Emperor Shunzhi did not "die", he is still alive. At this moment, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother had already left crying, his troubled mood gradually calmed down, and he sat alone in the palace of his heart, and an inexplicable melancholy suddenly hit his heart. The smell of lily incense in the gilt enamel tripod was too strong, and Shunzhi impatiently asked people to withdraw all the incense in the tripod, but he still couldn't sit still, and walked out of the heart cultivation hall with a shake of his hand, and stood under the dan pier and took a deep breath, as if he wanted to use this cold air to dispel the depression in his chest.

The lead-gray sky, the clouds moving heavily and slowly south, he looked up at the mysterious and fickle sky in silence. A cold wind hit, he subconsciously stroked his shoulders, and the old chamberlain Chang Hao immediately came over and gently draped a green brocade embroidered dragon fox fur on his body. He frowned: "Why is this one again?" Chang Hao heard this, and calmly knelt down and played: "Back to the words of the Long Live Lord, the Queen Mother instructed, the master is not happy, and the slave is not allowed to take the plain white fox fur ......" Hearing that it was the Queen Mother's decree, Shunzhi didn't say anything, just raised his face coldly, and thought to himself: "It's going to snow, this world, this palace will be plain." The yellow glazed tiles, the blue brick floor, the bronze crane, the sundial...... All of them have to be dyed white, can the Queen Mother control these? ”

The seventeenth year of Shunzhi was an unlucky year for him. From the beginning of the first month, Jucheng and Ningyang reported a famine, and until June, many places in Zhili, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Suzhou were so dry that there was no grass. As the head of the people, but God refuses to take care of it like this, it is because he has some immorality! In May, he issued an edict against himself, and Zaifu Lobahana also confessed his guilt and begged the emperor to dismiss him so that he could be reconciled. In June, he walked to the southern suburbs to stay overnight, and his devotion really touched God, and it rained heavily for several days. He also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this year seemed to be going to be a little smoother, although it was a year of calamity, it would not be a disaster to the end, right?

Unexpectedly, in August, the imperial concubine Dong E fell ill!

As if five thunders hit the top, Shunzhi's eyes were so dark that he just cried dryly, but he couldn't shed tears. He practiced Zuo at the age of seven, cut off Dorgon's henchmen at the age of fifteen, swept away the Southern Ming, and defeated Zheng Chenggong. After that, he opened a department to recruit scholars and deliberately searched for Han talents. When Sihai was rough timed, he was not yet twenty years old, and everything went well, but his marriage was very unsatisfactory. Prince Rui Dolgon did evil in that year, and insisted on pointing out the daughter of Wu Keshan, the prince of Korqin Zhuo Liktu, as the queen, and the queen mother married Dolgon and also helped to suppress him. This is really a cow that does not drink water and forcefully presses its head! But she had no choice but to be false and wrong, and within two years, she was deposed as "Concubine Jing" and moved to the side palace. These six palaces are fandelier, and there are three thousand beauties, and he only loves this Dong E, who is five years older than him.

Maybe because he misses his old husband, this Dong E's frown has not been sad since he entered the palace. God knows what kind of strange feelings it is. The more Dong E's is like this, the more Shunzhi can't let her go, and he tries his best to please her.

And now, it's all gone. Dong E's incense soul has ascended beyond the Three Realms, what else do you think? He felt that everything had become so ugly and dirty, but the frowning woman was beautiful, but she was destroyed by the merciless wind and rain. I really don't know how to explain this indissolvable pain in this life.

Shunzhi stood in front of the hall for a while, a gust of wind blew, and a few grains of loose snow fell down and hit his face, which hurt and hurt, and he couldn't help but shudder, and returned to the palace. Piles of recitals and posters were stacked high on the dragon case, and he didn't look at it, and walked straight to the West Warm Pavilion. The palace maid foreman waiting at the entrance of the pavilion is called Su Malagu, who is the most useful in front of the queen mother. When he saw him come in, he made a look, and the guards waiting in the hall outside, Wu He, Xi Zhu, Zhe Ketu, and Jue Luo Saybi, bowed silently and withdrew with interest.

