[Qing] If you don't work hard, you will be forced to inherit the throne

Kangxi said to Yinreng: This trip to the East is a very serious matter, and the journey was exhausting.

At the same time, he told the people all over the world, "I will level the San Francisco, and the world will be stable. Today, I will tour the east to pay homage to the ancestors, tell the ancestors about their success, and perform a sacrificial ceremony in parallel."

In addition, Kangxi also brought more manpower than the previous northern tour this time, and even brought three concubines with him.The entourage included waiters, protectors, ministers, and imperial physicians, a mighty large team of more than 1 people in total (Note [-]).

It must be very slow for such a huge team to leave, and Khan Ama didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.Moreover, with 7 people traveling, how should people live in the county towns along the way? There are not many people on the road with only horse-drawn carriages and food transportation.

Yinfeng thought it was as simple as the last northern tour, but this time the emperor's grandmother didn't go, but there were more people instead.Including his prince's ceremonial guards, all of them are here, and some ceremonial officials Yinfeng don't even know each other.

Interestingly, Khan Ama also invited master Nan Huairen to go with him, and allowed him to write records in his own language.

Just looking at this extravagant lineup, Yinfeng could guess how Master Nan would boast in his diary that the Qing Dynasty was rich and prosperous, and that the emperor had a lot of travel arrangements.

Before leaving, Yinreng, who had been tied by Khan Ama's side, finally saw Brother Tutu who had grown a lot taller.

Brother Tutu seemed to be different, more handsome, calm, and manly. Standing face to face with him, Yinfeng realized that he was a head shorter than him.

Yinti glanced at his silly younger brother who had been away for a long time, and first paid his respects to Kangxi.

The silly brother looked at him with sparkling eyes, thinking that he hadn't seen him for a long time and missed him.

Kangxi said unhappily: "You brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, I think you have a lot to say, and there will be plenty of opportunities for the two of you to have a good chat along the way."

Yinfeng laughed and said, "How can my son be so impatient?"

"We will go north to Yongling (Note 2), report to the ancestors, and then take the waterway. Along the way, I will check the local people's conditions and inspect the magistrates. When the time comes, I will summon the two of you to accompany me."

The emperor asked the two of them to ask the ceremonial officials more about what they had seen and heard on the way, and take this opportunity to learn more about the customs and customs on the east tour route.

The battle of travel seems to be playing, announcing to the whole world: I am going to tell the ancestors the peace of the country.

But the real purpose, Yinfeng knows, Yinzhen should also know.

The emperor allowed them to stay in a carriage on the road, and Yinti was older and could ride alone.

After starting all the way, Sanhe County was the first stop, and the two children were finally able to get together.

Yinti asked: "Didn't you take Cao Zhen with you on this east tour? How is he doing now? I heard that he had undergone an operation, and there has been no news for almost a year."

"I'm still recuperating at home, but I heard that the operation was a success."

"It's good that it's okay. I've been worried for so long. When that kid comes back, I'll have to tell him well. I've kept such an important matter from my master. By the way, didn't you bring a goose and a cat with you on this trip?" Yin Yin Ti laughed lightly.

"This time seems to be a trip, but it's not actually out to play," Yinfeng explained: "Maybe Khan Ama engaged in such a big battle to make the people of the world feel at ease!"

He analyzed the instability of the northern border for Yinti in detail.

Yinti listened quietly, and couldn't help but patted Yinreng's head: "Observing the people's sentiments, patrolling the border, and other meanings to appease Mongolia and care about the descendants of meritorious deeds, of course Khan Ama's tour is not just for fun, but I don't Thinking about it, the frontier problem has become so serious. The land of Longxing is the place where our ancestors were born, and of course Khan Ama will not sit back and watch the border people there be harassed by the barbarians from the north."

"Eldest brother knows so much without being involved in government affairs." Seeing that his elder brother is powerful and taller than himself, and that he is expected to work in front of him, Yinreng's cheeks flushed with joy.

"I was also taught by my teacher," Yinti snorted softly, and ravaged his head: "You have been taught by Khan Ama, of course you have learned more than me."

"Don't mention it, I'm about to be drained by Khan Ama!"

Yinfeng patted his chest with lingering fear, and complained softly: "This time I can be regarded as persuading Khan Ama to recruit my eldest brother. If I am more fragile, I will wash my face with tears."

The silly brother was full of out-of-key words, which seemed to be more serious than before leaving the study. Yinti hesitated for a while, and asked Yinrong: "Hasn't Khan Ama corrected your way of speaking?"

