Chapter 596: Winter Thunder (Part 1)

Ninth Prince’s Mansion, side hall.

The Ninth Prince held a bowl of bird's nest, drank a sip with a spoon, nodded and said, "Good things are no worse than those of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Only your Fang family can get this good thing."

A young man of twenty-five or six years old stood opposite him, looking a little slender, with the same appearance and different northerners.

He bowed, but he didn't dare to take the Ninth Prince's words.

The Ninth Prince glanced at him, put down the bird's nest, picked up the New Year's goods order next to him, glanced at him, and knocked on the table with his fingers and said, "Tell you father, you have the master here and you have the oil and water from the Fang family!"

The Fang family in Fujian is one of the royal merchants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The young man bowed and said, "The little father said the same thing. The little father was on the way to Beijing and sent someone to send a letter first, asking the little master to say that the Fang family only had the head of the ninth master. Even if he lost the business of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Fang family would not rebel against the ninth master."

"Haha!" The Ninth Prince smiled and said, "It's your father who knows it. Not to mention anything else, your Fang family was able to intervene in the business of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but there was the relationship between the Eighth Master. If you dare to discard the Eighth Master's face, hum, I won't forgive you."

Although he had a smile on his face, his voice could not hide the coldness, and the listeners trembled...

Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Cao Yong held a bowl of bird's nest and remembered the rice dumplings from the Thirteenth Master's Mansion. He said to Chu Yu: "The vegetables sent by General Manager He before the New Year have not been eaten these days. He also packed rice dumplings to relieve greasiness. Besides, the children are just when they grow up, so eating more grains is also beneficial."

When Chu Yu heard this, he couldn't help but lit up his eyes and said with a smile: "Madam has a bad appetite these two days. I'm thinking about what to eat, but this rice is good."

The couple was talking when they heard hasty footsteps coming from outside.

Cao Yong put down the bowl and looked at the door.

I heard a maid in the corridor say, "Uncle, grandma, the girl Xiuying is here."

Xiuying is the eldest maid next to Li. Chu Yu glanced at her husband, stood up, and sang: "Come in and talk."

Xiu Ying looked a little panicked and said, "Uncle, grandma, Qi Master is a little uncomfortable. The master has sent someone to hire an imperial physician. The master invited the uncle over and said he asked grandma to watch out for the young man, don't go to the yard there these two days."

Cao Yong got up from the edge of the kang and walked out.

It's New Year's Eve tomorrow. I'm sick today, but I don't know what happened.

It takes less than a hundred days of immortality to live a child, and it is the most precious time for children to live in the cold winter.

Cao Yong was worried that his parents were over fifty years old and had finally added this little blood to them.

As soon as I entered the Lanyuan, I heard the child's crying "Wow" and it was particularly shrill.

Cao Yin frowned and walked on the ground, his expression slightly heavy. Li stood by the kang, looking at Changsheng in the car, holding a handkerchief and crying at Changsheng softly.

Seeing Cao Yong come in, Cao Yin stopped and nodded.

Cao Yong took two steps closer to Changsheng, but Cao Yin stretched out his arm and stopped him: "Something is wrong, don't go forward."

Cao Yong's heart came to the car and looked into the car. Changsheng's face was flushed and he was crying heartbroken.

What else can this season make Cao Yin so nervous?

"Is it acne epidemic?" Cao Yong turned around and asked.

Cao Yin frowned and replied, "When the imperial doctor sees it, if it is a flower..."

When Li heard this, tears were already falling, but he was afraid of being frightened by the fear of being frightened by Changsheng, so he covered his mouth with a veil.

"The child has already produced flowers, so it's okay." Cao Yong said to Cao Yin, stepped forward to support his mother, and comforted him: "Mom, don't scare yourself. The imperial doctor hasn't seen it yet, let's see it first."

Li couldn't stop crying, but he didn't want his son to worry, so he forced himself to be energetic and said, "If it were flowers, the yard would be sealed. There were many children in the house. Even if the flowers had appeared, even if they had their daughter-in-law and Chu Yu, they should be careful."

Cao Yong held his mother's arm and said, "Don't worry, Chu Yu and his mother have planted flowers. My younger brother is not yet one year old, so he didn't think about planting it. After the year goes by, he asks someone to plant it for his younger brother."

For a moment, the imperial physician is invited to come.

The thighs of Changsheng's lower body were covered with rashes. The imperial physician looked carefully and pondered, with a very serious expression.

Longevity is indeed a waste of time.

As early as the 50th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Shuntian Prefecture had a government order. When there were patients with epidemics at home, they had to report to the yamen.

The infantry and the chief yamen in the inner city also had to report, and Cao Yin sent someone to report it without mentioning it.

Li's side received accurate letters, but he didn't have time to feel sad.

She sent someone to clean up the house and offer "Miss Pimples" and asked someone to send orders to the mansion. From today on, she would avoid frying and stir-frying in the mansion. In addition, Cao Yin's luggage must be packed out and sent to the study room in the front yard.

Cao Yong's heart became heavier and heavier.

This smallpox is an infectious disease, and it will never be inexplicable. The baby in the cradle dyes the flowers, and it is designated to be dyed outside. Perhaps it is from maids or women who have been gifted during the Chinese New Year.

Why do everyone talk about this disease change because three or four people will die in ten miles. Even if the rest survives by chance, they will still have a look of pockmark.

