What most people don't know is that when Kangxi arrived at Lao San's place, the first thing he did was not to recite poems and eulogies, but to compete in riding and shooting.
In the TV series, the third child is portrayed as a weak scholar, which is not consistent with historical facts.
I saw the third child riding on a bay-red horse and holding a recurve bow inlaid with agate and ruby.
Yuzhu was particularly impressed by the bow in Lao San's hand. Because Hong Sheng had boasted to him in private that this bow was actually the imperial bow used by Kangxi.
Hong Sheng had a bad habit. When Kang Xi was behind his back, he would brag about the wonderful treasures given to his father by Khan Mafa.
Among the imperial guards with swords present, including Yuzhu, who was not from a noble family under the banner?
Hey, who can't tell that Hong Sheng deliberately showed off like this? What does he mean?
However, the matter was so important that no one would take the initiative to reveal Hong Sheng's little thoughts.
Among the many grandsons of the emperor, the one that Kangxi loved most must be Hongxi, the eldest son of the deposed prince.
It is no exaggeration to say that Yinreng and Hongxi, father and son, were raised by Kangxi.
After all, Kangxi was old. He picked up his bow and walked to the horse.
At this time, a strong young eunuch was seen kneeling on all fours in front of the horse's belly.
Kangxi raised his legs, stepped on the eunuch's back, and successfully climbed onto the saddle.
There are few nobles under his banner, including Yuzhu, who don't like horses.
Kangxi's royal horses numbered hundreds, and almost all of them were fine horses brought as tribute by Mongolian nobles.
After the two men got together, they still followed the old rules, with the third son appearing first, and Kangxi taking the lead next.
Lao San clamped the horse's belly fiercely, and the horse began to speed up. Then he drew the bow and nocked the arrow. Without even taking aim, the powerful arrow left the string.
"Whoosh."
"Duo." The arrow hit the target, winning applause from the whole hall.
Yuzhu's riding and shooting skills can be described as extremely ordinary.
His ability can only be that he can hit the target accidentally without missing the target.
As for Yuzhu's riding and shooting skills, it's even less worth mentioning. If he doesn't miss the target, he's just lucky.
Objectively speaking, riding and shooting is easy to learn but difficult to master. It is not generally difficult, but very difficult.
Yuzhu has practiced riding and shooting hard for several years, and he is only at this level.
On the prairie, even teenagers are good at riding and shooting.
Forced by the pressure of survival, the prairie people who cannot ride a horse, draw a bow and shoot, will be brutally hacked to death by the enemy in tribal annexation battles, even if they do not starve to death.
Objectively speaking, since they mastered advanced metallurgical technology, the grassland peoples have had three major strategic advantages over the Central Plains dynasty, namely riding, archery and iron armor.
Of course, after the emergence of machine guns, the once invincible prairie warriors were forced to hang their proud heads and study hard to sing and dance.
Relying on the right stabbing tactics of the spear formation, the Qing soldiers were frightened. This is actually the YY words of the novelist.
From the perspective of historical facts, after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the Sanshun kings successively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and allowed the Qing Dynasty to master advanced firearms technology, which was the strategic watershed between the rise of the Qing Dynasty and the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
During the Battle of Shihe in Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui showed his defeat, and Dorgon immediately sent King Sanshun out into battle.
As a result, the Three Shun Kings joined forces to attack and easily defeated Li Chuang's main force without much effort.
The Tatars' easy victory relied on sophisticated artillery and cannons.
It's just that the scholar-bureaucrats and scholars in the late Ming Dynasty deliberately refused to admit that the Qing Dynasty's firearms were more powerful.
However, Kangxi's defeat of Galdan of the Junggar Khanate relied on two things: green soldiers who could still fight, and artillery with a longer range.
The general trend of the world is that Shunchang will perish. The era of advanced firearms has completely arrived!
However, because of the selfish interests of the Manchu bannermen, Kangxi wanted to take advantage of ignorance and rule the Central Plains forever, and deliberately restricted the development of firearms technology, which caused the Qing Dynasty to completely fall behind the times and eventually die.
After a competition on horseback and shooting, Lao San actually hit the target ten times out of ten, while Kangxi only hit seven out of ten. The old emperor was defeated again.
Yuzhu had already seen a similar scene last time, so he wasn't surprised at all.
The third child knew Kangxi's temperament very well. If he didn't show his excellent riding and shooting skills, he wouldn't be able to attract Kangxi's frequent visits.
"My Ama is great, isn't it?" Just as Yuzhu was staring at the scene, Hongsheng came to his side and proudly showed off the third child's bravery.
"Master Sanbeile is the real number one Batulu in the Qing Dynasty." Yuzhu poured free flattery into Hong Sheng's ears.
Hong Sheng said happily: "Yuzhu, I see you are quite discerning. Come back, I will reward you greatly."
"Where, where, no matter how incompetent you are in a humble position, you still have such a little bit of vision." Yuzhu almost laughed.
What kind of green onion is Hong Sheng? What qualifications do you have to appreciate a jade pillar?
Seiler, who was standing straight beside him, shook his head secretly and sighed. Hong Sheng was not pretending to be stupid, but really stupid.
Not to mention that Yuzhu's close friend is Longkodo, the nine-door admiral. Just being the royal foreman with a knife and a first-class shrimp is worthy of the respect of the entire Lao San family.
