When Dilong turned over, Yufu was resting in the Hall of Eternal Life.
She felt the bed shaking violently, and when she opened her eyes, the jade hook on the top of the curtain swayed back and forth like a pendulum, she immediately became alert, turned sideways and rolled to the ground.
The exclamation of the palace people came from the outer hall, as well as the sound of porcelain falling to the ground and breaking, the entire Hall of Longevity was shaking.
Yinling and Yinxue wanted to rush in to help her, but they fell down halfway, Yufu hurriedly said: "Don't come here yet! Hide under the table!"
Yinling and the others wanted to help her out of the hall, but the ground shook too much and they couldn't stand still, so they had to listen to Yufu's words and crawl under the table.
Yu Fu also lay down on the edge of the bed, paying attention to the movements on the roof of the Hall of Eternal Life.
Fortunately, the Hall of Eternal Life has been the king's bedroom in the past. Although hundreds of years have passed, the building is still solid, and the beams are still strong. There is only a burst of dust and no signs of falling apart.
Suddenly there was a loud sound of footsteps, and Gu Hanmo and Liming came to rescue her with the Imperial Forest Army, hurried into the hall and saw Yu Fu, Gu Hanmo immediately carried her out of the Hall of Eternal Life.
The rest of the soldiers also took Yinling, Yinxue and other palace officials out, until Yufu was placed outside in the open courtyard, the feeling of dizziness got better. She grabbed Gu Hanmo's sleeve, "Hurry up, go to the West Palace! Huashang and Yuanzhang are there!"
Gu Hanmo's eyes suddenly tightened, and the rain soaked a large area of his body, but he didn't notice it at all, "It's raining today, why did Yuanzhang and the others enter the palace? Liming, Your Majesty's safety is entrusted to you, I will go now Nishinomiya!"
After all, he took people away in a hurry.
The rain was as heavy as a waterfall, and Yufu's shoes and socks were wet just as soon as he moved to the courtyard, and the corners of his skirt were also wet.
Li Ming quickly asked people to put up some more umbrellas to surround him, "I have wronged Your Majesty, the earth dragon has not yet passed its strength to turn over, so it is not suitable to go to a place where it can hide from the rain at this moment."
Yu Fu nodded, even the tips of her hair were wet and stuck to her face, black hair, white skin, bright red lips showing a hint of determination.
"I'm fine. When you came here just now, did you see any signs of collapse in the palace?"
Li Ming frowned, not daring to hide it, "Your Majesty, the guardhouse collapsed first. Because of the heavy rain, we rushed to the Palace of Longevity and didn't take a closer look. But some palaces that have been in disrepair seem to have collapsed. It's just how much."
Yu Fu was a little anxious, "There are many palaces in the harem that have been in disrepair for a long time due to no one living in them, and Huashang's West Palace is not strong. The children must be in the house due to such a heavy rain, no, I have to go and see for myself!"
Li Ming took a quick step forward and knelt in front of her to stop her, "Your Majesty can't do it! Even if the West Palace collapses, His Majesty's passing at this moment will not help the matter. The Grand Commander has already passed, and the princess and the others will definitely be rescued. Please rest assured, Your Majesty!"
Yu Fu naturally understood that what he said was reasonable, but she couldn't feel relieved at all.
"Immediately send people out of the palace to check the collapse of houses and casualties in various places in the capital, especially the mansions of important ministers such as Guhou's mansion. Has the regent returned yet?"
Gu Shubai went out of the palace in the rain today to the Ministry of Industry to personally supervise the progress of the navy's new ship building, and I don't know whether the buildings in the Ministry of Industry are strong or not...
Li Ming hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Guhou's Mansion is a new house that has been newly built for less than ten years. It is the most stable and will never collapse. Presumably, Jingzhao Yin's Mansion will send news soon .”
Yu Fu nodded, and through the rain curtain, the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army saw that her stunningly bright face was calm and composed, still showing the calm demeanor of an emperor.
But if you look carefully, you can see her slightly frowned brows, full of anxiety...
"Hua Chang!"
Gu Hanmo almost rushed to the West Palace, saw the roof of the main hall of the West Palace collapsed, and broke into the palace regardless of etiquette.
