When Emperor Kangxi asked Suo Etu to bring Wu Yingxiong and Lu Renyi to the South Study for an audience, Wu Yingxiong and Lu Renyi were talking in the guard room outside Taihe Gate!
This Lu Renyi has been sitting in this duty room for most of the day, but he is not lonely because there is a "Master Hu Jian" named Shi who has been talking to him. This "Lord Hu Jian" is not a junior official. He is an internal minister, but he is not very good at it. He is just guarding the gate at the Gate of Supreme Harmony.
When Lu Renyi was brought here by Xue Zhang to greet him, he showed his Chaozhou accent. As a result, he aroused the interest of "Master Shi" who was holding a copy of "Jin Ping Mei" and reading it carefully. This "Master Shi" immediately asked him about the situation in Chaozhou in southern Fujian Mandarin.
And Lu Renyi is also an eloquent master. When the two of them were chatting in Chaozhou Mandarin and Minnan Mandarin with great interest, Wu Yingxiong came!
Originally, the guard office was quite lively. In addition to "Master Shi" and Lu Renyi, who were chatting happily, there were also several other people in yellow jackets chatting there... but no one was seriously guarding the Taihe Gate. We are not afraid of assassins entering the Taihe Gate, passing through the Taihe Palace, then entering the Qianqing Gate, and finally running to the South Study next to the Qianqing Palace to kill the emperor!
But as soon as Wu Yingxiong came, everyone felt as if someone had tapped their dumb acupoints - they stopped talking!
The "Master Shi" who was chatting enthusiastically with Lu Renyi just said hello to Suo'etu, and then picked up a copy of "Jin Ping Mei" and read it.
After Suo'etu left Wu Yingxiong at the guard's office, he went to report to Emperor Kangxi alone. However, Lu Renyi did not know that Wu Yingxiong had "died". He saw that he was such a senior official and very approachable, so he hurried up to flatter Wu Yingxiong, said hello, moved the chair, and wiped the back of Wu Yingxiong's chair with the sleeves of his ninth-grade military attaché uniform.
His official uniform was newly made, because he wanted to "enter the court to testify", so the Imperial Envoy Mi Sihan guaranteed him an additional foreign commission from the ninth rank - a junior official could not be any smaller. Hemen are so small that they are "rare". Usually when Wu Yingxiong sees this sesame mung bean, he won't even raise his eyelids.
But today he is in trouble... He has died socially, and no one pays attention to him. Even the fair-faced minister Shi Lang, who is usually close to him, pretends not to know him now. This shows the "benevolence and righteousness" of this ninth-grade official Lu Renyi.
So Wu Yingxiong asked him where he was from and what his background was. After asking, he gave Lu Renyi a business card. As soon as Lu Renyi collected the business card, Suo Etu came.
"Prince-in-law, Lu Baotou, the emperor declares that you two will come together to see him."
Wu Yingxiong and Lu Renyi were both stunned, but they followed Suo'etu to the Gate of Supreme Harmony obediently.
Wu Yingxiong didn't know whether he was really dying or was pretending to be dead. Anyway, as soon as he walked outside the south study room, he suddenly started to tremble, as if he had a sudden illness, and his whole body went limp. Lu Renyi, who was walking beside Wu Yingxiong, was quick-sighted and quickly helped Wu Yingxiong.
"My brother-in-law, my brother-in-law, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Lu Renyi greeted Wu Yingxiong carefully while looking at Wu Yingxiong's face. Seeing that his face turned pale, he thought he, the brother-in-law, had drunk too much. Bullying the princess... So without thinking too much, he supported Wu Yingxiong generously and walked into the south study step by step.
In the south study room, there were only three people, Emperor Kangxi, Xiong Cilu and Xue Zhang at this time. Emperor Kangxi was sitting beside the royal desk, holding a brush in his hand and writing big characters. Xiong Cilu and Xue Zhang stood by the side without saying a word.
Seeing Wu Yingxiong letting Lu Renyi help him in, the three of them were stunned - what's going on? Is Wu Yingxiong so scared that he collapses? How could Lu Renyi support him? Still so attentive, this is Wu Sangui’s first ********* Wu Yingxiong, I respectfully invite you to pay your respects..."
Although Wu Yingxiong was extremely frightened, he still had to say hello when he needed to say hello... If he really had to die, he would still have to thank the Lord for his kindness!
"The minister kowtows to the emperor to say hello..."
Lu Renyi also quickly kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi.
"Lu Renyi, you have just kowtowed to me, now you should kowtow a few more times to Prince Pingxi... Maybe in a few days, he will be your vassal king of Guangdong, and you have to flatter him in advance. ah!"
