[Comprehensive Wear] A good brother's life

Chapter 142

Yinzhen, who was far away in Qufu, Shandong, immediately learned from the system that the Empress Dowager had passed away.At this time, he and the third elder brother had finished offering sacrifices to the Confucian Temple, but he and the third elder brother hadn't left to rush back to the capital.

The main purpose of coming to Qufu this time is to offer sacrifices to the Confucian Temple that has just been built.After offering sacrifices to the Confucian Temple, Yinzhen and San Age, as princes, will stay in Qufu for a period of time to have close contact with the students.To put it more generally, they represent the court and the royal family to extend cordial condolences to the students.Let the students know that the court and the royal family attach great importance to them, and encourage the students to study hard, take the imperial examinations, and serve the court.

According to the original plan, they would stay in Qufu for a month after offering sacrifices to the Confucius Temple.This month, they will study and study at the Confucius Institute with the students from Qufu.

Now that the Empress Dowager passed away, Yinzhen and the third elder brother naturally wanted to rush back to the capital as quickly as possible.However, it took a few days for the news of the death of the Empress Dowager to spread from the capital to Qufu.Yinzhen learned about this from the system, so he can't tell the third elder brother for the time being, he can only pretend not to know.

It has been a while since I came to Qufu, and Yinzhen and San Age like the learning atmosphere here very much.The students here are very hardworking in their study and study. It is no exaggeration to say that the children in every household work very hard in their studies.

Although Yinzhen and Sanage came to Qufu to offer sacrifices to the Confucian Temple, and also to show that the court and the royal family valued the students, Yinzhen and Sanage also wanted to conquer the students in Shandong.During this time, Yinzhen and San Age showed their talents to the literati and students in Shandong.

San Age is very good at poetry, poetry and writing, and his poems and articles shocked the literati and students in Shandong.

As for Yinzhen, his attainments in calligraphy and Danqing are very high, and he deeply amazed the literati and students in Shandong.

The literati and students in Shandong looked down on Yinzhen and San Age at first.This contempt does not mean that they look down on their status as princes, but that the two of them have no talent as princes, but they did not expect that these two princes are very talented, not only not losing to them, but even surpassing them.

In Shandong, talented people, literati and scholars are very respected.Yin Zhen and San Age were welcomed and liked by Shandong students, and also respected by them.

Yinzhen's attainments in calligraphy and Danqing are extremely high, and he is also respected and admired by Shandong literati and students.He was originally the son of the imperial concubine, but now he is very talented, which makes his status in the hearts of Shandong literati students very high, second only to Prince Yinfeng.

During this period of time, many literati and students came to Yinzhen for calligraphy and painting.

The director of the Confucius Institute in Qufu directly asked for Yinzhen's calligraphy.Not only that, the descendants of Confucius also asked Yinzhen for a picture of the Confucius Temple.

As the prince, Yinzhen didn't give away his calligraphy and Danqing casually, otherwise it would be too cheap.He personally inscribed a picture of the Confucius Institute and the Confucius Temple.

The descendants of Confucius asked Yinzhen for a painting, an icon of Confucius.

Yinzhen agreed to give the painting, but on one condition, that is, to allow him to read the collection of the Kong family.This condition was very easy to fulfill, and the Kong family agreed to him.

In the past few days, Yinzhen and the third elder brother squatted in the library of the Kong family to read books every day.

The collection of books in the library of the Confucius family is astonishing, not inferior to that of the Hanlin Academy in the capital.Not only that, there are also many rare and rare books in the library of the Kong family, which are not even available in the Hanlin Academy.

After Yinzhen entered the Confucian Book Collection Pavilion, the system scanned and copied all the books in the Kong Family Collection Pavilion in a very exaggerated way.However, the original manuscript of "The Analects of Confucius" that the system wants is not there, nor is the long-lost "Book of Music".

According to legend, the "Book of Music" was compiled and compiled by Confucius. Yinzhen and System originally thought that the Confucian family would have a copy, but they did not expect that the Confucian family did not.The Confucian family’s Zangshuge has a collection of the currently circulated version of the Le Jing, but the Confucian family does not think that it was written by their ancestor Confucius.

Although there are no original manuscripts of the Analects and the Book of Music, there are other isolated copies, which are enough for Yinzhen and the system.

The books copied in the Confucian Book Collection Pavilion this time allowed Yinzhen to earn a lifespan of more than ten years, which was not a small "remuneration" for Yinzhen.

Yinzhen and San Age are eager to learn, and their attitudes are very approachable. The Confucius family and scholars like it very much.There are many literati and students who come to discuss the Four Books and Five Classics and poems and songs with them every day.

