Chapter 1016 Three Fires

The Li family was questioned for two days and was replaced by two new incidents. After all, in the eyes of the powerful and powerful people in the capital, the Li family is nothing.

Li Xu's thirty years in charge of Suzhou certainly showed the favor of the late emperors, but it also kept the Li family away from the center of power. In addition, although Li Xu's brothers were many, there were no one who could support each other. The descendants had withered and the few who became talents made the Li family even thinner.

These two things are that Chen Menglei, a great scholar under Prince Cheng, was convicted and exiled to Heilongjiang; the new emperor issued an order, and Jiu Beizi sent him to the army to station in Zhaxining.

This involves the real power prince during the period of the late emperor and the new emperor's two brothers and sisters, which naturally attracted the attention of the government and the public, and was far beyond the influence of the Li family.

The reactions of the Third Prince and the Ninth Prince are different.

Chen Menglei was nominally a disciple of Prince Cheng, but in fact, he served Prince Cheng in his early years and was actually a royal army.

He became famous at a young age. He became a scholar at the age of 12, passed the imperial examination at the age of 19, and passed the imperial examination at the age of 20. He was the same year as Li Guangdi, the famous prime minister of the Kangxi Dynasty. Later, the two of them entered the Hanlin Academy together.

After entering the Hanlin Academy, he returned to his hometown in Fujian to visit relatives. When King Geng Jingzhong of Jingnan raised troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Fuzhou, he recruited scholars and forced him to enter the Fuzhou military tent.

Because his father was arrested, Chen Menglei had no choice but to enter the curtain, but he was unwilling to follow the thief.

He said that he had made an appointment with Li Guangdi, who was forced into Fuzhou. One of them was inside and one outside, planning to ask the court to send troops to quell the rebellion. He also drafted a memorial to ask the court to send troops.

Then, Li Guangdi wrote a melody alone, so he became famous in front of the imperial court and began his journey to famous ministers; Chen Menglei was bitten by Geng's rebellion after the Three Feudals were pacified and was sentenced to death.

Chen Menglei asked Li Guangdi to testify for him, but was rejected by Li Guangdi. The two of them fought in front of the imperial court, and who is right or wrong has become an unsolved mystery.

Kangxi valued Li Guangdi's talents and was a minister who protected his own subject; among the scholars, there were more people who sympathized with Chen Menglei.

Chen Menglei stayed in prison for two years. Xu Qianxue, who was then the Minister of Justice, was in his same year. He dealt with him, escaped from his death sentence, and was exiled to Fengtian.

He has been in Fengtian for nearly twenty years, but he has never put down his books and has written a lot of works.

In the 37th year of Kangxi's reign, when Kangxi was on the northern tour, he loved his talents and summoned him to Beijing.

In the past twenty-five years since he entered Beijing, in addition to serving Prince Cheng to study, he has been writing books in the library and staying away from the government.

The new emperor is really unkind to attack this unlucky guy; Prince Cheng’s response is even more heartbreaking.

For such a great scholar of the times who has no name for teachers and students, but has the reality of teachers and students, Prince Cheng, as the emperor's brother, comes forward to ask for love, which is not a difficult task.

Unexpectedly, not only did he not help, but he was also afraid of involving himself. In cooperation with the investigation of the Ministry of Justice, he added several charges to Chen Menglei and described Chen Menglei as a "heinous sinner".

The little good reputation accumulated in the scholarly forest disappeared after studying for decades.

Not only did the officials of the Ministry of Justice be surprised, but even Yongzheng couldn't stand it. He cut off several unsuccessful charges, exempting Chen Menglei from his death sentence, and sentenced him to Heilongjiang only.

Poor Chen Menglei, in his seventies, began to embark on the road of exile again.

When everyone talks about it, they are mostly pitiful to Chen Menglei and feel ashamed of what Prince Cheng did.

If you have a clear mind, if you think about Prince Cheng’s embarrassing situation, you will understand why he is so careful, like a frightened bird.

Unlike Prince Cheng's cautiousness, Jiu Beizi has no intention of restraining his character.

Even if the new emperor ordered him to go to Xining, he would not delay, and only said that he would wait until the last emperor had filial piety for a hundred days.

There is a word "filial piety", which is legitimate. Will he go to Xining after a hundred days?

Now everyone is waiting, wanting to see if Jiubeizi will leave Beijing under the order in February.

