My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 4: Reading in the School
Hongli said "hmm" and then said nothing more.

Hongshi entered the school first and sat on the official hat chair on the left side of the school, waiting for the arrival of his master.

Hongshi seemed a little impatient.

After he sat down, he tugged at his clothes impatiently: "Why hasn't Master Pan come yet?"

“Bring tea!”

"Do you have any sense?"

Hongshi then began to discipline the servants serving in the school.

At this time, a eunuch hurriedly placed the tea that was about to be delivered on the tea table beside Hongshi.

Hongli and Hongzhou also sat down at this time.

As Hongzhou's elder brother, Hongli naturally sat on the lower left side close to Hongshi.

However, as soon as Hongli sat down, Hongshi suddenly reached out and spilled a cup of tea on the coffee table onto Hongli.

A large area of ​​Hongli's robe was immediately soaked.

Hong Zhou was stunned and looked at Hong Shi.

The servants below were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they knelt down quickly, fearing that Hongli would take his anger out on them or that Hongli would have a conflict with Hongshi.

But Hongli chose to endure it and did not lose his temper. He just stood up and went outside, asked the servants who followed him to give him clothes, and he went to the east wing to change his clothes.

Because Hongli knew that Hongshi had done that just now to provoke him so as to frame him for insulting and beating his brother.

In order to teach him a lesson for not telling him what Yongzheng said to him yesterday.

Even when he reprimanded the servant for being "tactless", he was indirectly criticizing him, implying that he was not tactful enough to report Yongzheng's words to him proactively.

But Hongli just didn't want to be Hongshi's spy.

What's more, although Hongshi was his elder brother, his political vision was indeed looked down upon by Hongli. He would not risk offending Yongzheng to please Hongshi and be willing to be Hongshi's spy.

Although Hongshi now seems to be Yongzheng's eldest son, who would have thought that he, the eldest son, would be forced to death by Yongzheng as early as the ninth year of Yongzheng's reign.

Fortunately, the tea prepared by the servants for their masters in advance was warm, not hot.

Therefore, only Hongli's clothes were wet, but his skin was not burned.

"Oh, fourth brother, I'm so sorry. I was just about to raise my hand to roll up my sleeves, but I accidentally knocked the tea over you."

When Hongli returned to the main room of the school, Hongshi took the initiative to stand up and apologize to Hongli with a fist salute, and looked a little disappointed.

Hongli forced a smile and said, "Third brother was just careless, how could I be angry?"

As Hongli spoke, he asked the servants below to stand up straight.

"I'm glad Fourth Brother isn't angry. Brothers like you and I should be friendly and respectful to each other."

"When Uncle Fourteen ascends the throne and Uncle Eight takes charge of government affairs and makes use of me, I will definitely support you!"

Hongshi laughed heartily, then sat back down with gritted teeth.

Hong Zhou, who was standing aside, was still frowning.

Hongli also smiled faintly, thinking that what Yongzheng said in history about Hongshi being frivolous was not false. The fourteenth prince had not even become emperor yet, but he was even more frivolous than the core members of the party of the eighth and fourteenth princes. Now he was using such despicable means, even Hongzhou, who was the same age as him, showed disdain and disgust. It would be strange that such a person could be liked by a strict man like Yongzheng.

And Hongli could also hear that Hongshi was threatening him by saying that if the Eighth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince's party won and seized power in the future and he would rise to prominence, then he would intensify his efforts to deal with him. If he did not listen to him, he would wait for the day when the Eighth Prince's party won completely.

Hongli naturally disagreed with this, and even promised in his heart that when Yongzheng succeeded to the throne and dealt with Hongshi, he would definitely give Hongshi a hard time!
It's only two years anyway.

Two years later, when Yongzheng unexpectedly became the new emperor, Hongshi, an adult prince who was eager to go all-in with the Eighth and Fourteenth Princes, would not even be qualified to represent Yongzheng in offering sacrifices.

Because, as early as the first year of Yongzheng's reign, when Emperor Kangxi celebrated his anniversary, it was the underage prince Hongli, not Hongshi, who went to offer sacrifices on his behalf.

It can be seen that Yongzheng already disliked Hongshi very much at the beginning of his reign.

But Hongshi really didn't realize that his father would be the emperor in the future. He even looked depressed when he saw that Hongli didn't show any fear towards his threat. He could only curse in his heart: "Idiot! You will regret it in the future!"

Since Pan Shiquan had not arrived yet, Hongli started reviewing his lessons.

