Chapter 919 "Preparation"

Mongolia, the Holy Driving is here.

Because the journey was about to start the next day, the sixteenth prince and Cao Yong didn't care about not having a single night's eyes closed, and they worked hard for half a day. For nothing else, they just had eight-piece boxes filled with 100,000 taels of silver.

The eight-kilogram box was not big, but each weighed more than 800 kilograms. Only five or six young and strong could carry it. Prince Zhuoliketu said that he brought many Mongolian slaves to carry these.

Those slaves didn't even speak Chinese, and few of them would think about what their master pretended to be.

The Eight Banners Guards sent this batch of property back to Beijing. Even if the car was loaded first, they didn't need to carry it, but if a car only pulled a box, anyone would find it strange.

When Cao Yong and the Sixteenth Prince thought of this, they freed up more than twenty boxes from the Office of the Internal Affairs and packed the gold, and filled the spare parts in the box with bricks.

In this way, a box of two or three hundred kilograms will be considered heavy, even if others think it is heavy, they will only think that it is silver. It is said to the public that the amount of 100,000 taels of silver is roughly the same as the sixteenth prince.

Although Cao Yong took the emperor's order to return to Beijing, he was not the guard of the previous one, and the Ministry of Revenue still had some errands to hand over.

Therefore, after he returned to the tent, took a shower and changed his clothes, and after lunch, he went to the Fourth Prince's tent.

The fourth prince was not in the tent. I heard that the third prince was invited to go there, and together with several ministers of the Interior Department, I arranged for the siege to go there recently.

There was still half a day left, so Cao Yong was not in a hurry, so he came out of the Fourth Prince's account and returned to his own account.

Xiaoman stood at the entrance of the tent, talking to the two little eunuchs beside Mr. Tian in a sleepy way.

Eunuch Tian sat on the stool in front of the tent, hunched over, squinted his eyes and basked in the sun, like a lazy old cat.

Cao Yong then remembered that he forgot to return to Eunuch Tian in front of the imperial court in the morning. He couldn't help but tamper with his forehead, and he was sent by Kangxi's guards and his subordinates.

When Eunuch Tian saw Cao Yong coming, he stood up and bowed to greet him.

Cao Yong helped him up, and thought for a moment, and said, "General Manager Tian, ​​the emperor ordered Cao Yong to escort the property back to Beijing tomorrow morning. Maybe he had to hurry up on the way. If my father-in-law had no other arrangements, he could go with Cao Yong first and then slowly return to Beijing after he arrived in Rehe. Can it be done?"

He originally wanted to entrust Eunuch Tian to the Sixteenth Prince and wait until the Holy Lord returns to Beijing and then take it home, but in that case, he refuted Kangxi's arrangements, for fear of causing the person's displeasure.

If he took it home directly, he would be afraid of scaring his family. Besides, he would also prepare a house in advance, and ask his father-in-law and sister to see what the eunuchs have to offer, and whether there are any taboos.

Eunuch Tian shook his face and said in a sharp voice: "Better to be more polite to the old slave, so respect the uncle's instructions."

After saying this, he stopped talking and took the two eunuchs back to pack up the ceremony.

Looking at the hunched figure, Cao Yong had to suspect that the old eunuch was blocking his tent just to wait for this sentence.

He twitched the corners of his mouth and said to Xiaoman: "Go and find Master Sixteen, ask him to help him get another carriage."

Xiaoman went there, and Cao Yong called him again and said, "After meeting the Sixteenth Prince, you can go back and rest."

Xiaoman rubbed his eyes and said, "Master, I'm better waiting here, right? Master Wei and others are guarding the tent there. You always have to keep someone to serve you around, otherwise it would be not cheap."

Cao Yong waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Go and rest. Just get up at dinner. I'm tired, so I'm going to squint."

Xiaoman went to look for the sixteenth prince without mentioning it. Cao Yong entered the tent and felt dizzy.

He was drunk the night before, stayed up late last night, and today he had been working hard for half a day, and now he couldn't stand it.

He lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep for a moment...

*

The northeast of the camp, the third prince held the account.

The fourth prince sat on the chair, picked up the teacup, and sent it to the mouth. He used a sip. The tea had lost its color. He felt a little impatient and raised his head to look at the third prince.

The third prince asked someone to come over to discuss the matter of the siege. After sitting for half an hour, the sentences of the east and west were not serious, and he was not on the "point of the topic".

The siege is just a cover. If the topic is as expected, it should be the matter of Concubine Hui chasing the title of the queen. As for the so-called "grant" of the Queen Mother of Li's property, even if the third prince wants to intervene, he will not be able to speak.

Are there five thousand taels of gold and one hundred thousand taels of silver?

The fourth prince put down the teacup and remembered Princess Gulun Rongxian, the emperor's sister who was the same mother as the third prince.

The emperor's sister has always won the holy heart. Not only did she be named Princess Gulun by her concubines, but her family's wealth was quite rich.

If Li's identity is true, then the "gift" he received should be no less than Princess Rongxian.

These five thousand taels, hundreds of thousands taels, etc. were supposed to be revealed by the Sixteenth Prince to cover up. After all, those who were inquiring about the news in and outside the palace could not speak with the Cao family for a while, and the eunuchs around the Sixteenth Prince were much cheaper.

Although I knew it was a huge amount of money, the Fourth Prince was not jealous. This involved several generations of people, and there was also an elder sister who was wandering outside. The Fourth Prince didn't have such a thick face and stared at the money.

