Chapter 1053: "Filial piety to children and grandchildren"

When Cao Yong heard about the chaos in Qinghai Mongolia, he understood the real reason why Yongzheng killed Nian Gengyao.

Although Nian Gengyao is now named the third-class Duke and is the uncle of the country, he is just a relative and a lucky minister. Everything is given by Yongzheng. Only by establishing military achievements and having great momentum in the army can he be truly afraid of by the emperor.

Yongzheng ordered Changshou, the Minister of War, to Qinghai, which was nominally mediated the struggles of various Qinghai ministries, but in fact it was a peace talks with the rebellious Erut Mongolia.

Although news of unstable Qinghai also spread to the court, Qinghai Mongolia surrendered to the court for many years and was affected by the harsh climate, and the population was not rich. Therefore, in the eyes of court officials, this was not regarded as a major event.

Only the powerful people in the Eight Banners were eager to gain military merits, so they were quite concerned about the news in Qinghai. Thinking that the powerful people in the Eight Banners who followed the 14th Prince to the northwest in the early years all came back. Now there are more soldiers and few generals in the Northwest Army, maybe they can take advantage of it.

Cao Yong thought that he was in the Ministry of Revenue, just to prepare money for the army to conquer the northwest. Unexpectedly, it was related to him when he arrived.

Yongzheng ordered him to go to the northwest to inspect the land reclamation and farming in the northwest. However, the days when he left Beijing were not as hasty as Changshou, and he needed to travel to the post office. After allowing him to properly arrange his errands, he would leave Beijing again in early July.

Cao Yong didn't understand Yongzheng's intention. Could it be that he wanted to promote corn and sweet potatoes in the northwest? In that case, these two crops would be very easy to spread to Mongolia.

Just so relieved that Yongzheng could let the Mongols solve the food problem and reproduce the population?

He hesitated in his heart that he had to go to the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion to inquire.

"The Emperor did send you to the northwest to reclaim the land. However, in addition to reclaiming the land, looking at the emperor's intention, he also wanted to move some people from the pass." said the Thirteenth Prince.

Cao Yong was surprised when he heard this.

Unlike later generations, the total population of the Qing Dynasty is not very dense. The number of people who ascended the throne of the Ministry of Revenue was less than 30 million, and these people were males aged 16 to 50. From then on, the total population was only over 100 million.

There are still barren and unreclaimed lands in the hinterland of the Central Plains, so it is a bit too early to reclaim the land in the northwest.

In the late Kangxi period, the Northwest Army was allowed to establish military camps between Gansu and Urumqi, just to make the garrisoned officers and soldiers self-sufficient.

"Thirteenth Master, which minister's opinion is this?" Cao Yong asked.

Logically speaking, this major event that concerns the people's livelihood is the director of the Ministry of Revenue. However, Cao Yong had never heard several officials of the Ministry of Revenue mention this matter, and Yongzheng did not reveal any verbal words before.

The Thirteenth Prince coughed and said, "It was a secret order from Nian Gengyao. He returned to Beijing the previous year and saw a lot of refugees along the way, so he mentioned this matter to the former emperor. He mentioned this matter again last month, and the emperor was still hesitant. This time, Qinghai was unstable, but the emperor made up his mind to resolve the matter."

If the northwest had dense livelihoods, it could not only solve the source of local green camps and provide food and supplies to large military personnel, the court would not have been passive due to the military situation in the northwest.

Although the idea is good, it is not easy to actually sit up.

After all, at this time, the people were concerned about local sentiments, and few people moved on their own initiative. Some governments handled this matter, but I still don’t know how many people were unstable.

Although Cao Yong thought of this, he couldn't say much. This was Nian Gengyao's proposal, but it was also Yongzheng's decision.

Yongzheng did not let him go northwest of the post along with Changshou, which was also considered grace. Now it is the weather of the dog days. If he goes on a trip, a good person will have to endure half of his life...

Li lived in Prince Ping's Mansion for ten days. Seeing that Cao Jia was getting better and more energetic, he proposed to go back to Cao's Mansion. However, Cao Jia was reluctant to leave and wanted to keep her for a few more days.

Li Shiyuan was still hesitating, but he got the news that Gao Taijun was sick.

She was anxious and wanted to visit her, but she could never keep her.

Cao Jia was unable to do so, so he had to ask someone to prepare a carriage and instruct the fourth prince Fuxiu to take Li to the Li family.

The eldest prince Fu Peng of the Prince Ping's Mansion raised the palace in his early years. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he was quite fond of this clan and still kept him at the prince's office and joined several princes.

Look at the meaning, I have to wait until Fu Peng gets married before I can let him out of the palace.

For this reason, among the princes in the Prince Ping’s mansion, the fourth prince Fuxiu is the leader.

