To the south of Wenhua Hall is Wenyuan Pavilion, and to the north of Wenyuan Pavilion is Wenhua Hall. There is a road between the two buildings, and the east end of this road is Donghua Gate, one of the four gates of the palace.
Among the four gates of the palace, Donghua Gate is the only palace gate with only 72 door nails. It is basically regarded as the entrance and exit passage for other members of the royal family.
Over the past hundred years, countless princes, princesses, and lords have come and gone from here. Occasionally, eunuchs have been ordered to go out to do business here.
But today, in the eighteenth year of Jiajing, Donghuamen welcomed a new species, a purebred civil servant.
Qin Dewei, the minister of the Trinity, not only a bachelor of civil affairs, but also the associate minister of barbarian affairs, sat in Wenyuan Pavilion for a while, checked and signed the imperial edict that should be issued.
Then he got up and left, heading to the Siyi Pavilion. Today he was going through the Donghua Gate. His entourage was not qualified to follow Qin Dewei in and out of the Donghua Gate, so Qin Dewei had to go by himself.
As for the other servants, they can only wait outside in advance to prevent Master Qin from being alone after leaving Donghua Gate and being beaten without anyone to protect him.
Qin Dewei didn't have much feeling about the Donghua Gate itself. Due to the aesthetics of symmetry, the Donghua Gate was basically exactly the same as the Xihua Gate, so there was nothing strange about it.
But what I want is this vanity that no one else has, only I have.
Qin Zhongtang slowly walked out along the Donghua Gate, and the officers and soldiers guarding outside the palace gate were the officers and soldiers of the Four Warriors Battalion under the jurisdiction of the Royal Horse Prison, known as the "Forbidden Army within the Forbidden Army".
Then these forbidden soldiers looked at the red figure walking from the other side of the doorway like they were looking at rare animals.
When they reached the entrance of the doorway and were about to exit, Academician Qin suddenly stopped and smiled amiably at the guards outside the palace gate, without any airs of a great academician.
A general named Han Lei asked Qin Dewei in surprise: "Why did Bachelor Qin stop moving forward?"
The grassroots warriors had little contact with Academician Qin and were not very familiar with Academician Qin’s style. They didn’t know that this was a prelude to Academician Qin’s fishing-style pretense, but some people actually took the bait.
As an aside, now Nanjing scholars and North Korean and Chinese civil servants are no longer willing to take the bait.
Then everyone heard Scholar Qin say: "At this moment, I suddenly remembered a sentence, and I felt so emotional!
It is recorded in the notes of predecessors that the Duke of Han Wei in the Song Dynasty said that the one who sings the first prize outside the Donghua Gate is a good man!"
Most of the officers and soldiers didn't react much when they heard this sentence. They just thought it was Academic Qin using the allusions of his predecessors to brag about himself, who made this man the number one scholar and also got out of Donghua Gate.
But none of them understood the background of this sentence. Only Han Lei, General Manager Han, was furious and said to Qin Dewei emotionally: "Does Bachelor Qin think that we rough people are all ignorant of allusions and allusions?"
"The one who sings first prize outside the Donghua Gate is a good man." This sentence is actually not found in official history. According to legend, it was said by the civil servant Han Qi to humiliate the military minister Di Qing. The subtext is that you warriors are also worthy of being called a good man? This is the most famous civil servant versus military officer in history.
One of the humiliating incidents.
Mr. Han knew this allusion, and he naturally assumed the role of Di Qing, so when he heard Qin Dewei, a typical civil servant, repeating this sentence to himself, he immediately felt hugely humiliated.
Qin Dewei was not in a hurry, and continued calmly, "Although I am the youngest number one scholar in the history of the dynasty, although I am praised by the world as a man of Jiajing, although my poetry is praised as the best in the Ming Dynasty, even though I am in and out of Donghua today.
Door
But I strongly disagree with what Han Wei Gong said! The reason why I stand at Donghua Gate today and mention this sentence is to say to the world that this sentence is extremely ridiculous and wrong. It can never be regarded as a standard. I am a great Ming Dynasty
Don’t make the same mistake again!”
Boss Han: "."
I was still too inexperienced, and by accident, I was directly ridiculed by Scholar Qin.
I'm afraid that in a few days, the story will spread in the streets and alleys of the capital that Mr. Han was pretended to be the champion of Qin.
You, Master Qin, have said both good and bad things, truth and irony. Is this series of "although" meant to show off or to boast?
But Mr. Han has to accept it. Looking at the whole world, only Bachelor Qin has this qualification. Can he still criticize Han Qi's words as rubbish without being criticized back?
It was only at this moment that he successfully created another famous anecdote, and the scholar Qin who was talking about it was satisfied and continued to walk out of the Donghua Gate.
