The holy drive to Beijing said, the twentieth month of the twentieth month, the small court.

Cao Hao still got up in the middle of the night and went out of the city from Xizhimen before two o'clock in the morning. Inside the Xizhi Gate, there have been a lot of carriages and sedan chairs parked.

Cao Hao was riding on horseback, blowing the night wind, only to feel the biting cold, and couldn't help but shiver. Today's beginning of spring, in previous years, in the first month, this year because of the leap month, the beginning of spring in the year.

Finally, after waiting for the city gate to open and the waterwheel in the palace entered the city, the civil and military officials waiting here left the city in turn.

Not long after Cao Hao, after a few sedan chairs, it was Li Xu's carriage. He came from the outer house of the Li family in Shichahai, sitting in the carriage, looking unpredictable, not knowing what he was thinking.

According to his rank, he has the title of a household squire and can directly participate in the small court. But his own job is the errand of Suzhou weaving and Lianghuai Yanwu, which makes him still a foreign minister.

If the minister wants to ask to see Kangxi, he needs to hand over a sign to ask His Majesty to see him.

Cao Hao didn't see Li Xu, and followed the civil and military officials into the garden, and arrived at the arrow hall where the small court meeting was located.

The errands in the winter here in Taifu Temple are very idle, and the whole thing is trivial. After the New Year, I will go to the ranch in March and April next year, and follow the Hu in May, and the year's errand will be almost the same.

This work is really a bit more leisurely, Cao Hao thought in his heart. However, it should not only be the case in Taifu Temple, according to Cao Hao's view, even the officials of the six departments should also be idle, and they are busy with those officials who perform their duties.

After Kangxi went to court, the officials of the Ministry of Rites first presented the spring throne, and then the Shuntian Mansion Ya presented the spring cow picture.

Maybe it's because Kangxi has had a few Shangshu squires in the past two months, or maybe it's because there is no errand at the end of the year, most of the officials of the six departments are looking at the nose and the nose and the heart, standing in the rules, and there is no script. Only the household department is still listed, and it is the matter of the drought and tax reduction in the four counties of Huining, Gansu Province this year.

Kangxi listened carefully, nodded and allowed the performance, and ordered the household department to arrange the distribution of millet to help the hungry.

Seeing that no one was on the prelude again, Kangxi asked about the Jiangnan Nanjing Mouth Master.

Because of the high price of rice in Guangdong this year, in order to stabilize grain prices, Kangxi ordered He Shou, the governor of Liangjiang, to transport rice and grain from Jiangnan to Guangdong. As a result, the governor Yamen of Heshou prepared rice and grain, but there was no ship to make. The Jingkou warship could not carry rice at all, but reached the period of overhaul.

The Ministry of War has been discussing and replying every year, and the household department has allocated money for repairs once every three or five years, but now it seems that the so-called ordinary repairs are all in vain, and the money is all greedy.

Upon conviction on the charge of "delaying military affairs", Ma Sanqi was dismissed from the rank of general. Although this matter does not seem to have the slightest involvement with Kangxi's attack on the Beijing officials before, many officials have speculated whether Long Live Lord has cleaned up Wenchen and now fights the military attaché's idea?

At the end of the court meeting, it was the recital of the commander of the infantry army, Yamen Long Keduo, a total of 68 places in Changchun Garden, please add horse infantry to defend.

Although he said that it was because of the "flood guard", the princes and officials in the hall all knew it in their hearts, and it was for the sake of the holy driver who had been stationed in Changchun Garden for the past two years.

Although there are eight banners garrison here, in addition to the upper three banners, the lower five banners are not held by the emperor himself, but by the prince of the clan.

Long Keduo's move should have been done by order.

I listened to Kangxi: "There are a lot of idle people in the Han army, and there is a shortage of horse infantry, so that the idle people of the Han army will be filled." Subsequently, the three battalions of patrols were vacant, and they were also filled together with the Han army and Han people. ”

Because the Han army that is to be supplemented is to guard Changchun Garden, no one is so blind to mention the rules of the ancestors.

Cao Hao's heart moved, but he thought about something else.

