You can't only love the Qing Dynasty when you're eating the fruits of others' labor.

Chapter 100 Prince Dingnan, do you sympathize with the remnants of Dorgon?
Youanmen Prison.

There was heavy wind and snow.

Jiang Qingyun, draped in a cloak, stood motionless. Beside him stood Sun Yanling, the commander of the Tianyou Army, and several of his colleagues.

"Your Excellency, did you send troops to forcibly bring us here to detain us? I must tell you, the Prince of Dingnan, the Prince of Pingnan, and the Prince of Jingnan should already know what happened last night, and they will take action."

Jiang Qingyun didn't react at all.

Before us, in the open space of the prison, the guards who were returning to report for duty were gathering, and the prison guards were also assembling.

Jailer: "Who are you people?"

Flag bearer: "We are sinners."

"The sound is too soft, I can't hear it."

"We are sinners!"

"I can't hear you," the jailer roared, his face close to the jailer's. "You're listless, your voice isn't loud enough, speak louder."

Moment~
The shouts of the flag bearers were deafening.

"We are sinners!"

……

"Your Excellency, what about these prisoners?"

Sun Yanling was somewhat alarmed, as he noticed that these people seemed to be from the Manchu Eight Banners.

Jiang Qingyun remained unmoved.

You, a mere green-haired captain, dare to question me?

Sun Yanling was embarrassed and ashamed, but dared not be angry.

The jailer was still screaming:

“You are all remnants of Dorgon. Imperial Censor Jiang is magnanimous and, in the spirit of healing the sick and saving lives, has given you a chance to atone for your sins.”

"Everyone, kneel down!"

brush!
No one dared to hesitate; they all knelt down in the snow.

The You'anmen Prison had effective teaching methods; the fear instilled in their blood made them forget their self-respect.

The officers of the Tianyou Army and Tianzhu Army were stunned. They looked at Jiang Qingyun as if they had seen a demon. Seriously? You dare treat a noble Manchu lord like a lowly commoner?

……

A jailer rushed over.

"My lord, Prince Kong Youde of Dingnan has arrived, and he has brought 100 soldiers with him."

"Open the door."

"As ordered."

A hundred or so breaths later, a furious Kong Youde rode in on horseback, his guards all looking fierce and menacing.

"Which son of a bitch kidnapped my men?"

"Brothers, draw your swords and spears!"

"Whoo."

Kong Youde's soldiers drew their swords in unison, and Jiang Qingyun's guards followed suit.

Two blades faced each other, with snowflakes falling between them.

"Is Your Highness well?"

"You son of a bitch, which government office are you from? Who ordered you to arrest my people?"

Kong Youde was furious, probably because he had eaten too much venison in the palace.

……

Jiang Qingyun's hand rested on the hilt of his sword, his eyes cold and stern.

"Jiang Qingyun, Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate and concurrently Director of the Ceremonial Affairs Bureau of the Thirteen Offices, a member of the Bordered Yellow Banner Han Army. He is on imperial orders, handling the case of Dorgon's remnants. Your Highness, are you planning a prison break?"

Kong Youde was instantly dumbfounded.

Sun Yanling realized something was wrong and quickly stepped forward to warn him.

“Your Highness, those kneeling people are all remnants of Dorgon, all of them Manchu bannermen.”

Jiang Qingyun: "Prince Dingnan, you led your troops into You'anmen Prison, are you trying to break them out? Do you sympathize with the remnants of Dorgon?"

Kong Youde: "..."

The cold wind was howling and snowflakes were falling.

The atmosphere was extremely awkward. The soldiers of the Tianyou Army didn't know whether to sheathe their swords or brandish them, so they just stood there awkwardly.

"what are you writing?"

Kong Youde suddenly pointed to the clerks next to him who were writing and breathing on their hands.

"Your Highness, I am a clerk in Shuntian Prefecture, and I have been ordered to record the events of today truthfully."

"Who gave you permission to record this? What did you record? Show it to me!"

……

Kong Youde took three steps in two, pushed aside the clerk, and picked up the file.

The inscription on it reads:

Imperial Censor Jiang asked, "Did the Prince of Dingnan lead his troops to storm the prison, intending to break in? Or does he sympathize with the remnants of Dorgon's regime?"

