Bai Mingjing played the pearl "with suspicion, shaking the country's capital, and seeking to seize the East Palace", which played an unexpected role. The walls of Dali Temple and the six officials fell down and everyone pushed them, and the snowflakes flew into the Yangxin Palace, and they all melted silently. Suo Etu originally planned to let Bai Mingjing and Lianyan officials use the wind and fire to annihilate Mingzhu's henchmen in one fell swoop, but the Criminal Department even got the votes of the officials in Xingjiao, but in the end, only an insignificant Jin Fu was dismissed, and Chen Huang was imprisoned in the Prison Temple. Thinking of these, Suo Etu hated Bai Mingjing very much, thinking that Bai Mingjing was Xiong Cixu's protégé, and Xiong Cishu was the only one who could come up with such a clever plan, and he was unhappy. Helplessly, Xiong Cilu did not take power, and was extremely careful in his work, and the crown prince also had a good impression of this master.

Seeing the wax moon, the Empress Dowager's illness became more and more serious, Kangxi stopped the court, kept watch in Cining Palace day and night, and amnesty the world, and went to the Temple of Heaven to sacrifice, and made a wish to reduce his life expectancy to increase the year of the Empress Dowager, the medicine and Shinto did not work, the twenty-third month of the month of the small year, Shen Zhengshi card, this "Lafayette" who enjoyed all the wealth in the world and experienced the hardships and dangers of political disputes finally returned to the West.

On this day, he was not on duty, and when he received the holy decree, he had just had dinner, and he didn't even have time to prepare the sedan chair, since he pulled a horse from the stable and galloped to Xihua Gate, he saw Xiong Cilu and Gao Shiqi waiting at the door, hurriedly rolled down, and asked, "Why are you both here?" Who will take care of the study? Xiong Cixu said: "The emperor's will is that Zhang Tingyu will be exclusive from today, and we will no longer accompany him." ”

"He's only been here for a few days, and he's going to be able to do it on his own?" Suo Etu was stunned for a moment and said, "It's okay, lest we enter the palace every three days." Gao Shiqi saw the red tassel on Suo Etu's head at a glance, and while raising his feet to enter the Xihua Gate, he said coldly: "Zhongtang, the Empress Dowager has already died, you have shaved your head so bare, and you are wearing a red tassel hat, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!" Suo Etu was startled, only to see that Gao Shiqi and Xiong Cishu were not wearing red tassels, and their inch-long hair was exposed from under the brim of their hats, and they couldn't help but regret it, and they took off the red tassels one end at the other, and said: "Thanks to Jiangcun's reminder, I was really careless." With this, I am a capital crime...... Xiong Cixu said: "If something happens unintentionally, there is no capital crime, and dismissal is inevitable." The three of them said that they had entered the Long Sect, and they had seen Zhang Tingyu waiting at the mouth of Yongxiang with his arms wrapped in black yarn. The four of them thought for a moment and rushed to Cining Palace together.

Cining Palace has pasted the door god with white paper, and the spirit flags, white curtains, plain tents, and paper flowers are white. Several princes knelt at the gate of the palace in plain clothes, and there were layers of princes, Baylor, Beizi, Fujin, duchess, and one or two pins; Hui Concubine Nalan, Big Brother Yinyu, Rong Concubine Ma Jia, Third Elder Brother Yinzhi, Concubine De Wu Ya, Fourth Elder Brother Yinzhen, Sixth Elder Brother Yinzuo, Yifei Guo Luoluo, Fifth Son Yinqi, Cheng Concubine Dai Jia, Seventh Son Yinyou, Concubine Liangfei Wei, Eighth Elder Brother Yinyu - all princes over the age of six follow their mothers, as well as the noble concubine Niu Hulu, Ah Xiu who changed his name to Zhang Jia, Dingfei Wanliuha, Mifei Wang, Qinfei Chen, Xiang Concubine Gao, Xi Concubine Chen, Concubine Sehetu, Jing Concubine Shi, and Mu Concubine Chen. kneeling in turn, there are more than a dozen promised, Chang Zai, concubines and others are not among the concubines, and they have been blessed by the emperor to kneel at the end. It seems that they all cried bitterly just now, and all of them were full of tears without fat powder, and their faces were yellow from crying.

