Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 875 Disaster
"Master! Master!"

Just when he was having fun with his son, he heard the voice of a servant from outside the mansion. Yuan Chongyu knew who it was as soon as he heard it.

"What's the matter? I'm playing with the young master." Yuan Chongyu said unhappily.

"My Lord, the Minister of State Affairs, Mr. Fan, sent you a letter, saying that he was writing to you on behalf of the Emperor..."

Before the other party could finish speaking through the door, Yuan Chongyu jumped up from the ground, turned around and appeared at the door.

"Where is the person?" After opening the door, Yuan Chongyu saw his servant standing at the door and asked hurriedly.

"Who?" the servant asked in confusion.

"Didn't you say that Lord Fan was going to deliver a letter to me on behalf of the Emperor? Where is Lord Fan?" Yuan Chongyu asked anxiously, looking around.

"Master Fan didn't come. It was the steward of Master Fan's house who came. He left a letter and left, asking me to report to the master."

"Where is the letter?" Yuan Chongyu continued to ask.

"Master, the letter is here." The servant hurriedly took out the letter and handed it over. Yuan Chongyu hurriedly took it and ignored him, turned around and went into the house.

When he got into the house, Yuan Chongyu couldn't wait to open the letter and started reading, and soon finished reading the contents of the letter.

Yuan Chongyu, who was originally somewhat excited, was dumbfounded in an instant. He thought it was a good thing, but who would have thought it was a fatal thing.

"Let me go to Ming Dynasty? And do these things?" Yuan Chongyu was dumbfounded. For a moment, his eyes were dull and his hands trembled slightly.

He had finally fled from the Ming Dynasty to Shengjing just to avoid the troubles in the Ming Dynasty. After his brother Yuan Chonghuan died, Yuan Chongyu no longer had a backer. Yuan Chongyu had no other ideas and just wanted to live a normal life in Shengjing with a wife and children.

In terms of money, he has no shortage of it, and he has even more wealth. Moreover, he has changed his name to Yuan Jia, and has long since cut off ties with the past. As for what happened in the past, it is over. Wouldn't it be good to live a stable life here in the future? When the child grows up, he can rely on his wife's family to find a position for the child in the Eight Banners. Even if he cannot make a name for himself in the future, he will definitely be rich and prosperous for the rest of his life.

But now this damn Fan Wencheng wants him to go to the Ming Dynasty to do this kind of thing. Isn't this pushing himself into the fire pit? Although Fan Wencheng said good things in the letter and made many promises, Yuan Chongyu knew that Fan Wencheng, this bastard, was never a good thing. This guy was not only Huang Taiji's think tank, but also a ruthless person. When he first came to surrender, Fan Wencheng was very polite on the surface, but in fact, he had many ideas about him.

If Yuan Chongyu had not done business with the Later Jin Dynasty, he would have known many people here and had a great reputation. In addition, Huang Taiji settled him because of their previous friendship. Otherwise, he would have been eaten alive by the old man Fan Wencheng. Now Fan Wencheng asked him to go to the Ming Dynasty, nominally under the banner of Huang Taiji, but how could Yuan Chongyu not understand what was going on? It was clearly the idea of ​​Fan Wencheng.

"What should I do? What should I do?" Yuan Chongyu was panicked for a moment, his eyes were wide open and he didn't even notice his son crying beside him.

The crying of the little guy attracted his wife, Tatarala. Tatarala hurried out from the inner room and saw her son sitting on the ground crying loudly, while her husband was standing there stupidly, not caring about anything.

"Master, what's wrong with you? Haven't you seen your son crying like this?" Tara said unhappily. She quickly stepped forward and picked up her son to coax him. After a while, the little guy finally stopped crying and started giggling.

After coaxing her son, Tara noticed that her husband looked distracted and couldn't help asking what happened and why he looked like this.

"Disaster has come..." Yuan Chongyu showed a smile that was uglier than crying and handed over the letter in his hand.

"What is this?" "A letter sent by Fan Wencheng in the name of the emperor."

"What's in the letter? Why are you showing this to me? I can't read." Tara frowned.

Yuan Chongyu slapped his forehead and remembered that his Tara clan was illiterate. Not to mention Tara clan, even his father-in-law Dayinbu could not read a single word. As for the Jurchens, it had only been a few decades since Nurhaci founded the Later Jin Dynasty. Before the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, the entire Jurchen tribe was no different from barbarians. Except for a small number of Jurchen nobles, most people could not read a single word. Even though the Later Jin Dynasty had become the Qing Dynasty, there were still a lot of illiterate people among the Eight Banners nobles.

Yuan Chongyu explained the contents of the letter to Tara with a bitter face. At first, Tara didn't take it seriously, but as she listened, she felt something was wrong. After listening, Tara couldn't help but slap her thigh and cursed: "What on earth does this damn Fan Wencheng want to do? He actually wants you to go to the Ming Dynasty? Isn't this sending you to your death? Damn Fan Wencheng, he is full of bad intentions. No wonder everyone says he is a venomous snake."

"He can try to please the emperor, but he can't use you as a scapegoat. Asking you to go to Ming Dynasty, isn't that cheating you? No way! You can't go. If you want to go, Fan Wencheng should go by himself. Do you really think that there is no one in my Tala family? I'm going to find my father and ask him to come forward and talk to the emperor..."

"Don't! Don't do that!" Yuan Chongyu quickly grabbed her before Tala could finish her words: "You can't ask my father-in-law for this matter, and you can't ask the emperor for help."

"Why? Are you afraid of that bastard Fan Wencheng? This guy is just a dog, why should you be afraid of him?" Tala raised her eyebrows and said disapprovingly.

