Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 316 Visiting the Golden Gate Ranch
After leaving Zhangjiakou, there is an endless grassland.In addition to the Taipusi Ranch here, there is also the Shangsiyuan Ranch of the House of Internal Affairs.Therefore, on the road, I also encountered two groups of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs outside the entrance and exit.

In addition to the horse plague in the left-wing ranch of Taipu Temple in Harani Dunjing, the adjacent Shangsiyuan Ranch was not spared. According to the official's mention, hundreds of good horses also died violently.

Cao Yong secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, now he is not afraid of natural disasters, but man-made disasters.However, when he arrived at Harani Dunjing Ranch, he couldn't relax when he saw everyone from the manager to the chief shepherd were crying.

Since the discovery of the first plagued horse on March 23, in less than ten days, more than [-] horses have died in the ranch, and more than [-] horses have been quarantined.Although the horse plague has been controlled to a certain extent after the isolation of the horse herd, the current number is shocking.

According to the custom handed down from the ranch, the sick and dead horses should be skinned and deboned, the bones should be stored, and the horse meat should be distributed to the herdsmen.But for the horses that died of plague, the meat had to be dug and buried deep.

The head of the ranch is Baose, in his 40s, and a Manchurian man with red flags.Cao Yong is not unfamiliar with him. He met him in Pingjun Wangfu in his early years.Speaking of it, the two still have relatives in law.Baose's nephew is Zhong Hai who married Jueluo Seishtu's elder sister.

Different from the head of the Nanyuan Racecourse in the capital, Baose's position is the head of the two wings of the ranch (the deputy capital commander), and the general manager of the "horse administration" of the two wings of Chahar.Taipu Siqing and Shaoqing are in charge of the development and construction of the ranch, and take reward and punishment measures to supervise.

In terms of rank, the Chief Minister and the Tai Pu Si Qing are the second rank, and the other is the third rank. The former is much higher than the latter.However, because Baose is a disciple of Pingjun Prince's Mansion, even if Cao Yong doesn't have his forehead, he is still his half master.Therefore, he did not take Canada.

Cao Yong went to the ranch for two days, and together with Baose every day, he counted the statistics reported below.With the increase in the number of dead horses, the faces of the deputy stewards, wing collars, and pen posts on the side of the ranch turned green, and even the faces of the two subordinate officials brought by Cao Yong were also ugly.

This time, Tang Zhiyu also arrived in a carriage.

By April [-]th, a total of more than a thousand horses had died suddenly, and Tang Zhiyu's brows had been locked into a ball.Cao Yong was still surprised, didn't he say that if more than [-] dead horses exceeded [-], he would be fined?However, as I think about it, this year is the year of pasture inspections, which is exactly a three-year period.Presumably, in the past three years, many horses on the ranch fell ill and died.Adding up the two strokes, the number of horses has far exceeded the amount of reward and punishment.

After the tenth day of the fourth lunar month, no more horses died, and the number of horses lost in the horse plague was also counted, 860 three horses.Over the pasture, there is the lingering bloody smell of slaughtered horses.

Cao Yong's errand is to count the punishments of the relevant personnel.Starting from the shepherd and the deputy shepherd, to the deputy manager and the manager, they must be punished with flogging based on the number of horses killed suddenly within their jurisdiction.

When the subordinate officials handed over the checked list to Cao Yong and Tang Zhiyu, both of them were dumbfounded.According to this statistic, no one can run up and down the ranch, and everyone will be whipped.Among them, the heaviest is that four of the 64 shepherds whose horses all fell dead each received [-] lashes, eight deputy shepherds received [-] lashes, and four shepherd chiefs received [-] lashes.

This is the difference in the same mouth. The punishment system implemented by this ranch retains the legacy before the Eight Banners entered the customs. It is mainly whipped and has no upper limit.Fortunately, the Kangxi court meeting, following the trend, implemented it at a 160% discount, reflecting the "benevolence" of the sage.Even so, the [-] whips are not something everyone can bear.

