History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

"What's going on with the Eighth Prince in the household recently?" Putting the bad news from the thirteenth elder brother behind him, the emperor thought of the empty treasury and couldn't help but ask with a headache.

Liang Jiugong replied, "Going back to Lord Long Live, there is no movement from the Eighth Prince."

"Then what did Lao Ba do in the household department?" He asked Lao Ba to go to the household department to recover the owed money, not to increase his qualifications to make friends with ministers. The emperor thought that if Lao Ba couldn't do it, then he would be replaced by someone else.

The emperor was a nostalgic person, and he couldn't bear to urge some old officials to pay back the money, so he just left this matter to the scrupled Lao Ba. If he wanted Lao Ba to solve the matter, he had better come up with a comprehensive solution.

Liang Jiugong heard some news. Although the Eighth Prince was indeed chasing after the money, he didn't get much money back. He was looking for those small officials with no power and power. These small officials who lived in the capital were not qualified to participate in the event without exception. This time in the nautical trade.

They lived a simple life on weekdays, with a little salary to support their family, and the extra income was to write some calligraphy and paintings. Over the years, there were more newspapers, so they changed to contribute articles to newspapers, earning some money to supplement their family expenses.

In many newspapers, the analysis of current affairs published by the imperial court is thorough, and these articles cannot be written without some political experience.

As far as Liang Jiugong knew, Long Live Lord often read such newspapers, and occasionally found some talents from them.

But this group of low-level petty officials are really short of money. They were pushed to the top by debt collection. They had no way out. They went directly to the bank to mortgage their family's real estate and real estate before paying back the money.

It is said that Ba Ye is a kind person, but among those petty officials who have been extorted money, this man has become the king of hell with a smile on his face.

This morning, I heard that I was confronted with the eldest prince's disciple again, and that disciple had already gone to the eldest prince's mansion to cry.

Liang Jiugong told all the news he heard.

The emperor put on his glasses again and said, "Is the eighth brother not caring about the face of the boss?"

Regarding this point, the emperor really didn't expect that Lao Ba had always been the boss's follower, and he really didn't expect that he would directly attack the boss's people when he arrived at the Ministry of Households.

The emperor shook his head. In his opinion, it was a failure for Lao Bachao to take action against the boss. He is Concubine Hui's adopted son, and he should bear the name of ungrateful for attacking his elder brother.

The emperor didn't pay much attention to the household department. Hearing that Lao Ba had done such a big thing, he planned to wait a little longer to see what Lao Ba would do next.

Then I remembered that the most important thing for the court at present was to go to Japan for ocean trade.

The Japanese envoy in the capital returned after two years, intending to report back on the Qing Dynasty's trade with the Japanese country.

In fact, the country of Wa is now controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the policy of closing the country is implemented.But the Qing Dynasty wanted to open the door of the Wa Kingdom, and the Wa Kingdom could only accept it passively, and had to welcome it.

This time when the Japanese envoy returned, he also wanted to inform General Tokugawa of this matter, and also described in detail the strength of the Qing Dynasty.

More than 20 years ago, when the Qing Dynasty easily recovered Taiwan and was eyeing Japan.

The Japanese group shivered and stood at the mercy of others. Unexpectedly, they retreated suddenly. People who have experienced this experience still remember that this time they learned that the Qing Dynasty wanted to trade with Japan. For the Tokugawa shogunate, everything is easy to negotiate , as long as Japan is not destroyed.The current Admiral Tokugawa directly ordered to all his retainers that if merchant ships from the Qing Dynasty come over, they will directly open the port and provide warm hospitality, so as not to cause friction and bring disaster to Japan.

The emperor asked Liang Jiugong again, "Go and call the fourth child here." After February, the weather has turned warmer, and it is time to go to the country of Wa. Why is there no movement from the fourth child?

This should be put in the first two years. When the emperor was in good health, he had already set off to the south in February to inspect river works in various places.

In the past two years, the emperor obviously felt that his physical strength was declining, and the number of southern tours gradually decreased. He couldn't bear to stay in the capital in summer, so he went to the Rehe Palace early to escape the heat.

