with their own affairs, even if they hear some rumors, they still have no time to inquire about them, let alone talk about arrangements.

It was rumored that all the people in the East Palace Medicine Garden were executed before the first snow fell on November 22.

The East Palace has always been the residence of the State Reserve.

Donggong Medicine Garden, as the name suggests, is a medicine garden established by the prince.Qingchuan is rich in vegetation and has a wide variety of plants. Different regions have unique medicinal flowers and plants. Even Wei, which has a less favorable climate, water and soil conditions, also has very handy treasures, such as ginseng.

Therefore, Qingchuan folks often see medicine gardens; apart from medicine merchants or medical centers, many ordinary people will also plant some common and harmless medicine plants in their courtyards.It is not a big garden, but there are more medicines than flowers, so many people jokingly call their own garden a medicine garden.

This scene started from the regional characteristics, flourished in the medical family, and finally became popular among the people, becoming the norm on this continent.

The wind comes from all directions, and in the process of rising, it encounters obstacles--

When you come to a wealthy family with a certain strength, there are few medicine gardens in their homes. The reason may be that these families are not short of money, power, or favor, and most of them are used to using any of the above three to solve their problems.

——If you don't have aspirations or complexes, there is really no need to turn your garden into a medicine garden.

The lingering rising wind met resistance, bypassed many high-ranking and powerful families, and blew again until the royal family.

There are tens of thousands of households in the huge Qingchuan, and thousands of real or nominal medicine gardens, but there are only four in the country.

Therefore, there are only four royal medicine gardens.

The royal special medicine garden is said to be milder for the quality of medicinal materials, and said to be sharper to eliminate risks.The royal families of Qingchuan and the four countries all have their own medicine gardens, which are well known to the whole world, but they are all secretly set up somewhere in the capital city outside the palace, and are not known to outsiders.

This situation continued until the sixth dynasty of the Yin Kingdom. The 19-year-old Crown Prince Ruan Bi entered the East Palace.

The fifth royal medicine garden appeared in Qingchuan.

Donggong Medicine Garden.

The Ruan family naturally has a medicine garden.It's in a hidden place in Suoning City.

The East Palace Medicine Garden is located in the palace.Inside the East Palace.

In order to add a garden with sufficient space and within the living area of ​​the prince, the East Palace was expanded.Naturally, such a major event was approved by Mr. Yin at that time.

This is also the reason why Donggong Pharmaceutical Garden has been full of mystery and legend since its birth.

A royal family with a medicinal garden.A crown prince who will eventually inherit the throne.But it took a lot of effort to expand the residence and set up a medicine garden.Also supported by his father.

To this day, no one dares to say what kind of possibility was brewed by the existence of Donggong Medicine Garden, or what kind of plan was buried.But in the past 300 years in Qingchuan, such a strange thing has never happened for the second time, and the words Donggong Medicine Garden have become a clear reference.only.Exclusive.Whenever it is mentioned, it is absolutely impossible to make a mistake.

At that time, this matter was originally known to few people.There was a gag order in the palace, no discussion, let alone rumors, but with such a movement, how can the palace people not discuss it in private?Where there is discussion, there is temperature, and if there is temperature, it is impossible to avoid transpiration or divergence.

Unless this place has no entry and no exit, or no entry and no exit.

Occasionally someone goes out of the palace, or by chance, they enter the palace and then leave the palace. They come and go again, and within a few days, they are rumored to be seated.

Love to join in the fun, love to gossip, lest there is nothing new under the sun, this is the nature of gregarious people.

Especially peacetime.

What's new in the royal family is what the common people like to chew on repeatedly.

The prince expanded the East Palace and set up a medicine garden. This is a qualified side dish with good color, flavor and taste.But not amazing.

After all, it's just a medicine garden.People in Qingchuan are most familiar with the word medicine garden.Perhaps His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is keen on herbal medicine, and it is inconvenient to go out of the palace frequently, so he set aside a place for his further studies?

Eat food without pollution, and it's over after chewing.

What really makes this medicine garden famous in history is that it has been mysterious for ten years, and before the answer to the mystery is revealed, it suddenly disappeared.

