Yao Qisheng and Shi Lang jointly bowed to Kangxi, stated the details of the dispute between the two, sent 600 li to Beijing urgently, and reported the punishment of Lai Ta to Kangxi with a folding piece.

When the recital arrived, Kangxi was in the study to discuss the trip to Fengtian with the ministers. Because the wolf came back to report on his work, and reported in detail on the deployment of the Rakshasa forces in Heilongjiang and the situation of Bahai, Zhou Peigong and the Cossacks for several years, Kangxi decided to go to the northeast to see the war preparations, personally visit the ancestral land of Shengjing Longxing, and meet with the Mongol princes of Monan by the way. After reading Shi Lang's folded book, Kang suddenly laughed out loud and said, "Laita, a minion, has to be governed by someone like Shi Lang!" The bad habit of the Han people is to sell their fame and reputation, and the Manchu people also have a bad case, that is, they are arrogant and inadequate. It's good now, use ten red-coated cannons and 100,000 rockets to redeem the top, dare you be afraid that he will not converge and converge? As he said that Shi Lang had punished Raita, everyone laughed with him. Kangxi ordered Gao Shiqi to draft an edict to Shi Lang, allowing the summer camera to enter the army, and Laita was transferred to the Sichuan general after building the cannon, so as not to be hindered.

"When it comes to cannons, they are still Western man-made essences. When pacifying the 'three feudatories', Zhang Chengzao's artillery came in handy in Hunan and Shaanxi. Now I heard that the artillery bureau has stopped manufacturing again, this can't be done! Suo Etu remembered this and told the military department to pay attention, I want to see it! Kangxi sat on the big kang with hot charcoal, chewed slowly with osmanthus sugar dipping peanuts in his hand, and said in contemplation. Suo Etu hurriedly bowed and said "yes", and said with a smile: "Shi Lang's gunboat plus these, the slave looks at it is enough, this time the rebuilt cannon, you might as well use it on Geerdan, I'm afraid that it will not be good to store it in the library for a long time." ”

Xiong Cilu sat next to Suo Etu, he didn't agree with fighting Taiwan, seeing that Kangxi had made up his mind, he was worried about the unfavorable war, so he smiled and said: "There are still four or five months before the summer, if you can build another twenty cannons, the minister thinks that it should be transported to Fujian, and it is always good to be careful." Wait for Taiwan's victory, and then transport the artillery to the Gubeikou camp, and hand it over to Feiyang for ancient use, and it is even more necessary to prepare carefully for the war with Junggar. "Kangxi is using troops in the west, and is choosing the former enemy general, Xiong Cixu recommended Feiyang Gu to be competent for this job several times, but he didn't make a decision, listening to Xiong Cixu still say "Jiaofei Yanggu", and said with a smile: "It seems that you are determined to recommend Feiyang Gu." I seem to be better than Zhou Peigong, he is the assistant minister of the king of Ganshanping, and he is very orderly! ”

Mingzhu didn't want Zhou Peigong to send troops again to make meritorious contributions, so he hurriedly smiled: "Shaanxi to quell the rebellion, the main general is still Tuhai, the soldiers are the slaves of the prince of Beijing, and there is no Tuhai in charge, what can a certain Han member of Zhou do?" The soldiers in Gubeikou are different from those brought by Zhou Peigong that time, they are all on the three banners, and Lao Tuhai is too sick to use it anymore, and Zhou Peigong can't do it alone. Suo Etu wrote several letters to Zhou Peigong one after another, but he didn't get a reply, and he felt uncomfortable, so he said: "What Xiong Dongyuan and Mingzhu said is that Zhou Peigong is a weak scholar, and it is really powerless to lead the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners alone, not to mention that he is ......also sick."

Kangxi shook his head while listening, and the words of several people meant that although he didn't know the end, he said that Zhou Peigong couldn't lead the troops, and he didn't believe it anyway. When Zhou Peigong was still a white-clothed showman. Kangxi had a military interview on the spot in the rotten face alley, it was really a conversation about Feng together, the four were shocked, the Nanyuan marching method, the Pingliang victory, Zhou Peigong's merits were really on the sea, and he was transferred to the Fengtian Governor, which was originally used for the war in the west, how could it be easily changed at this time? Thinking about it, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and was about to speak, Li Dequan came in and said: "Long live the lord, Wei Dongting, the governor of Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang Customs, has come to Beijing, hand over the sign, please see it!" ”

"Are you here? Where is it? Call him in! Kangxi jumped up and ordered loudly, "He must have just arrived - ask the imperial dining room to get a few dishes, the number of samples does not have to be many, it should be fried freshly, not warm food, it is more affordable!" While speaking, Wei Dongting had already come in, and there was a person holding the document behind him, but it was He Guizhu, the official of the Seal Hall of the Internal Affairs Office.

Wei Dongting has been out of Beijing for three or four years, although he and Kangxi have the distinction of monarchs and ministers, after all, they have been sitting together since childhood, and the monarchs and ministers have a deep friendship. As soon as he came in, he listened to Kangxi's instructions to ask someone to take care of himself, but somehow, his nose was sore, and he almost burst into tears, and while kowtowing respectfully, he said: "Slave Wei Dongting respectfully sees the master!" Look what's wrong with me, it's just tears—a man with a big beard, it's really unseemly! ”