"Slave, send someone there now." Liang Jiugong hurriedly left the house, and sent two eunuchs, one to the household department and the other to Zhenbei Le's mansion.

This is just in case, if no one can be found in one place, it can also ensure that the other place will not fail.

The eunuchs rode horses and left Changchun Garden quickly. After looking for someone for about half an hour, the people who went to Baylor's Mansion came back first.

"The fourth prince is not in the mansion. I heard from people in the mansion that he took An Fang Fujin and a few young masters out of the mansion early in the morning to play."

When Liang Jiugong heard it, he screamed in his heart that it was terrible. How could it be such an unlucky coincidence that when Long Live Lord was looking for someone, he couldn't find anyone?

Liang Jiugong was not waiting for another person, and he knew that the Ministry of Household Affairs would definitely not find anyone.

He hurriedly walked to the main entrance of Qingxi Bookstore, and whispered inside, "Long Live Lord, I have something to report."

The emperor called "Come in".

Liang Jiugong walked to the couch, bent down and told the emperor everything the little eunuch had reported.

The emperor squinted his eyes and didn't answer. When Liang Jiugong was feeling uneasy, he heard the emperor say "hmm".

Liang Jiugong didn't know what Long Live God meant?Is it because I can't find anyone to keep my anger in my heart, or I didn't take this matter to my heart at all.

Then he asked tentatively, "Should I send someone to look for it again?"

The emperor raised his hand to stop him, "No need, the fourth brother will definitely come over when he receives the news, that's all right, you step back."

Anyway, it's not a very important thing, and I'm not in a hurry for a while.During this time, the fourth child was really busy, and the fourth child was transferred away, and everything was on his shoulders. When he reported the progress of the matter to him a few days ago, he was very thin, and there were spots on his brows. Deep creases.

It was rare for the fourth child to know how to rest, and the emperor was not in a hurry to urge him.

Liang Jiugong watched the Long Live Lord continue to bow his head to open the memorial, hurriedly beckoning someone to bring a new cup of tea, and then quietly retreated.

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Just after noon, the king of Zhijun was at the mansion of the king of Zhijun, who was eating his meal, when he received a report that it was Cha Shan who came to ask for an audience.

King Zhijun thought about it for a long time but didn't remember who this person was. Later, under Chang Shi's reminder, he remembered that this person was someone he had inadvertently recruited under his door several years ago.

At this time, King Zhijun had almost eaten, so he wiped his mouth and said, "Then call someone to come in!"

King Zhijun moved to the guest room, and a servant girl brought him a cup of tea to rinse his mouth.

After rinsing his mouth, someone below was holding a spittoon. After the King Zhijun spit it out, he washed his face, wiped his hands, and smeared on the balm in the copper basin brought up, before sitting down and drinking tea.

King Zhijun is a mighty and handsome man, but because he is the oldest among all the princes, it can be seen from the fine lines at the corners of his eyes that he is not young anymore.

In the past few years since he stopped fighting, he stayed in the house with peace of mind and thought about taking care of himself.

Just after taking a sip of tea, I saw a person outside the door step over the threshold, rolled over and hugged his leg, and shouted, "My lord, my lord, you are going to be the master of this slave!" , Ba Ye is too bullying!"

This frightened King Zhijun, he had never met such a person who came up to hug his leg without saying a word, so scared that he got up and kicked the person away.

After the person was kicked away, he responded and asked.

"Are you Chashan?"

Cha Shan was stupefied by the kick, and when he heard the question, he raised his head to look at King Zhijun, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, I'm a slave. Cha Shan, who came to worship under your door ten years ago, was finally transferred back after being away for so many years." It's Beijing."

ten years?

King Zhijun scoffed in his heart, it has been such a long time, how can he remember who this person is?It's just that I just heard the report.

"What do you want this king to decide for you?" After finding out who it was, Zhijun Wang was relieved and continued to drink tea. He just wanted to send him away quickly.

Cha Shan wiped away his tears, stood up and said, "The slave has been forced to die by the eighth master. The slave only borrowed 300 taels of silver from the national treasury. The other eighth masters who borrowed more than the slave just stared at him. The servant wants it. The servant has just entered the capital, and all the money in his hand has been used to manage, so how can he pay back the money. But the eighth master ignored it, and directly sent people to surround the servant's house, when to pay back the money, and when to withdraw... Isn't this slapping your face again, my lord? After all, this slave is also yours."

