The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

It snowed all night, and the next morning, the capital city became a world of white snow. Looking up, the sky was gray and the snowflakes were flying in the air, falling in every corner. "That poem.

But Gao lived up to expectations, at the end of the year, he added a younger brother to Kangxi, and this should be the twenty elder brother.

There has been a heavy snowfall in Laba this day, so it is very appropriate to drink more Laba porridge to warm up the body.

On this day, the fourteenth elder brother sent two more boxes of food to the palace, one box contained cantaloupe, and the other box contained eight large watermelons with green skin and red flesh.

The two boxes were sent directly to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Kangxi ordered someone to open it and smiled immediately: "Is this from Brother Fourteen?"

"Yes, I said it was for you to taste something new. The imperial dining room also sent fresh cucumbers and melons. Hey, it's winter, Fourteen Baylor is really filial!" Liang Jiugong praised with a smile: "This All of a sudden, I can smell the fragrance of melons and fruits."

"He just has nothing to think about." Kangxi looked at the melon cheerfully: "Send ten melons and one watermelon to the empress dowager; keep ten melons and one watermelon in the Qianqing Palace, and the remaining watermelons will be divided in half by the concubines of each palace. One, just one muskmelon for each person, from the concubine to the promise, don't fall behind."

These are enough points.

The fourteenth elder brother gave me a big box with hundreds of melons in it.

The watermelons are also big, and everything is full of fragrant watermelon flavor.

Kangxi ate a small piece: "It tastes good."

Just put it there if you don't eat it, the light watermelon taste is very refreshing.

Even the fourth elder brother found something different when he returned home for dinner: "Is this another fresh thing sent by the Fourteenth?"

"Yes, I said I'm afraid I'll get tired of eating so many things all the time, so I'll give you a change." Si Fujin said with a smile, "I also sent two watermelons and twenty cantaloupe over here."

Eating watermelon in winter, Yeju Fourteen Baylor can do such a thing.

"He!" The fourth elder brother shook his head with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "I gave them all to the palace, and even secretly sent one to Er Niang."

Tonight, the meal prepared by Si Fujin for Si elder brother is very special.

Cucumber with garlic, stir-fried horned melon, stewed pumpkin with pork ribs and winter melon soup.

These are all vegetables sent by Fourteen Baylor, and the vegetables sent by Fourteen Baylor have always been sent directly to Fujin in various prefectures, not going to their kitchens.

This is the meaning of respecting the first wife.

There is no objection from the government and the palace.

Especially Bafujin and Jiufujin.

Bafujin is a jealous woman, Jiufujin is just the opposite, she can't hold back, and Jiu elder brother loves beauty, and there are many concubines and maidservants in the family.

It's so difficult to hook Brother Jiu into her room!

She simply had fourteen younger brothers backing her up and bringing her vegetables, but she gritted her teeth and refused to give them to any concubines. Brother Nine had to come to her if he wanted to eat vegetables.

What's more, Brother Fourteen's vegetable greenhouses are all doing business with Fujin from various prefectures, and now the business is booming in winter!

The supply in Jingzhong is simply in short supply. The fourteenth elder brother originally thought that if he couldn't sell it, he would distribute some of the excess to the surrounding areas.

As a result, there is no need for distribution at all, and there are not enough to sell in the capital.

The hot pot restaurant sells the most expensive food, but the most people order food. There is also watermelon, which is cut into pieces and costs two taels of silver per plate. The daily supply of four large watermelons is not enough!

It's too late to eat.

Everyone who makes money makes people jealous!

No, the fourteenth elder brother had just sent watermelons and cantaloupe to the palace, and Wu Yaboqi sent someone to bring him back the news.

Elder Fourteen even sent someone to deliver things to my grandmother's house, and he never forgot the share from Wu Ya's house.

As a result, my uncle sent someone to thank him in name, but actually came to tell him that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was eyeing his business.