Yinfeng blanked his face: "Why do you need to correct your way of speaking? I think it's good for me to be like this. Of course it will be different. In front of outsiders, I have always given Han Ama face. The elder brother is one of my own. You See, I don’t call you Brother Tutu anymore. Also, big brother, you must work harder, I’m waiting for you to share the worries of Khan Ama, if this continues, I won’t be able to bear it anymore.”

"You can't take it anymore, so you persuaded Ama Khan to transfer me?" Yinti laughed angrily, but Mingxiang bothered to ask someone to play for Ama Khan, which made him think that Erniang was going to her natal family and wanted to follow Ming It's crazy, I really went to blow pillow wind to Khan Ama, who would have thought that it was all done by the stupid brother?

Knowing that he had slipped his words, Yinfeng hurriedly made amends: "Of course I miss my elder brother. We haven't seen each other for almost half a year. Don't you miss me?"

Yinti replied coldly, "I don't want to, but it's the fourth brother who misses you."

Yinfeng was not disappointed by Yinti's cold face, but rather flattered: "Fourth brother, who doesn't care about everything, will still miss me?"

"Of course he misses you. Without you, the third brother stares at him every day, how could he not miss you?"

Yinfeng sighed for a while: "It turns out that the third and fourth younger brothers miss me, but it's a pity that Khan Ama won't let me go to the study. He always says that I will spoil the younger brothers."

Yinti really felt that Khan Ama did the right thing, so he shouldn't let the stupid younger brother come to the study, otherwise he would lead one or two of them astray.

Yinfeng couldn't believe it: "What do you mean, you actually agree with Khan Ama's approach."

"Cough," Yinti coughed lightly, and explained: "Third and fourth younger brothers are indeed a bit naughty, and they made a big fuss before, maybe it won't be like this when they get older in a few years."

The two children chatted for a long time, and finally thought of calling someone to tell them something they had seen and heard along the way.

Suo'etu recommended a person, who was Chen Mengqiu and Chen Shiwei who had saved Yinreng once.

Chen Mengqiu was still young, and he was a well-mannered Han Chinese. If he hadn't seen his skills, he would look like an ordinary literati at first glance.

Yinfeng still remembered him, and thought that this guard had gained face in front of the third grandfather because he saved him, and now he is being reused.

Chen Mengqiu said for the two: "If you want to talk about what you have seen and heard on the road, I don't know what His Royal Highness and Eldest Brother want to hear. They only eat food along the way. You can taste delicious poultry meat during the east tour, especially the ones from Shengjing. Pork, that oil is absolutely perfect for cooking, it is said that the emperor ate their lard stir-frying during his first east tour, spinach, celery, and cabbage were all fried with lard, it tastes good."

Yinfeng: "..."

Yinxuan: "..."

"The emperor also likes to eat pickles. During the last tour, the pickled radishes, pickled eggplants, pickled leeks, and pickled melons along the way never stopped, and he brought back several large jars to the capital. By the way, the pears in the north are very refreshing. , sweet and juicy, isn’t the best tribute pears sent from Shengjing to the capital every year? There are also various fruit trees all over the mountains and plains..."

Yinfeng told him that he was hungry, but he couldn't eat now, so he could only say seriously: "Chen Shiwei, I just want to hear what I saw along the way."

Chen Mengqiu said again: "What aspects do you want to hear?"

"Then let's talk about the folk customs along the way!"

With clear instructions, Chen Mengqiu stopped talking nonsense, but seriously explained to them the folk customs along the way, and his knowledge was extensive, as if he had personally experienced it.

No matter what aspects Yinfeng asked about, Chen Mengqiu could try his best to answer for him and Yinti. The content he said was confirmed by the information collected by Xiaomei's system, so it can be seen that there is something to be said.It's no wonder that Suo'etu reused him. As long as a talented person has the opportunity to stand out, he will definitely skyrocket, and he will be full of ink, and he will not worry about being appreciated wherever he goes.

When they arrived in Sanhe County, there really was a lot of fruit for them to eat. The dishes on the dinner table were not as delicate as the Imperial Dining Room, but they were luxurious enough.

When he was on the road again, Kangxi called Yinfeng to Yuqian, and asked him with a smile, "Does Baocheng want to ride a pony?"

Yinreng trembled, revealing a subtle expression of fear.

Khan Ama's tone was too turbulent, like Grandma Wolf, he had never spoken to Yinreng in such a tone, no wonder he was scared.

When Kangxi looked at him, he knew that Yinreng had misunderstood, so he called Yinti again, and asked him to ride behind him on horseback. With Yinti beside him, Yinreng also rode on the pony.

The mighty procession was already moving slowly, and the concubines in sedan chairs were more comfortable riding a pony than being bumped around in a carriage.

