Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

"Oh," Emperor Kangxi asked again, "So you also think that the empty city plan written in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is incomplete, only half of it is written, and Zhuge Liang's last move is not written?"

What strange things happened?The more Xiong Cilu listened, the more confused he became, but he had no choice but to follow Emperor Kangxi's train of thought and replied: "Your Majesty is wise, it must be so!"

Emperor Kangxi said again: "Then tell me...will Zhuge Liang pass on the full set of empty city plans to future generations?"

"Should be... Zhuge has so many unique skills, and he should pass some on to future generations." Xiong Cilu replied, thinking in his heart: "What kind of military affairs are you talking about today? It's hard to be a descendant of Zhuge in Lanxi, Zhejiang. Rebellion? Zhuge Liang's descendants are so kind?"

Emperor Kangxi finally got the answer he wanted at this time, nodded and said: "Xiong Cilu, it seems that you still understand "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" very well! How about it, and you will also come and listen to it when the cabinet scholars discuss politics with me. , give me an idea."

"Chen Xiong Cilu thanked Lord Long En!" Although Xiong Cilu didn't understand what happened, he knew one thing very well, he was about to be promoted again!Maybe he will be officially admitted to the cabinet soon and become a bachelor!

He is only 37 years old this year... This official luck is really prosperous!

"Pingshen!" Emperor Kangxi saw his teacher finished kowtowing and thanking him, and then stood up neatly, so he pointed to a table of inscriptions and memorials and said to Xiong Cilu, "This is what the civil and military officials in Chaozhou said. The inscriptions and memorials on the Internet. Reported an extraordinary case of rebellion by the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhuge! A descendant of Zhuge Liang was also involved, acting as a military adviser, and using the ancestral empty city strategy and Zhuge Shenlei to kill and wound more than 100 people. Banner soldiers from the Shungong Mansion! Read these inscriptions and memorials first... let’s talk about it later!”

Chapter 023 The slave luck is prosperous, the imperial envoy

"Your Majesty, Vice Commander Deng's memorial said that he sent a deputy who had fought against the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhuge to Beijing with that Zhuge Shenlei. Could you let me see him?"

Xiong Cilu had already read a lot of inscriptions and memorials, and he also read them in a cloud, so he didn't directly draw a conclusion, but proposed to see Deng Zhong, Deng Guangming's nephew.

Emperor Kangxi nodded and said with a smile, "It's time to see this servant...Xuan!"

It turned out that Deng Zhong had already arrived in the Forbidden City at this time, and he was holding a chamber pot with excitement, waiting to kowtow to his young master Kangxi!

He had been waiting for this day for more than 20 years, from a young slave who had achieved success at a young age and then had a bad luck with his master, to an uncle who is now a slave in his early forties, and he finally waited for him.Hearing that the eunuch came to announce his audience, he couldn't hold back his tears any longer, and went into the South Study Room of Qianqing Palace crying...the Emperor Kangxi and a group of ministers looked stupid.

Whose stupid slave is this?Why did you come in while holding a chamber pot and crying?

When the big guy was in a daze, Deng Zhong had already knelt down respectfully, put the chamber pot away carefully, and then kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi, "Deng Zhong, the son of the banner army of Xushun Gongfu, respectfully greets the emperor. "

"I'm safe, let's get up." Kangxi watched the tearful uncle get up, and asked again, "Your accent sounds like someone from outside the customs?"

"Your majesty is holy, the servant's hometown is Lushunkou, and he is a member of the Zhengbai Banner Han army."

"Oh, you are still the old Han army who is Zhengbaiqi?" Kangxi asked, "Have you ever entered the pass from the dragon?"

"Returning to the emperor, the servant did enter the pass from the dragon, and even joined the army to participate in the battle of Shanhaiguan. But at that time, the servant was still young and did not carry the flag. He was just a flag slave."

"That's also a hero! How did you become a substitute son of Duke Xushun's mansion?" Kangxi looked at this uncle, and felt that he was tall and mighty, with a battle-hardened look, how did he become a substitute son?Is it because I love to cry too much?

"Slave..." Asked by Emperor Kangxi, Deng Zhongna wept so sadly, "Slave has a hard life, they all say that this slave is from Dorgon!"

"Dorgon's people?" Kangxi felt wrong when he heard this, "How old are you? When Dorgon died, you probably weren't even 20 years old, right? Can you be considered Dorgon's confidant?"

