In the Qing Dynasty, the empress dowager lived in Cining Palace and the empress in Kunning Palace. However, there were two empress dowagers in the Qing Dynasty. Kunning Palace was the residence of the empress. Even if the emperor is young and has not married yet, the Kunning Palace system will be vacant. In this way, the two empress dowagers cannot live in the same palace.

At that time, Grand Secretary Gang Lintong, who had died of illness last year, proposed that the prince, Empress Dowager Zhezhe, stay in Cining Palace, and the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother, stay in Jiaotai Hall.

Jiaotai Hall is one of the three palaces in front, Ming and behind, located between the Ganqing Palace and Kunning Palace. Therefore, there is no problem in asking the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother to live in this palace in terms of etiquette and law, and system. After all, the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother is not the legitimate concubine of Emperor Taizong, and is also the niece of the concubine of the king of the country.

Just like that, the emperor's biological mother, Bumubutai, who was the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother, has always lived in Jiaotai Hall. In order to make Jiaotai Hall more Manchurian "flavor", the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother also specially asked someone to set up a warm pavilion in the corner of the hall, which should be exactly the same as the Qingning Palace in Shengjing outside the pass.

But the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother never expected that one day she would be "driven" away from this Jiaotai Hall. When Prince Li Daishan and Prince Zheng Jirhalang handed in the results of most of the princes and ministers in Beijing to go out of Beijing in two days, Bumubutai was very confused and sat on the kang for a while, and then accompanied by her personal maid Su Malagu to pay tribute to her aunt.

"It's not a bad thing to leave earlier. There are so many dreams. If the thief changes his mind, my mothers can't even leave."

The concubine of the king, Jin Zhezhe, was more open-minded than her niece. Before her niece came, she had already called the eunuchs and palace servants from Cining Palace to load the objects in the palace.

Most of these objects were left by the previous Ming Dynasty, and there were many precious items.

When Li Zicheng evacuated Beijing, he was too hasty and many treasures in the palace did not have time to take them away. He ordered people to set fire, but the losses in the first three halls were only a little bigger. The latter three halls only burned some of the Ganqing Palace and Kunning Palace, so there were really many good things left in the Forbidden City.

There is one of the terms of peace talks with the outside of the city that the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to destroy the city of Beijing, and of course it also included the prohibition of destroying the Forbidden City. Therefore, Zhezhe and Bumubutai dare not make people set fire, but as long as it was something that could be taken away, the two empress dowagers would never be lenient.

You can't come here in vain, right?

The Office of the Internal Affairs was responsible for the withdrawal of the palace. Before the relevant terms were negotiated by Prince Zheng, Jirhalang, who was in charge of peace talks, the Office of the Internal Affairs began to send people to the palace to clean up.

In fact, there were not many people in the palace who followed the emperor and the empress dowager "returned to the capital". They were mainly those who came to the customs of Shengjing, including those from various yamen under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a small number of eunuchs and palace servants.

Most of the former Ming Palace people and eunuchs who were retained will not be taken out of seclusion, which has been decided long ago.

After all, Shengjing Imperial Palace is much smaller than Beijing Imperial City. The palace servants can still be given to the armored people in each flag. What are the useless eunuchs taking them out of seclusion?

The eunuchs and palace people who were retained by the former Ming Dynasty also knew that the Qing Dynasty would definitely abandon them and each found a way out. Almost nine out of the ten palaces would steal one before leaving.

The stolen winds are getting worse and worse, and it has changed from stealing to robbery. There are even scenes where several eunuchs "fight in groups" to compete for a treasure.

The eunuch in charge could not restrain himself, and in the end, the Ministry of Internal Affairs urgently dispatched a team of Eight Banners soldiers to the palace to suppress the situation. Otherwise, God would know if these eunuchs would shock the Holy Lord and collided with the two palace queen mothers.

Even if this is the case in the palace, there is no need to say more about the chaos in the city outside the imperial city.

The little emperor Fulin doesn't have to go to school today. He listens to Master Fan's lecture. He is about to leave the seclusion and return to his hometown and will no longer be the emperor of China.

But Fulin, who was ten years old during the Chinese New Year, was not opposed to going out of seclusion and returning to his hometown. On the contrary, he was very happy because he would not have to worry about the thief's cannon attacking him.

The eunuch Wu Liangfu, the chief eunuch, was busy with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the eunuch who was with the little emperor was Yang Zhi, who combed the hair of the Queen Mother every day.

After seeing his mother, Xiao Fulin pouted and said, "My mother, I'm hungry."

Zhezhe was immediately furious and scolded Yang Zhi, a slave who could not even take care of the emperor.

Yang Zhi quickly defended himself and said that the palace was busy packing his things and leaving Beijing, and the imperial kitchen was in chaos. He sent a meal twice but had no news.

"This group of dog slaves, I, the Qing Dynasty, just came out of seclusion and returned to Beijing, and it was not dead!"

Zhezhe was so angry that he ordered people to call the eunuch in charge of the imperial kitchen to scold him. Bumubutai stopped his aunt and said that the palace was a little messy, and it was no wonder that the slaves were all the time.

"Su Ma, go and get some food for the emperor."

Bumubutai turned around and ordered, and Su Malagu responded and called a palace servant to go to the imperial kitchen with her.

Zhezhe first took a snack and asked Fulin to cushion his stomach first, and then pulled his niece to ask about the matter in Taimiao.

What can happen in the Taimiao? It is just the tablets of the ancestors of the Aisin Jueluo family. Whether it is Shizu or Taizu, or Taizu, the tomb of Taizong, are all outside the pass.

Last year, when fighting against the Shun thieves who crossed the sea in Shandong and raided Liaodong, they threatened to dig out all the ancestors of the Aisin Jueluo family and burned ashes. However, these Shun thieves were just talking nonsense, burning, killing, looting outside the pass for almost a year, and never dug up the Qing tombs.

Bumubutai said that the clan mansion and the Ministry of Rites in the Taimiao had already gone to clean up and would not miss anything.

"That's good, that's good"

Zhezhe nodded and said, "Prince Li means asking Abatai to take people to Shanhaiguan first to watch. As long as Shanhaiguan is in our hands, Shunjun will regret it and we can also rush out of the pass."

As she was talking, Su Ma made a few side dishes and brought them in a food box. She said that the manager of the imperial kitchen was also very busy and begged her to avenge the two empress dowagers.

Zhezhe wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he couldn't say it.

Fulin was really hungry and picked up the chopsticks and ate with relish. When he was about to add rice after a bowl of rice, the palace came to report that it was the Grand Secretary Ning Wan and Fan Wencheng who wanted to meet the two empress dowagers.

Bumubutai ordered, “Let them come in.”

Ning Wan, Fan Wencheng, the two Han officials, kowtowed to the two empress dowagers and the emperor after entering the palace. Zhezhe ordered them to get up and ask the palace servants to give them a seat.

Perhaps because of the tight time, Ning Wan and Fan Wencheng did not say any nonsense after they sat down, and directly expressed their purpose with the two empress dowagers.

But I hope that the Empress Dowager can issue an order to order all Han officials in Beijing to leave the capital with the Qing Dynasty.

"It is said to be peace talks, but in the eyes of outsiders, my Qing Dynasty was driven out of the pass by the thief. In this way, do the two great scholars think that those Han officials are willing to follow us?"

The implication of Zhezhe's words is that most of the Han officials used by the Qing court are surrendered within the pass, not as good as Ning Wan, Fan Wencheng and others surrendered to the Han people of the Qing Dynasty outside the pass.
Chapter completed!