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The emperor went out of the palace in micro-clothes, not only went to the village of Zhuangtian in the suburbs of Beijing, but also went to the Scholars Guild Hall outside Xuanwu Gate.

The guild hall is a hotel specially prepared for candidates entering Beijing to rush for the exam. The imperial government provides subsidies for non-imperial examination years, which can be regarded as semi-official.After all, there is only one test every three years—the hotel is not an antique store, and it will not open for three years. It is still difficult to open for three years, so the official will subsidize some money.

When the emperor first came to the throne, he opened an Enke. After three years, the spring of the fourth year of Yongzheng next year will be the time when many candidates will strive to make great achievements after several years of hanging their heads.

Many candidates from other places, especially those who are far from the capital in the south, will choose to go to Beijing half a year in advance, and come to Beijing early to live in the guild hall.

Once it is difficult to go out, you have to wait until the next year to start again. In case of bad weather or illness along the way, it is easy to delay the trip so that you will not be able to catch up with the test of the year-how many years can a young man have for three years?Don't delay, it's better to set off early for insurance and peace of mind.

Secondly, if you come to Beijing in the morning, you can also do some work in advance. If you have family connections, you can meet some great scholars in advance. If you have relatives and friends, you can also get familiar with the geographical environment in advance. Lost in the exam and delayed the major events in life.

"The capital city is huge, and the roads extend in all directions. Many main roads are still forbidden to pass through. For those who arrived in Beijing late, the guild hall has no buildings, so they have to rent other houses or live in inns. If you are not careful, I didn’t go to the examination room in advance. It is very likely that when the day of the examination arrives, the scholar will be delayed by carriages and horses, and it will be a three-year delay if he cannot enter the Gongyuan!”

Jiang Hengxin said: "It's like not bringing the admission ticket for the college entrance examination or being late, it's heartbreaking."

At this time, she was walking slowly in the house, while listening to Nanny Yu talking about the guild hall.

Before leaving in the morning, the emperor told her that today he will go to the suburbs of Beijing, and he will also visit the guild hall and Lifan courtyard. It should be very late when he returns to the palace, so she doesn't have to wait, just rest on her own .

As soon as the emperor left here, Jiang Heng asked, "Where is the guild hall?"

They are not natives, so their common sense is still lacking.This means that she arrived at the palace in the book as soon as she opened her eyes. The characters knew about it in advance, and she also attended a training class for a month. reincarnated.

Jiang Heng didn't know the guild hall, so he asked questions openly: She remembered seeing the Red House before, and Shi Xiangyun didn't even know the pawnshop in it, and was surprised by the business of the pawnshop.

It can be seen that girls who have not left the cabinet are always kept out of news.

Sure enough, Jiang Heng didn't know about the guild hall, and Nanny Yu was not surprised, so she explained the guild hall to her.

Jiang Heng heard that the guild hall hardly opened in non-imperial examination years, and only non-local candidates who were not short of money rented it to live there.

He couldn't help saying: "It is also an inn, and there are many merchants who come and go from south to north, so why are there no customers at ordinary times?"

Nanny Yu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, only the masters who have taken the Jingzhao exam can live in the guild hall. Merchants have their own special merchant houses."

The two structures are also different.

There are a lot of houses built in the guild hall, some big and some small. The big ones are reserved for the children of rich and powerful families. Although the price is high, the supply is still in short supply;

The residential apartments for merchants are sparsely populated, but with large patios and many warehouses, which are more convenient for merchants to store their goods and silver.

Nanny Yu intentionally chatted with Jiang Heng more, to distract her from her first pregnancy and the tension in the late stage, so she said in detail: "I don't know, although the guild hall is not in the bustling area of ​​central Beijing, the nearby houses are very expensive. Because there It is a place where only scholars can live, especially in the year of the examination, and the sound of books is even louder, and the nearby families will let their children listen to the voices of these masters for edification."

After all, those who can come to participate in the examination are already the best in all parts of the country, and they have the status of juren.

Juren may not be considered a big man in the capital city, but if placed on a vast land, in a local county or township, it is definitely a "Master Juren" - just look at how happy Fan Jin was when he won the examination.

A guild hall that only lives in Juren is of course a place where the essence of literary talent is concentrated.

If Meng Mu's third move is rich enough, the custody will also move here.

Jiang Heng said with emotion: "In the whole country, the only room in a top school district is of course expensive."

