Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1217

"Mother..." Mrs. Li stood beside the kang and called out in a low voice.

Gao Taijun's blurred vision gradually became clear, looked at Li Shi, and said, "Shuqing..."

Li Shi resisted, did not shed tears, gently took Gao Taijun's hand, and said: "Well, my daughter is here..."

Gao Taijun looked behind Mrs. Li, hesitantly said: "Ding's daughter-in-law, Dalang and Erlang are also here..."

After Li's death, it was Li Xu's stepwife Wang who brought Li Nuo and Li Yu brothers.

Hearing Gao Taijun's words, the two brothers took a step forward, knelt down beside Li Shi, and said, "Old ancestor, it's the great-grandson who came..."

"Help the old lady up." Gao Taijun said softly.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang stepped forward, supported Mr. Gao to sit up, and put a kang pillow behind the old man.

"Old lady... I want to go back to Li's house..." Gao Taijun's voice was not loud, but it was beyond doubt.

Li's eyes turned red immediately, and Wang hurriedly said: "It is time to welcome the old lady back, and it is time to go back, and let the children be filial..."

Gao Taijun nodded and said, "The old lady's house..."

"People have been cleaning it all the time, and the kang is also caged, so people can live in it immediately." Wang said.

Gao Taijun was quite relieved, looked at the Li family and said: "The old lady belongs to the Li family after all, what about Brother Yong and his grandson's wife? Talk to them, and the old lady will move in."

"Brother Yong hasn't come back yet... My daughter-in-law was still here just now, and the daughter-in-law who was in charge just came back and talked outside... Even if my mother wanted to go back there, she didn't rush for these two days. The house has been empty for several years. It will take two days to clean up, the children in the province are in a hurry, and my sister-in-law is also anxious." Li Shi persuaded politely.

Gao Taijun is young and widowed, with a strong temper, and he is the least willing to cause trouble for others.

After hearing her daughter's words, she hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "If that's the case, then it's better to move in the future."

Speaking of this, she looked at the two people kneeling, and said: "I'm afraid that the old lady's important matter will eventually fall on your brother's head. You don't have to feel embarrassed. The old lady has already prepared money here, so you don't need to throw it away."

Li Nuo hurriedly said: "If there is no love from the ancestors, how can the great-grandchildren live in Beijing. The ancestors will live a long life, waiting for the grandson to grow up and be an old birthday star."

After Gao Taijun heard his words, his complexion became softer, he waved his hands and said, "Get up." Then he asked Wang, "Is Brother Hai going to call someone?"

Brother Hai is Li Nuo's eldest son, and it's not yet his second birthday.

"Once you meet, you will be able to deceive people. The ancestors will know when they see it. My nephew, Uncle Xiao, looks just like Saburo when he was a child. The ancestors will definitely like it." Wang said.

Among the many descendants of the Li family, Gao Taijun loves Li Ding, Li Cheng, and Xiangyu the most. These three were raised by her side when they were young.

Hearing that Brother Hai looks like Li Cheng, Gao Taijun smiled a bit and said, "He's a handsome boy again...but he can't be too pampered. Sanlang's body is not good, it's just that he was too pampered when he was young..."

Once the old man was in a good mood, his complexion also turned a little bit, and his face became rosy, and he was no longer as gray as before.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li sighed inwardly, and swallowed the words to stop Gao Taijun from returning to Li's house.

Since it is the wish of the old man, as a daughter, she still follows the old man's wish. Maybe the old man can survive this winter when he is in a good mood...

No matter what, Li Shi always hoped for a turning point in his heart.

At this moment, Chuyu picked up the curtain and came in, followed by Qingmei with a tray.

In addition to the medicine bowl, there is also a bowl of hot porridge on the tray.

Chuyu took the medicine and handed it to Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Li personally served Gao Taijun to drink the medicine, and then fed her porridge.

After talking for a while, Gao Taijun was also a little tired, and after eating the porridge, he lay down again.

Everyone backed out, Wang wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, and said to Li with a choked voice: "Madam, let's ask someone to deliver the letter to Fengtian. Even if our old man can't leave, we have to let the old man come back. Da Lang How can they handle this when they are young?"

Although Mrs. Li still hoped that Mr. Gao would survive, she still had to make thorough preparations, so as not to be in a hurry when things came to an end, which would make the old man feel uneasy.

Mrs. Li nodded, and a trace of joy flashed in Mrs. Wang's eyes, and then covered it up again.

Just as Li Nuo was about to speak, he heard Li Yu say, "Grandfather is getting old, and there are always people around to take care of him. Eldest brother's errands are inseparable from people. It's no different than me, who is just a name in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or my grandson. Fengtian will go for a trip to change his father back."

Li Nuo hesitated for a moment, and said: "I thought I would go, and it happens to be the end of the year, so I'll ask for a little more leave..."

Li Yudao: "Even if you ask for leave before the year, it's not good to delay it until the next year. The master and wife are getting old, so it's better to go back to Beijing for a while."

Hearing that what he said was reasonable, Li Nuo didn't force it.

Mrs. Li felt relieved to see that their brothers and friends respected each other; only Mrs. Wang's expression changed again and again, and his expression was a little stiff.

As it was getting dark, the kitchen had already set up a table, Chu Yu asked her mother-in-law, and ordered the food to be placed in the west room of Shaoyuan.

Li Nuo and Li Yu's meals are placed in the middle hall of Shaoyuan.

When the food was served, Cao Yong came back and had dinner with Li Nuo and Li Yu brothers.

