Chapter 80 (1) Desperate War

In Beijing, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and her son Xiao Shunzhi are holding a national economic work conference. Your Majesty, Er Niang will show you something.As the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang said, with a wave of her hand, a servant had already come up, holding up a tray with a few balls of white things on it, and there was still faint writing on it.Little Shunzhi stretched his neck to look at it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out: What is this thing? Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang said: This thing has a scary story. horror story?Xiao Shunzhi was overjoyed when he heard the words, I love hearing horror stories the most, tell me quickly...

Xiaozhuang Road: This story happened in Zhangzhou, Fujian.It was originally a place with rich products and simple folk customs, and the residents lived and worked in peace and contentment without competing with the world.But at the beginning of this year (the ninth year of Shunzhi), countless warships suddenly came from the sea and besieged the small Zhangzhou.So far, Zhangzhou has been besieged for seven months. The food in the city is exhausted, and the people are killing each other and eating each other.It was reported yesterday that the number of people in Zhangzhou City who starved to death has reached more than 700,000; that is to say, almost all the people in Zhangzhou City have starved to death...

Emperor Shunzhi: ... so pitiful. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Guess who is the thief who besieged Zhangzhou and starved to death 700,000 innocent people? Xiao Shunzhi: Left and right, but Zheng Chenggong did it again. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: That's right, my son is the son of the Japanese fisherman with big feet.You say a Japanese, if you don’t go back to your small Japanese island, what are you doing here? 700,000 people are starving to death, how can you bear it! Little Shunji: Oh... Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Your Majesty, what you are seeing in this tray is as follows: In this city of Zhangzhou, there is a scholar who has a generous temperament and is known as a chivalrous man.After the city was trapped, he took out all the surplus food in his family and distributed it to his neighbors.But as the days of being trapped in the city became longer and longer, the scholar finally couldn't bear it any longer, and he led his whole family to cry to death.After the death, the neighbors entered the house, stole the corpse, divided and ate it, only to find that the belly of the corpse was full of old paper, and the calligraphy and paintings on the paper could be discerned... Your Majesty, what you see now is A piece of paper taken from the belly of the scholar.

Hearing this, Xiao Shunzhi jumped up against the case: This Zheng Chenggong is making too much noise, pass the decree! Xiao Zhuang leaned back in relief, the waiter served tea, and watched his son instructing the ministers to draw up an order. Just listen to Xiao Shunzhi's deep voice: "By God, the emperor's edict said: Since entering the palace, Empress Borzigit has always been incompetent and extremely jealous. Now she is deposed as a commoner. I respect you!"thank you. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang panicked: Son, what are you doing?I'm talking about Zheng Chenggong, why did you mention the queen...

Xiao Shunzhi: For me, the matter of abolishing the empress is more important than solving the siege of Zhangzhou.No matter how miserable the people in the city of Zhangzhou are, they may not be as miserable as me. I have suffered a lot... Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Aren't you little couples fine, why are you suffering again... Xiao Shunzhi: I don't believe you don't know, the queen... In short, I must destroy this queen. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: I will never allow it. Xiao Shunzhi: Are you really not going to allow it? Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Seriously. Xiao Shunzhi: Well, let Zheng Chenggong surround Zhangzhou...

Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Your Majesty, please respect yourself. Xiao Junzhi: It's useless to say anything.If you don't promise me to abolish the queen today, I don't care about Zhangzhou's affairs. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: ...that's fine, the queen is your sister after all, if you depose her as a commoner, what face will she have in the future?Why don't we just let her stay in the palace and demote her to... Well, let's demote her to Concubine Jing, right? Xiao Shunzhi: That's about the same. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: Alright, son, everything is up to you, so hurry up and issue an order to quickly break the siege of Zhangzhou.