Kangxi 36 years, spring.After three months, two major events occurred in the court.

One is a flood control dam project located in Henan with a huge amount of engineering and many years of construction. After ten years of hard work, it was finally completed.Jin Fu, the chief engineer of the river channel, reported the matter with a booklet. Excited, he also said that in order to show the results of the project, he hoped that the emperor would come to inspect and accept it in person.

Kangxi was overjoyed after reading the excerpts. Such a huge project can be regarded as unprecedented. No matter what kind of king made such an achievement during his reign, it will be a highlight in the history books in the future.

At the same time, he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. This project has dragged the national treasury for many years, and the money has been poured in like flowing water. If it weren't for the silver mines in Dongying to support the expenses, the imperial court might not be able to support the project with tax money alone. .

But thanks to this flood control project, otherwise, if silver flows into the Qing Dynasty so unrestrainedly, inflation will rise early in the morning, and prices will double, affecting people's livelihood.

You can breathe a sigh of relief, the court has been busy with political affairs recently, and it is impossible for Kangxi to go to check and accept it personally.After going through all the things that my sons have been busy with recently, I found that none of them can leave.

The foreign language school in Beijing is expanding its enrollment recently, and the three princes are so busy with this that they are dizzy.

Kangxi thought about it for a while, and finally decided to let Yinreng go there. Firstly, it was a vacation for his busiest son, and secondly, it was indeed more important for the crown prince to go on his behalf for such a big event.

After drawing up the candidates, he wrote the Zhu Zhu. First, he praised Jin Fu's achievements, and then promised that as long as he passed the inspection, he would be promoted to a noble. Finally, he said, "I am busy with government affairs, and the prince will take my place on this trip. .”

After Zhu Zhu finished writing, he naturally had to send someone to tell Yinrong.So Yinfeng, who had just checked the last year's balance account of the household department, had to put away his burden and travel to Henan on behalf of Khan Ama.

Because the national treasury was full, the imperial court renovated the official roads leading from central Beijing to various prefectures three years ago.After the official road is smooth, it saves a lot of time to go there by land.So it may take five days to reach the road, but Yinfeng arrived in three days after walking.

Jin Fu welcomed him into the post house, and the smile on his face never faded, "I have lived up to the entrustment of the emperor and His Highness, and the flood control dam has now been completed. Previously, the craftsmen were waiting for the water test. Stop them, and wait for His Highness to go and see it in person!"

Yinfeng recalled that ten years ago, he had spent a whole month in the small black room of the post house because of this dam, and he felt very emotional, "Let's go, take Gu to see how the dam is."

"Your Highness, don't you want to take a rest first?" Jin Fu hesitated.Although he was happy, he couldn't lose his eyes so much that he tired the master.

Yinfeng smiled and said: "There are still important events in the capital, I will see them soon, so I can go back as soon as possible." His third son-in-law has just been born, and after inspecting the dam, he has to rush back to do the three baptisms for the child.

Seeing that he was so determined, Jin Fu didn't care much, so he prepared a carriage and accompanied him to the dam.

The place where they stood was very high, Yinreng lowered his head and looked down, he saw that there seemed to be a thousand feet below, the bottom of the valley could not be seen clearly, only the rushing water could be seen vaguely.And between the two river valleys, stands this huge stone gate.

Although he looked carefully, but the distance was too far, and he couldn't see any official orifices.

Jin Fu respectfully said: "This dam was all built according to the drawings given by His Highness. The upstream intercepts the torrent, and the downstream releases water. The mechanism for opening the gates was discussed with the craftsmen later, and some changes were made."

"How to change it?" Yinfeng asked curiously.

Jin Fu said: "His Royal Highness's previous drawings required hundreds of manpower to pull the gate to release the water. Now the craftsmen have used their ingenuity, and it only takes ten people to pull it." After finishing speaking, he also wanted to ask someone to demonstrate it to Yinfeng. It was just stopped by Yinfeng.

"No need." Yinfeng raised his hand and said, "If it happens that the Yellow River is flooding, you will have time to test it. Now you don't need to spend effort in vain just to let Gu take a look."

