Emperor Yongzheng: Eagle Bow Sirius

Chapter 47
"The emperor just asked us to ask about this matter, and there is no order." Zhang Tingyu sighed, "Mengzhu, I advise you, you should not disclose this matter, write it in secret, or keep it secret when you see the emperor. Chen Ducheng. It's not that Shangshufang refuses to republish it in the residence newspaper. Compared with thousands of hungry people starving to death in Shandong, this is not a big deal. The most important thing right now is Nian Gengyao's military affairs in Qinghai. Your Majesty He has to take care of the empress dowager's illness on the one hand, and worry about military affairs on the other. The original plan to hunt Mulan in autumn has been cancelled. Once it is published in the mansion newspaper, isn't he annoyed? Not only do we know the things you said, but the emperor also knows it. But There are three things to do at home, start with the most important ones first, and file the papers first, will it work? I am not asking you to take advantage of me and Ma Zhongtang, but I advise you to think about the overall situation. Think of yourself as a minister, and think about the overall situation. This is the sentence, can you listen to it?"

Sun Jiagan bowed his head and thought for a while, then heaved a long sigh and said, "I understand what you mean. I have heard about the secret recitation. I also ask Zhongtang to believe in my heartfelt words. I, Sun, definitely did not replace Yang Mingshi because he was in the same year as me. Talk. He Yang Mingshi is not good, I will still join him! Yang Mingshi was in Guizhou, and he only charged two cents of money for fire consumption. From the official position to the governor, he only used two masters, a son of a wealthy family, and only a few worn-out jackets. I think He was also sad, and said, "Why do you have to suffer so much?" He said, "Guizhou people don't have three cents of silver. I collected two cents, and I couldn't get over it. I made a guarantee with the emperor that I don't want the court to allocate one or two cents of silver to Guizhou." How can I explain to the emperor if I don’t set an example, and work from top to bottom?’... I’m really afraid that Cai, a veteran ruffian, will overwhelm him!” “Well, don’t worry about it.” Ma Qi said with a smile, “The emperor also I made a guarantee with Yang Mingshi that he will not be appointed as governor for seven years." Zhang Tingyu also said: "The governor of Shandong has withdrawn from his post and is locked up in Beijing. Knowing that Nian Gengyao and Yue Zhongqi are fighting a big battle, there can be no trouble in the rear—so be it. Liu Molin has gone to Nanjing to observe Li Wei and Yin Jishan to clean up the deficit, and raise another 100 million stone grain for Nian Gengyao. When he comes back, the emperor Let's meet together." Sun Jiagan got up and laughed, "Then I'll resign. Go back and eat my meal." Zhang Tingyu gave up his hand, and Sun Jiagan bowed and retreated.

"Shijie," Zhang Tingyu turned his face and smiled, "let you sit down. I thought you would come only on New Year's Day. At that time, Nian Gengyao's military affairs also had a clue. I didn't expect you to be so anxious." Fan Shijie smiled indifferently and said : "General Nian has withdrawn my mission. I have nothing to do in Lanzhou, so I hurried here to wait for punishment. Before punishment, I must see the emperor."

The two ministers who went to the study room were taken aback. A big official in the frontier had no affiliation with Nian Gengyao.Zhang Tingyu couldn't help frowning.Ma Qi also looked blank, and said, "How did this happen?"

"Back to Zhongtang—"

Fan Shijie leaned forward slightly, and was about to speak, when the curtain rang, two princes, Yun Xiangyun, came in one after the other.Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qi hurriedly stood up, Fan Shijie stepped forward to hit Qian'er and said, "You two are safe and healthy!" He and Yun Xiang were very familiar, and he was about to speak with a smile when he saw Yun Xiang's sad face, Yun's face was full of tears, so he stopped, knelt down on the ground, staring at Yun Xiang in a daze.

"The Empress Dowager is dead..."

Yun Xiang's eyes were infatuated, he looked into the distance in a daze, and murmured.Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu jumped up in shock, staring at the two princes.Ma Qi said in surprise: "I saw the Empress Dowager yesterday, although the pulse condition was not peaceful, she was still calm, why did she suddenly—" Before he finished speaking, he knew that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly stopped.

"The Empress Dowager has been suffering from phlegm for more than ten years." Zhang Tingyu calmed down in an instant and corrected Ma Qi's "sudden death", "When times are good and sometimes bad, the Tai Hospital has been back and forth several times I have asked about this matter, and Ye Tingxun told me in private that it will be about this year and next year. Back then, Wu Sidao made a prediction for the Queen Mother, saying that the Queen Mother would be [-] years old. I was still puzzled, but now it seems that he is Divide your life into days and nights, and say twice as much! Alas... now we can't be distracted, please see the emperor quickly, and inform the Ministry of Rites to formulate the funeral ceremony, and other matters have to be put aside for a while." Finished , took off his crown, and slowly removed the red tassel on it by turning the knob.Ma Qiyun and Xiangyun also hurriedly removed the crown.

