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Hongli held his breath and finished writing the policy theory, and when he put down the pen, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

He pressed it up and down with a paperweight, drying the ink on the paper, and thought: Although the graphite pen sent by France is good, the core is fragile and easy to be erased, and it cannot last forever.

Unlike Hong Zhou who likes to display new gadgets when he gets them, Hong Li's residence in Elder Brother's residence does not have any Western objects except for the necessary Western clocks.

The only one placed on Duobao Pavilion is a mechanical ship.

Hongli's gaze fell on it, and he walked over to take it down: it had been on display for several years, and he almost forgot about it.

It was a birthday present from Concubine Xin, a French mechanical boat that could float in the water.At that time, Hongli liked it and thought it was very delicate, so he didn't put it in a box, and put it in the Old Summer Palace.

At this time, he asked the eunuch at the door to fetch a basin of water, put the mechanical boat in the water, turned on the engine, and saw the boat sailing lightly on the water for a while.

After that, Hongli raised his hand to dump the water, and saw that the boat was out of water, so it stopped moving and just stopped at the bottom of the basin.

He thought to himself: No matter how exquisite a western boat is, as long as there is no water, it is just a waste.

Hongli wanted to implement the matter of banning the sea.Firstly, this is the holy words of the Emperor Mafa in his later years, and secondly, it can also be used to attack Su Yibo's mansion.

Hongli was getting older, and every time he recalled the influence of the imperial concubine's mother's family, he would be terrified.

Needless to say, the noble concubine's Ama Su Yi Bo is the leader of all banners, and he is also the minister of Manchu who is currently in charge of the Ministry of Industry.Moreover, when he was governing the river, he had a good friendship with the Fourteenth Master. This time in the Mulan paddock, Hongli really wanted to spend more time with the Fourteenth Uncle who had returned home after a great victory. Unexpectedly, he never had the chance. However, I heard that Uncle Fourteen even went to see Su Yibo Guanbao on purpose.

Apart from Su Yibo himself, Hongli was also very concerned about the concubine's grandfather and second elder brother being in the foreign affairs office.

That place has a lot of contacts with the clan's relatives and dignitaries in Beijing—any officials in Beijing who want to go back to their hometowns to visit their relatives or take up their posts abroad must go through the relationship with the foreign affairs office and get a batch of top-notch goods from the Western Commercial Hall. As a gift, when it comes to the outside, it is very dignified that rare things are expensive.

Hongli is a caring person, more than a year ago when the third elder brother Hongshi got married, Hongli paid special attention to observe Su Yibo's family at the banquet, and found that the eldest son of Su Yibo's mansion, the eldest brother of the imperial concubine, is a square, serious and unsociable However, his second elder brother, Jiang Yuan, has a wide range of friends, everyone seems to know him when he sees him, and it is always necessary to greet him with a smile.

Presumably it was because of his work in the foreign affairs office.

The contrast is too obvious, Concubine Xi's mother's family did not produce any outstanding officials.

The third elder brother got married, and only Concubine Xi's Ama was able to sit on this huge scene.But he was able to have a seat in the grand wedding ceremony of the prince, not because of his vain official of the fourth rank, but because he has a grandson of the prince and a daughter of a concubine.

Hongli just saw his grandfather sitting awkwardly in the middle seat. Compared with Su Yibo's mansion, Hongli looked uncomfortable and embarrassing.

Because he and his grandfather have not met a few times, the relationship is not deep.

Concubine Xi is a concubine, inferior to the noble concubine of Yonghe Palace today. Hongli mostly feels sorry for Erniang, but seeing that his grandfather's house is not as good as Su Yibo's mansion, Hongli is more embarrassed and dissatisfied. He just feels that the rope can't be worn Tofu.

Concubine Qi's Ama is still a magistrate who is in charge of a party. Hongshi got married, and Li Zhifu, as a grandfather, naturally received congratulations from many clansmen and nobles at the banquet. Although he was a little nervous, it was still Cope well.

But seeing his grandfather sitting on the table, even if no one was paying attention, he was restless, Hongli couldn't help worrying that when he got married two years later, his grandfather would not be able to socialize, making people laugh at the fourth elder brother's family for being so unable to stand up!

From that day on, he disliked anything Western even more.

If the matter of banning the sea can be achieved this time, then there is no need for the foreign affairs yamen to exist. Presumably it will be disbanded soon, and Su Yibo's mansion will collapse in half.

As Ju Hongli knew, because old Su Yibo was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi before, he didn't know if he took advantage of the Guangzhou Thirteen Banks and foreigners, so he strongly opposed the forbidden sea.

