Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 243 Questioning
Boom!
The chime of the bell sounded.

Mao Weizhang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, couldn't help straightening his military cap on his head nervously, fearing that he might show the slightest trace of a money rat's tail.

Immediately afterwards, there was another sound of lifting the curtain.

Mao Weizhang's heart was pounding, thinking that His Majesty was about to appear, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw clusters of fringed skirts in red and green swaying in.

And also heard the sound of Anshibu bowl.

Mao Weizhang guessed that this was the maid arranging the emperor's dinner, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As for the looks of these maids, he naturally didn't dare to look up. In the Northland, pretty girls basically hid themselves and dared not come out for fear of being spoiled by the Tartars.

Therefore, he hadn't seen the appearance of a beautiful woman for a long time, and today, just by looking at it from the corner of his eye, he felt the unparalleled royal style of the harem beauties.

However, as soon as he smelled the smell of food, he became even more impatient, and even remembered that he hadn't eaten all day.

At this moment, he felt that his stomach was already growling with hunger.

Just when Mao Weizhang associated the fringed skirt of the palace lady with the beauties of the harem to the laughter and big fish and meat on the banks of the Qinhuai River, he heard heavy footsteps.

"See Your Majesty!"

Mao Weizhang couldn't help but tremble a little from the soft words of the woman who couldn't be more crisp like thunder.

The emperor is here.

The Great Ming Emperor, whom I had been looking forward to seeing all the way, came up!
"Why didn't you announce him to come in!"

A majestic and not easily offended man's voice reached Mao Weizhang's ears, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead before he knew it. It was when he drank and ate meat with the Qing army in Hejian Mansion to inquire about secrets. I've never been so nervous.

A bunch of whisks flicked towards him: "Come in, Your Majesty has summoned you."

"Thank you, Eunuch Wang," Mao Weizhang smiled, and hurried over. When he saw a middle-aged man in black imperial uniform sitting opposite him with a calm face, Mao Weizhang was frightened. Quickly crawled down: "Mao Weizhang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei in Hejian Mansion, pays respects to the emperor!"

Although Jin Yiwei is an official of the foreign dynasty, he is the emperor's private person after all, especially Mao Weizhang, a spy who performs secret missions, has a close relationship with the emperor and can be directly responsible to the emperor. As the emperor, he is distinguished from the officials of the outer court and the chief eunuchs of the inner court.

"Stay flat, raise your head, and look at me," Zhu Youjian said.

"Thank you, Emperor", Mao Weizhang got up and raised his head. When he saw Zhu Youjian's thin long face with a thick short beard under his jaw, he couldn't help jumping up and down. He didn't know what to say for a while. He completely forgot what he had prepared along the way, and hardly saw the maids and eunuchs beside him.

Chen Yuanyuan and other maids had no choice but to hide behind the screen and laugh secretly.

Although Wang Chengen coughed a few times, Mao Weizhang could not hear anything like a deaf man.

"You must be hungry and confused, it's your first time to play in Beijing," Zhu Youjian asked proactively.

"Returning to the emperor, yes, in the past, Wei Qianhu came to Beijing directly, but this time Wei Qianhu had something to do, so he sent a younger one," Mao Weizhang replied.

"Eloquence is pretty good. I must be tired and hungry after traveling so fast all the way. Let's eat first. After eating, Wang Chengen will take him down to take a bath first, and then come here to answer." After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he entered the screen and saw Chen Yuanyuan was still snickering, so she hooked Chen Yuanyuan's chin: "What are you laughing at, when you first met me, you were not much better than him."

Chen Yuanyuan pouted slightly, followed Zhu Youjian into the Nuan Pavilion with a shy face, and began to massage Zhu Youjian: "Your Majesty has been tired all day, you must be tired."

Here, Mao Weizhang was flattered, he did not expect to enter the palace to answer, and there is such a benefit, he can have a banquet from the emperor, he hurriedly thanked him, and entered the dining place under the leadership of the eunuch.

However, because there are Zhu Youjian and the ladies in the palace across the screen, he can't gobble it up, so he has to eat it in a gentle manner, and he can't eat chicken legs and pig's trotters, for fear of making a fuss and getting his mouth stained. Oil, answer later, it will affect His Majesty's perception.

Here, the eunuch personally poured him a glass of wine, but he just took it cautiously, not daring to drink it: "There is Mrs. Lao."

Mao Weizhang couldn't help swearing secretly that he would show off in front of other brothers after returning.

"Mao Weizhang, what is the sentiment of the people in the north? Do the scholars still remember me, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how do you feel about submitting to the Qing court?" Zhu Youjian closed his eyes, letting Chen Yuanyuan massage his body, and asked Mao Wei at the same time. open.

Mao Weizhang had no choice but to quickly swallow the rice: "Returning to the emperor, the people in the Northland are now complaining, and they have begun to think of you, Your Majesty, saying that you at least don't enclose their land. Originally, these people are real. I really believe that the arrival of the Qing army is just a change of dynasty, and I would be happier if I avoided the three rings, but from the shaving order and the land enclosure order, there have been several rebellions in the entire northern border, but they were all suppressed by the Qing government. gone."

"After the defeat of Duoduo, the Qing court has not stopped the order of enclosing land?"

Zhu Youjian looked at Mao Weizhang and took a few more bites before asking another question.

Mao Weizhang did not dare to eat any more, and put the bowl and chopsticks back respectfully: "Elder-in-law, the little one is already full, please take it away."

The eunuch looked at Mao Weizhang suspiciously. The seven-foot tall man said he was full after eating only half a bowl. His appetite was smaller than that of a noble concubine. ?
Here, Mao Weizhang stood up with a three-point sense of fullness, and answered Zhu Youjian's question: "Returning to the emperor, the Qing court not only did not stop the land enclosure recently, but according to people in Shuntian Prefecture, it has intensified instead. Not only did he intend to drive out the Han Chinese who were all over Beijing, but now he was afraid that the entire Shuntian Mansion would be turned into a Manchurian territory. Only the Baylor of Luck Dehun had encircled tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land. I don’t know what the Qing Dynasty thinks, this hair-shaving order has already made us Han people unable to live, and now the land enclosing order is getting worse.”

Zhu Youjian couldn't help thinking at this time, Mao Weizhang, a small brocade guard, understood the truth, and he believed that it was impossible for Dorgon not to understand.

In fact, the Qing court's enclosure order in history did last until Kangxi came to power and then gradually stopped.

Although Zhu Youjian hated the Qing emperor, he also admitted that they were not stupid people, and it was impossible for them not to know the harm of this enclosure.

If you do this, there is only one reason, and that is to satisfy the interests of a group that is more important than easing the conflict between Manchu and Han.

If Zhu Youjian's guess is correct, it should be the military aristocrats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After these Manchu military aristocrats entered the customs, they must be rewarded. Only after they tasted the benefits of occupying the land in the customs would they be willing to follow the Aixinjueluo family , Conquering the world for the Qing royal family.

Thinking of it this way, Zhu Youjian was also relieved a lot: "What a Dorgon, it's also thanks to me that I have almost lost the hearts of the people in the North, so Dorgon took advantage of the loopholes, and now he can harm the people without scruple. "

(End of this chapter)