Donghua Gate is the palace gate. Walk a short distance east to the Imperial City Dong'an Gate, and then you can reach your destination, Siyi Pavilion.
Academician Qin strutted with his head held high, walking outside the palace city and inside the imperial city, his heart was full of ups and downs, and there were many things happening.
According to official legends, the first person in the Ming Dynasty who was specially granted the Xihua Gate was an old chief minister decades ago. So, since he was the first to be specially granted the Donghua Gate, could he also be the chief minister?
good sign?
Now only the people in Wenyuan Pavilion call themselves Zhongtang, and others still call themselves Bachelor. From now on, everyone must be willing to call themselves Zhongtang!
Suddenly, the sound of selling one after another interrupted Qin Zhongtang's thoughts that had already floated to the sky.
Qin Dewei put away his reverie and followed the hawking reputation with confusion.
Then I saw countless vendors lined up along the outer wall of Guanglu Temple to the north, extending all the way to the north out of sight, and I didn't know where the end was.
We have just left Donghua Gate and haven't reached Dong'an Gate yet. Although we have left the palace, we are still in the imperial city, but there is no trace of the palace atmosphere!
Academician Qin, who was full of excitement just now, was in a trance, and for a moment he thought he was standing at the intersection of Qipan Street in the famous business district.
We even saw a huge sign of "Yuan Feng Hao" among the vendors. A group of clerks were doing the exchange business of silver, money, and bills on the spot. It looked quite busy.
At this moment, Qin Zhongtang finally returned to the world from heaven. He also remembered that this was the "inner city".
The so-called "inner market", as the name suggests, is the market where the eunuchs and maids of the palace shop. Of course, they often shop for their respective masters.
After all, there were twenty to thirty thousand eunuchs and maidens in total, and they also needed a market where they could not only shop, but also steal items from the palace and sell them. It is said that the most popular stolen items were porcelain.
Donghua Gate is the palace gate, and Dong'an Gate is the outer imperial city gate.
In the early years, the imperial city's Dong'an Gate, Bei'an Gate, and Xi'an Gate's access control was very strict, but later it was gradually relaxed. People were allowed to enter and exit the imperial city for sightseeing, but generally they could not live in it. Then the inner city naturally emerged.
It is unclear when the inner market originated. Written records were first seen in the Chenghua Dynasty.
The fourth day is the day when the palace throws out the garbage, the palace gate opens, and at the same time it is the day when the "inner market" opens.
On the fourth, fourteenth and twenty-fourth of each month, many merchants flocked to the imperial city. Outside Donghua Gate and inside Dong'an Gate, there was the "inner market", which stretched all the way to Xuanwu Gate, Beigong Gate.
I have to say that the Ming Dynasty royal family was sometimes very down-to-earth. Outside the east and north gates of the palace, right next to the palace wall, they actually tolerated large numbers of people setting up stalls and doing business.
There was a reason why the later "Ting Attack Case" was able to sneak into the palace through Donghua Gate. It was a mess outside and it was too easy for people to approach the palace.
Qin Dewei had no intention of going to the inner city to join in the fun. Human beings have different joys and sorrows. Others can temporarily enjoy the fireworks of the world here, but Qin Zhongtang wants to go to the Siyi Pavilion to work for the country.
He was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly heard a woman shouting in Nanjing dialect: "Qin Dewei!"
This makes Bachelor Qin very sensitive, not because someone calls him, but because few people call him by his name now!
In the entire Ming Dynasty, there are only a few people such as the Lord of Heaven and Earth, the Lord, the Prince, the Master, etc. who can call themselves by their names without any scruples!
So who is so bold, especially a woman! Thinking of this, Qin Dewei stopped again and turned around to look.
But he found a woman walking towards him. She was about thirty or forty years old. She looked like she was a female official from the palace.
So Qin Dewei took a few steps back very vigilantly and kept a certain distance from the woman. When walking in the world, the most careful people to watch out for are women, children and disabled people.
Not to mention that this woman was probably from the palace. In theory, she was also the emperor's woman, although Emperor Jiajing probably didn't like this.
But strange to say, Qin Dewei thought this woman looked a bit familiar.
Seeing this, the woman quickly said, "Qin Dewei! Do you remember Sister Fang from Dakongfang?"
Qin Dewei couldn't understand the other party's words at all, and was even more confused.
Now there are three possibilities. First, this woman has lost her mind and is talking crazy things.
The second possibility is that this woman wants to take advantage of her and blackmails her by just fabricating a name!
The third possibility is that I traveled through time again without knowing it, and new copies and characters appeared, but they were not in my original memory.
However, with his current status as Academician Qin and the particularity of his position in the center, the amount of information he possesses is extremely huge. Coupled with the memories of later generations, there are not many things that can confuse Ming Dynasty!
After much deliberation, it was most likely that he deliberately touched himself! A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, so Qin Dewei turned around decisively and left without saying a word.
