Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 361 Visiting the Golden Gate Fish
The next day after Shengjia arrived in Beijing, on the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, there will be a small court meeting.

Cao Yong was still the same as every time, got up in the middle of the night, and went out of the city from Xizhimen before Chouzheng (two o'clock in the morning).Inside Xizhimen, many carriages, horses and sedan chairs had already parked.

Cao Yong rode on the horseback, blowing the night wind, only felt the biting cold, could not help shivering.Today's beginning of spring, in previous years, was in time for the first month. This year, because of the leap month, the beginning of spring is ahead of the year before.

After much difficulty, after the city gate opened and the waterwheels in the palace entered the city, the civil and military officials waiting here left the city one by one.

Not long after Cao Yong passed by, after a few sedan chairs, there was Li Xu's carriage.He came from Shichahai Li's house, sitting in the carriage, his expression was unpredictable, he didn't know what he was thinking.

According to his rank, he bears the title of servant of the household department and can directly participate in the Xiaochaohui.However, his own job is an errand between Suzhou Weaving and Lianghuai Yanwu, which makes him still a foreign minister.

Foreign ministers want to ask to see Kangxi, so they need to hand over a sign to ask His Majesty to see him.

Cao Yong didn't see Li Xu, followed civil and military officials into the garden, and arrived at the arrow hall where Xiaochao Club is located.

The winter errands at Taipu Temple are very leisurely, and the whole day is just trivial things.After the new year is over, I will go to the ranch in March or April of next year, and follow the guards in May, and the year's errands will be almost done.

This job is really a little leisurely, Cao Yong thought in his heart.However, it should not only be the case in Taipu Temple. According to Cao Yong's view, even the officials of the six departments should be free, and those officials who are too busy to meet each other perform their duties.

After Kangxi came to court, first the officials of the Ministry of Rites presented the spring throne, and then the Shuntian government office presented the picture of the spring cow.

Perhaps it was because Kangxi had successively attacked several ministers in the past two months, or maybe it was because there was nothing to do at the end of the year.Only the Minister of the Ministry of Households was listed, and it was a matter of reducing the Fu this year's drought in the four counties of Huining, Gansu.

Kangxi listened carefully, nodded and agreed to play, and also ordered that the Ministry of Households arrange for the distribution of millet to relieve the hungry people.

Seeing that no one had published the prelude again, Kangxi asked about the Jiangnan Nankou Navy Division.

Because rice is expensive in Guangdong this year, in order to stabilize the price of grain, Kangxi ordered Heshou, the governor of Liangjiang, to transport rice grain from Jiangnan to Guangdong.As a result, the governor's yamen at Heshou's side had prepared rice and grain, but there was no boat to use.Jingkou warships can't carry rice at all, but it's time for overhaul.

The Ministry of War discusses and replies every year, and the Ministry of Households allocates money for repairs every three to five years. Now it seems that the so-called repairs on weekdays are just a false name, and the money is all gone.

Convicted of the crime of "delaying military affairs regulations", Ma Sanqi was dismissed from the rank of general.Although this incident seems to have nothing to do with Kangxi's previous outbreak of Beijing officials, many officials have already speculated whether the Long Live Lord has dealt with the civil servants, and now he is attacking the military officer?
At the end of the court meeting, there are 68 flood guards in Changchun Garden, please add horse infantry for defense.

Although he said it was because of "Flood Shou", but all the princes and officials in the hall knew it well, it was because of Sheng Jia's stay in Changchun Garden for the past two years.

Although there are Eight Banners garrison here, except for the upper three banners, the lower five banners are not controlled by the emperor himself, but by the clan princes.

Longkodo's move should have been ordered.

Just listen to Kangxi's way: "there are many idlers in the Han army. Here we will add horse and infantry vacancies to make up for the idlers of the Han army. Afterwards, patrolling and arresting the lack of soldiers in the third battalion will also fill in the vacancies with the Han army and Han people." .”

Because the Han army to be supplemented is to stay in Changchun Garden, so no one is so close-eyed to mention ancestral rules.

Cao Yong's heart moved, but it was another matter.

I can't complain that Longkodo, with his position as the admiral of the nine sects, was able to seal off the Changchun Garden and assist the fourth elder brother to ascend the throne.Thinking about it now, if there is no increase in the quota of the Han army today, just relying on the nine admirals, the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners may not think of him in their eyes.