Most of the people in favor of the sea ban are experienced and prudent officials in Beijing, while those who oppose the sea ban are mostly young officials and local officials who have heard the news.Most of the young officials are low-ranking officials, so the old Su Yibo's unequivocal opposition to the forbidden sea has become a reassurance for them, thinking that not everyone in their camp is soft-spoken.

Even Jiubeile said when he argued in front of the emperor: "What do those idiots who have never moved their buttocks in the capital all their lives and have never seen the sea know? Brother Huang, it is better to listen to old Su Yi than to listen to their strange screams." The pertinent words of Uncle Bo and the officials from all over the world."

Then, because the emperor's speech was too irritable, the emperor had not decided whether to ban Hai, but he was silenced first, so that he would not be allowed to quarrel with others in the court, and Jiu Ye would be suffocated to death.No, when I heard that Fourteen was back, I hurriedly recruited foreign aid.

Therefore, although Lord Jiu was the vanguard against the forbidden sea, the most staunch force among the officials who opposed the forbidden sea was Jiang Heng's grandfather, Lao Su Yibo.

Ju Hongli looked at it, if the forbidden sea was true, the reputation of Uncle Su Yi's mansion would inevitably dim for a while, and a lot of contacts would also be lost.

So no matter whether he was working in public or private, Hongli was looking forward to doing the thing of banning the sea.

For this reason, he gave some pointers to Hong Zhou's articles.

When Hongshi came back, Hongli decided to persuade him again: the third brother is a foreigner called Afurongkeng. He even lost his qualification as the crown prince, and now he has to go to various ports to check and ban smoking. He must be willing to simply ban the sea. Fortunately, enjoy the blessings in Beijing.

A total of three older and sensible princes, if they all support Jin Hai, and they all quote the words of the ancestors, the balance in Huang Ama's heart must be tilted.

Those courtiers who supported the forbidden sea must also feel that their confidence has greatly increased and they will continue to speak out.

"Come on."

The inner eunuch came in upon hearing the call, and saw that there was water on the floor of the study, so he quickly wiped the water on his knees with a cloth in his hands, and Hongli waved them to take the basin away.

Just as the little eunuch picked up the silver basin, he saw that there was also a very delicate western boat in the basin, which seemed to be a precious thing.

He didn't dare to hold it with his hands, so he quickly held it up through his sleeve and sent it up.

But I heard the fourth elder brother say: "This thing is useless if the machine is broken, just throw it in the brazier outside and burn it."

The little eunuch was taken aback, such a precious thing was burned?He hurriedly said: "Brother, I want this slave to be sent to the construction office for repair..." Before Hongli could get annoyed, a clever little eunuch rushed over and said, "I will burn it right now, slave!"

This ship model was built in imitation of a real ship, with finely carved wooden boards on the outside and a metal ship skeleton on the inside. Throw it into the charcoal brazier, and the outer layer will burn quickly.

After a while, the little eunuch held the brazier stand and showed it to Hongli, and saw that except for some silver and copper skeletons inside, all the rest had been burned, and the original appearance could not be seen anymore.Hongli knew in his heart that Gu Badai was the sixth brother's first teacher, and his depression finally dissipated.

Nodding his head, he said to the clever little eunuch, "This is your reward."

The silver and copper used to make the keel in the ship model are also hard currency and can be sold for money, not to mention that a lot of gold was used in the machine expansion to prevent rust.

Hong Zhou cobbled together an article, and then sighed: Fortunately, Huang Ma has a lot of words, and in his article, quoting his old man accounted for half of it.The remaining half of his own writing is that Che Jilu agrees with Huang Mafa that he is right!

After reluctantly finishing writing, Hongzhou himself felt a little guilty, so he showed it to his exclusive husband Wu Xiang.

Teacher Wu was shocked when he saw it: He always knew that his students were not very good at learning, but he didn't expect that he suddenly became an expert in fooling!

Reluctantly, he said euphemistically: "Long live God asked my elder brother to write current affairs policy to test my opinion on border defense and coastal defense. My elder brother still has something to say." The implication is that my answer is wrong It doesn't matter, isn't it a bit too much for you to fool with the hadith of the late emperor?

Hong Zhou sighed: "Sir, I really don't have much insight. I wouldn't have been able to write this article if my fourth brother hadn't pointed me out."

Wu Xiang was stunned: "The fourth elder brother pointed out this strategy of the fifth elder brother?"

