Chapter 75: The Imperial

Palace, study room.

Cao Yong was still a little worried, afraid that someone would jump out to give him a warning just now when he arrived. When he arrived, he realized that he seemed to be arrogant. Those companions were all from the Eight Banners family and even the royal family. He, the son of a foreign official, could not be regarded as a weight.

When he first sat down, someone looked over and asked about his father and grandfather’s official title. He heard that he was a son of a third-rank official, and his father was just a second-class man. The other party immediately looked cold.

Cao Yong was secretly amused in his heart. These little kids are all young and have learned so worldly. However, this is good, no one pays attention to it, so he stays with the Sixteenth Prince for a while.

In general, the smell of gunpowder in the study room is still very strong, but it is concentrated between Hongxi and Hongsheng. Hongxi has a thirteen-year-old younger brother Hongjin in the study room. Although Hongsheng has two younger brothers, one is seven years old and the other is six years old, which is really too young. Two to three, plus a few people accompanying them to study, the spare time is a big show.

During the break, the sixteenth prince went to Cao Yong to introduce the grandsons to him and watched the fun with him. In fact, the princes and grandsons are very different. In fact, the ten grandsons are from four princes. The prince and the fifth prince are two in each family, and the third prince and the seventh prince are three in each family. The fifth prince was raised by the queen mother, and the seventh prince was disabled when he followed the escort to attack Galdan in his early years. Both of them avoided the battle for the throne. Their sons were also low-key and had the style of being a father. In contrast, the sons of the prince and the third prince seemed a little more ostentatious.

A moment later, Kangxi came to the study room. After everyone asked for help, he asked about his homework kindly for several young grandsons, and finally gave him a few words of advice before leaving. Cao Yong was a little surprised because he found that the old man seemed to have looked at him several more times, and even seemed to have smiled at him.

At the beginning of Chenchu ​​(7 o'clock in the morning), I went to the study room and got breakfast, which was the time for everyone to spend breakfast. Breakfast is provided in the palace kitchen, whether it is the prince or grandson or the accompanying students, there are certain examples.

At this time, drums and music came clearly not far away, and Emperor Kangxi was listening to the affairs of the Qianqing Gate in the morning.

After breakfast, when it was the second day of the Chen Dynasty (7:30 in the morning), the Han master came to teach, and the learning content was "Four Books", "Five Classics" and "Zizhi Tongjian". Cao Yong had studied these contents for seven or eight years when he was in Jiangning, and he was already very familiar with them. Because the masters were all Hanlin Academy of Hanlin Academy, they had a different taste when they talked about books, and the courses did not seem boring. However, the teaching time was too long and it ended until noon (twelve o'clock in the afternoon).

The fifteenth prince and Hongxi were both fifteen years old, and they left until early noon (eleven o'clock in the afternoon), which attracted the envy of the sixteenth prince.

After lunch, I changed my master to teach everyone calligraphy and poetry. This course was half an hour, and Cao Yong finished his study course at the second day of the lunar month (1:30 pm).

He followed the 16th Prince to the Prince's House. After that, Cao Yong followed the route he came from Donghuamen to leave the palace from Donghuamen.

*

Xiaoman, Wei Hei and Wei Bai, and two other Changsui named Wu Mao and Wu Sheng, led their horses to guard outside Donghua Gate. When Cao Yong came out, they all came forward. Wu Mao and Wu Sheng were also two brothers, both of whom were young, one was seventeen and the other was fifteen. Their father was a manager of the Cao family in the capital. They died of illness a few years ago, and only the orphans and widows were left in the family.

After Cao Yong entered Beijing, the butler Cao Zhong chose him as the leader. Because he thought of the Wu brothers' silly and honest, he chose them out. The two of them didn't talk much, and Cao Yong was quite satisfied. The two brothers Wei Hei and Wei Bai also had a good impression of these two honest and honest children, and they gave them a guide in their free time.

When Cao Yong left Donghua Gate, he couldn't help but stretched his waist. Except for half an hour for breakfast and dinner, he took four hours and eight hours of class. This homework was really not easy. Compared with going to the study, the homework in Jiangning Shizu was not the same as the study.

Cao Yong saw two blue satin bags hanging on the saddle of the Wu brothers, one larger and the other smaller, and asked Xiaoman: "Is that what your sister Amethyst gave?"

Xiaoman replied: "Well, Sister Zijing said that what the uncle told me was that the small bag was considered a wedding gift for Mr. Ma; the large bag was the various medicinal materials brought to the south."

Cao Yong took the reins from Xiaoman and got on the horse. Instead of going back to Cao's mansion, he went to the Ma Mansion located in Dongsiji. This is the residence of Ma Yan, the Minister of Rites. It is Ma Jun's uncle's house. Ma Jun lived here after Ma Jun entered the capital.

A few days ago, I was in the VIP building. I met Cao Yin, the scholar-in-chief, and finally everyone talked a few gossips and then they broke up.

