Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Two Kinds of Years
The new year is coming soon. Amidst the sparkling firecrackers and the joyful sound of gongs and drums, the fifth year of Destiny and the forty-eighth year of Wanli kick off at the same time.
On New Year's Day, Nurhachi specially held a grand celebration. First, he set up a tall wooden platform on the outskirts of Hetuala. The invincible Eight Banners Iron Cavalry once again shocked the world with its majestic military appearance and distinctive banner——
However, Emperor Wanli gave up such an opportunity to stand between heaven and earth with his subjects, to show his ambitions together, to pray together, and to celebrate together—just like the twenty-year-long evil example, he ordered "exemption from court" ".
The "New Year's Day Congratulatory Ceremony" is complicated and lengthy, and he has hated it many years ago. No matter how much it can highlight the emperor's honor and glory, he is unwilling to endure it anymore; especially in this year, he really It was because of lack of physical strength that he was unable to attend the grand ceremony in person and accepted the congratulations.
On New Year's Day, he woke up at the third quarter of the hour, opened his eyes and blinked, took a few breaths slowly, and then let out a "hmm" slowly.
The little eunuchs who were waiting for him immediately rushed up to serve him, but he didn't intend to get up at all. After letting the eunuchs feed him a few silver spoons of ginseng soup, he fell asleep again with his eyes closed.
It was almost noon when I woke up again, and my spirits were not too bad, but I still didn't want to get up; when my mind turned to "Today is the first day of the new year", I just called the eunuch to ask questions.
The eunuchs reported to him: "Early in the morning, Fangge's veteran led all the civil and military officials to celebrate outside the Meridian Gate, and knocked on the Long Live Lord Sheng'an from a distance.
He only uttered a simple "oh" sound, which means that his merits and virtues have been completed.
The eunuchs said again: "The prince once led the grandson of the emperor to salute outside the Qianqing Palace, and kowtow to the Lord Long Live!"
He still only responded with an "oh".
But, next, the eunuchs said to him: "The Empress sent someone to complain, saying that she should have personally led the concubines of the sixth palace to salute, but she has been ill since the beginning of winter, and has not recovered yet, so she can't get up... ..."
Hearing this incident, he didn't even have an "oh" reaction. After turning his eyes a few times, his eyes fixed on the top of the brocade tent, and there was no expression on his face.
The eunuchs still have something to add: "Madam Zheng..."
Unexpectedly, after these three words were uttered, it was discovered that Emperor Wanli had already closed his eyes and fell asleep in a trance.
Of course the eunuchs just kept their mouths shut.
It was not until two days later that Emperor Wanli ordered people: "Send someone to Kunning Palace to talk about it, please take care of the queen..."
It has been at least ten years since I saw him, his empress in the palace, his wife who made hair; his order could not be lowered, and his tone was even more flat, as if he was eager to cover up all the complexity, and instead became unnatural ; and it seems that he has to put on a show, so as not to be regarded as unfeeling; but it is more like an extra trace of apology, which is used to convey the past; Nobody knows.
However, no matter what he was thinking in his heart, it didn't matter - in April, Queen Wang and Queen had passed away, and any words had no meaning to her.
She will be buried in Dingling, this is the final outcome - she hasn't seen her for ten years before she was alive, but after her death she shares the same cave because of her status.
Even this incident triggered another thought in him: "There is another person who will be buried in Dingling..."
He couldn't help murmuring, and trembled slightly.
The person I thought of was Crown Prince Chang Luo's biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong——
"After I die, Chang Luo will succeed to the throne, and he must respect his biological mother as the 'Empress Dowager', and he can be buried in Dingling with me according to the rules..."
These two women surnamed Wang will have the same appearance as him after death, and they will last forever even after they are turned into dry bones, and they will not change for thousands of years.
"When we are alive, we live together in the palace, and we can avoid seeing each other, but after we die, we have to be in the same room, and we can't even miss it, and we can't change people..."
The furnishings of the underground palace in Dingling slowly appeared in front of his eyes. What he saw was a huge, luxurious and exquisite house with three coffins parked in it. love woman!
His heart twitched slightly, and many memories came back to his heart. He remembered that when Dingling was first built that year, he brought Concubine Zheng to inspect it in person, and many exquisite furnishings came from Concubine Zheng idea of -
He almost said: "Concubine Xuanzheng..."
At this time, Concubine Zheng seemed to lose her soul in an instant, sitting upright like a zombie, with no expression on her face, not even the slightest sign of blinking her eyes—like A spell flew from the sky, and it stunned her.
