The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 272 I calculated with my fingers that the Qing Dynasty would lose thirty-six years of life! (Please subscribe and vote)

"Isn't Concubine Yi the original Concubine Yi?"

"Yes! It's Concubine Yi. She gave birth to my eldest prince. She has made great contributions. I have decided to promote her to Concubine Yi!" Xianfeng's face was full of love when he talked about Concubine Yi. "Wanzhen is her sister. I heard that she is also a beauty. If she wants to participate in the selection, she will at least be the wife of a prince. I will decide to marry her to Luo Xueyan. From now on, he will be my brother-in-law, Concubine Yi's brother-in-law, and my eldest prince's uncle."

Prince Gong Yixin was stunned for a while before he reacted: "Your Majesty, is this too much?"

He didn't dare tell Xianfeng that Luo Xueyan was a demon. After all, he had no solid evidence. If he used Shengbao's empty words to slap the emperor in the face, the slap might bounce back and hit him back.

But he still wanted to stop this marriage. After all, according to Hong Daquan's explanation, Concubine Yi was the destiny of the Qing Dynasty! Would it damage the fortune of the Qing Dynasty if the sister of the destiny of the Qing Dynasty went to sleep with the anti-Qing demon?

"Eh, how come it's passed?" Xianfeng waved his hand and smiled bitterly, "The three feudal lords back then were all married to the Aisin-Gioro family. Wu Yingxiong even married the daughter of Emperor Taizong, who was a Heshuo Princess of the Qing Dynasty! Although Wanzhen is the sister of Concubine Yi, she is just an ordinary banner woman, not even a princess."

"But the Bannermen do not marry"

Prince Gong Yixin wanted to persuade him again, but as soon as he brought up the ancestral rule of "banning marriage between the Manchus and the Han people", Emperor Xianfeng waved his hand and rejected it.

"Sixth Brother, why are you so inflexible today? When the old ancestral system proposed that the Han and the Bannermen should not marry, our Eight Banners were invincible! Do the Eight Banners still have soldiers who can fight now? Not to mention the Eight Banners, even the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp, which was once a powerful force to pacify the Three Feudatories, is now useless. I have finally understood that if the Qing Dynasty wants to survive, it must rely on the trained troops in the hands of the Han ministers!"

Xianfeng said this and sighed again: "Our Qing Dynasty has to rely on militia leaders like Li Chahan, Wang Baobao, Li Siqi, and Zhang Liangbi. Among the militia leaders who have emerged, Luo Xueyan is the most powerful.

Moreover, he is from Guangdong and returned from overseas. Although he has a connection with the Hunan Army, he is not a Hunanese after all! I will show him great kindness, treat him sincerely, and win him over. I will definitely make him the Wang Baobao of the Qing Dynasty! If I can let him and a few Hunanese check and balance each other, the Qing Dynasty can be maintained.

By the way, Lao Liu, when you meet Luo Xueyan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang at the Jiangbei Army, tell them that whoever can recapture Jiangning can be crowned king!"

Prince Gong was horrified: "A king? Your Majesty, the ancestral system of this dynasty is that if you don't confer a king in the south, you can continue to marry in the north!"

Xianfeng smiled bitterly and said, "I have already said that the Qing Dynasty now depends on people like Richard Han and Wang Baobao! Richard Han and Wang Baobao have both been crowned kings. Why can't Luo Xueyan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang be crowned kings? Do you think that after the Taiping Rebellion is pacified, if we don't crown them kings, they will not be able to be kings? If they crown themselves, I am afraid they will not be kings, but kings with more white.

In the history books, aren't there many ministers who were crowned kings after overcoming such disasters? Lao Liu, you've read a lot of history books, don't you think this is the case?"

Prince Gong nodded reluctantly.

By now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had become a major force, at least on the same level as the Yellow Turbans at the end of the Han Dynasty, Sun En and Lu Xun at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and Huang Chao at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian, who participated in the suppression of the Yellow Turbans, were all emperors - Cao Cao and Sun Jian were posthumously honored, while Liu Bei ascended the throne while he was still alive.

Liu Yu, who defeated Sun En and Lu Xun, also became the emperor, and he was an emperor as powerful as a tiger!

As for Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong, who defeated Huang Chao, they were also emperors. Li Keyong was posthumously named Emperor Wu of the Later Tang Dynasty, while Zhu Quanzhong was Emperor Taizu of the Later Liang Dynasty.

In other words, if the five militia leaders Luo, Zeng, Zuo, Jiang and Huang could really suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, according to the historical average, they would have two emperors and three princes!

If Luo Xueyan had remembered the kindness of Emperor Xianfeng and Concubine Yi, and just acted like a prince, restraining Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Huang Shijie, and Jiang Zhongyuan, he would have been a very loyal and good person.

If the Qing Dynasty doesn't even give him a king, then it is almost inevitable that Luo Xueyan will be given a yellow robe after sleeping!
If he wore the yellow robe, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Huang Shijie and Jiang Zhongyuan would probably follow suit.

As for not giving him the title of king but still being able to have Luo Xueyan as a loyal minister for free, Emperor Xianfeng didn't dare to even think about that!
Looking through the history books, there is no such loyal minister. Even Guo Ziyi, who made great contributions in suppressing the Anshi Rebellion, was named King of Fenyang and later given the title of "Shangfu".

As for Zeng Guofan in history, Xianfeng had never read "History of Qing Dynasty" or "Modern History of China", so he didn't know that there was such a good servant who was unprecedented and unparalleled.

