The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 787 Yehenala - Eight Ministers of Guardianship
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
Kangxi was starting to have a headache again.

"One son... two queens? Eight regents!"

What about powerful ministers in power, the harem interfering in politics, the young ruler and the country in doubt...

All the things that happened in history poured out from the long river of time and drowned him.

"It's an eventful time, an eventful time."

Kangxi could only mutter these four words.

But there's nothing I can do.

There was nothing I could do except be pissed off.

……

【July 1861, the 8th year of Emperor Xianfeng’s reign (August 21, )】

【Xianfeng was seriously ill and summoned ministers to come in. The ministers present included the Imperial Minister and Prince Yi Zaiyuan. 】

【The Minister of the Court, Prince Zheng Duanhua. 】

[The Minister of the Court, the First Duke Jing Shou. ]

【The Imperial Minister and Associate Grand Secretary Su Shun. 】

[Chief Military Minister, Minister of War Mu Yin. ]

【Kuang Yuan, Minister of Military Affairs and Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. 】

[Du Han, Minister of Military Affairs and Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites.]

[Eight people including the Grand Councilor, the Imperial Household Department's Junior Secretary Jiao Youying.]

[Announcement: "The eldest son of the Emperor, Zaichun, is hereby appointed as the Crown Prince."]

[Another decree: "The eldest son of the Emperor, Zaichun, is now appointed as the Crown Prince. Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Jingshou, Sushun, Muyin, Kuangyuan, Duhan, and Jiao Youying are ordered to assist him wholeheartedly and support all government affairs."]

[Although there were eight regents, the core of them was Sushun, the minister whom Xianfeng trusted the most.]

[Prince Gong Yixin was not on the list of ministers who "assisted in government affairs"]

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The period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
Liu Qi thought Xianfeng was a very interesting person.

"It stands to reason that the people used in times of crisis should be the ones you trust."

"But there is no such person among the ministers entrusted with the care of the young emperor."

"Che'er, what does this mean?"

Little Liu Che fiddled with the chess pieces without raising his head and said:

"This shows that he is aware of his ability but also fears his identity."

"You can entrust your help to others in times of trouble, but you cannot share your achievements."

Liu Qi snatched the chess piece from little Liu Che's hand and warned:
"I finally found it, and you ruined it!"

"These are my precious memories!"

Little Liu Che looked speechlessly at Liu Qi who was wiping the chess pieces and chessboard like they were treasures.

I don’t know whether you are precious or not.

All we can say is that the punishment did not fall on King Liang, as my father still managed to restrain himself.

wrong……

Little Liu Che touched his chubby chin and thought deeply.

Maybe my father invited King Liang to play chess?
No wonder we never see two of them playing chess!
……

On the canopy.

Inside the palace.

The hat tassels of officials and eunuchs were covered with white cloth.

The lanterns in the palace were covered with white cloth.

The red candles were also replaced with large white candles.

A young child wearing a white mourning robe, with a bald head and a small braid, was held in the arms of a woman wearing the queen's court dress.

Next to the woman sat a concubine of the same rank.

Both concubines had a large seal in their hands.

Under the imperial steps.

The eight ministers kowtowed and shouted.

But there is only one person who is the leader.

And outside the palace.

The prince in a dragon robe stood outside the palace with his hands behind his back, watching everything inside.

Behind him were a group of officials wearing red hats.

……

【According to the arrangement made by Emperor Xianfeng during his lifetime, the throne was inherited by the prince Zaichun, but because he was young, before he took power, government affairs were presided over by the "Prince Ministers who Assisted in Government Affairs", that is, eight ministers including Sushun were allowed to exercise the imperial power: reading memorials and drafting imperial edicts on his behalf.】

[In order to prevent the "ministers who assist in government affairs" from abusing their power, Emperor Xianfeng also gave Empress Niuhulu a seal with the words "Imperial Award" and gave Prince Zaichun a seal with the words "Tongdaotang".]

