Sky Curtain: The Overlord Charges into Battle, Shocking Emperors of All Dynasties

I can't take it anymore, my brain is about to explode.

The sheer volume of information in the comments section has completely overwhelmed the minds of the ancients.

These statements are even more bizarre than the tragic experiences of Li Shimin and Zhu Di.

Especially since they had never even heard of these things before!

At first, people in ancient times treated unofficial histories as jokes, but faced with so much evidence, they couldn't help but wonder...

Are all of these things true?

Was Hong Chengchou really Emperor Kangxi's biological father?

"It seems Empress Xiaozhuang was truly a ruthless person!!"

"So, Emperor Shunzhi referred to his adopted younger brother as his son?"

"And there's more to come. The Chen family and the Yuan family have all appeared. How could there be so many if there hadn't been any initial signs?"

Ancient people from before the Qing Dynasty spoke with absolute certainty that Emperor Kangxi was Hong Chengchou's son.

The chain of evidence has been laid out!

What else is unbelievable!

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty even began to doubt their own bloodline. Could they really be Han Chinese?

Some emperors even secretly rejoiced, thinking that if what was said on the celestial screen was indeed true...

What reason do those Han Chinese have to rebel? Why do they still talk about overthrowing the Qing and restoring the Ming?

We are all Han Chinese, so why do you want to overthrow my rule!

During the Shunzhi period,

Dorgon's eyes were bloodshot as he stared fiercely at Dayuer, his gaze filled with anger and resentment.

This is the woman he has always loved deeply!

How dare she cheat on me?

She already has me, yet she still wants to find an old Han Chinese man?

Am I, Dorgon, not even able to contend with Huang Taiji, but also unable to contend with an old Han Chinese man?

Isn't having me, Dorgon, enough?

Did something really happen in Shenyang that night?

No!!!!

That damned Huang Taiji! I will exhume your body, mutilate your corpse, and scatter your ashes to the winds!

During the Kangxi period,

Xuan Ye completely lost his mind; he couldn't accept this!

The "Grandma" I'd called for so long had actually become my own "Empress Mother."

How could your own father become your own brother?

What kind of logic is this?!

"kill!!!"

"Arrest all these scholars and exterminate their entire families!!!"

"It must be a slander by those Han Chinese among the common people!!"

"To use something like this to defame my Imperial Mother, to defame me!!"

"The Han people's desire to destroy our Great Qing Dynasty will never die!!!"

Xuan Ye's face flushed red, and the pockmarks on his thin, long face were particularly noticeable.

At this time, Xuan Ye did not yet possess the skill in managing subordinates that would later generations have. His methods were not yet adept, and he found it difficult to remain calm in the face of adversity. Whenever a major event occurred, he would subconsciously seek out his maternal grandmother.

Yue Le sneered, watching Xuan Ye's performance; he showed absolutely no respect for the emperor as a subject.

He stopped pretending. This was a great opportunity; it would be a waste to let it slip away.

He had to consider that this wasn't his only chance to become emperor in his lifetime!

Yue Le didn't care what the truth was; he was just convinced of what he had.

Xuan Ye was the son of Hong Chengchou and Bumbutai!

After Xuan Ye roared, he caught a glimpse of Yue Le's cold smile out of the corner of his eye, and his heart sank into a panic.

not good!!

My throne!!!

"Alright, what kind of nonsense is this?!"

Bumbutai sighed, thinking to herself that she was still young after all.

He stood up, leaning on his cane, and walked to Xuan Ye's side, supporting his young grandson.

"Weren't these kinds of things common during the early Ming Dynasty?"

"Don't forget what kind of people those civil officials were when the Ming Dynasty fell."

"They resort to such methods to smear us!"

Bumbutai gripped her cane tightly with both hands, her fingers trembling uncontrollably.

If she truly felt guilty and uncertain about her relationship with Dorgon,

But how could that be with Hong Chengchou?

I never imagined that I'd be subjected to such rumors even in my old age!

"They still have the leisure to argue here, busy fighting for power and profit."

"I'm afraid it won't be long before we're all driven back to the border by the Han people!!"

Having witnessed the dazzling world of Central China and experienced the extravagant lifestyle of Beijing, can you still go back to the old way of life?

Instead of rushing to persuade Yue Le and the other Manchu princes, Bumbutai started with the thing that these people feared most.

These Manchu princes and members of the Eight Banners were terrified that the Han people would drive them out of this prosperous world.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

They really didn't want to go back to that kind of life.

[Actually, these are all just unofficial histories. There have been other unofficial histories in the past, such as that Ying Zheng was the son of Lü Buwei, and that Zhu Di's biological mother was not Empress Ma, etc.]

However, these anecdotal accounts are just laughed off and forgotten; no one remembers to refute them.

But this time, it was as if a sore spot had been touched, and they quickly came out to refute the rumors, making people wonder if there was anything fishy about the Manchu bloodline.

Ying Zheng shrugged helplessly.

He couldn't even be bothered to argue with such rumors; any normal person could tell they were just rumors.

"Am I not my mother's biological son?"

Zhu Di pointed to himself and asked incredulously,

He admitted to altering historical records to extend Zhu Yuanzhang's lifespan, and also admitted to having historical records state that he was the rightful heir.

But if you say he wasn't Empress Ma's biological son, he won't admit it.

If it really wasn't true, at the very least Fang Xiaoru would have clung to this claim relentlessly, and there would have been widespread criticism when he ascended the throne.

"If I wasn't born to my mother, who else could I have been born to? Could I have been born to a Mongol?"

Zhu Di angrily questioned, "This unofficial history is simply treating everyone in the world like fools!"

They even said he would execute Fang Xiaoru's entire clan of ten generations—that's a complete joke!

He's not that cruel at all!

[Unofficial history is still unofficial history. It cannot be said that the Qing Dynasty's actions can be forgiven simply because Kangxi may have been the son of Hong Chengchou and had Han Chinese blood.]

Our aversion to the Qing Dynasty has absolutely nothing to do with what ethnicity the Qing Dynasty belonged to.

[If Li Zicheng's Shun dynasty hadn't lost and had eventually unified the country, but ended up doing the same things as the Qing dynasty, wouldn't we have condemned him?]

[Including Hong Chengchou, who was an utterly heinous and morally corrupt traitor, does that mean that everything he did could be described as a roundabout way of saving the country and could be whitewashed just because Kangxi was really his son?]

For example, Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty also had Xianbei ancestry, but he promoted the development of Chinese civilization and was an emperor who genuinely acknowledged himself as a Han Chinese.

[Including the only Qing Dynasty emperor now considered a wise ruler, Emperor Yongzheng, we acknowledge his abilities and affirm his achievements because he truly regarded himself as the emperor of all people. As for the other emperors of the Qing Dynasty, they all treated him as a guest.]

Ultimately, these unofficial historical accounts stem from the Qing Dynasty's own inhumane actions. If the Qing Dynasty had been clean, there wouldn't be so many unofficial historical accounts.

Even if the Qing dynasty truly had Han Chinese blood, it doesn't diminish the fact that it was the second worst dynasty in history, perhaps even the worst. Only the Jin dynasty can rival the Qing dynasty in terms of who was the worst dynasty!

That's more like it!

The ancients breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the words of their predecessors.

Some of them actually believed that Hong Chengchou was using a roundabout way to save the country; even some Han Chinese officials during the Qing Dynasty thought so.

Since the emperors were of Han Chinese blood, it wasn't unacceptable for them to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

However, people from ancient times are curious about what the Qing Dynasty did that made it so hated by later generations, even to the point of being compared to the Jin Dynasty.

How exactly did Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, rise to power?