Laoshan Palace, Huangji Palace.
Today, the hall is extremely lively and festive.
Not only the ministers and ministers of the Cabinet Office, the Generalissimo's Office, the National Assembly, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and other yamen were all present. Even the Supreme Emperor Chongzhen, who had long since retired, sat on a chair to the left of Emperor Zhu Cixiang.
There is even a rare guest who rarely appears in front of civil and military officials - Concubine Ning Ajige, who is 32 years old this year.
Concubine Ning is the last among the eight concubines including Xian, Shu, Zhuang, Jing, Hui, Shun, Kang and Ning. Her status seems to be high, but among Zhu Cihong's concubines, she is actually ranked at the bottom.
Because Zhu Cixi's harem was not large, there were only a dozen concubines in total. Of course, the one with the highest status is Queen Wu Sanmei. Below is the imperial concubine Zheng Chagu.
Next to the imperial concubine are four noble concubines, namely the concubine Wu Ake, the concubine Nisha, the concubine Ning Xiangyu, and the concubine Fei Zhen'e who have not yet entered the palace.
Under the imperial concubine, there are eight named imperial concubines: Xian, Shu, Zhuang, Jing, Hui, Shun, Kang, and Ning. However, Zhu Cixiang did not have so many women to fill the quota of the Eighth Imperial Concubine, so he only named Dongguo as Xianfei, Xu Erlin as Shufei, Xu Gaozi as Zhuangfei, and Ajige as Ningfei.
Under Concubine Ning Ajige are the concubine Natalie, the concubine Takada Miho, and the chosen concubine Kong Sizhen.
In other words, excluding the royal mistress Mary Mancini, Ajige ranked fourth from the bottom in Zhu Cihong's harem, and she was really not considered a favorite concubine.
But if you look through "Inner Living Notes", you will find that in the more than ten years since Ajige entered the palace, he can definitely be ranked in the top four in terms of the number of times he has visited the palace... and his ranking has always been very stable, with a gap from third place. It is also gradually shrinking, and it is definitely worthy of being favored.
However, such a beloved concubine was not wearing any makeup at the moment, and was sitting on an embroidered pier to the right of Zhu Cixiang with a sad look on her face. It looks like disaster is coming soon.
Except for Ajige, everyone else in the hall looked happy. One look at it and it was clear that the Ming Dynasty was experiencing happy events again!
The happy news is, of course, that the pseudo-emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, who had been on the run for more than ten years, has been captured and brought to justice, and was escorted to Beijing. It will soon be delivered to the square outside Huangji Hall for Zhu Cixiang and the Manchu civil and military officials to visit.
Shunzhi's sister Ajige is responsible for the identification...
Following a commotion, Luoshan County Prince Zhu Cixuan and an accompanying Jin Yiwei official strode into the Huangji Palace.
After bowing to Zhu Cixiang and Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Cixiu bit the bullet and said loudly: "Report to the emperor brother, Fulin, the puppet emperor of Donglu, has been escorted outside Huangji Hall to await his death!"
Zhu Cixiang nodded and said with a smile: "Twenty thousand miles back and forth, Ninth Brother has really worked hard."
He turned to the woman on his right and said, "Ajige, how about coming with me to take a look?"
"I accept the order." Ajige stood up as he said that, and sighed softly, looking sad.
Zhu Cixiang turned to Chongzhen again and said, "Father, let's go see it together!"
"Okay!" Chongzhen said with a smile, "I have long wanted to see what the leader of Donglu looks like."
Zhu Cixiang raised his hand respectfully, "Father, please."
Chongzhen smiled and nodded, then strode out of the palace. Zhu Cixiang and Ajige then walked out of the hall, followed by civil and military officials, who also followed Zhu Cixiang according to their ranks and filed out. Together they went to see "Shunzhi" in the cage.
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"Wow, I am the number one in Manchuria, Batulu Shunzhi..."
As soon as he left the Huangji Hall, Zhu Cixi heard a loud voice with a Shaanxi accent claiming to be "The First Batulu Shunzhi in Manchuria"... What was going on? Why does Shunzhi taste like Shaanxi? Why does he claim to be the No. 1 Batulu in Manchuria? Isn't that Obai?
Thinking of this, he quickly walked down the steps and arrived at the square outside Huangji Hall where three prison cars were lined up.
There are people locked up in the three prison cars... Why are there three Shunzhi?
Zhu Cihong was stunned. In his order to Prince Zhu Third and Zhu Cixiu, he wrote, "Send Fulin and others to the capital." He didn't say clearly who the "waiting person" was, let alone put Jin Boguo and Jin Xuanye in the prison car... He didn't even knight them!
Even if they were to be taken to Yingtian Mansion, they couldn't be put in a cage.
