Chapter 961: The Weapon (Part 1)

On the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, Prince Yong’s Mansion Garden.

The autumn cold became heavier, and the flowers in the garden withered, and only the chrysanthemums were blooming. At that time, Niuhulu lowered his head, followed the Fourth Princess and came to Kangxi.

According to the rules, looking directly at Long Yan is a crime of disrespect. Niuhulu dared not make any mistakes. He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the back of the four concubines in front of him, following the rules.

Although she didn't look up, her body was tightly tense because someone was looking at her. The eyes were like ice water, which made her body shudder.

It was Kangxi who looked at her.

Before coming to the Fourth Prince's Garden, the information about Niuhulu had been presented to the imperial court.

Her father was not of high rank, but in terms of origin, he was also a daughter of the Manchu family. He was the great-granddaughter of the five founding ministers, Hongyi Gong'er Yidu, and the niece of the Empress Xiaozhaoren clan.

Looking at her appearance, she is tall and has the cool style of a Manchu daughter. Her face is plump, but she can't see her eyebrows clearly because she lowered her head.

"You are Hongli's biological mother? Look up!" Kangxi said aloud.

Niuhulu felt like he was joking, but because of his identity, he got used to being gentle and still raised his head according to his order.

She was in her early thirties and had shed the charm of a young woman, leaving only peace and gentleness.

Perhaps because he has been serving the Fourth Princess since he was a teenager, he was deeply influenced by the Fourth Princess, and his expression and manners all brought the grand and gracefulness of the Fourth Princess. Undoubtedly, this pleased Kangxi.

Like the second concubine, the fourth concubine was the daughter-in-law selected by Kangxi himself, and the most honorable among the prince concubines.

The Niuhulu family can be a bit like the Four Concubines, which in Kangxi's eyes represents virtuousness and magnanimity.

"Okay, okay, you are indeed a blessed person. Reward! The Fourth Princess teaches his children well, reward!" Kangxi nodded and said.

The eunuchs standing beside him, Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang each held a silver plate and delivered it to the Fourth Prince and Niuhulu.

In front of the Four Concubines was a white jade Ruyi; in front of Niuhulu, a gold-inlaid green-green auspicious and wishful...

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Outside the Summer Resort, there are six official offices.

Cao Yong looked at the official document in his hand and fell into deep thought. Is Gansu drought or not? According to the governor, it means that there is insufficient rainfall and severe drought, and there will be less money and grain in the warehouse; according to Nian Gengyao, if the rainfall is sufficient, the money and grain should be compared with the bumper year in the year of bumper harvest.

The two of them ended in the lawsuit that the governor of Gansu was criticized, but the money and grain orders handed over were compared to those in less than enough years.

If Kangxi believed that the governor of Gansu was rude, the Ministry of Revenue would not be able to accept the money and grain orders.

Calculate the days, Gansu's tax this year should be on the way to escort.

Compared with Gansu, Shaanxi reported a year of great wasteland this year. In addition to tax relief and military pay, it was not transported to the capital; although Sichuan did not report disasters, the taxes were also kept in the local area.

These are still secondary. The key is that the Ministry of Revenue has no money at present. Kangxi has repeatedly promoted favors in recent years and has reduced taxes from many places. In addition, taxes from several provinces in the Central Plains directly supply the military supplies in the northwest. The Ministry of Revenue's treasury is only supported by Jiangnan, Huguang and other places.

The investment is small, but the expenses are not reduced at all.

Every autumn and winter, river workers are the time for repairing river channels, but this year, only a few places have started construction due to insufficient money.

It is unreproached that Yongzheng would search the house if he came to power. If he did not search the house, there would be no money to support it. The court's major events were difficult.

Cao Yong sighed. He, the Minister of Revenue, often just does a documentary job and does not have the ability to turn stones into gold.

At that time, Kangxi had made an agreement with him to make money, but in the end the two did not calculate it. However, in order to calculate it, the bidding of the Office of the Internal Affairs, the Office of the Internal Affairs, and the transaction of cigarettes and pipes were all the shadow of Cao Yong. In fact, Cao Yong was not disappointed in the emperor's fate.

"People's Livelihood Plan", these four big characters are hung on the wall of this official office.

