The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"Of course I know each other. These grown-ups are all frequent customers in Grandpa's shop. They go to eat roasted whole lamb, hot pot, and skewers at least three or five times a month. Each time they spend no less than a hundred taels of silver, and I heard that They order roasted lamb eggs alone... After the sons have eaten, they will go straight to the brothel!" Master Fourteen's voice was not loud, but many people heard it.

Everyone knows that they are all men, but there are not many people who go to eat roasted lamb eggs.

After eating this thing, the whole body will indeed have strength, which is a great tonic.

The roasted whole lamb does not include the eggs, which are roasted separately and sold separately, which is quite expensive. After all, many men need this stuff.

Moreover, people on the Mongolian grasslands also understand the truth that pickled sheep grow fat.

The Fourteenth Master deliberately picked it out to highlight the luxurious life of these people: "Master Li, I heard that you just took a concubine? Miss Chunhua, the number one lady in Chunhua Building, redeemed herself with 5000 silver." Two, I heard that you also spent 2000 taels for Najinmen, 1000 taels for Miss Chunhua to make a box of silver, and 1000 taels for her dowry as a face."

"Master Zhang, you are one of the deputy chiefs of the House of Internal Affairs recommended by the starlings. Your daughter got married a few days ago, okay, not to mention the ten miles of red makeup, and the 1 taels of money in the box is still married to a newly promoted imperial concubine." Shi Yanguan, although the family is a bit poor, but your daughter is a rich lady!"

This is actually the meaning of wooing, and the best way is to become relatives by marriage.

Having a censor is equivalent to having an extra mouthpiece, and this is a person who can speak.

Not to mention marrying a girl, it is worth marrying two, and the dowry accompanying her is very rich, enough for the censor to gain a foothold in Beijing.

"My lord Zhang married 8000 taels of dowry for a girl, and the household department owes 3 taels of silver, so why not pay?" Prince Yong was unhappy: "If I remember correctly, your family has eight daughters, right?"

Thirteen Baylor looked at Mr. Zhang: "Four married, four left, rich enough?"

Thirteen Baylor's family also has seven or eight daughters. Although they are still young, they have already started saving dowries.

Jiubeile's family had more than a dozen princesses, and they had to prepare a lot of dowry, so everyone said that Jiubeile's business was to save a dowry for the family's daughter.

Otherwise, Kangxi would not let him rule the capital.

It was just a verbal reprimand, never blocking Jiu Ye's way of making money.

"This Mr. Zheng is said to be the descendant of Zheng Chenggong, Lord Zheng. I don't know how much money this family has, but the eight beautiful concubines in your family are well-known in the capital, and they are known as the eight golden flowers!" The Fourteenth Master curled his lips. Ba: "Because you made a golden flower weighing twelve taels of gold for every concubine as a token of love, so expensive!"

The rest of the people knelt there trembling. Their petty thoughts were mercilessly exposed by the Fourteenth Lord. Under Prince Yong's cold gaze like a sword, who would dare to say that their family is poor?

It is the business of Long Live God to cry about being poor during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it is wrong for you to cry about being poor.

Prince Yong told them very firmly: "Within three days, pay off the debt owed by the household department, otherwise, this king will send someone to raid the house."

Seven or eight people ran back rolling and crawling.

They are all loyal to the eighth master, and the fourth master will definitely not show mercy to them.

One by one, they would count their belongings when they went back. It didn't take the next day or three days. Those who went back in the morning would come to pay back the money in the afternoon.

The Fourteenth Lord was in the household department in the afternoon and had a meal with Nian Gengyao, Prince Yong and Thirteenth Baylor.

"Brother, Thirteenth Brother, are you all going to eat this?" Fourteenth Master looked at the food on the dining table and had no appetite.

It’s the autumn harvest now, and the streets are flooded with autumn vegetables. The household department is a government office, so naturally there are their kitchens, and the dishes prepared are potatoes, radishes, cabbage, carrots and other autumn vegetables.

So the meals for the whole yamen at the moment are chili and potato shreds, large slices of meat stewed with cabbage, mutton stewed with radish, fried celery powder, a bowl of rice for each person, four dishes, and a bowl of fish soup. That's it.

Big pot rice, no matter how delicious it is, it's just like that.

The fourteenth master's food was a little hard to swallow. His own brother and the thirteenth brother ate this kind of food every day. They stayed in the household department for more than half a year, which was too rare.

"It's already pretty good." Fourth master is not picky about food, he is used to eating vegetarian food.

The Thirteenth Master eats this kind of food during the day, but in fact, there is a supper prepared by Fujin for him when he returns home.

Nian Gengyao also felt that the food was too tasteless, it would be better for the army to eat large pieces of meat and drink in large bowls.

