jdhmnovel Chapter 123: Niuhulu
Chapter 123: Niuhulu
The Tong Ban Dynasty was prosperous.
There is no need to say much about the authority of the Minister of State Affairs Tong Guowei, and his son Longkodo is an old acquaintance.
However, this father and son were not the reason why He Zhun Yierha finally looked favorably upon Tong Jia and chose her as his helper.
The fundamental reason is that, according to incomplete statistics, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi alone, the Tong family produced 108 Beijing officials and 577 local officials.
Even though Kangxi's reign was the longest in history, this horrifying number is enough to make people shudder.
The Tong family was not known as the "Tong half court of foreign relatives" simply because of the two famous Tongjia queens, but it was the "Tong half court of powerful nobles" who truly took advantage of the rise of these two queens and controlled the court.
If you really think that the Tong family only has Tong Guowei and Longkodo, and that he is just an in-law or an ordinary nepotism family, then you are really stupid.
Even if the outcome of Tong Guowei and Longkodo's self-destruction would not change, without a leader, the centipede would still be alive.
Those Tong family followers below are like small ants, but they can still shake a tree.
So he and Jun Yierha planned to arrange a banquet to find out the identity of this concubine's daughter.
She already knew the information about this concubine's daughter, but she and Jun Yilha trusted their own eyes more.
If it is consistent with the intelligence, then he can visit her personally and assess the political qualities of other family members. There will be no big problem. Marrying one of Tong Guowei's daughters or granddaughters is a foregone conclusion.
The Manchus do not care much about issues of seniority. As long as the ages are similar, marriage is casual.
Friendships are built up over the years, and the quickest way to achieve them is to become good relatives.
Putting aside the trivial matter of how Longkodo managed his family, his reputation in the war against Tsarist Russia cannot be underestimated.
Even though he was merely stationed at the frontier during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, the Russian bandits dared not act rashly. They could only resort to despicable means such as "sowing discord" to bribe officials and flatter Emperor Yongzheng, just to get Longkodo transferred away. For this reason, He Zhun Yierha looked up to him.
He is a wild horse who can go far to the frontier and make great achievements.
If you can control his inner household affairs...it can become a great bait for fishing.
After all, everyone knows Longkodo's unofficial history.
Longkodo's original wife was Hesheli, and he had a concubine, the daughter of Hongdai.
What a great support and in-law bond, one was turned into a human pig by Li Si'er, and the other was forced to hang himself.
People like Li Si'er, who are difficult to describe with normal words, need to be controlled as soon as possible.
Now, Longkodo, the third son of Tong Guowei, is 21 years old. He has just been married to Hesheli for four years, and his concubine Hongdaizi's daughter Jueluo has also married into the family.
It seems that the relationship between Li Si'er and him is just beginning, or is just about to get going.
The simplest and most brutal way to solve the problem is to say to Tong Guowei, "Sir, you don't want to do that, do you?"
The safest and quickest way is to make Tong Guowei realize the uncontrollable nature of the situation and take drastic measures to control it.
Guwalja Gefuhe and Irgenjueluo Gengen had long been sharpening their knives against Longkodo.
Taking advantage of the situation, he secretly executed Li Si'er, prevented the original wives Hesheli and Jueluo from appearing in public, and then spread the word that Longkodo would find a concubine, and the game would be done.
The day when this friendship came to a head was when these two people, or the two people in the dark, launched an attack on Longkodo's backyard.
The Manchu aunts are noble and should be respected even if you don't love them. What's more, they are from the Hesheli clan, and are from the same Hesheli branch as the Empress Yuan and the Crown Prince.
Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. Now it is the reign of Kangxi, not Yongzheng who had no ptsd towards Hesheli.
Jueluo is a relative of the clan and should not be married as a concubine.
This is called abuse, and to put it more seriously, it is even more of a disrespect for the bloodline of the brothers and relatives of Nurhaci Taizu.
Even if Jueluo really committed a crime punishable by strangulation, he should have been handed over to the clan court for handling rather than being lynched.
