Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 795
On the first day of July, Cao Yong rested and did not go to the Yamen as an errand.

He didn't want to make a big deal at first, but seeing his wife and mother were very interested, he decided to let them arrange it.After all, those who don't leave the door all day long, and don't enter the other door, their life is really monotonous.

Early in the morning, Cao Yong wore a royal blue Gesha gown and a Wansi cap on his head. Together with Chu Yu, he went to Lanyuan to pay his respects to Cao Yin and Mrs. Li.Cao Yin and his wife went back to the mansion before their son, just to celebrate his son's birthday.

Thinking that 25 years ago, he was just a baby, and now he has a son and daughter, Cao Yin and his wife sighed.

Cao Yong picked the front of the front, and kowtowed three times to his parents in a polite manner.Not only for the flesh and blood of the past ten years, but also for the memory of the parents in the previous life.

After Cao Yong kowtowed, Li stood up and helped his son up, put the eighteen-child bracelet in his hand on Cao Yong's wrist, and said: "This is the Buddhist bead that was consecrated in Guangji Temple a few days ago. , keep my son safe and sound."

This hand bead was still warm, and Cao Yong felt warm in his heart. He helped Li to sit down by the kang, and said softly: "In the past, it was the son who was unfilial and troubled the parents. Body, let parents show their arms."

As a mother, Mrs. Li felt that honor, favor and wealth were not as good as her children's well-being, and hearing her son speak so caringly, the boss was also relieved.

Cao Yin looked at his son with a more loving expression.There is no need to explain such words as glorifying the lintel of Cao's family, being filial to parents, and taking care of brothers and nephews.

After Cao Yong had finished asking for his parents' peace, someone brought Changsheng in with him.

Changsheng Kangxi was born in the winter of 54 years, and now he is four years old. He looks pink and jade-like, and his black eyes are very flattering.He is Cao Yong's compatriot brother, and his appearance is mostly Xiao's mother, and he looks the same as Cao Yong when he was a child.

After greeting Cao Yin's parents, he walked up to Cao Yong, and said in a childlike voice, "I wish the eldest brother good luck, prosperity and well-being."

Such a painful appearance made everyone laugh.

Cao Yong leaned down, picked up Changsheng, put it on his knees, and asked with a smile: "We all have birthday celebrations, who did we learn from?"

Chang Sheng just giggled, fiddling with the buttons on Cao Yong's front with his small hands, and didn't speak.

At this moment, a servant girl came to report the time, and several young masters and eldest girls arrived.

Yiliu's little head and melon seeds, after paying respects to grandparents, paying respects to parents (adopted parents), and not forgetting to greet the longevity in Cao Yong's arms.Only then did the servant girl bring the cushions, and God Bless and the others knelt down to Cao Yong to celebrate his birthday.

Just after the worship here, the daughter-in-law of the manager came in to report, saying that the servants of the internal and external managers wanted to pay homage to the young master Cao Yong's birthday.

Cao Yong put down Changsheng, first went to the hall of the front yard to accept the congratulations of the male servants; then returned to Wutong Garden, and was kowtowed by the internal stewards.

Next, there will be Heke Yingmen, who will not rest for half a day.

Because it is Cao Yong's birthday, except for his colleagues in the officialdom, there are all ages, old or young; relatives and friends from the old family are mostly young people.

Several cousins ​​from the East Mansion and several younger brothers from the Prince Chun's Mansion, none of whom were left behind, came to celebrate Cao Yong's birthday.

Seeing that Cao Fu is like a young adult, he treats people well; Hongxin, the fourth elder brother of Chunwangfu, is also 17 years old, and it is said that he will be married this year.In Cao Yong's heart, he felt a sense of vicissitudes.

Get married and start a business, marry a wife and have children, life seems to be complete.Going with the flow again, seemingly doing nothing.

It wasn't until late at night that the guests left one after another, leaving only exhaustion on Cao Yong's body.

Chu Yu helped Cao Yong change his clothes and helped him squeeze his shoulders.Cao Yong grabbed her hand and said: "You have been busy all day, let's talk."

The husband and wife were lying on the mat, talking one after another.

"Master liked to listen to music when he was in the south of the Yangtze River. The team we invited today is good. Master is very happy to see it." Cao Yong said.

Chu Yu said: "I heard from my wife that the master wrote operas in his early years and rehearsed them when he was in Jiangnan."

Cao Yong closed his eyes and said: "Yes, when I was in Jiangning in the early years, my family raised an opera troupe in order to pick up the driver. When I arrived in the capital, everything is not cheap, but it is not as comfortable as when I was in Jiangning."

Speaking of this, Cao Yong thought of the manuscripts his father had compiled in the past two years.

