In Beijing, which has been in Shunzhi for 18 years, it will be a good show as soon as the New Year passes.

Especially after the return of the 500 captured Janissaries, the palace and the city were full of chickens and dogs, and even the good show of the stage made the Han people in the outer city also talk a lot, and the fierce flames of the Manchurians could no longer completely suppress the curiosity of the Han people.

The Manchurians stipulated that Han Chinese would be considered a rebellion if they had gathered three or more people for no reason, but the other provinces had a lax and tight enforcement of this rule, and it was impossible to strictly enforce it everywhere. But in Beijing, this rule is unambiguously enforced, so the business of teahouses and liquor stores in Beijing has been quite sluggish for 17 years.

Since it was not expected that so many people would gather to gather in the mountains, all teahouses and taverns urgently purchased tables, chairs and benches for the use of the old and young masters of the Beijing master -- the best business now is the carpenter, except for these tea and wine owners.

The law and order in Beijing are in ruins, and the government now has no time to care about these men who drink tea and gossip at the same time, and the officials are already busy.

"Lord Sun jumped into the river again today!" A well-informed man rushed into the teahouse and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Did you jump this time?" When the people in this teahouse heard this, they all stopped their original topic and looked at the person who reported the news.

The Sun in the mouth of this big man is Sun Tingquan, Chongzhen Nian raised people, Jinshi, saw Li Zicheng establish power in Xiangyang, Sun Tingquan resigned and refused to take office in Huguang. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Sun Tingquan rushed to Beijing from his hometown in Shandong again, and successively served as the secretary of the Manchu Army, the Household Department, and the Ministry of Officials, and made many meritorious contributions in helping the Manchus raise grain and grass and suppress the resistance of the Han people.

After Shunzhi was killed, Sun Tingquan was the first to run to the palace and cry, and he was also the first courtier to honor the empress dowager as the empress dowager. When discussing the name of Shunzhi, Sun Tingquan strongly advocated that according to the example of Han Taizu, Shunzhi was the emperor of Gao on the grounds that Shunzhi's handsome army entered the customs and there were nine out of ten in the world. Since Nurhachi was Emperor Wu and Huang Taiji was Emperor Wen, Sun Tingquan's bizarre proposition was not agreed with by other Han Chinese colleagues who tried their best to make sycophants, and Sonny and Ao Bai finally vetoed Sun Tingquan's Jianyi.

However, Sun Tingquan's construction undoubtedly left a deep impression on the Empress Dowager, Sun Tingquan participated in the Dingce and Parliament Conference as a Han minister, and after Xuan Ye ascended the throne, he was also awarded the grace of a scholar. In Deng Ming's previous life, Sun Tingquan's hometown established his memorial hall, gave Sun Tingquan the titles of "national elder" and "imperial teacher", and gave him such evaluations as "upright and upright" and "made outstanding contributions to the country and the nation" -- the treatment received by Hong Chengchou and Sun Tingquan made Wang Jingwei and Chen Gongbo look too pathetic.

Participating in the formulation of policies and the formulation of the era name is a meritorious achievement, and it is also an enviable qualification, but Sun Tingquan was extremely happy and sad, and within a few days of being promoted to a university scholar, the news brought back by the Praetorian Guard pushed all the courtiers who participated in the formulation of the era name to the forefront. Sun Tingquan is a Han Chinese, not only participated in the formulation of the era name, but also had the opportunity to understand the details of the route of Shunzhi's personal expedition, of course, he could not get rid of the suspicion of "fornicating with Deng Ming" and "betraying the emperor". And a few days ago, Sun Tingquan was too strong, and he took out the posture of "although tens of millions of people, I will go" to fight against hundreds of officials of the Han Dynasty, and insisted that Shunzhi should imitate Liu Bang as the "Emperor Gao", which certainly won Sun Tingquan the name of "loyal minister", but also attracted a lot of jealousy. Colleagues not only envied Sun Tingquan's honor, but also asked themselves that they couldn't be as shameless as Sun Tingquan, so they scolded him behind his back as a "shameless villain".

Now, you don't have to scold behind your back, but you can openly accuse Sun Tingquan of how he looks like that big traitor, and his subsequent incorruptible and shameless behavior is just to cover up his own crimes.

A few days ago, he ran to the city wall, saying that he would commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, and after he finished reciting the testament with a sad face, the officers and soldiers of the infantry yamen, who had already heard the arrival of the infantry, rushed up and hugged Sun Daxue from the city wall. Ignoring Scholar Sun, "Don't pull me!" "Let me die!" The wild shout dragged Sun Tingquan all the way back to the palace from the side of the city wall. The Empress Dowager soothed her kind words and dispelled the will of Scholar Sun to die.

The Empress Dowager's statement quieted the officials for about two days, during which more and more internal information was revealed: after the Mongols surrendered to Deng Ming, they turned around and attacked the imperial camp; In addition, the Ming army knew the whereabouts and arrangements of the former emperor very well, and the whole raid was declared successful in less than four hours - the description of the prisoners of the Praetorian Guard made the Beijing officialdom even more chaotic, and after seeing that the Empress Dowager could not take care of protecting Sun Tingquan for the time being, the Han courtiers who were jealous of his merits attacked him again, and there were even rumors that Sun Tingquan's children and grandchildren still served anonymously on the side of the Ming army.

