In the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City in Dadu, the Great Khan Lianhua was in high spirits admiring flowers with Concubine Zhuang Erdeni Bumba. In recent days, happy events have occurred in the palace one after another: Concubine Hui Sijimodege, Concubine Kang Zhenya, and Concubine Zhuang Erdeni Bumba have given birth to a son and two daughters, and Concubine Ning Odunmuqier is also pregnant. The Great Khan was very happy. He named Sijimodege's daughter Naren, which means the sun, and gave her the title of Princess Yanggao. He named Concubine Kang Zhenya's daughter Sarin, which means the moon, and gave her the title of Princess Gu'an. He named Concubine Zhuang Erdeni Bumba's son Sukhbaru, which means tiger, and gave him the title of King Chen. Having many children and more blessings is naturally a good thing, but more importantly, he feels that he is still as strong as ever.
"Khan, what are you thinking about?" Erdene Bumba asked happily after taking the little prince from the nurse. After giving birth, the queen's figure did not change much, but became more charming.
"My beloved, do you know why I named our child Sukhbaru?" Sultan asked, pinching his son's little face.
"You see, our child is so cute and chubby," Erdenibumuba laughed.
"Sukhbaru means tiger. It is not only the name of our child, but also a metaphor for David's national strength. Now I, David, am as powerful as a tiger. Those remnants of the Qing Dynasty are nothing but fat sheep in my eyes. I can eat them whenever I want. Haha~" Sultan said proudly.
"Great Khan, the second-rank Bailigong Suhe has delivered a military report," the trusted eunuch Maraqin respectfully presented a military report.
The Great Khan opened it and looked at it, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"Khan, what are you laughing at?" Erdeni Bumba asked in confusion.
"No~Nothing, I'm just laughing at one less fat sheep." Sultan barely suppressed his laughter and said, "Suhe reported that Shanhaiguan was captured, the fake king Fushou surrendered, and more than 30,000 Qing troops including General Feng Duo surrendered. Twelve thousand were killed in battle, and more than 16,000 were captured. Our casualties were only 4,000. It seems that the Qing Dynasty is really doomed!"
"Your Majesty, it is because of your great fortune that you have such a great victory. I congratulate Your Majesty! I wish Your Majesty will unify the nine provinces and become the ruler of the whole world!" Erdeni Bumba smiled and congratulated him.
"You are just a sweet talker," Sultan said happily, "I have issued an edict to promote Suhe to the first-class Baili Duke, and asked him to report his military merits and reward the meritorious soldiers according to their merits."
"Great Khan, your majesty is wise!" Erdene Bumba flattered with a smile. The Supreme had heard many flattering words, but it was especially different when it came from his own woman. After accepting them with a smile, he suddenly felt like writing poetry and shouted, "Bring me paper and pen!"
As a confidant, Mara Qin knew this hobby of his master very well, so he didn't need to take it out, he just carried it with him. He wrote a poem "Lang Tao Sha Carrying Beauty to Appreciate Flowers" in a moment:
Enjoy the flowers with beauty,
Walk leisurely.
He drew his sword and pointed it towards the east of Dadu.
The victory message came with the sound of drums and gongs,
The sword cuts the breeze.
The opening and closing are so hasty,
Spring is endless.
Flowers bloom only to comfort Yinghong.
The rivers are redder than blood,
Hope all nine provinces will be united.
"'Draw the sword and point it to the east of Dadu', Khan, are you going to the war again? Please take me with you," Erdene Bumba heard the tone of war in her man's words and said coquettishly.
"Alas! I want to go to the battle myself, but we have just captured Dadu and there is a lot of work to be done. I cannot leave for the time being. I can only let the prince go!" Sultan's eyes were filled with desolation. The rapidly expanding strength of the Wei army made the Oirat God of War confidently say "draw the sword and point to the east of Dadu". After capturing Dadu, the Wei army recruited and surrendered a large number of surrendered soldiers and prisoners. After capturing Shanhaiguan, they obtained a large number of personnel. The number of surrendered soldiers in the capital area reached 100,000. In addition to military strength, by confiscating the homes of Manchu nobles, they obtained more than 2 million taels of wealth. More importantly, the destruction of the Qing army Shanhaiguan group made the Wei army outside Shanhaiguan and the Wei army inside the pass become one, and the Wei army in the capital area was no longer constrained, so they could devote more strength to deal with the Qing army.
