After Cao Zhe chatted like this, the originally slightly tense atmosphere immediately relaxed.
Looking at each other and smiling, the campfire was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Cao Zhe did not directly get into the topic, but took the Chang Cheng Huang to eat and drink first, and then chatted about some past customs and customs, recalling the glorious past when he and Taizu went to war in the world.
After he was half drunk and half familiar, he slowly brought the topic down to business.
He didn't know that Chang Chenghuang also wanted to cater to him, so the chat was indeed very pleasant.
"I think Brother Chang also knows that Pindao has caused a big commotion in the east of the city, but I have wiped out all the materials used by the Queen Mother to make the fairy soup."
"Now I have offended the Queen Mother, but I don't know what the background of this Queen Mother is, and she can have such means to plot all the monsters and monsters in these three mountains and five mountains without fear of causing any commotion." Cao Zhe said.
The imperial court, demons, ghosts, and practitioners have always been in harmony with each other.
When the imperial court is favored by heaven, the country is in constant decline, and fortune is shrouded in luck, any official of the imperial court who is of high rank cannot be easily offended.
If you kill someone, you will suffer a backlash from fate. The higher the rank, the more important your role is to the court, and the more intense the backlash will be.
Not only that, it may also attract the attention of heaven and hell. Some cultivators who take the path of merit will also immediately start the mode of walking for heaven and open the big gift package.
As for the mountain spirits, they mostly hide in barren mountains or in the marketplace, and they often have few interactions with high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
If necessary, the imperial court would not take the initiative to target certain monsters, ghosts, or people who were cultivators in the mountains.
After all, the power of the imperial court was mainly concentrated in various important towns. In fact, the royal power did not go to the countryside, which was common sense in this era.
The bandits and bandits in the border areas and barren mountains of all sides cannot be wiped out, so why talk about targeting monsters and monsters?
Heaven and earth are watching, and building a divine dynasty can only be a fantasy, but it is difficult to realize it as a reality.
Chang Chenghuang had actually guessed Cao Zhe's intention of inviting him. Now that he heard Cao Zhe formally mentioned it, he thought about it for a moment and then replied: "In a certain family's opinion, if we start from the beginning, first of all It must be related to an old incident during the Qiande period."
"During the Qiande period? Is it so far away?" Cao Zhe was slightly surprised.
After all, if the emperor of today is higher than the emperor, he is the emperor Yuanfeng, and if the emperor is higher than Yuanfeng, he is the emperor of Qiande.
Even counting from Qiande's later years, it has been forty or fifty years.
"The Emperor Qiande visited the south of the Yangtze River three times and traveled the mountains and rivers in a white dragon fish suit, which aroused some romantic debts. There are still many folk tales made up with this absurd emperor as the protagonist. "
Speaking of this, Chang Chenghuang frowned. It was obvious that even though the romantic emperor had died long ago, he was still unhappy.
"The most famous among them is an oiran named 'Jade Furong', who once had a sensational dispute with the Qiande Emperor."
"When there was an emergency at the border, the important ministers in the DPRK reported this request thirteen times in a row, but Emperor Qiande still stayed in the flower building and did not miss Shu." When Chang Chenghuang said this, he felt very involved and gritted his teeth with hatred.
After all, he had a share of the credit for the Ming Dynasty. Seeing him being so abused by the later emperors would inevitably make him feel unhappy.
"In short, Jade Furong was later stabbed to death, but Emperor Qiande insisted on going his own way and brought her body back to the palace and buried it in the imperial garden. Just because this oiran once loved strange flowers the most."
"Thirty years later, when the new emperor was selected, Emperor Qiande, who was already the Supreme Emperor, fell in love with one of the beautiful girls at first glance because she looked very similar to the courtesan."
Chang Chenghuang took a sip of wine and said with a gloomy expression: "Emperor Qiande took this beautiful girl away and found a Taoist named Xu from outside the palace. He dug up the bones of the oiran in the imperial garden and forcibly summoned the soul in an attempt to let her go. The soul of the courtesan is resurrected from the dead in the body of the beautiful girl."
Cao Zhe didn't say anything, but Feng Sheng, who had already squatted over, quickly asked: "Is the oiran resurrected?"
Chang Chenghuang shook his head and said, "I don't know!"
"Don't know?" Feng Sheng wondered.
"I don't know, what's the point of talking for so long?" Then he whispered softly.
Chang Chenghuang was not annoyed, but continued: "No one has seen whether the oiran has been resurrected, and no one has seen the beautiful girl again. Only half a year later, Emperor Qiande died of illness, and it was announced that he was at the end of his life, but I Know a little more.”
"Looking through the secret records sealed by Taiyuan Hospital, it is recorded that Qiande died due to the decline of Yang Qi."
"There are rumors that the night before Qiande's death, the sound of playing with a woman could be heard in the palace."
"On the second day, after the screening, we found out that all the maids, eunuchs, and even guards in the entire palace had been driven out, and no one was left waiting."
"None of the concubines have been summoned to stay in bed."
"That day, dozens of maids were beaten to death in the palace, and countless innocent souls were quietly thrown into the well."
At this point in the topic, it still seems to have nothing to do with the current Queen Mother.
After all, Emperor Qiande is the father-in-law of the current Queen Mother.
Although royal affairs can sometimes be very open, the Ming Dynasty was still very restrained in this regard.
What's more, as we all know, the current Queen Mother is a concubine of the former emperor and later the emperor. She did not enter the palace when Emperor Qiande was still there.
"Having said so much, what does it have to do with the Queen Mother?" Cao Zhe asked directly.
Chang Chenghuang looked gloomy and said in a solemn tone: "I met the Queen Mother more than 20 years ago, and he looked very similar to the dead courtesan and the selected showwoman. It can even be said that the three of them are very similar. They all seem to be carved from the same mold."
"The current Queen Mother entered the palace during the third year after Emperor Changde's death, when a female selection was held."
"Emperor Yuanfeng took a liking to her at first sight and took her as his concubine. Later, she gave birth to an heir and was promoted to a noble concubine."
"Not five years after Concubine Wan Gui entered the palace, Emperor Yuanfeng's other children died in infancy. At that time, the clan elders asked a certain generation to investigate. A certain family's subordinates lost dozens of veterans, but gained nothing."
"Emperor Yuanfeng died early, and Concubine Wan Guifei's son ascended the throne and became emperor. It was inconvenient for a certain family to investigate further."
As he spoke, Chang Chenghuang paused for a moment and said in a very hateful tone: "This Empress Dowager Wan, regardless of whether she has anything to do with the former courtesan or showgirl, she is a vicious woman who deserves to be sent to hell."
"As far as a certain family knows, she drinks the blood of boys and girls all year round just to keep her appearance."
"She also likes all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. In order to please her, officials all over the world will try their best to find exotic flowers and flatter her."
"Three years ago, a magistrate risked the disdain of the world and used a human skull as a begging bowl to plant a crabapple that was as white as frost and snow, and whose fragrance lingered for half a year. Not only did this enchantress not punish, but she manipulated the emperor to serve her Get promoted to a higher rank, and get promoted to three levels in a row."
"She is even more extravagant. She spends thousands of taels of money every day, and more than half of the treasury consumption is in her daily expenses."
"If such a witch is not eliminated, the Ming Dynasty's Guo Zuo will be doomed!"
