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Chapter 657 The commander is the emperor!

After Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court was originally planning to hold a ceremony for the King of Yi in the capital, but Hong Chengchou wrote a letter saying that it should be held on site in Changsha, so that it could quickly appease Sun Kewang's heart and let the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty know the Qing Dynasty's attention to those who came back. At the same time, they used Sun Kewang to surrender to make public opinion, and maximized the political value of Sun Kewang's surrender.

Shunzhi approved Hong Chengchou's memorial, so he held a ceremony for Sun Kewang in Changsha. However, just when Shunzhi asked Sun Kewang to come to Beijing to see the emperor, a huge change occurred in Guangdong. Prince Jian Jidu was ordered to lead the army south to quell the rebellion. The Qing court prepared for the three armies to enter Yunnan, and Sun Kewang's entry into the capital was delayed. He had been staying in Changsha. Before Hong Chengchou entered the southwest, he specially ordered Sun Kewang to build a royal palace in Changsha. In order to appease Sun Kewang, Shunzhi issued two orders to give Sun Kewang 12,000 taels of silver, and also to untied robes, court clothes, satin pieces, etc. This made Sun Kewang, who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, feel that he was walking the right path. In the future, he would have succeeded in reporting the humiliation of the Qing army under Li Dingguo in the past.

However, as the three Qing army's war progressed smoothly in the southwest, Sun Kewang's treatment of King Yi changed day by day, and his weight in Shunzhi's heart also decreased day by day. In July last year, Sun Kewang was overjoyed after learning that his younger brother Sun Kesheng, who had been separated for more than ten years, was in Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan, and hurriedly wrote a letter to the Qing court, asking the Qing court to use the military post to send his younger brother's family who was in the Green Camp in Jiangnan to Changsha to reunite with him. Unexpectedly,

A slight request attracted a fierce bombardment from the censors in the court. A group of censors attacked Sun Kewang, saying that he "firstly used Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son to poison Shu Chu, and the gods and men were angry. Then he claimed that the soldiers were in abdicated and rebelled against my Yan Xing. After being betrayed by the relatives and left, he led hundreds of exhausted soldiers to return to the death..." Not only did he curse Sun Kewang viciously, the censors also called Sun Kewang's younger brother was just a food soldier, with no official position. How dare such a person use the national post?

After seeing these impeachment memorials, Shunzhi refused to comment, and asked people to send them to Changsha for Sun Kewang to see him. After seeing these impeachments, Sun Kewang felt like he was like thunder. How powerful he was when he was the king of Qin. Today he became the King of Yi of the Qing Dynasty, but was attacked by the guy who helped him get a knife and pen. He felt helpless as if he was bullied by a dog. Sun Kewang felt the coldness of the Qing court and Shunzhi towards him, and had no choice but to submit a memorial to apologize. He thought that he had submitted a memorial to apologize for this matter, and the Qing court would no longer care about him. Unexpectedly, in March this year, someone exposed Sun Kewang's money and profit in Changsha.

The money lending for profits is a thing that has happened for thousands of years. Not to mention the Han people, even among the Manzhou Banners in Beijing and various places, Shunzhi made a big fuss and sent Cabinet Scholar Ma Erji to Changsha to read the edict. He first reprimanded Sun Kewang, and then announced his lenient guilt to show the emperor's great kindness. After that, Sun Kewang's situation became more and more embarrassing. Although he regarded himself as the King of Yi in Changsha, officials of Changsha were never respectful to him, the King of Yi, which was exactly what the ancient saying said, the dragon lost its power and was the same as the earthworm. It can be said that if it weren't for the Taiping Army's series of anti-Qing and atrocities in Guangxi and Huguang, if it weren't for the Doni army trapped in the southwest, Shunzhi would definitely not remember Sun Kewang, and would not have sent him a lenient order.