So looking back, the Fourteenth Master went to Xilaishun: "Fan Xilai, you arrange to send four barrels of mutton soup to the household department every day, and the mutton should be put in [-] catties; and then provide [-] catties of spiced beef In the past; also, one hundred catties of haggis, let them make soup by themselves, and add two catties of pepper noodles."

Fan Xilai thought for a while: "Master, you are afraid that the food in the household department will not be good?"

"I went to eat once yesterday, not to mention the tasteless ones, and I rarely even saw a piece of meat." Fourteenth Master gritted his teeth: "My face turned green after eating."

"I haven't been to the household department a few times, maybe I'm worried about the fourth and thirteenth masters? This is easy to handle. The young man arranges manpower to send five sheep to the household department every day. They are all slaughtered and skinned. Let the kitchen of the household department cook the soup. No matter what time it is, fourth master and thirteenth master can have a mouthful of hot soup; and send one hundred catties of stewed beef every day, whether it is cold and sliced, or soaked You can eat it warm in the soup! Besides, it’s getting cold now, so let’s send another thousand catties of charcoal to the household department for heating.”

"Well, you made a good arrangement." Fourteenth Master thought that this Fan Xilai was a nice person and had a good idea, which was much better than his messy arrangement.

"Besides, it's cold today, and we have to supply a portion of green leafy vegetables to the household department, let's just spinach, if there is too much, we can't supply it, [-] catties a day, it's good to drink soup." Fan Xilai said: "And send two dishes to the two masters every afternoon, not much, just one meat and one vegetable. For breakfast, the two masters may use it in the mansion or in the yamen. Don't look at the big pot of rice in the yamen kitchen. But the breakfast is still good, big meat buns! If the breakfast is not good, please ask the Fujins in the mansion to take the trouble to send some snacks to fight hunger."

I can't let Fourteenth Master do it all by himself. Maybe the mistress of the mansion also wants to care about her husband?

Fan Xilai didn't want to offend the two hostesses and the women in the backyard of the hostess' house.

He even didn't want his master, the Fourteenth Lord, to offend a group of women in the backyard.

"Yeah, what you said makes sense." Master Fourteen nodded frequently.

"The little one didn't think thoroughly, do you think there is anything else to add?" Fan Xilai was not proud at all, but very humble.

"No, your method is very good, so let's do it like this. By the way, when you have nothing to do, you can also ask Princess Yong and Fujin from Thirteen Baylor to see if they have anything they want to bring to the two masters? Mansion If there is anything missing, send what you have here." The Fourteenth Master found that Fan Xilai was very careful, so he entrusted this matter to him.

But the person in charge of the Roasted Whole Lamb Shop quit.

He is the youngest son of Grandma Fei Moshi. Fei Moshi's husband's surname is Tujiashi, so her youngest son is named Tujiaqiang.

"Our roasted lamb shop is also the business of the Fourteenth Master, so we can't let Fan Xilai deliver things there?" Tu Jiaqiang was a bit competitive, and wanted to show off himself, so that the Fourteenth Master would not let Fan Xilai do everything. Let's do it, so what is he, the fourteenth master's milk brother?

"Then on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, you can send four roasted whole sheep to the household department." What can Master Fourteen do?The face of the milk brother still has to be given.

"It's not a problem to roast sheep like this. Don't you have haggis soup?" Nian Gengyao said: "People in the household department and officials all eat mutton soup, so you can't ignore the miscellaneous? Haggis supply Come on, let the handymen drink mutton soup for the handymen, you can't let the handyman watch them drink mutton soup in winter."

Mutton soup is of course good, and haggis soup is also good.

"Yes, then we will provide haggis." Tujiaqiang was happy.

After he left, the eldest mother said: "Don't get too used to him, sir."

"He's my baby brother. If I'm not spoiled by someone!" The fourteenth master actually regarded Tu Jiaqiang as one of his own, otherwise he wouldn't have entrusted the roast sheep shop to him to manage.

Autumn passed quickly, when the first snow fell, Nian Gengyao brought two fat geese to Prince Xun's Mansion of the Fourteenth Lord.

The grandma cooked the kitchen herself, cut the freshly pickled sauerkraut and served it with fat goose, the favorite of the Fourteenth Master.

Of course, it's not just this one dish, there are eighteen dishes. The two of them sat on the kang while eating and chatting.

"Listen to what my brother said, this year's household debt is still unclear, and it's still a lot worse!" The fourteenth master was eating sauerkraut. The sauerkraut, which was full of goose fat, was soft and fragrant, and put some in it. Chili oil, delicious!

Nian Gengyao thought for a while: "One year is impossible, two years?"

