scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 283

"The emperor has arrived———."

Accompanied by Xie Xuan, the chief eunuch of the Kunning Palace, who deliberately prolongs his singing, Kang Mazi's huge, complicated, boring and shameless guard of honor, surrounded by the rogue-eyed and wretched emperor, strode into the Kunning Palace. .Kang Mazi's Queen Hesheli, who had already received the news, was very surprised, but she didn't dare to neglect, so she had to put on her belly quickly, and led a large group of eunuchs, Gong'e, to kneel in front of the door to greet Kang Mazi, and respectfully saluted Kang Mazi: "Concubine Greetings to the emperor."

"Queen, you are pregnant, so you don't need to be polite." Kang Mazi stepped forward in a hurry, and hugged Hesheli. Surprised to find that behind Kang Mazi, there were actually a large group of imperial doctors from the imperial hospital, sweating and panting one by one, they all kowtowed to him behind Kang Mazi's back, and sang in unison to greet the empress.

"Master, what's the matter?" Seeing this scene, Hesheli didn't have any scheming to sense that something was wrong, and asked Kang Mazi respectfully: "Master, at this time of weekdays, as usual, the master has to take care of things in front of you." Government affairs, why did you come here earlier today? Why did you bring so many imperial physicians?"

"This...." Kang Mazi hesitated, but he didn't dare to make Hesheli worry, so he said vaguely, "Don't worry, queen, I'm just worried that your delivery date is coming, so I brought some imperial doctors here to give you pulse. Anything else special."

"Really?" Hesheli naturally didn't believe it, and asked suspiciously: "Master, there are six imperial physicians and six stable ladies and servants by my side at any time, and it has always been peaceful. How could the emperor do so?" Remember bringing so many imperial doctors here?"

"Queen, you don't need to ask any more questions. I'm doing it for your own good." Kang Mazi interrupted roughly, and after thinking about it, he said, "Queen, after thinking about it, I think this Kunning Palace is also used for worshiping gods. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, I and all the concubines have to cook meat to sacrifice to the gods here, people come and go, noisy and restless, it is not suitable for you to live here, empress, you should live in another place."

After all, Kang Mazi didn't care whether Hesheli agreed or not, so he immediately turned around and ordered to his personal eunuch Zhang Wanqiang: "Zhang Wanqiang, send someone to clean up Chuxiu Palace immediately, and ask the queen to live there tonight, and arrange another batch The most loyal and reliable eunuchs and maids, eunuchs and maids who used to serve the queen, don’t take them with you.”

"Zha, I'll make the arrangement right now, my servant." Zhang Wanqiang quickly agreed, and quickly sent the eunuch down to deliver the decree and arrangement.As a result, Hesheli inevitably became more suspicious and slightly nervous, so he couldn't help asking: "Master, what is this for?"

"Queen, don't ask any more questions. It's for your own good." Kang Mazi touched Hesheli's plump, smooth and beautiful face, and there was a rare tenderness on the wretched and ugly pockmarked face, and said softly, "Queen, don't ask any more questions." Now, let's go inside to rest first, I will ask the imperial doctors to take your pulse."

When Kang Mazi finished speaking, Hesheli didn't say anything more, just nodded in agreement, and quietly winked at Mo Ju, the close maid, to let her confidant to observe the situation outside, and then followed Kang Mazi into the room. In the hall, at the request of Kang Mazi, he entered the inner hall again, and lay down on the dragon bed where he had wrestled with Kang Mazi, and let the imperial physician brought by Kang Mazi take turns to check the pulse through the tent.

Kang Mazi brought a lot of imperial physicians, but less than half of the imperial physicians actually entered the inner hall to give Hesheli a pulse, and the rest went to unknown places, and there were also several imperial physicians who had served Hesheli before. He and Wen Po didn't know where they went.Seeing this scene and seeing the dignified and nervous expression on Kang Mazi's pitted and pockmarked face, Hesheli couldn't help feeling agitated. He vaguely guessed that something big must have happened, and that this big thing must have something to do with him!