The palace was full of broken tiles and broken beams, and the palace people were nowhere to be seen, let alone the traces of Huashang and his children.
He shouted Hua Chang's name and ordered people to search around. He walked all the way to the hall when he suddenly saw a red shadow on the ground. He picked it up and saw it was a small embroidered shoe.
Aren't these Huashang's shoes
"Hua Chang! Yuan Zhang! Yuan Chi!"
He called all the names he could call, but there was no one in the hall except for this red embroidered shoe. The subordinates of the imperial forest army caught two maids who were lying in the rain and hurriedly sent them to him for questioning.
"Hong Ling? What about Hua Chang and the others?"
He recognized that she was Huashang's personal maid, Hong Ling was covered in rain, and shook her head weakly at him, "Everyone dispersed to find the princess, and the servants also went to look for it, but they were hit on the head by a fallen branch..."
She herself was still in a daze, and she couldn't provide any useful information.
Gu Hanmo waved his hand and ordered someone to take her down, and then looked for her in the direction of the apse, "Hua Chang! Where are you?"
"Third Uncle!"
Hearing Yuanzhang's voice suddenly, Gu Hanmo thought it was his own illusion, but after listening carefully, he heard Huashang's voice, "Third Uncle, we are here!"
Their voices sounded the same as usual, and they didn't seem to be injured. Gu Hanmo anxiously searched for their tracks in the rain, and suddenly saw five big hedgehogs walking out of the rain.
One of the big hedgehogs waved to him, "Come out, third uncle, the Dilong will turn over again in a while!"
He jumped out of the window and pushed aside the bamboo hats of a few big hedgehogs, only to find that it was Huashang and Yuanzhang, none of them missing.
"Are you all right? Why are you here? Who gave you the coir raincoats?"
He took off Huashang's coir raincoat, saw that all the hands and feet were complete, and saw that the other children were all fine, and even the clothes were not even a little wet, so he couldn't help but wonder.
Hua Chang said: "We wore coir raincoats and wooden clogs to play in the water in the backyard, and then the earth dragon turned over, and we squatted on the ground without daring to move. Fortunately, the backyard was empty, and we were not hit."
Gu Jiaojiao said: "Yes, we heard the house collapsed ahead, it was really scary!"
After finishing speaking, he said to Ouyang Tie Lv: "Hey, you have done a great job this time, if you hadn't suggested that everyone come out to play in the water, we might have been smashed in the palace!"
Gu Hanmo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Okay, don't talk about this for now, I will send you to the Palace of Longevity to meet His Majesty, and I will go to other palaces to rescue the trapped palace people."
Several children nodded, Gu Hanmo picked up Huashang, and the others were also picked up by other soldiers, and sent to the Hall of Eternal Life to meet Yufu.
Seeing that everyone was safe, Yu Fu felt relieved, "I don't know if Dilong's turnaround is over. Don't go home, just stay here and don't go anywhere. I will send someone to report to your respective houses, don't worry."
Ouyang Tie Lv and the others were very relieved after hearing this, Yufu sent someone to report their safety, and if something happened to their home, the Imperial Forest Army would definitely help them, so they didn't have to worry about their parents.
After Dilong turned over, Gu Shubai immediately rode back to the palace, and the people from the Ministry of Industry tried their best to stop him, advising him not to go out at the moment to avoid accidents, but he was worried that Yufu's mother and son had to leave.
He was born as a military commander, how could those officials from the Ministry of Industry stop him
You can only watch him ride away.
All the way through the long street was unimpeded. Because there was no one on the street due to the continuous heavy rain, he could vaguely see through the rain curtain that many houses had collapsed in the north of the city. He had no time to stop and only ran all the way towards Miyagi.
The palace was in chaos, and the Imperial Forest Army was constantly mobilizing. He rode his horse directly to the outside of the Hall of Longevity. When he entered the hall, he saw Yufu, Huashang, and several children standing in the rain, and he let go of his hanging heart.
"Yufu, are you alright?"
Yu Fu was also very happy to see him, "I and the children are fine, how about you?"
Gu Shubai shook his head, "Everything is fine in the Ministry of Industry, and I'm fine. The scene outside the palace is also fine, so don't worry about it. I only saw some houses in the north of the city collapsed all the way back. There were shacks gathered there. The place is indeed more prone to collapse than ordinary houses. Fortunately, the shack is light, and even if it falls down, it will not hurt people's lives."