This is true feelings, Kangxi couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, his happiness turned into emotion, stared at Wei Dongting, and said for a long time: "Yes, you are also thinking about it now." How is the old and young in the family, and what about my grandson Eminem? Can you eat? Wei Dongting hurriedly wiped away his tears and smiled: "Thanks to the master's blessing, the slave's mother is still in good health, but she misses her master, and she has to repeat it several times a day." This time the slave entered Beijing, and the mother brought ten jars of drunken dates specially for the master in the autumn, and she said that the master loved to enter. Shi Jianmei, who gave birth to her second child this year, has already made it clear in the excerpt ......" Kangxi smiled: "I promised to give this child a name, and it will be called - Wei Zhuan - Hengzhu will meet soon." I will tour the south next year, and ask Jianmei to prepare two good goose paws for Lianchao! After saying that, he smiled, and asked He Guizhu again, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"Back to the words of the Lord Banzai." He Guizhu smiled and kowtowed, and said, "The slave sent the fold, which contains the fold piece of Jin Fu repairing Xiaojiadu, the Fu River has been half opened, and the rest is expected to be completed before the autumn flood next year." This is the list of officials of the Ministry of Rites who went to Fengtian to drive, do you want to let Xiong Ci take a look at it before entering the master's palace? Another is Li Guangdi's invitation, the master's northern tour, and the prince's excerpt in Beijing to preside over the court's affairs, and ask the emperor to decide. ”

Kangxi nodded and smiled: "He Guizhu has studied hard in the past two years and has grown, just these few words are more concise and clear than before-" picked up the list and glanced at it and threw it to Xiong Cixu, and said: "You think about it again, I am not going to visit the mountains and rivers, Li Guangdi, Cha Shenxing and these literati and ink writers don't need to drive, Gao Shiqi is enough." It's rare for Dongting to come back, so let's go to Shengjing with me, right? Wei Dongting hurriedly said: "This is really an unexpected joy, the slave can't wait for it!" I'm afraid that the master will take the slave back, and there are many things that have to be calmly returned to the master! At one time, the imperial dining room came to say that the dishes were ready, and Kangxi Yin said with a smile: "Don't send it, he can't eat well here—he also went to the guard room to eat sweetly with your friends." I will leave the day after tomorrow, you will go to Lafayette to say hello first, look at the old friends in Beijing, and then look at Su Malagu, and hand the sign in the day after tomorrow - you kneel down! ”

Wei Dongting agreed to go down, Kangxi Fang picked up Jin Fu's fold, and while looking at it, he scratched it with his fingernails, and asked in his mouth: "The emperor is out on patrol, and the prince is sitting in Beijing, so I didn't have anything to say, I'm afraid he's still too young, right?" Suo Etu said with a smile: "Although the little master is young, the emperor presides over all the major events outside, he is only learning to read excerpts in Beijing, seeing the minister, and there are old master Xiong and Tang Bin to take care of them, Li Guangdi is not driving, and he can also help with affairs, and the emperor does not have to worry about it." Mingzhu also smiled: "What Suo Xiang said is very true, the slave said a crazy thing, when the master ascended to the pole, he was only eight years old, and he was afraid that he was not as tall as the little master now!" Naturally, the important business is still sent to the place where the emperor is going, and the rest are irrelevant, the courtiers outside have discussed it, and Lafayette inside can also take care of it, and the eldest brother and the third master are also waiting for the prince, isn't it strict? Kangxi didn't pay attention to the subtle differences in the words of these two courtiers, and was silent. Laughing: "That's it." However, since the prince is regent, he also has to have some decency. Suo Etu has played before, please add more to the prince's clothing, because he is still young, I did not agree. Now that he has come out to do things, although he is flesh and blood with his brothers, in the end there is a distinction between monarchs and ministers, I look at the crown of the prince, you can use Xuanhu and Dongzhu to add to twelve, and the rest of the prince Qinggu Dynasty crown and ten Dongzhu to show the difference - Xiong Cixu, you are a person in the Ministry of Rites, what do you say? ”

Xiong Cixu has already listened intently, the prince has always been in charge of the country, and the rest of the princes are absolutely not allowed to interfere in politics, and now the prince and the prince are to handle the government, which is very inappropriate. But the rules brought by the Qing Dynasty from outside the customs are like this, and it is not trivial to move this "ancestral family law". Of course, he heard the voices of Suo and Ming, but he felt that he couldn't provoke either of them. After thinking about it for a while, he said slowly: "In fact, it doesn't really matter whether the clothes are changed or not, what matters is the status of the monarch and the minister, and there must be a clear edict." However, since the emperor said that the crown prince will be added, in addition to clothes and hats, there are also etiquette, and the Ministry of Etiquette must be ordered to plan it according to the system of the previous dynasty, so that it will not be disordered. ”

Kangxi tasted it at this time, and several people did not agree on it, and they didn't have time to think about it at the moment, so they only said: "I will play according to the performance of Xiong's performance, and ask the Ministry of Rites to draw up my look." And he commanded them to kneel down.

The next day, Kangxi's car drove out of Beijing from Dongzhimen and headed north. Because of the first will, the Ministry of Rites was not allowed to set up a large number of books. So I only sat in a green tweed warm mule car with a yellow crank cover, because Mu Zixu stayed in Beijing to guard the prince, only Wu Dan brought more than 20 elite guards to surround Kangxi. The eunuch Li Dequan set up Hai Dongqing and a cadre of internal eunuchs to follow on horseback, and Suo Etu and Mingzhu followed behind the car to listen to the greeting.

Wei Dongting and Gao Shiqi trailed behind. These two people know each other as Kangxi's confidants, one is studious and humble, kind and calm, and the other is funny, wise, erudite and talented.

After four days, you will go out of the Gubei Kou, and the vast Mongolian steppe is outside - from here to the east, through Chengde Fu, the Daling River, the Liao River, from Lingyuan, through Chaoyang, Karaqin Zuoqi, you can go to Fengtian.