[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

The last time I wrote a letter to him, naturally, it didn't sound like I was writing to the emperor, but I have been getting along like this for a hundred years.

Xing Xiuyan feels that she is the person closest to him and the person who understands him best, and he loves her as his own daughter.This is the tone he used to speak when he was a piece of cake by his side. He looked cold, but in fact he was amused by her.

His letter is also a thick stack, but I can see that his handwriting resembles Youlong's cursive script, arranged vertically, but he uses punctuation like hers, and it is not elegant.

[Xiuxiu: I have read the letter.You are becoming more and more unruly. If you don't learn the three obediences and four virtues from the nanny, I will punish you next time I see you. I am not joking with you.

Since this spring, the capital has been settled, but the affairs of the court and the central government are still cumbersome. There are too few people who can do practical things, and too many people who talk about it.

I plan to start a government school for basic education. Although half of the people in the court are in favor of it, the huge cost of money will strain the treasury, which is finally surplus.Free basic education is really a wonderful imagination. At the beginning of its inception, it had to be charged.

You mentioned the military literacy and "political work" work back then, which really effectively curbed military corruption and the privateization of the national army. Of course, the rebound was not small. At present, it is only being implemented in the Imperial Army in Kyoto.Rewarding soldiers with military exploits and improving their status was popular as early as the Qin Dynasty, but since the Song and Ming Dynasties, the style of using literature to control martial arts has been too prevalent, and it has been appropriately followed after the founding of the Tai/zu.

In this dynasty, the royal family and nobles were used to check and balance civil servants, but the facts have proved that treating honorable nobles and civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats well cannot withstand foreign enemies.I will gradually implement the Qin law, and I would rather be Qin Shihuang than Song Shaodi.

A pot of plum blossoms in Zhenyu's study is in full bloom, with a clear fragrance, which is rare in the north at this time of year.Today I often think of Jinling, and I don't know what the south is like now.

On weekdays, I finish the morning court, practice martial arts for an hour in the morning, take a nap after lunch, review the memorials for two hours, and check the factory accounts in the evening.In the past five years, I can’t help but feel that life is like a dream...]

In addition to writing some trivial life matters, Tu Yuanyi couldn't help mentioning the battle of wits and courage between him and the ministers, and he couldn't help but feel a little complacent in his tone.

Xing Xiuyan only knew that last year he went back to the capital and killed someone. Although he wrote letters back and forth four times this year, Xing Xiuyan never asked him.

Firstly, she really can't help, and secondly, when Xing Xiuyan touches his hair, he strokes his hair, acts like a spoiled child, doesn't obey the rules, and even doesn't care about whether he is old or young, because they have often done this for hundreds of years.But he's the emperor now, and it's not likable if he thinks she's interested in court power.

However, Xing Xiuyan miscalculated once. A man always has a desire to show off to women, especially the woman he wants to get.Tu Yuanyi wanted to hold on to his prestige in front of others, and he didn't mind being flattered, but he really wanted to ask Xing Xiuyan a few words.

Xing Xiuyan never asked, and he never said it, but now he figured it out, now that she is in a deep boudoir, how can she hear the details of those things?Lin Ruhai took good care of her, and it was impossible for her to show her the mansion, and the eunuchs and mothers were not allowed to discuss government affairs indiscriminately.

The Jin Yiwei who stayed in Yangzhou was only protecting her safety and investigating the news, and it was impossible for the outsider to report these things to the deep boudoir.

So when he spoke in detail, Xing Xiuyan was also surprised and dumbfounded.She thought that Tu Yuanyi was really crazy, to get rid of the threat so ruthlessly, but at that time, the cards in his hand turned out to be Jin Yiwei, thousands of troops from the Gongsheng Army, guards and a few firearms.

The advantage is that he has high martial arts skills, and he has been reborn and has been an emperor for many years. He has a good grasp of the psychology of civil servants, generals, courtiers and courtiers.

He is a gamble, if he wins, he will obey both civil and military officials, and the government orders will be smooth, if he loses, he will lose the capital and retreat to the north and south of the Yangtze River to fight against rebellion.

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help admiring his ruthlessness, he was ruthless to others, and he was ruthless to himself, and his boldness in doing things already had the style of a domineering monarch.

【I have made a decree to promote Lin Hai as the left servant of the household department, and to add the title of Wenyuange University scholar.Xing Zhong has a bit of talent in general affairs, and I favor him to weave from the fifth rank for the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Li family is the fifth rank pleasant.Years later, you will go to Beijing with Lin Hai. 】

Xing Xiuyan was taken aback, and thought that the doctor of Lantai Temple was a second-rank doctor in vain, but a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion was a first-rank scholar, so it was considered entering the cabinet, which was the dream of civil servants.This is the speed of promotion by rocket.

But thinking about the rebellion at the end of the third year of Qianyuan, many people were implicated in the capital court, and there were many vacancies, so it was natural for him to promote his confidants.

Lin Ruhai made great contributions to sweeping away the entangled forces in the south of the Yangtze River. Although Li Wei, the current governor of Liangjiang, Jia Yucun, the governor of Liangjiang, officials of the Ministry of punishment and Jin Yiwei, especially Jia Yucun, he eliminated the most people.

