The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 246
The snow under the setting sun has not stopped, Zhang Tingyu felt that the weather was not bad, and bent his lips slightly the moment Longkodo passed by.

He came out of the dormitory, went down the steps, and saw Li Dequan walking tremblingly holding a medicine bowl.

This old eunuch has been with Kangxi for so many years, taking care of the daily life and food, and also bringing Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang with him. Maybe he is someone Kangxi trusts?
It's just that at such a critical moment, Li Dequan actually went to fetch the medicine. Only he knew what was going on in his heart.

Li Dequan stood still in front of the steps, bowed his head and called out "Master Zhang", with some hesitation.

Zhang Tingyu sighed, it seemed that he was still the same loyal Zhang Tingyu in the past, he saw that Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang had both retreated, and there was only Long Keduo inside, and there were guards outside immediately pulling Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang down.With a flash in his eyes, Zhang Tingyu looked away.

Longkodo went out first, and just entered.

Zhang Tingyu said to Li Dequan: "The emperor is still inside, talking to Lord Longkodo, the last edict has been issued..."

In any case, Zhang Tingyu is Zhang Ying's son, and the Zhang family is loyal. When Zhang Ying was begging for a rest, he even said that he would hold a banquet in Changchun Garden. In recent years, Zhang Tingyu has been promoted by Li Guangdi. Kangxi's confidants, the emperor's party, Li Dequan didn't dare to say anything, but he dared to say it to Zhang Tingyu.What's more, Zhang Tingyu has always walked the right path, a modest gentleman...

Li Dequan couldn't help wiping away his tears, he was a little choked up, perhaps because he saw his master collapsed, and knew that the future would be over.

"Old slave... this old slave just couldn't help it..."

In fact, Li Dequan felt ashamed from the bottom of his heart. He could still see clearly, and he knew clearly in his heart. He knew that someone was going to make a move today, and he also knew that he had no choice.In his opinion, Zhang Tingyu and himself are in the same disease.Secretly lowering his voice, Li Dequan looked at Zhang Tingyu with old eyes: "Serving the emperor for so many years..."

Zhang Tingyu secretly clenched his hands with a forbearance.

Today is also a game.

He patted Li Dequan's hand, and his voice was a little hoarse: "What can we do? We just—"

"The emperor is dead! The emperor is dead!"

In the sleeping hall, suddenly there was a shout, it was Longkodo's voice, like a thunderbolt, piercing the tranquility, the entire Changchun Garden and even the entire Qing Dynasty were about to explode!
The medicine bowl in Li Dequan's hand fell to the ground with the wooden support, and the hot soup splashed all over the ground. He ran forward in horror, but tripped over the steps, and shouted hoarsely: "Long Live Lord——"

Zhang Tingyu quickly bent down to help him: "Eunuch De!"

Li Dequan opened his mouth wide, as if he was about to lose his breath, he looked at Zhang Tingyu, Zhang Tingyu pinched his own hand, then pinched Li Dequan's hand, and said, "This... this..."

His performance like this made Li Dequan think that Zhang Tingyu didn't know about it, and looking at Zhang Tingyu's relaxed appearance before, it seemed that he really didn't know that Kangxi would die at this time.

When the emperor died, only Long Kedo was by his side...

Who knows what happened?
Li Dequan had thought that there would be an incident of seizing the heirloom in the court, but he never expected that someone would dare to kill the king!
He felt sad, and crawled towards the bedroom with hands and feet...

Seeing Li Dequan go in, the sad expression on Zhang Tingyu's face suddenly disappeared, numb and cold.

He stepped up the steps, flicked his green sleeves, and gestured to the guard next to him with a voice like a gnat: "Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang are both poisonous and dumb."

The guard next to him bowed and quietly backed away from the big red lacquered pillar.

Zhang Tingyu didn't seem to do anything, so he entered the bedroom. After a while, Yinzhen came, the princes also came, and the princes and ministers finally came. Longkodo read out the imperial edict in public...

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, but the pace of conspiracy has not stopped.

University scholar Ma Qi knelt under Emperor Kangxi's coffin, looked at Zhang Tingyu in a trance, and fell down, unconscious on the ground.

