Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 57
Eunuchs are different from ordinary people. Guo Xiu has long believed in his appearance, discerning his voice, and using torture.But the people around Kangxi did such evil outside, if they admit it, in front of so many yamen servants, it is tantamount to plastering the emperor's face, seeing Li Dequan's stubborn mouth, he sneered: "Since you are not afraid of beating, well, the punishment is waiting! "Stretch out your hand and get used to the sign and go out.When the yamen servants saw this Shuntian Er Yin entered the yamen at noon, they took Mao Zongtang's seal and ordered him to leave the house. In the afternoon, Yi entered the yamen agency. "Bang" out.They clamped their legs fiercely on the spot, and when the rope was retracted, the three of them said "Oh my god", their faces were ashen, and they passed out immediately.A long time ago, the head of the penalty room came over and sprayed water on everyone's face, and Li Dequan and others slowly woke up.

"Is it still the emperor's messenger?"

The veins on Guo You's forehead popped up, and he hopped and hopped. While asking, he stretched out his hand to the fire stick. It seemed that as soon as Li Dequan opened his mouth, he would be tortured again.The three eunuchs looked at each other, and Xing Nian said with a sad face: "Good Mr. Li, don't..." The corner of his mouth twitched, and he burst into tears because of grievance.Li Dequan raised his head to look at this unreasonable hall official, swallowed his saliva with secret strength in his heart, and said after a long while: "Even if it's not..."

"It's fine if you don't!" Guo Xiu also breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew his hand with a sneer, and ordered, "I am too lazy to ask the case today, so I will detain these three villains in the patrol hall and wait for them to be dealt with. Don't let them go lightly." Retire!" He sat and pondered for a long time, knowing that Kangxi must be living in Sanheyi, so he hurried to the Qinzhi Hall behind to repair his watches, and satirized the emperor not to send envoys to disturb the people.

Kangxi rested in the post for two hours.This sleep was very sound, and at the end of the application, he stretched his waist and sat up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, opened his shoes and lifted the curtain to look inside, and saw Axiu and Han Liushi at the table After wiping the dominoes and playing divination to relieve boredom, he walked to the corridor.Because Wu Dan and two eunuchs were feeding Haidongqing with a stripped chicken under the west corridor.Hai Dongqing closed her eyes and didn't even look at it, she spread her wings to dodge the food, and refused to peck a single bite.Kangxi couldn't help laughing and said, "Is it so easy to tune a hawk? It's an ancestral skill! You guys are going to torment my Hai Dongqing to death—it's so strange, what time is it, Li Dequan, this slave, hasn't come back yet Wudan went to Sanhe on horseback to have a look." Gao Shiqi, Mingzhu, and Suo'etu all fell asleep in the East Chamber. When they heard that Kangxi was getting up, they hurried out. Suo'etu laughed and said, "It's so easy to let them out. These eunuchs like to play the most, maybe where to drink tea and listen to books?"

Before he could finish his sentence, the three eunuchs Li Dequan, He Zhuer, and Xing Nian staggered in from the door of the Shiguan.All three of them were wearing a [-]-jin shackle, staggered in and fell to the ground, unable to knock their heads, their buttocks were soaked in blood.The guards, eunuchs and post officials in the courtyard were stunned for a moment.Li Dequan glanced at the astonished Kangxi, his lips trembling, and wailed loudly for a long time, crawled forward two steps on his stomach, and cried incoherently: "Good master... the servants are considered alive... come back It's gone..." When Hai Dongqing saw his master came back, he flapped his wings, Wu Dan let go, flew over and landed on Li Dequan's shoulder, took out a piece of beef jerky from Li Dequan's back pouch, pecked at it with his claws, and ate it violently. .

Kangxi knew that something must have happened, he was taken aback for a moment, and cursed angrily and amusedly: "Where did you get such a present-day treasure, it's disgusting!"

Li Dequan wept hoarsely, and reluctantly knelt up, pointing out how he got to Sanhe Town, how he was lured to the Yamen by Guo Xiu, and he was pushed down, beaten and pinched without saying anything.He also rubbed his eyes and lost his snot, and told the whole story with embellishments, except for the fact that they knocked down the blind mother-in-law on horseback.Kangxi couldn't help being stunned, his face turned pale for a while, and then blood rushed up, his muscles were so tense, seeing Hai Dongqing's greedy face, his hands trembled slightly with anger.

"Get out of here." Kangxi yelled angrily, "I can't see you being so cheap! Where are the people from Sanhe County, have you come yet?"

As soon as the words fell, someone stood outside the door and replied loudly: "Long live Guo Xiu, the prefect of Chen Shuntian Mansion!"

"Come in!" Kangxi flicked his braids, turned back up the steps of the middle hall, stared coldly at the door with his hands behind his back and ordered sharply.

"twitter!"

Guo Xiu agreed, stooped and walked in, slapped the horseshoe sleeves in a calm manner, glanced at the furious Kangxi, knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times, shouting long live.Gao Shiqi couldn't help secretly praising: "This man has a good manner!" Mingzhu and Suo'etu also sweated for Guo Xiu.After a long time, I heard Kangxi say: "Guo Xiu, it depends on the owner to beat a dog! You are very courageous, who will support your waist?"

"Back to the words of Long Live!" Guo Xiu said loudly with a strong Shandong accent: "The minister acted according to the court's legal principles, and he was originally bold. The body is the parents of the recipient, and the anger is the Confucius and Mencius - just because he once read the sages, not Dare to act recklessly, and act with a clear heart, what is there?"