Although Madam Yu had never heard of the word "school district" before, she understood the word "school district" and she understood it immediately, and then said with a smile: "Your Majesty is right, but it is the only one! Although the guild hall is in the outer city, It is the only house in the outer city that is much more expensive than the inner city. It is really hard to find!"

Jiang Heng looked down and couldn't see his toes, only his stomach.

She looked at her stomach: Minmin doesn't need a room in the school district, she will live with her on a two thousand square meter flat on the only ring road in the capital.

The emperor, Prince Yi and his party did not enter the guild hall, they just watched the gathering of scholars from the outside.

Although it has not yet reached the heyday before the March Spring Festival, the guild hall is already in a state of prosperity. Many early-arriving Juren come and go, most of them are steady middle-aged people (refer to the age of Fan Jin, you can know that it is really hard to be admitted to Juren. It is the end of the life of many scholars), and there are also some high-spirited young people.

The emperor was very pleased to see this, and said to Prince Yi next to him, "After the imperial examination next year, there will be a group of new officials entering the court."

Reforms cannot be achieved overnight, and his previous life has proved that even if he is exhausted alone, he will not be able to take care of the whole country.

He needs younger and fresher courtiers, chosen by him himself, who can understand his ideas.

Almost every imperial examination will have outstanding figures, who will be able to play a pivotal role in the future and have a certain influence on the court.I don't know if he can find some outstanding talents this year.

Talent is never too much.

Not only talents who have passed the imperial examinations, but all kinds of talents are needed by the emperor. Facts have proved that even crooked talents can have unexpected effects as long as they are used well.

For example, Lao Jiu.

Hearing that the emperor intends to entrust him with business with Western countries, Master Jiu is in a daze of being hit by a dream.

It's like walking to the river and dropping your iron axe. Originally, you wanted to get the silver one out and forget it, but the river god sent out a golden axe!

Master Jiu originally wanted to get some projects to select the imperial merchants and just make a little money in his hands, but who would have thought that he could do business with foreign countries!

If there is anything that can be more profitable than Yanyin, it is this kind of maritime trade.

I still remember that my brothers read history books when I was young. When Master Jiu saw the development of commerce in the Song Dynasty, especially sea routes, and the high annual tax revenue of its shipping department, he thought it was very interesting.

Especially after his Emperor Ama Kangxi merged the Shibo Department into the Salt Department, this became the official position Jiu Ye dreamed of: Salt Administration + Shipping, isn't this a double super double money buff!

Later, when he got closer to Ba Ye, he often said the same thing to his elder brother: If my brother is the master of the world, let me go to Guangdong to be the general manager of the promotion department of the market department!

Although this official position is only fourth grade, Lord Jiu doesn't dislike it at all. This is his dream love post.It's a pity that with the emperor's ascension to the throne, Master Jiu's employment dream was shattered.

I thought that the rest of my life would be to do some small business in the capital (brothers' wool to do business without capital) to make a living, but I didn't expect that the emperor would use his ideas.

Deal with Westerners!

Master Jiu really couldn't wait.

"Have you read Lao Jiu's theory?" On the way back to the palace, the emperor asked Prince Yi.

Prince Yi nodded with a smile: "I saw Brother Jiu's strategy and theory, and I knew that Brother Huang would use him to deal with Westerners."

The emperor nodded.

The topic of "money facilitates the flow" is very straightforward, it is to make money move, but even Zhang Tingyu is limited to how to make the flow of money in China work.

But as soon as Master Jiu heard about the Westerners, he wrote a policy theory from a completely different perspective.

What suits the Emperor most is precisely Jiu Ye's answer: of course money must flow, and foreign money must flow to the Qing Dynasty, and Qing money will continue to circulate within the Qing Dynasty, with trade as the source.

He also gave the emperor the example of Song and Liao: At that time, the northern towns on the border of Song and Liao needed to buy horses and other things from the Liao Kingdom, and a large amount of money inevitably flowed out.Later, the Song Dynasty realized that something was wrong, and quickly restricted this kind of loss-making mutual market-the economic game between countries, it depends on who can earn whose money and who can achieve a trade surplus.

The simplest truth is to let money flow into your own pockets.

At the beginning of December, Jiang Heng received a lot of fresh goods from Britain, France and other countries.

And a pair of very small gold pocket watches brought by the Emperor himself.It is smaller and more delicate than all the pocket watches in the palace now.Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see large clock palaces in the West, and even the manufacturing offices and folks can imitate them.But the fine craftsmanship of this small pocket watch has not yet been produced in France.After all, the smaller the volume, the finer the process required.