"Hey!" Lu Renyi, who was quite obedient, flattered the emperor as much as he asked, and immediately turned around and kowtowed to Wu Yingxiong several times.
Wu Yingxiong, on the other hand, had a confused look on his face. After Lu Renyi finished kowtowing, he realized what he was doing and said to Kang Xi: "Long live my Lord, my servant's Ama is the King of Pingxi who guards Yunnan..."
Kangxi smiled and said: "It's not good for the vassal prince to stay in one place. Running water is immortal and door hinges are immortal!"
Moreover, your family’s late master, Chongzhen, left an edict instructing you, Amma, to assist his son, Prince Ding Cijiong! Now that Zhu Cijiong has started a rebellion in Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong, shouldn't you, Ama, go to Guangdong? "
Hearing Emperor Kangxi's words, Wu Yingxiong was frightened and fell to the ground again, crying and explaining: "Your Majesty, when I opened the Shanhaiguan Pass to welcome the Qing soldiers to enter the customs, I was no longer a minister of the Ming Dynasty. And in my heart, I am no longer a minister of the Ming Dynasty. He had long stopped thinking about his late master's kindness, otherwise he would not have fought for the Qing Dynasty with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, conquered fifty-eight cities, and captured Zhu Youlang alive. In order to show his merit, the late emperor also granted him the title of He is a vassal king with a different surname, and he has sworn an oath by killing a horse and never fails... Your Majesty, do you think that I, Amma, will violate the oath with the late emperor because of a Chongzhen edict and assist Zhu San, who has long since become a bandit? The prince and his son?"
"Hahaha..." Emperor Kangxi laughed and said, "Sir, I didn't say that I would let your Arma go to Guangdong to assist Prince Zhu San. What I meant was that I would let your Arma, Monk Kexi, switch fiefdoms and go to Guangdong. On behalf of the imperial court, I will exterminate the remnants of the Third Prince Zhu from the Ming Dynasty! As for the oath between him and the late emperor, I will naturally continue to abide by it!"
After hearing Kangxi's words, Suo'etu, Xiong Cilu, and Xue Zhang all brightened up.
Emperor Kangxi’s move was indeed brilliant!
This was Emperor Kangxi's plan of two tigers competing for food and driving the tiger to devour the wolf after he stayed up all night and studied "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with red eyes!
He was using Wu Sangui, the Yunnan tiger, to drive Shang Kexi, the South China tiger, to devour the two evil wolves, Prince Zhu and Grandson Zhu, with grenade hammers in their mouths!
At the same time, Kangxi also used Guangdong, which was extremely rich, to provoke monk Wu Sangui and let the two tigers, who already disliked each other, bite and fight among themselves, so that the Qing court could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
After all, Guangdong is much richer than Yunnan!
Wu Sangui's army simply didn't have enough expenses in the miserable place of Yunnan, and the court had to allocate funds for maintenance every year. The Qing court also used money and food to choke Wu Sangui, which made Wu Sangui very uncomfortable.
Shang Kexi doesn't have to worry about money at all. Guangdong is already rich, and he also has a "free" Macau-Xiangshan trade where he can make a lot of money. If Shang Kexi wasn't too timid and didn't dare to violate the imperial court's maritime ban policy too blatantly, he could have made millions a year.
If it were Wu Sangui's hungry tiger who went to Guangdong, he wouldn't be able to use his hands and feet to make money? By then, there would be no need for money and food from the court, and Wu Fan would be able to live a very prosperous life.
But Wu Yingxiong didn't kowtow to thank him right away... He didn't believe it! How could there be such a good thing in the world?
Emperor Kangxi watched Wu Yingxiong stay there with an honest look on his face. He immediately picked up a big letter that had just been written on the table and showed it to Wu Yingxiong.
"Sir, what do you think I wrote?"
Wu Yingxiong looked up and found two names written on the rice paper, one was "Zhu Cijiong" and the other was "Zhu Heji".
Wu Yingxiong asked: "Your Majesty, I know that this Zhu Cijiong is the Dingwang of the Qianming Dynasty, but who is this Zhu Heji?"
Emperor Kangxi glanced at Lu Renyi and said, "Lu Renyi, do you know who this Zhu Heji is?"
Of course Lu Renyi knew, but how could he dare to tell the truth? Making lies to deceive the emperor, and then seemingly making the lies come true... What a sin!
"I know, he, he is the grandson of Zhu San!" Lu Renyi gritted his teeth and said, "He is the grandson of the former Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty!"
Emperor Kangxi looked at Wu Yingxiong and said word by word: "Starting from today, the imperial pen hanging on the pillar of the south study room will be changed...'San Francisco' will be replaced by'Zhu Cijiong and Zhu' Make peace!"
