Chapter Twenty-Nine: Kangxi's Errand
Chen Mo had just turned to the other side of the garden, and in the moonlight, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl was standing in front of a small flower field and didn't know what she was thinking, when she heard Chen Mo's footsteps, the girl looked up and asked in surprise:
"Hello, are you Lord Chen Mo?"
Chen Mo was stunned for a moment and asked:
"Who's Miss? I actually know each other. β
The girl's little face in the moonlight suddenly turned red, but then there was a trace of grief and helplessness on her face, and under Chen Mo's curious eyes, the girl said softly:
"My father is Prince Kang, and my name is Jing Ning."
Chen Mo turned his back to the moonlight at this time, the girl in front of him looked very graceful, a pretty face was as bright as jade, he remembered what Suo Etu said before, if it weren't for the marriage of the little emperor of Tartar and the fake queen mother, maybe the girl in front of him should be his wife.
Chen Mo found that Jing Ning in front of him was gentle and generous, and his appearance was also dignified and delicate, but it was a pity that he was an outsider, so he could only sigh and say with these good girls:
"It turned out to be Jingning Gege, Chen Mo was polite, but now that there are many people in the house, Gege should go back."
"Lord Chen, please take it, Jing Ning retires." Jing Ning silently glanced at Chen Mo and said.
Jing Ning left, Chen Mo also quickly turned back to the hall, where the gambling game continued, Chen Mo only went out for half a pillar of incense time did not attract everyone's attention, found a table and sat down, it seemed that Chen Mo was very lucky, he had won no less than 20,000 taels when the time came, which was a lot of wealth that countless ordinary people could not earn in a few lifetimes.
After the commander of the guards, Duo Long, said goodbye, Chen Mo also needed to enter the palace to check one or two before leaving with an excuse, and as soon as he got out of the gate, one of Wu Yingxiong's guards came and handed a package to Chen Mo and said:
"Lord Chen, my family asked me to give a small gift, and I will go to the house to pay a visit when I have time."
Chen Mo took a look at the package and carried it in his hand, and everyone introduced the guard at the gambling table in front of him, this guard's name is Yang Yizhi, if Wei Xiaobao is there, he will have something to do with him, Chen Mo is now a member of the court from Sanpin, and he doesn't want to have anything to do with these people, he put away the gift and smiled:
"The prince has a heart, go back to tell the prince, and Chen will invite you to drink."
"Yes, I will definitely tell the prince in the future." Yang Yizhi clenched his fists and said.
Chen Mo turned over and rode his old yellow horse, and walked slowly along the street on tapping, the package in his hand had already been put into the martial arts gate, if it was not bad, the things in it should be a pair of jade chickens, a string of pearls and four hundred taels of golden tickets.
After entering the palace to inspect and talking with Duolong for a while, Chen Mo was ready to go home to rest, he was busy enough these days, if he continued to stay in the palace, he would probably have a nervous breakdown.
When he returned home, Chen Mo meditated and practiced, and only by practicing could he quickly recover his energy, he had now got all the treasure maps in the six books of forty-two chapters in the capital, as long as the two copies of Shunzhi and Wu Sangui were in hand, the first thing he did was to dig up the treasure in Liaodong, and then plot against Kangxi.
A few days later, as soon as Chen Mo went down with Kangxi, Kangxi let him follow him into the upper study, and after being silent for a while, Kangxi said in a low voice:
"There's one thing I need you to handle personally, but it's confidential, and you can't reveal it to anyone."
Chen Mo was secretly overjoyed, this matter had finally begun, and he opened his mouth and said in a deep voice:
"The emperor sent it, and the ministers will never give up."
Kangxi smiled slightly and said:
"You can't die, it is estimated that you will go home on errands, your mansion has been repaired, and you will have to marry Jianning at that time;
But I am deeply gratified to have your words, yesterday the Queen Mother summoned me and told me a huge secret, this secret is that my father is still alive, and some people rumor that he is a monk in Qingliang Temple on Wutai Mountain;
I want you to go and find out about this matter, if your father is still here, I will personally go to Wutai Mountain to welcome my father back to Beijing, this time you will travel as my Qin, by the way, take a thousand musket battalion soldiers and a thousand light cavalry, to Wutai Mountain to find my father, and then pass on my letter to him. β
Kangxi handed a holy decree and a wax-sealed secret letter to Chen Mo, Chen Mo unfolded the holy decree and took a look, this Tartar emperor Kangxi was also a little bold, and directly promoted Chen Mo from a third-rank military general to the commander of the forward battalion of the second grade, and concurrently served as the deputy head of the internal affairs office, and his other positions remained unchanged, the only thing was that the firearms battalion was directly transferred to the forward battalion.
Kangxi waited for Chen Mo to put away the holy decree and said:
"This holy decree is to let you go to Wutai Mountain for business, and all the prefectures along the way will be ordered to act, if someone stops you, you can cut you first and then play, and promote you to the second grade, Prince Kang and Lord Suo both agreed, I hope you will do a good job for me, and I will never treat loyal ministers badly."
Chen Mo secretly deflated his mouth, Zheng Erpin is indeed the eldest member of the big staff, and he can even go directly to the court to participate in politics, he is both a civil official of the Internal Affairs Office and a military attache of the forward battalion, which should be the temporary identity of this way, and after receiving the holy decree, Gonggong Xu sent Chen Mo a set of second-grade civil official uniforms and second-grade military official uniforms, and the arrangement for Kangxi to go out has been done.
Before leaving the palace, Prince Kang and Suo Etu, who had long known that Chen Mo would be promoted, came to congratulate him, even those Shangshu generals in the court also hurried over to pat themselves, Chen Mo was only a guard for less than a month, from a seventh-grade guard to a second-grade member, not to mention, and then he became a family member with Jianning, that is Lord Belle, the emperor's relatives and cronies, this can be regarded as a great thing.
After a polite exchange with a group of princes and ministers, Chen Mo went to the forward battalion and the firearms battalion to mobilize manpower, and when he was ready, he went to the overpass to find Old Man Xu.
Without Wei Xiaobao's Luding Ji world, there would be no battle between Mu Wangfu and the Heaven and Earth Society, and there would be no Mu Wangfu sending people into the palace to assassinate Kangxi, Chen Mo did not meet the little county lord Mu Jianping and her senior sister Fang Yi, everything seems to be changing, Chen Mo is also implementing it step by step according to his own plan, he doesn't care who those beauties will fall in, for the task of Wujiemen, to be able to return to the world he lives in safely, he always seems to be in such a hurry, but no one in this world can help him.
"Young helmsman, what's the matter?" Old man Xu said with a smile when he saw Chen Mo.
"Is my master still in the capital?" Chen Mo asked in a low voice.
"Here, what news is the young helmsman coming?" Old man Xu nodded and said.
Chen Mo said in a deep voice:
"Tell Master SΓΉ, I'm going out for a while, if there is any change in the capital during this time, send someone to contact me quickly, I am now the commander of the Zhengerpin Forward Battalion, or the deputy head of the Internal Affairs Office, and the deputy commander of the internal service and the deputy commander of the infantry battalion, it seems that there are many positions and real power, but in fact I don't have any cronies, and some news is not as much as known to the brothers in the meeting."