Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1070 The Great Victory
In the capital city in February, the winter cold is gradually disappearing, and it is almost the day when Wu'er will enter the palace.

The dowry prepared earlier is no longer needed.According to the rules, only princes Di Fujin and Chu Fujin can bring full dowry or half dowry into elder brother's house, and only Di Fujin can bring maids.

Wu'er can only "cute" and can only bring a small amount of clothes into the palace.

In Cao Yong's generation, other people have the marriage silver left by the old lady, 5000 taels for each grandchild.Only the fourth sister, fifth son, and Changsheng, who were born after the death of the elderly, did not have this money.

Cao Song, the older brother, was unwilling to wrong his younger sister, so he decided with Cao Fuhou to prepare a dowry silver of 5000 taels of silver for Wu'er.After all, living in the palace, there are many places that need to be managed up and down.

Zhao Jiashi was unwilling, or Cao Fu persuaded her not to make trouble in private.

Although Wu'er is only a concubine, the status of the married person is not low.Maybe the rise and fall of Dongfu in the future will be tied to Wu'er.

It's not that he wants to be a relative of the emperor, but he just wants to use words to stabilize Zhao Jia's family and prevent her from causing trouble before Wu'er enters the palace, which will cause trouble for everyone.

Although Zhao Jia was unhappy, he didn't say anything.

But Mrs. Li sent someone over to ask her to talk.

Mrs. Li added makeup to Wu'er. Besides 3000 taels of silver, she also had four sets of head jewelry. Chu Yu, the sister-in-law, did not have empty hands, and prepared 1000 taels of silver and two sets of head jewelry.

Starting with Chuyu, Jinghui and Suxin are sister-in-laws, and it is not easy to be left behind.Jinghui 800 taels of silver, Su Xin 600 taels, and each of them added two pairs of gold and jade bracelets.

In a few days, Prince Ping Fujin and Cao Yi also sent people a lot of clothing materials, gold and silver jewelry.Cao Ying came here in person.It's just that she is not as rich as the other two aunts, and she has limited money, so Tian's gift is the lightest.

No one else would pick this, but Zhao Jia felt that his face was wiped off, and he scolded the Sun family a few times in his heart.

The fourth sister and Wu'er had the best relationship. Ever since she knew that Wu'er was going to enter the palace, she sewed two sets of clothes for Wu'er herself.Then he picked out his own jewellery, put them in a box, and gave them to Wu'er in private.

Niuniu and Tianhui prepared two boxes of purses, both of which were filled with gold and silver locks.

As a result, Wu'er's dowry silver was more than 5000 taels, twenty boxes of various clothes and wool, and ten boxes of gold and jade jewelry.

It would be too ostentatious if all these things were brought into the palace as Wu'er.

In the end, besides all the jewelry, I brought eight sets of spring clothes and summer clothes each. I saved 3000 silver and left 2000 taels. The 1000 taels were exchanged for gold, and two boxes of gold melon seeds, two boxes of gold bracelets, and gold For rings or something, [-] taels of silver were melted.

In the end, these things were packed into four boxes and entered the palace with Wu'er.

The fourth elder brother doesn't know whether he likes his new concubine or not. The most important thing in the palace is a beautiful and docile woman.Although Wu'er looks sweet, it's not to the point where people can't take their eyes off it.

Beside him, a court lady has been arranged to teach and guide the intercourse. It is the time when the affection is strong and the love is lingering; after all, Wu'er is too young and too shy, so he doesn't know how to take the initiative to cater to him, so he is not as favored as the court lady.

So, out of the ten days, the fourth elder brother kept the maid by his side for seven or eight days.

However, Wu'er was appointed by the queen, and for the sake of the Cao family and Hang Seng, he cared for Wu'er.Seeing that someone neglected Wu'er, he even had a fit of anger, so that the people in elder brother's office knew that Wu'er was also the new master, and he could not be neglected at will.

The court lady who taught the intercourse was surnamed Gao, she was 16 years old, and she was also chosen by the queen.

It was the "Xiaoxuan" who entered the palace last year. Because of his outstanding appearance, he was selected into the Queen's Palace, and was rewarded by the Queen to the fourth elder brother in the first month.

Although both of them were given by the queen, one is a palace maid in a coat and the other is a beautiful girl from the Eight Banners. After all, their identities are different.The queen sent people to elder brother's place to beat him.It's nothing more than the fourth elder brother is young, so it's not suitable to have sex for a long time.

The fourth elder brother is not an ordinary boy after all, these days it is really the first time he met love affairs, so he was addicted to it for a while.

After getting the queen's beating, the fourth elder brother woke up.He hasn't got married yet, so he has a lot to consider.It's okay for a concubine to give birth to a concubine, but if a court lady gave birth to an eldest son, it would be a bad name for lust and immorality.

I don't want this change, but it's five times cheaper.

With Mrs. Gao favored in front of her, the empress felt that Wuer was virtuous and sensible, so she was called to the empress palace several times...

*
Ganzhou, outside the new city.

Cao Yong rode on the horse and looked at the people reclaiming wasteland in the distance.Winter has finally passed, and the people have begun to prepare for spring plowing.

Their faces were full of hope and joy.

According to the population, [-] mu of land per person, tax exemption for three years.From a homeless refugee to the owner of this land, how can he not be happy?

Cao Yong's errand also came to an end.

Yesterday, he had already received the decree, and after a final tour today, he will leave for Beijing tomorrow.

In Cao Yong's heart, there was a bit of joy.Not only for myself, but also for the soldiers of the Western Expedition.

From the eighth day of February to the 22nd of February, it took only half a month for the imperial army to set off from Qinghai and travel thousands of miles to quickly put down the Qinghai rebellion.

