Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 914 Windfall
"Chasing the queen?" Cao Yong was quite surprised when he heard this.

This is not a trivial matter. According to the rules, it is very cumbersome to do things such as conferring a descendant, favoring his children, and so on.

However, because it is "chasing the title" and this concubine Hui did not leave a prince, so it does not involve a reserve position, relatively speaking, it is relatively cheap.

Even if you want to add En Horqin, you don't have to dig out the concubine from decades ago to chase after her.

Moreover, this concubine was waiting for a new year in the palace, and died before she was canonized.

Seeing Cao Yong's calm expression, the sixteenth elder brother admired him a little.How did he know that Cao Yong didn't want this concubine Hui to have anything to do with him.

What he learned from Mr. Zhuang was that his grandmother had a relationship with Wu Sangui and was Wu Sangui's granddaughter or granddaughter.Chu Yu speculates from the powerful circle that Cao Yong's grandmother is the daughter of the widowed Princess Gu Lun Shuhui.

Although Elder Sixteen had occasionally mentioned blood relatives to him before, it was still vague.After all, it is taboo for the Venerable, even if there are all kinds of speculations, it is not easy to announce it.

"Your majesty didn't think of such a release because he saw the silver in the inner treasury?" Cao Yong was puzzled and asked.

Is there another unknown change in history? Kangxi has already conferred three empresses.After the Yuan Dynasty, the Hesheli family, followed by the Niu Hulu family, and then the Tong Jia family.

It has to be said that according to the folk saying, Kangxi, the emperor's horoscope is too hard.Not only did he lose his biological parents when he was young, but he also lost his three wives one after another.

Perhaps Kangxi himself knew this. Since the third queen passed away in the 28th year of Kangxi, she has been in vain and has not been canonized as a queen again.

After more than 30 years, thinking of this again, it is no wonder that Cao Yong unkindly thought that Kangxi was full of food and burned a lot of money.

The sixteenth elder brother saw that Cao Yong was so ignorant, he was surprised, and said: "Furuo doesn't know Concubine Hui and Aunt Tong... um, the origin of Tonglingtang?"

Seeing that the sixteenth elder brother asked each other seriously, Cao Yong raised his head and said, "what do you mean by this?"

Brother Sixteen couldn't help shaking his head, and said: "There are all sorts of miscellaneous things here, and I have only heard of superficiality. If my guess is correct, this Concubine Hui is the biological mother of my aunt."

After finishing speaking, he patted his mouth hard and said, "Look at me, I still can't change my words for a while."

Ever since Kangxi said that he wanted to pursue Concubine Hui as queen, Brother Sixteen had already confirmed that Mrs. Li was not his cousin or cousin, but his own half-sister.

Concubine Hui's family, going back up, is the descendants of Taizong and Shizu, but it is just icing on the cake for Horqin.

In this way, the only advantage is to declare that Li's status is precious in a disguised form.

"That concubine Hui is really from Horqin? Didn't she have anything to do with Wu Sangui?" Cao Yong was a little stunned, remembering what Mr. Zhuang said before his death, he couldn't believe it.

Brother Sixteen nodded, and said: "Anyway, it is true that Concubine Hui has Horqin blood on her body. It is estimated that Prince Zhuoliketu and Altangehul and his son also know about this, so they will look at you differently."

If it was really what Kangxi meant, and after Concubine Hui was made queen, wouldn't the mother be Princess Gu Lun?

Cao Yong frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

According to what Mr. Zhuang said, the mother's life experience must have involved the royal family's secrets and inhumanity, so how did Kangxi make a big fanfare, what is the so-called matter?
If you want to say that this emperor feels sorry for his daughter when he thinks about it, and gave his daughter a legitimate title, Cao Yong doesn't believe it.

If he wanted to make up for it, he wouldn't have waited more than 50 years.

Sixteen elder brothers, like Cao Yong, also feel that the Sacred Heart is unpredictable, and I don't know what the emperor's father intends to do.

If he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it first, and said to Cao Yong: "Do you need to eat something? Although I don't know how many things, but it can make the Queen Mother Baba give a word, the appointment is indispensable, and it takes some effort to count it."

With a hangover, Cao Yong didn't have the appetite to eat. After drinking a bowl of milk tea, he came out with Brother Sixteen.

Just as the sixteenth elder brother expected, Prince Zhuoli Ketu came down from the imperial court, and together with the son, he waited for Cao Yong and the sixteenth elder brother to receive the property.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a while, Elder Sixteen and Cao Yong did not arrive, but Wei Zhu, the head of the imperial court, came with a few servants.Among them, there was an old eunuch with a wrinkled face, almost all his teeth had fallen out, followed by several young eunuchs, holding a half-foot wooden box in their hands.

According to Wei Zhu, the old eunuch was an old man left in the Queen Mother's palace, and came to "assist" Uncle Cao in counting his belongings.