The four ministers tiptoed in, saw Kangxi and the prince lying in white clothes in front of the funeral bed, choked and sobbed, the four of them glanced at each other, took off their hats and bowed to the empress dowager who was lying on the bed, and cried loudly together. Kangxi was persuaded to stop crying, where could they stop making such a fuss, arousing the residual pain, he couldn't put it away, beat his chest and cried more and more. The people outside thought that the celebrant was mourning, and those who had tears and no tears all cried out to the sky and the ground. Suo Etu suddenly remembered that when he was ordered to eliminate the worship, the Empress Dowager secretly dispatched the army of the king to Beijing, and sat in the palace to supervise the war...... Thinking about it, I couldn't help but cry like rain, and the eunuchs and palace people who peeked next to him saw his shaved head, and they were unhappy in their hearts, and when they saw him crying sincerely, it was just that. However, Xiong Cixu had something in his heart, he could hold on a little, and after crying for a while, he put away his tears, got up and turned to Kangxi and bowed and wept: "Long live, the death of the Empress Dowager is the misfortune of the country, and the minister knows that the lord is sad." I hope that the emperor will be good at self-cherishing, and the festival will be obedient and changeable, and the deputy will ...... The hope of the world. Moreover...... How to deal with Lafayette's funeral, the emperor also has to have an idea......"

Kangxi raised his head groggily, his face was bloodless, terrifyingly pale, and his red and swollen eyes stared at Xiong Cixu in a daze: "The block is in mourning, the tomb is three years, and the hearts of the children and grandchildren are all ready-made rules, what is there to discuss?" ”

Seeing that Kangxi refused to get up, the four ministers prostrated to the ground and pleaded: "Please long live the dragon for the time being, and Rong Chen will play the ...... in detail" Suo Etu waved his hand and ordered Wu Dan and Su Lun to come over, while one picked up Kangxi, who was kneeling with numb legs, and slowly helped him to sit on the wooden couch in the white felt spirit hoove, and the four of them got up and came over to salute again.

Kangxi's face was much better, but he was still stunned, as if he was preoccupied, and he didn't seem to think about anything, so he just said, "What do you have to play?" To put it simply, I was exhausted and tired. ”

"The Son of Heaven is not in mourning with ordinary people." Xiong Cixu slowly said, "Take the number of thirty-nine, it is twenty-seven." Contained in the Zhou ceremony, please the emperor to see! Kangxi shook his head and said: "If the heart is the same, the etiquette is the same." I rule the world with filial piety and set an example for others, which cannot be sloppy. Suo Etu wanted Kangxi to live in the house, so he was naturally supervised by the prince, but he hoped to be a little longer, but he was afraid of touching Kangxi's taboo, so he said: "Xiong Cixu's words are reasonable, and in the twenty-seventh week of the week, it is filial piety to follow the etiquette, please judge the master." ”

Kangxi pondered for a moment and asked Gao Shiqi: "What do you think?" Gao Shiqi snorted for a moment and said: "The number of mourning for the son of Yun Tianzi in Zhou Li is nine, which can be described as nine years, can be described as September, or can be described as nine days, and does not have to be twenty-seven. The emperor is the blessing of all the people, and there are military aircraft in the north to be treated, according to this, the nine years seem to be too long, and the nine days seem to be too short, and the ministers think that it is better to take nine months. ”

"Twenty-seven months." Suo Etu insisted, "Xiong Ci has learned from Confucianism, researched carefully, and will never be wrong. It's easier to be casual, and future generations can't follow it. The three ministers had two views, each with their own thoughts, and they were just arguing, but in the midst of mourning, they paid attention to "courtesy", but they did not dare to show their colors.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Tingyu remained silent, seeing that Kangxi couldn't stop looking at himself, he made up his mind and said: "No matter how long the time is, it is always based on filial piety, so Liyun 'lives in mourning'." The day and the moon are the same natural principle, and the slave thinks that the Son of Heaven is different from the people, and can replace the month with the day, and the twenty-seventh day on the twenty-seventh day, but the heart has been mourned for three years, and as long as the master keeps this thought in his chest, no one can pick out anything from the ceremony. ”

Kangxi thought about it, shook his head and said, "Twenty-seven days is too short, it won't work!" ”

"It's not the twenty-seventh day, it's the day instead of the month!" Zhang Tingyu said, "This is just a funeral, and the three years of mourning is a human principle, and it is indispensable to break it!" ”

This is another big truth, he divided the funeral of the Son of Heaven into mourning and heart mourning, the mourning of the twenty-seventh day of the twenty-seventh day, the heart mourning for three years has not been less, not only did not miss the state affairs, but also did the favor, Gao Shiqi and Xiong Cixu couldn't help but secretly admire. Suo Etu's face flushed, but he couldn't say anything.

"Then ......" Kangxi hesitated for a long time and said, "Then reluctantly follow your proposal." "The country cannot be without a monarch for a day," Zhang Tingyu said again, "If there is a major military event in the 27th, the emperor should still treat the matter with power." Within three years, the emperor went to the Empress Dowager Zigong every day to pay homage. In the country, in the people, in the sacred heart, in the queen mother, in the spirit of heaven are all comforted......"

