When Dorgon had a headache, Zukfa was almost home. He originally belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner Han Army, so he had a house in the inner city of Beijing, not far from the Forbidden City, and the location was very good. In addition, the residences of Zu Dashou and Zu Dalue are also in the same alley as Zu Kefa's house, but they are much larger.
When Zu Kefa arrived home, the alley where his ancestral home was located was crowded with people, all coming to watch. Most of them were old, weak, women and children from the Eight Banners and Han Army.
This is new! Zukefazu Wuzhuang, who was buried with great honor not long ago, is now alive again, and he is still living with flavor and color.
When he left home, he wore a flower feather on his head and looked like an important minister of the Qing Dynasty. When I returned home, I was dressed in robes and gauze, looking like a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty... After coming and going, the two ministers changed into the four ministers, but they made great progress. This is such a new thing, why don’t you come and watch it?
Zuko is thick-skinned. How can someone who can serve as a minister be so thin-skinned? Of course, it is as thick as the city wall. Riding on a tall horse, people are cheering in front of each other, and they are proud of themselves. When they see people they know, they are still saying hello to others on horseback.
"Hey, we're alive again!"
Someone asked: "Why are you wearing Ming Dynasty clothes again?"
Zukfa laughed loudly: "I surrendered again... We are now the fourth minister!"
Some people don't understand: "Why is it the fourth minister? It should be the third minister."
Zukefa smiled bitterly: "Oh, forget it, Li Zicheng surrendered again in the middle!"
Someone else asked: "Then you still surrender and return to the Qing Dynasty?"
Zukefa smiled: "I don't know about that. If the regent wants us to surrender, we will surrender. The four ministers and the five ministers are no different..."
The most humble person is invincible! If Zhu Cihong sent a civil servant like Zuo Maodi (the Nanming envoy to the Qing Dynasty in history) as an envoy, he would probably be surrounded by Dorgon, who pretended to be a polite and virtuous corporal, and forced to surrender. The forced surrender was only for the scholars in the north. , showing how much the Qing Dynasty valued Han officials. Even though Zuo Maodi was forced to death, the scholars in the north still felt warm in their hearts.
But Zhu Cixiang did not follow common sense and sent one of his four ministers, Zu Kefa, as an envoy. Do you want it, Dorgon?
If you want to go, it’s Wu Chen...Who are you going to show to? As for beheading, haha, if you kill a good and brave and loyal slave like Hong Chengchou, and you kill a greedy and fearful dog slave like Zuk Kefa, how can you still let people be slaves? If things continue like this, who will still seek refuge in the Qing Dynasty?
Instead of not killing him even if he doesn't want him, Zukefa has become a good example of a traitor - it turns out that the four ministers can do it too! The big guy is just a second minister now, and he can surrender twice...so everyone can rest assured that if the Qing Dynasty fails, they will surrender again!
Oh, there is actually another four ministers in Beijing, Zu Kefa’s adoptive father Zu Dashou. He was surrounded during the Battle of Dalinghe, and when he had no choice but to surrender, he surrendered to Huang Taiji. But later he found an opportunity to run back to Ming Dynasty. Later, they were besieged in Jinzhou. After the war, Songjin surrendered and returned to the Qing Dynasty. So he is also a fourth minister!
Now Zukefazu Wuzhuang is also one of the four ministers. Like father, like son!
Zu Dashou stood at the door of his house, dumbfounded to greet his godson. Of course this etiquette is strict, but Zukfa’s status is different now.
He was the envoy sent to the Qing Dynasty by the Prince Fujun of the Ming Dynasty... Others sent envoys to be strong-willed, but Zhu Cixiang had better send four ministers over! what is this? Do you think highly of your ancestral family?
"Father, the child is back. The child is sorry for the foster father! Woo hoo..."
When Zukfa saw his godfather, he immediately got off his horse and kowtowed to the old man. The expression on his face became as if he were reading a book. He was cheerful just now, but now he was crying.
Zu Dashou saw his godson crying like a man in tears, his eyes became moist, and he hurriedly bent down to help Zukfa up. Then the father and son entered the door of the ancestral mansion in tears. As soon as the door of the house was closed, Zu Dashou snorted coldly and pushed Zuk Fa out.
Zu Dashou shouted angrily: "Why are you coming back?"
Zukofa knelt down again, "Sir, I miss you every day in the south..."
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense!" Zu Dashou waved his hand, "What are you doing when you come back? Are you planning to make me angry to death or do you want to make the regent angry?"
Seeing that the old man did not accept this trick, Zukefa had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "Sir, it's not that the child wants to come back, it's that the Prince of Fujun insists on letting the child come to Beijing... Doesn't he just want to cause trouble for the regent? "
"Then you won't stay in Nanjing?"
"Lai in Nanjing?" Zukefa shook his head and said, "Sir, you don't know how powerful Jin Yiwei Nanzhen Fusi is..."
"What? You were beaten?"
"It's a terrible beating!"
"Isn't the prince your cousin-in-law? Didn't she help you?"
"I helped," Zukefa nodded. "Otherwise, if I were beaten to death, how could I still be appointed as the Fourth Minister?"
"You're like this..." Zu Dashou thought to himself: It's better to be beaten to death than you are like this! If you are beaten to death, you will be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. But now? All four ministers! My ancestor’s family has been completely disgraced by you.
Zukfa suddenly lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Sir, this is not the place to talk..."
Do you have any secrets to say?
Zu Dashou looked around and coughed: "Ze Pu stays, everyone else should disperse."
After sending away the rest, Zu Dashou entered the study with his godson and biological son.
After entering the house, Zu Dashou sat down on Taishi Zhang's chair and asked, "Tell me, what does the prince want our family to do?"
"Sir, the prince asked my son to give you a message. If the sea trade in Dagukou, Tianjin is started, it will definitely be prosperous. There are people in the ancestral family on both sides of the north and south. Why should I be a general? It would be embarrassing to be on the battlefield. I might as well change my career. Let’s do business.”
What? The ancestor changed his profession to become a businessman?
Can Dorgon agree? Don’t you suspect that your ancestors used business as a cover to collude with the Ming Dynasty and plot against the Qing Dynasty?
Zukofa said: "Now the regent still needs Uncle Wu. This is also an opportunity for our family. If we don't seize it firmly, we don't know when a disaster will come!"
"Just switch to business?" Zu Dashou looked at Zukefa.
"It doesn't matter if the prince said that our family is composed of four ministers and five ministers. It's not a sin to be a wallflower in troubled times... but it's not safe to be a useless wallflower!" Zukofa said. , "The prince also said that the Manchus rose up during the Wanli period, and now they are the third generation. It is time to pay attention to eating, drinking and having fun. But there are few things to eat, drink and have fun in the north. How can they be compared with the south? ? Besides, there are also good things from the West and the East. My lord, please think about it carefully."
"This..." Zu Dashou understood immediately. This is to ask the Eight Banners disciples to imitate bad behavior!
This prince is so cunning, he can pull off all kinds of tricks... But even if the Eight Banners disciples can learn bad things, they can't do it that quickly, right? It has to take twenty or thirty years, right? Could the Ming Dynasty in the southeast last that long?
