Chapter 129 - The Abolition of the Beginning and the End
Hearing that Xuan Ye wanted to return to his homeland, Concubine Jing's cold Qianqian jade hand was tightly held by the second son of the emperor, Xuan Ye, a pair of small hands, a little trembling, but there was no desire to break free. After all, the beautiful grassland is my home, how much she longs for it!
"Concubine Jing, you are the daughter of the grassland, beautiful as a phoenix. Now he is trapped within this high wall, like a canary in a cage. Erchen can't criticize Tianwei, but he can't turn a blind eye. So, Erchen is here to find a way for you! Let you return to the beautiful grassland of Horqin with dignity and enjoy the family fun that you should have! Hongyi swore and did not lie at all.
As a modern youth in later generations, looking at such beautiful and delicate flowers, I can't get the little love and respect I want, and I don't even dare to have Aiqing's desire, but I am beaten into the cold palace and withered day by day, which is really a sad thing. Find a way to let her disappear in the Qing Dynasty's "The Legend of the Queen", let her change her identity and go out of the palace to fly freely, I am willing to make an effort for you!
Gradually, Hongyi could feel that Concubine Jing's hands were no longer so cold, and there was a hint of warmth and anger.
"Xuan Ye, I'm Xiexie you...... However, this is too difficult......" Concubine Jing Meng Guqing said with tears in her eyes and full of gratitude.
Hongyi's sentence "I'll do it" just now made her unbelievable at first, and even naturally thought: Could this be a vicious ploy adopted by Xiao Xuanye's "gang"? But after careful analysis, they have been relegated to the cold palace, and they have long been unable to become an obstacle to Concubine Kang or others, and they have no reason to frame themselves. On the side of the Queen Mother. It is impossible to cut off her arm, not to mention that she is still her own niece! Most likely, it is the Emperor Fulin. But this matter is unusual, once Fu Lin knows, will he still have all kinds of calm and calm today? On the other hand, no one can know about this matter, otherwise, the world will be in chaos!
After analyzing it like this, Concubine Jing gradually accepted the reality that Xuan Ye was sincerely helping herself.
"Concubine Jing, it's man-made, Xuan Ye does what he says. Sure to get you back home! It's just ...... "Hongyi strikes while the iron is hot."
"But what?" The queen asked eagerly. She is also a stakeholder in this matter. Once the matter is revealed, her position as the queen will be in jeopardy. So, settle the matter as soon as possible. Completely dispel the hidden danger of having trouble sleeping and eating day and night since entering the palace. It's the right way!
"Only. Concubine Jing's mother must fully trust her sons. Otherwise, we zuihou will all be on fire! But even so, Xuan Ye has no regrets! ”
"Xuan Ye...... Meng Guqing, thank you! Concubine Jing heard this oath. The liver and intestines are broken, there are no words, I have to get up and kneel to worship Hongyi again!
"Concubine Jing, Erchen made a poisonous oath to the Immortal Heaven! This matter will only be between you and me. In the future, if anyone else dares to take out this matter to make trouble, Erchen will be the first to refuse! Of course, if the sons have selfish intentions in this matter and intend to harm the two of them, they will be punished and die in a short life! "Haha, Lao Tzu does what he says! Besides, Emperor Kangxi's life is not too short......
"Xuan Ye ......" The two women were speechless with emotion.
Okay, the emotional drama is almost over, are we getting into the main topic, you haven't confessed so far!
"Concubine Jing, it's just that the son-in-law didn't know much about the details before he had a plan, I'm afraid it won't be good for our plans...... "Say it, say it!"
"Xuan Ye...... I'm actually helpless...... "Finally, after the abolition, Meng Guqing began to tell a shocking secret that had been hidden for two years!
The story begins two years ago.
In August of the tenth year of Shunzhi, Fulin "blatantly" issued an edict to abolish the queen as Concubine Jing and move to the side palace, completely ignoring the opposition of the ministers and even the queen mother. Why is it so wanton? Later scholars mostly started from the relationship between the abolition and Emperor Shunzhi, and then demonstrated that this Meng Guqing's temperament was corroborated by various characteristics such as luxury, jealousy, and willfulness.
After more than a year of observation, Hongyi, who came through the crossing, found that these situations did exist in Concubine Jing, although they were much more restrained after being abolished. But Hongyi has never been clear about one thing, when Fulin and Meng Guqing held their wedding, it was already August of the eighth year of Shunzhi, and he was already in power at that time, if he was not satisfied with this queen from the beginning, there was no need to delay it for two years. Moreover, between June (including leap June) and August of the tenth year of Shunzhi, what kind of time node is it in history?