Buying a theater troupe seems too ostentatious, and my father won't let me; on the manuscript side, I can do my best.

Cao Yin has reached the year of Jiazi, and he is already exhausted.Every time Cao Yong saw his father, he felt uneasy, for fear of when he would fall ill.

The next day, after Cao Yong got up, he sent people to Dongfu to invite Cao Fu.

Cao Fu is the youngest son of the second family, and the two elder brothers above him have already become officials, so they are not in a hurry to arrange him as an errand.After the final exam, he still went back to study in the Eight Banners Academy.

According to Cao Yin and Cao Yong's thinking, they wanted to wait for Cao Fu to take another subject.He is 17 years old this year, and he has to wait three years to take another subject, but he is only twenty.If you haven't won the first place by then, it would be good to make up a pen and stick to work in the sixth department.

Seeing his cousin calling him over early in the morning, Cao Fu was full of doubts.

Cao Yong said the reason straight to the point, wanting to find a home workshop and publish his father's early poems, which can be regarded as fulfilling his long-cherished wish for his father.However, he still remembers clearly the "Nanshan Case" that shocked the government and the public a few years ago, and he must give a few more instructions.

In fact, he thought too much.Cao Yin was born in Baoyi's family, and when he was a child, he bathed in the emperor's favor. Even if he wrote poems, they were mostly words of gratitude and praise, which were not the same as those scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.

Cao Fu's eyes lit up, and he said, "Brother, how many boxes do you want to print?"

Cao Yong didn't even think about it in his heart, and said: "It depends on the master's opinion. One hundred boxes or two hundred boxes are fine. In addition to giving gifts to relatives and friends, the rest must be passed on to descendants. I want to work in the ministry, so I can't serve the master. , I have to trouble my fifth brother for the publication."

Hearing this, Cao Fu hesitated for a moment, and said, "Brother, can my younger brother take a few months off from the official school? I have already heard what the masters of the left and right said, and I go to Dianmao every day, but I am just fooling around with everyone."

"It's okay to ask for leave, but don't miss your homework. You have to deal with the annual exam. Otherwise, the master will have to talk about it." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

Cao Fu happily agreed, Cao Yong saw that it was late, so he went out of the mansion to the yamen...

*
Today, the second day of July, is the opening day of the "Bank of Great Qing".

Cao Yong's status was limited, so he didn't go there. After all, he has left the Ministry of Internal Affairs now, and the counselor behind him is okay.

The sixteenth elder brother is the most monkey spirit, so he dragged the fourteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother to the gate of the bank to put up a plaque.

The four characters "Bank of Great Qing" on this plaque are inscribed by the imperial pen, the emperor's calligraphy.

There are five spacious halls with five-foot-high counters.On the counter is a thumb-thick iron bar that separates the inside from the outside.It's a bit like a traditional money bank, but it's different.

Unable to bear the sixteenth elder brother's torture, the fourteenth elder brother had long ago agreed, not only to join in the fun, but also to join in the fun with the officials of the Ministry of War.

Not to mention the merchants and ordinary people who have already received the news, even the officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of War supported the "Bank of Great Qing" lively.

In addition, those chambers of commerce that are closely related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not uncommon for interest, but they just want to use this to curry favor with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.So they were also very supportive, and they all went to Daqing Bank to open accounts and deposits on the opening day.

As a result, the people in the capital have learned a lot today.In addition to the firecrackers that have been set off all morning, and red confetti all over the floor, there is already a long queue outside the bank.

Elder Sixteen was shaking his fan, sitting in the opposite tea house with a smile on his face, looking at the long dragon in front of him, he was also happy in his heart.

Brother Fourteen has always paid attention to the matter of the Bank of Great Qing.Among other things, the millions of taels of silver raised by the bank before the opening of the bank made people jealous.

"Sixteenth brother, if it goes on like this today and deposits tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every day, the bank will really live up to its name. But I don't know that the loan interest, if it is an official loan, is the annual interest rate [-]%? Can it be less?" Elder Fourteen thought about it in his mind and asked.

"Brother Fourteen, private loans and official loans are all the same. According to the interest rate on the market, the monthly interest is three cents, and the annual interest is thirty-six percent. The bank's interest is already extremely low." Elder Sixteen looked at Fourteen Elder brother glanced back.

The fourteenth elder brother frowned when he heard the words, with the word "Chuan" between his brows, he said: "The Ministry of Accounting is empty, and we will go to war this year and next. It would be great if the bank's affairs belonged to the Ministry of Accounting."

The sixteenth elder brother was amused to hear that, this bank is a place for money turnover, not the imperial court's purse.If, according to Brother Fourteen, all the deposits in this bank were spent by the imperial court, then the bank should also go bankrupt.

