"How fast!" Kangxi leaned on the glass wall, looked up at the starry sky, and couldn't help but breathe a deep sigh. Twenty-two years ago, he ascended the throne from this patio to the Qianqing Palace, and he reigned in the world. But the scenes that happened here in Layue ten years ago, he can't forget until he dies. Wu Sangui's son, Wu Yingxiong's assassin Huangfu Baozhu, jumped from the roof of the house in the west and surrendered to him on the spot. Yang Qilong rebelled on the twenty-second day of the month, and there was a riot here, and Mu Zixu and Wu Dan punished more than a dozen eunuchs in a row to suppress the arrogance of the anti-party...... In the past few years, there have been no such things, but the major affairs of the court seem to be more burdensome and heavier than before, and he can't breathe. Suo Etu and Mingzhu, the two minions, Kangxi was so good eight years ago that he was as fat as wearing a pair of pants, but now he is fighting openly and secretly, and it is becoming more and more fierce - Kangxi is not worried about their discord, there should be a little distance between his cronies and ministers, but it is not orthodox to make such a fuss!

Kangxi patted the cold copper crane and paced a few more steps, but he still couldn't help but turn over in his heart: Suo Etu is the maternal uncle of the crown prince, and it is reasonable to protect him in everything. But Mingzhu, a very clever person, how can he be embarrassed by Tai Yao? The prince wore a strange dress, and instigated the official to impeach? The doll who is only ten years old, what is in his way? Mingzhu doesn't know that sooner or later the prince will be the emperor, aren't you afraid of destroying his door? Kangxi's eyes were blazing, and he guessed this mystery repeatedly.

"Lost child!" Kangxi's eyes flashed, and he remembered the story of "no mother's child" told by his nursing mother and grandmother when he was a child, and if he has a stepmother, he will have a stepfather: "It must be this idea." The prince has no mother, no one in the palace to protect him, and I am in the prime of life, and there will inevitably be a matter of favoring my mother and taking the heir in the future! Kangxi looked at the harem, smiled coldly, and paced forward again.

At this time, it was the end of the ugly hour, and a long blurred light appeared in the dark blue night sky northwest of the sky. In vain, like someone who dipped a pen in mercury and gently wiped it. Its appearance immediately attracted all of Kangxi's attention. He rubbed his eyes, and felt that it was still not very clear, so he hurried back to the hall and took out a kaleidoscope-shaped thing from the top of the large gold cabinet - this is a thing that the Westerner Zhang Cheng paid tribute from Europa, called a "telescope". To this end, Kangxi Enzhun built three Catholic churches and one Orthodox church in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou. At that moment, Kangxi adjusted the focus, looked at it, and couldn't help but shout: "Comet!" ”

It's a comet, which has just appeared, and is moving southeast of the constellation Violet at imperceptible speed. Gradually, I was able to see clearly without a telescope.

"So close to the Emperor Star!" Kangxi's heart sank, and he shouted: "Someone! ”

"Wow!" Li Dequan brought four eunuchs on duty at night.

"Drink the Heavenly Prison Righteousness!"

The appearance of the comet soon aroused serious concern among the government and the opposition. But Kangxi did not immediately issue an order for the ministers to discuss. It was not until the fifth day of the court meeting that the ministers of the various ministries and institutes were ordered to express their opinions. At five o'clock on this day, I went to the study, and the big giant took a sedan chair and went straight to the Qianqing door. There are sixty or seventy people above the Shangshu and Shilang in each department, some of them stand in front of the eaves, some of them talk to each other, and some of them look to the northwest in Tianjie, waiting, while thinking about how to deal with Kangxi's questioning. The pearl raw material Kangxi must have ordered the sign to be sent in advance, who knew that there was no news after waiting for a long time, and when he called the Qianqing official eunuch to ask, he knew that Kangxi fasted for five days, and went to the Temple of Heaven early this morning to worship, and when he came back, he was ordered by the Empress Dowager to force Xiao Yu to see the ministers for an hour. It wasn't until the beginning of the morning that Kangxi's Chengyu was carried into the heavenly street. Xiong Cixu and the others knelt on the ground and silently waited for him to enter the Qianqing Gate.

