In winter in Beijing, the sun rises relatively late.
At about 1 o'clock in the morning, Yu Minzhong, the chief military minister, personally took the emperor's abdication edict, accompanied by Suolin and Qinggui, the military ministers who were "forced to leave business", came to the Meridian Gate, and immediately read it in public.
The clan members at the outer gate of the city burst into cheers one after another. Jia Liu, who was leading his men to retreat to Chongwen Gate not far away, could not help but rein in his horse and stand still. He looked in the direction of the Meridian Gate and remained silent.
After this night of fighting and bloodbath, theoretically Ruxiu's inheritance rights to the throne should be increased by at least five thousand, right?
"This group of Manchurian clan members are quite passionate, but they don't know that tonight's events are all under your control."
When Fan Wei came to the front of the Gui family, he did not hide his admiration for the Gui family.
Helping Qianlong to restore his power was simply the hand of God!
Jia Liu couldn't hear the compliment, so he twitched his nose, took out the embroidered handkerchief his wife gave him, wiped it with it, then stuffed it into his sleeve again, and said casually: "The Qing Dynasty does not allow anyone who is more passionate than me to exist."
"Well?"
Fan Wei listened attentively, "What do you mean, sir?"
Jia Liu did not answer, but summoned a few messengers and ordered them: "Tell the capital's green camp horse infantry that the emperor has been kidnapped by traitors and will not seal the sword today!"
"嗻!"
Several messenger soldiers immediately rode away and conveyed the military order not to seal the sword today to the Green Camp soldiers of the capital who were ordered to loot Prince Zhuang's Mansion, Prince Xian's Mansion, Prince Jian's Mansion, Prince Pingjun's Mansion, Prince Shuncheng's Mansion, etc.
Then he looked at Fan Wei and said, "Go to the Han Army Zhenglan Banner Dutong Yamen in person and tell my father and Zu Jianchang that the meeting of kings and ministers is an illegal organization, and the emperor's abdication edict is also a fake edict, no matter who comes to them."
Ignore it."
Fan Wei was very smart and immediately guessed what Master Gui meant: "Let the city continue to be in chaos?"
"If the chaos continues, how can the clan members think of me, Jia Jiashikai, and how can they know that I am the most influential person in Beijing!"
The more Jia Liu thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't help but sigh, "Originally, I don't care who becomes the emperor. As long as you take the initiative to talk to me and give me thirty to fifty million taels to help me live, I may not be able to help them. But they are crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. Even the general meeting
They don’t even let me participate, so I really deserve to be killed!”
What is the greatest prestige of being a cadre?
Just be able to have a meeting!
After all the busy work, the victorious side didn't even give Jia Liu the right to attend the meeting. How could he not be angry?
This is a meeting of kings and ministers to discuss political affairs. As long as he can participate, Jia Liu will be a prince of the Qing Dynasty from now on.
Officially recognized!
Now it's okay, those clan members thought that Jia Liu was a fuel-saving lamp, so they bypassed Jia Liu and directly declared the victory. Jia Liu didn't show them his prowess, and he really wasted his reputation as the best general in the Qing Dynasty.
But now is not the time to have a big fight with the clan.
After all, the guards of the Three Banners are now obeying the clan.
Therefore, Jia Liu had to shake people, and the more people he could shake, the better.
Where did they come from?
He Zhongtang received the Rehe soldiers, as well as the Suiyuan and Shandong soldiers.
Qianlong abdicated and was imprisoned in Yangxin Palace. After the abdication edict was issued, the Zhenghuang and Zhengbai banner guards and most of the guards were forced to accept the result. Although there are still many thieves in the palace making trouble, as the sky gets brighter,
Each and every one of those thieves will be a turtle in the urn, and there is nothing to worry about.
Now there are three things before the princes of the clan.
One is to quickly calm down the chaos outside the palace;
The second is to convene a meeting of the king and ministers to discuss the affairs and decide on the candidate for the new king.
The third is to send people with Qianlong's abdication edict and the new emperor's edict to recruit and attack the three armies coming from Rehe, Suiyuan and Shandong.
After the situation was over, Santai, the imperial minister, was very cooperative and happily explained the matter of Qianlong secretly summoning three groups of troops to Beijing.
The first thing is easy to handle. Iletu, Minister of War, and Prince Qingheng of Heping County have left the palace to appease people.
The third thing is also easy to handle. Although Zalantai, the governor of Rehe, is the son-in-law of Qianlong, his Eight Banners soldiers in Rehe are not the son-in-law of the emperor. As long as the situation in the capital is stable and the new emperor's edict is there, Zalantai can be comforted a little.
He never dares to cause trouble.
