Chapter 158, Huang Taiji's negativity

South Zhili, Jiangbei, Yangzhou Mansion

This land was the first Hancheng of Wu State, Guangling County was set up in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it was renamed Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, it is bordered by the Yangtze River in the south and the Central Plains in the north, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it has been an important transportation hub. The oldest section of the Grand Canal is here, built by Wu Wangfucha, and was called Hangou at the time.

After the opening of the North-South Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty, Yangzhou has become a large-scale port integrating rivers and seas, and has become the center of shipping and commerce in the world with its unique advantages. With the middle of the Tang Dynasty after China's economic center slowly moved south, the population of the Jiangnan region increased, economic development, so that Yangzhou's commercial position is more stable, it through the Yangtze River basin to connect Bashu, two lakes, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, through the Grand Canal to connect the north, through the coastal connection Fujian, Guangdong, as well as with Japan, food, Persia, India overseas trade, for a time became the Tang Dynasty China's most prosperous commercial city, the poem called "ten miles of long streets, 100,000 people, night market thousands of lights, high-rise red sleeves." Even the famous Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty often landed in Yangzhou.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was run through the whole process, and there was no land transit, Yangzhou because it was located in the golden location of the Grand Canal, the north and south intersected, so it was extremely prosperous, and the population was once as many as 800,000. There are not only rich and extravagant salt merchants, Yangzhou thin horses coveted by the world's lustful people, but also the famous 24 bridges and wind and moon, where literati and ink writers from all walks of life linger, leaving thousands of poems that have been recited for thousands of years.

Although after experiencing a tug-of-war between the Wenxiang cult and the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers for more than half a year, the charm of this famous capital of Huaizuo has been destroyed a lot by the war. But in the eyes of the Manchurian Tartars from the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, they are still prosperous and rich, which makes them admire and covet, although these Manchurian masters are no longer the rural turtles in the remote and barren countryside in the past, but have seen a lot of markets in the Central Plains expedition in this year.

“…… The ancients had clouds, brought 100,000 yuan, and rode a crane to Yangzhou! This Huaiyang land is indeed prosperous and rich, and it can support an army of 100,000! ”

Huang Taiji held the horsewhip in his hand with great interest, rode the horse slowly on the streets of Yangzhou City, and said while admiring the rows of buildings around him, "...... In-laws! You see, although there is a slight setback in my Qing Dynasty, after all, I have the blessing of my ancestors, and there are thousands of miles of prosperous territory, as well as these many Eight Banners warriors who can fight well, it can be said that the foundation of the world is still there, as long as the time comes, why not be able to prosper? ”

When Kong Yinzhi, the current generation of Yan Shenggong who was walking beside Huang Taiji and "accompanied", heard this, he had to squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying, nodded and agreed, "...... The emperor said very much, the emperor is a person who descends from the stars of the heavenly court, and he is responsible for the great luck of the world, and he will definitely be able to come to Ji Tai in the future......"

“…… Oh, yes! Now I have brought your Confucian Mansion under my Zhenghuang banner, not only giving the surname Aixin Jueluo, but also letting the Confucian family intermarry with me in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and from then on I will be prosperous in the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, this Jiangshan Sheji of the Qing Dynasty also has a share of the descendants of saints! ”

Huang Taiji, who had just accepted the eldest lady of the Kong family as his concubine, said with a smile, "...... In the future, I will ask Mr. Kunijo to help me a lot! ”

Hearing this, Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi couldn't help but reach out and touch the money rat tail braid on the back of his head, although he was grateful again and again, but his heart was even more bitter After being given the surname by the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji, the descendants of their saints have been forced to change their surnames to Aixin Jueluo, God knows if they are Han or not! Will the scholars in the world still recognize their honorable status as descendants of the saints of the family in the future?

If one is unlucky, maybe he will be robbed of the signboard of the Yansheng Mansion by the damn shabby gang in the south......

(When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, some descendants of the Confucian family stayed in their hometown and took refuge in the Jin Dynasty, but some followed the Song family to move to Jiangnan and set up another door.) After the establishment of the Ming Empire, the two Confucian families in the south and the north also fought a lawsuit for a long time over "who is the descendant of the authentic sage". ）

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Speaking of which, if there is a choice, Kong Yinzhi, the Holy Father, is definitely 10,000 unwilling to be carried into the Yellow Banner of Manchuria.

The problem was that in front of the swords and bows of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, he did not have any choice at all.

