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Chapter 108

In Yinzhi's opinion, it is not a bad thing for Nalan Mingzhu to win the title of "Goose" among the people. Although this matter is a bit less decent, the people like these "down-to-earth" things. There are several Grand Secretary of the Palace, and Nalan Mingzhu has passed on the word of mouth among the people, and the legendary life of Goose-eye Mingzhu was rumored. In the future, some decrees were issued for Mingzhu to do it. The people suddenly realized, "Oh, it was the one who raised goose as prime minister." Everyone felt friendly.

If Mingzhu could see it openly, laugh it off and open up her mind, it would be fine. If he was upset about it and still regarded this as embarrassing, he would be angry with him.

Judging from Yinzhi's understanding of his grandfather in his mother's family, he obviously couldn't let it go.

On the contrary, the silly brother is quite open-minded. In fact, the younger brother is not stupid. He may be born with a very open-minded aspect, so he seems a little "stupid".

Yinzhi thought something, held a wine glass in his hand, and almost drank the wine into his stomach.

"Brother, Your Highness the Crown Prince said, I'll change you to goat milk," the maid of Bu Cai carefully placed the goat milk pot next to Yinzhen, and quickly took away the wine pot on Yinzhen's table.

Yinzhen:???

"What are you doing? I've grown up and can drink alcohol. What does it look like when drinking goat milk?" Yinzhi said unhappy.

"The Emperor will not agree with you drinking now. Your Highness said, do you remember the last time you were drunk with Your Highness? The Emperor even punished Your Highness for this."

Yinzhi was silent for a moment, and without saying a word, he handed her the wine glass and asked her to put on the quilt used to hold her goat's milk.

Since drinking Mongolian milk wine last time, Yinzhi has assumed that he is a grown man who can drink alcohol. At this moment, someone even made a pot of him at the banquet. Khan Ama didn't say anything, but Baocheng discovered it.

Yinzhi drank the fragrant goat milk and tasted the slightly sweet taste, and he knew it was made of milk powder. I was afraid it was sold from Mongolia!

He thought of Mongolian goat milk powder, which was also produced by Baocheng during his last visit to the Northern Tour.

Yinreng was so embarrassed that he had been praised by others. He had experienced such formal occasions more than once, and he was always praised by the skills of flatterers and had goose bumps.

[In fact, Xiaomei's embarrassment is also going to be caused.]

After arriving within the Shengjing area, they first completed the sacrifice to their ancestors. After the ceremony was completed, Kangxi summoned General Shengjing and local officials to inspect the troops around Shengjing and make military deployments.

Ningguta is located in the north of Shengjing. When you walk north from Shengjing to enter Jilin Province, the Eastern Tour team headed forward to the nearest station to Ningguta.

The first time it was so close to Ninggu Tower. If you sit in a sedan chair again, you will fly sand and stones, and the cold wind will be in vain.

The emperor sat in the imperial carriage, and the concubines also got into the carriage to keep warm. When they arrived in this bitter and cold place, the nobles who did not have to worry about food and drink also put on coats, cotton coats, and animal coats.

Yinreng looked out of the carriage curiously, and almost even the air was filled with the smell of desolation. No one cleaned the weeds on the roadside and grew as high as children's arms. The houses of the people along the way were leaky and rough. It was thought that the people living here built their own bricks and tiles for their lives. Of course, the houses built for the minimum survival requirements were not beautiful. Looking around, the layers were uneven and the scattered houses had a different sense of roughness.

When the group came over, the official road was paved with mud, and the carriage was walking on it and it was very bumpy. Yinreng had a lot of thick quilts under his butt, but he was still sore that his butt was hurt.

Unfortunately today, it happened to be a rainy day. The rainstorm poured down. I put on a straw raincoat with the waiter. The mud and water stuck to people's feet and splashed. Faced with such heavy rain, even the best waterproof shoes were useless.

The wheel of the carriage transporting goods fell into a pit. Yinreng heard someone riding a horse and reported it. He opened the window and looked into the distance. He saw several people working together to push the carriage.

At this time, a scene of watching "Peppa Pig" appeared in Yinreng's mind.

Page loves to step on water.

My mother said she had to put on her shoe covers before she could play with water.

Yinreng thought: the shoe covers and rain boots seemed to be made of rubber...

"Your Highness, the Emperor asked you to put down the window so that the rain would not wet the inside of the carriage." The young man in the blue robes of Luanyiwei rode his horse to the Yinreng carriage. When he put down the window obediently, the sound of horse hooves left.

Yinreng was stunned in the carriage: It is difficult to reach this official road that the emperor took, let alone other roads?

[The road that the child’s father is walking now will be used as a grain transport route. Do you see many stations along the way? In the future, these will be important stations for transporting grain from the mainland to the border! Xiaomei marked the stations for the child on the map, and you can check it at any time.] Yinreng: Gu remembers that a long time ago, Xiaomei fooled Gu to "build the road before getting rich."

[…Xiaomei was not able to collect enough information at that time and made a mistake of talking about it on paper.] Yinreng: So Xiaomei has a good prescription for building roads?