Su Malagu stood under the porch, also preoccupied. She entered the palace in the eighth year of Shunzhi. Su Malagu was originally the daughter of the Zhenglan Banner Leader Kelengtai. She lost her mother when she was six years old. The father wants to remarry and ask for the nephew of the banner lord Selo. The girl under her umbrella was also simply, and said to the matchmaker: "You tell that Gelentai, it's okay, it's just that there is a burden around him, but the girl is impatient to be a stepmother, so let him dispel his delusions as soon as possible!" "Thelo is Grentah's immediate boss. The words came from Thelo, and they made him miserable. In desperation, this year, when the show girl was selected to enter the palace, her father sent her in. It is also a coincidence that the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang happened to Chuxiu Palace, and saw a large number of show girls kneeling in the courtyard to be selected, so she paced over to see, and saw that this little girl was staring at herself with big eyes, so she bent down and pulled up Su Malagu to take a closer look. Su Malagu had never been so loved since she lost her mother, and when she saw that the woman's eyebrows were kind, she opened her mouth and shouted "Mother-in-law", and tears came out of her eyes with the cry.

This clear child's voice made the Queen Mother feel hot, and she actually leaned down to hold Su Mala Gu in her arms, turned her face to the eunuch in charge and said, "I want this child." Then pick an old show girl to wait for her. - Child, my mother-in-law has a lot of fruit, come with my mother-in-law! ”

Since then, Su Malagu has followed the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang, and the Empress Dowager has nothing to do with the day, so she teased her, taught her to read and write, and told her the story of the "Three Kingdoms". As she grew older, she also told her a lot about the rules and regulations of the previous dynasty and the current dynasty. This Su Malagu is extremely talented, at the age of ten, she is full of poetry and songs, and she has read a lot of articles from hundreds of schools, and when she is fourteen years old, she is full of knowledge. The Queen Mother liked it, so she assigned her to wait for Emperor Shunzhi.

After a moment of reflection under the porch, a cold wind came, she shivered, and stepped towards the door of the moon cave.

Shunzhi entered the Xinuan Pavilion and looked around and felt more and more melancholy. This is the place where Shunzhi has been coming the most in the past four months. Everything is the same as when Concubine Dong was alive, there are a few golden Wenguan fruits on the jade plate on the red sandalwood frame in the corner of the wall, which still exudes a faint fragrance; The zither on the desk had broken a string and curled, and it had been covered with a thin layer of dust; The fat powder on the dressing table, the head and face jewelry, and the green salt and pancreas she used were all left untouched. Only on the jade-inlaid gum, a new frame of a new small statue of Dong E's palace was hung.

This is an ink painting painted by a painter recommended by Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangning. After Dong E's death, Emperor Shunzhi did not think about eating and drinking for five consecutive days, and was bedridden with his dying breath. The Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang, Borzigit, was so anxious that there was no way. The loss is that the old man Hong Chengchou is well-informed, and said that "heart disease must be cured with heart". The Empress Dowager set up a decree to posthumously crown Dong Eshi as the queen, and mobilized dozens of Danqing experts from Gyeonggi, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places to go to Beijing to take photos for Dong Niangniang, in order to bow to the saints. No matter how you dictate your mind, no one can draw it. Unexpectedly, a photo of Chen Luoyun was presented, but it caused an alarm in the palace, whether the person who waited in front of Niangniang or had only seen Niangniang once, they all thought it was very similar, not only similar but also god-like! When Chang Hao put the painting into the imperial view, the sick-eyed Shunzhi jumped up from the dragon bed, hugged the painting in his arms, and said, "Qingqing! I thought you were gone, but you're still alive! The Queen Mother was happy, and sent 10,000 taels of silver to reward Chen Luoyun, and it was a good story in Beijing. Zhu Guozhi crossed the three levels of Dao, Zhen and Domain, and became the governor of Jiangning.