Altangerhul only thought that the old man of the emperor was so wordy, so he just asked Cao Yong to take these things away. What could he do to "assist" him?This old eunuch fell down at the first sight of the wind, keeping accounts, or can he move things?

Seeing this, Prince Zhuoliketu secretly rejoiced.

Look, just as he thought, there is a list of these properties in the palace.If greed arises, let alone taking advantage of Aunt Hui's blessing, I'm afraid I will be accused of crimes.

Wei Zhu sat down with a smile, waiting for Cao Yong and Brother Sixteen to come over.From the corner of his eyes, he saw the wooden boxes in the arms of the two servants, and he guessed in his heart how many belongings there were.

Since this property was left by the Empress Dowager, the specified amount cannot be less.

If Concubine Hui is really conferred the title of empress as the emperor envisioned, then that one will become Princess Gu Lun from the Central Palace.

Although the title of Princess Gulun is equal to that of Prince Heshuo, the princess's opening of the mansion is not as good as the prince's opening of the mansion. It requires dozens of villas and a total of hundreds of thousands of family assets.The dowry land of Princess Gu Lun's mansion will end with a dowry of 10,000+ taels.Moreover, if the princess does not have a son-in-law, the land and dowry will be taken back to the House of Internal Affairs after the princess dies.

The property in front of me was "given" to Mrs. Li by the Empress Dowager, and has nothing to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is no need for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be enthroned and make a book.

Can't say, can't say.

Wei Zhu lowered her eyes, picked up the teacup, and blew on the tea leaves on it.

It seems that his foresight is not rough, and the status of the Cao family will become more and more stable.Even if you don't know how to seal it, after this incident, you princes and elder brothers should know the emperor's intentions.

Mrs. Li's age is older than the third princess.

For a while, sixteen princes and Cao Yong came hand in hand.

Both Wei Zhu and Prince Zhuoli Ketu got up, Elder Sixteen met the prince first, and then said to Wei Zhu with a smile: "Old Wei, why did you come here free, is it according to Huang Ama's order?"

Wei Zhu pointed to the old eunuch beside him with a smile, and said to Prince Sixteen and Cao Yong again what he had just said to Prince Zhuoliketu.

However, he did not leave the meaning of "monitoring" after that, he took out a small box the size of a palm from his sleeve, and handed it to Cao Yong: "Uncle Cao, this is the key that the emperor asked the servant to give to the uncle. The emperor said that this Eunuch Tian is the deputy chief eunuch of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and an old man who is close to the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager loves the Uncle very much, and the Uncle also does his best for the Empress Dowager, so I will let Eunuch Tian work in the Uncle's house from now on."

After a few words, both Cao Yong and Sixteen elder brothers changed their expressions.

Eunuchs have always been used by the imperial palace and clan dignitaries, even in the clan, only those who are at the Bafen state rank and above are eligible to use them.

Among the nobles, not to mention the earl, even the duke's mansion is not qualified, otherwise it is a transgression, and it will be punished.

The so-called property "gifted" by the queen mother, Cao Yong can still bite the bullet and accept it for his mother; but the eunuch came directly in his name, wouldn't this drive him to the fire?
Although this is

That father-in-law Tian was thin and thin, in his sixties, bowed his waist, and after hearing what Wei Zhu had said, he bowed down to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly supported him and said: "Please don't be too polite, father-in-law. Since father-in-law is an old man who used to live in the empress dowager's family, his status is no better than others, so don't kill Cao Yong."

The deputy chief eunuch of the Compassionate Ning Palace is the sixth rank, and is also ranked first in the palace.

If Cao Yong put on airs with him because of the word "servant", he would not know what is good or bad.

Cao Yong had already thought of some excuses in his heart. This thing can be accepted, but this person would never dare to accept it. He must find a way to resign.

Seeing Cao Yong's cautiousness, Wei Zhu smiled and said goodbye to everyone, and motioned Cao Yong to come out before leaving.

Cao Yong saw that he seemed to have something to say, so he followed Wei Zhu out of the tent in the name of giving away.

After a few steps out of the tent, Wei Zhu lowered his voice and said, "Looking at Master Cao, you seem to be frightened?"

Cao Yong smiled bitterly and said: "It's no wonder if you don't scare. The king's kindness is very heavy, and Cao Yong can't stand it."

Wei Zhu said in a low voice: "Master Cao wants to evade, so just pretend to be mean. The Emperor has always been used to being arbitrary, so he may not change his mind easily. If you push hard, you will hurt Eunuch Tian's face instead." Speaking of this, he paused, and his voice became lower and lower: "The emperor will not harm Lord Cao. This manager of Tian used to be a servant in the imperial court in his early years. He has not shown his mountains and dews for decades, but he has not fallen for decades. Your Majesty Arranging him to go to Master Cao's residence, I must have thought about it."

Cao Yong was still in doubt, but Wei Zhu kindly made a point, so he had to bow down and thank him.

Seeing that he listened carefully, Wei Zhu accepted her favor and went back to the business with satisfaction.

