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Chapter 98 Training

As the New Year approaches, the emperor gets up early, first go to Fengxian Hall to pray, then gets up to the Ganqing Palace to invite all the ministers and envoys from various countries, look at the neatly arranged court officials under the mouth of Jiulong, and performs the great ceremony of kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times. The mountain shouts endlessly. The emperor smiles with satisfaction, "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Time flies, and it's another year. It's been a very hard work for all the ministers to assist me in this year. Now it's time to rest. All the members will take care of their own spirits and take care of themselves and wait for the coming year."

"The emperor is very happy to pray, and I am very happy."

"I won't say much, I will send an order and hold a banquet." The emperor looked at Yi Jian, who was at the forefront of the court officials with a smile. "Xiao Jiu, I know that you have a generous meal. I will use more after a while. If you like to eat, I will tell me that I will let you prepare it and take it back to the mansion for use."

When Yi Huan heard the emperor calling him, he quickly stood in from the crowd. He was born in the 25th year of Daoguang, and he was only twenty-six years old this year. Among Daoguang's nine sons, he was small and honest. When he gradually grew up, the emperor appointed him as the Jia number of Beile and was training troops in Fengtai Camp. Over the years, his originally beautiful face had already turned black and red, and he was full of energy everywhere.

He first bowed to the emperor in a regular manner, and then said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I have been busy for a year. I originally thought that I would come to the palace to celebrate the New Year to the emperor and my sister-in-law today, and I was waiting for this Tianjia banquet that the emperor rewarded - I will say that I have not used breakfast yet, and I was so hungry that I was rude. Fortunately, the emperor was kind to me. After a while, I would definitely not be polite to the emperor."

After hearing his nagging, everyone in the palace laughed, and the emperor was so amused by him. His mood was particularly good today. He pointed to the Yushen on the table and said to Liufu, "Come on, bring all the Yushen to you, Master Jiu, I will only eat a few small buns filled with bean paste."

Yihuan agreed, sat cross-legged at the table, and used his hands together, and ate all the delicious food on the table like a wind blowing the wind. He said with his hands, "Your Majesty, I am making you laugh. My brother probably doesn't like this. This is the skill I learned when I was practicing troops in the camp. In recent years, my brother has been stirring horses and spoons in the same pot with the generals in the army. Those soldiers are not like humans. They are all hungry wolves. If I chew slowly like a young man, I won't let them laugh? In fact, the emperor doesn't know that those who are in the army are not afraid of war. What they fear most is training. In their words, it is: if the heavens are not shocked, the earth is not shocked, the death is not hard, and if they are not hurt, they are afraid of making trouble. If they are not worried about the training of soldiers at the 395th day, they are not afraid of fighting."

The emperor laughed: "Lao Jiu, are you not afraid of something wrong with eating it?"

"I'm not afraid, I'm used to eating it. If I don't do this, I feel it's not delicious. After eating it, it's like I can't eat enough."

The emperor suddenly felt aroused, "Lao Jiu, you don't have any children yet?"

"Yes. When I asked the emperor, I was destined to have no son, so I dare not force it now."

The emperor secretly said, why are many royal families now ending up having no children? It seems that he is right and cannot limit the marriage of the royal family to the inside of his clan. "Lao Liu, I think Xiao Jiu has already experienced it. Let's get more errands to him?"

"What the emperor said is that my brother also thinks that the ninth brother is the former emperor Xue Yin, and the young Yingfa, who is working hard for the country, so it is better to use it."

The emperor nodded. At first, he had a sudden idea. He was originally going to propose Yihuan from the Fengtai camp and let him accompany the fifth prince to the Western country for a while. When he returned from his studies, he would let go and use it. But after careful consideration, he felt that it was inappropriate: Zaihuan was his son and the queen's legitimate son. Although Yihuan was his uncle, he would be pleased by these people when he went abroad. At that time, he would not only not get the effect of experience, but he would easily turn the uncle and nephew into a pair of playboys. After thinking about this, he swallowed the rest of his words.

Yi, Yihuan brothers, don’t know why he was so quiet. Seeing that he was in a good mood, he plucked up his courage and asked, “Emperor, do you have any worries? Why not give it to me? My brothers and others are willing to share the work for the emperor.”

"This matter is not something you can share." The emperor smiled, "It's New Year's Eve today. I don't talk about politics, I just talk about leisure. Let's have a meal."

At the end of the banquet, the emperor envoyed the East Warehouse of the Qing Palace and took the pen of "Blessing the People". He also wrote the word "Fu and Longevity" for the royal family and close ministers to express the meaning of chanting and praying - most people have the word "Fu" and only a few, such as Zeng Guofan, Xu Naizhao, and Yuan Jiasan, can both be blessed and longevity.