It is complained that Long Keduo can use the position of the commander of the Nine Gates to block Changchun Garden and assist the fourth elder brother to ascend the throne. Thinking about it now, if there is no increase in the number of Han troops today, just with the Admiral of the Nine Gates, the relatives of the Eight Banners may not think of him in their eyes.

Thinking about this, Cao Hao couldn't help but look at the fourth elder brother in front of him. There are still nine years left before the sixty-first year of Kangxi, and now the "sticky pole" of the Fourth Elder Brother's Mansion is already there, I don't know how he feels about the Cao family now.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Cao Hao did not leave the garden immediately, but was stopped by the seventh elder brother.

It turned out that the mountain goods of Fengtian Zhuangzi on the side of King Chun's Mansion had arrived, and the Cao family did not have Zhuangzi outside the Guan, so they wanted to send a steward to buy mountain goods outside the Guan. After the seventh elder brother heard about it, he said that there was no need for him to toss around, and that he would bring some interest from the palace.

Now that the mountain goods have arrived, he instructed Cao Hao to send the steward to collect the points.

Weng and his son-in-law were talking, and an inner servant came to deliver the message, saying that the Queen Mother had summoned the seventh elder brother.

Cao Hao thought that Yu had mentioned the matter of Ergege's marriage at first, but now that the old lady Qiqi has been released, there should be news about it. In contrast, the Queen Mother summoned the Seventh Elder Brother for this matter.

* Cao Hao went out of the garden and rode back to the yamen without mentioning it. Li Xu's side waited for two hours in a row, and it was not until noon that he could wait for His Majesty to see him.

Because by the end of the year, many officials were promoted, and Kangxi had already met many officials who had entered Beijing from other places in the bookstore, such as Liu Di, the Jiangxi envoy, and Xu Zhaolin, the provincial governor of Sichuan East Province.

When Li Xu followed the chamberlain into the house, Kangxi sat cross-legged on the kang, holding the kang table with his arms, and his face showed a slight tiredness.

Li Xu entered the door, took two steps forward, knelt down on both knees, kowtowed, and said: "The slave has seen the master of Banzai, please say hello to the master of Banzai!" ”

Kangxi raised his head, squinted at Li Xu, who was kneeling with his head down, and said for a while: "Get up and speak!" As he spoke, Wei Zhu, the chief eunuch who was standing on the side, moved a wooden pestle 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 other things that you Li Xu don't dare? ”

When Li Xu heard this, he quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Kangxi frowned and said, "That's it, it's not easy for you to enter Beijing once, so get up and talk!" ”

Li Xu got up and sat sideways with a small pestle.

Kangxi rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong with your son?" ”

I don't know whether Li Xu is grateful or sad, and we weep and said: "If you go back to Long Live Lord, it has been more than half a month since the slaves entered Beijing, and the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion and the Yamen of the Infantry Army have gone there, but there is still no news. ”

When Kangxi heard this, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and said: "Waste, all are waste, can a big living person still go to heaven and earth?" Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Xu and said: "Li Ding has a lot of people in the capital, you have asked clearly, do you have any personal grudges?" ”

When Li Xu heard this, his heart sank, and a thin sweat was already oozing from his forehead, and he replied: "The slave family has several relatives in the capital, although there are contacts, but they are just going through the motions, and I haven't heard of any friction and entanglement. ”

Kangxi tapped the table with his fingers, pondered for a moment, and said: "If you have any extra words, I am too lazy to say more, you just need to save it, who is your master!" In the end, there was a bit of coldness in his voice.

Where can Li Xu still sit still, he got up and knelt down, and said with tears: "Long live the lord, the slave is cheap, long live the lord of Hemeng, and the world has been weaving in Suzhou for decades." The sea of divine grace is deep, and even if the slaves are crushed to pieces, it is difficult to repay the grace of the heavens! If you have other thoughts, wouldn't it be better to be a pig or a dog? ”

Seeing him behave like this, Kangxi thought that he was a young man, and there were only two sons under his knees, and his dissatisfaction was reduced a little, and he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I don't want you to shave white." As for your son, I have already instructed Voldan to help you find out. ”

When Li Xu heard this, he had to kowtow again to thank him.

