My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1819 Benevolence and Righteousness
A little later, it was noon.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

As soon as the drum sounded, the hunting officially began.

The Ninth Prince has a clairvoyant at hand.

He stood up, raised his telescope and looked towards the flags.

As the cavalry galloped, countless smoke and flying birds were startled.

The Ninth Prince first looked in the direction of the Zhenghong Banner where the Tenth Prince was, but could not see anything.

The Tenth Prince is next to the Third Prince to the north and the Seventh Prince to the south.

Both of them are strong enemies.

Although the approximate range of the enclosure is drawn, the deer herd is mobile.

The Seventh Prince will not steal prey, but I can’t guarantee that the Third Prince will.

The Ninth Prince was a little worried.

There is no rule prohibiting stealing deer, so the Third Prince might find a loophole.

He looked towards the east again, which was where the Plain White Banner led by the Fifth Prince was.

This position is not good either, because above is the Thirteenth Prince's Yellow Bordered Banner, and below is the Fourth Prince's White Bordered Banner.

The guards and escorts of the Bordered Yellow Banner were all carefully selected, with strong men and horses, and their combat power was the highest among the Eight Banners. In the Bordered White Banner, the Fourth Prince only had half the combat power, but he still had a royal father who was very excited about the battle.

The Ninth Prince looked towards the south again.

To the southwest is the Bordered Blue Banner led by the eldest prince, and to the southeast is the Plain Blue Banner led by the eighth prince.

Huh?
The Ninth Prince discovered the difference between the two teams.

The hunting team of the Bordered Blue Banner was extremely fast, running in all directions. While other teams were still chasing their prey, they were already about to carry out the first encirclement.

As expected, he is someone who has led troops twice and is different from others.

Zhenglan Banner is more interesting.

They were like a sharp sword, focusing in one direction, and did not disperse the 500 soldiers like other teams did.

The Ninth Prince sneered, thinking that someone was trying to flatter him.

Other people don’t know where the deer in the enclosure are active, but the people in the enclosure know it.

He had taken advantage of this last time by finding an old soldier who was familiar with the paddock for reconnaissance. Could it be considered that the Eighth Prince was "imitating someone else's virtue" this time?
Orondei looked at the side, but without the clairvoyance he could not see clearly, so he stood next to the Ninth Prince, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

The Ninth Prince looked around and had a rough idea in his mind.

There is one eldest prince and one eighth prince, which will occupy two of the top three.

I just don’t know who the third place is.

There is no difference between the rest of the people, and anyone could be last.

Just wait and watch the fun.

He noticed Orondei's burning gaze and handed over the Clairvoyance.

"Thank you, Master Jiu..."

Orondei took it, thanked him casually, and began to look at it impatiently.

The Ninth Prince stood next to him. One would have thought that he would look to the east, where the White Bordered Banner represented the Fourth Prince and the Emperor's father, or to the North's Yellow Bordered Banner. But it turned out that he was looking to the southeast.

The Ninth Prince couldn't help but look in the direction he was going.

Southeast, Zhenglan Banner, Eighth Prince...

The territory of Zhenglan Banner.

The Eighth Prince led the officers and soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner and arrived at the location of several deer herds.

But aren’t these deer too close?

One herd of deer, next to another herd of deer.

The Eighth Prince was happy at first, but then he realized something was wrong.

There was scattered grass on the ground.

It was freezing cold, and there was a lot of dry grass in the paddock, but after a winter of gnawing, it was almost gone.

The scattered grass should be the reason why the deer are staying.

The Eighth Prince looked towards the north and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

It borders on the Xiangbai Banner area to the north.

In the Bordered White Banner territory, the Fourth Prince was in charge, and the Emperor's father was his deputy.

Seeing that his guards and escorts were about to go forward to drive the newly discovered deer into the team, the Eighth Prince spoke quickly.

"God is merciful. There are many calves in this herd. Let's surround the others first!"

The lieutenant commander and captain of the Zhenglan Banner Guard who were following him did not quite agree with the Eighth Prince's words.

We are here for hunting today, not to worship Buddha.

But since the Eighth Prince was the master, everyone looked at each other and listened to the order and let the deer in front of them go.

Only the guards of the Eighth Prince's Mansion noticed something was wrong and followed behind the Eighth Prince without moving.

The Eighth Prince whispered a few words to Fu Cheng before turning his horse around and heading towards the hunting team.

Fu Cheng took a few guards with him and did not move.

When the hunting team disappeared from sight, a few people set out to drive the deer herd northward.

Someone didn't quite understand and said, "Master Fu, this is a large herd of deer, at least hundreds of them, what does Master Ba mean?"

Fu Cheng said: "Eighth Master has always respected Fourth Master, and that is the territory of the Bordered White Banner."

"Eighth Master is kind and righteous..."

The guards all praised in unison and continued to drive the deer northward...

……

The territory of the Bordered White Banner.

The Fourth Prince, as the flag-bearing commander, also released his troops. Five hundred people were divided into five teams to encircle the enemy from all sides.

This method is conservative, but effective. It will not scare away the deer and can drive the deer over to the greatest extent possible.

