Chapter 235 Dark Cloud Pearl & New Moon (Seventeen)
Tang Ruowang persuaded Shunzhi for a long time. Only his persuasion and Shunzhi's scolding could be heard in the hall. Tang Ruowang was a learned scholar and a competent missionary. He was very good at calming a person down from anger.
Sure enough, Shunzhi stopped talking and calmed down after a while. He looked at Tang Ruowang, then at Xiaozhuang and several ministers opposite, and closed his eyes dejectedly. Even if he was unwilling, he knew that he had no choice at this time.
Thinking of the fearful look of Little Li when he entered the door, Shunzhi laughed at himself. Why did he notice it now? Little Li was so scared, I'm afraid he had been surrounded by Xiaozhuang's people outside the hall! Even if he could inform Yue Le and other trusted ministers, he could not match Xiaozhuang's power, whether in the army or in the court...
Shunzhi leaned back in his chair and recalled the scenes of his previous disputes with Xiaozhuang. It turned out that Xiaozhuang gave in to him, otherwise she would not have needed to compromise with him with her power. He also remembered Meng Guqing who died suddenly. Was the wife he resolutely abolished really dead? And Wu Liangfu, who was called a thorough plan by Wu Liangfu, was broken by Xiaozhuang without a sound... Many things he didn't want to think about in the past seemed to have the shadow of Xiaozhuang.
He suddenly felt confused. Was he really not suitable for the palace? He never understood these conspiracies, just like this time when Xiaozhuang suddenly attacked, he didn't hear any rumors in advance. His throne was won back by Xiaozhuang. Now he was against Xiaozhuang, and Xiaozhuang took the throne back. His life was just a joke!
Shunzhi suddenly raised his head and laughed, laughing at his puppet-like life, laughing at his unattainable freedom, and laughing at his disastrous defeat today...
Tang Ruowang sighed and returned to his original position. Xiaozhuang said lightly: "The emperor is not feeling well and should not work hard. After abdication, he will be named Prince Jing and go to Mount Wutai for recuperation on a chosen day. Concubine Dong E will accompany him."
As soon as she finished speaking, Eunuch Chang came forward and gave Shunzhi a tranquilizer. The medicine was prepared by Xiaozhuang herself. It would make people sleep for three days and had no effect on the body. After Shunzhi took the medicine, he closed his eyes and fell asleep in just a few breaths. Wu Yunzhu collapsed on the ground, hanging her head, not knowing what she was thinking.
Xiaozhuang raised her hand, and Eunuch Chang directed several eunuchs to take Shunzhi and Wu Yunzhu away. Xiaozhuang stood up and walked to the table, took the jade seal handed by Su Moer and stamped the imperial edict of abdication. All the formalities were completed. From now on, the Qing Dynasty would be her world!
"Long live the emperor! Long live! Long, long live!"
Sony and the others looked at each other and knelt down to pay homage at the same time.
Xiaozhuang looked down at them and said lightly, "Stand up."
Although she got the throne, she didn't feel any passion in her heart. To be a good emperor and rule a country well, there are still many things to do, especially when the dynasty just changed. She sat on this seat, which meant shouldering this responsibility, and there would be no easy days in the future.
The process of forcing a confession to usurp the throne could not be beautiful. Xiaozhuang asked Johann Adam Schall von Bell to persuade Shunzhi before, hoping that someone close to him could comfort him. As for important officials like Sony, they already have power and money, and they hope that the emperor will be weaker so that they can become more powerful. But no matter who they are, the most important thing is always the descendants. Xiaozhuang's sticking points are almost omnipresent, and their lifeblood is tightly in Xiaozhuang's hands. There is no other way except to support Xiaozhuang's rise to power.
The means of violent suppression have great disadvantages and will not get much loyalty. If it were an ordinary person in power, he would naturally not take such means, but Xiaozhuang had too many cards. She could control them by drawing some spells casually, and all kinds of poisons and drugs were also easy to get. In the face of absolute strength, the conspiracy of these ministers is not to be feared at all. She has the confidence, so she naturally uses the most direct and fastest method to control power. Anyway, she will pass the throne to the next generation in the end. She just needs to ensure that the imperial power is stable in the 20 or 30 years she is in power.
Although she would restrain her abilities and use the means that should be available in each time and space to do things, after all, she was so advanced that she would not be so hypocritical as to not use them at all. Just like using firearms in modern times, martial arts in the martial arts world, and secret guards in the palace, etc., they would usually be equipped with spiritual consciousness, spells, puppets, and some small magic, so that everything would be much more convenient, and there would not be a boring feeling of waving hands to solve all problems.
She came to experience the emotional relationships between various identities and the people around her, not to suffer. Before she met her master, she had suffered a lot as an orphan, so she did not think about making her life more difficult.
Another reason for being straightforward is also related to the multiple time travel experiences. When she traveled through Xiao Yu'er's life, she tried her best to run around to stop the Qing Dynasty from entering the pass and support Li Dingguo to take the throne. But in this life, she traveled through time and space and became Xiaozhuang. It was the 13th year of Shunzhi's reign, and the Qing Dynasty had already been established. She suddenly felt both ridiculous and absurd. In these countless hours and spaces, she seemed to have changed something, and yet, it seemed that she had changed nothing.