The woman seemed a little anxious and said again: "Qin Dewei, have you really forgotten Fang Xiulian?"
Fang Xiulian? When Qin Dewei heard this name, he thought he was a stranger, but suddenly something went wrong in his mind.
I don’t know which dusty corner the memories came out of, but they flooded into my mind again!
At that time, the daughter of Mr. Fang from the Dagongfang government-run social school in Jiangning County, Nanjing City, was named Fang Xiulian.
He is said to be Mr. Fang, but in fact he is not even a scholar, he can only be regarded as a young man, working in a government-run social school to educate young children to earn a living.
Before his soul traveled through time, the predecessor Qin Dewei, who was a native of the street and couldn't study sociology, had a secret crush on Fang Xiulian, a maiden girl who was three years older than Qin Dewei.
It's just that the predecessor, Qin Dewei, a native, had poor reading skills and was forced to leave Dakongfang Society in the "start" of the ninth year of Jiajing.
The reason why I was so depressed was not only because I was cut off from studying, but also because I wanted to stay away from Fang Xiulian from now on.
Then the native Qin Dewei was taken over by the soul of Qin Dewei in the 21st century, and he came into contact with the more mature and beautiful Widow Gu and Beauty Wang.
As a result, the name Fang Xiulian was sealed in the depths of memory intentionally or unintentionally. Qin Dewei, the new time traveler, even forgot that he had this special memory.
And only half a year later, during the imperial court's draft, the commoner girl Fang Xiulian was selected into the palace, and she was completely disconnected from Qin Dewei's life circle, as if she had disappeared from the world.
Almost ten years passed by, and Qin Dewei suddenly heard this name. He thought it was strange, but suddenly it became very familiar, as if a locked box had been unlocked.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was not much information that could confuse the time traveler Qin Dewei of Wenyuan Pavilion!
My surname is Fang, three years older than me, a fellow from Jiangning, who was drafted into the palace in the 10th year of Jiajing!
Judging from the above factors, the identity of this Fang Xiulian is ready to be revealed!
The main palace of the current Emperor Jiajing, Empress Fang! The one whose posthumous nickname will be Xiaolie, Duanshun, Minhui, Gongcheng, and Zhitianweisheng from now on!
The life experience of Empress Fang is also very legendary. According to the original history, three years later, during the Renyin Palace Incident, Empress Fang saved Emperor Jiajing from the brink of death, so her posthumous title included the words "Guardian Saint of Zhi Tian".
A special word.
Then according to folklore, a few years later, Empress Fang was deliberately and cruelly set on fire by Emperor Jiajing. Anyway, her death was quite sudden, at the age of thirty-two.
Under today's customs, women's names are often unknown, and many female celebrities will not even leave their names in history books.
But after guessing Fang Xiulian's identity, Qin Dewei suddenly felt numb.
I originally thought that I had everything under control, but the aggressive temperament of my predecessor had been completely wiped out in the long river of history!
But I didn't expect that my predecessor had buried such a big thing for me! He actually had a crush on the Queen. Do you want to be punished by the Nine Clan?
The female official from the same country who was suspected to be the queen's confidant saw Qin Dewei's thoughtful look and said again: "Have you forgotten me too? It's a shame that I pitied you and even gave you a few bites of food in the social studies department!
"
Qin Dewei vaguely remembered that this woman was also a relative of Mr. Fang, that is, a relative of Queen Fang.
But Qin Dewei became more and more aware of the world. No matter what the other party's purpose was, even if it was just a matter of friendship, he could not continue talking!
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, powerful ministers cannot have any connection with the harem! In folklore, except for Zhang Juzheng and Grand Master Zhang who slept with the Queen Mother.
Qin Dewei nodded coldly and said, "I don't know who the name you mentioned is, and I don't know you either. If both of us are well, it will be a sunny day."
Then Qin Dewei stopped giving the other party any chance to speak, turned around and strode away, leaving her behind.
I don’t know if this female official from the same country met me by chance and simply wanted to say hello, or if she was here to wait for me on purpose.
After all, many people know that they have to enter and exit Donghua Gate and Dong'an Gate, so it is not impossible to guard here in advance.
There is no need to think about it for the time being. As the saying goes, the powerful officials of the Ming Dynasty do not want to be associated with the harem, and they do not need to.
Harem politics has never been the mainstream of Ming Dynasty politics, and most of the so-called royal relatives are also non-mainstream. The Zhang family of Queen Hongzhi was so arrogant at first, so what now?
Therefore, being a queen or not is of no use to top civil servants like Qin Dewei, and may even have a negative effect.
I don’t have the energy to promote and conceive the plot these days, so let’s lay out a foreshadowing first. If I say that this is the real heroine, will you go crazy? Everything in the future is unknown... I don’t have a fixed outline.