Ashes

The two came to an open space, where some bow shooting equipment was set up. People who want to exercise their muscles and bones during their free time in the palace can shoot a few arrows. Dorgon and Duoduo like to play here on weekdays.

Dozens of paces away was an arrow stack, and they each took ten arrows and put them beside them.

"Is there a lottery if you win?" Dorgon picked up one of them and put it on the bowstring, took aim, and put it down again.

Huang Taiji quarreled with a smile: "What do you want?"

"Find me a bigger house so I can live more comfortably."

"The Khan Palace is so big, isn't it comfortable for you to live in?" Huang Taiji looked sideways at him fixedly, "Why? Don't you want to live with me?"

Dorgon just opened his bow, and suddenly heard his question, he almost lost his breath, his hand shook, and the arrow flew into the sky, and he didn't know where it fell.I always feel that something is wrong, should I answer yes or no? "It's not very convenient."

"Is there? I don't think so." Huang Taiji shot an arrow casually, "I think Bumbutai always looks for your Fujin, and they probably find it very convenient."

"Actually, I'm about the same age."

"You are not in good health, I don't feel relieved to let you live out, let's talk about it later." Regardless of his objection, Huang Taiji made a decision like that.

Dorgon gave him a sideways look, stopped continuing the topic, and thought of another thing: "After we left today, what did Erbeile tell you?"

"He wants to set up another mountain." Huang Taiji said casually, as if he didn't care.

Dorgon weighed the news in his mind for a long time: "Is he trying to imitate Ah Ma?"

I think Shuerhaqi had this idea at the beginning, so he was imprisoned by Nurhachi to death, and his eldest son and third son were removed together.

"He can't forget his Ama's death." Another arrow shot out of his hand with a bang.

Dorgon took an arrow and played with it in his hand, not thinking about shooting an arrow at all.Huang Taiji doesn't say unintentional words, everything he says must have meaning, and this sentence reveals a message: his first target is Amin.

Huang Taiji smiled slightly, although he was talking to him, his eyes were on the arrow stack: "At least part of our goals are the same, aren't we?"

Dorgon said coldly: "You said it too, it's part of it."

"Take your time, you know, I'm a very patient person."

Dorgon glanced at him disdainfully.

"I also received news today that people from Khalkha, Mongolia are here to make trouble again."

"They want to take advantage of your unstable status after you have just ascended the throne, right? They have repeatedly betrayed the alliance and provoked them, and they are getting more and more rampant." Dorgon said, "Then what are you going to do?"

Huang Taiji drew his bow, focused on aiming at the target, and adjusted the rhythm of his breathing. At a certain moment when he felt balanced, he let go of the bowstring. With the sound of the bowstring trembling, he said: "Strike!"

Beat, anyone who dares to bully will be beaten back, this is the style of generations of Nurhachi.

Huang Taiji suddenly stopped shooting arrows and smiled at him strangely.

Dorgon was terrified by his stare, and when he looked again, it turned out that he had shot ten arrows, but he had only shot half of them, so he quickly picked up the arrow, but he held it down with his palm.

"It's time." Huang Taiji smiled.

"What? Still have time?"

"Of course, is it possible that I still wait for you to shoot until tomorrow?"

"I didn't say that beforehand."

"Does this need to be said?"

"It's not fair! I'm not done yet!"

"I don't care if you finish shooting or not, it's my turn to ask you for the lottery."

Dorgon stared at him unconvinced for a long time, then snorted: "Okay then, what do you want?"

"let me see……"

"There is also a time limit. If I count to ten, it will be expired if you can't figure it out. Ten, nine, eight..." Dorgon spoke like a cannonball.

"Hey, don't bring such a thing, you make me nervous."

"Could it be that I still think of tomorrow with you? Five, four, three..."

"It was eight just now, how come it's five, can you count?"

"Two, one! Well, you have no chance, I'm leaving, goodbye!"

Huang Taiji grabbed Dorgon who turned his head and slipped away: "Don't run away, I just want to..."

"Brother!" A cold voice interjected between the two of them. They raised their eyes and saw Doduo, who was sweating profusely, holding a knife in his hand, looking at them viciously. Anytime, anywhere, they will rush over and cut them down.

Dorgon's heart trembled, fearing that Duoduo would do something absurd, he quickly broke away from Huang Taiji's hand, ran to Duduo without looking back, and pulled him away.

When they were far away and Huang Taiji was about to go back, Duoduo suddenly turned his head, his eyes showed a strong killing intent.

Huang Taiji was very displeased, no one who dared to look at him with such eyes could live long.According to his past temperament, he will definitely find an opportunity to teach him a good lesson, not to mention that he is already a child with no backing and no title.But he happened to be the younger brother of Dorgon's treasure. If he was shot, Dorgon, who already had a grudge against him, would hate him even more.

Duoduo's rebellion against Huang Taiji goes far beyond this.

Huang Taiji decided to send troops to crusade against the Khalkhajarut Department. The lineup this time is luxurious, including the three major Baylors and Azig, Dege, Jierhalang, Yuetuo, Sahalian, and Haoge and others, leaving behind Du Du, Dorgon, and Duo Duo, the two younger ones.

In order to show importance, Huang Taiji led Baylor, who stayed behind, to send the army out of the city.

