Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 58: Needle Relegation and Disadvantages
Wu Dan took the sword in a daze, but hesitated.After living with Kangxi for a long time, this rough guy has a heart.Although Guo Xiu said that he had committed corruption and bribery cases in the past, he has also heard about the incidents of amputating his fingers and washing his land, and repenting of his shame.Today's incident, he didn't think about the reasoning behind it, but it was obviously caused by Xiao Lizi's lawless bullying of the people outside.Kangxi killed people in a rage right now, who knows what will happen when he calms down?He glanced at Li Dequan who was full of complacency, and was about to support Guo Xiu when Guo Xiu flung his arms and broke free, kowtowed and said in a low voice: "Thank you!" He sighed a long time and got up and left.

The people's courtyard fell silent, with dozens of eyes staring at the furious Kangxi, everyone was in a panic.Gao Shiqi had been pondering for half a day, and had already made up his mind. He looked at Tianhao with his hands behind his back, sighed, and murmured: "What, what... the daylight doesn't reflect my sincerity!"

"Well?"

"My slave said it's too cheap for this Guo Xiu." Gao Shiqi said slowly, with gloomy eyes, "In a short while, a corrupt official who once committed a crime of stealing has become a famous official in the history books... It's cheap!"

Kangxi was taken aback for a moment, thought for a while, and stomped into the room.The three ministers in the study room exchanged glances, Suo'etu called Su Lun, and said in a low voice, "Go out and tell Wu Dan, slow down and talk about it later."

Kangxi entered the inner room with a sullen face, and saw Axiu and Han Liushi's faces turned pale as they sat and stood. It was obvious that they were stunned by the scene in the courtyard.Seeing Kangxi sat down without saying a word, Han Liu hurriedly poured a cup of tea over and said with a smile: "The tea is hot, master, you can eat it after a while."

"Yeah." Kangxi took a heavy breath, then turned around, slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, it's too hot to be burnt——this son of a bitch, Hanchen, is always risking his life to make a fool of himself, Gaining fame can really kill people!" Axiu took the opportunity to persuade: "It's naturally painful to criticize dragon scales. We listened in the room, and this person was a bit stubborn, but the master used the whip from the beginning, it seemed that it was too painful. I'm in a hurry..." Kangxi took a sip of tea, looked out the window in a daze, as if he had nothing to do, and suddenly felt an inexplicable emptiness.After a while, he suddenly asked in a daze: "Mr. Han Liu, do you have any troubles?"

Mrs. Han Liu said with a smile: "Small and small are the same. Every family has difficult scriptures to recite. Poor families fight for a bite of food, and the children are arguing and crying, and the adults don't care. The method is like this in the Shunzhi period of our Han family. The seven aunts and eight aunts of the rich family contend for superiority and inferiority, and the eldest wife and concubine are jealous, which makes the chickens and dogs restless. There are also some cases. In a big family, the children are kind, filial and harmonious on the surface, but in their hearts All I think about is the family business of my ancestors. There are cannons and wars in the nest. Some earn and others break; it is difficult to find a good son who can inherit the family, but there is another kind of trouble. Such a son is often a stubborn one. 'Stubborn invincible'!"

"Stubborn sons do not defeat their families!" Kangxi raised his case according to the case, and suddenly remembered a sentence said by "teacher" Lagu Su Ma when he first ascended to the throne, "If a family has a son, it will not defeat its family; if a state has its ministers, it will not perish." country".He shuddered uneasily, didn't dare to think about it anymore, stepped out of the door a few steps, saw that everyone was still standing silently, his lips trembled a few times, and asked with difficulty: "Where is Wu Dan? People...killed? "

Suo'etu hurriedly took a step forward, bowed his head and smiled apologetically: "I'm still waiting for the order outside, this slave has the guts to order Wu Dan to suspend the execution..." "Okay!" Kangxi said loudly: "Speech Guo Xiu to come in!" Hearing it from outside, he said to Guo Xiu with a smile: "Master, I'm angry, I'm calling you! You won the lottery, don't forget to be merciful, old sword!"