The palace maid who reported the news to her was terrified by her reaction. She stared at her in fear for a long time, with her heart hanging, mustered up her courage, and called her in a low voice: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."
However, she didn't respond at all.
The palace lady was so anxious that she almost burst into tears, but she was afraid of frightening her, so she held back and continued to call her; but she still didn't respond, so she stretched out her hand and shook her arm gently, yelling: "Ma'am , what's wrong with you?"
As she spoke, her hands unknowingly increased their strength, shaking harder and harder, and finally pinched her shoulders vigorously, pinching out bruises; in this way, the soul of Concubine Zheng Gui was finally called back .
But when she regained her senses, Zheng Guifei seemed to let out a "ha" laugh and a "wow" cry at the same time, and screamed out of control.
However, her voice was not easy for ordinary people to distinguish, and she felt as if it was going to pierce people's eardrums, so the maid panicked and screamed subconsciously; in an instant, the entire Chengqian Palace The maids and eunuchs in the palace heard it and rushed over together.
Concubine Zheng had already stood up from the chair and began to turn in a circle, her sleeves and skirt were all twirling, twisted into a ball, but her face was raised high, as if she was about to fly away in the wind, and said The screams kept coming, and it was vaguely discernible that it was laughter, but tears welled up in his eyes, and his whole face was soaked in a short time.
The eunuchs and maids who came up were all horrified, and secretly thought wildly in their hearts: "Your Majesty, have you lost your mind and gone crazy?"
However, before these thoughts were finished, Concubine Zheng's feet were already alive, and after a few circles, she actually floated out of the palace gate like a flying dance.
The court lady who caught a glimpse of it first screamed: "My Lady, where are you going?"
However, Concubine Zheng turned a deaf ear, her whole body was like a moth wanting to jump towards the flames.
She cried and laughed, took a step, and didn't care about anything——
The eunuchs and maids behind her screamed in horror from time to time, and rushed to stop her; one eunuch braved up to help her, and coaxed her, saying, "Your Majesty, it's windy outside, so you can't go out..."
How did you know that Concubine Zheng not only couldn't hear anything, but also seemed to have her full potential stimulated, her strength became so great that she broke free from his support and ran out without a trace go.
However, because of this force, the Three Inch Golden Lotus lost her center of gravity and staggered with every move.
The eunuch who followed immediately saw that the opportunity was not lost, and immediately reached out and hugged her from behind, and a few people came up to hold her arms from the left and right sides, and together they helped her back half-embraced and half-dragged , let her lie down on the couch.
Everyone was still afraid that she would get up and run away again, so two people were separated to guard her; the rest gathered in a small circle, discussing in low voices: "Let's send the imperial doctor to take a look..."
However, a few people who were a little bit familiar with Concubine Zheng's mind also euphemistically expressed their opinions: "Heart disease needs heart medicine to heal!"
So, do both:
On the one hand, he summoned the imperial physician to come for a consultation, and on the other hand, he sent someone to invite Zheng Guotai to come.
"My uncle knows my mother's heart best, and I will be able to talk to her to make her better..."
When Zheng Guotai walked into Chengqian Palace, Concubine Zheng Gui had already taken the tranquilizing medicine prescribed by the imperial physician, and her mental state was a little more stable, but she still looked very embarrassed.
She was soaked in sweat, and her crumpled clothes had never been changed, and she shrank together with her curled body, making her look even more sloppy; the hairpin rings on her head were all gone, and her temple hair was messy and tangled like a pile of tangles. All the rouge and pollen were gone, a pair of red eyes protruding from a swollen yellow face, gray lips, and many blue veins on his forehead.
Zheng Guotai took a deep breath when he saw it, and secretly thought: "My noble and charming sister, why does she look like a beggar woman?"
However, since he had learned the simple story of the matter from the eunuch who went to find him to enter the palace, he had already made up his mind. Although Zheng Guifei's appearance was beyond his expectation, it would not make him confused and helpless ——He quietly took a deep breath, stroked his beard, walked forward, smiled and said to Zheng Guifei: "Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!"
Concubine Zheng Gui turned her eyes and looked at him blankly, her lips moved, but she didn't say a word.
Zheng Guotai bent down, leaned next to her ear, and added softly: "My sister has been waiting for decades, and she has come before her. Just reach out and pinch her!"
When one sentence came to the point of making Concubine Zheng cry and laugh, her hands trembled involuntarily.
