Ming Jing Tai

CH 1

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(t/n: Hello reader, I translated this entire novel over a year ago to practice my chinese.
Finally editing it now, but please comment or dm me if you’re a native english speaker interested in being an editor.)

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At the break of dawn, two hundred men and horses arrived outside the capital.
After the gatekeepers saw the men’s waist tokens, they were not respectful, but spoke in an official manner, “In accordance with the law, your highness’s army can only be stationed three miles outside the capital.”

“You!”

A man raged, but the leader of the group raised a hand to stop him and said, “Find a place for our brothers to camp, I will head in by myself.”

“Your highness, I should go with you.”

“I will go alone.”

Forcefully pressing down on his shoulder, Hou Feng slightly nodded towards his men and mounted his horse.
The city doors opened and Huo Feng entered the capital alone.

As the only brother of the Jiazheng emperor, Southern Chu’s great general Huo Feng, when the dynasty met with grim situations, he had to be extremely careful.
Although he was a general with 700,000 of Southern Chu’s men under his command, with his wives and children trapped in the capital, he could only submit to humiliation.
Usually, Huo Feng would avoid returning to the capital, but his concubine had given birth to a son one month prior, so his majesty issued a decree ordering him to return to the capital immediately, forcing him to return.
If he did not return, he would be resisting a decree, a sign of disrespect, and he and his mens’ families would be unable to avoid entanglement.
He did indeed miss his wives and sons a bit.
But returning was indeed incredibly dangerous.

“Old Huang, I’m really anxious about the prince returning alone, that place is a den of wolves.” A soldier who had returned to the capital with Huo Feng, Xu Baicai said worriedly.

Huang Han thought of the prince’s figure, and similarly concernedly replied, “I also worry.
But while we are here, we must speak and work carefully.
Their people are everywhere, so we must not give the prince any troubles or any weaknesses.
Go, find a place to camp.”

“En.”

The two men mounted their horses, taking the two hundred soldiers to find a place to camp three miles away.

Eunuch Zhang Zhong sat in a courtyard feeding the birds.
One man bowed towards him and whispered in his ear: “Lord Dugong[1], Huo Feng has returned.”

Zhang Zhong’s hand froze for a moment, but he soon continued to scatter the rest of the rice grains in his hand onto the ground.
The man immediately waved his hand and a eunuch quickly brought in a pot of hot tea.
Zhang Zhong wiped his hands, then took a tea cup and took two sips, before slowly asking, “How many men did he bring?”

“About two hundred men.
Our people blocked them outside the capital, only he entered, he is currently on the way into the palace.”

Zhang Zhong handed the tea cup over and the eunuch immediately received it.
Zhang Zhong stood, still slowly speaking: “Prince Yue[2] just returned, we should give him some face.
I am going to see his majesty now.
Where is Chongren?”

The eunuch replied: “The novel consort called him over.”

“Then wait for him to return, let him come see me.”

“Yes.”

July days always brought troubles, Zhang Zhong yawned and brought a few men to the Jiazheng emperor Huo Wenlong’s bedchamber.
Outside the bedchamber, Zhang Zhong heard a faint cry from inside.
He raised his sleeves to cover his mouth, hiding the satisfaction on his lips.
The eunuchs guarding the door opened the door to the bedchamber.
Only Zhang Zhong walked inside, and in the outer room called with a shrill voice: “Your majesty, this slave requests an audience for important matters.”