[The prince was young, so the "Tongdaotang" seal was managed by his mother, Nara.]

……

{Here it comes, the big one is coming.}
{Old witch!}

{Xianfeng was not ruthless enough to kill the mother and keep the son, but even if Emperor Wu of Han was ruthless, that would be the outcome.}
{The story of Gouyi proposed by Sushun only appears in Yun Minding's Chongling Chuanxinlu and Xu Zhiyan's Shiye Yewen}
｛Although the "Gouyi Story" is clearly mentioned in them, the source of their information is not stated.｝
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The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
Liu Che frowned and said righteously:

"Nonsense! What do you mean by killing the mother and leaving the child behind?!"

"Did I do it?"

"I just want to ask you if you have done it now?!"

"Answer me!"

"What nonsense!"

Liu Che pointed at the sky and smiled to his left and right:
"It slanders me. It slanders me."

"His heart is as bad as a pig's!"

Wei Zifu smiled with her lips but not her heart.

Huo Qubing lowered his head and looked at the lines on his palm.

Xiao Liu bit his fingers.

Liu Che cleared his throat and flicked his sleeves.

"It seems you are very sensible."

"Keep watching."

Interesting...Xianfeng is interesting, and this woman is also interesting.

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Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period
Qianlong looked at the four words "Gouyi Story" with a dark face.

He read through all the historical books of all dynasties until they were worn out.

He could understand some things just by these four words.

Xianfeng, that idiot, definitely let that woman have access to memorials!

This Nara must have been educated!
Emperor Xianfeng was negligent in his duties, and a large number of memorials were submitted every day.

According to the regulations, he should open and read it personally.

Even if all of them were sent to the Grand Council, they would at least have to be opened and read once. Otherwise, when the Grand Councilor asked for instructions, he would be clueless and give irrelevant answers, which would make a big joke and greatly damage the emperor's majestic status.
In this way, he asked his beloved concubine to open and read the letter on his behalf and tell him the gist of it.

"idiot……"

……

{Too naive, a triangle is the most stable. If we really want to remove the mother, the Qing Dynasty had Oboi and the Han Zhao Emperor had Huo Guang.}
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The period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty
Liu Fuling put his hands in his sleeves and smiled:

“It seems that the history of descendants is very good.”

"Everything he said had a reason."

Huo Guang kept silent.

My heart goes to the big man.

We can learn from the sun and the moon!

If it weren't for those idiots in my family, I might have been able to gain a reputation as a harmonious monarch and subject with Your Majesty.

There is no such thing as Zhaolie Wuhou.

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The period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty
Liu Bingyi muttered:

"Everyone knows he is a powerful official."

"Except himself."

Xu Pingjun held the child and looked at Liu Bingyi mumbling there, and said with a smile:
"But if there is no great general, the Great Han Terror would not have survived until the disease came to help the sky fall, right?"

Liu Bingyi looked up at Xu Pingjun and said with a smile:

"You...really have a broad mind..."

Xu Pingjun snorted and ignored him.

... {In fact, in history, there was another empress dowager who had always had more power than Cixi, but Cixi also had the advantage of having a longer life.}
……

Big man.

"Oh~"

Liu Bang suddenly realized.

"Cixi...then which of these two people is Cixi?"

The old rogue began to take interest.

"Let me see what kind of person is this that could make future generations curse him so much at the beginning?"

Lu Zhi frowned and thought about another thing.

Xianfeng...the last emperor with real power?
What about Tongzhi?
Did Cixi also learn from Wu Zetian?

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Tang Xuanzong Period
Li Longji looked empty-eyed, leaning on the couch, muttering:

"I don't know why, but I always feel like I'm living in a shadow."

Yang Yuhuan, who was eating fruit, turned her head and asked curiously:
"Emperor Taizong?"

Li Longji paused and looked at the imperial concubine with resentment.

"It's me... it's the future me."

Yang Yuhuan said "Oh" without interest and turned back to continue eating the fruit.