The tiny white pockmarks on Kangxi's face and the big pockmarks on Li Wei's face were all caused by smallpox gains when he was young.

In general, this pockmark is still a trivial matter. I don’t know how many families are experiencing the pain of losing their children.

"Vacpox" was confirmed by Cao Yong and Cao Yin and his son in the 51st year of Kangxi. It has been three years since then, but Kangxi still has no intention of promoting it.

You should know that in the early 21st year of Kangxi, Kangxi ordered the acne to be fed everywhere.

However, because human acne is at a certain risk, many elderly people are unwilling to consume acne. In Mongolia, Mongolians are not immune to smallpox, and more people die than Han people for human acne and planting.

This made the Mongolians afraid of acne like a tiger, but they also avoided the use of acne.

This actually caused the Mongolians to form a delicate balance with the imperial court. The Mongolians were willing to be vassals, but they did not enter the pass.

They met Kangxi every year in Rehe to show their loyalty.

Thirty years later, the "vulpox" prescription was released, which was hundreds of times better than the "human acne" prescription, but Kangxi did not mean to publish it to the world.

Cao Yong had already secretly brought cowpox to everyone in the mansion after the last acne epidemic.

Because he was afraid of being convicted of the rumor, Mr. Zhuang chose a steady person to deal with this job, and only said it was "human acne" to the outside world.

Although he did not have the intention of pity for the world, Cao Yong still felt depressed when he thought of smallpox.

"Father, the emperor, is there a turning point in this cowpox recipe?" Cao Yong thought for a while and asked Cao Yin.

Cao Yin shook his head and said, "I also figured out what the emperor intended. In the early years, the country was settled, and after three rebellions, the population dropped sharply, and the people were uneasy. The emperor was kind and kind to the world, and he also wanted the population to survive and the world was peaceful. Now it is different. The world has been peaceful for a long time and the population is huge. The court went south to rule the Central Plains again..."

Cao Yin did not say anything clearly afterwards, but Cao Yong also heard what he said.

The breeding of the world's population is a good thing and a bad thing for the court.

The good thing is that there are too many Dingkou and taxes increase; the bad thing is that there are already many Han people, and more breeding is that it makes it difficult for the court to let go.

Over the years, the court has severely punished various incidents involving the slogan "anti-Qing and restoring Ming Dynasty", and even held a large-scale literary inquisition. It was just that it was afraid that the spark could set off a prairie fire.

Chu Yu had arranged the children well and visited Lanyuan.

Although she has never produced flowers, she has cowpox before and is not afraid of being infected.

In the Lanyuan, except for the maids and Changsheng's nurses who were serving Li, everyone was prohibited from entering the house. All matters in the house were made in Wutongyuan.

Although Tianyou and the others planted flowers, the children were delicate after all, and they could not be guaranteed to have secondary infection, so it was strictly forbidden to enter the orchid hospital.

Even Chu Yu, after coming here once, was persuaded by Li to go back.

Although Cao Yong was worried about his younger brother, this afternoon, there will be banquets from Mongolia's internal and external vassals, internal ministers, and guards. He, as the chief supervisor of the Internal Affairs Office, was responsible for preparing the banquets with the Honglu Temple and the Lifan Courtyard, and had to go to the Mao to sing.

After leaving Lanyuan, he changed his official uniform and rode into the palace.

The banquet venue of the Hall of Supreme Harmony has been prepared, and many viewing discs are on it.

The palace musicians were also hiding in the dark, waiting for the vassal kings to take their seats, and Kangxi came to the court.

It's the end of the year again, and it seems that it is no different from previous years, and it's a life of singing and dancing.

Cao Yong calculated the time in his mind. Because he was not familiar with this history, he still thought that the Northwest War caused by Cewang Alabutan was in the fifty-seventh and eighth year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi.

Even though Cewang Alabutan's soldiers invaded Hami this year, Cao Yong did not regard it as a big deal.

Because a tribe, tens of thousands of people, confronted the imperial army for several years, and only negotiated after Yongzheng came to power. Isn’t this a joke?

Unexpectedly, it's not a joke.

The Eight Banners are so decayed that there are no soldiers or horses that can be used.

It is really shameful that Cewang Alabutan actually lets plunder the northern border with thousands of troops.

This war was dragged to the Yongzheng Dynasty, and Cao Yong did not doubt this at all.

It's good to say that he is pretentious, but he really wants to earn enough military spending as soon as possible and to quell the war as soon as possible.

As the war continued, the Eight Banners soldiers who led military achievements on the battlefield were actually fighting against the Han army green camp, and the supply line of tens of thousands of people also alarmed the local people.

Cao Yong stood in the distance, and his mind was a young brother who was born in the family, and a soldier from the Northwest Army.

Although it was not done intentionally, he also had a big pot meal with ordinary soldiers once.

Not to mention Chen Milaoliang, there is still a lot of sand inside.

The jerky meat that each soldier has every day is much less than the prescribed, and some people even don’t smell the meat for half a month.

No matter how small the flies are, they are still meat. Even if the military expenditure in the northwest is tight, those borers still dare to attack.

Although Cao Yong saw and heard about these things, he was not that noble and did not want to meddle in other people's business.

Today, when we think of the long delay in the war in the Northwest, there is a correlation between insufficient supply of military and horses and insufficient morale among the soldiers.
To be continued...