Elder Seventeen rarely came out for a stroll, looking at the street scene, he felt a lot more relaxed.Hearing the two elder brothers saying that they are all interest money, they couldn't help laughing, and said: "Brother Fourteen, do you see that Brother Sixteen is acting more and more like Brother Ninth?"

The fourteenth elder brother heard the words, glanced at the sixteenth elder brother, and saw a two-inch jade abacus hanging on his waist, and said: "This is a gift from the ninth brother? Look at the golden abacus that is with the ninth brother who is inseparable." The abacus is about the same."

Elder Sixteen heard the words, smiled and untied the abacus, and played with the two of them: "It's a gift from Brother Nine, it's novel to look at, and cheap to use. Brother Nine has been out of Beijing for a few days, and I don't know how the road will be... ..."

The fourteenth elder brother was playing with the jade abacus, his heart moved, and he said: "The sixteenth brother has been working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for many years, do you want to go to the Ministry of Households? How about giving Huang Ama a note and transferring the sixteenth brother to the Ministry of household affairs?" ?”

Elder Sixteen heard this, quickly waved his hands, and said, "Brother Fourteen, please don't go anywhere. I don't know how much my younger brother is, but I don't know how tall I am? It's okay to take care of trivial matters for Huang Ama under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Let the brothers worry about the important affairs of the country."

Elder Brother Seventeen was by the side, watching with cold eyes, knowing what he knew.For the fourth elder brother who is in charge of the household department, the fourteenth elder brother is always on guard.He would rather trust his half-brother than his brother.

If the rumors were true and the fourteenth elder brother was going to lead the army, he would not feel at ease if there was no trustworthy person in the household department.

The brothers were sitting and gossiping, when Zhao Feng came in and whispered a few words in Elder Sixteen's ear.

Brother Sixteen couldn't help but change his face when he heard that.

Seeing this, Elder Fourteen asked, "Is it news from the palace? What's wrong with Er Fujin?"

Er Fujin became seriously ill at the end of May, and so far it is only a matter of time.When the news reached Rehe, Kangxi personally ordered the imperial hospital for diagnosis and treatment; after knowing that the medicine stone was ineffective, he called several older concubines in the harem to visit.

Although Er Fujin's concubine's treasure book was destroyed when the prince was abolished in 51 years of Kangxi, after all, she is the first prince Fujin personally selected by Kangxi.As the crown princess, she has been in charge of palace affairs for more than [-] years.

Brother Sixteen shook his head and said, "It's not Er Fujin, it's Li Guangdi who disappeared last night. Just now Zhao Feng saw the Li family's children go out to report the funeral."

While talking, Elder Sixteen couldn't help frowning.

I hadn't heard of Li Guangdi's illness before, so it seemed that Tianshou had arrived.Li Guangdi is about eighty years old, which is considered a long life.Only in this way, the old ministers in front of the emperor's eyes withered away.

I don't know what the emperor's father thinks when the news reaches Rehe...

*
Two days later, Rehe, the summer resort.

Kangxi sat behind the imperial case, looked at Li Guangdi's legacy in front of him, and remained silent for a long time.He remembered clearly that Li Guangdi was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Kangxi, and it has been nearly 50 years.

Eradication of San Francisco and conquest of Taiwan seem to have happened in a previous life.

Li Guangdi had been begging for his elders a long time ago, because he missed the old love, and kept the papers every time, just to keep more veterans by his side.

At the beginning of April, before Sheng Jia left Beijing, Li Guangdi went to the imperial court tremblingly to pay his respects.Because he was afraid that he would not be able to suffer from the fatigue of the journey, he was allowed to rest in the capital and did not follow Rehe.Unexpectedly, in this way, it became the farewell of the monarch and his ministers.

Kangxi picked up a pen, and wrote in the notes on the officials of the Ministry of Rites: "I will sacrifice to Li Guangdi, the old scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and posthumously posthumously Wenzhen."

Kangxi put down his pen, and was just about to order someone to hand out the notebook, when Wei Zhu came in and said, "My Majesty, Prince Kang is asking to see you."

When Kangxi heard this, his heart skipped a beat, and he said in a deep voice, "Xuan."

After a while, I saw Prince Kang Chong'an coming in with Wei Zhu.He is Zuo Zongzheng of the Clan Mansion, and he follows Rehe, and his reports are all about the affairs of the Clan Mansion.

Looking at the blurred paper, Kangxi sighed inwardly, and said, "It's been a while, do you have any last words?"

Chong'an knelt down and said: "Fu Jin died in the second year of junior high school. When he was dying, Fujin kowtowed to the northeast to thank him."

Kangxi only felt that his eyes were sore, that was the princess he had personally selected, a woman who was worthy of motherhood.His imperial father was a failure, the prince he trained by himself was unusable, and the concubine he personally selected died in depression.