Although there were many imperial physicians who took Hesheli's pulse, only two physicians from the Imperial Hospital, Hu Gongshan and Cheng Shoutian, really knew some of the reasons, so they were the two who gave Hesheli his pulse first. After the two well-known doctors in the capital gave Hesheli a diagnosis, they all frowned and dared not make a sound, but asked other imperial doctors to ask Hesheli for pulse.After changing three or four imperial physicians to diagnose Hesheli, they were all confused, and said to Kang Mazi respectfully: "Please rest assured, the emperor, judging from the pulse condition and the appearance of the empress, the phoenix of the empress The body is very good, and the fetus in the womb is also very good, without any abnormalities."

"Are you sure?" Kang Mazi sternly shouted, "Are you sure that your mother is in good health and nothing abnormal?"

"This..." Several imperial physicians were dumbfounded, wondering what the hell is going on?Why would the emperor ask such a question?Why are the other two doctors so nervous?What the hell is going on?If the imperial physician made a wrong diagnosis, it would be a capital crime of beheading and exterminating the family!
Frightened, several imperial physicians quickly changed their words, and replied tremblingly: "Going back to the emperor, judging from the pulse condition, the empress should be safe and sound—but the servants are ignorant, and they dare not judge lightly. Imperial Physician Hu and Imperial Physician Cheng are The servants are recognized by the hospital as the first and second in terms of medical skills, so it depends on what they think of the empress's phoenix body."

"Trash! Get out!" Kang Mazi was furious, and the faces of several imperial physicians turned pale with fright. He quickly crawled out of the room and knelt in the corridor outside the door.Seeing such a situation, not only Hesheli was even more nervous and worried, but the other imperial physicians were also trembling. It took longer to feel the pulse each time, and each one was more detailed than the other when asking questions. The tragic disaster of ransacking the house and destroying the family.

After half an hour of tossing like this, more than a dozen imperial physicians took Hesheli's pulse and asked Hesheli for a diagnosis, but they didn't dare to make a rash decision. They all answered Kang Mazi's pressing questions more and more vaguely, and they all went to Hu Gongshan and Cheng Cheng. Shou Tian pushed on the two great imperial physicians with the highest medical skills.Kang Mazi had no choice but to ask Hesheli to wait patiently for a while, and then let all the imperial doctors leave the room, and went to the front hall to ask Hesheli what was going on behind his back.

As soon as Kang Mazi and the others entered the front hall, Mo Ju, Hesheli's personal maid, entered the room with her hind feet, quietly touched Hesheli's bed, and whispered in Hesheli's ear: "Master, Something might have happened, Eunuch Zhang asked Eunuch Xie to call all the eunuchs and maids of Kunning Palace to kneel in the side hall, and then Eunuch Zhang brought a large group of guards and imperial physicians to check around."

"Check what?" Hesheli asked nervously.

"The main thing is to check the master's diet." Mo Ju was very capable, and reported in a low voice: "Especially the tea room where the master boils water and tea, and the small dining room where the master makes snacks for supper, have been turned over by the guards. Upside down, all the bowls, chopsticks and teacups used by the master were carefully inspected one by one by the imperial physicians with silver needles. In addition, the eunuch who made tea for the master and the imperial cook who cooked were also inspected by the imperial physicians. The guard escorted him away."

"Why did the emperor do this?" Hesheli's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed in a low voice, "Could it be that someone poisoned this palace and was noticed by the emperor?!"

"This, slaves don't dare to guess randomly." Mo Ju lowered his head and said helplessly: "Master, your food and drink are delivered to the master by the hands of the slaves, and you test the poison for the master, and they are all sent by the slaves. After a while, the slaves will definitely be sent for questioning."

"Don't worry, it's fine." Hesheli comforted casually: "Don't be afraid, when I move to Chuxiu Palace, I will definitely call you back to my side and continue to serve me." Mo Ju agreed in a low voice, While Kang Mazi was still questioning the imperial physician outside, leaving Hesheli in the room, he was anxiously waiting for Kang Mazi to return, and there was only one thought left in his mind, "If I was really poisoned , then what should I do? What about the dragon species in my belly?"

