The winter in the 61st year of Kangxi was cold and wet, and since Lidong, the heavy snow has hardly stopped.With the capital Zhili as the center, it starts from Fengtian in the east, reaches Rehe in the north, stretches from Shandong and Henan to the west, and ends in Gansu, Shanxi and other places. However, white, confused, and mindless are just a mess.Far from the village and near the outline, the long forest and the frozen river are up and down, and the wind blows up thousands of feet of snow and dust, whirling wildly under the dark and slightly crimson clouds, stirring up the whole world colorfully and muddy, and throwing all Ditches, ditches, ponds, and ridges were leveled out, and even wellheads were sealed tightly.Occasionally, the snow falls, and the pale sun moves slowly like an ice ball in the frozen clouds. The sky is transparent, and it seems that it will clear up, but within half a day, a large thick lead-dark cloud layer presses over again, and everything looks the same as before. , is still a chaotic snow world.

At night, a group of more than 30 riders stopped in front of a snowy mountain temple in Niangziguan, Shanxi.These more than 30 people are dressed in different colors, the ten guards of the royal palace are all dressed as military officers of the fourth rank, with white clear glass tops, eight pythons and five claws snow geese mending suits, and white fox wind fur lamb fur cloaks.There are two other six-rank pen stickers, but they are dressed in the house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with twenty personal guards behind the team.The leader was a young man in his thirties, wearing a rose-purple veneered black fox Batulu vest, a lynx monkey skin cloak, and two thick sword eyebrows slightly raised on his delicate melon-seeded face. The corners of the mouth hang down slightly, as if expressing his arrogance and contempt to others at any time.Seeing the horse team in front stop, the young man reined in the horse, pressed the cold sword hilt with his hand, glanced at the guards beside him without saying a word, looked up at the dim sky with indifferent eyes, and let out a long breath .One of the guards hurriedly said: "Maybe it's about hitting the top, and the slaves went over to have a look." As soon as the words fell, the guards at the gate of the temple had already strode over, beating Qian'er in the snow in front of the young son's horse, and said: "Fourteenth Lord, This is a broken mountain temple, and the incense has long been gone. There is not even a station in the first fifty or sixty miles of this heavy snow, please show me, why don't you just rest here tonight?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded slightly, turned his head and said to the two pens, "Qian Yundou, Cai Huaixi, you were sent by Emperor Yongzheng to escort me back to Beijing, you have issued a regulation, and I will obey it! " The pen post style named Qian Yundou was so forced by his coercive eyes that he didn't dare to lift his head. He hurriedly lost his smile, knelt down and said, "How can a slave be worthy of what the lord said? If you don't have it, you can do it all!" The fodder for the slaves! If the master says yes, we will leave; if the master says stop, we will stop. The Lord Long Live only said that the slaves should serve the fourteenth master well and go to Beijing for the funeral of the late emperor. There is no time limit. The slaves obey Master Fourteen's life!" Yinti sneered and nodded.A bodyguard had already knelt down, Yinti stepped on his back, stretched his legs and feet, rubbed his red hands and said: "The emperor is my fourth brother, and a compatriot from the same mother. When it comes to family affection, we They are siblings, but in terms of status, we are monarchs and ministers. How dare I not pay respect to you when you come here by holy order? You have to stop and go along the way. The rule is to stay in the post house. Here, you have the final say, I don't want you to pretend to be good people! This place is not a village in front of a village, but a shop in the back. If I want to rebel here, or run away, it is all your fault." Qian Yundou and Cai Huaixi just Compensation smiled and agreed again and again.It wasn't until Yinzhen finished his attack that Qian Yundou said: "Master Shengming, the servants are only on errands. We are both in the post-writing style. There are ministers, governors, capital supervisors, and ministers leading the guards. We are still ten miles away from the emperor. What about the eighth world! At any rate, the master is sympathetic to the slaves, and when they arrive in Beijing safely, the slaves will serve the master in the future, and they will be there when they are in the glory of the master!"

