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In Prince Lian's booklet, he specifically mentioned his ninth younger brother, and the emperor also thought of the other two brothers in his busy schedule.

It seems that I haven't heard their movements recently - originally their movements were all against the ups and downs.

The emperor asked Prince Yi, "What have you been doing lately?"

Prince Yi really knows the current situation of these two people very well, "Brother Ten didn't do anything, and Brother Huang also knows that Brother Ten has always been lazy and rarely finds things to do by himself." It can be said that what Master Ten did before All these things are basically out of worship and blind obedience to the Eighth Master.

As soon as the eighth master left, he stayed in the mansion for half a day.

Prince Yi said that he hadn't done anything, which was actually inappropriate: Master Shi just didn't care about his business, and he was idle neither as an official nor as an official.But the daily life is still very busy, shooting swans and fighting horses, playing chickens and training dogs, commenting on operas and holding banquets, how lively it is--Prince Yi's mansion has received several pairs of parrots raised in Shi Ye's mansion, and the words are very neat. , and will sing a couple of plays.

"But Ninth Brother..." The Thirteenth Master showed an indescribable expression and a smiley expression: "Actually, if Prince Lian needs it, Brother Huang can send him away, saving him from being Huo Huochen. "

The emperor asked with a questioning look in his eyes.

Let's say that before Ba Ye left for Yunnan, everyone who should be cheated was cheated once, but those who should be protected did not forget to give a few more instructions.

The ninth and tenth younger brothers are good brothers who have followed him since he was young, unlike the courtiers who support him but have their own ideas, so Ba Ye can ignore those ministers, but he has to arrange for the two younger brothers to leave at ease.

Prince Lian's instructions to the ninth and tenth younger brothers are: "Our emperor is a man, and if he offends him, it will be difficult to turn around. After this dynasty, do you want to be a powerful prince like the thirteenth brother?" It's possible."

"Fortunately, we are not courtiers...or not just his courtiers, there is a layer of blood in the end, and the nine brothers and ten brothers have only followed me these years, and have not done anything that the emperor hates. After I went to the border , you should keep in touch with Thirteen more, if in the future I anger the emperor because of something, and let him remember the old things to implicate you, it will be useful if Thirteen can speak for you."

Prince Lian is also playing a clear card, let the old nine and ten go to approach Prince Yi's mansion, the emperor will understand the intention of the three brothers to be soft.

Outside the carriage before leaving Beijing, Prince Lian also emphasized his instructions to the Ninth and Tenth Masters: "You two families will live in peace from now on, even if it's absurd. But remember to avoid court affairs, let alone In the court, you are angry and choked with the emperor. In this way, you should be able to keep safe."

Sure enough, the ninth master and the tenth master followed this order, and did not make a sound in the court, but gradually began to communicate with Prince Yi's mansion in daily life.

The Thirteenth Master has a good temper, and in the world in their memory, the ten-year struggle in Kangxi's later years was missing, and the brothers did not reach the level of life-and-death enmity that was fiercely fought and stabbed each other in the later period, which is not irreversible. .The Thirteenth Lord would also like the emperor to have a better reputation. Of course it would be best for the brothers not to fight against each other.

So he is also willing to be a mediator in the middle, expressing goodwill to the ninth and tenth masters, especially emphasizing to them that the emperor's temperament is the most affectionate, and he is very kind to his brothers.

The ninth and tenth masters didn't have the filter of Prince Yi, but they wanted to live and live well, so they pinched their noses to admit it, and agreed with Prince Yi's filter: yes, yes, the emperor is the best.It turns out that we are ignorant brothers.

And as he got closer to Prince Yi's mansion, Jiu Ye's nature of being rich was exposed.

In fact, after Master Shi was not involved in government affairs, he was very relaxed and happy. He was very comfortable and happy at home; The money is not only for myna's success, but because he likes money very much.

There is so much money in this world, and it flows like water outside, why can't it flow into my pocket?

So Master Jiu approached Master Thirteen: "Brother Thirteen, I heard that the emperor rewarded half of your garden, do you want me to clean it up for you?"

The emperor has always treated Prince Yi very well, there is a reason why only half of the seats in the viewing garden are available.