The Luobu Zangdanjin tribe who provoked the rebellion was almost wiped out. He fled with 200 people. Although he escaped in the end, his confidants and mother were captured.

This battle was fought beautifully, which shocked Qinghai and Mongolia, and demonstrated the military power of the imperial court.

In the past few years of the game between the imperial court and Cewang Allah Butan, Qinghai Mongolia, which had become ready to move, finally became completely honest.They also understood that in front of the imperial army, they really had nothing to rely on.

Under the imperial court's control for many years, Qinghai Mongolia has long been like a pan of loose sand, how can it compete with the imperial court.

As for whether increasing Nian Gengyao's qualifications and boosting Nian Gengyao's aura, Cao Yong didn't think much about it.

As long as there is no need to move the army lightly, not counting the previous ones, just counting the half a year when he took over the logistics of the Northwest Garrison, it cost millions of taels of silver.

If the fight continues, the court doesn't have to do anything else.As the servant of the household department, he can only work as a "businessman" part-time, looking for small ways to collect money.

There is another thing that makes him happy, that is Li Wei's promotion.

He saw this news from the imperial palace newspaper. Li Wei was promoted from Yunnan Yanyi Road to Yunnan Chief Envoy, only one step away from being a big official in Xinjiang.

In less than a year, Li Wei was promoted from a fifth-rank doctor to a second-rank chief envoy. This speed can't help but make people look sideways.

Cao Yong rubbed his chin, feeling a little tasteful in his heart, why didn't he have the good luck of Li Wei.As for the cultivation of opium, he was the one who initiated it, but I don't know if the emperor still remembers it.

The next day, he left Ganzhou and returned to Beijing with the officials and family entourage accompanying him.

In the capital city, it was already in chaos.

It's not that something happened, but it was caused by this "Northwest Victory".

It has been ten years since the Jungar Mongol rebellion, and the imperial court has been holding back this breath for ten years.Today, even though Allah Butan is still at large, he does not dare to offend easily.

Qinghai Mongolia, once again taking advantage of this quelling of the war, was completely sidelined.

Goethe's excerpts were stacked more than a foot high in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Yongzheng was also very happy in his heart.

Nian Gengyao was the General of Fuyuan appointed by him, and he was also his disciple when he buried himself in the residence. Such an impressive achievement gave him a lot of face.

In contrast, the feats of retiring as General Fuyuan in the Northwest for several years to recover Tibet are not as eye-catching as in the past.Compared with Nian Gengyao, who had won a great victory, the general, Brother Fourteen, seemed a bit procrastinated and incompetent.

But rejoicing to rejoice, Yongzheng still suppressed the notes of the officials about offering prisoners.

Qinghai Mongolia has the same origin as Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.There are some things that the imperial court also needs to be cautious about.

After discussions came and went, besides rewarding the heroes, Yongzheng finally decided to call Nian Gengyao into the palace to have an audience at the end of the year.

The reason why he set aside more than half a year's work was not that he was not in a hurry to see Nian Gengyao, but to save Nian Gengyao face.In addition to Nian Gengyao's visit to Beijing, governors from all over the country also went to Beijing to welcome Nian Gengyao together.

In the Kangxi Dynasty, if the emperor treated his subjects like this, the censor would have jumped out to impeach him.But now, the Yushi Yamen is silent, and no one dares to block the emperor on the festival of "Northwest Victory".

By the middle of March, when Cao Yong arrived in Beijing, the purpose of calling the governors and governors from all over the country to Beijing had already come down.

According to the rules, when Cao Yong returned to Beijing, he had to go to Yuqian to pay an errand before he could go home.In order to prevent his eyes from being dimmed and not knowing the dynamics of various parties in the capital, Jiang Jian waited at the post station on the outskirts of Beijing one day in advance.

When he saw Cao Yong, he told Cao Yong about the situation in the capital these days.

When Cao Yong heard Jiang Jian mentioning that Yongzheng summoned governors from other places to Beijing to welcome Nian Gengyao, he felt incredible.

Is the emperor's actions too kind?
He has already heard that when Nian Gengyao sits in Xining, he really "sit in the town".Whether it was the pacification of Haixi a year ago, or the great victory in the next year, it was Yue Zhongqi who led the generals to fight.

Although it shows the dignity of the imperial court and treats Nian Gengyao favorably, there is no need for a governor from other places to welcome him, right?

"It seems that the emperor has sorted out the capital and the clan properly!" Cao Yong said.

Jiang Jian nodded, and said: "The ninth elder brother is detained in Xining, and the tenth elder brother is confined to Zhangjiakou. Although the clan has its own arguments, no one dares to challenge them."

The name is to take advantage of the "Northwest Great Victory" to rush to Beijing for Nian Gengyao, but in fact it should be Yongzheng who wants to intervene in local officials.

When Yongzheng was interviewed, Cao Yong discovered that he was completely different.

Yongzheng last year was always frowning, with a tired look on his face.It's the kind that pushes oneself tightly and makes others tremble with fear.

In the current Yongzheng, the emperor's majesty is even stronger, and his face is calm and unhurried. I don't know if it is caused by the settlement of foreign troubles.

Although Cao Yong mentioned Ganzhou affairs in detail in the secret document, Yongzheng still asked carefully.Hearing that the people have opened up wasteland and the immigrants have settled down, he couldn't help but nodded...

*
When Cao Yong came out from the palace and returned to Cao Mansion, it was already dusk.

Mrs. Li and Chu Yu had been waiting anxiously for a long time, and kept sending people to the second gate to inquire.Brothers Tianyou and Hang Seng greeted them at the door with a butler.

Don't meet again as a family, there must be some joy again...

(End of this chapter)