Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 238 Yao Qisheng

The emperor thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head, "There is no need to do other legal affairs, a nobleman who died for a crime, let's handle the funeral affairs according to the promised position."

There is no place for a promise, the promises in this palace are like those in the Chuxiu Palace who have never seen the light of day. After death, they are nothing more than a roll of white cotton and two feet thin coffin.

Naturally, such a concubine cannot be buried in the concubine mausoleum after death.

Chen Wenxin asked suspiciously: "Didn't the Emperor be afraid that Yigui's ghost would linger before him? Why didn't he do something for peace of mind?"

"If I let someone do the ritual for Yigui, it will inevitably leave people with something to talk about, which will affect your reputation."

Yigui was busy doing things for her right after she died, wouldn't it make people suspect that Yigui died unjustly, and that's why the emperor was worried that her ghost would linger?

Mr. Yigui clearly deserved his death, so he couldn't let people have the opportunity to hold such talk.

Chen Wenxin was very moved for a moment, and the emperor was afraid that Yigui's ghost would come back.

In order to fulfill her reputation, she still gave up the practice.

She took the emperor's hand, and Li Dequan retreated wisely, leaving the two of them alone.

"Xuan Ye has been very busy recently, and your cheeks have lost a lot of weight."

She said: "I asked the small kitchen to make a nourishing stewed fish head with Chuanqiong Tianma. The soup is milky white and the fish head is very fragrant."

As the saying goes, shape complements shape, the emperor has spent a lot of brainpower recently, so she gave him a lot of brainpower.

The fish head is nothing more than a pig's brain and a monkey's brain.

She wanted the emperor to eat something she couldn't even eat herself.

When the emperor heard that it was just a fish head, he hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I will drink two more bowls in a while."

The two leaned on the couch, Chen Wenxin looked at the number of memorials piled up, and said with a smile: "There are less memorials today, is there any good news?"

The emperor sighed, "I disregarded the objections of Suo'etu, Tong Guowei and others, and transferred the Manba Banners navy back."

This opinion was put forward to Qingyuan and others very early, the emperor has been hesitant, why suddenly made up his mind now?
"The Manba Banners Navy is in the Fujian area. They can neither go to sea nor be familiar with land warfare. The [-] troops are almost useless. The governor of Fujian forwarded the report to the officials of the prefectures. The children of the Manba Banners have done a lot of bad things."

The emperor said with a frown: "I sent them to fight, but they did such evil things as insulting women and seizing houses. How can I tolerate them?"

In the end, it was not to convince the emperor to Qingyuan, but the Manchu Eight Banners navy was not only useless in the war, but would cause riots among the people, forcing the emperor to withdraw them.

Chen Wenxin was surprised and said: "Man Baqi Navy is the Emperor's soldiers, how could it be so lax in military discipline?"

"You don't know, among the Eight Banners, only the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang Banners are directly under my control. The rest are controlled by the emperor's relatives and high-ranking ministers."

"This is talking about the Eight Banners in Beijing. The navy has always been stationed along the Yellow River, but rarely in Beijing. They have the arrogance of the Eight Banners, but they don't have the awe of the Beijing Eight Banners."

The sky is high and the emperor is far away. These Manchu children are not under the supervision of the emperor, and they become more and more arrogant and lazy.

"It was only a few decades since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Where did the warriors who followed their ancestors in the Central Plains go?"

Although the emperor didn't want to admit it, he had to admit, "The treatment of the Green Camp and the Han Eight Banners is much worse than that of the Man Eight Banners, and their combat power and military discipline are more than a little better than those of the Man Eight Banners."

He had already seen the war in San Francisco earlier.

At that time, Wu Sangui had already conquered Hunan, and if he advanced further, he would have to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

He treated the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and sent out all the troops he could send out, and the green camp was the last to be sent.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, after the green battalion joined in, the Qing army gradually began to counterattack.

Only then did the imperial court notice that the green battalion formed by the miserable Han soldiers actually had such a strong combat power.

In the deserts, grasslands and Gobi in the north, perhaps the full Eight Banners army will be even more powerful.

But in the south, the waters are crisscrossed and the mountains are piled up.

Those places were originally where the Han people lived, and they were more familiar with the terrain and better able to adapt to the combat environment.

Since then, the emperor began to pay more attention to the green battalion and gave them better armaments and living supplies.

Later, Chen Wenyi and his brothers were transferred to the green camp. After that, Chen Wenyi made many meritorious deeds and became the actual leader of the green camp.

Until the first battle of Horqin, the strength of the green battalion became stronger and stronger, and the treatment was almost the same as that of the Manchu Banners.

Since the green battalion can make meritorious deeds, so can the Han Eight Banners.

The emperor transferred [-] troops from the Han Eight Banners to Fujian to fill the vacancy of the Eight Banners Navy.

Chen Wenxin said happily: "Since the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners have been transferred, if you want to recover Taiwan, it will be around the corner, right?"

In her previous life, as a person who loved the motherland, she had always longed to regain Taiwan.

Who would have thought that traveling to the Qing Dynasty would encounter this incident again.

She vaguely remembered that Taiwan had been recovered many times in history.

That is the treasure island of the motherland. Although there are always people who want to split it, it still returns to the embrace of the motherland time and time again.

