On the seventh day of September, the garden of Prince Reheyong's mansion.

The autumn cold is getting heavier, and the flowers in the garden are withering, and only the chrysanthemums are blooming. Niu Hulu lowered his head and followed behind Sifu Jin and came to Kangxi.

According to the rules, it is a great crime of disrespect to look directly at Long Yan, Niu Hulu did not dare to make a difference, lowered his eyebrows, looked at the back of the clothes of the four blessings in front of him, and followed the rules.

Although she didn't look up, her body was tense because someone was watching her. The gaze was like ice water, and her body was excited.

It was Kangxi who looked at her.

Before coming to the Fourth Elder Brother's Garden, the information of Niu Hulu's clan had been presented to the Imperial Palace.

Her father is not of high grade, but in terms of background, he is also the daughter of a Manchurian surname, the great-granddaughter of the five founding ministers of the country, Hongyi Gongyi, and the niece of the Empress Xiaozhaoren.

Looking at the appearance again, she is tall and has the sassy style of a Manchurian daughter. The face is plump, but because of the head down, the eyebrows and eyes cannot be seen clearly.

"You're Hongli's biological mother? Keep your head up! Kangxi said loudly.

Niu Hulu felt like playing a drum in his heart, but because of his identity, he was used to being submissive, and he still raised his head obediently.

She was in her early thirties, and had lost the charm of a young woman, leaving only peace and gentleness.

Xu has been waiting by Sifujin's side since he was a teenager, and he has been deeply influenced by Sifujin, and his expression and demeanor have the magnanimity of Sifujin. Undoubtedly, this pleases Kangxi.

The fourth Fujin, like the second Fujin, is the daughter-in-law personally selected by Kangxi, and has the most sacred heart among the princes Fujin.

Niu Hulu's family can be a little like Sifujin, which in Kangxi's eyes, represents virtuous and generous.

"Well, well, blessed are the well. Reward! The godson of the four blessings is good, reward! Kangxi nodded.

The eunuchs Wei Zhu and Zhao Chang, who were standing beside them, each held a silver plate and sent it to Sifujin and Niu Hulu.

In front of Sifujin is a white jade Ruyi; In front of Niu Hulu's family, there is a gold-inlaid emerald auspicious Ruyi...... * Outside the summer resort, six government offices.

Cao Hao looked at the official document in his hand and fell into deep thought. Is this Gansu drought or not? According to the governor, there is a lack of rain and a great drought, and there is less money and grain in the warehouse; According to the year of Qianyao, the rain is sufficient, and the harvest year should be compared with the harvest year.

The lawsuit between the two ended with the governor of Gansu being reprimanded, but the list of money and food handed back was compared to the year when it was insufficient.

If Kangxi thinks that the governor of Gansu is vain, then the household department will not be able to accept this list of money and grain.

Calculating the calculation, this year's tax in Gansu should have been escorted.

Compared with Gansu, Shaanxi has reported a great famine year this year. The taxes were kept aside from relief and military salaries, and were not transported to the capital; Although Sichuan did not report the disaster, the taxes were also left in the local area.

These are still secondary, and the key is that the household department has no money now. Kangxi has been gracious again and again in recent years, reducing or exempting taxes in many places, plus the taxes of several provinces in the Central Plains directly supply military supplies to the northwest, and this household treasury only relies on the support of Jiangnan and Huguang and other places.

The income is small, but the expenses are not reduced at all.

Every autumn and winter, it is the time for river workers to repair the river, but this year, due to the lack of money, only a few places have been started.

complained that Yongzheng would raid his house when he came to power, and if he didn't raid his house, there was no money to support him, and the court was struggling to do anything.

Cao Hao sighed, he, the household servant, more often than not, is doing clerical errands, and he doesn't have the ability to turn stones into gold.

At that time, Kangxi had made an agreement with him to make money, but in the end, the two did not calculate. However, counting it, the bidding of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Bank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then the trading of cigarettes and pipes, all have the shadow of Cao Hao behind them. Really speaking, Cao Hao is not a disappointment to the emperor's order.