King Zhijun thought it was something, and he had been doing it for a long time.

Just last night, Lao Ba came to the mansion to play the side drum with him, saying that he would use some of his subordinates to perform surgery, mainly to show Khan Ama, and Khan Ama might give Lao Ba a hand if he was happy. It is a good thing for King Zhijun to increase the burden, and Lao Ba is in the same camp as him.

If Lao Ba has strength, it will be a good thing for King Zhijun. In the battle with the prince, he can gain the upper hand with one more person on his side.

What's more, he has already held most of the civil and military officials in his hands in Wu Laoba Zaiwen. The prince is already the end of the strong, and now he is just holding on, and he already has the intention of jumping over the wall in a hurry.

However, he didn't see Khan Ama's intention to abolish the prince, and Zhijun Wang was a little disappointed, and planned to add another fire.

Even what Shisan found out, he sent someone to guide him secretly. Otherwise, with Shisan's little guy who hasn't left the palace yet, how could he be so capable of discovering the prince's movements.

"It's only 300 taels of silver, are you short of this little money?" Don't think that he will be able to return to Beijing without knowing that he will be able to return to Beijing after ten years of release.

When Zha Shan said that he had no money, King Zhijun didn't believe it at all.

There is 300 taels, but the money is about to come out, which means that the face of King Zhijun was thrown on the ground and stepped on by the eighth prince. Naturally, Cha Shan didn't dare to make his own claims, so he came here for such a trip to chant and fight.

Cha Shan wiped away his tears, and said hesitantly, "300 taels of silver, I can find someone to raise it, but Ba Ye is targeting you like this, and my slave will complain for you!" Who doesn't know that Ba Ye is the follower of Zhijun King , This time he jumped out and hit Prince Zhi in the face, clearly to get rid of Prince Zhi's control.

King Zhijun kicked him, "Since you have the money, don't let it go. You still have the money owed to the treasury. Even if it is the master, the money owed has been paid back early. Do you have the face to come and cry to the master?"

When Zha Shan heard this, he didn't dare to vent his anger, and left dejectedly.

It seems that the money has to be paid back.

300 taels of silver, how long will it take to save it.

Since the downfall of Mingzhu, Cha Shan has searched for an official position and left Beijing, but he did not forget to find a good master for himself before leaving.

But what he didn't expect, just returned to Beijing, Eighth Master was the first to attack him, and his master directly kicked him out.

Thinking of this, Cha Shan had the idea of ​​finding another backer.

Not long after lunch, the Third Prince heard the news that someone from the First Prince's residence ran to the door crying.

After learning about it, he was very happy.

Originally, I wanted to go to the eldest brother's house to comfort him, but I didn't expect to receive bad news before I left. Lao Ba not only turned the gun on the boss, but also aimed at him. Two of his subordinates were also killed by Lao Ba. Chasing and begging for silver.

The third prince was furious. Fortunately, he found out that there is a silver mountain in the Wa country, and he brought Lao Ba to make a fortune with the trade with the Wa country. He didn't expect how long it took to disband, and Lao Ba would not give him face.

Immediately, the third prince stopped going to the eldest brother's house, and turned the car directly to the household department. He was going to settle accounts with the eighth brother!

The weather was so bad that day, the fourth master's family went out for a spring outing, and even the fourteenth elder brother in the palace couldn't stay anymore. After telling Concubine De, he went out with the sign coaxed from Concubine De palace.

When he found time, he didn't go anywhere and went directly to Brother Jiu's mansion.

Ever since he grew up, the fourteenth prince didn't play with his own brother very much, but got close to the nine and ten brothers who had played with him since he was a child.

He happily came to Ninth Brother's residence, but the Fourteenth Brother was shut out as soon as he was reported.

Seeing that the concierge refused to let him in, Elder Fourteen immediately became angry, thinking that he was the lawless lord in the palace, how could he bear being stopped outside the door?

