Chapter 109 (Catch Bugs)(1/2)
Nalan Xingde carefully pondered the words of His Royal Highness and found that it contained rich philosophy. Although it was superficial, it was not easy for a child to say it. In his opinion, His Royal Highness's growth was obvious, and it was much more calm and generous than his words and deeds in the palace when he was young. He could answer the emperor's questions about politics clearly and loudly, know how to think about government affairs, and give philosophical answers. Isn't this enough?
He didn't know why, but the emperor's face turned dark and he stared at the prince with a warning.
It can be seen that the emperor is still dissatisfied with the performance of His Royal Highness, and his requirements are stricter and his expectations are even greater!
His Royal Highness was difficult to do, Nalan Xingde and gentle, followed Yinreng's words for a moment and said to Kangxi: "Your Highness, what he said is that you should not release both the cultivation and the transportation of grain. You can also make multiple preparations for water and land transportation. There are many grain lines and many post stations along the way. You will not be afraid of the enemy coming to attack, plunder, and burn the Qing Dynasty's grain lines. The transportation on Songhua River and Longxing River also requires large ships to transport them. The ship needs artillery fire to prevent the enemy from attacking the grain transport ship."
Kangxi's face was slightly relaxed: "I will discuss and arrange this matter with the cabinet ministers in the future."
Kangxi glared at Yinreng: I asked you about government affairs, don’t talk to me about any eggs or baskets, and there are other ministers, and your brother is there, so are you not afraid of being embarrassed in front of the eldest prince?
Yinreng didn't think what he said was wrong. Khan Ama had a huge face, so he went to look at Yinzhi and hugged him: Brother, he should also show off, don't just let alone face Khan Ama's "difficult"!
Yinzhen didn't want to speak, and pretended that he didn't see it.
Sometimes people's mental state is so strange. The more they are not allowed to show it, the more they are very excited. On the contrary, the more you hope that they can show it. Yinzhi was cheated by his younger brother. Now he would rather be a backgrounder than a wooden man, than to take it over after his silly brother's mouth is out of tune.
Just like this, I will be beaten up by Khan Ama sooner or later.
Since Yan Yinti came, Kangxi would not let his other son go, cleared his throat, and took him alone and asked, "How do you think Baoqing?"
Yinzhi could only stabilize himself and avoid being escaped by Yinreng. He replied calmly: "What I learned is limited and cannot give a solution. However, as Khan Ama said to his ministers before, the minister understood that the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland lies in the deserted land near Aihui. It has not been reclaimed before, so it needs to be started from scratch. The difficulty of transporting food is that the continuous heavy rain on the land has caused uneven official roads, and the carriages cannot gallop and there is a risk of entering mud pits. When taking the waterway, you need to build a ship. These are not something that can be completed overnight."
Kangxi praised: "Baoqing has made a good summary. He has been studying so far, and has performed well. My eldest son, the emperor, has grown up, is calm and generous, and can participate in politics and affairs."
After saying that, he went to Yinreng: Let’s see you again, you will be as sensible as a child, and when will you be more sensible?
Yinreng is very innocent. Fortunately, he is a mature old child, who can tolerate, be clingy, and be unreasonable and still be face-saving. He thought that Khan Ama worked diligently and under tremendous pressure every day, his hairline on his head was naturally bare without scratching his hair, so Yinreng didn't care about Khan Amado.
He heard Kangxi say that Yinzhi could participate in politics and affairs, and his eyes that suddenly lit up were like squirrels who found pine nuts.
Kangxi didn't want to be Yinreng anymore. As the "robin worm" in his son's belly, the emperor knew what he was thinking without thinking. At this moment, he ordered people to summon the cabinet scholars who accompanied him this time, called ministers from various departments and princes, and ordered people to go to the palace hall for discussion.
Nalan Xingde watched this "big drama" between the father and son, and was quite worried about the relationship between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the eldest prince.
