After all, Kangxi still couldn't escape the mercy of many officials.

In the fifty years of his reign, headed by the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, the Manchu Dynasty did not know how many officials almost unanimously demanded that Kangxi must celebrate greatly. In the past month, it was even difficult for Kangxi to find a copy of the state affairs in the recitals sent to the upper study every day. It's not that officials don't report it, the point is that there are too many requests to celebrate his accession to the throne. There are so many people, all of whom have passed the imperial examination, which one of them is not a set of essays? The reason is even higher. Although his cronies and important ministers knew his original intentions, they were not easy to "intervene" to stop this kind of thing, even if they were not afraid, they did not want to be impeached by those elated officials for "disloyalty"

Yes? Moreover, it is not a crime for hundreds of officials to ask for a big celebration, and Kangxi himself is not good at reprimanding him harshly, in that case, he doesn't know how to rely on people.

Therefore, Kangxi finally had to agree to congratulate him. Although he repeatedly asked that this matter should be handled simply, however, the Ministry of Rites, which presided over the matter, did not take his words seriously, the flowers that should be spent, and the flowers that should be made, and later, it is said that Shi Shilun, the head of the household department, was a little blue.

In order to show the grandeur and show that this time is different from the past, the congratulatory gift is not usually held in the Qianqing Palace, but in the Taihe Palace, one of the three major halls of the Forbidden City. Kangxi first had to accept the congratulations of the hundred officials here. In the early morning, officials from the capital and nearby places, no matter how big or small, knelt on the ground. Li Dequan, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, stood at the gate of the Taihe Palace, waiting for Kangxi with his ministers.

Suddenly, there was a sound of Jingyang bells, three silent whips, and the sound of thin drum music came from the heavenly street. After a while, everyone saw Kangxi walking out from behind the Baohe Hall in Luan Yu, which was carried by thirty-six people, and did not stop until the front of the Taihe Palace. The fifty-eight-year-old emperor had just gone to the Taimiao Temple to worship his ancestors, and he had gone to put a few pillars of incense on the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who had been dead for many years, and then rushed over.

"The emperor has arrived—" Li Dequan shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Suddenly!" The ministers, who had already knelt on the ground, lowered their bodies again, and the scene, which was already so quiet that you could hear the sound of pins, immediately became even more solemn and silent.

Kangxi took the public opinion. But he was not in a hurry to enter the hall, he stretched out in the early morning sun, took two deep breaths of slightly cool air, walked and paced, and first looked at the majestic Taihe Palace. Although the Taihe Hall ranks first among the halls of the Forbidden City, it is rarely used because of its important status. Therefore, it is not like the Qianqing Palace that is maintained and repaired from time to time. Therefore, for this congratulatory gift, the Ministry of Industry specially asked the Ministry of Household for a sum of silver and decorated it again. Now it's a whole new place. In the front hall of the palace, the spirit turtle, the incense ding, the copper crane, and the rui beast have early burning lily incense in the belly, and the mist is shrouded; Eight objects and camels are lined up next to the grade mountain, and the treasure bottle on the back is shining brightly. It can give people a feeling of "purple steaming".

Kangxi remained motionless, scanning the vast hall with his gaze, where his courtiers knelt. Because of Oga, many officials who were not good enough were also able to enter the Taihe Hall to feel the grace of the saint together.

Now there are several times more officials in the Taihe Hall than the officials who usually go up early. This is not counting the guards in front of the palace, Luan Yiwei and a large number of other figures.

"All the ministers are flat!"

It wasn't until he ascended the throne of the Taihe Hall that Kangxi spoke. Maybe it's because the architecture of the Taihe Hall is ingenious, or maybe it's because the scene is too quiet. So, his voice seemed very loud.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

As soon as Kangxi's voice fell, the civil and military officials and all the people present, whether inside the hall or outside the hall, shouted in unison. The momentum is huge!

After seeing the ceremony, the officials in the main hall immediately divided the civil and military departments on both sides. Even if the Taihe Hall is large enough, there are still some low-level officials who have to secretly move outside in order to move the empty space in the middle. However, the man did not complain. With their identity, being able to enter the Taihe Hall once in this life is already an ancestor who burns high incense. Didn't you see that there were still so many officials looking at the door of the Taihe Palace, but they could only stare dryly?

"Hmm!"

