Chapter 14 The Jade Seal of the Country
Sure enough, it was the famous "Queen Xiaozhuang" in history, and Cao Yue was a little excited.
This woman, who almost changed the fate of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and China in the original history, is quite beautiful and has a good figure, no wonder she will be favored by Huang Taiji, and later even more loved by Dorgon, so that it has become a romantic affair that many people in later generations talk about.
"This is your son, Aixin Jueluo. Blessings? Cao Yue pointed to the little boy who was hiding behind him who was frightened and kept crying, but he didn't dare to cry out loud. It turned out that the future Emperor Shunzhi was just a little kid now.
Hearing that Cao Yue actually called out his son's name, Bu Mu Butai was so surprised that he even forgot to sob, but finally nodded and continued to beg for mercy for his son: "General, please spare Fu Lin, he is only four years old." ”
"Tell me about the condition that you want me to let go of your son," Cao Yue was in a good mood at this time, and couldn't help but play the game of "fishing".
Hearing Cao Yue's question, Bu Mu Butai and Zhezhe naturally exchanged glances, they both understood that Cao Yue had intentions for them, but for the sake of their children, they had no choice but to succumb to Cao Yue's obscenity.
"We are willing to accept any disposition of the general," Bumu Butai replied with gritted teeth and a trembling voice.
"Queen, Concubine Zhuang, you can't agree!" After Dai Shan got up, he knelt in front of Zhezhe and Bumu Butai with a plop, and kept touching the ground with his head, and soon his forehead was broken, and blood flowed. "The slave is incompetent, ashamed of the emperor, and failed to protect you."
"Dai Shan, your best choice now is to commit suicide, so as to show your heroism," Cao Yue kicked Dai Shan coldly and kicked Dai Shan to the head, "Seeing that your noble queen and princesses, Gege are insulted, and your brothers are killed, you can't save them, you can only commit suicide to Mingzhi if you are ashamed, right?" ”
After hearing this, Dai Shan suddenly became angry and was about to pounce on Cao Yue, but as soon as he got up, he immediately stopped his body, and finally fell to his knees with a thud, begging Cao Yue to kill him, and he was willing to exchange his death for the lives and dignity of others.
If it weren't for Cao Yue's sentence telling him to commit suicide, Dai Shan would probably choose to commit suicide so as not to be humiliated and see others humiliated.
Cao Yue ignored Dai Shan, who begged for mercy for the women and children, walked to the front of Bumu Butai, who was crying with pear blossoms and rain, and asked softly with a smile: "Are you really willing to accept any disposition of Ben Jiang, as long as Ben Jiang spares their lives?" ”
Bumu Butai nodded hurriedly, and Zhezhe on the side also hurriedly agreed: "As long as the general doesn't kill them, we are willing to accept any disposal by the general." ”
The Manchu women and the Han women were not at all on the same level of chastity, and they did not feel the greatest shame of subservience to other men. Nowadays, among the imperial concubines of Huang Taiji, several of them are women who were snatched after defeating the Mongolian tribe, and the concubine Namu Zhong of Lintoe Palace and Concubine Kang Shu Bat Ma Qi were all women of Lin Dan Khan, and after Huang Taiji conquered the Lin Dan tribe, these women were also collected by him. Moreover, Manchu women, like Mongolian women, worship heroes, and if a man behaves bravely, they will worship you, and even willingly abandon their grudges and follow you, Namu Zhong and Bart Zhiqing are good examples.
Now that they have led the army into Shengjing, and they are young, tall, and heroic, if they can exchange their commitment for Cao Yue's forgiveness of these little men, whether it is Zhezhe, or Bumu Butai, or other women, they are willing to accept this result.
"Okay, just as you wish," Cao Yue said, putting away his frightening laugh and coldly ordering, "Pull these people out and castrate," after a pause, he added, "Except for Fulin." ”
The family members, who had been waiting for Cao Yue's order, were already a little impatient, after hearing Cao Yue's order, they were stunned for a moment, and immediately burst into a cruel laugh, no matter what the reaction of these women and children was, they rushed forward and pulled out a group of children except Fu Lin, and soon the children's painful cries came from outside.
"If there is a doctor in the palace, let them go for treatment, I spared their lives, whether they can survive depends on their luck," the continuous days of fighting and killing have made Cao Yue's heart very firm.
It's a pity that the male imperial doctors in the palace have been killed, and several women who know medicine tremble and come out of the ranks, following Cao Yue's family members to ask for help from the sons of Huang Taiji who have been castrated as men.
The mothers of the children were stunned and soon began to howl loudly, wanting to go out with a few women who knew how to heal, to see their children, but were stopped by the family members. Bumu Butai was also stunned by Cao Yue's actions, but she was eventually greatly relieved that her son, four-year-old Fu Lin, had become the lucky one and had not been punished so cruelly.
She looked at Cao Yue with complicated eyes, her former calmness and dignity had long disappeared, and her eyes were confused. She couldn't figure out why Cao Yue made this decision, could it be that she fell in love with her and wanted to take her away?
