On the 16th day of the first lunar month in the twelfth year of Kangxi.

Emperor Kangxi, who had already finished his work in the Lantern Festival, has just finished lunch and is sitting in the study room looking through more than a dozen very important memorials and question books delivered over the days.

Some of them are the complaints of apologizing for many criminals! Before the New Year Festival, Tuhai, Sun Sike, Shi Lang, Sun Yanling and others had already requested guilty.

After the New Year, Geng Jingzhong, Liu Jinzhong, and a bunch of Hunan officials’ apology memorials have arrived again!

It is normal for those Hunan officials to say nothing about apologizing for their guilt. They can't beat Wu Sangui.

Moreover, their current speed of losing territory is acceptable. The four important places of Changsha, Yuezhou, Hengyang and Changde are still in the hands of the court, and they are probably able to stay for a while.

The memorial between Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong made Kangxi speechless. These two guys didn’t know what medicine they took before the New Year, so they even plucked up the courage to go and fight Chaozhou Prefecture!

That was a place like a dragon and tiger den, and they could fight it even with them. As expected, they were defeated by a traitor named Yang Xiuqing.

Kangxi, the name of Yang Xiuqing, was seen in "A Collection of Poems of the Gentlemen of the Renzi Ke," and was a Guangxi scholar. He also wrote the famous saying "Loyal bones are buried everywhere in the green mountains, why do you need to return to the horse and leather corpse?"

At that time, Emperor Kangxi knew that this was not simple. Unexpectedly, he was not only very literary, but also had extremely skilled military strategy. He was a talented person with both civil and military skills!

It’s a pity that the powerful talents were unwilling to be used by the court, but instead became the right auxiliary deputy military advisor of the traitor.

Kangxi sighed and thought to himself: "Why are talents such as me and my father, both wise and benevolent, unwilling to serve the court?"

In addition to the apology, there are also several copies of the good news to Emperor Kangxi.

For example, the resigned Fujian Governor Fan Chengmo reported good news in the memorial of Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong were really defeated!

Moreover, Geng Jingzhong also went to fight with the thieves himself, and was seriously injured and Fan Chengmo had already visited him, so it was absolutely true!

Since Geng Jingzhong was injured, this is good news, which shows that Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong are both loyal! If they had already colluded with Prince Zhu San, then the defeat in Chaozhou would be a fraud. How could it be that much damage? Geng Jingzhong almost died in battle?

Fan Chengmo was a loyal and smart slave, and that stupid Geng Jingzhong could not be satisfied with him.

So Geng Jingzhong's loyalty is certain!

Although many people say that Liu Jinzhong is unreliable, Kangxi thinks this guy is still loyal.

Otherwise, when Chaozhou was defeated, he would have turned against him and killed Geng Jingzhong, and now the whole of Fujian will be in chaos.

In addition to these "two loyalties", Emperor Kangxi discovered another loyal minister, the admiral of Pingliang, Wang Fuchen.

Wang Fuchen had worked under Wu Sangui, and it was said that he was very kind, so many people submitted secret letters to Kangxi, asking him to be wary of Wang Fuchen.

Wang Fuchen has submitted a memorial now because he heard that the thief had a "bomb box" that could hurt people's lives, and was very worried about the negligence of the Taihe Gate's gatekeeper. So he resigned from the Admiral Pingliang and wanted to enter the court to be the imperial guard, guard the Taihe Gate for the emperor, and protect the emperor's safety!

Look, what a good slave!

How could it be unfaithful?

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi did not reject Wang Dazhongnu's intentions, and immediately ordered Wang Fuchen to quickly enter the court to be the "gatekeeper" Taihemen's guardian, so he handed over the important task of guarding the Taihemen.

In addition to the "three loyalties" of Geng Jingzhong, Liu Jinzhong and Wang Fuchen, Tuhai, who made meritorious service, also submitted a memorial to Kangxi, recommending Shi Dazhong, who had fought many times in the north to serve as the admiral of the Yangtze River Navy!

This is really a defeat and promotion!

Although they are all admirals, the admirals of the Yangtze River are much more important than the admirals of the Xijiang River!

But this official still has to be promoted to others!

Because Kangxi really didn't have many talents to run a naval division in Guangdong and Fujian's original naval chiefs were mostly landscaping from Chen Han's army. They were loyal and fierce when they fell into the water. Can they still expect them to defeat the thieves on the Yangtze River?

However, the Yangtze River Navy was handed over to Shi Lang, and Emperor Kangxi was a little worried!

You have to find a slave who is more loyal than Shi Lang!