Before, when Fan Wencheng came to Qufuyan Shenggong Mansion according to the number of etiquette, saying that the Qing Emperor was coming to "visit" the Confucian Mansion, the Confucian family also held a closed-door meeting for this purpose. Although not long ago when Huang Taiji was proclaimed emperor in Xuzhou, Kong Yinzhi not only took the initiative to enter the table and paid tribute to silver coins, silk and other property, but also wrote a few extremely sensual articles, desperately patting the Qing court's sycophants, which can be described as extremely sycophant.

But the problem is, there's an old saying about this time and that time. The Qing Empire at that time in July was indeed invincible in sweeping the Central Plains, with a momentum of sweeping the world and annexing **. But after a lapse of three months, the Qing Empire, which not only lost its hometown in Liaodong, but was also driven out of Beijing by the Guanning army, has become a dry bone in the mound in the eyes of everyone in the Confucian Mansion, and only the ability to survive is left.

However, although the current Qing court, which seems to be a lost dog, is obviously a fluffy phoenix that is not as good as a chicken, and it can't be jumped for a few days, but at least the tens of thousands of fierce and bloodthirsty Tartar iron riders must be unstoppable by the rich idlers of the Confucian Mansion.

Therefore, the Confucian Mansion discussed it for a while, and finally decided to politely entertain the barbarian emperor, send a bunch of flattering words, and if it really didn't work, he would give some money and grain to reward the soldiers and horses, in short, it was to put on a posture of sending off the guests, and try to send these Manchurian uncles away safely.

It is a pity that the descendants of these Confucian monks, after all, still seriously overestimated the degree of reverence of these Manchurian Tartars for the Confucian saints, and did not flee with their families in the first place, and as a result, their whole family fell into a catastrophe: Huang Taiji and the army had just entered Qufu, so he ordered to surround the Confucian Mansion and prevent the descendants of the saints from escaping, and then pretended to summon Kong Yinzhi, the holy prince of Yan, and said that he would carry the flag and give him a surname.

Kong Yinzhi initially shirked it, but after learning that if he resolutely refused to carry it into the Zhenghuang Banner, the Qing Emperor had no choice but to cut off his head and replace it with a more obedient person to be the Yan Shenggong of the Qing Dynasty, this goods shrank very shamefully, and since then he has become a Zhenghuang Banner person and changed his surname to Aixin Jueluo.

Next, Huang Taiji ordered the people of Qufu to shave their hair and change clothes, and under the threat of knives, the old and young of Yanshenggong had to take the lead in responding positively, and held a very grand shaving ceremony in public. In return, Huang Taiji not only continued to crown Kong Yinzhi as the Yan Sheng Gong of the Qing Dynasty, but also gave him an empty official title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. It's just that it's not over after shaving their heads and receiving the seal, since the Kong family has also become a Zhenghuangqi person, then their whole family is naturally Huang Taiji's minions, and the slave's things are the master's things, and the master's things are still the master's things......

Ahem, off topic. In short, according to the above logic, all the fields and industries of the Confucian Mansion have become the imperial village of the Eight Banners, and the tenant farmers of the Confucian Mansion have all become the coated servants of the Eight Banners, and the gold and silver treasures of the Confucian family have since belonged to Huang Taiji, the owner of the Yellow Banner. As for the glorious and magnificent Yansheng Mansion, it was also ordered by Huang Taiji to be requisitioned as the Great Qing Palace, which was used to house some of the Eight Banners families who returned from Beijing.

But the question is, in this case, since the Kong family's property has changed owners, where should the Kong family move to by themselves?

Regarding this question, Huang Taiji waved his hand very boldly: The young ladies of the Confucian Mansion can sleep on a quilt with the master of the Eight Banners!

As a result, from Huang Taiji downwards, many nobles of the Eight Banners have practiced the national integration of "Manchu and Han families" in Qufu. Those few golden and noble Miss Kong family were all divided up by the wolf-like Eight Banners magnates, and those who were lucky could become concubines or side Fujin, and those who were unlucky only got the title of concubine. What's worse is that even the Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi and his son's favorite beautiful concubines, and even the two granddaughters-in-law who are marrying Ming Media, were snatched by a few Belle masters unreasonably, and from then on, they could only chant and rejoice under the crotches of these Eight Banner nobles......

As for the men of the Confucian Mansion, they don't have to worry about having nothing to do, as a Zhenghuang Qiding, they are born to be the emperor's minions. When the female dependents of the Kong family were sleeping with the Manchurian uncle, those things such as chopping wood, fetching water, feeding horses, and cleaning the house naturally had to be borne by men. Even if you don't know how to work, it doesn't matter, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty never raise lazy people, and they are all killed and fed to dogs, so in the face of the threat of death, these old and young masters who originally needed to be served quickly learned all kinds of work to serve people: those who didn't learn how to serve people are said to be buried in mass graves.