In addition to being whipped up and down the ranch, even officials from the Taipu Temple in Beijing can't escape.From relegation to dismissal, everything is justified.Although it is a natural disaster, people must always be pulled out to take responsibility, so as not to be dragged into other aspects by caring people.

The one on the dragon chair will never leave any disputes to the world.

Cao Yong is not afraid of being demoted or dismissed from office. His current promotion speed is too fast, which is already eye-catching, and it is good to slow down.

At this moment, the hall official who came down from the capital for inspection had already come down, that is, Yin Tebu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

On April [-]th, under the observation of the officials of the Ministry of War and the Taipu Temple, the whipping on the ranch began.The audience was full of wolves crying and ghosts howling, which was very intrusive.

Cao Yong looked at the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere, but he almost wanted to spit out the overnight meal.

Cao Yong looked a little numb all over. Although those shepherds graze every day, most of them are very strong, but there are also old and weak people.Some were whipped dozens of times and never moved again, while others were twitching, looking extremely miserable.

Although Cao Yong is not a good person, but seeing these herdsmen being flogged to death with his own eyes, he couldn't bear it.He looked at Yin Tebu, who was watching the execution, and Yin Tebu's face was extremely dark.

In the end, he, the Minister of the Ministry of War, cannot escape responsibility.He was not in the mood to gloat over Cao Yong's misfortune, and his stomach was already full of anger.

Today, there is a vacancy for full bachelors, and Yin Tebuben is the most promising candidate for promotion.However, after a bout of verbal malaise, his crime of "overseeing" is unavoidable, and it would be great if he could retain the title of Minister, and the Grand Scholars can be counted on, but not counted on.

In this way, he hated the ranch people to the bottom of his bones, and ordered the soldiers to beat them hard, not to be slack in the slightest.

When the soldiers came to report that two people had been tortured but died suddenly, both Cao Yong and Tang Zhiyu were taken aback.Tang Zhiyu immediately stood up, took a few steps forward, and leaned over to preach to Yin Te: "Master Yin, although they have made mistakes, they are not guilty of death. This whipping..."

Yin Tebu was already uncomfortable, and he was even more annoyed when he saw Tang Zhiyu standing out for these shepherds.Without waiting for Tang Zhiyu to finish speaking, he said with a straight face: "What? I ordered you to give me instructions?"

Tang Zhiyu hurriedly said: "I don't dare to offend my lord, it's just that many of these shepherds may not be able to survive the 160 lashes. Can your lord be more generous and divide this punishment into several times? Execute the punishment in batches. There are precedents."

Yin Tebu sneered: "What a precedent! Where is the precedent? Is there an imperial decree, or are there documents from the Ministry and the Taipu Temple? If it weren't for the neglect of management here, everyone would be able to perform their duties, and there would be no chaos. This catastrophe! Master Tang, if you have the leisure to meddle in others, you might as well think about how to write an apology!"

Tang Zhiyu was silenced by the push, and he muttered dryly, but finally returned to his seat without saying anything.

When Cao Yong saw that Yin Tebu wanted to order to continue the execution of the caning, he turned his head and said, "Lord Yin, the longevity of the Long Live Lord has just passed..." At this point, he stopped talking, and the rest depends on Yin Tebu I understand it myself.

Yin Tebu dared to reprimand Tang Zhiyu, but it was hard to say Cao Yong.After all, in terms of rank, Cao Yong, the Heshuo son-in-law, is just one rank higher than his Shangshu.

Although Cao Yong only said half a sentence, Yin Tebu "knows the elegant meaning by hearing the strings".The purpose of amnesty on the Longevity Day is to show the emperor's "kindness". If ten or eight of them died because of flogging, and they were impeached by the censor, even if it was justified, they would have committed the crime of "cruelty" .

Yin Tebu narrowed his eyes and looked at Cao Yong. He didn't know whether his pretentiousness was for Tang Zhiyu's success, or if he was kind enough to remind himself.No matter what, the anger in his heart has calmed down a lot now.Therefore, he ordered someone to pass down an order to carry out the caning of the old and weak shepherds separately, one hundred lashes each time, once every ten days.