……

[All imperial edicts drafted by the "Assisting" ministers were stamped with the "Imperial Award" seal at the beginning and the "Tongdaotang" seal at the end.]

[That is to say, let the Niuhulu and Nara clans supervise the ministers who "assist government affairs" and play a role of political balance. ]

[Emperor Xianfeng’s arrangement was announced to the world in the form of an imperial edict the day after his death.]

[The purpose of Xianfeng's political design was to ensure a smooth transition of the throne to his son Zaichun.]

[This design looked very beautiful, but it was broken soon after. The problem was caused by the concubines who held the seals of "Yushang" and "Tongdaotang".]

……

On the canopy.

A banner woman with white teeth, red lips, and beautiful eyes and eyebrows kowtowed to Emperor Xianfeng.

Xianfeng looked at the woman who touched the flag head in salute.

I couldn't take my eyes off it for a moment.

……

[The Nara clan, whose ancestors lived in Yehe, are also called the Yehe Nara clan. They were from the Bordered Blue Banner of Manchuria, and later, because of the status of the Empress Dowager, they were promoted to the Bordered Yellow Banner of the upper three banners.]

[She was born in the 1835th year of Emperor Daoguang’s reign (November 11), when Emperor Xianfeng was four years younger. Both official and private records describe her as a beautiful woman.]

……

{From the historical photos, it is ugly.}
｛Most of the Qing harems do not conform to modern people's aesthetics.｝
{Maybe she was very beautiful when she was young, but now we see photos of her when she was old.}
{Good-looking... a girl with boyish features? High emotional intelligence.}
{Her sister Wanzhen is quite pretty.}
{Prince Gong also said he was a handsome man...different aesthetics.}
｛Yizhu has forgotten the teachings of his ancestors: "It was Yehe who destroyed Jianzhou"｝
{After detailed research by historians in recent years, the widely circulated story in the notes novels that when the Yehe tribe was destroyed by Nurhaci, the ancestors of the Yehe tribe vowed that "as long as there is one woman left, we will be able to destroy Manchuria" has been proven to be the creation of the notes novelists.}
{Isn't Cixi a member of the Yehenara clan?}

{This is a joke by later novelists (after Empress Dowager Cixi), a story about drawing the target before shooting the arrow.}
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Qing Dynasty - Taizong Period
Huang Taiji sat in a chair and watched carefully.

"Don't worry about whether it's a target or not for now."

"What do they mean by that?"

Bumbutai looked embarrassed.

The meaning is already obvious.

If the Qing Dynasty didn't fall into her hands specifically, it would have fallen into her hands indirectly.

……

[According to the Qing Dynasty system, the daughters of banner officials had to participate in the selection of concubines.]

[In the first year of Emperor Xianfeng’s reign (1851), the imperial concubine selection was held. Nara was exactly years old, and officials from the Bordered Blue Banner also registered her in the autumn of that year. This was the first imperial concubine selection after Emperor Xianfeng came to power.]

[The person Xianfeng was most attracted to this time was the 15-year-old Niuhulu, the daughter of Mu Yang'a, the governor of Youjiang, Guangxi.]

[On February 3 (March 31) of the first year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign, Hulu was given the title of Zhenpin and ordered to enter the palace on May 6 (June 14).]

[After only a few days in the palace, she skipped the rank of Concubine and was promoted to Concubine Zhen. A month later, she skipped the rank of Imperial Concubine and was promoted to Empress.]

[In October of the third year of Emperor Xianfeng’s reign (November 1853), Niuhuru, who had not undergone the ceremony of being canonized as a concubine or a noble concubine, was directly crowned as the empress.]

[The only one who was promoted in the palace second only to the Niuhulu clan was the Nara clan]

[On February 1854, the fourth year of Emperor Xianfeng’s reign (March 3, 24), Emperor Xianfeng promoted Nara to the rank of Yipin, the first woman to be promoted in the palace except for the empress.]

