Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 75

On the first day of October in the 48th year of Kangxi, west of the city, Cao Mansion, Kui Yuan.

Today is the first day that Cao Yong entered the palace as a companion. At the second quarter of Chouzheng (02:30 in the morning), Amethyst and a few maids got up to prepare the clothes Cao Yong wore and the morning meal.

Although Cao Yong is used to getting up early, it is too early today, so he reluctantly gets up.After cleansing his face with warm water and rinsing his mouth with green salt, he couldn't help but yawned a few times.

Zijing looked at it, and said with a smile: "The people outside all think that the prince is so precious, who would have thought that they would work so hard, even the uncle must work harder!"

Cao Yong nodded, deeply moved, originally thought it would be easy to transfer from guard to companion, but now he knows that it is not the case at all.While dozing off with his eyes squinted, he missed his short guard career very much.There is a shift every six days, six days on and six days off.During the six days on duty, as long as I stood at the gate for two hours a day, I was able to work together. It was really easy.

Compared with the guards, reading with them is tiring.When the princes and grandchildren of the Qing Dynasty were six years old, they had to go to the study to study.Yinzheng is every day in summer and autumn (04 o'clock in the morning), Yinzheng is at 30 o'clock every day in winter and spring (01:30 in the morning), and you don't go to the study room until [-] o'clock in the afternoon ([-]:[-] in the afternoon).After a year, only the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Longevity Festival (the emperor's birthday) and the prince's own birthday are around the Spring Festival before they can take a few days off.

After eating breakfast, Cao Yong saw Zijing come with a new set of clothes, smiled and shook his head and said: "It's not like a child is new to school, what kind of new clothes do you want to change, just find an ordinary one."

Zijing smiled and replied: "Not to mention that my uncle has grown a lot this year, last year's clothes were already small. Even if they still fit, they were also worn in the south. How can I stand the autumn cold in Beijing? Let alone This set, that is, woolen clothes of all sizes in winter, has to be made in the capital!"

Cao Yong stretched out his arms, allowing several servant girls to put on their robes, vests and hats, and they cleaned up neatly.Zijing packed the "Four Books", "Five Classics", "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and other books that Cao Yong needed for class, and this was Cao Yong's school bag.

In the front yard, Cao Zhong got up early and waited, while Xiao Man and the Wei brothers packed up their horses and waited.

Cao Yong saw that because he was alone, all the people in the house were uneasy, so he said to Cao Zhong: "Uncle Zhong doesn't have to get up early to wait, and the attendants can be arranged one day in advance."

Cao Zhong said with a smile: "I know that the uncle is considerate of the servants, but how can there be a rule that the servants are still lazy when the master rises? I just hope that the uncle will study hard, and he will shine on the family lintel in the future!"

Cao Yong knew that the old man was stubborn, so he stopped talking and rode to the palace.Xiao Man, Wei Hei, Wei Bai, and two other long followers followed.

When he arrived at Donghua Gate, Cao Yong got off his horse, sent Xiaoman and others back, and took out his waist card to enter the palace.

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The upper study room is in the Qianqing Gate, in the five row rooms on the east side of the Qianqing Palace.From Donghuamen to Shangstufang, Cao Yong had to go through several gates and checked his badge several times before he arrived.This waist badge is different from the guard's waist badge, both of which were prepared in the palace.

Although Cao Yong hadn't worked as a guard in the internal shift for a few days, everyone followed him outside the Great Wall and mixed with many familiar colleagues.Everyone knows that Long Live treats him differently, so they are naturally very polite.

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In the second quarter of going to school, Yinzheng went to school, Cao Yongyin was arriving, and several little elder brothers came to the room sparsely.A few of them were young, only about six or seven years old, and they stood upright. When they saw a newcomer, they looked over curiously.

Cao Yong couldn't help but blush. When he was in Jiangning, he was young and had studied in Zongxue for many years.Now that I am not young at this age, how can I still be in school?This is really strange.Needless to say, when others pass through, it is not necessary to say that the wind is surging, even if it is not a royal hegemony, at least it is a chief minister who overshadows the sky with one hand. After studying for seven or eight years like myself, he who comes to be a student should be regarded as an outlier.

Princes and grandchildren, no matter how they are dressed, wear yellow belts around their waists to show their status.

At the moment of Yinzheng, the fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother came together.Seeing Cao Yong's arrival, Elder Sixteen stepped forward with a smile: "It is still useful to learn Mandarin and Mongolian before Chenshi!"

The "national language" mentioned by Brother Sixteen refers to the Manchu language. After the princes of the Qing Dynasty went to the study room, in addition to studying Confucian classics such as "Four Books" and "Five Classics", they also had a special Manchu and Mongolian master.The accompanying readers followed suit, but the difference between the teacher and the princes and grandchildren was that there were specially assigned accompanying teachers.