Once, she was Xiao Yu'er, and Dayu'er was her very close cousin. In order to make Dayu'er happy and disrupt the situation at that time, she secretly made Dayu'er marry Dorgon. Now, she has become Xiaozhuang. According to her memory, Xiaozhuang is not called Dayu'er at all, but Bumbutai! The original owner and Dorgon have never liked each other. Dorgon has a wife and concubines, and he is not half similar to the infatuated man who said "I will fight for you all my life"!
The original owner has never really loved anyone since she married Huang Taiji at the age of thirteen until she came here. In the original owner's heart, the most important thing before was Khorchin, and the most important thing later was the Qing Dynasty. The original owner was a thorough politician.
At first she was a little confused. This was the first time she met the same person in two time and space. This completely different personality made her very entangled for a while. She even learned about everyone she had met when she was in the Qing Dynasty. Different, really different.
The same background, the same characters, but different personalities. For the first time, she distinguished the history of the small space from her original world. This is the space of film and television dramas. All film and television dramas have a large part of fictional elements, which is different from the main world. So even if she travels to the same historical environment, the people she meets are not the same.
She thought that those immortals never intervened in the disputes of the mortal world, perhaps because there are many parallel time and space, and they can't manage it. If she keeps traveling to Xiao Yu'er's life, she changed the world situation the first time, and changed it again the second time, will she still take action the third time? Those immortals may have jumped out of the game long ago, no longer valued these, and let everything go with the flow.
Unfortunately, these are all her guesses. Although she cultivates immortals, she has not become an immortal yet. She is just a mortal with magic power now. The master taught her to follow her heart, not to do something deliberately, nor to do something deliberately. Only in this way can there be meaning in experience and find the true self.
On the second day after Shunzhi fell into a coma, Sony read out the imperial edict of abdication at the morning court. Some ministers who didn't know the situation were shocked and wanted to say something, but found that the ministers with great power in the hall were silent, and several staunch ministers of the royalist faction did not attend the court.
These people looked at each other, but no one dared to be the first to do so. Almost all those who could enter the hall were well versed in the ways of being an official. The important figures had no objections, and it was useless for them to say anything. Besides, their lives were important. Who knew if the ministers of the royalist faction who didn't show up would show up again!
In addition to the ministers who were controlled by means, Xiaozhuang still had many loyal followers. After planning to usurp the throne, she ordered her subordinates to prepare early. Ten days later, Xiaozhuang, wearing a bright yellow phoenix robe, stepped onto the dragon throne step by step, solemnly, and changed the reign title to Zhuangding. From then on, the Shunzhi Dynasty ended, and the Qing Dynasty officially entered the threshold of prosperity.
In the harem, except for Xiaozhuang moving into the Qianqing Palace, no one else changed, and Naren was still in charge of palace affairs. Naren didn't expect that Xiaozhuang would depose Shunzhi and become the emperor herself. It took her several days to recover. After that, she felt relieved. At least her position was stable. She no longer had to worry about being deposed for angering Shunzhi. She and her daughter didn't have to look at anyone's face, and she would never see the annoying Wu Yunzhu again.
Shunzhi was sent to Mount Wutai when he was in a coma. He always said that he had no choice. He was forced to be an emperor since he was a child. He had no freedom and could not live with his beloved woman. This time, Xiaozhuang let him and Wu Yunzhu leave the palace together and gave him the life he had dreamed of. I just don't know if he will be really happy.
After many people learned that Shunzhi was demoted to "Prince Jing", they all thought of Mengguqing, who was demoted to "Concubine Jing". The deposed queen incident severely slapped Xiaozhuang's face, but now the emperor was given the same title. They privately speculated that Xiaozhuang was mocking Shunzhi or hitting him, but no one dared to discuss it openly.
After Xiaozhuang ascended the throne, she wanted to focus on reform. She didn't have much time to get along with the ministers, so she simply made a big change in the court. There were promotions, demotions, retirements, and property confiscations. Many officials were affected. In just one month, all the important positions were replaced by Xiaozhuang's own people, who were easy to use and reliable.
E Shuo was directly dismissed from his post because of Wu Yunzhu's involvement. He was extremely angry, but he didn't dare to show his dissatisfaction with Xiaozhuang, so he had to hide in his house and drink to relieve his sorrow. Fei Yanggu persuaded him several times, but to no avail, so he ordered the servants to serve him carefully, and he worked harder to study and practice martial arts, hoping to support the family on his own in the future.
Xinyue was in the back house and got the news later than others. She didn't know that E Shuo was dismissed by Xiaozhuang because she hadn't seen E Shuo for several days. After hearing that E Shuo was drinking, she was very worried. She went to E Shuo's room to visit him in person despite the dissuasion of Yunwa and others.
As soon as she saw E'suo passed out drunk at the table, she rushed over and exclaimed: "Amuqi, how are you? Why did you drink so much? I'm Xinyue, Amuqi!"
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