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Chapter 171 Wei Dongting

"The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away all the heroes. The right and wrong, success and failure turn empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. The white-haired fishermen and woodcutters are on the river bank, and they are used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine meets each other happily. How many things in ancient and modern times are all laughing about..."

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Above the Yangtze River, a large ship is flowing upstream.

On the front deck of the boat, there was a small table sitting next to the table, holding a book called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". While watching, the man was tapping the table with his fingers as he pressed the beat, as if he had already integrated into it.

"The handsome man is so excited!"

The person at the table was reading a book. After hearing this, he didn't look back and just replied with a smile: "Mr. Ling is joking, but he can't talk about any interest. He just has a rare leisure time. He occasionally finds two books to check it out for fun!"

"Haha, Grandmaster, it's really okay to have fun at any time, but don't you think it's not too time to want to have fun now?" "Mr. Ling" also sat at this small table and looked at the "Master" with a smile!

"Not the time? Lord Ling, what you said is wrong. In fact, now, it's time to entertain!" The reader raised his head and showed a slightly black square face. His eyes were bright on his face, and a thick beard on his lips, and three short beards under his chin were very energetic. The hand holding the book had thick bones and blue veins, which looked twisted and powerful. The man was smiling at Lord Ling, and his faint smile gave everyone a warm feeling.

"Oh? It's the time? Ling is so rude, please give me some advice!" "Mr. Ling" bowed and said.

"Haha, in fact, there is nothing to say about this. Although the emperor asked Wei to go to Anqing to announce the imperial edict, Wei still understood what he meant. In fact, the emperor did not want Wei to hurry and rushed there. So, we should take a boat. Not only is the speed not very fast, but it is also comfortable, and can also browse the scenery." The reader, Wei Dongting, the governor of the customs of four provinces, replied with a smile to the prince's confidant minister, Ling Pu.

"It turns out that the emperor still has this idea. It seems that the general is still caring about the emperor. Only the general can understand the emperor's intentions!" Ling Pu said to Wei Dongting with envy.

"Mr. Ling was joking. How could we, the servants, guess the sage? Moreover, how dare we guess the emperor's thoughts? In fact, this time it was because of the emperor's instructions that Wei dared to be so 'negative'!" Wei Dongting replied.

"Haha, what the Grand Marshal said is that the Holy Will cannot be understood!" Ling Pu sighed, picked up the teapot on the table and poured a cup for Wei Dongting, and said, "But, there are many people who are thinking about the Holy Will now. These officials can do everything for their promotion and wealth..."

"Mr. Ling seems to have other words." Wei Dongting said.

"Haha, I know I can't hide it from the Grand Marshal!... What Ling said is actually the object of your order this time, Ma De!" After Ling Pu said that, he couldn't help staring at Wei Dongting's eyes and then looked, but he didn't see anything. Wei Dongting just "oh", laughed twice, then lowered his head to continue reading, and said nothing.

...

"Master, Caishiji is ahead. Should I stop the boat?"

Ling Pu was thinking about what Wei Dongting meant, and Wei Dongting's personal soldiers came over to report.

"Have you arrived at Caishiji?...Well, stop the boat! This is a good place, you must take a good look! Lord Ling, should you get off the boat and take a look?" Wei Dongting asked Ling Pu after giving instructions to his personal soldiers.

"Master, this place is just a cliff. What's so fun?" Ling Pu looked at the cliff on the south bank of the Yangtze River and was really not in a mood.

"Haha, Lord Ling, you have lived in the north for a long time, and I'm afraid you don't know the name of Caishiji? Let me tell you that Caishijiji, also known as Niuzhuji, is this cliff standing on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is strange and steep and has been a place that military strategists have fought for since ancient times. Moreover, according to old sayings, this is also the place where Li Taibai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, jumped into the river to catch the moon. Therefore, there are many poems and essays left by celebrities throughout the ages. It's very interesting!" Wei Dongting stood up with a smile, stretched his muscles and bones, and prepared to get off the boat.

"Li Taibai jumped into the river to catch the moon? Haha, then you have to go and take a look. Maybe you can still get some of the fairy spirit of the "Poet Immortal"!" Seeing Wei Dongting's interest, Ling Pu did not dare to defeat the other party's excitement, and wanted to follow the thoughts of the Governor Wei, so he stood up.

...

"Master, there is no only this cliff here, right? Apart from this, are there any fun places?" Ling Pu asked Wei Dongting again when he arrived on the shore.

"Haha, of course there is! Li Taibai jumped into the river to catch the moon here, and finally retired here. If there were no fun places here, how could he be kept?... As far as I know, there are Taibai Tower, Rising Rhino Pavilion, Catching Yuetai, and Sanyuan Cave on Caishiji. These are all good places!" Wei Dongting seemed very interested.