Yinreng took the opportunity to ask Kangxi: "Ama Khan, has the rubber that I begged you to send someone to find the result before? The carriage is so bumpy, every time I travel, I feel like I am suffering."

"The rubber tree is a foreign thing. If you want to buy and plant it, you have to wait until the sea ban is opened. The ministers found this thing from the missionaries, but they had to put it on hold," Kangxi rode in front on a big horse, and Cao Yin, the father of Cao Zhen, who was promoted to Luanyi official, accompanied him on the side, and on the other side was Gao Shiqi, a popular celebrity in the Kangxi imperial court.

After walking for another nineteen days, Kangxi passed through many post stations. Kangxi pointed out the name of the post station to his two sons, asked them to observe the inscriptions and carvings of the post station, and said deeply: "I have only traveled this imperial road for nineteen days. When I return to the palace, the royal road will be accessible, and it will benefit more than 19 years along the way."

"Shengjing was also a barren land in the past. It will develop into a heavy city today, and it will have to be run by generations. This road will be the defense of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and it will be an important military and political road."

The appearance of the two accompanying princes, Yinreng and Yinti, who were seriously thinking about their study, entered the eyes of the attendant Gao Shiqi.

Not long after, Gao Shiqi wrote in the draft of the "Daily Records of the Retinue's Eastern Tour" which recorded the Eastern Tour: The emperor still did not forget to teach the prince during the east tour. You can already think about the deep meaning of the emperor's words and understand the principles of governing the country.

In the evening, Yinreng wrote in his small diary: Everyone knows what Khan Ama is doing on a tour of the East. He cares about his face, so he will not expose him. Today, he taught his son under the eyes of everyone, and it must be for the sake of face. , Gu could almost predict how his courtiers would flatter him.Waiting for a while to observe, which flatterer has been flattering Khan Ama?The accompanying daily commentary officer this time is the person who wrote the record of the conversation between Gu and Yuanshi Chen before. His name is Kuru. I don’t know how he will write this incident in the daily note. He exaggerated the facts and influenced future generations.

Finally, they arrived at the west of Yong'an Bridge, and Yinreng saw the Shengjing General Anzhuhu who came to greet them leading a team to meet with the accompanying team and welcome Yujia into the rule of Shengjing.

Shengjing’s pork is really delicious, all of them are fat and strong. The lard boiled out seems to have a milky aroma, and the cabbage heart fried with it is greasy and shiny. It’s almost overshadowed. He has always liked light food and meat, and he also likes to eat boiled chicken breast, because Xiaomei said that it is high in protein, low in oil and fat, and can build muscle.

But nearly half of the dishes on this table are stir-fried vegetables with lard, and the emperor's banquet, as the crown prince, he has to lose face, let alone show dislike for Shengjing's food.

Yinreng bit the bullet and put the choy sum into his mouth, and unexpectedly found that the stir-fried vegetables in lard were much more delicious than expected, not greasy at all, and the rich lard completely brought out the deliciousness of the choy sum.

Look at brother Tutu again, he has no scruples about eating meat, especially the plate of Dongpo pork.

Yinfeng looked at the fat and thin Dongpo meat with the skin like jelly, and made a difficult choice. Later, he saw that Khan Ama ate it too, so he moved his chopsticks. After tasting the taste, he opened the door to a new world!

Yinfeng really wanted to say something against his will: Dongpo meat is too greasy and not tasty at all.

But the chopsticks under his hands couldn't help picking up the second piece.

As for the dishes served at the banquet, except for the delicious pork, there are also chicken, duck and geese, all of which are cooked in line with the characteristics of Shengjing.

Kangxi didn't seem to think the matter was too big. Seeing that the princes, nobles, courtiers, civil and military officials were all there, he said with a smile: "Before the crown prince studied the method of artificially hatching eggs, the number of eggs hatched by the people increased several times, and the number of hatched eggs was increased by serving and promoting duck eggs. And Nalan Mingzhu's original method of raising geese was spread throughout the Qing Dynasty, and in just a year and a half, Shengjing can have such a poultry production today, and I am very pleased to see the performance of the subordinate officials."

At the banquet, the atmosphere was intense, and the princes and ministers followed Kangxi's words and praised His Highness the Crown Prince, even Nalan Mingzhu was praised a few words.

Yinfeng stood on the cusp of the storm and became the focus of the audience together with Nalan Mingzhu. Immediately, the pork was no longer fragrant, and the cabbage heart was no longer sweet.

Yinti didn't know whether he should sympathize with his silly brother or Mingxiang. Seeing that Yinfeng could still eat goose meat raised by Mingxiang's goose method without changing his face, he thought to himself: Let's sympathize with Mingxiang, look at him The smile on his face froze.

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