Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 2
Emperor Shunzhi did not "death", he is still alive.At this moment, the empress dowager and the empress had already left crying, his disturbed mood gradually calmed down, and he sat alone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, a kind of inexplicable melancholy suddenly hit his heart.The smell of lily incense in the gilt enamel tripod was too strong, Shunzhi impatiently asked someone to remove all the incense in the tripod, but he still couldn't sit still, walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation with a wave of his hand, stood under the altar and took a deep breath. In one breath, it seemed that he wanted to use this clear cold air to dispel the depression in his chest.

In the leaden sky, the clouds were heavy and slowly moving southward, and he looked up at the mysterious and ever-changing sky in silence.A gust of cold wind blew in, and he stroked his shoulders subconsciously. The old servant Chang Hao immediately walked over, and lightly draped a green brocade embroidered dragon and fox fur fur over his body.He frowned: "Why is it this again?" After hearing this, Chang Hao calmly knelt down and began to play: "Returning to Lord Long Live, the Empress Dowager ordered that the master is unhappy, and the slave is not allowed to take that plain white fox fur." ..." Hearing that it was the Empress Dowager's order, Shunzhi didn't say anything, but raised his face coldly, thinking to himself: "It's going to snow, this world, this palace will be plain. The yellow glazed tiles, blue bricks The ground, the copper crane, the sundial... all have to be dyed white, can the Empress Dowager care about these?"

The 17th year of Shunzhi was an unlucky year for him.From the beginning of the first month, Jucheng and Ningyang reported famines. Until June, many places in Zhili, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Suzhou were so dry that there was no grass.As the head of the common people, but God is so unwilling to take care of him, is there something wrong with me!
In May, he issued an edict of guilt, and Prime Minister Luo Bahana also made a statement to cite his guilt, begging the emperor to dismiss him in order to make peace with heaven.In June, he walked to the southern suburbs to fast again. His devotion really touched the heavens, and it rained heavily for several days.He also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this year seems to be going smoothly, even though it is a year of disasters due to the dark moon, it will not end in one disaster, right?

Unexpectedly, in August, imperial concubine Dong Eshi fell ill!
Like thunder, Shunzhi was so startled that his eyes went dark, he just cried dryly, but couldn't shed tears.He practiced Zuo at the age of seven, cut off Dorgon's party members at the age of 15, wiped out Nanming, and defeated Zheng Chenggong.After that, he started a course to recruit scholars, deliberately searching for talents of the Han nationality.When the world is rough, he is not yet 20 years old. Everything is going well, but the marriage is very unsatisfactory.Dorgon, Prince Rui, took advantage of his power to do evil in the past, insisting that Borqijin, the daughter of Prince Wu Keshan of Horqin Zhuoliketu, was the queen mother. The queen mother married Dorgon and also helped to suppress him.This is really a forced head pressing of a cow without drinking water!But she had no choice but to pretend to be a snake, and within two years, she was deposed as "Concubine Jing" and moved to a side palace.There are six palaces of Fendai and three thousand beauties, but he only loves this Dong E family who is five years older than him.

Perhaps because of missing her old husband, this Dong E family has never shown any frowns since entering the palace.God knows what a strange feeling it was.The more Dong E was like this, the more Shunzhi couldn't let her go, and tried every means to please her.

And now, it's all over.A ray of Dong E's fragrant soul has ascended beyond the Three Realms, so what else is on his mind?He felt that everything had become so ugly and dirty, only the frowning woman was beautiful, but she was destroyed by the ruthless wind and rain.I really don't know how to explain this indelible pain in this life.

Shunzhi stood in front of the hall for a while, when a gust of wind blew, and a few loose snow fell and hit his face, which was so painful that he couldn't help shivering, and returned to the hall.Piles of memorials and reports were piled high on the dragon case, and he walked straight to Xinuange without looking at them.The foreman of the court ladies waiting at the entrance of the pavilion is Lagu Su Ma, who is most useful in front of the Queen Mother.Seeing him coming in, he winked, and the guards Wohe, Xizhu, Zheketu and Jue Luosaierbi who were waiting in the palace outside silently bowed and retreated out with interest.

