Eight-year-old Abnai has just married his widowed sister-in-law Makata. According to ethical relations, he and his former widowed sister-in-law, who is now his wife, have a less formal brother-sister relationship.
Because Abnai is the posthumous son of Lin Dan Khan, his biological mother was captured by Huang Taiji, and her mother became Huang Taiji's Doro Dafujin (Nangnang Queen Mother). Since then, Huang Taiji has become Abnai's stepfather, and his widowed sister-in-law is Huang Taiji's biological child.
daughter.
To straighten things out a little more, Abnai married his stepfather's daughter and his brother's widow.
His stepfather Huang Taiji led troops to conquer his biological father. He fought three times and pursued him from Zhangjiakou to Qinghai. His biological father Lin Danhan died of illness while escaping.
Not only that, his biological father Lin Dan Khan had a total of eight blessings. Huang Taiji married two of them, one for his brother, one for his cousin, and one for his son.
The one given to the cousin was Brother Abna's biological mother.
In other words, Huang Taiji married Abnai's biological mother, let his cousin marry Abnai's brother's biological mother, Huang Taiji married his daughter to Abnai's brother, and now the daughter remarried Abnai.
In addition, it is said that Abnai's half-brother was cuckolded by Shunzhi. To put it simply, Shunzhi committed adultery with his uncle and sister-in-law, snatched his brother's wife, the concubine Dong E, and killed his brother. Of course, this is just a legend.
Unable to verify.
Well, coming full circle, Abu Nai, the leader of the Chahar tribe, and Shunzhi Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are half-brothers!
"Sister, I want to eat vegetables." Abner looked at the dairy products, but he couldn't work up his appetite.
As Abunai's former widowed sister-in-law and now his wife, the eldest princess of Gulunwen Village, Makata, sighed: "If you want to eat vegetables, you will send people to Zhangjiakou to buy them. You will have them in a few days. There is not enough food this year, mutton, etc."
We won’t eat until winter, so you can eat these first and make do with them.”
"oh."
Abna drank tea and swallowed various dairy products with difficulty.
Some are made from goat's milk, and some are made from mare's milk. It's okay to eat once or twice, but it's disgusting to eat every day. Abna really can't stand this kind of diet.
He is only eight years old this year. He had been living in Shenyang before and was later taken to Beijing. He grew up with his biological mother and ate the same food as Huang Taiji's other sons. His elder brother, Ezhe, the leader of Chahar, died of illness a few years ago.
, now that Chahar’s tribe is unstable, he was hastily thrown in to marry his widower.
Huang Taiji's stepson and daughter got married and ruled the Chahar tribe together. There will definitely be no trouble in Dorgon.
Of course, something happened in history. Abnai did not go to see the emperor for a long time, so he was arrested by Kangxi and put under house arrest. When Abnai and Makata's two sons grew up, the brothers directly launched a rebellion in an attempt to save their father.
return.
Watching his brother, husband and brother-in-law finish the food, Makata couldn't help but sigh.
As the eldest princess of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, she was married to the grassland when she was twelve years old. She is only nineteen years old now. Her first husband treated her very badly. After all, although he and her husband were brother and sister, her father indirectly killed her.
She killed her husband's father and also took away her husband's power, position and territory.
Her husband passed away two years ago. They had been married for many years, but they had not given birth to a son or a half. Her husband was not even willing to touch her.
Now this husband is just an eight-year-old child. Although the relationship is very good, it is better to say that they are brother and sister, mother and son, than husband and wife.
Because it is close to Zhangjiakou, when the Qing Dynasty came to power, the material conditions in Maqata were not bad. They could eat white rice and flour products every day, as well as enjoy vegetables and fruits. This was considered the treatment of a large noble in the grasslands.
Now, with the Qing Dynasty in decline, Li Zicheng took control of the grain trade.
Most of the grain sold from Zhangjiakou was bought by the Qing Dynasty, and the Chahar tribe could only buy the rest. The leaders and elders of the tribe gradually became disobedient, and even competed with the eldest princess Makata to grab grain.
Buy those grains.
Maqata has not eaten fruits and vegetables for three months and relies on tea to supplement her vitamins.
"A Han merchant is coming!"
Just when Makata was looking at the sky in trance, cheers suddenly came from the distance.
Makata immediately got on his horse, and his maid ran with him all the way up the small slope in front of him. Sure enough, he saw a caravan coming.
At some point, eight-year-old Abu Nai also stood beside her and asked: "Sister, will these Han merchants bring fruits and vegetables?"
"You won't know until you ask," Makata replied.
As the caravan moved from far to near, Makata automatically ignored the rest of the humans and set its sights on Zuo Xiaocheng.
What a handsome man, wearing a beautiful hat with a jade hairpin. Wearing beautiful silk, sitting upright on the horse, he looks so majestic.
And they are very polite, unlike the prairie men, who are all very rude.
The nineteen-year-old eldest princess of the Manchu Qing Dynasty suddenly felt her heart beating wildly. She blushed and looked boldly at Zuo Xiaocheng.
Perhaps sensing the strange gaze, Zuo Xiaocheng also turned his head and looked over. He immediately noticed that the Makata costume on horseback was more gorgeous and clean, and her skin was fairer than that of the grassland woman. It was difficult not to attract attention in this poor place.
It must be some Mongolian noblewoman. Zuo Xiaocheng smiled brightly at her with the intention of making friends.
Makata seemed to be melted by that smile, and then he approached on horseback and took the initiative to chat: "Are you coming to my tribe to sell goods?"