Guo Xiu's hair was disheveled, his forehead was black and blue, and he walked back to the courtyard with heavy steps. He didn't know why because of grief or anger, but tears filled his scorching eyes.

He didn't look at Kangxi, but only took two steps forward, as if he had exhausted all his strength, knelt down heavily, and said softly, "What's the matter with Long Live Minister?" The Pintang official couldn't find a word for a while, so he said after a long time: "In your opinion, how should this matter be settled today?" The emperor issued a decree to clarify the canonical punishment; according to the law of the Qing Dynasty, the three eunuchs who committed the crime of deceiving the emperor should also abandon the city and guard the world, please the emperor to punish them together."

No one expected that Guo Xiu would answer like this, that he would die together with Li Dequan and the others!Li Dequan gritted his teeth and stared with joy in his heart, but when he heard this, he immediately shivered into a ball.The three of them knelt down together with ashes, and were about to beg for forgiveness, when Kangxi shouted in disgust, "I didn't ask you anything, you kneel later!" Kangxi thought for a while, waved his hands sadly, and sighed: "Guo Xiu, Come into the hall with me and talk." As he spoke, he entered the main hall by himself.There are dozens of pairs of eyes in the yard, you look at me, I look at you, no one speaks, only Haidongqing occasionally yells twice on the shelf.

It was already dusk, the sunset was colorful, colorful clouds were shining, and a sliver of the setting sun slanted into the hall through the large door.Kangxi and Guo Xiu sat and knelt together, silent for a long time.Kangxi said in a heavy tone: "Kneel closer." Guo Xiu hurriedly took a few steps, approaching Kangxi's knees, and heard Kangxi say again: "You can't say that what you played today is unreasonable, but the words are too much. It is fair and unreasonable." On the subject, is it true that I am the king of Jie and Zhou? In front of so many people, how can I have any dignity?"

"Talk back to the emperor!" Seeing Kangxi's sincerity, Guo Xiu's heart trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes. She choked up and replied, "Those who flatter me will hate me, and those who satirize me will kiss me. There are ancient sayings, please long live to silently check the hearts of ministers. Be full and light The Han people value the internal over the external, which is actually a bad government, and I dare not speak out with the truth.” Kangxi paused, smiled and said: “The Manchus say that I am too used to pampering the Han people, and you Han people say that I value the Manchus and despise the Han people.” Han, being a man is really not easy! Clear water ponds do not raise fish, so I don’t think there is any need to mention this matter. I want to ask you, you said that the Han scholars are still dissatisfied with the dynasty. Is this the truth? After 18 years, I see Is it much better!" Guo Xiu kowtowed and said, "Kangxi's 18th year of erudite learning, Confucianism and scientific integrity is a grand event, but only more than 180 people are selected, how can we collect the hearts of the people of the world! The proposition is true, if it is said that the hearts of the people are completely convinced, the minister dare not go along with it."

Kangxi nodded and listened, then leaned over and said, "What have you heard? You might as well play it straight." Guo Xiu said: "I am demoted for crimes, and I am most likely to hear such words. He often compares the bad politics of this dynasty with the former Ming Dynasty, his dissatisfaction is palpable, and there are even old writings, reminiscing about the laws and regulations of the former Ming Dynasty, arbitrarily dividing the boundaries between Huayi, Manchu and Han, and even those who still worship Chongzhen Zhengshuo, how can we take it lightly? Like Wu Meicun’s poem before his death, Long Live, have you ever heard it?” Wu Meicun was a poet during the reign of Chongzhen, and he became an official in this dynasty, and was highly regarded by celebrities.Kangxi couldn't help being stunned, and hurriedly asked: "What did you write? Can you recite it?"

