Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1015

The promotion of this new crop is not a matter of one or two sentences.There is still a state machine, but it is not Cao Yong's turn to do everything himself.

A few years ago, corn and sweet potatoes were planted on a trial basis in Henan Province, and they spread rapidly.This time, corn and sweet potatoes will be promoted in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the seeds needed will be raised from Henan Province.

Yongzheng issued an order to order local officials to exchange the corn and sweet potatoes with the millet in the official warehouse.Afraid that local officials would disturb the people because of political achievements, they set the exchange ratio, one catty of millet for one catty of corn or three catties of sweet potatoes.

At the same time, the capital side did not stop, and Yongzheng set aside an official village in Tongzhou for the breeding of corn and sweet potatoes, and ordered Cao Yong to supervise the matter.

Although corn and sweet potatoes are not well known to the rich, farmers in the suburbs of Beijing occasionally plant them.Especially the ones planted near Caojiazhuang in Changping are relatively concentrated, naturally due to the influence of Cao Yong.

Although Cao's family has a well, the land is mostly hilly and sloped, and the north has experienced nine droughts in ten years, so the original crop yield was not high.

Later, during those two years, Cao Yong and Dingyou often paid attention to farming, especially on the two crops of corn and sweet potatoes, and opened up several experimental fields around Zhuangzi, which resulted in a good yield.

When the farmers in Zhuangzi saw it, they changed crops such as corn and sweet potatoes one after another.Even if it's a bad year, I won't use credit with my boss to survive the famine.

Today, the household department collects seeds, and Cao Yong has nothing to hide, so he directly sends people to Changping to collect them.

Millet is unpeeled millet, which can be regarded as the fine grain in the coarse grain.The farmers are all happy to exchange a catty of corn for a catty of millet. They wish they could exchange all the seeds without keeping the seeds.

Therefore, in less than ten days, more than 7 catties of corn and [-] catties of sweet potatoes were raised in the capital.

Cao Yong also consulted several agricultural officials who have been around for many years. From these corn and sweet potatoes, he selected [-] catties of corn seeds and [-] catties of sweet potato seeds.

The remaining corn and potatoes were directly put into the internal warehouse.

Spring plowing is imminent, so there should be no delay.As the official in charge of this matter, Cao Yong had to take a few officers and ran to Tongzhou Guanzhuang.

Corn needs five catties of seeds per mu, and sweet potato needs two hundred catties of seeds per mu.

The seeds Cao Yong raised in Changping can sow [-] mu of corn and [-] mu of sweet potato.By the time these seeds are distributed to farmers and the sowing is complete, it is already the end of February.

Cao Yong was in Tongzhou, but he paid attention to the news in Beijing.

Yongzheng dismissed a large number of officials who ransacked their homes on the grounds of recovering the deficit.At this time, compared with those prominent officials in the borderlands, the Li family in Suzhou did not appear to be eye-catching.

Cao Yong heart, secretly relieved.

In addition to the thunderous means of dismissing officials and confiscating their homes, Yongzheng also conferred the titles of several Mongolian princes who led troops to support the imperial court's western expedition; internally, he was a side branch of Prince Zhuang's mansion.

Although he did not restore the noble title of King Huijun, he chose Qiulin, an honest and responsible grandson of the Changfang, among the descendants of King Huijun, to be named Dorobeile, and made the original Zuo of King Huijun his subordinates. Wait and give.

In this way, they have legitimately inherited the glory of this branch of their ancestors, and if they talk about the Prince Zhuang's mansion, it will be a wrong name and a bad word.

When Cao Yong returned to Beijing, Sun Wencheng had arrived in Beijing with his family for several days.

He was lucky, but he was dismissed from office because he was "not serious about his work", and the deficit found in the weaving office was only more than 8000 taels.When he went north from Hangzhou, he had already filled in the shortfall.

These days, there are a lot of officials who have been dismissed due to lack of money and food, and the interests of the big and powerful in the capital are involved behind them.