Fan Shijie was full of complaints, so he wanted to tell Yun Xiang in detail. Seeing such a big event happened to the royal family, he knew that there was nothing to do, so he turned the button, looked at Yun Xiang and said, "My condolences and treasure. Such a big event happened in the court, long live I may not be able to meet the servant. Please tell me, can the servant live in Beijing, and I will hand over the sign to see you after the funeral?"

"Nian Gengyao's chapter has been handed in." Yun Xiang looked at Fan Shijie, and said slowly: "I already know about his dismissal of your errand. You go back and listen to the letter first, the emperor fainted from crying now, and it's okay." Don't dare to tell him anything. Let's talk about it after a while!"

These words were neither painful nor itchy, and Fan Shijie couldn't ask them carefully.But just hearing that Nian Gengyao's book came first, he already felt like a thorn in his back.At the moment, I had no choice but to say "yes" and slowly back out.All the way back, I just sighed and thought I was unlucky - one day early, I could meet Yunxiang alone, and I would like to talk about my difficulties.

Yunxiang and the other four left the military plane and hurried to the Palace of Compassion and Peace. They saw that the red palace lanterns had been removed in front of the palace. There was a faint cry coming from inside.Yun Xiangyun's nose was sore, tears were already rolling out, but he didn't dare to let out his voice, he just followed Zhang Tingyu and his horse and rushed in, and saw Yongzheng in front, Yunzhi, Yunqi, Yunzuo, Yun, Yun, Yun, Yun, Yun Lu, Yunli, Yunqi, Yun, Yun, Yunxi, Yunhu, Yunqi, and Yun, a group of princes and princes, Baylor Beizi, came from behind, followed by Hongshi, Hongli, and Hongzhou. He took off the white cloth filial hat, before he could even put on the sackcloth, he knelt on the ground and wailed loudly, seeing the four of them come in, the eunuchs Qin Gou'er, Zhao Mingli, Gao Wuyong rushed up and handed the white cloth filial hat.While wrapping up his filial piety clothes, Zhang Tingyu said sharply, "You stupid pigs! Where are your own filial piety hats? - Why don't you go to the storehouse to get the sackcloth and put them on for your masters?" The eunuchs were so frightened that they made loud noises, and made noises. Wearing a filial hat, it seems to be flying without stopping.

Zhang Tingyu is very calm when he is old.Seeing the imperial doctors also kneeling in the corridor, Yongzheng walked over and said, "Retire." He walked around the crowd and approached the body of the Empress Dowager who had just been put down for a while.

Empress Dowager Wu Yashi looked very peaceful, her face was still slightly flushed.The brows were slightly frowned, and the lips were slightly parted, as if he was talking about something and died suddenly.She was in the same position among the forty or fifty concubines in the Xi Dynasty. Zhang Tingyu hardly knew her in the 20 years he was prime minister, and only after Yongzheng ascended the throne did he see her more often.I remembered that this lady was generous, dignified and kind, and sent eunuchs to give her wife some things from time to time. Yesterday, she was alive and well, and said that she wanted to ask Mrs. Zhang Tingyu to come in and talk about Gu Jier to relieve boredom, and to ask her to My daughter "copy a few volumes of the "Diamond Sutra" for me." That's it, she went away without a word, and suddenly she thought of her younger brother Zhang Tinglu, and felt that life was in this world, and her fate was uncertain and vague. Pay impermanence.Zhang Tingyu "mobilized" his own feelings, couldn't help feeling agitated, trembling, knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times, and cried out in pain, "Queen Dowager Lafayette, you just went west? Ah... ho ho..." He thought Looking at her son Zhang Meiqing, who was tortured to death by herself, and thinking about Zhang Tinglu's seven bloody "miserable" characters, she couldn't restrain her tears from rolling down like beads.It took a long time for Zhang Tingyu to catch his breath, and when he looked back, he realized that Long Kedo had also come in at some time, standing side by side with Ma Qi and lying on the ground next to him, crying loudly.Then he sobbed and got up, patted the shoulders of the two of them, and said: "We still have to take care of things, and we are sorry..." So the three ministers sobbed and wiped their tears, and slowly approached the mourning Emperor Yongzheng, knelt down on their knees, Zhang Tingyu choked with tears and persuaded:

"My lord, I am deeply saddened. After all, the Empress Dowager has returned to the west. The most important thing now is to discuss the funeral, so that the Empress Dowager can lay down the coffin. As long as you are sad, the Empress Dowager will be uneasy watching from the spirit of heaven. Besides, there are so many important events waiting for you." You have broken your body and hurt your bones, how will you make the servants feel better?"

"Mother——" Yongzheng put his hands on the ground in a hoarse voice, and wept bitterly, "My son is not filial, and I don't have a good life to serve you all day... Yesterday, your old man wanted a bite of lychee, but I didn't do it for you after all. I...my ominous body will bring disaster to the ancestors and you. Less than a year after the death of the late emperor, you also passed away, leaving me alone, who do you ask me to greet every day? Tell me?...Why don't you speak?..." It seemed that something really touched his heart, Yongzheng burst into tears, and the water in front of his face soaked a large area of ​​the brick.No matter how tactfully Persuasion Zhang Tingyu and Ma Qilongkodo tried, they just refused to get up, already crying softly on the ground.

