Kowloon wins

Chapter 359 Chapter 360

On May 47th of the 320th year of Kangxi, the trading fleet sent by the "Eight Banners Company" to Dongying returned smoothly and docked at Jiaoao (now Qingdao). Far exceeding the originally estimated amount of around 7000 million taels. When the news arrived in Beijing in mid-May, all the disciples of the Eight Banners were overjoyed. No matter whether it was the dignitaries of the Eight Banners or ordinary bannermen, they were all discussing the huge profits gained by the Eight Banners business. The dull atmosphere that lasted for a month and a half suddenly cleared up.

On the fifth day of June in the 47th year of Kangxi, twelve large sea-going ships sent by the "Eight Banners Company" to Nanyang, loaded with various goods, also arrived in Guangzhou smoothly. After the voyage, a total of more than 440 million taels of silver was obtained, which was slightly lower than expected. The deviation, about 30 taels less, is mainly due to the fact that too many goods arrived in Nanyang at one time, which led to a decline in the transaction price, but it can still be regarded as making a lot of money. In mid-June , The report on the profit status arrived in Beijing, and the Eight Banners Company held a board meeting overnight, and made a resolution on the distribution of dividends, which was submitted to Mr. Kangxi for review.

On June 47th, 500th year of Kangxi, the emperor issued a decree, approving the resolution of the Eight Banners firm, and allocated more than [-] taels of silver from the internal treasury to make up an integer of [-] million taels. With an edict, all the ministries of the Eight Banners were in an uproar, and the thank you book in the previous book flew into the Changchun Garden like snowflakes, and the old man Longyan was overjoyed.

On June 47th of the [-]th year of Kangxi, when the ministries of the Eight Banners were excited about the first bonus that was about to be received, the old man issued another edict to restore the position of Prince Yinfeng, and Zhang Tingyu presided over the ceremony. It was announced to the world, and all the officials went to the book to celebrate, and the matter was settled.

On June 47, 21th year of Kangxi, the emperor summoned the eighth master, who had just recovered from a serious illness, to see him in Changchun Garden. Prince Lian, the fourth prince was also promoted to Prince Yong, and the fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth princes were all promoted to be county kings, and they gave banquets to all officials in the Changchun Garden. It can be regarded as completely uncovering the past, and the court situation seems to have a new look, but in fact, the undercurrent is already raging.

On the first day of July in the 47th year of Kangxi, the emperor once again issued an edict, giving the crown prince the right to criticize and criticize. It was clearly ordered that all official documents in the six departments should be sent to Yuqing Palace first, supplemented by Ma Qi, Wang Shizhen and other university scholars. , repeatedly praised the texts approved by the prince, and recalled Ling Pu, who was relegated at the beginning of the year, and other prince's confidants to the court one by one. Among them, Ling Pu was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs; Liangjiang was appointed governor, taking over the vacancy left by Baxi, who had been dismissed and returned to the land; the former Minister of the Ministry of War, Geng Eguan, who was implicated in the deposed case, was restored to his post; Sai, Dagu and other former prince's confidantes were also able to join the Six Departments to occupy important positions. For a time, the prince's power was heavy, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at him endlessly.

On the ninth day of September in the 47th year of Kangxi, the old man went to Jiangnan again, taking Zhang Tingyu and Chen Tingjing with him, leaving the prince to supervise the country, with Ma Qi, Wen Da, Wang Shizhen, and Yin Tai as the four assistants.

The old man walked in a cool way, just went to play like this, but there was trouble in the capital. No, the old man had only left for a few days, and the prince who pretended to be a grandson started to get mad. Shen Xiao, the supervisory censor, was dismissed from his post, and then Chen Wang, a doctor in the Ministry of officials, and Qi Zhicheng, a doctor in the household department, were relegated from Beijing. The reason?Unnecessary!
Shen Xiao and the others are not high-ranking officials, they are only fifth-rank officials, and they are inconspicuous in the capital where the dignitaries are everywhere. As usual, no one will care about whether these officials are dismissed or not. But at this time the prince made such a move, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly became alarmed, not because of anything else, just because these three people were the first three people who came to the book to sponsor Ba Ye at the time of the public recommendation, the prince was punishing this at this time. The three of them obviously didn't do it by accident, they hit the dog, but they slapped the Eighth Master, it's really hard to say what the consequences will be.

how?In fact, it really didn't matter, just as the officials were waiting to see how the eighth master would fight back, the eighth master claimed that he was sick and asked for leave, and went straight back home, leaving the door out, and acting as a shrinking The tortoise didn't even make a sound. It didn't matter if he showed weakness like this, the prince became even more energetic. In less than a month, he issued more than a dozen hand orders one after another, sending more than 90.00 eighth masters, Jiu Ye's servants were demoted or exempted, and at this moment, all the ministers and workers who were still watching the fun were really panicked, nothing else, the man who recommended Ba Ye in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty Officials accounted for almost [-]%. If the crown prince is allowed to continue to mess around like this, the big guys will have nothing to eat. Everyone is in danger, and there will be a sea of ​​people who go to Ba Ye's mansion for help. However, there are very few people who can really see Ba ​​Ye. Without him, Ba Ye is sick and still very serious, so he doesn't see anyone.