Since then, although Shunzhi has been eating gradually, his spirit has not recovered. Although he still walks around the Qinzheng Palace every day, he does not comment on the ministers' recitals, nor does he approve the recitals, and he is in a trance, such as in a dream, he asks the Queen Mother every day to say goodbye, and then he goes into this warm pavilion and looks at the portrait in a daze. An old chamberlain in front of the Queen Mother broke in one day without a report, and Shunzhi was furious, and he ignored the Queen Mother's affection and made him kneel in front of the steps and slap his mouth forty. From then on, no one in the palace dared to disturb him at this time.

At this moment, Shunzhi stood in front of this small statue, Dong E's slightly frowning eyebrows, which seemed to have affection in his veins, and seemed to have a faint resentment; The belt is fluttering, as if he wants to get out of the autumn wind and yellow leaves. Shunzhi couldn't help but exclaim: "God, since I am your son, why are you so ruthless to me?" ”

At this time, not far from the Palace of Cultivating the Heart, there were also six people in the room to be leaked in the east of the Qianqing Palace. They were driven out by Shunzhi before the Empress Dowager arrived at the Yangxin Palace, and at this time, they couldn't really go back to the house in anger, so they made an appointment to gather here again.

The leading Prince Kang Jieshu, who is the cousin of the current Shunzhi Emperor, sat on the kang and looked at Sony, Kupilon, Suke Saha, and Aobai, all of whom were like bodhisattvas in the temple, or sitting upright and silent, or smoking cigarettes, and even Hong Chengchou and other resourceful first-class strategists were also silent. Jie Shu couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart: "You said it! Will it be successful, so that the emperor can really shave his head and become a monk? "The Minister of State in the seat, Sony, is the oldest and has the highest status, he is nearly seventy years old, and he has been suffering for several days in a row, and his spirit cannot be supported, and he is crooked on the kang at this time, looking embarrassed. Seeing that everyone was silent, he sighed and said, "It doesn't seem to be possible." What method has not been used, let's not say anything about the guilt of the self-rope, even the queen mother knelt down, it didn't work, what else? Ao Bai, who was sitting in the corner, looked angry and said, "What does this look like!" A mother-in-law is dead, and it doesn't look like death or life like death, and it doesn't look like life......"

Before he could finish speaking, Sony intercepted him: "What is this?" What's the use of bare whining? Since the Sacred Heart cannot be returned, it is better to think about the next step! ”

Ji Bilong, who was sitting next to Aobai, saw that Aobai's face was a little unbearable, and he owed a debt and said: "According to my brother, the emperor's go, even if it is a 'big trip', there will be an edict, and the heir must be the third elder brother." ”

That's an amazing statement! But he has always been well-informed, and he does not think twice about anything, and of course he does not lie. Sukh Saha leaned forward and asked, "How so?" ”

Kupilon lowered his voice and replied: "This is John Tang's words, the third elder brother has had smallpox, but he can be guaranteed for the rest of his life." When it came to John Tong, everyone was silent. This man was a Germanic who had been a missionary in China for more than 40 years, and Xu Guangqi of the former Ming Dynasty recommended him to serve in the Hanlin Academy. This person is proficient in the Western calendar, and the calculation of the eclipse of the sun and the moon is very accurate, so since entering the Qing Dynasty, he has been the Qintian supervisor who is in charge of the astronomical calendar. Shunzhi simply regarded him as a god, and the queen actually abandoned the Buddha and converted to Catholicism, saying that one is one, and two is two! If Tang Ruowang's words are confirmed, there is no doubt that the heir must be the third elder brother Xuanye.

Jie Shu was silent for a while and said: "Why don't we hand over the sign again and ask the emperor to ask for the end!" Before the words were finished, Ao Bai replied: "The four iron door latches are guarding there, can you enter?" "The four latches refer to the four people such as Wu He, and these four people don't buy anyone's account except for Shunzhi. Everyone immediately had nothing to answer again.