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi immediately found it in the Nan Study Room.

Now the ministers who come to Nanshu are divided into two parts, some are ministers. If several grand scholars don’t have anything to do, they must come. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue Man also have to come. There is also a "counselor" Yue Le, who also has the title of Minister of Political Affairs and comes to Nanshu every day.

The other part is the "Little Minister", led by Xiong Cilu, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, including Fu Honglie, Huang Zhisheng, Zhang Hongtian, etc.

Among them, Zhang Hongtian is the real person Qi Ling, and he is now a Hanlin. He is an official appointed as the "Spell of the Wizards" and is specifically responsible for helping Emperor Kangxi perform "Spell of the Wizards".

Emperor Kangxi was an academic emperor with both excellent literary and academic skills. He was different from those later Jia, Dao and Xian, just by reading those few words!

Moreover, Kangxi also likes to do math problems very much, so he doesn’t need to force him to do it. He is just interested. If he likes to do the questions, he is a typical academic master!

"Kang Xueba" has recently become obsessed with "spell experiments". He held a "spell bomb", the one that Deng Zhong picked up and handed over to Shi Lang, and took it out with Zhang Hongtian. After disassembling it, he carefully smashed the sugar medicine from the hollow cylinder inside, and then did experiments in small pieces with cold water, hot water, wine, vinegar, lard, and soy sauce.

Anyway, it’s all kinds of soaking. After soaking, heat it again, cool it again after heating... and then filter it with gauze.

After fiddling with the "Spring Festival", he actually made "Kang Xueba" discover many "mysteries of spells".

He now knows that Zhu Hetian’s sugar medicine is not soluble in water without adding charcoal powder and sulfur!

You put the sugar medicine in hot water and the flowers bloom, and you will know as soon as you filter it.

In addition, Kangxi also learned that Zhu Hetian’s sugar medicine was boiled with sugar and added with hot salt!

This was asked by Kangxi personally to go to the snack room of the imperial kitchen. The sugar was usually melted, hydrated, or vinegar. If it was added to hydrated, it was sugar water, which would definitely not work. The rest was melted with vinegar and heat.

Kangxi and Zhang Hongtian conducted an experiment together. It seemed that using vinegar did not work, but it was still too wet and could not burn it. The best effect of melting with fire was that it would catch fire if you accidentally!

While they were doing the experiment, they accidentally lit the imperial kitchen, and even shocked the Empress Dowager Bumubutai.

Afterwards, Emperor Kangxi thought that "spell" was better to be far away from the kitchen, so he could not burn the imperial kitchen. And now he is studying new gunpowder. What if he studies new poison in the future? It seems inappropriate to put it in the kitchen?

So Emperor Kangxi set up a "Master Hanlin" under the Hanlin Academy, allowing Zhang Zhenren to become a Hanlin.

Although the preparation problem has been solved and there is a special laboratory, the secret of sugar medicine has not been completely solved. The sugar medicine produced by Kangxi and Zhenren of Zhang is easy to break. It will break after a coolness, and it will become tide when it breaks, and it will become tide when it becomes tide.

In addition, boiling sugar medicine by heating open flame is very dangerous and can easily cause fires.

What made Kangxi the most headache was that the method of boiling sugar medicine was too simple and it was not easy to keep the secret. If the Han people in the world could do it... the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers would not have much deterrent power!

However, compared with these headaches, the things that made Emperor Kangxi happy these days still accounted for the majority of the Qing Dynasty and were still loyal ministers!

As long as you make good use of these loyal ministers, the Qing Dynasty will definitely win!

Thinking of this, Kangxi turned his attention to Fu Honglie, a "silly and loyal" slave.

"Fu Honglie!"

"I'm here!" Fu Honglie quickly knelt down for Kangxi.

Kangxi asked with a smile: "Fu Honglie, have you learned to prepare thunder medicine?"

"I'll know it, I'll know it. I've learned it every day with Zhang Zhenren."

Kangxi nodded and said, "It's great, are you from Nanchang Mansion?"

"That's right," Fu Honglie said, "the slave is indeed a person from Jinxian County, Nanchang Prefecture."

"Okay," Kangxi nodded, "Then you go to Jiangxi and serve as the minister of the Yangtze River Navy... in charge of two things. First, manage the supply of fire and thunder from the Navy and the entire head of the General of the Ningnanjing Kou! The two fire and thunder leaders originally under Deng Zhong are now under your control. The shortage of posts will be transferred from the Baoyi Cavalry Camp of the Internal Affairs Office.
Chapter completed!