Emperor Yongzheng: Eagle Bow Sirius

Chapter One
The winter in Kangxi's 61st year was cold and wet. Since Lidong, the heavy snow has hardly stopped. The beginning of each volume of this book indicates the time of the story.Kangxi died on November 61, [-], and was succeeded by Yongzheng.With the capital Zhili as the center, it starts from Fengtian in the east, reaches Rehe in the north, stretches from Shandong and Henan to the west, and ends in Gansu, Shanxi and other places. However, white, confused, and mindless are just a mess.Far from the village and near the outline, the long forest and the frozen river are up and down, the wind blows up thousands of feet of snow and dust, whirling wildly under the dark and slightly crimson clouds, stirring up the whole world colorfully and muddy, turning all the ditches, The canals, ponds, and ridges were all flattened, and even the mouth of the well was tightly sealed.Occasionally, the snow falls, and the pale sun moves slowly like an ice ball in the frozen clouds. The sky is transparent, and it seems that it will clear up, but within half a day, a large thick lead-dark cloud layer presses over again, and everything looks the same as before. , is still a chaotic snow world.

At night, a group of more than 30 riders stopped in front of a snowy mountain temple in Niangziguan, Shanxi.These more than 30 people are dressed in different colors, the ten guards of the royal palace are all worn by fourth-rank military officers, with white and clear glass tops, eight pythons and five claws snow geese mending suits, and white fox wind fur lamb fur cloaks.There are two other six-rank pen post styles, but they are dressed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with twenty personal guards behind the team.The leader is a young man in his [-]s, wearing a rose-purple veneered black fox Batulu vest, a lynx monkey skin cloak, two thick sword eyebrows slightly raised on his delicate melon-seeded face, and tight lips around the corners of his mouth. Hanging slightly, as if expressing his arrogance and contempt to others at any time.Seeing the horse team in front stop, the young man reined in the horse, pressed the cold sword hilt with his hand, glanced at the guards beside him without saying a word, looked up at the dim sky with indifferent eyes, and let out a long breath .One of the guards hurriedly said: "Maybe it's about hitting the top, and the slaves went over to have a look." As soon as the words fell, the guards at the gate of the temple had already strode over, beating Qian'er in the snow in front of the young son's horse, and said: "Fourteenth Lord, This is a broken mountain temple, and the incense has long been gone. There is not even a station in the first fifty or sixty miles of this heavy snow, please show me, why don't you just rest here tonight?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded slightly, turned his head and said to the two pens, "Qian Yundou, Cai Huaixi, Cai Huaixi, from Luanzhou, claiming to belong to Zhenghuangqi. He once went to Jingling Yun to be imprisoned, and Yun was afraid of causing trouble. Refuse to see. Cai immediately wrote on yellow paper, "Twenty-seventh is the main time, nobles guard Zongshan", "The mother of the ninth five-year-old is the queen mother", and "The fourteenth will be the emperor" and threw them into Yunyuan. General Fan Shiyi discovered that Cai was arrested and imprisoned. This is about his guardian Yun returning to Beijing, which is the arrangement of the plot of the novel. You were sent by Emperor Yongzheng to escort me back to Beijing. —1688), the younger brother of Yongzheng. In Kangxi 1755, he served as the general of Fuyuan and led his division to the west. In October of Kangxi 57, the Junggar forces were wiped out to stabilize Tibet. After Kangxi returned to Beijing in October 59, he returned to the barracks. The decree went back to Beijing for the funeral, and then he was imprisoned next to Jingling. Qianlong died of illness in 60 years. I obeyed the order!"

The pen post style named Qian Yundou was so forced by his coercive eyes that he didn't dare to lift his head. He hurriedly lost his smile, knelt down and said, "How can a slave be worthy of what the lord said? If you don't have it, you can do it all!" The fodder for the slaves! If the master says yes, we will leave; if the master says stop, we will stop. The Lord Long Live only said that the slaves should serve the fourteenth master well and go to Beijing for the funeral of the late emperor. There is no time limit. The slaves obey Master Fourteen's life!" Yin nodded with a sneer.A guard knelt down earlier, and Yin stepped on his back, moved his legs and feet, rubbed his red hands and said, "The emperor is my fourth brother, and a compatriot from the same mother. When it comes to family relationship, we are Siblings, when it comes to status, we are monarchs and ministers. You came here by the holy order, how dare I not pay respect? You have to stop and go along the way. The rule is to stay in the post house. You have the final say. I live here today. , It’s up to you, I don’t want you to pretend to be good people! This place is not in front of the village, but in the back of the shop, I want to rebel here, or run away, it’s all your fault.” Qian Yundou and Cai Huaixi just apologized He listened and agreed again and again.After Yin's attack was over, Qian Yundou said: "Master Shengming, the slaves are only on errands. Both of us are written and posted. There are ministers, government officials, capital supervisors, and ministers leading the guards. We are still eighteen years away from the emperor." It’s all over the world! At any rate, the master is sympathetic to the slaves, and when they arrive in Beijing safely, the slaves will serve the master in the future, and they will be there when they are in the master’s glory!"

"This is still a human saying." Yin snorted, turned his face away, and ordered, "Take out the venison sent by the magistrate of Yangquan County, and I will reward my brothers tonight!" As he said, his deerskin oil boots creaked With a clucking sound, they led everyone into the mountain temple.