"People's livelihood plan", these four big characters are hung on the wall of this official office.

Cao Hao stared at these four words, a little enlightened. I was too stubborn, and I only wanted to count silver and enter the trail. He is an official, not a businessman, and his main concern should not be the amount of money in the household treasury, but whether the livelihood of the people is getting better than in the past.

As long as the rules of officialdom are the same, and the officials are like this, the more silver in this treasury and the more moths they can raise, it will not benefit the country and the people.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao picked out an official document from the Yamen newspaper of the Jiangsu Political Division, which was about the second-cropping rice experiment in Jiangnan.

The second crop rice has been tried in Jiangnan for several years, and the results are remarkable. The yield of 2 or 3 stone per mu of rice was changed to 4 or 5 stone per mu, which doubled the yield. It's just that it's more picky and picky.

Double cropping rice in the south, coupled with the implementation of sweet potatoes and buds in barren areas in various places, first solved the food problem.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao felt that he had strength in his body.

After he sat down on the bookcase, he wrote an excerpt on the promotion of miscellaneous grains and the cultivation of high-yield grains. Originally, I wanted to mention the local grain reserves, but the [***] of the granary in this place involved too much, and it was not for Cao Hao to interfere.

For the local granary [***], as early as the early years of Kangxi, the rebellion of the three feudatories caused a court discussion.

At that time, the country was initially decided, and the magnates of the Eight Banners who were sent down as officials scraped the ground vigorously for themselves and the masters behind them.

When the rebellion in the three feudatories broke out and it was necessary to transfer grain, it was found that most of the granaries in various places were empty.

The court was furious, but then it was rejoicing. Because the rebellion of the three feudatories swept through the southern provinces, because the granaries were empty, the soldiers and horses of the three feudatories had to use the local squires in order to raise food and wages, which caused the local squires to rebound and defect to the imperial court, making the three feudatories lose the hearts of the people, lose the chance of victory, and lose to the imperial army.

In the following decades, regardless of the fertility of the population, the local granaries were rarely added. For the granaries of many local names, except for a few key uses, other imperial courts also turned a blind eye.

When Cao Hao was a Taoist in Shandong, he was also shocked by the empty granary of the local granary; When I arrived at the household department and stood high, I saw clearly the intention of the imperial court not to rectify the local granary.

After writing the note, Cao Hao carefully read the official document that needed to be replied to.

By the time this was done, it was already noon.

Chu Yu didn't come to Rehe with him, and no one would bring lunch to Cao Hao.

He put down his pen and beckoned Jiang Jian to go out to eat.

Not far from the official offices of the six ministries, there are several restaurants, which are cleaned up. The officials of the six ministries on duty with Hu mostly had lunch in these restaurants.

The two of them chose a private room and sat down, Jiang Jian was still a vegetarian, and he didn't stick to meat at all. Xu has been in Cao Mansion for the past few years, and he has not been punished by the name, which has made him lose his anger in his early years, and he looks at the fairy wind of Dao bones, gentle and elegant.

Cao Hao's stomach and intestines have not been digesting well recently, so he used two bowls of porridge with a few small pickles.

After lunch, there was still free time, so the two asked Xiao Er to serve a pot of tea and talk in the private room.

"In a few more days, the holy car will return to Beijing, and the non-phosphorus joy is not far away!" Cao Hao said with a smile.

Jiang Jian returned to his hometown a few years ago, and there were clan elders who booked a family affair, a girl from a scholarly family. In the spring, letters were exchanged, and it was decided to send someone to Beijing to complete the marriage at the end of this year.

Since Cao Hao got the news, he asked people to buy real estate in the back street of Caofu, which was to prepare a new house for Jiang Jian.

A boy in his forties, Cao Hao looked at Jiang Jian and laughed unkindly.