Then he rolled his eyes, and instead of breaking into the mansion directly, he got into the carriage and asked to send him to the tenth brother's mansion.

When we arrived at Elder Brother Shi's mansion, we only found out from Sister-in-law Shi after asking that Elder Brother Nine sent people to call Elder Ten today to redistribute their respective shares.

As soon as the fourteenth elder brother heard it, he knew that the ninth brother must be in the mansion. Just now he made it clear that he did not want to see him, so he asked the porter to block him.

Brother Jiu didn't see him, so he had to see him today.

No one can stop Fourteenth Brother's dog temper.

In the palace, only Concubine De can subdue him, so naturally no one can stop him outside the palace.

Arriving at the gate of Ninth Brother's mansion again, Fourteenth Brother didn't care about the obstruction of the doorman, straightly puffed up his chest and rushed in, giving these slaves ten courages, they didn't dare to touch him.

In this way, Brother Nine rushed into the outer courtyard all the way, causing the entire outer courtyard to be noisy. Brother Nine and Elder Brother Ten, Yaerjiang A and Baotai who were discussing in the study room all heard the movement and came out.

As soon as Brother Fourteen saw Brother Nine's eyes lit up, he waved to Brother Nine through the guards who intercepted him, "Brother Ninth!"

Ninth Brother waved his hand with a headache to let the intercepting guards back down, Fourteenth Brother ran over and stood in front of Ninth Brother, and asked him with an unhappy face, "Ninth Brother, why did you let someone stop me outside? ah?"

Brother Nine also said with a displeased face, "Fourteen, don't come to me in the future. I only recruited your brother's plan two days ago. I won't get too close to you."

Thinking of being tricked by the fourth brother, elder brother Jiu was full of anger, and naturally he didn't have a good face towards Shisi, the fourth brother's same mother and brother.

Fourteen asked in surprise, "What happened to my fourth brother?"

Brother Nine told the story from the beginning, and then said to Fourteen, "You should leave first, it's best not to contact me during this time, I really don't know how to face you."

The fourteenth brother was suddenly depressed. The fourth brother is the fourth brother, and he is him. How could the ninth brother take his anger on him for what the fourth brother did?

But looking at Brother Nine's angry face, Brother Fourteen was ashamed to stay any longer, left a word, turned and ran away.

"I'll ask my fourth brother!"

After the people left, Yaerjiang asked Ninth Brother with a worried face, "Fourteenth Brother has always been impulsive, and when the time comes, he will anger Fourth Master, and he will not blame his own brother for anger. Remember us, will Si Ye take down our company?" This time, it was Lao Jiu who withdrew the capital and several people redistributed the benefits.

Brother Jiu said indifferently: "Let's continue to discuss, and I will pay the 20 taels later and return it to the household department, and then report the company to the fourth child. If he avenges his personal revenge, I will report to Khan Ama! "

Looking at Brother Nine with a look of anger, and Brother Ten at the side, he didn't take this matter to heart, Yaerjiang and Baotai looked at each other, they were already standing with Ba Ye, and they figured it out One thing, whether fourth master is angry or not is none of their business?

Lunch is eaten in the zoo. There is a restaurant in the park that serves fast food.

That is, after all kinds of vegetables are fried, they are placed on large plates, and the charcoal fire is used to keep them warm.

You can order a la carte or have a set meal. Basically, a set meal with one meat, one vegetable and rice costs only two yuan, and the rice can be refilled for free, which is considered affordable.

Of course, the meat here basically refers to small meat, fried waxed pork slices or scrambled eggs.

Originally, Minning wanted to go to the beehive outside to eat, where all kinds of cuisines gathered from all over the world.

However, Fourth Master wanted to see what the common people ate, so he didn't bother too much, so he chose a restaurant in the park. There were groups of people sitting on rows of wooden chairs at the entrance, all eating a thick noodle steamed bun or Wowotou gnawed.

A few took bamboo cups to the place at the entrance of the restaurant to get free hot water, poured a glass of water and drank it.

There are many people outside who are reluctant to spend two cents for food, but there are also many people inside who don't care about such a small amount of money.

In the restaurant, most of the tables are already full, no matter whether you recognize them or not, just find a seat and find a partner, and someone will come to collect the plates after eating.

