Emperor Yongzheng established the Military Aircraft Department and also left a secret passage behind the house of the Military Aircraft Department. Why are there a Military Aircraft Department and a secret passage? In the final analysis, it is to make it more convenient to control the empire!
In the years when there was no military department, the emperor usually lived in the Qianqing Palace. At this time, the official group closest to the emperor was called Shang Shufang!
The upper study room is actually a row of offices in the Qianqing Palace. There are some knowledgeable officials waiting here all year round to be summoned by the emperor. If the emperor needs consultation on anything, he can ask these knowledgeable officials.
So before the Yongzheng Dynasty, which officials were the most popular? The most popular official is walking in the study room!
But the Qianqing Palace is, after all, the first of the three main halls of the harem. It has strict rules, especially late at night. The access control is very strict. It is connected with the harem. Once it is locked at night, the man must leave!
At this time, a very serious problem will arise. The emperor will be out of touch with the empire during a long night!
If there is any emergency military situation at this time, such as border wars, peasant uprisings in the Central Plains, or even the powerful officials in the capital rebelling!
In this situation, the Ministry of War followed the traditional rules and called the door. Finding the emperor was extremely difficult and took too long!
Some people may ask, where are the chief ministers of the empire? Don't they have someone on duty who can make temporary decisions?
This again involves a struggle for military power and prime ministerial power. Where is the cabinet? The Cabinet Office is located, just enter through the Meridian Gate and turn directly to the east!
Behind the Concorde Gate is the Cabinet Hall, which is quite far from the Qianqing Palace. If you want to report something to the emperor late at night, you have to pass countless checkpoints, accept several interrogations, and open several doors!
It causes trouble and wastes time. The most important thing is that the emperor does not want the ministers to deal with these important military matters. From the Qing Dynasty onwards, military power has definitely been controlled by the emperor alone!
You, a cabinet minister, dare to mobilize the army to quell the rebellion? As long as you dare to do it, the emperor will eventually be jealous of you for your merits, and he will have to find a way to deal with you!
This is a process of centralizing power to the monarch!
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty was unwilling to let the ministers control power, but at the same time, because the Qianqing Palace was connected with the harem, the access control was tight, resulting in very slow and congested information transmission!
So Yongzheng saw through the shortcomings here and lived in the Yangxin Palace as soon as he took office!
The location of the Yangxin Hall is very interesting. Although it is in the inner palace, there are countless independent gates to separate it from the harem! And there are gates leading to the outer court!
This is an area that the emperor can control at will. When the door of the harem is closed, it becomes the former dynasty, and officials and men can enter without any taboos!
After closing the door to the front palace and opening the door to the harem, the Yangxin Hall becomes an integral part of the harem, and women can enter at will with confidence!
Choosing to live in the Yangxin Hall, we simply built a row of simple houses in the nearest place outside the Yangxin Hall. The name of this house is very noble, it is called the Military Aircraft Department!
In the future, if you have urgent military intelligence reports, you can come here and have them delivered to the emperor in just a few steps. It is very convenient!
At this time, the Military Aircraft Department was closest to the emperor, so the officials of the Military Aircraft Department became famous again!
It was so convenient that the emperor no longer had to travel back and forth. However, Yongzheng was still worried and built a secret passage between the Military Aircraft Department and the Yangxin Hall!
This secret passage is actually for faster transmission of military information after the palace door is locked late at night! The key is placed in the hands of the Minister of Military and Aircraft. Whenever something big happens, he can take out the key and go into the Yangxin Palace to report. There is no need to discuss with the minister in charge of the bodyguard or waste time to open the palace door!
This privilege given to the Minister of Military and Aircraft can be said to be the first of its kind in China's harem rules!
You said that what if the emperor and his concubine were making a villain when they broke into the Yangxin Palace in the middle of the night? Isn't this just a collision? Isn't this irregular?
But for the sake of the safety of the empire, the emperor did not shy away from so much. Anyway, the military ministers were all his trusted ministers, so there could be no scandal!
today! Ying Guike of the Ministry of War used this old rule that was rarely used once. He opened the secret passage, moved the box, and walked north in the damp and dim alley with the wall!
After passing through the imperial kitchen and going straight to Meiwu, the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I met the eunuch on duty after exiting the secret passage. They all knew the rules. As soon as I saw the military minister coming out of the secret passage, I knew something important was going on!
At ten o'clock in the evening, Zai Chun was already preparing to rest. Suddenly Da Sixi ran in and whispered, "Your Majesty! Lord Yinggui has come from the secret passage. There is an urgent military situation!"
"What!" Zai Chun opened the cup, causing the two naked ladies inside to scream.
"Serve me to get dressed!" The eunuch was no longer a human being in Xiu Nu's eyes. Once he heard the emperor's order, he quickly got up and helped Zai Chun get dressed without being ashamed.
Da Sixi also hurriedly found a hat for the emperor and put on a cloak!
When Zai Chun walked out and arrived at Meiwu, the stone table was already lit with gold candlesticks imported from Europe. Ten bright candles were burning. Ying Gui was kneeling on the ground with a pale face.
"What's wrong? Where is the emergency military situation? Tell me quickly..."
Ying Gui was in mourning and his face was ashen. He held a telegram in his hand and raised it in front of the little emperor, "Your Majesty... Ryukyu Naha has urgently sent information!"
"Information about Naha? Something happened to the master?" Zai Chun grabbed it and looked at it with a look of shock on his face. Then he rubbed his eyes desperately and looked again in disbelief.
"Master...Master...hiding a six-year-old son? Ah...ah! What's going on?"
"All the twenty-six beautiful girls I gave to the master have lost contact? What happened?"
Zai Chun's face turned pale with fright, and he collapsed on the stone bench as soon as his legs became weak!
The Manchu and Qing craftsmen in Naha discovered that the telegraph machine had been damaged. They had no choice but to ask the Chinese Telegraph Office for emergency repairs, but they couldn't wait and waited and still didn't come!
Forced to have no choice, these Manchu workers had no choice but to check the lines themselves. However, they were not familiar with the layout of the lines, so they worked all day long, and it was not until night that they discovered the place where the lines had been cut.
Knowing that they were being targeted by the CIA, these agents did not dare to neglect and quickly telegraphed the news to the Forbidden City. Fortunately, these agents were quick, and just three minutes after they sent the telegram, the line was inexplicably disconnected again!
The telegram clearly stated that his side had been exposed and the telegraph line had been maliciously damaged!
Moreover, several secret lines that were lurking very deep and were responsible for communicating with Xiao Letian's inner house showgirl were also cut off by the CIA. They were caught and escaped!
There is only one final news. All twenty-six beauties were sent out of the Headquarters and their whereabouts are unknown!
Finally, there was shocking news. The head of state convened an emergency meeting, brought out six-year-old Fu Yin'er, and officially announced to the world that he had a child.
It was as if a big tree hit Zai Chun on the head. He suddenly lost his ability to think. He felt like the sky was falling!