Jiang Jian grew up in a temple, was influenced by Buddhism, and had a pure heart and few desires; After that, the rangers were all over the country, mostly in the local governments and counties, and the criminal cases they handled were nothing more than silver theft and killing.

I saw too much, but it made him stay away from women more and more.

If it weren't for the strong pressure of the clan elders, he would not have the idea of marrying a wife at all.

Therefore, after listening to Cao Hao's words, he was not happy at all, but left a little helpless, and said: "It's still that I am greedy for Hongchen, and I don't want to hurt the kindness of my elders. If you enter the mountain gate, you will be at ease. ”

Cao Hao shook his head and said, "People live for a lifetime, and they must always have some responsibility. If you can be at ease as a monk, then there will be no laypeople in this world. Fei Fei is still happily waiting to be the bridegroom. Without a woman around to take care of it, it will not work out, and non-phosphorus has been delayed for too long. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, the Zhong family is young, and she will go north to get married, and she will take care of it properly and not let her be wronged." Jiang Jian nodded.

When it comes to becoming a monk, Cao Hao thinks of Zhiran, who has not written back for more than half a year.

The two have lived together for only three years, but they are close to each other and have another relationship.

Because they were outside, it was inconvenient to talk about political affairs, so the two chatted a few more words, and then settled the bill and returned to the official office.

Hang Seng and Fu Peng stood outside the official office and had been waiting for a while.

Seeing Cao Hao coming back, the two stepped forward to meet, Fu Peng said what he meant, the two of them were ordered by the sixteenth elder brother to come and pick up Cao Hao to go to the west campus of the palace.

Although he didn't know what happened to the sixteenth elder brother, Cao Hao still explained it at the official office and went with the two.

Fu Peng went to Mongolia to visit his aunt, and only returned to Rehe a few days ago, and his uncle and nephew had not seen each other for several months.

Along the way, Cao Hao asked a few questions about Baoya's current situation, and Fu Peng answered them one by one.

During this period, he also talked about his visit to Mongolia. Cao Hao knows about the folk customs of Mongolia, but Hengsheng doesn't know everything, and he only listens to it with relish.

What he is most concerned about is the wild horse herd on the grassland, and the wolfdog born from the cross between wolves and domestic dogs.

A Mongolian prince came to the court this year to pay tribute to two little wolf dogs. Kangxi gave it to Hongli, Hengsheng saw it every day, liked it, and made a special trip to talk to Cao Hao a few times.

There is a kennel in Caofu, which is used for nursing homes. Cao Hao does not agree with raising dogs as pets. In this era, there are no rabies seedlings, and there are many children in the Cao family, so it is too late to regret if there is a mistake.

There are already lessons from Cao Shun's past, and Cao Hao is naturally more careful.

Hengsheng is ten years old and already has some understanding of birth, old age, sickness and death. Cao Hao did not hide the past, and told his son about his younger brother who died young, and named the harm of raising dogs.

When Hengsheng heard this, his face changed at that time, and he never mentioned the words of raising a dog at home again. There is no other reason, there are too many children in the family, the seventh uncle is younger, and the younger brother is even younger.

Although he doesn't care about raising them at home, his love for wolf dogs has not diminished, but he no longer raises puppies by himself as he did in the past. It's not that he's timid and afraid of being bitten by a puppy, but he doesn't want his parents to worry about it.

Since he fell ill after being teased by Hongyang in Layue last year, Hengsheng has realized that the illness is in his own body and hurts in the heart of his parents.

Hongli looked at this change, and only said that Tao changed in the future and sent Hengsheng as a hunting dog. Raised in the outer village, for hunting, not only used powerfully, but also do not worry about anything.

Hengsheng knows little about this thing, and he is not very obsessed, but he has just heard it.

Today, when he heard his cousin Fuppen mention his trip to Mongolia, he couldn't help but pay attention to his favorite horses and wolfdogs.

