Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God
Chapter 381 9 Difficult Worship
Nun Jiunan was very familiar with the terrain of the imperial palace. She easily avoided the patrolling palace guards without attracting anyone's attention.
She walked briskly across the roof of the palace and finally arrived at Coal Hill.
There is an old crooked tree here, which once witnessed the tragic fate of Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Next to the crooked tree, there is a small ancestral hall with the words "Chongzhen" clearly written on the plaque on the door.
The spirit tablet of Emperor Chongzhen is enshrined in the ancestral hall. The offering table below the tablet is filled with various offerings, and an eternal lamp is burning quietly.
Nun Jiunan stood quietly in front of the spirit tablet, her eyes revealing endless sadness and longing.
She stared at the spirit tablet silently, as if she could see the past through it.
My thoughts gradually drifted away, recalling my life experience and the national hatred and family feuds I had experienced in the past.
She recalled that turbulent era, and the scenes of her country being invaded by foreign enemies and the people suffering.
An unspeakable sorrow welled up in her heart and tears blurred her eyes.
She had three enemies, the first of which was the rebel leader - Li Zicheng.
During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, officials were corrupt, disasters occurred one after another, the people lived in misery, and the Ming Dynasty was on the brink of collapse.
Rebellious people and rebels emerged in various places, and the biggest rebel was Li Zicheng, who led the peasant uprising army to establish the Dashun Kingdom and captured Beijing on March 1644, 3.
However, her father, Emperor Chongzhen, adhered to the ancestral precept of "the emperor guarding the national gate" and eventually ended his life on the crooked tree on Coal Hill, realizing the eternal masterpiece of "the king dies for the country".
The second enemy was the Khan's traitor, Wu Sangui, who was a true "three-time traitor" who knelt down and surrendered to the Ming, Shun, and Qing dynasties, and then betrayed them again.
When Li Zicheng attacked the capital, her father urgently dispatched Wu Sangui and his 100,000 Guanning cavalry to Beijing for rescue.
However, after Wu Sangui led his troops to the outskirts of the capital, he colluded with Li Zicheng, stood still and did nothing.
After the fall of the capital, he wanted to join forces with Li Zicheng and share the Ming Dynasty.
However, Li Zicheng was amazed by Chen Yuanyuan's beauty. Li Zicheng, who was already lustful by nature, forgot his loyalty for the beauty and took possession of Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan.
In a rage for his beloved, Wu Sangui brought 100,000 troops from the outskirts of Beijing back to Guanning and sent a letter to the Manchu Tartars that was half a request for rescue and half a request for surrender.
Thus, the army with Wu Sangui as the vanguard and the Manchu Tartars as the backing immediately swept across the land of China. In less than three years, they overthrew the Ming Dynasty and captured the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming alive.
In every dynasty, when "weapons are put into storage and horses are released into the mountains", it is also the time when "the cunning rabbit dies and the running dogs are cooked, the birds are all gone and the good bows are hidden, and the enemy country is defeated and the counselors die".
Wu Sangui was no exception at this time. Although he had made great contributions in leading the Qing troops into the pass, he was a Han Chinese after all and had only surrendered to the Manchus. In the eyes of the Manchus, he was just a higher-level slave.
Although Kangxi was young, he had great courage and determination. He knew that there could be no compromise in the safety of the country, so he would never tolerate any forces that threatened the rule of the court.
Wu Sangui originally only wanted to be the king of Yunnan and live a carefree life as a "local emperor", but Kangxi did not allow this to happen and resolutely revoked Wu Sangui's title.
Wu Sangui could not bear the deprivation of his power, and in anger he once again rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.
He raised the banner of anti-Qing and restoration of Han, attempted to restore the ruling status of the Han people, and established the Great Zhou Kingdom.
However, although Wu Sangui's army was unstoppable at the beginning and even occupied most of Southwest and South China, he eventually lost the support of the people because of his notoriety as a big traitor.
In less than five years, Wu Sangui's rebellion was suppressed by the Qing government, leaving only a few remnants fleeing everywhere.
Nun Jiunan’s third enemy was the Qing emperor. She was deeply resentful of the Manchus for occupying the Ming dynasty.
Many years have passed, and among these three enemies, only Wu Sangui has died, while the other two are still alive.
However, the person that Master Jiunan hated the most was Wu Sangui.
Just as the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty was captured by Wu Sangui in Burma, he questioned Wu Sangui before his death: "Aren't you a Han Chinese? Aren't you a minister of the Ming Dynasty? Why are you willing to be a traitor and betray your country? Ask yourself, where is your conscience?"
These words made Master Jiunan's hatred for Wu Sangui even deeper. She had vowed to make this culprit suffer untold pain.
As a master of his generation, Jiunan, with his profound martial arts skills, would find it easy to assassinate Wu Sangui.
But it was precisely because of such deep hatred in her heart that she chose to snatch A Ke away and train her to be an assassin to deal with Wu Sangui.
However, she didn't know at that time that she had made a huge mistake - A Ke was not the daughter of Wu Sangui, but the daughter of Li Zicheng and Chen Yuanyuan.
Last time at Prince Wu's Palace, Jiunan met two enemies, Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, at the same time, but unfortunately was surrounded by the musketeers of Prince Wu's Palace.
Despite her great martial arts skills, she ultimately failed to kill the two enemies.
At the critical moment, Xiaobao showed his wit and courage and successfully helped Jiunan escape danger.
Time flies, and six years have passed in the blink of an eye. After being injured, Jiunan has been living on Cuihua Peak in Zhongnan Mountain, away from the troubles of the world. However, she has not forgotten her mission - to find and assassinate her enemies.
Finally one day, her apprentice Gan Fengchi came back and told her that Wu Sangui had died of illness! Jiunan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Although she couldn't kill this enemy herself, she knew that he had received the punishment he deserved. As time went by, the strong fire of revenge in her heart gradually extinguished.
Jiunan no longer harbored too much hatred towards Li Zicheng, the former traitor. Perhaps because of A Ke and Xiao Bao, she began to slowly let go of the grudges and hatreds with Li Zicheng.
As for the Qing emperor, since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the people have never suffered from war in the past forty years.
Although they still cannot live a life of plenty, the situation is much better now compared to the tragic situation of starvation in the late Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Jiunan's hatred towards the Qing emperor gradually faded.
Jiunan stood quietly in front of her father's spirit, staring at the name on the tablet, her eyes full of longing and emotion.
She noticed some incense on the altar, so she gently took out three sticks of incense, walked to the eternal lamp and lit them. Then, she carefully inserted the incense into the incense burner, and the smoke rose up and filled the air.
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