Emperor of the Red Chamber

Chapter 100 Qingbai supports Emperor Chengtai

In the evening, after Yuan Qingbai got off duty from the guard, he went to Qianqing Palace to greet Emperor Jing'an as usual, and then returned to Yuqing Palace, where he learned that the maid sent by Rongguo Mansion today was indeed a surprise.

"Greetings to Third Master!"

Xiren respectfully addressed Yuan Qingbai as "Third Master", as Yuan Chun taught her.

Yuan Qingbai took a closer look at Jin Chai in the original work. She had a slender figure, a long face, fair skin, and was pretty and clean. Although her beauty was slightly inferior to Ping'er's, he was not disappointed.

Yuan Qingbai asked Yuan Chun to introduce Xiren to him, and it was exactly as described in the original work.

Yuan Chun felt a little guilty, feeling that she had robbed her brother Jia Baoyu's maid this time, but she did not tell Yuan Qingbai about her guilt.

Yuan Qingbai and Yuan Chun sat down to have dinner together.

Youshi, Qin Keqing, Wang Xifeng, Lingxue and the maids and palace maids all stood aside to serve, including Xiren who had just arrived.

After the meal, Yuan Qingbai rinsed his mouth and hands, stood up and said to Lingxue, "I'm going to take a look at Yanjie."

Lingxue understood and didn't care about eating, and led Yuan Qingbai to her room.

Lingxue carefully picked up her two-month-old son Yuan Yanjie from the stroller and handed it to Yuan Qingbai.

You's son was named Yuan Yanxiang.

Ling Xuesheng's son was named Yuan Yanjie.

The son Wang Xifeng gave birth to was still young, had no teeth, and did not even have a name.

Yuan Yanxiang and Yuan Yanjie are the eldest and second sons of Yuan Qingbai.

At this moment, Yuan Qingbai was holding his second son Yuan Yanjie, teasing him, and chatting with Lingxue about Yuan Yanjie's situation, and tirelessly told him to raise and train him well.

Lingxue felt very happy when she saw Yuan Qingbai like this. At this moment, she felt that she was an extremely lucky and happy woman.

Once upon a time, she thought that her fate in this life would not be good, because her original master Su Zhiwan died young, and her new master, the original master, was cowardly and incompetent.

She did not expect that her new master would rise suddenly and quickly and become the crown prince, and she would become the crown prince's concubine.

This prince is not only capable in both civil and military affairs, but he is also considerate of women, even caring for her, a maid who has been promoted to a concubine.

Since she had no relatives, she felt that Yuan Qingbai was her relative in this world, and even regarded Yuan Qingbai as more important than herself.

Now, she has given birth to their son Yuan Yanhui, giving her another very amiable and lovely relative in her heart.

Although she was only Yuan Qingbai's concubine and knew that Yuan Qingbai would inevitably have many concubines when he became emperor, she felt that when Yuan Qingbai was with her and her son Yuan Yanjie, they would be happy and happy. A family.

At the moment, she felt that Yuan Qingbai, who was teasing and chatting with her while holding her son, was both a good husband to her and a good father to her son.

She didn't expect the prince's father to spare a lot of time to accompany her and Yuan Yanjie like this. She would be satisfied with just a few times a month.

Since she gave birth to her son, she has made a decision in her heart to raise her son well no matter what, and to cherish the time she can raise her son personally.

She knew that once Yuan Yanjie reached six years old, according to the rules, Yuan Yanjie could no longer live with her or be raised by her personally.

This means that the time she can personally raise Yuan Yanhui is only a few years.

Fortunately, even if Yuan Yanjie is no longer raised by her after he reaches the age of six and moves out of Yuqing Palace, based on the temperament of her third master, as long as she begs, she will definitely agree to let her son visit her from time to time.

At this moment, Lingxue was in a daze while looking at Yuan Qingbai.

Yuan Qingbai noticed her trance, smiled slightly and asked, "What are you thinking about? Why are you so trance?"

Lingxue has always been a woman who likes to be lost in thought. Yuan Qingbai also likes this about her and thinks she is quite cute when she is lost in thought.

Lingxue's face turned red and she smiled sweetly: "I didn't think about anything. I just felt happy when I saw the third master holding our son."

Yuan Qingbai smiled and said: "I am happy to hold my son and talk to you at the same time."

Lingxue's face turned even redder, her eyes filled with water: "Thank you, Third Master."

Yuan Qingbai smiled and asked: "Thank me for what?"

Lingxue said: "Thank you Third Master for giving me such a good life. Whenever I think about the past and the present day, I feel that I am really lucky."

Yuan Qingbai smiled and said: "There is still a long way to go, we are still young,"

Lingxue said "hmm".

Yuan Qingbai hugged his second son Yuan Yanjie for a while, then went to the You family's room to see his eldest son Yuan Yanxiang, who was already two years old, and then entered the study room, followed by the maids.

Ever since Lingxue's pregnancy was revealed, Yuan Qingbai had not allowed her to serve as his personal maid.