Min Ning followed the people in front to collect the plates, and after receiving them, he distributed one to the fourth master. As for the children behind, they were taken care of by the guards.

Minning and Fourth Master were just like private visits in micro-services, carrying plates and inspecting the plates of dishes.

Every dish is covered by glass, and the women behind the counter are all wearing white clothes, white hats and masks, and even white gloves on their hands. They look clean in white.

Standing behind the counter like this makes the food look hygienic.

When fourth master saw this attire, he remembered the young doctor he saw at the mansion last year, and he still remembered that doctor was also wearing such a white smock.

Minning looked, because there are no fresh vegetables on the market, most of the vegetables here are pickled pickles, or soaked bean sprouts and tofu, and the only fresh vegetables are scrambled eggs with leeks.

There are also some dry goods, such as fungus and dried shiitake mushrooms, there are not many types, at least half of the counters are empty, obviously because of the lack of dishes.

Minning picked out a few dishes, then put a small plate on the plate, looked back, and saw that most of what Fourth Master wanted were vegetarian dishes, so she chose a few big meat dishes.

After ordering three bowls of rice, he ordered two more empty bowls, and went to the checkout counter at the end. After paying, he took the plate and found the seat that the guards helped to occupy.

The four children have sat upright in a row.

Minning walked over, sat down opposite the child, and waited for the guards to eat.

Fourth Master also quickly came over with a plate, it was quite new for him to do this kind of thing for the first time.

"This way of eating is quite unique. You can eat as much as you want without causing waste."

Min Ning smiled and took the small dishes on the plate and put them on the table, and put a small half of a bowl of rice into an empty bowl before handing it to Yuan Bao.

The extra bowl of rice was divided into three bowls of rice and sent to the three children.

He picked up some vegetables in the bowls, stuffed a spoon into each of them, and let them eat by themselves.

"I plan to do the same in Tongzixue, so that the children will learn to cherish food." Minning took two meat dishes and exchanged them with the vegetarian dishes in front of Fourth Master, and then urged him to eat, "Look at you, you've been skinny these days, eat more Eat some meat to nourish your body."

Everyone gets fat during Chinese New Year, but fourth master is not fat but thin.

His body does not absorb well, and he has been thin since he was young. It is said that after thirty, he should gain weight. But at this age, he started to eat again, and the vegetables he ate were also plain, with no oily water at all.

During this period of time, I was busy again, and I was almost skinny all of a sudden.

Minning glanced at him again, the man became thinner, and his eyelids loosened, making him now have one eye with double eyelids, making him look listless.

"After you've been busy for a while, you need to rest." Minning distributed the only two drumsticks between him and Yuan Bao.

Fourth master nodded, looked at his daughter who was eager to see her, and put the chicken legs in her bowl.Tiantian showed him a big smile, then grabbed the chicken legs in the bowl with her bold hands and gnawed on them.

Fourth master's eyelids twitched, his daughter was almost raised as a boy by An Jia's family.

"Let's get busy during this period. It will definitely be over before March. I can take a rest for a while after sending off the fleet." In the past two years, Khan Ama hasn't done much southern tours. Wait until June and July to accompany the driver in Rehe.

There is at least two or three months of rest in the middle, and fourth master is going to stay up for a while, and rest after he finishes his work.

After Minning heard his plan, he didn't say any more, lowered his head and started to eat.

No one spoke during the meal.

After Minning and Fourth Master finished their meal carefully, the guards had already divided into several teams and exchanged their meals, and they were on guard everywhere.

Minning picked up a soft napkin, dipped it in water, and wiped the child's mouth and hands.

This kind of paper towel is still made by the paper factory under her name. She is really not used to the rough paper of this era. The paper quality is too rough. You can refer to ghost paper, most of which are of the same material.

Minning is still used to using that kind of soft paper towels, and later, after researching it, he divided the paper towels into napkins and toilet paper.

Of course, the napkins are all smoked, and they have a fragrance when you wipe your mouth.When you eat in this restaurant, you will give a few for free.

When this kind of soft paper was first launched on the market, it was advertised, but there has been no movement.After all, no one has used it, and can't imagine it.

