My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 195 Fucha is pregnant!
Hongli noticed that Shushu Jueluo was also surprised by the fourteenth prince's decision, so he smiled and said, "This is probably not appropriate. The fourteenth uncle's Zuo Ling was bestowed by Khanma Fa back then, and it should be left to his cousins."

The fourteenth prince waved his hand and said, "It's useless to leave it to them! They are too mediocre. Even if they have captains, they can't accomplish anything with these captains. On the contrary, they will intentionally or unintentionally hinder the ordinary bannermen under these captains from getting ahead."

"Besides, a common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime. Although your fourteenth uncle has a bad temper, he has lived to this day and still understands some principles."

The fourteenth prince smiled as he said this, and Shushu Jueluo also smiled.

Clearly, she was also convinced by the fourteenth prince's words.

Hongli didn't say anything more.

However, whether the fourteenth prince would give him his own military command ultimately depended on whether Emperor Yongzheng would agree.

But Hongli thought that Yongzheng would agree, and would be very happy to see it.

After all, this would greatly benefit Yongzheng's reform of the banner system, further consolidating banner power and returning it to imperial authority.

Furthermore, both he and the Fourteenth Prince now belong to the Bordered Blue Banner, and both inherited the Zuo Ling (military command) from the First Prince, Yunti.

However, the fourteenth prince inherited more and became a great lord.

If we don't count the fourteenth prince's banner captain, as far as he knows, the fourteenth prince alone has seventeen banner captains.

If he truly gains control of all of them, then his power in the Bordered Blue Banner will be no less than that of Prince Jian, Yarjianga, the most powerful banner lord.

Because Yarjianga was the great-grandson of Prince Zheng, Jirhalang, a meritorious official of the founding of the Qing Dynasty. However, later, his family's hereditary title was changed from Prince Zheng to Prince Jian.

The banner lord of the Bordered Blue Banner was originally just a descendant of Jirhalang.

After Kangxi divided the princes and grandsons into five banners, the banners of the Bordered Blue Banner were finally assigned to Kangxi's princes and grandsons.

Even so, Yarjianga still had the most Zuo Ling (military officers) in Xianglan Banner, with more than twenty.

Therefore, if he really had the seventeen Zuo-ling under the Fourteenth Prince, plus his own current six Zuo-ling, then his status in the Bordered Blue Banner would truly be second only to Yarjianga.

After returning from the fourteenth prince's place, Hongli went to the Yuanmingyuan.

But on his way to see Yongzheng at the Yuanmingyuan, he was still shocked by the Fourteenth Prince's statement that he would give him all the Zuo Ling (military command) positions.

Because this gift is simply too precious!

This is enough to prove that the fourteenth prince truly had no intention of challenging the emperor's authority, but only wanted to strengthen his own power and realize his ideal of pacifying the Zhun.

Hongli believed that Yongzheng would be very happy when he learned of this gift.

However, when Hongli met Yongzheng, he did not tell him this news first. Instead, he told Yongzheng about how someone had passed a note to the fourteenth prince in an attempt to escalate the conflict between the fourteenth prince and Yongzheng.

Hongli also showed the note to Yongzheng.

When Yongzheng took the note, his hand trembled slightly.

He was angry.

What angered him was that someone had such malicious intentions in order to stop his reforms.

"It seems that some members of the Qing imperial family and the Eight Banners nobles are willing to cause internal strife in our Qing Dynasty in order to prevent me from implementing the new policies."

"They would rather see the Qing Dynasty perish than suffer the slightest injustice!"

Yongzheng began to speak in a deep voice.

Hongli said, "Fortunately, my fourteenth uncle is still quite sensible and did not actually think that the throne should belong to him because of this."

"That may be true, but the late emperor gave him too much in his later years. Even if he himself doesn't want to compete anymore, there will be people eyeing him."

"Yongzheng said coldly."

Hongli then spoke, saying, "My fourteenth uncle told me today that he intends to give me all of his military command positions!"