"This is still a human saying." Yinti snorted, turned his face away, and ordered, "Take out the venison sent by the magistrate of Yangquan County, and I will reward my brothers tonight!" As he said, his deerskin oil boots creaked Creaking, leading everyone into the mountain temple. This is a temple that has been abandoned not long ago. The empty courtyard is covered with more than a foot of snow. According to the mountain, there are two side rooms neatly lined up on both sides of the main hall, and two or three feet long ice skates hang down from the eaves.The door of the half-old house is wide open, and the window paper is not broken; the vermilion paint on the pillars is not peeling off, just slightly old; only the big iron tripod in the courtyard is covered with a thick layer of snow, cold and gloomy. The ground stands in the snow, as if telling people something.This group of people broke into the main hall, only to hear a "hu", and startled a large group of birds sheltering from the snow in the hall, rock chickens, crows, pheasants, and a roe deer rushed out of the door, caught off guard, Qian Yun Dou was so frightened that he sat down in the snow, but Cai Huaixi had quick eyes and quick hands, and caught one with one hand. When he saw it, it turned out to be two pheasants.

"Yeah." A smile flashed in Yinzhen's eyes, and then he backed it up again. He strode up the steps, stomping the snow on his feet, and ordered, "Clear the snow in the yard, and remove the railings under the verandah to start a fire." The two Bi Tieshi and I live in the main hall, my guards live in the west side hall, and the brothers who are good at fighting camp live in the east side hall." After finishing speaking, he untied his cloak and handed it to Congren and walked into the main hall alone, facing the shrine to be smoked The blackened mountain god bowed, muttered something in his mouth, turned back to Qian Yundou and said, "This is not like a dilapidated temple, why is there no incense, I'm afraid it's the Taoist priests and the temple priests who bought the temple property Run away?" Qian Yundou said with a smile: "Yes, the servant also thinks it's strange." Cai Huaixi lit a fire beside him and said, "I don't know, there was a severe drought in Shanxi last year, and there was no grass growing. There were no people here for dozens of miles. It’s cold and I’m afraid to go out, there’s plenty of coal here. People are starving and running away, so naturally the people in the temple can’t support them, so how can there be incense?” Before Yinti could answer, he heard a loud “Mom” from the courtyard, and then went There was a clamor:

"Get this smelly corpse out!" "Find the door panel!" "Pfft, bad luck!" Only then did Yinti know that it was the soldiers who cleaned the room and found the frozen body.Because the fire in the room had just started and there was a lot of smoke, he walked out of the hall without hesitation, and saw a group of people in the east side hall talking and arguing about carrying the corpse, he asked, "What are you shouting about?" A soldier hurried over and asked "There is a dead body in the east room. It's frozen. It's a woman..." Yinti came to the east room with his hands behind his back without saying a word, and he saw a young woman, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with loose hair and wearing clothes. He was dressed in a blue-lined green cloth shirt, with two little bare feet, and the front and back of the shoes were bound with a foot-binding cloth. He was sitting against a corner with his hands clasped together, his face blue and ugly like burnt incense ashes.A few soldiers from the Good Capture Battalion were spitting and cursing, probably because they were afraid of bad luck and being dirty, but no one moved the corpse.Yinti said coldly: "Are you considered the children of the Eight Banners? I am the king of the Great General, and I led the troops to fight Arabbutan in Xidatong. After the battle, the corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers! You are not worthy to carry shoes for my soldiers!—— Come, where is my guard?"

"exist!" "Drag her out of the temple gate!" "tie!" A guard agreed, grabbed the girl's armpits with both hands, and dragged her away without hesitation. As soon as she reached the door, she stopped suddenly and said, "Master Fourteen, her armpits are still warm!" "Huh?" Yinti was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to support the girl's arm, held the pulse for a long time, pondered for a long time, and said: "She is not dying. Hurry up! Get it warmed by the fire in the temple, maybe you can still live! " So the crowd hurriedly carried the female corpse to the fire in the main hall, burned hot rice wine again, opened their clenched teeth and poured it down, felt for the pulse again, and felt that it was beating slowly, like tight or slow , Nostril wings opened and closed, and his face gradually turned back, but he was extremely pale, and he lay unconscious on the horse cushion beside the fire like a gossamer.