Kangxi nodded and looked at the many officials standing in the hall. On the left is the civil officer.

Headed by Ma Qi, Gao Shiqi, and Li Guangdi, on the right are military generals, led by Tong Guowei, Feiyanggu and a veteran Bahai. In front of the officials, there are also princes and princes, led by Yinren and Yinzhen, who were ordered to return to Beijing. For decades, almost all the famous and well-known people in the Xi Dynasty have come except for those who can't come. Of course, there are still some people who fail to show up for various reasons. For example, the Fuyuan general Sabu Su, who guarded the northwest, Yu Zhonghe, the nine or eleven princes who were far away in India, and the new Fengtian governor Ma Wu and Ferdinand, the secretary of the Li Fan Yuan, and so on.

"I rely on Taizu Taizong to be magnificent, and I have to be in charge of the ......"

Like all celebrations. Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, someone must give a speech at the beginning. Kangxi saw that all the ministers were standing in their positions, and like all ceremonies, he began to preach about what he had experienced since he succeeded to the throne, exaggerating his own merits, and mentioning the requirements for hundreds of officials, and it went smoothly. Next, it is the hundred officials to congratulate, each singing the seal of merit and virtue. A few well-written articles have long been selected by several important ministers, and they read their respective articles in public in the hall to win Kangxi's favor. After all these things are done, it will be time for the Tiren Pavilion to give a feast.

"I didn't seem to see Yu Chengchan and Chen Huang just now, they didn't come?"

According to etiquette, sometimes the emperor had to arrive early, and sometimes he had to let his courtiers wait. A feast is a time when the courtiers need to wait for the emperor. There are thirty-six strong men carrying the Luan Yu where Kangxi is sitting, although the speed can be very fast, but because there are regulations in advance, although they leave the Taihe Hall earlier than the ministers, it will be later when they arrive at the Tiren Pavilion. So, the speed seems a little slow.

"Your Majesty, the minions are not very clear. However, I heard that Yu Jackie Chan is not in good health, and Chen Huang has been presiding over the river management in the northwest for the past two years, and I heard that he is also very tired. ”

Tong Guowei and Zhang Tingyu are full of Han people, and they just manage the officials who came to congratulate them, and there are still a large number of clan princes to bring, and Kangxi has already met with a few sons who have gone out of the house before this, and they have chatted for a while, and they don't want to be too close to which son in front of the ministers, so. Only Marzi was left with him.

"Alas, pity the two of them. I haven't seen them once in all these years. Although there is no content in Ma Qi's words, Kangxi can imagine the suffering of Jackie Chan and Chen Huang. Yu Chengchan is now old, it's okay to say, but Chen Huang is still "". Managing rivers is not an easy task. Back then, Chen Huang was just Le Fu's staff, and in order to cure him, people in their thirties were tired like little old men in their fifties.

Now that he is personally presiding over the control of the river, he doesn't know what he will be tired of.

"Is Chen Huang still the Governor of the River?" After sighing for a while, Kangxi asked Ma Qi again.

"Back to the emperor, yes!" In the 36th year of Kangxi, Ma De, who was then the commander of Ningguta, defended Chen Huang, and Kangxi pardoned Chen Huang, Feng Zhiren and Peng Xueren, who were unjustly exiled for offending Suo Etu, and soon appointed Chen Huang as the governor of river affairs. Up to now, Chen Huang has been in this position for more than ten years.

"The Governor of the River is only a second-class official. Chen Huang has been working hard for so many years, and the court can't stand him! After today, you will go to the ministry to give an order. Promoted Chen Huang to a product. Reward the three-eyed dazzle. Another 100 acres of fertile land and 10,000 taels of silver. If he can go away, give him another three months of leave. Ordered him to have a good life and cultivate. Kangxi said.

"The minions understand. Please rest assured! "Everyone knows that it is not easy to control the river. As the minister of the upper study, Ma Qi knows the hardships involved. Moreover, Chen Huang has to send the account book of the river governor yamen to the household department for inspection every year, and the millions of taels of silver allocated by the imperial court every year can be said to have a provenance in the pen. Putting tens of millions of taels of silver in a huge amount of money has not been stretched out, which is extremely rare for any official. At least, Ma Qi felt that he might not have that "integrity". In addition, Chen Huang's more than ten years of river management has made the waterlogging along the Yellow River much less in recent years, and almost more than 2 million hectares of fertile land have been silted out before and after. Even if he was a duke, he wouldn't feel anything wrong.

