After the fourth master and I wear each other [Qing wear]

Who is so daring to be a backer for illegal human trafficking gangs?

Kangxi read the memorial from the governor of Huguang again.

Compared with the family letter of the fourth child, which was like a suspenseful case-solving story, Shi Wensheng's official documents seemed boring.

Boring is boring, as long as you can clearly explain the problem.

Shi Wensheng stated that he will thoroughly investigate the human trafficking networks in Hubei and Hunan.

According to what has been found, the immediate bosses of Wang Mazi and others are Jiangnan salt merchants, but it is not clear which one they are from.

The contact person in the middle is nicknamed "Turtle" and his real name is Li Daqian. He started a dental practice in Hangzhou.The imperial snuff bottle in Wang Mazi's hand was given by Li Daqian in a good mood.

Next, to trace the source, the Jiangnan side must cooperate with the investigation.

Kangxi dispatched his confidant eunuch Li Yu to Jiangnan in an attempt to mobilize secret information to find out the matter, but it was a step too late.

In October, Li Daqian hanged himself.

Leaving a suicide note shows that he is ashamed of his ancestors and the world, and should not organize human trafficking.

In order to gain huge profits, he did not hesitate to fabricate an excuse that someone in Beijing was a backer.Buying imperial items from the Ministry of Internal Affairs at a high price, and falsely claiming that there are people above them.

Lied up and down, let him create a network to traffic the human beings abducted from Hubei and Hunan to Jiangnan and Beijing.

Since Wang Mazi was arrested, Li Daqian knew that he was not far from being arrested and executed.

He thought that it would be easier to hang himself than to be imprisoned in death row and endure hardships, so he died in the late autumn of Kangxi 44.

"The slave inspected Li Daqian's body in detail. Judging from the death certificate, he really hanged himself voluntarily."

When Li Yu returned to the capital, he couldn't help but feel uneasy. This errand had been messed up.

Even if Li Daqian's autopsy proved that he had nothing to do with the murder, his death was so untimely that it didn't look like he committed suicide in fear of crime, but rather like someone deliberately silenced him.

Kangxi flipped through the ledgers found from Li Daqian's residence, some of which involved who the buyers were, but they were all insignificant people.

He said blankly, "Li Daqian set his study on fire before committing suicide. The suicide note and the remaining account books were found in the bedroom. This is a 'big' benevolent man. Before he died, he did not forget to help the buyer cover up the evidence .Li Yu, who got wind of you going to the south of the Yangtze River?!"

"Your Majesty has learned from you that the slaves have been hiding their whereabouts all the way, and they have never been exposed to investigate the purpose of trafficking syndicates."

Li Yu said so, but he also understood that he must be responsible for Li Daqian's death.

He didn't report the news, but he was one step late and cut off important clues.This can't be blamed on bad luck, it can only be blamed on not being cautious enough.

Kangxi didn't say whether he believed it or not, and stared coldly at Li Yu who was kneeling on the ground.

After a long period of extremely depressing silence, he called people up. "Stay flat."

"The slave bows down to thank the emperor for his kindness."

When Li Yu heard the cry, his heart fell to the ground in panic.Seeing what the emperor meant, it should be to believe in his standpoint.

However, the cause of Li Daqian's death is still a mystery.

Who let him hang himself at this time?

Was it because he was forced to die because of rumors that there were spies in the capital going to Jiangnan to investigate?Or after the Wang Mazi case happened, someone planned to silence him?

"Traveling back and forth to the south of the Yangtze River, you have worked hard, take a break, and leave this case alone."

Kangxi resumed his usual calm tone, as if the gentle emperor cared about the eunuchs.

The case of abduction and trafficking was no longer mentioned, but trivial matters in the palace.

Kangxi is like a kind parent, letting his confidant eunuch take good care of the emperor's granddaughter.

"The Chinese New Year is coming up in two months, so you just take care of the chores in the palace as usual. Keep an eye on the charcoal fire for Yuqing Palace, and there must be nothing missing. Especially Xiao Baozhu is afraid of the cold, so don't let the child catch cold."