"Wolves on the prairie are common, and there are also wolf dogs on my aunt's house, except for the tail, they look like wolves. was raised by his aunt, and he was fierce to others, but he listened to his aunt very much. Seeing that his cousin was interested in the wolfdog, he said the most: "If my cousin likes it, I will write to my aunt." This hybrid wolf dog is still surnamed Zilie, and when this wolf dog regenerates puppies, Xu is surname Ye will go. ”

Heng Sheng shook his head and said, "Thank you, cousin, I still don't want it." I'm just looking at the rarity, and if I want to talk about breeding, I don't have much effort. Several brothers in the family have passed the hospital exam, and it is a shame that I am the only one who cannot study. If I can't do it today, I will take the martial arts test next year. ”

Fu Peng is the eldest son of the county prince's mansion, and his status has been extraordinary since he landed. However, he never despised his mother clan because he was a clan.

He knew that Cao Fu was the last support of their mother and son.

As the eldest brother of the palace, he met the children of powerful people when he was a child, and he really couldn't understand his cousin's obsession with the imperial examination.

With the Cao family's family, the sons and daughters are born in the shade, and their promotion will never be slower than those officials who were born in the imperial examination.

However, Cao Hao, the parent, didn't say anything, and Fu Peng, a person with a foreign surname, was even more difficult to say.

He couldn't see through this tepid uncle, and if he wanted to say that his adopted son was raised as a parent, Cao Hao was not the only one. But the flesh and blood are family, and there will be intimacy in the end.

The Cao family is more favored than Tianyou, who is the eldest son, because Hengsheng is the second son.

This favor is so natural and calm. made the Chunjun Wangfu follow Aiwu and Wu Bu, and even the emperor joined in the fun, and ordered Hengsheng to read with the emperor's grandson.

The princes and grandsons who go to the study to read, which one is not after the lord? Hang Seng looks honest, but it is by no means a thing in the pool.

The group was gossiping and arrived at the west campus of the palace.

This is a secluded place, far away from the palace hall, where the sixteenth elder brother is here with the twenty-one elder brother, the twenty-first elder brother, the twenty-second elder brother, and Hongli.

They were surrounding a case, and they didn't know what they were talking about, and there was a row of targets dozens of paces away.

Seeing Cao Hao coming, the sixteenth elder brother beckoned to him.

Cao Hao stepped forward and saw several princes and grandsons, and his eyes fell on the case.

On the table, red velvet cloth was laid, and several pistols were placed on it.

That's right, it's a pistol, seven or eight inches long, and it looks like a revolver that is common in later TV dramas.

You must know that this firearm is a taboo thing among the people, and the families of the powerful, even if they are collected, are mostly old-fashioned brass hand-holders, and it is really at a critical moment, and hand-to-hand combat is not as convenient as a dagger.

This pistol, Cao Hao has seen it for the first time.

Before Wei Xin went to sea, Cao Hao instructed and instructed this Western pistol. Unexpectedly, after waiting for several years, I failed to do so, but now I see it here.

"This is a French tribute, and it can hold six bullets at a time." The sixteenth elder brother picked up a pistol and handed it to Cao Hao.

When Cao Hao was in the study, he had learned firearms, but he was still unfamiliar with this new pistol.

Picking up the pistol, his hand trembled slightly. This is something he has been looking forward to for many years in his early years, and he thought that with this, his surname would be a little more stable.

Seeing Cao Hao looking at the pistol intently, the sixteenth elder brother said with a smile: "Isn't it too delicate to look at people?" ”

Cao Hao nodded, and the sixteenth elder brother hesitated for a moment, and said: "If it is an ordinary hand, if Fu likes it, I will help you say it." This one is a tribute, and there are only a few sticks. Huang Ama said that this thing is too profitable, it is against the harmony of heaven, and it is not allowed to flow out. I grinded these four sticks to give them a few exercises. Thinking that Fu Ruo also likes it, I asked you to shoot a few shots too......"

(To be continued)