The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"Is there any roasted whole lamb?" Elder Fourteen said with a smile: "My son just wrote a plan, the roasted sheep shop only sells roasted whole lamb and naan bread, and there are seven or eight kinds of cold salad The dishes are enough, but if there are too many, you can’t get them. Take a look? At that time, you will own four tenths, my son three tenths, and my son’s brother three tenths. It's nineteen years old, and it's more suitable for the two of them to be a spicy shop."

That investment is small and novel, so you don't have to worry about the purchase problem.

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Kangxi asked someone to roast the whole lamb: "By the way, what did you do in your vegetable shed? In winter, you can eat watermelon and cantaloupe, cucumber and loofah, and that winter melon...how? Does the Ministry of Internal Affairs not have this ability?"

"They only know the output but don't know about the research. Erchen pays the old farmers there high wages. If they research a new dish, they will get a bonus, 100 taels!" Elder Fourteen shook his finger.

"To so much?" Kangxi was not the kind of emperor who didn't know how to spend money.

"With such a reward, do they have the spirit of fighting? Many old farmers have made a fortune for it!" Elder Fourteen said: "Now they are trying to plant other things, such as peach trees. If they can eat peach trees in winter It's even better when it comes to peaches."

In fact, ancient times were good and bad, like the fourteenth elder brother. He used to spend 100 yuan to buy any fruit he wanted to eat from the fruit supermarket. Seasonal cherries.

But in ancient times, he couldn't do it. At most, he could eat some fruit preserves.

Fresh ones are impossible, otherwise his three-color tomatoes would not sell so well.

Because there was a shortage of fruits in winter in ancient times!

Candied haws are a good thing.

"That's right, if they didn't work hard, we wouldn't be so lucky." Kangxi glanced at the fruit platter on his desk.

Half a watermelon, a few cantaloupe, and the melon shed at Brother Fourteen can supply it from autumn to spring, and the real earth cantaloupe and watermelon come down.

Moreover, the land on Xiaotangshan is hot, and the general food is not very good, but they rest in summer and are busy in spring, autumn and winter.

What is planted is out of season, taking advantage of the right time, place and people.

In addition, this is the dowry money of the fujins of various prefectures, so it is difficult for anyone to touch it.

Kangxi was so hot-eyed, there was no other way, brother Fourteen gave the empress dowager a share of the bonus.

Give Concubine De and Concubine Min a copy, and he can't reach out to take it.

What's more, the fourteenth son didn't lose his share, and he couldn't always gather wool from the fourteenth son.

"I don't want that share, you...you can see who it is for!" Kangxi said: "I can't always ask for your filial piety."

No matter how much, Elder Fourteen made his attitude clear. While Kangxi was relieved, he didn't want to bully Fourteenth son all the time.

"You can take what your son gives you? What's more, this matter is related to Mongolia. No matter what Huang Ama wants to do in Mongolia, my son will support it." To open a roast sheep shop, you must use a lot of sheep. In ancient times, he could only count on Mongolia.

As for the close contact with Mongolia, Kangxi must be at ease.

"Then just give me three-tenths, and you can keep four-tenths!" Kangxi said: "The spicy shop is no longer needed, you can discuss it with Shiba and Nineteen, those two children are thinking about it." .”

"Of course, of course!" Elder Fourteen nodded.

The father and son had a dinner. The roasted whole lamb was delicious. Of course, there was sour plum soup to relieve the tiredness.

The fourteenth elder brother saw that Kangxi didn't eat much, and he was still taking Shugan Liqi pills, so he knew that his depression had not passed.

The next day he bought a lot of roses outside.

Whether it is dried roses, rose sauce, or candied roses, there is no shortage of purchases.

On the third day, Kangxi found out at noon that his desserts were rose cakes, rose cakes and flower cakes filled with roses!

The dried fruit is candied roses and rose-flavored melon seeds.

The drink is rose tea, water brewed with rose nectar!

Looking back, it seemed that during breakfast, he ate small cakes with rose fillings and steamed buns with rose bean paste fillings!

This is not right!

"Tell me, who did this? I've been looking good all day long, like a woman!" Kangxi patted the table: "Li Dequan!"

Li Dequan is on errand today.

"Long live, it's Fourteen Baylor's idea." Li Dequan immediately approached with a smile: "The servants agreed, and I prepared a rose bath for you."

When Kangxi heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm not a woman, why do I still have to make such a fuss?"