[Yes, the proportion of cement mortar is stored in the Xiaomei system, and the formula for adding waterproofing agent to cement!] "Your Highness, you can't get to the next station for a while now. Why don't you take a nap and rest?"

Jinxiu, who was serving beside him, asked Yinreng with a gentle voice, and put away the books he had spread on the carriage table.

"The carriage is bumpy, and reading books hurts your eyes. Your Highness can't exhaust himself."

"I asked you to stay in the carriage to serve you, but I saw you talk less than Madam Xu," Yinreng said: "It took so long that Aunt Jinxiu, who was taciturn and silly, began to learn from Madam Xu."

"Even if your highness dislikes me for being nagging, I will still say it," Jinxiu said helplessly: "It is a fact that reading a carriage hurts your eyes. If your highness wants to read a book, why don't you read it for you?"

"If you don't look at it, you won't be able to see it in."

It was so bumpy that I couldn't read a book, and of course it was not suitable for writing. Yinreng kept holding it until the next station, and then he wrote quickly, and talked with Xiaomei about the proportion of cement with enthusiasm, and couldn't wait to tinker with this kind of thing called cement.

This is a magical thing that can condense sand and stone in a certain proportion, and Xiaomei will call it "gel material".

Although there is no advanced technology to make this "gel material", the system can screen out alternative materials "limestone and clay" for Yinreng, and can be collected around Shengjing, which is rich in resources.

This process is a bit complicated, and it needs to be mixed, then fired at high temperature in a vertical kiln and ground it finely, and then mixed it with sand, gravel and water to make finished cement that can build roads and build houses.

If the mixed ratio involved was not Xiaomei's accurate data, it would be impossible to develop it in a short time by relying on the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty.

After Yinreng moved into the inn, he sent someone to search for limestone and clay.

The inns and palaces they live in were all built by craftsmen from the capital. They were much better than ordinary houses, but they were simple and unpretentious, without too many magnificent decorations. Including the inn attic, they also have the advantage of cleanliness and vanity.

While someone was collecting the cement formula, Yinreng followed Kangxi and found that the emperor was recruiting a talented man to accompany him.

"Dezhu has been away for almost three years, and I don't know how he is." Yinreng muttered and called out: "Yuzhu, please help Gu find out about Dezhu's news."

Yuzhu was standing in a daze, and after hearing this, he hurriedly shouted "Yeah!" and turned around and ran down the attic.

Yinreng held his cheeks and looked at the crowds coming and going down the attic of the post station. Among them were the clerks in public clothes, either going back and forth, seeing off, carrying firewood, or carrying goods for the post station.

Yuzhu went to inquire about the news from those people. Yinreng quickly disappeared from his sight when he saw him. There were heavy troops stationed nearby, and there were officers and soldiers patrolling within the range of sight, which was very safe.

Shengjing is much colder here than in the south. Yinreng himself wore a thick cotton coat, wrapped in a rabbit velvet scarf, and a warm cotton hat. Those little officials wearing civilian clothes resisted the cold with their flesh and blood under the cold wind, looking very pitiful.

"Madam Xu, aren't those people not officials in the court? Is the shortage of clothes in Shengjing to the point where the minor officials are frozen?" Yinreng asked.

"Those were captured by Wu Sangui after his defeat and were replaced by the Ministry of War in Shengjing to do hard work to atone for their sins. The people here called them "Liu Ren."

Yinzhi's voice came from above his head, and he reached out to put down the wooden window for him.

"Don't stand at the window with coldness, if you get the wind and cold, you will suffer."

"Brother is getting more and more like an elder brother is like a father. You are obviously two years older than me."

Behind Yinzhi was Soetu who came to find Yinreng. When he saw that the eldest prince and the crown prince brothers were in a harmonious atmosphere, it made it difficult for ordinary people to interfere. For a moment, he didn't know whether he should enter and disturb him.

His Highness the Crown Prince was not at all wary of the eldest prince and liked Nalan Mingzhu very much. When he thought of this, Soetu felt a suffocation.

"The third grandfather is here too," Yinreng waved his hand like Soetu with a smile.

Soetu had no choice but to come in and told Yinreng Wensheng: "The emperor said he would go to Yitongwei to hunt next."

Yinzhi smiled and said, "Hunting in the northeast is different from being in Henan. There is a chance to hunt big tigers here."

Tiger is the king of all beasts, and the emperor hunts tigers, which has a different symbol. Yinzhi reminds Yinreng: "Maybe Khan Ama will take Baocheng to hunt tigers together."

When he talked about the word "hunting tiger", Xiaomei shivered three feet away from him.

Soon, Yuzhu came back and told Yinreng carefully: "I heard that Dezhu was appreciated by General Ningguta because of his good at sewing people. Now he has been sent further north with the army."

Yinreng: "Good at sewing people?"

"It is to sew the broken arms and legs of a person, and the broken stomach that was cut by the enemy with needles and threads," Yuzhu said carefully: "After Dezhu's family came to Ningguta, they all had their own luck. Because of his unique skill in clearing wasteland, his father was also appreciated and transferred by the superiors to guide the teams who came to clear the wasteland, and was respected as a gentleman."

