Who knows, what is their Crown Prince? The court has no intention of sending military pay at all. The military pay will be solved next month?

Hong Chengchou couldn't figure out, and no one could guess the Crown Prince's mind thoroughly. Since His Highness said that he could get the silver coins, we can only wait and see.

Zhu Cilang left, and the Eastern Palace Guard stayed in Jinzhou to assist in defense. He took the Hu Ben Army to Zhangjiakou.

Since it is a special forces, the Hu Ben Army is not only used for wars. It has many uses, and in addition to wars, it also needs to be used to investigate cases.

The Jinyiwei is easy to use, but Luo Yangxing is a member of Emperor Chongzhen after all. Zhu Cilang's every move cannot be hidden from Chongzhen's eyes.

The Hu Ben Army was different. In order to get rid of the blame, Emperor Chongzhen did not want such a large military expenditure to cause burden on the court. The Hu Ben Army raised the issue of military pay by itself.

This caused the Hu Ben Army to almost become Zhu Cixuan's private armed forces. This was very dangerous, but considering that the prince was young, it could not temporarily pose a substantial threat to the imperial power. In addition, Zhu Cixuan's Hu Ben Camp was indeed useful, Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye.

But one thing is that the Hu Ben Army cannot enter the capital. The Hu Ben Army camp is also within the defense areas of Shenji Camp and Wu Jun Camp. It seems unintentional, but it is actually surveillance.

The medicinal materials of the seven carriages were sent to Shenyang by the Mongolian merchant Boritechina who was in charge. These seven carriages of herbs, from the appearance alone, were all high-quality medicinal materials.

Ginger and green bamboo are the medicines that Huang Taiji needs. When the Imperial Hospital learned that these medicines were delivered, they were overjoyed.

Even Huang Taiji's concubine, Concubine Zhuang, couldn't help but exclaim: "I can't tell that Fan Yongdou is still a little capable. Our Qing Dynasty will win the world in the future, and we cannot forget others."

The eunuch and consul Zhang Defu next to him said with a smile: "Yes, Concubine Zhuang, I feel that Fan Yongdou really contributed to our Daqing. You see, the North Korean medicinal materials have not been transported, so he sent these medicines first. Our emperor, Hong Fu, is saved now."

Concubine Zhuang said "Yes": "It is said that the imperial physician will decoct medicine with the stems."

"Empress Zhuang is at ease, so I'll go now."

Everyone has a relatively simple concept of the titles of "slaves" and "subjects" in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Manchu ministers called "slaves" and the Han ministers called "students". In fact, in real history, this issue is still relatively complicated.

Moreover, there have been several changes with the times. At the time of Nurhaci and Huangtaiji, at the beginning of the establishment of the Eight Banners system, all bannermen belonged to the private subordinates of the banner masters of each banner. Whether it is the Khan or the Banner Lord, they have a relationship of "raising" and "raising" with the bannermen of their subordinates, so the relationship between "master" and "slave" is also very clear. All bannermen, whether in Manchu, Mongolian and Han army, are used to call emperors, banner masters or lords "masters" and call themselves "slaves".

"Slave" and "Secretary" are both self-proclaimed by ministers, but it does not mean that "Slave" is inferior to "Secretary", but it does not mean that the two can be confused and called out.

There were no regulations on the claim of ministers before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, but they were still in the fool-like stage of you and me, and they could be called "slaves" and "meanor". At this time, during the Qing Dynasty of Huang Taiji, their titles were not particularly important.

It was not until the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and the Shunzhi ascended the throne. The class title began to become more rigorous. The minister was the minister, and the slave was the slave.

During the Huangtaiji period, the Qing Dynasty was still in a wilderness and uncivilized era. The names and etiquette in the palace were relatively relaxed, and eunuchs did not have formal official titles.

Although there were already palace eunuchs sent to the inner palace as early as the Nurhaci period, the eunuch system was established in a complete period of Emperor Shunzhi after entering the pass.

When Emperor Kangxi was reigned, it was stipulated that the Office of the Internal Affairs was in charge of court affairs and the Jingshifang was established as the management agency for eunuchs. Therefore, during the period of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, there was no real "eunuch", let alone "eunuch general manager".

To put it bluntly, the eunuch consul Zhang Defu is the leader in charge of the eunuchs in the palace. The title is not important, but what is important is that he is a eunuch that Huang Taiji trusts more.

Concubine Zhuang asked Zhang Defu to accompany Huang Taiji, and what he was afraid of was that Huang Taiji, who was seriously injured, would be injured in secret. After all, if Huang Taiji died, there would be many people who were watching the throne.

Zhang Defu took his life and asked someone to call the imperial physician and took medicine according to the prescription.

Since it was an old disease, the medicine was also complete. The imperial physician did not think too much and directly prescribed a prescription. Then, a pharmacist from the Imperial Hospital grabbed the medicine and took it to the pharmacy to cook medicine.

The two eunuchs were responsible for decorating medicine. They put the herbs they had grasped into the medicine jar like on weekdays. Then one of them held a palm fan and slapped the fire, and the other one opened the lid from time to time to check.

"Hey, why is this medicine a little weird?" asked the tall eunuch.

The short man who was burning the fire was stunned: "What a weird thing."

"It seems something is wrong." The tall man sniffed hard: "It seems to taste different from the medicine we usually tormented."

The short man scoffed: "What's so strange about this? The medicines produced in the north and south are different, and the tastes are naturally different. Before, we were all herbs shipped from North Korea. These are all top-notch goods from Ming Dynasty. What do you know?"

"What you said is just like you know very well." The tall man gave him a blank look, and after he finished speaking, he began to decoct the medicine.

After the decoction was finished, the palace servant hurried to Huangtaiji's dormitory. At this time, Huangtaiji was lingering in a sick bed, and his mouth was so dry that he felt uncomfortable all over.

The medicine was delivered, and Concubine Zhuang got up and took it. She hesitated for a moment and said to a palace maid beside her: "Come here."

The palace maid walked over timidly without understanding the reason.

"Open your mouth." Concubine Zhuang used a spoon to get some soup.

The palace maid dared not disobey, so she had to open her mouth obediently. Concubine Zhuang was not polite and stuffed the Chinese medicine in the spoon into it.

The palace maid's face changed drastically. After swallowing it with pain, her face turned red immediately. Concubine Zhuang was shocked: "What's going on?"

Fortunately, the palace maid replied tremblingly: "It's hot, I'm so hot."

It turned out that the soup was still hot. When Concubine Zhuang was fed to her, she didn't dare not to eat it. After eating it, she naturally screamed. Concubine Zhuang was domineering, and in Shengjing's harem, everyone was afraid of her.

Concubine Zhuang snorted and looked at the palace maid again: "How do you feel?"

The palace maid shook her head: "I just feel a little hot."

The imperial physician beside him smiled and said, "It's right for heat. This medicine clears heat and dispels poison, promotes salivation and stops bleeding. Don't worry, Concubine Zhuang."

If the imperial physician was a little more rigorous, he would feel something was wrong when he smelled the medicine in the past. However, the ginger was spicy, and the soup tasted not very good. Besides, everything was normal after taking it, and it was proved that it was not poisonous.

At this moment, Concubine Zhuang didn't think much, but in the past, she ordered people to help Huang Taiji up and poured all the medicine in the bowl spoonful by spoonful.

Something big happened that night.
Chapter completed!