Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 61
The copper pot leaked out, the iron horse swayed, and Wu Ciyou didn't fall asleep all night.Thinking of the strange and thrilling encounters he had experienced in the past few years, Wu Ciyou was sometimes nervous, sometimes excited, sometimes sad, and it was always difficult to fall asleep.This strange student, Long Er, has a temperament that does not match his age, which makes him very suspicious.The flickering shadow of La Aunt Su Ma is always dangling in front of his eyes... He also spent a lot of "self-denial" efforts, but he still felt that he could not "remove his body and return to the etiquette".He didn't know when he finally fell asleep vaguely, and he was awakened by the knocking sound of the pillars outside the door until it was three poles in the sun.Zhu'er shouted from outside the door: "Second Master, are you awake? Master Suo and Master Long are here to see you!"

Wu Ciyou hurriedly got up and opened the door.Long'er stepped into the courtyard, smiled and made a long salute and said: "Mr. Hello! Long'er has not seen you for a long time, and I am really thinking about it!" He was about to bow down, but Wu Ciyou hurriedly stopped him, raised his shoulders to look at it, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen each other for many days, and you seem to be more and more energetic!" Looking back, Suo'etu and Wei Dongting had also entered the courtyard, smiling and standing aside; there was also a man dressed in long clothes holding a gift box in his hand , followed behind Wei Dongting; Wanniang stood beside her holding a handkerchief.Everyone has seen the ceremony before entering the house.

"I heard from Wanniang that my husband has been in good health for the past few days. I don't know if he is better?" Suo'etu smiled all over his face, and while ordering someone to open the gift box, take out the gift and put it on the table, he continued, "My mother heard about it. He gave me a good training, saying that he hired such a good gentleman, and he didn't do him any good other than being frightened, so he hurriedly took a look at it. ——It's strange to say, these days, there are so many accidents in our family I'm really ashamed that I didn't bother to visit Mr.

Wu Ciyou said with a smile: "Master Suo is busy with state affairs and family affairs, and he keeps sending people to deliver things. Your Excellency is so troublesome, which makes the students feel very ashamed!" Then he got up and came to the table to look at the gifts: a carved handle Jade Ruyi with flowers inlaid with beads, a branch of old wild ginseng wrapped in red silk mulberry paper, several bottles of aged Laojiao wine and a square of bluestone inkstone.Wu Ciyou picked up the bluestone inkstone and looked at it carefully: there are streaks of red threads sandwiched on it, just like a landscape painting with a vermilion pen.The strangest thing is that there is a white jade tendon naturally formed beside the inkstone, exactly like the four characters of "the mountain is high and the moon is small" in Yan Zhenqing's style.The jade tendons run straight through the back of the inkstone. Although the handwriting is blurred, if you read it carefully, you can still see it.Wu Ciyou looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly laughed out loud: "This mason is quite puzzled, and has ruined the material!"

This was selected by Kangxi from the newly donated stones from Yunnan, and he was specially ordered to cut it into an inkstone by a jade worker.Unexpectedly, when Wu Ciyou said such words, he was startled and asked, "Why?"

"This thing is called chicken blood sapphire. It is extremely rare and rare. The four characters naturally formed on it are even more rare. Master Suo, if it is not student Meng Lang, the Zunfu will never have this thing." Wu Ciyou replied.

"It's a gift from the Holy One." Suo'etu smiled, "How could it be ruined?"

Wu Ciyou sighed: "It looks very exquisite to make an inkstone from this thing, but it is so hard that you don't know that it can't grind ink, so it can only be used as a plaything. Wouldn't it be a pity?" Kangxi stared at him suspiciously, Wu Ciyou smiled lightly, poured some water into it and rubbed the ink, and sure enough, the ink was slippery, and the black water rolled out like oil beads, and did not stick to the inkstone, everyone was very convinced.Kangxi couldn't help shouting: "What a pity, what a pity!"

"It's really a pity!" Wu Ciyou said, "The creation of all things is the result of good fortune, and it cannot be done by human beings. Xunzi's "Encouraging Learning" said, "Fake horses are not good enough, but they can travel thousands of miles; fake boats , not water, but rivers and rivers. Gentlemen are not different, and good at false than things. Smart people are better than foolish people, because they can follow the physics of human emotions. If you use the wrong material, it goes against the physics of human emotions If you do things, you will inevitably make jokes. Red sandalwood and boxwood can be used to carve Buddhas. If they are used as sedan chairs, they will be destroyed. If this piece of jade falls into the hands of a skilled craftsman, it will be decorated with gold and carved with dragons. Put it on the Emperor Mingtang..."

Aunt Su Ma had always believed in Buddhism, and felt very unlucky after hearing these words, so she asked without waiting for Wu Ciyou to finish speaking, "Could it be that this inkstone is not good at all?"

"Where is it?" Wu Ciyou said with a smile, "it's a pity that it is not very practical." Seeing that everyone was silent and thoughtful, Wu Ciyou was also silent for a while, and then laughed dumbly, "I have a few ugly poems, You might as well write it out for teasing." As he spoke, he fetched a brush and ink, and started to write quickly.I saw him write without adding a single point:
〖The ancestral dragon whips the stubborn stone in anger, and the blood stains on the stone are red.