Zuo Xiaocheng said: "I come from the south of the Yangtze River and have the best Suzhou products."
Makata said: "My tribe still has some horses and sheep that can be exchanged. We need food. If we don't have rice and wheat, we can also get sorghum."
"I just want wool." Zuo Xiaocheng said.
Makata replied: "There is a lot of wool."
Zuo Xiaocheng said: "The wool from the Chahar tribe can be sold to Zhangjiakou in the future. We have workshops there that can be made into wool, felt and felt, and then shipped further south to be sold to the Han people."
The more Makata looked at him, the more she liked him. She thought he was beautiful all over. She said, "Dear guest, please come to my tent to discuss business."
The two came to the king's tent.
Ten years ago, this was the tent of the Great Khan of Mongolia. Two years ago, this was the royal tent of Prince Chahar of the Qing Dynasty. Now, the eight-year-old Abunai is not qualified to take the title. He is only temporarily granted the title because of the need to rule the grassland.
Got a cavalry captain.
Makata personally poured tea for Zuo Xiaocheng, but instead of talking about business, he asked: "Is your distinguished guest a scholar?"
Zuo Xiaocheng replied: "I am ashamed. I only had time to be admitted as a scholar, and the Ming Dynasty was overthrown by bandits."
Makata became more and more happy: "As expected, I am a scholar. I lived in Shengjing (Shenyang) before I was twelve years old, and I also studied in Shenyang when I was a child. My father invited Mr. Han to teach me how to recognize many Chinese characters. I can also memorize Han Chinese.
Poetry.”
Zuo Xiaocheng said: "No wonder you speak Chinese so fluently. I wonder who your father is?"
Makata said: "My father is Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty."
Huang Taiji’s daughter?
Zuo Xiaocheng was immediately surprised. Through the information from the Fan family, he suddenly realized: "It turns out that you are Your Highness, Princess Chahar."
Makta said: "My husband, Prince Chahar, is dead, and I am not a princess now. How can you, a great scholar, go to the grassland to do business in person?"
"Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles." Zuo Xiaocheng answered ambiguously.
When Makata heard this sentence for the first time, he immediately admired him: "Sir, you are so knowledgeable!"
Did Zuo Xiao grow up handsome?
He just looks decent, but he has fair skin, is in his thirties, and looks like he is in his early twenties. He has also studied and worked as a secret agent for several years, so he is quite charming in his pretense.
As for the Chahar Grassland, they are all rough guys.
If Ma Qata had been to Zhangjiakou and met a few dandy boys, he would not have regarded Zuo Xiaocheng as a handsome boy.
What’s more, Makata really wants a man. She got married when she was twelve years old, but has been ignored and even hated by her husband for a long time. She has not touched any men in these years, and now she is remarrying an eight-year-old child.
Now that she is on the tail end of her girlhood, she will naturally become pregnant when she sees the man she likes.
Zuo Xiaocheng said casually: "Is the Chahar tribe very short of food? I saw many hungry herdsmen along the way. Most of the food was bought halfway before I came here."
Fearing that he would be misunderstood as cruel, Makata explained: "The weather in recent years has been bad, with frequent droughts in summer and frequent snowstorms in winter. Droughts cannot raise many livestock, and snowstorms will freeze a large number of livestock to death. In the past, you could buy grain, but now grain
It’s not easy to buy either. The people who bought grain from my husband on the way were all small leaders of the Chahar tribe, and they were becoming more and more unruly. In the past, the entire Chahar tribe would not have permission from my husband and I, without the permission of my husband and me.
Tribesmen are not allowed to trade privately."
Although Makata was a Manchu princess, she had no political acumen. Historically, her husband, who was raised by her own hands, and her two biological sons were all involved in rebellion during the Kangxi Dynasty.
This princess is more like a rich lady from the south, thinking about romance.
Makata said: "When I was in Shengjing, I once heard a play called "The Romance of the West Chamber". Have you ever seen this kind of play?"
"Of course I've seen it before." Zuo Xiaocheng felt something was wrong.
He had no intention of seducing the Manchu princess, but the Manchu princess seemed to be seducing him.
This Manchu princess was considered a great beauty on the grasslands, but in the south of the Yangtze River she could only be described as pretty.
Do you want to sacrifice yourself for your country?
For His Majesty, Zuo Xiaocheng decided to risk his life!
Cao Fengji had already gone to Liaodong to resume his duties, but he didn't know what the situation was yet, so Zuo Xiaocheng stayed in Zhangjiakou and came to the grassland to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, the first time I went out, I would meet the Manchu princess and the hostess of the Chahar tribe.
Immediately, they stopped talking about business, and Zuo Xiaocheng asked, "Have you ever learned how to play the piano?"
Makata said enthusiastically: "I can play the dragon-headed harp."
The dragon-headed fiddle is the morinouqin, and the Han people also call it the huqin, or the spoon-shaped huqin.
Before the Republic of China, matouqur rarely had horse heads, but was divided into human heads, skulls, crocodile heads, turtle shells, dragon heads, etc. There is also a matouqur head, which is shaped like a dragon and has a face like a monkey, which is a demon-suppressing thing.
Zuo Xiaocheng said: "I only know how to play the Han harp, and I am about to ask for advice on how to play the Hu harp."
Makata asked the maid to bring the dragon-headed harp, and the two discussed the art of music seriously.
When Zuo Xiaocheng was practicing, Makata taught him step by step, and the man and the woman almost hugged each other.
Thinking about this woman's identity, Zuo Xiaocheng felt particularly excited and suddenly enjoyed this mission. It was much more interesting than staying in the south!