Chapter 99: Great Victory
The ice and snow in Changchun Garden melted, winter went and spring came.
The concubines who had been here before still lived in their original places, so they didn't feel strange. However, the Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia and Consort De, who came for the first time, had to be re-arranged to live.
Yuying thought that she would be arranged to live elsewhere this time, but unexpectedly, Kangxi never thought of this and still let her live in Qingxi Study and eat and live with Kangxi.
After several adjustments, I was finally able to settle down peacefully.
These days, Kangxi has been busy looking for suitable lecturers to teach the Crown Prince and several other princes of appropriate age.
This matter should have been decided last year, but it has been delayed until now. Not only Kangxi, but also the Han officials of the previous dynasty were anxious and submitted several memorials to urge the matter to be resolved.
So Kangxi had to put this matter on the agenda.
But who is worthy of being the teacher of the talented and wise Crown Prince Yinreng?
Kangxi's eyes were full of pickyness, and he seemed to be dissatisfied with everyone he looked at.
After procrastinating for more than half a month, Kangxi finally chose Dahata, Tang Bin and Geng Jie to be the Crown Prince's lecturers.
The selection of these three people was not without reason. As a member of the Tonggiya clan, Dahata had close ties with Kangxi's maternal clan. Kangxi himself valued the Tonggiya clan, so naturally he wanted Yinreng to get closer to the Tong family.
As for the other two, they were both Khan's ministers.
The identity of the prince's lecturer was naturally a good opportunity to win over Han officials. The two people chosen by Kangxi were both very prestigious among Han officials. One was an honest official who had made outstanding achievements since he became a Jinshi in the Shunzhi period, and the other was a famous teacher who had taught and educated people for decades and had many students all over the world.
It must be said that Kangxi really considered everything for the prince.
As for the candidates for lecturers for other royal princes, it would be enough to pick a few from these few candidates.
Seeing Kangxi's obvious favoritism, Yuying didn't know what to say for a moment.
After the lecturer was confirmed, the prince and several princes spent the whole day studying in Wuyi Zhai.
In a blink of an eye, it is already April.
There was nothing going on in the court recently, so Kangxi proposed to take Yuying to see the peach blossoms.
There are also peach blossoms in Changchun Garden, but Kangxi insisted on taking her to see the peach blossoms blooming all over the mountains.
So the two of them left the people in the garden and went to look for peach blossoms.
April is the time when peach blossoms are in full bloom. As if knowing that they will wither after this season, every tree has tried its best to fill its branches with flowers.
Occasionally the wind blows, scattering the fragrance all over the ground.
Yuying had no interest in literature and art. She stepped the flowers into the mud and turned back to call Kangxi to catch up.
Always staying in one place, whether it is Yongshou Palace or Changchun Garden, I am tired of seeing all the beautiful scenery. Now only coming out can make Yuying happy.
Seeing Yuying's particularly excited look today, Kangxi knew that Yuying was holding back, so he wanted to make her happier. He took a few steps forward and caught up with Yuying. "I'll take Ah Ying with me when I go out on tour tomorrow, okay?"
"Really?" Yuying grabbed Kangxi's sleeves with both hands, almost jumping up, "Then I'll remember this! The emperor's words are binding!"
Kangxi looked at Yuying steadily, squeezed her with his hand behind his back, and then released it. He then took out a jade hairpin from his chest. The hairpin was carved with peach blossoms, and it seemed a bit crudely made.
Looking at Kangxi's rare embarrassed attitude and this hairpin, what else is there for Yuying to not understand? Could it be that this was carved by Kangxi himself?
Yuying avoided Kangxi's gaze.
"Aying." Kangxi uttered two words from his throat. Seeing that Yuying was no longer happy, Kangxi's heart sank. He just said, "I will put the hairpin on for you."
There is no further mention that he carved the hairpin himself.
Then, he sternly stopped Yuying from moving.
Kangxi inserted the hairpin into Yuying's small bun, then slightly loosened Yuying's hair and took a step back, looking at her carefully, "It looks good."
Yuying was still unwilling to look Kangxi in the eye.
For a moment, the atmosphere was far less relaxed than before.
Liang Jiugong and Kangxi's guards, who were following the two men from a distance, saw their two masters stop and stopped as well.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves was heard behind me.
Liang Jiugong quickly signaled to everyone to be alert. Although the emperor did not tell anyone about his trip, it was inevitable that a blind cat would catch a dead mouse.
It was a false alarm.
It turned out to be Wei Zhu who stayed in Qingxi Book House.
When Wei Zhu saw Liang Jiugong and his group, he quickly stopped his horse and got off.
He walked up to Liang Jiugong excitedly, but before he could say anything, Liang Jiugong hit him on the head with his whisk, "What are you doing here, you little brat?"
"Master!" Wei Zhu covered his head, "It's a good thing!"
He took out a letter from the package he was carrying and handed it to Liang Jiugong carefully, "It's good news! General Tong Guogang won the battle!"
"Really?" Liang Jiugong's expression changed instantly, and he put away his attitude of accusing someone.
"Of course it's true! Otherwise, how could I dare to come out and disturb the emperor and the queen at this time." Wei Zhu said aggrievedly.
Liang Jiugong took the letter, looked at the two people in the distance, gritted his teeth, and said, "Alright, Master will go and ask for merit for you, wait here!"
“Thank you, Master!”
Liang Jiugong went to look for Kangxi and Yuying with a wrinkled smile on his face.
Before he could get close, he was scolded.
"What are you doing up here?"
Liang Jiugong paused, startled by the chill in Kangxi's words, and knelt down hurriedly, "Your Majesty, Wei Zhu just sent an urgent report, saying that General Tong Guogang won a great victory! Look."
Liang Jiugong presented the letter.
Kangxi reached out to take it and opened it.
"Hahahahaha, great, great!" Kangxi laughed heartily, "Uncle is worthy of being an uncle!"
Kangxi also shared with Yuying: "Aying, look, we won!"
Yuying breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the topic had finally been revealed. She took the letter from Kangxi.
When he saw in the letter that Tsarist Russia had completely withdrawn from the Heilongjiang area, he was happy along with Kangxi.
But the victory of this war happened a year earlier than in history, and it is unknown what the outcome will be.
"Your Majesty, the next step is negotiation, right?" Yuying asked tentatively, "Does Your Majesty have someone to go to negotiate with?"
[I remember that in history, the negotiation team was led by Suo Etu, right? But they ran into the Dzungars fighting against Mongolia halfway through, so the road was blocked.]
[When the negotiation location was changed to Nerchinsk, the negotiation team set out again from Beijing. The Russian Empire seized on Kangxi's desire to free up his hands to deal with the Dzungars, pressed forward step by step, and forcibly tore a large piece of land from Kangxi.]
But this time, it happened a year in advance and the Dzungars didn't have time to rebel. We can't cede land again, right?
After hearing the news revealed by Yuying, Kangxi felt that time was becoming more and more urgent, and he wished he could go back to the Nine Classics and Three Affairs Hall to meet with people to discuss the matter.
But he had promised Yuying that he would accompany her all day. Kangxi was in a dilemma.
It was Yuying who spoke up and saw that he was in a dilemma, so she offered to go back today, and then they went home.
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