The main reason is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs can't do it by itself. The things grown in the greenhouse and the fire pit are just the same, but there are not as many tricks as the fourteenth elder brother's vegetable greenhouse.

Let him be more careful, don't let people get tricked.

Not an hour after the person who had just sent his uncle away, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived, and it was a steward under Ling Pu.

He is not familiar with the fourteenth elder brother, but he also knows how powerful this master is, so he didn't say anything else when he came, just asked how to grow vegetables in a greenhouse?

"What's the matter? The Ministry of Internal Affairs has taken a fancy to this?" Fourteenth elder brother knew that his business was booming, and it was probably because someone wanted to find trouble.

"That's not true, it's just that the fire room and warm kiln in the House of Internal Affairs are not as varied as your vegetable greenhouse!" People are amazing, right?"

"Your Ministry of Internal Affairs knows how to pick up ready-made ones, and you still want to come here with me empty-handed white wolf, is it a dream?" Elder Fourteen sneered: "Who told you to come, you go back and tell him, and the Lord will tell the emperor about this matter." Ma said, but he won't contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs, if he wants to come, he has to find someone who has the final say, what kind of person are you?"

The face of the visitor changed: "Fourteen Baylor...."

The fourteenth elder brother slammed the teacup in his hand to the ground: "Is it really easy to bully me? I don't know about the affairs of the House of Internal Affairs? I don't even look at what my mother's house does! Get out of here!" !"

The Ministry of Internal Affairs provided only a few kinds of green vegetables to the palace in winter. If they didn't renovate them, it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs' business.

As soon as the fourteenth elder brother's vegetable greenhouse appeared, the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately became a little incompetent.

In fact, it's not that the Ministry of Internal Affairs doesn't research new tricks, they have embezzled all the money themselves.

The green vegetables that are supplied to the palace, that is, Chinese cabbage, leeks, rapeseed, spinach, coriander and other small vegetables, ordinary people use a wooden box to decorate with soil, and they can be raised indoors in winter.

The difference between Brother Fourteen is that there are not only small green vegetables, but also mushrooms, all kinds of mushrooms!

Brother Fourteen even planted watermelons from a large vegetable shed, which are given away to others at the moment, and Yuqing Palace also has them, but they were not given by Brother Fourteen alone, but distributed by Long Live Lord. I got one watermelon and twenty cantaloupe.

But who is enough for this little thing?

Especially when the prince learned that watermelons were sold for ten taels of silver outside, that one watermelon was worth a hundred taels of silver, which was like stealing money.

There are tens of thousands of watermelons in a large vegetable shed, several million taels...

In fact, the accounts are not calculated in this way. For the watermelons from the fourteenth elder brother, the best ones are sent to the palace, followed by hot pot restaurants that sell them at a high price, and finally the remaining ones are sold at a high price.

What's more, it has to be supplied to the palace and various houses, and then the leftovers will be sold for money, so that's not much.

The money seems to be a lot, and if you divide it up, the Fujins in the mansion don't have much left after dividing it up.

But the crown prince didn't think so, he just saw the fourteenth elder brother making money, but didn't see his hard work.

He wanted to pick ready-made peaches, but he was scolded by the fourteenth elder brother and left. Besides, this person was not ordered by the crown prince. The crown prince was discussing this matter with his nanny Ling Pu.

This is an old-fashioned person from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He wants to take advantage of the fact that Brother Fourteen doesn't understand anything, so he can cheat if he can, and let's talk if he can't!

What happened to the prince?

The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are so awesome, if you don't give the Ministry of Internal Affairs face, the quality of the things that will be distributed to your house in the future cannot be guaranteed.

It is also "twenty pieces of fox skins". Can mixed-haired fox skins be the same as solid-colored fox skins?Even if it is a solid color, can you guarantee that it will not shed hair?

The same twenty catties of white flour, is it the same old white flour that has turned yellow, or the white flour that has been ground from new wheat?

If the Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to adjust people, it will really make you suffer.

