The next day after the Holy Driving arrived in Beijing, the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, the small dynasty meeting.

Cao Yong still stood up in the middle of the night and left the city from Xizhimen before (two o'clock in the morning). There were many cars, horses and sedans in Xizhimen.

Cao Yong rode on the horse, blowing the night wind, and felt the cold air was biting, and he couldn't help but chill. Today, the beginning of spring was in the first lunar month, and this year, due to the leap month, the beginning of spring was in the first lunar month.

After finally waiting for the city gate to open, the water trucks in the palace entered the city, the civil and military officials waiting here left the city one by one.

Not long after Cao Yong passed by, after a few sedan chairs, it was Li Xu's carriage. He came from the side of the Li family's house in Shichahai. He sat in the carriage with an unpredictable expression and didn't know what he was thinking.

According to the grade, he was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and could directly attend the small court meeting. However, his job was to be a errand of Suzhou Weaving and Lianghuai Yanwu, which made him still a foreign minister.

If the foreign minister wants to see Kangxi, he needs to hand over a sign to ask for your meeting.

Cao Yong did not see Li Xu, so he followed the civil and military officials into the garden and arrived at the Arrow Hall where the Xiaochao Club was located.

The winter chores at Taipu Temple are very leisurely, and all day long are trivial matters. After the Chinese New Year, I will go to the ranch in March and April next year, and take the custody in May, and the year's chores will be almost done.

This work is really a little leisurely, Cao Yong thought in his heart. However, it should be more than just Taipu Temple. According to Cao Yong's opinion, even the officials of the six ministries should be leisurely, and those officials who are so busy that they will perform their duties.

After Kangxi went to court, officials from the Ministry of Rites first presented the throne of spring, followed by the Shuntian Prefecture Yai presented the throne of spring.

Perhaps it was because of the Kangxi period that several ministers and ministers had a series of attacks in the past two months. Perhaps because there were no errands by the end of the year, most of the officials of the six ministries looked at the nose and the heart, and stood up in a regular manner, without a memorial. Only the Minister of Revenue came out and reported that the tax reduction of taxes in the four counties of Huining, Gansu Province this year.

Kangxi listened carefully, nodded and agreed to the report, and issued an order for the Ministry of Revenue to distribute millet to help the hungry people.

Seeing that no one came forward to the preface, Kangxi asked about the Jiangnan Jingkou Nashi.

Because the rice in Guangdong is expensive this year, in order to stabilize the price of grain, Kangxi ordered the Governor of Liangjiang Heshou to transport rice and grain from Jiangnan to Guangdong. As a result, the Governor's Office in Heshou prepared rice and grain, but there was no ship to use it. The Jingkou warship could not carry rice at all, but was at the time of overhaul.

The Ministry of War discusses the replies every year, and the Ministry of Revenue allocates the money for repairs every three or five years. Now it seems that the so-called repairs on weekdays are just a false reputation, and all the money is greedy.

According to the conviction of "delaying military affairs" and Ma Sanqi was dismissed from the rank of general. Although this matter seemed to be unrelated to the previous incident of Kangxi, many officials have already speculated that Long Sui Ye had dealt with the civil servants and now he was fighting against military officials?

At the end of the court meeting, there was a memorial to Longkodo, the commander of the infantry army. There were 68 places in Changchun Garden guarding, and there were additional horse and infantry defenses.

Although he said it was because of "Sun Guard", the princes and officials in the hall knew it, and it was because the Sheng Jia stayed in Changchun Garden for the past two years.

Although there are Eight Banners garrisons here, except for the upper three banners, the lower five banners are not controlled by the emperor, but by the royal princes.

Longkodo's move should be done by taking the order.

Then Kangxi said, "There are many idle people in the Han army, so there are few horses and infantrymen, and they will be the idle people in the Han army. Later, the police officers and soldiers in the third battalion were short of their troops, and they will also be the Han army and Han people to pick and repair them together."

Because the Han army needs to be added, they need to stay in Changchun Garden, so no one is so blind to mention the rules of the ancestors.

Cao Yong's heart moved, but he thought about it was another matter.