This important matter was agreed, and several people breathed a sigh of relief, and then discussed the name of the empress dowager. The people who had to look at the bear's shoes, and the people looked at the bears. Xiong Cilu wrinkled his brows, searched for the best words and phrases, and finally said: "The Empress Dowager has made great merits in her life, and she has to add the word 'saint' to live up to her name." The ministers drafted it, if it is not suitable, please ask the Lord to correct it—that is, Zhaosheng Cishou Gong Jian Yi Zhang Qingdun Hui Wen Zhuang Kang and Xuan Hongjing Empress Dowager - I don't know how? Kangxi thought while listening, sighed and said: "It's okay, only Lafayette has mercy on the poor and the old all his life, and he should add the word 'benevolence'." "This is very easy to do," Gao Shiqi said immediately, "just add 'benevolence' before the word 'xuan', and the last verse is easier to remember." Then he discussed the matters of the Ling's dedication, checked the precedents, and agreed one by one according to the etiquette notes, and ordered to remove all the eunuchs in the Cining Palace, move to the vicinity of the filial piety tomb of Changrui Mountain, and rebuild the palace, called the "Temporary Feng'an Palace", and send the coffin to be guarded there. Of course, this meaning is inconvenient to say clearly, it is to wait for the two tombs to be settled at the same time after a hundred years of Kangxi, so that the ancestors and grandchildren can also be common underground. The five monarchs and ministers agreed on major matters in the felt, and the free Gao Shiqi and Zhang Tingyu went back to the study to see the excerpts, and the rest of the parties knelt down and withdrew, and it was almost midnight at this time.

It is said to look at the fold, but in fact, there is no fold to see. Gao Shiqi flipped through the yellow box, and saw that it was all the concertos of the previous days, and even the articles were all Mingzhu's crimes, so he put them aside. Lying on the kang, I remembered that I was thinly dressed when I came in, and I was afraid that I would get sick from the cold, so I moved to sit next to the charcoal stove and silently went out to the fire. Zhang Tingyu is a cold person, he doesn't say more than a word, he sits by the desk and keeps writing with his head down. After a while, the ink in the inkstone froze, and Zhang Tingyufang came over with the inkstone to warm up by the stove.

"Hengchen," Gao Shiqi said with Zhang Tingyu's words, "I heard that the excerpts in the past few days have been taken back by Suo Laosan to see, do you know about this?" ”

Zhang Tingyu looked at the fire quietly for a long time before he nodded and said, "The emperor's original will is headed by him in the study." Gao Shiqi tilted his head and thought about it, and said, "I'm afraid it's not right." In that case, what is the difference between going to the study? Ao Zhongtang also did this back then, isn't this an unauthorized power? Zhang Tingyu saw that the frozen ink was civilized, and he still wrote after holding it, and only replied: "That's not the same." "What is different, but I am silent again.

Gao Shiqi found it boring and funny. He is very familiar with Zhang Ying, a university scholar, Zhang Ying is the person who loves to laugh the most, how did he raise such a son? After staying for a long time, he said: "What do you write, the snowy night is long, just talk around the fireplace!" Zhang Tingyu waved his hand and said: "There is no mistake, sitting is boring." I take notes every day, and I've had tens of thousands of words over the months. Gao Shiqi couldn't help but smile and said: "Why do you have to be like this, the emperor's affairs have a daily life note, and you don't remember your own affairs?" ”

"I remember that only human evidence can be counted, and there is physical evidence in writing." Zhang Tingyu put down his pen and slowly paced over and sat down: "Gao Xiang, this place is a place where the sky should not be called, and the earth is not spiritual, a somersault overturns, and there is no time to make a comeback!" I'm not all cautious in taking notes. One day, if you retire to the forest, with a little polish, you can become a book, isn't it also a great joy in life! ”

People who have only been here for a few days have such thoughts! Gao Shiqi thought of himself abruptly, is he a little aware of the advance and retreat? Thinking about it, he approached Zhang Tingyu and sighed: "Hengchen, quiet and far-reaching, indifferent and ambitious, you can be described as a person!" Tongcheng is your hometown, right? It's a place where people and humanities meet! You are so young, you have practiced so deeply, Gao Shiqi sighed to himself. Zhang Tingyu listened to Gao Shiqi's sincerity, and smiled implicitly: "Although it is Jun's grace, Jiangcun, your kindness to me, Tingyu will not dare to forget it for a moment." When it comes to tranquility and indifference, I don't dare to be, it's just you and me tonight, I have a sentence in my heart that I want to talk about, and I'm afraid of touching your taboo......" "You just talk about it," Gao Shiqi fiddled with the coals in surprise and looked at Zhang Tingyu, "What's not taboo about this?" ”

"The day before yesterday, Xiong Ci made a mistake in writing the document of the general's ministry, and raised his nephew's official character by one level without authorization." Zhang Tingyu leaned back, the hot charcoal fire illuminated his whole body, and said, "Do you know about this?" ”

"I know." Gao Shiqi said, "I asked the officials to press it, this idea is wrong, there is no need to mention it." ”

"Then you will harm Xiong Dongyuan!"

