Emperor Tong's Concubine Tong in Qing Dynasty

It was snowing heavily, and Cao Xi, Cao Yin and his son took more than 20 domestic slaves and rode into Beijing in the heavy snow. The colder they went to North Korea, they gave up the carriage and chose to ride horses in order to travel. When the wind blows, I always feel that the joints of the bones are painful. After enduring this journey, I can't help but look a little haggard and vicissitudes on my face.

As a son, Cao Yin felt distressed, so he advised the old father to slow down.

Cao Xi felt comfortable because of his son's filial piety, but it was the emperor's will to go to Beijing, so how could he be slower, he had to hurry up.

Fortunately, it was almost half a day's journey to the capital, so he reined in and stood side by side with his son, and the father and son slowly talked about the news of the capital.

Cao Xi said: "Wei father received the news that no one dared to push back against the empress in the palace after the internal affairs government went through this traumatic injury, let alone pull the hills on the internal affairs department. Our father and son are in the south of the Yangtze River. I escaped a catastrophe, I don’t know if it’s good or bad to go back this time.”

"We are the emperor's slaves. We have a clear conscience by serving the emperor for so many years. Even if the imperial concubine wants to take revenge on us, the emperor will protect us."

Cao Xi, who was old and mature, looked back and saw that the attendants at home were escorting several carts from afar, and couldn't help but shook his head.

"What is an emperor? An emperor speaks a word, and everyone in the world listens to it, and the words are followed. This is the majesty of a king. If you don't live in the palace and wear a dragon robe, you are the emperor. However, power in the world has always been scattered. The magistrates can be huddled together, concealing the emperor from the top, and bullying the goodness from the bottom. This means that the county magistrates are not as good as the current ones. So that's it, the empress is the one who is in charge of the House of Internal Affairs now, let's not care about the fifth-rank officials We are still officials in the frontiers, as long as we are still the royal coat, we will be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If the female master in the backyard wants to beat a slave, will the male master care about these things?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's not surprising that there are so many people. A few days ago, my father asked someone to bring a gift to visit the two masters Tong. I heard that the two accepted the things readily. It should be no big deal, but you and my father and son still want to pay a visit. Just pay more attention."

Cao Yin agreed, and everyone rode for a while, and saw the city wall of the capital.

It was dark and early in winter, and it snowed heavily a few days ago, Tian Mi saw the snow in the Forbidden City for the first time.Seeing them falling down between the yellow tiles and red walls, I just feel that the scenery is picturesque.I couldn't help but took the maids and eunuchs to walk a few more steps in the snow to enjoy the snow.So a bit of cold air was sucked into her lungs, and now she couldn't breathe.

After calling the imperial doctor for three consecutive days, there was a smell of medicine in Chengqian Palace.The fourth elder brother also specially asked for a day off to accompany Tian Mi, serving soup and medicine without any fake hands.

It is said that illness comes and goes like a mountain, and the process of taking traditional Chinese medicine is bitter, and the process is slow. This is not like recuperating, but more like suffering.Lung disease like Tian Mi is considered tuberculosis among the people, and nine out of ten times it cannot be cured. If it drags on for a day, it is much better inside the palace than outside the palace. At least it can prevent further deterioration.

Therefore, I drank a lot of decoctions in the past six months, but none of them achieved the effect of removing the roots.Tian Mi also doubted whether she had tracheitis, and she didn't study medicine before, so it was just a guess.Even if he knows, the medical conditions here can't improve his disease much.I could only endure the bitter taste and drink the medicine in one go.

After drinking it, the fourth elder brother quickly brought another cup of pear juice, "This is pear juice, with rock sugar added in it, drink it to suppress the bitter taste in your mouth."

Tian Mi brought it over and drank it in one gulp, "I can't tell the difference between bitter and sweet in my mouth now. You should know how to take care of your body when I look like this."

The fourth elder brother agreed, sat down and hugged Hongyun, rubbed it on the forehead a few times, and said a few words with him, the sky gradually darkened, and the cold wind picked up again at night, but fortunately, the room was warm as spring.At this time, Kangxi came over. He took off his cloak at the door, opened the curtain and came in. Before entering the door, he smelled a pungent smell of medicine.

Tian Mi was already waiting for him at the door supported by the fourth elder brother.

"Cousin hasn't gotten better after drinking so much medicine?"

"It's much better than the previous few days. As long as you don't go out and wear more clothes around the brazier, it's much better than being in the cold wind."

Kangxi followed with a sigh, took a sip of the tea brought by the court lady, and told Tian Mi, "Father and son of the Cao family have come to Beijing. I will meet you tomorrow at the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace and ask them to bring you here in a warm sedan chair. If you have any questions, you can ask them tomorrow."

Tian Mi nodded, and asked Herring to bring the questions she had written a few days ago to Kangxi.

