The eunuchs worked day and night, and finally built a three-story altar before the auspicious day of praying for rain. Although this altar was only used temporarily and was demolished after use, the Tian family would never build a wooden platform for doing things.

In order to build this altar, not only did the plants and trees that the lamas had bounded were removed, and they had to replant them on the periphery based on their array map. They also used granite stocks in large interiors as the surface, and the soil in Xiangshan was used as the skin surface. After compacting, they were laid with "gold bricks" that were more expensive than gold.

After spending money along the way, the Ministry of Revenue was jealous and Chongzhen was in pain. The missionaries of the Jesuits all thought to themselves: It is indeed a waste of national financial resources. How great is it to donate so much money to the Lord!

After using such a large formation, Chongzhen ordered the chief minister Wen Tiren to serve as a sacrifice, and he brought the queen and Concubine Tian to watch the ceremony. The important officials of the foreign court submitted a statement, expressing their hope to watch the ceremony together. Although it was a monk praying for rain, from a higher level, it was part of the sacrifice to heaven. As a minister, he should share his respect for God with the emperor.

Chongzhen did not mind the ministers rushing into the inner palace in this regard. Anyway, these people would not spit and defecate anywhere, and it was just a matter of seats when they came too much.

The ministers were of course very happy after getting the permission. After having lunch at home, they all went to the inner palace.

The inner palace prayer for rain, which was originally only known in a small range, became a prosperous era. Almost no senior officials in the ministry who were above the third rank in Beijing were left behind. Even the censors of the Kedao only left a small number of censors on duty to watch the rain prayer. The originally planned list failed because there were too many people mixed with fish eyes, so the eunuchs in the inner palace collected the entire Forbidden City beads and square stools to solve the seating problem.

"Old ancestor, my eyelids have been twitching all day. But there is nothing wrong with it." Wang Chengen said to Cao Huachun carefully.

Cao Huachun looked old, but in fact he was only over fifty years old. Because of his poor family, he was a close relative of the emperor and was promoted to a eunuch at the age of 12 or 13. He was proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting in the palace. He was highly valued by Wang An, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor. Later, Wei Zhongxian killed Wang An and took advantage of his power. He was exiled to Nanjing and was quite abused. After Chongzhen ascended the throne, Cao Huachun returned to the capital and was already in a state of age.

"You are tired, just stare at Xunkong for a while." Cao Huachun said leisurely, "Even if there is something wrong with praying for today's rain, it is the job of those masters. We just need to take good care of the emperor."

Wang Chengen said yes and stepped out respectfully.

Cao Huachun sat alone with his eyes closed and rested for a while, and suddenly called out softly: "Xiao Anzi."

"I'm here." The eunuch with the servant hurriedly came in from outside the door, "What are the instructions of the ancestors?"

"Let the people of the Imperial Horse Prison protect the ministers," Cao Huachun said, "Your Majesty must be ours."

"This..." Xiao Anzi hesitated, "Old ancestor, we are all weak, how can we compare to those warriors on horseback?"

From a functional perspective, the Imperial Horse Prison only appears when His Majesty the Emperor wants to ride a horse. In fact, since the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the Imperial Horse Prison has become a part of the force in the forbidden area. Compared with the great Han generals who are good at pretending, the eunuchs in the Imperial Horse Prison may have stronger combat effectiveness.

"Do you think you are better than me?" Cao Huachun said in a vagina. "You can't go quickly!"

Xiao Anzi was so scared that she was sweating profusely and hurried out to make arrangements.

Of course, Chongzhen would not pay too much attention to this matter. He took advantage of Qian Yiqun's absence in the past two days and was digging out a previous memorial from Yangzhou Prefecture. The memorial was handed over by the prefect of Yangzhou. It was subject to formal procedures. The Tongzhengsi was transferred to the cabinet last month. The cabinet had no intention of reporting it.

Because the memorial only says that Yangzhou has developed an enclave to increase the production of grain. Mining is like a county, and hopes to establish officials and manage the people. The cabinet's opinion is to order Yangzhou Prefecture to carry out politics on behalf of others, and as for the establishment of a county, let's wait.

Chongzhen deliberately dug out the Yangzhou memorial, just because he was worried that Qian Yiqun said: "I have a piece of land in Yangzhou." Moreover, through "Mo Hanzhai Zhiyi" these days, he also knew a little about the Yugou Cave Heaven. Corresponding to the Yangzhou Prefecture memorial, the young and keen emperor could easily guess: The land that the kind-hearted man mentioned is Yugou Cave Heaven!

The Taoist priest asked me for Yuntai Mountain, but he did not talk about the Jade Gate Cave Heaven. He obviously regarded this Jade Gate Cave Heaven as his private property!

Chongzhen was angry and immediately remembered the old saying in his mind: "All the king's land is under the world!"

But... this Jade Hook Cave Heaven is not in the world, but in the well...

No matter so many! Any place where the Ming soldiers can reach is my Ming land!

Chongzhen had already thought about how to take back his land, or how much would it be appropriate to give it to kind people?

If it is as vast as the legendary one, how could there be any bandits in the Ming Dynasty?

Chongzhen was in agitation.

Even when Wang Chengen came in, he didn't hear it.

"Your Majesty," Wang Chengen called out twice, "Your Majesty."