"It's about time, it's time to go." Dorgon looked at the sky and said to Sahalian beside him.Because Sahalian is often by Huang Taiji's side, he has frequent opportunities to get in touch with him. For such a smart person who keeps up with Huang Taiji, it is extremely necessary to pay more attention to him—even though his life is not not long.

Sahalian looked very excited: "Well, it's almost there."

"You seem to be looking forward to it. Did Da Khan promise you something?"

Sahalian wanted to hold back, but he couldn't hold it back anymore, and leaned over and whispered, "Khan said, if I perform well this time, I will be named Baylor." After all, he is still young, and occasionally gets carried away.

Dorgon laughed and said, "The Great Khan values ​​you, and it will be a matter of time for Baylor."

Sahalian smiled happily.

There was a commotion in the crowd, Dorgon looked towards the tent, and it was Huang Taiji who came out: "I've passed, be careful when you go to the battlefield, don't be too desperate."

"Thank you, Uncle Fourteen."

Dorgon returned to Huang Taiji's side, accompanied him to see off the soldiers who had set out for the expedition, and then said some auspicious words to Daishan, the leader of the army.

Huang Taiji watched the army go away, and said to the two people around him: "We are going back."

It was a very casual sentence, but Duoduo was not happy, and pouted back: "Go back, I want to go outside the city for a while."

Huang Taiji's expression froze, but he still said in a good voice: "Okay, then I will leave a few people to protect you, don't play too late."

Dorgon was thinking, Duduo is getting emotional again, do you want to accompany him, and enlighten him again, but Duduo suddenly said: "Khan, when will you return the white flag to Brother Dudu?" ?”

From Dorgon to Huang Taiji, and then to Du Du on the side, everyone was stunned by his words, and no one thought that he would say such words at this time and on this occasion without thinking.Du Du, in particular, was so frightened that his face turned pale. Today, he has already been incorporated into the banner of Xianghong by Nurhachi.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Doduo proudly said: "So you are all telling Ama that there is nothing wrong with Brother Du Du, shouldn't you take away his white flag?"

"Ama took back the bordered white flag, of course he has his reasons. Although the owner of the bordered white flag is temporarily vacant, I will find a suitable candidate." Huang Taiji said expressionlessly.

Seeing Duduo's eyes glanced at him, Dorgon buzzed in his head, and before Duduo could speak, he pushed him away a step in the next moment: "Duoduo, let's go on horseback." Reluctant, he just pulled him away.

The two walked for a long distance, pulling and pulling, and they didn't stop until King Khan's camp turned into a small bag.

Duo Duo waved Dorgon away: "Stop pulling, what are you doing!"

"What are you doing? I should ask you this sentence. What were you talking about just now?"

"Did I say something wrong? Wouldn't it be good for you to be the banner owner?"

"Is this how the banner owner can be appointed?"

"Then what do you want?" Dodo said angrily, "Looking at him like that, he just wants to dominate the inlaid white flag. The inlaid white flag was originally what Ama wanted to give you."

"How many times have I told you, don't play with your temper anymore, how dare you confront him head-on? How dare you provoke his relationship with Du Du in public? Do you think he is a fool?"

"Isn't he doing too little? He just stuffed so many people into my Zhenghuang flag. Isn't this..." Duoduo thought for a while, "Dividing my power?"

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he added a minister of discussion, two assistant ministers, and two dispatch ministers to each banner, which broke the system that only the banner owner could discuss matters at once.

Dorgon's face was gloomy. He didn't believe that the young Dodo could see this level, let alone say the word "divided power". He said sharply, "Who told you those words just now?"

Duoduo hesitantly turned his head: "No one told me, didn't you say you were riding a horse? Not yet..."

"Who told you that!"

Dorgon shouted loudly, making Duo Duo tremble with fright.

"That..." Duo Duo didn't expect Dorgon to be so angry, "It's... Uncle Abtai said."

Sure enough, Dorgon did not expect that at this time, only Abutai would be close to the three brothers and tell such right and wrong.

"You are not allowed to associate with Abu Tai in the future." Dorgon was as cold as a stone.

"Why, that's our uncle. After Er Niang died, he was the only relative." When Er Niang was mentioned, Doduo's eyes turned red again, and it was only at this time that he looked like a real child.

Seeing his grievance, Dorgon's heart softened again.What can I say to him?Are you saying that Abtai is useless?He is hated by Xin Khan, will he have no future?Interacting with him will only bring the brothers together and be punished?How can you say these words to your younger brother who is not deeply involved in the world?How could he have the heart to use these cold facts to attack the innocent Duduo?

Dorgon warmed up his tone: "Are you listening to me or uncle?"

Dodo said without hesitation: "Listen to you."

"That's right, uncle, he is too impatient, and it will cause bad things. You just listen to me, will I still hurt you? Also, you must never say such things in front of Dahan in the future. Even if you don't like it anymore, you have to hold back."

Doduo responded reluctantly: "Understood."

How could Dorgon not understand his stubborn temper? Seeing that he was still unconvinced, Dorgon knew that there would be more troubles in the future, so he could only remind and persuade him more.

After playing with Duo Duo for a while to relieve his emotions, Dorgon returned to the Khan Palace and went to find Huang Taiji again.

Counting the time, something should come.