Scholar Sun had no choice but to run to the city wall again to throw himself into the river. Of course, the empress dowager can't let the Han bachelors who have the merit of supporting the establishment, successively serve as three Shangshu, and defect to the Qing court in the second year of Shunzhi be hung up like this. Therefore, it was the imperial guards who went to the city wall to listen to Sun Tingquan's recitation of the testament this time. Scholar Sun finished reading it with emotion, then pressed it under a green brick, and then wept bitterly and knelt three times in the direction of the palace, and then got up and stepped on the battlements. The imperial guards, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, shouted and rushed over, and brought Scholar Sun back to the palace with his watch.

From then on, the Han courtiers understood that the Empress Dowager really wanted to protect Sun Tingquan to the death, and no one continued to attack him.

But yesterday there was another big incident at the Imperial Council. Prince An Yue Le and Prince Kang Jie Shu sat side by side to question the reliability of the center. These two princes, like the other princes, were considered unstable by the royalists, so they were not allowed to participate in meetings to discuss the emperor and the name of the era. But after the outbreak of "Deng Ming had long known about the Kangxi year", the princes occupied an extremely advantageous position and launched round after round of attacks on the royalists.

Originally, when the auxiliary minister's governing model had just been determined, Sonny still wanted to capture the old man, so he brought Ao Bai and others to visit the princes, saying that this practice violated the precedent of the Eight Kings' deliberations, and they did not dare to trespass, so they came to respectfully invite the princes to come out and preside.

However, none of the princes dared to take this talk, they knew who dared to say a "no" word at this time, as soon as Sony walked on the front foot, the imperial guards were about to kill the door, so Yue Le and Jie Shu all encouraged Sony and Ao to worship them without smiling, saying that since this is the meaning of the Queen Mother, then you just do things well.

And with the exposure of the "Kangxi year" case, the princes have a lot of confidence, and it is expected that the empress dowager will not dare to play tricks at this time, yesterday Prince An stared at Sony and asked: "If it weren't for the collusion between the Han and Deng Ming to sell the emperor and the year name to them, who else would it be?" Could it be you Sony? ”

Sonny was speechless, but Yue Le was still unrelenting, and scolded another auxiliary minister who wanted to come up to relieve Sony: "If it weren't for Sony, and it wasn't for the Han people, could it be that it was Ao Bai who betrayed the emperor, a dog slave who betrayed you?" ”

Before Prince An's words fell, Prince Kang echoed: "Yes, these Han people have problems, and you are very wrong to trust the Han people." Didn't Sonny and Ao Bai say a few days ago that you would restore the system of the Eight Kings? This king has thought about it these days, and feels that it was a little abrupt and reckless to reject you last time, and the burden of the Aixin Jueluo family was not something that you minions could pick up, so let's do it, and it will be the Eight Kings in the future. ”

As soon as Jie Shu's words came out, Sun Tingquan had no choice but to jump into the river again today, who made him the most popular Hanchen.

However, Sun Tingquan still did not die today, and was rescued by the imperial guards again.

"It seems that the eight kings still can't discuss the government." As a resident of the 300-year-old imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, every Beijinger has a good sense of political affairs.

If the prince's faction gains power, they will not use the Han people as they say, and now the Manchu rule must rely on the power of the Han Dynasty if it wants to maintain, which is just an excuse for the prince's faction to fight the royalists. But specifically Sun Tingquan is different, he has always slapped the queen mother and the former emperor's sycophants, is one of the banners of the royalists, even if the princes still use Hanchen after they come to power, they will clean him up to prove the justice of their seizure of power; And the Empress Dowager and the auxiliary ministers must protect Sun Tingquan to the death, and do not give the princes a chance to counterattack.

Today, since Sun Tingquan still failed to jump into the river, it means that the Empress Dowager and the Auxiliary Minister are still in control of the situation, and although the princes are aggressive, they still have not been able to snatch the power away after all-if it is really the prince who has taken the power away, the Empress Dowager feels that the position of her grandson may not be able to be kept, after all, this prince candidate is also set by the group of people who discussed the era name -- now the Empress Dowager and the royalists can't control too much, and can only insist that there is no internal traitor, and most of the information leaked out from a certain maid and Baoyi.

Such a lively situation made the people of Beijing excited, and the prince, important ministers, pavilion elders, and Shangshu took turns to perform monkey shows to entertain the people, and they also performed happily. In addition to Sun Tingquan throwing himself into the river, there are also Lord Wei who wants to jump off the building and Lord Gong who wants to hang himself, there is news every day and there is never a duplicate. Even the gambling game on the overpass side is opened, Lord Sun, Lord Wei, and Lord Gong are all on the list, you can bet on whether they can live, you can also bet on how long they can live, if you guess the specific method of death and the specific time of death, you can win a big money; Just next to the gambling game, there is also a Taoist priest who sets up a stall to tell fortunes, and he can give you an analysis of the political situation in front of him if he gives two pennies: although Lord Sun shouts to throw himself into the river every day, he may secretly hang himself tomorrow night, take out a few pennies to gamble, and if he loses, he will not feel distressed, and if he wins, he will win back dozens of taels of silver......

It is precisely because the yamen of the Beijing division has a bunch of troubles that no one cares about the Han gatherings anymore. The people of Beijing chatted about gossip and guessed the gambling game every day, and dozens or hundreds of people gathered together to spread the gossip.