The new dynasty compiles history books for the previous dynasty, which is a tradition in China for thousands of years, and this compilation of history books for the previous dynasty does not mean that it is really for the preservation of historical materials or anything, but its most important purpose is to announce to the world that the previous dynasty has completely become history, and the current world is the new dynasty.

At the same time, it can be regarded as a move to declare itself an orthodox dynasty.

Therefore, after the Chinese army conquered Beiping, forced Xianfeng to commit suicide, Prince Gong surrendered, and Yehenala clan, Zaichun and others were captured, the Chinese Empire had already begun to compile the history of the Qing Dynasty.

Because Beiping surrendered voluntarily under the leadership of Prince Gong, the war was avoided, and a large number of cultural and historical materials in the Forbidden City were completely preserved, which brought great convenience to the compilation of Qing history.

It's just that although there are complete historical materials for reference, it is necessary to compile a history book for a dynasty that spans more than 200 years, and it cannot be the so-called brief history or general history, but must be complete and detailed historical materials.

Even if it is written in classical Chinese, it will be at least 500 volumes, and its total number of words will not be less than 6 million words!

This work will take at least ten years, and it will take sixty years for the history of the Ming Dynasty to be formally edited and completed. The Qing history manuscript was faster, but it also took more than ten years.

To be honest, it is still unknown whether Jiang Daoquan will live until the day when the Qing history is completed and released!

The time required to compile and revise the history of the former Qing Dynasty is very long, and in order to announce the history of the former Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, the legitimacy of the Chinese dynasty.

There is one thing that saves time and effort, that is, to give Emperor Xianfeng the temple number and the nickname.

Giving the last emperor of the previous dynasty the temple name and the name of the emperor is also an ancient tradition in China for thousands of years. Its political implications are similar to those of the previous dynasties, which are all to declare the legitimacy of the dynasty.

In order to give Emperor Xianfeng the temple number and the nickname, a group of ministers in the cabinet. In particular, those officials who were born as traditional scholars have exerted their peerless talents.

At the beginning, the cabinet proposed to give Xianfeng a temple number, but as soon as it was proposed, it attracted the opposition of many people, and the reason for the opposition was: Let our Chinese Empire give the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty a temple number such as a sect, isn't this nonsense, and when the Qing Dynasty gave the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen a temple number, in the end, Chongzhen's Huaizong was not abolished. It's just a medium nickname.

Therefore, it is impossible to give Xianfeng the temple number, and then it is concentrated on the name.

It is said that giving the emperor of the previous dynasty a nickname is actually a troublesome matter, first of all, you can't give a good name. Because this will blow the enemy too high, it will seem that the new dynasty is relying on smuggling or some kind of conspiracy to seize the world.

In this way, only the middle and the lower are left, and the words of the lower are not given casually, because the name is equivalent to making an overall evaluation of the dead person.

Unless the emperor of the previous dynasty was too bad. Something like that caused the world's outrage. Otherwise, try not to give any evil insults such as yang, calendar, and spirit.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to grant Emperor Xianfeng the title of Zhongzhi.

So what is the specific name, it depends on Emperor Xianfeng.

Throughout the less than ten years after Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, it can be described in two words: unlucky!

In the first year of his ascension to the throne, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out, and then finally blocked the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and trapped the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Nanjing area, Lin Zhe rebelled again in 1856, and then directly went all the way to the Northern Expedition into Beiping, completely destroying the Manchu Dynasty that lasted for two hundred years.

In the process. In fact, Xianfeng has been trying to save the defeat, and has made considerable efforts to this end. And in a way, he is working in the right direction, and he has achieved good results.

Due to the existence of Lin Zhe, the reform intensity of the Qing Dynasty was far stronger than in history, and even greater than the period of the Westernization Movement.

If Lin Zhe did not rebel, with the military strength of the Qing Dynasty after Xianfeng's reform, in the subsequent Second Opium War, even if it was difficult to win, it would be relatively easy to maintain an undefeated situation on land.

But reality has no ifs!

Xianfeng reformed because of Lin Zhe, and also buried his dynasty because of Lin Zhe!

Throughout the less than ten years that Xianfeng has been in power, he has been struggling tenaciously, and in the end, it must be emphasized that he failed.

Putting aside various so-called ideological factors such as politics and looking at it purely from the objective perspective of history, then one will come to a conclusion that Xianfeng is an unlucky guy who has some ability and is still working hard!

The point of these words is not his ability or hard work, but the three words unlucky!

Therefore, in the long series of nicknames awarded to Xianfeng, the last word is '慜', which is the same as the last word in the nickname given by the Qing Dynasty to Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

It is a word with a strong sympathetic meaning, and when the new dynasty uses this kind of sympathetic word to the emperor of the previous dynasty, it is like a man who sleeps with someone else's wife, and then sighs and says to the woman's husband after sleeping: Brother, don't be sad, I understand your feelings!

You understand a hairy!

Can Lin Zhe understand Emperor Xianfeng's mood of committing suicide alone in the encirclement of the Chinese cavalry at the last moment?

Anyway, Xianfeng's nickname has finally been decided, and the last word is generally referred to in the long long list of nicknames, plus the word emperor, but in order to distinguish it from other emperors in history, such as Chongzhen is also Emperor Min. Therefore, it is generally referred to as Emperor Qingmin.

