Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 322 Visiting the Golden Gate Days
Due to the hot weather, Kangxi mostly stayed at the Mountain Resort throughout May and June, and only stayed at Tangquan in the Mountain Resort for a few days from the [-]th to the [-]th of May.

Cao Yong's life was very leisurely at the beginning. When he had nothing to do, he walked around the villa with elder brother sixteen and elder brother seventeen, and occasionally mixed with De Tehei and others in the school grounds.

He slowly picked up the riding and archery skills that were a bit unfamiliar at first, and the eyes of many new young guards were envious.Even Detehei and Nalan Fusen sighed, how can it be easy to be a guard with a high-level position like Cao Yong?

When everyone is in a good mood, there are still some people who want to gamble for a lottery.Cao Yong has no fighting spirit, it is really hard to push, and there are winners and losers, which makes everyone happy.

Although Li Ding was always tactful, but here in the guard camp, everyone did not come from a small family. They slipped out at random, and they all wore titles.With just one mouth, how can it convince everyone?
Li Ding is very strong by nature. Although his riding and archery skills are not as good as Cao Yong's, he has also practiced peeing.

When he was in the capital, he didn't know that Shengjia had been stationed in the Rehe Palace for more than two months, and when he was not on duty, he often lingered around the school grounds, and his skills became more and more outstanding.Even those old guards who used to call him "little boy" behind his back treated him more intimately.

Once, when Cao Yong saw this cousin in the school yard, he hesitated in his heart, wondering whether he should ask him or not.

Li Ding used to have a very romantic and elegant appearance, he liked fancy clothes, and after a few months in the guard camp, he also had a somewhat heroic appearance.Seeing that Cao Yong seemed to have something to say, he joked with a smile: "What is Furuo thinking, but you want to make gestures with your cousin?"

Just as Cao Yong was about to smile and wave his hands, he looked up, but saw Li Ding's half-smile, with a hint of sarcasm and hatred in his eyes.Although Li Ding saw Cao Yong looking at him, he immediately picked up the corners of his mouth and squeezed out a little smile to cover it up, but Cao Yong is not a fool, so he can feel whether he is kind or malicious.

Although the two are cousins, they don't have much contact with each other.Cao Yong thought carefully, except for the matter of Wangfengzhuang three years ago, he did not have any grudges with this cousin.Thinking of these, his heart became heavier and heavier.

That incident was the Li family's fault.If Li Ding didn't want to repent, but still had resentment in his heart, then Cao Yong could only sigh and be speechless.Although he knew that the Li family was in decline, the Li family would inevitably feel sad, but he had no intention of going to the Li family to be buried with him.

There are more than 400 people in Jiangning and the capital's mansion. He has to bear the lives and futures of too many people. He is really unwilling to take that risk and bother to influence relatives of the Li family.It seems that when we return to the capital, we still have to find a way to show our favor to the fourth elder brother. Even if we don't express our position, we can't let him misunderstand.

Cao Yong made up his mind, and when he looked at Li Ding again, he felt a little less headache and a little more calm, and said with a light smile: "I'd better trouble my cousin to find someone else, my cousin is really impatient to move, hehe, this It's hot!" Saying that, he waved his hands and said, "Cousin, play slowly, cousin, I'll squint in a cool place first."

Standing there, Li Ding looked at Cao Yong's back, feeling unspeakably hateful.But for some reason, he felt that something was negligent, and he couldn't think of the reason, so he couldn't help feeling upset and irritable.He picked up an arrow, put it on the bow, aimed at the target in the distance, and said in a low voice: "What are you, what right do you have to look down on me!"

Cao Yong strolled and walked away, but he couldn't hear him, and he didn't have the heart to think about what Li Ding was thinking.

Leisure these days, Cao Yong heart has no bottom up.

After all, he is the chief official of the Taipu Temple, and Kangxi beat him last time, no matter how lazy Cao Yong is, he has to use his brains.Helpless, he is really a layman when it comes to raising horses.When he was unclear about the key points, he was also unwilling to point fingers arbitrarily in order to show that he was competent as the chief officer.

Although Taipu Siqing is regarded as a close minister of the emperor, the edicts and edicts under his post are useless.Most of those errands were done by the minister on duty or someone specially appointed by Kangxi, and it was not Cao Yong's turn to intervene.

Said that he didn't want to disappoint Kangxi, or because of his sense of responsibility, Cao Yong still wanted to be a veritable minister of the imperial court.Therefore, he worked as a statistician for most of the time he stayed in the villa.

