Chapter 53 - Appreciating the Good Guard

Sitting on Liang Gong's shoulder, looking at the head swaying from side to side under him, listening to the old Beijing saying that it turned out to be his "first", Hongyi saw that the group was talking and laughing, and he was naturally very happy when he saw that the group was not reserved and depressed in the Forbidden City at all. So, Hongyi grabbed the thick braid in front of him with one hand and made a joke about the little work under his ass.

"Okay, Xiao Gongzi, you go back and teach the palace people of our second institute, memorize this sentence, and you will become their master......"

"Master, if Xiao Gongzi becomes a master, the slave is worried that the subordinates of our two institutes will be abandoned! haha! Sun is only in her 20s, and she was originally a little daughter-in-law who likes to be lively, so she naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity to ridicule Xiao Gongzi.

"Sister Sun, don't underestimate my little skill, our master descended from heaven to auspiciousness, the holy child came to the world, and the slave served the master, so naturally he couldn't eat and sleep all day long, and the slave also followed the master of the inner study hall [1] to memorize the "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text"!" Xiao Gongzi was a little unconvinced and retorted.

"Okay, you have to study hard, and you will be a good eunuch when you become a leader and eunuch in the future!" Hongyi smiled and encouraged Xiao Gongzi and accompanied everyone to laugh.

In the middle of the ring, Hongyi realized that everyone was talking and laughing along the way, and there was a "flying bird out of the cage" jiashi. And the only one who didn't speak was the third-class guard Mara, who had been with her all the time. It's not that he's not good at words, Hongyi also knows that in fact, Mara is doing his best!

In Mara's eyes, as the Lord of Dorobelle in the Qing Dynasty, this young child is extraordinary, not to mention the auspiciousness from the sky, not to mention the birth of the Ding, it is the incident of Mulan's martial arts, which makes the Manchu Dynasty shocked. This time out of the palace to play, the master did not bring a guard of honor to open the way. Before leaving the palace, Aunt Su Mala called herself to the side to give an explanation, and almost told her everything.

In fact, there is no need for her to say, Mara's heart is like a mirror - today's errand is very important, and she must not slack off. I've never heard of a two-year-old prince who goes out of the palace to visit alone, nominally for fun, how can it be so simple?! So, since he hit the imperial city, all kinds of people who are close to Xuan Ye within one zhang, regardless of the Manchu and Han officials and people, Mara is pressing the handle of the knife with her hands, her eyes are staring, and she is poised to make a move, and the jiashi can't wait to go up and cut people's necks with a knife in an instant, so scared that passers-by are busy avoiding this line of five people.

Hongyi saw Mara's performance along the way, and he had a good impression of this kind of loyal young man. At this moment, a crippled man in ragged clothes appeared in front of everyone, stretched out a bony hand, raised a broken bowl, and tried to deliver it to Hongyi.

"Master, master, let's appreciate it, how many points, I haven't eaten for a few days......"

"Get out of here!" Although Liang Gong is a eunuch minion, he still has great contempt for beggars by nature, and before Hongyi can show him, he reprimands him loudly. If it weren't for Hongyi on his shoulders with both hands, looking at that jiashi, it is estimated that he would have fists and feet.

Hongyi was just about to say something to stop Liang Gong, but he saw Mara next to him step between the beggar and Hongyi, sandwiched his hands under the beggar's armpits, squatted slightly, and then together with the lame beggar, he actually jumped out of the way. Mara stood still, and gently put the beggar down, and saw that he himself was also standing firm, before withdrawing his hands and taking out a few Shunzhi from the blanket

"Hu Yili [2]", put it in the broken bowl, and then said: "There are many people in the middle of the road, don't fall if you are lame, just beg for a living on the side of the road!" After speaking, he didn't care about the lame's thousand thanks, and quickly returned to Hongyi's side and continued to "be vigilant".

Rather than the profound kung fu that Mara had shown, Hongyi was more interested in the approachability that a third-class guard of the fifth rank had just shown.

First of all, Mara did not have the same aversion to beggars as Xiao Gongzi; secondly, the lame beggar who is wrapped in it to withdraw from the safe range is also "handled with care"; Third, after seeing the beggar stand firm, he did not forget to give a few copper coins, although it was not much, but it was also commendable. This increased Hongyi's affection and curiosity for Mara, so he pulled the braid in his hand fiercely to stop the little gong who was still muttering and cursing the beggar for "not having long eyes" at that time.

"Liang Gong, reward that beggar with a few broken silver!"

"Master, this ......" Liang Gong hesitated!

