Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 917 Marching
Cao Yong asked the fourth elder brother to take a seat. The fourth elder brother looked at Cao Yong and saw that he could not hide his lacklustre, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and he did not have the complacency and joy of "bathing in heaven" at all, and his mood was quite complicated.

I am pleased that he can be so stable and not surprised by honor or disgrace, but I also feel a little sour that I can't explain clearly.

Empress Xiaoyi, the adoptive mother, was in charge of Fengyin and ruled the six palaces as a noble concubine during her lifetime.She has a noble status, and because she is the imperial father's direct cousin, she is also respected by the emperor's father.

Just have status, but less love.She has a gentle and virtuous personality, and never used her status to win favor, but occasionally she showed a little sadness in front of her adopted son, not because of her lack of favor, but because she envied her husband and Empress Xiaocheng's love.

I don't know if she has seen Empress Xiaocheng when she went underground, or if she knows that Empress Xiaocheng also has people who admire her.

Thinking of this, the fourth elder brother sighed in his heart.

The dead are gone, let's cherish the living first.

Logically speaking, Cao Yong is not stupid, and he should know that the "gift" by the queen mother is actually the grace of the emperor.As for Li's true identity, he should also know a lot about it, but he doesn't know how he plans to deal with it.

After the gratification and bitterness, the fourth elder brother was only curious.

He didn't know, Cao Yong was also curious in his heart, wondering what the fourth elder brother was talking about, why he frowned and looked at people, his eyes were really uncomfortable.

But the fourth elder brother didn't speak, he could only think a little bit, weighed his mouth and said: "The minister went to see the prince, but the prince is not here. The emperor ordered the minister to return to Beijing tomorrow. The minister has finished sorting out the household documents and handed them over to the doctor." Rhodes, if the prince has anything to explain to his servants, please give the prince instructions."

The fourth elder brother heard this, looked at Cao Yong, and said seriously: "There is nothing special to explain, but when you return to Beijing, you should not neglect because the holy car is not there, and you should work diligently." Speaking of this, he paused, Said: "Zhang Boxing can be said to be a capable minister. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask for advice with an open mind."

Cao Yong got up and listened with solemn hands, bowed and said: "My lord taught me, I am very grateful, and I will be respectful and careful in my work, and I dare not betray my lord's kindness."

When he said the word "compassion", he felt that the roots of his teeth were going to ache.

Reluctantly, the fourth elder brother put on the airs of his elders, and he looked "hard-hearted", so Cao Yong could only cooperate with him.

The fourth elder brother nodded, as if he was quite satisfied with Cao Yong's knowledge, his eyes were much softer, but his voice became colder, the more he trained, the more energetic he was, and he seemed to be swallowing mountains and rivers with anger.

From Cao Yong's youth obsessed with merchants and delaying his studies, to Cao Yong's untactful behavior and making enemies with others in the capital, there are all kinds of dissatisfaction.

If it weren't for the distance, the spitting star would have sprayed on Cao Yong's face.

Cao Yong only felt that cold sweat was about to flow down his forehead, and he didn't look so unbearable in the usual way. Why is the fourth elder brother "gritting his teeth" and "hating iron but not steel"?

Is this the impression in the eyes of the future emperor that I have worked hard for more than ten years?

But he didn't know, it was his "compassion" just now that caused the trouble, which made the usually stern-faced fourth elder brother turn into a "chatter" in an instant.

Among the fourth elder brother's sisters, only eight have grown up, and six of them are in charge of Mongolia. Even if they have nephews, they are far away and have different identities; it is not his uncle's turn to discipline them.

There were two princesses married to Beijing, one was Princess Heshuo Wenxian, who was born of his same mother, and died of illness two years after marrying into the Tong family, leaving no son and half daughter; the other was Princess Heshuo Jingjing, Married to Sun Chengyun, her son-in-law died the year before last, and she lived widowed with her son.

This Princess Jingjing not only rarely interacts with Prince Yong's residence, but also has a similar age with the Fourteenth Fujin, and has a very good friendship.

It's good that the fourth elder brother doesn't vent his anger, how can he get close to this girl?
Cao Yong lost his father, and he was the one who underestimated and grew up (starting from the encounter in Hangzhou), so the fourth elder brother is now attracted by Cao Yong's "compassionate" sentence.

In addition, just now he was suffocated by the third elder brother, and after playing like this, he also felt refreshed.

Seeing that Cao Yong's face was getting paler and paler, he closed his mouth with unsatisfied interest, and his tone became gentle: "You are not young anymore, you can't do things arbitrarily in the future, and make decisions before acting. If you are in doubt If you have an idea, come and find me.”

Cao Yong was attacked by the fourth elder brother, and he was a little trembling, so he responded carefully.

The fourth elder brother saw that he was more than respectful but not close enough, and was a little dissatisfied; thinking of his closeness with the sixteenth elder brother, he felt a little uncomfortable, and said: "Although the sixteenth elder brother is your classmate, but he is your elder , don't neglect!"

