The Virtuous Concubine

Malu carefully thought about what Kangxi said in the letter. Now the army has entered Bolohetun, Kangxi is ready to supervise the battle here, and the children are all well.

Kangxi did not go into too many details of the war, but only briefly mentioned that the Fourth Prince was very strategic. Not only did he make many useful suggestions before the army set out, but he also made good arrangements on the battlefield. He would then reward him when he returned to the palace.

As for Malu's pregnancy, Kangxi believed that it was a great joy and a good omen for the success of the war. Naturally, he fully supported Malu's desire to take good care of the baby.

As for the distribution of palace affairs, Kangxi felt that it could be distributed to other concubines or Wenxian, but it would be better to distribute them to Wenxian, otherwise he was afraid that the people under him would not be able to take good care of Malu during her pregnancy.

Has Kangxi changed his personality?

The reason why Malu sent the letter without waiting for a reply was that according to her understanding of Kangxi and previous practice, he would accept this decision that was in line with his interests and ideas, and then praise herself for not competing or fighting and being as calm as a chrysanthemum...

This time the tone was different. But he didn't say that it must be left to Wen Xian, so let's do it.

Anyway, she didn't want to get involved now. Things like housekeeping were very important to girls.

But it's enough to have someone who knows how to manage, has experience and can control his subordinates. It's not the most important thing.

In Malu's heart, she still hoped that Wen Xian could learn more about government affairs from the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince, and at least have prestige among the royal family. With her temper, who could protect her if she didn't have real power?

So she didn't want Wen Xian to be hindered by these trivial matters in the palace. Anyway, she had so many children now, and she was a noble concubine, and her relationship with Emperor Kangxi was also acceptable. Could anyone really dare to humiliate her?

After making up her mind, she let go of her hands and started to have breakfast.

At this time on the battlefield, the Fourth Prince was following Tong Guogang and eating pancakes and fried rice with the soldiers.

The Fourth Prince had never eaten these things since he was a child. Malu himself was very frugal, and accordingly, the children in Yonghe Palace also lived a relatively frugal life.

But such hard-to-swallow food would never be eaten by the prince.

He looked at the soldiers around him swallowing the food happily, and said that he never expected to eat such food, and he couldn't help feeling a little sour in his nose.

This time, I must completely solve the problem of Galdan and let all these people return home safely.

Originally, Kangxi meant to divide the 100,000 troops into three routes, with Prince Yu Fuquan leading 30,000 troops on the left, and Prince Gong Changning leading 20,000 troops on the right. Kangxi would lead 50,000 troops in the rear to supervise the army.

They are like brothers, fighting together.

But the Fourth Prince knew very well that in his previous life, his uncle Chang Ning was really limited in ability, and the 20,000 people he led were directly defeated... They didn't even survive ten days under the Junggar army led by Galdan!

The 50,000 men around the Emperor are not here to fight. Half of them are here to protect the Emperor, and the other half are here to gild themselves - so the only ones who can fight are the 30,000 men led by Fuquan.

However, the other 70,000 troops forcibly occupied the food and grass of the 30,000 main forces, causing the Qing army to suffer heavy losses in this war. The Qing army failed to completely eradicate the scourge of Galdan.

So the Fourth Prince secretly contacted Tong Guogang and asked him to join Chang Ning's team, promising that he could help the Tong family move to a higher level.

At the same time, he knew that Uncle Changning was really lazy, very procrastinating in doing things, and had no opinions of his own. He was an honest man who was not up to standard and could not handle things.

This time, the emperor was just forcing Chang Ning to go on the expedition, so he secretly made an exception and provided Chang Ning with a lot of fine wine and delicious food in the military camp - if it weren't for the fact that beauties were so easy to be discovered, he could have arranged it for her as well.

Chang Ning saw that the conditions outside were tough, and his own tent was a completely different world. He wanted to spend the whole day in the tent enjoying wine and women. After all, it would be bad to let the soldiers who had to eat bran see him eating meat.

Originally, he was just pretending to handle military affairs and inspect the military camp. After all, war cannot be sloppy. But Chang Ning didn't expect that the Fourth Prince would be so capable.

As the emperor's uncle, Chang Ning watched as the Fourth Prince suppressed Tong Guogang. Not only did he train the powerful head of the Tong family to be as obedient as his grandson, but he also ordered Tong Guogang to complete all the major and minor matters in the army and then report to him himself.

Chang Ning checked for two days. If he did it himself, he would definitely not be able to do it so well. He did not even read the report, but just hid from the wind and sand in the tent every day, leaving the Fourth Prince to hang out with these people!

Chang Ning thought that in the end, he, the main general, would still get most of the credit. So, he would definitely ask for credit for the Fourth Prince and Tong Guogang in front of his third brother, the emperor.

In this way, the actual control of the army fell into the hands of Tong Guogang on the surface, but was actually controlled by the Fourth Prince.

The spies that Kangxi left in the army naturally reported to Kangxi the good situation that Prince Gong Changning was idle, Tong Guogang was usurping power, and the Fourth Prince was working hard to suppress it, which was "hard-earned" between the two.

Kangxi also wanted to be angry and reprimand Chang Ning, but now they were at war and reprimanding the commander on the front line would affect morale. Although Tong Guogang was a bit presumptuous, he probably did it because Chang Ning was lazy and idle.

With the Fourth Prince supervising the army, the overall situation in the military camp was in good order. They even won two battles and tied one in close combat with the Junggar. Kangxi just endured it.

After looking at the whole thing, the Fourth Prince really made Kangxi look at him with new eyes.

Originally, it was thought that the fourth brother was just meticulous, good at planning and logistics, and proposed to supply the most sufficient food and grass to the front, and the food and grass in the rear could be provided daily by the Eight Banners descendants through voluntary donations and searches, and they would be rewarded after the war as part of their merits.

Unexpectedly, when facing the tentative attack of the Junggar tribe led by Galdan himself, the army he led could tie with the opponent!

Tong Guogang was able to win because he was experienced and led a 20,000-strong elite vanguard brigade. But how old was the Fourth Prince? He even started to look at the sand table in the Geer area only two months ago.

Tong Guogang felt that the Fourth Prince was extremely powerful. After all, after two consecutive defeats, the opponent’s determination and murderous intent must be the strongest and most ruthless.

In this way, the Fourth Prince was able to achieve a tie in his first march and deployment, forcing Galdan to order his troops to retreat. He was truly a natural born general.

Their belief in the Fourth Prince has also reached a new level - maybe the Fourth Prince can really help the Tong family to take a step forward!

While Tong Guogang was admiring him, he was also thinking in his mind how many daughters he and his brothers had, and whether there were any daughters of the same age as the Fourth Prince. When the war was over, the Fourth Prince could discuss marriage.

The Fourth Prince would close his eyes every day and repeatedly recall and deduce what tactics the cunning Galdan used when his father led the army to war three times in his previous life, and how he should have responded.