Even if the arrogant Longkodo did not understand this principle, Tong Guowei should have understood it.
He is almost fifty and still so ignorant. He has no use for this official position.
It might be a little troublesome to win over the Tong family, but there are many ways to get rid of the Tong family, and the operation is simple.
Niuhulu was an old friend of Junyirha.
It seems that as these three worlds go around in circles, none of Niu Hulu's plans can have a good ending.
This is the case in the adapted historical drama, and it is even more so during the Kangxi period in the official history.
As the "ancestor", Niuhulu Eyidu married Nurhaci's cousin and daughter successively and gave birth to seventeen sons, of which Ebilun was the sixteenth.
From father to son, all the descendants of Eyidu of the Niuhuru clan were founding heroes, and the men in the family had served as officials, including but not limited to the Minister of State Council, the Minister in Charge of the Imperial Guard, and all the ministers except the Minister of Rites.
Moreover, the Niuhuru clan had more frequent intermarriages with the royal family than the Guwalgiya clan, and was the pair that intermarried most frequently with the emperor.
The Guwalja clan, whose only goal was to become a member of the royal family, was far ahead in rank.
The tenth prince Yin was clear-headed and aware of his limited abilities, and he had already understood the emperor's mind early on.
Or rather, from the moment he was arranged to marry the Mongolian noblewoman, he would never have another chance to seize the throne, and he knew it better than anyone else.
Apart from the Fifth Prince, he was the only person who was described by Kangxi as "honest".
The arrogance of the magical changes in film and television dramas, or perhaps Yongzheng's fear, can only be blamed on the Niuhuru clan led by Alinga.
There are many different opinions about how Alinga, the seventh son of Ebilun's third wife, Bayara, jumped over his brothers and seized the title.
Her wife was Uya, the concubine sister of Concubine De.
The inheritance of the title was not legitimate, and his wife was a bondservant of Uya, so all the key words were filled in, which made He Zhun Yierha unable to resist taking action.
Hello, Concubine De, I am here to marry you again.
Although Yongzheng was described in official history as moody and somewhat petty, he would not make up stories out of thin air.
He evaluated Alinga as "a disloyal, unbrotherly, violent, greedy and incompetent Alinga". Even if Alinga did not commit such unforgivable crimes, there must be solid evidence that he made inappropriate remarks, was disrespectful to his subordinates and was unfilial as a brother.
A duke with solid evidence and a bad reputation, and his mother's family, Uya, was greedy and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor.
Jun Yierha and he had already figured out where to start the fire in the capital.
The original first-class duke, Niuhuru Faka, was the brother of the late Empress Niuhuru from the same mother. His second wife was Hesheli Gabula, the sister of Empress Hesheli Yuan.
The fourth son of the Niuhulu family, he had a slightly flawed birth and was the son of an inferior princess, but his wife was the daughter of Tong Guowei, the sister of the Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia who had not yet died.
In other words, it is very feasible to get rid of Alinga, win over and indirectly use the ties of marriage to manipulate a noble family like the Niuhuru clan.
For Faka now, the help from Dong'e is like timely help and an oasis in the desert.
It is now the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, and 25 years have passed quickly since the incident.
After failing to seize the title this time, Alinga will surely learn from his mistakes and reflect deeply.
But no matter what he reflected on, the benefits he got from the Uya family and the methods he used to do things would only become more extreme and would not be restrained.
If you want to hide the knifeman and do things safely, it will take a long time, so it is just right to arrange the series of things involving these two families now.
Because the clarion call for the succession fight has not yet been sounded, no one will be suspicious or think too much about it.
If the matter is exposed in the future and it is a foregone conclusion, then Dong E, the governor who got involved early but was an upright person, will be among the first to be cleared of suspicion.
After all, he was two meters tall and in his forties, and yet he was repeatedly disliked by Kangxi because his memorials were not detailed enough and his handwriting was not neat.
It is a universally acknowledged fact that a reckless man has no brains.
If you continue to find fault, you'd be nitpicking, and people would start to doubt your intentions.