Li Guangdi's life has several ups and downs, after twists and turns, he was slightly moved and immediately calmed down, the fourteenth master gave a gift at the beginning, it seems that today's conversation is not trivial, a little thought, he knew why the fourteenth master came today, a slight owe, then said: "Thank you for the love of the fourteenth master, the old minister has nothing to repay, he must know everything, and the words are endless." ”

Li Guangdi has been cautious all his life, and Kangxi Junchen gets along, and he is also a minister and a friend, but he has always only said three points, listening to his statement, Yinzhen nodded slightly, put down the teacup and said: "The Spanish fleet disturbed my southeast sea frontier, in fact, it was not intended to rush to my Qing Dynasty, but to make enemies with the Netherlands in the South Seas, and the special fleet came east to protect its Luzon Manila from being invaded.

The emperor has a lot of complaints about this, and Lin and Liu will have a vicious war with the Netherlands in Nanyang, and I am afraid that they will not be able to return for a long time, which will make the emperor even more unhappy, and I am afraid that the emperor will be disgusted because of this. ”

Li Guangdi's brows furrowed when he heard this, what does it mean to be unable to return for a long time? Does the Fourteenth Master have other plans, but this cannot be said explicitly, as for solving this problem, it is simple, how can the Fourteenth Master not think of it? Two Han generals, Kangxi is dissatisfied? This is the point, he himself is the minister of Han, and the words of the fourteenth master are a reminder that he is the one who is truly not divided into Han.

Li Guangdi knew that these words were just throwing bricks and attracting jade, and he groaned slightly, and said: "Nanyang has been a place for Han people to migrate since ancient times, and there are many Han people. ”

"If the fleet is transferred south, I am even more afraid that the emperor will be suspicious." Yinzhen said and explained the situation of the audience in detail.

Yinzhen, who listened to it, sent the captured Spanish fleet to Tianjin to form the Beiyang Naval Division, and planned to build forts in Tianjin and train the new Praetorian Guards, Li Guangdi couldn't help but secretly praise, the fourteenth master is much smarter than the crown prince, so that Kangxi's suspicions can be relieved, and Kangxi will no longer be afraid of the growth of the navy.

However, after hearing that Kangxi set up a naval department. And it was in charge of Yinzhen, and the four major naval divisions were merged into the navy, and Yinzhen was asked to bear the military salary privately, Li Guangdi's brows furrowed, Kangxi has always grasped the military power, that is, the prince, and he has never mastered such a large number of troops. The Fourteenth Master is notoriously rich, what is Kangxi's intention?

The Navy is just that. Even if the army is expanded, it will only be 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, but with the addition of the four major naval divisions, it will be enough to have more than 100,000 troops. What's more, Tianjin is only more than 200 miles away from Beijing. Hurry, it will arrive in two days, Kangxi is so relieved that the fourteenth master?

When he heard Kangxi say that Yinzhen was transferred to Beijing to experience court affairs, Li Guangdi understood that Kangxi was a temptation, and there were two possibilities for this. One may be the fourteenth master as the prince, and the other may be the removal of the fourteenth master's military power.

If the Fourteenth Master is like the crown prince and has bad intentions, he is very likely to take risks. And Kangxi also gave him the capital to take the risk - an army of 100,000!

If the Fourteenth Master has no bad intentions, things may develop for the better, judging from the fact that Kangxi is willing to spend such a big price to test the Fourteenth Master, it is indeed possible that he belongs to the Fourteenth Master. However, Li Guangdi didn't dare to say this clearly, just as the so-called time and time, Kangxi is thinking now, but what about three or five years later? Kangxi's body is very good. Who knows how long he will live? Don't say that he just has this idea, Yinren has been the prince for more than 30 years. In the end, it was not forced by Kangxi to end up like this. The variables in this are too great for Li Guangdi to dare to say.

Come to think of it. Li Guangdi couldn't help but be a little worried, I don't know what the Fourteenth Master thinks in his heart, he is now the standard-bearer of the Fourteenth Party, if the Fourteenth Master conspires against him, he will inevitably eat and fall, glanced at Yinzhen, and then asked tentatively: "Nanyang Navy, what is the plan of the Fourteenth Master?" ”

"The superiority of the navy's artillery will not last for several years." Yinzhen didn't want to hide it from him, and immediately said: "I want to take advantage of this great opportunity to go to the South and Western Oceans to completely expand the Qing Navy into the strongest navy in the world." ”

Seeing Yinzhen blurt out, Li Guangdi secretly thought, he thought that the fourteenth master was a fan of the authorities, it turned out that the fourteenth master had already seen Kangxi's intentions and came up with a countermeasure, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, the fourteenth master had no intention of usurping the throne and rebelling, and this method can be said to be the most appropriate. ..., the navy was founded by the Fourteenth Master, did not spend a big son in the imperial court, two Han generals, and the Fourteenth Master was single-handed, the huge fleet wandered in the South Seas, Kangxi could not control it at all, and naturally he did not dare to force the Fourteenth Master too much, although he was in the Dragon Body Kangtai, but after all, the Spring and Autumn Period was high, and the position of the prince could not be left undecided for a long time, and it would drag on for two or three years.