"A few days ago, I sent people from my natal family to Jiangnan to inquire about it. Unfortunately, this group of people was not easy to use, so there were many things that I didn't understand. There are some things that I need to ask the officials in Jiangnan, but now my cousin is here with me. Come on, why bother to look far away, just ask you."

After Kangxi read it, he couldn't help frowning, "Why do you ask this?" He had already read the questions written on the list: How much arable land is there in the south of the Yangtze River?Minding geometry?How many people grow mulberry?What's the Difference Between Mulberry Trees?What is the difference between silkworm eggs?

"It is to ask which mulberry tree is more resistant to insect damage, and which silkworm spins more silk. I heard that there are silkworms that spin out colorful silk. People think it is unfortunate when they see this silkworm. After discovering this silkworm, they throw it away. This is a pity."

Pure natural colored silk, so precious, just throw it away.

"What are you asking Gengdi and Minding for?"

"If some places have vast arable land, which is convenient for transportation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs may as well build a road in that place. As the saying goes, we must first get rich and build roads. Not only silk, but also local tea, porcelain and other things can be shipped out very quickly. Ship it to the capital. In this way, it will be faster and more cost-effective to connect the north and the south with a canal. At that time, there will be more business taxes, and there will be more money in the treasury of the household department. What do you want to do? Also convenient."

"That's a good idea." Kangxi looked at the paper and stood up, walking around Tian Mi and the fourth elder brother's mother and son, "The folk road construction has always been funded by rich households, so they have a lot of money. Paving a short section is a good person. The roads built by the government are all official roads, and the news is passed on by the government. Except for those big caravans, ordinary people rarely transport anything on the official roads, and they are all loess roads. When it rains, it will be bad, and the common people may not dare to leave, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be able to take the lead in such things as the cultivation of commercial roads."

Moreover, ordinary people can't leave their hometowns all their lives. Regardless of whether the south of the Yangtze River or the north of the country is a small-scale peasant economy, the people are immersed in self-sufficiency, and the government has no idea of ​​regulating supplies.

This was a wake-up call to Kangxi, he is now considering two places in the south of the Yangtze River and Mongolia.According to the last will of the first emperor Shunzhi: the north will not be called king if it keeps being close to the south.The core content of this idea is the marriage between Manchu and Mongolia. This idea is good, but it is really inconvenient to operate.

The first one is the cost of hosting a wedding.If a Mongolian prince marries a clan princess, if he comes to the capital, taking the cost of getting various rewards up and down, the ordinary Mongolian prince will have to sell his land to support this expense.

After marrying these princesses back to Mongolia, due to various reasons, some clan princesses died early, and some couples had a bad relationship, so many couples did not give birth to children from the Manchu and Mongolian families at all, and finally inherited the title of Mongolian king and duke are still Mongols.

After so much tossing around, the two companies failed to achieve their goals. Instead, the capital side lost their money, and the Mongolian side lost their money.

On the grasslands, the necessities are salt and tea. Tea is usually found in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. It is very difficult to transport tea bricks. Every time the Mongols are rewarded, tea must be the top priority.If Mongolia could be controlled with tea and salt, wouldn't the Manchu-Mongolian marriage be more effective?Will the descendants of the golden family completely fall to the capital?As a result, there are descendants who truly belong to the blood of the Aixinjueluo family to manage a large area of ​​grassland.

"After meeting with Cao's father and son tomorrow about this matter, my cousin will send me a letter. As for the rest, I will ask Li Dequan to send you what you can read tomorrow."

Tian Mi quickly stood up to thank her, and in order to avoid anyone talking about this matter in the future, she deliberately defended herself, "This is not a concubine interfering in politics, and this concubine is just trying to make our family's life better. That's all. Now that the money that the elder brother needs to use is saved, the prince will use more money at that time, if you don't save a little more, it will be even more difficult for the next few sons."

Only then did Kangxi relax, and called the fourth elder brother to him, and rubbed his forehead twice, "There are troubles if you have too many sons."

But Tian Mi saw that his expression didn't seem to be distressed at all, on the contrary, there was some pride in it.

The emperor's father has always been partial to the prince, and it is rare for him to be so close to him today. The fourth elder brother can't wait to cling to Kangxi.

Feeling his son's closeness, Kangxi stretched out his arms and put his arms around his small shoulders, "Is there any improvement after hearing your mother's words just now? Your mother-in-law and a female generation can have such insight, you are a man , can't be worse than your mother-in-law."

The fourth elder brother was in high spirits, tried his best to pull out his small breasts, and answered yes proudly.

Kangxi also happily turned his head to look at Tian Mi, "In the future, Yinzhen will definitely be a virtuous king."

Tian Mi looked at their father and son with a smile, thinking in her heart: When you were young, you also wished to be a virtuous king, but when good fortune comes, no one can stop it.This is my son, I can't influence men, can't I influence my son?