Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 45: The Speech Scholar Qiping Prison Talks about Comet Monarch and Ministers Discussing the Government (2)
"How fast!" Kangxi leaned against the glazed screen wall, looked up at the starry sky, and couldn't help but let out a deep breath. 22 years ago, he rode the Dragon Yu from this patio to the Qianqing Palace to ascend the throne and rule the world. How he felt at that time is now blurred.But he will never forget what happened here in the twelfth lunar month ten years ago.Huangfu Baozhu, an assassin sent by Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingxiong, jumped from the roof to the west and surrendered to him on the spot.Yang Qilong rebelled on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, and there was a commotion here. Mu Zixu and Wudan killed more than a dozen eunuchs to suppress the arrogance of the rebellious party... These things have disappeared in the past few years, but the major affairs of the court seem to be more serious than before. It weighed him down.The two slaves, Suo'etu and Mingzhu, Kangxi looked like they were too fat to wear a pair of pants eight years ago, but now they are fighting openly and secretly, and it has intensified-Kangxi is not worried about their discord, there should be some distance between trusted ministers, but It is inappropriate to be so incompatible!

Kangxi patted the cold copper crane, walked a few more steps, and still couldn't help turning over in his heart: Suo'etu is the grand uncle of the crown prince, and it is reasonable to be too protective of everything.But Mingzhu is extremely clever, why is she so embarrassing?The prince wears a strange dress, so he instigates the officials to impeach him?A ten-year-old doll, what's in the way of his going?Mingzhu doesn't know, the prince will be the emperor one day sooner or later, isn't he afraid of destroying his family?Kangxi's eyes were piercing, and he repeatedly guessed the riddle.

"Lost mother!" Kangxi's eyes flashed, and he remembered the story of "no mother and child" told by the wet nurse when he was young. If there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather: "It must be the idea. The prince has no mother, and there is no mother in the palace." I will be protected by others, and I will be in my prime again, so in the future, I will inevitably spoil my mother and take away my wife!" Kangxi looked at the harem, smiled coldly, and walked forward again.

At this time, it was the end of the ugly, and a long blurred light appeared in the dark blue night sky in the northwest of the sky.It was in vain, like someone dipped a pen in mercury and wiped it lightly.Its appearance immediately attracted Kangxi's full attention.He rubbed his eyes and felt that he was still unclear, so he hurried back to the hall and took out a kaleidoscope-shaped thing from the top of the big golden cabinet—this was a thing called a "telescope" that the Westerner Zhang Cheng paid tribute from Europa. .For this reason, Kangxi Enzhun built three Catholic churches and one Orthodox church in Suzhou and Hangzhou.Immediately Kangxi adjusted the focus, looked at it, and couldn't help shouting: "Comet!"

It is a comet, which has just appeared and is moving southeast of Ziwei constellation at an imperceptible speed.Gradually, you can see clearly without a telescope.

"It's so close to Emperor Star!" Kangxi's heart sank, and he shouted sharply, "Come on!"

"Cha!" Li Dequan came with four eunuchs on duty at night.

"Chuanyin Tianjian is right!"

The appearance of the comet quickly aroused serious concerns from the ruling and opposition parties.But Kangxi did not immediately order the officials to discuss it.Until the court meeting on the fifth day, the ministers of various ministries were ordered to express their opinions.At five drum hours on this day, Daju went to the study room and went straight to Qianqingmen in a sedan chair.There were six to seventy ministers and ministers above, some standing in front of the eaves, some whispering, some looking northwest in Tianjie, waiting, thinking about how to respond to Kangxi's question.Kangxi, the raw material of the pearl, must have ordered to hand over the sign in advance to see him. Who knew that after waiting for a long time, there was no news. When he called the eunuchs to ask, he found out that Kangxi fasted for five days. This morning, he went to the Temple of Heaven to worship. The empress dowager forced Xiaohan to see his foreign ministers for an hour.It wasn't until the card at the beginning of the morning that Kangxi's Chengyu was carried into Tianjie.Xiong Cilu and other chiefs knelt on the ground and silently waited for him to enter the Qianqing Gate.

