"Alas......"

In the upper study, Kangxi let out a long sigh.

After the start of the scientific examination, three days have passed, and the examination will end early tomorrow morning.

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks that this matter can be regarded as not happening, and it will be a ...... if you don't know about it" At this time, only Tong Guowei was waiting in the upper study, Gao Shiqi and Ma Qi could only come after the invigilation, and Zhang Tingyu was not on duty.

"When don't you know? If it's so simple, it would be easy to do......" Kangxi smiled bitterly and threw a piece of the piece in his hand onto the dragon case.

"Your Majesty, then send someone to give some land and silver money and send people out of Beijing to settle down?" Tong Guowei asked again.

"What's the use of that? An old man, a child, what kind of family business can keep? What's more, they are now with Ferdinand and the others, how can they be sent out of the capital? Kangxi was still shaking his head.

"Alas, this Mo Jing really has nothing to do, what does Hong Chengchou's granddaughter have to do with her? Isn't she afraid of being scolded by people? Tong Guowei also shook his head. At this time, the things that the two were talking about were already clear, but they were worried about how to deal with Hong Fengyi's affairs. Mo Jing took Hong Fengyi and the old man named Hong Zhi back to his residence, although no one else said anything, but Yu Heng couldn't help but say it. Originally, if Hong Fengyi and Hong Zhi were gone, he didn't bother to mention it, anyway, the Hong family is not as good as it used to be, who would care? However, Mo Jing brought people back, then, as the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, it was necessary for him to tell Kangxi about this matter.

However, Yu Heng is not a fool, although Hong Chengchou has long been hiccuped, but the name is still ear-filling, and it can lead to a mess wherever it is placed. Therefore, he did not poke this matter out directly, but went through the normal channel and wrote a note and handed it in. As a result, it was not sent to Kangxi until today. In order to settle Hong Fengyi, Kangxi and Tong Guowei have been discussing for a while. …… Blow people away? That doesn't make sense. Although Kangxi asked Hong Chengchou to write "The Biography of Erchen", but Hong Chengchou's contributions to the Qing court are all obvious, and he no longer looks down on Hong Chengchou, and he can't do this to the descendants of the Hong family; Ignore it? It doesn't work either. The reason is the same as before, the descendants of the "great heroes" of the founding of the country, especially the decline of the family, and his royal reasons, so no matter how much you look at it, you can't ignore it. As for taking good care of it, it's even more inadequate. When the emperor took care of the children and grandchildren of traitors, didn't he encourage his countrymen to become traitors? It's not going to be a good word anywhere.

"Actually, Mo Jing's handling is also appropriate. Although Hong Chengchou is a second minister, after all, he has a world-beating contribution to my Qing Dynasty, and now that his family has been defeated, I know it, if I don't express it, I can't say it. Mo Jing brought people back to him first, saving the two members of the Hong family from living on the streets, which can be regarded as doing their best for me first. …… That's it, give some things to Mo Jing and Luo Xin, and let them help take care of the child...... "I really can't think of any good solution, Kangxi had to "foster" Hong Fengyi to Mo Jing first.

"The slave knows." Tong Guowei also knows that this is a tricky matter. You can't ignore it, you can't care too much, and the degree in the middle is the most difficult to grasp. Kangxi's decision is indeed a better way to deal with it at present, since a better way has not yet been come up, then this "better" is the "best". However, after thinking about it, he thought of another question, so he asked Kangxi: "Your Majesty, do you want to tell Mo Jing and Luo Xin, don't let the Empress Dowager know about this......

"What's the matter with this imperial grandmother?" Kangxi Qi said.

"Your Majesty," Tong Guowei smiled bitterly and explained: "Your Majesty, this matter is more complicated, but the servant can say for sure that if the Empress Dowager knows about this matter, her old man will definitely intervene." ”

"No, it won't, right? ......" Tong Guo gave this time it can be regarded as a game of "not surprising and endless", which frightened Kangxi for a moment.

"Your Majesty, Hong Chengchou supported your father, the Emperor, that is, the Grandfather. It was precisely because of Hong Chengchou's advice and deterrence in the south that Dolgon endured it until he fell ill and died, and finally failed to usurp the throne. ......," Tong Guowei said.