It is true that Kang Mazi asked for nothing. All the imperial physicians said that Hesheli was in good health, and there was nothing unusual about it, but they dared not pat their chests and say that Hesheli would be fine—really dare not, Only Cheng Shoutian said with a mournful face: "Master, if the empress is really poisoned by the slave master uncle, then don't talk about the slaves, even if Hua Tuo is reborn, Bian Que is reborn, and it will definitely not be found out. The master of the slave Although Uncle Zhu Fangdan is incompetent, his character is also extremely poor, and his attainments in medicine are really terrifying."

"Is the empress poisoned?" All the imperial physicians present trembled, and quickly buried their heads deeper, secretly glad that they did not say anything to death, otherwise, once the empress died of poison, their old life would be ruined confessed.

"Fuck you!" Kang Mazi, who was nervous and worried, kicked Cheng Shoutian's face, and shouted viciously, "You are all kneeling here to wait for the order." Not daring to take a breath, Kang Mazi took a few deep breaths, tried to calm himself down, and then walked back to the bedroom where Hesheli was.

When he entered the room, Hesheli had already sat up from the bed, sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, his plump and beautiful face was a little pale, as if he had something on his mind in a daze.When Kang Mazi saw it, he was both distressed and anxious, so he had to force a smile and sit next to Hesheli, put his arm around Hesheli's shoulder and smiled and said, "Queen, what are you thinking? Don't be afraid, it's okay, I'm just worried that you will give birth soon." , so I brought so many imperial physicians here to take your pulse, there is no other meaning, and there is no need to be paranoid."

Hesheli nodded, forced a smile, and said in a low voice: "Master, can I ask you something?"

"What's the matter? Queen, please tell me." Kang Mazi asked happily.

"It's really come to that time...." Hesheli's voice was a little trembling, and he said with difficulty: "Please, the emperor must tell the imperial physician to protect the dragon son and not protect the concubine."

"Queen, how could you say such unlucky words?" Kang Mazi was taken aback.

"Your Majesty, don't lie to your courtiers and concubines anymore." Hesheli burst into tears and said, choked with sobs: "Your Majesty, you want your courtiers and concubines to change their bedroom, and you have also taken away all the eunuchs and maids who served the courtiers and their concubines. And let the imperial doctor use a silver needle to check the eating utensils of the concubine, the concubine is a fool, I am afraid I understand what it is? The concubine is incompetent, the dragon son who was born for the emperor before has unfortunately died, and now this one , no matter if it's Elder Brother or Ge Ge, the concubine can't let them..., any more spots will be lost."

Kang Mazi was silent, and only then realized that he cared too much for Hesheli's mother and son, and forgot to cover up at the very least.In desperation, Kang Mazi had no choice but to touch Hesheli's face and comfort him, "Queen, you don't have to think so much, I'm just in case, judging from the examination by the imperial physicians, those daring traitors must be I haven't succeeded yet. Also, whether this matter is true or not, I have only received notifications so far, and there is no conclusive evidence to show that Wu Dog's rebels are really shameless and despicable enough to attack you, the mother of the country."

Hesheli didn't know whether Kang Mazi was comforting him or if it was the truth, so he buried himself in Kang Mazi's arms and cried even harder. The tears wet the front of Kang Mazi's fake dragon robe, and Kang Mazi Feeling regretful and worried at the same time, he had no choice but to hug Hesheli and keep comforting him, saying all the good things.

God help the wicked, at this moment, Zhang Wanqiang, Kang Mazi's personal eunuch, entered the room cautiously, knelt down on both knees by the threshold, and said tremblingly, "Master, Mingzhu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and Wang Xu, Shangshu of the Han Dynasty, jointly hand over the card to see you, Say there is..."

"I don't see you!" Kang Mazi finally seized a chance to vent his anger, and shouted, "Tell them to get lost, even if the sky is falling, I won't listen to it!"

"Zha, Zha, Zha!" Zhang Wanqiang was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again, and when he was about to turn around and climb out to deliver the decree, Queen Hesheli said, "Wait a minute." Zhang Wanqiang quickly stopped crawling, turned his head and kowtowed again.