"Everyone knows about the comet." Kangxi sat down, waited for the giants to enter in turn, saluted, and said straight to the point, "This kind of thing has a lot of history, it's not unusual, but it's not the right time or place to come out right now, so I summoned you to discuss." He calmly took a sip of the fresh milk juice that had just come in, and said, "What the Empress Dowager just said is very reasonable, there is a change in the sky to think about personnel, but what changes in this day must be carefully considered - what to say, there is no need to taboo." ”

Mingzhu was still frightened by the incident in Nanqiu, and was afraid that someone would take advantage of the topic to play, so he moved his knees forward half a step forward and took the lead in saying: "I think that comets have always appeared. It should be more about the use of troops by the state. The comet came out of the northwest and moved to the emperor star, just in response to the invasion of the Quasi-Geer Department in southern Mongolia, and in the Heilongjiang region, there was a Rakshasa general Molinik who led the Cossacks to plunder our wooden city and Yaksa city, so the celestial phenomenon warned, ask the saint to see the wisdom! ”

"The matter of Heilongjiang and Junggar is not a day, and Heilongjiang is in the northeast." Suo Etu said gloomily, "The Lord has ordered Bahai and Zhou Peigong to suppress it, and it has been quite effective-why this day has changed so much, the ministers are really stupid and do not understand the reason. "Suo Etu has a belly fire for the affairs of Jiangnan Qiufu. Because of Kangxi's advocacy of strict handling, he dismissed the tops of several magistrates with thunderbolts from his subordinates, but as soon as the decree was sung, the "main examiner" and the deputy chief examiner were only dismissed and returned to their hometowns, and the officials of each house were only punished and cast, a vigorous and vigorous case, and was inexplicably "dry", and Suo Etu fell into the reputation of being mean and unkind. Suo Etu saw that Kangxi was silent and was about to play again, Li Guangdi said aloud beside him: "The minister thinks that the northwest and northeast are irrelevant. It is the villain in the court, who disrupts the country's politics, disrupts the country's talents, and corrupts the law to deceive the lord. So the comet is on the side of Ziwei! ”

This was said very generously, and the ministers of the ministry were all moved. Kangxi thought for a while, leaned over and asked, "Who is Li Guangdi referring to, you might as well say it clearly." Li Guangdi was stunned, knowing that it must be a pearl, but there was no evidence. After a long time, he said: "The minister doesn't know the inside story, so he can't really tell the truth." However, the severity of the crime and the light punishment are obvious to all. Pray that the Lord's sacred heart will observe it, and it will not be difficult to find the villain, and when the villain is gone, the comet will disappear by itself! ”

Gao Shiqi has always been smooth sailing, and it is the first time he has encountered such a direct threat to his own safety, looking at Suo Etu's face that is neither yin nor yang, he can't help but shudder in his heart. But at this time, he played rashly, which was tantamount to "there is no silver three hundred taels here", and helped Suo Etu find out who the "villain" was, so he made up his mind: as long as you don't name Lao Tzu, you are talking about someone else. As soon as his heart was quiet, his face was calm, and he just stared at Kangxi in a daze. Xiong Cixu didn't know the internal grievances and didn't dare to speak up; Mingzhu knew that as soon as she opened her mouth, she would be attacked by more people, so she kept silent. If the courtiers in the study don't speak, who is willing to be in the limelight? For a moment, the air in the temple seemed to freeze, solidify, and be as silent as death.

Kangxi drank his milk quietly, glanced at the minister, and looked at Liang Qingbiao, the head of the household department, and said with a smile: "Today's speaker is not guilty." Liang Qingbiao, you seem to have something to say? ”

"Yes!" Liang Qingbiao cleared his throat and said in a loud voice: "Since the warning from heaven must be the biggest thing, what is the biggest thing in the imperial court today?" He asked himself, and then said, "Naturally, it's Taiwan!" I remember that the rebellion of the 'three feudatories' was roughly settled, and my emperor once issued a clear edict saying that today's great reversal has been leveled and the sores have not recovered, and the army is dismissed, the people are raised, and the world is resting - the minister listened to the decree at that time, and he was not happy, and he was grateful, thinking that the great emperor would be peaceful. Unexpectedly, the holy oracle was issued in less than two years, and somehow the emperor changed his original intention? Taiwan is a corner of the country, stubbornly entrenched, fighting across the sea, and hurting the people and money! Where is the so-called 'striking army and raising the people'? I also heard that the emperor was still planning a war in the west, so it seems that the so-called 'rest with the world' is not empty talk when the army is being raised year after year? ”

