Su Changqing woke up from a coma, but found that he was not dead. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a small room surrounded by a vintage-style carved fence and curtain.

He couldn't help but reach out and stroke the white cloth curtain that was blown by the breeze, "It turns out that it's not cloth but yarn, and the material is really good." But why am I not in the hospital, but here. Su Changqing thought a little puzzled.

But soon his eyes were fixed on the outstretched right hand and did not move, "My hand has become so white and slender, this is not right." Su Changqing's mind began to be confused.

As a civil construction worker rolling on the construction site, Su Changqing's hands are by no means the pair he sees with his eyes now.

"I just couldn't avoid it, and I was hit by a cement truck reversing, so I didn't need to change my hands." Su Changqing stretched out his other hand and looked at it repeatedly, and many strange thoughts popped up in his mind.

"Your Highness, please change your clothes. There is a will, and His Royal Highness is ordered to enter the palace to see His Majesty. Suddenly, a feminine male voice came from outside the gauze tent.

Faced with this strange scene, Su Changqing didn't react for a while, and held his breath.

Seeing that no one answered in the tent, Wang Chengen, who was standing outside the tent, couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He whispered to the little eunuch who was standing on his side with his head bowed, "Did Your Highness really not get up?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, His Royal Highness really didn't get up." The little eunuch replied uneasily. Wang Chengen looked back at the gauze tent door in front of him, hesitated and stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, please forgive the old slave for being rude." ”

Su Changqing finally couldn't hold his breath at this time, and let out a long breath. At this moment, the door of the gauze tent on the right side was opened, and a young man with a white face and a black hat without a scarlet robe appeared in front of him.

"Isn't this the Ming Dynasty eunuch costume I saw in the TV series? Nima, who made such a big joke on me. Su Changqing was thinking about shouting and calling out the person who was making fun of himself.

When he was sitting up and trying to speak, the eunuch in front of him suddenly took a few steps back, then turned his head and said, "What are you still doing, go up and serve His Highness to change clothes, the prince is still waiting outside the palace." ”

The eunuch's actions interrupted what Su Changqing wanted to say. It seems that the prince in this person's mouth is very remarkable, and after he only said one word, several palace maids immediately opened the screen tent doors on both sides and dressed him with all hands and feet.

These palace maids were busy but not chaotic, as if they often dressed others, and each of them performed their own duties, which did not make him feel uncomfortable at all.

This kind of high-level treatment of being served made Su Changqing distracted and forgot what he wanted to do for a while. He finally found out at this time. The warm pavilion like a small house under him turned out to be a bed.

When Su Changqing put on his robe and put on a black gauze winged crown, and stepped out of the big bed, he found himself in a big house.

Before he could observe the decoration of the house, he was surrounded by the eunuchs who had given orders before and walked out of the room.

When I walked outside the hall, I realized that it was close to dusk, and another middle-aged eunuch was walking back and forth in the courtyard, seemingly restless.

After seeing Su Changqing and the others coming, he immediately stopped and stood up straight, and said to Su Changqing, who had not yet walked in front of him, with a full sense of anger: "There is a decree to order His Royal Highness Prince Xin to enter the palace to see His Majesty." ”

Listening to the eunuch's words, the people around Su Changqing all knelt on the ground, only Su Changqing was still confused and stood in place, looking at the eunuch who announced the decree in a daze.

Wang Chengen, who was kneeling on the side, desperately gestured to Su Changqing, but Su Changqing didn't look at him.

After the announcement was completed, Wang Tiqian looked at Prince Xin in a daze in front of him, and he couldn't cry or laugh. However, Apocalypse is critically ill, and the sense of crisis that this edifice is about to collapse is lingering in his heart, and he doesn't dare to make any mistakes at this time.