As for the one hundred people who did not move, they were divided into several teams. Some special people took deer whistles and blew them to lure the deer to gather in a fixed place.

After returning from the first encirclement, the Fourth Prince and Emperor Kangxi discovered that the southern team had only driven away a small herd of deer. Compared with the teams in other directions, there was a large missing herd, which was very conspicuous.

But they couldn't take care of these things at the moment. As the deer herd surrounded them, everyone drew their bows.

Kangxi had long wanted to loosen up his muscles, so he held the Seven-Force Bow in his hand.

"Whizzing……"

Whether shooting at the deer's eyes or neck, the arrows never missed their targets.

Looking at the dead deer, Kangxi was content.

His skills are still the same as usual.

The Fourth Prince was holding his bow and was a little hesitant.

He really couldn't be as precise as his father.

However, he knew that ability was ability and attitude was attitude. He had already drawn the bow and shot the arrow, but just changed the direction, and the target he was aiming at was the big deer nearby.

Such a large target was naturally hit by all the arrows, and the targets all landed on the deer.

But he didn't have enough strength, so the arrow hit the target shallowly.

But there are still several hundred guards and escorts.

After Kangxi and the Fourth Prince started shooting, the others followed suit.

No beast within the encirclement is immune.

The whole place is filled with deer calls...

On the observation pavilion, Orondei, holding a telescope, saw all the movements of the Zhenglan Banner.

He frowned, as if he couldn't understand.

The Ninth Prince was waiting for the Thousand-Li Eyes Envoy, so he reached out to ask for it when he saw this.

However, he did not notice the change in Orondei's expression, nor did he look towards the Zhenglan Banner, but still looked towards the direction of the Zhenghong Banner.

The Tenth Prince also wants to complete the first encirclement, but he doesn’t know what the result will be.

In addition to the individual achievements of the princes mentioned by Kangxi, the total spoils of each banner must also be calculated.

The latter involves luck.

Although the Tenth Prince did not care about his ranking, the Ninth Prince did not want to be ranked last and become the "Clumsy Prince" in the eyes of the Eight Banners.

After looking at the Tenth Prince, he still looked at the Fifth Prince.

People have different degrees of closeness and distance between them. He wanted to see a joke, but he didn't want to see the joke of the Tenth Prince and the Fifth Prince.

Then he looked in the direction of the Bordered White Banner and the Bordered Blue Banner.

The Bordered White Banner closed in very quickly, and they were also aiming for the third place.

Tsk tsk, the first three are very intense.

He looked towards the north with a hint of gloating.

The Third Prince and the Thirteenth Prince have extremely good luck.

The northern part of the enclosure where the two were located was exactly where the Shangsanqi hunting ground was held last month.

Most of the deer moving around here were hunted down at that time.

Even if new deer were to arrive within a month, they would certainly not be as numerous as the deer in other parts of the enclosure.

If nothing unexpected happened, the total scores of these two flags would be last and second to last.

It all depends on their personal performance and whether they can perform better.

After the Ninth Prince finished reading it, he put down his Thousand-Li Eyes and sat down again.

No need to look at it, just wait for the results to come out.

Orondei didn't look at it either.

After the troops from various banners surrounded the enemy one after another, all that was left was hunting. Looking from this perspective, one could not see anything clearly.

The Ninth Prince was bored, so he looked at Orondai and said, "Lord Orondai just looked in the direction of the Zhenglan Banner. Are you optimistic about the Zhenglan Banner's march?"

Orondai said: "When the Eighth Prince was in the study, I was in the guard department and was ordered to teach the Eighth Prince archery."

"what?"

The Ninth Prince did not expect that Orondei had such a connection with the Eighth Prince.

No wonder among the princes, Orondei paid more attention to the Eighth Prince.

The Eighth Prince did well in riding and archery today, and Orondei was very proud; if his performance was not good, the Emperor might remember it and scold him.

The Ninth Prince couldn't help but think of Cao Yin.

That was also his archery master.

It’s a pity that I can’t bring honor to Cao Yin.

The Ninth Prince was embarrassed and didn't want to talk to Orondei anymore.

Two hours passed quickly.

The Ninth Prince, the "command" official, was holding a pocket watch and keeping track of time.

When the time came, Orondei ordered people to go down and blow the conch shells.

He was a tall and strong man nearly six feet tall, and was one of the two warriors who were praised when hunting tigers yesterday.

The conch was one and a half feet long. When it was blown, the man's face turned red and veins on his neck popped out.

The Ninth Prince watched from the side, his mouth twitching.

It can be seen that this man is very strong. Most people cannot blow the conch shell.

"Woo...Woo...Woo..."

The sound of the conch was distant and spread across the paddock.

The hunting is officially over.

All flags began to withdraw their troops.

Guards from the Imperial Guard Department had already gone to the hunting sites of each flag to count the results.

The Ninth Prince and Orondai also left the observation pavilion and rode back to the palace to wait for the emperor...

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From now on, if there is nothing before 0 o'clock, I will post it the next day. I won't stay up late. I will make sure to update twice a day first, and the third update will be released at irregular intervals.

(End of this chapter)