Emperor Yongzheng: Eagle Bow Sirius

Chapter14
Zhang Tingyu, who was in deep thought, was stunned for a moment, then quickly got up and smiled, "My lord, I thought that all the verdicts added were very accurate. I was thinking that there are more than [-] words in this melody, and all the verdicts were added one by one. In some places, Long Live also had his fingerprints pinched. It is good to be holy and diligent in politics, but it should not be too trivial. Excessive labor will hurt the dragon's body..." Yongzheng waved his hand to stop Zhang Tingyu's persuasion, and said: "One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military. It has been many years since the first emperor was old and diligent, and now is the time of "Zhang". What I am asking is, what do you think of the Zhu criticisms of these excerpts?" Zhang Tingyu hurriedly said: "I think there is nothing wrong with it. .”

"A bit harsher."

"Long live……"

"I said it myself a bit harshly." A stern smile appeared on Yongzheng's face, "Greed is rampant in today's world, and friends and cliques support small and big officials just for the sake of gaining fame. I am hurt by these two words." Acupuncture. Correction cannot be corrected. Have you ever seen a shoulder pole? It is bent, you press it straight, let go of your hand, and it is still bent! You turn it around and bend it, and then let go of it, and it will be straight. "

Zhang Tingyu hurriedly bowed and replied: "The sacred concerns are far-reaching, and I can't reach them."

"You are doing things by my side, so don't say such things." Yongzheng said with a half-smile, "I have long heard that there is a slogan in the officialdom: 'Prince Yong, Prince Yong, be mean and ungrateful than the king of Hades.' This is half true , I am mean and picky, it is true that I do not rub the sand in my eyes, but I am not ungrateful. If you talk about my heart, I will give you a few words, and if you really do it, I will never treat you wrong for the rest of my life." Zhang Tingyu felt disrespectful when he heard this, so he knelt down and kowtowed: "Respectfully, the sacred teachings." Yongzheng smiled and said: "Get up. Even if you are the king of Hades, I will recognize it. In the past, there were people who visited hell." , the couplet in front of the Hall of Five Yamas, which reads: "If you do good with your heart, you will not be rewarded even if you are good; if you do evil without intention, you will not be punished even if you are evil." These two sentences are here for you."

Zhang Tingyu shuddered from the bottom of his heart, kowtowed deeply, and said: "Listen respectfully to the hadith! But I also have something to say, and I have kept it in my heart for a long time, because the emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, and everything is too busy to catch up with Chen Zuo. "

"Well?"

Zhang Tingyu calmed down, looked up at Yongzheng, and said politely: "The emperor is naturally intelligent, wise and decisive. He is the crown of all the kings of the holy ancestor dynasty, and the people in the court and the people know it. When the holy ancestor was in power, he had told his ministers several times. , "I choose a strong and invincible master to leave you with my heart." Volume 10 of "Records of Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty", Jiazi Article in August of the first year, Kangxi said: "After ten thousand years, I will choose a strong and trustworthy person to be with you." If you are the master, you will surely be enamored and convinced, and you will definitely not compensate your ministers. ". At that time, I knew that the Sacred Heart silently decided that the emperor would succeed the emperor. But I thought that there are three incomparable things between the emperor and the first emperor's accession to the throne."

"Well, huh?"

Zhang Tingyu kowtowed and said: "The Holy Patriarch succeeded to the throne, there was Galdan's rebellion in the northwest, the Raksha State disturbed the frontier in the northeast, Taiwan had not yet surrendered, San Francisco ruled the south, the Central Plains had the problem of enclosure, and the south had rivers and water transportation. In danger, Manchu and Han are at odds, power and treachery are in power, the four directions are not peaceful, and all kinds of affairs are complicated... Therefore, the holy ancestor is actually the emperor of chaos. Now the emperor inherits the great rule, no powerful ministers coerce the main government, and no military affairs disturb the Central Plains , the treasury has a surplus of money and food that can be used, but the officials are not orderly, the officials are cliques, the lawsuits are unfair, and the donations are uneven. These are all "hidden worries" in the prosperous age. Therefore, the emperor is the emperor of peace." Zhang Tingyu said, Yongzheng Walking slowly in the hall, he saw Xing Nian coming in and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Long live back." Xing Nian quickly bowed and replied, "Yang Mingshi and Zhang Tinglu came in, please..." "What are you busy with? Wait for a while to come in." Yongzheng said, "In the future, the minister of the study will play a role, and you are not allowed to listen , don’t do anything——Heng Chen, speak, continue!” He waved his hands and returned to his seat, lost in thought while listening.