Aunt Su Ma was standing on the porch, also full of thoughts.She entered the palace in the eighth year of Shunzhi.Lagu Su Ma was originally the daughter of Ge Lengtai, the leader of Zhenglan Banner.She lost her mother when she was six years old.The father wants to remarry, and seeks to employ the niece of Sai Luo, the owner of the banner.The girl under the banner was straightforward, and said to the matchmaker directly: "You tell that Gelentai, he is a human being, but he has a burden around him, and the girl is impatient to be a stepmother, so tell him to give up his delusions as soon as possible! "Serlo was Grentai's immediate boss.This sentence came from Selo, but it made him have a hard time.In desperation, it happened that this year, under the flag, a beautiful girl was selected to enter the palace, so my father sent her in.It was also a coincidence, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang came to the Chuxiu Palace by chance, and saw a large group of beautiful girls kneeling in the courtyard waiting for election, so she walked over and saw this little girl staring at her with big eyes suddenly , then bent down and pulled Aunt Su Ma to have a closer look.La Aunt Su Ma has never been loved so much since the loss of her mother. Seeing the kindness in this woman's eyes, she opened her mouth and called out "Mother-in-law", with tears streaming from her eyes.

This clear child's voice made the Queen Mother feel hot all over, she bent down and hugged Aunt Su Ma in her arms, then turned to the eunuch in charge and said, "I want this child. I will choose another mature and beautiful girl to serve her." She.—Children, there are many fruits with mother-in-law, come with mother-in-law!"

From then on, Aunt Su Ma followed the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. The Empress Dowager was fine all day long, so she teased her, taught her how to read and write, and told her stories about the "Three Kingdoms".After growing up, he also told her a lot of laws and regulations of the previous dynasty and this dynasty.This Aunt Su Ma was very talented. At the age of ten, she had read a lot of poems, songs and Fu, and articles from various schools of thought. By the age of 14, she was full of knowledge.The queen mother liked it, so she assigned her to serve the emperor Shunzhi.

She lost her mind for a while under the porch, when a gust of cold wind came, she shivered, and then walked towards the moon cave gate.

Shunzhi entered the Xinuang Pavilion, looking around, he felt even more melancholy.This is the place where Shunzhi has visited the most in the past four months.Everything was the same as before Concubine Dong was alive. On the jade plate on the red sandalwood frame in the corner, there were several golden sorbifoliums, which still exuded a faint fragrance; It has been covered with a thin layer of dust; the makeup powder, head jewelry, green salt and fragrant soap she used on the dresser shelf are all placed as they are.Only a brand-new small portrait of Dong E's palace costume was newly hung on the jade-inlaid gum bed.

This is an ink painting drawn by a painter recommended by Jiangning governor Zhu Guozhi.After Dong E's death, Emperor Shunzhi didn't think about food and drink for five consecutive days, and was dying in bed.Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang Borzigit was so anxious that there was nothing she could do.Fortunately, the old man Hong Chengchou is well-informed and said that "heart disease must be treated with heart".The Empress Dowager made a decree to posthumously confer the title of Dong E's family as empress, and mobilized dozens of Danqing masters from Gyeonggi, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places to Beijing to take portraits of Dong Niangniang as a consolation.Helpless, no matter how dictated and imagined, no one can draw like it.Unexpectedly, a photo of Chen Luoyun was presented, but it caused a commotion in the palace. No matter the people who served the empress or those who had only seen the empress, they all thought that they looked very similar, not only in appearance but also in spirit!When Chang Hao presented the painting to the imperial court, Shunzhi, who was sick and blind, jumped up from the dragon bed, hugged the painting in his arms, and said, "Qingqing! I thought you were gone, but you are still alive!" Queen Mother When he was happy, he rewarded Chen Luoyun with 1 taels of silver, which became a good story in the capital.Zhu Guozhi surpassed the three levels of Daoist, Standard, and Fan, and became the governor of Jiangning in one fell swoop.