The eighth master hid himself like this, but it was hard for nine or ten masters. He was called into the palace by the prince almost every now and then, and every time he was trained like a grandson, what a big deal They have to be on the outline and online for a while, and the two masters are miserable, but at this moment the crown prince is in charge of the country, and he wants to train others. The ninth master and the tenth master really can only listen obediently, of course Now, the two masters are not easy to mess with, and they have connected with many ministers in private. They have written letters to the old man far away in the south of the Yangtze River, planning to play the trick of suing the imperial court, but unfortunately the old man ignored them at all. It was all like a stone sinking into the sea, but it didn't even bubble up. As a last resort, Jiuye and Shiye had to follow the example of Baye and also got sick. They can't afford to be provoked and hide!

Seeing the sky is approaching the Spring Festival, it is already frighteningly cold, but this year's weather is strange, cold to cold, but the first snow has not yet fallen, and the wind is very strong, whistling, scratching pain, It's cold and cold, but it still can't help the enthusiasm of the courtiers to enter Yuqing Palace to curry favor with the prince, nothing else, did you see that the extremely powerful Baye side has been defeated by the prince's power, why don't you hurry now If you make up for your mistakes in the past, once the crown prince liquidates them, the consequences will be unbearable. Just because of this thought, in the past few days, people who have given gifts to Yuqing Palace in the name of the coming of the new year are really uncommon. A few days ago, even the third master went to join in the fun, but Hong Qing was still leisurely there, not going to the East Palace at all. In the Ministry of Industry, if there are any ministries that need to be submitted, they all send the officials below to deliver them, but he himself never takes half a step near the East Palace. There was a lot of disputes with the prince.

"Qing Baylor, His Royal Highness invites you to Yuqing Palace."

As the saying goes, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, Hong Qing doesn't want to see the prince, but the prince obviously has no intention of letting Hong Qing go down, no, this one just finished school today, and is going out with the old fifteen brothers While walking, chattering nonsense, he saw Zhang Degao, the new deputy chief eunuch of the East Palace, leading two young eunuchs hurriedly to greet him.

"Thank you, Eunuch Zhang."

Hong Qing didn't know Zhang Degao well, she only knew that she was originally one of the little eunuchs that the prince listened to, because the former deputy chief eunuch Zhao Xiaoxiao hated the old man in the matter of the elder brother's oppressing the prince, so she was directly demoted. Xin Zheku was just promoted by chance to be the vice-principal of the Eastern Palace. As for whether there is any other reason behind it, Hongqing is not too clear, but Hongqing doesn't want to care about it, let alone set up a fight with Zhang Degao. Almost, after listening to Qi's proclamation, he just bowed his hands and returned the salute, and responded calmly.

"Qing Baylor, please!"

In the past few months, as the prince's reputation has grown, Zhang Degao's small life has also been extremely prosperous. Not to mention ordinary officials, even senior officials of the first and second ranks have to respectfully accompany him when he sees him. At this moment, seeing Hong Qing's expression so indifferent, without the slightest care to please her, she felt very unhappy in her heart, but she didn't dare to show Hong Qing's face on the spot, so she just waved her hands with a smirk. He smiled and said please.

"Ah."

Hong Qing was very alert by nature, but he could see Zhang Degao's deep displeasure, but he didn't bother to pay attention to it. After saying a word calmly, he flicked his sleeves and walked slowly towards Yuqing Palace. go.

In the study room of Yuqing Palace, the prince was sitting in front of the copywriter, writing quickly, even though he clearly heard the sound of Hong Qing's approaching footsteps, he didn't see him raise his head, he looked so busy, is it true?I'm afraid it's not necessarily so, at least in Hong Qing's view, nothing else, this is just a show of power.

"My nephew kowtows to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Even though she had already guessed that the prince announced that she would come here without any good intentions, Hong Qing couldn't help but feel a bit of a twitch in her heart when she saw the prince's airs, but it was only at the time, even if If you are angry, you can't be rude, so you have no choice but to walk a few steps, grab the front, and salute politely.

"Yo, it's Qing'er who's here, don't be polite, let's get down."

Hearing loud noises, the prince finally raised his head, glanced at Hong Qing, a smile instantly changed on his face, he raised his hand, and shouted politely.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness, Ron."

Although Hong Qing was muttering in her heart, the courtesy that should be done was not lacking at all. After a respectful thank you, she got up, leaned slightly, and put on a cute appearance of listening to instructions, but However, his brain was running at high speed, thinking carefully about the possible troubles of the prince, but under a thousand thoughts, he couldn't figure it out clearly for a while, and in desperation, he really had to wait for the prince. I solved the mystery by myself.

(End of this chapter)