At the beginning, there were still people waiting and watching, not daring to touch the edge of the new emperor.Later, the number of officials involved was huge, and it was inevitable that some people had the idea of ​​"the law does not blame the public", thinking about making up for the shortfall and continuing to seek reinstatement, so they went around.

Within a few days, it was reported to Yongzheng's ears, and an order was issued to the Ministry of Officials. In order to avoid burdening the people, the dismissed officials were not allowed to stay in their posts to urge them to pursue them, but ordered them to be recovered with their family property.If the deficiencies are cleared, if there are really good officials and outstanding political achievements, there will be reports from the governor and others.

Because the Sun family had just arrived in the capital, Cao Yong who could speak well was not in the capital, so Sun Wencheng stayed behind closed doors. In contrast, he seemed much more honest than others.

In order to solve the problem of the empty state treasury, Yongzheng resorted to thunderous means, but he was also worried, fearing that a single move would affect his whole body.

After all, the administration of officials is a big problem. During the period of the first emperor, even if he knew that there were many problems, he did not dare to rectify them because of too many involvements.

Sun Wencheng's honesty fit Yongzheng's mind.It's just that now is the time to check for deficits, so it's not easy to go back on your word and let Sun Wencheng recover.

His thoughts are unknown to others, and everyone thinks that they are "one emperor and one courtier", and the Sun family has become a thing of the past.Friends and relatives are old and old, and they are often avoided.

Sun Wencheng had been cautious all his life, but he was dismissed from office, and he couldn't help feeling sad.This hasty journey to the north was exhausting both physically and mentally.

The eldest son lost his fame and was hopeless in his official career, and the other sons were mostly useless.Although there is an eldest grandson, but the son was unbearable before, and the grandson lived separately with his daughter-in-law. Although they are together now, it is unknown whether their mother and son will complain about the Sun family.

Although it can't be said that his hair turned gray overnight, but in just one and a half months, Sun Wencheng was more than ten years old and his body was bent.

An's was worried, worrying about his family's livelihood.

Although Sun Wencheng has been working in Hangzhou Weaving for nearly 20 years, he does not have much savings in his hands because he acts cautiously.Many brothers and relatives defected to other places, which cost a lot.

Even if you have bought a few shops and two small villages in Hangzhou, they are not worth a few dollars.I sold it temporarily and lost some money. The money I got was only more than 1 taels of silver.

To make up for the shortfall of the Weaving Mansion a few years ago, the dozens of members of the Sun family only have these few thousand taels of silver left.

The 58-acre small village on the outskirts of Beijing, as early as the [-]th year of Kangxi, when Sun Jue and Cao Ying separated from their property, belonged to the grandparents, Sun Sun Li; Under the name of Cao Ying.

Although Cao Ying is still respectful to her parents-in-law and treats her in-laws as always, Anshi is completely uncomfortable.

Due to the limited size of the house here, Sun Wenqian no longer squeezed together with his brother and sister-in-law, and had already rented another second yard to house his wife and children.

Even so, the large family in Sun's house is not spacious in a three-entry house. In addition to Sun Jue's house, there are Sun Wencheng's married second son, Sun Jin's family, and his unmarried three sons and one daughter.

Sun Wencheng has seven sons and three daughters in total. The eldest daughter, eldest son, third son, and fifth son are descendants of the An family, and the other four sons and two daughters are concubines.Among them, the eldest daughter is Li Nai's wife, the third son, the fourth son and the second daughter died young, and only six of them grew up, and they are all by Sun Wencheng's side now.

Although An Shi loves her eldest grandson, she also dotes on her youngest grandson, Ban.

She had so generously agreed to put Xiaozhuang in the capital under the name of her eldest grandson because she thought that she only had two legitimate sons left, and the property in the capital would go to the eldest son, while the property in Hangzhou would go to grandson, which would be a bargain.