As soon as this Liang Qingbiao opened his mouth, it was a killer move. At the beginning of his withdrawal from the "Three Feudatories", he went to Shangzhixin in Guangdong as a minister to pass the decree, and fled back to Beijing after nine deaths. If we can change our ways, withdraw Shi Langshui's plan to recuperate, and abandon the plan of the western expedition, the comet will pass away quietly......"

Kangxi listened to him make a lot of nonsense and said that he broke his word. His face turned white. Thinking that he once said that "the speaker is not guilty", he endured it a few times before he heard his high arguments, and said coldly: "Finished? Is there anything else? ”

Liang Qingbiao had already heard that Kangxi's tone was wrong, and kowtowed again and again: "Rong Chen finished playing - the minister thought that the Fujian general Lai Ta played it was the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country - North Korea, Xu Fu's Japan, with Taiwan as the basket, has no trouble with the world, no quarrel with people, and the coastal life will never be in danger!" ”

"Taiwan has been in China since the Han Dynasty, and it was already under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County in the Song Dynasty. Liang Qingbiao, you are the same as Raita, you don't learn and don't know how to be a teacher! Kangxi stared at Liang Qingbiao fiercely, just for the promise of "the speaker is not guilty", he pressed it and did not roar, "I said the words 'rest with the people', but now the land is not complete, the gold is short, there are stubborn separatists in the sea area, and there are uneasy people in the four stoppers, dare to ask you Liang Qingbiao, how can you 'rest'?" Although he was not angry, his anger was overflowing, and he said everything loudly. Liang Qingbiao hung his head, thinking about how to reply, and Li Guangdi behind him said loudly: "The minister thinks that what the Lord says is dignified and reasonable, Liang Qingbiao does not know the principles of heaven and ignores humanity, which is really stupid!" The sky is like the northwest, and the comet moves to the southeast of the emperor star, just in time for the heavenly soldiers to sweep the sea - an edict should be issued immediately, ordering Shi Lang's army to cross the sea, plough the court and sweep the holes, and can complete its work in one battle! ”

Li Guangdi was the first to send a letter to invite troops to attack Taiwan, because there were few people in favor of it, and he suffered from how many days he was angry, so he took advantage of Kangxi's severe reprimand of Liang Qingbiao, and stepped forward to add a sentence. Liang Qing's specimen was speechless, Li Guangdi was agitated with words, and he was reluctant again, kowtowed: "Although Li Guangdi knows the principles of heaven and is humane, he doesn't know how easy it is to use troops and raise food!" The minister thought that even if he wanted to take Taiwan, he should wait for the smooth transportation of water and the dispatch of troops and rations. You must know that the defeat in World War I will cause endless troubles in the southeast - pray for the Lord to learn from it! ”

"That makes sense." Kangxi frowned and sighed, and said, "Taiwan, listen to what Shi Lang and Yao Qisheng have to say, and then make a decision." With that, he stood up, slowly got off the dragon seat, paced in a large group of kneeling courtiers, raised his voice and said, "It is the words of the sages that a gentleman fears the destiny of heaven. But the reason for the change of heaven must be extremely cautious. In the eighth year of Kangxi, the comet came out, and some people said that it was unfavorable to me, and I just worshiped in that year; Ten years of earthquakes, rumors surged in Beijing, and the town was quiet and safe; In the winter of the twelfth year, the comet reappeared, Wu Sangui rebelled, and I decided to withdraw the feudal domain - what was the result? You've all seen it! I advise you to be virtuous and capable, not loyal and martyr. If there are virtuous ministers, there will be wise kings, and if there are capable ministers, there will be rulers; The loyal ministers of the factory are the time when the monarch is in turmoil. The ministers asked themselves at night. Do you think more about me, for the people, and for the community, or do you think more about your own fame and reputation and building a party? - Scattered Dynasty. ”