With such thorough preparations, how could the warlike Great Khan Lianhua miss the opportunity to fight? This time, he directed the spearhead of the war against Qingxi and Emperor Doni, who was entrenched near Xuanfu, and ordered Crown Prince Zhuoligetu to lead 30,000 Mongolian troops and 70,000 surrendered troops to attack Doni; in order to cut off the connection between the Qing troops in Shanxi and Xuanfu, he ordered Qi Wang Mailas to command the Shanxi guards to attack Hunyuan Prefecture, Lingqiu, and Guangchang from Datong to the south, and Jin Wang Ergalang to lead 20,000 troops to attack Baoding and other prefectures and counties in Zhili that had not yet surrendered to David. The Great Khan himself was in Dadu to command and dispatch.
The reason why these three princes were sent to lead the army was because the crown prince and the king of Qi had been secretly competing with each other. The mother of Jin Wang Ergalang was the imperial concubine Yaruo, who was from the Torghut tribe of the Oirat Mongols. She was powerful. Although she was always humble, she was always feared by her two brothers. With this competitive relationship, the sons would have a sense of crisis and let them complete the task to the best of their ability. In fact, this kind of competition between the princes was deliberately done by the Great Khan. The crown prince is the heir and the one who will inherit his Khanship in the future. There is no problem with this. The problem is that my health is still very good and I don’t want to give up the throne too quickly. What if the crown prince covets the throne? Someone must check and balance him, so that my throne is secure. As for whether the sons will kill each other because of the chair in the Golden Palace, the Great Khan is confident that he can maintain the stability of the court with his own means and will not let their brothers have a civil war.
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Feng Quan, a senior official of the Dawei Palace, slowly walked into the western warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. At the age of 70, his waist and back were not bent, and he was in high spirits. Because of his meritorious service in persuading his brother Feng Duo, the general of Shanhaiguan, to surrender, this old man was awarded the highest level of the Grand Officials by the Great Khan, and was in the same palace as Batuhetan and Tiemoer.
"Your Majesty, I, Feng Quan, pay my respects to you!" After all, he was an old minister who had served in the Ming, Qing and Wei dynasties. He had seen the world and was calm and composed when performing the ceremony.
"Mr. Feng is here. Please take a seat." The Great Khan smiled warmly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Feng Quan didn't know what happened, but he felt a chill on his back as he was stared at by the dragon's eyes, and he hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
"Mr. Feng has lived in the Qing court for a long time. Do you know the pseudo-Qing kings?" the Great Khan asked politely.
Seeing that he was asking about the situation of the kings of the Qing court, Feng Quan perked up and explained it in detail to his master, focusing on the situation of Emperor Xihe Doni who had recently proclaimed himself emperor.
"Oh, I didn't expect that Mr. Feng knew the fake emperor so well. I wrote another letter to the fake emperor and planned to send someone to Xuanfu to persuade him to surrender. I couldn't find a suitable candidate, and I happened to meet one today," the Great Khan laughed after hearing this.
What! Send me to Xuanfu? My brother was deeply favored by the Qing court, but he rebelled against the Qing and surrendered to the Wei. How can he survive in Xuanfu? Feng Quan was shocked and declined hastily, "It is an honor for me to serve Your Majesty, but I am old and it is difficult for me to move."
"No problem, I will send a carriage to escort you all the way." The Great Khan smiled sinisterly, "Why, Mr. Feng, you don't want to share my worries?"
"This ~ I am willing to serve Your Majesty at my utmost ~" Feng Quan replied hurriedly.
"Okay! Since you are willing, I will not keep you. Have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow I will send the Black Guards to escort you out of Beijing. Go away."
"Yes," Feng Quan responded listlessly and left.
As soon as he left, Hada, the captain of the Wuyi Guard, walked out from behind the screen.
Sultan ordered viciously: "Add more people tomorrow to escort the old thief Feng to Xuanfu. If the false emperor is willing to kill him, then fine. If not, you can do it yourself!"
The phrase "Old Thief Feng" expressed all his hatred. The reason was that the Wuyi Guard told him that it was this old man who first suggested using the Hami Princess to threaten him. He wanted to avenge his daughter, but this man had already surrendered to the Guard and had made contributions in recruiting the Qing army at Shanhaiguan to surrender. He was afraid that killing him rashly would cause dissatisfaction among the surrendered officials, so he used this trick to kill with a borrowed knife.
