My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1817: Trapped Tiger (rolling around asking for monthly tickets)

The Fourth Prince had a blank expression on his face.

The Seventh Prince’s soul wanders in the sky.

The Eighth Prince looked reluctant.

The Tenth Prince was careless.

When it comes to the Ninth Prince, the style is different.

The Ninth Prince stretched his neck and looked at the two cast iron cages with a sly look in his eyes.

Kangxi looked away in disdain and thought of "A dragon gives birth to nine sons."

Each of the nine sons before me has his own personality.

Everyone has their own ambitions...

Kangxi looked at the people who had stepped out and scolded them, "Nonsense! Except for the Thirteenth Prince, the three of you who are older are also fathers. If your son was here, would you watch him hunt tigers and fight bears? You unfilial sons, why don't you leave now! You are so old, and you still make me worry!"

The eldest prince said embarrassedly, "My son is being willful."

The third prince also said: "It was only in front of Khan Ama that my son became brave enough to know that he had Khan Ama's protection."

The Fifth Prince had originally held onto a slight chance of being able to leave the group, so now he wasn't too disappointed.

The Thirteenth Prince felt a little regretful.

You can't always run into this tiger.

Even if you can't be there in person, shouldn't you stand closer?
The princes returned to the line.

The first-class guard Orondei stepped forward to ask for permission.

He was originally the Minister of the Imperial Guard, but was dismissed from that position in September and became a first-class guard, concurrently serving as the commander of the Tiger Spear Battalion.

"Your Majesty, shall we start now?"

Kangxi nodded and said, "Let's get started!"

When Orondei came down from the falconry platform, there were already two guards beside him carrying a drum stand with a drum on it.

Orondei did not ask for help from others, but took the drumsticks and beat the drum himself.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

With the three o'clock drum sound, the one hundred officers and soldiers ready to hunt the tiger have begun to prepare.

What the Ninth Prince cares most about is who will open the tiger cage.

There are already rules for releasing wild animals into this kind of enclosure, and there is no need for people to get close.

Someone tied two ropes in front of the iron cage, extending in two directions.

This was true for both cages.

As the rope was dragged, the doors of the two tiger cages opened.

When the two tigers saw the cage door open, they did not come out immediately.

It was not until the guards arrived and picked up the two sika deer that the tiger slowly came out of the cage.

The Ninth Prince saw something was wrong and whispered to the Thirteenth Prince, "What does this mean? Are you going to give Tiger a last meal?"

The Thirteenth Prince thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it is to stimulate the tiger's ferocity and snatch food from its mouth..."

The Ninth Prince felt that he had learned a lot, but he also felt worried for these soldiers who were hunting tigers.

This is snatching food from a tiger's mouth. Isn't this courting death?
If this person were to be pounced upon by a tiger, he would be crippled if not killed.

On the field, a tiger must have been very hungry. With a few leaps, it pounced on the sika deer and started biting it.

The other tiger was in front of this tiger, circling back and forth, staring at the soldiers around it.

Seeing that the soldiers stood still, the tiger retreated, lay down beside the sika deer, and pulled off a deer leg to chew.

As a deer was seen eating half of its meal, the drums started beating again.

The two tigers stood up quickly, crossed their heads and howled, appearing a little irritable.

As the drums beat, the soldiers of the Tiger Spear Battalion narrowed the encirclement.

The two tigers also changed from being alert to being anxious, and they moved faster.

Seeing this, the Ninth Prince was no longer as nervous as before.

With so many spears, and one spear for each person, the tigers would become a string of tigers.

What else is scary?

The only pity is that the tiger skin is going to be ruined.

In the hunting ground, the team has already moved.

There was a depression there, and the eagle platform was a high platform. Everyone watched the two tigers moving very quickly, like two insects.

The Ninth Prince opened his eyes wide. It was the first time he looked at tigers like this. They really looked like two big insects.

He couldn't help but look up at the sky.

The Seventh Prince stood in front of him, and those who were led by him also looked up.

There is nothing in the sky.

The Ninth Prince saw the Seventh Prince's actions and explained in a low voice: "I just don't understand who named the tiger 'Big Insect'. This is really true when you look down from a high position."

But the tiger is in the mountains and forests, how can we look down on it?

The Fourth Prince was standing on the other side of the Seventh Prince. Seeing the Ninth Prince mumbling again, he turned around and whispered, "Shut up!"

The Ninth Prince then calmed down and continued to look at the field.

The Tiger Spear Battalion accompanies the imperial guard on patrols to the north every year and is accustomed to hunting wild beasts, not to mention that now the time, place and people are all right.

In contrast, the two tigers are still trapped animals even if they are released from the cage.

The tiger's roar is tragic and majestic.

The Ninth Prince felt a little bit sorry when he saw this.

This kind of hunting is a bit of bullying to tigers.

As the soldiers approached, the tiger did not sit idly by and wait for death.

A tiger leaped up and pounced on the crowd.

The other tiger took advantage of the gap left by the person in front and tried to escape.

However, there are two more encirclements outside the encirclement.