"So many places? Dashen, don't you want to continue playing all the way?" Ling Pu asked with a little unnatural smile.

"Haha, Lord Ling has something to do?" Wei Dongting asked.

"No, Ling has plenty of time, so I should have a good time with Dashen!" Ling Pu said with a smile.

"Haha, it's a great honor to have Lord Ling come forward to accompany you!" Wei Dongting said with a smile.

"Where is inside, the general made fun of him!" Ling Pu waved his hands repeatedly to show that he did not dare to think that Wei Dongting said this.

...

Wei Dongting ordered the boat to dock, and Ling Pu's eyes were confused by the side.

There is a reason why he came to Wei Dongting.

Wei Dongting was not an idle person. His mother, Sun, was Kangxi's wet mother, and he himself was Kangxi's foreman. From the first year of Kangxi to the seventeenth year of Kangxi, "captured Oboi" and "withdrawing the Three Feudals" to quell the Beijing rebellion of the third prince of Zhu Yang Qilong, and in many times Kangxi's crisis, Wei Dongting was guarding the emperor day and night, never leaving his steps, and he was born and died, and several times turned the emperor into danger. Now, he has a marquis and became the governor of the customs of four provinces. He has everything he has, such as the three-eyed peach feather, yellow jacket, and Shangfang sword, and he has the right to send Kangxi secretly, which is so powerful that he is so scary.

Moreover, Kangxi's favor to Wei Dongting and the Wei family was more than this.

During his southern tour, Kangxi met his mother, Sun in Nanjing, in front of the civil and military officials, he personally reached out to support Sun in front of the civil and military officials, and told these officials that Sun was "the old man of my family". Later, he changed a hall of the Wei family into "Xuanrui Hall" and gave the Wei family a plaque to the imperial calligraphy to show his favor. Before this was over, after returning to Beijing, Kangxi still did not forget the Wei family and gave his palace in Nanjing to the Wei family.

Such kindness was something that no minister had ever encountered, and even among Kangxi's brothers and nephews, no one had such good luck.

Therefore, no one dared to be rude to Wei Dongting, a trusted minister of Kangxi, and even the crown prince Yinreng did not have the courage to do so.

However, there is no complete perfection in the world!

Wei Dongting and the current Suzhou Weaving Manufacturer Mu Zixu and Guangzhou General Wu Dan have a brotherhood. What about Mu Zixu? He is also the brother-in-law of Jiangning Weaving Manufacturer Cao Yin, that is to say, Cao Yin's wife is Mu Zixu's sister! The place where the unfulfilling is here. Although the Cao family is also the confidant of Kangxi, the Cao family does not strictly adhere to neutrality like the Wei family. They have a good relationship with the prince.

Just like this time, Ling Pu left Anqing in panic. As soon as he left Anhui, he received an order from his superiors to go to Jiangnan to raise funds for the Crown Prince Yinreng. As a result, after he went to Nanjing to find Cao Yin, the Jiangning Weaving Man took out 30,000 taels at once!... This is not a small amount!

At this moment, Ling Pu received news from the capital again, and Kangxi asked Wei Dongting to come forward to pass the order to Ma De!

Therefore, because he was afraid of being blamed by Prince Yinreng for his failure in his mission, Ling Pu once again attached Wei Dongting, the customs governor of four provinces.

Of course, his purpose was not to win over Wei Dongting. Because everyone knows that Wei Dongting will only be loyal to Kangxi. As long as Kangxi is still there, no one will want this person to express it. So, his purpose is actually just to see what Marshal Wei, who had never dealt with him, think of the prince! At the same time, try to win Wei Dongting's favor for the prince as much as possible!... Kangxi is so confident in Wei Dongting, as long as someone Wei is willing to say a good word or two, it is more effective than the civil and military officials in the capital saying a hundred and a thousand words. So, he followed Wei Dongting's ship!

However, until now, Ling Pu only felt that Wei Dongting seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the prince. Although he still respected him very much on the surface and always called him "master", his actual performance was completely different from that of the Cao family. This made Ling Pu, who was the prince's breast, feel a little unhappy. However, despite this, Ling Pu still had to smile at Wei Dongting.

...

Caishiji was actually watching on the boat. Wei Dongting and Ling Pu had already gotten ashore, so they naturally went to see the scenery on the shore.

Just after they stepped on the shore, just as they walked a short distance, a pleasure boat suddenly appeared on the Yangtze River. The ship seemed to be a horse that had released its reins and rushed down from the upstream, scaring some of the ships passing by on the river to avoid them. The people on the boat even shouted and screamed. However, these only caused the people on the pleasure boat to laugh without any scruples.

Of course, Wei Dongting also saw the ship. Ling Pu saw his brows frowned very hard. Just as he was about to ask, he heard the Marshal Wei snorting coldly and gave an order to his subordinates:
Chapter completed!
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