May of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen came to an end in the boiling of the world, and the increasingly fierce sun and less and less rain announced the arrival of June.

After the plague was rampant, the Taiwei salvation, the Yongchang disaster, and the entry of the Eight Banners into the city, there were no idle people on the streets. Most of the shops were closed, but those who had some assets escaped from this bloody land where barbarians were entrenched. It was in this stagnant water that a stone fell, causing layers of ripples and swinging outward.

"Master Song, have you heard? The regent has issued an edict, and he is going to shave his head again! ”

Song Hongye returned to the office, and the directors and scribes who were familiar with him surrounded him. On the surface, it seems to be sharing news, but in fact, it is inquiring about the accuracy of the news.

Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the city, many officials, large and small, fled, and relying on the Manchurians' own political structure and manpower reserves, let alone ruling the northern Zhili, even the city of Beijing could not be operated.

As a result, Dorgon adopted a policy of not turning anyone away, regardless of their origins.

He first invited back Feng Quan, a eunuch scholar who was deposed in the early years of Chongzhen, and awarded him the title of scholar of the Inner Academy, ranking before Fan Wencheng, Ganglin, Qi Chongge, and Ning Wanme, who were all Han scholars. Subsequently, Dolgon announced that he would be hired from his original position, regardless of whether he was a Ming official or a Shun official. Some people were not Taoist priests in the Ming Dynasty, and they were promoted to the governors of a province, while the Manchu Qing Dynasty treated each other with high positions and still gave them the title of governor.

Song Hongye was just a six-grade chief in the Ming Dynasty, and in the Shun Dynasty, he belonged to the middle and lower-level officials who could be vigorously used and exempted from the recovery of stolen goods, so he was promoted to the position of the military department of the third grade, directly crossed the hurdle of the fifth grade, and also saved the grinding period of the fourth grade, and became a dignitary in the court.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the city, as long as they did not leave, they could do their original jobs, and even their official uniforms did not change. Song Hongye changed from the military squire of the Shun Dynasty to the squire of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the banner of the king of the city changed, his position became more and more stable.

"Oh? Didn't the regent send a message to my ministry on the 24th of last month: Do the subjects of the world tie their hair as before, and obey their convenience? Song Hongye pretended not to know and asked rhetorically.

After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they had to force the people to shave their hair and change their clothes along the way. Until I entered Beijing. Originally, he also said that he would shave his hair, but the crowd was excited, and Dolgon had to give in, and sent a message to the military department: Originally, shaving hair was only for the sake of separating obedience and disobedience, for fear of causing accidental injury, since the people did not want to shave their hair, then it would be better as usual.

As soon as this edict was issued, the tension in the city was eased.

Now, however, it seems to have changed again. However, the Manchus were originally barbarians. If you don't talk about faithfulness, what's so strange about it even if it changes three times a day?

"Oh, I don't know?" A familiar scribe stepped forward and cried, "I'm going to shave my head again!" I heard that someone talked about the Nine Kings...... Oh, it's the regent...... Jin Yan said that shaving hair will stimulate the people of the south to change, and it is not a unified policy. The regent replied to him, "Now it is an inch that is an inch, and a foot is a foot, and where is there any unifying policy." Isn't this going to be shaved again? ”

Song Hongye is the secretary of the crown prince, and while collecting news, he can't be noticed by others. It's just a few words that I just promised, as if I was absent-minded, but I kept it all in my heart. Others don't know what is on his mind. I didn't have time to care about him, and when I saw that I couldn't find anything, I talked a few words to each other and dispersed.

Song Hongye sat in the office for a long time, just in a daze, and finally when it was time to get off work, he hurriedly walked out of the office. He went to his own home. He has long been a member of the military department, and his status is extraordinary, and his house and servants have naturally risen, and he even renewed his strings and "married" a family of ruined eunuchs.

At that time, Dashun chased stolen goods. Many eunuchs were forced to ruin their families, and their wives and daughters fell into the mansions of the Shun army generals, or became concubines, or became servants, and there were countless of them. Song Hongye is just an upstart, and marrying such a woman can be regarded as following the trend.

In fact, the woman was a palace maid selected by Zhu Cihong from the attendant's room, capable, heartfelt, and willing to come to be Song Hongye's assistant.

Song Hongye returned home and went straight into the inner hall. The "wife" who was twenty years younger than him greeted him, blessed herself, and said, "The master has worked hard. ”

Song Hongye beckoned to his wife, and said, "Seeing the lady, where is there any hardship?" Come on, let's go into the house and talk. He immediately grabbed his wife's slender waist and pushed the door into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Song Hongye instantly let go of his hand and leaned on the crack of the door to look out.