Therefore, Zhu Cihong did not expect that the third prince Zhu would take it upon himself to arrest Jin Boguo and Jin Xuanye. He thought he had arrested three suspected Shunzhi and asked him to choose one of them who looked more like him.
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu walked to the three prison cars and started choosing.
The man who is yelling is locked in the prison car in the middle. He is a burly man with a ferocious face. Even with his Shaanxi accent, he cannot be Shunzhi - there is no use admitting it yourself! They don’t look alike and their accents are wrong, Mingjun Zhu Cixi won’t believe it!
The prison car on the right contains a black-faced pockmarked man (tanned). At first glance, he looks a bit like Kangxi. He is very young and cannot be Shunzhi...
Look at the prison car on the left. There is a middle-aged man with a unshaven beard, a gray face, and saggy skin, who looks very down and out. That's right, this is Shunzhi!
"Ajige," Zhu Cixiang called, then pointed at Jin Boguo who had "successfully lost weight", "Does he look like Shunzhi?"
Ajige didn't even recognize it was Jin Boguo. Jin Boguo was a big fat man when he left Yingtian Mansion!
However, when she looked at that "Skinny Boguo", she still felt that it looked very familiar. It looked a bit like the Shunzhi in her memory - a real brother, how could he look nothing like him?
Ajige pointed at Jin Boguo and shouted: "That's him! He's Fulin!"
Jin Boguo, who was crying and fussing along the way and couldn't eat much, was a little dizzy at first, so he didn't call Zhu Cixiang daddy. Now when Ajige pointed at his nose and said he was Fulin, he was confused.
"How can I be Fulin? How can I be Fulin? I am Borgo!" At this time, he was completely awake and found that Zhu Cixiang was looking at him curiously, and he quickly cried, "Father! , I am Jin Boguo, I am wronged, I really did not collude with the traitor Fulin..."
Zhu Cixiang finally recognized Jin Boguo and asked with a surprised look on his face: "Boguo, why did you ask people to arrest you and lock you up?" He looked back at Zhu Cixiang who was already frightened and at a loss, "Laojiu, what are you doing? What happened? Why did you put Prince Gong into the prison car?"
"Gong, Prince Gong?" Zhu Cixuan also felt that something was wrong. It seemed that his eldest brother hadn't masturbated Jin Boguo's prince yet!
He was still a prince, and Zhu Cixuan was just a county prince... A county prince took it upon himself to take a prince as a prisoner and escort him to Beijing! This hasn't happened since the founding of this dynasty, right?
"That was all the third brother's idea. It has nothing to do with me. It was the third brother who said that Jin Boguo and Jin Xuanye should be thrown into the prison car!" Zhu Cixuan quickly dismissed the blame.
"What? And Jin Xuanye?" Zhu Cixiang was stunned again, "Where is Marquis Yanen?"
"Your Majesty, I am Marquis Yanen!" Xuan Ye shouted quickly, with a cry in his voice... He was really wronged!
Zhu Cixiang took a closer look and saw that it was indeed Xuan Ye, but a little darker, a little thinner, and a little more depressed.
"Then who is Shunzhi?" Zhu Cihong asked.
As soon as the fake Shunzhi heard the question, he shouted again: "Well, it's Shunzhi! He's the most heroic man in the Qing Dynasty, Grandpa Shunzhi... Who are you waiting for to fight with me!"
Zhu Cixiang looked at the bandit version of Shunzhi, then looked back at Zhu Cixiang, feeling so angry in his heart! 350,000 taels! Is this how you do your errands? Xi Ni didn't reconcile, so he asked me to get a fake Shunzhi, and you got a fake Li Zicheng...
"You did such a poor job!" Zhu Cixiang glared at his younger brother, and then said to Ajige, "Ajige, then you can identify me again. See if this is the number one hero. Is he Fulin? "
Ajige walked a few steps and arrived in front of the fake Shunzhi's prison car. He identified it carefully, then nodded seriously and said, "Long live Lord, he is Fulin...he is my sixth brother Fulin." Ah!" As he spoke, Ajige pretended to wipe away his tears, "Brother Six, you must have suffered a lot these days while wandering around, right?"
Zhu Cixiang let out a breath, forgetting that there was a so-so Shunzhi, don't go into detail, it was just an excuse to create an unjust, false and wrong case.
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang pointed at the fake Shunzhi in the cage and said to Jin Xuanye: "Xuanye, your aunt has already identified him. This is your father Fulin... Don't stay in the prison car anymore. You This errand was done well, and I was rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver, and also became the Marquis of Yanen!
In addition, take your father back to the Hou Mansion and take good care of him. Don't let him run away or let him have an accident! Do you know? "