"No, I want to make you feel better." Li Dequan lowered his head and said worriedly: "You have eaten less recently, you have lost a lot of weight, and you are always sullen. The servants are worried. Fourteenth Baylor said that roses can soothe the liver It’s better to keep your breath in check than to take medicine all the time, because the medicine is [-]% poisonous.”

Kangxi did not speak for a long time, but silently ate the snacks on the table one by one, and drank a glass of rose honey water: "Okay, I ate it, really, brat."

He said so on the lips, but he was very comfortable in his heart.

Li Dequan was also happy: "Look, these days, don't you use some roses? The Fourteenth Lord bought a lot and sent them in."

There are also roses in the palace, but there are not so many kinds of flowers in reserve. Elder Fourteen even bought a lot of rose sauce.

I still buy them from foreigners. There are not many roses that can be eaten, but they are good at making all kinds of rose sauce. Their breakfast is white steamed buns with rose sauce, and they can make do with some soy milk. .

"Use it, use it, if you don't need it, he should do something for me." Kangxi waved his hand: "Don't make it too sweet, just the rose tea."

Lighter, with a faint floral fragrance, it is also very soothing.

"Hey!" Li Dequan was happy, no matter what happened to the roses or whether it worked or not, at least Kangxi could be happier.

"Tomorrow, I will go to the north to patrol the river, and I will bring my fourteenth elder brother, oh, and my thirteenth elder brother. I have promised the fourteenth thing, and I, the emperor, can do it." Kangxi told Li Dequan: "Have someone prepare Good whole fish feast, oh, open river fish with seeds."

"It must be done well, the Fourteenth Lord loves that one bite!" Li Dequan was even happier: "There is also fresh seafood next to it."

But then Gu Chao came, Li Dequan backed out, and after a long time, he heard Kangxi's voice inside shouting: "White-eyed wolf! Fourteen is also, don't say when you are bullied, really, Li Dequan!"

"The servant is here!" Li Dequan hurriedly appeared.

"Go and tell Fourteen Baylor, just say it's my word of mouth, share and dividends in the future, don't need to give to Zhijun Prince's Mansion, since Da Fujin said so, let her servants make money, don't need her ten The fourth brother has worked so hard to support such a big family!" Kangxi said angrily, "The servant who was beaten will be promoted to a higher rank, and a bottle of wound medicine will be rewarded to him."

"Hey!" Li Dequan hurriedly sent someone to do it, and the person he sent was San Dezi.

San Dezi was a little dazed after accepting the errand: "What's wrong, Master?"

"Never mind what's going on, hurry up!" Li Dequan sent people away, wiped off his sweat, Zhijun Wang and Dafujin both drifted away a year ago, but this time they drifted too far.

Fourteen Baylor can bear it, so he didn't say anything for so long, but today, that kid Gu Chao was thrown out.

This is much better than suing at that time!

The fourteenth brother got the news and rewarded San Dezi with 20 taels of silver; the elder brother of Zhijun Wang got the news and only gave San Dezi two golden peanuts.

And the moods of the two are completely different!

The next day, Kangxi was going to patrol the river, so he took half of the people in Beijing and went directly to Beizhili.

There are quite a few people accompanying him, including the fourteenth elder brother, and the thirteenth elder brother...

Yongding River was collectively called Zhishui before the Western Han Dynasty, Yaoshui in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lugou River in the Jin Dynasty, and Hun River in the Ming Dynasty. In the 37th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, it was called Yongding River because of the vigorous improvement of water conservancy.

Yongding River is a relatively large tributary of the Haihe River system.

It is composed of two tributaries of Yanghe River and Sanggan River.

Generally, Sanggan River is the source.

Sanggan River originates from the northern foot of Guancen Mountain in the Shanxi Plateau, flows through Datong Basin, Yangyuan Basin, Shixiali Gorge, Nahuangshui River, Hun River, Yu River and Erdao River in the northeast, and flows into Hebei Province in the northeast. Shawa accepts Huliu River, flows northeast to Zhuguantun and Jiahe Village in Huailai County, and joins Yanghe River ("Haihe Zhi" and "Tianjin City Chronicle of Natural Geography" use this point as the starting point of the main stream of Yongding River) near Guanting After being incorporated into the Guishui River, it enters the Guanting Reservoir.

Yongding River is a river channel that is good at migrating, silting and breaking.

The "Water Course Outline" stated: "Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and before the Yuan Dynasty, there have been no major changes in the Yongding River. Jingxing, the floods are increasing, along the north and south, and north of Xiong and Ba, there will be no peace."