Kangxi once recovered Taiwan. Although the descendants of Aixinjueluo were unfilial, they lost it later.

The emperor shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How can it be so easy? Taiwan is an island, and the common people rely on the sea to survive. The governor of Fujian actually wrote a letter to me, saying that the fishermen in Taiwan are better than the soldiers in our navy."

Chen Wenxin chuckled, but she couldn't hold it back.

"Who is this governor of Fujian who is so bold?"

"Yao Qisheng, a bad old man with crazy words. I should order someone to take him back to Beijing and beat him severely."

Yao Qisheng?
This is a famous minister of the Kangxi Dynasty!

Chen Wenxin's hands trembled, no less than her excitement when she saw Nalan Rongruo for the first time.

Yao Qisheng may not be as famous as Bi Suo'etu, Tong Guowei and Nalan Mingzhu, but his fame is different from these people.

Suo'etu and the others only relied on their family status or their in-law relationship with the emperor to serve as first-rank officials in the court.

In fact, they don't necessarily have any extraordinary talents.

Based on Suo'etu's words of abandoning Taiwan to protect the northern border, Chen Wenxin believed that this was a short-sighted idiot.

Yao Qisheng is different. He is a civil servant with a background in imperial examinations and has repeatedly made military exploits.

He won the first place in the Eight Banners Township Examination, and the emperor asked him to be the magistrate of a place in Guangdong.

When the San Francisco was in chaos, he once threw down the black hat of the magistrate, and took the soldiers from the county to join the army, and together they went to fight Geng Jingzhong.

Even let him win.

It can be seen that he is a talented person with informality and unique vision.

The most famous deed of Yao Qisheng in history is undoubtedly that he played a great role in Kangxi's recovery of Taiwan.

"You must not condemn Yao Qisheng!"

Chen Wen was anxious, and blurted out.

If the emperor was really angry with Yao Qisheng and brought him back to Beijing, Taiwan might not be able to regain it!

The emperor surprised her, "Why, Nian Nian has heard of this bad old man?"

Chen Wenxin was secretly regretting, she blurted out in a moment of impatience, how can she get back now?

With an idea, she shook her head lightly, and put her hands on her temples.

"Xuan Ye, I'm dizzy."

Why do you get dizzy all right?
The emperor held her face, "Just now you shouted to tell me not to condemn Yao Qisheng, you were very angry. Why are you dizzy now?"

Chen Wenxin smiled and said, "Nonsense, I don't care if you convict Yao Qisheng or not? Do I know who he is?"

The emperor suddenly fell silent.

He thought of a possibility. The old nuns in the former palace used to say that sometimes people would suddenly say things they didn't want to say.

After I finished speaking, I forgot, and I was a little dizzy.

Those words were not actually spoken by oneself, but by gods and Buddhas through human mouths.

The emperor looked towards the southwest corner of the hall, where a golden Buddha statue was enshrined high up there.

This is when the former emperors of the Qing Dynasty entered the main Qing Palace, the Buddha was specially enshrined here to protect the safety of the later Qing emperors.

Could it be that the Buddha said it through Chen Wenxin's mouth just now?

It is said that Yao Qisheng cannot be condemned if he goes there.

Could it be that Yao Qisheng is of great help in recovering Taiwan, so Gods and Buddhas bless him and remind him through Chen Wenxin's mouth?
The emperor said embarrassingly: "It's nothing, I just misheard in a trance."

Chen Wenxin doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, so it's better not to scare her by saying it.

Seeing what the emperor said, Chen Wenxin breathed a sigh of relief.

There are many stories about ghosts and ghosts in this palace. It is said that when the Manchus entered the pass and occupied the Forbidden City.

There are many concubines and princesses in the harem, all of whom committed suicide in the palace.

Therefore, as the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty to enter the Forbidden City, Huang Taiji's first major event when he entered the palace was to do the water and land dojo for seven to seven days.

Even so, there are still many stories about ghosts and gods in the palace.

Chen Wenxin came up with this method only after hearing the rumors about ghosts and gods speaking through people's mouths.

If someone told her this, she would definitely not believe it.

But when she told the emperor, the emperor would definitely believe it.

One is that the emperor trusts her, and the other is that the emperor believes in ghosts and gods.

She felt a little ashamed, and took advantage of the emperor's trust to deceive the emperor.

But this is a white lie. As long as the historical records are correct, this Yao Qisheng will definitely play a major role in the battle to recover Taiwan.

As long as it can help the emperor solve the serious trouble in Taiwan, what is this little lie?

Chen Wenxin took the emperor's hand and said with a smile: "However, this Yao Qisheng speaks so boldly and interestingly, so he is not a mediocre person. His words are rough but not rough. Fishermen rely on the sea for their livelihood. In naval battles, they should be better than soldiers who have never seen the sea. of."

"I think he is capable, otherwise he would have been punished long ago."

The emperor originally wanted to see if Yao Qisheng could do it, and if he couldn't do it, it wouldn't be too late to punish him.

Now that the gods and Buddhas in the temple have spoken, he can't move Yao Qisheng even more.

He wants to see if this bad old man has the ability to take Taiwan back.

(End of this chapter)