Xinshun 1730

Chapter 26 Gold Plated

in the study.

Bai Shengsheng's broken porcelain fell to the ground, and the tea on the table trickled down, gathering into a trickle.

Yi Guogong Liu was very angry, panting continuously, his beard raised and raised with his breathing.

Tian Suo, Duke of Qi, who was sitting on the opposite side, was still as if nothing had happened. He sipped his tea slowly, and asked after a while, "Have you fallen enough? If you don't have enough falls at home, I'll ask the boy to go back and get some. fall."

The lazy tone, coupled with the appearance of Jianxi sipping tea, added fuel to the fire.

But Liu Sheng's anger has almost been vented. They all say that happiness and anger cannot be expressed in color, so it is self-restraint, but because of the invisibility of emotion, the action of throwing the cup can convey anger.

The cup was thrown for Qi Guogong to see, indicating that he was really angry.

After a long time, Tian Suo slowly put down the teacup, shaking his head.

"Brother Liu, you don't have to be like this. My son came to you every day a few days ago. Don't say that you don't know that your third child wrote "A Brief Examination of Western Countries". Even if he didn't tell you, with your Temper, you don't know."

"Yes, I know."

"That's it. You think your son can be in the heart of the emperor, so you don't care about it. Well, now that your son is in the heart of the emperor, and His Majesty has sent an errand, you don't want to? Now I'm blaming me again, I really didn't know about Liu Yu's going to the Northeast. I thought His Majesty would let him go with me to receive the mission, but I really didn't expect His Majesty to let him go to the Northeast directly."

Tian Suo put the facts and reasoned, and secretly satirized Liu Sheng for not being grateful when he took advantage, and now looking for trouble when things are unexpected.

"Then again, it's good to have some experience."

"Bullshit! It's good to go to practice. Or go to the northwest, or to his uncle's place in the southwest, it doesn't matter. Can you go to the Songhua River? Is that where people go?"

"Hey, I don't like to hear that." Tian Suo deliberately used an exaggerated tone, with a strange tone.

"At the Songhua River, there are more than a dozen guards and Zhechong mansions. Frontier soldiers guard the border, so we can have fun in the capital. When you come here, that place has become an inhuman place? Besides, we waited Xungui, rest with the country. When the award was awarded, the soldiers of the frontier army did not have their turn, and you would be angry if you asked your son to go to the Songhua River; when something happened, you asked the frontier army to fight the enemy bravely, what is the reason?"

"Why, your son is a human being, but those soldiers guarding the border for the country are not human?"

This is said on purpose.

Liu Sheng knew Qi Guogong Tian Suo's tired and lazy temperament, and he smiled instead of anger under the strange yin and yang of the other party.

"Did you eat lamp ashes? Just fart lightly. What the hell are you talking about?"

"I, Lord Yi, is an honorable minister. Could it be that you, Lord Qi, are not? Why didn't you write to His Majesty and let your son go? The Songhua River is not a place where people live. It's a bitter cold place. It's frozen in August. April The thaw doesn’t start until May. The summer is short, the mosquitoes rain like rain, and the frontier soldiers flee every year, you don’t know it.”

"Besides, the Raksha people are cruel, and spying on the military is extremely dangerous. Yu'er only read the inscription on the Yongning Temple inscription, so how could he know that it wasn't a literati just talking nonsense? Let him lead a team to dig the Yongning Temple inscription, and let him Leading a team to inspect roads, rivers, draw maps of mountains and rivers, spy on the Raksha people's castle defenses, how can this be as simple as going to the frontier army?"

Speaking of this, Liu Sheng became even more angry.

Received a strange imperial decree at noon, entered the palace, and found that Qi Guogong was also there.Only then did he know what errand the emperor had arranged for his son.

It is said that he was promoted to serve in the army, but in fact it was a lie.

The decision-makers of Dashun, who knew the state affairs of Rakshasa, had already decided on countermeasures, taking them by surprise and attacking them by surprise.

Qi Guogong went to receive the Rakshasa mission, arguing with etiquette.

There is a lot to do around the Northeast.

Liaodong continued to build post stations and hoard grain and grass.

Send people to North Korea to recruit some of North Korea's musketeers, one is to reduce expenses, the other is to look at North Korea's attitude, and the third is to check North Korea's armaments.

The artillerymen of the Beijing camp also secretly transported the cannons to the Songhua River while Tian Suo was wrangling with the Raksha people.

Jilin Shipyard seized the time to build ships, and recruited the elite jumping gang fighters left by the Zheng family in Fujian, sword and shield soldiers, and rattan soldiers, and rushed northward to enrich the naval strength of the Songhua River.

