On July 11, the 44th year of Kangxi's reign, a group of "people in white" had gathered outside the Yongding Gate of Kaitian Mansion in Beijing. Both sides of Sanjingchi Road are also filled with white flags and white streamers. A white archway was also built outside the triangular fortress outside Yongding Gate. What a mournful look!
According to traditional Chinese funeral rites, the emperor's funeral usually involves a 27-day suspension of mourning and then a grand burial. However, Kang Mazi died in the 42nd year of Kangxi's reign. He is now two years younger, but he has never been able to rest in peace. Of course it was not because the tomb was not built... Kang Mazi and his ministers argued for many days after conquering northwest India over the matter of building the tomb. At that time, the ministers did not forget their homeland, so they did not advocate building a formal mausoleum. Instead, they wanted to build a "saving palace" first, that is, "save it up" and bury it. Later, after the Central Plains was recovered, they would dig it out, transport it back and bury it again. However, Kangxi went against all opinions and ordered to build a formal mausoleum for himself in Beijing's Kaitianfu. He did not name his mausoleum Jingling. He also stipulated that all future Mongol Khans would be buried in Beijing's Kaitianfu after their death!
This arrangement is of course to show his determination not to return to the Central Plains, but to take root in Central Asia and India!
Because Kangxi had a lot of money after conquering northwest India, his construction of Jingling was progressing very quickly, and it had been repaired long before his death. Therefore, Kangxi could be laid to rest at any time. But it happened to take two years and he just wouldn't bury it.
The reason why Kangxi Khan was not buried was that he could not hold a funeral. The funeral of Kangxi Khan cannot be without Yinfeng and Yin? These two characters, right? Although Yinfeng and Yin? have both been laid to rest, they cannot come to Kangxi's funeral in person. But they both have wives and children, Yin? There is also a mother asking for the Queen Mother... That is Kangxi's eldest wife, how can he not come to bury Kangxi?
If they don't come, can this funeral be considered a grand funeral?
But how did this Yinreng, Yin? die? At first glance, it seems that they are all "seeking death" and have nothing to do with Yinzhen and Yinzhen. But as long as you put some effort into investigating, it is not difficult to find something fishy...
Therefore, Queen Mother Suo and Queen Mother Kong avoided brothers Yinzhen and Yinzhen.
Queen Mother Suo did not dare to stay at the summer resort. Instead, she led the Mongolian White Banners, Cossack mercenaries, and most of the Indian Eight Banners who were loyal to herself and Hongxi, as well as a group of Brahmin officials, and some Sikh green battalion soldiers, together They retreated to the port of Daman on the west coast of India - of course they did not follow the Eight Banners. It was impossible for them to be loyal to Sofia, which believed in Christianity. Moreover, when returning to the Eight Banners, they would not value white people (they themselves are white-skinned), and they are also afraid of Mongolian faces in their hearts... In the past more than a thousand years, they have been bullied by people with this kind of appearance, what kind of Huns , Turks, Mongolia, Timurid Empire, and now the Mongols are coming. I am afraid that they will die. Of course they will not dare to resist the two Mongols, Yinzhen and Yinzhen.
The Eight Banners of India regard white skin as noble. Both Yin? and Hongxi were of high caste appearance. During his lifetime, Yin? was particularly fond of high-caste Indian maids, took in many Indian concubines, and married many senior officials of the Eight Banners of India. In addition, he is also the prince of the "Indian Empire". Therefore, the Indians in the Great Mongol Dynasty are basically the "Sixth Party" and naturally they must follow them to the end.
As for the Sikh Green Camp, they bet on both sides. Some of them followed Sofia to Daman, while the rest continued to work as soldiers in Nanjing Pingtianfu and the Indian territory ruled by the Great Mongolia to maintain order.
The situation on Queen Mother Kong's side was much simpler. Yinren's power was the Confucian Eight Banners, Horqin Mongolia could only be considered allies, and the Tianfang Sect cities in the Fergana Basin were just tax-paying vassals.
After Yinren's body was put in a coffin and sent to Beijing, Queen Mother Kong immediately arranged a retreat - she first sent people to the Fergana Basin to extort and plunder, and then took the looted property and food with her , humans and animals, and the Confucian Eight Banners population in Shangjing City ran away to Suiye Mansion, ready to embrace Ming's thick legs wholeheartedly...
Therefore, Queen Mother Suo and Queen Mother Kong would not easily leave Daman and Suiye and go to Beijing's Kaitian Mansion to "throw themselves into a trap".
The eldest elder brother Yinzhen, who controlled Kaitian Mansion in Beijing, and the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, who controlled Pingtian Mansion in Nanjing, were both filial sons and were unwilling to bury their most beloved Huang Ama casually. So for more than a year, they have been planning to bury Kangxi.