Yuqing Palace is where the prince lives.

Who doesn't know that the food and clothing there are better than those used by the emperor and the queen mother, so how could there be a lack of charcoal fire.

Li Yu's back felt cold, and he broke out in a cold sweat in an instant.

The "Little Jewel" specially ordered by the emperor is the daughter of the crown princess and the only legitimate daughter of the crown prince.Who dares to neglect the granddaughter of the emperor?To ask the emperor to remind me to take good care of her?

Kangxi added without hesitation, "Don't add work to Liang Jiugong for such a trivial matter."

"Whoo!"

Li Yu's whole person is not well.

When the emperor added this sentence, even Eunuch Liang, the chief eunuch, was suspicious.

Doubt is not surprising.

After all, few people knew about the secret investigation of Li Daqian.The time of this person's suicide was neither too early nor too late, it was too coincidental.

Suspecting that Liang Jiugong leaked the news, he mentioned the princess born to the princess again.

Li Yu wondered who exactly did the emperor put on the list of masterminds behind the scenes?

No matter how much doubt you may have, please follow the imperial decree.If you want to avoid Liang Jiugong's actions, you have to test people. In the palace, whoever doesn't give Mr. Liang a little face.

With caution in words and deeds, five months passed in a hurry.

After a cold winter, after the hustle and bustle of the Spring Festival, the spring of the 45th year of Kangxi came.

Li Yu has been secretly observing the situation in Yuqing Palace.

The emperor's previous worries seemed a bit unfounded. It is impossible for anyone to dare to neglect the prince's daughter.There is no negligence, but everything is afraid of comparison.

After observation, I found a frightening thing. The prince can really see some problems with the annual rites of the children.

Currently, Yuqing Palace has three children.

The eldest son Hongxi was born to the side concubine Li Jiashi, the second son Hongjin was born to the side concubine Lin Jiashi, and the daughter Baozhu was born to the crown princess.

Even if sons are preferred over daughters, the children born to the crown princess will eventually be tainted with the word "di", and a bowl of water is the minimum.But in terms of Spring Festival gifts, Xiao Baozhu is no better than her two elder brothers.

In fact, everyone in the palace knew that the relationship between the prince and the princess had never been close.

The Guerjia family married into Yuqing Palace in the 34th year of Kangxi. It has been 11 years since they married, and they only gave birth to a daughter in the third year of marriage.Whether the prince's concubines were alive or died young, they all came from side concubines or concubines Gege.

In other words, Yinfeng is not pure-hearted, he is just not interested in the princess.Today, this indifference is also reflected in the attitude with the children.

When Li Yu reported this news to the emperor, he was disgusted. He acts like an abacus, how can he move it with just one dial, and he should check out all the annual ceremonies over the years.

That's not difficult to do, the annual ceremony records on the surface of Yuqing Palace are to be archived, just find an excuse to check in the archives.

After comparison, the annual gifts given by the prince to his children were almost the same in previous years.

In the past four years, Baozhu's treatment has become worse and worse than that of her elder brother and younger brother, and this year's Spring Festival ceremony is even noticeably shorter.

At first glance, it seems that this is because the relationship between the prince and the Guerjia family is getting colder, but Kangxi doesn't think so.

What happened in the Spring Festival four years ago?

It was the first Spring Festival after Suo'etu was given to death.

Kangxi could no longer believe in the character of the prince.

In his opinion, the cold reception of the Guerjia family and their daughter by the prince was due to the prince's retaliation for the lack of support from the princess's natal family.

Back then, Shi Wenbing's daughter was carefully selected as the princess.

Not only did he like the Guerjia family's self-cultivation and filial piety, but he also liked the talents and virtues of the men of the Shi family.

Kangxi was very sure that 15 years ago, he really chose the Guerjia family as the princess for the sake of the prince, but an unfortunate coincidence happened.

A year before the prince's wedding, Shi Wenbing was promoted from Fujian and returned to Beijing, but died of illness on the way.

Before the prince was married, his father-in-law died.