"Wudan!" Kangxi was so angry that his face was as white as paper, and he turned around and shouted, "Slap him with a whip!"

Wu Dan came over in response, held the whip in his hand, looked at Kangxi's face, gritted his teeth and whipped it with a "sun".Guo Xiu trembled all over, the robe on his back had been torn, and the dark red blood had soaked out.Then there were four or five whips. Guo Xiu was sweating profusely in pain, and he gritted his teeth and kept silent.

"Do you still dare to say that you are reasonable?" Kangxi saw that he was so stubborn, he waved his hand to stop Wu Dan, and asked coldly.

"It's just that the minister is right!" Guo Xiu finally breathed out and said loudly, "Long live, don't ask indiscriminately, whip and punish the minister, the minister is really hard to obey!"

"You can be regarded as a minister who reads to nourish his energy!" Kangxi sneered, and said, "You tortured eunuchs with a torture tree without knowing your father. What book are you reading? You are a villain, corrupt and corrupt. Miss you for the first time offender, dismissed lightly, you dare to be so presumptuous!"

"It's not a punishment for me to punish people with official titles and sticks!" Guo Xiu protested, "Ju was punished for his crimes in the 17th year of Kangxi. Righteous action to wash away the shame, for the great cause of the Holy One to govern the country and secure the people, and to do the work of dogs and horses. Long live today, I will let my ministers correct yesterday's wrongs and today's mistakes, that is, I will not allow my ministers to reform themselves!" As he said, he beat the eunuch into the street and trampled on it. The plots of the common people, whipping and ordering officials, and roaring in the courtroom were detailed one by one, and he said: "...the lord let the slaves do harm to the Li people, watched the people glaring sideways, dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, the minister's position is in the priesthood, and the responsibility lies with the local people. , follow the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, enforce the court law, what is the crime? Long live summons the ministers, and before he can argue, he whips the ministers without punishment. I don’t know what book Long live read?"

Guo Xiu didn't change his face, he accused Kangxi face to face, and he spoke convincingly. How has everyone seen such a person?His face turned yellow with fright.Only then did Kangxi know that the eunuch started the matter unreasonably. It was just that Guo Xiu was so stubborn and didn't give any face. It was really hard for him to step down. He wanted to laugh it off, but he couldn't. Unexpectedly, there are really people with high reputation, you... who do you think I am!" Suo Etu had been with Kangxi for a long time, and knew that as long as Guo Xiu admitted his slip of the tongue, the matter would be over, so he hurriedly winked at Guo Xiu to make amends.Unexpectedly, Guo Xiu put his hands on the ground, knocked his head down, and said loudly: "The emperor is the Lord of Jie and Zhou!"

Kangxi seemed to have been shocked by an electric shock, his five sense organs were dislocated, and terrible sparks appeared from his eyes. He smiled viciously and said, "What a Guo Xiu, he really has only one eye! I am eight years old, and I am a powerful traitor at home, and a wolf at home. Atmosphere, the four seas return their hearts, and the courts come from all directions, Tang Zong and Song Zu are nothing more than this! Humph! I would like to hear your opinion!"

"Your Majesty!" Guo Xiu cried out in pain, bumped his head a few times, and said, "I deserve to die in the 17th year of Kangxi, and it is too late to die now. Now that I have been asked, I will simply say everything before I die——Emperor Yingrui Tianjue , That is to say, everyone knows it. But since the emperor came to the throne, he has not regarded himself as the master of the world. He favored the ministers, rejected the Han officials, favored the eunuchs, and despised the courtiers. Like Tang Zong and Song Zu, even the kings of Jie and Zhou didn't have all of them—" "You fart!" Kangxi roared manically, "Nah! Donate to the palace to raise the salaries for the soldiers used to control the river. How can you be greedy? I regard the whole world as one family, why do you have the view of the Manchus? Tell me, tell me!" Guo Xiuquan seemed not to know what to do, and kowtowed: "Yes! Please live forever To appease the wrath of thunder, Rong Chen finished playing. Although the matter of accepting donations is for raising money, it is also drinking poison to quench thirst. Once this example is opened, there will be endless troubles, stupid countries and sick people, and the damage is unspeakable! During Tang Zhenguan, the emperor asked Shandong and Guanzhong to share their talents. Different, Wei Zhengzuo said: "The king regards the world as his home, and it is not appropriate to show similarities and differences with the world." Today, since the three lords and nine ministers, most of the emperor's assistant ministers are Manchus, while Han people only account for two or three out of ten—you are the master of the world , should be widely recruited talents from all over the world, no distinction is made between the north and the south, and no distinction between Han and Manchu people. Today the emperor favors the Manchus, how can the Han people be loyal to the court? Now the people from all over the world have not yet been convinced, and the people of the world still pursue the former Ming. It's because the emperor himself always sees himself as a Manchu..." He spoke from the bottom of his heart.In fact, Guo Xiu, who is upright by nature, was deposed in 17 years of Kangxi because he saw that the hearts of the people turned to the Han and it was difficult for the Manchus to gain a foothold.

Kangxi had no intention of punishing Guo Xiu because of Li Dequan's violation of the law. Unexpectedly, he drew such a big article, which really added fuel to the fire. He was already mad with anger, and suddenly felt dizzy. .When Mingzhu came to help, Kangxi pushed aside, pulled Su Lun's saber beside him and threw it to Wu Dan, and said with a grinning smile, "Okay, okay, okay! I'm a fool, how can I afford a sage like you?" A minister?—to fulfill you,—to drag him out and tell him to become Fenglong and Bigan!"

(End of this chapter)