Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

Heavy rain poured indiscriminately on the vast plains in the north.

Kangxi's imperial chariot was unable to move even an inch.

Li Wei, the governor of Shandong, had not calculated the extreme weather that had not been seen in decades.He deliberately decorated the road where the emperor would pass by, and moved all the poor people away. He thought that the news of the famine was covered up by his eldest brother and would never reach the ears of the emperor.

All the treacherous plots were washed away with the downpours and raging rivers.

The Wuding River embankment collapsed.

Kangxi changed his route urgently to visit the people affected by the disaster along the coast.

As soon as Tong Guowei and his eldest brother instigated his subordinates to speak against the Queen Mother and dissuaded Kangxi for a few words, he was severely reprimanded and almost lost his official position.

That night, a group of people stayed in the house that Li Wei carefully managed.

The rain strengthens and weakens from time to time, changing in many ways, but never stops.

Hibiscus chicken slices, sea cucumber roasted with green onions, ginkgo biloba, and pear balls in honey sauce.

Shandong cuisine is extensive and profound, and there are more than one or two hundred dishes that can be served at banquets.But Li Wei did not dare to show off luxury at this sensitive juncture.After several cuts, these four dishes appeared on Kangxi's dinner table.

The Ninth Five Supreme Being sat cross-legged on a low couch, his eyes in trance, not moving his chopsticks.

Li Wei could only hold the first appetizer, a bowl of piping hot "Dark Clouds Holding the Moon", raised his hands high, and knelt on the ground to apologize.

Twenty or thirty civil and military ministers stood in the corridor outside the door, waiting.

If the emperor doesn't move his chopsticks, who dares to eat first?
There are brothers waiting on me inside the house.The eldest brother knew the danger, so he refused to go in. He frequently used his eyes to signal the eighth brother to speak.The eighth elder brother went to pull the ninth elder brother's sleeve and asked him to persuade him to eat, but the ninth elder brother refused to move.

The seventh elder brother felt that this stalemate was not an option. He was about to step forward to speak, but was overtaken by the fourth elder brother.

"Khan Ama, please have your meal first. Although it is necessary to reduce the meal every time there is a natural disaster, it cannot be too much. Four courses."

"You all go out. The boss stays."

The eldest brother rarely hears his father call him this.

He was called this only in some very private situations, when only members of the royal family were present.

The bowl of appetizing soup was finally taken over by the eldest brother, and Li Wei withdrew tremblingly. The remaining princes, led by the third brother, left one by one.

Kangxi took the slightly cold soup from his eldest brother's hand, drank it slowly, spoonful by spoonful.

"Governor of Shandong, you have recommended him many times. You said he is capable."

"My son, I don't know people well."

Kangxi had just raised his chopsticks to pick up some food, but when he heard this sentence, he stopped abruptly.

"It's over with just one sentence of "unknown people"? It's just me and your father and son facing each other here, why don't you tell the truth!"

"Khan Amma forgive me!"

The eldest brother immediately knelt down, wanting to confess, but feeling a little lucky, he hesitated and couldn't formulate a complete answer.

A secret envelope slammed into his face.

"See for yourself! This is the excerpt of the censor of Guangxi participating in the performance of the governor of Shandong. It is clearly listed one by one. When you were having fun in your private house with your concubine in your arms, did you ever think that today On the banks of the Wuding River, victims were seen chewing tree bark and eating Guanyin soil!"

"Khan Ama, I know I was wrong."

"Hmph. It's all you who have to do disaster relief and river management. Make up for your mistakes. I originally planned to reward you based on your merits after returning to the capital from Wutai Mountain. I will make you the direct prince. If you surrender, you will be changed to the county prince."

"Yes, my dear, thank you Khan Amma for your kindness."

After finishing the meal slowly, the eldest brother went out to collect food without bothering to eat.

Tong Guowei could not come forward on his own, so he sent his eldest son Ye Keshu to represent the Tong family. "How much food is left in the winery?"

When the eldest brother was fighting in Mobei, he ate whatever he had.He was not polite to the few steamed buns and beef with soy sauce that he had prepared, and after a few quick strokes, dinner was taken care of.

Ye Keshu took out a small account book from his arms and quickly read it, feeling worried.

