Chapter 31 The Prime Minister of the Five Grades
"Looking for Bao'er? How can she help me? Didn't asking her for help make her commit the taboo that women in the Qing court could not interfere in politics? Mo Yan asked puzzled, Bao'er is not a nickname, it is the nickname she and Luo Xin gave to Baori Longmei, because Baori Longmei already has a nickname, called Ah Xiu! However, she and Luo Xin still like to call this third sister Bao'er!
"You're wrong! Baori Longmei's identity is special, she is from Khan Gege, although the Tushetu Department has been wiped out by Geldan, but, with her identity, her influence in Western Mongolia is definitely not small, otherwise, how could Geldan risk offending so many Mongolian Khans and send troops to hunt her down to the Central Plains? Therefore, as long as you can see Baori Longmei and follow her, Kangxi will not easily move you, and he should also take care of Baori Longmei's feelings, because Baori Longmei is also an important bargaining chip for him to defeat Geldan in the future and quickly calm the hearts of the Western Mongolians! Even now, Baori Longmei is also a symbol he erected for the Mongols, a symbol that he will definitely go west to conquer Geldan! "Old man Fei said so many words, his mouth was dry, and picking up the teapot was a fierce pour!
“…… Fei Lao, you are right! …… It's just, in doing so, will Bao'er be in danger of her? Although I became a sister with her just to cope with the situation, but her family is already ruined, how can I be embarrassed to use her again? And it is also possible that she will arouse Kangxi's disgust! Mo Jing said.
"There's no way around it! …… Girl, now except for Baori Longmei, there is no one who can make Kangxi take away the knife that killed you! Unless you know the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang or Aunt Suma! Otherwise, even the crown prince won't be able to help you in the slightest! Old Man Fei's eyes were also full of helplessness!
"But if I leave, how can I make a confession with Fei Yaoduoluo?"
"Fei Duoluo still has time to wait, you go to the capital first, and it's not too late to talk about this!"
"Okay then, I'll take a break and leave tomorrow!"
"No, you have to leave right away! …… Although I don't want to say, but providence is unpredictable, who knows what will happen if you wait here for one more day? Maybe you have just arrived with the front foot, and the holy decree of Kangxi on the back foot to execute you has arrived, otherwise, how could I send Agudamu and them to watch at the four city gates? Just in case of this! Therefore, you must hide your identity on the road, even if you arrive in the capital, you must inquire about the situation before deciding whether to take action! …… Remember, if things don't go well, you can go as far as you want! ”
"Fei Lao, don't talk about it so seriously, okay,...... I'm flustered! Mo Jing's eyes showed a trace of timidity, this cowardice, even when the five of them were traveling in the snow field and the future was bleak, it had never appeared in her eyes!
"Girl, let's five of us come here together, I think the four of you are like a family...... I don't want this to be as serious as I thought! However, there is no harm in thinking badly about everything, you remember: just live! Everything will have a chance! ”
"What will you do if I'm gone?"
"We can't go, let's go together for bad things! But don't worry, I've sent someone to Yaksa and Ningguta, so that those two boys can dissociate themselves from you when necessary, so that even if something happens, we shouldn't be killed! ……”
“…… We came together, how is it possible to leave the relationship behind now? Fei Lao, you also have to prepare to go! Mo Jing said.
"We all know that, but it's you who are most anxious right now! …… What are you doing here? Let's go! "Old man Fei is starting to bombard!
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Beijing!
Zhang Tingyu, who had just returned from Fengtian, didn't have time to see Kangxi and report to the emperor the results of his questioning, and learned that Kangxi had gone to Tongzhou to pick up people, so he sold his leave to the officials and went home to wait for Kangxi to come back!
Who can make Kangxi greet him?
Of course, it is a person with great status!
The only Han princess of the Qing Dynasty: Princess Kong Sizhen of Heshuo!
Speaking of this Kong Sizhen, the origin is really not small! In other words, she was once the de facto king of Guangxi, and in terms of status, she was not under the three feudatories at that time!
In the early years of the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, there were four Han princes, in addition to the well-known Wu, Shang, Geng, there is also a fief Guangxi, the capital of Guilin, called the king of Dingnan, the name of Kong Youde.
Of course, as a Han and a general of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Youde defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and betrayed the country to seek glory, which was despised by the Han family, so he finally died in the counterattack of the Han rebels.
However, Kong Youde is a fierce general after all, and he is still a little angry when he dies! In May of the ninth year of Shunzhi, the remnants of the rebel army Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of its leader Li Dingguo, turned to attack Guangxi, invincible all the way, victorious, surrounded Kong Youde in the city of Guilin, Kong Youde had no reinforcements in front of him, there was no way to retreat, seeing that the enemy army was about to enter the city, he had to grit his teeth and endure the pain to kill all the concubines with his own hands, and then gather the rare treasures looted in Guangxi, and his wife Bai Shi lit a fire*. After Li Dingguo's troops entered the city, they executed the entire Kong family, but Kong Sizhen was rescued by his father's subordinates.
The death of Kong Youde and his wife deeply touched Xiaozhuang, who was still the queen mother at the time, and she adopted Xiao Sizhen, who was not yet an adult at the time, and thought that she was a righteous daughter! Since then, Kong Sizhen has lived in the Forbidden City, and has a very good relationship with Shunzhi! (Shunzhi ascended the throne at the age of six, when he was only fifteen!) I almost became a princess!
