It was the morning of the eighth day of March in the eighth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty.
Batulu Obai, the number one man in Manchuria, rode his tall horse out of his Duke's Palace, and walked on the road to Dong'anmen, surrounded by a large group of servants and guards.
This section of the road is not long, and Obai's horse has become familiar with it by walking every day, so he doesn't need to see the road himself, as his old horse can know the way. But Ao Bai kept his head down all the way, worrying about the country and the flag.
In these days, the situation of the Qing Dynasty finally became worse and worse under the wise leadership of his Ao Taishi.
In this increasingly bad situation, the worst one is, of course, the situation at Yun and Gui... Wu Sangui, who has added money, does not stop at all and is training outside Kunming every day!
Bian Sanyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, reported in his report that Wu Sangui had now trained a total of 6,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, and was still forging cannons, stockpiling gunpowder, and buying good horses, as if he was preparing to rebel. Moreover, this old and immortal soldier is getting better and better at training. It is said that he has even developed a "two-wall" cavalry charge formation, which can organize two to three thousand cavalry to launch a charge at the same time. It is very spectacular!
In addition, Zhang Dedi, the governor of Sichuan, also sent a letter of admonishment to Ao, saying that Wu Sangui's two grandsons, Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue, were unjust and occupied the artesian well near Yunnan. They also occupied farms around the artesian well and moved some Pingxi people from Yunnan. Ding Yu, a subordinate of the vassal, built a fort and settled around Artesian Well.
And the local officials in Xuzhou Prefecture not only did not stop this kind of cross-border enclosure behavior, but also collaborated with them... because many local officials in Xuzhou Prefecture, especially the military attaches who led the troops, were members of King Pingxi. They are old subordinates, and they are all professional rebels who have been loyal to several imperial courts.
The trouble in the Southwest is really quite big!
The second headache for Grand Master Aobai Ao is the sea ban in Guangdong... There are two thorns in Guangdong. One is Qiu Hui, the big bandit in Chaozhou. He not only occupies the coastal cities and resists the sea ban and moves to the border, And it also has the signature of Chaozhou Prefecture of Ming Dynasty!
This is good, the Ming Dynasty has faked corpses on the seaside of Guangdong again!
Another person who resisted relocation was the Hao'ao Portuguese in Xiangshan County... The gratifying notice said that they had been granted the noble status of slaves under the Three Banners, and in the future they would become foreigners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A slave! Such a good condition, but these Portuguese people refused to agree to anything!
The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty accepted them as slaves. It was unthinkable for others, but they didn't know how to commend them. They really refused to eat the toast, so they had to drink wine as a penalty!
The third thing that gave Master Ao Tai a big headache was the pirates from Fujian... The Fujian Navy Admiral Shi Lang posted a complaint a few days ago, saying that he was defeated again and again!
Geng Jimao, the vassal king of Fujian, was even more amused. He wrote in a letter that he wanted to borrow some soldiers from the Hongmao Kingdom to fight the pirates. After the fight, he would hand over the island of Taiwan, where the pirates were inhabited, to the Hongmao Kingdom! Co-authored the Qing Dynasty's labor expedition, and the territory captured was returned to the Red Hair Kingdom?
Is this still a hairy thing?
The fourth person who made Master Ao frown was the Third Prince Zhu. In the past few years, the prices of Prince Zhu’s Third Prince have been rising. The more troubles they make, the more arrests they make. When this thing first came out, Taishi Ao still felt fresh and personally led his troops to suppress the third prince Zhu from Zhili. Although it took a lot of effort, he finally returned to court and beheaded the captured third prince Zhu at the entrance of Caishikou.
But I didn't expect that Obai's battle would be a stab at "the third prince Zhu's nest". In the past few years, the third prince Zhu from all over the country has been coming in waves! ,
If the provincial officials below do not catch a few of the third prince Zhu in a year, they will feel like they are just messing around.
But in the beginning, Obai spent a lot of effort to catch the third prince Zhu. Now that people are catching a lot of people, it is inevitable that some people will wonder: Is this Manchuria's number one Batulu too old? used?
And the fifth person who made Obai shake his head was those Eight Banners disciples who only knew how to find a way out by eating, drinking and having fun. A few days ago, he personally presided over the selection of Baitang'a and the bodyguards. Of course, the result was no surprise at all - the level of the Eight Banners disciples was still steadily declining, and it was much worse than the people he saw during the selection last year. Especially when the Kung Fu fell immediately it was so miserable.
During the inspection of mounted archery, several people fell off their horses. As for cheating the horse (not cheating the horse, but jumping up and down on the horse), most people simply give up.