The death of Shi Wenbing not only means that the Guerjia clan lost his father, but also means the fall of a general, and the prince lost a powerful supporter.

Do you want to change the princess at this time?

Kangxi weighed again and again and did not make such a cold move.

The Shi family has worked for Houjin since Nurhachi's reign. Even though Shi Wenbing died, his uncles and brothers are all talents.

The death of the prince's father-in-law does not affect the appointment of others in the Shi family on merit.

At that time, Kangxi thought so, so he felt that it was okay for the selected daughter-in-law to lose his father, and the Guarjia family was still qualified to continue to be the princess.Moreover, she was not allowed to observe filial piety for three years, lest there would be too many variables, so she married the prince after only one year of filial piety.

Later, they did reuse talented people from the Shi family.

For example, Shi Lin, he is Shi Wenbing's uncle.During the San Francisco Rebellion, he personally sat in Kaifeng, Henan Province.Strict military discipline and calm people's hearts made the Eight Banners troops go south to fight smoothly.

Later, he was promoted to governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.Until his death in office, he has been working diligently for the people, and all the policies he implemented are for the sake of the people.

Another example is Shi Wenbing's cousin, Shi Wensheng, who is now also transferred to the governor of Huguang.

From the case of cracking down on the illegal group of human trafficking, we can see his vigorous and resolute methods.

Everything seems to be going well.

Shi Wenbing died young, but the emperor never treated the Shi family badly.

At this moment, Kangxi compared the crown prince's attitude towards his children, and finally determined who had a poisonous thorn in his heart when he got along with the Shi family's ruler and minister.

The more loyal the Shi family is to the emperor, and the more virtuous and filial the Guerjia family is, the more dissatisfied the prince will be, because of the four words - the country has no emperor.

Especially after conflicts of interests, ideas, feelings, etc. occurred between the prince and the emperor, it was impossible for those who were loyal to the emperor to support the prince.

For example, this kidnapping case.

After Shi Wensheng received the warning from the fourth child, he thoroughly investigated the gangs selling illegal population in Hubei and Hunan.

Who will be offended by doing so?

If what Wang Mazi said is true, there are people above him who are in the capital.The name of the person behind the scenes may be about to be revealed.

Even if there is not enough evidence, it is impossible not to suspect that Yinreng's interests have been damaged because of Shi Wensheng's fight against crime, so he treats the princess Guerjia who is also from the Shi family even more coldly.

When you don't like a person, everything that person does is wrong.

Kangxi didn't act emotionally, and once persuaded himself that Yinreng could change, but the facts were presented in front of him, and he couldn't admit it.

Therefore, in the spring of Kangxi's 45th year, an imperial decree was issued.

The reason for removing Ling Pu's position as the head of the House of Internal Affairs was that he was not good at supervising, and actually allowed the imperial goods to flow into the hands of the little leader of the human traffickers.

Yinxu, the king of Lianjun, took over the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the ten elder brother Yinxu assisted him.

Not long after, the Yuqing Palace shattered porcelain all over the place.

Ling Pu is the husband of the crown prince's nanny, and it is said that he left Yuqing Palace with red eyes.

Speaking to the outside world, he was dismissed due to a crime this time. He was ashamed of the trust and promotion of the prince, and failed to take care of many matters in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

What is the inside story, a wise man sees wisdom.

Kangxi didn't give Ling Pu a chance to pay off his merits.

This person was not chosen by him, but appointed by the crown prince more than three years ago.

Three years didn't let Ling Pu learn how to do things, so there was absolutely no need to stay any longer.Even in terms of personal affection, Yinhu, who succeeded him, is the prince's younger brother, isn't he closer than the nanny's husband?

The real answer to this question, but no one can put it on the table.

From now on, the prince can't care less about making trouble for the fourth son who is far away in the sky.

Yinti, who was near the capital, became the main target of the princelings after Yinti.

In the court, there must be disputes arising from this.

Kangxi sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, and took advantage of this to disperse all the first-time students of the Faculty of Science.