The fourth prince was impatient, and the third prince finally couldn't help it, cleared his throat and said, "Fourth brother, what the emperor said yesterday was that the matter of chasing Concubine Hui as the queen, what do you think?"

The fourth prince raised his eyelids and said lightly: "As a subject, my brother is not easy to guess the emperor's wishes."

The third prince was choked and spitted, and said with his neck straight: "The emperor has no homework. Borjigit is raised in the palace to wait for the year. He passed away before he entered the imperial palace. Concubine Hui was posthumously awarded. Now he is posthumously awarded the title again, and it is really a disagreement for the future position."

The fourth prince heard this and remained silent, watching how the third prince said back.

He was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and the task of posthumously titled the Queen was the job of the Ministry of Rites. If he had something to say, it would be considered not abrupt. It was just that he really wanted to be a straight minister and a statement before the imperial court was considered capable. Now what is the use of saying these behind the scenes?

Seeing that the fourth prince refused to respond, the third prince couldn't continue and could only curse a few words in his heart.

The tent was silent. The fourth prince took out his pocket watch and looked at it, stood up and said, "Third brother, this is an errand for the Ministry of Rites, and my brother can't speak. When the third brother has the rules, my brother is listening to the third brother's teachings."

The third prince looked a little stiff, stood up, and smiled and said with a wry voice: "It's all mine, but I'm not. The fourth brother is a busy man, so I shouldn't delay my fourth brother's kung fu."

"The third brother is polite, so brother will take the lead." The fourth prince bowed slightly and turned around and came out of the tent.

The smile on the third prince's face was frozen, and there was a saying that he was wandering around his mouth for a few times but still didn't dare to say it.

That is the matter of "adding the title". Not only does there be no queen in this harem, but there is only one imperial concubine, and there is also a lack of one imperial concubine.

The old man is old and wants to chase the queen and do whatever he does as a son, how could he be so arrogant and stop him from the head?

If Concubine Hui did not enter the imperial court, it would be even more impossible for a prince to be found. The one who chased the title or not was just a matter of being shining and would not be able to prevent him.

What he was thinking about was to take advantage of this "embrace of the Queen" and let the concubines in the harem advance to the throne, which was another pattern.

"Son of the Imperial Concubine", the third prince felt a little excited when he thought of these words.

Manchus emphasize "mother is valued by her son" and "son is valued by her mother". If the mother can be promoted to the title of "Niu Concubine", then his identity will be one level higher than other brothers. He is longer and expensive, isn't the reserve position legitimate?

However, among the four concubines in the harem, Concubine Yi and Concubine De seemed to be more holy, so the third prince resisted not showing any slight traits in front of the fourth prince. Otherwise, if he finally got a favor with others, wouldn’t he shoot himself in the foot?

"I would have loved the Emperor!" The third prince thought about it, but there was still no way to do it. He remembered the sister who moved back to the Princess' Mansion last year and sighed.

*

Regarding the "Queen of the Queen", the Fourth Prince did not have the third prince's plan in his heart, but he was not in a good mood these two days.

He knew Concubine Hui's true identity and did not agree with the emperor's father's prosecutorship.

This concubine is different from the queen. The queen is the mother of the country, and the concubine is just the concubine's wife. In history books, the concubine is just a note, but the queen cannot explain it in a few words.

Although there have been more than 50 years of experience, there have been countless people who know the hidden information, but they always make people feel uncomfortable.

Despite this, he did not take his anger against Cao Yong, but instead felt closer to him because he really became a nephew and uncle with Cao Yong.

Therefore, when he returned to the tent and knew that Cao Yong had come, the fourth prince wandered around and reached Cao Yong's tent alone.

There was no one at the door of the tent. The fourth prince called out twice, and saw that no one answered, and frowned slightly.

He had already received the news and knew that Cao Yong would set off tomorrow and escort the property back to Beijing.

Going to a Mongolian camp?

The fourth prince hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was understandable that he would come here, so he went to the Mongolian camp to find Cao Yong, but it was a bit unfair. He wanted to ask someone to go and search, but he didn't come out as a human.

He was hesitating when someone said, "I have seen the prince, please feel free to you."

The fourth prince raised his head and saw someone coming towards him and greeting him. He was twenty-four or five years old, and looked familiar, as if he was serving Cao Yong.

He nodded and said, "Where has your lord gone?"

"Reply to the prince, my elders are in the tent. I stayed up all night last night, and maybe I was not energetic now. I didn't hear the prince coming. The young man went to tell the prince." The man bowed and said.

The person coming was Xiaoman. He came back from the Sixteenth Prince. As soon as he entered his tent, he heard the sound of the Fourth Prince calling and quickly came out to answer.

The fourth prince waved his hand and sent Xiaoman to the account.

Xiaoman entered the tent and saw Cao Yong sleeping heavily on the bed. Even in his dream, he still had his eyebrows locked, as if he was worried about the past few days.

Xiaoman was a little hesitant. After thinking about his grandfather's extraordinary respect for the Fourth Prince, he was the fourth prince who came to visit again. He still took a few steps forward, walked to Cao Yong's bed, and said, "Master, wake up, the Fourth Prince is here."

He didn't dare to call too loudly, for fear that the fourth prince outside would hear disrespect. He called out a few times before Cao Yong opened his eyes in a daze.

Cao Yong rubbed his face hard, got up and flicked the folds on his clothes, and went out to welcome the fourth prince in...
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