Thinking about this, Cao Yong couldn't help but look at the Si Age in front.There are still nine years until the 61st year of Kangxi, and now there is a "sticky place" in Si Age's mansion. I don't know how he feels about the Cao family now.

After the dynasty was over, Cao Yong didn't leave the garden immediately, but was stopped by Brother Seven.

It turned out that the mountain goods from Fengtian Zhuangzi in Chunwang's mansion had arrived, and the Cao family had no village outside the pass, so they wanted to send a steward to buy mountain goods outside the pass.After Seventh Elder Brother heard about it, he said that he didn't need to make a fuss on his side, and just let the Wangfu side make some progress.

Now that the mountain goods have arrived, he ordered Cao Yong to send the steward to collect them in the past two days.

Weng and son-in-law were talking, and a servant came to deliver the decree, saying that the queen mother summoned the seventh elder brother.

Cao Yong remembered that Chu Yu had mentioned Er GeGe's marriage, and now that the old concubine Qi Qi has been born, there should be news about it.In comparison, the queen mother must have summoned Seventh Brother for this matter.

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Cao Yong went out of the garden and rode back to the Yamen without mentioning it.On Li Xu's side, he waited for two hours in a row, until noon, before he was able to see His Majesty.

Because at the end of the year, many officials were promoted, Kangxi had already met many officials from other places who came to Beijing in the bookstore, such as the Jiangxi inspector Liu Wei, Sichuan Chuandong Daotai Xu Zhaolin and so on.

When Li Xu followed the servant into the room, Kangxi sat cross-legged on the kang, leaning on the kang table with his arms, showing a slight fatigue on his face.

Li Xu entered the door, took two steps forward, then knelt down on both knees, kowtowed and said: "I have seen Master Long Live, please greet Master Long Live!"

Kangxi raised his head, squinted at Li Xu who was kneeling with his head bowed, and said after a long while, "Get up and talk!" Then, he ordered Wei Zhu, the eunuch in charge who was standing beside him, to move the wooden stick to him, and pointed: "sit down!"

Li Xu hurriedly said that he didn't dare, Kangxi snorted coldly, and said, "Oh? I don't know, and there are things that you Li Xu dare not?"

Hearing this, Li Xu quickly knelt down to plead guilty.

Kangxi frowned, and said: "Forget it, it's not easy for you to go to Beijing once, so get up and talk!"

Only then did Li Xu get up, and sat sideways next to Xiao Zhuzi.

Kangxi rubbed the center of his brows, and asked, "How about your son?"

I don't know whether Li Xu is grateful or sad, and said with tears: "Long Live Lord, the servant has been in Beijing for more than half a month, Shuntian Mansion Yamen and Infantry Commander Yamen have gone there, and there is still no news."

Hearing this, Kangxi couldn't help being a little annoyed, and said: "Waste, all of them are waste, can a living person go to heaven and earth?" Having said that, he glanced at Li Xu and said, "Li Ding has a lot of people in the capital, you After inquiring, did you have any personal grievances?"

When Li Xu heard this, his heart sank, thin sweat was already oozing from his forehead, and he replied: "The servant's family has several relatives in the capital, although they have contacts, it's just a formality, and I haven't heard of any conflicts. "

Kangxi tapped the table with his fingers, pondered for a moment, and said, "I don't bother to talk about the extra words, as long as you save yourself, whoever is your master will be fine!" At the end, his voice was a bit cold.

Li Xu couldn't sit still, so he got up and knelt down, tears streaming down his face, and said: "Long live, the slaves are lowly dressed, and Long live, Hemeng, Long En, who will be in charge of weaving in Suzhou for decades. The sea of ​​grace is deep, vertical It’s hard for a slave to be smashed to pieces, and it’s hard to repay the grace of Long Live God! If you have other thoughts, wouldn’t it be better than a pig or a dog?”

Seeing his attitude, Kangxi felt dissatisfied a little bit when he thought of his senior year and only two sons under his knees, and waved his hand and said, "Okay, I don't want you to tell the truth. I have already ordered you to deal with your son. Fu Erdan, ask him to help you investigate."

After hearing this, Li Xu had to kowtow again to thank him.

Kangxi looked up at the sky outside the house, and it was already noon, so he waved his hand and told Li Xu to kneel down.

