The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

You brothers all have gardens, and only the Tourmaline Garden in Fourteen Baylor has been renovated, so you can move in with your bags, so you don’t have to worry about anything.

The other gardens still have to be repaired more or less.

Thirteen Beizi's Chaoyang Garden is only half built, so it will cost money to repair it!

Thus, the princes and elder brothers began to toss about the garden, and the Fourteenth Master happily moved there without repairing it.

Tourmaline Garden is a small garden close to Qingxi Bookstore where Kangxi lives. The place is not big, but the scenery is beautiful, and maple trees are planted everywhere. It is bright yellow in early spring, green in summer, and red in autumn. Golden color look.

So this garden is called tourmaline.

The scenery here is as beautiful as tourmaline jade.

Surrounding the tourmaline garden is actually an artificially cultivated maple forest, and then planted some landscape trees. The whole tourmaline garden is an oval shape with three buildings. A tourmaline hall is the best building in the garden. A place to receive guests.

A Bixia habitat is for the fourteenth master to live.

The other one is called Broken Evil Gold, which is a place for meals.

Bixiaxi and Suixiejin are both other names for tourmaline.

The word "tourmaline" in China first appeared in the Qing Dynasty.

Because it is a gemstone from the ocean, there was a relevant record in the classics of the Qing Dynasty: "The name of Biamo is recorded in China, but it is not clear where it came from. The picture of the Qing Huidian says: Biyamo is used on the top of the concubine. Yu Hengzhi of Dianhai said: Bixiaxi is one called Bixiadun, another called Bixi; Yuji is also called Bixiaxi. People in the world only call it Biya, or call it a tourmaline, or a jade stone, but there is no one who asks the origin of its name, but If it is a foreign dialect, there is no doubt about it.”

The tourmaline in "He Han Sancai Tuhui" is one of the gemstones purified with Suanzhen array.

At the same time, this tourmaline is also one of the materials for the top-wearing flower feathers of officials of the first and second ranks, and is also used to make the court beads they wear.

It is said that tourmaline is also the favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi, so in the era of Empress Dowager Cixi, tourmaline has received unprecedented attention in China.

The Empress Dowager Cixi who dominated the government not only had a special liking for jadeite, but also loved the colorful and ever-changing tourmaline. She was a full tourmaline fan.

Among the funeral objects of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Qing Dynasty, there was a lotus flower carved from tourmaline, weighing 36 taels, and a pillow made of tourmaline, which was worth 75 taels of silver at the time.

But now during the Kangxi period, this tourmaline is still a precious gem.

Fourteen Baylor won the Tourmaline Garden, and everyone was actually a little envious. After all, Fourteen can move in without decoration, and Kangxi has even furnished the interior.

The tourmaline hall is the place to receive guests. At the bottom of Duobao Pavilion, there is a half-meter-high tourmaline panlong column. Next door is the half-meter-high emerald Phoenix pan. The two are in pairs; On the first floor are eight multi-treasure pavilions, each containing the eight treasures of Buddhism, but they are all made of gold!

On the third to last floor are the Four Treasures of the Study, which are ancient relics.

Further up is a pair of bronze nobles, which are said to be ancient relics from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Fourteen's books were also purchased and moved in. There were a lot of things. However, Ma Lianying and the others were busy, and Master Fourteen didn't have to move things by himself.

Before the fourteenth master settled down, the ninth master came running over: "Have you heard?"

"What did you hear?" Master Fourteen was puzzled.

"Someone has borrowed money from the household department." Jiu Ye said, "There are still people who borrow money from me."

"Why are you borrowing money?" Fourteenth Master stared. Are they really that poor?

Master Jiu glared at him: "Isn't it because the salt merchants in the south have collapsed, and many people behind the scenes have no money to hug."

In fact, everyone knows that the collapse of the salt merchants in the south was caused by Kangxi. Now the salt tax has been tripled and handed over. In the past, the salt merchants evaded taxes. fed up.

The officials turned a blind eye.

Now everyone is silent like cicadas, who let Long Live catch such a big loophole of them?

The officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is now in jeopardy.

It seems that Kangxi is still considering the "high salary and honesty" proposed by the Fourteenth Lord.

"Then brother Jiu is short of money?" Fourteen deliberately interrupted.

"When was your ninth brother short of money?" Jiu Ye was very confident: "But the one you played is too big."

Others are not sensitive to property, but Master Jiu is different, he is naturally sensitive to numbers.

"It's okay, if they didn't go too far, I wouldn't be cruel. You know, Huang Ama needs money now." The Fourteenth Master knew that Kangxi was playing a big game of chess, and he didn't know the inside story. But I know that no matter what you do, you can't be without money, and the court is the same.

