The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Only then did the fourteenth brother know that there was such a saying.

In addition, he also knew where their first stop was.

In the early Qing Dynasty, there was no place name in Chinese for the location of the Summer Resort. It was called "Halun Gaolu" in Mongolian, and it was translated as "Rehe Shangying" in Chinese, because there was a "Menghan Village Kiln Settlement" on the bank of the lower Wulie River five kilometers southeast of it. , then named "Rehe Xiaying".

On June [-], Emperor Kangxi went with the Empress Dowager, the crown prince Yinreng, the eldest son Yinti, the fourth son Yinzhen, the twelfth son Yinzhen, the thirteenth son Yinxiang, and the fourteenth son Yinzhen.

The large troops escorted Emperor Kangxi out of the Great Wall through Gubeikou, and stayed at Rehe Xiaying on June 28th, staying for [-] days along the way.

The retinues included Wu Fan and Zhang Yushu, the great scholars, Chen Tingjing, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Li Guangdi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Hongxu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zhang Ying, the Minister of Industry, Li Duna, the deputy governor, Kui Xu, Zhang Tingyu, Man Bao, etc. "Reconnaissance of public affairs" and "examination of school geography", among them were Min Mingwo and Liu Ying, Western missionaries who were good at measurement and calculation and knowledgeable about ecological geography. They were recommended by Belgian missionary Nan Huairen. The heavenly supervisor is in charge.

These are two foreigners, but they used to be the teacher of the crown prince Yinfeng, and they have a profound knowledge of Chinese.

This time I brought several sons, big and small, and the youngest one was Elder Fourteen, but even the youngest one had to ride a horse and walk heroically along the way.

But in the summer, it is still comfortable to ride a horse, even if it is getting oily from the sun.

At least outside, there is a gust of wind when running, if sitting in the car, it is really uncomfortable like a stuffy tank.

It’s not a long journey, the fourteenth elder brother’s riding skills are improving day by day. After arriving in Chengde, Kangxi first asked his fourteenth son over: “Let’s have dinner with Huang Ama today.”

"Huang Ama, the thirteenth brother and the twelveth brother ran to the fourth brother's place, and said that there is a roasted whole lamb!" The fourteenth brother looked at Kangxi with wide eyes, meaning that there was no roasted whole lamb, so he didn't want to eat it. .

"Yes, Huang Ama has the best roasted whole lamb here, which is much better than your fourth brother's!" Kangxi still has this confidence: "There are also your favorite roasted mushrooms, grassland white mushrooms, come as a tribute of it."

He didn't believe that Xiao Shishi wasn't tempted.

"Okay, okay!" Sure enough, the fourteenth elder brother nodded: "Then have dinner with Huang Ama, and let them go."

There are indeed more delicious food in Kangxi. In addition, Brother Fourteen met some "foreigners". Well, they are ministers of the imperial court now.

The level of speaking Chinese is very good, and some professional terms are also very interesting.

They are very interested in the land and land of the Qing Dynasty, and they are also very good at surveying and mapping.

However, the fourteenth elder brother was deeply wary of them, and even pretended to be curious and asked where their hometown was?

In the end, the answer made the fourteenth brother want to vomit blood: "The hometown of the minister is a very far away place. It is completely different from the Qing Dynasty. There are only a few handicrafts, and the farming is not very good, so the minister traveled across the ocean. When we arrive in Qing Dynasty, the rich Qing Dynasty is simply a paradise on earth!"

And Kangxi told the fourteenth brother even more frankly: "Their country is not big, it is just like a province, and some are the size of a county. The king doesn't even have a concubine room, but only one queen."

Speaking as if the king wasn't worth mentioning!

The fourteenth elder brother who listened to it had black lines all over his face. The arrogance of a great country in the celestial dynasty is not good, and arrogance is even more bad.

But he didn't give him too many chances, so Huang Ama took him away. Several foreigners were also very interested in Elder Fourteen, but unfortunately they didn't have much contact.

When Kangxi came to Hebei Road, he was looking at the dam construction here. He was actually quite busy every day, but he still called Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen three young sons every now and then to have meals together, or to hunt on horseback.

Today's Chengde Mountain Resort has not yet been built, and everyone lives in tents. This time, Ma Linying and the others came along, and the little bottle waited on them. A group of eunuchs can be regarded as letting go.

After coming out, even the little bottle smiled a lot.

"So happy?" When he returned to the tent at night, he saw Xiao Pingzi humming and spreading a quilt for him.

"Your servant ate roasted whole lamb today, hehehe..." The little bottle scratched his head: "Isn't this slave too unpromising? I used to eat roasted whole lamb, but this time it's freshly roasted, zzz The oily kind."

"It's delicious to eat now, how much did you eat today?" Elder Fourteen untied his belt by himself.

"After eating a plate, I dare not eat too much, for fear of distending my stomach at night." Xiao Pingzi knew that Elder Fourteen was very easy to get along with in private, and after a few years, they lived very comfortably in Elder Brother's place.