In addition to returning Li Nai to prepare for major events, Li Cheng also has to go to Xin'er.As Gao Taijun's most beloved great-grandson, it would be nice to come back to accompany him for a while at the end of the year.

For the rest, the longevity materials are all pre-purchased, so there is nothing to add.

Two days later, Cao Yong took half a day off from the yamen, and together with Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sent Gao Taijun back to Li's house.

Gao Taijun's house, which is the landlord's house in the backyard of Li's house, has been tidied up, and the damp is also driven away with a brazier.

Gao Taijun knew that Cao Yong was busy with errands, so he waved him off to get busy as soon as possible.Even Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law Gao Taijun didn't stay long, so he asked them to go back and be busy.

Mrs. Li didn't leave immediately, but met Mrs. Wang and several grandnieces and daughter-in-laws.

Mrs. Sun followed her husband in Fengtian, while Mrs. Wang no longer took care of housework. Now Li Nuo's wife, Mrs. Quan, is in charge of the house in the Li family.

Mrs. Li had already prepared a money box, as well as several boxes of medicinal supplements such as ginseng and bird's nest, and handed them over to Mrs. Quan, saying: "The old lady is ill, please take care of everything."

Seeing this, the Quan family hurriedly said: "Old aunt, you can keep ginseng and medicinal materials as much as you want, and you don't need any money. The uncle, second master, and third master all have errands now, and there is still some money in the account..."

Mrs. Li shook her head and said: "This is not my money, it is the money of the old matriarch. The old matriarch's temper has always been like this, so you can keep it. If the old matriarch wants to eat or collect something, you can spend this money." Money... when it's time to do big things, I'll send someone over with money..."

Quan's couldn't push it any further, so he had to accept it.

Mrs. Li talked to Mrs. Wang for a while, and gave Mrs. Wang a portion of the medicinal supplements he brought, and then brought Chuyu back to the Cao Mansion.

In the past few days, the Tong family's case has intensified.

As Cao Yong said to Sixteen Brothers, the greed of Tong's parents finally caught fire.

The fact that Erlundai and his son supported the eighth elder brother as the reserve in the Kangxi Dynasty was revealed.

Orondai got rid of his noble title and exiled Fengtian with his son Arsun'a, but he still ordered him not to belong to his family or his wife.

Orondai had four sons in total, the second and third sons died early, and now except for the eldest son, only the youngest son of a concubine is alive, and the title of this branch has been inherited by his youngest son.

On Yue Xing'a's side, because of failing to live up to the grace, the property was confiscated to make up for the balance of Long Keduo's case.Yue Xing'a himself was sent to serve in the Heilongjiang army.

The first-class duke left behind by Longkodo after the removal of the noble was inherited by Namutu, the second son of Kwadai.

In less than half a month, both Tong's mansions had changed owners.

The two eldest sons of the Tong family disappeared, and the title was transferred to a side branch of the concubines to inherit.

For a family, the position of the eldest son is indispensable.

How can the people of the tribe be convinced that the side branch is born?
Even if the descendants of the concubines are now the successors, and the eldest sons are still there, even if the Tong family cannot fall apart, they will no longer be monolithic.

The emperor's mind is nothing more than that.

With the passing of the Kangxi Dynasty, the famous "Tong Banchao" has gradually become history.

For those new officials who don't know the past, this is just the emperor's method of "forming a party"; only the veterans who have experienced the Kowloon dispute know that the emperor is looking for something later.

For Cao Yong, nothing else is important now, what is important is the official affairs of the household department and the progress of sea trade.

The household department has sent a doctor to the south of Guangzhou as a front station to take care of this matter.

What the household department is doing now is to spread the news, recruit businessmen from all over the world, and assemble caravans.

The current voyages must follow the monsoon and solar terms, and the first time to go to sea for trade is scheduled for next autumn.

The share of private merchants, the share of the imperial court, the share of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the proportion of various goods, etc., cannot be determined on paper.

For a while, Cao Yong was so busy hitting the back of his head.

At the same time, for the needs of the sea, the Ministry of War was alarmed.

The Ministry of War will mobilize [-] sailors to train in Tianjin Port.

Then, 500 people from these navy troops will be selected to go south, and join with 500 people from the Fujian Navy to become the guards of the imperial caravan.

For this reason, Cao Yong dealt with Fahai, Minister of the Ministry of war, several times.

Fahai used to be the governor of Guangdong, and he knew more about maritime trade than others. He supported this new policy.

Cao Yong chatted with him twice, and found that although he was a great talent who was once the prince's master, he was very active in thinking.

When Cao Yong saw this, he couldn't help but wonder.

Compared with Kua Dai, who was in his fifties and still had a lack of achievements in his bodyguards, this diligent and innovative Fa Hai should be more in the eyes of Yongzheng. Why are the two titles of the Tong family the same? He has nothing to do.

Then, after asking the sixteenth elder brother, Cao Yong knew the reason.

In the past few years since the emperor took the throne, the fourteen sons have been imprisoned or imprisoned, but they have not been revealed to the public.

There are all kinds of rumors outside, rumors of the emperor's killing of the younger brothers have come out, and it is not seen that the emperor has the intention of forgiving the rumors of the fourteen sons.

Only Fa Hai, who used to be the teacher of the Fourteenth Beast, had written a book to the emperor and pleaded for mercy for the Fourteenth Beast...

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Right to the finger, begging for the monthly pass in a low voice...

(End of this chapter)