Hong Zhou nodded, and confessed all of Hong Li's advice.

Unlike Hong Zhou, Wu Xiang is very familiar with the hadith of the ancestors, and he is also the editor-in-chief of several volumes.

He quickly saw the problem: the hadiths of the ancestors taught by the fourth elder brother to the fifth elder brother were all forbidden to the sea!

It should be known that Lord Kangxi has been emperor for fifty years, and his state of mind is not static.

In his early years and later years, the late emperor had practiced banning the sea, but in his prime he learned from Western culture. He even bestowed Nan Huairen of the Western Belgian country with the title of Qin Tianjian, and even gave him a posthumous title—— Just judging from his attitude towards Westerners, the late emperor was more open than he is today!

However, the fourth elder brother never pointed out these words to the fifth elder brother.

So much so that the fifth elder brother wrote a policy theory that obviously pieced together the words of the ancestors who banned the sea.

Wu Xiang was able to be the prince's tutor, with such a meticulous mind, the current Hongli is really not enough in the eyes of those who have been in the officialdom for many years.

He quickly guessed Hongli's mind by [-]% or [-]%, and then became worried.After thinking about it again and again, he came to hint to Hongli's master Xu Yuanmeng: I can see things, the emperor's eyes are like a torch, can't you see the tricks in the two elder brothers' articles?I came here to make a good sale. You said that you and your student, Brother Si, should edit the article together.

Wu Xiang really had good intentions: he is a close minister of the emperor and a master of the prince, how can he not see that the future crown prince will be between the fourth elder brother and the sixth elder brother (if the emperor no longer gets old).

In the eyes of a scholar-official like Wu Xiang, he is still stronger than a young man. Seeing that the fourth elder brother was confused, and the most important thing was that his student fifth elder brother was implicated, I would like to remind him tactfully.

It was fine if he didn't remind him, but Xu Yuanmeng's face turned blue when he reminded him.

It turned out that the fourth elder brother never showed Xu Yuanmeng this article.Ordinary teachers can ask students for homework, but they are princes and masters, and their status is embarrassing.The fourth elder brother didn't show him the strategy at all, how could Xu Yuanmeng persuade him?

So Xu Yuanmeng was very painful after hearing Wu Xiang's hint: Why do such tragic things always happen to me.

In the past, he was a teacher for the prince Yinreng, but the prince became a waste prince. As his teacher, Xu Yuanmeng, who was naturally assigned to the team, was very helpless and trembling for many years.

In the end, the emperor changed. Well, he started his life all over again, continued to be a teacher for the fourth elder brother, and was forced to stand in line again, and this prince was just like the previous prince. He made up his mind that he would not listen to anyone. reason.

Xu Yuanmeng: God gave me an outstanding talent, could it be just to mess with me?

Seeing this, Wu Xiang also understood that Xu Yuanmeng couldn't persuade the fourth elder brother, so he had to leave with regret, and deal with his own troubles first when he came back: he spared no effort to sort out a timeline for Hong Zhou's change of Lord Kangxi's attitude towards the West, and then followed the temptation to let Hong Zhou rewrote a policy theory.

When Mr. Wu was exhausted, he heard that Xu Yuanmeng was ill.Xu Yuanmengdao was afraid that going to the study would bring his sickness to the Old Summer Palace, so he specially reported to Prince Yi, who was temporarily in charge of the country, and went back to his home in the capital to recuperate.

Prince Yi saw that Xu Yuanmeng was not too young, and he was really sick and haggard, so he agreed to leave.

Mr. Xu ran away, trying to fight for the matter of banning the sea until there is no result, it will never get better, and it will even continue to go bad.

He really didn't want to get involved in the fierce fighting between the princes openly and secretly.

Wu Xiang: ... What a good way, if I had known I would be sick too!

Having said that, Wu Xiang looked at Hong Zhou, who was working hard but painstakingly rewriting the policy theory bit by bit under his guidance, and his heart softened again: the fifth elder brother is indeed simple in nature, but it is rare to be sincere when he was born in the royal family. His words and deeds on weekdays, whether it is for the elder brother, the fourth prince, or the younger sister, the fourth princess, are all true feelings, not what he guessed at the beginning, and the fifth prince is betting on both sides.

He was also sincere and respectful to his master who came halfway, and came to ask for advice without any secrets.That being the case, Wu Xiang is not willing to retreat calmly like Xu Yuanmeng, he wants to stay for a few more years, and try his best to watch the way forward for the fifth elder brother in the next storm, so that he will not be used unconsciously go.