At that time, Guangdong was not long pacified, but the southwest Yongli regime and the southeast Zhengsen group were both using troops on a large scale but the effect was not obvious, and there were many defeats, and Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, was martyred at this time; The rich land of the Qing Dynasty fought for many years, the income was bleak, and the military expenditure was huge[1], so that the treasury could not make ends meet, so it had to issue an order in June: "Change the money and grain directly saved by one whip law, and the total revenue will be decomposed", and "forever take the example", and later in July to re-"dredge the money method"; Just when the military and politics were complicated, after entering the summer, natural disasters and anomalies continued one after another: first, floods in several counties in Zhejiang, which caused heavy losses. Then Beijing began to have strange celestial phenomena -- "Bingshen, the sun is full of green and red gas, and it is scattered for a long time." "Bingchen, Lei Zhenxian Agricultural Altar West Heavenly Gate". "Wu Wu, two days are born." Even the city of Beijing has been plagued by torrential rains for several months, so that "water inside and outside the capital has become canals", and "even crushed to death"! The emperor Fulin hurriedly issued an edict, saying, "(The rainstorm in the capital) is caused by immorality." I should be bent on cultivating the province, and I am only afraid of the heavenly precepts. And demanded that "all ministers and ministers should do their jobs and try to eliminate them together." "But in August, there was heavy rain locusts in Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province[2]......
At such a time of internal and external difficulties, the serious things are still busy, and Weishenme Fulin still has to stir up trouble, and work against the Queen Mother and the Manchu and Han ministers, so do you have to abolish the Queen?
Concubine Jing replied a little shyly, but she still gave the exclusive answer behind this whole thing - it all stemmed from a "good luck"!
Hearing this, Hongyi couldn't believe his ears! It's been two years since you got married, haven't you already broken down? How to return? Not to mention this, if you are lucky, you will be lucky, why is it completely "baibai" after you are lucky?
Concubine Jing saw the incomprehension in Xiao Xuanye's eyes. I had to continue to explain in "depth", but there was only one sentence:
"At that time, the concubines of the six palaces ...... Those who are pregnant with Rokko are ......"
Oh! So that's what happened! Hongyi suddenly realized!
Not really! At that time, within the sixth house, everyone who had a little "posture" was basically busy giving birth, or had just given birth! Let's take a look at the following data [historical facts]:
Concubine Dong E, who had just given birth to the emperor's eldest son Fuquan on July 17, the tenth year of Shunzhi, was in confinement;
Concubine Tong Jiashi has just been found to be pregnant by the Queen Mother, and in her womb is the second son of the emperor, Xuan Ye. Protecting the tire;
Concubine Yang. will give birth to the second daughter of Fulin on the second day of December in the tenth year of Shunzhi, and the fetus is being protected;
Concubine Ba Shi will give birth to the third daughter of Fulin on December 13, the tenth year of Shunzhi, and the baby is in the womb;
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One of the objective realities: at that time ~ in the palace. There are so many pot-bellied concubines!
Objective reality 2: The emperor is in high demand. But there are too few places to start!
After all things considered, one plus two. came to an inevitable conclusion: the emperor may be hungry and casually "lucky" to the then queen, his main wife, and the beautiful Meng Guqing!
After the abolition, he also explained an objective situation - at that time, the Cining Palace had just been put into use after the renovation was completed. Fu Lin held the "Empress Dowager's Move to Cining Palace Ceremony[3]". On that day, the queen was dressed in court clothes and dressed up, which can be described as a radiant waiter, and at that time, she found that the emperor who had not seen her for many days looked at her with a little "ambiguity" like hunger and food......
Coincidentally, at the end of July, the natural and man-made disasters gradually subsided, the emperor was in a good mood, and just took advantage of the Erdeniha of the Mongolian Khalkha tribe to talk about Baturu [4] into the tribute horse [the official history], the court gave a banquet as usual on the first day of the first month of August, and Fulin drank a few more cups, remembering the glorious queen who was also a Mongolian, and took the initiative to come to the queen's dormitory, and then couldn't help but say, the dragon and the phoenix......
But unfortunately, just when the seventeen-year-old Fulin finished his big business and lay comfortably on the bed to reminisce about the wonderful things just now, the eighteen-year-old queen suddenly remembered the scene that day at the Cining Palace ceremony: after the emperor admired himself, he quickly stared at a maiden who entered the service, and happened to be looked at by the queen! At that time, he had just been immersed in the absolute confidence of his beauty, but he was subject to change, so he remembered it in his heart - that person was the Fujin Dong E clan of Bomu Bogol, the eleventh son of Taizong!
Fulin was a little embarrassed about the beauty in his arms at first, and wanted to persuade him with good words, but unexpectedly, Meng Guqing was angry, pulling and pulling, and finally forced Fu Lin, who was also very high-spirited, into a corner, and had to do a trapped beast fight!