"How is this possible? If this is the case, how can there be so much sarcasm in the imperial examination (referring to Shunzhi, the emperor called his dead father the imperial examination) in his sacrifice to Hong Chengchou? Isn't that ...... "ungrateful?" …… The last four words related to human ethics and filial piety, so Kangxi didn't say it.

"Your Majesty, you also know that when the first emperor was in power, he and the empress dowager were not very harmonious...... Tong Guowei said.

"I know, alas, ......" Kangxi sighed. Shunzhi is stubborn, Xiaozhuang has been trying to let his family control the harem at that time, starting from family affairs to state affairs, the contradiction between mother and son is not a star. Kangxi also found it difficult to distinguish which of these two closest relatives was right and which was wrong. Let's say that Shunzhi is wrong, the policies used by Kangxi now are quite similar to those implemented by the Shunzhi Dynasty; Say that Xiaozhuang is wrong, Zheng Chenggong led an army of 160,000 to the north to invade Nanjing, all the way like a bamboo, Shunzhi thought that the Han people counterattacked, so scared that he almost took people to flee back to Manchuria, but after Xiaozhuang heard about it, he scolded him for being weak and incompetent, and directly crossed Shunzhi to discuss with the ministers, and sent people to delay the pace of Zheng Chenggong's northern expedition, as a result, the Qing court finally sent a large army near Nanjing to beat Zheng Chenggong to the ground, killing half of Zheng Chenggong's army, so that Zheng Chenggong had no strength to go north from then on, and finally defeated Taiwan. (At that time, Zheng Chenggong was really expected to recover half of the country, but his view of the war situation was too poor, and he was too proud and complacent.) ）

"Hong Chengchou strives to protect the throne of the first emperor and has always been valued by the empress dowager. After his death, the empress dowager asked the first emperor to praise more, but the first emperor did not like it, so she mixed some sarcasm into the sacrificial text...... The slave also went to the palace to visit the emperor's biological mother, that is, the slave's sister Empress Xiaokangzhang, and chatted casually. Tong Guowei said.

"I see! …… You mean to say that if the Empress Dowager knew about this, she might treat the Hong family differently because she felt that she owed Hong Chengchou a favor, right? Kangxi finally understood the reason for the incident and asked Tong Guowei.

"Indeed!" Tong Guowei replied.

"......" Kangxi fell into thought.

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"Hailiu, how have you been in Shuntian Mansion these two days?" Yu Zhong sat on the chair, nibbling on the watermelon that had just been cooled by the well water, looking at Hailiu, who was kneeling in the sunlight outside the house and sweating from the waterfall, and asked casually.

Yu ...... Lord Yu, just let the little one go, the little one will no longer dare to make trouble in the name of Lord Ma. Hailiu has been in the sun for more than half an hour, and his whole body has already been hot, his throat is about to smoke, and the place on his body that has been hit by someone sent by Shuntianfu is even more itchy and painful. Seeing Yu Zhong eating watermelon, he felt even more thirsty in his mouth. Therefore, after hearing Yu Zhong's question, he hurriedly kowtowed and said. I just hope that I can get out of this place quickly and not suffer anymore.

"What? Don't call Uncle Ma anymore? ......" Yu Zhong's mouth was full of bright red watermelon pulps, and after hearing Hai Liu's words, he grinned and asked.

"Don't dare, the little one won't dare anymore......" Although Hai Liu once said that the third chief of the outer courtyard of Prince Kang's Mansion was his slave, but, after Yu Zhong's questioning of several of his followers, he already knew that for such a master, the third chief manager didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, as long as he didn't come to the door, he could avoid it. Otherwise, if this third chief manager comes forward, it will be difficult for Yu Zhong to clean up this Hailiu because of Prince Kang's face.

"Don't dare? What's not to dare? …… I thought you kid was talking nonsense, but I recently went to the Internal Affairs Office to check, and you are really Niu Colu's family, maybe you really have something to do with Ma De......" Yu Zhong said.

"Master Yu, you think so too?" Hai Liu's sudden spirit, "Actually, there is such a predecessor of our ancestors who disappeared when Emperor Taizu was missing, so I thought that Master Ma might be the descendant of that ancestor, so I recognized the ...... of Zong."

"Is there such a thing? Hehe, hearing you say this, Ma De may really be able to "recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors"...... But how can you be sure that Mader is your cousin and not your cousin? Yu Zhongxiao asked.