"Mother!"

When Jiang Heng hugged his daughter whom he hadn't seen in January, he suddenly felt his heart was full.

The emperor came in behind his daughter.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Jiang Hengzheng squatting down and hugging his daughter, looking at him and asking how he was doing with food, clothing and daily life, a smile appeared on his face: the emperor will naturally go to pay his respects to the queen mother when he returns to the palace, and the queen mother greets him like this, as if he It seems like the emperor will suffer.

That's about it for parents.

This time the emperor brought a one-month-old child by himself, and he has a deeper understanding: even though he knows that there are dozens of wombs around Minmin, he is still afraid that the person is not dedicated enough, so he always has to go to see his daughter's sleeping face before going to bed, and then put the brazier and curtains on the bed. Only after checking all the gaps can you rest assured.

Seeing the emperor coming in, Jiang Heng looked up at the emperor without getting up, and said, "It's good that the emperor is back."

Ever since he heard the word Forbidden Sea from the mouth of the sixth prince, Jiang Heng has not been able to relax completely for a day, and always feels that there is one thing that weighs heavily.

The history she knew finally counted in this matter.She couldn't figure out what the emperor's attitude towards the forbidden sea would be.

At this time the emperor came back, although he still didn't know his inner decision, but Jiang Heng felt much more at ease.

Seeing her looking up at him like this, the emperor felt joy from the bottom of his heart, so he responded subconsciously: "Zhen is back."

Then she stretched out her hand: "Get up first." She squatted like this and hugged the child, her legs became numb and easy to shake after a while.

Just as Jiang Heng stood up following the emperor's hand, he heard the sound of the little eunuch's busy announcement, which almost came in together with the sound of the child's footsteps.

"Sister! Huang Ama!"

Sixth elder brother was rarely so excited, he walked in and greeted him, he walked around the emperor and Minmin, and especially wanted to pull his sister to talk.

The emperor said: "Go back and change your homely clothes first, play for a while, and call you when it's time to eat."

The two children went to the apse hand in hand.

The emperor also changed into his regular clothes here, and drank half a cup of milk tea. He remembered something and was about to tell Jiang Heng when he saw Minmin running back again, wondering, "Emiang, what's wrong with brother? He suddenly put him in his room. The door was closed, and I couldn't push it open, he just said something inside, let me try to break in."

Jiang Heng smiled: "He likes to play like this recently, you just ask someone to open the door and drag him out."

He explained it to the emperor again.

From the time the sixth elder brother heard the thirteenth master and the fourteenth master discussing the matter of the forbidden sea, to his son asking what to do if the door couldn't be closed, he told the emperor openly.

These days, Jiang Heng often plays the "break the door game" with his son, asking him to think about how people can't get in the door.

He was still a child, and there were only a few methods he could think of. At first, when he hung the latch, Jiang Heng asked the handy eunuch to remove the latch for him from the outside.Sixth elder brother thought of having people move tables and chairs to block the door. Jiang Heng didn't even need to be called a handy eunuch. He just found a few big and round internal eunuchs to break open the door, then walked in and bent over to tap his son's nose: "I got it."

Brother Six continued to think about it.

After hearing the whole story, the emperor first smiled and said: "You are too bullying a child."

Afterwards, he told Jiang Heng that she would pick a few reticent internal eunuchs from the respect room to reward others without alarming others.

The house is quiet and there are no extra palace people, only the smoke from the incense burner.

The emperor's voice also softened: "This time, I also brought someone back to Beijing by the way. He came back from exile with an amnesty. This person is of great use to me. I won't ask him to show up for now. I just want to tell you something in private. Just arrange a few people to serve him."

Jiang Heng couldn't help being curious, the mysterious person who came back from exile?

The emperor didn't hide it from him: "Your grandfather should know this person. His name is Dai Zi. He was recommended to me by Mr. Gu. He was a good friend of Mr. back then. It is said that this man has been good at firearms since he was a child, and now he is used in the army. The mother cannon was made by him, and it has been decades, and still no one can surpass him."

Dai Zi!

In the eyes of future generations, this genius of mechanical firearms in the early Qing Dynasty is a very regrettable buried scientist.He is unbelievably clever in mechanics: this mother-child cannon also originated from England and other countries, and it was first described to Kangxi verbally by Nan Huairen, who only said that this kind of artillery was much better than those made by the Frangians before. , in the physical sense, 'hype' can burst.

Lord Kangxi had many battles to fight at the time, so he was naturally interested, and even asked Nan Huairen to be a consultant to the firearms battalion, but after more than a year of tossing, nothing was done.