"Your Highness is wise." Jin Fu originally wanted to show off, but he had no choice but to give up because his master didn't appreciate his face.

After staying in Henan for two days, Yinfeng returned to Beijing in a hurry.

In addition to the completion of the dam, another major event was that another fleet sent by the imperial court to America in the 34th year of Kangxi finally returned.

The caravan that went to Europe to communicate and trade was a great success. Not only the merchants who followed, but even Abukai, who had no business experience, also helped the court earn a huge sum of money.After seeing the tangible benefits, Kangxi selected another group of people to go to Europe again.The purpose this time is not for temporary wealth, but to completely open up trade routes with Europe and seek long-term cooperation.

On the other hand, because the merchants also made a lot of money, before the second departure, they frantically stocked up on goods at home, and at the same time continued to apply, hoping to board the imperial ship again and go with them.

The hoarding behavior of merchants indirectly led to the prosperity of private commerce, and it happened to provide thousands of jobs for students graduating from technical colleges.

Since the 34th year of Kangxi, the Qing Dynasty's light industry has officially entered the right track because of this prosperity.

After that, Yinfeng told him Khan Ama again, suggesting to send another fleet to continue south.His reasons are also very sufficient. There is also a vast world outside the Qing Dynasty, and maybe you can find a country richer than Europe.

Regarding his son's suggestion, Kangxi adopted it without hesitation.After seeing the gold and silver brought back by the fleet, he is full of expectations for the strange world that his son said.

Yinfeng would naturally not tell him Khan Ama, his suggestion was not to widen the trade channels between Qing Dynasty and other countries, but he hoped that Khan Ama would send troops to take the American land seized by Europeans to Qing Dynasty. Come.

While wanting to do business with Europeans to make money from them, and at the same time wanting to fight them so that they can't fight back and seize their land, it can only be said that His Highness the Crown Prince has a very bad conscience.

The father and son reached an agreement. Kangxi thought that the strange land did not know the whole picture, so in order to keep safe, he ordered the fleet to be equipped with more weapons.And he didn't let this fleet bring merchants, but tens of thousands of soldiers, and equipped with a lot of weapons.

It's not too big, except that everyone has two replacement firecrackers in their hands, and each ship has more than [-] powerful cannons and hundreds of thousands of wooden-handled grenades.

In short, this fleet set off from the 34th year of Kangxi, took two years, and finally returned to the land of the Qing Dynasty.Moreover, the person in charge of this fleet is Xu Zhengyuan, the admiral of the Fujian Navy with experience in naval warfare.

Right now, he took off his battle armor and was telling his ministers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony how he defeated the European soldiers and seized a vast expanse of land in the Americas.

"In the name of the emperor, the slave led fifty thousand sailors to the south. After walking for about half a year, they finally found the land that was laid down this time."

"Have there been any casualties among the soldiers on the ship during the six months of sailing?" Suo'etu couldn't help interjecting as soon as he said something.Kangxi was not dissatisfied with this, and he was more concerned about this question in his heart, so it happened that Suo'etu asked for him.

Xu Zhengyuan hesitated for a moment, and replied: "The officers and men have also had the experience of marching at sea before. Although this time is longer than before, most of them can bear it. It's just that there is a lack of water at sea. We have to replenish some fresh water in the small country of Fanbang in this way. .”

"It's just that the people from those small countries don't understand our language, and it's a bit difficult to talk to us. The soldiers are impatient, and they are slightly injured after fighting with them."

"How many casualties?" Yinfeng hurriedly asked.If half of it is injured before reaching America, then the loss is too great.

"We have no casualties." Xu Zhengyuan quickly shook his head and said, "The other party seems to have four or five hundred injuries."

Thinking of the equipment of this fleet, Yinfeng felt that Xu Zhengyuan might be merciful if the other party was injured four or five hundred times.

Kangxi, who was silent from the beginning to the end: "..." The co-authors robbed their families together.

After reporting the casualties, Xu Zhengyuan continued, "After walking for half a year, the slave estimated that he might not find any land if he went down further, and was about to order the fleet to return, but unexpectedly encountered a vast land soon after. .”