"Everyone knows about the comet." Kangxi sat down, waited for all the ministers to file in one by one, saluted, and said straight to the point, "The history of this kind of thing is too numerous to record, and it's nothing unusual. It's just that it's not the right time. It’s not a place either, so I’m calling you to discuss it.” He calmly took a sip of the fresh milk that had just come in, and said, “What the Empress Dowager said just now makes sense. You have to carefully consider the personnel and affairs of the company - there is no need to be taboo about what to say."

Mingzhu was still shocked by the incident in Nanwei, fearing that someone would take advantage of it, she took a half step forward with her knees, and said first: "I think comets have always appeared. It should be used for the country's military affairs. Comets come from the northwest and move to the emperor's star." , in response to the Zhungeer tribe’s invasion of Monan Mongolia, and in the Heilongjiang area, the Raksha general Molinik led the Cossacks to plunder our wooden city and Yaksa city, so the celestial phenomena are warning, please be enlightened!”

"The matter of Heilongjiang and Zhungeer is not a day, and Heilongjiang is in the northeast." Suo'etu said sadly, "The lord has ordered Bahai and Zhou Peigong to take painstaking actions, and it has been quite effective-this day has changed. Why does it still appear, the minister is really stupid and doesn't understand the reason." Suo'etu was furious about the Jiangnan Qiuwei incident.Because Kangxi advocated strict punishment, he wrote the Ministry of Officials and dismissed several local officials in a thunderbolt. However, the body was cast into a grade, a vigorous case was thrown into the sky, and he was "done in the shade" inexplicably, and Suo'etu fell into the reputation of being mean and ungrateful.Seeing that Kangxi was silent, Suo'etu was about to play again when Li Guangdi said in a loud voice: "I think the northwest and northeast are irrelevant. It's the villains in the court who messed up the state affairs, corrupted the country's grand ceremonies, corrupted the law and deceived the lord. So the comet is on the side of Ziwei!"

These words were very generous, and all the ministers of the department were shocked.Kangxi thought for a while, then leaned over and asked: "Who is Li Guangdi referring to, you might as well say it clearly."It took a long time before he said: "I don't know the inside story, so I can't tell the truth. But the crime is serious and the punishment is light. I pray that the Holy Heart of the Lord will observe silently, and it will not be difficult to find the villain. Once the villain is gone, the comet will disappear!"

Gao Shiqi had always been smooth sailing, and it was the first time he had encountered such a direct threat to his own safety. Looking at Suo'etu's shady face, he couldn't help but shiver in his heart.But playing rashly at this time is tantamount to "there is no silver 300 taels here". After helping Suo'etu find out who the "little man" is, he made up his mind: as long as I don't mention Lao Tzu's name, I will treat it as you say It's others.As soon as my heart was quiet, my face became calm, and I just stared at Kangxi in a daze.Xiong Cilu didn't know the grievances inside, so he didn't dare to speak out; Mingzhu knew that if he opened his mouth, he would be criticized by more people, so he kept silent.If the ministers in the study room don't speak up, who is willing to show the limelight to the ministers?For a moment, the air in the hall seemed to be frozen and hardened, and it was as quiet as death.

Kangxi drank milk calmly, glanced at the minister, who was looking at Liang Qingbiao, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and said with a smile: "Today the speaker is innocent. Liang Qingbiao, you seem to have something to say?"

"Yes!" Liang Qingbiao cleared his throat, and said in a high voice: "Since the heavens warn, it must be the biggest thing, what is the biggest thing for the court today?" He asked himself, and then said, "Of course it is Taiwan! Remember The "San Francisco" chaos was roughly determined. My emperor once issued a clear edict saying that today's great rebellion will be flattened, and the scars will not be restored. Let the soldiers stop, support the people, and rest with the world. There will be peace in the world. Unexpectedly, the imperial decree was issued less than two years ago. Somehow, the emperor changed his original intention? Taiwan is a corner of the world, and stubborn bandits are entrenched. Fighting across the sea, it is a waste of money and money! The outcome is unpredictable, so what is the so-called 'resisting the soldiers to support the people'? I also heard that the emperor is still planning a war in the west. From this point of view, the so-called 'resting with the world' is not empty talk when the army is raised year after year?"