Yu Fu nodded, "What about the Marquis Gu's Mansion?"
Gu Shubai said: "The mansions of important ministers near Miyagi are well-renovated. I took a quick glance and didn't see any signs of collapse, so I didn't detour back to the mansion."
As soon as this remark came out, the children were very happy, and it seemed that their family was all right.
Hua Chang looked up at him, "Father, but my West Palace has collapsed."
Gu Shubai was startled, he knelt down to look at her body, he found that there were no injuries. Hua Chang told him about the people playing with water in the backyard, and said again: "Several palaces have collapsed in the palace, can the people's houses really be spared?"
"Will do."
Yuanzhang said with certainty: "Before the heavy rain, I heard from my mother that the thunderstorm season was coming and ordered the steward Qi to renovate the houses that were not strong enough in the mansion. The same must be true for the houses of the common people. The houses that have just been renovated are not easy. Collapsed. On the contrary, these palaces in the palace are troublesome to repair, and they have always been stable, so they were neglected.”
What Yuanzhang said made sense, and Yufu was relieved a lot, "Looks like I have to thank the continuous heavy rain for a while."
Until the evening, when there were no signs of aftershocks, everyone went back separately.
Huashang was temporarily placed in the side hall of the Hall of Eternal Life, and reports from inside and outside the palace about the earth dragon's turnaround came one after another.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, there are a total of twelve collapsed palaces in the palace. Except for a few palace people who were hit by utensils, almost no one was injured. As for the destroyed utensils and other objects, they are still being counted, and there will be detailed reports in two days." list."
After the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to report, Tian Yunpo and other important officials outside the palace also entered the palace to say hello and report the situation outside the palace.
Jing Zhaoyin said: "Returning to Your Majesty, there are not many damaged houses in Beijing this time, and there are not many casualties. The current statistics show that the number of deaths is less than ten, and the number of injuries is less than a hundred. Jing Zhaoyin's mansion is arranging for the victims to move to new houses." ,all the best."
Yu Fu heard the word "new house", and asked doubtfully, "Why did you come to a new house?"
Jing Zhaoyin raised his head to report, but couldn't help showing a smile. Xue Rou from the household department stood up and replied impatiently: "Your Majesty, speaking of it, this is a good thing. Your Majesty still remembers that when His Majesty went on a tour in spring, he said The houses in the northern part of the city are too dilapidated and you want to rebuild new houses for the people?"
"Of course I remember."
Xue Rou said with a smile: "Your disrespect, this matter has been hanging in my heart for too long, but now it has been resolved smoothly due to such a coincidence of natural disasters, I am very happy."
It turned out that although the people in the north of the city lived in dilapidated houses, because of the deep ties between the neighbors and the neighbors, they were worried that they would lose their old neighbors after moving to a new house, so they kept refusing to move.
This time, the collapsed houses in the middle of the capital were the northern part of the city. It happened that those people who were included in the relocation list had to move into new houses because their old houses collapsed due to natural disasters.
In this way, a major task of the Ministry of Household Affairs has been completed, and the Jingzhaoyin Mansion is under better control. No wonder the two adults can still laugh.
Yu Fu shook his head helplessly, thinking that fortunately there were no casualties this time, and it felt like a blessing in disguise.
The blessing in disguise is not limited to this.
The next day, the state capitals around the capital sent documents successively, and the buildings and casualties in various places were minimal. Although it was rainy and rainy for days and the people stayed at home, fortunately the incident happened during the day, and because the house had been repaired before the rainy season, the damage was not serious.
The most amazing thing is that the Cangzhou government ordered people to transport a strange stone quickly, saying that it was salvaged from the river after Dilong turned over.
In the early dynasty, this strange stone was transported to the Golden Palace.
In the distance, there is only a piece of brilliance, which is not like the light from a stone at all, but like some kind of jewel.
The strange stone is about as long as an adult man's arms outstretched, and only one arm high, like a horizontal black and green plaque, with a shimmering thing written on it into an auspicious "Rui" character.