Let’s say that after Nian Gengyao subdued the law, King Xun quickly took control of the situation in Qinghai—he was originally the prince and the emperor’s younger brother. , can mobilize the subjective initiative of the army.

Seeing that a large number of generals have fallen, it is rare to have some vacant positions. They naturally want to show their face in front of the county prince and gain a future, and they are fighting like a raging fire for this.On the basis of the morale of the army, Fourteen personally led the troops to patrol the borders on both sides of Qinghai like itinerant hounds, and beat back the small troops of the Junggar Khanate who often came to provoke and the small robbery cavalry of the Heshuo Special Department of Tibet. .

Qinghai guards the Central Plains in the middle, and Junggar and Tibet at the two ends often come to the border for friction, eyeing the territory of the Qing Dynasty covetously.

King Xun's attack can be regarded as telling the two Khanates who are ready to move: Although I am young and I have just arrived, but Nian Gengyao can defend Qinghai, and I can also defend it.

It's a small feat.

Therefore, the emperor divided the Changchun Garden into two halves and gave it to his two younger brothers: the thirteenth half and the fourteenth half—it wouldn’t do to reward the whole one. Regulation is at the imperial level.Even if one is divided into two and rewarded to the two princes, it will have to be rebuilt.

When the emperor distributed the garden, he rewarded it according to their preferences: there were many houses, especially half of the riding and shooting ranges were given to Fourteen;

At this time, Prince Yi appealed to the emperor because of this.

"Brother Jiu said he was looking for someone to tidy up my garden, but in fact he went to pick up my flowers and plants! Just take out a plant and say it is a famous species produced in the late emperor's imperial garden, and there are imperial merchants from all over the country who came to Beijing. It’s a pity that it takes a year and a year to bloom and thank you. But Brother Jiu didn’t just empty my glass room. He wished he could not let a single piece of bamboo go unnoticed, so he would chop it up and make it into chopsticks, saying they were Royal Garden Bamboo Chopsticks."

The emperor has no doubts that Lao Jiu can do this: in his previous life, even if he was exiled, he would not forget to set up a stall at the border to do business, and later developed a border market...

Thirteen This is a brotherhood, just said some trivial things.In fact, Master Jiu was really crazy about making money, and he even approached 13 twice: "Brother Thirteen, you are in charge of the household department, so can you share this year's Yanyin or Tongyin with me?"

Thirteen was speechless immediately: Salt, iron, and copper are the lifelines of the country, how could they be given to him to do business without capital to make money!Moreover, Brother Nine's money has always been in and out. For example, the money for selling flowers and plants, the Ninth Master did not give Prince Yi a little bit, and even Changchun Garden's steward went to the mansion to pay the bill. The money, Jiuye kept it in the account of Prince Yi's mansion, under the euphemistic name of tidying up the garden for the thirteenth brother.

Just looking at his half-bald garden, Shisan would never hand over the important official introduction to Brother Jiu!

Master Jiu also knew that this was impossible, so he settled for the next best thing: "Then can you entrust me with the unimportant imperial merchants who supply palace flowers and concubines' rouge?"

Thirteenth Master couldn't help but spit out: "Then I'm afraid that next year the palace will be as bare as my Changchun Garden, and even the ladies will not have powder on their faces."

These light and expensive goods were handed over to Lord Jiu, and he didn't even peel off the skins of the imperial merchants.

Master Jiu was not happy anymore: "I'm a serious businessman, okay?"

Prince Yi had no choice but to say, "Ninth brother, are you a decent prince?"

Jiu Ye hasn't got any high-profit business he wants yet, but Thirteenth Master always feels that Jiu Brother will not give up.Hearing the emperor's question at this time, he quickly suggested, why don't the emperor get him to cheat Annan instead of cheating me here.

The emperor thought for a while, then got up and said, "Come here and take a look at the military aircraft map I drew two days ago."

The Thirteenth Lord and the Emperor went to the 'drawing room'.

Ever since he started to draw military aircraft maps, the emperor opened up a separate room in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Inside, there were dozens of iron plates classified according to the type of government affairs, with palm-sized magnets affixed to the military aircraft maps.

The emperor brought the thirteenth brother to the front of the diplomatic map.

I saw a lot of countries marked on it: Tsarist Russia, England, France (France), Italy (Italy), and Greater Luzon (Spain).