"Don't worry, Khan. I will definitely get this done," Hada gladly accepted the order.
Almost two months later, news came: Wei envoy Feng Quan was ordered to be beheaded in the market by Emperor Xihe Doni.
(End of this chapter)
"Khan, what are you thinking about?" Erdene Bumba asked happily after taking the little prince from the nurse. After giving birth, the queen's figure did not change much, but became more charming.
"My beloved, do you know why I named our child Sukhbaru?" Sultan asked, pinching his son's little face.
"You see, our child is so cute and chubby," Erdenibumuba laughed.
"Sukhbaru means tiger. It is not only the name of our child, but also a metaphor for David's national strength. Now I, David, am as powerful as a tiger. Those remnants of the Qing Dynasty are nothing but fat sheep in my eyes. I can eat them whenever I want. Haha~" Sultan said proudly.
"Great Khan, the second-rank Bailigong Suhe has delivered a military report," the trusted eunuch Maraqin respectfully presented a military report.
The Great Khan opened it and looked at it, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"Khan, what are you laughing at?" Erdeni Bumba asked in confusion.
"No~Nothing, I'm just laughing at one less fat sheep." Sultan barely suppressed his laughter and said, "Suhe reported that Shanhaiguan was captured, the fake king Fushou surrendered, and more than 30,000 Qing troops including General Feng Duo surrendered. Twelve thousand were killed in battle, and more than 16,000 were captured. Our casualties were only 4,000. It seems that the Qing Dynasty is really doomed!"
"Your Majesty, it is because of your great fortune that you have such a great victory. I congratulate Your Majesty! I wish Your Majesty will unify the nine provinces and become the ruler of the whole world!" Erdeni Bumba smiled and congratulated him.
"You are just a sweet talker," Sultan said happily, "I have issued an edict to promote Suhe to the first-class Baili Duke, and asked him to report his military merits and reward the meritorious soldiers according to their merits."
"Great Khan, your majesty is wise!" Erdene Bumba flattered with a smile. The Supreme had heard many flattering words, but it was especially different when it came from his own woman. After accepting them with a smile, he suddenly felt like writing poetry and shouted, "Bring me paper and pen!"
As a confidant, Mara Qin knew this hobby of his master very well, so he didn't need to take it out, he just carried it with him. He wrote a poem "Lang Tao Sha Carrying Beauty to Appreciate Flowers" in a moment:
Enjoy the flowers with beauty,
Walk leisurely.
He drew his sword and pointed it towards the east of Dadu.
The victory message came with the sound of drums and gongs,
The sword cuts the breeze.
The opening and closing are so hasty,
Spring is endless.
Flowers bloom only to comfort Yinghong.
The rivers are redder than blood,
Hope all nine provinces will be united.
"'Draw the sword and point it to the east of Dadu', Khan, are you going to the war again? Please take me with you," Erdene Bumba heard the tone of war in her man's words and said coquettishly.
"Alas! I want to go to the battle myself, but we have just captured Dadu and there is a lot of work to be done. I cannot leave for the time being. I can only let the prince go!" Sultan's eyes were filled with desolation. The rapidly expanding strength of the Wei army made the Oirat God of War confidently say "draw the sword and point to the east of Dadu". After capturing Dadu, the Wei army recruited and surrendered a large number of surrendered soldiers and prisoners. After capturing Shanhaiguan, they obtained a large number of personnel. The number of surrendered soldiers in the capital area reached 100,000. In addition to military strength, by confiscating the homes of Manchu nobles, they obtained more than 2 million taels of wealth. More importantly, the destruction of the Qing army Shanhaiguan group made the Wei army outside Shanhaiguan and the Wei army inside the pass become one, and the Wei army in the capital area was no longer constrained, so they could devote more strength to deal with the Qing army.