There are boring people who have set up secretly to bet on the result of the game between the new emperor and Jiu Beizi.

I believe that Jiu Beizi can win, but I feel that Jiu Beizi is not ashamed, and there is also a concubine's mother and a prince's brother. No matter how much the new emperor doesn't like it, he still has to leave some room.

Those who are sure that the new emperor wins are because they feel that the current situation is just in line with the old saying, "The new official takes office for three fires."

A few years ago, when the new emperor first ascended the throne, there were funerals of the previous emperor and the royal family members and officials who needed to be comforted, they were naturally generous in rewarding and grace.

Now, more than two months have passed, the situation of the new emperor has been almost comforting, and some of the actions are normal.

Since it is an imperial edict and a golden word, how can it be easily changed? Can Jiubeizi push it once, and can he let it go again?

Unexpectedly, the new emperor agreed to Jiu Beizi's delay in leaving the capital, and then he ordered someone to arrest Jiu Beizi's close eunuch He Yuzhu; at the same time, the arrested eunuch Zhang Qiyong and other eleven people.

There are many crimes involved, and they go to the Northeast to dig ginseng, collude with foreign ministers, and seek wealth.

In the end, these twelve eunuchs were all exiled outside the pass.

No one in the capital would pay attention to the consequences of the few eunuchs who lost power. In their opinion, this was the lesson of the new emperor to the nine Beizi's resolute order.

In addition to these dozen eunuchs, Qin Daoran, the steward of Jiubeizi Mansion, was also questioned. Yongzheng issued an order to order the governor of Liangjiang to investigate Qin Daoran's property in Jiangnan and recover 100,000 taels of silver as military expenses in the northwest.

In Yongzheng's eyes, he saw that except for the nobles of Jiubeizi, he was the wealthy mansion of Beizi. He Yuzhu was just a humble eunuch, and his family property was hundreds of thousands of dollars. This shows how rich people of Jiubeizi's mansion were.

The people who are waiting to watch Jiu Beizi lively are going to be disappointed.

Just as Prince Cheng did not come forward to protect Chen Menglei, Jiu Beizi did not come forward to protect Qin Daoran, but just "taken sick" at home and did not take any harm like Prince Cheng.

On that day, Prince Ninth held a wine pot in his hand and looked at the empty yard with drunken eyes.

As He Yuzhu's indictment, Qin Daoran was detained, and the atmosphere in Beizi's mansion became depressed.

The masters had no smiles on their faces, so the servants were naturally cautious.

Prince Ninth sat on the steps in front of the porch, looked at the two bare pomegranate trees in front of him, sprinkled some of the wine pots in his hand on the ground, and murmured: "Emperor, Xiaojiu can only be a turtle now!" After that, he raised the wine pot and poured half a pot of wine into his mouth.

Some of the wine flowed to his front, and a piece of water stain was immediately added, while others flowed down the corners of his mouth into his neck, but he suddenly didn't realize it.

Looking at this down-and-out look, there is no stubbornness and arrogance half a month ago.

The fifth prince stood a few steps away, looking at his appearance, and his eyes were red.

When the Ninth Prince heard the movement, he raised his head and felt that the sun was dazzling.

He raised his arms to cover the sunlight, squinted his eyes and looked at the fifth prince, and stood up and said, "It turns out it is the fifth brother, I thought it was the tenth brother... Yes, the tenth brother has already gone to Mongolia and is not in Beijing..."

Seeing that he was drunk and couldn't stand steadily, the fifth prince stepped forward a few steps, held his arm, frowned and said, "Why are you eating cold wine outside and ruining yourself like this? What's the point?"

The Ninth Prince laughed at himself twice and whispered: "It's not my wish to live like this. If I just go like this, it's mine..."

"Ninth Brother!" Seeing that he was talking less and less reliable, the fifth prince interrupted him sternly: "Mother's mother will be in the mansion next month. You don't think about how to be happy, but instead say such an ominous word, how can it be!"

The Ninth Prince raised his head and looked at the Fifth Prince with a steady look. His face was already solemn: "Why should I deceive myself? The new emperor exiled me to Xining. Do I still have room for no way to go? "Yi and others are extremely evil, and they are all rich. If you refuse to go away, even if you order to commit suicide, the escorts report that the local officials are in the local area to check and burn them, and they will still send the bones to the place where they are sent'. Who are these words to? Don't you know?"

