Ming Empire

Chapter 17
Sure enough, it was the famous "Empress Xiaozhuang" in history, and Cao Yue was a little excited.

This woman who almost changed the destiny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and even China in the original history, is quite beautiful and has a good figure. No wonder she was favored by Huang Taiji, and later by Dorgon. Ledao's love affair.

"This is your son, Aixinjueluo Fulin?" Cao Yue pointed to the frightened little boy who kept crying but didn't dare to cry out loud.It turns out that the future Emperor Shunzhi is just a kid now.

Hearing that Cao Yue called out his son's name, Bumbutai was so surprised that he even forgot to sob, but finally nodded and continued to beg for his son's mercy: "General, please let Fulin go. He's only four years old."

"Tell me about the conditions for me to let your son go." Cao Yue was in a good mood at this time, and couldn't help playing the game of "fishing".

Hearing Cao Yue's question, Bumbutai and Zhezhe exchanged glances naturally. They both understood that Cao Yue had plans for them, but for the sake of their children, they had no choice but to succumb to Cao Yue's wishes. Under the prestige.

"We are willing to accept any disposition from the general," Bumbutai answered with a trembling voice, gritted his teeth.

"Queen, Concubine Zhuang, you can't agree!" After Daishan got up, he knelt down in front of Zhezhe and Bumbutai with a plop, and kept touching the ground with his head, and soon his forehead was broken, and blood flowed. "The slave is incompetent, ashamed of the emperor, and failed to protect you."

"Daishan, the best choice for you now is to commit suicide, so that you can show your heroism." Cao Yue kicked Daishan coldly, and kicked Daishan, "Seeing that your noble queen and The imperial concubine and Gege were insulted, and the elder brothers were killed, you have no way to save them, you can only commit suicide to show your ambition, right?"

After Dai Shan heard this, he suddenly became angry and was about to pounce on Cao Yue, but just as he got up, he stopped his body immediately, and finally knelt down with a plop, begging Cao Yue to kill him, and he was willing to exchange his death for Cao Yue. the lives and dignity of others.

If Cao Yue hadn't told him to commit suicide, Daishan would have chosen to commit suicide to avoid being humiliated and seeing others humiliated.

Cao Yue ignored Daishan who was begging for mercy for the women and children, walked up to the crying pear blossom and raining Bumbutai, and asked softly with a smile on his face: "You are really willing to accept any treatment from this general, as long as this general Will spare their lives?"

Bumbutai nodded quickly, and Zhezhe on the side also hurriedly agreed: "As long as the general doesn't kill them, we are willing to accept any punishment from the general."

Manchu women and Han women are not at the same level in terms of chastity, and they don't think it is the greatest shame and humiliation to submit to other men.Among the concubines of Huang Taiji today, there are several women who were snatched after defeating the Mongolian tribe. The noble concubine Na Muzhong of Linzhi Palace and the concubine Batema of Kang Shu were all women of Khan Lin Dan. After Huang Taiji conquered the Lin Dan tribe, These women were also recruited by him.And Manchu women, like Mongolian women, admire heroes. If a man is brave, they will worship you, and even willingly abandon their hatred and follow you. Na Muzhong and Bate Zhiqing are good examples.

Now leading the army into Shengjing, and they are young, tall, and heroic. If Cao Yue can forgive these little men with their commitment, whether it is Zhezhe, Bumbutai, or other women, willing to accept this result.

"Okay, as you wish," Cao Yue said, put away his frightening smile, and ordered coldly, "Pull these people out and eunuch them." After a pause, he continued: " Except Fulin."

Waiting for Cao Yue's order, the servants who were already a little impatient, after hearing Cao Yue's order, were stunned for a moment, and then burst into cruel smiles, regardless of the reactions of these women and children, they rushed forward , pulled out a group of children except Fulin, and soon the children cried out in pain.

"If there are imperial physicians in the palace, let them go and treat them. I spare their lives. Whether they survive depends on their luck." After several days of fighting and killing, Cao Yue's determination has been very firm.

It's a pity that all the male imperial physicians in the palace had been killed, and several women who knew medicine came out tremblingly, and followed Cao Yue's servants to seek help from the sons of Huang Taiji who had been eunuched as the root of men.

The mothers of those children were stunned, and soon wailed loudly. They wanted to go out with a few women who knew medicine to see their children, but they were stopped by the servants.Bumbutai was also stunned by Cao Yue's actions, but she was greatly relieved in the end. Her son, four-year-old Fulin, was lucky enough not to be punished so cruelly.

She looked at Cao Yue with complicated eyes, the calmness and dignity of the past had long since disappeared, and her eyes were full of confusion.She couldn't figure out why Cao Yue made such a decision. Could it be that he fell in love with her and wanted to take her away?

"I agreed to your request, now you should also agree to my request?" Cao Yue looked at Zhezhe and Bumbutai jokingly, then suddenly changed the subject and shouted sharply: "Where is the jade seal of my Han nationality?" ? Hand it over immediately."