Later, Minning sent a cart into the palace to honor Concubine De, Concubine De used it well, and generously sent these to the palaces.

Even the queen mother agreed to use it, and later directly ordered to inform the Ministry of Internal Affairs to list these as tributes.

After it became a tribute, the market for soft paper opened up, and all princes and ministers began to purchase it. After a long time, they basically couldn't get used to the original toilet paper.

After lunch, they watched the monkey again, and the three children started to feel sleepy, so Minning discussed with the fourth master about going back home.

After returning to the mansion, it was past three o'clock, and just after entering the mansion, Zhang Qilin hurried over to report that the emperor sent someone to look for him in the morning.

When fourth master heard this, he didn't even change his clothes, he just wanted to turn around and go to Changchun garden.

Fortunately, Zhang Qilin hurriedly chased after him again, and the fourth master stopped, "Master, the fourteenth master has been waiting at the mansion for more than two hours, and it took a lot of fire just now, why don't you see me first?" he?"

Fourth Master turned around and looked at Zhang Qilin, "Is Shisi here? Where is he?" He thought about sending him away quickly, so as not to delay him going to Changchun Garden.

Seeing that Fourth Master was busy, Minning bid him farewell.

The three children were all asleep on the guard's shoulders.

Yuan Bao looked at Ama eagerly, and when he heard Fourteenth Uncle coming, he also wanted to follow him to have a look.

Every time he enters the palace, Fourteenth Uncle will bring some fun things for him.

It's a pity that Minning didn't give him this chance, and patted him on the shoulder to remind him to keep up.

Yuan Bao reluctantly followed E Niang to leave.

The fourth master thought that since he wanted to meet Shishi, he would not lack this bit of effort, and asked Zhang Qilin to invite Shishi to the living room, and he would come back after changing his clothes.

Brother Fourteen has already drank several bowls of tea in the living room, and even went to the hut several times.

The toilet hut of the fourth brother's house was beautifully repaired and clean, and it didn't freeze the buttocks. It was more comfortable than the one in the palace, but no matter how beautiful it was, it couldn't quench the anger that Shisi had ignited because of waiting for a long time.

"Master Fourteen, our master has already returned to the mansion, and the slaves are coming to invite you over." Fourteen drank another bowl of tea before finally waiting for the news of the fourth brother's return to the mansion.

In fact, after hearing the news that the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law were going out to play, Shisi originally wanted to leave directly, but then thought that if he went back to the palace, he would not know if Erniang would let him out again.

So he planned to wait directly, and the wait was more than two hours.

Sisi has always been impatient, waiting for such a long time, he was still a little rational, but now his mind is completely covered by the urgency in his heart.

As soon as he saw Fourth Brother enter the door, he asked him, "Fourth Brother, did you design Ninth Brother, and then publicized a personal grudge to trap him and deprive him of his participation qualification?"

As soon as the fourth master entered the door, he was greeted with violent questions from the fourteenth brother. He immediately became angry and asked him coldly, "Are you here to talk to me?"

Seeing the cold face of the fourth brother, Shisi calmed down a little, and he had this expression again. When he was studying in the study room when he was a child, as long as he was playful and did not finish his homework, the fourth brother would show this expression, and then he would press Stop him and teach him a lesson.

It's useless even to complain to Er Niang. Regarding reading, Er Niang has always been on the side of the fourth brother.

But then he thought that he was already married, so he didn't need to study in the study room anymore, Brother Fourteen became more courageous all of a sudden.

He boldly sprayed at the fourth master, "Anyway, I have a good relationship with Brother Jiu. I don't look at the face of the Buddha, but I also look at the face of the monk. You framed him like this and made him borrow 20 taels from the Ministry of Households all at once. Isn't it just cheating him? Now Brother Jiu doesn't even care about me because of this matter, even if you are my own brother, I have to say that you did something wrong!"

Fourth Master squinted his eyes at him, his eyes flashed with anger, and he was about to lose his temper.

As soon as he got off the phone and regained his sanity, Elder Fourteen saw that the situation was not right, so he ran away as fast as he could.

This made fourth master very angry. He was trembling with anger and clenched his hands together, trying to suppress his anger.

