The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

"What's wrong with Huang Ama? Why is her complexion so bad?" Yin Zuo was startled when he entered the door, did he get angry or something?Said: "Let them lower the temperature at night and make the quilt thicker, so that they can sleep soundly."

Liang Jiugong respectfully agreed.

Yin Zuo was still a little worried, why didn't see him for a few days, Kangxi's complexion was so bad, his eyes were blue, his face was sallow, his eyes were still bloodshot, and his voice was not right... asked: "See the imperial physician Have you been?"

Liang Jiugong secretly glanced at Kangxi and shook his head quietly.

Kangxi said: "I'm in good health, I'm fine. Did you forget that I also know medicine?"

Yin Zuo obviously didn't believe it, and said: "It's hard for a doctor to heal himself, Huang Ama, you'd better take a look."

He also said: "The climate is dry in winter, and it is easy to get angry... My son turned around and told the imperial dining room to ask them to eat less hot food. Huang Ama, you should also restrain yourself, and don't eat too greasy."

At the same time, he ordered the maids to bring in a few more pots of water and put them in an inconspicuous place, and asked them to bring in cassia seed tea, and said, "Don't think it's cheap, Huang Ama, it doesn't have to be expensive. The greasy food you eat on weekdays , it’s best to drink this.”

"Okay, don't worry about it," Kangxi waved: "I just have something on my mind, I can't sleep, and it's useless to eat...Come, come and sit."

Only then did Yin Zuo sit down and said, "Is Huang Ama still worrying about setting up a crown prince?"

Kangxi hummed.

Yes and not.

These days, Yinzhen's words have been circling in his mind. If it is said that there will be some intrigue among these sons, he believes it, but he does not want to believe it if he drags Qing's back, or even kills each other...

But there was a small voice, saying in his heart: Didn't the fratricide happen already?

Even he was in danger twice, if it weren't for the sixth child, he would have died a long time ago... He can tell himself that these are all done by Suo'etu and have nothing to do with Yinfeng, but the prince's mother or cronies wanted to help him A superior, to murder other princes or even kill the king, isn't it called cannibalism?

Now he is in his prime, these sons are still fledgling, and there was a prince with a stable position before, the struggle between them was not obvious for a while, but when he was old and could not suppress it, they When the power expands—with the personality of those sons, who is willing to be inferior to others?

Yinzuo looked at Kangxi who was frowning in surprise, and it was really for the prince's business!But it's been a long time since the crown prince was established, and everything was fine before, so why do you suddenly feel worried these two days?

"What are you worrying about! What is there to worry about?" Yinzuo comforted: "If it's really not possible, just set up one at will! Change it when you feel it doesn't fit. Anyway, Huang Ama, you are still young, just look at it slowly."

Randomly set up one... Kangxi is speechless, this incomprehensible boy, the crown prince of a country, what a big deal it is, to let him set up one at random!If you choose one at random, if you choose someone with an impure mind, who only wants to ascend the throne earlier, then it is not called setting up a prince, but setting up an enemy for yourself!

Then I thought, in terms of pure mind, no one can compare to this kid... Is it really necessary to set him up?

I was really led astray by Yinzhen!Kangxi hurriedly expelled this idea from his mind: If he really wants to establish the sixth child, that's fine, if he's just looking for a shield, but he can't find him at all... Wouldn't it be easy to abolish the prince?

"Yinzuo, I'm going to make an order to let the prince and the clan recommend the prince." Kangxi said, "Who are you going to recommend?"

"Fourth brother," Yin Zuo said naturally, "We are one..."

"Got it! Got it!" Born by a mother, my ears can hear cocoons!You were born with the same father!Kangxi said: "Then tell me, who will the fourth brother recommend?"

Yin Zuo said without hesitation: "Of course it is a son, we are..."

"I know you are born of a mother!" There is no more legitimate reason!

Yinzuo rolled his eyes: he knew and asked.

Kangxi asked again: "Aren't you working on the preparations for the Ministry of State Affairs? How are you doing now? I heard that you have been sitting at home every day, eating, drinking and having fun, writing and drawing, and you haven't even left the house—" - Don't worry about it at all, are you waiting for me to do it for you?"

"Isn't there Kedai? What do you want your son to worry about?" Yinzuo said: "Listen to him, the resources and buildings of the iron workshop, textile factory, and cement factory have been separated, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs A large part of the porcelain kiln has also been allocated, and even the manpower has been circled. We are waiting for you, Huang Ama, to allocate a place to build the headquarters. , can start construction at any time. But I told him not to rush, our Ministry of State Operations, but the yamen that earns money for the Qing Dynasty, must be decent. When the new year opens and the weather is warmer, the cement can be used Yes, the glass has been fired, and we have repaired the house to make it spacious and bright, and it looks high-end and upscale at first glance, so that anyone who has been there can't help but buy our things."