Upon hearing this, Yongzheng's eyes lit up: "He really said that?"

Hongli nodded.

Yongzheng stood up, feeling as if a weight had been lifted from his heart. He rubbed his hands together and looked at Hongli with surprise:

"How did you manage to make him so devoted to you, willing to give you everything he has?"

Hongli thought for a moment and replied, "He probably didn't really do it for my sake, did he? He probably saw that the national policies you, Father, were indeed making the Qing Dynasty more and more prosperous, but he was unwilling to directly acknowledge your achievements. So he had to use the excuse of my outstanding performance to give up his own command post in order to curry favor with you."

“Father, as you know, Uncle Fourteen is always arrogant and never easily admits that he is inferior to you.”

Hongli remembered that Yongzheng and the fourteenth prince disliked each other.

In Yongzheng's eyes, the fourteenth prince was a child who grew up in a honey pot, naive and lacking in shrewdness, destined to never achieve great things. He even made this assessment of the fourteenth prince in an imperial edict.

Therefore, no matter how much trouble or threats the fourteenth prince caused, he simply kept him under house arrest.

In the eyes of the fourteenth prince, Yongzheng was cunning and hypocritical, overly self-protective, and excessively flattering people like Longkodo whom he looked down upon, showing no dignity befitting an imperial prince.

Therefore, when he was young, the fourteenth prince preferred the eighth prince, who had a stronger personality, and didn't like the fourth prince as much.

Of course, among Kangxi's sons, the Eighth Prince was indeed very charismatic. Not to mention that many Manchu and Han officials genuinely supported him, the eldest prince, the noble Tenth Prince, and the talented Ninth Prince all followed the Eighth Prince's lead.

Even the fourth prince himself once liked his eighth brother very much, regarding him as a close brother. Even before Kangxi suppressed the eighth prince, after being disappointed with the second prince, he had his heart set on the eighth prince, feeling that the eighth prince was capable of shouldering great responsibilities.

Indeed, unlike in a certain TV series, the fourth prince was actually a member of the "Eighth Prince Party" for a period of time. This is because the predecessor of the "Eighth Prince Party" was the "First Prince Party," which had great power and was a faction that could truly rival the "Crown Prince Party" at the time.

Therefore, after being disappointed in the second brother, the fourth brother did not have any plans to establish his own faction.

In addition, the Eighth Prince's personal charm was indeed quite great at the time, and he and the Eighth Prince had indeed grown up together with Empress Tongjia since childhood, and he had joined the "Eighth Prince Party" in the early stages.

If it weren't for the fact that Kangxi himself felt that the Eighth Prince was a threat and began to suppress him, and even attacked the Fourth Prince because of this, thinking that the Fourth Prince was an important ally of the Eighth Prince's faction, the Fourth Prince would not have decisively separated from the Eighth Prince.

Of course, the separation between the fourth and eighth brothers was also because the eighth brother had too many brothers supporting him, making the fourth brother feel that following the eighth brother was not very meaningful.

It was only after the fourth and eighth princes separated that their conflict began to intensify, and he started to ally with the thirteenth prince, who had supported the second prince's failed attempt to seize power and had broken with the third prince.

In short, Emperor Kangxi reigned for a very long time, a full sixty-one years.

Therefore, the infighting among his sons and ministers was also very complicated, with a gradual process. Many relationships started out very good but later turned bad, while many relationships started out very bad but later became very good.

The rights and wrongs of the matter are too complex to discuss in detail.

But the basic storyline is: it started as a struggle between the Crown Prince and the First Prince, then evolved into a struggle between the Eighth Prince's faction and the Crown Prince's faction. After the dead eagle incident during the Kangxi reign, the Eighth Prince's faction split into the Fourteenth Prince's faction and the Fourth Prince's faction. The Crown Prince's faction also saw a break between the Third Prince and the Thirteenth Prince.

Thus, the Fourth Prince's faction and the Thirteenth Prince's faction merged.

