After the decision to change the heir to a higher rank was made, as usual, Lao Shiba and Yu Yan had to hand over a sign to the palace to express their gratitude as soon as possible.
The Empress Dowager Cikang summoned the couple alone in Cining Palace.
"Slave Yun Jie, please greet my mother, the Empress Dowager."
"Slave Yu Yan, please greet my mother, the Queen Mother."
According to the rules, if only Lao Shiba is summoned, the young emperor can participate.
However, Yu Yan was also summoned, so the little emperor had to avoid suspicion.
"Get up."
Empress Dowager Cikang did not look at Lao Shiba, but looked at Yu Yan with a smile, and took the initiative to wave her to her side, "Come here, ask your aunt to take a look at you. Have you gained weight again?"
Yu Yan smiled and walked to the side of the Empress Dowager, leaning sideways and sitting on the footrest in front of the throne as a habit.
From Longkodo's perspective, Yuzhu and Bajiu are both nephews of the Empress Dowager, while Yuyan is her niece.
The Empress Dowager has no sons or daughters. Shouldn’t we treat her nephews and nieces as her own sons and daughters?
In particular, the three Yuzhu brothers and sisters are from the same mother, and the relationship between the three of them and the Empress Dowager is even closer!
Empress Dowager Cikang stroked Yu Yan's cheek lovingly and said angrily: "You kid, I haven't seen you for a few days, but your face is actually covered with flesh. Oh, you better keep your mouth shut and don't eat randomly.
Things should be cherished."
"Prince Zhuang, you have to control your wife's mouth." The Empress Dowager suddenly warned Lao Shiba.
Lao Shishi didn't adapt to the title of Prince Zhuang and was stunned for a moment.
Fortunately, Lao Shiba reacted very quickly and quickly said with a smile: "I respectfully accept the imperial edict."
Yu Yan said with a smile: "Dad, yesterday, after Prince Zhuang received the order, he almost fainted with joy. He was talking nonsense."
Empress Dowager Cikang glanced at Lao Shiba and said to herself, this kid is quite smart. After the wedding, there was no concubine in Beizi's house.
After being promoted to Baylor, Lao Ba still did not take any concubines, which explains the problem.
With the knowledge of the Empress Dowager Cikang, how could she not know that after a man has power, he does not dare to be lustful, and there is only one situation: when he wants something from his wife.
Look at Yuzhu, its reputation is simply outrageous.
However, even the Daxing Emperor doesn't care. Who dares to care about Yuzhu's bad habit of snatching women?
Where there are gains there must be losses, and where there are losses there must be gains!
Objectively speaking, Lao Shiba's years of forbearance have paid off handsomely.
The Empress Dowager Cikang always remembered clearly that when Yuzhu was discussing with her at that time, he said meaningfully: Pretending for a lifetime is no longer called pretending!
Yes, it doesn't matter whether Lao Ba is really a maniac who dotes on his wife or is pretending, as long as he is willing to coax Yu Yan and live a carefree and happy life, that's fine.
Yuzhu is a truly sensible person.
Lao Shiba obediently refused to take concubines. Yuzhu not only helped him get promoted three times, but also secretly gave him a lot of money.
Now that he has a title and money, Lao Shiba can indulge in his various hobbies without any shortage of money.
With Yuzhu's support, even Lao Jiu and Lao Ten did not dare to openly bully Lao Eighteen.
Hey, the son-in-law of the old Tong family should be content!
The man who played the role of Tang Monk could easily satisfy all his personal hobbies, except that he did not dare to secretly take concubines!
As the saying goes, if you lose something outside the embankment, make up for it within the embankment!
Human nature determines that feelings and interests must always be the same.
Because it was a period of national mourning, Empress Dowager Cikang did not stay with Yu Yan and Lao Shiba to have a meal. After chatting for half an hour, she asked them to kneel in peace.
Just as the couple was about to leave Cining Palace, they happened to see the young emperor coming to pay his respects to the empress dowager.
Lao Shiba quickly led Yu Yan and knelt down by the roadside.
The little emperor got off his shoulder carriage and walked towards Lao Shiba with a smile.
Lao Shiba quickly kowtowed and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, please give me your best wishes."
"Slave Jade Yan, I sincerely wish you holy peace." Wearing Jade Yan at the bottom of a flower pot, she also waved her handkerchief and squatted deeply to give blessings.
"Brother Eighteen, I haven't seen you for a few days. It's strange." The little emperor looked up at the sky with an expression recalling the past, "I think it was the year before last. When I first got out of school, Lao Twenty-one walked a little faster.
, accidentally knocked me down. If it hadn’t been for you, Brother Shiba, to help me, I would have fallen flat on my face. Brother Shiba, you are so kind and righteous.”
Lao Shiba quickly said humbly: "Thank you for the emperor's ridiculous praise. I am ashamed to accept it."
Lao Shiba was very clear about what happened the year before last.
Emperor Daxing was doting on Lao Twenty-one's biological mother, the concubine Chen, who was both talented and beautiful.
The concubine Chen's family is almost blank in the files of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Her origin is unknown, and her rank is unknown. We only know that her father's name is Chen Yuqing.
However, as time passed, everyone vaguely guessed something.
A certain Mr. Baylor complained and yelled after being knocked down in Jiyuan. There was no reason to steal his woman.
At first, everyone thought it was the devil Yuzhu who did it.
Later, Lord Baylor died of an inexplicable illness, and the old emperor actually did not allow his eldest son to take the title.