Kangxi was speechless. If the last sentence was removed, it would still be the same... Nodding his forehead: "I will always be lazy!"

"How do you call being lazy?" Yin Zuo said dissatisfiedly: "Then Kedai was the son who found him? Since he can find someone to do the job well, he is still happy to do it, why should the son do it by himself? With that skill, my son might as well be at home with Hong Fu!"

Just don't admit it's laziness!

Kangxi shook his head and laughed.

Yin Zuo suddenly changed the subject, and said worriedly: "Ama Huang, my son is going to bring some apprentices out, and if there is a chance, he will build another school...Ama Huang, where do you think my son can find someone better?"

"Why do you suddenly want to recruit apprentices?"

"Those people who follow my son now have good craftsmanship, but they are not knowledgeable enough. They don't know why. In their eyes, the things my son built are like heavenly scriptures. They dare not repair them even if they are broken. If the pipe is blocked, you have to look for your son. Whenever your son encounters a situation that your son didn't expect in advance, you don't even dare to move a finger..." Yinzuo sighed: "If you don't teach a few people who understand, know, compare The son is strong enough to come out, not to mention that the son himself is troubled at the moment, if one day the son is gone, wouldn't all these things become waste products?"

You can't let what he built so hard become a flash in the pan, right?

Yinzuo sighed again, and said: "If you don't know how to read, your son will be impatient to teach you. Those who can read and write are all focused on reading the Four Books and Five Classics to take the imperial examination. Who would want to follow their son to learn Gewu? The son thought about looking back among the refugees. Look for, see if there are any children who have studied and have some talent."

Even if it can teach a person.

Talking gossip with Yinzuo, Kangxi's mood gradually improved, and he cheered up to read the book.

Yinzuo found a large stack of paper to write and draw.

He is compiling the Gewu textbooks of this era, mainly involving mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc., from the shallower to the deeper, and when the time comes, he will find a bunch of children and let others teach them first. If they learn well, they will not be able to teach them any longer. If it’s gone, just keep it by your side for a few years, and then it will come out.

The rest, when they have almost finished their studies, they will learn one or two kinds of machinery manufacturing and repair separately, and assign them to various factories, which can be regarded as the backbone of technology haha.

Kangxi read through a stack of notebooks, saw Yinzuo's writing was serious, so he came over to read it for a while, and found that it was clear and easy to understand, even people who don't know how to understand things would not find it difficult to read, but it is a good thing.

Suddenly he asked: "Yin Zuo, a woman who complained came to the capital a few days ago, do you know?"

Yin Zuo hummed, and kept writing, saying: "Huang Ama is talking about the widow whose son died? I heard Wangcai mention it."

The widow is from Sichuan. Her husband passed away last year, leaving her a six-year-old son and [-] acres of fertile land. She just guards her son and the land to live.Unexpectedly, one day, her son suddenly disappeared, and the widow went crazy looking for someone. It was not until night that someone told him that she saw her brother-in-law taking his son to the mountain to play.

She asked her brother-in-law who had come home early to ask, but said that her son had run away on the mountain by himself. Under the gnawed corpses.

The widow cried to death, and after burying the child, she went to the county to sue her brother-in-law, saying that the brother-in-law deliberately harmed her child in order to seize the property left by her husband.The county magistrate sent her back on the grounds that the beast wounded people purely by accident.When she returned home, her husband's family was very angry at her complaint, saying that she had a foreign surname and had no children, so they took away her [-] acres of land and house and gave them to her brother-in-law.

After the widow cried and begged to no avail, she embarked on a journey of suing, from the magistrate to the magistrate to the governor, and finally to the capital.

"Yin Zuo, what do you think is the right way to judge this case?"

Yinzuo said without hesitation: "Intentionally killing people, beheading them."

"Oh?" Kangxi was quite surprised, and said, "Why? Maybe the child really ran away by himself?"

"But he took the child to the mountain on purpose. He took the child away without telling the child's mother. After the child was lost, he knew that there were many wild beasts on the mountain. A six-year-old child had no power to protect himself, but he did not Look for it, and don’t tell the child’s family, what is it if it’s not intentional murder?” Yinzuo said: “For example, if someone pushes a person who can’t swim into the water, do you want to say that the murderer is the water, not him?

Kangxi nodded and said: "There is some truth to what you said... But since you have this idea, why didn't you see someone go to the Ministry of Punishment to talk about it?"

