Chapter 677 "Small Punishment"

Tianhui's desire to listen to the opera was not realized in the end. Until the end of May, the atmosphere in Rehe was still not very good.

Even Cao Yong spoke with the Sixteenth Prince and began to think about whether there was any change in history. If that were the case, it would be caught off guard.

Li was also embarrassed when he received Jinghui's letter. Even if the Dong family wanted to pick up someone, the Cao family was not at home, so it would probably be difficult to speak.

After discussing with her husband, Li decided to return to the capital first.

When Chu Yu saw that his mother-in-law was about to go back, he also said that he would take the children back to Beijing with him.

Why did Cao Yong feel at ease to go back to his family like this? He told the Sixteenth Prince that he planned to find a reason and ask for an order to go back to the capital, so that he could escort his family back to Beijing.

The sixteenth prince was moved when he heard this, and wanted to send the concubine who had a body back to Beijing to take care of her. However, after asking the imperial physician, he did not dare to take risks. After all, he was pregnant for a few months and was afraid that he could not stand the long journey.

Cao Yong asked for a memorial to return to Beijing to hand it over for two days, but there was no news yet.

Cao Yong couldn't help but feel anxious.

Unexpectedly, the news of the meeting on June 1st was passed down from the palace.

In a blink of an eye, on the first day of June, the princes and officials of the accompanying princes and officials gathered in Danbo Jingcheng Hall.

Cao Yong had not seen Kangxi for half a month. Now he looked good, but he was a little clear. If he looked carefully, he would find that his beard was dotted, whiter than before.

The seemingly ordinary court meeting was an unexpected thunderous change.

"Thunder, rain and dew are all the kindness of the king", that's what I mean.

Because of the rain prayers in late April and early May, the officials involved were all over the cabinet and the six ministries and nine ministers.

Zhao Shenqiao, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Xuling, Minister of the Ministry of Works, Fan Shichong, Censor of the Left Capital, Fu Shen, Minister of Personnel, Li Huazhi, Minister of Justice, Clergy Cai Shengyuan, Wang Zhishu, Peng Shibo, and Secretary of the Warrior Wang Yiqing wrote a false letter to him, but he did not come to the place where he prayed for rain, and he was demoted to three levels and was resigned from his post. The honor of the edict was reborn and resigned.

He Shuozi, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Shi, the Minister of Han, Er Ge, Wang Sishi, and Hu Zuomei, praying for the rain was his duty and did not pray devoutly. However, if Yuze had ever been involved, he did not understand the content of the content, it was different. He Shuozi was dismissed from his post. The edict of the emperor Yinsheng was resigned and retired. Chen Shi, Er Ge, Wang Sishi, and Hu Zuomei were all demoted to the five levels and remained in office.

Grand Secretary Xiao Yongzao, Wang Yu, Scholar Xing Etai, Changshou, Secretary Zhang Penghui, Minister of Personnel Zhang Penghui, Minister of Assistant Minister Sun Zhu, Li Xusheng, Tang Youzeng, Minister of Revenue Fu Erhuna, Lv Luheng, Minister of War Yin Tebu, Minister of War Dang Alai, Tian Congdian, Minister of Justice Lai Du, Zhang Tingshu, Minister of Works Wang Duzhao, Left Deputy Censor Dong Hongyi, Hao Lin, General Zhou Daoxin, Minister of the Government, although he had personally arrived at the place of rain prayer, he reported to the words of "lost Xinxun" that were unmatched.

Among them, only the Grand Secretary Wang Xuan had a face-to-face order before the Shengjia left Beijing in April to ask him to take care of him at home, so he was exempted from mercy.

The remaining Xiao Yongzao, Xing'etai, Changshou, Zhang Penghong, Sun Zhu, Li Xusheng, Tang Youzeng, Fu Erhuna, Lu Luheng, Yin Tebu, Dang Alai, Tian Congdian, Lai Du, Zhang Tingshu, Wang Duzhao, Dong Hongyi, Hao Lin, Zhou Daoxin and others were all demoted to the second level and remained in office. The gains of the grace of the imperial edict were all reborn and resigned.

Grand Secretary Song Zhu did not pray for rain devoutly in Beijing, and he immediately ordered a name to report the delay, which was also inconsistent. He was dismissed from his post and remained in office. The grace of the emperor gave him the honor to be resigned and retired.

The six ministers and nine ministers left behind in the capital were all here. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the six ministers and thirteen ministers broke out.