Although A Zhongbao, the deputy governor of Suiyuan, and Shu Hede, a scholar of the University, were close confidants of Qianlong, they did not dare to send troops to attack the capital in the face of the reality that the throne had changed hands.
Shu Hed's family is still in the city, and if necessary, they can be used as hostages to force Shu Hed not to act rashly.
As for He Shen who escaped from the palace, there is nothing to worry about. This person is just a lucky minister.
The second thing is very difficult to do.
Regarding the candidate for the new emperor, the princes and ministers began to have fierce disputes after receiving Qianlong's abdication edict.
There are three main candidates.
First, Fulehun, the Minister of Rites, and Yu Minzhong, the Military Minister, proposed that one of the Lijun and Queens should be chosen to inherit the throne;
Prince Li is Hongxi, the eldest grandson of the Holy Ancestor, and his bloodline is extremely noble.
Hongxi had more than a dozen sons, five of whom are alive today. Among them, the oldest of the three sons, Yongmei, is 45 years old this year.
The second is that Prince Zhuang Yongjun and Prince Jian Feng Naheng proposed to choose one of the surviving grandchildren of the late Emperor Sejong to inherit;
Because the late emperor ordered his fifth son, Hong Zhou, to succeed him, it was necessary to select a worthy person from Hong Zhou's descendants to succeed him, so as to completely rectify his origins.
The third is that Prince Kang Yong'en, Pingjun Wang Qingheng and others proposed that one of the descendants of the eighth son of the Holy Ancestor, Prince Lian, should be selected as the successor. Supporting this proposal was Sun Wufu, the deputy capital commander of the Han army who set up a red flag and took the initiative to lead troops into the palace.
At that time, Pingjun Prince Fupeng was suppressed by Qianlong because he was close to Prince Lian's eldest son Hongwang. Now that Qianlong has abdicated, Qingheng will definitely support Prince Lian's lineage to inherit the throne.
In addition to these three voices, there were other voices, but the proposers were mostly ignored due to their status, including the proposal by Kuni, the Minister of Rites, to "return" the throne to the Dorgon family who contributed to the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
The 19-year-old Wang Chunying of Xin County had no idea who should be the emperor. At this time, he was still a little frightened. Sitting next to the princes, he could only lower his head and look at his feet. He had no intention of participating in such national events.
However, Chunying is not only the king of hats, but also the leader of the Zhenglan Banner of Manchuria. In the current situation, whichever side he supports, the weight of which side will increase immediately. Therefore, in the dispute among everyone, this young prince who does not care about worldly affairs does not know
Unconsciously, he has become an important figure that all parties are vying to win over.
"Who does King Xin think can be the new king?"
Fulehun was quite confident in persuading Prince Xin to support the candidate he proposed with Yu Zhongtang, because he was the good eldest brother of his sixth son, who was Chunying's brother-in-law.
Managers help managers, relatives help relatives.
"I,"
Chunying wanted to say that she had no intention of getting involved in this matter, and that no matter who could be the emperor, it would be fine, but she knew that her status was not appropriate for her to say such a thing, so she kept mumbling.
Prince Zhuang Yongjun knew that Fulehun wanted to win Chunying's support, so he stood up angrily and said to everyone: "I don't know what is there to fight for. Don't you think everyone will obey the late emperor's edict? If you don't obey it!
The late emperor left an edict, why did our teachers come out?"
These words made everyone silent, but the late emperor's edict was his edict, and when it came to the ownership of the throne, who was willing to give up his position.
"If you ask me, the candidate for the new emperor should be decided by a public vote at the meeting of kings and ministers,"
Prince Kang Yongen made a compromise. Anyway, Qianlong had abdicated, and peace would soon be settled outside the palace. Since everyone couldn't argue about anything at this time, it would be better to decide at the meeting.
There are no less than a hundred people in Beijing who are qualified to participate in the meeting of kings and ministers, and there are three hat kings in the line of princes and ministers. There are also many officials above the rank of minister from the two red flags. By then, the support for the public meeting will be greater than that of other parties.
The little abacus was clever. Just when the Military Aircraft Department was about to draw up a list of civil and military personnel who were qualified to attend the meeting of ministers, Prince Qingheng of Ping County, who went out to appease the clan with Yiletu, Minister of the Ministry of War, rushed into the hall in a panic and saw
Prince Zhuang Yong'en, who was speaking, said urgently: "Stop fighting, something happened in the palace!"
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
The clan is not the royal palace, and the royal palace is not the same as the clan, which accounts for about one percent of the clan.
The book writes about the relationship between the two, and some readers criticized it for not popularizing science.
If you don’t write, and you can’t understand, you think you’re right and scold the author for writing nonsense…