But the important clues, relationships, and key points were secretly provided by Lin Ruhai.

But he said that Jia Yucun would bite anyone he wanted to bite in order to become an official, but in fact he was not Tu Yuanyi's confidant, and Tu Yuanyi, who had been used in his previous life, was also very easy to use.For a person with Jia Yucun's character, corruption is inevitable, but it is impossible to say that he has accumulated any power in Jiangnan.

As long as the emperor wants to kill him, he can be killed at any time. This is also the pity of the "upstart".When the water is clear, there will be no fish. If Tu Yuanyi wants to be emperor, someone must be an official.There is no perfect person in the world, and if there is a better substitute, Jia Yucun can die with peace of mind.

For the remaining hundred characters, Tu Yuanyi wrote in his letter:

[I was hunting in Shuofang in the north, and suddenly entered the forest. I hunted several snow-coloured spirit foxes. I got good skins. I made a big cloak and fur coat for Xiuxiu. It is very good for keeping out the cold in winter, and it also matches Xiuxiu's age and color.]

Xing Xiuyan's thinking is not about the relationship between men and women, but Tu Yuanyi, a man who praises a woman for her beauty, is actually a bit flirtatious.And this man went to the hunting ground and showed his majesty. Of course, the skin he hunted was given to his lover, even if it was given to his daughter, it would not be Xing Xiuyan's turn.It's a pity that Zixu's clever Xing Xiuyan's fixed thinking and the standard of behavior he is used to modern people don't understand his ancient implicitness at this time.Modern men call everyone a beauty, and they also call it a beauty when they are of a different generation. It is normal for a father to call his daughter the most beautiful, and there is no ambiguity.

She's not on his channel at all.

Xing Xiuyan remembered the big cloak that Wang Fu wanted to show her. The uncle said in the letter again that he knew that the clothes and shoes he sent could be given to her, but not this one, otherwise it would be disrespectful.

Xing Xiuyan recalled that when the two of them took a boat from Gusu to Yangzhou, she told him the story of the original Xing Xiuyan and his indifferent personality.She is the only poor commoner among the noble women in Jia's mansion. When she goes out in winter, the girl and mother-in-law will put a big cloak on all the ladies, but she has no winter clothes to keep out the cold, a hairpin and thorn cloth skirt, and her clothes are thin.

When Xing Xiuyan mentioned that matter, it was not that she wanted to beg for something, but that the original book did not describe her much. She could never talk about her marriage with Xue Biao or that she set up a line for Miaoyu. ", help Baoyu to meet Miaoyu's daughter's wishes?

She didn't expect Tu Yuanyi to remember it in her heart, worrying that she would have nothing to keep out of the cold in winter, or that she would be shabby.

He knew that she used to be an embroiderer and could design, and sent many tribute fabrics back and forth between Kyoto and Yangzhou in four seasons.This kind of caring, even if there is no princess, Xing Xiuyan is still very grateful.

His appearance flashed in his mind, and his past tolerance and pampering, with deep admiration.She always feels that she is wandering and working hard, and her parents still have to rely on her. She wants to be loved by her uncle by his side.

She was blind at the time and hadn't seen him in his youth, and it was impossible for others to mention the saint's age without reason.

So what she imagined was his gray beard, the ghost he had been with for 120 years.He also didn't have the slightest words or deeds of Meng Lang, so Xing Xiuyan never thought about thinking about him from the perspective of a woman to a man.

Moreover, if he is in the role of a girl's "father", even if the "father" suddenly becomes younger, it is impossible for the girl to develop "female feelings" for the "father" soon.

Lin Ruhai also returned to the mansion from the Yan Yushi Yamen, and Wang Fu went to the main hall to announce the decree.

Xing Xiuyan was looking at the letter, when she heard Mother Zhao calling, she collected the letter from the imperial pen, packed up her clothes, and went out of the house.

Qingxuan opened the curtain, and Jin Yao put on a cloak for her. Lin's mansion is not as large as Rongguo's mansion, with a large population, and the mansion does not take soft sedan chairs, and walks away on foot.

When Xing Xiuyan arrived, Lin Ruhai had ordered the butler to set up the incense table, and Daiyu, Xing Zhong, Xing Lishi, master Chen Yan and his wife were there.

All the masters and slaves of the house knelt down to receive the decree. Wang Fu was different from when he was in Wutong Courtyard. He walked to the center of the hall holding the decree, stood facing south, opened the decree, and said in a loud voice: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the decree said: Promote Lantai The temple official inspected the salt censor Lin Hai as the left servant of the household department, and he was awarded the title of Wenyuan Pavilion University scholar. This is my honor!"

Lin Ruhai was originally a fourth-rank official with a real position, and a subordinate second-rank official with a false position.Lin Ruhai knew that he was going to be promoted this time, but he didn't expect to be promoted so quickly.He also knew that since last year, several academicians were involved in Prince Lian's treachery and fell, and this year three more retired and returned to their hometowns, so there are many vacancies in Kyoto.But he was too young to enter the cabinet at an age of unknown destiny.

(Note: In the original book, Lin Ruhai is older. When Daiyu was five years old, he was fifty years old. He should be 60 now, but the author prefers it. Let’s just give Lin sister a cheat, don’t be serious)