The New Year is coming soon, and Jia Ke's affairs are going relatively smoothly this year. Since the beginning of the year, when the emperor punished all the ministers, no one dared to stab him in front of him.
And in the autumn of this year, he issued military orders in succession, requiring all regions in the Nine Borders to strictly guard against the Tatars. At the same time, he ordered Xuanfu Town and Liaodong Town to seize the opportunity to attack the Tatars.
These two groups, with the cooperation of the Manchu Eight Banners, restrained most of the energy of the Tatars, so that the Tatars had no energy to invade other places this year.
However, Jia Ke took advantage of the heavy losses suffered by the Tatars last year and ordered the Manchu Eight Banners to fight fiercely with the Tatars on the grasslands, forcing the Tatars to move north this year. The Manchu Eight Banners rapidly expanded their territory, and their subordinates
The territory is almost the same as that of the Tatars. It has become another super force on the grassland that can compete with the Tatars.
Just a few days ago, the Manchu Eight Banners sent people to the capital in the name of a race. On the surface, they were paying tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty. Secretly, they were sending a large amount of money, horses and people to Jia Ke. These people were secretly sent by Jia Ke
The arrangements were made among the troops in the capital under his control, thus Jia Ke's control over the troops was further strengthened.
The only bad news for Jia Ke this year is that the emperor's health is getting worse and worse. Jia Ke even sent a few Ganoderma lucidum from his collection to the emperor, but it seems that the effect is not very great.
The purpose of Jia Ke's doing this was to delay the new emperor's accession to the throne, so that he could more safely and quickly establish his power in the army.
Jia Ke has long been disloyal, but the time is not yet ripe and he has not been able to absolutely control the army in the court. Jia Ke is also a nostalgic person. This old emperor can be said to be very kind to Jia Ke.
Rushan didn't feel sorry for him in any way, so Jia Ke still wanted to wait until the old emperor passed away before doing big things.
But now it seems that when the new emperor takes the throne next year, it is inevitable that the old emperor will abdicate and become the Supreme Emperor. There is not much time left for Jia Ke, and he does not want to be He Shen.
So Jia Ke began to speed up his actions. Taking advantage of the opportunity that he was still the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, when the generals and military governors from various places came to Beijing to report on their duties, he received them one by one, and made these people become his loyal followers one by one.
subordinates.
Although Jia Ke had begun to expand his power, no one in the court found anything wrong. After all, it was only natural for Jia Ke, as the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, to receive officials who came to Beijing to report on their duties.
In this way, Jia Ke began to control the military power of the imperial court step by step. Now almost half of the army is secretly controlled by Jia Ke. As long as he can control the army in the capital after a while, he will slowly control the rest.
The local army can ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Time passed slowly as Jia Ke prepared to relax. A few days before the New Year, the emperor held a court meeting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony and received the Manchu envoys who came to pay tribute. He also promised the Manchus that as long as they pay tribute every year, they will be happy every year.
Proclaiming himself a vassal would ensure that he and the Central Plains dynasty would always be connected to the border market.
The tribute envoy who came this time was none other than Jiya. This man was quite intelligent. He represented the Lord of the Manchus on the spot in the main hall, agreed to all the demands of the Central Plains Dynasty, and called the emperor Tian Khan on the spot.
This sight made the emperor very happy. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains court's control over the grassland has been very weak. It was even invaded by the grassland several times and almost destroyed the country. This time, some people from the grassland paid tribute to the Central Plains.
And calling him Tian Ke Han was something that the previous dynasties did not do, even Emperor Taizu of this dynasty could not do it.
The emperor was so happy that naturally a lot of rewards were handed out, and he had a statue engraved - the treasure of the Manchu Khan, which was given to the Manchu envoys who came to pay tribute. This was regarded as the Central Plains Dynasty's recognition of the Manchus. He also personally made the gift.
The imperial decree allowed the Manchus to trade with each other on the border with the Central Plains dynasty.
That can be said to be the greatest reward from the Central Plains dynasty to the grassland peoples. Generally speaking, as long as the grassland peoples surrender to the Central Plains dynasty, then the Central Plains dynasty will definitely open trade. If the grassland people rebel, then the Central Plains dynasty will economically
The blockade forced the steppe dynasty to invade south and plunder the Central Plains dynasty to meet their own needs.
But invasion is not that easy to do. As long as the Central Plains dynasty is a little enterprising, they will definitely strengthen their defenses, making the invasion of the grassland peoples more costly than gains, and eventually they will be slowly weakened.
Just like the current Tatars, they have been defeated several times by Jia Ke. Although they plundered some finances from the Central Plains, they lost a large number of people. In the end, the gains outweighed the losses. Only then did the Manchu Eight Banners begin to rise.
, can share the same status with the Tatars on the grassland.
After the Manchu tribute envoys left, the emperor began to seal the seal, and the ministers had already begun a vacation of more than 20 days.
During this New Year, Jia Ke was on tenterhooks because Qin Keqing was about to give birth. In order for Qin Keqing to give birth safely, Jia Ke invited four or five well-known stable women in the capital to live at home in advance. He also let the four palaces
The nuns invited by the police were divided into several groups and followed Qin Keqing non-stop.
