Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 324 Borrowing a Knife to Kill People, Second Qi Dorgon

Capital City, Prince Yu's Mansion.

Duduo's body was placed in a coffin made of nanmu wood, cigarettes curled up in the lobby, lamas chanted scriptures, the sound of copper qin was solemn and sad, and the family members of Prince Yu's Mansion wept loudly.

It's another New Year's Eve, but this year is especially lonely and desolate. There is no sound of firecrackers in the city, and there is no sign of New Year's celebration.

After Duoduo's death, Dorgon ordered a generous burial, and the people were not allowed to have any entertainment activities within three months.It's the Chinese New Year, and festive red couplets should have been posted on the doors of every house, but now they are all hung with white cloth.

Dorgon went to the mourning hall to burn incense, shed a few lines of tears, and came to Duo Duo's study to watch the night.After tonight, the two brothers will be separated forever, and Dorgon feels that he has become the loneliest person in the world.

"Regent, please see the shaman." A guard reported outside the house.

Dorgon held back the tears in his eyes, calmed down and said, "Please!"

The shaman walked into the room, bowed, and said in his unique and vicissitudes of voice: "Regent, I have found out the cause of Prince Yu's death. He died of being poisoned by the Miaojiang Gu poison."

"Gu poison?" Dorgon frowned.

"The world is so big that people in different places have different customs and beliefs. Legend has it that the people in Miao territory are descendants of Chi You, believe in witch gods, and are good at using poison. I read a lot of books and finally figured out that the circumstances of Prince Yu's death are indeed consistent. Signs of bewitching."

Dorgon was even more confused: "But Prince Yu has never been to Miaojiang, so how could he be caught by a gu?"

The shaman said: "Prince Regent, have you forgotten that Chongzhen once went to the Yunnan-Guizhou region to quell the rebellion?"

"You mean there are witches and Gu masters around Chongzhen?" Dorgon suddenly stood up and shouted, "It makes sense, it turned out that Chongzhen used despicable means to assassinate Prince Yu... Chongzhen, you betrayed your trust, you are despicable and shameless , you must die!"

Dorgon yelled endlessly, his face pale with anger, and he trembled all over.

The shaman watched quietly, and after a while he said: "Prince Regent, you have been weak since you were a child and are not easily angry."

"Can I not get angry?" Dorgon said, gasping for breath, "Jinan City was lost, Shang Kexi died, and my closest brother also died in Jiuquan. All this is thanks to Chongzhen. This king and Chongzhen cannot live together!"

The shaman said calmly: "People cannot be resurrected after death. Please mourn the Regent! I would like to ask, how is Dong'e Gege's eyes?"

Dorgon said angrily, "Where does this king have the time to pay attention to Dong'e's eyes?"

"Regent, I'm leaving." The shaman walked to the door and turned back, "I was looking through the secret books handed down from ancient times, and I came across a method by chance, which might be able to keep Dong'e Gege's double pupils, but it's very dangerous..."

"This king knows!" Dorgon impatiently waved the shaman away.

The shaman sighed, and the old figure melted into the night like a ghost.

……

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it snowed heavily.The Empress Dowager and Emperor Shunzhi came to Prince Yu's Mansion to express their condolences, accompanied by Dorgon, and all the nobles of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in Beijing also came.

The Empress Dowager burned incense and cried: "Prince Yu has made great contributions to our Qing Dynasty. I don't want to die young. The heavens are merciless! Your Majesty, Prince Yu is a hero and a hero of the Qing Dynasty. The court wants to treat his descendants generously. "

Shunzhi said lightly: "I know."

Dorgon looked sideways at Emperor Shunzhi and was about to speak when someone suddenly came to report: "Governor of Shandong Zhang Ruxiu asked to see him. He said he had brought a personal letter from Chongzhen."

"He still has the face to go to Beijing!" Dorgon scolded, nodding his head and motioning to bring Zhang Ruxiu into the mansion.

Zhang Ruxiu tremblingly came to the mourning hall. Seeing the empress dowager and the emperor were also there, he was even more arrogant and dared not show it. He held his breath and knelt down, kowtowing his head continuously.

"Zhang Ruxiu, you have abandoned the city and the land, and you can't protect Prince Yu well, so what face do you have to live?" Dorgon asked sharply.

Zhang Ruxiu hurriedly took out Chongzhen's imperial letter, held it high above his head and said, "Chongzhen wrote a letter, and asked the minister to personally deliver it to the Regent. Please have the Regent read it."

The guards took the letter and checked it, seeing that there was no danger, they handed it to Dorgon.

"Chongzhen likes to do this kind of tricks, so he wrote another letter to the king. Let's see what he says." Dorgon recalled that he had also received a letter from Chongzhen during the Battle of Jining.

When I opened the letter, I saw eloquently written on the paper:
"Dorgon, I haven't seen you for a few years, but your health is better? Don't get me wrong, I am not concerned about your health, but I am worried that you will die of illness before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, hahaha!"

"Have you found out the cause of Duduo's death? Let me tell you, Duduo was poisoned and died. How about it? Are my methods of killing people endless? You neither rescued Duduo nor defended Jinan City. There is a saying What do you mean, by the way, you lose your wife and you lose your troops."

"Fan Wencheng was killed by an assassin sent by me, and Duo Duo also died. Do you feel like a lonely family? Dorgon, you have lost your right and left arm, can you still fight with me? Just guess, and I will accept it." What will you do when you come down? You probably won’t be able to guess, but I’ll tell you clearly, next I’m going to turn you into a complete loner!”

