Seeing Mr. Zhuang walking around, his face was impatient, and he didn't have Su Yu's composure at all, Cao Song couldn't help but quip: "I didn't expect Mr. to be so anxious?" It looks like he's in his thirties! ”

This is laughing at himself like a hairy boy, Mr. Zhuang stopped, looked at Cao Song, and then looked at Cao Hao and Wei Hei, who were happy to watch the excitement on the side, and said with a smile: "Don't laugh at the old man, there is always your own heart!" If you don't be a father, you won't be able to experience this taste! ”

Cao Song pursed his lips, but he didn't believe it: "What's so good about being a father?" It's just multiple milk babies, so it's worth being like this? ”

Cao Hao looked at Wei Hei, thinking about how to persuade him again, let him find a good woman to marry as soon as possible, these are all thirty-four or five people, it is not good to stay so single.

Wei Hei has been by Cao Hao's side for ten years, and when he saw him looking over, he immediately knew his calculations, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Son, don't calculate Lao Hei, if you envy Mr., you should still start with the county lord early!" ”

In a word, Mr. Zhuang and Cao Song both looked at Cao Hao, Cao Hao was smiling and didn't know how to answer, so he heard the two mothers-in-law come to report the good news: "Congratulations to Mr., such as Mrs. has added a thousand gold!" ”

Mr. Zhuang was immediately stunned, and asked in disbelief: "Little daughter?" Is this the birth of a daughter? ”

Everyone in this world is patriarchal, and this Mr. Zhuang's reaction is also ordinary, and the two mothers-in-law are still laughing: "Yes, it's six pounds, it's blessed to look at!" ”

Mr. Zhuang's previous wife only gave birth to two daughters, and she had already married to the south, and this time she was looking forward to a son, but she didn't expect it to be a girl again, so she was a little disappointed. But he is over half a hundred years old, his experience is tortuous and complicated, and his surname is more open-minded than ordinary people. I didn't expect to have more children under my knees, but now I am old enough to add a little girl, so that I won't be lonely in my old age, which is already a blessing, and what do you want to do?

Thinking about this, he laughed happily twice, and then waved his hand to Cao Hao: "Okay, okay, get the letter, please go back!" It's a cold day, and the girl doesn't dare to hug her out, so she is ready to baptize and see! After saying that, he went to the back room by himself.

But even Cao Song, who was shouting that the little milk baby was boring, was disappointed, scratched his head and said: "Mr. is too unkind, why don't you look at it yourself, tell us to wait in vain!" ”

Wei Hei smiled and said, "Look at it a few days later, what's this?" Son, second son, this is a happy event, let's have a good drink at night and say hello to Mr.! ”

Cao Hao nodded and said that Mr. Zhuang was very lonely in the first two years, and he went out to drink tea and watch the drama during the whole day.

While he was talking, Chu Yu, Amethyst, Jade Dragon, Zhang Mama and others came out. Because when they came, Cao Song and Wei Hei were not there, so they greeted each other again.

Except for Mama Zhang, who had regret on her face, Chu Yu and the three of them all had joy on their faces. Speaking of newborns, Chu Yu said with a smile: "Pink and tender, my eyes haven't opened yet, and I look like Aunt Lianqiu!" ”

Among the people present, except for Mama Zhang, although the rest of the people have never been fathers and mothers, because there are no elders in the house, they all follow Cao Hao to respect Mr. Zhuang, and now they are really happy for him.

It was Cao Song, who suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Is this...... What should this gentleman's daughter call us? ”

In a word, if you look at me and I look at you, everyone will laugh.

Originally, everyone treated the newly added baby girl in the Banyan Courtyard as a junior, but now after Cao Song asked like this, Fang was relieved. Although this baby girl was only born, she is the same generation as everyone else.

That night, a banquet was indispensable, and Cao Hao and the others planned to accompany Mr. Zhuang to have a good drink. Because Mr. Zhuang remembered that Cao Hao was going to Changchun Garden to participate in the court meeting, he asked everyone to measure it, and then drink well.

* The next time, Cao Hao wore the court clothes of the county lord and rode to Changchun Garden.

