King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 814 The country is peaceful and the people are safe

September 25th, the capital of gods.

From Yongdingmen to Zhengyangmen and then to Damingmen, this is a street over 100 meters wide, also known as Tianjie.

On weekdays, people can walk freely in Tianjie, and even set up stalls to sell goods. People come and go like the tide.

But the situation is different today. All the troops from the five cities were mobilized to directly block Tianjie under martial law. In order to ensure absolute safety, the Beijing camp also dispatched personnel.

Just by looking at this scene, the people in the capital city have guessed that the emperor, who had gone to the temporary palace to escape the summer heat, is about to return to the capital.

The soldiers outside the imperial city were busy, and the various departments and government offices inside the imperial city were also extremely busy.

When Zhu Jinghong went to the temporary palace, various ministries and agencies had to send people to work outside the palace, so they brought a large amount of memorial materials. These things now have to be re-archived, which is naturally extremely cumbersome.

The outer court was busy, and the inner court was no exception, all the palaces were being cleaned.

Cleaning work is done every day, and deep cleaning begins three days in advance and ends before the emperor enters the palace.

In contrast, there is a palace complex on the northeast side of the imperial palace, which seems particularly quiet because no one lives here usually.

There is no one here usually, but now there are people. These are the newly selected beauties entering the palace. There are ten of them in total and they are temporarily living here.

The residences of these people will be decided only after the queen returns to the palace, and only then will they have official positions.

After being selected to enter the palace, these ten women learned the rules in the Shangyi Bureau, so they had a lot of free time every day.

For example, at this time, everyone who had just finished morning class began to gather together and chat.

"I heard that His Majesty will be returning to the palace today. Do you think he will summon us?"

"Alas... I don't know if those ladies are easy to talk to. If they make things difficult for us in the future, it will be terrible!"

These people are of too low a rank to live alone, so they will be dispersed to various palaces to live. In simple terms, they will live under someone else's roof.

"Let me tell you, the imperial concubine who returned to the palace a few days ago, I saw her in the imperial garden yesterday. She said that my walking posture was wrong and scolded me a little!"

"Ah? There is such a thing. It seems that this Yang Guifei is not easy to get along with. God bless me, don't let me live in her palace!"

Everyone was worried at this time. After all, the imperial concubine's rank was too high. If she was given a share, she would be bullied to death.

At this time, someone reminded them, "Stop talking to each other. Let alone the imperial concubine, I'm afraid we may not be able to live with the two concubines. Tell me... do you like living with outsiders?"

Of course it is more comfortable to live alone, so there is no need to worry about this. They are basically assigned to concubines and noble ladies.

"Tell me, your Majesty took everyone to the temporary palace, why did this Yang Guifei come back first? Did she offend your Majesty?"

"I think so. Sigh... I'm afraid that His Majesty is also very majestic. We must be careful in the future!"

The truly cautious people did not participate in the conversation at all at this moment. The truth that words can cause trouble has long been engraved in their hearts.

While the beauties were discussing this, Zhu Jinghong was currently visiting a country gentleman's home.

This was a completely unplanned trip. Zhu Jinghong's only purpose for this trip was to see the situation of this year's autumn harvest.

Of course, he was not looking at wheat, but sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, and it was the time to harvest sweet potatoes.

These three things were introduced to the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Jinghong many years ago, and since then, they have been tried and selected for seeds. Only in the past two years have they begun to be trial-planted in various places.

If the harvest is good, the people will naturally plant it without the court's promotion. He is now here to see the sweet potato yield.

This country gentleman's family owned six or seven hundred acres of land, and there had been Jinshi graduates in his family before. This was the mainstream level of landlords in the Ming Dynasty.

Because the seeds were not very good, the sweet potatoes were not much better than wheat, but the results made Zhu Jinghong happy.

After all, this thing can be grown anywhere, even on the mountains, and it is a good thing that can feed more people.

After reading all this, an hour had passed before Zhu Jinghong set off again. Baochai and others did not wait for him and went straight to Beijing first.

The Qianqing Palace will welcome their master again after more than three months.

The eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace, as well as a group of palace maids including Xichun and Park Jinying, have already started cleaning up the Qianqing Palace and the left and right side palaces.

In the eastern warm room of the Qianqing Palace, Park Jin-young was arranging memorials. These were newly received today and they had to wait for Zhu Jinghong to come back in the afternoon to take a look.

Highly confidential items such as memorials were naturally sorted out by the foreman Park Jin-young herself, but because she was too tired from traveling today, she accidentally dropped a pile of memorials when she turned around.

So she quickly squatted down and picked up the memorials from the ground as quickly as possible, but when she picked up one of the scattered memorials, Park Jin-young saw three very familiar words.