The pocket watches are an identical pair, and the emperor left both of them for her, and will give one to the child in the future.

"Lao Jiu has established a firm in Beijing." The emperor knew that she was interested, so he briefly told her about Lao Jiu's business with Xiyang.

After Jiuye entered the Lifan Courtyard, he quickly wrote a booklet and planned to open another Western business house next to the Tsarist Russian business house in Beijing.The emperor approved the approval, but only one.

Originally, there were no Western merchants in Beijing and China, and the circulation of goods in overseas countries had to be traded in ports such as Guangzhou.After the money and goods were cleared, these Western goods had nothing to do with Westerners, and officials or businessmen in the Qing Dynasty tried their best to send them to the capital.

England and other countries were envious of Tsarist Russia's special treatment of being able to open a business store in the capital: at the foot of the emperor, where the rich and powerful gather, if they can open a business store, it will definitely open up sales!Earn more silver taels!

Now finally have a chance.

Although the western business house has not yet been fully built and is only being selected for its location, these well-informed multinational businessmen will not miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.As a result, Westerners who had been staying in various ports to discuss business put down their business one after another, and flocked to Beijing to fight for this top priority—after all, there is only one business house, and whichever country grabs it first will take advantage of it!

When Jiang Heng heard this, he felt that Master Nine really deserved to be in business. He knew the truth that rare things are more expensive, so he set up a business hall and let Western countries compete for jobs.

The most intense competition is Britain and France.Especially the representative of Yingjili, who was rich and well-connected, directly bypassed the Lifan Academy and met Jiuye through someone's introduction.He gave Jiu Ye a lot of bribes in private.

However, acting like this can only show that he doesn't understand Jiuye, this one needs to get the standard money, whether he can do it or not is another matter.

He didn't say anything about assigning the only Western firm in the capital to England.

England is a little anxious: we rarely pay so much, we usually rob, just ask India.Why we are called East India Company.

Besides, the representative of England to the Qing Dynasty was not an ordinary businessman, but a jazz.Because he made a lot of money by selling Chinese goods, this Sir is also a well-known figure in England. He has a title and a lot of money. He has never been bullied like this.

When Lord Jiu took money again and did not do anything, and continued to come to him for money, the Sir English was finally annoyed, and expressed his anger in extremely unskilled official language: "Money is for you, yes, no Work, no way."

Jiuye used to always smile when he was taken advantage of, as if he was going to recognize his brother from a foreign country.However, seeing that the English people didn't plan to give him money anymore, it was much happier and more confident for Jiu Ye to turn his face than him.

What jazz, is there a hard sign of his title?

"In the yamen of my Chaoli Fanyuan, you slapped the table loudly at me, Baylor! Don't even look at where you are standing now! This year's candidate for Jingxiyang Commercial Bank, you, Yingjili, are the first to be eliminated! "The officials of the Lifan Court next to him kept wiping their sweat: Actually, the Westerners didn't take pictures of the table, only you, Master Jiu, were taking pictures of the table.

Yingjili never thought that such a person existed in the world!He was smiling when he took the money, as if he was a brother who was far away from the ocean, but he turned around and refused to admit it!

Moreover, Jiu Ye is also very bad. He is not sure which country will give up the right to use this western firm, but competes for one every year.

So much so that even if the Englishman is half-deadly angry, he can't just throw up his sleeves and leave: he has to swallow his anger and apologize to Lord Jiu, and continue to win the relationship, so that even if he is out this year, he will enter the competition next year.

Otherwise, if you have been on the sidelines, wouldn't you lose to France and other countries!Those countries can't wait for England to compete with Daqing Nine Baylor and withdraw directly from the competition to lose one opponent.

Afterwards, Master Jiu also forgave Ying Jili very generously, and added him to the candidate list of the Western Business Hall next year: After all, it is not difficult to ask Master Jiu to forgive someone, just pay a lot of money.

Ying Jili told Master Jiu to cheat her for a while, it was really hard to tell, Jiang Heng told this as an anecdote to the fourteen Fujin who came to visit her, and the fourteen Fujin said very humorously: "Oh, that's really true. The tortoise drills into the stove—suffocating and suffocating!"

Jiang Heng almost laughed at this allegory.

Fortunately, Qiu Xue was supporting her from behind.

