Tong Tulai and Tong Guonai's uncle and nephew watched Tong Tuchang leave, and Tong Guonai asked, "Uncle, do you really want to believe this guy?" This guy doesn't keep his hands, and his nephew has suffered his losses in Fujian! ”

Tong Tulai shook his hand and said: "Regardless of whether this guy came to take refuge or not, but the hole cards of the peace talks he said should be true!" Virtuous nephew, you know that there is chaos in Beijing now, and the regent has been ill for many days, if there is a good time, it will be a bad thing! ”

"Uncle, I don't think the regent should be a usurper!"

"You know what! The regent doesn't have this mind, and he can't keep his subordinates in mind! If the regent dies, his subordinates such as Sukh Saha and Ho Luohui must make moves in order to keep their power. Your sister was appreciated by the Queen Mother a few years ago and became the emperor's concubine, our Tong family has been firmly tied to the emperor's side, if the emperor is unlucky, our family will not be good! ”

Tong Guonai is not a young angry young man who has just entered the officialdom, and what the uncle said is very right. Political* struggles have always been life-and-death, and as long as there is the slightest hesitation, there will be no recovery.

"Uncle, when are you going to enter the palace?"

Tong Tulai thought for a while: "This matter should be sooner rather than later, I will go to see the Queen Mother now!" ”

The Zhenglanqi station is in Dongjiaomin Lane in later generations, very close to the imperial city, and Tong Tulai is now the emperor's father-in-law, and he is favored by the queen mother, so it is naturally easy to see the queen mother Borzigit.

Borzigit Bumubutai is the name of the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang in later generations. But now because she is still alive, she has no nickname, she can only be called the Queen Mother.

The first and second generations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were very powerful, not to mention the old wild boar skin and Huang Taiji, Dolgon and others, even Huang Taiji's wife Bumu Butai can also be called an outstanding female politician.

Borzigit Bumubutai, the second daughter of Belleborzigit Zhaisang of the Korqin tribe of Mongolia. Borzigit is actually another translation of the Mengyuan royal family, so she is a veritable descendant of Genghis Khan. In the melee of various ethnic groups and tribes in the northeast at the end of the Ming Dynasty, she once again served as a link of political marriage, marrying Huang Taiji, the son of Nurhachi, the "wise Khan" of the Later Jin Dynasty, who rose in the white mountains and black waters, as a side blessing, less than 13 years old.

After Huang Taiji became the Khan, she was named the concubine of the West Side, also known as the West Palace Fujin. When she first married, her aunt Zhezhe was the concubine of the Middle Palace, and Bumu Butai was the second in the harem because of the vacancy of the side concubine of the East Palace. In February of the sixth year of Jin Tiancong, Huang Taiji Nazarut was the concubine on the east side, and Bumu Butai ranked third in the harem.

Two or three years later, Bumu Butai's sister Hailanzhu and the two widows of Chahar Lindan Khan successively married Huang Taiji, and Zalut was remarried to the son of the minister "unwillingly", but Bumu Butai's status in the harem continued to decline.

In the first year of Chongde, Huang Taiji changed Khan to be the emperor in Shengjing, canonized the concubine of the five palaces of Chongde, and Bumu Butai was named the concubine of Yongfu Palace, ranking last. In the third year of Chongde, Concubine Zhuang gave birth to the ninth son of the emperor and later the Shunzhi Emperor Fulin.

If Huang Taiji can live to seventy or eighty, there is really nothing to do with Xiaozhuang, how can I think that smart people do not live long, Huang Taiji died suddenly on August 9, the eighth year of Chongde. At that time, there were three most likely heirs, one was Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge, he had his father's strong Zhenghuang, inlaid yellow two flags as a backing, he himself fought in the north and south for 20 years, outstanding military achievements, successively served as Heshuo Baylor, and Shuosu Prince, and commanded the six to the most important household department, and Haoge also enjoyed a relatively high prestige among the ministers of the Eight Banners.

The other is Dolgon, the prince of Heshuorui, who has his own white flag and the inlaid white flag of his younger brother Duoduo, with a large number of people and horses, because he has been favored by the emperor Taiji for a long time, and has also received the support of many old ministers, so the power is quite strong.

Another is one of the four Baylor Dai Shan, although Dai Shan has retreated behind the scenes for several years, but he has a red, inlaid red two flags, once led the army to fight for 30 years, for the establishment and strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, made indelible contributions, in the Eight Banners of the prince, he has the oldest qualifications, the highest status, and there are Shuo Xu, Wakda, Adali, Aixin Jueluo Luo Luohun, Man Dahai and a number of children and grandchildren who have been awarded the title of Wang Duke, the power is actually the most powerful. In the process of establishing a new monarch, the main ministers of the two yellow flags wanted to make Hauge emperor, and the two white flags supported Dolgon.

At this time, Xiaozhuang, who had no hope at all, suddenly appeared, and he first contacted the two yellow banner royalists who were loyal to Huang Taiji to win them over to support his son Fulin. These royalists of the Two Yellow Banners did not want Dolgon to come to power for their own interests, but as long as they were the blood of Huang Taiji, their power could be preserved, so they were not opposed to Fu Lin ascending to the throne. And Hauge saw that he had no hope of ascending to the throne, and that what he couldn't get anyway couldn't be given to Dolgon, so he naturally turned his head to support his brother Fulin.