Therefore, at the earliest time, this place belonged to the land outside the Great Wall, and there was a desolate poem of "poor bones by the Wuding River, still a person in a spring girl's dream".

The upper reaches of the Yongding River flow through the Loess Plateau, and the river has a large sediment content, so it is called "Little Yellow River" and "Hunhe River".

Due to silt deposition, the downstream river channel forms an aboveground river, and its migration is erratic, so it was formerly called "Wuding River".

After the Ming Dynasty, the floods of the Yongding River became more and more serious, and the migration and diversion became more frequent.

It was not until the 37th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty that the artificial diversion was carried out, and the river, which was volatile and often caused by floods, gradually stabilized.

That's why Kangxi named it "Yongding River" and changed the original "Wuding River" to a new name, which has a good meaning and is also gratifying.

Unlike the modern Yongding River, the Yongding River in the Qing Dynasty was surrounded by embankments made of stones and sand.

There is also an iron cable and wooden plank bridge erected on it, which is convenient for the people on both sides of the strait to come and go.

These are all newly built dams and bridges, and the common people feel safe seeing such dams, at least they will not worry about the river flooding and flooding the fields and crops.

The arrival of Kangxi even aroused the cheers of the common people.

However, it is Zhijun Wang who presided over the construction here, but it is a pity that he did not come today!

But the repair here is really good, and after the completion, it is also very magnificent. Kangxi even went to the bridge and looked at the various iron chains, cowhide ropes, hemp ropes, etc. on the bridge. Such things can last at least ten or eight years. Years, just fix it when the time comes.

It's just that they didn't come at the right time.

Now it is April, and the apricot blossoms in the north are all in bloom, but at the same time, the ice and snow have also melted, and the rivers in many places are rising. This is called "peach blossom flood" in the south and "apricot blossom flood" in the north. It refers to the spring flood in March and April, when the rising river water is collectively called "spring flood"!

Unfortunately, when Kangxi was inspecting the Yongding River, the spring flood came.

The river was turbulent, the waves were heavy, the wind was high and the waves were rough, but Kangxi had to go to see how the bridge was doing, and went up.

It is impossible to bear too many people on the bridge, so there are people on both sides of the bridge, but the only ones who accompanied Kangxi on the bridge were Fourteenth Brother, Thirteenth Brother, and Jiu Elder Brother and Ten Elder Brothers.

The bridge is not long, but who is qualified to be on a bridge with the emperor?

What's more, the chain suspension bridge is wobbly and unsafe.

Apart from the prince elder brother, those who followed the bridge were several personal guards who Kangxi trusted.

As the deputy, eighth elder brother became one of the people who introduced this place without the presence of King Zhijun. At that time, he was repairing this place together with King Zhijun. He is also credited for finishing the work ahead of schedule!

So he talked endlessly, and Kangxi listened carefully.

The thirteenth elder brother looked a little dangerous here, but he couldn't say anything, because he found that although he was released, Kangxi asked him to follow him, not to show favor, but to monitor nearby!

He didn't tell Elder Fourteen about this, but Elder Fourteen probably noticed something. He stayed with him every time, just like when he was a child. In addition, Elder Fourteen also took good care of him. My brother felt better.

Although Huang Ama didn't want to see him, he couldn't ignore Huang Ama's safety.

But he can't say it, he can only signal Fourteenth Brother to say it.

Brother Fourteen has been afraid, okay?

What kind of bridge is this?The iron chain is strong, but it is not resistant to corrosion, it will rust and break!

The bottom is paved with wooden boards, tied with a thick cowhide rope, and a hemp rope as thick as three fingers.

What is the use of this?It is better to build a stone bridge, which will last for ten thousand years and will not be washed away by water.

In other words, in fact, it is not bad to build a stone bridge, but the key is that the king of Zhijun was trying to catch up with the construction period!

It takes more than a year to build a stone bridge, but such a cable suspension bridge only takes one month.

The king of Zhijun at that time didn't think too much about it, and it was his political achievement to be able to hand in the construction ahead of schedule.

But now, elder brother Fourteen is very dissatisfied with this bridge, which is so rich in gold and jade, and what makes her even more frightened is that the Yongding River is flooded at this time.

And it was windy, the wind was high and the waves were rough, the water wet his shoes: "Huang Ama, the water is rising here, let's go back!"

Even if Brother Thirteen didn't wink at him, he decided to speak up.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he interrupted Babeile's speech to Kangxi, which made Babeile very unhappy.