Oops, now all the powerful people understood that it was the old emperor who had robbed Lord Beile of his beautiful concubine that he had never married.
Lao Twenty-one, a son who is valued by his mother, is favored, so he naturally looks down on Lao Twenty-two, who has never been favored, and is now the little emperor.
To be honest, Lao Shiba just happened to bump into him at that time and subconsciously helped him. He had no intention of standing up for Lao Twenty-two.
Since the little emperor deliberately revealed this matter, how could Lao Shiba not understand? This was an indirect show of goodwill to Yuzhu!
Lao Shiba is just an idle prince, but Yuzhu has a lot of troops!
Anyone else would definitely not understand the little emperor's thoughts, but Lao Shiba was well versed in the rules of the palace.
How could there be such a coincidence? Before he and Yu Yan left Cining Palace, they happened to bump into the little emperor.
The emperor's travel rules were extremely strict.
Before the little emperor left, eunuchs and guards had already cleared the way, so it was impossible to meet anyone else.
In the TV series, the heroine can easily meet the emperor on the road. That is just a joke.
Something that only happens in dreams!
While the little emperor was talking to Lao Shiba, he secretly glanced at the jade smoke.
Well, even if you look at Yuyan with the most critical eye, you must admit that Lao Shiba's beauty is really not shallow!
The little emperor deeply regretted that he was too young to bully women.
If she is already married and is in charge, she will be even more able to confuse Yuzhu by deceiving such a beautiful woman.
Children of the Tian family, even if they are only ten years old, are still the best among human beings!
Emperor Shunzhi held up Dorgon with humiliation, and there was really nothing he could do about it.
According to the situation at that time, if Dorgon, who was all-powerful, had a biological son, Shunzhi would definitely be ousted from the throne and die in an unknown way.
Today's little emperor is already very sensible. He is not only afraid that the fourth and eighth sons will rebel against the emperor in the future, but he is also afraid that Yuzhu will join forces with Cikang and kill him.
It can be said that you are afraid of wolves before and tigers behind!
While the little emperor was trying his best to win over Lao Shiba and Yu Yan, Wu Sidao reported a new situation to Yu Zhu.
"According to reports from informants, those hereditary princes and direct descendants of Fujin have been getting too close to each other in private recently."
Yuzhu blinked. The princes and princes must also go to the palace to cry and offer sacrifices until they leave the palace at eight o'clock in the morning.
At eight o'clock in the morning, it's very close to dark and night!
"Watch carefully, wait and see what happens, and don't make a mistake." After Yuzhu made up his mind, he told Wu Sidao not to act rashly.
"Yes." Wu Sidao continued, "There are a lot of strangers near Dagukou recently. I wonder if the recruitment movement in the First Town was too big and provoked them."
Today's First Town is just a shelf town, with only officers and non-commissioned officers, but no soldiers.
If there are no soldiers, it is natural to recruit new ones.
According to Yuzhu's regulations, there are several types of people who cannot be recruited into the military camp.
First of all, as long as you are a city dweller, no matter how superior the conditions are, you cannot want rural soldiers from Shandong and Henan. The more the better.
How should I put it? The rural soldiers in Shandong and Henan are brave enough to fight and are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice. They are also very obedient and easy to manage.
The quality of soldiers in these two provinces is much higher than that of Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or all wealthy areas.
At that time, Qi Jiguang's men included Shaoxing soldiers, Lishui soldiers, and Taizhou soldiers.
The soldiers from Lishui came from the mountainous area. They had excellent physical fitness and were very brave in combat. They dared to charge forward, but they lacked intelligence and cared too much about gains and losses.
Taizhou soldiers are a group of tigresses, they become strong when they are weak and weak when they are strong.
The Shaoxing soldiers did have courage and drive, but they were too shrewd and calculating, and even killed each other for power.
A disunited army cannot be trusted and cannot defeat Japanese pirates.
These three types of soldiers are very similar to the famous Fourth Division of Japanese pirates, which is the Osaka Division composed of small merchants and hawkers.
In the end, it was the miners from Yiwu who helped Qi Jiguang solve the problem.
It just so happens that you can quickly go to Shandong by boat from Tianjin. After passing the Yellow River from Shandong, you can go upstream to Henan.
Large ships transport troops with the lowest cost and highest efficiency, and they can also deceive others.
However, what Ling Yuzhu didn't expect was that the Dengzhou Lvying Navy stationed in Penglai had the courage to intercept and inspect the New Army's troop transport ship.
After Yuzhu learned the news, he immediately wrote a confidential letter and sent it to Dagokou.
Within a few days, news of the annihilation of the Dengzhou Navy reached the capital.
Suddenly, there was an uproar in the capital!
Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there has been no precedent for the entire Northland Navy to be wiped out.
For a time, there were different opinions.
Some people say that it is all the fault of the jade pillar for attracting wolves into the house, and that overseas foreign ships are called merchants but are actually pirates.
Others say that it was probably Yuzhu who instigated the foreign pirates to do it.
Lao Wu and Lao Qi were also confused and wanted to ask Yuzhu face to face, but they were worried that they would offend Yuzhu.
Difficult, it’s really too difficult!
To be honest, if he had enough time, Yuzhu would not pay foreigners to help him annihilate the Dengzhou Navy.
However, time is extremely tight. The later the first town officially becomes an army, the more critical the situation becomes!
Since ancient times, those who achieve great things do not stick to small details!
Anyway, no one can have evidence to accuse Yuzhu face to face!