Deng Zhong didn't dare to answer this question, because if he didn't answer well, he would be deceiving the emperor, so he could only cry.

Kangxi was confused when he saw him crying, what's wrong with this man?Why do you cry when you ask me?

"Don't cry, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty," Tu Hai, a scholar of the Palace of Preserving Harmony, came out of the class to play with a smile at this time, "I remember this Deng Zhong. I knew him when I was a bachelor of the Academy of Internal Secretaries in the early years."

"You knew him back then? Is he Dorgon's confidant?"

"Emperor Shengming, he is indeed Dorgon's confidant," Tu Hai said with a smile, "He was a child when he was sent to Dorgon's side, and he was responsible for cleaning Dorgon's toilet. He did participate in the Shanhaiguan War I’m still in charge of cleaning the toilet. Because the toilet was very clean, Dorgon raised the flag when he was happy. After the dynasty was established in Beijing, he also served as a guard of the Regent’s Palace and was in charge of guarding the gate. The servant still remembers that he had His nickname is Toilet Zhong, and even the Empress Dowager knows him."

Cleaned the toilet for Dorgon, looked at the gate, and even knew the Empress Dowager, that is indeed a confidant.Kangxi Xiaosheng said in his heart: "You have been suppressed for more than 20 years, and you are not wronged. If Dorgon succeeds in seeking to usurp the throne, you will either seal the border or be a member of the cabinet now! Maybe you will be in the South Study Room today with Dorbo (Multiple) Dorgon’s adopted son, Duoduo’s own son) that foolish person discussed together how to bring disaster to the country and the people!”

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi said: "Slaves have the luck of the slaves, and the luck of the slaves is linked to the luck of the master. Only when the master is good can the slave be good. When the master is gone, the slave will naturally not end well... Deng Zhong!"

"The slave is here!" Deng Zhong didn't dare to cry at this moment... because Tu Hai mentioned Dorgon!

If he cries again, others should say that he misses his old master.Of course, he really misses Dorgon... For him, it's really not as good as Dorgon's kiss!

Emperor Kangxi asked: "Why did you bring a chamber pot to the South Study Room?"

"Report to the emperor," Deng Zhong said, "this is not an ordinary chamber pot, but a dumb Zhuge Shenlei, which was picked up by the slaves on the battlefield..."

Just as Deng Zhong said this, Xiong Cilu jumped up, "What? This is Zhuge Shenlei? Protect the emperor!"

As he spoke, Xiong Dahanlin rushed to Emperor Kangxi's imperial case, opened his arms, and protected Kangxi with his body.

Seeing his reaction, Tu Hai, Jin Batai, Suo'etu, Li Yu, Duo Kana, and Feng Pu, the six great scholars, also reacted, and they all threw themselves in front of Kangxi to act as human shields.

Kangxi was expressionless and stood still, but he was still very satisfied in his heart-this Xiong Cilu is a loyal minister!

Deng Zhong also opened his mouth to explain at this time, "Your Majesty, the slave has already taken out the gunpowder filled in the divine thunder, and only brought the shell of the divine thunder and the talisman to meet..."

While talking, he also turned the chamber pot over, shaking his mouth downwards, but nothing came down, and it was indeed empty.

In fact, if you don't take out the gunpowder inside, the guards outside will not let Deng Zhong see you.What if Deng Zhonglai, a slave who died as a confidant, lit gunpowder and died with Emperor Kangxi?

Kangxi nodded, thinking: "This Deng Zhong is considered careful, no wonder he can be Dorgon's confidant."

"The ones that can't be blown up, let them go!" Kangxi said, "It's just a chamber pot... Deng Zhong, take this chamber pot and that talisman!"

"Whoo!"

Holding the chamber pot in both hands, Deng Zhong walked all the way to Kangxi's imperial case. An eunuch who followed Kangxi took the chamber pot and put it on the imperial case.

"Deng Zhong, get up," Kangxi said with a smile, "Although you have cleaned the toilet for Dorgon, but now you have held the night pot for me, it's even!"

This is the grace given by Kangxi, and no one will use the historical stain of "flushing Dorgon's toilet" to suppress Deng Zhong again!

This means that Deng Zhong will be promoted soon - he was Huang Taiji who threw the flag as a slave when he was the emperor, and participated in a stone war. He raised the flag when he entered Beijing, and later returned it to Dorgon As a bodyguard, he also participated in the siege of Datong Jiang Yu, and made great achievements in battle.