Annan and other small border countries are not on this map, but on another military aircraft map of the small southern countries.

The Thirteenth Lord saw that the emperor first moved the magnet representing Annan's progress by a large piece, and then took Prince Yi to look at the maps of Western countries.

"Western countries, France is the one with which we communicate the most." Although Tsarist Russia is on this map, it is not actually a Western country because of its geographical transition.

This is a very familiar neighboring country. There has been a good treaty signed between the two countries, and there are also commercial offices of Tsarist Russia in Beijing and China, which can be regarded as stable trade.

But the rest of the Western countries are in the early stages of exchanges with the Qing Dynasty - there is only occasional population flow between the two countries. For example, France once sent a team of Qing Dynasty envoys, but in fact it was a team of priests to preach. The soldiers come over.

This is also because King Louis XIV of France had a correspondence with Lord Kangxi, and the monarchs of the two places had a good relationship.Louis XIV was also a young "Emperor", and he had a common language with Lord Kangxi.

"England and other countries have always wanted to imitate Tsarist Russia and have more trade with the Qing Dynasty." The emperor picked up a few gadgets on the table next to the picture of the military aircraft and showed it to the Thirteenth Lord.

Just now Master Shisan saw the refined bronze models of these western ships.

The emperor said: "You also know that I gave the Thirteen Treasury to Concubine Xin. Her grandfather used to be in charge of the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou. She knew a lot about Western affairs from her family education. It is not a disappointment to her. These days, she On the contrary, I found some interesting things from the Thirteenth Treasury."

The Thirteenth Master looked at the Emperor, and couldn't help laughing: I don't know if the Emperor himself knows, but when he mentioned Xin Concubine, his tone was different, with an indescribably gentle meaning.

The emperor didn't pay attention to Thirteenth Brother's expression, but just showed him the model of the ship, pointed to some tiny places and said, "This is not an ordinary merchant ship, this is a battleship with many red-haired cannons on it. "

The Thirteenth Master looked at it intently, and then became serious: "If they didn't fabricate it, it would be troublesome if there is such a warship-my brother looks like there must be hundreds of cannons!"

The Qing Dynasty currently has no such ships.

The emperor put down the model: "I just took out a few, she found a whole set of such models, if there are groups of ships, you have to be more careful."

"These days, I have read many records of French envoys entering Beijing more than 20 years ago. When they talked about the origin of their country, I found that these Westerners would measure the national strength of a place wherever they went. If the country If the army is small and weak, they will directly invade and rob and do business without capital. If the country is strong, they will be honest and try to do business."

The Thirteenth Master understood what the Emperor meant.

"Then explore their family background?"

The emperor nodded: "Since they want to do business with us, let them come!"

Westerners like to do no-cost robbery business, just right, Lao Jiu also likes it!Go for it.

"In the future, if you reveal this matter to Lao Jiu, he must really want to get involved. Let him give me a report first, and ask him to write an article on this matter about 'Qian Li Liu' to me. Look." The emperor used this topic to test the courtiers before, but none of the princes took the test.

To be honest, the test papers handed in by the courtiers did not satisfy the emperor. Even Zhang Tingyu and others, who were experienced and seasoned, inevitably fell into many boxes.Now, the emperor is going to take this question to test Lao Jiu again, maybe he will have a different answer.

"If the old nine answers well, let him go to the Lifan Academy to be an official, in charge of dealing with Westerners opening business houses in central Beijing. Let him do his best to harm outsiders!"

Don't catch the garden that I gave to the thirteenth brother and weed it desperately.

In November in Beijing, the first heavy snowfall finally fell.

It has been some days since winter, and there has been little rain or snow in Beijing.Since the emperor, all ministries in the court have worried that next year will be a drought year, which is not conducive to spring sowing.

If this continues, it will inevitably turn to metaphysics.

Just before Qin Tianjian had counted the days and suggested that the emperor go to pray for rain and snow, another snow came just in time.

The snow fell very well, it wasn't a big storm, but it fell slowly all night, it really was like fluff, covering the land softly and silently.

Jiang Heng got up early and sat by the window to enjoy the scenery.

It was late in winter, and people in the palace got up early, so candles were still lit outside. The lights and snow scene reflected the red walls of the Forbidden City at night, which was astonishingly beautiful.