Didn’t the emperor really mean to stimulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
I heard earlier that His Highness the Crown Prince performed well and took the lead in following the emperor to follow the affairs of the emperor and read memorials. The eldest prince kept studying in the study room, and was not taken by the emperor until this Eastern Tour.
Now, in front of his son who has always performed well, praise him for being calmer than him. This approach seems inappropriate to Nalan Xingde. If His Royal Highness is more proud and reserved, he may feel unhappy and vent his anger on the eldest prince.
Nalan Xingde is as careful as a hair, and he is very sensitive to emotional problems. He can always make the people who are with him feel comfortable and decent. It is not his intentional work, but the gentleness and consideration engraved in his bones, which makes him subconsciously not say some embarrassing words.
At this moment, waiting for the cabinet bachelor to come, the eunuchs who served poured water for them.
Yinreng touched Yinzhi with his arm and grinned: You can't escape!
Yinzhen: "..."
Is it still too late to regret it?
Kangxi coughed lightly: "Baocheng, don't bully your brother."
Yinzhi is just a fool, seemingly smart, but how could he play with the genius Yinreng?
Nalan Xingde: "..." It seems that he was too worried. His Royal Highness did not take the emperor's words seriously at all.
Soon, the accompanying Cabinet Bachelor and ministers of various ministries also arrived, and there were also General Shengjing, Governor and others stationed here.
Kangxi summoned everyone to solve the problem of transporting grain and grass from the granary in the mainland of the Qing Dynasty to the border. If a war broke out, the Qing army was stationed here. First of all, the issue of military food transportation was the ultimate internal service link.
"The emperor originally wanted to use the official road to transport food and grass on land, but the official road was repeatedly built and there was still concern that it was hit by heavy rain. This problem may be difficult to solve for a while."
"The emperor, the water route from Songhua River to Longxing River is more convenient than land routes, which can reduce the land routes along the way."
"The difficulty is that the journey from the granary to the waterway, from the waterway to the front line may need to be repaired repeatedly."
"Not only do we need to build grain ships, but we also need to build more warships to protect the safety of grain ships."
"The Qing Dynasty had warships, and General Ningguta's navy often patrolled and defended the rivers and monitored the enemy's situation."
"I'm afraid it's not enough, and the Jilin Navy still needs to expand its number."
When the court officials discussed, Yinreng could understand it from the beginning, but gradually became confused.
General Ningguta has a navy under his jurisdiction. So does the Qing Dynasty have a ship as well? We have our own shipyard, where is it?
[The ships on Longxing River were built in the Japanese shipyard in Wuts, Jiling. Since the late emperor, the ships of the Qing Dynasty have patrolled the river to defend against Tsarist Russia. In the late emperor Qiaonian, the water battle with the Tsarist Russian invaders and killed many enemy naval divisions. (1)] Yinreng: Khan Ama wanted to send troops to attack the Tsarist Russia's military base this time, because they repeatedly invaded the Qing border and did not listen to the warnings, so they simply changed to force to deter them.
According to the map provided by Xiaomei, after the crossing of Longxing River passed, it was a territory under the jurisdiction of Tsarist Russia. The place was originally a place where the Mongols named the Buryat tribe grazed.
[In the Ming Dynasty, this place was caused by the Tsarist Russia's sending people to seize the pastures near Lake Baikal and build fortresses, and then fought many wars with the Buryat Mongols. Until now, the Buryat Mongols who stayed in this area to grazed have become completely enslaved and forced to surrender. What the emperor wanted to attack was that Tsarist Russia occupied the original city of Yaquesa in the Qing Dynasty, but that was extremely difficult because the enemy was in Lake Baikal.
Many fortresses and camps were built around, just like a star fire, from Yakutsk to Nibchu, and then to Yakutsk. Even if they hit Yakutsk, they would continue to repeat themselves, sending people from Yakutsk to Nibchu and continuing to invade Yakutsk. (2)] Xiaomei collected very comprehensive information. When she gave Yinreng a lesson on science, she was full of pictures and texts, so that Yinreng was so impressed that Kangxi called him twice before he came to his senses.