With such thorough preparations, how could the warlike Great Khan Lianhua miss the opportunity to fight? This time, he directed the spearhead of the war against Qingxi and Emperor Doni, who was entrenched near Xuanfu, and ordered Crown Prince Zhuoligetu to lead 30,000 Mongolian troops and 70,000 surrendered troops to attack Doni; in order to cut off the connection between the Qing troops in Shanxi and Xuanfu, he ordered Qi Wang Mailas to command the Shanxi guards to attack Hunyuan Prefecture, Lingqiu, and Guangchang from Datong to the south, and Jin Wang Ergalang to lead 20,000 troops to attack Baoding and other prefectures and counties in Zhili that had not yet surrendered to David. The Great Khan himself was in Dadu to command and dispatch.
The reason why these three princes were sent to lead the army was because the crown prince and the king of Qi had been secretly competing with each other. The mother of Jin Wang Ergalang was the imperial concubine Yaruo, who was from the Torghut tribe of the Oirat Mongols. She was powerful. Although she was always humble, she was always feared by her two brothers. With this competitive relationship, the sons would have a sense of crisis and let them complete the task to the best of their ability. In fact, this kind of competition between the princes was deliberately done by the Great Khan. The crown prince is the heir and the one who will inherit his Khanship in the future. There is no problem with this. The problem is that my health is still very good and I don’t want to give up the throne too quickly. What if the crown prince covets the throne? Someone must check and balance him, so that my throne is secure. As for whether the sons will kill each other because of the chair in the Golden Palace, the Great Khan is confident that he can maintain the stability of the court with his own means and will not let their brothers have a civil war.
-
Feng Quan, a senior official of the Dawei Palace, slowly walked into the western warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. At the age of 70, his waist and back were not bent, and he was in high spirits. Because of his meritorious service in persuading his brother Feng Duo, the general of Shanhaiguan, to surrender, this old man was awarded the highest level of the Grand Officials by the Great Khan, and was in the same palace as Batuhetan and Tiemoer.
"Your Majesty, I, Feng Quan, pay my respects to you!" After all, he was an old minister who had served in the Ming, Qing and Wei dynasties. He had seen the world and was calm and composed when performing the ceremony.
"Mr. Feng is here. Please take a seat." The Great Khan smiled warmly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Feng Quan didn't know what happened, but he felt a chill on his back as he was stared at by the dragon's eyes, and he hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
"Mr. Feng has lived in the Qing court for a long time. Do you know the pseudo-Qing kings?" the Great Khan asked politely.
Seeing that he was asking about the situation of the kings of the Qing court, Feng Quan perked up and explained it in detail to his master, focusing on the situation of Emperor Xihe Doni who had recently proclaimed himself emperor.
"Oh, I didn't expect that Mr. Feng knew the fake emperor so well. I wrote another letter to the fake emperor and planned to send someone to Xuanfu to persuade him to surrender. I couldn't find a suitable candidate, and I happened to meet one today," the Great Khan laughed after hearing this.
What! Send me to Xuanfu? My brother was deeply favored by the Qing court, but he rebelled against the Qing and surrendered to the Wei. How can he survive in Xuanfu? Feng Quan was shocked and declined hastily, "It is an honor for me to serve Your Majesty, but I am old and it is difficult for me to move."
"No problem, I will send a carriage to escort you all the way." The Great Khan smiled sinisterly, "Why, Mr. Feng, you don't want to share my worries?"
"This ~ I am willing to serve Your Majesty at my utmost ~" Feng Quan replied hurriedly.
"Okay! Since you are willing, I will not keep you. Have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow I will send the Black Guards to escort you out of Beijing. Go away."
"Yes," Feng Quan responded listlessly and left.
As soon as he left, Hada, the captain of the Wuyi Guard, walked out from behind the screen.
Sultan ordered viciously: "Add more people tomorrow to escort the old thief Feng to Xuanfu. If the false emperor is willing to kill him, then fine. If not, you can do it yourself!"
The phrase "Old Thief Feng" expressed all his hatred. The reason was that the Wuyi Guard told him that it was this old man who first suggested using the Hami Princess to threaten him. He wanted to avenge his daughter, but this man had already surrendered to the Guard and had made contributions in recruiting the Qing army at Shanhaiguan to surrender. He was afraid that killing him rashly would cause dissatisfaction among the surrendered officials, so he used this trick to kill with a borrowed knife.
"Don't worry, Khan. I will definitely get this done," Hada gladly accepted the order.
Almost two months later, news came: Wei envoy Feng Quan was ordered to be beheaded in the market by Emperor Xihe Doni.
(End of this chapter)