The venue of the court meeting is in the arrow hall of the west gate of Changchun Garden, and the court meeting on the fifteenth day is also here, Cao Hao has been here, so he knows the place. As soon as he entered, he couldn't help but be stunned, where was this like a court meeting, more like a clan meeting.

The kings, the beylors, the bezis, the dukes, but all the clansmen who can be said to be famous in the capital, have all arrived, and there are seventy or eighty numbers. The fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth elder brothers of the princes who are not knighted are also there, but there are no thirteenth elder brothers.

Cao Hao thought about the thirteenth elder brother who was in a difficult situation right now, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Although he did not explicitly order the ban, Kangxi exempted the thirteenth elder brother and Fujin from entering the palace to ask for peace.

The prince is not allowed to leave Beijing without an order, and he has no errands, so others will hide when they see him. The thirteenth elder brother has arrogance in his bones, where he is willing to see their faces, it is as if he has circled himself, and he does not leave the house easily.

There are only about 30 ministers of civil and military affairs, some of whom Cao Hao knows, and some who don't know, looking at the supplements, they are all high-ranking officials of the first and second grades of civil and military affairs.

Maybe it was because he noticed something, and the atmosphere in the hall was very solemn. The prince and Baylor whispered in twos and threes, and sometimes glanced at the minister of civil and military affairs.

When the sixteenth elder brother saw Cao Hao coming, he also changed his usual laughing appearance, and said to him solemnly in a low voice: "It seems that something big is going to happen, let's see!" ”

Cao Hao nodded in response, but wondered in his heart, this is less than fifty-one years, is this prince going to be abolished in advance? Since the beginning of the month, Kangxi has had several Shangshu attacks in one breath, and the prince also has a rough idea.

Although the tide file was almost disposed of during the "one abolition", with the restoration of the crown prince in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, the power formed around the prince expanded rapidly in just three years.

Although anyone with a discerning eye can see that Kangxi is dissatisfied with this prince, this prince's storage position may not be stable. However, under the command of the desire for power, who would care about this.

The most important thing is that Kangxi is old, and he is almost in the age of sixties, which makes the ministers below have to start their own small calculations. "Once a son of heaven and a courtier", this is not the same as the prince to have a good relationship, how to keep the glory and wealth?

After the Great Dynasty Meeting at the beginning of the month, Zhao Shenqiao, the left capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court who was demoted to four levels and stayed in office, once participated in the Hanlin Academy to edit Dai Mingshi's "vain theft of literary names", and the former was a "private engraved anthology" and "many wild contradictions" when he was alive, which immediately attracted the attention of scholars.

Although Dai Mingshi is only edited by the Hanlin Academy, he is known as a great Confucian of the time. He is a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, with the word Tianyou, called Nanshan, and is now in his fifties. As early as 30 years ago, he was famous for his writings, and he had to take the Gongsheng exam to make up for the teaching of the Lanqi, and conferred the knowledge of the county.

To the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, Dai Mingshi went to Shuntianfu to participate in the autumn examination, and the next year will be the first place in the examination, the first place in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi's examination, and the second place in the palace examination, which is commonly known as the list. Later, he was awarded the compilation of the Hanlin Academy and participated in the compilation of the Ming History Museum.

Although Cao Hao has never seen Dai Mingshi, he has heard of the famous name for a long time. This counts, Dai Mingshi is still the same year as Gu Na and Ma Jun. After the initial release of the list, Ma Jun also deliberately held grievances for Dai Mingshi's second place. Because Zhao Xiongzhao, the new champion who jumped above the great Confucianism of the world, was born in a family of governors, and his name was not obvious, many people speculated that he was not innocent and was suspected of bribery.

However, Zhao Shenqiao is Zhao Xiongzhao's father, and last year he was promoted from the governor of Biyuan to the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, how can this not cause some people to speculate? Some people even suspect that Lord Yushi deliberately fabricated charges and wanted to put them to death, so as to break the idea of being pursued by others.

I don't know what Kangxi thought, and he didn't immediately deal with Dai Mingshi with great fanfare, but just asked the Hanlin Academy to strictly investigate the matter.

Later, Cao Hao and Mr. Zhuang had a conversation about this matter, and their views were the same, that is, this Dai Lao was a little unlucky and was involved in the battle of the prince.