"What did Baocheng think of is a god, but the immortals have new advice?"
The emperor's majestic words made the court officials who came to attend the meeting quiet, and they all looked at the prince who was sitting at the emperor's head.
Kangxi glared at him sternly: It would be fine to be more casual in private on weekdays, but Baocheng has never missed the formal occasions for handling government affairs. What's going on today?!
All the ministers could not understand. Didn’t the emperor send someone to promote the teachings of the prince? When talking about important matters of government affairs, it seemed that there was something really wrong. It was really mysterious.
Could it be that the emperor wants to use this to promote the title of God’s blessing to His Highness again to encourage the morale of the Qing army?
Yinreng couldn't help but say a word that he was crooked and asked Xiaomei: Where did Khan Ama and the others talk about just now?
[When it comes to ordering the construction of more ships, training navy, and improving the difficulty of transporting food and grass, so that the front line can not worry about logistics.] Yinreng knew it in his heart, and immediately said in the strange sight of the ministers: "Khan Ama, the waterway is smooth and the transportation is accessible, but a small part of the transportation route cannot avoid the need to travel by land. Recently, the son-in-law sent people to collect raw materials for cement production near Shengjing. It is better for Xuan Yuzhu to come and ask about the progress. If the materials are sufficient, cement can be burned to build land and prevent rainwater from invading."
Kangxi: "…"
He had just been busy for a few days and didn't take care of his children. Just a little while, Baocheng and the immortal beasts made something new?
"Cooking cement can prevent rainwater from invading and build land?" Kangxi smiled and asked his ministers: "This is something that his ancestors had not been able to accomplish over a century. After the crown prince underestimated it, do you believe it?"
"The emperor, the prince has another opportunity to receive the gift from heaven."
"I cannot immediately say whether I believe or not. It is true to see it. If Your Highness can really create this cement, it will be a great thing for the Qing Dynasty."
"I think that the Crown Prince has never spoken loudly for several months since he participated in politics. I don't believe it first, and wait until I see it, and I will believe it again."
Those who can bring the emperor to the east tour, the minister, are not the old fox who is sleek in dealing with the world? Only General Shengjing, the martial artist, said honestly: "The last general does not believe it, and the last general is waiting for the Crown Prince to prove it."
No one took the bait and sang an opera with Kangxi. The emperor thought for a while: If he had known this, he would have called Nalan Mingzhu and Tong Guowei together.
He ordered: "Summon Yuzhu to come."
It has been a few days since Yinreng sent Yuzhu to do this. There are large areas of undeveloped land near Shengjing, with abundant resources and numerous rare treasures in the mountains and fields. In addition, the raw materials that Yinreng wanted clearly pointed out that he wanted to search for limestone ore soil, and clay was everywhere. Yuzhu and people were in nearby caves, and they were chiseled and dug in the wild, and had already collected a lot of them for Yinreng.
Yuzhu reported to Kangxi: "The slaves are setting up a kiln for His Highness and calcining the raw materials collected into cookies."
"You have also set up a kiln?" Kangxi's voice rose a little, obviously he was kept in the dark! "When did it happen, where did it stand?"
"The mountain... in the cave," Yuzhu swallowed. The method of raising the kiln was not difficult. According to the prescription given by His Highness, we took one step at a time and it was done in two or three hours.
"The slaves have calcined some in the kiln and finely ground them into cement."
There are formulas and products. I tinker with the recipe to make it easier to study time. After a few days, the finished product has been ground, but the quantity of the finished product is not enough for His Highness to expect, so there is no reply.
"You go and get the finished product."
Yuzhu dared not disobey his orders, so he could only ask his superiors to do some work.
He ordered people to take big buckets and transport the cement produced to the palace one by one. Because the time wasted on the road, Kangxi left all the ministers to use the meal together, and then he waited for the half-dried cement bucket.
"When this cement is wet, it can be used like mud to build roads and houses. When it drys, it will be as hard as a stone," Yinreng explained. He asked someone to copy out the cement that had not yet dried up in the wooden barrel with a shovel, take the stones in the palace, pile up many stones as support, paste them with cement, and paste a ramp on the polished stone steps in the palace, and mischievously insert a thin branch on the undried cement.