Last year, some students who had studied for two years were assigned to various practical positions in batches. Although the positions were not high, they were all positions that could train people.

Now I have arranged the rest, and I am going to wait for three months before enrolling for the first time.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, can't there be some joyful things from the bottom of your heart?

Kangxi found that when reading the old four family books, his mood was different from usual.

Although this kind of pleasure is different from the general definition and mixed with emotions such as worry, it is very rare not to have to stretch the heartstrings of intrigue.

Fortunately, there were no more abductions and trafficking cases in the fourth letter, nor did they accidentally find so-and-so's treasure again.

According to what was written in the letter, the expedition team entered Yunnan and Guizhou, and their lives were generally stable.

The challenges encountered are mainly brought about by the natural environment, such as difficult travel, such as a process of adaptation to the local climate.

These difficulties have long been expected, and they can be overcome by biting one's teeth.

Along the way, another difficulty I discovered was a headache—the people were in danger of food shortages.

If the population of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi continues to increase, the existing grain production will be in short supply.

Improving farm tools, increasing production, introducing new food species, etc. must all be done, and it might as well be multi-pronged.

Among them, the focus is on the promotion of corn and sweet potato planting.

During the Ming Dynasty, corn and sweet potatoes came to the south with merchant ships, but they were regarded as novelties, not as one of the staple foods.

This situation continues to this day, and sweet potatoes are grown on a wider range than corn.

After field surveys, even if there is no plain arable land in the mountainous highlands, corn can grow vigorously.Relatively speaking, corn is more viable than other staple crops and has high yields.

There have been successful planting experiences in some mountainous areas in eastern Yunnan, and the specific situation is enclosed with this letter.

Not only that, but I collected different varieties of corn, sweet potatoes and other crops that I encountered along the way.

Comparing the yield and adaptability to the living environment between different varieties, it is expected that new varieties with higher yields will be bred through hybridization.

It is none other than Mo Yaqi who is doing this agricultural research in depth.

Kangxi looked at the information that came with the letter.Although the granddaughter's calligraphy is not beautiful enough, the content of the writing is easy to understand and detailed.

good!very good!very good!

The content of the report on the crops is the most important, and this report is many times stronger than the memorials written by those courtiers who were sitting on vegetarian meals.

Kangxi could foresee that if the youngest daughter of the fourth family continues to develop at this pace, over time, tens of thousands of lives can be saved.It is a great contribution to make people not hungry.

Mo Yaqi did not exaggerate in any way, and wrote clearly that not being hungry and having enough food are two different things.

That requires the efforts of several generations, even dozens of generations.Continuously improve in terms of fertilizer, farming technology, breeding and so on.

All she can do is take a small step first.I hope that when natural disasters and droughts come, the victims will be able to eat a little food.

Even if the taste of those corn varieties is not delicious enough, even if those crops cannot be used as staple food, at least this assistance can reduce the number of people who are starved to death.

Kangxi expressed his approval that he always takes steps to do practical things, and he can reach thousands of miles without accumulating steps.

Mo Yaqi, the name of this granddaughter began to be put in his heart.Then, he took the initiative to find the jade certificate and looked it up, making sure that the little girl is almost ten years old.

Ten years old, still early.

Kangxi calculated the time, he basically waited for the princess to marry his daughter when he was sixteen or seventeen years old, and the fourth brother didn't have to worry about marrying his daughter.

He said he was not in a hurry, but subconsciously, the criteria for finding a grandson-in-law had already been set.First of all, fully learn from experience and lessons, and stop looking for honorable and powerful officials like the Tong family.

Character is the most important thing, and it is also important that the granddaughter likes and can hold back.

Mo Yaqi must always maintain a good mood and not be troubled by trivial matters, so that she can develop greater talents in improving crops.

After thinking about a lot of things, I seem to have forgotten one thing. What was it?

Kangxi rubbed his head, feeling that he should pay attention to something, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

Thousands of miles away, the land of Canton.

Wu Fuyi brought Yinzhen, Mo Yaqi, and Wen Xian to Guangzhou Mansion in the late twelfth lunar month of the 45th year of Kangxi.