If there is no money, even officials will be corrupt, and the government will be corrupt.

Master Jiu waved his hand: "Okay, I'm not interested in court affairs either, but can you open a few more roasted lamb shops of yours? Can you share some with me?"

"Roasted sheep shop is not allowed, that one has an owner." Fourteenth Master rejected Jiu Ye's proposal: "Can you open something else, don't always pick things up."

"Now your shop is the most profitable." Jiuye puffed his cheeks. He is in his thirties and pretends to be a teenager, but Jiuye is fat, round and cute, not stupid: "I What can I do? Now all 360 lines are taken.”

"Can you open... What can you open? I'll tell you when my brother understands it?" Fourteenth Master originally wanted to talk about opening a supermarket, but now that the anti-theft method is not very good, let's forget it.

The supermarkets in his era were hard to guard against, and the stop loss was limited, let alone this era.

Ninth Master Lai refused to leave here, he ate Fourteenth Master's meal in a daze, and held an emerald watermelon that Fourteenth Master put on the desk without letting go.

The Fourteenth Master had no choice but to give it to him: "Take it if you like it, my brother actually likes that jasper grasshopper even more."

Jasper Grasshopper is as big as a palm, Shisi has always used it as a paperweight.

Master Ninth left happily, and the next day sent someone to send Master Fourteen a group of golden grasshoppers made of gold!

Master Fourteen felt that Master Jiu was probably not short of money.

However, Master Fourteen came out today to practice for Nian Gengyao, who is going to Guangzhou.

"When you go south to Guangzhou, if you have anything to do, you can go to Cao Yong and Ergenjueluo Hao Siwen. They have a good relationship with the master. They will definitely help you if you have something. Don't carry everything by yourself. If you have something to do, don't use it. It will be invalid after the expiration date." Ah!" The Fourteenth Lord practiced for Nian Gengyao at Xilaishun in his own home: "Also, don't be afraid to spend money when you go to attract more talents. Things that can be solved with money are not big things."

"Lianggong knows." Nian Gengyao nodded, "I'll be back soon after this trip."

The rural examination was held in the autumn of this year, and it is now at the beginning of July. The rural examination is administered by various states and prefectures to test local people. It is usually held in August, so it is also called "Qiuwei".

Because the exam is held in autumn, and the release date of the township exam is from the first ten days to the middle of September in the lunar calendar, which is the season for the sweet-scented osmanthus to bloom. Since "gui" is a homonym for "gui", it is called Guibang.

"When you come back, I'm still here to welcome you and eat the hot pot of fat-tailed sheep!" The Fourteenth Master patted Nian Gengyao on the shoulder: "Then you should be careful when you go by yourself, bring some martial arts better people."

"Yes." Nian Gengyao looked at Master Fourteen's hand patting him on the shoulder. It was slender, not rough, and a little white and tender. It looked like the hand of a pampered person.

Unlike him, there are calluses on his hands.

The Fourteenth Master sent Nian Gengyao away, and when he turned around, Huang Ama brought him to him: "Get ready, and go north with Huang Ama."

"You've just come back, so you're going to the north?" Master Fourteen said a bit squarely, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Mongols invaded Tsarist Russia ten miles away and captured a small border town. I have to go and see if they want to continue to fight north, or just want to get some spoils?" Kangxi loves to chat with his fourteenth son about such things. Nagging, poor fourteenth son just can't listen very well, every time he falls asleep in the middle of talking.

"I heard that Tsarist Russia has a lot of gold!" Fourteenth Master didn't doze off this time, he heard the word "trophy".

Tsarist Russia's gold and precious stones are treasures.

"Really?" Kangxi thought for a while: "Then let's go and have a look together?"

"Go!" Fourteenth Master slapped the table: "We must go!"

We have to prepare a lot of goods, and then we will do business with the Mongolian victors.

Kangxi made another tour of the north in July, but he went to the Chengde Mountain Resort, also known as the Rehe Palace.

This time, he took many sons with him, leaving only the third, fourth and eighth children in the capital, and the others followed him on the north tour.

Even the twenty-year-old elder brother followed, and was thrown into the care of Fourteen. In Fourteen's car, sat the eighteenth elder brother, the nineteenth elder brother and the twenty elder brother.

Elder Brother Twenty is a milk doll, it's interesting to speak in a childish voice, Fourteen loves him very much.

The nineteenth elder brother is finally an older brother, and he can take care of the twenty elder brother with all his heart. The appearance of the two children as brothers and sisters makes Shi Shi's heart water. He finally understands why Kangxi insists on having sons " Brothers and friends respectful."