"After it dry, the ramp can only be left. If you step on it now, the footprints will remain on it. What's more troublesome is that if you want to remove it, you need to use a hammer and awl to violently destroy it because there is a waterproofing agent in the cement."
General Shengjing asked in surprise: "What is waterproofing agent?"
"The waterproofing agent is silicon water. Silicon water is extracted from the rocks. The rocks can protect against rainwater by themselves and will not be eroded by rainwater. There must be waterproofing ingredients here." Yinreng could only understand so much. As for what silicon water is, why can Silicon water be extracted by Xiaomei's method, and what is the principle? There is something more profound here. Even if Xiaomei teaches him, he can't understand it.
Whenever this happened, Yinreng felt that he was too narrow. He had too little knowledge in his mind. So what if he read the Four Books and Five Classics, and read the Zizhi Tongjian? Learning these things only makes people governing people, but he doesn't know that people are to nature, like ephemerals to heaven and earth. No wonder Zhuangzi said, "The sea of knowledge is endless."
While waiting for the cement to dry, the emperor and his ministers discussed and made some arrangements.
General Shengjing made a comment: "The emperor, Daur, Soren, Ewenk and other tribes have lived here for a long time, and are well aware of the local environment. With their help, it will be of great help to our army."
Kangxi sent envoys to contact the tribes of these three tribes and asked them to cooperate with the Qing army.
"I have passed on my order to prohibit the continued trade between the Chechen Khan of Mongolia and Tsarist Russia from continuing to open trade towns. In the future, the things that Mongolia lacks can only come from within the pass."
After doing these arrangements, Kangxi felt tired, so he first dismissed his ministers and ordered them to come and discuss state affairs.
The emperor expressed his intention to rest. General Shengjing failed to see the finished cement product and kept thinking about this matter in his heart. The ministers were mobilized to be curious and left step by step.
Some people even said to Nalan Xingde: "Hey, if you can see cement condense like a stone tomorrow, the problem of the Qing Dynasty's food and grass transportation on land can also be solved."
Kangxi told his two sons: "What I have done so far is just a trivial matter. The two most important things have not been done yet. Baocheng and Baoqing might as well think about which two things are. When discussing government affairs tomorrow, they will not pretend to be mute throughout the whole process and cannot say anything."
Yinzhi always attached great importance to Kangxi's words. After hearing what Khan Ama said, he went back to meditate that night, recalling what he saw and heard during the day.
Yinreng and Xiaomei started discussing, and each man and tiger muttered for a long time, and finally came up with two major events: spying on the enemy situation and military layout.
In the evening, Xiaomei taught Yinreng the history of Tsarist Russia during her lecture time. She systematically educated outstanding children to read the world map and understand the situation in a comprehensive way.
[On the other end of Tsarist Russia, there was a huge empire called the Ottoman Empire, which was the main object of war between Tsarist Russia. Because of the existence of the Ottoman Empire, trade between the East and the West was blocked. Against the background that countries have begun to step up shipbuilding, Tsarist Russia was eager to find an outlet that could carry out maritime trade. From the world map, the north of Tsarist Russia was a large Arctic Ocean, and the cold forced ships to trade. They stared at the Longxing Land of the Qing Dynasty and the Liaodong region, just because this climate was relatively warmer than the north, and had a unique port that could carry out maritime trade.] Yinreng came into contact with the outside world, first led by Kangxi, familiarized himself with domestic government affairs, learned to observe the Qing Dynasty, and then Xiaomei Education learned to observe the world.
In the evening, he wrote down his own feelings in his diary.
Since the Qing Dynasty, many missionaries have been seen, many of them have been appreciated by the emperor and have been granted official positions.
Now, there are missionaries Nan Huairen who serves as a missionary. The astronomy and science that Khan Ahma knows have been learned from several missionaries.
To be continued...