Zheng Guotai added another sentence as if chasing after the victory: "My good sister, my brother has already sent someone to buy it, take the best gold, the best jewelry, and make a phoenix crown for my sister, as well as various silks and satins. Making new clothes—make sure that the day my sister receives the registration is so beautiful that the world will be overshadowed!"
Concubine Zheng's eyes were able to turn, and after a while, she finally squeezed out a voice from her throat, "I'm really waiting for this day..."
As he spoke, he began to cry again: "Why have I waited for decades - waiting for people to grow old!"
And even though she was still crying and laughing like crazy, she finally spoke, which also showed that she still had clear thinking, and a stone in the hearts of Zheng Guotai and the eunuchs and maids of Chengqian Palace finally fell to the ground .
Zheng Guotai simply persuaded him all the way without interruption: "Sister, you are not old at all—listen to my younger brother's persuasion, cheer up, change your clothes, wash your face—it will take another thirty years to keep you The stunning appearance before! After a while, let them serve a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed porridge. After eating, they will feel better. Go to the Qianqing Palace to see the Long Live Lord, and talk to him nicely about the day of a new queen—— All these years, I have waited in vain, I have already waited, and of course I have to dress up as a fairy to bring back the queen's seal..."
As expected, Concubine Zheng told him that her heart was loosened, her emotions were relieved, and she was able to sit up from the couch by herself, and she was willing to listen to his persuasion, and took a few mouthfuls of porridge——
Sitting curtly back in front of the mirror, the maids rushed up and wiped their faces with hot towels, adjusted their rouge, and combed their long hair—the lengthy grooming procedure began, as if time had gone back a long time.
She has been too lazy to spend one or two hours making delicate makeup like this for many years. It is because she does not see the face of the king anyway, so where is the interest in dressing up and embellishing?This time, just to follow Zheng Guotai's persuasion, go to Qianqing Palace!
The emotions gradually calmed down, and the eyes focused on the self in the mirror, and the more he looked, the more he focused, the more he seemed to want to find himself many years ago-however, the more he looked, the more sighs rose from his heart .
After all, she was getting old - she found that she was already fat and out of shape, her cheeks were slightly swollen, her chin was slack, there were still faint wrinkles around her eyes, and her hair color was not as shiny as before!
If you don't spend much time on your appearance for several years, you will immediately look old.
The self in the mirror is an old woman over half a hundred years old—she couldn't help but sighed, and counted her fingers carefully: "The forty-eight years of Wanli..."
What a special year this is!What an extraordinary year it has been for her!
She couldn't help recalling the days more than 30 years ago, when she first entered the palace, first received grace, and then spent the years in the dream of being favored and thinking about the queen's throne—how could she have expected that this "" "Wait", it took more than 30 years!
The queen and queen have been sick for a long time, and being in the middle palace is actually no different from spending more than thirty years in the cold palace. What joy is there in life?One more day of living and one more day of deserted torment, but it also hurt her!
The joyful days of dominating the harem long ago, the children who were regarded as darlings also left the palace when they grew up, and the things that they tried their best and tried their best to plot have never been successful-until the forty-eight years of Wanli, things finally happened. The peaks and turns turn, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she was filled with emotion: "Could it be that God tricked people?"
His emotions were no longer as turbulent as when he first heard the news of the Queen's death, but the thoughts that calmed down were more complicated.
"What's the point of being a queen now?"
What rose in her heart was a kind of desolation with no interest, youth has passed away, Emperor Wanli is no longer worthy of love, her own son has left the capital to serve as a vassal, will never come back to her side, and has no chance to be emperor; What can this queen's throne, which has been fought so hard and failed, come automatically now, bring her?
She couldn't help telling her thoughts to her only brother who she could trust: "Even if I become a queen, it is impossible to change the crown prince - Chang Luo's succession to the throne is an irreversible fact. It's not Chang Xun's turn to sit! Chang Luo already has a son, and the imperial line is always that one!"
She bravely faced the facts: "If I didn't grab it at the time, I was doomed to lose!"
As she said that, she simply took a breath of air: "Now, I'm afraid it will be superfluous even to go to the Qianqing Palace!"
Halfway through her make-up, she suddenly retreated, looked up at Zheng Guotai faintly, and said to him: "I see, don't go! By this time, there is no difference between the empress and the imperial concubine!"
Who knows, this time, Zheng Guotai's thoughts are quite different from hers - what Zheng Guotai showed was the only foresight in his life - he turned to the eunuchs and maids who had done half of the make-up for Concubine Zheng, There were only two siblings left, so he said to Concubine Zheng: "Sister, don't just look at the surface of everything, just think about it!"