When we arrived at Rehe Palace, many Mongolians came, especially a few Mongolian nobles who had business dealings with the Fourteenth Lord. This time, they came because the Fourteenth Lord’s family opened a roast sheep shop, which is popular all year round. Some people ate it, and Kangxi also ordered roast lamb for them to send to the palace. In fact, it was an advertisement for the fourteenth son.

The roast sheep shop has opened, which requires a lot of sheep.

The Fourteenth Master is still single now, so hot!

Kangxi chatted with a few people from Mobei Mongolia.

I don't know what they talked about, but they all came out with a smile anyway, several Mongolian Taijis took turns hosting banquets, and Fourteen and his three younger brothers ate their mouths full of oil.

But he also added some orders for Mongolian sheep.

There are also orders for Mongolian cattle and fur, but the fur business has been added to Princess Chunxi.

In addition, he has another advantage of killing cattle, he can occasionally get some natural bezoar, which is a treasure, he keeps it for Kangxi and his brother, and his mother always respects it.

They celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in August at the Jehol Palace. There is no Mid-Autumn Festival in Mongolia, but since the Fourteenth Lord sang a song "Meeting in Obao" to them, these people have to hold bonfires every night of the full moon Party, let's have a good time.

This is a free nation.

Kangxi seemed to be here to hunt. After several days of hunting and eating game, Kangxi set off for Beijing.

When the fourteenth master came back, Nian Gengyao also came back.

He brought back the list of the Guangzhou Wuxiang Examination. There were hundreds of people on it, and there were hundreds of people who failed the list. He said in the imperial prelude: "Everyone wants to enter the navy and show off overseas! And I heard that, During the Song and Ming Dynasties, the Han people living in Nanyang were very bullied, and Haojing was occupied by the Spaniards, and their king appointed the governor of Haojing.”

This made Kangxi angry: "What's the matter with General Guangzhou? Governor of Haojing? That's my Qing Dynasty's Haojing!"

"I heard from General Guangzhou that this has been going on for more than ten years. General Hauswin told me about this matter because he was out of breath. It's just that there is no written document. I still think it's better for you to dictate it to me." Actually To put it bluntly, this matter is still Kangxi's problem.

Hao Siwen was not considered to be a close minister of Kangxi, but he had a good heart, and felt that it would hurt the sage of the Long Live Lord, so it was better to talk about it alone.

Once a document is formed, it becomes public knowledge of the government and the public, and it is not good if it is brought up for discussion.

"I see." Kangxi felt that Nian Gengyao was a talent, so he even sent him to Sichuan to preside over the provincial examination, which was still a military examination.

Nian Gengyao burst into tears of gratitude.

Nian Gengyao was overwhelmed with gratitude for Emperor Kangxi's special appreciation and extraordinary promotion. In the memorial, he stated that he "received the kindness of the third generation with a mediocrity" and must "do his best to repay."

Kangxi allowed him to take office after a year, and he could spend a year in the capital.

Compared with Nian Gengyao's success in the official career, his elder brother Nian Xiyao is still a minor official in the Ministry of Officials, without much power, and he is constantly busy.

As soon as Nian Gengyao came back, the Fourteenth Master invited him to eat boiled mutton.

This time it is still in Xi Lai Shun, boiled mutton, fat-tailed sheep...

"If you can go after the new year when you come back this time, then you can take a good rest in the capital. By the way, where are you working now?" The Fourteenth Lord chatted with Nian Gengyao.

"I'm in the Ministry of War. However, Tenth Master asked me to go there. Although he was only a sixth rank, Long Live Lord often asked, and Eighth Master seemed to be dissatisfied with Chen's brother." No wonder he was satisfied!

Ten Nian Xiyao added together are not as good as one Nian Gengyao!

Babeile felt that he had picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon.

And his backyard has been unstable, which is a big hidden danger.

"Brother Ten is an honest person, and at the same time he is very loyal. You get along well with him, there is no harm." Fourteenth Master smiled: "It's myna, don't socialize with him, but if you are on business outside, is he enough?" When it comes to you, when my brother's birthday is over, remember to prepare a good birthday gift."

"I've prepared it, and I brought some back for you." Nian Gengyao said, "Lord Cao Yong said, you love the seafood there, and you can't bring it fresh, but there are a lot of dried seafood. "

"Well, okay, I really miss the salted fish and eggplant stew there." The fourteenth master boiled a piece of mutton and ate it: "You can still pay for it when you are on a business trip. The atmosphere in Beijing is not very good. I asked Long Live Lord to stroll in his garden, really, I have never invited Long Live Lord to go there!"