"By the way, what about Mader? Why didn't I see him? When I think of Chen Huang, I naturally think of a few people related to him. Chen Huang was busy governing the river and rarely socializing, and in addition to the necessary officials, there were only a few people such as Yu Chengchan, Feng Zhiren, and Peng Xueren. And Ma De is the benefactor of Chen Huang and others, if it were not for Ma Dezai's kindness and righteousness, the three people who governed the river would probably be dead in Ningguta. So. This can be regarded as a credit to Ma Dedi.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid you just looked ahead. …… The minions had seen Mader, who had been shrinking back and hiding with a group of petty officers. Marzi laughed.

The dignified governor of Jiangnan actually ran to get together with some of the Daoist priests, and this kind of thing can only be done by Ma De. He was not afraid to make those petty officials sick.

"Hiding in the back? Hmph, did he do something bad and didn't dare to see me? ”

Kangxi also laughed.

"Ma De has done something bad or not, but the slave doesn't know. However, thinking that he also had a ghost in his heart, he didn't dare to come to the front, why didn't the emperor ask him for a while? Marzi laughed.

"Haha, that's true, I have a lot to ask him. Look what the hell he's up to! Kangxi smiled.

Don't talk about the monarch and the minister, the two chatted all the way. By the time Kangxi arrived, the half of the officials in the Tiren Pavilion had already sat neatly. From south to north, there are two rows of seats, a total of fifty high tables, in front of each table, a few few, more than a dozen officials. There are 12 "color" dishes on the table, all served on porcelain plates produced in the official kiln of Jingdezhen, and in the middle of the four large bowls are placed apples, grapefruits, lychees and raisins and other seasonal fruits. However, in contrast to the delicious "color" and aroma of the food, it is the "color" of the officials' faces that are somewhat red. Moreover, some officials are still panting. …… Kangxi had thirty-six royal palanquin bearers to carry it, but the ministers who could get the reward banquet did not have this preferential treatment. They came out of the Taihe Hall later than Kangxi, but they had to wait in Tiren Pavilion earlier than the emperor, and the Forbidden City was indeed a little bigger. Therefore, from the Taihe Hall to the Tiren Pavilion, these usually pampered officials almost all ran over at a trot. The generals are okay, but the civilian officials, who account for the majority, have indeed suffered a lot of crimes......

"The emperor has an order, there is no need to be formal, and the banquet will be held immediately!"

After Kangxi arrived, all the officials "brushed" together to get up to greet them, and when they heard Li Dequan's message, they all bowed their hands to thank God, and then sat down and picked up chopsticks to eat in fear. Some low-ranking officials are no different from ordinary people, secretly picking up what they can bring and stuffing them into their clothes and bags, so that they can take them out to share with relatives and friends. Just ate and drank, and when the last meal came up, Kangxi took a few sons and began to walk into the banquet and met with the courtiers one by one. But after seeing the old ministers, such as Gao Shiqi, Li Guangdi, and Feiyanggu, because they already had a plan in their hearts, Kangxi walked towards Ma De, who was staying on the table of more than 20 on the left.

……

"Boy, you're okay. Lao Tzu promoted you, but you didn't come, but you went to the capital by yourself. Do you look down on Lao Tzu, or do you have itchy skin and want your brother to serve you? ”

Ma De didn't expect Kangxi to take a look at himself early in the morning, and he was sitting in the seat with his back to Kangxi, so when the emperor walked near him with the first four princes, Yinren, Yinzhi, and Yinzhen, he was still powering the people around him without knowing anything. And most of the officials in the same seat as him were some five- or six-grade outsiders, principals and the like, and just now I suddenly saw him running over with a first-rank official wearing a ruby top, and at first I thought that he had good luck and could get close. But after hearing that he was Ma De, he immediately trembled one by one. Seeing him training people, those who had heard of his murderous reputation didn't even dare to glance at him, for fear that he would be unhappy to find a troublemaker. …… Most of the people on this table are petty officers of the military department, even if these people are not afraid of Ma De, they have to worry about Yu Zhong turning back to find trouble. Because, some people in the DPRK and China have already suggested that Yu Zhong be recalled and reappointed as the secretary of the military department.