But Dai Zi, who was serving as a lecturer at the Imperial Academy at the time, was very interested in this, so he invited him to take over this mess and make a mother-in-law cannon.

It was directly used on the Junggar battlefield. Sure enough, the firepower was excellent. Under the cover of firepower, Junggar had to avoid its edge.

It is said that Dai Zi only took eight days.

If it took only eight days to change the mother-child cannon, and there are still rumors of unknown truth, then there is one more thing that is enough to prove Dai Zi's talent in firearms.

In the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi, the Netherlands sent envoys to the DPRK and sent five pipa guns, which are said to be the only ones in the world that can fire 28 bullets in a row, which can be regarded as showing off their muscles.

Dai Zi was ordered to study this spear, and after waiting for five days, the Dutch envoy received a gift from the Qing Dynasty, and even imitated the same continuous-firing firecracker.

Dutch envoy: ...Are we here to send experience points?

Dai Zi's talent is so good, if placed in the right era, perhaps the achievements are far more than these two.

It's a pity that like many talented people, he is upright and not very good at being a human being, and he offends others without knowing it - it's this temper that hits fate with Gu Badai, and the two get along with each other inseparably.

However, good friends walked together hand in hand, and soon Gu Badai was dismissed by Lord Kangxi as a teacher. Dai Zi was worse than his good friend, and was directly exiled, and he was exiled to a stone-cutting field in Shenyang that specially exiled deaf-mute prisoners. went.

The emperor knew his talent in machinery well, so even if he was exiled, he was afraid that he would leak the secret.Therefore, Dai Zi was exiled to a place where he could not talk to anyone.It is an extremely cruel punishment for a scientist who specializes in mechanical firearms to see nothing but rocks in the past 20 years, and a hand that can make a gun in five days can only be used to hold a chisel.

Until the emperor ascended the throne, Gu Badai was restored to his original post, and after returning to Beijing, he recommended Dai Zi to the emperor.

It's a pity that Dai Zi's crime is unforgivable, and it belongs to the special approval of Lord Kangxi. Even if the world is amnesty, it has nothing to do with him, and he will stay in the quarry forever.

The emperor didn't go against the late emperor's will, and he was also concerned that Dai Zi's temper was not the same as Gu Badai's, and he would still be tricked by people when he returned to the court.

Since Huang Ama asked him to stay in the quarry, it is enough to transform the 'quarry'.

Today, the rock-cutting field in the deserted area of ​​Shenyang has become a mechanical research institute.Dai Zi stayed there for eight years, studying all kinds of utensils with fascination - the firearms that the Fourteenth Master received from Beijing before the start of the Northwest War were newly researched by Dai Zi based on French firearms.

Not only firearms, but now Dai Zi and his craftsmen have already made clocks and watches.

The emperor didn't know that Jiang Heng knew Dai Zi. Seeing her startled, he said to her, "This man is very talented. I brought him back to Beijing this time. It was the ninth brother who wrote the letter. The French finally zeroed the planter." The bits and pieces are being delivered one after another.”

Unlike graphite pens, it is really difficult for the French to obtain such a huge planter from England.

Once, I almost smuggled a scrap car out, but was discovered by the English, and the group of French businessmen were almost beaten to death at the port.Later, they changed their strategy and began to transport spare parts out in fragments. After three years, they finally shipped almost all of them.

But the Duke of France expressed embarrassment: the various parts were shipped, but we couldn't fit them... and asked the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to find capable people and strangers to study one or two.

The emperor brought Dai Zi back.

Then he said to Jiang Heng: "His official career has been bumpy, and he has been exiled and has a weird temperament. He is unwilling to speak, let alone take care of his servants. You just find a few honest and taciturn inner eunuchs to be with him."

After seeing Jiang Heng and his youngest son, the emperor still went back to Qingyan in Kyushu.He called the thirteenth brother over and asked about the affairs of Beijing.

After Prince Yi finished his answer, he admitted his mistake first: "My brother talked about the forbidden sea with Fourteen that day, but forgot that the sixth elder brother was still there. I heard from Mr. Gu that the sixth elder brother always asked him about the forbidden sea and the fourteenth day. What about Western affairs?"

The emperor waved his hand: "No problem."

Speaking of banning the sea, the emperor ordered Su Peisheng to call the remaining elder brothers.

Sixth elder brother is still young, and he seems to understand it.

But for the rest of the sons, the emperor wanted to see what they had to say about this matter.