"Is there a country there?" Hearing this, Mingzhu couldn't help interjecting.

Xu Zhengyuan didn't turn his head, and still respectfully said to Kangxi: "When the slave just ordered people to approach the coast, he didn't see any villages or anything. To find out, he ordered several battalions of soldiers to go ashore with the slave. The march was about five On the sixth day, I ran into a group of foreigners who robbed their houses."

"A foreigner who robbed his house?" Kangxi wondered, "But it doesn't look much like the foreigner who came to the Qing Dynasty before?"

Xu Zhengyuan had never met a foreigner, so when he asked such a question, he felt a little confused about how to answer it.Seeing that he didn't answer, Kangxi said helplessly: "Go on and tell me, how did they rob the house?"

"Yes" Xu Zhengyuan said, "the servants looked at them as if they were not locals, because they were beating a group of women and children with whips, while they kept yelling. The servants didn't understand what they were, but they just felt that this foreigner was from the face. It’s not like a good person.”

Although Yinreng suggested that Khan Ama send someone out at the beginning, he couldn't help complaining when he heard Xu Zhengyuan's words, "Using the words of that idiot, this kind of person should be regarded as a double-standard dog. Bring it with you." It’s okay for the soldiers to snatch it all together, but he doesn’t feel like a good person when others wave their whips.”

The crown prince murmured in his heart, but Xu Zhengyuan continued to say without delay, "I am afraid that I will see others bullying women and children the most. At that time, I didn't even think about it. I took out my firecracker and rushed over to give that foreigner a good lesson."

It was supposed to draw a knife, but Dai Zi gave too much military supplies, causing Xu Zhengyuan to subconsciously draw out a firecracker.

"The servant and dozens of soldiers, Sanwuxia solved those foreigners. The women and children were frightened, and they started talking to the servant, but the servant didn't understand, so he asked his subordinates to find a place for them to settle down. "

When he said this, he suddenly said angrily: "There were not many foreigners, but after the slave lived there for two days, suddenly hundreds of foreigners surrounded the village. If it wasn't for the protection of his brothers, the slave might I told them to peel off their skins long ago."

Thinking of those brothers who died fighting for him, Xu Zhengyuan suppressed his anger, "The slave escaped from the dead and vowed to bring people to avenge his brothers, so he organized 1 people, brought firecrackers and cannons, and fought fiercely with that foreigner." I fought a lot."

Here he is hiding something.The British who were in America at that time also brought many soldiers there. Apart from the hundreds of people Xu Zhengyuan met, there should be at least [-] soldiers on that continent.So in fact, the process of winning that piece of land was not as quick as Xu Zhengyuan said.

It was after the two groups of people met and fought for three and a half months that Xu Zhengyuan defeated the Britons by relying on crowd tactics and advanced weapons.Although he had thousands of casualties under his command, he also completely drove the British out of the American continent.

At this time, Xu Zhengyuan, who had become a soldier, was not polite at all. He not only classified all the land originally occupied by the British as the Qing Dynasty, but also asked people to continue to reclaim new land there in order to ensure the food supply for the soldiers.

Just because it takes time to reclaim the land, it only took him two years to go back and forth.

After reporting the cause and effect, Xu Zhengyuan seemed to remember that he took the initiative to cause trouble without asking for an order. He said awkwardly: "The servant also found that there are a lot of abandoned farmlands there, so he asked people to tidy it up a little bit. Unexpectedly, it will be more and more in the end. .”

After Kangxi listened to everything, he pondered for a while before asking: "You mean, there are many unclaimed lands over there, and they are all fertile fields?"

Xu Zhengyuan recalled the situation he had foreseen in America, "It is indeed so. And because the foreigners robbed houses more violently before, the servants looked at it and it didn't look like anyone could live there."

Yinrong raised the corners of his lips and smiled knowingly.If the system is there, it must know why he is smiling.

Why else, because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already figured it out. At this time, the original natives of the Americas had already been massacred by the Europeans. He persuaded him to send people to Khan Ama, wasn't he just trying to catch the leak.

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