"Whether or not I can escape the catastrophe in front of me depends on the young prince in front of me." Thinking of this, the feminine celebrant palm seal eunuch Wang Tiqian reminded in a low voice: "Please believe in His Royal Highness the Prince, accept the order." ”

"Order?" Su Changqing, who was still dazed, asked rhetorically. Wang Tiqian, who was worried about the change in Tianqi's condition, didn't want to rub shoulders with the young prince in front of him, and after he muttered a word, he said: "... Don't hurry up and get up and serve His Royal Highness Prince Xin to enter the palace and resume his life. ”

Soon Su Changqing became numb, and was sent into a sedan chair by several internal officials, feeling the swaying sedan chair under him. Su Changqing, who was sitting in a sedan chair, had already understood, and what he saw in front of him was neither a dream nor someone teasing him.

He was crossed, and this inexplicable fact made Su Changqing a little overwhelmed. And in his mind, fragments of the memories of this body kept flashing.

Just as Su Changqing was studying these pictures hard, he wanted to figure out what era he was in.

About an hour later, the sedan stopped. Su Changqing, who was supported out of the sedan chair, found that this was actually in the Forbidden City. Before he could properly analyze the exact memory of his body, he was led into a large hall by two internal officials, and walked west into a warm pavilion.

In the warm pavilion, a beautiful woman in palace clothes with several internal officials was taking care of a young man who was half-leaning on the back of the bed.

Looking at this sick young man lying on the bed, with a pale face but trying to smile at himself, Su Changqing suddenly felt that his nose was sore, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

"Is my brother here?" The young man lying on the bed said, and glanced at the internal official on the side. An astute chamberlain suddenly moved a chair and placed it four or five paces away from the bed.

The sick young man shook his head, and the waiter moved to the head of the bed, until the chair was attached to the side of the bed, and the young man smiled with satisfaction and said, "Come, my brother come and sit here, let me have a good talk with you." ”

Su Changqing walked to the edge of the bed and sat down in a daze, his mind blank. "The civil officials (Donglin Party) are not credible, don't listen to their nonsense. "..."Zhongxian 'Faithful and loyal, can count great things'""...

As he was talking, Su Changqing suddenly felt a hand touching his head, he raised his head slightly, and saw Tianqi smiling at him with tears in his eyes, and then as if Tianqi had suddenly regained his vitality, he took his hand violently and said, "Come ——, my brother should be Yao Shun." ”

Hearing this, a picture suddenly flashed in Su Changqing's mind. There are young people in the bed who say to their own bodies when they ascend to the throne.

At that time, the body was just a child, and when he looked at the young man in the yellow robe, he was deeply envious, so he tilted his head and asked, "Can I do this official?" ”

The young man touched the hair of this body, and said with a doting face: "When I do it for a few years, I should do it with you." ”

Su Changqing's mind suddenly came to mind, this picture was like yesterday, and he suddenly couldn't cry, his body unconsciously left the chair, and he fell to the ground and said, "The minister is guilty of death." ”

Su Changqing was like being struck by lightning, and suddenly understood, "It turns out that I am the one who eats and eats clothes, day and night, and has gray hair and wrinkles in his 20s; sold all the things in the palace, and the queen of Zhou washed and sewed and cooked (I can't afford to invite the palace maid). Even Li Zicheng commented after raiding the palace: Jun is not very dark, isolated and burning; Ministers do their best to do their own thing, and they are less loyal to the party than the party. Zhu Youzhen? ”

Su Changqing's brain suddenly became messy under the shock, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse didn't listen to what he said next. Soon the spirit of the apocalypse was also exhausted, and under the persuasion of the palace beauties on the side, he reluctantly let Su Changqing leave. This is also the last time Apocalypse will see his brother when he is conscious.

In the confusion of his mind, Su Changqing was like a wooden clay sculpture, and was carried back to the mansion he had left before.

After getting off the sedan chair in front of the mansion, Su Changqing looked at his residence in front of him in a daze, and there were two white marble lions on the left and right in front of the door. He looked up and saw that on the 12 door hairpins was a gold-lettered plaque that read "Prince Xin's Mansion".

"If this Nima can travel back with this house, won't I send it?" After Zhu Youzhen's ontological mourning mood slowly receded, Su Changqing's thinking began to work again.

