Chapter 1,267 The Empress Dowagers resentment, the complete chain of evidence
The last day of mid-March.
Su Mingzhe summoned all the concubines, as well as the princes and princesses in the court, to Yonghe Palace to celebrate Halloween for the Empress Dowager on her seventy-second birthday.
As the old saying goes, seventy-three or eighty-four, the King of Hell will not ask you to go.
Ever since Yin left the vassal state in America, the Empress Dowager has been experiencing various physical discomforts, and her mental state has been good and bad for some time, making people begin to wonder if her end is coming soon.
"Emperor, come here!"
The Queen Mother came to the main hall with the support of her nieces Rou Ze and Yi Xiu. When she saw the whole family sitting together, she immediately relaxed a lot. She stretched out her hand to grab her eldest son and asked, trembling:
"Emperor, where is your brother? Is he almost arriving in the capital?"
Facing the old lady's inquiry, Su Mingzhe quickly replied:
"Mother, Yin is still at sea. It will take at least three or four months to get back!"
"Why is it taking so long?"
As soon as the empress dowager heard that her youngest son was no longer around, her face suddenly turned gloomy:
"Fourth child, did you not notify your brother to come back?"
"Mother, I issued the edict in front of you, have you forgotten?"
Seeing that the old lady was confused, Su Mingzhe could only speak patiently:
"Mother, the Tang Kingdom is 30,000 to 40,000 miles away from the Qing Dynasty by sea. A round trip would take at least a year..."
Regarding Su Mingzhe's words, the Empress Dowager's eyes were full of distrust:
"Is the Tang Kingdom so far away from our Qing Dynasty? Don't lie to me, an old woman——"
"Eniang, how could I deceive you? The Tang Dynasty is indeed tens of thousands of miles away from the Qing Dynasty, but to send the imperial edict there, you have to cross the ocean, which takes half a year! Erchen was notified during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year , It has only been six or seven months now. At this time, Yin has just set off. By the time he comes back, it will not be until at least the second half of the year after the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
"How come the Tang Kingdom is so far away..."
When the Queen Mother heard that it would be several months before she could see her youngest son, she immediately became unhappy:
"Emperor, you tell me, can't you make your brother's kingdom closer?"
"Mother, Yin chose this herself."
Su Mingzhe doesn't take the blame.
In order to stay away from the Qing Dynasty, Yin Na made his fiefdom of the Tang Kingdom near the future Florida State.
Although the Qing Dynasty now has steam engines and ships, it still takes several months to cross the Pacific Ocean, which is thousands of miles away.
This is no exaggeration.
You must remember that it is the beginning of the 18th century. To travel from Florida to Qing Dynasty, you can only take a ship to circumnavigate the entire South America.
After all, the land in Panama had just been taken back from Spain by Yinxiang. It would take at least forty or fifty years to open a canal.
After finally finishing Yin's story, it wasn't long before the birthday celebrations came.
The Empress Dowager looked at the sparsely seven or eight elder brothers and princesses in the audience, and their expressions that had just relaxed became dull again:
"Queen, how old are the youngest brother and princess?"
When Queen Rouze heard her aunt and mother-in-law's question, she leaned over aggrievedly and replied:
"Auntie, the youngest Nineteenth Brother is eleven years old this year, and the youngest Seventeenth Princess is ten years old!"
"The youngest princess is already ten years old. In the past ten years, our Forbidden City has not had any children, right?"
The empress dowager snorted coldly as she spoke, looking unkindly at the imperial concubine Ruoxi who was not far away from her, and then asked the emperor:
"Emperor, how many years has it been since you ascended the throne and proclaimed yourself emperor?"
When Su Mingzhe saw the Empress Dowager repeating her old talk, he deliberately ignored her, but was afraid that she would make a fuss, so he could only bite the bullet and reply:
"My son has been on the throne for ten years!"
"It's been ten years since I ascended the throne..."