He first picked up the "Gu Wen Yuan Jian". Hongli knew that this book was a set of Chinese studies books selected by Emperor Kangxi and edited by Xu Qianxue and others, in order to help the royal children better master Chinese studies.

Kangxi obviously attached great importance to royal education.

Of course, he also knew that the Aisin-Gioro family was a minority ethnic group that combined with some Han bureaucrats and landlords to rule China through a more autocratic system, and that strengthening royal education was necessary.

"I have heard the Zou Zi say: 'Political education, culture, and substance are what we call salvation. Use what is appropriate and discard it when it is not. Change it when it is easy. Therefore, those who stick to one principle and do not change it have never seen the ultimate governance.' Today, the people of the world spend their wealth extravagantly. They compete to embellish their carriages, horses, clothes, furs, and palaces. They adjust the five tones to create order, mix the five colors to create beauty, and emphasize the five flavors to display in front of the emperor, in order to observe the desires of the world."

Hongli was silently reciting an article he was currently studying, and his thoughts unconsciously flew to the current situation of the Qing Dynasty.

He had to admit that the Eight Banners nobles in the Qing Dynasty were beginning to become generally arrogant, extravagant, corrupt and decadent. Therefore, Yongzheng, a reformist who wanted to revitalize the Qing Dynasty, had the reform idea of ​​"using it at the moment, abandoning it when it is outdated, and changing it when it is easy." To this end, in the future, there would be a major reform of the political and economic system and even the political economy of thousands of years.

For example, the millennia-old head tax was abolished, the millennia-old privilege of exemption from military service for officials and gentry was ended, and the system of slavery that had existed for several dynasties was abolished.

This also allowed the original owner of this body to have enough money to use military forces everywhere in the future, such as annihilating the Dzungar Khanate, sending troops to the Himalayas, and fighting the Jinchuan Wars. It seemed that he had endless money. The key was that he could also go to the south of the Yangtze River six times at the same time and carry out large-scale construction projects to increase the population to over 300 million.

While Hongli was lost in thought, Pan Shiquan was walking towards him with his hands behind his back.

"Meet Master Pan!"

Hongli, Hongshi and Hongzhou stood up together and saluted Pan Shiquan.

Although Pan Shiquan was secretly Yongzheng's aide, he was nominally just a lecturer invited by Yongzheng to educate his son.

Pan Shiquan noticed that Hongshi had deliberately wet Hongli's clothes.

But he did not make it public, and even deliberately waited until Hongli changed his clothes before appearing.

After Hongli and the others finished paying their respects, Pan Shiquan asked them to sit down and said to the three of them, "Let's check the homework first."

"Third brother, you did a terrible job on this homework!"

Pan Shiquan first checked Hongshi's homework, but he frowned because he found that Hongshi had not done a lot of homework.

"Master Pan, please punish me!"

Hongshi smiled disdainfully and extended his hand.

Although he was willing to accept punishment for not completing his studies well, he believed that as a member of the royal family, doing well in his studies was far less important than standing on the right side politically. This was mainly because he really did not think that he was likely to become a prince, but only believed that the person most likely to become emperor was General Wang Laosi, who was currently fighting in the northwest.

"That's it!"

Pan Shiquan did not punish Hongshi. He knew that Hongshi was not interested in this, so he checked Hongli's homework.

After checking Hongli's homework, Pan Shiquan laughed and said, "Fourth Prince did an excellent job on his homework. It's rare that he even finished the math problem."

"Thank you, Master Pan, for the compliment."

Hongli bowed.

Hongshi just curled his lips.

Pan Shiquan then checked Hong Zhou's homework, and after checking, he nodded with satisfaction: "Although Fifth Brother is not as good as Fourth Brother, he has done everything he should do, which is rare."

Hong Zhou smiled.

Then, Pan Shiquan continued, "Today we will continue to discuss the Ancient Literature Mirror."

At this time, Hongli went to his seat and opened the book.

After finishing the lecture, Hongli, Hongshi and Hongzhou went to pay their respects to Yongzheng and his first wife, Ulanara.

Although Hongli and his descendants were not born to Ulanara, legally speaking, Ulanara was his mother.

Therefore, Hongli and others needed to pay their respects to the Ulanara family.

Generally, when Hongli and others came to pay their respects, Ulanara would not meet them in person.

After all, they were not her own real children, so Ulanara could not say that she liked them very much.

But today was an exception. Ulanara actually had Hongli brought only into the inner room where she lived.

(End of this chapter)