Just because of the tiger's escape, the soldiers on the hunting ground were divided into two.

The soldiers got closer to the tiger, and from a distance it seemed like it was within reach.

The people on the platform saw two gorgeous tigers wandering and fleeing in the crowd.

As the cheers came, the two tigers slowed down.

The encirclement is smaller.

The tiger hunt was over in just half a quarter of an hour.

From a distance, there were two large brown and yellow insects, motionless, surrounded by a crowd.

Two soldiers who had already seized the first "gun" came before the emperor to report on the hunting situation.

One of them had blood on his sleeves, and the other had his clothes torn on his shoulders and was also half covered in blood.

The former should be tiger blood, and the latter should be injured by a tiger.

The two men were tall and had unusual eye color.

These should be the new Manchus sent to Beijing by the Heilongjiang general.

I heard that the selection criteria in Heilongjiang is that only those who have actually hunted tigers will be selected from the best and sent to the capital to serve in the Tiger Spear Battalion.

Behind the two men, dozens of soldiers carried two tigers to the falconry platform.

Orondei asked for permission, and Kangxi summoned two men to come forward.

The two followed Orondei onto the stage.

Kangxi asked the two men's names and praised them, "Not bad, they are really brave warriors. Reward!"

Ma Wu was already there, holding two new tiger spears. The spear shafts were engraved with gold-plated characters and the red tassels were tied with golden cords.

The two men received new tiger spears, kowtowed again to express their gratitude, and then retreated.

A tiger hunt made the royal father and son have different thoughts.

Everyone was silent, staring at the two tigers below the stage.

Kangxi stood up and led everyone down from the eagle-releasing platform to watch the two tigers.

It doesn't seem like anything from a distance, but when you get close to it, even if it's a dead tiger, it looks terrifying.

The big male tiger was eight and a half feet long; the smaller female tiger was seven feet long.

The tiger's claws are almost as big as a human head.

The Thirteenth Prince couldn't help but squat down and stretched out his fist to compare it with the tiger's claws.

This is an adult tiger. The one he hunted before should be a half-grown tiger.

The Ninth Prince felt very sorry when he saw the tiger skin covered with wounds.

Seeing that no one asked how to deal with the two tigers, the Ninth Prince came before the emperor.

"Khan Ama, my son wants to ask for a reward. Can you give me some of this tiger bone? I'll go back and make some wine. There are also tiger bones in the medicine shop outside, but they are all old, and the medicinal power is definitely not as good as the new ones!"

When the Ninth Prince spoke, the Third Prince followed suit and said, "My son should also ask for some and store it in the palace pharmacy for future use."

There are not only tiger bones in this enclosure, but also deer antlers and deer blood paste.

The Third Prince was deeply tempted when he thought about his own not-so-well-off pharmacy.

Kangxi looked at the Ninth Prince, remembered the tiger skin he had presented to him two years ago, and then glanced at the Third Prince.

It is a well-known secret that the pharmacy in Prince Cheng's mansion is poor.

After the Third Lady's eldest daughter died, she used a lot of her private money to buy medicine.

Kangxi nodded and said, "The male tiger bones will be returned to the Imperial Pharmacy, and the female tiger bones will be cleared out. You brothers can divide them up!"

Everyone expressed their gratitude in unison.

Unless they were escorted outside the Great Wall, there was no chance for people to share tiger bones on ordinary days.

After watching the tiger hunting, Kangxi mounted his horse, called his eldest prince to accompany him, and returned to the palace surrounded by guards.

Everyone watched the holy carriage go away and then mounted their horses.

The Tenth Prince looked at the Ninth Prince and said, "Ninth Brother, are we going to the Deer Garden?"

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "Go and take a look to see if there are many female deer giving birth this year..."

The Third Prince didn't hear clearly and said, "Are you going to see the antlers? Now is not the time to cut the antlers. We are all old!"

The Ninth Prince waved his hand and said, "We don't need antlers. We just want to see if there are many female deer giving birth. If there are enough, we can ask Khan Ama to take two back."

The Third Prince thought about the fat girl from the Ninth Prince's Mansion and said, "Has Niguzhu and his siblings been drinking deer milk since they were young?"

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "Yes, from the time they were weaned, we fed them deer milk paste, which is finer than cow milk paste and doesn't cause diarrhea after drinking it."

The Fifth Prince once gave a female deer to the Ninth Prince. I thought it was for Shushu, but now I know it was for the children.

He disagreed and said, "How can deer milk be better than human milk? You weaned your child too early!"

The Ninth Prince said, "Fifth Brother, you are just following the crowd. The rule for raising children in the palace is that they are breastfed until they are six years old, while outside, they are breastfed until they are two years old. Do you think the children in the palace are stronger or the children outside are stronger?"

Fifth Prince: “…”

I have to admit that the child of the Ninth Prince's Mansion, fed by the way the couple did, is indeed stronger than the little princes and princesses in other mansions. It is completely impossible to tell that he is a premature baby...

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Hey everyone, it's the last few hours for the double monthly tickets. Those of you who have monthly tickets, please give some.

(End of this chapter)