Cao Yong stared at these four words and realized it a little. He was too rigid and thought about the silver figure and entered the path. He was an official, not a businessman, and what he cared most was not the amount of silver in the Ministry of Revenue, but whether the people's livelihood was gradually better than in the past.

As long as the rules in the officialdom are as usual and the government is so corrupt, the more money the silver in the treasury is raised, the more worms it will not benefit the country or the people.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong picked out a document from the Jiangsu Provincial Government Office from the document, which was about the Jiangnan experiment of the second season rice.

The second-season rice was piloted in Jiangnan for several years, and the results were significant. The yield per mu was turned into a yield of 2 and 3 stones, which doubled the yield. It was just more picky about the land and water.

The double-season rice in the south, and the implementation of sweet potatoes and corn in various areas with barren land, has solved the grain problem first.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong felt that he had strength.

After he sat down at the desk, he wrote a memorandum on the promotion of miscellaneous grains and the cultivation of high-yield grain seeds. He originally wanted to mention the local grain reserves, but the corruption in the granary in this place involved too much, and it was not something that Cao Yong could intervene.

Regarding the corruption of local granaries, the Three Feudal Rebellion triggered a court debate as early as the early years of the Kangxi rebellion.

At that time, the country had initially decided that the Eight Banners powerful people who were sent to serve as officials would scrape the ground hard for themselves and the master behind them. The granary was fat and he had to take a bite.

When the Three Feudal Francisco began and food was needed, I found that most of the granaries in various places were empty.

The court was furious, but then it was thankful. Because the Three Feudal Rebellion swept across the southern provinces, the granaries were empty, in order to raise food and money, the soldiers and horses of the Three Feudals had to take action with local gentry, which caused local gentry to rebound and turned against the court, which made the Three Feudals lose the people's favor, lose the chance of victory, and lose the imperial army.

In the following decades, no matter how the population grew, local granaries were rarely added. For many local granaries, in addition to the key uses, other courts also turned a blind eye to the granaries.

When Cao Yong was a Taoist platform in Shandong, he was shocked by the empty local granaries. When he arrived at the Ministry of Revenue and stood at a high level, he saw clearly the intention of the imperial court to not rectify local granaries.

After writing the document, Cao Yong carefully read the official documents he needed to reply.

After processing these, it was already noon.

Chu Yu did not come to Rehe with him, so no one would deliver lunch to Cao Yong.

He put down his pen and asked Jiang Jian to go out for dinner.

Not far from the six ministries' official offices, there are several restaurants, which are clean and clean. The officials of the six ministries who are on duty at the escort often spend lunch at these restaurants.

The two of them chose a private room to sit down. Jiang Jian was still vegetarian and did not get any meat. Perhaps because of the past few years in Cao's house, he had not been involved in punishment, which made him lose his early arrogance and looked at the Taoist bone fairy style, gentle and elegant.

Cao Yong's stomach and intestines have not digested well recently, so he only used two bowls of porridge with a few small pickles.

After lunch and there was still free time, the two asked the waiter to serve a pot of tea and talk in the private room.

"In a few days, the emperor will return to Beijing. It will not be far away if the day of great joy is phosphate!" Cao Yong said with a smile.

A few years ago, when Jiang Jian returned home, a clan elder had a marriage, a girl from a scholarly family. She wrote letters in spring and decided to send someone to Beijing to get married by the end of this year.

Since Cao Yong got the news, he ordered people to buy real estate on the back street of Cao Mansion, which was to prepare Jiang Jian for a new house.

Cao Yong, a young man in his forties, looked at Jiang Jian and laughed a few unkindly.

Jiang Jian grew up in a temple and was influenced by Buddhism. He was a pure and lustful person. Later, he went around the world, mostly in local prefectures and counties, and the criminal cases he handled were nothing more than adultery, theft and killing.

After seeing it for a lot, he kept his distance from women.

If it weren't for the sect's elders who were so forced, he would have no idea of ​​getting married.

Therefore, after hearing Cao Yong's words, he was not happy at all, but was left with a little helplessness, saying, "I am still greedy for the world and do not want to hurt my elders' kindness. My beauty and white hair are just a mistake. In the end, it is not a good match. It is better to enter the mountain gate, which is great freedom."