"You can't memorize it all," Guo Xiu kowtowed, "Dangkou Meicun became an official in the dynasty, and Shangqiu Hou Chaozong once sent a letter to resist it. In Meicun's poems, there is 'Death and life are always responsible for Hou Yingnuo, and the tears are full of tears'. In "Dearing Words", there is "the old man is generous and wonderful, for the past, he is constantly pondering, and the grass is stealing life"-this is still a person who has learned a lot of Confucianism, and the rest is like "Qian Tomb Pine Song" by Lu Liuliang, Zhejiang. Gu Yan Wu's "Diao Qin" poem and Huang Keshi's "Passing Nanyang" lyrics are even more borrowed words, with profound meaning..."

"Oh!" Kangxi couldn't help but sighed deeply.Since he ascended the throne, he has worked hard to reconcile between Hua, Yi, Man and Han. He thought that the erudite Confucianism would subdue the Yi people in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, there were still some people... who were looking up and thinking, and heard Guo Xiu say: "Naturally, compared to Kangxi 18 Years ago, the situation was much better, and the lord did not have to worry about the minister's words. The minister thought that I had to tell the world about the integrity of my dynasty. When the army entered the pass that day, the Ming ancestral temple and society no longer existed. The world is truly in the hands of Li Zicheng, and this truth is to be promulgated by the Academy, so that everyone knows..." After speaking, seeing Kangxi stand up, he stopped talking.Kangxi waved his hands excitedly: "Okay... let's go on, let's go on—I'm not used to sitting and thinking about things..."

"...Yes!" Guo Xiu said again, "The people in the world don't know this truth, and they think that the Qing Dynasty took over the Zhu family and stood on its own. The Shrine of Philosophy honors civilization; visits the real descendants of Emperor Zhu, enshrines the ancestral hall of the Ming Dynasty; worships the tomb of the Emperor Ming, and announces to the subjects that we know that the revenge of the Ming Dynasty is over, and the official history of the Ming Dynasty is revised to show that the country can never be restored..."

Kangxi was radiant when he heard that, and couldn't help but glanced at Guo Xiu appreciatively: such a talent, how Mingzhu got it, seems to have no idea at all!
"As for the third prince Zhu and his ilk," Guo Xiu said again, "they were traitors who conspired against the law. They should be strictly arrested by the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, and the national codes should be corrected by listening and hearing. In this way, why worry about the instability of the people's hearts and the world. Death?"

Kangxi finished listening quietly, nodded and smiled, sat back on the chair solemnly, and shouted outside: "Suo'etu, you guys come in, ask Li Dequan to come too, and listen to what I say!"

The Minister of Shangshufang, Wudan and other guards and eunuchs have been standing in place because they did not obey the imperial edict. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Kangxi and Guo Xiu were talking in the room, and they were clueless. When they heard the summons, Wudan was busy ordering people Hold the lamp.Hearing Kangxi's tone, Li Dequan knew something was wrong, and when he came in, he twisted Hai Dongqing's hind legs hard, and Hai Dongqing yelled loudly in pain, making Kangxi's eyes jump.

"Gao Shiqi Cao Cao!" Kangxi dictated calmly, "Guo Xiu violated Yan Zhizhi, although his words were disrespectful, but his heart of loyalty to the country is as clear as the moon. I will not add any offense to the words that are radical." Xiubu... the position of the Royal Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

Youdu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the deputy chief of the six departments and fifteen departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He not only has the independent power of impeachment, but also allows "rumors to play things"-even if the impeachment is not true, he will not sit back. From Yipin.Guo Xiu is a retired Taoist, he was relegated to the fifth grade, and suddenly he became a minister of the Taige cabinet. Such a promotion has never been heard since the founding of the country.Mingzhu and Suo'etu couldn't help but glance at each other, not knowing what Guo Xiu said in the room, they were suddenly blessed.Gao Shiqi was also shocked, looked up at Kangxi, and hurriedly wrote again.

"... given the single-eyed flower feathers, and waited on the same court as the six ministers." Kangxi thought, while dictating, "The eunuch Li Dequan and the other three have committed crimes, assaulted the palace, roared in the court, and deceived the king with lies. They should be punished immediately. cut--"

(End of this chapter)