"Your Majesty, my concubine thinks you should see him." Hesheli said with tears in his eyes, "Wu's rebel army attacked from six directions, the Qing Dynasty fought in thirteen provinces in the north and south, and wars raged everywhere on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River. When the emperor needs to act as the mainstay. If the emperor refuses to meet important court officials such as Lord Ming and Lord Wang for the sake of his concubines, not only will the ministers and concubines not be happy, on the contrary, they will feel extremely guilty, even more unwilling to eat, and have restless sleep Xi, even more shameless to meet the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty..."

Before the words were finished, Hesheli was already in tears. Kang Mazi was distressed, angry and helpless, so he had to shout at Zhang Wanqiang: "Go tell them to come in and come here to play something." Zhang Wanqiang agreed , quickly got up and rushed out to pass the decree, leaving the distraught Kang Mazi and the grief-stricken Hesheli couple to continue to get along alone in the room.

After a while, Mingzhu and Wang Xu were led to the Kunning Palace. Although both Mingzhu and Wang Xu were very surprised why Kang Mazi appeared here in the afternoon, they couldn't care less about this meeting. Zhang Wanqiang, who was standing in front of the palace gate, immediately urged Zhang Wanqiang to take them to see Kang Mazi immediately, but Zhang Wanqiang warned in a low voice: "Ming Zhongtang, Mr. Wang, don't blame the slaves for not reminding you. It's very bad, if it's good news for you two, you can tell it straight, but if it's bad news, then you two have to be careful."

"Why?" Mingzhu asked in shock.

"Ming Zhongtang, please don't ask me any more." Zhang Wanqiang replied with a sad face, "You just killed the servant, and the servant dare not say a word."

Mingzhu and Wang Xu looked at each other, complaining in their hearts together, but the military situation was on fire—this military report was even more popular, and a slight delay might lead to unimaginable and terrible consequences, so Mingzhu and Wang Xu had no choice but to go together He nodded and said in a low voice: "Eunuch Zhang, please lead the way, we will be careful."

Zhang Wanqiang agreed, and then he led Mingzhu and Wang Xu into the palace, leading them all the way to the door of the bedroom where Kang Mazi and Hesheli lived alone, because when they passed through the front hall, they saw the imperial doctor kneeling densely in the front hall, Mingzhu and Hesheli Wang Xu was even more nervous and scared, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he could only kneel on the corridor outside the door, waiting for Zhang Wanqiang to go in and report.

After a while, Kang Mazi's ugly drake voice sounded in the room, and he roared with endless anger: "What's the matter? Zao!"

"It's over!" Mingzhu and Wang Xu felt chills in their hearts. After looking at each other, Mingzhu cautiously replied: "Return to master, can you ask master to move away for a while, and the slave will report to master again!"

"Fart!" Kang Mazi yelled angrily, "I am taking care of the empress myself, how could I move?" Then came Hesheli's soft comforting voice, begging Kang Mazi to curb his anger and treat his courtiers kindly.

"Master, this slave has the courage to ask the master to move." Mingzhu said tremblingly, "The matter is of great importance. The empress is not feeling well, so it is really inconvenient for the slave to report it face to face."

"What happened?" This time, Kang Mazi and Hesheli and his wife looked at each other in dismay, so that they had a thought together, "Could it be that Mingzhu and Wang Xu also knew that Wu Jun was planning to poison Hesheli's mother and son?" ?”

"Queen, wait a moment, I will come as soon as I go." Thinking of this, Kang Mazi hurriedly got up and said.

"Your Majesty." Hesheli pulled Kang Mazi's sleeve and said with tears in his eyes: "If this matter is related to my concubine, then I must listen to it. No matter how bad the news is, as long as my concubine knows about it, it is better than being suspicious." , don’t think about food and drink... Your Majesty, I beg you..."

Kang Mazi was silent, and after a long while, he said to the door again: "Say it directly, the queen's empress is auspicious, and she can withstand even bad news."

"Master, the slave can just say it." Mingzhu had no choice but to tremble and said: "But before the slave reports, I ask the master and the empress to hold on, and don't be in a hurry."

