After finding His Highness the Princess, Xu Yingyuan no longer delayed it and asked Liang Shuanghu to turn the princess's carriage over and prepare to take the person away. ≧≯≯Then Queen Wang sent an internal supervisor to come hurriedly. The internal supervisor passed on the imperial edict of Queen Wang and asked Xu Yingyuan and others to protect him.

"Protection?"

Liang Shuanghu was stunned. This matter was not within the plan, but this was the Queen's imperial decree. The Queen Mother and His Highness were there, so we can't pretend that they didn't exist. He didn't know what to do, so he looked at Xu Yingyuan. Xu Yingyuan had a stern face, not looking at the inner prison, and even looked at the Queen and the carriage in the East Palace, and only urged Liang Shuanghu to move faster.

"Don't you pay the imperial edict?"

The inner prisoner is not a fool. There is no way to see that the people under the Duke of Guangdong seem to be unwilling to protect him. They can't help but be angry.

A Manzhou general bannerman who came with Xu Yingyuan beat the horse and took a few steps forward at Xu Yingyuan's instructions, knocking the inner prisoner to the side. The inner prisoner was so scared that he hurriedly retreated backwards.

"What are you going to do?!"

The inner supervisor was so scared that his face was gone. Xu Yingyuan still didn't say anything, Liang Shuanghu didn't say anything, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army also sat on the horse and remained safe. Seeing this, Princess Changle frowned and was unhappy with Xu Yingyuan and others' actions. She said dissatisfiedly: "Since it is the imperial edict of the Empress, you can go and protect the emperor, otherwise the palace would not go with you."

Xu Yingyuan could ignore the internal surveillance or the queen's imperial edict, but he could not ignore the princess, who was nominally the mistress. He had a headache. Now An Ning was in chaos. If he brought someone to protect him, who would know when he would get out. But after leaving, he was afraid that His Highness the Princess would definitely be dissatisfied with him. In a dilemma, there was another sound of horse hooves from the west gate, but it was the Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, who came to the city to find the Queen Mother and the Queen. Xu Yingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Liang Shuanghu, and drove His Highness the Princess' carriage to the east gate without saying a word.

Changle didn't expect that the scholar would pick him up like this, and he didn't even allow him to say a few words of farewell to the Empress Dowager. Judging from his attitude, he was not here to pick him up, but he was clearly here to steal him.

Changle was anxious and was a little worried about whether these people were fake, but the carriage had been driven up by them, so she couldn't even get off the car. Cui'er, Qin'er, He's mother and others were also frightened. Queen Wang saw the Guangdong general Changle picking him up directly, and was stunned. When the Duke of Qian arrived, the group of people were gone.

In Beijing, the news of victory flew one after another like snowflakes, and the whole journey was full of joy. The three armies including Doni, Wu Sangui, Zhao Butai and others met, were invincible, captured Guizhou in one fell swoop, and defeated Li Dingguo in Yunnan. The vanguard troops were approaching Kunming. But when the next good news came, Kunming would definitely belong to the Qing Dynasty and there would be no more foothold in the southwest of Yongli!

The southwestern provinces were pacified. Although the remnants of the Ming army, including the Jinxia Zheng family, the Guangdong Zhou family, the Sichuan family, and the Kuidong Thirteen families, were stubborn, they could imagine that with the destruction of the Yongli court, these remnants of the Ming army would inevitably fall apart, and no one could stop the Qing Dynasty from unifying the world.

As news of victory continued to be heard in the southwest, the conflicts and decays caused by Emperor Shunzhi's resignation of the political reform cabinet and the princes and ministers of Manchu were gradually faded, and the emperor's authority was once again recognized by the Eight Banners. Manchu has always respected the strong. If the emperor could lead Manchu to completely occupy the Han people's territory and enjoy the worship of hundreds of millions of Han people, the princes and ministers would not mind the unfriendly actions of the emperor in the past.

Shunzhi was also very excited, immersed in the excitement that the great cause of unification of the world would be completed in his hands. A series of edicts of promotion and title were released from him, and then quickly rushed to the frontline soldiers.

The whole city was happy, but the only place was sad. The young owner of Prince Jian's mansion died in Guangdong, and the corpse has not been recovered so far. Dasu, Fujian, sent people to Guangdong to demand the redemption of the prince and the soldiers in Manzhou, but the Ming army in Guangdong attacked Fujian. Although the Ming army's offensive was not fierce and the willingness to fight was not strong, it made Dasu, who had no soldiers, and several prefectures in southern Fujian almost fall into the hands of the Ming army. If it weren't for the secret spy from Jinxia that came to the Zheng family, led the army northward and suffered heavy losses in the sea east of Zhejiang, and were unable to attack Fujian, they would probably have been occupied by the Zheng family and Zhou family.

Although the withdrawal of the policy was not successful, Shunzhi did not give up. Taking advantage of the victory in the southwest, he changed the inner court to the cabinet and added the Hanlin Academy. These two contents of the reform were finally put into effect. Shunzhi was full of confidence and began to plan many major events after unification: withdrawing the army, reducing military expenditures, reforming taxes, further promoting the requisition of exiles, reclaiming wasteland, etc.?