"Two years? I don't think it will be easy in three to five years." The Fourteenth Master said, "I have to tell Huang Ama to stop borrowing money with a note. It's easy to borrow money but difficult to get in debt!"

"Actually, the fourth master has no intention of pursuing the payment at this moment, but just clearing the accounts. When the payment is really pursued, it will not be the case." Nian Gengyao said: "It's really urgent, the fourth master really dares to raid the house! "

Fourteen's chopsticks were eaten. In history, his brother was the famous "emperor who copied the house". Why?Because Kangxi had fattened up a group of corrupt officials, the old Kangxi was soft-hearted, and he was not willing to deal with the courtiers who had followed him for half his life.

This is understandable, people are not grass, who can be ruthless?

But Kangxi is too sentimental, and there are too many people who follow him.

If it weren't for his brother's Thunder method, I'm afraid the game would be over early in the morning.

But this can't be said to his Huang Ama, let alone his own brother.

Nian Gengyao picked up a fat piece of goose meat for him: "Let's eat, if we encounter any difficulties, let's solve them together."

"Yeah!" Fourteenth Master nodded.

When the snow fell, the taxes from these places were sent up, and the household warehouses in the capital, whether they were silver warehouses, money warehouses, or grain warehouses, became sufficient again.

The fourteenth master sent people to the household department to deliver things quietly, without much fanfare, but the fourth master saw the hot mutton soup that could be drunk at any time, and even the handymen could drink haggis at any time Tang, what else does he not understand?

"Fourteen is nothing to worry about." The fourth master drank mutton soup, ate warm stewed beef, served with hot and sour potato shreds, stewed cabbage vermicelli, braised pork, etc. are not good dishes, but they are definitely hot and winter Most delicious meal ever.

"That's the kind of person he is, he doesn't want us brothers to suffer." Thirteenth Master said with a smile: "Even I, Fujin, sent someone to deliver some snacks."

Isn't that right, four Fujin sent eight boxes of snacks a day, and Thirteen Fujin sent ten boxes of snacks a day.

The dim sum is not delicate, but the portion is large, and everyone can share one share, and the mutton soup and haggis soup can resist hunger for a while.

The meals are hot every day, and there is enough meat to eat.

He was afraid that his own brother would have nothing to eat, so people came to deliver things every day.

The kitchen of the household department yamen is developed. Among the six surrounding departments, the household department has the best food. I heard that the haggis soup is not only drunk by the servants of the household department, but also by the servants of other departments. In fact, it is an extra two The ladle thing.

Later, Thirteen told Fourteen that Fourteen, in the name of Kangxi, provided six departments with a lot of haggis every day for them to make soup.

Of course, there is no such preferential treatment from the household department.

There is also mutton soup to drink, all of them are haggis soup.

Although the Fourteenth Lord leads the firearms camp, he does not go there very often because Kangxi's confidantes are there, because Kangxi pays more and more attention to firearms.

Fourth Master and Fourteen went to Changchun Garden to pay their respects on their first day in ninth grade.

The fourth master has a brochure for Kangxi to read, and the fourteenth is to say hello to Kangxi and Concubine De.

The two brothers entered Qingxi Bookstore, only to see that Kangxi and elder brother Honghui were wearing thick clothes, and the grandparents and grandchildren were writing a picture, which was "weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring breeze".

"Qing Barnyard Banknotes" records: Xuanzong's imperial Ci, there are two sentences "weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring breeze", each sentence has nine words, and each word has nine paintings, followed by double hooks, decorated into a picture, called "Nine Nine Pinning Cold" picture". "Weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring breeze." There are nine characters in total, and the number of strokes in each character is nine. Write a picture every day. After writing this sentence, spring will come.

In addition, some Jiujiu cold dispelling pictures are in the form of pictures, also known as "painting nine".Draw nine branches of cold plums on the white paper, with nine flowers on each branch.One branch corresponds to one nine, and one flower corresponds to a day. Every day, a plum blossom is filled with a specific color according to the actual weather conditions. On the side of the cold plum picture, there is often written "Try to see the plums are black and black in the picture, and the grass outside the natural window is green."

This pictorial version of the Nine-Nine Cold Dispelling Map is also called "Ya Tu".

Now the grandfather and grandson are writing such a pair of characters. After Kangxi finished writing, Brother Honghui dipped a brush with cinnabar ink and wrote on it.

Kangxi made an agreement with him: "From now on, the two of us will write one stroke a day, and when the writing is finished, spring will come."

"Okay, Huang Mafa, write a pen a day, no one can be foolish." Brother Honghui also stretched out his hand: "Let's pull the hook."

"Okay, Lagougou." Kangxi really liked this kid more and more.

Fourth Master and Fourteenth Master looked at each other, and they retreated out without a sound.