The fire on the temple was crackling, and the venison cooked in the pot hanging on the iron shelf gave off a mouth-watering aroma.Yinti was full of thoughts, looking wistfully at the dark night outside, listening to the rustling of heavy snow, he sighed after a long time, and said to Qian Yundou who was standing by: "I'm not hungry at all, you and Cai Huaixi can eat. If you think it's restrictive here, you can listen to how lively they are eating and drinking in the hatchback, just have fun, and you're afraid that I'll run away? I won't commit suicide either!" "Fourteenth Lord, don't be too sad," Qian Yundou forced a smile, "The late Emperor reigned for sixty-one years, and we ordinary people look at people who are seventy years old. This is a joy and mourning. Fourteenth Lord is a golden branch and jade leaf, no matter what. You have to take care of yourself, death is like a lamp going out, no matter how sad you are, it won't help you." Yinti sighed: "Don't blame Fourteenth Master for having a bad temper. I have carefully watched the journey, and you and Cai Huaixi are both good people. I was sad, the late Emperor Kangxi asked me to be the great general in fifty-seven years, sent troops to Qinghai, took my hand at the gate of Qianqing when we parted, and said, "Ama is old and her bones are not good. I know you are not good." I would like to go far away, but among the princes and elder brothers, you are the only one who can lead the army. If you don’t share my worries, who can fulfill this filial piety?” Cheng Yongjue?" As he said that, he burst into tears.Cai Huaixi hurriedly persuaded: "Nowadays, the master is very solemn about the funeral affairs for the late emperor. The slaves even visited the tomb built in Zunhua. It is not only magnificent, but also has very good geomantic omen. The Lord Long Live is afraid that the Fourteenth Lord will mourn too much, so he did it." Tell the servants to go to Xidatong to pick up the master back to Beijing. There are many things to do at the funeral. Don't be too sad because the body is more important than anything else."

Yinti poked the fire with a wooden stick, looked at the girl sleeping next to him, and said, "The fourth brother is a smart person, what does he say about being emperor? The second thing I want to say is this. Today, this place does not touch the sky, and it does not touch the ground. I have a few words to ask you. You have to think that you are slaves under the banner of Zhenghuang, so I will ask, and you have to think that you are the emperor's envoy, and I am escorted by order. It's unlucky for the prince to return to Beijing, just pretend that I didn't say anything, and I'll be dumb from then on!" Qian Yundou glanced at Cai Huaixi, and smiled apologetically, "Where is the suspicion! Twenty personal soldiers escorted the lord? Just ask if you have anything to say, as long as the slaves know, they will definitely not dare to deceive you." Yinqi was slightly startled when he heard this, and suddenly he looked up to the sky and laughed, which made Qian and Cai shudder. .But Yinti dropped the fire stick in his hand, stood up and said, "Are you pretending to be stupid or confused? Since the current emperor 'trusts' me so much, why did the first imperial decree be passed to Nian Gengyao, governor of Shaanxi, ordering martial law in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces? ? And ordered Cai Ting, governor of Sichuan, to gather 20,000 horses to Laohekou to stand by?"

"Slaves know about this," Qian Yundou said, staring at the overbearing Yinti in astonishment, "The late emperor passed away. The matter happened in a hurry, and for fear of accidents, he ordered all soldiers and horses in the world to be under martial law. Not only in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan, but also in Zhili. It's the same, Beijing and Nine Cities are closed!" Yinzhen giggled: "Even so, let me ask you again, Li Wei, the governor of Shaanxi, is the little bastard who waited on the pen and ink in the fourth brother's study, and was in charge of supplying the army on the West Road. As for the food and fodder, the military rations were originally supplied on a seasonal basis, why did they suddenly change to a daily supply?"