After a while, Ao Bai snorted again in his nose and said, "This is good, whoever becomes the emperor is up to the Yi people!" Suke Saha said: "If you don't kill people, as long as you say it right, you have no choice but to do it!" Ao Bai looked down on Suke Saha the most, and immediately said: "You call it casual talk!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were about to raise the bar again, Sonny said in disgust: "Don't look like this, they are all important ministers of the state, and they must also become some decent." The two of them turned their heads away and did not speak. The sound of snoring and smoking in the room made the air more oppressive and depressed. Hong Chengchou, who was silent for a long time, raised a clear face, moved his body and said, "Since the holy will is difficult to violate, let's wait and see, I expect that the holy lord will have arrangements." ”

After playing for a long time in front of the small statue of Xinuan Pavilion, Shunzhi walked out of the courtyard again, the fine snowflakes had fallen a few inches thick, and the surrounding silence was like a deserted temple, and he felt a lot calmer. As Hong Chengchou guessed, he had many important things that he had to arrange before he left.

"Long live the lord, Fan Chengmo came to see the driver by order." The guard Wu He had already knelt behind him and started playing softly, "It's so cold, long live the Lord should also ......" Shunzhi didn't wait for him to finish, waved his hand and entered the hall, only then did he notice that Fan Chengmo was already kneeling there.

Shunzhi sat down on a chair near the kang, the room was warm, and after a while, he felt hot and dry, and he couldn't help but use his hands to unbutton the fur fur. After Aunt Su Mala hurriedly stepped forward to relieve him, she withdrew from the hall. Shunzhi glanced at Fan Chengmo: although he was only in his forties, he already had gray sideburns, and his white braids dragged from under his eyes to the ground, and his head was almost touching the ground. He coughed lightly, Fan Chengmo knew that the holy car had arrived, and knocked his head on the brick three times, and started to play loudly: "Slave Fan Chengmo respectfully invites Sheng'an!" ”

Shunzhi said lightly: "Mr. Fan, get up and sit on the pier over there." ”

Fan Chengmo slowly knelt on his left leg, hit a thousand children with his right hand, bowed down and retreated to the side of the right one, and sat on the celadon carved drum pier with his buttocks: "The emperor summons his ministers all night, I don't know what the holy edict is?" ”

Shunzhi took a long breath, glanced at Fan Chengmo, and said slowly: "I summoned you today to ask you to draft an edict on my behalf. Fan Chengmo breathed a sigh of relief and thought: "Why do you have to call at night, could it be that the military situation in the southeast has changed?" Su Malagu took a side of the inkstone and grinded a pool of ready-made ink. Fan Chengmo was full of luck, and the ink was in his hand, waiting for Shunzhi to speak.

Shunzhi took a sip of tea, his face became more and more pale, and he said: "It has been eighteen years since I entered the Great Unification with virtue and thin energy. After dominating the world, I was led by the nose by the Han people day by day, so that the fortunes of the country were not perfect, and the people's livelihood was difficult, which was my first sin. ”

Hearing this, Fan Chengmo stood up in panic, and in a moment's time, the ink on the pen was drenched all over his sleeves. He suddenly felt rude, and hurriedly knelt down and played: "The emperor is rushing to practice Zuo, breathing wolf smoke outside, appeasement and treacherous power inside, entering the customs and Dingding, covering up Huaxia, and building an indestructible foundation." Occasional incurable, all because of the rough determination of the sea, not enough to recuperate. The saint said this, and the minister did not dare to write! ”

"Get up!" Shunzhi said lightly, "You write!" His composure made Fan Chengmo feel a burst of fear, so he got up in panic and returned to his seat, calmed down, and wrote: "I am a good virtue, and I will inherit the heir Piji, and I will be in the past eighteen years. Since the pro-government, the discipline and law, the use of people and administration, can not look up to the law Taizu Taizong Mo Lie, follow the care, and the present, and gradually get used to the Han customs, in the simple old system, there are more and more every day, so that the national governance is not perfect, the people's livelihood is attempted, is my sin. ”

Shunzhi continued: "When the first emperor was on a big trip, I was no more than a six-year-old naughty boy, and I didn't do a day of filial piety for his old man. I wanted to serve the Queen Mother well and make up for this regret-" He choked up, pulled down a white silk handkerchief from the couch, wiped his eyes, "Now, I want to go down to my knees, but make the Queen Mother grieve for me......" At this, two lines of tears flowed silently.