The Prince of Dingnan remained silent.

Imperial Censor Jiang asked a second question. Prince Dingnan remained silent.

Kong Youde instantly lost his composure, tearing the dossier to shreds in a few quick movements and tossing it aside. He then tried to snatch the transcripts that the other two clerks were writing.

Immediately, jailers with knives protected the clerk.

The Tianyou Army also drew their swords and charged forward, and the two sides faced off.

Jiang Qingyun remained calm and spoke in a loud voice:

"Write~"

"The Prince of Dingnan, enraged, seized and tore up part of the transcript."

"All the officials of You'anmen Prison, the more than 500 bannermen who were sent back to prison for re-education, and the three clerks of Shuntian Prefecture were present at today's events and can serve as witnesses."

……

"Your Highness, please calm down, please calm down."

Several guards held down the rampaging Kong Youde and forcibly pried the sword from his hand.

“Record it truthfully: The Prince of Dingnan drew his sword, intending to kill me.”

Jiang Qingyun's voice was like a devil's, piercing the hearts of everyone present. After speaking, he took off his official robe, revealing a yellow jacket underneath.

The same old trick was repeated.

But this time he miscalculated.

Kong Youde ripped open his official robe, revealing a yellow jacket underneath.

Thus, it's a draw.

The magical clashes temporarily ceased, and both sides calmed down slightly.

……

Prison gate.

Another carriage arrived.

"Stop, who is it?"

"The young master of the Prince of Dingnan has arrived. Make way immediately."

Kong Sizhen, dressed in a blue Confucian robe and covered with a white tiger-skin cloak, entered the prison under the protection of a group of servants.

"Hehe, it's clearly a woman."

The prison guards whispered among themselves as they watched Kong Sizhen's swaying back as she walked.

The reason she dressed as a man was simply to avoid embarrassing everyone.

The woman being imprisoned sounds terrible.

But it's different when a woman dresses as a man; everyone can pretend not to know, which is in accordance with the Zhou Dynasty's rites.

At this time~
Kong Youde, who was at the center of the storm, calmed down and began to think about how to end the situation. After thinking for a while, he suddenly slapped Sun Yanling.

"I have always valued you and even betrothed my daughter to you, and yet you dare to ruin my reputation like this?"

"All the mistakes are due to the labeling."

Sun Yanling knelt down with a thud and slapped himself in the face.

Upon seeing him, Kong Sizhen looked down on her fiancé even more, secretly cursing him as a coward and a spineless wretch.

……

An alley near the prison.

A jailer hurried over to a carriage that had been waiting there for a long time and lifted the curtain.

"Master Wu, it's your turn to take the stage."

Not long after~
"Spare his life! Spare his life!"

"No, no, everyone listen to me, put down your knives."

The soldiers on both sides were unsure what was going on, but since there was a way out, they couldn't be ungrateful, and both sides lowered their wrists simultaneously.

“Wu Jinyan, a former official of Dengzhou and Laizhou, pays his respects to the Prince of Dingnan and Imperial Censor Jiang.”

"I rushed as fast as I could and finally caught up. Gentlemen, please take my advice, it's a misunderstanding, a complete misunderstanding. It's like the flood washed away the Dragon King's temple; we're all on the same side."

……

Blending.

It is a unique culture of Beijing.

The most common scenario is that two groups of people are about to fight, and just when things are about to get tense, a peacemaker suddenly appears out of nowhere, mediates back and forth between the two sides, and then the fight is stopped.

Both Jiang Qingyun and Kong Youde needed a way out, but they couldn't lose face. The appearance of Wu Jinyan, the magistrate of Daxing County, perfectly made up for this awkward situation.

The tense standoff was dissolved by a clever scheme.

In the warden's office.

Whether Kong Youde was deliberately acting or genuinely reminded of his painful past under Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Dengzhou and Laizhou, he chatted animatedly with Wu Jinyan.

Jiang Qingyun also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he had just solved one problem when he encountered another.

His inner calf was rubbed back and forth four times. He looked up in surprise and saw Kong Sizhen drinking tea nonchalantly across from him, but her toes hidden under the table were not to be underestimated.

Go upstream along the pole.

Jiang Qingyun thought to himself, "This woman is seducing me!"

(End of this chapter)