This Liang Qingbiao was a killer as soon as he opened his mouth.At the beginning of the withdrawal of the "San Francisco", he went to Guangdong Shangzhixin as an imperial envoy to deliver an edict, escaped from death and fled back to Beijing. Splashing and eloquent statements: "The heavens are on the alert, and the blink of an eye means that the emperor has broken his own words. If he can change his course, withdraw Shi Lang's navy to farm the fields, and stop the plan of the Western Expedition, the comet will die quietly..."

Kangxi listened to his nonsense and said that he broke his promise.His face turned pale with anger.Thinking about how I once said "the speaker is not guilty", it took me a few times to listen to his high-level speech, and I said coldly, "Is it over? Is there any more?"

Liang Qingbiao had already heard that Kangxi's tone was wrong, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Rong Chen has finished playing - I think Fujian General Lai Ta's playing is an old-fashioned way to seek the country - North Korea, which regards Taiwan as its son, and Xu Fu's Japan, are far from the world. There is no danger, no competition with others, and the coastal creatures will never be in danger of being overwhelmed!"

"Taiwan entered the territory of China from the Han Dynasty, and it was already under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County in the Song Dynasty. Liang Qingbiao, you, like Laita, are ignorant and good at being a teacher!" Kangxi stared at Liang Qingbiao fiercely, just for the promise of "the speaker is innocent" , just suppressed and did not growl, "I did say 'rest with the people', but now the country is incomplete, there are shortages in the Jin Ou, there are stubborn bandits in the sea area, and there are restless people in the four fortresses. Dare I ask you Liang Qingbiao, how is it called Lian 'Rest'?" Although he wasn't furious, his anger was palpable, and he said every sentence loudly.Liang Qingbiao lowered his head and was thinking about how to reply when Li Guangdi behind him said loudly: "I think what your lord said is righteous, but Liang Qingbiao doesn't know the principles of heaven and is ignorant of human nature. The movement of the star to the southeast is just in time for the heavenly soldiers to sweep the sea area—an edict should be issued immediately, ordering Shi Lang's army to cross the sea and plow the courtyard to sweep the caves, and it can be done in one battle!"

Li Guangdi was the first to send a letter to invite troops to attack Taiwan. Because there were few people in favor, and he suffered so many days of uselessness, he took advantage of Kangxi's severe reprimand of Liang Qingbiao to stand up and add a sentence.Liang Qing's specimens were speechless, Li Guangdi's words were agitated, and he became obstinate again, and kowtowed: "Li Guangdi certainly knows the principles of heaven and humanity, but he doesn't know that it is easy to use troops and difficult to raise food! I think that even if we want to take Taiwan, We should also wait for the smooth flow of water transportation and the dispatch of troops and food to cope with it. It must be known that the defeat of the First World War will cause endless troubles in the southeast-please learn from the Lord!"

"This is still reasonable." Kangxi frowned and sighed, and said, "As for the matter of Taiwan, listen to what Shi Lang and Yao Qisheng have to say, and then make a decision." After speaking, he stood up and slowly got off the dragon seat. Walking around among the large group of kneeling courtiers, he raised his voice and said: "It is the words of a sage that a gentleman fears the fate of heaven. But the law of changes in the sky must be extra cautious. In the eighth year of Kangxi, when the comet came out, some people said it was not good for me. In that year, apart from Oboi; ten years of earthquakes, rumors of the capital arose, Lianzhen was quiet, and nothing happened; in the winter of 12 years, the comet reappeared, Wu Sangui rebelled, and I decided to withdraw the feudal clan—what was the result? You have all seen it! I advise you In a word, be a virtuous and capable minister, not a loyal or strong minister. If there is a virtuous minister, there will be a wise king; Ask yourself. Do you think more about me, the people, and the community in what you say and do, or do you think more about gaining fame for your own family and building up a party? ——Scatter the court.”

(End of this chapter)