Zhao Shenqiao has been in Beijing for more than a year, if he really wants to deal with Dai Mingshi, a seventh-grade petty official, he still has to wait until this time? He is "a drunkard who doesn't mean to drink", who doesn't know that Dai Mingshi is the best friend of He Zhuo, the eighth elder brother's teacher? I'm afraid that the prince is struggling desperately and wants to divert Kangxi's attention, but he can't get his way.

Cao Hao stood in the arrow hall, thinking of Dai Mingshi, he always felt that something was wrong, as if he had forgotten something.

* Listen to the sound of the whip, the music starts, and Kangxi goes to court. Everyone bowed three times and knocked nine times, and when Kangxi called up, they returned to their respective positions.

For a while, Kangxi didn't speak, and the hall was so quiet that people felt depressed. Cao Hao raised his head slightly, looked at the dragon chair, and was startled the moment he saw Kangxi.

This party has not seen him for more than ten days, Kangxi seems to be several years old, his eyes are sunken, and he is so thin that he can't look good. Cao Hao thought about Kangxi's care for himself in the past few years, and his fear of this emperor faded a lot, and his face showed a little concern; Thinking of Cao Yin in Jiangning, he is also in such a twilight year, if history really can't change, it will be next year...... Kangxi sat on the dragon chair, Zheng Tie scanned everyone with a blue face, and happened to meet Cao Hao's gaze. Seeing Cao Hao's undisguised concern and worry, Kangxi was quite moved in his heart and bowed slightly to him.

Cao Hao woke up and knew that he had overpassed, so he hurriedly lowered his head.

I heard Kangxi say in a majestic tone: "Today, the minister of state has helped the friends for the crown prince. All the ministers are the people who have been promoted by me, and they have been favored for 50 years, and what will be the meaning of those who attach themselves to the crown prince? ”

The word "Friends" made everyone tremble with caution, and the "Pearl Case" and "Claim Pattern" all had this "Friends" in those years, and there were so many officials involved in it.

Everyone held their breath and listened to Kangxi: "E, Geng, Qi Shiwu, do you know?" ”

This Hubei is the capital of the Han army with a white flag, Geng is the secretary of the military department, and Qi Shiwu is the secretary of the criminal department. First of all, he came out of the ranks, kowtowed and replied: "Long live Lord Qiyu, the slave was raised by the emperor and used great grace, if you know this, how dare you hide it?" ”

Geng Er also listed: "Long live the lord, the slave really doesn't know, know, dare not play?" ”

Qi Shiwu said: "The minions don't walk everywhere, and they really don't know about it!" ”

The three of them knelt in a row, Kangxi didn't scream, and snorted coldly: "I don't know? I've heard about it a long time ago, and even though you haven't found out the truth before, should you be able to deceive me? Speaking of this, he called: "Come on, bring the coat Zhang Boliang!" ”

This Zhang Boliang is the coat of the Anjun Palace, and when everyone hears his name, they understand what happened to Kangxi.

Speaking of which, it's still the same old thing as the year before last. In November of the 48th year of Kangxi, King Marhun of Anjun died of illness, and before his death, his son Hua Yuan was established as the son. This caused the dissatisfaction of his half-brother Fuguo Gong Jingxi.

Jingxi and Malhun are both the sons-in-law of Wang Yuele of Lao'an County and the uncle of Bafujin. Although Wang Yuele of Lao'an County established Marhun as his son before his death, his sons still fought endlessly for the throne after his death. In the end, it was in front of the royal palace, but it was still inherited by Marhun.

Because Jingxi has had a grudge against his brother for many years, shortly after Mal Hun died, he went to the fold and sued. This is the "case of Tuoheqi and other parties meeting to drink", that is, during the funeral of King Marhun of Anjun, some Manchu officials headed by Tuo Heqi, the governor of Jiumen, gathered at the house of Dutong and Eshan many times to feast and drink, and there was a suspicion of "forming a party".

At that time, Kangxi had ordered an investigation, but because there was no evidence, it was finally dismissed. Now, it seems that the old thing is going to be brought up again.

Sure enough, as expected, after Zhang Boliang, the clother, was brought up, Kangxi called seven or eight commanders, deputy commanders, and forward commanders to come out and ordered Zhang Boliang to identify.