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

* Shicha seaside, Li family's outer house.

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

She is a good family woman, and she has fallen to such a point, if she doesn't hate Li Ding at all, it would be a lie. But she knows that the only person she can rely on is Li Ding, as long as she is still beautiful and can help Li Ding socialize, he will keep her.

Li Xu is different, he wants to go back to the south, and he will not be in the capital in the future, and he is just a few freshness to Yang Ruixue. Listening to the inquiry in and out of his words last night, he seemed to suspect her Yang Ruixue.

Yang Ruixue was only ignorant, and Li Xu waited more and more carefully, and the two of them tossed for half a night.

It's not enough to appease Li Xu, Yang Ruixue knows that if you want to stay in the capital and not be threatened by the Li family, you have to find a backer.

It's just that she is a deep house woman, and she rarely stays out on the street occasionally, where can she go to meet people?

In fact, Li Nai, the uncle of the Li family, is excellent, gentle and kind, but he is too pedantic and treats her as a brother and daughter-in-law. Because she didn't find out that she was pregnant last month, and she was afraid that she would be uncomfortable, she specially comforted her.

Yang Ruixue only thought it was very funny, she didn't plan to give birth to a son for the Li family, who knows what kind of age it would be, do you want to make this ugly thing public?

Cao Hao? Thinking of him, Yang Ruixue immediately shook her head. That person is not a lover of sex, and he knows her very well, how can he like her?

She tossed and turned on the bed like a baked cake, sighing for a long time, but she didn't have any proper calculations. Suddenly, she remembered the two of them again, and her heart slowly calmed down.

She reached out and touched her face, then her breast, and a smile appeared on her face. She's worried about finding someone, and maybe someone is thinking about her.

When a man sees a woman, he is like a cat stealing fish, and after eating it once or twice, he will think about it for the third and fourth time. She, as long as she waits, when Li Ding's matter fades away, and the Li family's father and son leave Beijing, the cat will naturally come.

* In front of the Li family's courtyard, on the ice of Shichahai, in addition to the children playing on the ice, there are also several guys in the ice cellar in the city. On the edge of the sea, a mule cart was parked, waiting for a while to pull the ice.

Since the eighth day of the first lunar month, after the ice surface has frozen tightly, several ice cellars in the city have asked the guys to pick ice on this side of Shichahai. The young people of the nearby people also took advantage of this time to help line the handles on the ice and do a short-term job, and there were more than ten or twenty copper plates in every day.

Over the past ten days, everyone has dug a lot of ice pits on the sea. Because the ice at the bottom of the pit is thin, some nearby naughty children go to dig an ice cave to catch fish.

However, because it was so dangerous, the adults stopped them when they saw it, so the children took advantage of the adults' inattention and went in with their waists.

At this time, another child slipped to the bottom of the pit. He called Baozhu, his home lived by the sea, and he was mixed on the ice all day, and he was also a veteran of ice chisel.

He hunched over, with an ice skewer in his hand, searched for the thinnest part of the ice, sat down on his knees, and chiseled it with all his might.

Because the ice is not thick, after a few chisels, there will be cracks, and I will work harder and harder to keep it. He was chiseling happily when he heard someone shouting, "Xiao Bao, it's you again!" It was an ice pit that was opened yesterday, and the ice was less than half a foot thick, do you want to die? ”

The kid smiled and said, "Uncle Chang, it's okay!" ”

The one named Chang Wu didn't let him mess around, and came down to keep it and slip up. Bao Yi reluctantly looked at the half-smashed ice cave, only to feel that the shadow was enough to see a black shadow, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly said: "Fifth Uncle Chang, look, there are big fish there!" ”

Chang Wu stopped and looked at the past along the protective residence. It's just an ordinary ice surface, where are the big fish? He patted the head of the preserved: "Where is there a big fish, no matter how naughty it is, be careful that the Dragon Lord will pull you down to feed the fish!" ”

Bao Bao rubbed his eyes, the black shadow was gone, 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, no matter how naughty you are, Ming'er tells you Lao Tzu, be careful of your skin!" ”

(To be continued)