[Qing Transmigration] From Junior Banner Officer to Regent Prince

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Blurb:

A zuoling was a basic unit of the Eight Banners organization under the Manchus, overseeing the registered households, land and houses, military records, and lawsuits of the bannermen under his command. Within the Eight Banners, even if you ranked among the Three Dukes or held the office of chancellor, you still had to be unfailingly courteous when meeting the junior zuoling in charge of your own banner household. It is said that when a zuoling's family held a funeral, even the third-rank court officials in his banner had to wear mourning clothes and sit outside his home, beating funeral drums and helping receive the mourners.

Aisin Gioro Deheng was the actual eldest son of one such junior zuoling... Why actual? Because his three older brothers and two older sisters had all died before turning two. So when he came along, the fourth child, he became the actual eldest son, and for now, the only son.

Just imagine how cherished he was.

From the surname Aisin Gioro, one could tell that Deheng was a minor member of the imperial clan, and a particularly impoverished one at that. His father, Aisin Gioro Yeqin, was the eldest son born to a concubine in his family. His mother's family was lowly, his biological father had died early, and his stepmother had her own children to raise, so she had even less time for him.

Yeqin himself had no ambition either. He spent his days loafing around, lazy and idle, a carefree member of a clan full of carefree members. Unfortunately, their branch had fallen into decline long ago, or rather, it had never risen since his great-grandfather Abai's time. By Yeqin's generation, the family had no spare money for him to squander, let alone gifts and bribes to secure a salaried position through connections. So he could only stay home, desperately maintaining appearances while living out his days in idleness.

But then, who could blame him for having such a wonderful son?

His younger son Deheng had an extraordinary knack for making money from a very young age. Thanks to his efforts, the family not only had enough to cover its expenses, but even had money to secure him a public zuoling post. He moved from the Plain Blue Banner, one of the Lower Five Banners, to the Bordered Yellow Banner, one of the Upper Three Banners, to serve as a zuoling. That was a huge leap upward!

Deheng led the youngsters in his banner through the crisscrossing hutongs, going door to door to learn the neighborhood. Ah, this is Lord Wang's Hutong, this is Bailin Temple, and this is...

Wait, surely the next one isn't Yonghe Temple, or rather, the residence of Fourth Prince Yinzhen?

P.S. The male lead eventually becomes regent. Since there were no regents during the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong eras, this is an alternate history. Please don't nitpick the historical details.

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Theme: Knowing is easy, doing is hard. Dare to dream, but dare even more to act.