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Shicha seaside, Li's house outside.

Yang Ruixue only got up from bed at noon, not because she was exhausted from serving Li Xu last night, but because she was lying on the bed thinking.

She is a good woman from a good family, she has been reduced to this point today, if she doesn't hate Li Ding at all in her heart, that would be a lie.But she knew that Li Ding was the only one she could rely on, and as long as she was still good-looking and could help Li Ding in socializing, he would keep her.

Li Xu is different, he is going back to the south, and he will not be in the capital in the future, it will only be new to Yang Ruixue for a few days.Hearing his inquisitive intentions last night, he seemed to suspect her, Yang Ruixue.

Yang Ruixue just pretended to be ignorant, and Li Xu waited on her more attentively, but the two of them tossed about half the night.

It's not enough to appease Li Xu, Yang Ruixue knew that if he wanted to stay in the capital without being threatened by the Li family, he had to find a backer.

It's just that she is a woman in a deep house, and she rarely stays out when she goes to the streets occasionally, so where can she meet acquaintances?
In fact, Li Nai, the uncle of the Li family, is excellent, gentle and kind, but he is too pedantic and treats her like a sister-in-law.Because she was not found to be pregnant last month, I was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable, so I specially comforted her.

Yang Ruixue just thinks it's funny, she doesn't plan to give birth to a son for the Li family, who knows what kind of generation it will be, why should she make this shameful scandal public?
Cao Yong?Thinking of him, Yang Ruixue immediately shook her head.That person is not lustful, and he knows her details well, how could he like her?

She tossed and turned like a pancake on the bed, sighing, but she didn't have any proper plans.Suddenly, she thought of the two of them again, and she gradually calmed down.

She reached out and touched her face, then her chest, with a smile on her face.She is thinking about finding someone here, and maybe someone is thinking about her too.

When a man sees a woman, he is like a stealing cat. After eating it once or twice, he will miss the third or fourth time.She, just wait, when Li Ding's matter fades away and Li's father and son leave Beijing, the cat will come naturally.

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In front of Li's house, on the ice of Shichahai, besides children playing on the ice, there are also a few ice cellar guys in the city.Next to Haizi, a mule cart was parked, waiting for a while to pull ice.

Since the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the ice has been frozen tightly, and several ice cellars in the city have made the guys collect ice on the Shichahai side.The young and strong of the nearby common people also take advantage of this time to help the handles on the ice and do part-time jobs, and they can earn more than ten or twenty copper coins every day.

After ten days, everyone dug a lot of ice holes in Haizi.Because the ice layer at the bottom of the pit was thin, some urchins nearby went to dig an ice hole to catch fish.

However, because it was really dangerous, the adults would stop them when they saw it, so the children sneaked in while the adults were not paying attention.

Today, another child slipped to the bottom of the pit.His name is Baozhu, and his family lives near Haizi. He spends all day on the ice, and he is considered an experienced ice-cutter.

He bowed his waist, held an ice skewer in his hand, searched around for the thinnest place in the ice layer, sat down on his knees, and began to chisel vigorously.

Because the ice layer is not thick at all, after a few chisels, there will be cracks. Keep seeing it, and work harder.He was digging happily when he heard someone shouting above his head: "Little Bao, it's you again! That's the ice pit that was just opened yesterday, and the ice surface is less than half a foot thick. Do you want to kill yourself?" ?”

The child had a playful smile and said, "Uncle Chang, it's all right!"

The man named Chang Wu didn't let him mess around, and slipped up with Baobao when he came down.Reluctantly looking at the half-shattered ice hole, Baobao only felt that he could vaguely see a black shadow, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly said, "Uncle Chang, look quickly, there are big fish there!"

Chang Wu stopped and looked towards the shelter.It's just an ordinary ice surface, where are there any big fish?He patted the head that was saved: "Where are there any big fish, no matter how naughty, be careful that the Dragon Lord will pull you down to feed the fish!"

Baozhu rubbed his eyes, the black shadow had disappeared, and he couldn't help muttering: "It's really a big fish, it just swam away!"

Chang Wu shook his head with a smile, threw him on the ice, and said, "Hurry up and play far away, if you are so naughty again, I will tell you tomorrow, Lao Tzu, be careful with your skin!"

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As soon as it was delivered, I begged for monthly tickets and recommended tickets. .

(End of this chapter)