After Zhang Boliang saw it, he said: "It's true! "There are a few others who are not in Beijing because they are released.

Cao Hao watched coldly, and finally understood the reason for Kangxi's anger, among these people, in addition to the two officials of the military department and the criminal department, the others such as the commander of the nine gates, the commander of the forward battalion, the commander of each banner, and the deputy commander, all of them were the people who led the troops, but they were still led by the capital garrison. These forces are entangled together, what does the prince want to do?

Cao Hao originally thought that Kangxi was the "second abolished prince", but the existence of the prince affected the monarchy, so he was like this. Now it seems that this step by step, even the Ninety-Five Venerable will be sad for the father and son to come to this situation!

After Zhang Boliang pointed out, Kangxi asked these commanders and deputy commanders, and everyone still used various reasons to justify themselves, saying that they were innocent people, and no one dared to admit the crime of "forming a party".

Kangxi was so annoyed that he pointed at the people involved in the case and scolded Qi Shiwu, "the most useless person, not as good as a dog"; pointed at Geng E, and counted him as Suo Etu's slave and flattered Suo Etu; E Yi and others also have their own reprimands.

Maybe he was tired of scolding, and after resting for a while, Kangxi said: "The crown prince, my son, my father and son's suspicion, there is no other reason, it is all these villains who are in trouble." If this generation of villains is not punished, how can the community be safe? ”

Then, Kangxi ordered that these people should be taken off immediately, the Zongren Mansion would be imprisoned, and the few who were waiting to be released would be interrogated after returning to Beijing.

After Kangxi disposed of the "party" people, he dispersed.

From beginning to end, it seems that there is nothing to do with these princes, but who can completely sit on the sidelines? Those who had private dealings with the prince were all shocked, and Qi Shiwu and others attacked in front of them, which was killing chickens and monkeys; Those who have dealings with other princes and elder brothers, and each of them is a little ninety-nine.

Seeing that everyone was holding back the joy or fear between their brows, Cao Hao only felt bored, so he heard the sixteenth elder brother sigh beside him, and couldn't help but turn to look at him.

The sixteenth elder brother smiled at Cao Hao and said, "It's extremely boring, are you busy with the yamen, why don't we go around the city?" ”

Because he was going to attend the court meeting today, Cao Hao said yesterday that he would explain all the errands of the Fujian Division, and now he was worried about it, so he nodded and responded.

The two of them were about to go out when they heard someone say, "I'll go too!" ”

But it was the seventeenth elder brother, he was the same age as Hongshu, fifteen years old, and he was half a year old, smiling and waiting for the sixteenth elder brother and Cao Hao to respond.

Now, the sixteenth elder brother is on an errand in the Ministry of Industry, and he is not as confined to the palace as he was in the past. The seventeenth elder brother was still studying in the study, and finally got out of the palace because of the court meeting, of course he didn't want to go back like this.

Cao Hao and these two elder brothers are both lazy people, and they are tired of talking about these things in the court and officialdom, so they rode around the city leisurely and leisurely.

When it was time to eat, everyone was a little hungry, so they thought about finding a clean restaurant to eat.

For some reason, I am optimistic that both of them are full of customers. The seventeenth elder brother thought about it for a while, and said to Cao Hao and the sixteenth elder brother: "Look at this is not far from the thirteenth brother's mansion, I haven't been to see him yet, why don't we go to him for dinner?" ”

When the sixteenth elder brother heard the mention of the thirteenth elder brother, he was stunned at first, and then looked at Cao Hao, and saw that he was not embarrassed, so he nodded with a smile: "Good idea, I really miss the thirteenth brother!" ”

Seventeenth elder brother is a child in the end, and when he heard this, his face suddenly turned happy, and he accidentally showed a little pride, as if he had achieved something beautiful.

Cao Hao looked a little wrong, thinking that he had sent someone to the restaurant to inquire, and he had intentionally or unintentionally brought everyone to the front door.

Hey, Cao Hao doesn't know whether to admire the old man Kangxi or sympathize with him, these princes and elder brothers, all of them are human spirits. I can't complain that he, the imperial father, has a headache, and the two little ones in front of him are all extraordinary, not to mention their dozen or so brothers.

(To be continued)