Zhang Tingyu suddenly added: "What kind of person is Xiong Dongyuan, how could such a mistake happen?" He is a famous minister of science, how can he be willing to tarnish his reputation? ”

"You mean ......"

"He's tending to be small and avoid big disasters!" Zhang Tingyu muttered, "The emperor wants to change the courtiers in the study, but first take the pearl to pinch the tip, but unfortunately Suo Etu is ignorant, even a shrewd person like you is actually in Lushan!" ”

Gao Shiqi sat up straight after a long time, and after a long time, he felt that he was too nervous, and he loosened his mind and said: "The words are amazing, but where is the evidence?" ”

"You are the minister of the upper study, the emperor transferred Nian Qianyao to be a general, and led the troops through Gubeikou to prepare to send troops to Zhungar, do you know?"

"I don't know."

"But I do." Zhang Tingyu said lightly, Gao Shiqi shuddered. Zhang Tingyu said, "Xiong Cilu also knows, but Suo Etu and you don't know, and you don't know, and will send Suo Etu to Nebuchu to meet with the Rakshasa Kingdom to discuss the northeast border, do you probably know?" ”

Gao Shiqi thought for a while and said, "In September, the emperor gave me the wind, and he never mentioned it again. "That's what you know." Zhang Tingyu regretted that he had said too much at the moment, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he simply said: "The Emperor has arranged for the Emperor to dispatch troops and generals, and he will go to Beijing on a starry night to ask for instructions." The two of them, Feiyang Gu went west with the emperor, and went to the northeast with Suo Etu, I'm afraid you still don't know these things - these don't know and know, you refer to it, is it a credential? ”

Gao Shiqi's heart was in a mess, it was cold for a while, hot for a while, thinking of the Mingzhu case, Kangxi had saved himself, but he seemed to have a tail, and he couldn't figure out where the "holy will" was. originally thought that Zhang Tingyu was a junior generation, but because his literary talent was quite good and he never forgot it, he recommended it and used it immediately. Who knew that he was quiet, quite scheming, and won the favor of the emperor. Gao Shiqi had to be impressed by this young scholar who was silent, thought for a moment, got up and dressed up, bowed solemnly, and said: "Hengchen, may Mr. teach me!" Seeing that he was so solemn, Zhang Tingyu hurriedly got up and returned the salute, saying: "Houxue boy, where do you dare to be!" "Han Changli said, 'After being born to me, he heard the Tao and came before me, and I learned from him'." Gao Shiqi took Zhang Tingyu's hand and sat down again, "Who is Gao, who dares to be arrogant?" Please advise! ”

"Gao Xiangshu is arrogant!" Zhang Tingyu smiled faintly and said, "I don't know what kind of master you think you are today?" ”

"Naturally, it's Mingjun!"

"It's not just Mingjun!" Zhang Tingyu sneered, "It is a saint monarch who comes out once in five hundred years!" Not to mention the literary and martial arts in front, that is, a piece of learning, poetry, calligraphy and painting, the law of eight sounds, seven kinds of Yi languages, arithmetic geometry to the peak, self-measurement of yellow and white, fine astronomy, Ming geography, writing dozens of academic articles, that is, medical science is probably not inferior to you Jiangcun! Jiangcun has five cars of wealth, no books and no reading, dare to ask: That is, the master is not the emperor, can you compare to him? ”

Although the words were harsh, they were all facts, and Gao Shiqi couldn't help but shake his head.