"Go! Otherwise, it's nice to go back! Hongyi said viciously for the first time. Fortunately, Liang Gong, who is now used as a mount, can't see the expression of the master, otherwise he must be paralyzed on the ground. But it was this abrupt sentence that frightened Liang Gong to shut up immediately, although there was some injustice in his heart: he was afraid that the beggar would startle the master, what was the fault?

It's no wonder that Liang Gong slandered, after all, since Hongyi was born, he has dealt with the lowest "untouchables" in the Qing Dynasty, this is the first time, Liang Gong, as a "little red man" in the palace, temporarily lacks the experience to deal with this situation, which is naturally understandable.

Liang Gong walked to the beggar with Hongyi on his back, and reluctantly took out a few pieces of broken silver, and was about to throw them into the broken bowl, but Hongyi reached out and took it and gently sent it to the bowl himself.

"Master Xiexie! Master Xiexie! You are the reincarnation of a bodhisattva! A good man is rewarded well...... "The beggar could not care about being lame, but wanted to kneel." Before Hongyi could speak, Mara had already stretched out his hand to hug each other and said softly: "My master rewards, your legs and feet are inconvenient, just feel sorry for it in your heart."

"Well, you don't have to be polite, take these broken pieces of silver and go find a Langzhong, and take a look at your legs." Hongyi was a little unbearable and said.

Seeing that there were people around him gathering in this direction, Mara turned around decisively and continued to walk forward with Hongyi, leaving the lame beggar behind him to cry silently.

"There are also such miserable homeless people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, alas!" Hongyi was talking to himself, but Mara on the side said: "Lord Belle, he is not a homeless person, he must have military merits, it is estimated that he injured his leg, and he used up the court's compassion, so he begged on the street." ”

"Oh? How do you know? "Hongyi is interested.

"Just now, the little one helped him get up, and saw that he had calluses on his hands, which should have been left by a long time of bending the bow and riding, so I made this speculation." Mara said as she walked, and began to scan everything around her like radar.

"I see, this man of military merit fought for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, but he couldn't die well, didn't it chill the hearts of the soldiers?" Hongyi has a feeling and is general, but he is also thinking in his heart: Maybe it is not necessarily the old pawn of the previous dynasty, scattered on the street is always a hidden worry, this "social stability" is the overall situation! It's just that I don't know the details of Mara, so it's hard to say this.

Mara didn't respond, but for the first time she withdrew her vigilant gaze from all directions, and threw a look full of admiration and gratitude at Hongyi, and then returned to her previous demeanor.

Hongyi noticed this small change and called softly, "Mara! ”

“…… The little ones are in! The guard Mara did not immediately respond when she heard the call of the superior like ordinary subordinates, but once again confirmed that there was nothing abnormal around her before standing with her hands down and respectfully replied.

"You're a third-class guard in front of the Fifth Rank?" Hongyi raised his hand and motioned for the "mount" under his crotch to move on, while lowering his voice and talking to Mara who came up with him.

"Yes!" Mara was unmistakable, simple and clear, and as she answered, as she walked, her eyes began to scan her surroundings dutifully.

"Well, I'm sorry for you!" Hongyi was accustomed to treating the staff who served him like this, and nodded.

"The slave is dying, how dare he accept the sentence 'there is work' from Lord Belle! The slave dares to ask, where did the slave do wrong? Please also ask Lord Belle to make it clear!" Who would have thought that this imperial guard would actually kneel and worship, and change his name!

"Hurry up, I didn't mean to say what you did wrong!" Hongyi had to stop and beckon Mara to get up, and then he suddenly understood that under his own painstaking training, the so-called "minions" slowly began to get used to their generosity and charity, and they became more and more relaxed, but the guards of Cining Palace still couldn't understand their own "treating people equally".

"Huh!" Hearing that she was not at fault, Mara immediately stood up and continued to "scan".

Haha, this guard is a bit interesting, very simple, clear, and frank! Hongyi secretly pondered, so he asked as he walked, "How old are you?" When to enter the palace on an errand? Who else is in the family? ”

"The slave is nineteen years old this year, is a yellow flag, entered the palace three years ago, was a Lang Wei at the beginning, the merit of the Yin family, a year ago the emperor and the queen mother grace, Jin San and other guard titles."

"Oh, who is your brother?"

