In Beijing, it is still the twelfth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty!
The rule of the Qing Dynasty, at least within the walls of Beijing, was still very stable. Because everyone who had the means to betray the Qing Dynasty has now slipped away, leaving behind all the masters who seem to have nowhere to go, except Emperor Shunzhi...
The Chonghua Palace where Dorgon originally lived is now the palace of Prince Zhong of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also the real center of power in the "Qing Dynasty City". The "Emperor within the Second Ring Road" has now returned to the state of being regent. It's not that he can't even issue edicts out of the Forbidden City, but that he can't issue edicts at Meishan... because he has now moved into Meishan. At the mountain fortress, the remaining two thousand Eight Banners musketeers were mobilized to guard the fortress. They did not go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to attend court, nor did they patrol "everywhere within the second ring road." Send a message.
"Sir, the emperor seems to be obsessed with Buddhism these days. He hangs out with the monk Tongxiu from Thousand Buddhas Temple all day long. Oh, yesterday he was given the title of 'Yulin'. Now he is Zen Master Tongxiu of Yulin. And because the empress opposed the emperor’s belief in Buddhism, she had a falling out with the emperor and was beaten... The emperor also wanted to depose the empress.”
Shang Kexi, who is fat, is currently lying on the couch, holding in his hand an artillery textbook "Artillery and Siege" from the Nanjing Lecture Hall that he got from somewhere and opening it - the content above seems to Shang Kexi It's almost like a heavenly book, with a bunch of weird shapes and symbols, and a lot of torturous arithmetic problems.
After hearing his son's words, Shang Kexi put down the book in his hand, raised his eyelids, and stared at Shang Zhixin with a very strange look, "Abandoning the queen? Isn't this queen pregnant with a dragon seed? Why was she aborted? Is this the queen? The dragon seed doesn’t belong to the emperor?”
Shang Zhixin was a little embarrassed by what he saw, but he still explained for Shunzhi and Meng Guqing, "Sir, as far as I know, the dragon species in the queen's belly should be the emperor's... But the emperor and the queen are not very affectionate. , all the eunuchs in the palace know about this, the emperor has been in a bad mood recently, and often beats the queen to vent his anger."
"Really? Can the Queen bear it?"
Shang Zhixin said: "I don't think I can't bear it... The queen is a Mongolian woman, very strong, and she can take a beating just by looking at her..."
"Isn't that good," Shang Ke said happily, "One is willing to be beaten, and the other is able to endure... Where can I find one? What's the use of it?"
"But the emperor is resolute," Shang Zhixin said, "the queen must be deposed and expelled from Beijing!"
"What? Are you going to be expelled?" Shang Kexi frowned, "There is chaos outside the city. How can you survive outside?"
Shang Zhixin shook his head, "Maybe we want the queen to die outside the city!"
Shang Ke sighed happily: "Then let him go... Anyway, it's his wife, we can't control it! By the way, have you talked about establishing the crown prince?"
"Say it," Shang Zhixin said, "because the emperor has decided to depose the queen, he plans to make the emperor's third son Xuan Ye the crown prince."
Xuan Ye was a concubine, and his mother, Tong Jia, was just a young Fu Jin and was not favored in the Shunzhi Palace. Of course, the second son of the emperor, Fuquan, was also a concubine, and the one currently pregnant in Meng Guqing's belly was the legitimate child. Before Kangxi, the royal family of the Qing Dynasty paid great attention to the legitimate sons and daughters of the emperor. Any prince who was considered a legitimate son (not necessarily a queen who was born to a queen, but was born to the noble Fu Jin) would often have a noble status and receive a higher salary. With the title of nobility, you can also get the title of Niu Lu. As for the princes who were born as concubines, they often only had the title of general, and they had no special records to distinguish them.
Shang Ke shook his head happily, "What's the matter... The queen is obviously pregnant, but she wants to expel the queen and make a concubine his heir. It's really nonsense! Where is Sony? You don't want to persuade her?"
"Soni, that horse spirit, now knows how to chant sutras and worship Buddha with the emperor." Shang Zhixin asked, "Sir, do we want to help the queen?"
"Does she want your help?" Shang Kexi asked, "Did she tell you?"
"No, I didn't say..."