Fortunately, nothing went wrong during this period, and Qin Keqing finally launched on the ninth day of the first lunar month.
At that time, Jia Ke and Qin Keqing were chatting in the room, talking about what the child would be called in the future? Will it be a boy or a girl? These topics Qin Keqing was concerned about.
Suddenly Qin Keqing felt unbearable pain in her abdomen. Grandma Zhang who was waiting next to her knew that Qin Keqing was about to give birth, so she quickly ordered the maid to carry Qin Keqing to the delivery room that had been prepared in advance.
Then Grandma Zhang summoned all the women, but instead of letting them enter the delivery room, she drove them into another room, assigned two maids to each, and began to give them a bath.
Jia Ke was totally baffled by this situation. Nanny Zhang next to her saw Jia Ke's doubts and explained to him: "But these are some methods in the palace to prevent villains. In order to seize the throne, the palace will
In order to give birth to a prince, she will do anything. Just like this stable woman, even the final stage of giving birth to a prince is also the most difficult stage."
Jia Ke had also read various palace fighting novels in his previous life, but these were all speculations by the authors, and he had no idea about the real situation. He hurriedly asked Grandma Zhang to explain to him.
"When these people deliver babies, they are surrounded by people from our government. They can't play tricks, but there are some shady medicines hidden in the gaps between their fingers. These medicines only need to be lightly rubbed on the baby's umbilical cord.
If not, both mother and son will die."
"The clothes worn by these people may have been washed with some kind of medicine. If a mother or baby gets sticky, she may be in danger of death. However, these clothes were worn by those who had the plague, so they are not only
If mother and son are together, I'm afraid everyone in the house will suffer."
"It's also possible that they also have medicine in their mouths. As long as they try to injure themselves, say a few words in the delivery room and spray out the medicine, it may kill the mother and the baby."
After Jia Ke listened to Nanny Zhang's explanation, he was a little horrified. He didn't expect that there would be such secrets in the palace. It seems that every baby born in the palace has a great destiny. They have always been in the mother's body.
He will be attacked by all kinds of people and still be able to live until he is born. The blessings in this are truly indescribable.
These words couldn't help but remind Jia Ke of Song Renzong. This emperor had many princes in his life, but none of them lived to adulthood. They all died when they were young. This is simply impossible in the royal family.
There was no dirty deeds involved, and Jia Ke didn't believe it.
As for these stable women, after they were forced to take a bath, each of them had their nails cut and all the dirt in their nails cleaned. Finally, their hair was combed again, and each of them was brushed again.
After having their teeth removed once, they finally put on the new clothes prepared by the Jia family. This was considered the end, and finally the four of them were allowed to enter the delivery room.
At this time, Qin Keqing was already in pain inside, crying for her father and mother. Fortunately, there were several other nuns in the delivery room who had gotten up from the palace. Although they were not stable mothers, they knew a little bit about it.
When Jia Ke was anxious, Aunt Zhou and her maidservant had already run over quickly. When she saw Jia Ke, she anxiously asked: "How are you? How long have you been in there? Have you given birth yet?"
Jia Ke was also very anxious at this time, but he didn't know what was going on inside. He could only say to Aunt Zhou: "Auntie, Keqing has been in for a while, and Po Wen has just entered. I don't know what is going on inside."
So the mother and son could only stand outside the door and wait anxiously. Qin Keqing's crying continued for nearly half an hour, but still had no intention of stopping.
At this time, Nanny Zhang who was standing next to her suddenly walked up to Jia Ke and said, "Master, it's time to prepare things."
Jia Ke was very irritable at this time. Hearing what she said was unclear, he asked angrily, "You can tell me what to prepare?"
Grandma Zhang said calmly: "I heard that a few days ago, the uncle sent a thousand-year-old ginseng to the house next door. I think we still have it in our house. I asked the uncle to take out one and cut it into slices. Let's let it go first.
The eldest grandma takes one piece in her mouth, and then uses three or four tablets to make soup. Give it to the eldest grandma. I think it will ensure the safety of mother and child."
When Jia Ke heard this, he also remembered that he had described such a scene in some modern novels. The mother was unable to give birth to the child because of exhaustion. Finally, she regained her strength with the help of an old ginseng.
In the end, mother and son were safe.
So he immediately asked people to quickly go to the warehouse to get a ginseng, and immediately cut it into slices in Qin Keqing's room, and sent two or three slices to the delivery room for Qin Keqing to hold. For the rest, Qin Keqing's personal maid Ruizhu immediately boiled the medicine.
After it's cooked, send it to Qin Keqing.
Don't tell me, this is really a solution. Qin Keqing, who had been exhausted and unable to cry out just now, gradually became full of power again in his cry.
After a while, Qin Keqing suddenly shouted loudly and finally stopped. Then he heard the cry of a baby.
When Jia Ke and Aunt Zhou heard the baby's cry, they felt relieved. At this time, the door of the delivery room opened, and a Wen woman walked out of it, came to Jia Ke and knelt down in front of Jia Ke, "Congratulations, sir, congratulations, sir,
I was responsible for giving birth to a little son for you, and now mother and child are safe. Could you please take the child out and let me have a look?"