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Under Yuan Qingbai's arrangement, the next morning, Imperial Physician Lu and Wang Jiren came to Rongguo Mansion together to diagnose Lin Daiyu.

The two imperial doctors told Yuan Qingbai the diagnosis results, saying that Lin Daiyu was born with a weak body and bones, and neither of them had the ability to cure her.

"How long is the approximate lifespan?" Yuan Qingbai asked.

Dr. Lu looked at Wang Jiren, and Wang Jiren said: "If you can take good care of yourself, you may have a life span of thirty or forty years."

Dr. Lu said: "I think so too."

This was said vaguely.

Thirty or forty years old? Are you thirty or forty? And the two imperial doctors obviously went too far.

Yuan Qingbai understood that even if he, as a time traveler, would change Lin Daiyu's fate, with her body and bones, she would not live to be forty years old, and might even only live to about twenty years old.

Yuan Qingbai gave the two imperial doctors an order to go to Rongguo Mansion to diagnose Lin Daiyu once a month, just like they did to Jia Zhu.

In this way, and if Lin Daiyu can take good care of herself, it is more likely that she will live to be in her thirties or forties.

If you can live to be forty, your life is not considered short. In this era, many women do not live to be forty.

Yuan Qingbai had already planned that once he ascended the throne, he would attach great importance to medical care. It was unknown whether he might be able to extend Lin Daiyu's life by then.

Yuan Qingbai paid the medical fee for Lin Daiyu's diagnosis by Imperial Physician Lu and Wang Jiren, and he asked the two Imperial Physicians not to take advantage of Rongguo Mansion.

For ordinary people, this medical fee is a lot, but for Yuan Qingbai, it is nothing, but it can make Lin Daiyu owe him even more kindness...

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Although there was a public remonstrance on New Year's Day in the fourth year of Chengtai, which greatly embarrassed Emperor Chengtai, this incident not only did not discourage Emperor Chengtai, but made him more determined in his ambitions and more ruthless in his methods.

Since Emperor Chengtai ascended the throne, he has been rectifying cronies and strictly prohibiting party strife. One of the reasons why Prince Hesu, Prince Yizhi, the Four Kings with Different Surnames, and Ke Duo were suppressed by Emperor Chengtai was that they all formed cliques for personal gain.

After this year's New Year's Day remonstrance, Emperor Chengtai went even harder to punish the clique formed around Prince Hesu, Prince Yizhi, the Four Kings with Different Surnames, and Ke Duo.

Among them, many of the cliques formed around the four kings with different surnames were founding figures, including the "Eight Dukes", including Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion.

However, considering that Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion were not deeply involved and had a close relationship with Yuan Qingbai, Emperor Chengtai did not rectify Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion.

Emperor Chengtai also launched an attack on the Kejia crony.

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During the Yuan Dynasty, because the court was worried about appointing Han people to govern the remote southwest region, it created the chieftain system in the southwest region to compromise with the leaders of the southwest tribes and restrict the Han people.

According to the chieftain system, the land and people in the southwest are hereditary owned by the local chieftains. The chieftains control the military, civil and financial powers, just like the local emperors, they dominate one area and only need to pay a small symbolic amount of taxes to the court.

The Ming Dynasty continued this chieftain system, which led to frequent unrest in the southwest.

The chieftain system, from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, to the present Chengtai Dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty, has been a side hazard.

It’s September of the fourth year of Chengtai.

On this day, Emperor Chengtai received a memorial from Zhan Erting, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, in which he made an important proposal: "Yunnan and Guizhou are in serious trouble, no more than the Miao barbarians. If you want to stabilize the people, you must first control the barbarians; if you want to control the barbarians, you must change the soil and return to the country..." Cut off the barbarian officials, check the land to increase taxes, and calm local affairs."

This proposal is to "return to the locals"!
That is to say, the chieftain system in the southwestern region was abolished, and prefectures, prefectures, and counties were established, and the imperial court dispatched floating officials with a certain term to manage them, so that the southwestern region could implement an administrative system similar to that in the mainland of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Zhan Erting, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, also said in the memorial: "If the flow is corrected, it will be effective and will benefit Yunnan-Guizhou border defense for centuries."

Emperor Chengtai admired this memorial very much after reading it. In fact, he had long thought that the chieftains in the southwest who indulged in lawlessness and harmed society should be brought under control. The border areas of the Zhou Dynasty should achieve long-term peace and stability and abolish the chieftain system. Only then can the southwestern region truly belong. The territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Zhan Erting's memorial proposal was in line with Emperor Chengtai's wishes.

Emperor Chengtai knew that this matter was important, so he immediately summoned the ministers of Nanshufang and the ministers of political affairs to hold an imperial meeting to discuss the new policy of "returning the land to the locals".

As a result, Emperor Chengtai was disappointed and angry. This new policy was opposed by many people. Even Prince Zhongzhi and Tang Chengyuan did not stand up to speak for him.

Prince Zhongzhi and Tang Chengyuan both believed that it was a good policy to change the situation to local status.

