Chapter 168: Kangxi's Testament
"The night is cold and leaks forever, the dream bell is the shadow of the flower, the dream is the truest, and the dream is the most real. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info who teaches dreams more, starting to repair the corridor wind curtain, poor two places separated by Wu Yue, this situation only pays the moon of the sky. ”
Holding the poem "Cold Night" in his hand, his heart was extremely chaotic. This is what Yinzhen asked Xiaoshunzi to hand over to me when he came to me that day and left. It is to the effect that the cold night has become lonely and quiet everywhere, and the heavy bell wakes him up from his sleep, and the dream is mottled with flower shadows, and the memories in the dream are the most real, but the scenes in the dream are too short, and he suddenly gets up and can no longer fall asleep, and the cold wind in the night blows the curtain, and I pity that I am separated from someone by two places, and this love can only be entrusted to the bright moon on the horizon.
This poem was read in later generations, and some people originally interpreted it as for Nian, and I thought so at that time. But now that he has given me the poem, I know that I am what the poem is really about. He still remembers the poem "Ask the Moon for Wine" when I recited it when we first met, and the sentence in his poem "Poor two places separated by Wu Yue" is uncommon to see each other at this time, and it is also the unreachable touch of my soul for him.
Yinzhen didn't directly hand over this poem to me personally, he has his pride and reserve, and he is no longer a young man who is just starting to fall in love and can express his friendship as he wants. He didn't have to bow his head, but he did it anyway. This is his promise to me, and there is a deep expectation in that commitment.
Now Yinzhen is fighting alone in the whirlpool of power struggles, almost all of them have betrayed his relatives, and even his biological mother has never given him any support, but is secretly co-opting and plotting for his other son. He was very tired but couldn't say it, and there was no one to say, even to the thirteenth master Yinxiang, he couldn't show half a point.
In this poem, I read his affection, his lovesickness, and his inner loneliness and restlessness, such a mixed mood constantly pierced my heart, so that I could no longer ignore and escape.
"Have there been any changes in the court recently?" I asked Junko.
"On the day the master came, the emperor summoned the princes and the Manchu and Han ministers to the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to announce the edict. It is said that this edict has been prepared for ten years, and if there is a testament, that is, these words, it will not be discussed in the future. Xiao Shunzi repeated the news from the palace.
"Will the edict?!, can you explain the candidate for the prince?" At first hearing the word edict, I was suddenly startled, and asked urgently.
searched through the memories in his mind, and had no impression of the edict promulgated by Kangxi in the 56th year of Kangxi. I couldn't help but feel panicked in my heart, and I wondered whether I had missed this information when I was sorting out the materials before, or if it was because of my arrival that there had been an unknown change in the original history. If it's the former, it's fine, but if it's the latter...... I suddenly couldn't imagine what direction history was going to take.
Xiao Shunzi saw that I was shocked, and immediately took out the general content of the edict from the palace, only to see that it was written-
"The emperor has never ruled the world, and he has never failed to respect the heavens and the ancestors. Respect for the heavens and the ancestors of the truth of the soft and far-reaching, recuperate the common people, a total of the four seas for the benefit, the heart of the day for the heart, to protect the state in the future, to rule in the chaos, night and night, sleep is not to be missed, for the long-term national plan, close to it.
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The sons and grandsons of Prince Li, the son of Emperor Taizu, are now safe, and if I can protect them after my death, I will also pass away peacefully. ”
Kangxi's edict was dictated, and some officials recorded it in Manchu, and this edict is basically Kangxi's summary of his life, which is real. Xiao Shunzi arranged for the people in the palace to write it down silently from memory, although it is not complete, but it is basically the same as what I have seen in later generations. However, the biggest difference from the edict I saw in later generations is that there is no clear record of who is the last key sentence.
The edict did not mention the candidate for the throne, but the emperor said at the time that he would choose a strong, reliable and pleasing person to make the decision for everyone, but the exact person was not specified. Xiao Shunzi replied.
"Strong, reliable and convincing people...... It seems that the emperor is still hesitant about the choice of the throne......" Thinking about this sentence repeatedly, his heart also settled down. Fortunately, as long as the exact candidate for the throne is not mentioned in this edict, Yinzhen has not lost, and everything is still under his control.