"Go down and find some hawthorn water to drink, and tell me that the young master ordered you to eat more tomorrow morning, eat less at night, and go to bed early, otherwise you will have a hard time driving the next day." Elder Fourteen knows that they are slaves In fact, it is better than the master. Sitting on the luggage cart, it takes a whole day of bumps.

It was more comfortable than him riding a horse. In the first two days of riding a horse, he almost tore his crotch. Ma Lianying had the foresight to prepare a soft lambskin cushion for him in advance. Although it was hot, it was soft.

Now it's all ground out, and the inner thighs are no longer soft meat, but hard meat.

"Hey!" The little bottle smiled: "Then, sir, would you like some?"

"Well, give me some too. I ate a lot of roasted lamb at Huang Ama's today, and there are actually a lot of roasted vegetables." Elder Fourteen rubbed his chin: "The next time you barbecue, it can't be all meat, eat it." Everyone is tired."

So, until the second time, Kangxi asked Brother Fourteen to eat roasted whole lamb, but Brother Fourteen didn't come for a long time, so he was worried: "Why hasn't Fourteen come here yet?"

"Brother Fourteen said, I have to prepare it myself." Li Dequan knew where Brother Fourteen was: "I said it was for the sake of the appetite of the Long Live Lord."

"What new tricks does he have?" Kangxi knows that the fourteenth elder brother loves to eat, and he also likes to eat with tricks.

"It's said that the fourteenth master felt that eating only meat was too greasy, so in addition to roasting the whole lamb, he also prepared vegetarian dishes for you, the long live Lord." Li Dequan said with a smile: "As for the vegetarian dishes, no one knows, fourteenth elder brother Fiddle with it yourself."

After a long time, Elder Fourteen came. He held a large plate himself and kept it from being touched by others. It was covered with a piece of wet gauze. He brought it in front of Kangxi and lifted the gauze.

"What are you?"

"Grilled skewers, Huang Ama." The fourteenth elder brother wiped the sweat on his forehead: "This barbecue is a good thing, but you can't just eat meat, and you can't eat all the roasted whole lamb, so my son made something like this When the time comes, you can grill the skewers, and there are sauces to eat on the skewers, don’t worry, this is skewered by my son himself, and he will bake it for you himself!"

The fourteenth elder brother has already prepared, the barbecue stove, the vegetable skewers are placed, brushed with oil, brushed with sauce, sprinkled with sesame seeds, cumin and refined salt powder.

He made a lot of vegetable skewers, and the cabbage skewers were the most, because the cabbage was the most, followed by leeks, shiitake mushrooms, white mushrooms, green peppers, eggplants and so on.

"Brother Fourteen, can these things be baked?" Elder Thirteen looked curiously.

"Of course, everything is grilled!" The fourteenth elder brother was very proud, relying on the grilled skewers in high spirits, he won people's attention, especially the first plate of grilled skewers, which he dedicated to Kangxi.

Kangxi's food was very sweet, and people around said that the fourteenth elder brother was filial, and he baked vegetables for Huang Ama himself.

And the thirteenth elder brother heard what the fourteenth elder brother said, saying that he could roast and eat anything, so he caught a snake and roasted it.

But the fourth master was furious: "You are a dignified prince, brother, what are you doing roasting snakes? Is there nothing to roast?"

"But, the grilled snake is also quite delicious..." Brother Thirteen thought the grilled snake was pretty good, it was fat and thin, and the saltiness was just right.

Elder Twelve over there grabbed a lot of cicadas and roasted them, Fourth Master had no energy left to get angry.

The elder brother's side is relatively ordinary, roasting a few rabbits.

The prince made a big deal and roasted two wild wolves, which were the prince's prey.

The fourth elder brother roasted a sheep in a regular manner. He didn't go hunting the prey, thinking about what to roast and eat.

Brother Fourteen roasted green vegetables for Kangxi, roasted mushrooms for the Empress Dowager, and even wrapped green onions and coriander with dried tofu, and dedicated them to the Empress Dowager after roasting.

He also secretly explained to Kangxi: "That tofu is soft, it's good to give it to Huang Ma, Huang Ma has good teeth, eat more meat."

Kangxi happily enjoyed his son's filial piety.

Starting from Hebei, enter the Mongolian grassland, the endless prairie!

The fourteenth elder brother was very beautiful in his heart. He rode a horse back and forth, racing horses with the twelfth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother, and lived a happy life.

Every day he is in high spirits. The twelfth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother are with him. The three elder brothers are all teenagers, and they carry a bright sunshine wherever they go. Kangxi also likes these three sons very much. .

Of course, Elder Brother Twelve knew that he was being kidnapped, so he took great pleasure in following along to make up the number of people.

I don't care that Huang Ama's liking for him is just incidental, but Brother Thirteen, Kangxi found that this child has a high force value!