"Back to the master's words, my brother is Hetuo, and he has some military merits. In the first year of Shunzhi, he entered the pass from Long with Kabush Xianjia Lazhangjing, broke through Li Zichengtong Pass, and moved his troops to Jiangning. Recovering from Bellebolo to Zhejiang, the general army of the Ming Dynasty is equal to Hangzhou. Slightly revert to Fujian, to Kejie. Attack Tingzhou, first Deng, Keqi City. On merit, and met the emperor's edict, he awarded him Rabul Hapan [3] and Tuosha Lahafan [4]. Last year, my brother went to Yunnan and was bound to defeat the Southern Ming thieves Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan[5]...... "Mara seems to attach great importance to his brother's achievements, and she tells about his brother's military exploits by herself, and her eyes show a lot of envy!"

"Your brother is Heto?" Hongyi was surprised!

You must know that in the official history, before Emperor Kangxi removed Aobai, there was an excuse that Aobai was sick and did not go to court for many days, some people said that he was plotting misdeeds at home, and Kangxi immediately led the guards to visit Aobai's house. The doorman was about to go in to report, but was stopped by Kangxi, and he and his guards went straight to the Aobai bedroom. When Ao Bai saw the emperor suddenly coming, his expression became uneasy. The guard quickly walked to the bed and lifted the mat, only to see a sharp steel knife shining with a cold light. Ao Bai was very nervous about this, and seemed to be about to have a seizure, but Kangxi smiled and said: "The knife does not leave the body, it is our old custom, and the auxiliary minister does not forget to organize training from time to time, which is really commendable and rewardable!" What's the blame? Thus stabilizing the worship. Kangxi returned to the palace and immediately summoned Suo Etu in the name of playing chess to study a specific plan to eradicate Aobai. And this imperial guard who knows through the worship is said to be called Hetuo!

"It's my brother!" Although Mara was a little strange, she also kept her duty and didn't ask a word!

"Good! Do you envy your brother for his achievements in the battlefield? Hongyi put aside this Hetuo for the time being, whether it was the Hetuo who saw through the worship, and liked the young guard in front of him who knew how to deny himself and serve his public duties even more, and asked deliberately.

"As a Manchurian man, who doesn't want to make a career on the battlefield?" Mara replied with a full stomach.

"Okay, as long as you have a long-term mind, one day, both of you brothers will be Baturu on the battlefield!" With a word of encouragement, Hongyi stopped disturbing Mara's "work".

After walking for a while, the group finally entered the Liuli Factory, and the shops on both sides of the street gradually became denser, and there were more and more Han officials, scholars, and tributes[6] around them.

"Mama Park, are we here?" Hongyi tried to judge based on the impression that he and Xiao Ai went to Taobao in Liulichang Cultural Street in later generations, although they were very different, there were some similarities, so he asked tentatively.

"Back to Lord Belle, we've arrived. Where do you want to go to have fun for a while? ”

"Oh, good. But Mama Park, most of the people here are scholars, let's not be too public, let's also change the title, I call you Mama, you call me grandson, okay? "What did Hongyi think of, isn't this how this micro-service private interview is played?

"Never! Never! "If it weren't for the fact that this young master just said not to be too public, the Park family would have knelt down on the street to apologize. is a grandmother, no matter how old her qualifications are, in front of the royal bloodline, she can only be a slave and a servant, how dare she call her little master a grandson? I don't want to live anymore!

"Ah...... Well, you can call me son-in-law, and I will call you mother-in-law, that's all right, right? Hongyi really practiced "everyone is equal" in the Qing Dynasty three hundred and sixty years ago, and only then did he know that watching too many TV series was useless! These subordinates would never dare to sit on an equal footing in front of their masters, let alone get a little advantage in their seniority. Those things about drinking and gags between ministers and emperors in Qing court dramas now seem to be "jokes"!

"Little Gongzi, let me down!" Although the people who came and went around didn't care much about a child riding on the neck of a house slave, Hongyi still felt a little awkward and took the initiative to ask to walk by himself. This is the scene of the aforementioned grandparents and grandchildren having fun and holding hands to go shopping.

[1] A place of study for Ming eunuchs. Taizu customized, not allowed the inner servants to be literate, in order to prevent them from interfering in political affairs, but there was no provision that only the illiterate was allowed to be used as the inner servants. Later, he selected the book of the small internal history supervision book, and the book of the handwriting, which contradicted the above prohibition. During the Yongle period, Xu Instructor entered the inner hall to teach the inner attendants to study, and selected two or three hundred people from the age of ten to study. Since then, it has been the norm, and the four members of the Hanlin official have been selected as teachers, and the inner palace has many literary and ink. This article is borrowed here, and it will be wrong, just because similar institutions in the Qing Dynasty have not been found yet. Please also help answer your questions, xiexie!