The "Jade Seal of Chuanguo" is the seal handed down by the emperors of all dynasties in China. When Qin was established, it was engraved by the order of Qin Shihuang, as a token of "imperial power granted by the gods, orthodox and legal".Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have taken this seal as a sign, and enshrined it as a rare treasure, and it is an important weapon of the country.Getting it symbolizes that it is "destined by the sky", and losing it means that it is "exhausted".Those who ascended to great positions without this seal were ridiculed as "white emperors", and were despised by the world for their lack of confidence.As a result, those who wanted to seek great treasures fought over each other, resulting in the frequent change of owner of the imperial jade seal.At the end of Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan acquired the Chuanguo Yuxi.At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were driven into the desert by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the Chuanguo Yuxi disappeared.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the Chuanguo Yuxi never appeared, and it was rumored that it was brought to the desert by the Mongols.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a trace of the Chuanguo Yuxi, but it was considered a fake. Cao Yue's later generations before his time travel still did not see this treasure.According to unofficial records, when Houjin conquered Mongolia, the Mongolian queen mother gave up the jade seal of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to Houjin Dahan Huang Taiji for the lives of her people. It is said that this jade seal was dedicated to the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty in the Song Dynasty.

Cao Yue had seen this rumor, so he suddenly thought of the idea of ​​getting this treasure back, but he was not sure whether the Chuan Guo Yuxi was in the palace of the Qing Dynasty, and the request just now was just a test.

Hearing Cao Yue's words, both Zhezhe and Bumbutai were taken aback and looked at each other.Seeing the expressions of the two, Cao Yue was overjoyed, the rumors turned out to be true, and the Chuan Guo Yuxi was indeed in the Qing Palace.Immediately threatened: "This time, I will definitely bring back the Chuanguo Yuxi. If you don't hand it over, I will turn the palace upside down and search it out. No matter who you are, your life will be lost."

Hearing Cao Yue's threats, Zhe Zhe finally got up from the ground suddenly, went to the crowd behind, took a package from a maid, and presented it to Cao Yue. "General Cao, this is Chuan Guo Yuxi."

Cao Yue stepped forward to take the package, opened it, and saw that it was a square and exquisite seal, carved with several dragons, and engraved with several big characters in seal script on the front of the seal. After reading it, Cao Yue also recognized the words engraved on it. "Ordered by heaven, life will last forever" eight seal characters, which are recorded in the articles introducing the Jade Seal of Chuanguo in later generations, and it is easy to recognize it after knowing the content.Cao Yue was not worried that this was a counterfeit jade seal, which was treasured by the Manchus as a treasure, so there should be no fake ones.

"You guys are pretty smart!"

Of course, Cao Yue would not stop there. He ordered his servants to collect all the valuables in the palace. The light things that could be taken away were ready to be taken away, and the things that could not be taken away were planned to be hidden somewhere.

After the order was issued, the wolf-like servants took away all the valuables from the women who were about to flee. Those valuables in the palace that were not destroyed would be the purpose of their snatching tonight.Most of these things were looted by the Jurchens from the Han people, and Cao Yue just took them back.

Under the leadership of Cao Jie, Cao Neng, Cao San and other leaders of the family, most of the servants went to collect the treasures in the palace, leaving behind the guards of Queen Zhezhe, Bumbutai and others, who were Cao Yue's most trusted soldiers.

Cao Yue ordered the maids of the Manchu imperial concubines to be imprisoned elsewhere. The eunuchs in the palace had basically been killed, and Dai Shan was also imprisoned in another place and closely guarded.Cao Yue ordered Queen Zhezhe, Bumbutai, Namuzhong, and Hai Lanzhu, who seemed to be in poor health, to stay in Chongwen Palace.Several women "knew" what Cao Yue was going to do next, but they could only obey.

After Cao Yue whispered a few words to his own soldiers, he ordered these women to be driven to the inner hall.

After entering the inner hall, Cao Yue was rude and directly asked Zhe Zhe, "You must have sent someone to tell Huang Taiji the news of the attack on Shengjing, right? If my prediction is correct, in two days, you will treat him as The hero-worshiping husband, Huang Taiji, will personally lead the army to rescue Shengjing. However, when he returns to Beijing, he will only see ruins and the scene of his own woman being abused. I would have believed that your heroic husband will definitely He would vomit blood and die in anger."

Hearing Cao Yue's words, several women in the hall with different moods did not answer immediately, but just lowered their heads.Seeing this, Cao Yue, who was a little bored, got a little angry, and suddenly stepped forward and tore off Zhe Zhe's dress, directly exposing her plump body to the air.Zhezhe screamed, and subconsciously squatted down to cover up his leaked spring.Bumbutai also hurried forward, hugged Zhezhe, took off his shawl, and put it on for Zhezhe.

"What the general said is true." Cao Yue was very lenient to her son. Bumbutai didn't hate this Han man who was much more handsome than Huang Taiji, so she honestly replied: "The urgent report has been sent out in six hundred miles. The emperor can lead the army back to Beijing in a few days. In order to avoid trouble, the general still takes the property he took, and... the general should leave here quickly to avoid any losses. .”

"Well, I was going to leave before Huang Taiji led the army back," Cao Yue walked up to Bumbutai, raised her chin, looked at her carefully, and flirted with her in the same way to make her look even more seductive. The coquettish and a bit fragile Hai Lanzhu said, "Huang Taiji is really blessed. Not only did he marry your aunt, but he also brought your sisters into the house. It's so enviable, haha!"

"However, in two days, his life will be worse than death!" Cao Yue laughed even more wildly while speaking.

(End of this chapter)