Cao Yong followed the sixteenth elder brother into the upper study room. There are five upper study rooms without partitions, but after everyone entered the study room, they were clearly separated.In the two rooms on the east side, there are thirteen or four cases sparsely placed, which are where the princes and grandchildren live.In the two rooms on the west side, there are more table cases, 25 and six tables are where Cao Yong and others are located.

Because the study system is nine years, usually from six to 15 years old, after the age of 15, the princes and grandchildren will not come to school after they are entrusted with titles or have errands.If you don't have any errands, you can come here every day, but you don't have to spend time like the little brothers. You can usually finish school at the beginning of the afternoon ([-] o'clock in the morning).The companions are assigned under the names of the princes and grandchildren, such as the companions of a certain elder brother, the companions of a certain emperor's grandson, etc., and their ages are usually about the same as the following princes.Therefore, among Cao Yong's classmates in the study room, most of them were young boys in their teens, and there were only four or five of them who were fifteen or sixteen like him.

At about two o'clock in Yinshi, with a burst of hearty laughter, a handsome young man walked into the upper study room.Regardless of whether it was the east side or the west side, except for the fifteenth elder brother, the sixteenth elder brother and a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy who were still sitting, everyone else got up.

Cao Yong went to the countryside to do as the Romans did, so naturally he followed suit, but he thought in his heart that the one who could have this status should be the eldest son of the prince, Erbeile Hongxi, the son of the prince.The one sitting on the right side of the sixteenth elder brother, who is silent, is the seventeenth elder brother who will be the "fourth master party" in the future.

In the study room, except for the fifteenth elder brother, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother, the rest are the grandsons of the emperor.Hong Xi was the oldest, and her status was the most valuable, so everyone naturally stood up to greet her.

Hong Xi was tall and tall, with a three-point smile on his face all the time, after entering, he looked around, and when he saw Cao Yong, his gaze paused.Afterwards, he went to the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth elder brothers: "My nephew greets the uncles!"

Elder Brother Fifteen had a peaceful face: "Get up!"

It was only now that Hong Xi sat down at Brother Seventeen.

With Hong Xi's arrival, the seats for the prince and grandson are all full.Cao Yong took a brief look. Among the grandsons whose names could not be named, there were three six or seven-year-olds, two eight or nine-year-olds, four twelve or three-year-olds, plus the three elder brothers in the first row. With Hongxi, there are 13 princes and grandchildren in the study room.

The eldest elder brother Yinyi has been imprisoned by seizing the title since he abolished the prince, and his son also lost the opportunity to study in the study.The eldest son and second son of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen died young, and the third son Hongshi seemed to be too young to study in the study.The eighth elder brother Yinsi's son was born in Kangxi 47, and he is probably just learning to speak now.

Perhaps it was for this reason that the upper study room was fairly clean.Otherwise, according to what Brother Sixteen said, if those powerful brothers pile up all the younger brothers in the study room, then there is no need to stay in the study room.

Right now, the study room is Hongxi's world.Although there are three uncles, these three princes are all born of Han women, and their biological mothers are not of high status, and they have no prominent relatives to rely on.Hongxi is different, he has already named Baylor, and his father is a prince, he considers himself the grandson of the royal family, and his status is incomparable.Although he wouldn't do stupid things like bullying his younger brother, the arrogance he carried couldn't be concealed.

It happened that not all the emperors and grandchildren allowed Hongxi to be arrogant. After Hongxi sat down, someone snorted coldly.

Hong Xi turned her head and glanced coldly.The one sitting behind Brother Fifteen was the one who just let out a cold snort, and raised his chin at Hong Xi with an expression of disbelief.

Cao Yong watched from a distance, remembering the introduction that the sixteenth elder brother gave to everyone in the study room before, and knew that the unconvinced person was Hong Sheng, the son of Prince Cheng of the third elder brother.Although there is no crown prince yet, but with his status as the eldest son, he cannot escape.Erbeile Hongxi is the concubine son of the crown prince, only because the princess concubine has no legitimate son, and he has an eldest grandson himself, so he is favored by Kangxi.Therefore, it is understandable for someone like Hong Sheng to look down on Hong Xi's arrogance.

In the Baylor mansions of the princely mansions, the distinction between concubine and concubine can be described as extremely different.In addition to the **** hereditary non-replacement, there are twelve ranks of clan titles.In each palace, except for one son who was downgraded to inherit his father's title, the other sons were granted titles based on their births when they reached adulthood.The title of the concubine is lowered by two ranks than that of the concubine, and some are even lower.

At the second quarter of Yinzheng, several masters from the study room came in with square steps, and everyone began to attend class.

(End of this chapter)