Huh?Where is this all?
Cao Yong was a little confused by the jumping speech of the fourth elder brother, but he still responded honestly.

The fourth elder brother saw that he was "a child who can be taught", and he really felt like his own flesh and blood, so he got up and left contentedly.

Cao Yong personally sent him out of the tent, and when he turned back to the tent, he lost any sleepiness.

He broke apart and crushed the words of the fourth elder brother, but he still couldn't figure out what it meant?Could it be that Brother Sixteen offended Brother Four?

Xu said that there were too many "surprises" in the past two days, which made Cao Yong a little numb.Even though the fourth elder brother dismissed him as useless, he was only disturbed when he heard it, and calmed down afterwards.

The fourth elder brother thought that it would be better if he was a "mediocre talent", so he would not think of him as a "pioneer of reform", which was also in line with Cao Yong's wishes.

But the sixteenth elder brother is a clan, what will happen to him in the future, all depends on the fourth elder brother's thoughts. Cao Yong still thinks that he will be in the iron hat, so he can have more backers.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong couldn't wait, but it was too eye-catching to go to Brother Sixteen now.If it got to the ears of the fourth elder brother, wouldn't he become "stubborn"?
He stood up and took a few steps.

With the intelligence of the sixteenth elder brother, he should not offend the fourth elder brother, so what went wrong?

It's really "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here", he was thinking about it, when someone said: "Fu Ruo, I heard that the fourth brother came just now?"

The one who picked up the tent and came in was the yawning Sixteenth Brother, followed by Yi Duli.

With Yi standing there, Cao Yong had all kinds of doubts, so he could only press down first and greet the two of them to sit down.

"10 taels of silver, congratulations Fu Ruo, you are really enviable." Yi Duli said enviously.

Even though his family is rich, he still feels dumbfounded by such a sum.Moreover, this silver is only a part, there are other valuables.

Money touches people's hearts, and the decency behind it is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Yiduli is sure that the rumors about Li's identity are not groundless. In the early years, the queen mother treated her differently, and there were "three wishful wishes"; "Fate" was handed over to Cao Yong.

The princess living among the people sounds like it was described in an ancient storybook novel.

It's just that they didn't recognize each other in the early years, and now they're just doing favors under the banner of the queen mother. It seems that the emperor has no intention of recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan.

It is true that the Cao family won the silver, but what they lost was the title of Princess Gu Lun, so it seems that those belongings are not so important.

Cao Yong could only smile wryly, what happened in the past two days was like a war, one after another.

Yi Duli didn't mention it, and he couldn't think of it for the time being. The disposal of the 10 taels of gold was also a headache.

The sixteenth elder brother saw Cao Yong like this, and said: "Old Yi, don't envy him, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days, and the siege will be held after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fu Ruo can't keep up. Not only that, but also offended five hundred Guards, how pitiful."

Yi Duli heard that the sixteenth elder brother mentioned Cao Yong's return to Beijing tomorrow, so he followed him to see Cao Yong, but he was puzzled about the guards: "Huh? Five hundred guards? If you say that others are itchy, It's still possible to go to the guard camp to fight one-on-one, Fu Ruo won't be so reckless, right?"

Cao Yong knew what Brother Sixteen meant. The Eight Banners were young and strong, and they had always been proud to participate in the Mulan hunt.Moreover, over the years, Mulan Qiumi has been rewarded with grace and silver from the emperor.

Now, five hundred guards have been dispatched to escort the Cao family's belongings back to Beijing, and these people have lost the opportunity to participate in the Mulan siege.Although these people did not dare to disobey the emperor's orders, nor did they dare to confront their superiors, they still had to slander and curse in their hearts.

Cao Yong only felt that his brain was "buzzing". If Brother Sixteen hadn't pointed it out, he wouldn't have remembered it.

It seems that how to appease these people should also find a way, which not only makes up for the loss of their inability to participate in the hunting, but also can not be conspicuous, showing traces of kindness, which has to be properly considered.

At this moment, Elder Sixteen has already explained the reason to Yi Duli.

Yi Duli smiled and said: "Even if you take part in the siege, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Manchuria and Mongolia. Those who have the head and face can get some money, and the ordinary soldiers are only three or five taels of silver. The status of the guard camp is higher, and the head is ten taels It's over. With 500 people, Fu Ruo gave up a few thousand taels of silver, and it's settled, the sixteenth master still worry about this for him?"

Elder Sixteen glanced at him, pretended to be annoyed, and said, "You are all rich, but it seems that I am a stingy man..."

Yi Duli was used to him, and knew that he was not really annoyed, nor was he afraid.After chatting and joking with Cao Yong, I was busy with other things first.

The sixteenth elder brother was curious, so he had to ask the fourth elder brother why he came.

I heard that I just trained Cao Yong and warned Cao Yong to be respectful to himself. Brother Sixteen couldn't help laughing out loud, looking at Cao Yong, looking at Cao Yong with a bit of schadenfreude: "That's the elder brother. There is a difference between childhood, shall we change our address first...Come on, Xiao Cao Yong, call me Sixteen...Uncle Sixteen, listen..."