"The Dezhu family is like being blessed by God. After arriving in Ningguta, they adapted to the environment here. His mother also discovered that using wild fruits and wild vegetables to squeeze oil, they sold cheaper than lard."

Yinreng thought that the tips he wrote to Dezhu included identification of mountain delicacies, the technology of clearing wasteland, the production of paper, the making of warm pits, the making of pottery, the raising of livestock, the pressing of oil, and the sewing of clothes. It seemed that Dezhu's family had been trying their best to come to Ningguta in order to return to Beijing.

"Everything is behind near Ningguta. They have skills in their hands. When they get here, they won't worry about food and clothing. If they have ink in their stomachs, they won't worry about not being valued." Yinreng said expectantly: "I don't know if I can see Dezhu during this Eastern Tour."

Yuzhu whispered: "Your Highness may not be able to see you."

Soetu said: "The north side of Shengjing is the land of Longxing. The northernmost part of Longxing is chaotic and unsafe. Barbarians from the north often come to burn, kill and loot."

The emperor came to the east to make arrangements, which were arranged in the rear and would not go to the front line.

Yinreng couldn't figure it out: "I gave him the prescription for sewing clothes. How could he use that sewing technique to sew people? This sewing person can still be appreciated and sent to the north. How anxious the battle situation in the north should be."

"The barbarians in the north built a fortress in the northwest of Longxing Land." As a major official who has always shared the worries of the emperor and solved the problems outside the border, Soetu is very familiar with this.

"The Qing army would not cross the Longxing River to pursue. If the fortress was not open, it would probably not be able to be bombarded. Every once in a while, the barbarians who were wandering around would choose the Qing border towns to burn, kill and loot. When the Qing army came, they all crossed the river and fled back. This cycle continued and kept annoying the people of our border."

"There is no Mongolia on the border."

"The Khalkha Mongols only obey the Qing Dynasty on the surface. They are different from Inner Mongolia, and they are not as close as Inner Mongolia and have a harmonious relationship with us," Soetu continued: "There has been unclear trade between the Chechen Khan of the Khalkha Mongol and the Tsarist Russia." The Tsarist Russia built a military place in Yaksa, and its intention to influence our Qing Dynasty was obvious."

Yinreng asked in confusion: "But the last time I followed Khan Ama to the north, I also contacted many Mongolian princes and princes."

Soetu: "They contacted some of the Mongolian tribes. They were interested in the Qing Dynasty and had common interests with the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, this time the emperor came to the east to conquer the remaining Mongolian tribes and ordered the Mongolian Chechen Khan to prohibit transactions with the Tsarist Russia."

When Soetu taught Yinreng, he did not avoid the eldest prince. It is true that he is indeed more rampant and arrogant than Nalan Mingzhu, the smiling fox, but as long as the crown prince does not say it, Soetu can be regarded as Yinzhi without any existence.

After listening for a moment, Yinzhi found an excuse to leave by himself. Not long after he left, he walked back and told Yinreng: "Naran Xingde is back."

Nalan Xingde was ordered by Kangxi to inspect Longxing. Now he has visited various stations and has witnessed the border situation with his own eyes. He has come to Kangxi to report his life.

Yinreng: "I haven't seen Rong Ruo for a long time, so I miss him very much."

Soetu: "..."

Soon, Liang Jiugong came in a hurry, which matched Yinreng's wishes: "Your Highness, the eldest prince, the emperor summoned you to listen to the affairs."

When Yinreng arrived, Nalan Xingde told Kangxi about his experience in inspecting Longxing Land: "Emperor, the Longxing Land is divided by the Longxing River. Between the Longxing River and the border walls built by the Qing Dynasty, there are local Mongolian tribes Daur and Soren people... On the other side of the river is Yaquesa occupied by Tsarist Russia. If the Qing Dynasty wants to attack Yaquesa, it needs to cross the river and go up. The front line is too long, so it is particularly difficult to transport food. The official roads in the inner road are difficult to move, muddy, and rainy around. Even if the road is built, the road surface will be damaged soon. In addition, Aihui is an important area on the border. The barbarians in the north have invaded this place many times, causing huge losses. I think that if the Qing Dynasty wants to prevent the Northern Barbarians, they need to station troops and grain in Aihui."

"It is difficult to transport grain on land, so what about changing to waterways?" the emperor asked in thought.

Nalan Xingde hesitated and said, "If you change to the waterway, you can travel from Songhua and Longxing River north, you can travel from Longxing River to Aihui, and you still need to travel on land. In this way, you may need to build a grain ship."

Kangxi tapped the desk with his finger and thought deeply: "Then he can only send the general to Aihui to reclaim the land."

"Where is Baocheng? Baocheng has listened to it for so long, but what do you want to say?"

When Kangxi handled government affairs in private, he had become accustomed to asking Yinreng for his opinions. Seeing that his two sons had been listening for a long time, he asked Yinreng, who was also in deep thought.

Yinreng replied without thinking: "Khan Ama, grab grain transport with one hand and cultivate with the other. You must grab both hands, and both hands must be hard! You cannot put eggs in a basket."

Kangxi: "…"
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