[2] "One cent" is a kind of Shunzhi Tongbao, commonly known as "Shunzhi Three Styles". During the Shunzhi period, in order to stabilize the economy, five reforms were carried out before and after, and finally succeeded in establishing the monetary system of the Qing Dynasty. With the five restructurings at the same time, five forms of Shunzhi Tongbao are famous all over the world, known as "Shunzhi Five Styles" in history. Shunzhi three-style, also known as Shunzhi "one cent" type, is the third type of Shunzhi money form cast after Shunzhi one and two. Shunzhi ten years (1653) July provinces, town money bureau stop casting a single word bureau money, open casting Shunzhi back a penny, each weight of a penny two cents and five cents, than the back of a single word money made fine, the back text by wearing the right a provincial bureau Chinese characters and wear the left "one cent" composition. Because the word "one cent" means one cent of silver (one thousand cents of quasi-silver), it can be directly exchanged with the official bank, so it is called the silver centi. The household is cast exclusively for the big inside, called the household one centimeter. Historical records record that there are a total of 19 bureaus of Shunzhi 1 cent, respectively: household 1 cent, Gong 1 cent, Ji 1 cent, Xuan 1 cent, Yun Yi Li (Miyun Bureau), East 1 cent, Lin 1 cent, Yuan 1 cent, Yang 1 cent, Shaanxi 1 cent, the same cent, River 1 cent, Zhejiang 1 cent, Ning 1 cent, Chang 1 cent, Jiang 1 cent, Fu 1 cent, Yun 1 li (Yunnan Provincial Bureau), Jing 1 cent.

[3] Qing dynasty title. It was named in the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1647). In the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1736), the Chinese character was set as the commander of the cavalry, and the Manchu script was the same as before.

[4] Qing Jue name. Han called the old a thousand presidents. In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), it was named "Tuosha Lahafan". In the first year of Qianlong (1736), the Chinese character was set as Yun Qiwei, and the Manchu script was the same as before.

[5] Bai Wenxuan has been herding sheep and farming since he was a child, has a large body and eats a lot, has excellent strength, and is good at handling knives and sticks by nature. In the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1631), he and Feng Shuangli (Suide) participated in Zhang Xianzhong (Dingbian) peasant rebel army, served as the head of the fire, the soldier, every battle, outstanding achievements, as the former military governor, repeatedly made military exploits. After Zhang Xianzhong's death, he followed Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo to resist the Qing Dynasty, and repeatedly made military exploits, and served as the former military governor of Daxi in the first year of Dashun. After Zhang Xianzhong's death, his entourage Sun Kewang entered the Yunnan-Guizhou Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Yongli (1657 AD), Sun Kewang plotted to rebel against the Southern Ming Dynasty and sent 140,000 troops to attack Kunming in the south, trying to eliminate Li Dingguo in one fell swoop, so that Bai Wenxuan was the vanguard, but Bai Wenxuan did not carry out this order, and Li Dingguo jointly quelled Sun Kewang's rebellion, Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing, and Bai Wenxuan was crowned as the king of Gongchang. In the following year, he led his army to garrison Qixingguan (on Qixing Mountain in the southwest of present-day Bijie, Guizhou) to resist the Qing army, and then was defeated into Yunnan, and Li Dingguo moved to western Yunnan and insisted on resisting the Qing. In the fifteenth year of Yongli (1661 AD), he was defeated in Tengyue Tea Mountain, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and was awarded the title of Chengen Gong, and was under the white flag of the Han Army.

[6] Those who won the township examination were "Juren", the first name was "Xie Yuan", the second name was Yayuan, the third, fourth, and fifth names were Jingkui, and the sixth name was Yakui. In principle, the person who is selected for the examination is qualified to be elected as an officer. All Chinese students can participate in the examination held in Beijing the following year. The one who will try to take it is called "Gongshi", also known as "Chinese-style Jinshi"

, the first name "Huiyuan." After the examination, the tribute will be re-examined by the emperor himself, and the palace examination will be decided, and the ranking will be examined for one day, and the first and first, the birth, and the same origin will be given according to the results, and then the brown will be awarded. The examination procedures of the Ming and Qing dynasties are extremely complicated, and the scholars who participate in the preliminary examination are called "Tong Sheng", and the children go through the "county examination" (presided over by the county), the "government examination" (presided over by the prefect), and the "hospital examination" (presided over by the academic administration), and those who pass are "students"; The students have passed the provincial "township test", and those who pass are "lifted"; Lift people through the capital "will test", qualified for the "tribute"; Gongshi passed the "palace test" and gave the person who was born as a jinshi.