After Dorgon's death, he was sent to the Banner Army of Xushun Gongfu as a vest, and after that, he must fight for the first place in every battle... If there is no stain of "flushing the toilet", he can be a green battalion general (banner people can be green battalion officers) ), Guerrilla is not an easy thing?

You must know that after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, due to frequent wars, internal strife and smallpox, the population of Manchurians has always been very thin.The total number of Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers today is less than 1000. Among them, those who can compare with Deng Zhong's qualifications may not even be able to gather [-] people!

"Thank you Lord Long En!" Deng Zhong knelt down and kowtowed to Kangxi again.

Being an official or a servant in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this kowtowing kung fu must be in place!It is estimated that those ministers and servants practice at home when they are free, practice makes perfect!

"Get up, get up," Kangxi waved to Deng Zhong, "Come here, come and talk!"

Deng Zhong hurriedly got up, went to Kangxi, took out another talisman and placed it beside the chamber pot.

Kangxi looked at the talisman and asked, "What kind of talisman is this?"

"Reporting to the emperor, this is the talisman that I inserted on a cork with a hole in the spout of the chamber pot when I picked up the thunder of the chamber pot." Deng Zhong said, "The slave thinks that this talisman is likely to be used to light the thunder, so it is Pull out the talisman."

"It's quite clever..." Kangxi picked up the talisman and looked at it carefully, but found no "spiritual power", and then glanced at Xiong Cilu.

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cilu said, "you can ask the real person from Baiyun Temple to take a look. If you don't understand, you can call the real person Zhang from Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi to see it."

"That's it..." Kangxi said again, "Deng Zhong, you didn't throw away the gunpowder, did you?"

"No, I didn't throw it away, it's all kept in Duke Xushun's mansion."

There is also the mansion of Duke Xushun in Beijing, and Deng Zhong lived there after he arrived in Beijing.

"That's good," Kangxi told Suo'etu, "Suo'etu, go back to Duke Xushun's mansion, take the gunpowder and show it to Nan Huairen of Qin Tianjian."

"Hey!" Suo'etu quickly received the order, and then added another sentence, "Your Majesty, I think that the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson of Zhu who appeared in Chaozhou are no small matter. They are likely to be the rightful masters, so we should not take them lightly!"

Kangxi glanced at him, and asked calmly: "Suo'etu, just tell me what you think!"

Suo'etu didn't dare to say anything, because he was one of the "loyal ministers" who opposed the tossing and withdrawal of the vassal.In his opinion, this feudal clan... can't be withdrawn, if it wants to withdraw, it must go to war!

But to fight... who will fight?Take a look at the six great scholars in the South Study Room plus one Hanlin, who can fight?Who can beat Wu Sangui?Moreover, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in the Eight Banners, so it is no problem to frighten people to act as heavenly soldiers. They are really sent out to fight tough battles, but don't let Wu Sangui be defeated in one battle!

But Suo'etu's idea of ​​dawdling in life would definitely not be able to go with Kangxi, the young hero.

"Your Majesty," Suo'etu said, "this slave thinks that the imperial court should send imperial envoys to Chaozhou to find out the truth."

"It makes sense." Emperor Kangxi nodded, thinking: "Whether the Pingnan Palace and the Xushun Palace are supporting the bandits to protect themselves and resisting the withdrawal of the vassal, or are there really big rebels? Can't let Shang Kexi, Shang Shuying, Deng Guangming said it themselves."

"Who can be an imperial envoy?" Kangxi asked.

"The servant recommends Xiong Cilu, a scholar in charge of the Imperial Academy." Of course, Suo'etu would not recommend an important official in the court who had a clear stand on the issue of withdrawing the feudal domain, so he introduced Xiong Cilu as a "storyteller of the Imperial Academy".

"Xiong Cilu is indeed good at handling things and is loyal." Kangxi was very satisfied, smiled and said, "But he doesn't understand military affairs, so it's better to let Mi Sihan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, be the head and Xiong Cilu the deputy. Right. , Deng Zhong, you are the Han army of the Zhengbai Banner, I am the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, you are my slave, I see that your qualifications and military achievements are not bad, and being the son of Duke Xushun’s mansion is really inferior, so let me be a third class Guard, accompany Mi Sihan and Xiong Cilu to Guangdong on business!"

The third-class bodyguard, that's a step up to the sky!

Deng Zhong knelt down to Emperor Kangxi again, and he was so excited that he couldn't help crying: "Heaven's grace is so great! Although the slave is so heartbroken, he can't repay it just in case. How dare he not exhaust his strength to repay the heaven's grace!"