"This..." Qian Yundou was at a loss for words, and was thinking about how to answer, when Cai Huaixi said beside him, "Perhaps it has been snowing for days, and the supply of food and fodder may not be available for a while." Yinti sneered and said, "Cai Huaixi, don't do this to me. I am the biological son of Emperor Shengzu Daxing, a nobleman of Tianhuang! I am only allowed to bring ten guards with me when I go to the funeral, which is not as good as the guard of honor of a magistrate." You have to play this trick for three-year-old children—do you think I don’t know? Thirty of you followed me around, and three thousand green battalion soldiers followed and watched for the next thirty miles. I'm going back to Beijing—why are you startled? Think I'm in the dark? If you stay here tonight, the people at the inn in front of you will be as anxious as ants! Look, someone will come to 'greet' me in the morning! I—" Yinqi became more and more excited as he spoke, his face flushed with blood, he paced back and forth like a trapped animal, and suddenly rushed to the window lattice and frantically tore off the window paper, his piercing eyes seemed to penetrate the boundless dark night outside.After a long time, he turned around, with tears streaming down his face, and murmured: "God...how did you arrange it like this? Eight brothers, nine brothers, ten brothers...and that damn Orondai, you are in Beijing... all What do you eat? You wine bags... these rice buckets!" He slumped back to the fire, the bright red flames reflected his handsome face, and did not speak for a long time. Yinti was the fourteenth among the twenty-four sons of Emperor Kangxi, so he was called "Fourteen Lords".In the last years of Kangxi, government affairs were abolished, laws were lenient, Prince Yinfeng was fatuous and incompetent, and was abolished twice in the forty-seventh year and fifty-first year, which started the ambition of the sons to covet the throne. The miasma.It was the first time that the prince was deposed, and the eldest son of the emperor "Da Qiantui" competed for the throne with Yinzhi, Prince Cheng of the third elder brother.Yinti exposed the scandal that "the king of sincerity is not sincere" and sent Meng Guangzu, a member of his family, to travel around the provinces to make friends with the big officials in frontiers, hoping to get a good fortune.Yinzhi denounced Yinti's secret evil deeds of burying the "Picture of Heaven and Earth Hell" in Yuqing Palace, the crown prince's palace, to suppress the crown prince, causing Yinfeng to become confused and lose morality.Kangxi was furious, and immediately imprisoned Yinti, reprimanded Yinzhi, and issued an edict to all civil and military officials to elect the prince.According to Kangxi's idea, the crown prince lost his morals and made the palace messy. Since it was the elder brother's manipulation, now the truth is revealed. Yinfeng, who has been the crown prince for thirty years, should be rehabilitated and reascend to the throne.Unexpectedly, the result of the election was quite unexpected. The six ministries and nine ministers, and the governors of the eighteen provinces and towns all spoke out, and it turned out that the "eighth master" Yinhu who had never handled government affairs alone was elected.After careful investigation, it was discovered that the eighth elder brother was an extraordinary person, and he had already been secretly connected with people. He contacted the ninth elder brother Yinti and the tenth elder brother Yin'e. Elder Brother Yinti is also a member of the same party. He is capable of both civil and military affairs. He stamped his feet in the Baye Mansion outside Chaoyang Gate, and Ninetowns were shocked!Kangxi also had the idea of ​​establishing Yinhu as the crown prince, but after thinking about it, Yinhu, a prince with no real power, can control the court, call the wind, call the rain and rain, and toss the prince to death eight live.The fourth elder brother Yinzhen and the thirteenth elder brother in the princeling party cleaned up the officials' debts to the treasury, rectified the Ministry of Punishment's injustice, and other crucial state affairs, all because of the "Eight Wise Kings" who played horizontal guns and made nothing happen.If Yinhu was really established as the crown prince, not only would the rest of the sons inevitably suffer a change of flesh and blood, but even Kangxi himself might be forced to abdicate.In desperation, Kangxi had no choice but to reappoint Yinfeng as the crown prince, and appointed the fourth elder brother as Prince Yong to assist in the government.In order to appease Yinhu's gang, Jin granted Yinhu the title of Prince Lian, and Yinhu and Yin'e were promoted to Baylor.Unexpectedly, things would intensify. After the reset, Yinfeng was afraid that Kangxi would change his mind again. Second, he was deeply afraid that the eighth elder brother would be too difficult to control. Eight Ye Party"!The secret was not secret, and the shrewd Kangxi once again noticed that he issued an imperial edict to imprison Yinfeng forever, imprisoned the thirteenth brother Yinxiang, the prince's cronies, and issued an edict to the world that the emperor would never appoint a prince again within one day of his reign.In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Arabbutan of the Zhungeer tribe made a foolish move and sent troops to invade Qinghai-Tibet without authorization. Kangxi decided to send troops to crusade, and ordered 100,000 elite soldiers to go out to fight in Kansai. Now that Yinxiang was imprisoned, Yinti was logically