Cao Yong shook his head and said, "A person must always take responsibility for his whole life. If he can be free when he becomes a monk, then there will be no ordinary people in this world. FeiPin should be happy to be a groom. If there is no woman around him, it will be impossible. FeiPin has been delayed for too long."

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhong is young and is waiting to marry north. He will be firmly taken care of and not let her suffer grievances." Jiang Jian nodded.

When talking about becoming a monk, Cao Yong thought of Zhiran that he had not returned for more than half a year.

The two lived together for only three years, but they were close friends and had a different relationship.

Because they were outside, it was inconvenient to talk about politics, and the two of them talked for a few more words and then settled the bill and returned to the official office.

Hang Seng and Fu Peng stood outside the official office and had been waiting for a while.

Seeing Cao Yong come back, the two of them have come forward to meet him. Fu Peng told him that they came here on the order of the Sixteenth Prince to pick up Cao Yong to the west schoolyard of the palace.

Although he didn't know what the Sixteenth Prince was doing, Cao Yong still explained to the government office and went with the two of them.

Fu Peng went to Mongolia to visit his aunt, but he returned to Rehe a few days ago. He had not seen his uncle and nephew for several months.

Along the way, Cao Yong asked Baoya about his recent situation, and Fu Peng answered it one by one.

During this period, he also talked about his visit to Mongolia. Cao Yong knew about Mongolia's folk customs, but Hengsheng didn't know it all, and only listened with relish.

What he cares most about is the wrath of horses on the grassland and the wolf dogs that are bred by crosses between wolves and domestic dogs.

A Mongolian prince came to court this year and paid tribute to two little wolf dogs. Kangxi gave it to Hongli. Hengsheng saw it every day and liked it very much. He also made a special trip to talk to Cao Yong about several experiences.

There is a kennel in the Cao family, which is used for rations for the wardrobe. Cao Yong does not agree with raising dogs as pets. In this era, there are no rabies breeding and many children in the Cao family. Isn’t it too late to regret it if it fails?

With Cao Shun's previous experience, Cao Yong was naturally more careful.

Hang Seng is ten years old and has already known about birth, old age, sickness and death. Cao Yong did not be afraid of the past. He told his son about his young brother who died and named the harm of raising a dog.

When Hengsheng heard this, his face changed at that time and he never mentioned raising a dog at home again. The reason was that there were too many children at home, and Uncle Seven and younger brother were even younger.

Although he doesn't care about raising it at home, his love for wolf dogs has not diminished. He just no longer raises puppies with his own hands like he used to. It's not that he is timid and afraid of being bitten by the puppies, but that he is unwilling to let his parents worry.

Since he was teased by Hongzhou in the twelfth lunar month last year, Hengsheng has realized that the reason why it is in his own body and the pain is in his parents' hearts.

Looking at this change, Hongli said that he would change it in the future and send Hang Seng to be a hunting dog. He kept it in an outside farm for hunting. He was used to be powerful and he would not worry about anything.

Hang Seng knew that this thing was small and he was not very persistent, but he just had heard of it.

Today, when he heard his cousin Fu Peng mention his trip to Mongolia, he must pay attention to his favorite horse herd and wolfhounds.

"Wolves on the grassland are common. There are also wolf dogs in my aunt's house. In addition to their tails, they look like wolves. They were raised by my aunt. They were so fierce to others, but they listened to their aunt very much." Seeing that my cousin was interested in wolf dogs, Fu Peng said a few more words: "If my cousin likes it, I will write to my aunt. This hybrid wolf dog is still very keen. When the wolf dog reborns a puppy, it may be wild and will go."

Hang Seng shook his head and said, "Thank you, cousin, I'd rather not. I just look at it. I don't have much effort to raise it. Several brothers in my family have passed the college entrance examination. It's embarrassing that I can't study. I can't do it today, and I will take the martial arts examination next year."

Fu Peng is the eldest son of the county prince's mansion, and his status has been extraordinary since he landed. However, he never despised the mother family of Baoyi because he was a royal family.

He knew that the Cao family was the last support for them, mother and son.

As the eldest prince of the royal family, he met all the powerful and powerful children since he was a child. He really couldn't understand his cousin's obsession with the imperial examination.
To be continued...