Those who were punished with a hundred lashes and those who were less than a hundred lashes, such as the shepherd chief, co-leader, guard military academy, Xiaoqi school, wing collar, defense, etc., were not so lucky. I have to cry for my father and mother, and I am in a panic.

Cao Yong only felt that his ears were going to be hurt by shouting. Looking at the rascals of these people in front of him, he didn't have the spirit of a warrior of the Eight Banners.It has been less than a hundred years since the Eight Banners entered the customs, and these children of the Banners have long since lost the prestige of their ancestors on horseback, and have become moths.

From morning to afternoon, until dusk, the caning was finally almost finished.

At this moment, Cao Yong heard Tang Zhiyu beside him snort coldly, saying: "You have to do it yourself!"

Cao Yong turned his head and looked, and saw Tang Zhiyu suppressed his anger and looked into the field. It was the ranch manager Bao Se and two deputy managers who were tied up in the field.

With such a big mistake in the ranch, it is hard to guarantee the top status of these three people, but they can't get away with this whip before the official document is issued.

Cao Yong was in the ranch for ten days, and a few small officials who were at odds with Baose came up to show their courtesy and talk about miscellaneous things.Therefore, he knew where Tang Zhiyu's hatred came from.

According to the regulations, the horses that died of old, weak, sick and sick for three years on the ranch will be exempted from punishment as long as they do not exceed [-]% of the total number of mature horses.In fact, this number has been given very loosely.

Since the establishment of this racecourse, there has been a bad habit from top to bottom, that is, to eat "empty pay", to receive food and management money for a hundred horses, but in fact there are only eighty or ninety horses.

Because everyone has a chance to make money, they rely on the [-]% limit, and they are not afraid of the three-year inspection to divide up the privately left money.

As a result, we have reached the current scene.Originally there were [-] adult mules and horses in the racecourse, but the total number of horses was actually less than [-]; after this horse plague, the total number was only [-].No one can bear the responsibility for such a big hole, so everyone can only be punished together.Even the top and bottom officials of the Taipu Temple in the capital must be dragged down by the greed here.

Tang Zhiyu was originally a dude when Cao Yong was born, and he was able to advance directly by borrowing the light of the family and the palace.

During this business trip, Tang Zhiyu saw that he did not have the pretensions of a nobleman, and he looked orderly in sorting out the accounts outside the mouth, so he knew that he had underestimated him.

An old shepherd who survived the suspension of whipping made his grandson send milk cakes to Tang Zhiyu specially to thank him for saving his life.

Tang Zhiyu was ashamed of it, because everyone saw him coming forward to plead for mercy, so they remembered the kindness of suspending the whipping punishment on him.He is very clear about his own size, how could Yin Tebu take himself as the fourth rank of Han in his eyes.It was Cao Yong's words that made Yin Tebu feel scruples.So, he told the little Mongolian boy the truth and took him to thank Cao Yong.

Seeing that Cao Yong was surrounded by vicious long-term attendants, the little Mongolian boy only thought he was a powerful young master who waved a whip at others casually, so he trembled and couldn't speak.

Cao Yong was still baffled, but the little boy remembered his grandfather's order, knelt down and kowtowed a few times, then put down his milk, got up and ran away.

On April [-]th, after the work on the ranch was over, everyone returned to Beijing, but they did not rush as fast as when they came.

Among the crowd, Cao Yong has the most respected status, and Yin Tebu has the highest official position. Both of them have some scruples, and no one is willing to take the big one.Therefore, no one proposed to go first, and everyone returned to Beijing together.

Cao Yong knew that his "commissioned Tai Pu Si Qing" should be the end.Although he was said to be more than [-] miles away from the capital, when it comes to investigation, he, the "temporary chief official", cannot escape responsibility.Not to mention, there is an alternate Daotai Mingan waiting in Beijing.

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The news of the accident at the ranch outside the mouth has already spread privately in the capital.