Then, he analyzed the situation in detail: "Based on the current situation of Lord Long Live, there is indeed no difference between being an empress and an imperial concubine; but, what about in the future? Being an empress dowager and an empress dowager are quite different! Especially in the Life in Chang Luo's world——Sister, please think, after Chang Luo becomes emperor, will he forget the past hardships? If he takes revenge on his sister, how will he live? With the title of empress dowager, he Let’s make room for it! At any rate, I can move into the Palace of Compassion and Ning to spend my life. If I’m just a concubine, I’ll go to the Leng Palace——Sister, please think about it, Chang Luo’s own mother, life is very How did it end?"
Sure enough, what she said made Concubine Zheng's whole body wet with sweat, she was dumbfounded, and it took her a while to come back to her senses.
The reality was pressing, and she no longer dared to get emotional.
So, the eunuchs and maids were called in again, and continued to dress her up, preparing to go to the Qianqing Palace.
She did it unannounced—of course for good reasons: "Saint Ann, Long Live!"
Moreover, she has used the trick of getting into the Qianqing Palace for more than 30 years, and it is invincible-prepare a lot of money, and the eunuchs and maids will each have a share, and no one will stop her from going directly to the Dragon Palace of Emperor Wanli. Before the bed.
She combed her hair in a gorgeous "Danfeng Chaoyang" bun, inserted gold hairpins and pearls, and wore a brand new rose-colored blouse and pleated skirt with beads, struggling more and more like a rose that is unwilling to reconcile before it gets old and withers. Showing the last beauty; and in order to cover up the ruthlessness of the years, she specially applied double rouge and face powder, and the fragrance on her body became even more intoxicating, as if she was dying before dying.
However, these efforts were completely wasted, and did not have the slightest effect on Emperor Wanli.
Emperor Wanli's originally obese body had been thinned to half, and he lay straight on the dragon bed, motionless. Even though she was intoxicated by the fragrance all over her body, she waited in front of the dragon bed for several hours, but she still fell asleep deeply. He didn't open his eyes, didn't smell her fragrance, until she couldn't wait to leave, he was still falling asleep.
On the second day and the third day - Concubine Zheng walked to Qianqing Palace almost every day under Zheng Guotai's patient persuasion and analysis of gains and losses, Xiao Yiyi's righteousness, waiting for Emperor Wanli to wake up and issue the will to make her a queen; Day by day, Emperor Wanli didn't wake up at all, let alone speak out the official words.
She spent every day waiting in vain, and watched Emperor Wanli's body lose weight day by day, and her life became weaker day by day.
He fell asleep every day, relying on the eunuchs to feed ginseng soup several times a day to maintain his life, so that his heartbeat and breathing continued day by day.
Two months later, she completely gave up hope and began to discuss other ways to protect herself with Zheng Guotai.
Time quickly entered the hot July, and Emperor Wanli's life only lasted until July 21, the forty-eighth year of Wanli.
However, the Houjin Kingdom, which used the "Five Years of Destiny", certainly did not have the slightest bit of the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty's national mourning. The overall atmosphere of prosperity and prosperity still continued to promote the advancement of the times.
While Nurhachi paid close attention to Xiong Tingbi's Liaodong policy, he communicated with Lin Danhan of Mongolia. Later, Fei Yingdong, who contributed a lot to Jin Jianguo, died of illness. He was so sad that he went to pay his respects in person, crying bitterly, and did not return until midnight.
Then, he chose to use troops against Shenyang tentatively in August.
Before he set off, he also got the news of the Ming Dynasty mourning, but the original plan had already started, and after thinking for a while, he decided not to change or expand the scale of the war; thus, he still only sent a small number of troops to capture Yilu , Puhe two cities——
After the war, he said to his subordinates: "After the troops are withdrawn and set up camp, don't be careless or negligent; Xiong Tingbi is not mediocre. The Ming Dynasty has just died, and the situation will change, so pay extra attention to his movements!"
Xiong Tingbi's original strategy of "sticking to defense" may be forced to change to "advancing and suppressing" because of the new king's ascension to the throne—he cannot be careless.
How could he know that this time, the development of the facts was quite different from his prediction-in September, Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong strategist who was respected by both the enemy and us, was actually dismissed from his post.
The reason was not that he made any mistakes, but that an even more unexpected event happened in the Ming Dynasty court, that is, Chang Luo passed away in only one month after he ascended the throne as the empress.
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