Thinking of this, Li Guangdi couldn't help but be awe-struck in his heart, the Fourteenth Master began to propose the construction of a navy and an ocean-going fleet four years ago, and then immigrated to Taiwan to conquer the South Seas. This is appalling.

After pondering for a long time, Li Guangdi came back to his senses, but he reached out and poured a cup of tea for Yinzhen, and said: "Anxi is a big tea-producing county, and the old minister will order people to return to their hometowns to open up tea gardens, and they will have to rely on the fourteenth master to take care of them in the future." ”

After a little pondering, Yinzhen knew that Li Guangdi completely agreed with his idea, and couldn't help but smile and nodded: "Li Zhongtang can rest assured, tea will soon be popular in the West." ”

*

Two days later, the news that the fourteenth prince Yinzhen wanted to develop Tianjin Wei spread in the capital.

Tianjin is not far from the capital, and it takes only two days to arrive by horseback and car, and as soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation, and all kinds of news about Tianjin were spread one by one.

Teahouses, wine shops, guild halls, and theaters in the capital are all discussing:

"The fourteenth master wants to rebuild the post road from Beijing to Tianjin, I heard that it is repaired according to the standard of three zhang wide, and the horse can reach Tianjin in five hours."

"A three-zhang wide post road, isn't that wider than the street? Is that an exaggeration? ”

"Exaggerated? Is this stone street exaggerated? Did you dare to think about it before? This is what the Fourteenth Master suggested. ”

"Didn't this stone street say that it was repaired by the eighth master, let's go to the fourteenth master again?"

"Dele, you are a fool, who doesn't know that the transformation of Beijing City is the proposal of the Fourteenth Master? The fourteenth master alone gave out 500,000 white flowers. ”

"Tianjin, like Shanghai, has built a naval academy, built various factories and workshops, and recruited a large number of naval cadets."

"I've heard that the navy's food is good, and the salary is high."

"you, you know how to eat, do you know about the great victory of the navy? The emperor rewarded him heavily, and directly promoted him from the soldier to the deputy general and the general. ”

"Impossible, right? Are you talking about the story? ”

"Cut! Storyteller? Not to mention that the deputy general is a disciple of the clan, two of the three generals are ordinary people, and they are directly promoted to the generals in one step, and this matter has long been spread all over the world, and the five and six grades are too many to count. ”

"Ahh Then what are you going to do when you study, and go to the navy. ”

"The recruiting place has long been crowded."

"The latest news, the Spanish fleet captured by the Navy is coming to Tianjin, and the Fourteenth Master is going to hold a grand ceremony to present prisoners in Tianjin."

"Go, go, it's been spread all over the place for a long time, and the latest news."

"Is the news of the fourteenth master's large number of civil craftsmen recruiting civil craftsmen to Tianjin new?"

"Count, but now there are notices posted on the streets and alleys, do you still need to talk about it?"

For a time, on the post road from Beijing to Tianjin, fast horses, carriages, mule carts, and pannier chairs were endless, and there were more people who went to Tianjin on foot in groups of three or five, and there were not a few people who took the waterway. Those who have money go to Tianjin to look for business opportunities, those who have no money go to Tianjin to get work, and those who can't enter the navy in the capital go to Tianjin to try their luck, and all kinds of people flock to Tianjin like a wave.

After Yinzhen arranged various things, he also hurried to Tianjin, chose to build the naval academy, various military factories, the location of the shipyard, surveyed the location of the fort, inspected the expansion of the military port, etc., ran around all day and night, busy meeting people, holding meetings, listening to reports, and was busier than the original development of Shanghai.

The capital has not stopped, with the sale of this issue of the Beijing newspaper, the matter in Tianjin has faded down, and the trial of the apportionment into the mu in Guangdong has caused a sensation, because it is a trial in Guangdong, there are not many people who care about it, and no one pays attention to the flag people, but all the land in the day, including the Huangzhuang, must be apportioned into the mu, and the news of paying taxes according to the chapter came out, the whole capital exploded.

The people of Jingshi Banner entered the capital of Beijing in the first year of Shunzhi, and successively promulgated the enclosure order in the first year, the second year, and the fourth year of Shunzhi, until the eighth year of Kangxi, Kangxi basically abolished and prohibited the enclosure in addition to worshiping the pro-government, and the 24th year of Kangxi completely banned the enclosure.

As a result of the land enclosure, most of the fertile land in the 42 prefectures of Suncheon, Baoding, Hejian, Yizhou, Zunhua, and Yongping within 3,500 miles near Gyeonggi was encircled, accounting for a total of more than 160,000 hectares and more than 2.3 million mu. The Eight Banners stationed in other places have also carried out small-scale enclosures in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Ningxia and other places.

The Manchu people whose ancestors are a little bit noble, who are not thousands of good land? Even the more embarrassed banner people have hundreds of acres of land, and how much silver do they have to pay every year for this apportionment into the mu and paying taxes according to the regulations? This country was brought down by their people, and this tax reform actually came to their heads, and as soon as the news came out, the crowd was immediately excited and scolded.

However, at this time, Yinzhen had already left Beijing and rushed to Guangdong, and the flustered flag people were looking for the flag owners and the princes of the clan to inquire and understand the truth of the matter