After rubbing his eyes and making sure that he had not seen it wrong, Park Jin-young looked around and then opened the memorial in his hand.

She saw the three words "Park Jundae", which was the name of her biological brother, who should be dead as far as she knew.

So she decided to see who this Park Jundae was and whether he was her brother, although she also felt that it was unlikely.

The first line of the memorial revealed the identity of the person submitting the memorial, Geng Zonggui, the commander-in-chief of the Andong Xingdusi. It was obvious that this was a memorial from Korea.

The content of the memorial said that it had been found out that the leader of the rioters who had not been completely eradicated in recent years was called Park Jun-dae.

According to the captured rebel general, Park Jun-dae was from Seoul and was once a Korean rebel who followed Li Shuo and his son to fight against the imperial court.

After the defeat of Li Shuo and his son, Park Jundae disappeared. His parents and sister died in the war, but now he has risen up against the court again.

The content after the memorial was that Geng Zonggui stated that the southern part of Korea was mountainous, and that additional troops were needed to completely wipe out the Park bandits, so he requested an order to allow the Jurchen tribes to send troops.

The cabinet's proposal was approved, and the Ministry of War was attached with specific opinions, which called for 3,000 cavalry from the Dong'e, Huifa, Hunhe and other Jurchen tribes, and for the Korean and imperial troops to encircle the "Puk thief" from five directions, completely strangling the "Puk thief" in one fell swoop.

After reading the memorial, Park Jin-young was certain that the Park Jun-dae mentioned in the memorial was her biological brother.

Park Jin-young always thought that her brother had passed away, but she did not expect to "reunite" with him in this way.

Just as she was in tears, she heard footsteps outside, so she quickly closed the memorial, put it into the sorted pile, pretended nothing had happened, and stood up to put her things away.

Peeping at the memorial was a capital crime, so of course she was afraid of being discovered.

The next moment, Xichun came in from outside the room and said excitedly: "Sister Park, I just went to see it, and there are really a lot of flowers in bloom!"

"Ok!"

Normally Park Jin Young would talk more, but right now she was worried about her brother, so she wasn't in the mood to joke.

"What's wrong with you?" Xichun noticed something was wrong.

"Nothing, I just didn't believe it and messed up the chapters. It took me a lot of effort to put them back together again!"

"What's the big deal? No one saw it anyway, so why are you afraid?"

After Xichun approached, she put on a flattering smile and said, "My dear sister, I'm really tired after traveling all day today. I want to ask you for a favor!"

"What's the deal?"

"How about you come this afternoon and I'll come tomorrow?"

Xichun is here to take over the shift. They have done this kind of thing many times. As long as she agrees, it's fine.

Park Jin-young looked at the imperial desk. The emperor would read the memorials today, so if she was on duty, she might be able to see the contents of the imperial edict.

She was also concerned about her brother's condition, so she readily agreed. "Since you are tired, take a good rest. I will take your place today!"

"Thank you, Sister Park... I'll bring you something tomorrow!" Xichun thanked her sincerely.

She can go to her sisters' place during her breaks, and every time she does so she brings something for Park Jin Young, including food and toys, so they have a very good relationship.

"Thank you very much!"

"Then I'm going!"

After Xichun left, Park Jin-young ordered the palace maid on duty to carefully clean the emperor's living quarters again.

The palace maids were busy, and the eunuchs who were responsible for organizing the inventory documents of the Qianqing Palace were even busier.

Not only do they have to summarize the documents, but they also have to mark the progress of data updates in the Hongde Hall and Zhaoren Hall respectively.

Hongde Hall and Zhaoren Hall have now become Zhu Jinghong's "big data" center. Various maps and statistical charts are hung here, allowing Zhu Jinghong to have an intuitive grasp of some major affairs.

Back in the eastern warm room of the Qianqing Palace, Park Jin-young had finished all her work. After making sure that everyone was sent away, she came to the imperial desk.

Mustering up her courage, she took out the memorial about her brother according to her memory and placed it on the top.

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If she wanted to know the emperor's decision, she had to determine the time to read the memorial, and she could only be sure by putting it first.

After finishing this task, Park Jin-young walked back and forth in the room until lunch was over and everyone else returned to the palace, but she did not receive any news that the emperor had returned.

She went out to ask and found out that the emperor had gone to watch the "autumn harvest".

So Park Jin-young could only continue to wait, while in the other harem, Baochai had returned to Kunning Palace.

"Although living outside is new and strange, I still feel at ease at home. I feel at home when I come back!"

After hearing the Queen speak, Ying'er said, "Your Majesty is absolutely right, but I am already looking forward to going to the palace again next year to escape the summer heat!"

Only extremely kind people can "sing the opposite tune" at this time.