Jiang Heng's current body shape, let her describe it by herself, is a bit like a jujube stone, with small ends and a large middle.In the third trimester, there is an obvious change in the abdomen almost every ten days.

Jiang Heng was looking forward to giving birth as soon as possible. The inconveniences of the third trimester were too trivial to describe.

It's okay when she is alive and kicking, she can have fun by herself - before she was pregnant, she could gather more than ten geese in the Royal Garden just by blowing the whistle.Not to mention her thirteen warehouses, her small garden, and her flat floor. At that time, I walked around twice a day, looking at the dazzling babies, and felt that life was better.

But once he was inconvenient, Jiang Heng realized how convenient and interesting modern society is.

She misses her mobile phone, computer, and being able to connect to the outside world while lying down.

Especially today when Fourteen Fujin talked about the allegory about the tortoise autumn—in fact, Jiang Heng has always treasured an allegory about the tortoise, which she just saw on the Internet two days before the accidental crossing. Take it out for dinner with friends on weekends.

"Bastard's day reading—I can't stop studying (laughs)." When Jiang Heng saw someone using this allegory in the barrage, he almost rolled off the bed laughing.

It's a pity that she has not used the turtle language once, and she is wearing a book.

It's a pity to think about it now.No one here would understand her joke about commuting and living in school, so I had to think about it and laugh for a while.

Laughing lonely and stomach ache.

Therefore, Jiang Heng missed his mobile phone more and more. After suffering from lovesickness, the discomfort on his body seemed to be more obvious. He only felt that as the weight of the child increased, the back pain that was not obvious at first became more and more serious. Jiang Heng had to spend more time on it. Close your eyes and rest in a daze.

After a few days of tossing like this, it seems that the mood is far worse than before.

When Qiuxue found that her mother was not in the right mood, she hurriedly went to Nanny Yu: "Mommy, your mother has always been fine, why is it that she is about to give birth, and she suddenly behaves like this?"

Nanny Yu was calm: "At the end of a woman's pregnancy, she is always worried about gains and losses and tends to think too much. At this time, you have to act as if nothing happened, otherwise the concubine will think more."

He couldn't help sighing: "My lady is pregnant for the first time. How can she not be afraid of giving birth?" A woman's pregnancy is really a journey of life and death.

Qiuxue tried her best to act as if nothing had happened, she loosened her outside and tightened her inside, revealing everything on the surface, only smiling and gossiping with Jiang Heng, but in fact she kept one eye open at night, for fear that the concubine would be under too much pressure and suffer from insomnia, and would even do something worse. Something to hurt yourself.

Nanny Yu has been in the palace for so many years, it's not that she has never seen a concubine whose mental state is not right during pregnancy, and even hurt herself and her fetus.

Fortunately, she slept in the outer room, and every night with her ears pricked up, she heard that the concubine was breathing steadily and sleeping well, and even muttered a few words in her sleep occasionally.

Nanny Yu let go of her [-]% of her mind: Sleep is okay, it means that the pressure is within the controllable range.

But even if depression is within the controllable range, there are also some.Nanny Yu can control the entire Yonghe Palace without revealing strange expressions, and does not put extra pressure on Jiang Heng, but she can't control the emperor.

The emperor came to Yonghe Palace every day recently, after two days of observation, he found that something was wrong with Concubine Xin, so he pointed it out directly: "You seem unhappy these few days, but what's the matter?"

Jiang Heng put down the half-drinked berry tea, and said to the emperor, "The midwife has already lived in Yonghe Palace two days ago."

The emperor wondered: "This makes you unhappy? Is there someone who doesn't fit your eyes? Then change it." The emperor personally ordered it to pass, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs would never dare to pick an unqualified midwife to come over. Blessed with many children, there are quite a few nuns in this palace who have experienced childbirth, so you can choose the best among them.

But qualifications are one thing, and acquaintances are another.Not to mention senior and experienced, she doesn't like it at first glance, so just change it.

Jiang Heng shook his head: "The nuns are all experienced and careful. They will come to tell the concubine every day how to exert force, how to adjust the breath, and how to save energy to help the childbirth."

The emperor is more and more confused, isn't this a good thing?

Jiang Heng smiled bitterly: Yes, no one will understand.

The appearance of these midwives made her understand more and more that once a dystocia occurs, it is not the emergency operating room, experienced doctors and nurses, or scientific treatment and monitoring that greets her. Try to breathe hard, and hold on before giving birth so as not to pass out or you may not be able to wake up.