Except for the Minister of Rites He Shuozi, who was demoted and resigned, all others were demoted and remained. Even so, it was surprising enough.

In such a huge capital, there are not many people with the third grade or above.

Apart from being surprised, many people are secretly happy.

Not long after the Minister of Works was vacant, no one had made up for the vacancy, so another Minister of Works was vacant.

Cao Yong was thinking about something else.

Since Song Zhu, who made a special trip back to Beijing to investigate the officials' prayers for rain, did not immediately ask for a name to participate in the report, which one was the one who handed the memorandum?

Even when the crown prince was deposed, Kangxi did not manage all the ministers so much. However, compared with the punishment at that time, this time it was more like a "small punishment".

"Relegation and retention" is just a change of body shape. If you don't change your errands, just get a small score, you will be "reincarnated"; of course, if you make mistakes, you will be completely lost, so don't expect to be reborn as a Kyoto again.

This is equivalent to having a condom on everyone's neck, so you have to be trembling, otherwise you will lose your future.

After the attack, the officials who stayed in the capital did not shout "I have a prefecture and leave the prefecture without a prefecture", but directly shouted "Sanchou".

Several princes in the court, the third prince, the fourth prince, the fifteenth prince, and the sixteenth prince, had an eunuch who passed oral instructions and went to Yanbo Zhishuang Palace to see him.

Cao Yong followed the civil and military officials and returned to the Internal Affairs Office.

Kangxi was not seriously injured, which made Cao Yong breathe a sigh of relief. However, he also began to wonder if he should write another memorial.

Cao Yong was thinking about things, and Yiduli was not idle either.

Because of the renovation of the palace, Yidu made a contribution and was still worried about his reinstatement. Even if he didn't go back to Taipu Temple, he was still at the Internal Affairs Office, and his position as a fifth-rank is really too low.

While there was no one around, Yiduli asked Cao Yong, "Fruo, looking at this action, I can't see why the emperor was angry. Isn't it just for the rain?"

After hearing this, Cao Yong shook his head and said, "The holy heart is unpredictable, I don't know."

Yiduli couldn't sit still, walked on the ground for two steps, sighed and said, "What can I do if I survive the excellent assessment? I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to get promoted." At the end of the conversation, I was extremely frustrated.

When Cao Yong saw this, he comforted him: "The Lord left and right is still young, why are you anxious? If you have to survive for a few years, you may encounter an opportunity at any time."

He said this because Yiduli is the brother-in-law of the Thirteenth Prince. His relationship with the Thirteenth Prince is good, but with these two points, his future will not be wrong.

"I'm already past my thirties and I'm almost forty, so why are you still young?" Yiduli shook his head and said, "My father has entered the cabinet at this age and has been moved to the Minister of Rites, but I'm still mingling from the fifth rank. It's really shameful for my ancestors. If I had known this, I would have been the Jinshi and entered the Hanlin Academy, so I wouldn't have to endure such hardship."

Yiduli complained a few times, remembered something, and said, "Sir, if the yamen is not busy today, Bei Zhi wants to go back soon. Shi Yun went to Rehe to take a shift and was about to welcome him."

Hearing what he said, Cao Yong waved his hand and said, "Sir, you're not going to do anything about the yamen, don't waste it here."

Yiduli was overjoyed when he heard this and left the yamen first.

Cao Yong looked at Yiduli's back and remembered Cao Xiang who came to Henan Prefecture to take office.

In Cao Yong's mind, the sixteen-year-old Cao Xiang was still a half-year-old child, and he was at the age of studying. He only thought that he had seized the opportunity and was able to become an official, but he didn't know that the local officials were not so easy to rise up.

He is not a scheming child, with a pure character and an honest person.

I don’t know how many years later, when his classmates entered the Jinshi Department and became Hanlin officials, he would regret it.

The Henan Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Organ is located in Luoyang. The instructor is the auxiliary official of the prefecture yamen. He does not have his own yamen, but just works in the prefect yamen.

Cao Xiang set out on the capital on the sixth day of the fifth month and arrived in Luoyang at the end of the month.

Although Li Tingchen, the governor of Luoyang, was not a professional, he had been promoted to the position of prefect after many years of experience.

Although he had already come down from the official documents and knew that he wanted to give him a lecture in the yamen, Li Tingchen was still surprised when he saw Cao Xiang.