"Then stop meddling in other people's business!" Shang Kexi waved his hand, "Just arrange for someone to escort her out of the city!" He paused, "Go back to Meishan quickly and watch the emperor for me!"
"Is the emperor under arrest?" Shang Zhixin was stunned, "My lord, are you afraid of causing trouble to Xiao Qiang?"
"Hmph!" Shang Ke snorted happily, "I don't think he has the guts... My father is worried that the emperor will betray me, the Qing Dynasty!"
"The emperor betrayed the Qing Dynasty?" Shang Zhixin was stunned again and again, "Sir, the Qing Dynasty belongs to his family..."
Yes, could the Qing emperor betray the Qing Dynasty?
Shang Kexi snorted again: "He rebelled once in Tianjin... He is now a rebel of the Ming Dynasty, worse than his two other ministers!"
Shang Zhixin thought for a while, "Can he still rebel against the Qing Dynasty now? The Ming Dynasty will not let him go, right?"
Shang Ke snorted happily: "The Ming Dynasty will either let him go or let us go... Do you understand? This city of Beijing is not easy to fight. If Emperor Zhu doesn't come, my father will worry about us being trapped to death." Here. Now that he is here, there is no need to be afraid... The emperor is marching in person! Then he has to win the battle, you know? He is here to put on a show, just to let people from all walks of life in the north see it. He is so powerful that he cannot attack a fortified city for a long time."
Shang Zhixin shook his head and looked at his father: "Sir, is it possible for us to be let go tomorrow?"
"Why not? As long as he can't conquer Beijing for a while, he will definitely start from within Beijing."
Shang Kexi smiled happily and said: "In order to win beauty, what can't Emperor Zhu do? He spared Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou, so why not spare me Shang Kexi? Isn't my family full of loyal people? I, Shang Kexi, didn't fight for Daming. Beaten to death? If it weren't for those three bastards Shen Shikui, Kong Youde, and Geng Zhongming, would I have defected to the Tatars?"
Shang Kexi is indeed full of loyalists. His father and brother are all loyalists, and his own wife is also a loyalist - she died for her country when Lushun fell. And he once followed Mao Wenlong and Huang Long to fight for the Ming Dynasty. Later, Huang Long was killed by the Qing soldiers led by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and Lushun was massacred, leaving him homeless and without a backing. And because he supported Huang Long and became enemies with Shen Yongxing's grandfather Shen Shikui, he had to seek refuge with Donglu.
By the way, Shen Shikui himself was also a loyal man, but his son became a traitor!
Shang Zhixin sighed: "This is all Emperor Chongzhen's fault... If he had the skills of Emperor Hongxing, our Shang family would definitely be a great Ming Zhongliang now!"
"That's right!" Shang Kexi sighed, "As long as I can live as a loyal person, no, as long as I can avoid dying in the hands of my own people, my father will no longer be a traitor..."
There is really no way to survive being a loyal person to Chongzhen, and the probability of death at the hands of one's own people is quite high! Not to mention characters like Shang Kexi, even big characters like Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, weren't they also tricked to death by their own people?
How can most of the Zhongliangs who followed Zhu Cixi get promoted and make a fortune? Of course, there is also a deceptive last-place elimination, but Dazhongliang has a guaranteed officer, so you can still enjoy the results of victory...
Shang Zhixin thought for a while and asked in a low voice: "Sir, do you mean that we must surrender through war?"
Shang Kexi nodded slightly, "The emperor is probably thinking about this as well...so he may betray the Qing Dynasty and betray us, the loyal and loyal people of the Qing Dynasty!"
Shang Zhixin gritted his teeth: "We can't let him succeed... we must let him die in the Qing Dynasty, and let us become the three ministers!"
Shang Kexi looked solemn: "Kid, remember... Kong Tingxun, Geng Zhongming and us are different! They have no way to survive!"
"I know, I know..." Shang Zhixin nodded vigorously.
It turns out that Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin, father and son, still don’t know that Kong Tingxun’s sister Kong Sizhen’s Ling Chi was not placed on the flesh, but cut on the hair. Kong Sizhen was now Zhu Cihong's slave, so naturally she had to go north with Emperor Zhu.
In addition, Princess Ajige of Jianning, who just turned fourteen this year, also went north with Zhu Cihong.
Of course, it would be best to kill these people in Beijing. If they can't be beaten to death, Emperor Zhu is also prepared to use tricks...