The more Fan Chengmo listened, the more shocked he became, his expression changed greatly, he left the table and knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again, and said: "The emperor is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, why do you say this?" If the reason is not declared, the minister would rather die than obey the edict. After saying that, he kowtowed three times firmly.

Emperor Shunzhi understands Fan Chengmo's mood very well, he is only twenty-four years old this year, and when he says such a thing, don't say that Fan Chengmo doesn't dare to write, a few months ago, he himself never even thought about it. But now if you want to be born and leave the world, you must cut off all love, and you can't leave a little room for speech, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. He made up his mind and said, "Mr. Fan, if you are so strict with the monarch and the ministers tonight, this edict will not be written until dawn." Get up! I tell you the truth, this is my 'testament', and I have decided to abandon the world and become a monk! ”

Fan Chengmo's heart was shocked: "From the Three Emperors to the Five Emperors, how can there be such a thing!" This Manchurian is really all lovers! Naishu Dolgon took charge of the dynasty as the regent, but because he had a childhood sweetheart with the queen mother, he refused to usurp the throne. It's only been a few years, and another one has popped up to become a monk! Thinking like this in his heart, he said in his mouth: "Abandoning the Nine Respects, such as abandoning the Emperor, was the last resort of the ancient sage emperor, and it was a remark to ridicule." Now that the four seas are returning to their hearts, and all the people are in harmony, what is there to do with the saints, to abandon the dignity of all vehicles and go to the land of the unpredictable? ”

Shunzhi saw that he was blindly admonishing, and what he said was another old routine that he had heard rotten, he was irritable, and he broke off: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to say much!" ”

Fan Chengmo thought for a while, and said: "The saint has been as kind to Queen Dong as a mountain, giving birth to a noble concubine, and giving death to the queen, he is very worthy of his mother, so why bother——"

"Shut up!" Shunzhi sneered, "Everyone has their own ambitions, is this your business?" ”

"If you are not a minister, you will know about this edict for the queen mother, how can you take the blame even if the minister dies? Therefore, I dare to offend Yan Zhichen——"

The words were still not finished, only to hear the sound of "pop", Shunzhi was furious: "You are afraid that the Queen Mother will kill you, I am in charge!" If you don't obey the edict, can't I kill you? Write! ”

Fan Chengmo wanted this sentence, he got up tremblingly, sat back on the side, his heart was crossed, and then wrote: "The emperor is going to be at the age of six, and I can't serve the decay and mourn for three years, and I regret it all day long." However, serving the Queen Mother will be obedient and honest, and hope that after 10,000 years, she will fulfill her duties and express her regrets. It is one of my sins to break my knees and mourn against our Lady today. ”

The next thing was relatively smooth, the Shunzhi Emperor Cheng Zhu in his chest, talked eloquently, he talked about his lack of trust in the Manchu nobles, and rewarded some Han officials at every turn; When it comes to his own high temperament, he can't be humble and admonished, he knows the goodness of the virtuous minister but can't get close, and he knows the villain and can't retreat; When it comes to the establishment of the Thirteen Yamen and the appointment of eunuchs, it is said that it is comparable to the mediocrity of the late Ming Emperor. He counted the thirteen failures since he became in power, and talked so calmly, as if he were counting the mistakes of others. Fan Chengmo listened to the handwriting, and he had to polish it casually, and he didn't dare to be distracted at all, he just felt that his head was going to be the boss.

Speaking of this, Shunzhi sighed with relief: "I know that I have a lot of mistakes, and I often regret it after I finish it, but I am just lazy, and I can't change it well after that, so that the mistakes accumulate more and more." This is my fourteenth sin. He was half-lying on the couch, and the candle tears in the palace lamp fell on the water-mill blue brick floor. Suddenly, the bell struck eleven on the spot—it was the first hour of the hour.