My heart was at ease, and I finally understood why Yinzhen suddenly came and left such a poem. He was really nervous, he was afraid that he was not the "sturdy, reliable and pleasing person" in Kangxi's heart, he knew very well that the current situation in the court was unfavorable to him, and even one-sided favoring the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu, and even his mother fell to his younger brother. At this time, except for a few courtiers tied to the chariot of interests, there was no place around him that could give him warmth to rely on for warmth.
"You've given me so much support and warmth over the years, and now it seems like it's time to pay you back. It's just that, I don't think I'm blessed, so how about fighting for you once. Thinking of this, I smiled, and I felt a little open-minded in my heart.
Told Xiao Shunzi to prepare some food, and went to the front yard with the food box.
I haven't been to the front yard since the last time I ate the closed door, and this time the arrival has obviously gone a lot smoother.
When Su Peisheng saw me coming to the study, he didn't go in to report, but smiled and said, "The old slave knows that Gege is an informed and interesting person, and he will definitely not disappoint the master" and let me in.
Regarding Su Peisheng's joke, I smiled and replied, "Let Father-in-law Su bother", and did not hesitate to push the door in.
There are not many words, just two sentences back and forth, and the deep meaning of the words between the two is already tacit.
Entering Yinzhen's study, he suppressed the tension in his heart as if he had done the same time, and did not disturb him who was dealing with official business, but naturally walked to the couch next to him, put the food box on the table, and sat down by himself, waiting for him to finish the business at hand.
Yinzhen didn't look up at me from beginning to end, just focused on doing his own thing, and didn't get up until he put down the pen in his hand and walked to the front of the couch and sat down.
Seeing Yinzhen sit down, I took out the stomach-nourishing porridge, a few side dishes and a pot of wine in the food box, and said, "I think I should have missed the meal time again, so eat some porridge first." ”
Yinzhen took my porridge, ate a bowl of porridge quietly as he did when I first met, then picked up the wine jug and poured himself a glass of wine to drink, and said abruptly: "If I don't go to you, you will never be willing to take the initiative to bow your head......"
"I took the initiative to come, and you turned me away. I poured myself a glass of wine, filled his glass again, and said lightly.
"You should know that I'm just uncomfortable, and I don't want to see you lie to me. Yin Zhen picked up the wine glass and muttered.
"Sometimes lies are just for expediency, and at that time any justification is pale, and I don't want us to make more and more trouble because of the frame-up of people with intentions, so I want to wait for you to think it clearly. For I know you and trust your reason and judgment. I took a sip of my wine and used it to allow myself to be honest with my heart.
"Are you here to pity me today?" Yin Zhen said suddenly.
"I never thought you needed to be pitied, anything, because I always believed you could. "None of us took the initiative to mention Kangxi's edict.
Yinzhen knows very well the arrangements I have asked Xiaoshunzi to make inside and outside the mansion over the years, and I have never thought of avoiding him, so he must know that I already know about Kangxi's edict.
"Why are you so sure I can?" What exactly have you been planning?" asked Yin Zhen as he put down the wine glass in his hand and stared straight at my face.
"I have no reason to trust you, all I want is to seek stability for myself and Hongyang, I've said this many times, haven't I?" I met Yinzhen's sharp gaze and said, "I will never covet what I can't get, I just want to protect what I have." ”
"As you wish. Yin Zhen raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, put the wine glass on the table, got up and strode out of the door.
I filled myself with a glass of wine with a knowing smile on my lips. These four words are my agreement with Yinzhen, if there is a **** can ascend to that position, he will give me a stability, I believe him, even if this agreement does not look so stable under the unpredictable imperial heart in the future, but at this time I still choose to believe, just to give my heart an expectation.
After this day, although Yinzhen will not take the initiative to come to my yard, but I will often prepare a wine and food to send to the front yard in person, there is a posture of "if you don't come to the mountain, I will go to the mountain", and there are rumors in the house that I can't bear the loneliness after all and start to compete with Nian's favor, which is not lacking in ridicule and disdain. has long been accustomed to such words, so he doesn't feel terrible, but he is close to Yinzhen in his own way, so that he can get a moment of peace of mind and warmth in the coldness of the political storm, and at the same time, the rumor that the outside world favors Nian is to win over Nian Qianyao has weakened a little. (To be continued.) )