But the fourteenth elder brother is not afraid of this, he hopes that the crown prince will do something to him, when the time comes, it will be up to his brother to help him or himself.

But after this person went back, he told the people behind him, Brother Fourteen is not to be fooled!

But when Ling Pu came back, they added more details and said that it was not easy to talk to Fourteen Baylor.

Who is Ling Pu?

The prince's daddy!

In order to prevent the crown prince from being wronged, Kangxi specially appointed him as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, just for the crown prince to live a comfortable life.

But Ling Pu is not a smart person, he was just lucky, his daughter-in-law nursed the prince, and he became the head of the House of Internal Affairs.

What a complicated place the Ministry of Internal Affairs is!

Ling Pu was not a smart person, and he was played around by his subordinates, which is why later, when he was convicted of a crime, other people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs lived in peace.

All the crimes made him feel guilty!

Ling Pu, who has not yet fallen from power, is at the time of high spirits. He has just finished planning the wedding of the crown prince, and the crown princess respects him, and calls his wife "nanny" one after another.

He was also jealous of Fourteenth Brother's vegetable shed, but there was nothing he could do. It was Fourteenth Brother, and it was impossible to blatantly plunder.

Who would have thought that this would be slapped in the face!

"Where is Wuya Boqi now?" The first person he wanted to take revenge on was the members of Wuya's family.

It's a pity that the three generations of Wu Ya's family are all coated servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the network of contacts they manage cannot be underestimated, so Wu Yaboqi has long since ceased to be under him, and has gone to manage the supply matters of the Li Fan Yuan.

This kind of place related to the face of the court is not something that people from Ling Pu's background can casually reach out for.

The other members of Wu Ya's family were all related to each other. Only then did Ling Pu realize that he couldn't move even if he wanted to.

"Is there no one else?" Ling Pu was furious.

It's a pity that no one would care about it, as the chief executive, he just had some face in Yuqing Palace.

"It's gone..." Wu Ya's family originated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but there was a concubine, and someone became an official later on. The current deputy capital envoy is from Wu Ya's family.

"Then be careful when you ask people to deliver things to Fourteen Baylor's Mansion!" Ling Pu's head got hot and he decided.

After Laba, it is time to prepare for the New Year.

All palaces and prefectures are preparing for the New Year.

But Kangxi finally closed his pen when he was about to be young, and had a few days of leisure, and thought of his fourteenth son when he was free.

"Why hasn't Fourteen Baylor come into the palace to pay his respects these days?" Kangxi asked Li Dequan.

Li Dequan happened to be asked by the Fourteenth Elder Brother, and it was just a small matter, so he smiled and said: "I heard that Fourteenth Baylor is preparing the New Year's ceremony at home, which is quite interesting, but I don't tell others."

"His annual gift? Isn't it like this for the past few years? What's different this year?" Kangxi thought for a while: "Let's go out to the palace to have a look. His annual gift should not be a gift of a basket of vegetables, right? ?”

Having said that, I am happy first.

"I heard that it's a new dish, and people around me are all very mysterious. I don't know what it is!" Li Dequan said, "I want to see it too."

"You are the master of Da Da, just follow me." Kangxi was in a good mood, and was happy to make face for his slave.

A group of people changed into casual clothes and went out, and they walked through the side entrance instead of the main entrance.

When I arrived at the main entrance of Fourteen Baylor's Mansion, I found several cars here. After inquiring, I found out that it was an annual gift from the House of Internal Affairs to Fourteen Baylor.

During the Chinese New Year, according to the usual practice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will give gifts to a group of people, including chicken, duck and fish, especially the princes.

It's just that Kangxi and the others were dressed as wealthy lords, and the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs thought they were businessmen.

Fourteen Baylor's mansion also has businessmen coming in and out, who let Fourteen Baylor do business!

But as soon as Kangxi left there, he found that several pieces of fox skins on the cart had lost their fur. When the wind blew, the fur fluttered in front of Kangxi!