Looking at the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his eyes were straight at the signboard in front of his mansion, and Wang Tiqian, who had accompanied him all the way back, called a few times tentatively, but it was obvious that Su Changqing didn't listen to it at all.

At this time, the chamberlains in the palace had already opened the door to welcome Prince Xin back to the palace, and Wang Tiqian stopped trying to talk to Su Changqing.

After being called by Wang Chengen a few times, Su Changqing finally woke up from his trance. He looked at Wang Tiqian, who was standing on the side, and a few panting officials who were running with him, and finally spoke: "What is the name of this father-in-law?" ”

Wang Tiqian looked at Su Changqing with some astonishment and said, "Old slave Wang Tiqian, I don't dare to ask His Highness like this. ”

Looking at Wang Tiqian's expression, Su Changqing suddenly knew that he had asked a stupid question. He saw that the eight people behind Wang Tiqian looked down at the ground, and they didn't even dare to glance at their internal officials. Only then did I remember that what I am living in now is the evil feudal society, not the new China in which the theory of equality of all people in later generations is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Although the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was more liberal than that of the Qing Dynasty, it was relative to the scholars. In this era, the people at the bottom who have no fame are still regarded as grass mustard under their feet by those high-ranking families. The word grass people is just self-deprecation in later generations, but here it is a real description of the living conditions of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Su Changqing immediately stopped, turned his head to Wang Chengen, the attendant beside him, and said, "Do you have any money?" Reward these fathers-in-law for me. ”

Su Changqing's words made Wang Tiqian even more suspicious, this Prince Xin has always been close to scholars, and away from them eunuchs, but today's performance is so abnormal, if it weren't for him, he would be considered an old man who watched Prince Xin grow up, and he would think that this person was impersonating.

However, he was also a powerful person in the inner palace, and Wang Tiqian immediately thanked Su Changqing for the reward. Although Wang Chengen felt that Prince Xin was a little abnormal, he only thought it was a brotherly relationship, and after he issued a reward according to Prince Xin's instructions, he waved his hand at Wang Tiqian, and hurriedly followed Su Changqing into the mansion.

Wang Tiqian pinched his purse, which was about a silver medal of two taels. He pondered for a long time at the closed gate of the palace before turning back and calling his attendants away.

Su Changqing had just bypassed the photo wall, and in the corridor decorated with blue and green gold, he met a group of people who came to greet him.

Looking at the three beauties in ancient costumes standing in front of him, Su Changqing couldn't tell who these three people were Zhu Youzhen, and he was having a headache.

Standing at the forefront, the slender beauty asked with a concerned face, "How are you, Lord Wang?" The concubine heard that the prince had a headache at noon, so she rested early in the morning. It's quite urgent to visit Your Majesty in the palace this time, do you feel any discomfort in your body? ”

"Yes, Your Highness. I was still worried about you with Sister Zhou and Sister Yuan just now? Located on the right side of the back, the most gorgeous beauty couldn't help but say.

Su Changqing paid a little attention and found that when this beauty interjected, the beauty she called Sister Zhou at the front frowned, and the beauty surnamed Yuan on the left side of the back just carefully observed herself and did not speak.

Su Changqing didn't know how to address and treat the three wives and concubines of Zhu Youzhen, so he immediately said a few vague words, and said goodbye to the three beauties in the name of poor spirits, and returned to his dormitory alone.

After entering this place where he came to the beginning of this era, Su Changqing immediately ordered the attendants on duty in the dormitory to leave quickly, so that he could stay alone for a while.

After Su Changqing raised his voice and reprimanded twice, the attendants in the palace immediately gave up the idea of using the rules of the palace to persuade the irascible Prince Xin.

Looking at the empty hall, in Su Changqing's opinion, except that there is no statue here, and there is an extra bed like a small room, it is really no different from the temples of later generations.