Cao Jia was bedridden. Although Li came to take care of him, he was not the owner of the royal palace after all. If there was something to adjust the food of Fujin, Li asked his grandson Fuxiu to speak.

Fu Xiu is fourteen years old this year, with handsome eyes and steady eyes, and is very filial to his mother. He is also very respectful to his grandmother Li.

Li had heard Cao Jia's words that wanted to kiss her, and she was also very happy and treated him closer than other young grandchildren.

As early as when Gao was in the Cao family, Fuxiu met the "great-grandmother". Now that she heard that she was sick, she was anxious for Li. After all, she was over fifty years old, and being anxious and getting angry would hurt her heart and body.

As a result, when the grandparents and grandson rushed to the Li family in a hurry, they saw that Old Lady Gao was fine and sat on the kang to pick beans. Except for her a little haggard face, there was nothing wrong with it.

Li came all the way and was sweating all the time. Seeing this, he couldn't speak.

However, when Gao saw that she had not sent someone to say something, she came over and brought the prince's prince's mansion with her, she was surprised and said, "It's a hot day, why are you here? How come the heat is so good? Is it still bringing the fourth prince?"

Although she scolded her, she was still happy. She kept asking Wang and Sun to prepare fruits and vegetables, and asked them to go to the kitchen to prepare vegetables so that they could keep Li and Fuxiu for lunch.

Because he knew that Li liked vegetarian dishes, Gao also made a special request to Sun, saying that he wanted to cook sweet and sour cabbage.

Li came over and wanted to stay with Gao for a long time, so he sent a fat show back to the royal palace first.

Seeing that Gao was fine, she knew that she must have passed the wrong thing.

But seeing Gao's joy, she couldn't tell the truth to disturb Gao's interest, and said, "I'm back from the prince's mansion today. Thinking that I haven't seen my mother some days, I came over to sit down. It's just causing trouble for my sister-in-law and nephew-sister."

Gao said, "It's just a meal, what can I do? Your nephew's side is thanks to Brother Yong. This favor, Li Jiacheng will not let Brother Yong spend money. Your nephew has already told Li Yu that when there is money in the account, he will first return Brother Yong's money."

Since Li Cheng took out the money he had placed in the Prince Lian's Mansion to confiscate, Yongzheng's affairs for the Li family became increasingly widespread. Li Nai's three-year imprisonment never allowed to be redeemed into a redemption.

This redemption money costs five thousand taels.

Even if the Li family really makes up the money, they have to sell the house, which is penniless; if they don’t sell the house, they will have to borrow money.

Li Nai means to serve his sentence. After meeting Li Yu and Li Cheng's brothers, he told them not to raise money or redeem redemption, otherwise he would be unfilial. He would rather serve his sentence than make the embarrassing Li family worse than to make the embarrassing Li family worse for his own reasons. If his sons really wanted to borrow money to forgive him, he would rather hit him and die.

The two brothers were not sure of their decision. They were not willing to bear to suffer hardships, but were also afraid of angering their father, so they made him do stupid things.

It was still Cao Yong who was concerned about the affairs of the Li family. He heard that the emperor was allowed to redeem it. Knowing that the Li family was in financial difficulties, he went to the Internal Affairs Office to pay 5,000 taels of silver and personally redeem Li Nai.

Li Nai originally wanted to go to Fengtian to serve his father and exchange his eldest son for his first son, but he thought about owing the money he owed the Cao family, so it would be difficult to put the whole family's livelihood on his sons.

After sending a letter to Li Xu to discuss, he decided to stay in the capital first and then go to Fengtian to replace him after his family makes a better living.

When Gao heard that he mentioned the money, Li said, "He doesn't need this now. When will his nephew get rich in the future? Why can't his mother really let his nephews and daughters-in-law cook? Before they got married, they were all the ladies of officials. Now it's not easy to live a tight life with them. It's better to buy two families of servants to serve them."

Gao originally brought two maids back to the Li family, but within two days of his return, he sent the two maids back to the Cao family.

The two were originally born to the Cao family, and they also used the maids in the Cao family, but they were just serving Gao's daily life.

When I arrived at the Li family, I had to do anything. And because of the two of them, the young ladies were still thinking about helping others. When they really did it themselves, they were a little reluctant.

Seeing this, Gao was unable to send the two maids back to Cao's house.

Gao shook his head and said, "If it weren't for borrowing your light, the Li family would probably be slaves. I have heard that the families the emperor confiscated in Jiangnan were nothing but men who were convicted and their families were spared; the other families were held accountable by the whole family, either exiled to the whole family or were confiscated by official slaves. Now it is a blessing to be able to have a family of ordinary wives and not worry about food and clothing. People should cherish their blessings. They used to be petite ladies, and now they are also the wives of small families. Even if they are not used to it, they have to learn to do housework."