The phrase "uncle" was still left unspoken, it was fine to laugh, but it seemed disrespectful if it involved Mrs. Li.

Seeing that he didn't take it seriously, Cao Yong said: "Master Shiliu think about it carefully, there is really no place to offend that person?"

Sixteenth elder brother waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, since the fourth elder brother gave me scriptures, I'm 'studying' Buddhism, and I often ask him for advice, the relationship is only close, how can there be any festivals? The Lord is just talking casually. He has such a temperament, he has not shown it these years, and when he saw his younger brothers in the early years, he liked to say a few more words, and I was also trained by him."

Hearing what he said, Cao Yong was relieved, but he still decided to "be courteous" with the sixteenth elder brother in front of others, so as not to be singled out.Banner people respect rules, and those who have nothing to do, they like to use the rules to play.

After finishing this, the two still talked about the five hundred guards.Even if Cao Yong also has money, he can't give it away in a big way.

The emperor's gift of silver is a kindness, and everyone can only be grateful; he, the earl, might offend others by giving him silver.

After the discussion, the two still felt that even if they wanted to make up for the losses of these guards, Cao Yong could not come forward.Since they are escorting the property that the Empress Dowager bestowed on Li Shi back to Beijing, it is better to arrange a thank you in the name of Li Shi, so that it is not easy for people to find mistakes...

It is nearly 400 miles from Shengjia to the capital, and more than [-] miles to Rehe.

If we set off two days earlier, we could still go to Rehe to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival, but now it is too late.

In order to appease these people, Cao Yong had to take a few carts of dried meat and dried milk from the camp with the convenience of Brother Sixteen to prepare for everyone on the road for the festival.

The [-] guards were led by a guard of the third rank. Cao Yong didn't know until two days later when he was stationed and chatting. Most of these guards came from the fifth guard of Zhengbai Banner, and half of them came from the fourth guard.

After the Cao family raised the flag, it was under the leadership of the fifth ginseng of the Zhengbai flag.

Under the fifth ginseng leader, there were originally fifteen assistant leaders, including eleven Manchurian assistant leaders, two Mongolian assistant leaders, and two new Manchurian assistant leaders.These fifteen leaders are all assistant leaders of the world.

Cao Yong, the newly released assistant leader of the Shiguan, did not take the position of others, but allocated more than 300 households from the extra population under the leadership of other assistants, and became No.16 under the fifth leader of Zhengbai Banner. Zuo Ling, so he didn't offend anyone.

On the contrary, for this reason, several of the escorting military academy took the initiative to curry favor with Cao Yong.There is no other reason, but because they have relatives and clansmen, they were placed under the leadership of No.16 Zuo.The time to assign is at the beginning of the year.

The Bannerman of No.16 Zuoling is temporarily in charge of the official Ji of Prince Chun's Mansion.

Until this time, Cao Yong didn't know that Kangxi's "Grace" was not a whim, and I'm afraid he had this intention long ago.

Different from those flattering little schools who say "uncle" one by one, Dudley, the accompanying guard and commander, is a serious person.

However, whenever Cao Yong asked about the banner administration, Dudley took the trouble to explain it.

For example, as a leader, just like the patriarch of a large family, he has a clear grasp of the livelihood, future, and even weddings and funerals of the more than 300 bannermen under his command.

On the other hand, we have to deal with participating in the leadership and the capital.

In fact, the participating leaders and capitals are all appointed by the emperor, unlike Zuo Ling, who are hereditary rulers.So, speaking of it, Zuo Ling is considered the first-tier master of the Bannermen.

No matter how prosperous the future is, the flag Ding under this assistant must be humble in front of Cao Yong.

Because the Zhengbai Banner is in the hands of the emperor, and there is no prince Baylor in charge of the flag affairs, Cao Yong, the assistant leader, does not need to serve a prince and master like the Xiawu Banner assistant leader, which is a blessing.

Cao Yong learns this every day and has a general understanding of the internal affairs of the Eight Banners, but he doesn't think the road is boring.

Five days later, everyone returned to Rehe.At this time, it was already the seventeenth day of the eighth month, and two days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cao Yong asked someone to book the largest restaurants in Rehe City, and comforted the big guy for two meals.

Eunuch Tian stayed in Cao's other courtyard with two young eunuchs, and walked back to Beijing slowly with Wu Sheng.

A few days ago, Jiang Jian was not feeling well, recuperating in Rehe, and did not go outside the Great Wall with Cao Yong.Now, he has recovered, but he was taken aback by Cao Yong's movement.

Cao Yong and the five hundred guards rested in Rehe for a day and set off again.

Eighty miles a day, four days later, to the capital.

In the past ten days of work, news has already been sent back to the capital since Shengjia's trip.

Outside the gate of Cao's mansion, there were suddenly more people looking into their heads.

Hundreds of guards, escorting twenty or so carriages, were slowly marching towards the Cao Mansion under the prying eyes of countless people...

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The next chapter, Lee's Wrath. .

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