Martial arts are good, much better than that of Little Fourteen.

Elder Fourteen is not good at martial arts, and his bow and arrow skills are not bad, but he still likes to hunt on horseback. During this time on the road, it depends on him yelling.

What's more, Brother Fourteen would present some new tricks every time we had dinner.

The most important thing is that the fourteenth elder brother did it himself. He caught the rabbits himself and made the spicy rabbit heads for Kangxi. Although there were only six of them, Kangxi enjoyed them very much.

Roasted pheasant, Brother Fourteen’s method is very simple. Hollow out a pumpkin, slaughter and pluck the pheasant, remove the internal organs, stuff mushrooms and seasoning powder, then rub the pheasant with salt, then stuff it into the pumpkin, put the pumpkin Throw it in the fire and cook it, and then take it out. This is the way that the fourteenth elder brother came up with. It tastes super good!

Or pick some mushrooms from the grassland alone, which are non-poisonous, fry a pot alone, and send a plate to the empress dowager, Kangxi and brothers.

The road went smoothly and was very happy, but Kangxi only traveled in Mongolia, but did not go to Horqin, but passed by the edge of Horqin. On that day, the Empress Dowager was on the phoenix car, looking at the grassland in the distance, watching silently. with.

After Kangxi found out, he told Li Dequan: "Ask Brother Fourteen to accompany the Empress Dowager to talk, and don't ride a horse for these two days, and just wait on the Empress Dowager's phoenix carriage."

"Hey!" Li Dequan went to find someone.

Brother Fourteen didn't understand at first why he had to go by himself?

But after getting on Fengjia's phoenix chariot and seeing the empress dowager, he understood.

"Emperor Ma." Brother Fourteen got into the car and saw the Empress Dowager depressed: "Did anyone make you unhappy?"

"No, why are you here?" The empress dowager was second only to the fifth elder brother raised by herself to the fourteenth elder brother.

"Huang Ama is worried that Huang Ma will be bored by herself, so let Xiao Shisi come to entertain her in Caiyi!" Elder Fourteen leaned over: "But Xiao Shisi thinks, Huang Ma doesn't need to be lively, it's just If you want someone to accompany you, Little Fourteen is here."

"Good boy." The Empress Dowager patted his head: "Then why don't you stay with Huang Ma? This is the edge of the Horqin Grassland. The wind on the Horqin Grassland blows like this. There are countless cattle, sheep, and grass. At this time, the green ones are actually turning black, and there are leek flowers, grass mushrooms..."

The empress dowager really needs someone to accompany her. The person in front of her is Princess Wen Xian, but this time Princess Wen Xian did not come, and it was replaced by the fourteenth elder brother.

What she talked about was the scenery of the Horqin Grassland in her impression.

No matter how bad the grassland is, it is still her hometown.

Speaking of it, that is also the most beautiful place, not to mention that people's memory will beautify, so in the eyes of the empress dowager, it is the most beautiful place.

The fourteenth elder brother just listened to her, drinking Mongolian milk tea silently on the side.

At dinner time, Elder Fourteen ordered a Mongolian-style dinner for the Empress Dowager, including mutton, fried rice, Mongolian milk tea, and roasted steamed buns with horse meat.

At night, Fourteen couldn't help but ask the Empress Dowager: "Isn't Huang Ama planning to go to Horqin?"

"The emperor will not go to see Horqin, even if Horqin is closest to him." The empress dowager said very calmly: "Didn't Horqin also come to see the emperor?"

"The people from Horqin... haven't come?" The fourteenth brother just had the mentality of coming to play. The emperor's northern tour, the Mongolian princes and nobles all came, and they all looked similar, the fourteenth brother I don't recognize them all, I don't recognize them anymore, and I don't know who belongs to whose tribe.

"No, or I came, and I missed it!" The empress dowager drank half a bowl of kumiss, "It doesn't matter if you come or not, and there are no relatives there. When you come, it's just to say hello, there is no emotion. It's better to be little Shisi, come and accompany this old woman of Ai's family."

"Then Huangma, let's play with your grandson!" Elder Fourteen said, "Grandson has no other skills, but Caiyi's ability to entertain relatives is still good. Today, you are in a bad mood. Tomorrow, grandson will make you happy." , you don't need to be sad, gatherings and separations on the grassland are very common, maybe sisters will never see each other after they get married, but you are the empress dowager who lives in the palace, are you our empress dowager, your people It's far away from you, but we are still there? We are all your grandchildren. Emmage."

Ermoge is Mongolian, meaning grandma.

The Empress Dowager asked Xiao Shisi to say it, tears came down, and she hugged her dearest grandson and cried hard.

I feel so much better!

Later, the fourteenth elder brother found out that Horqin originally thought they would marry Princess Wenxian, but Princess Wenxian actually married in Beijing, or a descendant of a Manchu nobleman.

Rather than the Mongolian Horqin tribe.