They were all helpless, whether Zhang Tingyu was loyal or treacherous was unclear.

Only Yinzhen, kneeling in front of the couch, had a ferocious expression on his face, and then the ecstasy of successfully seizing the throne was accompanied by such great grief, making the expression on his whole face extremely complicated.But at this moment, no one dares to look at him anymore, because he is the new emperor!

The eighth master Yinhu stood up and scolded loudly. He has no demeanor of a virtuous king in Suri, let alone the always reckless old nine and ten...

During Kangxi's lifetime, they fought for a long time, and they also could not rest in peace after his death.

Zhang Tingyu also had that kind of unspeakable grief on his face, but in his heart he suddenly remembered Kangxi back then, with an expression of admiration for Zhang Ying having a good son.

What's so good about being an emperor is nothing more than that when you die.

That night, Kangxi's coffin was transported back to the palace through Xizhimen, and the inner nine cities were under martial law. Zhang Tingyu was on the way back home in a sedan chair after finishing his work, when he saw a few cannons in red clothes, he bent his lips slightly.

At this time, it was early in the morning, and it had been snowing for several days, and the capital city was covered with snow and clean.

The rising sun rises from the southeast, and the sunlight slantly falls on the sedan chair?On the road, the street was quiet, and occasionally we heard a little crying. At this time, it should be the mourning of the whole country.

When returning home, Zhang's mansion was also silent, Gu Huaishu got up as usual, and after hearing the report from the person in front, he went to the front of Yimen, seeing him as indifferent as ever, but couldn't smile.

The two held hands together and entered the door without saying a word.

Zhang Tingyu was extremely tired, so he ate something and went to sleep.

Gu Huaishu didn't dare to disturb him, so he just went out, knowing that Yinzhen's eyeliner should be watching all over the capital now, so he must not dare to make a mistake.

Some things have changed quietly, Gu Huaishu can't tell if it's good or bad, but in general it's still the same.

It's not that there is no news to pass to Gu Huaixiu, it's just that when she sees the news, she doesn't know how to feel.

The more you know, the worse the end will be. Now it's time to make plans.

It wasn't until evening that Zhang Tingyu got up, put on his normal clothes, and had dinner with Gu Huaishu, then sat down on the kang, his voice was hoarse: "How are you doing these days?"

Gu Huaishu didn't expect his first sentence to be a question to himself, so he only said: "Is there anything good? That's it, but you are slowing down now, I have something to show you."

As she spoke, she took out a letter and handed it to Zhang Tingyu.

Zhang Tingyu took a look, Ma Qi wrote to the Fourteenth Lord over there in Qinghai?

He glanced at Gu Huaixiu, and Gu Huaixiu said: "Ertai cut it over there, but didn't hand it over to me, but gave it to me...Maybe, it's useful?"

The layout of this encounter is thrilling, and it can also be said to be an incident triggered by accident.

Without that jade pendant, perhaps Kangxi still trusted Longkodo, and they would not be forced to take this path...

There are a lot of omissions, and the pressure Yinzhen has to face is also great, the eighth master party, the eldest brother, and the fourteenth brother who is far away in Qinghai.

"Nian Gengyao is watching over the war in Qinghai, ruling the Fourteenth Master. There are Longkodo in the capital, so nothing will happen for the time being." Zhang Tingyu is like a mirror in his heart.

Once the emperor and the courtier, Zhang Tingyu is not in the word "chen"?
He lightly pressed this page of letter paper on the table, thinking about all the things he had done in the past few days, as if he was considering whether there were any omissions.

I have been thinking so hard for the past few days that my brain is almost exhausted.

A gentleman does not stand under the wall, nor is he in danger. Zhang Tingyu just wants to protect himself wisely.

I can only hope that Longkodo...

That's all, just a scapegoat.

Thinking about it, Zhang Tingyu called Ade and asked someone to send a dead pigeon to Ma Qi. He only said that the pigeon fell off while flying and landed in his yard. Fainted, it was not in vain to send it to him.

Ma Qi saw this bloody dead pigeon in his mansion, what else did he not understand?

When Kangxi passed away, the year was never over, and the year after year was full of mourning.

