Chapter 394 Born in the same year, same month, same day
Chapter 394 Born on the same day, same year, same month
In the 18th year of Deqing's reign, a fire broke out in the eldest princess's mansion. No one in the mansion survived, and they all died in the fire.
A fire burned down the princess mansion and turned it into a pile of ruins.
Now the princess's mansion has been rebuilt, but the eldest princess and others have been buried in the fire. It is no longer the princess's mansion and no one lives there.
The ancients were superstitious and thought it was unlucky. Even if the court wanted to sell the mansion, no one would buy it.
Not to mention giving rewards to ministers, the emperor would not be so cruel as to give this ominous mansion to other officials.
Princess Changping? Su Yizhao has rarely seen records about the eldest princess and her family.
I only know that during the fire, Princess Changping and her husband also stayed in the mansion. It was their misfortune that they were both burned to death.
As for Princess Changping's husband, it is said that he was Sheng Lanqing, the eldest son of the Zhenguo Palace who was at the height of his power at that time.
Speaking of the Duke's Mansion, it's an old story again.
Nowadays, the Zhenguo Palace has long ceased to exist, but before, the Zhenguo Palace also existed for a while.
Duke Zhenguo and King Duanyang were both powerful generals around the late emperor. When the late emperor revolted, these two men were his right-hand men, and their contribution to the dragon was not a problem.
After the world was peaceful, the Duke of Zhen surrendered his military power and became a handsome and wealthy man.
However, according to unofficial records, these are just appearances.
It is said that the Duke of Zhenguo ostensibly handed over military power, but in fact he had secretly formed a clique for personal gain in order to seize power and usurp the throne.
After the late emperor discovered his intentions, Duke Zhenguo simply refused to do anything. On the evening of October 2, the 18th year of Deqing, he led the rebels to break into the palace at night in the name of the Qing emperor.
But the late emperor was also experienced in many battles and had great strategies. How could he succeed? He had already made preparations and was just waiting to catch a turtle in a urn.
There were 20,000 rebels who surrounded and suppressed that night, and rivers of blood flowed outside the palace and city gates. This was the largest rebellion since the beginning of the dynasty.
Within two hours, the situation for Duke Zhen Guo was over. However, he was unwilling to be defeated and continued to resist stubbornly, so he led the remaining rebels and escaped from the palace gate.
He fled all the way to the eldest princess's mansion. Perhaps he wanted to escape from the capital with the prince, so he broke in.
But how could the eldest princess allow her daughter and son-in-law to rebel? So she and the Duke of Zhen got entangled in the house.
At that time, the pursuers sent by the imperial court had arrived and surrounded the princess' mansion. The Duke of Zhen was desperate and took the eldest princess hostage.
The scene was chaotic at that time, and Zheng Guogong Xu knew that he would not escape death, and that his son would not die a good death either.
So he asked his own soldiers to seal off the eldest princess's mansion, lit torches, and let all the people in the eldest princess's mansion die in the sea of fire with him.
That night, there was a huge fire like the Gongyuan, and then the wind helped the fire, which was out of control.
By the time the pursuers outside tried to rescue him, it was already too late.
At that time, Su Yizhao just regarded the unofficial history as the author's conjecture. After all, many people among the people would change the history and add their own conjectures to it, which was to be read as a storybook.
After reading this story, Su Yizhao felt that there were many doubts in it.
The most important point among them is that Zhen Guo Gong was in rebellion at that time. Did Zhen Guo Gong and his son not know about it at all?
That night, the Duke of Zhen Guo sent troops to plot a rebellion and stormed into the palace. The prince didn't know anything about it? Then why was he at the eldest princess's mansion at that time? This point makes no sense at all.
Moreover, when the pursuers were already surrounding him, the Duke of Zhen actually set fire to himself. Doesn’t this seem cumbersome? Wouldn’t it be quicker to kill oneself with a knife?
Now that Su Yizhao has come into contact with the eldest princess's files, Su Yizhao is interested. Perhaps the answers to his previous doubts can be found here.
Open the file and look at it carefully.
On May 19th, the 15th year of Deqing, Princess Changping was engaged to Sheng Lanqing, the eldest son of Zhenguo Palace.
It is recorded in it that the emperor and empress were very happy at that time, and each of them was rewarded with many treasures and fields and jades.
Princess Changping was of the second rank and enjoyed the fiefdom and food. Judging from the rewards at that time, the late emperor and the current empress doted on the eldest princess and her daughter very much.
Princess Changping has a distinguished status, so she is a perfect match for marrying the heir apparent of the Duke of Zhenguo.
This short paragraph was only interspersed in the record. Su Yizhao flipped through it and found that there was no record of the eldest princess and her daughter in this file.
It seems that the eldest princess and her daughter should be very low-key. This year, except for Princess Changping and Jihe's engagement, no other major events happened.
Su Yizhao looked through the records of another sixteen years, and on June 11th of that year, he saw the record of the wedding between the princess of Changping and the prince of Zhenguo.
The two records that have been turned over contain the emperor's words and deeds. Because there are rewards for getting a hairpin, getting engaged, and getting married, they are all recorded.
On March 28, the 17th year of Deqing, Princess Changping gave birth to her eldest son, and the late emperor received another reward. The child's name was not written, which was of no importance to officials who recorded the emperor's words and deeds.
Then there was no record. Su Yizhao looked through it again and finally saw the record on October 9, 1818.
As a reward, Princess Changping gave birth to a daughter again.
The ninth day of October? Su Yizhao was shocked. Isn't that her birthday?
Putting down the file in his hand, Su Yizhao was stunned. What a coincidence! He was born on the same day in the same year and month.
However, the original owner's biological mother Wen Yu lived until she was nine years old, and her father was Su Wenqing. It seemed like a coincidence, but it was too much.
I scrolled back again and found that it was the day to worship the eldest princess.
November 21, the eighteenth year of Deqing, was the day the eldest princess was killed.
Su Yizhao quickly scrolled back. On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the following year, the late emperor ordered the eldest princess to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Next comes the memorial ceremony. November 21st is the memorial day for the eldest princess.
Of course, it is also a memorial day for everyone in the eldest princess's mansion, including the prince Zhenguo and Princess Changping.
The late emperor only worshiped for one year, because he left Hexi on the third day of August in the 20th year of Deqing.
As for whether the current emperor went to worship, Su Yizhao didn't know, because it depends on the current emperor's files.
There are only a few words in it to summarize the rebellion of the Zhenguo government, just a few sentences without detailed records.
It seems that if you want to find detailed files from that year, you have to look at the imperial files that record major events.
Returning to the bookshelf, Su Yizhao flipped through and pulled out all the files from the past five years.
Since it was a conspiracy, there must be detailed records.
It just so happened that she was going to be in charge of compiling the history of the country, which also needed to be proofread and revised.
"Master Su! Are you going to take so many back?"
Qian Kongmu was very surprised when he saw Su Yizhao carrying a large pile of files. In fact, the national history of the late emperor's period had been proofread before. Isn't this just a leisurely job? Why is Mr. Su so mobilized?
Could it be that the new official has just taken office and is excited and wants to make some achievements immediately?