Xu Naizhao knelt on the ground and prostrated himself, but the emperor was not in a hurry to use his pen, "Xu Naizhao, you have worked very hard this year."

"I dare not. I was picked up by the emperor twenty years ago, and I only thought that I would do my best to be the emperor when I am alive." Xu Naizhao replied respectfully, "If the emperor has needs, I dare not refuse it on the grounds of being old."

"I know your character." He suddenly asked, "Since the 11th year of Xianfeng, the Military Affairs Office has to be held by the Minister of Military Affairs during the period of enthronement of the yamen. I have not looked back on my hometown for many years. I have thought about it and I will temporarily exempt you from entering the property this year. Let's go back to my hometown."

Xu Naizhao was stunned. What does the emperor mean? Last year, Zeng Guofan almost made a mess in the matter of returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors. Finally, he even went to the palace to apologize at night. Although the emperor did not pursue anything much, after the beginning of the New Year, his honor and favor declined day by day. It was not until the birthday of the Wanbao Festival that the heart of heaven gradually warmed up. Why did he think about letting himself go back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year?

Thinking of this in my heart, I still thanked him, "The emperor cares about the old ministers, and I am inexplicably impressed. However, I think that every New Year in the capital, there is a system of enfeoffment, but there are military and national affairs, and I am a person who is trustworthy in the emperor, and I should stay in the capital to share the worries and work for the emperor."

The emperor smiled and stopped entangling, "Okay, if you have this intention, how can I refute your kindness? That's it." After that, he turned around and picked up his pen, and wrote the word "Fu" and "Shou" on two pieces of vermilion papers laid out from the inner paper. He was held by the eunuch and moved out of Xu Naizhao who was kneeling on the ground. This process has a nice name, called "Fu is full of blessing".

Xu Naizhao withdrew and passed Zeng Guofan in. The emperor asked a few questions as usual, and then said, "I have something that is considered a family matter and a state matter. I want to hear your opinions."

"yes?"

"A few months ago, the queen told me that Zaichun intended to imitate the second prince Zaiying and go to study in the west. I agreed. But this time, I don't want Xiaowu to go to the country between Britain, France, the United States and the West, and chose a place for him, which was Germany, which had a great victory after the war with France, and unified it in one fell swoop."

Zeng Guofan didn't speak, but blinked his eyes and listened quietly, "But I was worried. One reason was that Germany had no contact with our Qing Dynasty, and I knew nothing about the customs and customs there. Feng'er was my son. If there was any accident in Germany, I was really afraid that the queen would not be able to stand it. This is one of them. Another thing is that since he had to go to Western countries, there were people around him, or people like Zhan Tianyou and Tang Shaoyi, who were traveling with the second prince, but I couldn't find such people. I had no choice but to choose a few slaves for him to follow him."

"...But if this is the case, I'm afraid that these people will coax him and hold him behind their backs. In the end, they will not succeed, but instead train them to become two-produced naughty boys and first-class playboys." At this point, he finally finished his understanding, "Zeng Guofan, if you talk about this kind of mental education, you can be considered the only remaining senior in the court. What should you tell me about it?"

Zeng Guofan nodded secretly. The emperor's concerns were not unreasonable, but since he said this, he naturally had some opinions in his heart and could not be changed. And what he could do and should do was to resolve his doubts. "I think it would be better to deal with this matter in two ways. Let's talk about what the Sacred Heart is worried about first. After the fifth prince went abroad, he had no classmates around him and worked hard to improve his studies. I think this matter may not be considered a serious problem-"

"Oh? How do you say it?"

"Although I have not heard of the affairs of the General Administration in person, my minister was summoned by the emperor and was appointed as the British gang minister. There are also Western graphic and text in my house. When I ask someone to translate it, I can also know a little about it. Like Russia, Germany is despised by Britain, France and Jose, and regards it as a barbarian land. But because of this, Germany is self-improvement and can be regarded as the first European country."

"Well, you're right." The emperor nodded vigorously and waved his hand to signal him to stand up. Zeng Guofan was really sore in his knees. In the past, when he went to court, he always had to wrap a thick layer of cotton on his knees and a soft mat under his body. He didn't feel it was hard, but today he didn't expect the emperor to suddenly ask about this. He was lying on the ground for a long time and felt it was very hard.

"According to what I heard from Western teaching, the Germans are the most serious, and this section is also famous in European countries." He said, "But what I am worried about is not that after his country, the Germans do not teach them seriously, but that they do not study seriously."