When the fifth prince heard this, his face pale and sighed faintly, as if he was a teenager, he said, "Since he was asking you, go. After two years, he will be relieved, I will ask for an order to pick you up..."

Looking at the loyal and cowardly brother, the Ninth Prince felt that his throat was fishy and salty.

Since the new emperor ascended the throne, he knew that he would not have a good end. He was not afraid, and was ready to lose his dignity. Even if he was about to die, he would exorcise his anger and deduct two shit pots to Yongzheng.

However, just when Yongzheng couldn't wait to deal with him, his stupid brother ran to the imperial court and knelt all day.

The Ninth Prince knew that he would not die.

Even if life is more difficult than death, he is not qualified to die for his brother and mother...

*

Compared with the bleakness of the Ninth Prince's Mansion, the days in the Cao Mansion are calm.

Chu Yu received Cao Yong's instructions and became more and more concerned about Li's diet and daily life.

I asked Xiuhe a few privately, and I knew that Li was worried about sleeping lightly recently and had no appetite. Chu Yu arranged medicinal meals every meal and personally served Li for the meal.

Seeing that Li's wife was like this, he knew that she was making her son worried. She not only used all the meals, but also took the initiative to hire an imperial physician and prescribed a prescription for sleeping.

I don’t know if it was really relaxed or because of the power of medicine, Li slept a few times and his spirit gradually calmed down.

Even when Gao saw him, he felt relieved.

She thought Li's previous haggardness was caused by hard work, and she advised her not to be too flirted with immortality, nor to always think about tying her grandson Tianbao in front of her.

Li was also exhausted. After hearing Gao Taijun's words, he told Chu Yu that he would take Tianbao back to Wutongyuan to raise him, and then asked her to take out the empty yard to prepare to move Changsheng.

Chu Yu was surprised, but then he thought that if there was a child in front of him, his mother-in-law would not have time to think about it randomly. If the children were all moved out and the mother-in-law was in a deserted state, it would be bad.

Thinking of this, Chu Yu suppressed the idea of ​​taking his son to his side and said, "Uncle Qi has been thinking about wanting his own yard since last year. Now the old lady is talking, maybe she is more happy. Tianbao, please ask the old lady to pity her wife and take care of her for a while. We big girls are starting to learn from the housekeeper these days, and follow her daughter-in-law like a little tail. We must take care of her for a while, for fear of not taking care of Tianbao..."

In Li's heart, he couldn't bear to give up Tianbao.

When people get older, they are afraid of being lonely.

This empty big room also adds to the anger of the baby.

So, after giving instructions to her wife, she felt a little regretful.

After hearing Chu Yu's words, he hurriedly said: "Since that's the case, let Tianbao still be raised in my house... The eldest girl is ten years old, and she should learn to know the world..." Speaking of this, she became interested: "What did she learn in the past few days?"

"I'm learning to recognize clothes and embroidery patterns. She has bad eyes and can't take needles and threads, but she doesn't know anything about Nu Hong." Chu Yu said with a little distress.

Li knew that she was worried about her daughter's future and comforted her: "With you and the master, the eldest girl will definitely be blessed with her."

"Inheriting the auspicious words of the old lady." Chu Yu said: "The master has already drafted a teaching list and asked his wife to act according to the list. He has thought it through thoroughly and has drawn up a lot of items. If the older girl has learned it according to the list, she will not suffer any loss in the second half of her life."

"Oh?" Li was a little curious when he heard this: "It is the mother's responsibility to raise his daughter. Why do I still think of mixing up with him? What did he write?"

Chu Yu smiled and said, "There are so many. My wife made a special trip to bring it to you, so the old lady should take a look." As she spoke, she took out a piece of paper from her sleeve and sent it to Li with both hands.

Mrs. Li opened it and looked at it, and nodded with a smile. Later, her expression became strange. She pointed to a place and said, "Let the girls read the "House Rules" of the "Qing Dynasty"... what do you say?"

"The master said that girls who go out like us are all knowledgeable and polite, and they have rules and regulations when doing things. National laws and regulations are first, and family rules are behind. Let girls know the national laws and act in moderation. Even if they are detained in the inner courtyard, they can have more vision." Chu Yu replied.

Because there is a set of "The Laws of the Qing Dynasty" in the study in Wutong Garden, which is a book that Cao Yong often reads.

So after Chu Yu read this article, he specifically checked the content of "House Rules".
To be continued...