And the second most important Prince Li, Dai Shan, because he is the elder brother of Huang Taiji, has the least hope of ascending to the throne, but it is better to support a young prince than to support an older Haoge, so the two red flags are also under the pull of Xiaozhuang to take refuge in Fulin. And the owner of the blue flag is Nurhachi's nephew Zilharang, this guy has always been at odds with Dolgon, as long as Dolgon agrees, he will oppose it, so he has no objection to take refuge in Xiaozhuang. In this way, with the efforts of the woman Xiaozhuang, two of the eight flags were supported by two yellow, two red, and five blue flags, while Dolgon only had the support of two white flags and a positive blue flag, and there was no way to fall in this succession.

However, Dolgon was really capable, and under his strong hand and iron wrist, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains and conquered a land hundreds of times larger than that of Liaodong. It is precisely because Dolgon can bring everyone to make a fortune that the Manchu Qing still supports Dolgon, so that Dolgon's official position has risen again and again, from Prince Rui to Regent, to the regent of the emperor's uncle, and finally to the regent of the emperor's father, only one step away from that position.

According to Xiaozhuang's calculations, his son is young, and those uncles and uncles who want to seize power can live for a few years? Anyway, sooner or later, the throne will be his son's, but the development of events has exceeded Xiaozhuang's expectations. After Dolgon returned from his expedition to Jiangyang in Shanxi, he forced himself to make him the regent of his imperial father, and Xiaozhuang knew that he had no room for maneuver with this little uncle, either you died or I died. Therefore, Xiaozhuang broke the convention of not intermarrying between the Manchus and Hans, and found a daughter of a meritorious hero of the Han military banner for his son Fulin to be the imperial concubine. (Xiaozhuang is the name after death, but in order to facilitate the book directly called Xiaozhuang, so as not to write the Empress Dowager awkwardly!) ）

Today, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang heard that Tong Tulai came to visit her in Kunning Palace, and smiled and let the eunuch introduce her.

Tong Tulai didn't dare to raise his head after entering Kunning Palace, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Slave Tong Tulai, meet the Queen Mother of God, the Queen Mother of Mary Jin'an!" ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang said with a smile: "It turns out that Lord Tong is here, give me a seat!" ”

After Tong Tulai sat down, Xiaozhuang asked, "Lord Tong has received Yi's order!" Your daughter Tong Jiashi was chosen as the concubine! ”

"Thank the Empress Dowager for her grace, this is the glory of the slave family! The minions will definitely fight for the emperor and the queen mother in the future! ”

Xiaozhuang is waiting for this sentence, and now his struggle with Dolgon has become white-hot, and he has to fight for any external force.

"Huh! Master Tong, is there anything going on in the palace today? I won't make a special trip to the palace to thank you! ”

"Queen Mother, the main reason for the slaves to enter the palace this time is to thank you, and there are some family matters that you want to talk about with the Queen Mother!"

Xiaozhuang heard what Tong Tulai said and asked: "Now that we are a family, what is the matter to say directly!" ”

"Yes! Dowager! Back then, the slave's father and uncle took refuge in my Qing Dynasty, and the slave's Tong family still had a relative in Shengjing, and the slave thought that they had already fallen into the poisonous hand of the faint monarch Chongzhen, but how could I have thought that one of the slave's own brothers came to the slave to recognize his relatives! ”

At this time, Xiaozhuang thought that Tong Tulai came today to seek an official for his relatives, Xiaozhuang smiled: "Hehe, now we are a family, your relatives are relatives of the royal family, tell me what ability he has, how about giving him a fourth-grade military attaché?" ”

Although it is said that military attaches are not as valuable as civilian officials, they give them to the four rank officials as soon as they open their mouths, which is also a great grace. Tong Tulai hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank him.

"Slave thanks to the Queen Mother's grace! But the minion's relative is an envoy sent by the little emperor Shenwu in the south, and he has something important to say when he finds the minion's family today! ”

Now the Shunzhi Emperor has not yet been in power, so the government is controlled by Dolgon and Xiaozhuang. A few days ago, Xiaozhuang knew that Nanming had sent a peace negotiation mission, but now Xiaozhuang is full of lawsuits, and every day he thinks about how to fight with Dolgon, and there is an air traffic control mission there.

However, when Xiaozhuang heard Tong Tulai say this, he felt that something was a little unusual, and hurriedly asked, "Why did the envoys of the Ming Dynasty go to you?" What did he say? ”

Tong Tulai replied respectfully: "Empress Dowager, this cousin of the slave is called Tong Tuchang, and he also has an uncle who is also alive, it is Tong Yangjia, the cabinet scholar of the little emperor Shenwu!" This time, Tong Tuchang was selected as an envoy by Emperor Shenwu, just to negotiate peace with my Qing Dynasty, and wanted to take the Yangtze River as the boundary and forever form a brotherly state! ”

Xiaozhuang frowned, she still heard of the defeat in several southern provinces last year, and heard that Hong Chengchou was defeated by the Shenwu Emperor's million-strong army in Nanjing, and had retreated to Huai'an, and was now stationed in Huai'an. I didn't expect this Shenwu Emperor to have an advantage, why did he come to peace talks?

"The Queen Mother, although my brother holds an official position in the Ming Dynasty, he has always looked up to my Daqing, and this time he is ready to take refuge in my Daqing, so he handed over the Ming Dynasty's peace negotiation cards to the minions!"

"Quick, let's hear it!"

"Yes! In order to reach a peace negotiation, that little emperor Shenwu didn't know where to find out that my Qing Dynasty is now in charge of the regent, and he is ready to hand over the six thousand soldiers of my two white flags who were defeated in Jiangxi to the regent free of charge, in order to reach peace talks! ”

"What? Are you telling the truth? As soon as Xiaozhuang heard the news, he stood up! This is okay, now that Dolgon's power in the capital is about to surpass him, if he sends back 6,000 taels of white flag soldiers, then Dolgon will completely overwhelm him.