"But because the Lord is knowledgeable, he has the amount of tolerance." Zhang Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Mingzhu and Suo Etu just can't see through this, so they dare to grab power and seek personal gain by the master's side, and the personal offender is human favor, and the lord can tolerate it; Snatching power is a holy taboo, so you have to take it out! You are Han, you didn't dare to jump into his two circles, if you really attached to Mingzhu, I'm afraid the most unlucky thing this time is Your Excellency! He raised his eyes and looked at the stunned Gao Shiqi, "You think I don't like to laugh?" If I don't be this official, if I am not in this position, I will generally play lyrics and music, carry beauties on the left, and carry vanilla on the right! Jiangcun, I'm afraid you didn't think of this. The Lord appreciates that you are agile and witty, and talented, once Jiang Lang is exhausted, it is like a red faded fragrance and faded color, how can there be a reason to protect it to the end? ”

When Gao Shiqi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Jun's words are indeed deafening!" When the horses roar, there is no forage! ”

"It's not like that, you don't have a lot of sounds? But the Lord loves to listen, and once he doesn't like to listen, he really has no fodder! Zhang Tingyu smiled, "I only abide by the proverb of 'ten thousand words, it is better to be silent'." ”

Gao Shiqi looked at the candlelight, chewed the adage "Ten thousand words, it is better to be silent", and did not speak for a long time.

Zhang Tingyu's analysis is not bad at all. On the 27th, Kangxi served the que, and the court looked at the matter, that is, the study room at the meeting, and agreed on the retirement of Xiong Cixu.

"Xiong Dongyuan," Kangxi said with emotion, stroked his knees and was silent for a long time, and said, "Do you have to go?" After more than 20 years of ups and downs, you abandoned me like this? I know that your idea is wrong, so there is no way to save it! On the other side of the speaker, I will naturally speak for you. ”

Xiong Ci fell on the cold blue brick floor of the upper study, kowtowed three times, choked and replied: "The more the emperor says this, the more the minister is ashamed of himself. The old man should retreat to the forest from now on, sing the praises of the holy dynasty, and bathe in Qinghua. Give way to the new nationalists, the lord, the ministers, and the country's social affairs are all beneficial, and they dare not deceive in the slightest. Kangxi looked at the white-haired Xiong Cixu, nodded and sighed: "This is also true." In that case, the punishment will be exempted. When I toured the south, I saw that Jinling was not bad, you didn't have to go back to Hubei, give a house, and live in Nanjing. Wei Dongting and Mu Zixu are all there, and you can also get together day and night to take care of each other and talk about your old age. I will tour the south again, and the monarch and the minister will see you again......" As he spoke, tears the size of the bean had rolled down. Seeing them so sad, Gao Shiqi, Suo Etu and Zhang Tingyu, who were kneeling next to them, did not wipe away their tears.

"Take care, Lord!" Xiong Cixu cried, "The minister is looking at the corpse in Nanjing, may my emperor live forever!" As he spoke, he wanted to get up. Don't worry," Kangxi smiled with tears in his eyes, "I still have something to say: it is you who should take care, you should be thrifty in your work, rest and banquets, don't worry about local affairs, see what is wrong with them, write an excerpt to me." You have sinned against them, and you will not be at peace anywhere. I have already ordered Tong Guowei to go into the study to do errands, and I am going to look for a few more, so I don't have to worry about things here. You are the old man of the two dynasties, good at self-maintenance, live longer, better, and set an example for those in the dynasty! After that, he shouted, "He Zhu'er! ”

"Wow!" He Zhu'er flashed in and replied.

"Take the bear to the Wenhua Hall for a banquet!" Kangxi instructed, "I still have to write a poem to see me off, and when you're done, you can come back and get it—oh, by the way, ask the imperial dining room to copy a few food recipes that are beneficial to the elderly and give them to Xiong Ci's tracks, remember?" ”

"Wow!" He Zhu'er hit a thousand children with great spirit, turned around and picked up Xiong Ci'er, and went step by step.

Because of the wolf and Bahai returning to Beijing to report on their work, they were still waiting in the Qianqing Palace, Kangxi sent Xiong Cixu away, and then took a few people out. Just about to enter the Yuehua Gate, he saw the prince Yinren coming from the north with Yinren and Yinzhen, so he stopped and asked, "What did you do?" ”

"Back to Amma's words." The prince bowed down and said with a smile, "The thirteenth brother is a full moon today, and our brothers went in to take a look, and when they came out, they went to the imperial garden to practice kung fu......"

"Look at you like this, like a national prince?" Kangxi reprimanded with a gloomy face, "Your great-grandmother has only been in the world for a few days, and you have changed into Ayaluo!" And the boss, how dare you use a bright yellow purse like the prince: you all look at the third child, with Chen Menglei and their books, that's the right thing! Fourth, at your age, how do you know how to recruit idlers? What does it mean to get a restless bastard like Wu Sidao, dirty and rotten into your house? I don't care about settling accounts with you at this time, you are careful! After saying that, he shook his hand and went in, causing several elder brothers to kneel on the ground straight, stunned. Zhang Tingyu and Gao Shiqi glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed in to discuss the matter.