Ma Jun decided to leave Beijing on the second day of October and went to Changsha County, Hunan to serve as the county magistrate.

Cao Yong was going to the study tomorrow and had no time to see him off, so he went to the mansion to deliver Cheng Yi today. Because everyone knew that the Cao family was short of money, Cao Yong was spared, and only asked Amethyst to find some good medicinal materials. Hunan was very humid and the climate was not as pleasant as Jiangning, so it was appropriate to prepare more medicines. In addition, when Ma Jun got married, Cao Yong failed to catch up outside the border, and the wedding gift was also added, some fine items prepared by Amethyst, for the two brides. In duplicate, it did not seem to be more favorable to one or the other.

*

East Forty Posts, Ma Mansion.

When Ma Jun heard the doorman’s notice, he knew that Cao Yong had come and went out to greet him in person.

The two arrived at the living room. Ma Jun was about to get up early tomorrow and his luggage was ready.

Although the Ma family is not a bannerman, they have been passed down from generation to generation. The grandfather's generation entered the court as an official. By the generation of Ma Jun's father, both brothers were from Jinshi, among which Ma Jun's uncle was still Tanhua and the first. Two brothers, one was an official in Beijing and the other was a foreign official, and now one is a second-rank minister and the other is a fourth-rank Taoist, which is also prominent among Han officials.

Uncle Ma Jun’s servant was still in the ministry and had not come back. When the aunt heard that it was her nephew’s best friend, she asked someone to send a message and asked the guests to stay for dinner. Cao Yong and Ma Jun wanted to talk, so she did not refuse. Although she ate some at noon in the palace, the food was just decent and was not in line with her appetite. However, from this detail, it can be seen that the rules of Manchu and Han Chinese were different. Manchu housewives did not avoid foreign guests, and the ethics of Han families were strictly followed.

There is a saying in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty: "Three lives are unlucky, and the magistrate is attached to Guo Guo; three lives are evil, and the provincial capital is attached to Guo; the evil is full, and the capital is attached to Guo Jingcheng." Among them, "the magistrate is attached to Guo Guo" means that the magistrate is in the same city as the magistrate; "the provincial capital of Guo Guo" means that the magistrate is in the same city as the magistrate; "the magistrate is attached to Guo Guo" means that the magistrate is in the same city as the magistrate; "the magistrate is attached to Guo Jingcheng" means that the magistrate is in the same city as the magistrate: "the magistrate is attached to Guo Jingcheng" means that the magistrate is in the same city as the magistrate.

Ma Jun, with a bit of a scholar's aloofness, was unwilling to use his uncle's relationship when he was in a shortage, and ended up being a county magistrate. However, looking at his spiritual leader, he looked very confident. He had been in the minister's mansion for several years, and he was far from Amon in the past, and Cao Yong had nothing to worry about. The Ma family was only one seedling, so of course the elders could not stand by. There were some people above who were good at being an official, not to mention that the higher-ranking official was a second-rank official. Even for the sake of Uncle Ma Jun, I believe that the officials in Hunan would never dare to make things difficult for him.

After dinner, Cao Yong and Ma Jun talked a few more gossips, looked at the second hour of Shenchun (3:30 pm). Thinking that Ma Junyuan was doing a lot of things, he said goodbye and returned home.

Not long after leaving the horse mansion, someone came across from the opposite side, but they looked familiar. It was Zhao An, the servant brought from Jiangning, Huixin's husband.

Seeing Cao Yong and others, Zhao An got off the horse and beat him up, but what he said shocked Cao Yong: "Uncle, someone is coming from the palace. The butler sent a slave to invite you back!"

Cao Yong raised his eyebrows: "Is the Sixteenth Prince here?" But he thought to himself, can't the prince leave the palace at will? What reason did this little Sixteenth find?

After hearing this, Zhao An quickly shook his head: "It's not the prince, but a young father-in-law who came with the imperial edict!"

Kangxi's order? Cao Yong was a little surprised and nodded at Zhao An: "I understand, go home!"

*

West of the city, Cao Mansion, living room.

An eunuch in his twenties sat smiling and having tea, while the butler Cao Zhong stood beside him and spoke with him.

In the back hall, both Zijing and Zhuangxi looked a little solemn. Xiaoman returned to the house and told them about the dispute between VIP Building. The Cao family was in an awkward situation, and they were both worried at the moment. I don’t know whether this so-called imperial edict was a blessing or a disaster. Thunder and rain were heavenly grace, so where did the Cao family have room to maneuver?

When Cao Yong returned to his house, he saw the eunuch, but there was a smile on his face. He was an acquaintance and hurriedly said, "Eunuch Wei, I haven't seen you for seven or eight days, I look so beautiful!"

The person who came was Wei Zhu, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace. Cao Yong saw him several times, and he brought him in it.

Wei Zhu stood up and smiled and said, "Shiwei Cao is now in the study room, so he will be a common one in the future. Let's get a job done first and let's talk about it!"

In the hall, Cao Zhong had prepared the incense table for receiving the order.
Chapter completed!