However, it was useless, fourth master angrily lifted the round table in front of him.

The crackling sound spread outside the door, and Su Peisheng, who was hit by the fourteenth elder brother and fell to the ground and wanted to get up, shrank his head when he heard the sound and dared not enter the room again.

After igniting the fire, fourth master calmed down, and then kicked Shisi, an incomprehensible brother, out of the trust list!

For the sake of half-brothers, what's the use of asking my own brother's younger brother without even asking?

Then fourth master thought of what Elder Fourteen said just now, and he narrowed his eyes. Liu Shilan from the household department was indeed his, but he never let him do anything to deceive Lao Jiu.

"Come on!"

Su Peisheng, who was outside, scrambled in, "What orders do you have, sir?"

Seeing that it was Su Peisheng, fourth master told him to get out.

After Su Peisheng left, he jumped down from the beam and knelt down beside Fourth Master.

This is a man from the rivers and lakes that fourth master wins over, and he specially inquires some information for him.

"Send someone to check on Liu Shilan to see if he has taken refuge with other people secretly." The fourth master took a breath, Liu Shilan dared to make his own claim, either he acted recklessly, or he had already secretly turned to others.

After listening to the order, the man left quietly.

Only then did Fourth Master flicked his sleeves and turned to go outside. Su Peisheng who was waiting outside quickly followed.

"Long live, the fourth prince is here to see you." When the emperor finished his business and was playing with the birds in the garden, Liang Jiugong received a report from the little eunuch and reported it to the emperor.

The emperor turned his head and said with a smile, "The fourth son is here. Since he is here, since he is here, let's call him over." It's just thirteen complaints.

Thinking of this, the emperor felt a little guilty again. After all, he misunderstood the prince.

Fourth master was already waiting in the garden, but from a long distance, he could only see the emperor's back from a distance.

It didn't take long to see Liang Jiugong trotting over, "My servant greets Lord Baylor, and Lord Long Live calls you over."

Fourth Master replied with a serious face, "Please trouble Eunuch Liang."

Now the emperor can be said to have two favored eunuchs, one is this Liang Jiugong, and the other is Wei Zhu.It can be said that the emperor did not hide the news from these two father-in-laws.

Fourth master was naturally very friendly towards the two eunuchs.

After greeting Khan Ama, I heard him ask when the boat will be able to officially travel.

After all, the preparations started in December. Although it stopped for a while during the Chinese New Year, it has been more than a month since the emperor didn't want to force the old ministers, so he wanted to get some money from the Wa Kingdom to solve the problem. A solution to the emptiness of the national treasury.

And this is killing two birds with one stone. If you earn money, not only the treasury will have money, but those old officials will also have money to pay back the treasury.

"Huihan Ama, although he has raised a lot of money, he can't mobilize too many goods at once. Jiangnan is rushing to send the goods to Beijing from the inland."

The emperor pondered, "There is no need to send the goods to Beijing. The goods from the south of the Yangtze River will be sent to Qingdao through the Huaihe River. The Qingdao port is closer to Japan than the capital."

Fourth Master agreed.

The emperor made fun of him again, asking him where he went to play in the morning?

Fourth master talked about what he saw and heard this morning, focusing on the concrete floor.

The emperor paid more attention to it, "You mean that if this kind of thing is used for river construction, it can be preserved for at least several decades?"

The fourth master took a deep breath and nodded excitedly, "Yes, An Jia said that as long as these dams are mixed with steel bars and cement, they don't have to worry about collapsing. There is no need to repair the dams every few years. "The embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest. This sentence will become extinct. This kind of concrete floor is so hard that even ants cannot drill a hole."

He Gong was one of the most important achievements of the emperor in his life.

It can be said that river workers accounted for half of the emperor's political career in the first half of his life.

Hearing what the fourth son said, his expression rarely became serious, and he suddenly remembered that the dark guard had reported to him that the whole new city in Outer Mongolia was built so fast because of the use of cement, because he didn't I have been to Xincheng, but I forgot about it after a long time.

"Tomorrow, you will bring cement to build a road in this garden. I want to see the magic of this cement with my own eyes..."