After I was reborn, I became a plug-in for the country

Not long after Yang Yanqiu left the capital, Suo'etu, who was sent to be the military governor, returned to the capital.

He didn't immediately pretend to be sick as promised to Yinfeng once he returned to Beijing.It's not that he's too bold to be trusted.But Kangxi was eager to hear his report on the specific situation of the war and the attitude of the Mongolian prince, so he summoned him the night he returned to Beijing.

Yinfeng secretly sighed that he had miscalculated, who would have thought that he, Khan Ama, would not be able to wait even one night.

However, after receiving the news from Suo'etu, knowing that he had indeed brought back several large bags of sulfur from Mongolia, Yinfeng's hanging heart was a little more at ease.

Just get the raw materials.

Suo'etu visited the palace overnight and brought back two pieces of news. One was that the Russians had withdrawn their troops from Junggar for some reason.The other is somewhat insignificant compared to this news.The Mongolian prince will not take the initiative to send troops to help Fei Yanggu.

After hearing this, Kangxi was also a little puzzled for a while.The attitude of the Mongolian prince was within his expectations, but it was really puzzling that the Russians withdrew suddenly.

Is it going back to replenish the firecrackers?Or continue calling?

No matter what the reason is, the court must deal with it carefully.Maybe it's time to send someone to ask Dai Zi how the progress is?

Kangxi asked Fei Yanggu how the manpower was arranged, whether there was enough food and grass on the front line, how the morale of the soldiers was, and so on. After learning that everything was peaceful, he released Suo'etu out of the palace.

In fact, it's not that he can't figure it out, but that it's really ridiculous to study the reasons why the Russians withdrew their troops.

Three months ago, the 5000 people Russia sent to help Junggar ran out of ammunition and food.They sent people to discuss with the leaders of the Junggar tribe, and wanted to temporarily borrow food for the survival of the army.Unexpectedly, the leader of the Junggar found all kinds of excuses, but he just didn't want to provide food.

As a result, the talks between the two sides collapsed, and then they broke up quickly. After the Russians robbed some cattle and sheep, they withdrew from Junggar without a long delay.

The spies sent by Fei Yanggu failed to go deep into the enemy camp, so naturally they couldn't find out such news.

On the third day after Suo'etu left the palace, he reported to ask for sick leave according to Yinfeng's original order.

Yinfeng also found an excuse as he wished, went out of the palace to visit the sick, and smuggled a few catties of sulfur back from his house.

There is no darkroom in Yuqing Palace, so he keeps sulfur in his laboratory.Because of the strong smell and Yuqing Palace didn't prepare incense, he even went to the third elder brother and fourth elder brother in private, trying to get a lot of incense from Concubine Rong and Concubine De, and barely concealed the smell.

With sulfur and saltpeter, now the only difference is copper and iron.

Just when Yinfeng thought he could make firecrackers, the system popped up to remind him, "Did Your Highness forget that there are rifling and sights? And... what kind are you going to do?"

Only then did Yinfeng check whether the sulfur was damp, and he felt dizzy from the smoke, propping his head and reluctantly said: "I don't know how Dai Zi's research is."

The system pulled out the information, "He should be trying to study the continuous firing firecracker right now."

Yinfeng shook his head violently, and after a little sober, he asked again: "Can you, open your library so that Gu can read it again?"

"Your Highness, those things you couldn't do that were shown before," the system persuaded, "It's your first time to do it, so let's start with something simpler."

Yinreng considered his hands-on ability. He had done the experiment, but he was a little timid to polish the iron.He compromised and said: "Let's start with the gunpowder first. It won't be too late to talk about the gunpowder after Dai Zi makes it."

The system takes it for granted.It silently found a method of gunpowder deployment, so that it could provide backup support to Yinfeng in time.

Soon Yinfeng will know that the preparation of gunpowder is far from as simple as he thought.

It was New Year's Eve when Yang Yanqiu returned to Yangzhou.

The first thing he did when he came back was to send someone to find the best stonemason in Yangzhou City, find someone to engrave the "contract" written by Emperor Kangxi himself, and put it in his ancestral hall, and ordered his servants to burn incense day and night.

When he was called to Beijing years ago, many people in Yangzhou knew about it.

There are different opinions among the people in Yangzhou City. Some say that the Yang family was convicted, Yang Yanqiu was arrested, and he is about to go to prison.It is also said that the Yang family has too much property, and the court tried to plant a crime to embezzle his family property.

But when Yang Yanqiu came back, it was Kangxi who sent someone to send him back, so it was quite a big deal.Invisibly, all the previous speculations were broken.

It didn't take long for the Yang family to board the clipper ship that cooperated with the royal family, and it didn't take long to spread in Yangzhou city.

Kangxi's original idea of ​​asking Cao Yin to send people to make some ordinary clothing materials was not realized.

Kangxi 25 years, March.Cao Yin, weaving in Jiangning, found the magistrate of Jiangning, and published a news in the official newspaper, offering a high price to hire all the embroiderers in Jiangning's mansion.

As soon as this happened, some embroidered women from other Yangzhou prefectures even moved their family to Jiangnan Mansion after seeing the news.

In mid-March, Yang Yanqiu set off for Jiangning to meet Cao Yin.The Yang family also dealt in fabrics for several generations in Yangzhou, and they had many topics in common with Cao Yin on the improvement of silk fabrics.The labor cost of the embroiderer forced Cao Yin to try his best to persuade Yang Yanqiu to buy directly from high-priced clothing materials.