It is hard to blame Longkodo for being able to block Changchun Garden with the position of the Nine Gate Admiral and assist the Fourth Prince in ascending the throne. Now, if there is no increase in the number of Han army that has been added today, just relying on the Nine Gate Admiral, the Eight Banners relatives may not think of him seriously.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong couldn't help but look at the Fourth Prince in front. Nine years before the 61st year of Kangxi, and now there is a "sticky rod" in the Fourth Prince's Mansion. I don't know how he feels about the Cao family now.

After the court was dispersed, Cao Yong did not leave the garden immediately, but was stopped by the Seventh Prince.

It turned out that the mountain goods from Fengtianzhuangzi in the Prince Chun’s mansion had arrived. The Cao family had no village outside the pass, so they wanted to send the manager to buy mountain goods outside the pass. After hearing this, the Seventh Prince said that he would not have to make trouble on his side, and that the royal family would have some success.

Now that the mountain goods have arrived, he ordered Cao Yong to send the manager to come and collect some in the next two days.

The father-in-law and son-in-law were talking when an eunuch came to pass the order, saying that the empress dowager summoned the seventh prince.

Cao Yong remembered that Chu Yu mentioned the second princess' marriage, and now the old concubine Qiqi has already appeared, so there should be news. In comparison, the empress dowager summoned the seventh prince for this matter.

*

Cao Yong left the garden and rode his horse back to the yamen without mentioning it. However, Li Xu waited for two hours in a row until noon before he could see him.

As many officials were promoted by the end of the year, Kangxi had already met many officials from other places who came to Beijing in the bookstore, such as Liu Qi, the Jiangxi Censor, Xu Zhaolin, the Sichuan East Road Platform, etc.

When Li Xu followed the eunuch into the room, Kangxi sat cross-legged on the kang, leaning on the kang table with his arms, and his face showed a slight fatigue.

Li Xu entered the door, walked two steps forward, then knelt down on his knees, and kowtowed, "I have seen the Master Long Live, I wish you goodbye to Master Long Live!"

Kangxi raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at Li Xu who was kneeling down, and said for a while: "Get up and talk!" As he said that, he ordered the eunuch who was standing aside to move Mu Zhu to him, pointing to him, "Sit down!"

Li Xu hurriedly said not to dare, Kangxi snorted coldly and said, "Oh? I don't know, there is something you, Li Xu, dare not?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xu quickly knelt down and apologized.

Kangxi frowned and said, "Forget it, it's not easy for you to go to Beijing once, so you'd better get up and talk!"

Li Xu then stood up and sat sideways beside the little whisper.

Kangxi rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong with your son?"

I don’t know whether Li Xu was grateful or sad, and she cried and said, “If you say that, I have been in Beijing for half a month. The Shuntian Prefecture Office and the Infantry Commander Office have all gone, but there is still no news.”

When Kangxi heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed and said, "A waste is all waste. Can a living person still go to heaven and earth?" At this point, he looked at Li Xu and said, "Li Ding has many people coming and going to the capital. You have asked clearly whether he has made any personal grudges?"

When Li Xu heard this, he felt a little sweat oozing from his forehead and replied, "There are several relatives in the capital. Although there are some contacts, it is just a formality. I have never heard of any friction or entanglement."

Kangxi tapped the table with his fingers, pondered for a moment, and said, "I am too lazy to say anything extra. As long as you save yourself, whoever is your master!" At the end of his speech, his voice was a little cold.

Li Xu could not sit still, so he hurriedly stood up and knelt down, and said in tears: "Long live the master, the servant is inferior, the servant is humble, and the servant is grateful to the master, and the world is weaving for decades. The holy grace is deep, and even if the servant is crushed to pieces, it is difficult to repay the master's kindness! If you have other thoughts, wouldn't it be better to pigs and dogs?"

Seeing him acting like this, Kangxi thought that he was only two sons under his knees, his dissatisfaction reduced a little, and waved his hand and said, "Okay, I don't want you to dig it out. I have already told Fu Erdan to help you investigate your son."

After hearing this, Li Xu had to bow down again and thank him.

Kangxi looked up at the sky outside the house. It was already noon, so he waved his hand and asked Li Xu to kneel down.

*

By the seaside of Shicha, the Li family is outside the house.