Taipusi Liangyi Ranch was formerly a stud farm, which belonged to the Ministry of War. It was set up in the early years of Shunzhi, mainly for the army to graze and supply horses.At that time, Shaanxi Yuan Racecourse was also set up at the same time.In the fourth year of Kangxi, the horses and shepherds of the Yuanma Farm were merged into the stud farm, and the horse farm on the Shaanxi side was banned, and the horse farm was concentrated on the outside of the mouth.In the ninth year of Kangxi, the stud farm was changed from the Ministry of War to the Taipu Temple, from the national ranch to the royal ranch, and the left and right wings of the ranch were divided.

He sent the official document to the capital, and asked people to send all the materials of the existing horse farm on the Taipu Temple to Rehe.

In addition to Tang Zhiyu, the members of the Taipu Temple on the Rehe side also have two small historians.Those two petty officials were low-ranking, and the horse administration materials of the past few decades were classified as confidential documents.Except for Taipusiqing and Shaoqing, only the Taipusicheng and the master book can consult part of it according to their official duties. These two small historians are not qualified to read these.

For Tang Zhiyu, although he seems a bit rigid, Cao Yong has some sincere admiration.Don't say anything else, let's just say that Tang's food and clothing expenses are the most frugal among the officials Cao Yong has seen.And looking at his behavior as a person, it doesn't seem to be fake.

Cao Yong was a little surprised. Although Beijing officials are no better than local officials, they can scrape the land or the wealth of wealthy households in Kaka's territory, but they also have some filial piety from officials.

But after thinking about it, he also understood that the Taipu Temple was actually a noble yamen, so it was no wonder that there were more human contacts before Beijing, but not as much as when he was a doctor in the household department.Those officials who are newly sent abroad or those who come to Beijing to meet, must give all kinds of tribute to the officials of the six departments.There is charcoal worship in winter and ice worship in summer.

Of course, no one would remember a government office like Taipu Temple.During the "three festivals and two longevity" period, the subordinate officials below will give some gifts.Those petty officials are even poorer, and this gift is just a occasional occasion.

Because Xiaoman and Tang Shun were also close friends, they also asked a lot of questions in private.Tang Zhiyu was born in a scholarly family, his parents are dead, but now he is supporting a widow, aunt and several cousins.Those cousins ​​are all studying, and they spend a lot of money. Two of them are already famous scholars, and they are studying in the capital, waiting for Enke this fall.Coupled with the fact that he has quite a few children of his own, his life is a bit tighter.

After Cao Yong knew this, he looked at Tang Zhiyu with more respect.Cao Yong did not hide from Tang Zhiyu his intention to send someone to Rehe to deliver documents.With the responsible Shaoqing around, it's not in vain.

In the following days, Cao Yong and Tang Zhiyu worked together to collect various data on the ranch in the 43 years from the ninth year of Kangxi to the present.The number of unhealthy animals and the number of wasted animals are calculated according to the annual and monthly statistics, and the years in which horse sickness occurred are specially marked.

Although Tang Zhiyu is a bit upright and has been an official for nearly ten years, he naturally knows that this thing is the credit given to him by the chief officer.

Although he didn't say those empty words of gratitude, Cao Yong, a layman, intervened in the official affairs of Taipu Temple in this way, instead of just touching each other. In order to maintain the authority of the chief officer, he directed Cao Yong blindly. The chief officer's impression was much better.

Tang Zhiyu could only sigh when he saw that Cao Yong was concentrating on the account book with his left hand and the abacus with his right hand, calculating the data and accounts cracklingly.

It is said in the official circles that the dignity of the Cao family has fallen to Cao Yong for several lifetimes, so he was lucky enough to advance, and he was a prominent official at a young age.Tang Zhiyu himself was born in a serious imperial examination. He studied poetry and books since he was a child, and passed the imperial examination several times.Therefore, for young people like Cao Yong, who came up through the shadow of his family, he originally had a bit of contempt, but now he sincerely admires him.

If it were someone else, they might want to do it secretly, earn some credit, get promoted or something.Cao Yong did not have such an idea, and he was quite satisfied with his current position as a fifth-rank official.

Even sometimes, Cao Yong couldn't help but wonder if Kangxi took advantage of the ranch to lower his grade by three levels in order to protect himself and reduce everyone's jealousy towards him.Because, just like the eighth and ninth brothers, after he was downgraded, they didn't think he was lucky.