The palace is very boring, so the temporary palace is naturally much more fun. It is normal for Ying'er to be obsessed with it.

At this time, Wen Xing came to the door and said, "Your Majesty, the new concubine is here to pay her respects!"

"They came quickly. Tell them to wait in the main hall!"

"Yes!"

Outside the Kunning Gate, a palace maid led the beauties into the Kunning Palace, and finally led everyone into the hall.

The queen's seat was empty, but with only a chair around, everyone felt uneasy and tried hard to remind themselves to behave well.

The Queen commands the six palaces and is the heaven for these people. How can they not be in awe?

Everyone stood in the hall, all maintaining a dignified demeanor. They waited for more than ten minutes and were very tired from standing.

It was at this time that the voice of "The Queen has arrived" was heard from the back hall.

Everyone lowered their heads, waiting for Baochai to appear. Then the ladies knelt on the ground and bowed to her after Baochai sat down.

"Your Majesty, may your Majesty live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!"

Looking at these young and beautiful women, Baochai said indifferently: "Everyone, get up!"

Everyone just stood up, but still kept their heads down politely.

"Raise your head!" said Baochai.

Although she was the one who organized the talent show, she was not impressed by these girls, so she wanted to take a look now.

She was looking at these women, and these women were also secretly looking at Baochai.

Baochai is naturally beautiful, but these are secondary. Everyone can see "peace and prosperity for the country" on her face and think that she really should be the queen.

As concubines, they naturally knew about the old events in the palace, and they were all fascinated by the strange event of Baochai's participation in the selection of princess.

"Once you enter the palace, you only need to do three things well, and everything will be fine..."

As soon as Baochai opened her mouth, everyone listened attentively, fearing that they might have heard a word wrong.

"It's easier said than done to follow the rules. You should be alert and don't make mistakes!"

While Baochai was teaching the concubines a lesson, Yang Jingting came to the outside of Kunning Gate again. At the moment, she was a little stuck in a dead end and still wanted to explain the matter of "Seven-Step Poem" to the Queen.

She suffered an unexpected disaster for no reason. Although there was no substantial punishment, losing the emperor's favor was a great loss. Yang Jingting really couldn't swallow this.

So she had to explain it clearly. She failed to do so last time, so she planned to analyze it all over again this time, but the prerequisite was that the queen was willing to listen to her.

Every family has its own problems. When Yang Jingting was struggling with her own problems, Zhu Jinghong had already returned to the palace.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jinghong first had his meal and then summoned the cabinet ministers to discuss matters, which lasted for an hour.

The meeting was held in the West Warm Pavilion, and Park Jin-young was behind the East Warm Pavilion, waiting for the emperor to come and see the memorial.

Another ten minutes passed before Park Jin-young ordered someone to make hot tea again, just to provide the best service to the emperor.

At this moment, time seemed so long that Park Jin-young became more and more anxious and uncomfortable.

But finally, she heard approaching footsteps, and the next moment Zhu Jinghong appeared, followed by Yu Hai and several eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department.

At this moment, there seemed to be too many people in the warm room, making Park Jin-young seem redundant. In fact, she was indeed quite redundant.

When the emperor read memorials, he was usually accompanied by Yu Hai and the eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department, and she, the head maid, was not present most of the time.

But there was no way. Even though she was redundant today, Park Jin-young had to stay because she wanted to see the emperor's reply, although she had already guessed the result.

After summoning the cabinet ministers, Zhu Jinghong was checking the situation with the Imperial Household Department, so at the moment he was thinking about business and didn't notice Park Jin-young standing aside.

Sitting on the throne, Park Jin-young handed over the tea, which was passed to Zhu Jinghong by Yu Hai.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhu Jinghong felt better and finally picked up the memorial, the one that Park Jin-young was most concerned about.

The content of the memorial was very long. Because Park Jin-young was nervous, he only read it roughly, while Zhu Jinghong reviewed it in detail.

"Destroy them all. How many times have these bandits been wiped out since the Korean uprising?"

"It's just like weeds. No matter how hard you try, they keep growing back. When will we ever be able to eradicate them?"

"Geng Zonggui is considered a veteran, but he can't even do this. It seems I misjudged him!"

If Geng Zonggu were here, he would be distracted after hearing this.

At this moment, Zhu Jinghong looked at Park Jin-young after he finished speaking, which made her, who had something to hide, instantly nervous, thinking that her little trick had been discovered.

Just when she was feeling anxious, she heard Zhu Jinghong ask, "Zhenying, you are also a North Korean, tell me... why is North Korea always unstable?"

Why is she always feeling uneasy? Park Jin-young actually knows the answer to this question, but she doesn't dare to say it at the moment.

(End of this chapter)