It's a pity that Kong Sizhen has already been married, and her fiancé is the son of one of Kong Youde's generals, Sun Yanling! Originally, Kong Sizhen was not willing to marry this Sun Yanling, but Sun Yanling was a lawless person, Shunzhi thought that he was Kong Sizhen's fiancé, and asked him to go to Guangxi to be a general, but he was on the way to Guangxi, spreading rumors that Kong Sizhen was forcibly occupied by the emperor along the way, and when he arrived in Guangxi, after seeing the old Kong soldiers in the Dingnan Palace, he had an arrogant idea, he actually claimed that Emperor Shunzhi had insulted Kong Sizhen, so that Kong Sizhen tried to commit suicide many times, and wanted to use this to recruit Kong's old department and support the army for self-respect, inheriting the powerful position of the "old man".
In order to stop the situation from deteriorating further, and the soldiers who were loyal to the Kong family did not want to fall into Sun Yanling's lying trap, Kong Sizhen persuaded Xiaozhuang and Shunzhi to rush to Guangxi to dispel this rumor!
However, when Kong Sizhen arrived in Guilin, she found that Sun Yanling was not just messing around because of jealousy, he was planning to establish himself as a king and rebel, Kong Sizhen originally wanted to set up a bureau to kill this rampant and arrogant guy, but Sun Yanling actually got out of the bureau she set up. In this situation, Kong Sizhen only had one last way left - she hurriedly married Sun Yanling, wanting to control Sun Yanling in the form of marriage.
After Xiaozhuang and Shunzhi got the news, they had nothing to do, so they had to seal Kong Sizhen as Princess Heshuo, whose taste was equivalent to that of the county king, and sent someone to Guilin to officiate the wedding for her.
And Sun Yanling, who thought that he could control the military and political power of Guangxi from now on, and had both wealth and wealth, never thought that he would underestimate Kong Sizhen, a gentle little woman, after the wedding, Kong Sizhen, who was officially titled, quickly reorganized the rest of Kong Youde's army, and firmly controlled all the military and political power in his own hands. Sun Yanling not only can't touch a little power, but even as a husband, she can't even touch Kong Sizhen's hair, and she is a real empty of people and money. became an empty horse, a bare-rod general.
In this way, it was twelve years, and in twelve years, Shunzhi died, and Kangxi succeeded to the throne! Wu Sangui rebelled!
Due to Kong Sizhen's relationship, Kangxi named Sun Yanling as the general of Fuman, and asked him to suppress Wu nearby first. However, because Sun Yanling had already rebelled, he killed the canonization officials sent by the emperor and proclaimed himself "King Anyuan", which wanted to echo Wu Sangui. However, although twelve years have passed, the incompetent Sun Yanling has not really been able to build his own team and cronies in Guangxi. He was simply unable to mobilize the troops and horses in Guangxi, and no one in Kong Youde's old troops obeyed his command at all. Those who followed him around were just a few thousand outlaws in the market. Upon learning of Sun Yanling's counterplot, Kong Sizhen immediately sent troops and horses to fight against him, but Sun Yanling was powerless to fight against him and had to surrender. After Wu Sangui got the news, he was extremely angry with Sun Yanling's incompetence and Kong Sizhen's toughness, and turned around and attacked Guilin, the provincial capital of Guangxi. As a result, Sun Yanling, who had always regarded himself very highly, was quickly defeated and killed by Wu Sangui's army, and Kong Sizhen, who he regarded as an "ignorant woman", successfully kept Guilin City and messed up Wu Sangui's rear formation. (This story is found from the Internet, what the net forgot!) )
Later, Kangxi pacified the three feudatories, and at the behest of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, he invited Kong Sizhen to live in the capital, so to speak, Kong Sizhen in front of Kangxi and Xiaozhuang, the face is bigger than the prince and the prince, that is, Kangxi's queen did not die early, I am afraid she may not be able to have face!
And this time, Kong Sizhen went to Wutai Mountain to incense on behalf of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and when she came back, Kangxi went to greet her in person in order to show her solemnity, and it was also within the etiquette!
So, of course, Zhang Tingyu won't have any opinion on this! It's just that he can't figure out why he just went to Fengtian for a while, and when he came back, he changed from "walking in the south study" to "walking in the study"! When he went to the ministry to cancel his vacation, Sun Chengze, the left attendant of the ministry who received him, called him "Zhang Xiang" one by one, and almost didn't scare his very young little liver out of the disease!
He's only in his twenties!
Originally, although he thought he was quite promising, he expected to get an official position such as Shangshu in more than ten or twenty years, which was already very fast, but now it is good, within a month, he ran a long way, and all of a sudden, he jumped from a six-grade petty official to the dragon gate! This is also a little too fast, although the study is only five grades, but, this is the Son of Heaven's close ministers, Gao Shiqi was promoted to the study with a white body, and he became a first-class member within three or five years, and the speed of promotion is absolutely unprecedented, is this kind of good luck also on his head? He's not as talented as Gao Shiqi!
However, even if he was surprised, Zhang Tingyu didn't show anything, he was still writing and walking unhurriedly, dealing with his own affairs unhurriedly, he knew that all this, when Kangxi came back, he would know the answer! All he has to do is do his part!