Yu Fu waited to look carefully at the word Yihe Shucheng, it looked like a blur, she almost suspected that Dilong had turned over again, otherwise how could she not see clearly
She simply stood up and went down to look at it herself. When she got very close to the strange stone, she realized that the golden thing with the word "Rui" written on it seemed to be fish scales.
No, it's a huge fish scale.
A scale is about the size of a child's palm. What kind of fish can grow such a large scale
The one who personally escorted the strange stone came from the Cangzhou Futai, and Chao Yufu saluted respectfully: "Your Majesty, at this time, it was salvaged from the river in the area under the jurisdiction of the minister. There is a natural word Rui on the stone. Look, isn't this the kindness that God has blessed me with? ? It means His Majesty's sage, virtue and virtuous name, he is an eternal Mingjun, long live my emperor, long live, long live—"
After saying that, he knelt down to salute, all the officials in the hall also knelt down, only Gu Shubai walked to Yufu's side.
Taking advantage of the time when everyone was kneeling and saluting, Yu Fu hurriedly winked at Gu Shubai, and the latter knowingly reached out to touch the strange stone, and squeezed hard at the huge "fish scale"—
It didn't come down.
A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, he thought it was a flattery gift from the local officials, but he didn't expect to try it himself, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Let’s not talk about the method to stick the fish scales on the stone without moving. Let’s say that such a large fish scale has never been heard or seen. Where did the Cangzhou Futai come from
Yu Fu nodded knowingly, flicked his sleeves, "Everyone is flat."
Since there is such a strange stone, no matter where it comes from, the first priority is to stabilize the hearts of the subjects.
She had a dignified smile on her face, and said, "Since I ascended the throne, I have unified Kyushu, repelled Sanyi, subdued Goryeo, and finally established the Great Zhou. All I rely on is the legacy of my ancestors, and the help of the ministers. As today Falling strange stones is not only my merit, but also the merit of all the ministers. I also hope that the ministers will refrain from arrogance and impetuosity, and then seek the well-being of the people of Great Zhou."
"Your Majesty's order is to be obeyed."
All the ministers crowded around to discuss this strange stone, and some people boldly stretched out their hands to touch the scales on its head, and found that they couldn't be snapped off, and they were deeply surprised.
"What kind of scale is this? It's so big?"
"Dare you be a fish scale?"
"How can fish scales be so big? They are not so bright, maybe they are dragon scales?"
Yu Fu was also very curious about the scales on the top, and suddenly saw the Qin Tianjian envoy coming forward and said: "Your Majesty, I have predicted the meaning of the earth dragon this time, and it is an auspicious omen. Please think carefully, Your Majesty, since ancient times, every earth dragon Turning over, how many people were killed and injured, how many houses were destroyed? But the damage to the capital this time can be said to be negligible, and this strange stone appears again, I think, this is a decree sent by heaven and earth to commend your majesty's achievements."
All the ministers responded one after another, especially Xue Rou and the others felt that the natural disaster had more benefits than harm.
Naturally, Yu Fu was also happy in his heart, the words of Qin Tianjian spread to the ears of the common people, only then will people's hearts completely settle down and return to normal.
Suddenly Zhang Jiuque came out with a smile, cupped his hands and said: "I originally had an idea, but I dare not bring it up because of the seriousness of the matter, but now I have to mention it. Since the heavens are auspicious, Your Majesty should obey the will of heaven and act." It is the act of enshrining Zen on Mount Tai."
Taishan Fengzen? !
Yu Fu was so shocked by this bold proposal that he was speechless. The enshrining of Zen in Mount Tai is a national rite. Historically, only emperors who have made great contributions to the country, such as Tang Zong and Song Zu, can go.
Since ancient times, how could an emperor as young as her dare to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen
However, all the ministers heard the words as if they had found a treasure, and they all bowed their hands in begging, "Please obey the destiny and perform the act of enshrining Mount Tai in Zen!"
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Note: Tang Zong Song Zu is a general term, generally referring to ancient emperors with great achievements. In fact, only Gaozong and Xuanzong went to Taishan to enshrine Zen in the Tang Dynasty, and only Zhenzong (not Song Taizu) in the Song Dynasty.
If you are interested, you can check Taishan Fengchan. This is a grand ceremony that burns money and character, and it is not something that the emperor can go to if he wants to.