Kangxi is old and can no longer stand the heat.Cao Yong has entered twice in the past two months. Although the emperor's face is solemn and his eyes are still sharp, he still can't conceal his old age.

In the past two months outside the Great Wall, what Kangxi was most happy about was the news of the pregnancy from the palace servants.In the spring, a nobleman gave birth to a prince, who died shortly after landing.Although Kangxi does not lack elder brother princesses, as a man, an elderly man, being able to make a woman pregnant can be regarded as a proof that "the sword is not old".

The [-]th elder brother's side Fujin Li gave birth to a son on June [-]th, and the mother and child are safe.When the news reached Rehe, Elder Sixteen was overjoyed, and while announcing the good news to Kangxi, he asked for grace and went back to Beijing to see his son.

This is Kangxi's third grandson this year. The first one was the third elder brother who had the tenth son in early May, then the thirteenth elder brother who had the second son at the end of May, and now the sixteenth elder brother who had the eldest son.

Before the birth of Mrs. Li, Chu Yu asked Cao Yong how to follow the etiquette in his family letter.Because of the etiquette comparison of Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion, this place should not be too heavy, nor too light.Although the eldest son of a common concubine is more honorable than his eldest son, but since the eldest son of the sixteenth elder brother died young, this child is considered the eldest son, and the etiquette should not be too light.

Cao Yong only asked Chuyu to follow the same preparations, and don't ask people to compare who is higher and who is lower.Chu Yu's family letter also tells about the current situation of the people in the mansion, they are all safe and sound.

Tian's and Yizhou's servants arrived in the capital in late May, and Mr. Zhuang did not accompany them.Knowing the news of Cao Yong's going north, he took his two concubines and Niuniu back to the south to visit his brother.I have already sent a letter to Cao Yong, saying that I will go north after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Cao Song also wrote a letter to his family, he looked a bit manly, he talked about the recent situation of his younger brothers and sisters, and also focused on the matter of Cao Yi's return to the house.

Maybe it's hard to solve, she went back to the Cao Mansion twice, but never called "Mother", but treated Zhaojia's courteously, and was very close to her younger siblings.On the anniversary of her father's death, she followed her sister and brothers to worship before the spirit.

Cao Yong sighed, this can only be solved by Cao Yi himself.Whether she is willing to accept Zhao Jiashi or not, Cao Yong can understand here.Although the current world style pays attention to the word "filial piety", in the eyes of the world, no matter what Zhaojia's family is, as long as she bears the title of aunt, even if she is a married woman, Cao Yi can only be respectful.

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The capital, Jinyu Alley, Thirteenth Prince's Mansion.

Since the beginning of summer, an open space has been split on the side of the back garden, one foot and a half square, and fine white sand has been piled on it.Every day at dusk, when the heat was about to subside, Elder Thirteen would send someone to clear out the people in the garden and prohibit them from entering or leaving.Afterwards, Brother Thirteen came here and buried his legs in the sand.

This is the way Cao Yong came to visit with his followers, and after knowing that he had committed another serious illness, he specially thought of it.Elder Brother Thirteen thought it was a bit of a joke, but couldn't stand Thirteen Fujin's soft and hard foam, and finally cleaned up the sand pile.

Because it is really effective, and the hot sand is so hot that people will iron it, Brother Thirteen fell in love with this mouthful.It's just that this appearance is a bit ridiculous, he doesn't want others to see it, so he closes the garden at this time every day.

However, for some "uninvited guests", the password of Brother Thirteen's garden is obviously invalid.No, Elder Sixteen walked in from the gate of the garden with a smile on his face.

The thirteenth elder brother was sitting on the twig, squinting his eyes and resting his mind.When he heard footsteps, he didn't wrinkle up and was about to give a lecture, but when he heard Elder Sixteen greet him with a smile, he could only smile wryly and say, "Why are you here at such an hour? It's going to be dark!" The leg was pulled out of the sand, shaking the sand on it.

Brother Sixteen looked at the pile of white sand and was very curious. He knelt down and grabbed a handful of sand in his hands. It was so hot that his hands were a little hot.He smiled and said: "The palace is so boring, I came to find brother to drink." Then, he sat down next to Brother Thirteen, lay down on the sand, and said, "Brother is really at ease, why do you want to mess with this?" ? My younger brother has been suffering from backaches for the past two days, so Teng Teng!"
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