named a general and the king led his troops out of Beijing. Yinti was roasting on the fire and fell into deep thought.On the eve of being appointed as the general king, he had a long talk with Yinhu overnight.What was that like?With a black handkerchief wrapped around Yinhu's head, the sickly and disfigured Yinhu looked more and more haggard under the faint flickering candle shadow, holding Yinti's hand with tears in his eyes, he gasped and said, "Good brother, you are going to travel far away. One part of me is fear, the other part is joy... I don't know what evil I did in my previous life. I was born in the royal family, and the catastrophe came without incident. Not only did I lose love to Huang Ama, but even my brothers couldn't tolerate me! I want to be a virtuous king, help the weak and help the weak, and do good deeds in my life. I never thought that because of my popularity, I was recommended to be the prince, but the world will not tolerate me! I... I planted flowers, but I got thorns... Now I am so sick , I don’t think about anything, I’m afraid that if you leave, you and I will be separated from each other, and there will be no time to meet again! Thinking about it, Beijing is now a den of tigers and wolves, and a den of right and wrong. To be honest, Ama is old, the prince has not yet been decided, brothers Who doesn't have an abacus? The fourth brother is not expected to be an emperor, he only acts meanly, and rushes to extort money to invite him to buy Long Live. I don't think he has any different thoughts. The third brother has seen Ama's love for scholars It's a clever way to please, it seems that every day I lead Chen Menglei to write books and talk about it, but it's actually a shortcut to climbing the dragon! It's your ninth brother and tenth brother, people say you are a hardcore "Eight Lord Party", I see it too Not necessarily! In the old days when the Jin State was making housework, Prince Shen Sheng was in danger inside, and son Chong Er was safe outside, so even though I was reluctant, I was relieved that you went to lead the soldiers! Just take care of yourself, my grandpa Yabuqi is here Xi Datong, with him serving you, it’s the same as if I were in front of you. Once the situation in the court changes, you bring hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Banners to the city, and I will maintain it inside. If you don’t want to sit on the throne, who will sit in it?” Yinti was captured He wept bitterly as he spoke, choking with sobs and said: "Mynah said everything, but being an emperor, brother, I didn't even dare to think about it... I can only lead soldiers, I only love martial arts, I don't have the big heart, and I don't want to be an emperor." I don't have that kind of virtue. According to my opinion, the emperor loves you deeply, so he tempered you. Otherwise, why did you say that you conspired against him, and instead promoted you to be a prince? No matter how much the fourth brother has done, how much effort he has made I'm just like you...you take it easy to recuperate, I'm outside, if something happens in Beijing, you should bring me a letter as soon as possible...I'm on the sidelines, you can take care of everything..." The firewood exploded with a "boo" in the fire, and Yinti's eyes flashed, and when he woke up, he realized where he was and what kind of feelings he was in.There are too many unexpected things in the world, and the number of good fortune is just not as expected.Although Yinhu and Yinti were crying eyes to each other, hurting their lovers to hurting their lovers, and their words were serious, they each had their own wishful thinking.As soon as Yinti arrived at his side, he bought Erlundai, the first-class bodyguard Yinhu had placed beside him, and ordered him to return to Beijing to "help the fourth master and watch over the eighth master". up.He was full of thoughts that since the emperor did not appoint a crown prince, he immediately led his troops back to Beijing to fight for the throne when he heard the news of Kangxi's death. Unexpectedly, as soon as Orondai entered Beijing, he fell into the sea like a mud cow, and he didn't even have a letter, let alone the emperor's will. The fourth elder brother of "Material" made his debut, and became the Ninth Five-Year King in a majestic manner!The authoritative eighth elder brother actually bowed his head and proclaimed himself a minister. He was constrained by Nian Gengyao, Yue Zhongqi, and instead of being able to "send a hundred thousand troops into the pass", he was sent to the capital with two pens and half guards by 20 Habayashi sergeants. ... He glanced at Qian Yundou and Cai Huaixi, who were eating venison and drinking, and sighed silently. Resentment, doubts, anxiety, melancholy, and a trace of inexplicable terror suddenly hit his heart, and he said "boom" He broke the front collar and wanted to stand up, but he gritted his teeth and sat still. "Master Fourteen," Qian Yundou turned his face to stare at Yinti in surprise, "what's your order?" Yinti said viciously, "It's hot! Lord, unbutton it!" Cai Huaixi hurriedly said, "This fire burns It’s too hot; my servant, how many firewood should I smoke?” Yinti frantically poked the fire, gritted his teeth, and said, “I still think it’s not booming! There’s going to be a fire to burn this bastard world and burn me to ashes. I'm also happy!" Only then did Cai Huaixi and Qian Yundou understand that Yinti was so burned by the anger in his heart that he swallowed everything he wanted to say.At this moment, the frozen woman twitched and moaned, "Water...water..."