"In just a few years, the situation in the world has undergone earth-shaking changes. In the past, I was overwhelmed and exhausted to deal with it. Now, the Manchu Qing is like a house with leaks everywhere. You, Dorgon, can barely support it by tinkering, but it has reached the point where the left and right are clumsy. The situation is stretched. Give up, you can't save Manqing!"

"When the letter was delivered to you, I was probably celebrating the Spring Festival, and you were probably arranging for Dodo's funeral. Oh, comparing the two, how proud I am, and how miserable you are! Haha, how happy I am, My happiness is based on the pain of you Tartars!"

"By the way, Zhang Ruxiu delivered the letter for me. It was very hard. You have to treat him kindly. Bye, I'm going to drink."

Dorgon's hands trembled, and his eyes spewed fire.

It's too bullying, Chongzhen, is there anyone like you who makes trouble like this?Have you ever sprinkled salt in a wound like this?
Zhang Ruxiu said: "I request to resign from the post of governor of Shandong!"

"What did you say?" Dorgon looked at Zhang Ruxiu murderously.

"The minister lost the city and abandoned the land, stood faceless on the temple, and asked to resign from the post of governor of Shandong and return to the mountains and forests."

It was good that Zhang Ruxiu didn't speak at this time, but once he spoke, Dorgon became suspicious immediately.

Dorgon read the last paragraph of Chongzhen's letter again, and suddenly became furious: "I understand, you have already surrendered to the enemy and betrayed me, the Qing Dynasty, right?"

"No...no, I didn't betray Qing Dynasty..."

"But why did Chongzhen say good things for you in the letter?" Dorgon's blood surged up, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared like a beast, "Come on, chop off Zhang Ruxiu's head immediately!"

"The Regent, please spare me, Queen Mother, Your Majesty, save my life, I really didn't join the enemy!" Zhang Ruxiu cried out.

No one paid any attention to him, and several imperial guards grabbed his hands and dragged him out to behead him.

Zhang Ruxiu smashed the pot and said: "Sure enough, the Manchus don't take the Han people seriously. I've been a cow and a horse for you all these years, but I ended up like this. If I had known this, I shouldn't have worked for you in the first place!"

How did Zhang Ruxiu know that this was Chongzhen's plan to kill people with a knife.Chongzhen knew that Dorgon was suspicious, and deliberately praised Zhang Ruxiu in the letter, in order to induce Dorgon to kill him.

For Li Cunming, if there is an opportunity to kill a traitor, he will never let it go!
Poor Zhang Ruxiu, before he died, he still hoped to return to the mountains and forests, and even felt grateful to Chongzhen, but instead blamed his death on the ruthlessness of the Tartars.

Are traitors eligible to retreat into the mountains and forests?
Not long after, Dorgon realized and shouted: "Wait a minute..."

As soon as the words came out, the imperial guards came back holding Zhang Ruxiu's head.Dorgon yelled "Wow!", spat out blood, fell to the ground, and rolled down the steps into the courtyard.

The people present were frightened and hurriedly helped Dorgon.The Empress Dowager was shocked and shouted to the imperial doctor. Emperor Shunzhi looked indifferent and watched the excitement with his lips pursed.

Before the imperial doctor arrived, Dorgon woke up on his own. He pushed away the people around him, stood up unsteadily, and stood in the wind and snow.

People suddenly discovered that the regent seemed to have aged several decades, with a stooped body and slack eyesight.The heavy snow was flying all over the sky, and Dorgon looked so helpless and lonely.

"Go, hold an umbrella for your imperial father!" the Empress Dowager said to Shunzhi.

Shunzhi was somewhat reluctant, and the Empress Dowager said very seriously: "What are you doing in a daze? The Regent has sheltered our Qing Dynasty from the wind and rain for so many years, and now it's up to you to shield him from the wind and snow!"

The Empress Dowager's tone frightened Shunzhi, Shunzhi picked up an umbrella, went down the steps, stood next to Dorgon with the umbrella, and said softly: "Father, I will protect you from the wind and snow."

Dorgon raised his eyes numbly, stared at Shunzhi for a while, and then turned his gaze to the oil-paper umbrella.He suddenly remembered the analogy Chongzhen wrote in his letter. The Qing Dynasty became a house with air leaks everywhere. Can only an umbrella keep out the wind and rain?
"Throw away the umbrella!" Dorgon said.

"What?" Shunzhi asked in surprise.

"I said, throw away the umbrella!" Dorgon roared, grabbed the umbrella and threw it on the ground.

"Your Majesty, my Qing Dynasty rose up in a place of bitter cold, and I am not afraid of wind and snow. No matter it is thunderstorm, no matter it is blizzard and cold wave, all people can stand up and survive. It has been like this before, and it will be like this in the future!"

"Your majesty is still young, it's not the time for you to endure the blizzard. The person who can hold up a piece of sky for my Qing Dynasty is this king, and I, Dorgon, the son of Emperor Taizu, the brother of Emperor Taizong, today The emperor's uncle, I, Dorgon, has the blood of Aixinjueluo flowing in my body, and Chongzhen cannot defeat him!"

Shunzhi frowned, a cold look flashed in his eyes.

The empress dowager came over, tightly grasping Shunzhi's arm, and said, "Fulin, remember what your emperor said, and remember his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty."

Shunzhi gritted his teeth, and said: "I remember, the emperor's father and the regent are right, and I will always listen to the emperor's father and the regent."

(End of this chapter)