"Not much, just a few hundred stones. If there is food, why bother to transfer it from Shaanxi? Uncle, you'd better talk to Suo'etu and ask him to take out the food for the sake of Emperor Longyan's anger. Deal with this."

The eldest brother winked and refrained from scolding him.

Where can anything be so easy?
Suo'etu, I wish I could eat myself alive!

"Let's spend money to eliminate misfortunes. I'll pay 10 taels. In the past two years, the total income from drinking can be 50 million. This is not much."

Ye Keshu heard this and quickly understood what the eldest brother meant.

Although it hurts, I can only endure it.

"The Tong family came up with the idea for me. If something goes wrong, they will naturally share the burden. The Tong family also contributed 10 taels."

Although the eldest brother thinks it’s a little less, that’s all he can do.

"For the rest, ask Li Wei to come out. It's an impeccable thing. It caused lives, gave the censor a handle, and caused many connections. Now, we have to end this matter quickly. Khan Ama came out to worship Buddha happily. , if you let me spoil the fun, let alone the county king, I won’t be able to become Baile!”

"Li Wei is also eager to be kind and wants to do things for the uncle. Please help me and beg for mercy in front of the emperor."

Ye Keshu's unusually enthusiastic attitude towards the governor of Shandong had long aroused the suspicion of the eldest brother.

He looked at the account book in Ye Keshu's hand with great interest.

"Tell me, if I look through this pamphlet, will I find that the Tong family accepted bribes from Shandong officials behind my back?"

"Where did the uncle go?"

"That's not right. Now that I think about it carefully, it all fits."

The eldest brother slowly drank a cup of tea to eat, and asked Ye Keshu coldly, who was standing on the ground:
"I asked you two years ago whether the business should be closed down. You said it was irrelevant. You could have asked Suo Etu to collect all the grain wherever he went. If it weren't for lining his own pockets, Li Wei would be such a mad dog and go all over Shandong. You are plundering the land for food, but you also have to maintain the operation of the winery? No matter how much it is, four to five million taels, or even one million taels, that is what you reported. Behind the scenes, you are working together, and you may not know how much money you will take away!"

"uncle."

"On the contrary, I was scolded in front of Khan Ama. You must have said this to Li Wei: 'There is a big brother blocking the way, so what are you afraid of! Just go ahead and do it.' I guess, yes. its not right?"

Ye Keshu wanted to argue a few more words, but the eldest brother's personal attendant saw his master's eyes and snatched the booklet and handed it to him.

However, the eldest brother did not read it.

"Now let's not fight in the nest. Once we get over this hurdle, I will save the county king first. If we can't get over it, I am Khan Amma's biological son anyway. A tiger can't eat its own child. It depends on what the great uncle will do. How far can you save the Tong family by sacrificing your life for the country!"

Ye Keshu failed to persuade his eldest brother to come forward to keep the governor of Shandong, and also lost his precious account books. As soon as he returned to his room, he was slapped twice by his father Tong Guowei.

"You, do you have a brain!"

Tong Guowei was furious in the room, his eyebrows and beard not even in their original positions.

"Can such an important thing be turned over in front of my eldest brother? Just keep the number in your head, and that's it. Are you not smart at all? Your sisters all have a photographic memory! And you? That younger brother, Longkodo, is so talkative that the fourth princess refuses to take a serious look at the Tong family! I really have no luck with a son!"

It seems that the future of the Tong family depends on the eldest grandson Shun Anyan.

"Don't be dejected here, I'm not dead yet! I'll find an excuse for you and the emperor to go back to the capital. How much money does the family have? Let's pay 30 taels first. I want An Geer to become Princess Shang. You Look at how much the emperor respects the four-headed consort. If you don’t settle this matter, how can I open my mouth and ask the emperor for marriage. Go, go now."

Ye Keshu looked at the lightning and thunder in the sky outside the house. After all, he still did not dare to disobey his father's strict orders. He picked up an oil-paper umbrella and rushed into the world that was almost collapsed after being soaked by the cold rain.

Wuyun Tuoyue is seaweed and pigeon egg soup; Guanyin soil is kaolin clay, which does not satisfy hunger. It just tastes a little like flour, so it can give people the illusion of "eating".And it swells when exposed to water, potentially causing bloating and death.Wuding River is today's Yongding River, and was later renamed Yongding by Kangxi.