This is a temple that has been abandoned not long ago. The empty courtyard is covered with more than a foot of snow. According to the mountain, there are two side rooms neatly lined up on both sides of the main hall, and two or three feet long ice skates hang down from the eaves.The door of the half-old house is wide open, and the window paper is not broken; the vermilion paint on the pillars is not peeling off, just slightly old; only the big iron tripod in the courtyard is covered with a thick layer of snow, cold and gloomy. The ground stands in the snow, as if telling people something.This group of people broke into the main hall, only to hear a "hu", and startled a large group of rock pheasants, crows, pheasants who were sheltering from the snow in the hall, and a roe deer rushed out of the door, caught off guard, Qian Yundou frightened Had to plop down in the snow.On the contrary, Cai Huaixi had quick eyes and quick hands, and caught one with one hand, but when he saw it was two pheasants, he said with a smile, "Master Fourteen is a good food."

"Yeah." A smile flashed in Yin's eyes, then he backed it up again, striding up the steps, stomping the snow on his feet, and ordered, "Clear the snow in the yard, and remove the railings under the verandah to start a fire. The two Bi Tieshi and I live in the main hall, my guards live in the west side hall, and the brothers who are good at hunting camp live in the east side hall." After finishing speaking, he untied his cloak and handed it to Cong Ren, who walked into the main hall alone, facing the shrine and was smothered in smoke. The pitch-black mountain god bowed, murmured a few words, turned to Qian Yundou and said, "This is not like a dilapidated temple, why is there no incense, I'm afraid the Taoist priests and temple officials fled with the temple property Already?" Qian Yundou said with a smile: "Yes, the servant also thinks it's strange." Cai Huaixi lit a fire beside him and said, "I don't know, Shanxi suffered a severe drought last year, and there was no grass growing. There were no people here for dozens of miles. It's not for the sky. Leng is afraid to go out, there is plenty of coal here. People are hungry and run away, so naturally the people in the temple can't support them, so how can there be incense?" Before Yin could answer, he heard a loud "Mom" in the courtyard, followed by a Yelling:

"Get this smelly corpse out!"

"Find the door panel!"

"Pfft, bad luck!"

Only then did Yin know that it was the soldiers who cleaned the room and found the frozen body.Because the fire in the room had just started and there was a lot of smoke, he walked out of the hall without hesitation, and saw a group of people in the east side hall talking and arguing about carrying the corpse, he asked, "What are you shouting about?" A soldier hurried over and asked "There's a corpse in the east room, it's already frozen, it's a woman..." Yin didn't make a sound and came to the east room with his hands behind his back, and he saw a young woman, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with loose hair and a suit of clothes. Blue cloth shirt with blue thread, two little bare feet, the front and back of the shoes were bound with foot wraps, and he sat against the corner with his hands folded, his face blue and ugly like burnt incense ashes.A few soldiers from the Good Capture Battalion were spitting and cursing, probably because they were afraid of bad luck and being dirty, but no one moved the corpse.Yin said coldly: "Are you also considered the children of the Eight Banners? I am the king of the great general, and I led the troops to fight Arabbutan in Xidatong. After the battle, the corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers! You are not worthy to carry shoes for my soldiers! ——Come on , where is my guard?"

"exist!"

"Drag her out of the temple gate!"

"tie!"

A guard agreed, grabbed the woman's armpit with both hands, dragged her away, and just arrived at the door, suddenly stopped, and said: "Master Fourteen, her armpit is still warm!"

Yin was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to support the girl's arm, held her pulse and murmured for a long time, and said, "She is not dying. Hurry up! Get it warmed by the fire in the temple, maybe you can still live!"

So everyone hurriedly carried the female corpse to the fire in the main hall, burned hot rice wine again, pried open the clenched teeth and drank it down, felt the pulse again, and felt that it was beating slowly, like tight or slow , Nostril wings opened and closed, and his face gradually turned back, but he was extremely pale, and he lay unconscious on the saddle cushion beside the fire.

The fire on the temple was crackling, and the venison cooked in the pot hanging on the iron shelf gave off a mouth-watering aroma.Yin was full of thoughts, looking wistfully at the dark night outside, listening to the rustling of heavy snow, he sighed after a long time, and said to Qian Yundou who was standing by: "I'm not hungry at all, you and Cai Huaixi can eat. If you think it's too restrictive here, you can hear how lively they are eating and drinking in the hatchback, just have fun, and you're afraid that I'll run away? I won't commit suicide either!"

"Fourteenth Lord, don't be too sad," Qian Yundou forced a smile, "The first emperor reigned for 61 years, and we ordinary people look at people in their 57s. This is a joy and mourning. Fourteenth Lord is a golden branch and jade leaf. Take care, death is like a lamp going out, no matter how sad you are, it won't help." Yin sighed: "Don't blame Fourteenth Master for having a bad temper. I have watched this journey carefully. You and Cai Huaixi are both good people. I feel sad for one thing, In the [-]th year of Kangxi, the first emperor asked me to be the great general. He sent troops to Qinghai. When he parted, he took my hand at the gate of Qianqing and said, "Ama is old and her bones are not good. I know you don't want to go far. But among the princes and elder brothers, you are the only one who can lead the army. If you don’t share my worries, who can fulfill this filial piety?’ At that time, Huang Ama was in tears and said goodbye. Who would have thought that my departure would be a forever farewell?” As he spoke, he burst into tears.Cai Huaixi hurriedly persuaded: "Nowadays, the master is very solemn about the funeral affairs for the late emperor. The slaves even visited the tomb built in Zunhua. It is not only magnificent, but also has very good geomantic omen. The Lord Long Live is afraid that the Fourteenth Lord will mourn too much, so he did it." Tell the servants to go to Xidatong to pick up the master back to Beijing. There are many things to do at the funeral. Don't be too sad because the body is more important than anything else."

(End of this chapter)