Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 259
People in the capital were panicked, not only the Manchus, but also the Han officials.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a conference of kings and ministers, internal ministers, and auxiliary ministers such as Oboi, the real rules and regulations, taxation and civil affairs, and a series of things to govern the world were mostly done by Han officials. Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou, and then Jin Zhijun and Feng Quan, are nothing more than the same.

The cabinet outside the Taihe Gate in the Forbidden City, where all Han officials work.During the Shunzhi period, there was a north-south party struggle here, and a group of Han officials who were regarded as slaves wanted to compete for a north-south competition, and finally Shunzhi restructured it.Now that Oboi is in power, the empress dowager is hanging down the curtain, and the role of the cabinet is even weaker.

The officials here were rather panicked, because as more and more news came, they knew that Nanming's attitude towards traitors was not friendly either.It's okay for those who have made a little contribution to Nanming, and they will still be sent back to the hometown after a warning. If the family has some surplus money, they can be a rich man after all.If he did not surrender to Nanming, he would be captured and arrested. If it was serious, he would be shot for crime, and if it was light, his whole family would be exiled.There is a generation in the early years of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the distribution and exile can be said to have reached the pinnacle of all dynasties.Better ones who are repatriated to Taiwan are not allowed to relocate for 50 years.It was so short that they were sent directly to Java and Burma. Even after hearing the "slander" of Sister Lion, Bai Mingxiu began to consider following the example of the British Puritans to colonize North America, and sent these exiles and their families to California to serve as the Ming Dynasty. Set up a colony.

Wei Zhou Zuo, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, has been listless these days. He was already considered a senior member of the court, and he was extremely prominent among Han officials.

"The people below are getting more and more careless, and they are evading one after another. Can this important national matter be done?" Another university scholar, Jiang Hede, was full of anger.

Wei Zhouzuo sighed, and said to Jiang Hede: "Brother Jiuzhen, why bother to get angry? Now even the capital is full of adults who want to flee back to the outside of the pass, how can the local people settle down to govern the people and govern? Those, probably have been secretly communicated with the south, as soon as the National Restoration Army arrives, they will immediately open the city and surrender."

Jiang Hede knew it too, his expression was bleak and his lips were trembling.

Wei Zhouzuo was a second minister. He had been an official in the Ming Dynasty and was a Jinshi. He was also quite talented.And Jiang Hede was born in the Ming Dynasty, and was later recruited by Huang Taiji to be an official, and even changed his name to a half-full and half-han.

Jiang Hede moved closer to Wei Zhouzuo, observed that there was no one else nearby, and asked in a low voice, "Does Master Wei have any plans?"

Wei Zhouzuo let out a long sigh, with a dejected face, and said: "What else can I do? Back then, he had lost his reputation when he rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and became an official in the Qing Dynasty. I don't have much to think about, but I'm afraid that someone will poke my back for thousands of years after death, and it will also drag down my descendants."

Jiang Hede was also helpless, he said: "I heard that some people in the court began to secretly send the talented children of their families to the south, change their names, and pass the exam to the Southern Imperial Academy. At least it counts, leaving a future for the family road……"

Wei Zhouzuo shook his head. He is from Quwo, Shanxi Province. He has been an official for dozens of years.For the future, he has basically given up.

--split line--

In the Iron Lion Alley in the capital, Gong Dingzi, the only one of the three Jiangzuo families who remained as an official in the Qing Dynasty, is now like an ant on a hot pot.

"Qian Muzhai died of illness at sea, and Wumei Village sent him to intercourse. They are still retired people, and I am still employed by the Qing court. If the Ming army really re-enters the capital in the future, how will I end well?" Gong Dingzi put his arms around him. His beloved concubine, Gu Hengbo, felt restless.

Gu Hengbo was also worried: "The master is unparalleled in poetry, he is the world's number one romantic figure, and he is also the leader of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Could it be that the prince in charge of the country will not win over the master at all?"

Gong Dingzi was almost heartbroken, he said: "I am afraid that this prince is a person who has never existed in ancient times. He is fifteen years old, but he is very talented. He has slaughtered dragons, turned the clouds and rained, and is about to regain the Ming Dynasty. In the south of the Yangtze River, do you see who he has been polite to?" However, Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu and others are highly regarded by him, but he hates courtiers who lose their morals. Manchuria has killed a lot, and this Crown Prince is no different, and the Manchurians are about to be killed by him."

Gu Hengbo also had a miserable heart, she said: "I heard that the high officials and nobles in the court are all busy going outside the customs, does the master have any plans?"

"It's bitterly cold outside the pass, how can I be willing to go there to suffer for such a beautiful family member like a flower!" Gong Dingzi said, he didn't dare to go outside the pass, if the environment got worse outside the pass, who knows what those Manchurians will do.Even after entering the customs, there were such things as Duoduo robbing Fan Wencheng's wife. Gong Dingzi loved Gu Hengbo sincerely, but he couldn't bear her.

The only thing that can make Gong Dingzi feel relieved is that Nanming did not treat his relatives too harshly.The reason is that Gong Dingzi's wife, Mrs. Tong, has more integrity than Gong Dingzi. She didn't go to Beijing with Gong Dingzi, but stayed in Hefei. shear wave.On the contrary, Gu Hengbo was extremely happy to become the imperial wife, and it was an adventure to receive such a reward for her background as a prostitute.

In this way, Nanming let go of the chastity-abiding Mrs. Tong's Gong family in Hefei.But Gong Dingzi thought he would not have such good luck.

Gong Dingzi said: "The Qing Dynasty can no longer sustain it. Even a reckless man like Oboi in Beijing would not dare to fight against the Ming Dynasty. The warriors have no intention of defending the country. What is the country like? In my life, I won you It is great luck, I dare not ask for glory, wealth, and official authority. With the current situation, it is better to go back here. The two of us brought our confidantes and servants and went to the south. Jiangnan is now stable and prosperous. The two of us changed our names. Surname, wouldn’t it be beautiful to be a couple of gods and immortals?”

Although Gu Hengbo, like Gong Dingzi, is a person who is greedy for profit and has no restraint, the two really have a "soul-stirring" love. Gu Hengbo came to Beijing alone to join Gong Dingzi, and when Gong Dingzi was released from prison, Gu Hengbo waited for him outside , the two are inseparable.

"It's all up to the master's orders. As long as he is with the master, Hengbo is willing to be with him, even if he is a farm woman."

The midsummer of the 17th year of the Yongli calendar will be gone, and autumn will soon arrive. The twilight in the capital is like everything dying, and it will not go away no matter what.

(End of this chapter)