On the second day of November in the fourth year of Yongkang, the Donggong Medicine Garden caught fire.The fire burned for three days and three nights, from the medicine garden all the way to the main hall, and the entire East Palace was burned.

If more than one person insisted that they saw the ruins of the East Palace with their own eyes, no one believed that the fire could withstand the water dragon attack of the royal team and survived for three days and three nights.

When it was first discovered, the medicine garden was already in flames.The water dragons were dispatched, and everywhere they went, they only lowered the height of the flames in real time, and had no effect on extinguishing the fire.What's even more bizarre is that there are no continuous trees or wooden buildings from the medicine garden to the main hall, but the fire spread unimpeded to all the halls in the East Palace. The speed is far faster than the water dragon sprayed by the fire fighting team.

On the night of the third day, the last fire burned down the prince's study, and the fire ceased.And the soldiers who fought day and night on the front line all felt that the fire was extinguished by itself when it burned down.It has nothing to do with their efforts.

Such details come from rumors.

Descriptions of eyewitnesses or self-proclaimed eyewitnesses.

No matter how many exaggerated or fabricated elements there are, the fire lit up the night sky with thick clouds in Suoning City, and half of Yindong could see——

Indeed, it burned for three nights.

In the fourth year of Yongkang, the fourth year Ruan Bi ascended the throne, it was exactly ten years since he entered the East Palace at the age of 19 and set up a medicine garden.

Earlier that year, his only son, Ruan Ji, who had been registered as the prince early, suddenly became seriously ill, with a high fever that persisted, and he recovered easily but hurt his brain. The most unusable prince in the world today.

Within two months, the East Palace caught fire, and the crown prince was playing in the imperial garden at that time, and survived; other deaths and injuries were kept secret in the palace, but it is certain that many people in charge of managing the medicine garden escaped.

Because they died in the secret execution 20 days later.

Secret executions are also rumored.The only thing that can barely be counted as a factual basis is that some people claimed to have seen the bodies of those people being dragged to the mass grave near Qishan Mountain.

There are four in total.

Just before the first snowfall.

Given the special and mysterious nature of the Eastern Palace Medicine Garden, once it was burned down, the entire Eastern Palace would also be burned down, and it was even more likely to bring disaster to the little prince. It is not difficult to understand why the emperor was so angry that he issued an order of death.

From the time point of view, the execution date is November 22, 20 days have passed since the first day of the incident, which shows that Yin Jun Ruan Bi did not convict immediately, but took some time to investigate.

In other words, after more than ten days of investigation, he finally concluded that the responsibility lay with those few people who took care of the medicine garden.

All of these are still speculations and inferences from the outside world at that time and in the following 20 years.

For Yin Jun Ruan Bi, the four years of Yongkang were too difficult a year.The crown prince was damaged, and the medicine garden in the East Palace was burned down. On the day when those culprits were executed, a blizzard suddenly arrived, and for nine days and nine nights——

The first natural disaster he encountered since he came to power was also the worst snow disaster in the history of Yin Kingdom.

Someone once joked that the case of Donggong Yaoyuan was probably wrongly judged, otherwise there would be a catastrophe and a silent mourning for the wronged dead.

The past goes with the flow.

The past is gone.

What does the appearance of the Eastern Palace Medicine Garden mean, and whether there is another mystery behind its sudden burning down? In the ten years and three thousand days and nights it has existed in the world, even if it is famous in Qingchuan, no one has ever been able to tell what it is inside. What kind of medicinal plants were planted, and who were responsible for taking care of them.

Not even rumors.

I don't know the origin, the picture, the process, and the reason. There is only an inexplicable and seemingly tragic ending.

The most bizarre unsolved case in the 300-year history of Qingchuan.

An unsolved case that obviously has a result but only has a result.

It is known as the East Palace Medicine Garden case in history.

　Yongkang is the year name of Ruan Bi's dynasty.It was mentioned several times in the memory of Jingting Song in the first volume of Gumeng.I'm afraid you forgot to remind me again~
　　
　
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