"Yes. I also thought of it. But I think that the fifth prince is pure and kind. If he can learn lessons from others, even if he cannot calm down at the beginning, he should encourage himself to follow the education after a long time."

"You mean, let him go alone?"

"The more members there are, the more unfavorable the fifth prince's studies are. But alone, going to a foreign country, and seeing them, they are all foreign classmates. I think they can also encourage the fifth prince to study for the country and increase his glory. The only way to reach this path is to improve his studies, which is far better than his classmates."

The emperor was in a long time, resting his eyes and sleeping, and nodding for a while, "This is not bad. But if there is only one person, I always feel that it is inappropriate. Let Su Nu go with him. They were fellow friends who went to study at that time. This time, when they went to Germany together, they could at least take care of each other. More importantly, Sunu was fluent in Spanish and could also avoid the trouble of being unable to understand foreign languages."

The name Su Nu sounded very unfamiliar to Zeng Guofan. After thinking about it carefully, I remembered that he was descended from Chu Ying.

Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, had sixteen sons. The eldest son of the Yuan Concubine, and the second son Daishan. When Chu Ying was seventeen or eighteen years old, he gave the title of "Hongbatulu" for his martial arts. The warrior was called Batulu, and Hongke explained it as great, so the meaning of "Hongbatulu" is the great warrior. When this warrior was twenty-seven years old, he was even named "Alhatushimen Bele" and translated as Guangluo Bele. As the name suggests, it can be seen that it is not only brave, but also wise.

Unexpectedly, Taizu, a wise and brave eldest son, would have been charged with the crime of "cursing the book" and banned the high walls. In the third year, he died in the Yousuo at the age of 36. According to the fact that the Ming Dynasty found that the "Red Rabbit" - the Ming Dynasty did not know what the name of "Hongbatulu" was, and used the transliteration to call Chu Ying the Red Rabbit. He said that he advised his father not to betray the Ming Dynasty. Taizu was furious and ordered him to be executed. This matter is not recorded in official books, but for many years, it has been said that Chu Ying was indeed killed by his father.

Because of this, Chu Ying and his brother Daishan's situation were very different. After Nurhaci's death, Daishan supported Huang Taiji with the banner owner of the Zhenghong Banner. At that time, Huang Taiji held two yellow banners and had Daishan's help, and ascended the throne, and the world was determined to be one. Later, in order to express his remuneration, Daishan was named Prince Li; Daishan's eldest son Yuetuo was named Prince Keqin; and the third son Saha was named Prince Shuncheng, which was all hereditary. In the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there were only eight kings hereditary, commonly known as "Iron Hat King", and Daishan's family occupied three.

The brothers born to a mother have such different prosperity and rebirth. After Chu Ying, many people with abnormal mentalities emerged. One was to be resentful; the other was to be desperately flattered, with the opposite idea. Among the types of people to be desperately flattered, one was called Sunu, and the other was called Puqi, who was the uncle and nephew in the cousin.

But although Sunu is a cousin, she is a few years younger than Puqi. When he was studying in the study room, he was a companion for reading, but in fact he was scolded instead of the prince. The prince was wrong and the master could not scold him, so he had to find a few companion to scold him, so he could only criticize him, so he could only criticize him for being criticized by criticizing him.

But they are both young people and have never made any mistakes, but they are often scolded by their masters. Over time, many clans, who have read books well, have regarded going to the study room as a fear of this. There is only one Sunu, who is willing to accept it and will study as usual.

Although Zai Tong was young and shy, he was not a fool. Seeing that Sunu often had received it on behalf of his brothers, but after the class was over, he was ridiculed by the third prince and others. He felt very reluctant in his heart, so he often talked about it in front of the queen. In this way, the emperor also knew about it.

Afterwards, the emperor issued an edict for this purpose, and all the children of the royal family who were studying in the study room were demoted to several masters in the study room with a very strict wording, asking them to adhere to the teachings of saints and not to abuse others to show punishment. This is not counting. He called the children below the eldest prince to the front of the emperor, and except for the second prince and the fifth prince, he took turns to scold them, which was considered to temporarily stop the unhealthy trend of children going to school as naughty.

And the Sunu, who had always received a job for others, also sent it to the emperor to study at Tongwenguan for seven years.

"What the emperor said is that Sunu has been promoted by the emperor for many years, and with his honest and upright person, the fifth prince can take care of him, and he will definitely live up to the emperor's orders to take the Western learning."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy."

Zeng Guofan shook his head honestly, "I don't understand what the emperor said."
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