Wei Zhu was by the side, seeing the abnormal flush on Kangxi's face, he felt terrified.In one day, I received two mourning letters, even ordinary people can't stand it, let alone the emperor's health has not been good for half a year...

*
The capital, the Forbidden City, Xian'an Palace.

The main hall was completely white, and on both sides of Er Fujin's coffin stood two rows of guards in filial piety.

This was Kangxi's decree as early as Er Fujin's serious illness, and he ordered the minister of the bodyguards and thirty guards to wear filial piety for Er Fujin.

According to the etiquette system, only twenty guards wear filial piety when Prince Fujin is mourning.Although Kangxi did not restore Erfu Jin's title of concubine, the funeral ceremony was equivalent to concubine.

Cao Song, as a guard from outside the class, was selected for this time to wear filial piety.

Although I have never seen the woman in the coffin, everyone praised her for her kindness and kindness, and Cao Song felt a little respect in his heart.If there is no trouble with the second abolished prince, then this woman is the mother of the country.

After all, Xian'an Palace is the place where the abolished prince is confined. Even if the funeral is arranged, only a few older grandsons under the name of the second elder brother will come to watch the funeral.

Seeing the deserted funeral, Cao Song was deeply moved.

The time, the situation, the majestic former princess, after her death, she is not as good as ordinary people.

Except for a few older concubines in the harem, those who came to pay homage were the princes Fujin outside.But they all leave after putting up the incense sticks. After all, this is Xian'an Palace, not any other place.

Sifujin went to incense and left the palace in front of Erfujin's spirit, with something on her mind.

In the early years before the division of the mansion, she also lived in elder brother's house for a few years. As a sister-in-law, Er Fujin gave her a lot of advice, and the sister-in-law got along very well.

Since the end of May, Er Fujin was seriously ill, and Si Fujin wanted to visit him.But in the imperial decree, only a few elderly concubines are allowed to visit, and the others have no decree, how can they enter and leave Xian'an Palace?

After Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong visited Er Fujin in June, they called Si Fujin into the palace to convey Er Fujin's intentions.Er Fujin has only one biological daughter, San Gege, and the marriage was delayed due to sickness, and Er Fujin misses this daughter the most.There is also a concubine, Liu Gege, who is eleven this year, and she is the closest to San Gege.

What Er Fujin meant was that he wanted to entrust his two daughters to Si Fujin to be raised.

Si Fujin knew that this was not something he could make up his own mind, so he went back and mentioned it to the fourth elder brother.The fourth elder brother delayed because it was Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong who passed the message, fearing that it might have something else to do with it.

After all, in the eyes of the imperial father, matters related to the second elder brother have become taboos, and anyone who mentions it will be unlucky.

Coupled with old age and suspicion, even if Si Fujin had good intentions, it is hard to guarantee that the emperor's father would not think of other things.

Although Si Fujin kept it in mind, she was always submissive, seeing her husband leave the matter behind, she couldn't bring it up again.

When Er Fujin passed away, Si Fujin went to the Xian'an Palace to hang a sacrifice. Seeing the trance-like San Gege and the innocent and romantic Liu Gege, Si Fujin remembered the past.

"Master, San Gege's appearance doesn't look good. If he doesn't take good care of him, he might not be able to survive for two years." After all, Si Fujin was kind, and when he returned to the palace, he asked someone to invite Si elder brother over, saying: "No wonder The second sister-in-law is worried about this daughter, and now she is just barely getting to know someone, if she is still detained there and delays the medical treatment, what can I do?"

Si elder brother has more eyes and ears, and knows more inside information than Si Fujin.I also heard about the things in Xian'an Palace.The emperor's father ordered the concubines to go to visit the sick, and they were all a little old, and the second elder brother's lewdness was evident.

Er Fujin wanted to send the two Gege out, probably because he was afraid that Gege would be influenced by what he saw and heard, and break the rules.

He was silent for a while, and said, "Didn't you mean madness? How to treat it?"

"It's just being bluffed. They are surrounded inside, trembling, and the child suffers too. Poor San Gege, he is the most filial and good boy." Si Fujin said here, his eyes turned red, and said: "Master, don't look at the monk. Looking at the face of the Buddha, thinking about the second sister-in-law's affection, I can't ignore it anyway."

The fourth elder brother pondered for a while, and said: "Well, I will write a note for Huang Ama tomorrow. San Gege needs to recuperate, and Liu Gege is also at the time to learn the rules, so it's good to write it out."

Sifujin was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "It's so good, if San Gege's illness can be cured as soon as possible, Second Sister-in-law can also close her eyes under Jiuquan..."

(End of this chapter)