"It's easy to sort out chaos, but it's hard to bring order to peace." Encouraged, Zhang Tingyu kowtowed and continued, "The difficulty is that ordering chaos can be done quickly, but peace can only be done slowly. Layer by layer, the word 'forbearance' is used."

Yongzheng was holding his breast milk, staring straight at the sunlight on the screen wall outside the main hall door, his deep eyes flickering, and said: "This is two incomparable, what else is three?" The enthronement is still in its prime, and the emperor is in the prime of his life, and his holy life has already passed..." "What is this?" Yongzheng smiled, and was about to refute, when he suddenly realized, he gently put down the cup in his hand, sighed, and said: "You have your difficulties. In fact, this is already difficult for you. Since ancient times, there has been no emperor who is a hundred years old, and the ancestor has been in power for 61 years. I am also incomparable. The ancestor has no brothers. The chaos of the wall, my older brothers, one by one They are not fuel-efficient lamps, and I can't compare them... Alas! This is determined by the number of good fortune, and it cannot be done by human beings..."

"There is only one person to rule the world, not one person to serve the world." Zhang Tingyu nodded again and again, "The emperor gave me a couplet, and I should always remember it in my heart. I will return the emperor's couplet. May the emperor silently observe my minister's heart!"

"Okay!" Yongzheng stood up, hurried to the front of the case, wrote down the couplets with a pen, turned back and smiled, "I won't reward you for one couplet. I have time tomorrow. Write it out in detail, and hang it on a gold sheet behind the throne of the Qianqing Palace! You have explained the three incomparable things thoroughly. I have to think about it carefully. 'Beware of urgency and forbearance' is what the holy grandfather told me, but I thought , A filial son inherits his father's order, and his ambition is the first, and his words are the last. Today, the government of the world is so corrupt, and it is probably not the best policy to blindly peel the bananas." After speaking, he ordered loudly to the outside of the hall: "Call Zhang Tinglu and Yang Ming Shijin!"

Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi were blocked outside the gate of Qianqing. Hearing the eunuch's call, the two rushed in one after the other. Yongzheng was sitting high on the xumizuo, reviewing the memorial without raising his head, and Zhang Tingyu was standing by the side , the empty hall was so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling, the two looked at each other, and knelt down and kowtowed to salute after reporting their titles.

"The chief examiner Shuntian is here? Are you the one to receive the test questions?" Without raising his head, Yongzheng swung his ink brush, approved a memorial, waved to Zhang Tingyu, pointed at the stack of memorials in his hand and said: "This is a copy of six chapters. Baili stepped up the court to send Guizhou, and the Miao people rebelled, and asked the governor of Guizhou to deal with it, and use troops to suppress it. Don't be soft-hearted, don't recruit! This salt government memorial, use Mingfa, ask them to write it up and send it in for my review. Tian Wenjing is too outrageous in Shanxi. A passer-by who was ordered to do business, intervened in local finances without authorization, and those who went out to do business would learn from him. What do outside officials do? Reject Tian Wenjing's criticism and send the commendation of Nuo Min to the governor of Shanxi yamen!"

He said at the same time, Zhang Tingyu agreed at the same time, and then asked: "Do you want to express these two copies in Shanxi?"

"No, it's not military. It takes [-] miles to speed up, and you can't tell if it's time to use it." After Yongzheng finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhang Tinglu and said with a smile, "Your name is Zhang Tinglu, so he must be Yang Mingshi. Are you? Are you Hengchen's younger brother?"

Zhang Tinglu glanced at Zhang Tingyu, who was busy distributing memorials, kowtowed and said, "Yes, my minister Zhang Tinglu. Zhang Tingyu is my elder brother, and also a great grandfather."

"Yeah." Yongzheng pondered for a while, then turned to Yang Mingshi and said, "You have a good official reputation. In Yandao, Zhejiang, when you left office, you only brought a boatload of books with you. The local people even built a shrine for you - there is such a thing Bar?"

Yang Mingshi blushed with excitement, kowtowed repeatedly and said: "I dare not accept the holy award, this is the wrong love of the elders."

"If the officials are clear, the common people will naturally love you." Yongzheng took a sip of tea, chewed a piece of tea slowly, and said after a long time, "You come to collect the test questions, so I don't have much to say. But this is my first scientific test. I have to remind you a few words. You two, one from an official family and the other from an important family, are worried about your character. Understand?"

"Chen - I understand!"