However, Emperor Chengtai had already caused a lot of troubles due to a series of new policies. At the beginning of this year, there was another New Year's Day remonstrance. After the remonstrance, Emperor Chengtai strongly suppressed the cronies, and a big war in the west was possible at any time...

Prince Zhongzhi and Tang Chengyuan both felt that it was inconvenient to cause trouble by reforming Tuguiliu at this time.

At this moment, Yuan Qingbai rarely took the initiative to speak: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Say." Emperor Chengtai looked at Yuan Qingbai, thinking that this time even the prince would not oppose me, right?
Yuan Qingbai said solemnly: "My son believes that it is a great policy to change the situation and return to the countryside, and it is imperative!"

"Reforming the land and returning it to the local people, deposing the chieftains, and setting up prefectures and counties are all about revolutionizing the old and creating new things."

"It can weaken separatist forces, eliminate the source of rebellion, strengthen centralization, and also lay a solid foundation for mainland people to engage in reclamation, mining, and business in the southwest."

"The implementation of land reform in the southwest is the general trend of our country's unification of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is an important symbol of national territorial sovereignty."

"The matter of changing one's native land and returning home cannot be accomplished unless both the monarch and his ministers have great abilities and have a deep understanding of each other."

"In the eyes of my son, Your Majesty and Zhan Erting are monarchs and ministers who both have great abilities and know each other well."

"The monarch and his ministers will work together to reform the country and return it to its current status. It will be effective and create achievements that have never been accomplished by previous generations."

Emperor Chengtai was overjoyed when he heard this. He felt that the "Third Prince" and "Third Master" who were called the same as him were more and more pleasing to his eyes. He was very different from his other son Yuan Qingzhe.

Emperor Chengtai looked at Prince Zhongzhi: "Laojiu, even Qingbai knows that this matter must be done. Is it possible that you still don't realize it?"

Prince Zhongzhi felt helpless. Yes, even Yuan Qingbai was so supportive. How could he, the ninth younger brother, not support it?
Without any further hesitation, Prince Zhongzhi said respectfully: "I also feel that it is imperative to change the situation and return to the current situation!"

Tang Chengyuan was helpless, but he also said: "I second my opinion."

Emperor Chengtai felt proud that Qingbai supported him so much this time! Prince Qingbai, together with the chief political minister Prince Zhongzhi, the chief minister of the South Study Room Tang Chengyuan, and the third generation of Beijing County Prince who used to oppose him have been stabbed to death. It was generally agreed upon.

However, after the imperial meeting, Emperor Chengtai still went to tell Emperor Jing'an about the matter, and Emperor Jing'an did not object.

In fact, since the New Year's Day remonstrance this year, although Emperor Jing'an still has a tight control on military power, almost all other powers have been delegated to Emperor Chengtai, giving Emperor Chengtai greater power and making it easier to control the government. , implement the New Deal.

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After the new policy of changing native land and returning to local people was agreed upon, Emperor Chengtai ordered Zhan Erting, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, to vigorously implement it.

Emperor Chengtai mentioned in his decree to Zhan Erting: "The method of diversion is to plan and capture as the best strategy, to suppress the enemy with troops as the next best strategy, to make them surrender as the best strategy, and to order them to surrender as the worst strategy. Both kindness and power should be used."

That is to say, the chieftains in the southwestern region should be asked to take the initiative to accept the return of their native land. If this does not work, they will then use the most inferior force to suppress them.

In the following years, under the strong promotion of Emperor Chengtai and the implementation of Zhan Erting and other ministers, the Great Zhou Dynasty basically achieved the goal of returning the native land to the locals in Yunnan and Guizhou, and also expanded the reform to Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and other regions.

This means that the Chengtai dynasty's reform and restoration spread throughout the six provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan.

Of course, during this period, it was inevitable that there would be strong resistance from the chieftains, and it was inevitable that force would be used to suppress the rebellion, causing war in the local area.

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Just over a month after the new policy of reforming the land-returning system was adopted.

One day in late October of the fourth year of Chengtai, Imperial Physician Lu and Wang Jiren came to Yuqing Palace from Tai Hospital to have their Ximei pulse checked again.

This time Wang Xifeng revealed the joyful pulse again!

Just a year ago, Wang Xifeng's son died.

Now, a year later, she has found her joyful pulse again.

Wang Xifeng was overjoyed.

Yuan Qingbai was stunned for a moment: "..."

Is this still Sister Feng in the original work? Why did you get pregnant again so soon?
In the original work, Sister Feng only gave birth to a daughter, Sister Qiao, in so many years.

I wonder if Sister Feng will be able to give birth to the child successfully this time, whether she will give birth to a son or a daughter, and whether she will be able to survive after the birth...

　No book friend has ever discovered that the prototype of Emperor Jing'an is Kangxi, which is Jingling, and the prototype of Emperor Chengtai is Yongzheng, and Yongzheng is Tailing, so the author gave the two reign names as Jing'an and Chengtai respectively.

　　The detailed outline for Qingbai's enthronement has been drawn up. Starting from tomorrow, we will try to update 8,000 words a day, and we will be able to update Qingbai's enthronement probably this month.

　　
　
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