The only person qualified to appreciate the jade pillar is Jinshang!
Wei Zhu knew better than anyone that Kangxi had never looked directly at Hong Sheng.
It's really strange that the third child, who has always been low-key and shrewd, has a son as cute and stupid as Hong Sheng.
Yuzhu's bodyguards kept their mouths tightly shut, but the same thought flashed through their minds: good bamboos produce bad bamboo shoots.
The third child is famous for his ability in both civil and military affairs. Not only can he hold a three-stone bow, he is also capable of compiling the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books".
How awesome is this?
The compilation of "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" took 28 years and is divided into 6 volumes and 32 classics. It is the largest and richest book in existence.
There is no way, you are a tiger father and a dog son!
Yuzhu didn't bother to meet Hongsheng. He didn't need to take action at all. Hongsheng was just a big tease who cheated his own father.
After the riding and shooting competition, Lao San summoned his disciples, such as Chen Menglei, Yang Wenyan, Zhou Changyan and others, to accompany Kangxi in reciting poems and lyrics, and talking about laws and regulations.
Whenever Yuzhu saw the white-haired Chen Menglei, he couldn't help but think of his provincial examination tutor Li Guangdi.
Li Guangdi is indeed an old fox in official circles, but his character is very poor and he is not worthy of close friendship at all.
Unlike Chen Menglei who is extremely haggard, Li Guangdi is extremely well-maintained. Not only is he in good spirits, he also has very few gray hairs.
Before, Yuzhu knew Chen Menglei, but was not familiar with Yang Wenyan.
After meeting Yang Wenyan in Lao San's house, Yuzhu suddenly realized. It turned out that this old man Yang was also a traitor to Geng Jingzhong and was captured by the Qing soldiers together with Chen Menglei.
However, Yang Wenyan was a typical Jiangnan person, capable of bending and stretching. Not only did he not offend Li Guangdi, he took the initiative to compile a book for Li Guangdi, namely "Lixiang Essentials".
Kangxi was in high spirits and wrote several poems on the spot.
Yuzhu knew clearly that the quality of the imperial poems was very poor, so he had to ignore his conscience and praise Kangxi's poems, which were really exquisite!
On the way back to the palace, Kangxi asked Yuzhu: "What do you think of the third child?"
Hehe, on the occasion of choosing a new crown prince, Kangxi asked the third child how he was doing. Wasn't this a deliberate attempt to dig a hole for Yuzhu?
"How dare I speak nonsense about the emperor's family affairs?" Yuzhu is still following the same old routine, staying the same to cope with the ever-changing situation and refusing to interfere with the emperor's family affairs.
"Just now, the third child asked me to make Hongsheng the crown prince, but I didn't agree." The older Kangxi got, the more jumpy he spoke.
Fortunately, Yuzhu had adapted to Kangxi's speaking style, so he just smiled innocently, but tightly closed his mouth, refusing to say a word.
Around the emperor, ministers who like to talk too much rarely end well.
Kangxi knew Yuzhu's temper very well. This boy had a very strict mouth and was so airtight that even a knife could not pry his lips open.
It's strange to say that the more Yuzhu didn't like to talk too much, Kangxi still liked to nag him about some housework.
The longer Yuzhu got along with Kangxi, the more he understood Kangxi's loneliness and depression.
As the saying goes, the people who lead the land are the king's ministers.
Behind the supreme imperial power, there is a truth hidden: It’s cold at high places!
In his later years, Kangxi always had to be on guard against his sons, who would pull out the old tricks of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, and he was extremely nervous mentally.
During the period when Yuzhu was in the palace, under close observation, Kangxi's sleep quality became worse and worse.
When Yuzhu led people on patrol in the middle of the night, he often saw lights on in Kangxi's palace.
Only those close to the emperor could know that Kangxi was afraid of light and preferred darkness when sleeping.
"I heard that Xuan Yu can already walk?" Kangxi rambled about, and finally asked about Yu Zhu's eldest son.
Yuzhu's heart moved slightly, and he said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, Quanzi can only stand up occasionally, and his standing is very unstable."
Kangxi nodded and said, "When he gets a few years older, bring him to me and I will raise him for you for a while, okay?"
Damn it, Kang Mazi said so, what can Yuzhu say?
"Oh, that's great. Quanzi only needs to stay by your side for a few months, and he will be completely transformed." Yuzhu flattered Kangxi, but he was thinking in his heart that his son was still so young that Kangxi cared about him.
Well, has something big happened that he doesn't know about?
After returning to the palace, Yuzhu found out that people from the Wuwei Camp and the Xiaoqi Camp had a conflict over some trivial matter.
At first, the number of people in the Wuwei camp was small, so they suffered a bit.
However, the people from the Wuwei camp blew the whistle to gather. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of people gathered in the Wuwei camp, beating the people from the Xiaoqi camp until they were howling like ghosts and looking for teeth all over the ground.
Alas, Yuzhu calculated everything, but he missed one thing: the emphasis on unity in the Wuwei camp actually aroused Kangxi's suspicion.
As a result, Yuzhu's eldest son, Xuanyu, who was less than one year old, was targeted by Kangxi.
In the future, Xuanyu is likely to be the hostage staying with Kangxi.
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