After the title of Emperor Qing was given to Xianfeng, it also politically announced the complete destruction of the Manchu Dynasty.

When Xianfeng was first named, the empire also dealt with a large number of former Qing magnates who took the initiative to surrender and capture.

For ordinary ministers and magnates, the means of dealing with them are relatively simple, and they are stubborn and unwilling to kill them anyway. Even going to jail is too much trouble.

And those ordinary officials and ordinary nobles who are willing not to resist but do not take the initiative to serve the empire anyway will basically confiscate their family wealth, but they will be imprisoned in a special political prison. After that, depending on the high position of the official position and how well the individual performs, if the time is short, three or five years, or ten or twenty years, he can regain limited freedom and spend the rest of his life under the supervision of the authorities.

And those officials who are willing to take the initiative to surrender to serve the empire are simple, following the example of many people before them, first under house arrest for a year and a half. Later, if the empire feels that it really needs you as a talent, it will arrange an actual position for you, just like Li Hongzhang at the beginning.

However, these methods were confined to ordinary officials and ordinary nobles. And for some members of the Manchu royal family, high-ranking nobles such as those iron hat kings, as well as the core civil and military courtiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as those of the various Shangshu. Someone like the Minister of Military Aircraft.

The treatment of them varies from person to person. Most of them, whether they were willing to surrender or not, were shot as political criminals.

Anyway, those Manchu princes, except for Prince Gong Yixun, whether it was the iron hat king who was handed down or the other sons of Daoguang, none of them were all shot.

At the same time, the descendants of these princes who were shot, especially the descendants of Daoguang's sons, were all killed.

So far, Qianlong's direct descendants, except for Yixun and Zaichun, the rest of the men have all been killed. It was not Lin Zhe's order to kill them, but the self-determination of the generals in front.

When Beiping was conquered. Shi Qingxuan and other front-line generals also felt quite a headache for capturing a large number of Manchu nobles, especially the hundreds of royal family members, and sent them back to Nanjing? What are you kidding, will the emperor be charged with the massacre when the time comes?

Therefore, after secretly plotting with several civil officials and military generals in Zhili at that time, they killed most of the Manchu royal family members and those iron hat kings directly in the suburbs of Beiping, and reported that they resisted and were suppressed and killed.

And the reason why Yixin was able to survive is because Yixin took the initiative to surrender and sacrifice Beiping, which can barely be regarded as a meritorious contribution to the city.

In addition, the empire at that time also needed a central figure of the Qing court to stand up and persuade Zeng Guofan and other remnants of the Qing court to surrender.

As for Zaichun, the unlucky child, is still alive, purely because his identity is relatively special, he is Xianfeng's only son, the crown prince of the former Qing Dynasty.

It's actually a cool thing to destroy a country, capture the emperor, the prince, and some concubines of the enemy country as prisoners, and then take a look at it when there is nothing to do.

So don't look at the empire's Northern Expedition captured a large number of Manchu nobles, but in fact, only a small number of them were escorted to Nanjing alive, most of them were those middle-level who had little influence, and the only important roles were Yixin and Zaichun.

However, although the empire killed the men in the Manchu aristocracy, it was still relatively lenient for female dependents, basically mainly dismissed, and those homeless women and children would also be placed in places such as nunnery for them to spend the rest of their lives.

However, there are a few people who are exceptions, such as Xianfeng's favorite concubine Yehenara, well, that is, the famous Cixi in later generations, and there are also Concubine Li.

When they first arrived in Nanjing, Lin Zhe was very curious about these two women, especially the Yehenala clan, and specially asked people to send them into the palace.

But this woman is really beautiful, and it is naturally not possible to turn the dizziness of Xianfeng fans to the capital of no body.

In addition, in order to keep herself and her son alive, this woman even took the initiative to flatter Lin Zhe and the like.

Lin Zhe said that he has seen a lot of beauties, and he is very calm about the seduction, but this woman is Xianfeng's favorite concubine, not only does she look like a fox spirit, and she is very good at arousing people, but more importantly, this woman is the famous Cixi in history.

So he reluctantly accepted her temptation.

In order to save the lives of herself and her son Zaichun, this woman used all the work she knew about in bed, coupled with her special status, whenever she thought of the famous Cixi in history under her, Lin Zhe was a little unbearable.

Compared with the Yehenala clan, Lin Zhe is actually more interested in Concubine Li, this woman has more appetite for Lin Zhe than Cixi, not that she looks like a fairy, more beautiful than the Yehenala clan, etc., but that her temperament, this woman is a standard weak woman, frail and sickly, with a sweet and soft voice, and she is also good at piano art and poetry, which looks like Lin Daiyu.

However, although this woman has a weak appearance, her temperament is a little tenacious, and she will not take the initiative to flatter Lin Zhe like Yehenala and use all her kung fu in bed.

Women seem to be weak and have no actual ability to resist, but when Lin Zhe moves on her, she is often lying motionless, except for occasional wheezing, she is the kind that does not make a noise for half a day, but not to mention that most men are cheap bones, Lin Zhe still likes her reluctant but powerless to resist, and can only cry while admitting joy.

Sometimes Lin Zhe would look at these two women and think about when he would destroy the Japanese or other countries and snatch the wives and daughters of the monarchs of those countries.

Maybe I can use the queens, concubines, princesses and the like of the enemy monarch to put together a harem version of the Eight-Nation Alliance in the future! (To be continued.) )