"Your Majesty, why don't you comb your hair first, the Emperor should get up soon."

On the snowy night, the emperor stayed at the Yonghe Palace.

It's just that the emperor slept in the back palace where Jiang Heng used to live, and Jiang Heng still slept alone in the front, occupying a big bed by himself.

Because there is no room for two people to sleep on the bed——Jiang Heng's body is heavy now, and in order not to hurt her waist from lying flat all the time, Nanny Yu has already set up several bean pillows for her on the bed, so that when she turns around, The waist is supported.

"Many pregnant women have broken their waists while lying down to raise their babies, and they can't raise them for many years after giving birth. Empresses should pay more attention when they are young, so as to avoid suffering in the future."

In fact, no matter how good the care is, childbearing is still a great drain on women.For example, the Empress Dowager, after giving birth six times, even though she has basically received the best care a woman can receive in this era, she still suffers from a lot of minor illnesses and pains, and back pain is even more common, so she always calls the Tai Hospital The nurse from the hospital came to give her a massage.

Of course, having said that, maintenance is better than no maintenance.

Jiang Heng is now following Nanny Yu's instructions, often doing waist protection movements, and trying to sleep on the bean pillow at night - because the child will grow up and press on the internal organs, it is not easy for her to lie on her back now. It was hard to fall asleep.

People in Yonghe Palace never thought that the emperor would stay here with a pregnant concubine.

However, when the emperor came to the Yonghe Palace in the evening, nothing happened. After seven o'clock, the sky suddenly started to snow like catkins.

When the emperor wanted to stay, he originally thought that he could sit on the sidelines at night and feel his daughter's fetal movement.

He was busy with palace affairs, and every time he came back to see Jiang Heng, it would be too much to stay for more than an hour.Therefore, I never caught up with my daughter who moved a lot.At most, I only felt a slight movement in the palm, as if it was just a child shaking his body.The emperor was very regretful, thinking that tonight would be just right, and he could just sit back and wait.

But when the emperor went to the bedroom to take a look, he found that there was no place for him to sleep on the bed.

After listening to Nanny Yu's explanation, the emperor stopped the palace servants from tidying up the bed, nodded and said: "Since this is good for the waist, you can stay here and sleep, and I will go to sleep in the back hall."

Su Peisheng hurriedly asked people to go to the back hall to light a brazier to dry the house. Fortunately, the earth dragon would not be too cold if it kept burning.

While waiting for the apse to be tidied up, the emperor looked at these bean pillows, and watched Jiang Heng being carefully supported on the bed, and felt so exhausted. He wanted to say something to comfort her, but he didn't know where to start.

Let's say that in the previous life, he was estranged from the mother and son of the empress dowager. As soon as he entered the palace and became the emperor, the empress dowager died immediately.Therefore, the mother and son have little chance to talk, let alone talk about the past, and talk about the hardships of the empress dowager giving birth to the emperor.

This world is different, the emperor saw almost the whole process of Jiang Heng's pregnancy with his own eyes, and whenever he had any doubts, he asked the queen mother: "Is it like this when Erniang was pregnant with a son?"

The queen mother was also happy to tell her son about ancient times, so she told him in detail, and the relationship between mother and son became more harmonious because of this.

The emperor can understand the hard work of the queen mother, so he can see Jiang Heng's hard work.

Jiang Heng saw that the emperor was sitting and watching her, and he didn't speak, but stared at her badly.He simply stuffed a loose-leaf book into the emperor's hands: "It's rare for the emperor to have time, so it's good to read to the children."

The emperor opened the loose-leaf book and flipped through it, only to see that she sorted out the stories about children in the history books separately.For example, Gan Luo worships the prime minister, Cao Chong calls an elephant, and Sima Guang's children hit the urn. They are all specially selected, obviously to tell the children.

The emperor looked at these transcriptions and couldn't help laughing: "You are too impatient. Before the child was born, you prepared all kinds of allusions about child prodigies and read them to the child? How can she listen?" In the emperor's heart, the child was not born yet, just like Nezha, he was a ball, he couldn't open his eyes and he couldn't be obedient.

Jiang Heng corrected with a smile: "Don't the emperor know? The child can hear it even before it's born."