Cao Yong turned around and turned back to the tent, and saw that everyone was waiting for him to come back.

Behind Eunuch Tian are two young eunuchs in their teens, holding copper locks on the wooden boxes in their hands.

Seeing this, Cao Yong understood that the key Wei Zhu gave him was for opening the box, so he handed the key to Eunuch Tian.

At this moment, he also heard the intention of what Wei Zhu said just now, and this Eunuch Tian might not be able to evade it.Forget it, when I go back, I will tidy up a quiet yard for Eunuch Tian, ​​and serve it with delicious food and drink, just as if he did his best for the Empress Dowager, and arranged for the elderly around the Empress Dowager to "care for the elderly" by himself.

This can be regarded as a living sign, so that everyone in the world can know that the Queen Mother treats Cao's family differently.

Cao Yong comforted himself, and his heart calmed down.

The two holding boxes were opened, and each was full of single volumes.

Eunuch Tian took a look, raised his head and said to Cao Yong: "Uncle, it will take more than a dozen people to check, unpack and seal the box. Look..."

Cao Yong only took Xiaoman, Wei Hei, Qian Li, and Zhao Gang with him in his retinue this time.Qian Li and Zhao Gang are also the sons of the Cao family, Qian Li is the nephew of Qian Feng, who is in charge, and Zhao Gang is the uncle and brother of Zhao Tong.

In the past few years, Cao Yong's long-term attendants either left Beijing, or became the managers of Yuanzi and Zhuangzi, so they made up four new long-term followers.

In addition to Qian Li and Zhao Tong, there are two more, one is Xiao Man's cousin Jing Zhe, and the other is Wang Rui, the grandson of the boss Guan Cao Fu.Officials who travel with their entourage have a limit on the number of troops they can bring, so the two of them stayed in Rehe and did not follow them outside the Great Wall.

The sixteenth elder brother knew that there were only four people around Cao Yong, so he said to Cao Yong, "Let Zhao Feng call people, except for Xiaoman and the others, and then call the few around me. It's almost enough to make up."

Although there are many officials accompanying the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Yi Duli is there, how many people will be sent is only a matter of one sentence, but Brother Sixteen is thinking about safety and does not want to involve too many outsiders.

Seeing that half of the tents are piled up in this tent, they are all boxes. I think that the belongings of the dozen or so carriages in the Prince's Mansion that Cao Yong mentioned yesterday should all be here.

Brother Sixteen didn't say anything, Cao Yong had to ask him for help.

Hearing what Elder Sixteen said, Cao Yong naturally nodded in agreement.

Zhao Feng went out to look for someone without mentioning it, Prince Zhuoliketu coughed twice, and said to Cao Yong casually: "Master Cao, some boxes have lost seals due to their age and transportation."

In fact, there are many boxes with broken seals or no seals. There are seven or eight boxes beside this pile of belongings.Compared with the sealed boxes, the paint color of these boxes is much newer, and it is also very eye-catching among these belongings.

Cao Yong is not a greedy person, and he will not care about whether there will be more or less items in the Prince's Mansion.

According to Elder Sixteen, these things were prepared by the Empress Dowager during the Shunzhi Dynasty, and were managed by Prince Zhuoliketu's Mansion. It has been at least 60 years since then, and has passed through several generations of the Palace.It is normal to lose a box and embezzle some property.

To be honest, he wished that the Prince's Mansion would appropriate more of this "dowry", so that there would be less left over, and he would accept it without burning his hands.

Just looking at the current posture, the emperor has the account book in his hand, and Prince Zhuoliketu also has a calm expression on his face. This property should be as listed in the account book, and there will be no shortage.Even if the Prince's Mansion has been embezzled, it should be almost compensated.

"The Empress Dowager loves her, so Cao Yong can only inherit the grace on behalf of her mother. It just makes the prince bother, and Cao Yong is ashamed." Cao Yong clasped his fists.

Seeing Cao Yong's politeness and sincerity, Prince Zhuoliketu stroked his beard and smiled boldly.

At the end of the month, a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Feng brought all the members of the Cao family and four young eunuchs over, and everyone began to count.

Eunuch Tian took out a booklet from the box and handed it to Cao Yong.Cao Yong took it and watched it with brother sixteen, but he couldn't help but breathe.

In this booklet, the first line listed is 10 taels of gold.

Further down, there are some large gold wares, among which there are about ten golden Buddha statues, twenty Ruyi handles, two boxes of golden pots, golden bowls, golden cups, golden saucers, and golden chopsticks.

Brother Sixteen looked at Cao Yong, and couldn't say congratulations.

Cao Yong only felt that his back was stiff, and said bravely: "Let's talk about the first item!"

After a while, under the signal of Prince Zhuoliketu, Xiaoman led everyone to open the seven or eight unsealed boxes.

It's all gold, golden, Cao Yong just feels dazzling...

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Posted, cough, but this is Li's private property, Xiao Cao can only live with his eyes first, and is not qualified to deal with private property. .

(End of this chapter)