Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 63
On June 22, the Qing army recaptured the entire Penghu island, and the door to Taiwan was opened wide. While reorganizing the army to pay salaries, appease the wounded soldiers, salvage the dead soldiers, and repair the warships, he wrote a detailed memorial of the bloody battle in Penghu and sent it to Fuzhou.When Li Guangdi heard the news of the great victory in Penghu, he breathed a sigh of relief and almost passed out. Because Shi Lang's memorial said that there was still a shortfall of 9000 taels of silver taels for meritorious deeds, he hurriedly transferred to the Fujian feudal yamen to transfer the silver taels to Penghu.The next day, I received a letter from Shi Lang, saying that Zheng Keshuang had sent someone to ask for his surrender.The front line has won a complete victory, Li Guangdi decided to go to Beijing immediately, and asked for an order to handle the matters of surrender.

The news of regaining Taiwan immediately caused a sensation in Beijing.At this time, Italy, France, and Holland in Europe happened to be sending envoys thousands of miles to the DPRK. They all followed suit and congratulated the emperor for recovering Taiwan. Kangxi was so happy that he couldn't sit still, so he sent an order to receive him in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Li Guangdi, the monarch and his ministers were right for two hours.Suo'etu and Mingzhu racked their brains and picked out good words to praise the emperor's "sacred civil and military": Gao Shiqi recited poems and essays impromptu, and presented a long life and boundless poem; Siguan Lianming spent all night drafting the edict, formulating the etiquette of accepting surrender, and sent it to Fuzhou in six hundred miles after submitting it to Kangxi for review.

On the second day, He Guizhu went to Li Guangdi's mansion to issue an imperial edict, conferring Li Guangdi the crown prince Taibao, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and a minister of rites.He Guizhu has been promoted to the rank of fourth rank Beijing.The grizzled beard shook with a smile, and greeted Li Guangdi with a rosy face, and said, "I have devoted my whole life to the Wu family's blessing. My grandfather was the master's teacher, and I was a companion, so I became an official. Second Master Wu is going to cultivate to become a Buddha, but you are here again, but you are the disciple of Old Master Wu, please take care of him!" Li Guang was calm on the ground, his heart was pounding, and he was thumping with excitement. He smiled and said: "I never believed in the theory of fortune and destiny, but it seems true that you, He Guizhu, are blessed. I heard that the eunuch He Zhu'er was originally called Agou, but he changed his name because he was envious of you." After finishing speaking, he laughed heartily.He Guizhu was flattered by Li Guangdi, and he leaned closer and said, "I heard rumors that my lord is going to enter the study! Li lord, you really have you! Back then, even Suo Zhongtang didn't dare to speak bluntly when he talked about taking Taiwan, but you alone Be sure to fight—this is your skill! Master Xiong also says that you have the demeanor of a famous minister!" He Guizhu said, shaking his head and smacking his tongue, admiring again and again.

Li Guangde's eyes jumped when he heard this, and he breathed a sigh of relief for a long time, smiled lightly, and said: "A gentleman knows his fate, if he is good, he will benefit the world, and if he is poor, he will be alone. It's so obscene. Your Majesty has given me so much grace, and I'm already an extremely human minister, how dare I have any unreasonable thoughts?" He Guizhu couldn't help laughing when he heard him dismiss it.He has been in front of the emperor for many years, and he has been influenced by his ears and eyes. He knows the habits of literati, and the more enthusiastic he is, the more serious he is.Hearing what Li Guangdi said, it's not good to be close again, he got up with a smirk, and said: "I believe my lord, you are a serious Confucianist in Confucianism! It's getting late, I have to go back—you might as well go see See Suo Zhongtang, he is very well informed, maybe the emperor will give him grace!" After saying that, he went away with a smile.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Guangdi took a four-person official sedan chair to Suo'etu's residence on Yuhuangmiao Street.Seeing that it was him who came, the people at the door called Qian'er to ask him how he was, and then rushed in to report. He had seen Chen Tiejia and Chen Xijia, the Qing guest of Suofu, coming out hand in hand to welcome him.Talking and laughing all the way to let into the West Flower Hall.

Suo'etu was playing chess with Wang Mingdao when Li Guangdi came in.Leaving aside the chess pieces, he stood up and smiled, "The new nobleman is here. I've been feeling unwell for the past few days, so I can't welcome him. I hope Jin Qing won't worry about it?"

"Teacher, what are you talking about?" Li Guangdi swayed forward, sat upright, and said with a smile, "There are too many things after returning to Beijing, and you all know it. So I couldn't come to the house to say hello, so I have to ask You are Haihan!"

"Get some wine!" Suo'etu ordered casually, "and Mr. Wang. We eat and talk——Jin Qing, have you received the imperial edict?" Li Guang said: "He Guizhu came to pass the edict this morning , It’s really a noble grace, and I’m ashamed to receive it!” After speaking, he touched his knees and sighed.Wang Mingdao stared at Li Guangdi in thought, and said for a while, "Shengen is the first floor, and there is also the meaning of His Royal Highness here. Zhongtang also said in the morning that the little prince played several times to invite Long Live, and wants you to go to the study room to do business!" Seeing that the steward, Lao Cai, had brought the rice noodles, Suo'etu said, "Dai Cai, what are you asking for? Why don't you hurry up and bring the maotai, the jar bestowed by the Holy One?" Seeing that Lao Cai repeatedly agreed to go up, the three of them just take a seat.