The room fell silent again, and after a long time, Hesheli's strong voice sounded again, "Ming Zhongtang, please tell me, I can hold on, and I won't be in a hurry."

"You shouldn't be in a hurry, but it's hard for the emperor to say." Mingzhu muttered in her heart, then cleared her throat, and said very carefully: "My lord, Anxi General Xi Puchen sent eight hundred dollars from Hanzhong City. Riga is in a hurry. On February 13th, 13th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, in view of the fact that Wu's rebel army broke through Chaotianguan, and Hanzhong, an important town in the northwest, was in an emergency. Mo Luo and Wang Fuchen, the admiral of Shaanxi, raised an army of [-] to launch a counterattack against Chaotianguan, and captured Chaotianguan in the first battle, forcing the old thief Wu Sangui to retreat to Baoning, Sichuan, and Prince Doro personally led the army to pursue and kill them, and the soldiers came to Baoning city."

"Recovering Chaotianguan? Is this great news?" Kang Mazi asked in a daze.

"Back to the master, the slave hasn't finished yet." Mingzhu's lips trembled, and she said with great difficulty: "On February 13, the 21th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Fuchen, the admiral of Shaanxi, was so daring that he raised troops in Ningqiang Prefecture (Ningqiang) in Hanzhong Prefecture. Rebelled, killed Mo Luo, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, seized the Ningqiang granary of our Qing, Shaanxi and Gansu army, and blocked Chaotianguan, cutting off the retreat and food road of Lord Doro. The [-] troops led by Lord Doro himself have been captured Wu Dog is surrounded in Baoning Prefecture, without food and aid, unable to advance or retreat, the situation is extremely critical."

"General Anxi Xi Puchen speculates that Wang Fuchen's rebellion must have been premeditated. Wu Gou's withdrawal from Chaotianguan is also likely to be a fraudulent defeat by Wu Sangui's old thief. Baoning, let Wang Fuchen's dog bandits rise up to rebel, cut off the return and food roads of the main force of the Qing Dynasty, Shaanxi and Gansu, and try to fight in vain to annihilate our Qing...the main force of Shaanxi and Gansu... But General Xi, he has only a few With a force of [-], and with the heavy responsibility of guarding the important town of Hanzhong, it is really powerless to rescue..."

Speaking of this, Mingzhu's voice was lower than the humming of a mosquito, but the room was completely silent, as if Kang Mazi and his wife had never heard the bad news.After a long time, there was a bang in the room, and then Hesheli's cries also sounded, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! What's wrong with you, Your Majesty? Come on, come on, come on quickly, Your Majesty is vomiting blood." Passed out!"

"Master! Master!" Zhang Wanqiang's cries also sounded, "Come here, come here, send the imperial physician!"

"Master!" Mingzhu jumped up, rushed into the room to take a closer look, and saw that Kang Mazi had indeed fallen asleep on the ground, with black dirty blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, while Hesheli and Zhang Wanqiang supported him from left to right , One rubbed his chest and the other pinched him, Mingzhu burst into tears immediately, threw herself on Kang Mazi, cried and cursed: "Zhang Wanqiang, Wang Xu, you two slaves are dead people? Quickly carry the master to the On the bed, quickly put the master on the bed!"

Amidst the loud cries, the tearful Hesheli, Zhang Wanqiang, Mingzhu and Wang Xu worked together to lift Kang Mazi, who weighed more than 160 kilograms, onto the dragon bed, and the imperial physicians who were kneeling in the front hall Hearing the news, he rushed to the room for rescue.But at this moment, a new accident happened, and Hesheli, who was crying like a tearful man, suddenly screamed while clutching his round belly, "It hurts! Why does my stomach hurt so much?!"

While moaning, Hesheli's crotch was still wet suddenly, and thick water flowed out from the trousers - bloody water.Seeing this scene, all the imperial physicians present were frightened out of their wits, and screamed with pale faces, "No, the Empress has a fetal gas! Quick! Quick! Call Wen Po!"

"Oh my god—!"