But this matter is not easy. This Zhang Luo is only two years younger, but the funeral has not been held yet. But if the funeral is not held, the national mourning will have to continue. Other places are difficult to manage, but Kaitianfu in Beijing, Qitianfu in Shangjing, Pingtianfu in Nanjing, and the Summer Resort have been paying homage throughout the city for more than a year, and all entertainment activities have been banned... .
And just when the bannermen and slaves of Kaitian Mansion in Beijing were getting a little impatient waiting to bury Kangxi, they suddenly received an order from above to have everyone go out of the city to greet the old Queen Mother and Lord Galdan!
This was a "big happy event", so all the bannermen and slaves in the city happily walked out of Yongding Gate wearing mourning clothes and waited outside the open road while whispering to each other.
"Is Queen Mother Suo really here? Hasn't she always been afraid of that 'Hongmen Burial'? Why isn't she afraid now?"
"You don't know, don't you? This is all the credit of Lord Galdan. The second senior brother of Xianhan is indeed interesting. This year has been spent on the funerals of Xianhan, the late emperor and Prince Khalkha. It's really a mess. Rushing for a party... Queen Mother Suo and Queen Mother Kong must give them some face, right?"
"Face? This is not a matter of face. Did you see it? The smoke is rising. Do you know what it is?"
"Cavalry! I'm from the forward battalion. How could I not tell? Haha, at least eight thousand cavalry! Did Lord Galdan bring all his musketeers to Queen Mother Suo for escort?"
"But if anything, it seems that the Wandering Monk can't save Queen Mother Suo with eight thousand muskets, right?"
"Of course we can't keep it, so Prince Zhi's successor Fujin is currently being held in Daman... She is the daughter of Emperor Frank Louis! With her in custody in Daman, how dare Prince Zhi touch the Queen Mother?"
"That's right...what about Queen Mother Kong? Who went to Suiye as a hostage?"
"The Queen Mother Kong doesn't need hostages. She... went to Nanjing herself last year!"
"Nanjing? Pingtian Mansion?"
"No, it's Yingtian Mansion! I heard that he lived in the Forbidden City for three full months and personally served the Ming Dynasty Grand Duke and Emperor!"
"Really or not? She is the Queen Mother Kong!"
"It's true, of course it's true. No one in Suiye Mansion knows about it... They're not hiding this at all!"
"Then she's not afraid anymore..."
Just when a group of well-informed people were talking enthusiastically, the flag soldiers guarding the roadside suddenly shouted: "Quiet...the flag owners and princes are here!"
Everyone quickly turned to look in the direction of the city gate and saw a group of filial sons wearing sackcloth and mourning. Everyone was riding a white horse and holding a mourning stick. Under the protection of the cavalry who were also wearing white clothes, white armor and white horses, they came out in a vast expanse of white.
The leaders among them are Yinzhen and Yinzhen, a pair of filial sons!
The two filial sons were crying while riding, their eyes almost blurred with tears, and they couldn't even see the road ahead clearly. Fortunately, they were riding smart long-legged Persian horses with "autonomous driving functions". So he would carry his two filial sons along the Sanjing Chi Road without getting lost - there was only one road in total, and both sides were filled with crying humans. Of course these two smart horses knew how to go.
But I didn't keep walking. After walking for about half an hour, I still had an "automatic stop". This is not because they are out of class, but because the road ahead is blocked - a large number of bald humans wearing yellow and red clothes and riding big horses appeared in front of them...
The most eminent monk in India, the first Galdan who became a Buddha while alive, has arrived!
The first Galdan was also much older. In the past few years, he had been traveling around for the cause of Buddhism in India, reviving the four major Indian Buddhist temples such as Nalanda Temple, Flying Temple, Mahabodhi Temple, and Chaoyan Temple. Moreover, an armed alms group with tens of thousands of people was assembled - riding big horses, wearing chain armor, carrying muskets, and carrying grenades to go alms, which is particularly easy to inspire people's desire to worship the Buddha. When the princes of the Heavenly Sect in South India saw them, they all clasped their hands and recited unknown sutras to greet them, and then presented them with large amounts of gold and silver... Nalanda Temple, Flying Temple, Mahabodhi Temple, This is how Chaoyan Temple was built!
