After Tong Tuchang came back from Tong Tulai's mansion, he had been waiting for news.

Although Tong Tuchang and Tong Tulai said that they wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, his uncle and himself knew very well that the strength of the Qing Dynasty has ended here. Since the Duoduo Corps was completely wiped out in Jiangxi, the Qing Dynasty's offensive momentum has been curbed. The Zhu Hongsan regime in Nanjing is in an upward stage, and there is great hope in the future that the Northern Expedition will be successful. At that time, their uncle and nephew will be the heroes who have left their names in history.

So Tong Tuchang's current mood is completely different from when he was in Fujian. When he was in Fujian, he really thought of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. After all, Zhu Hongsan occupied a province at that time. But now Zhu Hongsan has become a warlord who has been in the southeast, and there is no need for him to lick the Qing Dynasty's chrysanthemums.

Now Tong Tuchang really does his best for Zhu Hongsan's great cause. Tong Yangjia's order to him was to disrupt the peace talks. Tong Tuchang understood very well. His uncle was in charge of military affairs. Only when the war continued, the power in his uncle's hands would not be reduced. Tong Tuchang knew how powerful the military department of the Shenwu court was now. Except for the combat troops directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, the remaining logistics support and equipment manufacturing were all under his control. More than a dozen shipyards in Guangdong kept working day and night, and made every effort to build warships. The musket factory and artillery workshop were replacing people without stopping, and they were all exporting arms to the front line. Now in the Shenwu court, there are millions of people who directly obeyed his uncle Tong Yangjia. How could uncle give up such huge power easily?

But how could the emperor's order be successful? The conflict between the emperor's order and his own interests really made Tong Tuchang embarrassed. In the past few days, Tong Tuchang was thinking about how to complete the emperor's order immediately and not allow his uncle's power to be lost. However, after thinking for a few days, there was no good idea. These two tasks were originally relative and it was impossible to achieve them together.

Just three days after Tong Tuchang left Tong Tulai's mansion, Tong Tulai sent a servant to the Ministry of Rites Station to invite Tong Tuchang.

Originally, Tong Tuchang wanted to go quietly, but he didn't expect that Fang Fengnian and Zhao Mengguan would find it. As a result, the entire post station was so big. Because of the orders of the Qing emperor, in addition to providing daily necessities for the Ming Dynasty mission, the post station did not contact the mission. Now there was a person with a braided man in public, which naturally aroused the suspicion of the Zhao Mengguan of Fang Fengnian.

Fang Fengnian Zhao Mengguan came to Tong Tuchang's house and saw Tong Tuchang change into the Qing Dynasty clothes again. Fang Fengnian saw Tong Tuchang shaved his hair and kept the rat-tail of the Qing Dynasty's money, and said angrily: "Mr. Tong, you are the official envoy of peace talks, representing my Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Why do you keep such a barbarian hair accessories? Have you forgotten your identity?"

When Tong Tuchang saw these two people coming in, he cursed in his heart that he was unlucky, why were these two guys seen it?

"Haha, don't let me go out, I will go out to meet my relatives for a while. It's not eye-catching to dress up like this. We are the emperor's envoys. In order to fulfill the emperor's will, don't talk about these subtitles!"

Fang Fengnian is not the kind of Qiu Ba like Zhao Mengguan. Fang Fengnian has been involved in the officialdom and has done all shameless things, but Fang Fengnian can still abide by the moral bottom line, which is the defense of China and the barbarians. Now Tong Tuchang's behavior has seriously touched Fang Fengnian's moral bottom line, so he can stop talking.

"Mr. Tong, when I return to Nanjing, I must study your book heavily. You are so Ming Dynasty that you don't even want to have a face!"

Tong Tuchang laughed and ignored Fang Fengnian, cursing in his heart: You bastard, do you want shame? If you want shame, you go to have someone to negotiate! In the end, it depends on me to do it!

Fang Fengnian saw Tong Tuchang not entering, so he snorted and took Zhao Mengguan out of the room. Although Zhao Mengguan was a nominal deputy envoy, he was a fourth-rank military general, so he dared to participate in the struggle between the two civil officials. Anyway, the emperor's order was to monitor the people in the mission. He reported these matters to the emperor in full and was done. These stinky old masters would fight as much as they like!

When Tong Tuchang saw the two guys going out, he cursed the two bastards in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. Both of them were deputy envoys appointed by the emperor himself, and he really had no choice but to do anything to them.

But now the peace talks are serious, so let’s talk about the others when they return to Nanjing. According to Tong Tuchang’s understanding of Zhu Hongsan, as long as the peace talks are done perfectly, any other sub-sections are easy to say.

Tong Tuchang changed into clothes and followed the servant out of the back door of the inn. Now someone is leading him, so he no longer has to climb the wall.

Tong Tuchang came to Tong Tulai's mansion. Today, Tong Tulai was very enthusiastic, and the reason was very simple, because the Empress Dowager trusted the Tong family very much.

"Brother, my brother came to the palace a few days ago to pay homage to the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother. The Queen Mother is very satisfied with the information you sent. The Queen Mother has agreed that as long as the Ming Dynasty is eliminated, he will definitely not treat your uncle and nephew badly!"

Tong Tuchang was very happy to hear Tong Tulai say this. As long as he can talk to the Qing Dynasty, he can say it.

"My brother! I'll have another thing to call you here today. The Queen Mother wants to see you. You can prepare it later. Brother will take you into the palace!"

The Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty wanted to see him? Tong Tuchang was stunned when he heard about it, and he was overjoyed. He originally thought that the peace talk should have been sent by the Qing Dynasty to talk to him, but now the Empress Dowager will see him personally, and with his perfect tongue, he will definitely fool the Empress Dowager into a trap!

Tong Tuchang followed Tong Tulai out of the gate and entered the Forbidden City of Beijing from the side gate of the imperial city. This was the first time that Tong Tuchang, the Forbidden City of Nanjing, saw it. Because the Forbidden City of Beijing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, it was much better than that of Nanjing. At least several major buildings were there, not like the Fengtian Hall in Nanjing, they were burned down.

At this time, less than five years after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the Ministry of Rites had not formulated the etiquette of the New Dynasty, so the rules in the Forbidden City were similar to those in the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

Under the leadership of the palace guards, Ertong came to the Cining Palace in the harem, which was the place where Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang lived.

When Xiaozhuang learned that Tong Tuchang was coming, she quickly asked the eunuch to summon him. She wanted to meet Tong Tuchang, who claimed to be a hero of the Qing Dynasty.

Tong Tuchang did not dare to look up, lowered his head and entered the palace. After walking a few steps, he knelt down and kowtowed, shouting: "Slave Tong Tuchang from Liaodong, Liaoning, pays homage to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother of the Queen Mother, Jin'an forever!"

Tong Tuchang was a third-rank governor in the Southern Ming Dynasty. He didn't have to bow to the emperor, let alone kowtow. But now he has no choice but to curse in his heart, but he kowtowed three times respectfully on the surface.

Xiaozhuang looked at Tong Tuchang, who was not handsome with interest: "This is the official envoy of the Ming Dynasty mission? You are not my Eight Banners Banners, so you can't call yourself a slave!"

Tong Tuchang got up and said respectfully: "Go back to the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother, I was born in the Tong family in Liaodong. Yesterday, I heard from my elder brother Tong Tulai that he had entered the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army. In this way, I am also a slave of the Qing Dynasty!"

Although Xiaozhuang and Sony have rich political experience, they just entered the Central Plains and don’t know much about the shameless official culture of our great China. Now, I heard Tong Tuchang say that shamelessness, and although I don’t believe it, I am very happy! You should know that the powerful and civilized people of the Qing Dynasty knew that their level of civilization was not as good as that of the Han people. When they were in Liaodong, many Manchus wore Hanfu and spoke Chinese. Huang Taiji issued many orders to preserve the traditional culture of Manchus, but the effect was not too great.

After entering the Central Plains, Dorgon ordered his hair to shave his hair and change his clothes. In the eyes of the Qing rulers, in the early days, the previous ethnic minority regimes basically resisted sinicization and maintained their own customs, so they were strong. However, successors often envy Han culture, and carried out sinicization reforms or advocated Han customs from top to bottom, resulting in deaths over the years. In order to protect the dominance of the Manchus, it is necessary to prohibit the sinicization of the nation, and to use coercive means to require the Han people to change their customs and shave their hair and change their clothes through coercive means.

Of course, political needs are the main reason for shaving hair and changing clothes, but the jealousy of the Qing Dynasty's powerful people such as Dorgon and others towards higher civilization from the bottom of their hearts was also one of the secondary reasons for shaving hair and changing clothes.

Xiaozhuang saw the rat-tail of money dragged behind Tong Tuchang's head and asked, "Mr. Tong, you are an official of the Ming Dynasty. Can your Emperor Shenwu agree to it with my Qing Dynasty hair accessories?"

When Tong Tuchang heard Xiaozhuang say this, he knelt down with a gurgle, saying how Zhu Hongsan persecuted his uncle and nephew, and broke his fingers again. Finally, Tong Tuchang cried and said, "Empress Dowager, I am really oppressed by the foolish king Zhu Hongsan. This time, the slave will not go back to the south, and stay in the north to be a cow and horse for the empress dowager, which is better than being a bullshit third-rank official for Zhu Hongsan!"

Xiaozhuang nodded, not knowing whether he agreed to Tong Tuchang stay or what Tong Tuchang said.

"Tong Aiqing, get up!"

Tong Tuchang heard Xiaozhuang say this before he dared to stand up slowly, and then looked up and watched the empress dowager above.

Beijing is now July, the hottest season of the year. Although it is now a small glacier climate, Beijing is only at least twenty degrees in summer, but this temperature also makes Manchus who are born in a bitter and cold place unable to stand it.

Tong Tuchang looked up at Xiaozhuang and couldn't help but curse in his heart: I'm really shameless. As the empress dowager, he is so shameless.

The weather was too hot, and the Manchus had just entered the pass and had not learned the three obediences and four virtues of the Han people. Xiaozhuang only wore a jacket on his coat, revealing his two snow-white shoulders.

Xiaozhuang is 36 years old this year and is not young anymore, but she is of noble origin and good at taking care of herself. Northern women are originally tall, so Xiaozhuang looks only in her twenties and still has some charm.

Although Tong Tuchang scolded Xiaozhuang for being shameless, he also looked at him several times.

Tong Tuchang's small movements were seen by Xiaozhuang, who was high above her, but she was not angry. Xiaozhuang was born in Mongolia and believed that being peeked at was a manifestation of her beauty.

Xiaozhuang laughed twice and said, "Mr. Tong, since you dare to peek at me, why don't you look up and take a closer look?"
Chapter completed!