Kang Mazi had just vomited blood and fell into a coma, Hesheli's fetus moved again, and the amniotic fluid ruptured and a miscarriage was imminent. Under the successive blows, Mingzhu couldn't help but burst into tears, and murmured: "What the hell did our Qing Dynasty do?" ? Why do you have to suffer such retribution? Why do you have to suffer such retribution?!"

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When Kang Mazi finally woke up from the coma, it was already half past two o'clock in the middle of the night that day, and besides a dozen sweaty imperial physicians, there were several hard-core members of Kang Mazi who appeared in front of him. Confidant Mingzhu, Suo'etu, Zhang Ying and others, as well as the old witch of Xiaozhuang, the noble concubine Niu Jilu, the Hui concubine Yehe, the Rong concubine Ma Jia, and the De concubine Wuya, as well as Guo Luoluo and Wei He and Dai Jiashi waited for dozens of nobles, and even Kang Mazi's only eldest son, Yinti, who was not taken away by Uncle Yama, was hugged and knelt by the wet nurse, but Kang Mazi's most beloved queen, Hesheli, was not there. .

Seeing Kang Mazi waking up leisurely, everyone was beaming with joy and came forward to say hello, while Kang Mazi struggled to sit up with the help of the eunuch, tried to squeeze out a little smile, and forced himself to say, "I'm fine, just a little dizzy, don't worry , if the sky doesn’t fall, it’s a big deal that I will personally conquer, what’s so great about it?”

In the past, when Kang Mazi mentioned the matter of Yujia's personal conquest, the old hag of Xiaozhuang and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty would definitely speak out immediately to persuade him, but this time it is different, including the old hag of Xiaozhuang, they are all silent, just It was as if he hadn't heard the word that Kang Mazi uttered.Kang Mazi was a little surprised, and quickly asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with you? Eza was just surrounded by Wu dogs, and my fifty thousand troops were on their way to the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield in the starry night. Wan Dajun has been rescued again, what is there to worry about?"

"Your majesty, there is some bad news. You have to hold on." The old hag of Xiaozhuang sighed, and said weakly: "The queen has moved her fetus and gave birth prematurely. She is an elder brother. Although the imperial doctor tried his best, my lord and my wife are still in trouble." The child, I... didn't keep it."

Kang Mazi was stunned again, almost passed out again, his lips trembled for a long time, and finally he uttered a nonsensical sentence in a hoarse voice, "Is it poisoning?"

"Back to master, it seems to be poisoned." Hu Gongshan, the doctor of the imperial hospital, hurriedly kowtowed, and replied tremblingly: "My lady, she is bleeding, and she can't stop it. It seems that someone has been poisoned slowly. Otherwise, the servants I am sure to rescue the empress and elder brother."

According to the book, Hesheli was indeed prematurely born due to excessive fright and emotional fluctuations, and it happened that the fetus was too large and the uterus was weak, so both mother and child died.It’s just that God helps the wicked, and the imperial physicians who were afraid of taking responsibility secretly discussed and pushed all the blame on the fictional murderer, insisting that Hesheli died of poisoning.

Kang Mazi closed his eyes in pain—although Kang Mazi was vicious and cruel, almost perverted, but he still had some affection for the beautiful original partner Hesheli.After a long time, Kang Mazi opened his eyes and called out with trembling lips, "Zhang Ying."

"My minister is here." Zhang Ying quickly knelt down on both knees.

"The decree is to add Wu Nijiang's appointment of Han Daren as General Bravery, Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the title of Secretary of the Ministry of War, and the title of Viscount. Wu Nijiang appointed Han Yuan as Admiral of Pianyuan, General of Brave Loyalty, and bestow the title of Baron." Kang Mazi ordered lightly. , Zhang Ying quickly kowtowed and agreed, remembering carefully.

"Send another decree to Xiergen, together with the appointment edict to the brothers of the Han family, and send it to Xiergen in [-] Li urgently!" Kang Mazi suddenly raised his voice, roaring hysterically: "Let him receive the order within ten days Within a short time, we must capture Jiujiang and completely wipe out the Jiujiang Wugou army! There is also Lu Yifeng, a dog thief, who must not be let go. He wants to see people alive and dead! If he can’t do it, he will go to Oboi Go with the old thief!"

(End of this chapter)