He was originally worried that Cao Xiang would be an arrogant and rude person with his children from aristocratic families, but he didn't expect that he would be so elegant.

After some talks, the two of them were in a similar position.

Hearing that Cao Xiang was only accompanied by a concubine to take care of his daily life and had not yet married his wife, Li Tingchen couldn't help but be moved.

Although Cao Xiang is only a seventh-rank official, his elder brother is a guard, uncle and cousin are all Jingtang, and his future is unlimited.

Li Tingchen belongs to the Han army flag, and the marriage between the two families can also make it happen. But he has no daughter, so he just wants to recruit Cao Xiang as his son-in-law.

Cao Xiang came out of the house, although he was new, he was more careful, afraid that his actions would be worse and would bring shame to the family.

Although the house where my ex-schooled teacher was empty, it was very dirty. And not long ago, my ex-schooled teacher was sick and died here.

When Cao Xiang heard this, he felt taboo, and he didn't want to aggrieved Lu Ju, so he temporarily stayed at the inn and asked someone to go out to find a house to rent.

A few days later, I found a small house with two entrances near the yamen, and rented it for three years and forty taels of silver. The wooden furniture inside was ready-made, so Cao Xiang and his party moved in.

Lu Ju has always been smart and used to help Zhao Jia with housework.

She took her maid and wife to clean up the inner house properly, and the front yard hall was decorated with fresh decoration, looking like a life-long look.

When Cao Xiang saw it, he was very happy. If he hadn't been thinking about his biological mother, he really wanted to live in Luoyang like this.

On the first day of June, according to the rules, it is the day when all the subordinate officials come to the prefect.

It was like a small dynasty meeting, and everyone in the prefect's office, the magistrate, the prosecutor, the salt road, the prosecutor, Confucianism, grain capture, criminal theory and others came.

Although Cao Xiang is the youngest and has the youngest official position, there is a Cao family behind him. Who dares to underestimate him?

After meeting the officials of various subordinates, Li Tingchen proposed to hold a banquet to welcome Cao Xiang tonight, and everyone followed suit.

Cao Xiang is a newcomer in the officialdom. He has not experienced this, but he also knows that he can follow the local customs and dare not discourage everyone's interest.

After a meal, many people patted Cao Xiang on the shoulder and became involved with him. Some of them were from Zhili, who said they were from fellow villagers; some of them had been to Jiangning, and some of them had the same meaning as the Cao family.

Although Cao Xiang didn't know which sentence was true or which sentence was false, he responded respectfully.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, when everyone dispersed, Li Tingchen specially ordered someone to bring a food box and asked Cao Xiang to take it back for his female family.

Cao Xiang was very grateful, and after thanking him and then he brought the people back to the house.

Because he drank a lot of wine and blew the wind, when he got off the horse when he returned to the door of the house, Cao Xiang couldn't stand it and felt like his stomach was overturned.

He really couldn't stand it, so he held the wall and vomited happily, then the servant helped him into the yard.

Lu Ju got the news and was already facing the second door with her maid. Seeing Cao Xiang smelling drunk, she personally helped him into the house.

Knowing that he went out to eat a mat, Lu Ju had already made people sober up the soup.

After serving Cao Xiang to change his clothes and rinse his mouth, Lu Ju personally delivered the sobering soup to Cao Xiang's mouth.

Cao Xiang smiled and took it, pointed to the food box on the table, and said, "It was the snack that the prefect asked from the restaurant, and asked me to take it back for you. Try it quickly, how about it compared to the buns in Beijing? Tonight, I ate a small bowl of old soup noodles. It tasted very good, but unfortunately I vomited just now. After these two days, I will take you over to eat."

When Lu Ju heard that Cao Xiang had vomited, she was afraid that his stomach would be unwell, so she got up and took the food box. However, she looked quite surprised and said with a smile: "What are they all eating, it's so heavy."

While speaking, she had already brought the food box over, put it on the kang table, and uncovered the lid.

Under the lamp, it was white inside. What wasn't it silver? The floor was full of silver ingots, all of which were exquisite and cute.

Luju's smile calmed down and covered her mouth with a veil, and she was shocked.

Cao Xiang was also very surprised and did not feel happy at all. He felt cold sweat on his back, and he immediately went to eight or nine minutes of drunkenness.

There are two layers of food boxes, each layer of ten silver ingots, each of which is ten taels, and a total of two hundred taels of silver.
To be continued...