Once the time comes, gather your troops and launch the Northern Expedition against Raksha Country.

Let some Mongolian tribes sitting on the wall in the north choose the right side to avoid the disaster of the Eastern Captives in the late Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the trade of rhubarb and tea was threatened to force the Raksha Kingdom not to interfere in the war against Junggar in the northwest.

As soon as the war in the Northeast was over, the elite Qingqi troops from Zhechong Prefectures along the Songhua River were immediately recruited and headed to the northwest.

Northeast first, then northwest.Roughly set.

Liu Yu is going to take a group of people secretly to the Songhua River first.

As a rhubarb smuggler, he cooperated with some naturalized Saurons who pretended to be deer hunting tribes of the Ewenki tribe to investigate the deployment of Raksha Castle and the traffic conditions along the river, and draw maps of Songhua River and Heilongjiang.

And... the inscription on the Yongning Temple inscription during the Tuoyongle period is for future negotiations.

People in the court are not lunatics, nor are they fools. People who can make decision-making levels like Tianyoudian can calculate economic accounts.

We can only fight and talk with Raksha, and they are separated by thousands of miles, which is different from Junggar in the northwest, which can plow the courtyard and sweep holes.

It is bitterly cold in the Northeast, and is blocked by the Songliao watershed.

The imperial court simply cannot afford to garrison tens of thousands of troops for a long time, or a war that lasts for several years.

That is to say, from 20 years ago, when the Little Ice Age passed and the weather gradually became warmer, only a little food could be grown in that place.

In the past, it was called "dog country", not an insulting name, but because the tribes there domesticated moose and hounds, and used moose hounds to hunt in winter.

Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn were introduced into China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and people thought they were magic weapons, but they couldn't adapt to the Songhua River at this time.

The song of later generations is very accurate, "My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast... and there are soybeans and sorghum all over the mountains", not "corn and soybeans all over the mountains".

Before the advancement of corn breeding technology, the Songhua River Plain with an extremely short frost-free period could not grow corn at all, only sorghum soybeans could be grown.

As for soybeans...even if technology advances in later generations, chemical fertilizers seem to be spread for free, and an acre of land only costs 400 catties.

Songnen, not Liaodong.

If that place is really suitable for arable land as some people imagined, how can Zhu Xia's desire for arable land be blank for hundreds of years?
The Great Northern Wilderness, before there were large tractors, it could only be the Great Northern Wilderness.

To cross the Guandong, there is no cross-north-south railway to cross the Songliao watershed, so you can only go to the north of Liaoning.

Songnen Sanjiang is a swamp all over the land, without a pump, it is impossible to plant land.

The grass roots are half a meter deep, and the beards are intertwined. The chain-track tractor will be able to break through the grass roots, and the cows and horses will not be able to plow when they are exhausted.

Years of stagnant swamp water, no deep-water wells, ground squirrels that survived the plague are everywhere, and ticks that have sucked blood have exploded from the size of millet to the size of a finger belly, and can crawl all over the body of cats and dogs, like Cthulhu creatures covered with tumors wart.All kinds of weird diseases, Keshan disease, wind mouth syndrome, hemorrhagic fever, plague, cretinism, forest encephalitis.

Gadflies, horseflies, mosquitoes bite ticks, and countless blood-sucking flying insects. To deal with accomplices who hide gold, gold miners only need to strip off their clothes, and within a day they will be skinny and dry.

Heavy snowfall on August [-]th, unmelted ice for Qingming outing, frequent hailstorms on Qixi Festival, and cold wind in the twelfth lunar month—this is the true appearance of the black land at this time.

Counting from the hanging of Chongzhen in the Jiashen year, it has been 80 years since the founding of the country, decades of wars and chaos, and only a few years of real recuperation.

After the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, the population of Liaodong was almost empty.At that time, Dashun was sweeping holes and plowing courts in Eastern Liaodong. There are many corpses in four words.

Now Liaodong is not full, and there will be no one who "knows that the north is suffering, and prefers to go north."

There are very few people who cross the Songliao watershed to the Songhua River system, and at most they are gold diggers and skin hunters.

War is a continuation of politics.

After the fight is over, it will eventually have to be negotiated.In addition to relying on force, negotiations also rely on "since ancient times."

Fortunately, Emperor Yongle left some inheritance, and the court has its own bottom line.

Originally, after Li Gan succeeded to the throne, he wanted to solve the border troubles in the northeast and northwest.At the beginning, I also hoped to use the help of missionaries to go to the Northeast to draw an accurate map.