The two of them are in the bed, you say "mess up", I say "don't abide by women's morals", you say "shameless", and I say "presumptuous...... The queen said "ungrateful" again, alluding to her Korqin Ministry's great help to the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor replied "It was not my intention", pointing out that she was not the queen herself, but Dolgon!
In a hurry, the young queen said "I'm not rare", which directly hit the poor self-esteem that the young emperor had been carefully cared for, and finally said angrily: "Then I will divorce you, a and a jealous woman!" Go back to your grasslands, I'm not uncommon! Then he put on his clothes and walked away.
Next is the second day, the young emperor who "a gentleman is a word, and the horse is difficult to chase", immediately arranged for the ministers of the Ministry of Rites to sort out the cases of the abolition of the past dynasties, and there were many folding games mentioned above, but the result of Zuihou was that the emperor who hurt his self-esteem won the victory of Zuihou.
In a fit of anger, he really asked the Empress Dowager to return to her Horqin Department and leave the palace that made her infinitely sad. The emperor was naturally angry and told her to "go back to the grassland", but how could he really let her go like this? In order to take into account the national policy of "Manchurian and Mongolian marriage" and the face of the Horqin Department, Fulin was very wise to just give her a "concubine Jing", instead of "resting" her! You know, if you are the emperor's woman one day, you will never be someone else's again. You can be put into the cold palace, or you can be a nun in the palace, but you can't be let go home! [5]
[1] In July of the tenth year of Shunzhi, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the imperial court also issued an order to change the monthly allowance for the kings and officials who went out to conquer [generally referring to living allowances such as food and clothing]: Prince Heshuo 200 taels. One hundred taels for the king of Dorojun. Fifty taels of Dorobelle. Forty taels of solid mountain shellfish. The town of the country, the auxiliary of the country, and the surname of the other two are twenty-five taels each. Gushan is really marquis, uncle, and twenty taels each. Mel Zhangjing, the commander of the guards, the commander of the forwards, and the four taels of Jingqi Nihafan each. Ten taels each of the Elder Merzhang King, the Commander of the Protectors, the Qualanda, and the Scholars of Ashani Hafan. The leader of the escort army, the leader of the forward, the horseman Lazhangjing, and the ada haha attendant are each seven taels. The commander of the guard, the leader of the forward, the commander of the cavalry, the commander of the cavalry, and the governor of the Baita Rabul Hafan are five taels each. Niu Lu Zhangjing, the deputy director of the council, the forward guard, and the Sha Lahafan each had four taels. Tuosha Lahafan rank officer, to protect the military academy Xiao Cavalry School Committee to sign Zhang Jing, to protect the military academy to send a forward guard in the inner courtyard of his red haha pen post style Ha Fan three taels each. There are small officials who are in charge of the big ones who are in charge of the big ones who are in charge of the officials and those who are in charge of the small ones who are paid according to the officials. It's also a lot of money.
[2] All of the above are from the official historical records, see "Qing Shilu".
[3] According to the Qing Shilu, this ceremony was completed on the sixth day of the leap month of the tenth year of Shunzhi.
[4] Erdeni Ha talks about Baturu, where "Erdeni" should be the name of this person, and "Erdeni" is a Manchu text meaning "treasure", such as the familiar Erdeni Chokyi Gyaltsen. As for "Ha Tan Baturu", Hongyi is useless! Among them, "Baturu" is easy to explain, that is, (Manchu :Baturu.png, transliteration: baturu), that is, Batur in Mongolian, but the Chinese translation of Mongolian is generally translated as "Batu". The meaning of "brave general" in the Manchu language, the Jurchens began to use this title in the Ming Dynasty. Later, it became an honorary title for the Qing Dynasty government. But what does "talk" mean? I don't know. Finally, an extension was found - it turned out that the Qing Dynasty's "Baturu" title was divided into two types, one only had the word "Baturu"; The other adds Chinese, Manchu or Mongolian before the word "Baturu". Moreover, "Ha Tan" was obviously not in Chinese at one time, and there was no such thing as Manchu, so it could only be considered Mongolian instead. "Ha Tan", if written as hatan, but found a sentence in the Mongolian national anthem, which seems to be translated as "brave" or "brave". I have to study the evidence here, if anyone understands, please don't hesitate to give advice.
[5] There have been many queens who have been deposed throughout history. In the monogamous and polyconcubinage dynasties, for some reason, such as the monarch's mistakes against the queen's family, the queen's own mistakes, and the struggle for the dethronement of the husband, etc., the deposed queen was either granted a lower rank, or placed under house arrest without any title, or ordained (in fact, could not live outside the palace, most of them practiced in the palace), and there were also examples of death. The only one who didn't let her go home and remarry. (To be continued......)