At the end of April, the first batch of royal fabrics made by the Jiangning Mansion were moved to Yang's shop for sale.

However, at the beginning, the market for the royal style did not open smoothly.

People in Yangzhou don't believe that they can really wear the same style of material as the royal family.They only thought that the Yang family was deceiving people, and some even reported it to the government, saying that Yang Yanqiu was slandering the royal family's reputation for his own benefit.

However, in order to quickly open up the market, Yang Yanqiu directly placed the inscriptions that were originally placed in his ancestral hall in the largest store under the Yang family name.As soon as the inscription was put out, coupled with the personal testimony of the magistrate of Yangzhou, this royal inscription caused a sensation in the entire city of Yangzhou.

Soon, these valuable fabrics made by Jiangning embroiderers were frantically snapped up by ladies in Yangzhou.

Even if he had to distribute half of the profits to the court, Yang Yanqiu still made a lot of money.

Many people in Yangzhou speculated that the Yang family might have successfully become one of the imperial merchants long ago.

A small meeting between the Yang and Cao families caused a lot of influence in the entire Jiangnan area.Before Yang Yanqiu left for the second time, many businessmen had already begged him.

The Yang family is crowded.But these people were all rejected by Yang Yanqiu.

These news were naturally sent back to the capital one by one.

It wasn't until Jiangnan was so lively that the courtiers knew that Kangxi had tacitly allowed other businessmen to share the interests of the imperial businessmen without telling them.

There are also people who have close relatives with Cao Yin in the court.Weaving is a fat job, and there are not a few people who want to replace the Yang family.

But it was too late for the courtiers to try to intervene.After Yang Yanqiu came back from Jiangning, he listened to Cao Yin's suggestion and approached the wealthy businessman whom he rejected before.

Originally, it was absolutely impossible for Yang Yanqiu to hand over the profits he obtained to others.

But the reason why he changed his method was Cao Yin's words.

Cao Yin said: "Brother Yang, although we have different identities, we are both businessmen in essence. I know that businessmen are after profit. But I still dare to persuade you, the emperor is definitely not just to feed you alone. I just came to you. If you only ignore other things for the immediate benefit at this time, I am afraid that you will be living up to the emperor's kindness."

Yang Yanqiu pondered these words over and over again, and only then did he take the initiative to find someone to cooperate with.

By June, the new business model, headed by the Yang family and supplemented by merchants from various prefectures, spread across the entire Jiangnan region.

The success of the Yang family has also made more and more wealthy businessmen in the south sharpen their heads and want to get on this fast boat and become the agents of the imperial court in areas other than Yangzhou.

The new model indirectly drives the development of other industries, and the number of sericulture farmers in Jiangnan is several times higher than in previous years.There are many families who do not hesitate to waste their hard-earned fields last year, and have to work hard on silkworm rearing, which takes more energy.

Such success cannot be ignored.At the end of June, Kangxi received the account book sent by Yang Yanqiu to Beijing, as well as the note from the governor of Yangzhou.

The hidden profits under the development of commerce were brought to the surface, and Kangxi also discovered that Yangzhou's wealth and wealth will inevitably attract more people to covet.

The plan for reforming the business tax has taken shape in his mind.

The accelerated development of silk fabrics in the south of the Yangtze River also indirectly affected the planting industry in the north.

Many farmers in the Zhili area have converted more than half of their farmland to cotton planting.They are sure that this large-scale planting will bring them more income.

Because of this large-scale planting, the imperial court paid more attention to the protection of crops.

Cotton has a much greater need for fertilizer than other plants.As more and more farmers plant in Zhili, the bird droppings in the Zhili area are obviously becoming less and less sufficient.

Soon some courtiers discovered that the efficiency of phosphate fertilizer production only relying on bird feces was too low. Since the imperial court encouraged farmers to grow cotton, in the long run, they had to think of an easier way for the farmers.

Yinreng's chemical fertilizer production skills, which have been hidden for many years, can finally be moved to the bright side.

By the way, at the beginning of June, Yinfeng's masters jointly signed a recommendation: the prince has learned his homework, and he can officially leave the cabinet and enter the court to participate in politics.

So now Yinreng can not only observe the court, but also express his own opinions.

When the courtiers were in a mess, Yinreng asked Khan Ama for instructions and said: "Phosphate fertilizers should be extracted from ores. There are a lot of undeveloped ores in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. "

He only said the location of the ore, not the specific location, so it shouldn't be suspicious, right?

"Why does His Royal Highness know so clearly?" Someone among the courtiers immediately asked.

Yinfeng said calmly: "My lords, go back and read "Tiangong Kaiwu" a lot and you will know."

Don't ask, just ask, it all depends on the wisdom of the ancestors of the Han people.

Kangxi gave his son a sideways look, and the excuse was so perfunctory that he didn't even bother to expose it.

Yinfeng pretended not to know, calmly as if it wasn't him who spoke just now.

On the surface, he is indifferent, but in fact he is already asking the system for help: "Fertilizer, plus the gunpowder matter, Khan Ama may soon know that Gu has been lying to him all along."

The system said seriously: "Please consider the consequences of your father knowing that you lied to him. If it hinders the mission, please try to hide it for a while."

Yinfeng: "..."

Fuck you, for the sake of the mission, the family relationship between father and son that you have worked so hard to manage will be in jeopardy, okay!

How the book "Heavenly Creation of Things" in the bookstore became out of stock is another matter.