"If he is not in his position and does not seek his own government, his son's ideas may not be right, and the Ministry of Punishment has its own rules of conduct. If everyone uses their power to interfere, wouldn't everything be messed up?" Yin Zuo hehe With a smile, he said again: "Actually, my son really feels that the widow is pitiful, so when I had tea with my eighth brother last time, I mentioned it to him a little bit - of course, the punishment depends on the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

He said he would not intervene, but in fact he did, but it was much more tactful than letting the servant take the note he wrote to the Ministry of Punishment to dictate.

Kangxi hummed, noncommittal, threw a booklet over, and said, "Look at this."

"What?" Yin Zuo only thought that someone was interfering with him again, and when he opened the book, he found it was a letter of apology from the magistrate.It is said that due to the lack of harvest this autumn, many people have no food in their homes, so they had to open Guangning warehouse privately to help the people.

Yinzuo frowned and said, "Is this the border land?"

He remembered that the Guangning Warehouse was set up in a town near the border, in case of a war, it could be used as military rations at any time. According to the rules, the Guangning Warehouse would never be opened until wartime.

After Yinzuo finished watching, he stared blankly at Kangxi and said, "Why do you let your son watch this?"

It has nothing to do with me.

Kangxi remained calm and said, "What's your opinion on this matter?"

Yinzuo thought for a while, and said: "I remember that there are Changping warehouses in the local area for disaster relief and stabilizing grain prices. Why did he use Guangning warehouses? If the Changping warehouses were all used up, why did he go there earlier?" What's more, at the end of the book, the son didn't even say a word about what to do next, except for an apology. How many months is it now? Can the people rely on the Guangning warehouse to survive until next autumn? The Guangning warehouse is empty, and he I didn't think about how to fill it up again, what if there is a sudden war? This magistrate is so incompetent."

Yinzuo does not approve of this kind of behavior. For example, if you meet a beggar on the road, you feel pitiful. It is kind-hearted to help him with your own money, but it is wrong to give him public funds!Of course, if it is to save lives, you can follow the authority, but you have to make up the money when it is over, right?

And this matter is different from helping beggars, because as a magistrate, he is also responsible for making the people have nothing to eat-why did he go so early!

"and then?"

"What then?" Isn't it all over?

Kangxi said: "Opening Guangning Warehouse privately is a serious crime, how do you think the magistrate should deal with it?"

After Yinzuo pondered for a moment, he said: "This magistrate is very hateful, he should use it quietly, just make it up quietly, even if he handed over a booklet to plead guilty, he should hand in a secret booklet, now, let's punish him, the local people I'm afraid it's because he doesn't want to, but he has earned his good reputation. If he doesn't punish him, everyone won't take Guangning Warehouse seriously in the future, and will open it whenever something happens. What should we do if something big happens in the future? Huang Ama, this is so troublesome. , you can find a way on your own!"

Kangxi was angry and funny and said: "If I leave this matter to you, will you tell me if you don't know?"

Yinzuo said: "Shouldn't my son ask the fourth brother? The fourth brother must have a solution. If the fourth brother can't help, isn't there an eighth brother? Both of them are smarter than the son."

Kangxi waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, go do your work! Let me see for myself."

When Kangxi sat down to read the booklet, Yinzuo stopped writing: Why is his father so weird today? He seems to be trying to teach him. Could it be that he has been confused in choosing the prince recently, and asked his son when he saw him, forgetting that he is not a candidate? within range?

It seems that until the crown prince is elected, it's better not to hang out in front of the father, or find something to embarrass him at every turn, trouble!

But I heard Kangxi call again: "Yin Zuo!"

"Ok?"

"Are you doing nothing these days?"

Yinzuo shook his head and said, "It's okay, what's the matter?" Could it be that there is another errand?Such a cold day, don't!

Kangxi said: "Don't you have a hot spring village in Xiaotangshan? The Ministry of Internal Affairs has repaired it for you a long time ago. If you are free, you can take the time to stay for a few days. Soaking in hot springs is good for your health. Let me take a look at the hot springs too. Does Zhuangzi need to install heating, I am going to build a palace in Xiaotangshan."

It depends on whether there is a need to install heating or not. Do you need to let him live in person?Yin Zuo was a little at a loss, but it's a good idea to soak in hot springs!Hot spring Zhuangzi, even if it is cold, is limited, and he remembers letting them bury a pipe under the house, which can be opened at any time to let the hot spring water flow under the house.

Xiaotang Mountain is not far away, and the scenery is good. If you live there, you don't have to worry about choosing a prince!Good!

So he nodded readily and said, "Okay, my son will go to Xiaotangshan tomorrow!"