"It's not a question of whether or not to be afraid, it's that this dog is not an ordinary dog!" Yuan Chongyu sighed, "Even if Fan Wencheng is a dog, he is the emperor's dog. His letter is under the banner of the emperor. Without the emperor's permission, Fan Wencheng wouldn't dare to do this even if he had ten times the courage. And don't forget, it wasn't long after the incident with Prince Yu, and even Prince Yu was so embarrassed that he couldn't do anything about Fan Wencheng. Could it be that my father-in-law has more face than Prince Yu? What if my father-in-law displeases the emperor in this matter and is reprimanded by the emperor? Wouldn't that be a big loss?"

"This..." Yuan Chongyu's words reminded Tara, leaving him speechless.

Yuan Chongyu was right. The incident with Prince Yu Duoduo had just happened not long ago. The great Prince Yu was humiliated and suffered a great loss of face. The main reason was because of Fan Wencheng.

After Fan Wencheng became the Minister of Ceremonial Affairs, his status among Qing officials was not low. This position was equivalent to the chief minister of the Ming cabinet, or at least the second minister. Moreover, Huang Taiji had always wanted to replace the Eight Banners system with court positions. While constantly setting up court positions over the years, he also deliberately suppressed the Eight Banners, gradually stripping the power of the Eight Banners nobles from them and transferring it to various departments of the court.

Although Huang Taiji was the one who did this, the people who really came up with the idea, planned and executed it were none other than Han officials such as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Deng Changchun, Zhang Shang and Su Hongzu. Fan Wencheng was the leader among these Han officials. Although Fan Wencheng did this at the instruction of Huang Taiji and for the stability of the Qing regime, it actually affected the Eight Banners system and weakened the power of the Eight Banners nobles.

Faced with such a situation, the nobles of the Eight Banners were naturally extremely dissatisfied, including the banner owners who controlled the Eight Banners. Because they all knew that if the power of the various departments of the court continued to increase, the power of the Eight Banners would become smaller and smaller, and as banner owners, their power came from the Eight Banners. If the various departments of the court replaced the Eight Banners, then what use would they have?
Seeing that the power of the Eight Banners was getting smaller and smaller, the nobles of the Eight Banners were anxious and particularly dissatisfied with the people who made these changes. As the emperor, Huang Taiji, they naturally did not dare to do anything. After all, Huang Taiji was the master and the most powerful person in control of the Eight Banners. Only a fool would directly confront the emperor.

But Fan Wencheng is different. Fan Wencheng is just a dog beside Huang Taiji, and he is the culprit who gave Huang Taiji advice and caused the reduction of the power of the Eight Banners and the increasing power of various departments in the court. Therefore, most people put the main responsibility for this matter directly on Fan Wencheng's head.

In fact, it is not wrong to put the blame on Fan Wencheng, because many ideas and actual things were indeed done by Fan Wencheng. So many people secretly hate Fan Wencheng, but most people only curse him behind his back, mock Fan Wencheng when they see him on weekdays, and sometimes even directly target Fan Wencheng to trip him up.

But it was different for the young and energetic Prince Yu Duoduo. Prince Yu Duoduo was the leader of the Bordered White Banner, and he was extremely dissatisfied with what Fan Wencheng had done, especially because of the previous battle on the grassland, when he and Dorgon were severely punished by Huang Taiji because of their defeat. Later he heard that Fan Wencheng not only did not say a good word for him, but instigated Huang Taiji to take this opportunity to further weaken the rights of his Bordered White Banner, which made Duoduo extremely dissatisfied with Fan Wencheng.

In response, Duoduo decided to teach Fan Wencheng a lesson, to let him know who is the master and who is the servant. Duoduo did something that was particularly serious. Duoduo actually went directly to Fan Wencheng's door and took the opportunity to talk to Fan Wencheng to take Fan Wencheng's wife back home. Not only did he do it unscrupulously, he even slapped Fan Wencheng in the face in broad daylight.

Fan Wencheng's wife is not young anymore. She can almost be Duoduo's mother. And as she gets older, she has lost her looks. Even if she still has some charm, it is of the past.

But Duoduo was not picky about life and death. He not only robbed Fan Wencheng's wife, but also took her to his house and tormented her for several days, venting his anger. In Duoduo's view, this not only slapped Fan Wencheng in the face, but also humiliated him greatly. You know, Han officials pay the most attention to these things. If Fan Wencheng, as the head of Han officials, did something unwise in anger, it would just fall into Duoduo's hands. At that time, Duoduo would find a reason to kill Fan Wencheng directly, and Huang Taiji would have no way to deal with him.

But he never expected that Fan Wencheng could be so tolerant. He watched Duoduo snatch his wife away, not only was he not angry, but he took the initiative to apologize and respectfully escorted Duoduo out of the mansion. Afterwards, Fan Wencheng did not do anything to Duoduo, as if he did not care about the matter at all. He tucked his tail between his legs and acted like a green-haired turtle, without saying a word.

But just when Duoduo thought he had a good plan and was proud of playing with Fan Wencheng's wife, the news spread in Shengjing. It spread throughout Shengjing in less than a day. A few days later, even other places in Liaodong knew about it. After the news spread, not only did everyone know about it, but even Huang Taiji heard about it. Huang Taiji immediately asked Fan Wencheng for an inquiry. After learning that the matter was indeed true, Huang Taiji was furious. It was not because of a mere woman, but Duoduo's approach was ostensibly aimed at Fan Wencheng, but in fact it was a slap in the face of Huang Taiji. In addition, Huang Taiji has been improving the status of the Han people in Liaodong and promoting the policy of Manchu and Han being one family in recent years. Now Duoduo dares to snatch the wife of the head of the Han ministers and the minister of state. If he lets this matter go, where is his face? Where is the people's hearts that he has finally won?
(End of this chapter)