The Queen Mother muttered silently, and then asked again:
"Queen, how many times have the emperor chosen in the ten years since he took the throne?
Second show girl?"
Queen Rouze lowered her head and answered silently:
"As far as my aunt is concerned, since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has not chosen a show girl."
"My Qing Dynasty has regulations. How many years does it take to select a show girl?"
The Queen Mother had been holding back her anger for many years, and she suddenly burst out at Su Mingzhe:
"Emperor, the youngest concubine in your harem must be forty, right?"
"Why, are you planning to learn from Master Shunzhi? When someone else is gone, you will become a monk as well, right?"
"I don't dare, I just don't want to waste money and people!"
Su Mingzhe felt a little aggrieved when faced with the Empress Dowager's accusation.
As a man, he naturally wants to be drafted.
It's just that Ruo Xi has a bad temper. Every time the queen proposes a draft, at night, Ruo Xi will definitely find a man and say that she wants to move out of the palace.
However, in order to comfort Ruoxi, Su Mingzhe could only push back the draft matter again and again.
"snort!"
Seeing that her son insisted on defending Ruoxi, the Queen Mother snorted again and turned her head away angrily, no longer thinking about these troublesome things.
In the eyes of this old lady, how her eldest son lives is not worthy of her concern. She just wants to see her younger son again before she dies.
When Su Mingzhe saw this, he ordered someone to bring the program list and asked the old lady, the queen, and several concubines to order the program.
That's the good thing about being an emperor.
All the land in the world is the land of the king; the shores of the land are all the ministers of the king.
No matter how famous a troupe is, it can refuse invitations from ministers' families and invitations from princes and dignitaries, but it cannot refuse royal decrees.
In order to prepare Halloween for the Empress Dowager, Su Mingzhe had already issued an imperial edict. Every March, more than 60 of the most famous theater troupes in the country, as well as nearly a hundred jugglers from all over the country, were invited to the capital.
It can be said that the capital city during the Yongzheng period was ten times, or even dozens of times, more prosperous than the Kangxi period.
Of course, thanks to this, 80% of the bannermen were taken away by the vassal kings.
Without the domineering bannermen, the Han people dared to straighten their backs and take to the streets.
Decades of continuous loose cultural environment have also allowed a large number of literati to emerge.
Unconsciously, the eleventh year of Yongzheng arrived.
The mystery of an ancient tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period has been revealed.
The person who presided over the excavation of the ancient tomb was Ren Lanzhi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites of the dynasty.
Ren Lanzhi was an erudite and talented person since childhood. In the fifty-second year of Kangxi's reign, he was ranked second in high school. He has been serving as an official in the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Academy, the Ministry of Rites and other noble departments.
He was also devoted to learning. After Su Mingzhe ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he entrusted him with the "archaeological" affairs across the country.
After eleven years of hard work, Ren Lanzhi lived up to expectations and successfully compiled the "Genealogy Map of the Yanhuang Miao Tribes" for the Qing Dynasty.
In this "Exquisite Map", it is clearly recorded that the Manchus were called Jurchens before the Ming Dynasty.
Before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Jurchens were called Sushen.
Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Sushen was called Xishen, and it was one of the feudal states of the Zhou Dynasty.
Originally, this was the end of the news.
Now, with the excavation of an ancient tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period.
After Ren Lanzhi identified some bamboo slips in the ancient tomb, he immediately used secret folding to report to the emperor, who discovered the pre-Qin historical materials.
This historical bamboo slip from the Spring and Autumn Period clearly records that Su Shen was a descendant of Xi Shen.
Sushen was a feudal state of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Xishen was one of the "hundred barbarians" tribes that paid tribute to the great merchants.
Going back further, Xi Shen's clan leader was once Emperor Shun's general, guarding Mount Buxian.
Buxian Mountain is now Changbai Mountain.
At this point.
The chain of evidence that the Manchus are descendants of the Yanhuang Miao people has come to a successful conclusion.