The emperor glanced at Nanny Yu in surprise, and after getting a nod of affirmation, he cleared his throat and began to read to the child seriously, thinking: If I knew that the child would be able to hear it before he was born, I would have ordered people to prepare various classics, and the best ones would be selected. You, let Minmin start reading in her stomach.

It's not too late now, the emperor picked up the story and said: "Since that's the case, I will order more people to send some books. In fact, it is also good to read more books of changes for children."

The emperor finally picked an allusion he was satisfied with, and started to 'tell a story', but Jiang Heng regretted it just after the emperor started: the emperor's tone was like making a statement to the military aircraft department, with a serious and low tone, not angry prestige.

Jiang Heng felt that the child was moving uneasy in his stomach. He didn't know whether it was because he couldn't get used to such a majestic voice telling stories, or because he knew the emperor's heartfelt words and refused to open the book in his stomach.

So when the palace people went back and forth to prepare the apse for the emperor to rest, Jiang Heng was still relieved.

The emperor got up, saw Jiang Heng moved his body on the bed, and hurriedly said: "Don't get up."

Jiang Heng said with a smile: "The emperor overestimated the courtiers and concubines. Even if you asked me to stand up and send off the holy car, I would not be able to get up. If I want to get out of bed now, I must be helped." In fact, she thinks You can do it yourself, but move around a bit.

But that movement looked very difficult and dangerous, and it had been strictly prohibited by Nanny Yu and others.

There are so many people in the Yonghe Palace, why the empress needs to struggle by herself.Mother Yu said: "The concubine is in the late stage of pregnancy, and she can't leave people around her for a moment. Your empress, don't get out of bed by yourself. If you fall down, it's not a joke!"

Jiang Heng also remembered that a colleague said that in the third trimester, if she wanted to get up at night, she had to be supported by her husband.Sometimes when the other half works night shift, she has to slowly and carefully roll to the left side, and then prop up and move out of bed at an angle.This process is so difficult that I want to cry.

The emperor looked at her black hair scattered on the pillow like a cloud, and even when he was sitting up, he always had to subconsciously move - originally he wanted to help her to lie down, but after listening to her, she found it difficult to breathe when lying down.

The emperor stretched out his hand to caress her cheek, his fingertips finally brushed against the softest skin under her chin, with infinite affection.

"It's really hard. Don't worry, we Minmin will be a filial child in the future." The emperor is going to find a book about filial piety and send it first.

Jiang Heng now sleeps early and wakes up early, and wakes up early in the morning to watch the snow.

When the emperor came to see her from the apse, he found that she was combing her hair, so he stood behind and said, "I don't want to go to Chengqian Palace to pay my respects, and I don't need to comb it anymore, I'm too tired."

But Jiang Heng turned his head and saw that the emperor was wearing very different clothes, there was no dragon pattern, and it looked like a rough dyed satin material, he couldn't help wondering: "The emperor's clothes?"

"I changed into the clothes of an ordinary squire, and am going to leave the palace."

Today, the emperor will take Prince Yi and others out of the palace for a private visit, especially in the suburbs of Beijing: go deep into the countryside to check whether the houses have collapsed; Is there any ground subsidence problem on the official roads in the capital? If the snow can't stand it, it must be a tofu project.

The emperor felt that he was well-dressed, which was very suitable for the country gentry class, but Jiang Heng thought it was not good after seeing it.

Even if he put on coarse clothes and pretended to be a beggar to beg for food, with the emperor's temperament, it made people feel that begging had to have four dishes and one soup.

But regardless of what Jiang Heng thought, the emperor felt that he dressed properly and went out with Lord Thirteen.

They wanted to pretend to be ordinary gentry and wealthy households, and the accompanying guards were even lower. Gong Tai, the majestic nine-door admiral, put on coarse clothes and acted as a long-term worker.

A group of people whose temperament and clothes don't match at all slipped around inside and outside the capital.

It even became popular news in the suburbs of Beijing within a few days: Have you heard of it?A group of people dressed in nondescript clothes came and wandered around our village.Look at the good horse, he is not an ordinary person, maybe some high-ranking official in the capital!

And the emperor didn't forget to visit the largest bookstore in central Beijing during his incognito tour, planning to get some books for his children to read.