"Fourth brother, I don't even want to leave." The third elder brother sat on the couch and said to Yinzhen while reading a book, "I want to finish reading the books of the Kong family before leaving."

Yinzhen was amused by the words of the third elder brother: "Then third brother, you will stay in the Kong family for more than ten or twenty years, or even a lifetime." There are too many books in the Kong family's collection of books. After reading Ge's book, it will take decades.

The third elder brother also thought about it: "Oh, it's a pity that I can't stay in Kong's house forever."

Yinzhen raised his head from the book, looked at the third elder brother who was sitting opposite, and pretended to say casually: "Maybe we will leave soon."

After hearing this, the third elder brother put down the book in his hand, looked at Yinzhen suspiciously: "Why?"

"When we left, the Empress Dowager was seriously ill." Yinzhen deliberately said in a speculative tone, "Gu Yuan said that the Empress Dowager didn't have much time, and I'm afraid it won't last until June. Now, it's already May There is not much time until June."

"Not necessarily. Last year it was said that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill. Isn't the Empress Dowager well?" said the third elder brother, "I don't want to go back now." Hurry back to the capital.

"I'm afraid it won't be up to us at that time." After Yinzhen said this, he didn't say anything, and lowered his head to continue reading the book in his hand.

Both he and the third elder brother have a habit of reading books, that is, they will take notes while reading.Both of them have good memories, and they plan to wait until they return to the capital to copy down the books they saw at Kong's house.

Sure enough, Yinzhen was right. A few days later, the news of the death of the Empress Dowager reached Qufu.

The death of the Empress Dowager is a national mourning, and everyone must mourn for the Empress Dowager.During the mourning period, all entertainment activities are prohibited, let alone marriage.

As descendants, Yin Zhen and San Age must rush back to the capital from Qufu.When the two of them came to Qufu, they were not in a hurry, and it took more than half a month by boat to arrive.At this time, they had to rush back to the capital for mourning, so naturally they could no longer take a leisurely boat ride back.The two must hurry back.

Originally, the journey took more than half a month, and the two of them rushed all the way, barely resting and staying, and spent nine days rushing back to the capital.

Before they rushed back to the capital, the fifth elder brother and the sixth elder brother had been waiting for them to come back.

Since Yinzhen and the third elder brother left the capital, the sixth elder brother and the ninth elder brother have been looking forward to the stars and the moon every day, waiting for Yinzhen to come back.

During the time when Yinzhen was not in the Forbidden City, the sixth elder brother and the ninth elder brother had no energy to argue and quarrel, which made the fifth elder brother both relieved and worried.

If the fifth elder brother hadn't stopped him, the sixth and ninth elder brothers would probably write to Yinzhen every day.However, during the time Yinzhen was in Qufu, he received letters from the sixth elder brother and the ninth elder brother every seven or eight days.

The letters written by the Sixth Brother and the Ninth Brother were very simple and rude. They just wanted the Fourth Brother. When will the Fourth Brother come back from Qufu?

Every time I read the letter from Sixth Brother and the others, Yinzhen felt helpless and spoiled.

Knowing that Yinzhen will be back soon, the sixth elder brother and the ninth elder brother are very excited, but because they are in mourning, they don't show it.

The death of the empress dowager is a national funeral, and the funeral is naturally not as simple as that of ordinary people.However, even the Empress Dowager, her Zigong cannot stay in the Forbidden City for a long time.By the time Yinzhen and the others rushed back to the Forbidden City, the Zi Palace of the Empress Dowager had already been moved to the Imperial Mausoleum.

Yinzhen and the others rushed to the capital non-stop, day and night.When they returned to the Forbidden City, they rushed to the imperial mausoleum to mourn the funeral before they had time to report to Kangxi what happened in Qufu.

Kangxi asked Yinzhen and the third elder brother to observe filial piety for seven days in the imperial mausoleum, and return to the Forbidden City after the seven-day filial piety.

Sixth elder brother and ninth elder brother learned that Yinzhen and the others had come back, but they didn't see each other, so Yinzhen and the others went to the imperial mausoleum.

During Yinzhen's filial piety, the imperial concubine's daughter, Princess Nannan, fell ill.

At the beginning of June, Nannan suffered from cold and fever just like in her previous life.

The imperial concubine saw that her daughter had a high fever like in her previous life, and without any hesitation, she used the antipyretic prescription that Yinzhen had given her before.After Nannan took the medicine, her fever subsided that night, and she did not have a fever again the next day.