Now, Hongli deliberately said in front of Yongzheng that the fourteenth prince was only willing to give up power and benefits because he did not want to admit the excellence of his fourth brother.

Having always needed the approval of others, Yongzheng could not hide his delight upon hearing Hongli's words and asked, "Is that so?"

"You know what kind of person Uncle Fourteen is!"

Hongli replied with a smile.

Yongzheng nodded: "That's right, getting him to say something nice is harder than climbing to heaven."

When Yongzheng thought that the fourteenth prince was willing to give up his command post to Hongli because he was unwilling to admit his own excellence, and showed great support for Hongli, he felt a secret sense of pride, and was even more willing to see the fourteenth prince support Hongli in this way.

This reassured Yongzheng a lot about his fourteenth uncle, so he continued, "Your fourteenth uncle is always so childish and ridiculous, as if he will never grow up, but he is still aware of the big picture and knows that the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty cannot be in turmoil, so I am much more at ease."

“What Father says is true. In any case, the fact that Fourteenth Uncle is willing to give up the banner is more beneficial for you to further reorganize the banner affairs and consolidate the banner power in the hands of the monarch.”

When Hongli suddenly brought this up, he was reiterating his support for Yongzheng in strengthening imperial power and consolidating the power of the banners.

Emperor Yongzheng was thus reassured to allow Hongli to have more military posts, and nodded: "How is Nara Minxuan now?"

"I am well, thank you for your concern, Father."

Hongli knew that Yongzheng's sudden mention of Nara Minxuan was not because he was genuinely concerned about a princess in his household, but rather because he was concerned about whether he could have his own new imperial grandson as soon as possible.

After all, he had already given Hongshi away for adoption and placed all his hopes on Hongli, so naturally he expected Hongli to perform well in terms of offspring.

His dissatisfaction with Hongshi stemmed not only from Hongshi's poor political performance but also from Hongshi's lack of offspring.

Because Hongshi was already over twenty years old before he was adopted, and he did not have a son. Although he had one son, he died young in the second year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign.

However, there are many factors involved in having children, and simply trying to conceive is not enough.

Emperor Hongli could only do his best and try to conceive using more scientific methods.

After returning to Langrun Garden, he received a pencil case from Princess Gao, thus knowing that she was ovulating.

Therefore, in order to have more offspring, Hongli summoned Lady Gao and slept with her that very night.

Lady Gao was a woman from the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Imperial Household Department, and her father, Gao Bin, was a river management expert.

Lady Gao was dignified and elegant, making people forget the mundane world. She was also gentle and considerate. After Hongli had made love with her, she would take the initiative to wipe away his sweat and massage him, saying, "Fourth Master, you've worked hard!"

Hongli asked her what reward she wanted, and she said she would like to spend a day reading in Hongli's study, because she knew that Hongli's study had many novel books, such as those on mathematics and mechanics.

Hongli agreed, praising her for her family's scholarly tradition, and personally led her to the inner study: "Choose for yourself?"

Wearing only a light pine-green shirt, Lady Gao's cheeks lit up with joy, and she stared intently at Hongli's bookshelf.

At this moment, Li Yu suddenly came and said, "Fourth Master, news has come from the Princess of Caiping Pavilion that she vomited today, so please allow the imperial physician to examine her pulse."

"allow!"

Emperor Hongli was overjoyed and immediately said something.

Caiping Pavilion was where Fucha Yuyan lived, and the Caiping Pavilion Princess that Li Yu mentioned was naturally Fucha Yuyan.

Since Gao was already engrossed in books, he then went to Caiping Pavilion.

Soon, Hongli learned from the imperial physician's examination that Fucha Yuyan was indeed pregnant.

This forced him to admit that scientific methods of preparing for pregnancy are indeed very effective.

"Report this to Khan immediately."

Hongli believed that Yongzheng would be very happy to know this.

"Whoo!"

(End of this chapter)