Li had long heard that Li Nuo and Li Yuyue's family had broken off contact with the Li family because of the Li family's crime. Only Li Cheng had married He, the adopted daughter of Prince Lian, who was loved by Prince Lian, and was taken care of by Prince Lian.

Prince Lian was very distressed when Prince Lian learned that his adopted daughter was having housework at her in-laws' house and sent a few maids over. Because the elders had no maids, He personally sent these maids back to the prince's mansion.

Although Prince Lian was not angry with his daughter, he had quite a complaint about the Li family.

"Although my mother thought well, the head of the family was her nephew's wife. Now that the nephew is back, she will inevitably have her own ideas when doing things. The mother would let go and let the couple discuss it themselves. They have also married a wife, and what else can I worry about being grandparents?" Li thought of this and advised.

There are now twelve people living in the Li family, nine women, even if they have to do housework, how can Gao, who is over 70 years old, do it yourself?

If it were granddaughter-in-law, the great-granddaughter-in-law were really filial and would not let Gao do housework with him.

Looking at the half-picked beans, Li, who had always had a good temper, was also annoyed. Even if Gao didn't let him buy a maid, he had no selfishness, and it was better for the children and grandchildren of the Li family.

The Li family now lives in the old lady's house, but they start to call the old lady to come. What's the matter?

Gao heard this and was a little hesitant.

She also knew that because the women in the family had complained about not being allowed to buy someone in the past two months. However, when Li Xu was exiled to Fengtian, she was always worried, for fear that there would be any inappropriateness and would implicate the other side.

Seeing her hesitation, Li rang the railway while the hot: "Even if my mother wants to worry, how many years can she worry about? Instead of complaining to her younger generations, why would she let them make arrangements? Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so how can they worry about it for the rest of their lives? My mother also feels sorry for me, and remembers to live there even if she has nothing to do. Qingmei and the others are still in Shaoyuan, waiting for their mother to go back."

Gao's expression was a little sad. She knew exactly what the younger generations treated her. After all, she was not a serious grandmother and had respect on her face, but apart from Li Nai and his son, the granddaughter-in-law and the great-grandson-in-law could not be filial.

At first, it was fine, but after getting her money, I was a little more concerned; and then I heard that her money was spread out, so I was not as respectful as before.

Although the world is the norm, the way my family members make the elderly feel a little disappointed.

"In half a month, it will be Brother Yong'er's birthday. This year is his birthday. Then I will pick up my mother and come here to go and have fun." Li said.

Gao squeezed out a little smile and said, "It's still early, let's talk about it then. You won't go to Haidian Garden anymore? Didn't you say that Changsheng and his nephews are all there?"

"I'll stay for a few more days and take the children back at the end of the month. Before I entered Beijing, Changsheng was still thinking about his grandmother." Li said.

For Changsheng, the young grandson, Gao, he grew up, loved him more than the older Cao Yong.

Now that Li mentioned, Gao showed some kindness and said, "I don't know who he followed, but he just said sweet words and was used to coaxing people. Look at you, you are a mouthless gourd, and your son-in-law is steady."

Li smiled and said, "Yes, it's not like my father and brother, but like Xiaowu when I was a child. Because of this, I am much closer to Xiaowu than other cousins."

Speaking of the children, Gao was in a better mood and said, "The second grandson's wife found good news a few days ago, and the Li family can finally get a child... Her mother's family got the news, and she took it back to live yesterday..."

Among the third generation of the Li family, Li Nuo originally had a son, but died in the first month of the year. Now, Li Yu's wife, Yan, is pregnant and gave birth to the first child after the Li family's offense, which is somewhat delightful.

Li said: "This is a happy event, no wonder I didn't see her just now. As my grandma, I have to prepare a generous gift."

The Yan family was repaired by their son, because they were afraid that it was because their daughter was pregnant, but because their son-in-law Li Yu is now working under the 16th Prince and is somewhat decent.

At this moment, Wang and Sun came over and said that the meal was prepared and asked the old lady if she would be able to serve.

Because Li Nai was away, Li wanted to wait for him to come back before eating. Gao Taijun said, "Your nephew is going out to find errands these days. It's not certain that he's back, so it's better to use it first." As he said that, he ordered Wang and Sun to arrange the meal.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law agreed and brought the eldest grandson-daughter-in-law Quan and the third grandson-daughter-in-law He to serve the meal.

When the mat was placed on the surface, Gao couldn't help frowning.

The dishes and bowls on the table were obviously ordered from the restaurant, and they were ordered on the table, with sea cucumbers and bird's nests.

This table is enough for chewing at home for ten days and half a month.
To be continued...