In her previous life, Nannan died at the beginning of June because of fever.In this life, her daughter had a fever in early June, and the imperial concubine was very worried that her daughter would die like in her previous life.After discovering that her daughter had a fever, she quickly gave her the prescription Yinzhen gave her.Although the fever did not recur the next day, the imperial concubine was still worried that her daughter would have a fever in the next few days, so she kept guarding her daughter until her daughter did not have a fever again and recovered, she was relieved in her heart.

Yinzhen, who was far away in the imperial mausoleum, learned that his younger sister survived the death of her previous life safely, and he finally felt completely at ease.

After seven days of filial piety in the imperial mausoleum, Yinzhen and the third elder brother finally returned to the Forbidden City.After returning to the Forbidden City and taking a bath, the two went to the imperial study to meet Kangxi, and reported to Kangxi in detail what happened after they went to Qufu.

Before Yinzhen and the others came back, Kangxi received a memorial from Qufu officials, knowing that the two brothers were doing very well in Qufu.Not only did the sacrifices to the Confucian Temple be completed smoothly, but also let the literati and students in Shandong feel the importance attached to them by the court and the royal family.

For their performance in Qufu this time, Kangxi gave high praise and rewarded them.Although Yinzhen and the others were not awarded titles, the things that Kangxi rewarded them were also extremely precious.

This trip back to Qufu, although very hard, but all the hard work is worth it.

As expected by the imperial concubine, after Yinzhen came back from offering sacrifices to the Confucian Temple in Qufu, more and more ministers in the court supported him.His reputation in court is getting louder and louder.Fortunately, he has not yet gone to court, otherwise a third-party force headed by him would have formed.

Yinzhen didn't care about his status and reputation in the court. After returning from the imperial tomb, he resumed his previous life in the palace.Get up before dawn every day, and then go to Shang's study to study.After school in the afternoon, I went to Qintianjian to learn Western things with my third elder brother and eighth elder brother.

Kangxi was very pleased to see that Yinzhen and San Age had become more diligent in studying and studying after returning from Qufu.Especially seeing that Yinzhen did not become proud because of hearing the praises from the ministers, he was very satisfied.

Yinzhen and the third elder brother had read a lot of books in Kong's house before, and when they returned to the Forbidden City, they silently wrote out the books they had read in Kong's house before, and dedicated them to Kangxi.

After Kangxi received it, of course he praised them again.

At this time, people from the elder brother's party began to play Kangxi, asking Kangxi to make the imperial concubine the queen.

Kangxi didn't pay attention to Li Hou's request at the beginning, but more and more ministers asked for Li Hou's request later, he couldn't ignore it any longer.

Kangxi knew the real purpose of the big elder brother's party instigating the ministers to invite the imperial concubine to be the queen, and directly said in the early court that he would not become the queen, unless the imperial concubine was seriously ill and needed to be happy.

Seeing that Kangxi insisted on not standing up, Nalan Mingzhu thought of another idea, which was to raise the flag for the Tong family.

Today's Tong family is still the Han army flag, not the Man army flag.

Kangxi thought about raising the flag for the Tong family, but because there had been wars before, he didn't raise the flag for the Tong family.The reason why the flag was not raised for Tong's family before was to let the Han people all over the world know that there is a Han army flag in the palace.

The war is over, the Tong family should also raise the flag.Kangxi followed the trend and raised the flag for the Tong family.

Kangxi directly let the Tong family join the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, and changed the surname to Tong Jia.

After the Tong family became the Tong Jia family, their status naturally improved a lot.The status of the imperial concubine has also changed.Although she was an imperial concubine before, an imperial concubine with a Han army flag is not as honorable as an imperial concubine with a full army flag.The imperial concubine who became full of military banners became a veritable deputy queen.

As the imperial concubine's status becomes more noble, then Yinzhen's status will naturally also become more noble.

Even though Yinzhen does not have a title, but because he is the son of the imperial concubine, he is the most noble prince among all the princes, second only to Prince Yinreng.Many ministers speculated that when Yinzhen got married and went to court, he would soon be crowned prince.

Yinzhen has not yet reached the age of going to court, but many ministers in the court can't wait for him to go to court.

At the beginning of February of the second year, Yinzhen got married by order and began to go to court.

On his first day in court, many ministers came to greet him.To use the words of the third elder brother, Yinzhen has become a sweet pastry.

The situation in the court has also changed because of Yinzhen's previous court.Although Kangxi did not want a third-party force to break the balance between the elder brother and the prince, there were many ministers in the court who wanted to support Yinzhen, and he couldn't stop him even if he wanted to.