Suo'etu rummaged through the plate with chopsticks for a long time, picked up a crab, twisted his legs and said: "Rongcun (Li Guangdi), you don't know, what happened like Ling is not as good as it was 12 years ago in Kangxi, it is difficult Wow! During the peaceful season, who doesn’t want to be high? I don’t know what you think? With your character, heart, and talent, isn’t it a logical thing to enter the study? Damn, someone is obstructing you! "As if to whet your appetite.He stopped talking as he spoke, dug out the crab roe, dipped it in ginger vinegar, and tasted it slowly, and said, "There have been a lot of gossips in the past few months since you went there, and Chen Menglei was also transferred back, because no one will be wiped out because of your credit." If you don’t drop it, then you are rewarded, if you talk about the articles here, there are many!”

"May I ask what gossip is it?" Li Guangdi's heart sank suddenly, but he has always been very self-cultivated, and he quickly regained his composure, "I don't care, the emperor knows me anyway. But I served in the army, but someone did it later' Article', isn't it weird?" While talking, Cai Dai came in and poured out the wine.When Wang Mingdao saw him go out, Fang sneered and said, "It's because you are still a well-educated person. How many such things have happened since ancient times! There are many people who have made meritorious deeds and beheaded!"

Suo'etu said: "There are four or five participations in your films. Yu Guozhu, Xu Qianxue, and Guo Xiu have all participated. This is a public matter, and I don't want to hide it from you. Some people say that you are in funeral in Fujian, and you are also with me. Geng Qingzhong has hookups, ignorant merits and betrayal of friends. Some people say that your wax pill book was delivered a year late, and it is hard to guarantee that it is not for fame and fame, and wait and see; Don't be angry!" Li Guangdi listened, sparks burst out in his eyes, he didn't expect that when he went to the front to comfort the army, there would be such nonsense words behind him to humiliate others!After a while, he took a breath and said, "My heart, God knows!"

"The emperor also knows." Suo'etu said calmly, "So all of them are withheld, and they will not be released!" Wang Mingdao said, "But it's hard to say after a long time. Zeng Shen is a sage, and Zeng Mu is a virtuous mother. Mother and son Can you say that you don’t know your son? She has reported the ‘Zeng Shen Killer’ three times, and she still believes it?”

Li Guangdi thought "Geden", of course he knew the allusion, and it was an ominous sign to call Chen Menglei back for no reason.paused.He asked a little reluctantly: "Brother Chen Nian has been transferred back? Which department is he working in?"

"If it's in the Ministry, that would be great!" Suo'etu sneered, "Now in the third master's mansion, he is the prince's master!"

The third master, Yinzhi, is still young, so it doesn't matter, but he is the newly enfeoffed Baylor, and he is equal to the elder brother Yinzhi, second only to the prince. Kangxi lifted Chen Menglei, a poor student, from a prisoner To this position is indeed surprising.Li Guangdi thought about it, this was Kangxi's will, so he couldn't say anything, so he sneered and drank the Moutai wine in one gulp.

"To tell the truth," Suo'etu glanced at Wang Mingdao, poured wine for Li Guangdi himself, and said, "The bright pearl in the study room has the final say. Old Master Xiong is careful not to mess with the two; From the top of the mountain, in the final analysis, it is Mingzhu’s party. If I didn’t have the crown prince to take care of me, I would have been squeezed out a long time ago! Hmph! Mingzhu is said to be extremely smart, but in fact, who can hide the secrets of his secrets?”

"What little Jiujiu?" Li Guangdi asked quietly after listening quietly.

"Big Brother Yinyi!" Wang Mingdao leaned back on the chair and said.

"Agoli is the first to be named Baylor, what else does he want?"

Suo'etu looked Li Guangdi up and down, saw Li Guangdi's serious face, suddenly burst out laughing, and said, "You, I don't know if you are really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? I hope that there is no end to this thing? Oboi is just a father-in-law. As for status, once you have the power, you want to sit in the Dragon Court. What's more, Yinbi's golden branches and jade leaves are respected by Baylor, and he relies on the favor of Nalan's family. Outside, there are pearls who control the government, and are in charge of the Forbidden City. The power is in your hands!"

Li Guangdi shuddered suddenly. He never dared to think about this matter. If there is a disaster of seizing the heir, the first one would be to bring down Suo'etu, and the second one would be his turn!What living in eight seats, honoring the ancestors, planning temples to benefit the common people, all of them are ruined!

After thinking for a while, Li Guangdi smiled and said, "Zhongtang is a bit alarmist today! I heard that Mingzhu was a beggar who was frozen to death in the street, not Wu Ciyou and He Guizhu, and he was sent to Zuojiazhuang. Received the emperor's inexhaustible grace, how dare you have any unreasonable thoughts? If that's true, I, as a subject, will have to hang my head on the door of the country to repay the divine favor!"

(End of this chapter)