She couldn't explain this gap and fear to anyone.

After a while, she suddenly looked at the emperor and said, "Your majesty, I beg you to do something. If the concubine's life is extremely difficult, you can directly issue an order to protect the child. Then give the concubine a bowl of medicine, so that the concubine will not go away like that." Is pain okay?"

Long before he became pregnant, Jiang Heng had heard of many secrets in the palace.

Not to mention concubines, or even queens, they are incomparably more important than princes.However, if the empress or the concubine has a difficult labor, the rescue efforts will be greater. The imperial physicians and midwives will not dare to neglect their own heads, and will do their best to protect both adults and children.

But those ordinary unfavored, low-level concubines who happen to be pregnant, if they encounter dystocia, they will be miserable.They are like containers containing treasures, and the precious forehead is never themselves.For their own lives, these midwives must first save the prince and princess, so they will choose rough and quick methods, preferring to 'break the container', but also take out the treasure inside as quickly as possible.

Jiang Heng will do his best to live and live well.

But she is also a person who can afford to let go, if it is all pain and suffering, she will simply let go.

After she said this, she felt a burst of relief in her body and mind.

However, hearing her say such words, the emperor felt extremely depressed.

After a while, he only told her to rest and left the Yonghe Palace.

He can't get angry with her, so as not to cause her to have ominous wild thoughts, he can't even directly reprimand her for being wrong, it is a customary rule in the palace that the emperor's heir is the most important thing.

With this kind of depression, the emperor went to Qianqing Palace to find a quiet room to sit in.

In the eyes of the emperor, the child was always one with her.He often summoned the imperial physician to ask how Concubine Xin was doing, thinking that she would be fine if she was a good child.

It wasn't until this moment that the emperor was really awakened by her words: From the day of delivery, the child is a child, and she is her.

The presence of a child even represents her danger.

The emperor came to this quiet room to make a fortune teller, but he held the tortoise shell in his hand, thought about it but put it down again.

Not counting.

He didn't know if there were any heirs back then, so he could ask the hexagram of destiny, because it would be better if he had an heir, and he would accept it without it.

But it was related to Concubine Xin's safety, so he suddenly decided not to look at any hexagrams anymore.Because he didn't want to bear the consequences of calculating the unlucky hexagrams.

Why should he care about the established rules.

I am the Son of Heaven, and I am the Son of Heaven all over again.Since this Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty that was given to me, and I have done my best for the court, can't I still choose the personal life I want?

Even if this was the child he was looking forward to, even if this was the daughter he sent from somewhere consciously.

But he had to choose, the fresh woman who had been by his side for two years now, and the unborn child...he wanted to choose her.

Always choose her, just when he refused to throw out the divination, he knew his choice from the bottom of his heart like a mirror in his heart.

The emperor rested in Qianqing Palace that night.

He has never liked Qianqing Palace very much. There are too many traces of Huang Ama here. After all, this is the place where Huang Ama lived for 50 years.

But tonight he rested very peacefully.

The next day, the emperor privately summoned Imperial Physician Liu and Nanny Yu, who was in charge of managing the midwives.

Imperial Physician Liu prepared the draft: the emperor will definitely ask Concubine Xin how the womb looks like and whether the delivery will go smoothly.Physician Liu memorized manuscripts all the way.

The same is true for Yu Yu, who chanted as she walked: "Xin's concubine's womb is very positive, the baby's head is facing down, the mother has not gained much weight since she was pregnant, she also restrained her food, and the child is not very big. And the mother is not a narrow pelvis." The unhealthy figure should be smooth."

Of course, they didn't dare to tell the emperor to death. There is no absolute safety in childbirth, and it is not a joke to go around in circles before the gate of hell.

Who knows when Yama's door will open and when he will catch people.

However, none of the drafts they typed were used.

The emperor ordered very straightforwardly: "If Concubine Xin is in danger during childbirth, protect Concubine Xin first."

Fortunately, both Imperial Physician Liu and Nanny Yu are people who have experienced many storms, so they can accept the emperor's head-on impact.

After the emperor gave his orders, he looked at Nanny Yu again.

Nanny Yu was very alert, and immediately said: "This servant will follow the emperor's order, and will never go to the empress dowager to play with her tongue."

The emperor nodded and ordered them to retreat.

Physician Liu and Nanny Yu came out and looked at each other: God bless, the concubine Xin will give birth to the baby smoothly.