[On March 1856, the sixth year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign (April 4, 27), Concubine Yi gave birth to a son, Zaichun, and was given the title of Concubine Yi.]

[Only one month later, Xianfeng promoted Nara to Imperial Consort Yi.]

……

Datang.

Li Shimin frowned.

"This scene... looks very familiar..."

No one responded.

Doesn't that look familiar?

You change Xianfeng to Li Zhi and Nara to Wu Zetian.

More familiar!
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Tang Xuanzong Period
"It's over."

Li Longji clapped his hands and curled his lips.

"It's useless!"

"Isn't the Qing Dynasty over?"

"I can guess what's going to happen next!"

"The eight ministers of state have been removed, and she is now the empress dowager ruling the country from behind the scenes!"

"Maybe I can become an emperor for fun."

"Isn't this just a replica of Wu Zhou?"

Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng Period
Concubine Yi was still dizzy.

The expressions of the palace maids and eunuchs around them seemed a little strange.

Joy, panic, excitement, fear.

There are so many emotions.

"Bring the child here and close the palace gates."

Concubine Yi whispered to the eunuch beside her.

She felt that things were heading in a very terrifying direction.

……

[On July 1861, the 8th year of Emperor Xianfeng’s reign (August 23, ), the eight ministers who “assist government affairs” presented Niu Hulu with the title of Empress Dowager.]

[On July 24 (), the title of the Empress Dowager was given to the Nara clan. It was also said that the two palaces were honored equally, but the order of time was used to belittle the Nara clan.]

[On the same day, Sushun and others met with the two Empress Dowagers to discuss the procedures for handling official documents. Sushun and others advocated that the memorials should be read by the eight ministers together, and the imperial edicts should be drafted by the eight ministers together, and then the two Empress Dowagers should be asked to stamp the seals of "Imperial Award" and "Tongdaotang" respectively, but the Empress Dowagers were not allowed to change the imperial edicts.]

[The two Empress Dowagers insisted on reading the memorials, and the draft edicts were sealed and put into effect after they approved them.]

[This was the first direct conflict between the eight ministers who assisted in government affairs and the two Empress Dowagers.]

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Qing Dynasty Yongzheng Period
"What do they want to do?"

Yongzheng sensed something was wrong.

The approach taken by Sushun and others was more in line with the emperor's dying wishes.

Although Xianfeng issued the two seals, he only hoped that Nianhulu and Nara would intervene when the safety of the throne was involved.

On weekdays, he is just a symbolic "nominal king" who serves as a deterrent.

"The requirement to seal the imperial edict only after approval can be said to be in line with the intention of Emperor Xianfeng issuing the seal."

"Asking to read the memorials is like the harem interfering in government affairs!"

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Qing Dynasty, Daoguang Period
Emperor Daoguang looked at the dispute between the two Empress Dowagers and the ministers in the sky with a displeased expression.

Can these two of them understand the memorials?

Why do the two palaces act in complete unison?
Although Niuhulu had no children, she was the legitimate mother after all. Why would she wade into this muddy water?
Daoguang looked at Nara who was hiding behind Niu Hulu, his eyes flickering.

"Kill someone with a borrowed knife?"

……

【Faced with the tough attitudes of the two palaces, Sushun compromised. 】

[After all, it was the emperor's right to read the memorials. He could not stop the two palaces from speaking in the name of the young emperor.]

[And he didn't care about the behavior of the two Empress Dowagers. After all, it was the ancestral rule that the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics. He was more concerned about Yi Xin who was still in Beijing. He believed that this former brother and current uncle who controlled the situation in the capital was not included in the list of "assistants" and would definitely take action. ]

【So, Sushun issued another decree in the name of the young emperor, allowing Yixin to participate in the "funeral ceremony" and ordering him to stay in Beijing and not go to Rehe. 】

[But Sushun didn't know that one of his trusted foreman, Military Secretary Cao Yuying, had already secretly surrendered to Yixin, and Prince Gong had already mastered every move in Rehe.]

……

(End of this chapter)