Since then, although Shunzhi gradually improved his diet, his spirit has not recovered.Although he still walks around the Hall of Qinzheng every day, he doesn't comment on the ministers' memorials, and he doesn't comment on the memorials. He is in a trance, as if in a dream, and greets the Queen Mother every day, so he sneaks into this warm pavilion and looks at it. The portrait is in a daze.One day an old servant in front of the Queen Mother broke in without reporting. Shunzhi was so furious that he ignored the Queen Mother's favor and made him kneel in front of the steps and slap his mouth for forty.From then on, no one in the palace dared to disturb him at this time.

At this moment, Shunzhi is standing in front of this small portrait, Dong E's slightly frowned eyebrows seem to be full of affection, but also seem to have a faint resentment; come out.Shunzhi couldn't help shouting: "God, since I am your son, why are you so ruthless to me?"

At this time, not far from the Hall of Mental Cultivation, in the waiting room to the east of the Qianqing Palace, there were six people who were worrying about the lights.They were kicked out by Shunzhi just before the Empress Dowager came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. At this time, they couldn't really go back to the mansion in a fit of pique, so they made an appointment to gather here again.

The leader, Prince Kang Jieshu, is the cousin of the current Emperor Shunzhi. He sat on the kang and looked at Soni, Ebilong, Sukesaha, and Aobai. , or smoking a cigarette, even Hong Chengchou, a top strategist who is resourceful and resourceful, is also deep in thought.

Jie Shu couldn't help feeling restless: "Are you talking about it! Will it be possible for the emperor to shave his head and become a monk?" Sonny, the Minister of State and Political Affairs in the seat, is the oldest and the highest-ranking minister. He is nearly seventy years old. I couldn't bear it mentally, and I was lying on the kang at this time, looking extremely sleepy.Seeing that everyone was silent, he sighed and said, "It doesn't look like it's going to work. It didn't work. Let's plead guilty, and even the Queen Mother knelt down. It didn't work. What else can I do? "Oboi who was sitting in the corner had an angry look on his face, and spat, "What does it look like! A woman is dead, so dead and alive..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sony stopped him: "What are you talking about? What's the use of complaining? Since the Sacred Heart can't return, let's think about the next step now!"

Ye Bilong, who was sitting next to Oboi, saw that Oboi's face was a little uneasy, he bowed his body and said, "According to my brother, the emperor's visit is considered a 'big move', there must be a will, and the heir must be Undoubtedly, the third elder brother."

This is really amazing!But he has always been well-informed, he doesn't think twice about things, and of course he doesn't lie.Suksaha leaned forward and asked, "How can you see it?"

Ye Bilong lowered his voice and replied: "This is Tang Ruowang's words. The third elder brother has had smallpox, so he can be safe for life." As soon as Tang Ruowang was mentioned, everyone fell silent.This man is a Germanic man who has been a missionary in China for more than forty years. Xu Guangqi of the Ming Dynasty recommended him to serve in the Imperial Academy.This person is proficient in the Western calendar, and his calculation of the eclipse of the sun and the moon is very accurate. Therefore, since entering the Qing Dynasty, he has been a Qintian supervisor who is in charge of astronomy and calendar.Shunzhi simply regarded him as a god, and the queen abandoned Buddhism and converted to Catholicism, saying that one is one and the other is two!If Tang Ruowang's words are confirmed, the successor must be the third elder brother Xuan Ye.

Jie Shu pondered silently for a while, and then said: "Why don't we hand over the sign to see the emperor again, and ask the whole question!" Before finishing his sentence, Oboi replied, "Those four iron gates are guarded there, you enter Do you have to go?" The four gate bolts refer to the four people including Wu He, and no one will buy these four people except Shunzhi.After saying this, everyone immediately had nothing to answer.

(End of this chapter)