Of course, as the head of the Confucian Mansion in Shandong, Kong Yinzhi, the Holy Duke of Yan, and his sons did not have to handle such lowly servitude, but enjoyed the honor of accompanying the imperial driver, and could receive the orders of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty every day and teach them all kinds of benefits of being servants of the Yellow Banner......

Compared with the desire to cry without tears of Yan Shenggong's family, the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji can now be called a spring breeze. The harvest of the confiscation of Confucius was far richer than imagined, and 500,000 stones were copied out of the grain alone, and as for gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, spices and cloths, etc., the equivalent of silver was worth more than 3 million taels. made the soldiers of the Eight Banners make a windfall, and they were all so happy. Although according to the moral standards of this era, this kind of looting of the Confucian Mansion can be called madness, and it can be said that it is the enemy of the scholars in the world, and he is cut off from the Central Plains Shilin. But Huang Taiji was also very helpless: after losing his homeland and suffering repeated defeats, his ability to restrain the Eight Banners of Manchuria had rapidly fallen to a very dangerous level. If you can't find a fat sheep to slaughter as soon as possible and satisfy the appetite of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, I'm afraid that the Qing Empire will really collapse!

And now that the northern land has been repeatedly warned, it is extremely dilapidated, except for the transcendent Confucian Mansion, where are there other fat sheep to slaughter?

Fortunately, under the clever propaganda of Fan Wencheng and other civil servants, Huang Taiji's name of Shandong Confucius Mansion this time was "marriage", which was actually a robber move to rob the family, and it was actually packaged as a manifestation of admiration and courtesy for Confucianism, otherwise how could the Qing Emperor marry Miss Confucius as the imperial concubine? But even Huang Taiji himself knows very well that after all, this matter can't contain the fire, how long can he fool the people of the world, he himself is innumerable.

In addition, there was another thing that made Huang Taiji feel a little uncomfortable, that is, Wang Ke, the leader of the Smelling Fragrance Sect who was captured before, actually took advantage of the chaos when Huang Taiji led his troops to raid the Confucian Mansion, and somehow escaped in chaos, and even took away the fox tail that was a sacred relic of the Smelling Fragrance Sect!

However, when the thunderous Huang Taiji hurriedly sent someone to track down the traces of the escape of the Wang Ke sect leader, and finally found that he did not return to Lianghuai in the south and prepare to start again, but fled all the way to his hometown in the north, he was too lazy to meddle in things. Anyway, the territory of the Qing Empire today is the northernmost Yanzhou Mansion. As long as you don't continue to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the two Huai places, then you can make trouble as much as you like in the north! If the Wenxiang Sect demon can add a little more blockage to Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou, the two bastards who have yin against themselves, Huang Taiji may still applaud!

In addition, there was a recent event that made Huang Taiji's heart flutter, and this is also the purpose of his current personal tour of Yangzhou.

Because, this may well mean that the time for the Qing Empire to operate! Of course, this also means that he is the Emperor Taiji's negativity!

Just as Huang Taiji swaggered all the way through the city and slowly came to the vicinity of Yangzhou Wharf, the Yangzhou guard of the Qing Dynasty, Abatai, finally came over out of breath and brought the long-awaited good news of Huang Taiji, "...... Emperor! Emperor! Jiangnan really sent a boat over! ”

After taking a few breaths, Abatai muttered again, "...... It's really stingy to hate those Southern Dynasty officials, who obviously begged us to relieve the siege of Nanjing, but there was no reward of a tael of silver on the ship. It's just a casual delivery of some wine and meat, it's like sending Hanako......"

“…… Why worry too much about a little thing? As long as these fools who think they are clever are willing to send ships to Jiangbei to carry my Manchurian iron across the river! Huang Taiji sneered, "...... If the scholars of the Southern Dynasty do not pay for food, won't the children of the Eight Banners of the Southern Dynasty take it themselves? ”

On October 17, the sixth year of Chongzhen, after the fiasco of the Wuhu Battle and the loss of the main force of the Eastern Army, facing the crisis of the soldiers approaching the city, Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the Yonghe Imperial Court in Nanjing, finally made up his mind to "borrow teachers to help suppress" the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei. On the 20th, under the transportation of the Yangtze River Sailor of the Nanjing Imperial Court, the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji personally led 8,000 iron horsemen to cross the Yangtze River from Yangzhou to the south, landed in Zhenjiang, and declared that he would rescue Nanjing.

At the same time, after learning of the victory of the Western Army in Wuhu, Emperor Chongzhen also hurried to the front line, preparing to personally supervise the invasion of Nanjing.

Another big war that will determine the fate of the world is about to kick off under the city of Nanjing......