Those who know the current affairs are heroes, and the current situation cannot be reversed...

The fourteenth elder brother can't even catch up with Kangxi's death, and returning in a hurry is just a prisoner's life. The Eighth Ye Party or the Fourteenth Ye Party has survived in name only.

After the new year, the new emperor changed his name to Yongzheng, and a new page has been opened since then.

At the end of February, Ma Qi went to the palace to meet the new emperor and handed in a copy. At the beginning of March, Yongzheng decreed that Ma Qi, a former scholar of the Wuying Palace, was changed to a scholar of the Baohe Palace.

In this way, passing the Wenhua Palace and entering the Baohe Palace directly, he is No. 1 among civil servants.

Zhang Tingyu just smiled when he heard this.

Emperor Daxing's close servants Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang were executed. Yinzhen met Li Dequan alone and sent him out of the palace.

Longkodo is still the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and concurrently serves as the admiral of the Nine Schools. Ma Qi, a senior scholar, went to the Palace of Baohe, and Wang Jian, a senior scholar, was old and sick and begged for retirement. Funing'an is a Bachelor of Wuyingdian, and Xu Yuanmeng is a Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Among the six departments, Long Ke was mostly the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and also the admiral of the Nine Schools; Zhang Tingyu was changed from the Minister of the Ministry of Rites to the Minister of the Ministry of Households, and became a first-rank official, and also in charge of the Imperial Academy.

This year, it seems that everyone has tasted the sweetness of Gongbian.

And Zhang Tingyu has been thinking about one thing for a long time: Wei Zhu is dead, Zhao Chang is dead, the imperial decree is burned, and Long Keduo came in. He is acting in front of Li Dequan, and he doesn't know how long he can protect himself?

Seeing that spring is about to begin, after that period of sadness, the ordinary people should live their lives, but it doesn't really affect them.

Now Li Wei was suddenly appreciated by Yongzheng, and he was sent to Zhili Station to preach. Before he arrived, he was appointed as Yunnan Yanyi Road. letter.Now Ertai is the deputy chief examiner of the Yunnan Provincial Examination, and he has also left for his post.

It is true that the emperor and the courtiers belonged to one court, and the entire court and the public underwent huge changes in the first year of Kangxi, but Zhang Tingyu might not want to gain a firm foothold amidst such changes and win over his own power.

Pushing open the door and coming in, Gu Huaishu only saw Zhang Tingyu's handbook and asked, "This is it?"

Now that Zhang Tingyu is also a close minister of Yongzheng, he decided on the system of memorials. The secret memorials already existed in the previous court, but they were not used much. Now that the military affairs in the Northwest are up and there are many things, Zhang Tingyu is also a little bit burnt out, but the more troublesome thing is "Qing Dynasty" "Records of the Holy Ancestor" is like writing a biography for Kangxi when he first entered the court. Now that Zhang Tingyu is working under Yongzheng, he is still writing a biography, but the protagonist of this biography is dead.

Zhang Tingyu handed her the booklet and said, "Nian Gengyao has passed on the good news, and the emperor will give you something."

Gu Huaixiu took it over and took a look, feeling a little dazed.

With Nian Gengyao on the outside and Longkodo on the inside, the throne of Yinzhen seems very secure.

In the past year, he sent off several brothers, and also rewarded several brothers. The thirteenth master, who was neglected in the last years of Kangxi, is now the prime minister's household department. He is Yongzheng's arm, but Zhang Tingyu seems to be idle again, but the things are piled on him. more and more.

However, Zhang Tingyu likes the position of a bachelor, and now he is still a cabinet bachelor, and he is a little unhappy.

Gently put down the booklet, Gu Huaixiu only said: "Nian's family is very good, there is a concubine Nian in the palace, and there is Nian Gengyao outside... But Nian Gengyao achieved his ambition at a young age, and now he is on the rise without any setbacks. A few days ago, before Ertai went to Yunnan, he told me that Nian Gengyao would not last long, and even Longkodo would not last long. I am not worried about them, but you—from what I know about the emperor, he... Not necessarily without filial piety..."

"If you have filial piety, will you seize the heir?"