"I agreed to your request, and now you should agree to my request, right?" Cao Yue looked at Zhezhe and Bumu Butai playfully, and suddenly changed his words and shouted: "Where is the jade seal of my Han people?" Hand it over right away. ”
The "jade seal of the country" is the seal of the Chinese emperors, which was engraved by the order of Qin Shi Huang when Qin was established, as a token of "divine power of imperial power, orthodoxy and legitimacy". Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have taken this seal as a symbol, and they are enshrined as a treasure and an important weapon of the country. If you get it, it symbolizes that it is "ordered by the sky", and if you lose it, it shows that its "qi has been exhausted". Those who ascend to the throne without this seal are ridiculed as "white emperors", which appear to be lacking in confidence and are despised by the world. As a result, those who want to seek great treasures compete for me, causing the jade seal of the country to change hands repeatedly. At the end of the Song Dynasty, the jade seal of the country was obtained by Kublai Khan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were driven into the desert by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the jade seal of the country was nowhere to be found.
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the jade seal of the country never appeared, and it was rumored to be brought to the desert by the Mongols.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a trace of the jade seal of the country, but it was considered a fake, and Cao Yue crossed the previous life in the later generations, and still did not see the figure of this treasure. It is recorded in the wild history that when the Later Jin Dynasty conquered Mongolia, the Mongolian Empress Dowager gave up the jade seal of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to the Emperor Taiji of the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty for the lives of her clansmen, and it is said that this jade seal was the jade seal of the Song Dynasty dedicated to the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty.
Cao Yue had seen this rumor, so he suddenly thought of the idea of claiming this treasure back, but he was not sure if the jade seal of the country was in the palace of the Manchu Dynasty, and the request just now was just a temptation.
Hearing Cao Yue's words, Zhezhe and Bumu Butai were both taken aback and glanced at each other. Looking at the expressions of the two, Cao Yue was ecstatic, the rumors turned out to be true, and the jade seal of the country was indeed in the Qing Palace. immediately threatened: "This time I will definitely bring back the jade seal of the heirloom country, if you don't hand it over, then the palace will be turned upside down, and it will also be searched, and no matter who you are, your life will not be guaranteed." ”
Hearing Cao Yue's threat, Zhezhe finally suddenly got up from the ground, walked to the back crowd, took a package from a maid, and presented it to Cao Yue. "General Cao, this is the jade seal of the country."
Cao Yue stepped forward to take the package, opened it and saw that it was a boxy and delicate seal, with several dragons carving, and the front of the seal was engraved with several large characters of the seal. "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang" eight seal characters, later generations to introduce the country jade seal in the article are recorded, know the content and then recognize, it is easy to recognize. Cao Yue is not worried that this is a counterfeit jade seal, which is treasured like a treasure by the Manchurians, and there should be no fakes.
Of course, Cao Yue will not stop there, he ordered the family to collect all the valuable things in the palace, prepare to take away the light things that can be taken away, and plan to find a place to hide those who can't take them.
After the order was given, the wolf-like family took away all the valuables that the women who were about to flee were carrying, and the valuable things in the palace that had not been destroyed would be the purpose of the robbery tonight. Most of these things were looted by the Jurchens from the Han people, and Cao Yue just took back these stolen things.
Under the leadership of Cao Jie, Cao Neng, Cao San and other family leaders, most of the family members collected treasures in the palace, and those who stayed behind to guard the queen Zhezhe and Bumu Butai and others were Cao Yue's most trusted personal soldiers.
Cao Yue ordered these maids of the Manchu imperial concubines to be imprisoned in another place, and the eunuchs in the palace had basically been killed, and Dai Shan was also imprisoned in another place and guarded closely. Cao Yue ordered Empress Zhezhe, Bumu Butai, Namu Zhong, and Hai Lanzhu, who didn't look very well, to stay in Chongwen Palace. Several women "knew" what Cao Yue was going to do next, but they could only obey orders.
After Cao Yue whispered a few words to his own soldiers, he asked these women to be driven to the inner hall.
After entering the inner hall, Cao Yue was not polite, and asked Zhezhe directly, "Presumably you have already sent someone to tell Huang Taiji the news of the attack on Shengjing, right?" If my prediction is correct, in two days, you will personally lead the army to rescue Shengjing as the hero-worshipping husband Emperor Taiji. It's just that when he returned to Beijing, all he saw was a ruin, and his woman was humiliated. Ben will believe that your heroic husband will vomit blood to death. ”
Hearing Cao Yue's words, several women in the hall with different moods did not answer immediately. Seeing this, Cao Yue, who was a little bored, was a little angry, and suddenly stepped forward and tore Zhezhe's dress, directly exposing her plump body to the air. Zhezhe screamed in surprise and subconsciously squatted down to cover up the spring light that he had leaked out. Bumu Butai also hurriedly stepped forward, hugged Zhezhe, and untied his shawl to drape Zhezhe.
"What the general said is true," Cao Yue treated her son very leniently, Bu Mu Butai did not have as much hatred for this Han man who looked much more handsome than Huang Taiji, and she replied honestly: "The urgent report has been sent out in six hundred li, and the emperor can lead the army back to Beijing in a few days, in order to avoid trouble, the general still brings the property he has taken, and ...... The general had better get out of here quickly, so as not to suffer losses. ”
"Well, I will have left before Huang Taiji leads the army back," Cao Yue walked up to Bu Mu Butai, raised her chin, looked at it seriously, and then teased Hai Lanzhu, who looked more seductive and a little weak, in the same way, "Huang Taiji is really blessed, not only married your aunt, but also included your sister flowers in the room, which makes people envious to death, haha!"
"However, in two days, he will be worse off than dead!" As he spoke, Cao Yue laughed even more freely.