Cao Jiashi overheard this incident when she went to other palaces for entertainment, and said that her brother was about to be dismissed from office.She only knew that her younger brother left Beijing to run an errand, but didn't know the details, so she was a little worried.

Back in the mansion, when Naersu came back, Cao Jia hurriedly asked why.

Naersu has also been inquiring for the past few days, but there is no movement, and he has no idea.But he was not afraid of his wife's worry, so he frowned and said: "How can you believe what the women outside talk about? Although Brother Yong is young, he has always acted cautiously and put his heart into his errands. I don't believe others can find his fault. ? It’s just because he was jealous that he was young and promoted quickly, and he just talked nonsense. When Brother Yong comes back from a business trip, naturally there will be no such nonsense!”

Cao Jia was skeptical of her husband's words, and finally worried about her younger siblings, fearing that she would be too young to think wildly, so she went back to her mother's house for a while.

Chu Yu also heard this rumor, but she didn't believe it at all. She couldn't help feeling worried, and even comforted Cao Jiashi in turn.

Seeing that she was heartless and didn't worry about her husband at all, Cao Jia felt a little dissatisfied, frowned, and wondered if she should scold her sister-in-law.Even if she is younger, she is already the mother of a child, how can she still act like a child, unable to be the support of her husband at all.

Chu Yu saw Cao Jia's displeasure, and said with a smile, "Sister, it's not that Chu Yu doesn't care about her son-in-law, she just knows that he is capable, and those who say that he is mediocre don't take it seriously. Huang Mafa has always been wise, why not?" Why don't you know this?"

Don't talk about the Cao family, but say that the ninth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother are both tired of Cao Yong.Ming An, who had been staring at the position of Minister of the Imperial Palace, also thought he had something to look forward to, so he went to the Ba Prince's house a few times in private, and the filial piety he sent was a bit more.

The eighth elder brother also had more smiles on his face, and he forgot the unhappiness in front of the imperial court a few days ago.He has worked hard for these years to stand out from all the princes, and the emperor should see it in his eyes.The reason why he didn't ask for his opinion may be that he had other considerations, or he didn't want to get involved.

The sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother were worried about Cao Yong. When they went to visit the fourth elder brother, they even made a special trip to ask about Cao Yong.

The fourth elder brother didn't move, but told the seventeenth elder brother to be safe and calm, the emperor might not punish Cao Yong.If he and the sixteenth elder brother can't stand it and come forward to speak for Cao Yong, it will be easy to lose their tongue.

Although they are about the same age, and it is normal to have a close relationship, after all, Cao Yong's status is different from the past. He is no longer a guard or a companion, but a high-ranking Beijing official.If the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother don't know how to restrain themselves, it will only make Yu Shi more accusations of impeaching Cao Yong.

The sixteenth elder brother knew that the fourth elder brother was right. Although he was anxious for Cao Yong, there was nothing he could do.When he thought that Cao Yong was lazy, he said: "The heaviest punishment is nothing more than dismissal, but it's not a big deal! Cao Yong has always been lazy. I'm afraid he really wants to be like this, but he followed his wish!"

Elder Seventeen, however, was a little unconvinced, and asked: "Isn't it possible to be punished so severely? It's amazing that the Minister of the Imperial Palace is wrong! He has only accepted it for a few days, and he is only a 'commissioner', why should he bear all the crimes? "

The fourth elder brother didn't respond, the sixteenth elder brother smiled bitterly and said: "The vacancy of the minister of the imperial court was fought twice, and finally it fell on Cao Yong. I'm afraid that people on both sides will hate him! Who would believe that he didn't go away?" Relationship, don’t think about it at all. Seventh brother didn’t dare to offend, taking advantage of this opportunity, don’t wear shoes for Cao Yong, how can they step down?”

After the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother left, the fourth elder brother stood in front of the study window with his hands behind his back, looking at the locust tree in the yard, thinking for a long time.

Thinking of the news he just received recently, he suddenly realized that he could not blame the emperor's father for treating the Cao family differently.

The Cao family should be accepted; Cao Yong is also available...
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Next update, tomorrow. .

(End of this chapter)