Zhang Tingyu couldn't help laughing.

"If I remember correctly, the day you ... made people dumb Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang, you used people under Long Kedo's subordinates?" Gu Huaixiu knew about this at the time, but he never said it .

This move seems simple.

It was clear that he was killing people to silence his mouth. The most powerful thing about the emperor was his jealousy. On the one hand, he was guilty of instigating the palace change, but on the other hand, he had to get the throne. Longkodo was too deeply involved in this matter, and he might not be able to pull it out.

What's more, there is Zhang Tingyu who stabbed a knife in the back?
Zhang Tingyu lowered his head, finally he still didn't want to look at the booklet, and said: "Li Dequan thought I was a good person, the emperor had seen him before someone sent him out, Li Dequan thought that the matter of the emperor's death had nothing to do with me, Long Ke Duo I don't care about what he said in front of the emperor. In short, this matter has nothing to do with me... Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang are poisonous and dumb from Longkodo, isn't he Do you still praise the guards below for doing a good job?"

At that time, Zhang Tingyu was so poisonous and dumb that he was afraid that the two eunuchs would say something, and he was sensible enough to chop off his fingers.

When the emperor died, Zhang Tingyu was not around, the imperial decree must be wrong, everyone knows this, but they will not say it.

According to what Gu Huaixiu said, if the emperor has filial piety, those who were there when the former emperor died must be in bad luck.

"However... those who know too much will be unlucky..."

Perhaps, apart from Kangxi, who had already met Lord Yan, and Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang, no one knew what Zhang Tingyu had done.

Originally, he was acting with Long Kedo, and the fourth master wanted to see if the written decree was his name, but unfortunately it was not.

No one knows exactly what mood Prince Yong was in at that time, and Zhang Tingyu didn't want to know either.

He regarded himself as his clear stream, temporarily standing still.

Just changed the yuan and changed the dynasty, so there are many things.

In the first month of the first year, Zhang Tingyu became the master of the princes. In February, he was granted the title of Doctor Guanglu, and Gu Huaishu was named First-Class Wife.

The new emperor enthroned, special opening Enke, April township examination, September general examination, October palace examination, the original Guimao and Jiachen township general examinations are rescheduled for the following year, February rural examination, August general examination , Palace examination in September.

Zhang Tingyu first served as the examiner of the Shuntian Township Examination in April, and he was the chief examiner with Zhu Shi, the current royal censor of Zuodu.

Every year, something happens in the township examination, and this year is no exception, but it's a bit tricky.

Nian Gengyao, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, holds great power and is also the prime minister of military affairs in the northwest frontier. He can be regarded as the current generation of feudal officials. During the Kangxi Dynasty, he was still stationed in Qinghai and other places in Sichuan. But he came to the capital.

These are all mentioned earlier, and Shuntian's rural examination this year has something to do with Nian Gengyao.

In April, the Shuntian Township Examination was over, and the examiner was grading the papers. Zhu Shi, the chief examiner, suddenly saw an answer sheet on the way, hesitating to write and correct it, sweating coldly, and it was difficult to make a decision.

Zhang Tingyu was drinking tea when he turned around and saw Zhu Shi's embarrassed look, so he asked, "What's wrong with Master Zhu?"

It took Zhu Shi a long time to say: "This matter is hard to decide, please Mr. Zhang take a look."

As he spoke, he presented the answer sheet to Zhang Tingyu.

Zhang Tingyu tapped his hand, and someone picked it up, put it on his case, followed by an eloquent stereotyped essay, followed by a sentence——

"The examiner knows that the student is the son of a friend of Governor Nian."

It's hard to tell, and it's funny.

In front of the big and small room officials, examiners, and candidates in the curtain, Zhang Tingyu laughed, and threw the teacup towards the table, "Interesting, let me see how sacred this is..."

After saying that, he actually tore off the yellow paper next to the name, which shocked countless people to gasp!
Where is the reason for the examiner to destroy the name without authorization? !

But Zhang Tingyu has already done it, and he has already seen the names of the candidates in front of him.

His ancestral home is Shuntian, a scholar Xia Yi.

(End of this chapter)