Fan Chengmo knew that the most important decision of Emperor Shunzhi was about to be made, so he was busy holding his breath and sitting upright with his pen on standby. Shunzhi paused for a moment and shouted softly: "Aunt Su Mala! ”

Su Malagu, who was guarding the door of the hall, was listening quietly, and suddenly heard the call, and her body trembled with fright, and she hurriedly bowed down and responded: "The slave is here!" ”

"Tell them to come and listen." Su Malagu answered "yes" and went to page. For a while, U He and the other four personal guards rushed in one by one, kneeling and listening quietly one after another. Aunt Su Mala wanted to quit, but Shunzhi stopped her: "You are also here, you have served the Queen Mother for a few years, I have always regarded you as a sister, it is good to listen to it." Su Malagu just kowtowed, not daring to speak. After speaking, Shunzhi coughed lightly, word by word, and said very clearly: "The new emperor - Xuanye, the third prince of Zhenyi." He paused, "The princes are all about the same age, this child is small, but he is very smart, and he has had smallpox, I also asked the Tibetan monk Erdeji Lama to push his life, and it is also extremely expensive - you don't have to write about these - his mother Tong is dignified and dignified, generous and gentle, and can be **." Let's settle it like that. Shunzhi thought about it and said, "The emperor is too young, of course he has to appoint a few auxiliary ministers, and I just look at the four of them, Sony, Sukesaha, and Suppilon." ”

Fan Chengmo's every word seemed to be engraved in his heart, and he suddenly felt like taking a dose of cool medicine, and his whole body was relaxed: "Even if the Queen Mother blames her, there are always these four people in the way." "When the heart is wide, the pen will be much cleaner." Ministers of the Interior, Sonny, Sukh Saha, Suppilon, and Ao Bai are auxiliary ministers. Yi and other old ministers, I stennied with my heart, and he was loyal to the Lord, and he was in charge of government affairs. The proclamation is known to the Chinese and foreign, and the salty envoy knows about it. ”

Shunzhi was originally weak, but he was very excited tonight, and after dictating this edict, his face turned red, and he lay on the couch, coughing incessantly. Seeing this, Aunt Su Mala hurriedly went to serve the cough bowl, and Wu He hurriedly got up and stepped forward to gently beat his back for him. He grabbed Wu He's hand and said, "Aiqing, you have been with me for a long time, the emperor is too young, you have to be careful!" Where can he still hold it at this time, he cried out with a "wow", kowtowed to the ground and sobbed: "The slave dares not to defend the young master with sincerity!" ”

"Don't cry," Shunzhi persuaded, then turned his face and asked, "Mr. Fan, what do you think of these four people?" ”

Fan Chengmo hurriedly put the pen on the pen stand, stood up and bowed down and replied: "If you go back to Long live, these four ministers are all ministers of the society, and Long live the Holy Sword." Shunzhi shook his head and said: "It is not necessarily the case, but the ancestral system of Hanchen cannot be an auxiliary government, Mr. Fan and Hanchen should be aware of my deep heart." According to this four ministers, Sony has good prestige and talent, but it is a pity that he is old; Sukh Saha is quite talented, loyal, and daring to do things, but he is too shallow; Suppilon refuses to come out in all things, is too soft to be rigid, but never to cause trouble; Ao Bai is decisive and decisive, and has both civil and military talents, but it is a pity to lose his impatience. If the four of them can work together to assist the young master, I can also go with confidence. ”

It was late at night, Fan Chengmo had already withdrawn, the snow was falling in the Forbidden City, and everything was frozen and frozen in the cold night. The pot was about to dry up, the flame was dimmed, the blood-red candle tears on the candlestick were piled high, and only the distant sound of "Tuk Tu - Dang" sounded desolately.

Emperor Shunzhi raised his tearful face and instructed Chang Hao: "Pass the decree to respect the room, open the key to open the palace, and I have appointed the servants to leave the palace immediately!" ”