In this holy intention that Sun Kewang gave him a great example, Shunzhi first made a big statement of his actions to surrender anyway, and then gave him a bunch of imperial objects to Sun Kewang's sons, but in the end, he made a clear statement of intention. Shunzhi hoped that Sun Kewang could use his influence on the old subordinates of the pseudo-Ming King of Qin in the past, especially to win over the old subordinates of Guangxi and Huguang who surrendered to the Taiping Army, so that they could escape from the Taiping gangs and return anyway.

Shunzhi thought of making Sun Kewang work, but issuing an order to Princess Heshuo Kong Sizhen and her husband Sun Yanling was the suggestion of the Minister of Interior Suksaha.

Suksaha said that Guangxi has always been under the charge of the commander of King Kong Youde of Dingnan. Now, the commander of Guoan from the front has been ordered by Duoni to return to Guangxi, but the war seems to be unsatisfied. It is better to let Princess Heshuo's fourth princess and her husband go south to Guangxi to take charge.

The fourth princess of Heshuo, Kong Sizhen, was the daughter of Kong Youde, the former king of Southern King Kong Youde. Kong Sizhen was adopted by Wu Sangui as adopted daughter when he was young. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Li Dingguo attacked Guangxi, and Kong Youde called his two wives and their children to come to him. He told the two wives that he would die in the country if the city was broken, and hoped that the two wives could go out of the city with their children for a while. However, the two wives refused to leave, and finally decided that the two nannies would take Kong Tingxun, and Kong Sizhen and his sister fled to the countryside outside the city with the refugees.

After escaping outside the city, in order not to arouse other people's suspicion, the two nannies took one child to find a shelter. The military and civilians of Guilin knew that King Kong Youde of Dingnan had two children in his teens, so the two nannies were very eye-catching with Kong Tingxun and were easily captured by the Ming army. So the two nannies discussed and decided to hide separately with Kong Sizhen and his brother Kong Tingxun. After the city of Guilin was broken, Kong Youde committed suicide. More than 120 people of his family were killed. Only Kong Sizhen escaped and was captured by Li Dingguo. He was executed a few years later.

After nearly a year of refugee life, Kong Youde's general, Ai Guoan, captured Guilin when Li Dingguo's main force turned. Under the leadership of Ai Guoan, the remains of Kong Youde and his two wives were buried. Kong Sizhen, dressed in white, carried the coffin north and drove his horse to the capital day and night. From Guilin to Beijing, it took thousands of miles, and the two lakes were also areas where the anti-Qing army was infested. Ai Guoan, who was in charge of military affairs, sent the most capable generals and the most elite troops to escort Kong Sizhen to the Beijing.

In the 11th year of Shunzhi, Kong Sizhen carried the coffin to Beijing. Shunzhi ordered the kings and ministers to send it to the 4,000 taels of silver to build a tomb. The Ministry of Works erected a monument. Kong Sizhen asked to bury Kong Youde's bones in Beijing. Shunzhi agreed with mercy and granted Kong Youde a posthumous title of "Wu Zhuang", established the Dingnan Wuzhuang King Temple in Beijing, and held a ceremony to recite scriptures for 18 days and nights. In addition, Shunzhi sent the Minister of Rites to give Kong Sizhen ten thousand taels of silver to daily use, so that she could enjoy the salary of the princess. The Empress Dowager pity Kong Sizhen for his lonely and lonely, adopted her in the palace and was given more favors.

Although Kong Sizhen was the daughter of Kong Youde and was considered a tiger-like daughter of the general, she looked handsome and loved by everyone. Therefore, Shunzhi was very jealous of Kong Sizhen. The empress dowager saw it and wanted to be in her heart. She felt that if her son accepted Kong Sizhen as her concubine, she could win over the Han army under the Dingnan vassal. So she deliberately cultivated the relationship between Kong Sizhen and Shunzhi, not only urged Kong Sizhen to read the scriptures, but also whenever Shunzhi retreated from court, she always had to find a reason to send Kong Sizhen to Shunzhi's residence. Especially when Shunzhi went to Nanyuan to hunt, she always had to accompany him.