Everything went smoothly in the outside court, and Shunzhi was in a good mood. After going to court every day, he would either have a banquet and a joke with his concubines, enjoy flowers and watch operas; or call the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy to talk about poetry and essays; or visit the monks such as Yulin and Muchen in Wanshan Palace to practice Zen and learn Taoism. In short, the young emperor was very satisfied with the current situation and life. The only thing that was not good was that the queen was sick, and her beloved concubine Dong E had been taking care of the queen in Kunning Palace these days, so Shunzhi had not tasted the taste of her beloved concubine for some days.

In Kunning Palace, Dong Efei heard the noise of palace maids outside, so she came out to ask them to be quieter so that the queen would not disturb the rest.

After the imperial concubine said something, how could the palace maids not follow immediately? After Dong E continued to take care of the queen, the palace maids started to whisper: "Thanks to the imperial concubine, otherwise, our queen's illness would be difficult to cure!"

"Isn't it! The imperial concubine never closed her eyes for five days and five nights. She was waiting by the bed to feed water and medicine, washing her face and feet. She was the maid of Kunning Palace, and the eunuch took turns to rest. She didn't even have time to take a breath!"

"Oh, no matter which palace master is sick, the imperial concubine will take care of herself. She is too kind-hearted!"

"Hmph, I don't believe anyone who says Empress Dong E wants to be the queen!..." The youngest queen maid just said unjustly, and was covered by someone else's mouth, and was scolded by a few words: "Can you say this? Shut up!"

A maid from Dong Efei burst into tears, "The emperor asked my master to take care of the queen. The master has been very hard these days, and his body has become thinner and he is not feeling good at night. You don't know, I have seen blood in my master's phlegm."

"Really or not?"

"Can I lie to you?" The maid felt very aggrieved. "The master didn't let me tell anyone else, and if I said I was going to say it, I would drive me out of the palace."

"Then why did you still say it?"

"Aren't I worried about my master?"

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In the Donghunting Pavilion, Dong Efei Qiang told a joke to the queen with his spirit: "Once upon a time, there was a Xing Jinshi who was very short. Once, he encountered a water thief in Poyang Lake. The water thief grabbed his property and wanted to kill him to silence him. The thief had just raised the ghost-headed sword, and Xing Jinshi hurriedly said, "The person has called me Xing short. If you chop my head again, I will be shorter?" The thief laughed unconsciously, put away the knife and let him go."

Regardless of whether the joke was funny or not, the queen laughed and said, "It's rare that this Xing Jinshi is not afraid of death."

"That's right! As long as you think about everything, you can resolve it when you die before your eyes." Dong Efei said with a smile, her expression was very natural and friendly.?

The queen leaned on the cold pond, and the chair Dong Efei was sitting on the couch. After passing the dark green window screen, the sunlight outside the window had become very soft, as if it was a faint green color. Such cold light shone on Dong Efei's face, making her face paler and the dark blue color in her eyes became stronger.

Seeing that Dong E's face was not good, thinking of her hard work over the past few days, the queen was dissatisfied and said, "My illness has been cured. Thank you for your hard work for so many days, it's time to take a good rest. Don't come to accompany me every day..."

"The Empress is so serious. The concubines and other people take charge of the emperor as their father, and the empress as their mother. If the mother is sick, how can children not be filial to their hearts and filial? If there is any consideration and inappropriateness, the Empress will teach you more lessons."

The queen looked at Dong Efei's beautiful eyes and felt a warm feeling. She was very excited, but she didn't know what to say. She sighed, held one of Dong Efei's hand, and said with tears: "You are such a good person! You are kind-hearted! ... You have always been good... I just think you are inviting people to buy hearts everywhere, not to want to take the position of the central palace, but also to be the empress dowager in the future. This time I fell ill, thinking that you don't know how happy you are, I don't know how I hope I will die soon! ... I don't know that you are not at all. You treat me like this, I... Alas, I'm too careless!"

"My Lady, don't say that." Dong E also stretched out his other hand, gently stroked the back of the queen's hand, and said sincerely: "The emperor is busy with all his life and hard work. The empress is the lord of the six palaces and the emperor's worries. If the lower part is united today, the state affairs and government affairs will be even more busy outside the palace. If the concubine can share the merits of the emperor and the empress, it will not only be a responsibility, but also a great pleasure, and it is reasonable!"

"My illness is cured and I will go to Cining Palace to pay my respects tomorrow. The Queen Mother sent someone to greet him and see him. It made me feel ashamed!... Sister, let's go together tomorrow, okay?"

"The concubine will go with the Empress Dowager to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager tomorrow."

The two sisters talked for a while. Seeing that it was not early, Dong E said goodbye to the queen. When she got up, she suddenly heard a "buzzing" whistle in her ears. Her eyes were suddenly filled with golden flowers, and she was panicked and shaking and about to fall. The queen exclaimed, and the palace maids rushed to support her and slowly placed her on the bed.

When the queen looked at Dong E with the help of the palace maid, she was shocked. It turned out that Dong E's face was not only terrifyingly white, but her lips were also black and blue. Her appearance was so scary.

"Go and spread the imperial physician quickly"

The queen was really scared. Thinking of the emperor's favor for Dong E, she hurriedly ordered someone to inform the emperor. Emperor Shunzhi, who was talking about poetry writing with the new top scholar Xu Wenyuan of Kunshan, heard that his beloved concubine Dong E was sick, and was so anxious that he immediately piled up the four treasures of the study and rushed to Kunning Palace. (To be continued.)8
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