Ming Empire

Chapter 49

After a while, Bumbutai in a fur robe came in gracefully, looking so graceful and luxurious that the sergeants waiting at the door of the tent didn't dare to take a look.Dorgon hurried forward, smiled and said to Bumbutai: "Yu'er, why are you free to come and see me today?"

There was an indescribable tenderness in Dorgon's words, as if he had changed from the resolute and resolute expression when he was discussing the military situation just now, even his eyes became softer.Dorgon has always been in love with Bumbutai, who is beautiful and beautiful, but it is a pity that Bumbutai finally became Huang Taiji's woman. This is one of the biggest regrets in Dorgon's heart.

Now that Huang Taiji is dead, Bumbutai has become a widow, and Dorgon's dead heart is slowly revived.

During this period of time, he also tried to find a way to get close to Bumbutai in his busy schedule, but it was a pity that Bumbutai always kept a distance from him.But he didn't expect that Bumbutai personally visited him in his tent today, which made him overjoyed, and the restraint he worked so hard to maintain in front of Bumbutai was gone.

Of course Bumbutai knew Dorgon's intentions. When she first fell in love, she also fell in love with him, and regarded Dorgon as a hero in her heart and an object of tenderness.But in the end she married Huang Taiji and experienced many changes in the palace, which made her look down on her feelings.Especially now that the Qing Dynasty has suffered major changes, even after her son becomes emperor, she doesn't have any thoughts about emotional matters.

Bumubutai came to find Dorgon in private today because he had important matters to ask for, so after paying the gift, he ignored Dorgon's hospitality and directly explained his intention: "Prince Rui, I am here to see you today. , There is something to discuss."

"Your Majesty has something to do, please go ahead and talk about it!" Dorgon immediately backed away from the left and right, motioned for Bumbutai to sit down, and said gently: "Yu'er, if you have anything to do, you don't have to come here in person, send someone to say something." That's right, I'll come and find you."

"Prince Rui is busy with state affairs, how dare this Palace do this," Bumubutai looked up at Dorgon, seeing Dorgon's eager eyes staring at him, he hurriedly dodged away in panic, with an expression He said nervously: "Prince Rui, yesterday, Prince Su came to look for the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, and Prince Zheng also came with him!"

Facing Dorgon's eyes full of tenderness, Bumbutai somehow thought of Cao Yue, the man who was destined to be irrevocable in her life.The look in Cao Yue's cold face, his brave performance on the bed, and the feeling that her body was fully bloomed when Cao Yue rushed to kill, all came to my heart instantly.This feeling made her a little nervous and bitter, and she couldn't help feeling flustered.

Thinking of the child in her womb who didn't know how to punish her, she became even more flustered.

Hearing that Hauge went to talk to Xiao Fulin in private, Dorgon's expression became serious, "What did he say to the emperor?"

Dorgon noticed the change in Bumbutai's expression, but he thought it was because Bumbutai was worried that his son's throne would be threatened, so he didn't care too much.

"Nowadays, Prince Zheng and Prince Rui are the main decision-makers on government affairs. He was a little aggrieved and complained in front of the emperor," Bumbutai said, and also sent a message to Fulin and her when Hauge entered the palace yesterday. Tell Duo ErGun about a complaint.

When Li Fulin was emperor, the Supreme Council made a decision that Prince Zheng Jierhalang would be the first assistant government, Prince Rui Dorgon would be the second assistant government, and Hauge the third assistant government. Assist Fulin.But Hauge complained about this very much. He said publicly and privately that he was the eldest son of the first emperor, and his military achievements were no less than any other.He is the emperor's brother, and he should be the first assistant.

People who supported Hauge, such as Ai Duli, Shuo Tuo and Adali, also expressed similar intentions.Jierharang is a supporter of Hauge. Although he didn't make a clear statement on this matter, anyone with a discerning eye can see that his opinions on many things are no different from Hauge's.

It can be said that Jierharang and Haoge are standing on the same front in the court today, and they have faint signs of forming an alliance to deal with Dorgon.And Bumbutai knew that if her son Fulin wanted to secure the throne, he couldn't pin his hopes on Jierharang and Haoge, nor could he pin his hopes entirely on Dorgon.Dorgon may be willing to help her, but she needs to pay the price.

And Bumbutai is not willing to pay a price that she doesn't know what the result will be. She hopes to find a balance between the two major forces.Today's Bumbutai, of course, hopes most that his son can secure the throne, and to secure the throne, Dorgon and Hauge must fight each other and restrain each other.Otherwise, if one side dominates, then Fulin's position will definitely be unstable.

What she has to do now is to cause conflict between them intentionally or unintentionally, so that no one can control the situation in the court alone.

So today, she took the opportunity to come to Dorgon, and told Dorgon what she heard, saw, and worried about during this time, hoping that Dorgon would take action, and the fight with Hauge would escalate, and the two sides Forces can restrict each other, but they will not harm Fulin.

After Dorgon heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and slowly clenched his fists.

His appearance relieved Bumbutai's originally tense mood. She knew that her words had successfully put Dorgon on guard. The man in front of her probably wouldn't tolerate some of Hauge's actions.

"Yu'er, don't worry, I will deal with this matter, and I will definitely not let Hauge succeed," Dorgon finally smiled at Bumbutai, and reached out and patted Bumbutai on the arm A few times, and then said: "Yu'er, the emperor is young and needs you to take care of him. For some difficult matters, you can just come to me. Don't worry about anything. With me, your mother and child will be safe and sound." .”

"Then I would like to thank Prince Rui!" Bumbutai stood up and saluted Dorgon.

Dorgon quickly got up and stretched out his hand to help.

Being supported by Dorgon, Bumbutai couldn't help but hit Nian Jiling. Inexplicably, Cao Yue's figure surfaced again, and Cao Yue also remembered what he had said to her in private, "I hope you can understand the situation clearly. , Don’t be an enemy of my Ming Dynasty again, so you Manchus may be able to keep it, otherwise your entire clan will disappear into the dust of history and cease to exist.”

She used to think that Dorgon was an unrivaled hero, but after Cao Yue led his army to break through the palace, captured her, and finally conquered her physically, her thoughts slowly changed.Cao Yue stared at her coldly but resolutely, with a feeling of contempt for everything, more domineering than Dorgon who looked at her tenderly in front of him.Amid the faint nausea in her throat, she thought of the baby in her belly again.

Subconsciously, she dodged her body for a while, and broke free from Dorgon's support, "I won't bother Prince Rui anymore, I will leave as a concubine!"

Seeing Bumbutai leaving in a panic, Dorgon felt a little weird.However, his strange feeling is not that he thinks that Bumbutai has other thoughts, but that Bumbutai still has a lot of affection for him, and when facing his intimacy, he looks flustered and runs away.

But in an instant, Dorgon woke up from his reverie, and continued to think about how to completely defeat Hauge, and this time he assigned Duoduo to the south to attack Datong.Soon he came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, that is, when Duoduo led the main force of the two white banners to go south, he would recruit a part of the troops from the other banners and hand them over to Duoduo, and leave half of the flagmen of the two white banners in Shengjing. .

The Zhenglan Banner led by Hauge suffered huge losses in the Battle of Songshan. If some of them were transferred to Duoduo, the strength of the Zhenglan Banner would further decline, and with it, the weight of Hauge’s words would also further decline. .

Of course, Dorgon also thought of some other means. He decided to completely wipe out Hauge's influence in a short period of time, and he will completely control the government of the Qing Dynasty. "Yu'er, by that time, you will be mine, I hope you can understand my heart at that time!"

(End of this chapter)