After finishing speaking, he tremblingly kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi a few more times.

Chapter 024: The Third Prince Zhu

Beijing, Shihu Hutong, Princess Jianning Mansion.

This mansion is the residence of Princess Ajig of Heshuo Jianning and her husband Wu Yingxiong, the son of Prince Pingxi.

Although one of the hostess and hostess here is the daughter of Huang Taiji, the aunt of the current emperor Kangxi; the other is the son of the powerful Pingxi King Wu Sangui.But this house is simple and old. What Ajig looked like when he took over the place (the year when the Great Qing Ding Ding was established in Beijing) is still what it looks like now. It has not undergone any decoration. It is really low-key and cannot be more low-key.If they hadn't known in advance, no one would have thought that the person living here was Wu Sangui's eldest son and Huang Taiji's daughter.

But even though Wu Yingxiong is low-key and almost becomes invisible, his life is getting more and more difficult.Especially after Aobai's downfall, Wu Yingxiong obviously had a sense of danger, and felt that there were some powerful characters lurking around his mansion.And the word "San Francisco" also made him feel uneasy... The Emperor Kangxi, who took down Oboi mercilessly, and disregarded Oboi's loyalty in the past, ruthlessly killed the old guy in prison, had already put "Oboi" to death. The six big characters "San Francisco", "River Affairs" and "Water Transport" are written on the pillars of the South Study Room!

The South Study Room is the place where Obai was arrested!

This is going to attack San Francisco!

What made Wu Yingxiong even more desperate was that last year Emperor Kangxi allowed Shang Zhixin, the eldest son of King Pingnan Shang Kexi, to go back to Guangdong to assist his father in managing government and military affairs, but at the same time he ignored Wu Sangui, who was complaining of illness, and did not mention it at all. The matter of asking Wu Yingxiong to return to Yunnan to assist the feudal affairs...and Geng Jimao, King of Jingnan in Fujian, died in the first month of this year, and Geng Jingzhong has successfully succeeded to the throne.

This makes it clear that the San Francisco should be treated differently, and the focus should be on the Pingxi Wang family.

After Shang Zhixin left Beijing, Wu Yingxiong's mood became more and more depressed. Except for the court meeting and other official activities that he had to attend, he, the heir of Prince Pingxi, was a big otaku who stayed behind closed doors.

And when he was staying at home, he was always unhappy, except for drinking and going into the Buddhist hall to recite "Amitabha" with Zen Master Qilong of Ciyuan Temple. Even Princess Jianning, who had always been in a good relationship, ignored him.

This Princess Jianning is not the same as the unruly and masochistic Princess Jianning in "The Deer and Ding Tale".She is the daughter of that big fat man Huang Taiji, and her mother is a Mongolian, so she is naturally not too small... This Princess Jianning is even bigger than Wu Yingxiong!

And Wu Yingxiong is not a handsome guy, he is just a short and fat man with thin eyebrows and big eyes, thick lips, he looks simple and honest, when he first married Princess Jianning, he was happy all day long, he is just a fool.But after being hostage for more than 20 years, especially in the past few years, he was frightened every day by the "benevolent monarch" Kangxi who had already kissed the government, which made him a little depressed.

But for some reason today, Wu Yingxiong, who came back from court, actually walked into the gate of the mansion in Shihu Hutong humming a little tune, and carrying a basket of Dashunzhai mooncakes in his hand.Seeing his chubby lady, he smiled and said: "Look, Gege, the mooncakes from Dashunzhai are freshly baked... You have a good appetite, why don't you come to ten first?"

Princess Jianning was stunned and stunned, "Forehead son-in-law, did you go to the outer city after the imperial court?"

In this era, the inner city of Beijing is very deserted. It is a banner city, and those who are not in the banner are not allowed to live in the inner city, let alone open business.Therefore, the business in Beijing is basically in the outer city. Officials have to go to the outer city if they want to go out for consumption after going to court, and then do some health care.

Wu Yingxiong seldom went to outer cities for consumption since the news of Emperor Yongli's death by his father spread to Beijing... It's not because he was afraid of being killed quietly by the survivors of the Ming Dynasty, but because he knew that all birds were gone. Lier, but low-key and low-key!

Wu Sangui, an old bird in Yunnan, doesn't know how hard it is to serve his master in Beijing. Wu Yingxiong, who accompanies a king every day is like a tiger, of course knows this truth.