In the crack of the door, you can just see the gossip mirrors hanging at the two corners of the eaves in the courtyard, which seems to be a feng shui treasure of the town house, but the porch near the bedroom is included in the eyes, whether someone is hiding outside to listen and peep, it is absolutely clear at a glance.

The palace maid's wife just watched from the sidelines and did not speak.

Song Hongye was sure that there was no one outside, so he pulled his wife to the bedside. The two took off their shoes and boots, got into the bed, and put down the thick curtain, Song Hongye said: "Military situation: On the twenty-sixth day of May, the Qing army caught up with the Shun army in Qingdu (now Wangdu County, Hebei), and the Shun army was intercepted by Gu Ying, the Marquis of Qi, and the Shun army was defeated, and Gu Ying was killed. ”

The delicate wife hurriedly remembered it in her heart, her lips squirmed slightly, and she silently repeated it.

Song Hongye looked at those bright eyes in the dark, and said: "On the twenty-seventh day of May, the Qing army broke the truth. The Shun army went to the well and entered the Jin Dynasty and defended the pass. On the twenty-eighth day, the Qing army was ordered to return to the division. ”

His delicate wife blinked her eyes, indicating that she remembered.

"If there is any more news, it will not be my department." Song Hongye thought for a while and said: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty returned the land confiscated by the Shun Dynasty and hired officials, regardless of whether it was the Eunuch Party, Donglin, Daming, and Dashun...... As long as it is an official, it will be used. Now it is a chaos, some departments are crowded with several Manchu and Han servants, and some people are two servants, and no one's mind is on doing things. Oh, and I want to tell Your Highness: this time the Manchurian soldiers robbed and plundered limitedly, and it was not as good as killing and plundering when the Shun army left. Many Manchurian nobles already wanted to stake their land in Gyeonggi. And the flag ......"

The wife patted Song Hongye lightly and interrupted: "It's no longer your responsibility to deal with folk discussions. She added, "I heard that there is going to be a commander of the infantry army, do you know?" ”

"I've also heard a little about it," Song Hongye said, "in terms of function, it's like the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses." However, it was in charge of the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banner Infantry Military Camps, as well as the officers and soldiers of the Nine Gates, and it seemed that they were also in charge of the affairs of the second battalion. I'm not a member of the group, so I definitely can't mix. ”

"That's ......" Song Hongye's wife pursed her lips and said quietly: "In this way, the banner people are still a head taller than the Han people." ”

"Why don't you have a ......" Song Hongye shook his head heavily: "We Han people are already slaves of the country, and this hair given by our parents alone may not be able to be saved!" ”

The wife's face also turned pale, but she could not see it in the darkness. She stroked her chest and said: "I saw that Manchurian women have hair, but they wear rings on their nostrils and eyebrow bones, like ghostly animals, which is really creepy to watch." I'll say first, if I really want to pretend to be like them in the future, I will go back even if I am punished by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! ”

Song Hongye teased: "I don't know who said it that day: but for the restoration of the emperor's magnificence, it is idle to break his bones!" ”

The wife's face turned red again, and she said sharply: "Then what do you want to shave your hair?" Are you willing to shave? ”

Song Hongye also felt that there was a blockage in his chest, tilted his head, took a pu fan, fanned it twice, and finally said: "Shave!" When His Royal Highness is prosperous, my hair can still grow! ”

"If ...... if"

"I won't be a man, I'll become a monk!"

The two were talking when they suddenly heard a knock from the wall.

It turned out that when Song Hongye was rebuilding this house, he deliberately ordered people to hollow the bricks under the porch of the door, and buried hollow copper pipes inside, all the way to the wall on the inside of the bed. As soon as someone walks by, you can hear amplified footsteps. The craftsmen later went to Shandong, so he didn't worry about anyone knowing the secrets of the house.

"Master, grandma, there is a Manchurian who wants to see the master outside." The immature voice of the personal maid came from outside the door.

Although this maid was a reliable person brought by Shandong, Song Hongye never let her know any information. He lifted the curtain and got out of bed, took off his sweaty clothes, and said, "Invite him to have tea and wait for a while, and I will go after changing my clothes." ”

The grandmother of the Song family also got out of bed, wiped the sweat from her forehead, put on embroidered shoes, and said, "I will go to Dongyue Temple tomorrow." ”

Song Hongye nodded, quickly changed into homely casual clothes, and went out. His current status is no longer able to contact the small people in the market too much, and he is not at ease when sending outsiders, so the usual news transmission depends on the "wife" to go to the temple to make incense, tell fortunes, and "chat" with the Taoist. (To be continued......)

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