"Well? What's the matter?" Chongzhen closed the memorial in his hand, his voice full of energy.

"Your Majesty, you are waiting for you to see the rain prayer." Wang Chengen said.

Chongzhen nodded, stood up and said, "Let's go."

Wang Chengen immediately shouted at the top of his throat: "The Emperor!"

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty rushed to the imperial garden.

...

The lamas on the altar were obviously surprised that so many onlookers came. Seeing their birds repairing their clothes, all of them were third-rank officials, which shocked Illed for a long time.

If the Ming court officials were brought to the crook, wouldn’t Dorgon have to give me more benefits!

Illed looked around and saw where the Ming officials were there, and they were all waiting for him to eat chicken, duck, fish and meat. If the assassination of Chongzhen was successful, the Ming Dynasty would at best change the emperor. But if all these people were killed, the Ming Dynasty would have been in chaos for five or six years.

A sound of the magic screw is raised high.

The time for praying for rain has come.

Irede gathered his mind and wore a big red robe. Under the protection of the lamas, he walked to the altar step by step and knelt in front of the Thangka of the horse-headed Vajra statue.

The Horse-Headed Vajra is the incarnation of the compassionate Guanyin and is the most worshipped among the statues of the Later Red Sect. As a compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, it is reasonable to be carried out to pray for rain and relieve the suffering of sentient beings.

After Chongzhen sat down, he found that there were some common people in front of his sage, who were not official or Taoism, and he called Wang Chengen to come and asked, "Who are these?"

Wang Chengen pointed out one by one, and it turned out that the candidate was the one who arranged for the Holy Master to enter the palace to prepare for the guardian. It was the Bai brothers, the senior brothers of Aniu, Xiao Yisheng, Qian Wei and Gu Meiniang. Fu Yuze was wearing Taoist outfits, following Jiang Kui, but was next to Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen looked at Gu Meiniang's back and said to himself: "The kind-hearted man looks pure and desireless, but the students are very immersive. I wonder if he has any unreasonable thoughts."

The monks over there were chanting Buddhist scriptures in Tibetan and Mongolian languages, and the Han officials did not know which Buddhist scripture contained the content of asking for rain. Anyway, this detail was not important. What was important was that it sounded quite interesting, and a cool breeze blew between the heaven and the earth.

As the cool breeze became more and more prosperous, a dark cloud gathered in the originally bright afternoon sky. The clouds were getting thicker and thicker, and thunder roared faintly.

The onlookers were amazed and said to himself: This monk is indeed capable! He actually came Yuqi!

Concubine Tian sat on the left side of Chongzhen and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, see, do you have the merit of recommending me?"

Chongzhen had already smelled the damp thunderstorm in the air, felt relieved, and said happily: "Will you be rewarded! Queen, see what you should reward."

Zhou Hou was unhappy and his face was calm as usual: "It's like the ritual."

This was a bit disappointing.

From the perspective of the ritual system, concubines should not have any "recommendations", and naturally there will be no rewards caused by "recommendations".

Concubine Tian looked at Zhou Hou resentfully, but Chongzhen still watched Yileid cast the spell with interest, hoping that the rain could completely resolve the severe drought in the capital.

...

Xu Guangqi found Tang Ruowang from the crowd of the Imperial Heaven Sect, gave a wink, and asked him to step forward. Tang Ruowang carefully separated the surrounding officials and came to the Minister of Rites.

"Have they done it?" Xu Guangqi asked.

Chau Wang blinked his eyes slyly and said, "It's done. As long as it rains, I can prove that this ritual is just a coincidence."

Xu Guangqi nodded secretly and said, "Don't alarm the snake, do it step by step."

Tang Ruowang clicked a little and retreated. However, he looked at the dark clouds and was about to come, remembering the cloudless sky just now, and prayed in his heart: My Lord, will you also respond to the prayers of the pagans?

Jiang Kui's face was getting worse and worse. He vaguely raised the spell of praying for rain and something was wrong, and the feeling became more and more obvious. What followed was a greater sense of crisis, as if a beast was hiding in the dark staring at him.

The old Taoist priest looked around and saw everyone else's face full of happiness, as if the drought could be relieved. He turned around and saw Fu Yuze being stunned.

Fu Yuze has the same feeling as him.

Feeling Jiang Kui's gaze fell on him, Fu Yuze came to his senses and said to Jiang Kui: "Sir Jiang, I feel something is wrong."

"What?" Jiang Kui said calmly.

"The thunder energy is too strong, and the water qi is insufficient." Fu Yuze's five elements strengthened water, and his feelings towards water are much more sensitive than others. He can even distinguish the quality of water by simply relying on his feelings. He is in the current environment, but he does not feel enough water qi, which is the biggest doubt in itself.

Whether it is praying for sunshine or rain, they use their own spiritual aggregate to use the bonus of the altar to guide the qi of heaven and earth to affect the changes in the weather within a local range. Therefore, when a monk asks for rain, the water qi should be the place around the altar with the most abundant water qi.

However, now... Fu Yuze looked at the hair standing on his arm and said, "The water qi has almost increased!"

The strong wind caused the first drop of rain.

This drop of water attracted the cheers of the ministers, the emperor's excitement, and the imperial concubine's coquettishness...
Chapter completed!