After completing the construction of the four major temples, Galdan began to organize the funerals of Yinreng, Yin? Super rush to catch up. He didn't need to worry about anything else. Archbishop Alexander and the brothers Archbishop Confucius from Moscow would take care of it. During this funeral, one side had monks reciting sutras to pray for salvation, and the other side had Archbishop Alexander or Brother Kong Shenggong in charge of the funeral. It was really lively! Moreover, two brothers Yinfeng and Yin? were given different choices - Galdan wanted to go to the Western Paradise, Archbishop Alexander wanted to go to heaven, and Kong Shenggong wanted to be the prince of hell in the underworld. No one else gets this kind of treatment!
But organizing Kangxi's funeral is troublesome...it's all Galdan's job!
He had to communicate back and forth between Suiye, Beijing, Nanjing, and Daman! Not only do we have to talk to all parties about the funeral, we also have to discuss with everyone the matter of convening the Eight Banners Great Council to elect the emperor, the khan, and the queen mother... Oh, we also need to prepare a "charter". This is Queen Mother Kong proposed it! It is said that in the future, Great Mongolia will become a charter country with "the law rests on the khan", and it can no longer take action because of the succession issues of the khan and the emperor.
A meeting will be held to discuss the future succession issues. One banner will have four votes, each of the four major monasteries will have four votes, and Lord Galdan will also have one vote. A total of 197 votes will be cast for the Great Khan and the Great Emperor!
This is such progress!
And it is not easy to put such progressive things into practice. Galdan, the Buddha who presided over the conference, had to travel north and south, and his words were almost worn out before everyone nodded.
Then there's the issue of Sofia's "entering into love"... The old lady is afraid of bloody funerals! Even if there were 8,000 musketeer monks escorting her, she would not rest assured. In the end, it was the eldest brother Yinzhen’s wife Mary Anne who stepped forward and arrived in Manchester as a hostage. Only then did Mrs. Suo feel at ease and follow Galdan to Kaitian Mansion in Beijing to attend the funeral of Kangxi. The first Eight Banners Conference. ,
Probably because this glorious burial took too long, and after the burial of Kangxi, there was still an Eight Banners Conference to elect the emperor, the Khan, and the "Great Mongol Charter" - it sounded like progress, so it attracted people from all over the world. The envoy came to Beijing to watch and study at Kaitianfu!
Well, Mongolia is now one of the three major powers in the world!
He is powerful and rich...how can he be uncivilized and progressive?
So now we are here with Queen Mother Suo and Lord Galdan, as well as envoys from the West, India, and the Middle East. The envoys of the Ming Dynasty followed the Queen Mother Kong and arrived at Kaitian Mansion in Beijing a month ago.
Yinzhen and Yinzhen had already dismounted from their horses, holding mourning sticks, and arrived in front of Lord Galdan with fake tears on their faces. Galdan dismounted with the help of two concubines... The Indian Buddhism revived by Galdan was not allowed to marry a wife - if you don't marry a wife, where will the young monk come from? The wives married by these "Galdan sect" monks are called Mingfei. However, Galdan himself was not very fond of women and had never been accompanied by concubines in the past. It was not until the death of Kangxi Khan that he took over Kangxi's Hindu concubines out of compassion to prevent them from being burned and buried.
How compassionate!
Galdan looked at the group of filial sons of Kangxi, sighed softly, then clasped his hands together and recited a Buddhist chant in a threatening voice: "Namo... Amitabha!"
Under normal circumstances, if the South Indian prince who hears this Buddha's name does not immediately make an offering, the musket will be aimed at him!
However, Kangxi's group of filial sons were not afraid of Galdan. They just returned the Buddha's gift, and then a group of "little brothers" looked at Yinzhen and Yinzhen with tears in their eyes.
Yinti said: "How is the old queen? It's been a long journey, are you feeling well?"
"It's okay." Galdan said, "It's just that I was so sad. When I thought about seeing Xianhan's Zi Gong, I cried all the way..."
Yinzhen said: "Lord Buddha, should we go and comfort the old queen?"
"Okay, come with the poor monk." As Galdan spoke, he led a group of filial sons to Sofia's carriage. When they arrived, Sofia, dressed in black, had already come out of the car. Tu and Archbishop Alexander from Moscow were standing by the side. Two very small oriental women, one on each side, supported Sofia. These two are both Souetu's Japanese concubines, one named Sadako and the other beggar.
Seeing that all the filial sons had arrived, Suo'etu turned around and said to the angry Sofia: "Your Majesty, several brothers are here...Don't be angry, it's not worth it to be with them."
Sofia obviously already knew something, but she had no choice but to ask in a low voice: "Is the Queen Mother coming?"
Suo'etu shook his head and said: "Queen Mother Suo, you are the Queen Mother, and she is also the Queen Mother..."
Sofia snorted: "Sou'etu, you are the elder of the Queen Mother of the West... I will go back to help the Ai family and invite her to come and talk to the Ai family palace!"
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