After a thorough investigation into the trafficking case in the middle of last year, the four separated from Yinzhen in Hunan.

Although the investigation of the human trafficking gang and the processing of Li Zicheng's treasure took some time, the mission still proceeded according to the original plan.Yinzhen took a batch of pearls with his guards and went to Guangzhou first, opening a new door to Western merchants for luxury pearl whitening products.

The main body of the delegation entered Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi. This journey mainly recorded the different local customs and people's livelihood.

Wu Fuyi guided the agricultural report written by Mo Yaqi, and asked Yinzhen to review whether there were any oversteps or omissions in words, and then sent the piles back to the capital.

After walking for a year and a half, bid farewell to the plateau and mountains, and came to Guangzhou at the end of the year.

Guangzhou Mansion is different from the naked eye.

First of all, you can see Europeans with hair of various colors, and the atmosphere in the streets and alleys is obviously more relaxed than that in the capital. For example, people dare to discuss the affairs of the court openly.

Wu Fuyi and his party were about to go to the foothold.Yinzhen arrived in Guangzhou Mansion one year in advance, bought a big house here, and then went to join him.

Put the luggage on the carriage and pull it, but the person is not sitting in the carriage.Walking slowly through the streets is to better understand the layout of the prefecture here.

A sentence in raw Cantonese came to mind, "What's the book, what's there?"

When Wu Fu heard the whisper behind him, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

No need to look back, the non-standard Cantonese sentence just now was Wen Xian practicing in a low voice.She came to Guangzhou with determination, and went to the stalls of major commercial shops to buy all kinds of novel books.

The content of the book can be summed up in one sentence, but it will not let go of anything related to solving the case.

Or being stimulated by the Longkodo incident, Wen Xian became interested in uncovering the truth.

And Hunan encountered deciphering the whereabouts of Li Zicheng's treasure and rescuing Huang Luzhuang from being wronged and imprisoned, which further increased her interest in solving cases.

Wu Fuyi didn't stop Wen Xian from developing his hobbies, but he didn't know how to mention this to Kangxi.

After the divorce, his five princesses have the courage to live out themselves, and their interest in life has become a detective who wants to reveal the truth?This and his fourteenth elder brother's greatest hope is to become a dog-blood writer, which one is more unreliable?

Thinking about it, he looked sideways at Yinzhen, why are his younger brother and younger sister so biased in their hobbies?

At this time, Yinzhen didn't make a fuss about Wen Xian's whisper behind him, he was looking away at a tea shop.

Although he was calm on the surface, if you look closely at his eyes, it is obvious that he is very interested in the chat topic of the tea shop.

I only heard three porters talking there, speaking in Hokkien.

"Hey, it's really hard. Quanzhou has an admiral who confiscated the house, and I don't know what will happen when we ship the goods back to Fujian."

"What are you afraid of? Admiral Lan likes to steal houses, and that's also for rich people. We are ordinary people, and it's not up to us if we want to copy."

"What if? It's not sure. The King of Hades is easy to talk, but the little devils under him are difficult to deal with. What if they copy us?"

Wu Fuyi lightly poked Yinzhen's arm to bring him back to his senses.

After this person entered Guangzhou, he felt a little unaccustomed to the climate. Although he was not in a state of depression, he was always a little lazy. Unexpectedly, he was full of energy at this moment.Obviously, he is very interested in the topic of other people's chatting about house raids.

What are these hobbies?

Sure enough, not a family, do not enter a door.

The preferences of brothers and sisters Yinzhen, Wen Xian, and Yinzhen became strange.Who started this and got it wrong?

Yinzhen came back to his senses, and was facing Shangwu Fuyi's strange eyes.

Wu Fuyi seemed to be concerned and asked, "Have you recovered from your acclimatized illness? Are you recovering?"

The corners of Yinzhen's mouth twitched slightly, because he heard the meaning behind the words.

——The real meaning of the old ghost, "Si, Si, what's the matter with you? You're not sleepy after hearing people talk about house raids?"