When negotiating, if one's own side doesn't even have a map, it will lose a bit in terms of momentum.

But now he has fallen out with the missionary, and he has caught the missionary passing the map to Macau privately before, which is really hard to believe.Zhu Xia did not have many maps of Europe at this time, but Europe was full of Chinese maps with latitude and longitude secretly brought back by missionaries.There are a group of missionaries in Qintianjian and Zhifangsi, and the mountains and rivers have no secrets from the West.

This matter is classified again, and the only person in the Xungui circle who knows Western learning is Liu Yu.

This job is a hard job.

It even has the meaning of a narrow escape: Dashun is now the most northeast border fort by the Songhua River, in the later Yilan County, three to five hundred miles away from where the Songhua River meets Heilongjiang, not to mention the Yongning Temple monument is near the mouth of Heilongjiang .

In order to guard against the Raksha people, you can't take a boat, and you can't take a boat.

It depends on the support of the various tribes along the way to get there.

Pretend to be the Ewenki tribe hunting deer; pretend to be a rhubarb smuggling businessman to inquire about the defense situation of Raksha Castle.

It is necessary to form a good relationship with the various tribes encountered along the way, record the mountains and rivers along the way, and ask each tribe how dissatisfied with the "Yasak" fur tax imposed by the Raksha Kingdom.

Although it is not as good as Zhang Bo's access to the Western Regions, it is not easy, and narrow escape is not just a description.

In front of the emperor, Liu Sheng was submissive; in front of Tian Suo, Liu Sheng punched hard.

After all, it was his own flesh and blood, and it was such an errand that he was close to death.

The evil fire in his stomach didn't dare to let it out in the Forbidden City, so he could only go home and throw plates and bowls at Tian Suo to show his anger.

There is no need for such a difficult path for a noble son.

Even if it is to go to the army to serve and gain experience, why do Xungui's children need such experience?
It is the Duke of Xiangguo who is guarding the southwest and reforming the soil and returning to the country. He is Liu Yu's own uncle; In the Wude Palace, he even uttered wild words and was quite dissatisfied with the dudes of Xungui's children, but at least it was safer.

Liu Sheng had known for a long time that Liu Yu was secretly messing with Qi Guogong's "A Brief Examination of the Western Countries", and he didn't obstruct it before, because he thought it was a good thing.

Jane is in the emperor's heart, or following Qi Guogong to contact the Rakshasa Mission, are all good ways out for gold plating.

Gold-plated gold-plated, neither dangerous, but also long-lasting.

Who would have thought that the emperor's ambitions would throw his son three thousand miles away between white mountains and black waters.

Where is this gold plating?
This is a real hit.

Tian Suo reckoned that Liu Sheng's anger was almost gone, flicked the teacup, and said quietly: "Brother Liu, do you think the second son was granted the title of Xunwei, but he was granted it casually? How many long-term Xunwei are there? Do you really think that Xunwei is a rotten cabbage like Sanqi Sheren?"

"Don't make a fuss here. Call the third child here, and tell me what you need to tell me. It's already August, and I have to leave before the twelfth lunar month."

Liu Sheng followed with a sigh, knowing that this was the only way to go.

When he was about to ask someone to pass on the message, he finally couldn't help asking the last question.

"Old Tian, ​​why are you so concerned about Yu'er's affairs?"

Tian Suo was rarely serious, with a dignified expression.

"Brother Liu, you and I are turning fifty soon. The younger generation is full of dandies, and there must be someone of our own who can protect the younger generation from the wind and rain. I picked and chose, and I identified your third child. You know how Ming Xungui is like a bird, if Xungui can't even train soldiers and fight wars, why don't civil servants take your power?"

"A lesson learned from the previous dynasty, you can't fight with your nobles, and the civil servants will enter Beijing to preside over the affairs of the Beijing camp. The Beijing camp cannot be abolished. You can't use a group of people who pee their pants when they hear the war, right? Border generals enter Beijing, and ours Have a good day?"

Speaking of worries, Tian Suo even said something that violated the prohibition.

"To be noble, we can't all be a bunch of pigs, and we can't all be a bunch of wolves."

"There are two or three wolves in a group of pigs, that's what His Majesty wants to see. It's all pigs. Your Majesty has no choice but to use civil servants and generals to cut down the power of nobles; it's all wolves, Lanyu Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang are all wolves. lesson."

"It's already a herd of pigs. If we don't force out a wolf cub, we'll have to lick them all around the pigsty."

(End of this chapter)