Unexpectedly, now that the property in Hangzhou has been sold, the Yamen is at a loss. The Sun family is in the capital, and their only future is the small village with an area of ​​[-] hectares.

"Master, even if there is no division of family, there is no reason to attribute the property of the public to one child... The fifth child wants to talk about marriage, the sixth child and the seventh child also need to study, and there are places to spend money everywhere... This house obviously belongs to the Sun family, so what's the point of having it under the daughter-in-law's name?" An's resentment made her talk in front of her husband.

If it is said that Sun Wencheng's greatest hope now is the examination of his eldest son, Sun Li.

Although he was sad, he still concealed his anxiety, and told his eldest grandson not to worry about trivial matters at home, and to prepare for the exam with peace of mind.

After decades of husband and wife, after hearing what his wife said, how could Sun Wencheng not know what she was thinking.

"What's the point of bringing up the past? If you complain, you'll settle the score with Sun Jue? If he hadn't spent all of his wife's dowry, he wouldn't have to use the house to make up for it; so what if Zhuangzi is under Sun Li's name?" ? Your daughter-in-law has entrusted you with the future of last year, so you can take it easy!" Sun Wencheng frowned.

An Shiyou refused to accept it, and muttered: "What about that class? How do you marry a wife?"

Seeing her obsessed with her, Sun Wencheng felt his temples throbbing. He stroked his forehead and said, "Shut up! Sun Jue's lack of virtue has already hurt his daughter-in-law's heart. Now it's a blessing for the Sun family that her daughter-in-law knows how to be filial to you and me." , you want to make a fuss, can you break off the Cao family?"

An's was wronged by the yelling, but she didn't dare to say more, she could only slander in her heart.

The husband and wife were looking cold when they saw the little maid come in and tell them that there was a visitor in the front yard, and the uncle of the Cao family was here.

An's eyes lit up when he heard this.

The uncles of the Cao family are all officials, and Cao Yong is He Shuo's son-in-law. An knows that whether her husband can recover depends on whether the Cao family is willing to help.

After hearing this, Sun Wencheng showed some anticipation on his face, and hurried to the front yard to meet the guests.

Front yard, living room.

Cao Yong sat on a chair, looking at the celadon tureen in his hand.He returned to Beijing yesterday, and after finishing his errands at the Ministry of Household Affairs, he approached Cao Song and asked about the Sun family.

Knowing that Sun Wencheng didn't visit relatives and friends these days, but stayed behind closed doors, Cao Yong was very impressed.

It is not unreasonable for the Sun family to be able to retire from the position of Hangzhou Weaving Industry.

Just as he was thinking, he heard movement and saw Sun Wencheng striding in.Cao Yong hurriedly stood up and said: "My nephew, please give my cousin a peace!"

He was busy in the farm these days, so he was black and thin.

Sun Wencheng met him several times, and he always looked like Mr. Pian Pianjia.Seeing him like this now, he was stunned, gave a little support, and the host and guest sat down.

A few days ago, although Cao Yong was not in Beijing, when the Sun family moved, Cao Song brought his servants here to help, so Sun Wencheng would not misunderstand the Cao family's snobbery.

Compared with the Li family whose property was seized and whose sons and servants were imprisoned, the Sun family was already much luckier.

"I heard that you were troubled by running around for Li and Sun's family a few days ago. Thank you for your hard work." Sun Wencheng said with a sigh.

Cao Yong was a little embarrassed to see him thanking each other sincerely.

The so-called running around was just going to the Thirteenth Brother's house to eat tea twice, and Xun Youzi had two conversations with the Sixteenth Brother.

"It's all done by my nephew." Cao Yong said humbly.

"Just do your best, and wait for the emperor's will for the rest. Don't implicate the Cao family. Only by protecting the family can you support Shouwang." Sun Wencheng said.

"Yes, my nephew listens to my cousin." Cao Yong borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and replied...

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Ask for a monthly pass in a low voice. .The extravagant drama of the Red Chamber began. .

(End of this chapter)