Yang Ruixue got up from bed at noon. It wasn’t because she was too tired to serve Li Xu last night, but she was lying on the bed and thinking about it.

She was a good woman and fell to this point today. Otherwise, she would be a lie to not hate Li Ding at all. But she knew that only Li Ding could rely on. As long as she was still pretty and could help Li Ding socialize, he would keep her.

Li Xu was different. He wanted to go back to the south and not be in the capital in the future. He would only have a few days to get fresh towards Yang Ruixue. Listening to his inquiries from outside last night, he seemed to have suspected Yang Ruixue.

Yang Ruixue was just ignorant and served Li Xu more and more carefully, but the two of them struggled for half a night.

It’s not okay to comfort Li Xu. Yang Ruixue knew that if he wanted to stay in the capital and not be threatened by the Li family, he would have to find a backer to be properly prepared.

However, she is a woman in the deep home and rarely stays outside occasionally when she goes out. Where can I get to know someone?

In fact, Li Nai, the eldest son of the Li family, is very good. He is gentle and gentle, but he is too pedantic and treats her as his sister-in-law. Because she was not diagnosed with pregnancy last month, she was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable, so she specially comforted her.

Yang Ruixue only found it very funny. She didn't plan to give birth to a son for the Li family. Who knows what generation it would be? Should she still make this shameful scandal public?

Cao Yong? Thinking of him, Yang Ruixue immediately shook his head. The man was not a lustful person and knew her very well. How could he like her?

She tossed and turned around on the bed like a baking pancake, sighing, but she had no proper plans. Suddenly, she remembered the two of them again and felt calmer.

She reached out and touched her face, then touched her chest, and a smile appeared on her face. She was thinking about finding someone, and maybe someone was thinking about her.

When a man sees a woman, he is like a cat that steals fishy food. After eating it once or twice, he will think about it for the third time and the fourth time. As long as she waits, when Li Ding’s affairs fade, the Li family’s father and son leave Beijing, the cat will naturally come.

*

In front of the Li family courtyard, on the ice surface of Shichahai, in addition to the children playing on the ice, there were also a few friends from the ice cellar in the city. Aside from the Haizi, there were a series of mule carts parked, waiting for a while to pull the ice.

Since the 8th day of the twelfth lunar month and the ice surface was frozen tightly, several ice cellars in the city have allowed the guys to pick ice in Shichahai. The young and strong people from nearby families have also taken advantage of this time to go to the ice surface to help with the handles and do a short worker. They can also get more than a dozen or twenty copper plates every day.

After ten days, everyone dug a lot of ice pits in Haizi. Because the ice layer at the bottom of the pit became thinner, some nearby naughty boys went to dig an ice pit to catch fish.

However, because it was really dangerous, the adults stopped him when they saw it, so the children took advantage of the adults' carelessness and went in.

On that day, another child slipped to the bottom of the pit. He called Baozhu, and his family lived next to Haizi. He mingled on the ice all day long, and was also a veteran in chiseling ice.

He bent his waist, held the ice skewers in his hand, and found the thinnest part of the ice layer around, knelt down, and started to chisel hard.

Because the ice layer was not thick, after a few chisels, there were cracks. When Bao Shuan saw it, he worked harder. He was just chiseling happily when someone shouted on his head: "Xiao Bao Shu, it's you again! That's the ice pit that was just opened yesterday, and the ice surface is less than half a foot thick. Do you want to die?"

The child smiled and said, "Uncle Chang Wu, it's okay!"

The man named Chang Wu did not let him make a fuss and came down to lift Zhuan Zhuan up. Zhuan Zhuan looked at the half-milled ice hole, and felt as if he could see a black shadow. He widened his eyes and said hurriedly: "Uncle Chang Wu, look, there are big fish there!"

Chang Wu stopped and followed the save place to look past. It was just an ordinary ice surface. Where was there any big fish? He patted Bao Shuan's head and said, "Where are any big fish? No matter how naughty you are, be careful that the Dragon Prince will pull you down and feed the fish!"

He kept rubbing his eyes, and the black shadow disappeared, and he couldn't help but mutter: "What a big fish, he just swam away!"
Chapter completed!