"This, this...... Master Ma has a prominent official position, and he is a close minister of the emperor, how dare the little one recognize him as a junior? Hailiu grinned with a dry mouth.

"Trusted ministers? Damn, that's a good name. Yu Zhong thought secretly. Kangxi cronies them? Others may believe it, but they themselves will never believe it anyway, Kangxi is afraid that he will only believe himself.

"Lord Yu, you should always raise your noble hand and let go of this little one. The little promise will never dare to use the name of Master Ma to mix up in the future...... If I regret it, I'll ...... I didn't have a son. Seeing that Yu Zhong didn't answer, Hailiu, who didn't know what the other party was thinking, cautiously begged for mercy.

"Hey, it doesn't have to be! There's no way you're going to come out and mess around again. Yu Zhong smiled at Hailiu maliciously and said.

"Adult, the little one doesn't dare anymore, you spare your life......" Thinking that Yu Zhong was going to do something to himself, Hai Liu suddenly knocked his head.

"What are you anxious about? It's not a bad thing. ......" Yu Zhong waved his hand and feigned displeasure: "Do you know?" Ever since I knew that your kid was a member of the Niu Co Lu clan, but he was so inappropriate, your aunt, oh, it was your Uncle Ma's wife, Luo Xin, the lord of Doro, who had already found the Internal Affairs Office and raised the flag for you. ”

"What? Yu adults...... No, no, Uncle Yu, what do you say? I, I raised the flag? "Raising the flag, a measure taken by the Qing court to motivate the enthusiasm of the flag people, such as lifting the Han army flag into the Manchurian flag, from the lower five flags to the upper three flags, and so on. However, the requirements for carrying the flag are very high, Tong Guoweizu was originally the Han military flag, and later because of his great military merits, he was carried from the original Han military flag to the Manchurian flag. However, later on, the rules for raising flags were not so strict. As long as there is someone who is qualified and powerful to say it, it is basically fine. However, even so, there are still very few of the eight flags that can be carried up.

"yes, you're a kid with good luck...... Carried into the Yellow Flag! Yu Zhong said with a smile.

"Positive...... Positive yellow flag? Hailiu almost fainted with happiness at this moment. Although the Niu Colu clan was a Manchurian nobleman, even one of the four auxiliary ministers in the early years of Kangxi, Ji Bilong, was one of them. In the sixteenth year of Kangxi, the daughter of Curb Bilong was also canonized as the queen, although it was only half a year before she was killed, but the Niu Colu clan can be regarded as one of the descendants of the Qing Dynasty. However, in such a big clan, it is impossible for everyone to be touched by the light of the clan. He Hailiu is one of them, because there is no one in the family, and he is not diligent with the people in the clan, he can only be reduced to the mixed market in the end. In the Eight Banners, the three flags of yellow, inlaid yellow and white are the upper three flags, which are the real noble flags. The children of the banner people born in these three banners, the boy can choose the guard and the pen sticker, and if he has a little talent, the promotion is like flying, even if he has no ability, he will pat the horse and beat the dots, and the speed of promotion will not be too slow; As for the girls, they can be drafted, and the probability of winning is much higher than that of the next five flags. …… And the Zhenghuang Flag, one of the three flags, is the flag of the emperor's origin, the first of the eight flags, and it is not comparable to other flags. Thinking that he was actually carried into the Zhenghuang Flag, Hai Liu almost bit his tongue out with joy.

"Sure enough, it's still a surname, after all, it's still for the sake of your own people......" Hailiu was excited, and at the same time grateful to Ma De and the "aunt" who had only met once, he suddenly felt that Ma De was nine out of ten likely to be his cousin.

"Your aunt is the Hesheri clan of the Yellow Banner, so for the sake of convenience, I put you under my own banner. In other words, from today onwards, you will be your aunt's slave, you know? Yu Zhong said with a grin.

"Bang!" Sharp turn, brain explosion! Hailiu looked at Yu Zhong in a panic! …… Of course, he knew who the "aunt" in Yu Zhong's mouth was, but he didn't care about this, he remembered a guy who knocked out a "show tooth" with a rolling pin, and I heard that those people were all under Luo Xin, the lord of Doro, that is, his "aunt's" subordinates.

"It's over, I was going to clean up after me......" Hai Liuyi sat down on the ground.