"Let's go to the Ministry of Justice!"

Prince Gong Yixin's face was already clouded with gloom when he came out from Emperor Xianfeng's place. Guiliang and Shengbao wanted to say something nice to comfort him, but before they could figure out what to say, the prince had already spoken.

"Your Highness, what are you doing at the Ministry of Justice?" Gui Liang asked.

"The Ministry of Justice is still holding a demon," Prince Gong Yixin whispered, "He must know some magic tricks!"

"Your Highness, are you talking about Hong Daquan?" Shengbao was slightly stunned. "Hasn't he been lingchied yet?" Yi Xin did not answer Shengbao's question, because Hong Daquan should have been lingchied long ago! The three judicial departments had tried him and sentenced him to death by a thousand cuts. He should have been cut into pieces at the vegetable market last year, but because of Concubine Yi's pregnancy, Prince Gong postponed the day of his death by a thousand cuts.

The reason why Concubine Yi's pregnancy and Hong Daquan's beating were linked together was because Hong Daquan said at the time that only "the man of destiny of the Qing Dynasty" could open the mooncake box! Not long after Concubine Yi opened the box of mooncakes, she became pregnant with a dragon seed, which seemed to be in line with the saying of "the man of destiny".

As such a talented person who is good at calculating, Prince Gong must of course spare his life for the time being.

Now, Concubine Yi has given birth to the eldest prince and has been promoted to Concubine Yi, firmly sitting on the throne of the most favored concubine in Emperor Xianfeng's harem. Considering that the empress is infertile due to amenorrhea, Concubine Yi's son is most likely the future emperor. Emperor Xianfeng is in poor health and is addicted to alcohol and drugs, so he is unlikely to live long. Therefore, Concubine Yi is very likely to become the empress dowager - isn't this the "God's Mandate of the Qing Dynasty"?
The fact that Hong Daquan could accurately calculate the "man destined by heaven for the Qing Dynasty" showed that he had some skills, so Prince Gong Yixin had to spare his life.

As it turned out, it was the right thing to keep, as it really created an expert who could guide Prince Gong.

The Ministry of Justice’s Tianlao, cell number one.

Not just anyone can live in this cell. Only prisoners who have been sentenced to death by lingchi by the Three Judicial Courts are qualified to live here!

Hong Daquan is the prisoner who has stayed in this cell the longest in history, no doubt about it.

However, Hong Daquan's pursuit is not just to live in the No. 1 cell of the Ministry of Justice for a long time. He also wants to achieve an achievement that no one in history has ever achieved - to be released alive, rather than being stripped naked and taken to the vegetable market to be killed.

And Hong Daquan has only one way to save himself, which is to "pretend to be awesome" - pretending to be an awesome master!

When Prince Gong Yixin came to visit incognito with Shengbao and Guiliang, Hong Daquan was complaining about the decline in the quality of his food while pretending to be cool with a prison guard from the Ministry of Justice!

Hong Daquan: "Why is there still no wine and no meat? My mouth is almost dry. When I get out, I have to go to the best restaurant in Beijing to have a big meal, and then I have to go to a brothel. Hey, tell me, which restaurant in Beijing is good, and which brothel girl is beautiful?"

The jailer said, "Get out? If you leave here, you will be beaten to death in Caishikou!"

Hong Daquan: "No, I have already calculated that if I go out, I will be a distinguished guest of Prince Gong's Mansion and I will never go to Caishikou!"

The jailer said, "Then tell me, when can you go out and be the prince's guest of honor?"

Hong Daquan: "It's only a few days away. Maybe I can get out soon."

The jailer said: "Dream on. Eat early and go to bed. You can dream about anything!"

Hong Daquan: "Hey, let's wait and see!"

The jailer certainly didn't believe Hong Daquan's words, because he said it every day! He had been saying it for several months, and the jailers who were watching over the prison had calluses on their ears. But it was the first time that Prince Gong, Shengbao, and Guiliang, who were standing outside the cell, heard it.

Even this can be calculated!
It seems higher than I thought!

Fortunately, I wasn't dragged to Caishikou and cut.
Prince Gong quickly ordered a smiling official from the Ministry of Justice to bring Hong Daquan to a clean room, where he, Shengbao and Guiliang would personally interrogate him.

"Your Majesty, have you found the man of destiny of the Qing Dynasty? If I'm not mistaken, the foreign lama's magic power is still a little lacking. He couldn't defeat the Bull Demon King, right?"

When Hong Daquan walked into the purification room, he immediately started to show off when he saw Prince Gong, an old man with an official tone, a middle-aged man with an equally official tone, and two palace guards waiting for him inside.

When Prince Gong heard this, he felt that Hong Daquan was an expert, so he quickly sent the jailer who escorted him away, and then whispered to Hong Daquan: "The man of destiny has indeed been found, and she is a concubine of the emperor. The foreign lama is indeed no match for the demon, and the man of destiny's sister may become the demon's woman by mistake."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Before Prince Gong finished speaking, Hong Daquan burst into laughter.

Seeing Hong Daquan being so rude, Shengbao immediately shouted, "You bold traitor, why are you laughing?"

Hong Daquan immediately stopped laughing, counted his fingers with an unfathomable look on his face, then shook his head and said: "Prince Gong, I have calculated with my fingers and I know that the sister of this man of destiny of the Qing Dynasty is also unusual. If she is taken away by the Bull Demon King, the Qing Dynasty will lose 36 years of life because of this incident."

(End of this chapter)