Moreover, Obai also knew that most of the bannermen's children who came to Yingchao did not keep horses at home, so a few months before Yingchao, their equestrian skills were the same as riding a horse and walking, and their riding and shooting skills were all ahead of Yingchao. I went to the Eight Banners Racecourse outside the city to cram in three or two months. Twenty or thirty years ago, these people could not be qualified as infantry soldiers, not to mention vests, and they could only fill trenches and push shield carts!
How many years have it been since you entered the customs? The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners already have this kind of virtue... But the military strength of the Han people has been maintained quite well because Wu Sangui, an old guy, trains troops every day and often fights.
Wang Fuchen's son's "killing a pig in front of the emperor" blow a while ago was quite impressive in the eyes of a professional like Obai! He would have been able to deal with it if he were several decades younger, but he wouldn't be able to handle it now.
When Obai was worrying about the country and the flag, the old horse under his crotch suddenly stopped.
Master Ao looked up and found that he was already outside Dong'an Gate. Inside Dong'an Gate is the Imperial City, and horses are not allowed inside the Imperial City. Although Obai was in power, he did not fight for the privilege of riding horses in the Forbidden City. In his opinion, riding a horse in the Forbidden City is equivalent to being too old to walk. Only old people like Sony need it. He, Obai, is still young!
Feeling that he was still young and full of energy, he could still support the Qing Dynasty and continue to fight with Wu Sangui and other Han military leaders. Obai dismounted, and then surrounded by a group of confidants who were bodyguards, bodyguards, or worshipers, Heading to Donghua Gate in a swaggering manner.
There were also some Sula slaves in Obai's family who did not have the badge to enter the palace, so they could only wait outside with their horses. Over the years, Ao Bai likes to move the official affairs of the imperial court back home. He will discuss it with his confidants, let the council of kings and ministers approve it, and then give it to the young emperor to use his seal. Therefore, every time Ao Bai entered the palace, it didn't take long, and the Sula slaves didn't have to take the horses back, they just waited outside.
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At the same time that Ao Bai entered the Dong'an Gate, Emperor Kangxi's confidant eunuch Xiao Guizi was running at full speed from the Dong'an Gate to the Forbidden City, shouting as he ran: "What happened, what happened, I overslept, Your Majesty." It’s to blame…”
The guards and guards patrolling Dong'an Gate all knew who this young man was, so they didn't stop him. Those who work in the imperial city know that many eunuchs in the palace like to secretly build a house outside and raise a woman to pretend to be husband and wife. I just didn't expect that Xiao Guizi would be so good at such a young age, and she also overslept in the house outside the palace. It seemed that she would inevitably be scolded by the little emperor.
And Xiao Guizi just kept shouting and running, and soon ran into Donghua Gate. Donghua Gate was already within the confines of the Forbidden City, and there was no room for him to yell, but he didn't slow down much and walked quickly to the imperial kitchen. He probably didn't have breakfast, so he walked directly into the courtyard of the Imperial Kitchen Dessert Bureau. In the courtyard of the dim sum bureau, dozens of strong young men were sitting on the ground, all wearing long robes and linen coats, similar to Baitang'a. There were also a few people who looked like royal guards and were standing guard in the courtyard with swords on their backs.
Xiao Guizi saw a group of people in the yard and asked with a smile: "What day is it today? Why are there so many people?"
One of the "Prince's Guards", who had a pockmarked face and was only about seventeen or eighteen years old, smiled and replied: "When I go back to Mr. Gui, these people came with Mr. Fu. Mr. Fu thinks the food in the imperial dining room is delicious, so he I asked the emperor for a favor and asked him to select a group of young men from among the palace coatmen and domestic slaves to serve as apprentices in the royal kitchen."
Xiao Guizi smiled and asked, "Is the prince here too?"
"The prince is bragging and having breakfast with Old Baozi and Mr. Wang, who will soon be the uncle of Old Baozi, in the duty room of the imperial dining room!"
Xiao Guizi laughed and cupped her hand from the pockmark: "Then I have to go and say hello."
"Wang Mazi, see you later!"
"See you later, see you later!"
After greeting that "Wang Mazi", Xiao Guizi did not go to greet King Yu, but turned around and left the imperial kitchen, and then walked quickly towards Jingyun Gate. When he arrived outside the Jingyun Gate, he started shouting: "Where is Commander Mu of the Jingyun Gate? The Emperor has an order for you to go to the South Study Room to meet the Holy Spirit... There is a big happy event!"