After a while, one night in Nanyuan, Shunzhi suddenly broke into Kong Sizhen's room and slept with her. Afterwards, Kong Sizhen cried and made a fuss, which made Shunzhi very upset. After knowing this, the empress dowager asked her why she refused to marry the emperor. Kong Sizhen said that when her father was alive, she had betrothed her to the descendants of Sun Long, the son of the general, Sun Yanling, so she was a man with a husband.

The Empress Dowager was stunned for a while before sighing and said, "Since you can't be my daughter, just be my daughter!" So the Empress Dowager accepted Kong Sizhen as her adopted daughter and was conferred the princess Heshuo. Soon, she presided over the marriage to Kong Sizhen to Sun Yanling. Unfortunately, Sun Yanling suffered a loss when she was in a bridal night, and she did not dare to be angry or speak out.

Kong Sizhen was born into a general. Her father was the King of Dingnan. She was the adopted daughter of the empress dowager, and she had an inexplicable ambiguous relationship with the emperor. Therefore, after marrying Sun Yanling, she was arrogant in front of her husband and shouted at Sun Yanling. She often lived in the palace for several days under the name of visiting the empress dowager.

Sun Yanling knew the relationship between his wife and the emperor, but he was very scheming. Although he was not satisfied with Kong Sizhen's tyranny and infidelity, he knew that he could not afford to offend her, so he only respected Kong Sizhen in every way, ignored her actions, and welcomed her with complacent wishes. This move naturally made Kong Sizhen very satisfied, so he often said good things about Sun Yanling in front of the empress dowager and the emperor, which made the empress dowager and Shunzhi have a good impression of Sun Yanling.

Although he was a gentleman, he was not as idle as a manzhou in Beijing. Sun Yanling had always wanted to gain real power, so he kept beating Kong Sizhen to ask the empress dowager and the emperor to let the couple go out to Guangxi and command his father-in-law Kong Youde's old subordinates. However, Kong Sizhen refused to leave Beijing and go to Guangxi because of his affair with the emperor. Helplessly, Sun Yanling had to wait patiently.

The emperor paid off. Sun Yanling saw his own opportunity from the news that the emperor was personally expeditioned. So he took the path of the Minister of Interior Suksaha and asked Suksaha to mention the situation in Guangxi in front of the emperor and let the couple go to Guangxi. So Suksaha, who received a lot of money, handled the matter for Sun Yanling. Even though Shunzhi did not want Kong Sizhen to leave her, Suksaha's proposal was also in line with the current situation. Guangxi really had to send personnel to take charge. No matter how much the line Guoan was, it was just Kong Youde's general, and it could not make the Dingnan Fan obey. Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling were different. With him and his wife going to Guangxi, the Han army forces under the Dingnan Fan could be truly integrated.

When the imperial edict came to the door, Kong Sizhen realized that her husband was making a small move on his back, and was shocked and angry. However, the imperial edict had been issued, and the emperor's words were extremely correct. He had to take his disciples Dai Liangchen, Fu Honglie and others unwilling to set off for Guangxi.

Unlike his wife's reaction, Sun Yanling smiled all the way after leaving Beijing, feeling like he was crossing Yumen Pass again in the spring breeze.

Three or four days after Kong Sizhen and his wife left Beijing, Shunzhi felt a little regretful. After all, Kong Sizhen's vagina was more tangled than his beloved concubine Dong E's, and he was also a wife. Being with Kong Sizhen could make Shunzhi feel a sense of having an affair. Unfortunately, the beauty has gone, and as the emperor, he could not send someone to drive his wife back.

When Shunzhi regretted and depressed, a bald man pointed at the Tang Palace in Wen Village, Taishan, Guangdong thousands of miles away, and cursed: "You Tang King, you are so ignorant. If you don't be the emperor, my general will be the emperor!"
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