"Yes, I went to the outer city," Wu Yingxiong said with a smile, "Isn't the Mid-Autumn Festival coming soon? Monk Zhilong, Geng Zhaozhong and the others went to Dashunzhai for a quick meal, and saw freshly made mutton fillings. I bought a basket of mooncakes and came back."

"What?" Princess Jianning took the basket and dragged her husband to the mansion together. They went all the way into the inner hall, turned around, and then frowned and asked, "What's going on? You keep a low profile It's been more than 20 years, how dare you have dinner with the two of them today, and you're not afraid of someone chewing your tongue in front of Long Live God?"

Wu Yingxiong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Fu Jin, to tell you the truth, I have been hiding my strengths and bide my time for more than 20 years, but I have already seen through it... Under the rule of our Long Live Lord, pretending to be a grandson is useless!"

"Then you still pretend?"

Wu Yingxiong smiled wryly: "It's just that I lied to myself!"

"Then what's going on today?" Princess Jianning half-joked, "It's going to be a holiday, don't you lie?"

Wu Yingxiong shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with being on holiday or not, but being happy!"

"Happy? Why?"

"Because the three of us can be considered to have met living Bodhisattvas who save the suffering!"

"A living Bodhisattva who saves suffering? Who is it?"

"Third Prince Zhu!" Wu Yingxiong lowered his voice, "Gege, did you know? The third prince Zhu rebelled in Chaozhou... and killed the two hundred small banner soldiers of Duke Xushun's mansion one after another! There is almost no assistant leader Oh, hehe, this Third Prince Zhu is really powerful, it seems to be the real thing!"

Of course, the news Wu Yingxiong got from Shang Zhilong and Geng Zhaozhong was more timely than what Emperor Kangxi got.

The families of Shang Zhilong and Geng Zhaozhong have been maintaining pigeon correspondence with Guangzhou and Fuzhou.Although Feige's letter cannot be used to send top-secret information, the real-time battle report between Duke Xushun's residence and Third Prince Zhu is not top-secret either.

Therefore, Shang and Geng received more timely and accurate information than Kangxi—they already knew the damage caused to Duke Xushun's mansion in the battle of Zhu and Sheng's breakout, and they also learned that Duke Xushun was seriously injured and died. How many flag soldiers are there?Adding these two figures to the number of people killed and missing in the previous "Battle of Empty City Plans", Duke Xushun's mansion has already lost more than 180 people, plus those who were seriously injured and disabled, even [-] people can't beat it!

Wu Yingxiong smiled again: "Now we can finally live a peaceful life for a few years!"

"How many years?" Princess Jianning was still a little worried, "If Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong want to send troops to suppress them, how many years can the Third Prince Zhu last?"

"Why are you willing to kill?" Wu Yingxiong shook his head and said, "I regretted the death of Emperor Yongli last time. This time, I finally hoped for the third prince Zhu, who is quite capable of fighting. Why don't you take good care of him? It's gratifying. Maybe they are old and confused, but Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong are still young!

In addition, Liu Jinzhong from Chaozhen is also Geng Jingzhong, and he will not make great efforts.Now Deng Guangming is riding a tiger there alone.If the emperor really wanted to wipe out the third prince Zhu, he had to send troops from the north to the south. If Shang and Geng were smarter, then this bad battle would be easier to fight.In this way, I can always be safe for a few years..."

"It will be fine in a few years..." Princess Jianning thought to herself: "In a few years, Wu Sangui may be gone. The emperor can't stop his son from taking the throne, can he? As long as he arrives in Yunnan, he will be Emperor Tiangao Far!"

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a cough from outside the door, and then came the voice of Wu Yingxiong's eldest son Wu Shilin: "Ama, Monk Qilong from Ciyuan Temple has come to accompany you to chant scriptures again."

"Okay, I'll come right away!" Wu Yingxiong agreed, and then smiled at his wife, Princess Jianning, "Gege, if the third prince of Chaozhou can wake up, maybe the Bodhisattva is protecting me, so I still have to recite this scripture... you first After a few months of cakes, I will come to read the scriptures with Monk Yang, don’t eat all of them, keep two for me.”

After hearing this, Princess Jianning glared at Wu Yingxiong: "Understood! There's a whole basket, where can I get it?"

After saying this, the fat Princess Heshuo Jianning picked up a fresh mutton mooncake and wiped it out in two bites!