"You may not understand." Yongzheng said with a sneer, "Selecting scholars for the country pays attention to the word 'public', and it does not necessarily mean that if you don't accept bribes or money, it will be a good job. There is a class of people who don't read articles good or bad, just pick them up Those who are poor, those who have received kindness will naturally be deeply grateful, and they can't wait to use their hearts to serve the teacher, to be famous today, and to benefit later, this is also called 'selfishness'. I am afraid that you will make this mistake."

Yang Mingshi's heart skipped a beat: I've heard for a long time that the Fourth Prince is very picky, but seeing him today is just as it should be!Just as he was thinking wildly, he saw Yongzheng put the cup on the case, and said: "As for the acceptance and acceptance of bribes in the examination room, that is a violation of the law. It is a different matter from what my superiors said. I and the ancestors are united in one heart and one heart. , the holy ancestor educates people with benevolence, and I use righteousness to upright people. Different appearances make the same heart. In the 33rd year of Kangxi's Nanjing scientific examination, hundreds of people carried the God of Wealth to the Gongyuan. This spring disturbance is one of the three major scientific investigation cases in the Qing Dynasty. The 50th year of Kangxi. The first episode of "Nine Kings Seizing the Inheritance" narrates Wu Sidao's early years, rewritten it as 36 years, and here it is 33 years. This kind of small mistake is often found in novels with hundreds of thousands of words. It happened, even in "Dream of Red Mansions", Qiaojie's age is also different, if you are in Beijing, if you want to make me feel this kind of disgrace, I just want to tolerate you, but there are laws and laws of the country?" He implicitly said Smiling, each word seemed to come out from between the teeth, with a hint of metallic trill, Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi did not dare to lift their heads, and fell on the ground to listen quietly.

Yongzheng stopped talking.After getting off the throne, he went to a large golden lacquer cabinet in the corner of the hall, took out a bunch of keys and opened the cabinet, and picked out a tightly sealed small lacquer tube. He said, "Lift up your heads."

"tie!"

"This is the Enke test question this year," Yongzheng said coldly. "You take it, and it's up to you to disassemble it or not. Since the 42nd year of Kangxi, the examination questions of the examination room have been leaked repeatedly, which is incredible. This year's question is my own. Handwritten, sealed and handed over to you. As long as you remember what I said just now, this subject will definitely be able to recruit a few decent talents. I have never heard what I said. It is not too late to ask now. Don’t talk about me in the future. If you don't teach, you will be punished!"

"Zha—the slave understands!"

"Okay, there is no joke between the emperor and the ministers." Yongzheng put the paint canister in Zhang Tinglu's hand, waved his hand to order them to kneel down, and turned to Zhang Tingyu.

Zhang Tingyu kept waving his hand while reading the transfer documents, and he ignored what the ruler and his ministers said just now. Hearing Yongzheng's footsteps, he stood up and laughed, "Master, have you seen him?" Yongzheng nodded and turned the case over. Before that, he turned his face to look at a document that Zhang Tingyu was approving, and said with a smile: "This matter has already been discussed by the Ministry of Rites, and several performers during the national funeral must be strictly dealt with! You don't want to approve this document, I still want it." The next decree. Not only for national funerals, but also for weekdays, the civil and military officials of each province and the capital have their own yamen officials, and they are not allowed to raise opera troupes or sing in halls!" Zhang Tingyu was stunned for a moment, and said: "Wen Tian and Wu Xi certainly contribute to the decadence , but the officials usually celebrate weddings at home and prohibit acting, it seems..."

"Women don't have children if they don't go to the theater?" Yongzheng smiled, "I never act in the hall. When will you, Zhang Tingyu, see me go to the theater, and tell me these things again." A few words sound like Zhuang Seemingly harmonious, very casual and not open to discussion, Zhang Tingyu stood on his knees, hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes!" But Yongzheng changed the subject and asked, "Have you seen Sun Jiagan?"

Zhang Tingyu smiled apologetically and said, "I have. I disturbed him for a meal yesterday..." Then he described the situation of meeting Sun Jiagan in detail, and then said: "This man has experienced a little bit, and the servant can see that he can grow up." use!"

"What is Lianlian?" Yongzheng suppressed his smile and wandered around the hall with his hands behind his back, seemingly feeling overwhelmed with emotion, "All the edges and corners have been worn off, and they are old, so it's called 'Liuan'? I don't think it's necessary——" He stood still , and said: "Sun Jiagan actually made up the supervisory official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the supervisory censor as a fifth-rank official. Yongzheng's move actually promoted Sun Jiagan. ——Original note."

(End of this chapter)