Su Changqing thought for a while before getting back into the big bed, and then closed his clothes and lay down. He closed his eyes and prayed, "God or Buddha, the god who sent me, please send me back again." You've found the wrong object, I don't want to cross at all, and I still have to participate in the project acceptance tomorrow? Besides, I don't know how to make guns, and I don't know how to train steel. I'm not interested in waiting 17 years to find that crooked-necked tree to say that famous sentence of the death of the country..."

When Su Changqing woke up, he found that it seemed that no one in the sky was full of gods and Buddhas to take care of him. Rudely drove away the attendant who wanted to wash and change clothes for him, Su Changqing put his hands behind his head, and lay on the bed looking at the yarn account on the top in a daze.

"The Emperor of the Apocalypse is about to die, and this emperor, who was slandered as a carpenter by later generations of literati, is actually a smart and humane son of heaven.

If it weren't for falling ill and dying, with his ability, the Ming Dynasty might not have died. From the forty-second year of Wanli to the fourth year of the Apocalypse, there was an 11-year drought in the north, followed by an earthquake, a breach of the Yellow River, a locust plague, and an inexplicable explosion at Wang Gongchang.

But the empire is still struggling to survive, isn't this the credit of the carpenter emperor? To be honest, a person who loves carpentry must at least have mathematical knowledge and basic logical ability, otherwise how can he create something that can be praised by the people of the time for ingenuity?

After Chongzhen came to power, he listened to the rumors of the Donglin Party and cut off his minions, and was locked up by the civil officials within the palace wall and became a clay wooden statue. In the Chongzhen era of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, in the end, the wild boar skin family with hundreds of thousands of barbarians changed the color of the country.

This is not only the tragedy of Chongzhen himself, but also the tragedy of the Han nation. In the 60 years of war in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the Han people fell from a population of nearly 200 million to more than 50 million. ”

Su Changqing's biggest understanding of the late Ming Dynasty is that the eunuchs and factory guards in this era do not forget to make money; And the civil officials of these eunuchs, the so-called eunuchs, are making money and not forgetting to do things; As for the so-called righteous and awe-inspiring Donglin Party members, they do not do things themselves, and they do not allow others to do things.

In fact, it is easy to understand after thinking about it, the eunuchs and factory guards are dependent on the imperial power, can the Ming Dynasty survive after they fall with these furs? So they are the most loyal to the royal being.

And those eunuchs are basically from lower-middle-class families, and in order to change the fate of themselves and their families, they desperately drill into the cage of the imperial examination. But after becoming an official, I realized that being a clean official would starve to death; If you want to be a corrupt official, seven or eight out of ten of the world's wealth is already in the hands of the gentry and wealthy families, and you can't find a target if you want to exploit it. The eunuchs of the Afu clan fought against those gentry and wealthy families, but it was only for their own selfish interests.

And those who don't do things themselves, and don't allow others to do things, are these Donglin Party members who are from a wealthy family and think they are righteous men and gentlemen. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the system collapsed, and the wealth of the world was attributed to the gentry and wealthy families, and the local governance power was also manipulated by the gentry and wealthy families. For the gentry and wealthy families, what era will be better than the present. So they are the people who are the most reluctant to change, such as Zhang Juzheng, who dares to touch the interests of this class, and the entire family was shattered after his death.

There was a sudden knock at the door outside, and then a rush of footsteps approached Su Changqing's bed. "What's wrong with you, Your Highness? Is there any discomfort in your body, do you want me to ask a doctor to take a look? Queen Zhou's panicked voice reached Su Changqing's ears.

Su Changqing finally couldn't lie down, he sat up, opened the screen door and got out of bed, "Why are you here?" There's no need to make such a fuss, I just felt uncomfortable when I saw His Majesty's situation yesterday, and I don't want to get up today. ”

Su Changqing sat on the edge of the bed, stepped barefoot on the cold floor tiles, and looked at Queen Zhou and said calmly.

When Queen Zhou saw Zhu Youzhen's crumpled clothes and bare feet on the ground, she immediately frowned and looked at the attendants on the left and right and scolded: "You are so bold, you dare to be so disrespectful of your duties, and if you don't hurry up to serve His Highness to change clothes, and then go down to receive your own punishment." ”