The vicissitudes and vicissitudes have changed for several autumns, and the water has washed away the sand and eroded the surplus feet.

Flying flowers stick to each other and fall red, what does Biye Qingqing want?
But seeing the mountain high and the moon small, the sea guest holds the coral branch high.

Sapphire is hard to fill inkstone, but the person who is at the desk laughs like an idiot.

Why don't you return to Nuwa's furnace and refine Tianqingbai juice again? 〗

After writing, he said with a smile: "This is just about physics. As for human relationships, as the saying goes, 'a thousand miles of goose feathers', no matter how incomprehensible I am, I won't even know the deep affection that Mr. Suo and Longer have for me... I scanned it today. Long Er is excited, I look like a Taoist teacher Dong Hong!"

"Taoism is not necessarily bad." Kangxi laughed and said, "For example, Mr. Xiong who often comes to the mansion to discuss knowledge with Mr. Xiong is a master of Taoism." Wu Ciyou said: "Master Xiong is good at learning, and he is also a good person. Straightforward, it’s just too broad. For example, for a stubborn person like Wu Sangui, when he came to Beijing last year, Mr. Xiong still talked about “moralization” to him. Isn’t this playing the piano to a cow? Like a thief like Oboi, Bing It is the hostility between heaven and earth, if the emperor tells him about karma and reincarnation every day like a bodhisattva, will he listen to it?"

"That being said," Wei Dongting said with a smile beside him, "if you tell the emperor about government affairs now, you might lose your life if you say these things!" I am a political counselor, so I can't allow Oboi to overwhelm the government and Wu Sangui to support himself. If these two wild horses are allowed to run amok, the situation will be difficult to deal with once they join forces. Now one is recharging his strength in Yunnan, watching it covetously. , who is tyrannical and tyrannical in gathering party members in Beijing, he should make a plan to get rid of them as soon as possible. — Cough! What are you talking about, talking about government affairs in ordinary clothes, scratching the itch, and making people laugh in vain!"

Aobai and Wu Sangui often exchanged letters, and Kangxi knew about it a long time ago, so he didn't think too much about their "combination".Now that I heard Wu Ciyou's discussion, I couldn't help feeling extremely anxious.But Wu Ciyou couldn't see it, so he had to put on a smile and jokingly said: "Mr. is a commoner, and Long Er is a student of the commoner! We are talking about the Three Kingdoms, so we don't need to worry about the ancients, but since Mr. said this, I would rather I want to ask, will they join forces? In your opinion, how should we formulate a strategy to deal with them?"

Wu Ciyou glanced at Suo'etu, and said with a smile: "Master Suo, you are an important minister of the court, do you think they will get along?"

"Not for the time being." Suo'etu couldn't help but gasp when he thought of Wu Sangui's huge army and the two vassals Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, and pondered, "But it's hard to say after a long time. Turning clouds and rain, it's not a thing!"

"This person betrayed Qianming first, and then Li Zicheng, and there will be a third bone in the back of his head. Now, the top priority is not to let them join forces, and take the method of removing them one by one." Wu Ciyou said.

"How can we prevent them from getting along?" Wei Dongting couldn't help asking beside him. "Death is like a lamp going out." Wu Ciyou smiled faintly, "First stabilize the San Francisco, don't move their feudal positions, and we'll talk about it after killing Oboi." Kangxi couldn't help sweating on his forehead when he heard this. There was a plan to issue an edict to withdraw the vassal.He sighed and said softly, "It's really dangerous!"

"Huh?" Hearing his tone, Wu Ciyou turned to look at Kangxi in surprise.

"I mean," Kangxi came to his senses from deep contemplation, and laughed quickly, "It's very dangerous for the emperor to still use Oboi again!" Wu Ciyou said with a smile: "Longer, don't worry, it seems that the emperor has not touched San Francisco yet. He is extremely smart. Oboi's life will not last long," Wu Ciyou gritted his teeth and said, "I will count his fate on his behalf."

As soon as the words came out, everyone in the seat looked at each other in surprise.After a long while, Wei Dongting smiled and said, "Oboi's momentum is at the moment, so why does it seem like it won't last long?"

"Although I'm not proficient in the art of wind, horn, image and number," Wu Ciyou said, "but I do know a thing or two about "Book of Changes"--does Lord Suo remember the days when he searched the house?"

Suo'etu frowned and thought for a while, then said, "It seems to be the ninth day of August."

"That's right, it's the ninth day of August." Wu Ciyou said, "Weishangu store is on November 29th. It even takes up two 'nines', which are the extremes of numbers. The instrument should have changed its tune, but he went ruthless." There is no reason to keep playing randomly! "Book of Changes" says, "Don't use the upper nine potential dragons". To put it bluntly, it means that every tenth will return to one, the moon will be dark when it is full, and the water will overflow when it is full. Oboi did If it goes too far, its strength will have to be broken!"

(End of this chapter)