Seeing that nothing happened, Zhang Tingyu kowtowed and got up, and told Xing Nian Li Dequan: "Bring the chair over to the master, and help me up for a long time!" The group of eunuchs took the order, and carefully came up to tease Yongzheng, who was fainting from crying, and Yongzheng was not happy. very struggling.Only then did Zhang Tingyu shout loudly: "Stop mourning!" Then everyone gradually stopped wailing.

"I'm in a mess." After a while, Yongzheng controlled himself, wiped his face with a hot towel, and said with a tired face, "Tingyu, you guys think about it, I'll listen to you."

Seeing that Zhang Tingyu took the lead in everything, Long Keduo saw that he was a minister in the study room, but he didn't show off, so he stepped forward and said: "Right now, everything else is a small matter. We should first draw up a posthumous title for the empress dowager, so that the Ministry of Rites can follow it. "Yongzheng nodded heavily, and said: "What you said is that Ma Qi is in charge of the affairs of the Lifan Academy and the Ministry of Rites, and proposed a good one for me to see." Ma Qi hurriedly bowed: "I obey the order. This time There must be a minister in charge of the mediation affairs. According to the rituals of the late emperor for the funeral of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, long live the funeral for 27 days, the government will not be at a loss." Longkodo said: "Ma Qixi, the elder of the court, has high morals and high prestige, so I invite Ma Lao to preside over it." He originally wanted to recommend Ma Qi, but Ma Qi would definitely decline.Unexpectedly, Ma Qi didn't see his longing eyes at all, and just said: "The funeral ceremony of the late Empress Dowager was planned by Zhang Tingyu, and after the funeral of the holy ancestor. I'm old, and things are chaotic inside and out. , how to cook well? I think it’s better for Zhang Hengchen to work too hard.”

"Hengchen," Yongzheng listened, pondered for a moment, then turned his head and asked, "What's your opinion?"

Zhang Tingyu thought about it, and said slowly and carefully: "In a year, the holy ancestor died, the new emperor ascended the pole, the southeast cleared up the deficit, and the government was refreshed, and the northwest was still using troops. The more stable the better...Well, I think that although it has been a long time since the Empress Dowager has been merciful and disobedient, before she passed away this time, she did not announce the Queen Mother's condition to the world. Can you divide it into two steps: first let the Imperial Hospital report the previous count The empress dowager's condition pulse, medical records, and notes from various places to pay her respects to the empress dowager were collected into a mansion report, which was sent to various places in [-] miles. Then the empress dowager passed away slowly. This is conducive to the stability of people's hearts. What's more, it depends on the queen mother's last wish. The emperor obeyed according to Yi's decree, and told the billions of people with a clear edict. As for who is in the middle to mediate inside and outside, this is a small matter. I can do it, and Long Kedo can do it. Anyway, the big thing still needs to be done Report to the emperor. I thought, Mr. Fang lives in Changchun Garden. Can he also be temporarily moved to Da Nei to accompany the emperor to attend the funeral for the Empress Dowager? Take his advice."

"En!" Yongzheng raised his hand abruptly to applaud him, and when he remembered that he was a filial son of Ning Qi, he scratched the back of his ears and sighed: "Heng Chen's words moved me—" He originally thought Saying "I really don't feel at ease at both ends" came out of my mouth, but it became "This is so meticulous, you do it yourself, let Heng Chen fully support the inside and outside, and discuss things with uncle, Ma Qi and the others. It's not military affairs. Please don’t disturb me. If you are loyal, you will make me a filial son.” While talking, the eunuch outside came in with bundles of sackcloth for everyone to change into, and Gao Wuyong said: “Fang Bao Mr. Fang has already come in. The master had an order in the past, and Mr. Fang did not pass the sign when he entered, so..." "Don't talk so much," Yongzheng said impatiently, "Mr. Fang, please come in. You pass the order to Monk Wenjue, and call He is preparing for the Queen Mother's funeral! Well...the Queen Mother had a last word on her deathbed, and she made a great wish that the world will not kill within a year. According to this meaning, Ting Yu drafted an edict, which was sent to the Ministry of Punishment, and all pending criminals, regardless of whether the Zhubi is hooked or not However, they will all be suspended for one year, and those who are shy, pitiful, suspicious, and justifiable will be reborn, and I have repaid this wish on behalf of Lafayette." When Longkodo wanted to speak, he listened to the outside An old and gloomy voice:

"Long live, Fang Bao!"

Yongzheng looked at the brothers who were kneeling in white and barking, and said lightly: "According to Tingyu's arrangement, brothers, let's go back. After the mourning edict goes down tomorrow, we will follow the arrangements of the Funeral Director of the Ministry of Rites!"

(End of this chapter)