On the second day of September in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, two of the five institutes in Qiandong. Xiao Xuanye, who is about to be one and a half years old, rarely lies on the kang leisurely.

Yes, it's really "rare to be idle". Hongyi laughed a little secretly, since he "womb weared" and became Aixinjue Luo Xuanye, he didn't seem to have been idle for a few days, especially after turning one year old and entering the jade, it seems that behind every so-called major event in the Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty, there is his own figure. The baby in the eyes of everyone, from the beginning of the "Birth of the Dingding" to today's "Daqing Dorobelle", although every step is not bloody, thrilling, but after all, the protagonist of the story is only one and a half years old! These many far-reaching events are all actively used by themselves and used various resources to make full progress, and the hardships can only be known by themselves.

Today's Hongyi, Cining Palace has finished asking An, the Manchurian and Mongolian Chinese language has been learned, the calligraphy and calligraphy have been learned, the eldest brother has finished reading it, and even the milk and grandmother have finished feeding, and it seems that he is lying down like this, but in fact, his mind can be clicked without stopping. I don't know weishenme, Hongyi always has a feeling of "time is not waiting for me", I can't wait to kill tens of thousands of brain cells in person every day, and I want to make a few more "earth-shattering" things while playing "small life". What to do today? That's a problem!

"Second master, it's autumn, the slave maid personally sewed a new autumn quilt for you, it's cold at night, remember to let Grandma Sun add it to you." Park on the side, who was groping with Sun for the satin quilt with bright colors and delicate fabrics, was enjoying Sun's praise with satisfaction, and turned back to Hongyi and said.

"Yes, second master, look at how gorgeous and dazzling this satin is, and then look at this stitch, it is fine and regular, Mama Park is really ingenious, and the slave maid is really 10,000 can't compare. It's cold in two days, so let's cover it, okay? Sun also smiled and asked Hongyi.

"Okay, it's hard work Mama Park!" Hongyi was a little lazy, but he still replied politely. And this kind of politeness, in the eyes of the two grandmothers, is an excellent embodiment of courtesy.

"The slave maid's work is not hard, our Lord Belle is hard, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, there are many major events arranged at such a young age, and our subordinates are also very glorious with you!" The Park Sun family has long been very relaxed in front of Hongyi, although it still maintains the courtesy and meticulousness of the slaves and maids, but it is less worried about others serving the general master, and with a good mood, work harder!

"Hehe, I'm a child, how can it be a big deal? Two grandmothers, bring the satin quilt and take a look! Hongyi was a little embarrassed, and reached out to check out Park's work in person, which was gratifying for the two of them. After all, the fact that the master personally saw the work of his subordinates was in itself a reward.

"Second master, this satin is called Pyongyang rainbow satin, which is a special product of the slave's hometown of North Korea, also known as seven-color satin and multi-color satin, which is quite strong and gorgeous, and the Korean royal family also uses it to make children's robes and bedding for princes and princesses." While handing Ryoshi to Hongyi, Park canvassed for votes for his old North Korean family.

"Oh, sure enough, the color is gorgeous, the feel is delicate, this Pyongyang rainbow satin is indeed a good thing. Mama spent a lot of silver taels...... "Hongyi praised two sentences, originally wanted to reward the Park family, after all, he is now a meritorious Dorobelle, and he has 2,500 taels of silver every year, and he gives her a 1020 taels, and it can be regarded as a favor to talk about the heart.

"Second master, this doesn't cost anything. A few days ago, didn't a group of more than a dozen people from the Korean Guogong [jī] counselor enter the Tongwen Hall[1]? There was a little messenger in that group, the eldest son of the slave's cousin's hometown, who brought the slave maid this Pyongyang rainbow satin. The slave maid is just used to honor our master......" Park inadvertently said something that made Hongyi immediately interested.

Hongyi knew that the "advisory service" set up by the DPRK was a kind of irregular mission sent to the Qing Dynasty in addition to the official mission, and it was an envoy sent by the DPRK to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty on matters that were not very important, and there were no chief envoys, deputy envoys, and clerical officers in the envoys. The rank of advisor is also lower than that of the official envoy, and is usually held by an official of the Interpretation Yuan or the Central Government who is proficient in Chinese. The scale of the consultation line is not large, including the counselors and servants, there are generally only more than ten people. Its task was to carry a message or message to the Ministry of Rites of the Qing Dynasty to deal with specific affairs such as drifting people and transgressors. In addition, it is also responsible for escorting drifters and transgressors. The annual Imperial Calendar Consultation is also completed by the Advisors. From the first year of Chongde to the seventh year of Guangxu, the number of consultations was as many as 183 times.

Since the beginning of the second year of Chongde of the Qing Dynasty (1637, the fifteenth year of the reign of the Joseon Dynasty), Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty forced the king of Joseon to sign an alliance under the city, which was the "Dingcho Treaty", and the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the Korean clan was established, and the Joseon Dynasty immediately began to send an envoy to the Qing Dynasty to fulfill the obligation of paying tribute. The "official envoys" sent by Joseon to the Qing Dynasty are divided into two categories: one is the envoys who are sent on a regular basis and at a fixed time, including the envoys of the winter solstice, the envoys of the Zheng Dynasty, the envoys of the Holy Festival, and the envoys of the New Year. In the second year of Shunzhi, these four lines were merged into the "Winter Solstice Envoy", so the full name of the festival envoy was "the three major festivals of the Winter Solstice, the Zhengchao and the Longevity Coin". The other type is irregular travel. Temporary envoys dispatched according to a certain mission include thanksgiving, playing, congratulating, consoling, incense, greeting, and replying. In addition, there were two kinds of envoys that appeared only in the early Qing Dynasty. For example, the mission of the "Eagle Envoy" is to sacrifice Haidongqing for hunting every year [2], and then it is to protect the exercise, in order to protect the trip of the concubine Dolgon, there is only one trip in the Qing Dynasty.

"Oh? North Korea sent a counselor? It's already September, and seeing that the envoys of the three major festivals of the Winter Solstice, the Zhengchao, and the Longevity are about to set off from Pyongyang, why are they sent separately? Hongyi asked seriously. As the most important official mission of the year, the Winter Solstice envoy is huge, generally about 300 people, and he has to carry tribute at the beginning of October every year and set off for Beijing. The time of the two missions was so close that it made Hongyi a little strange.

"Back to the words of the second master, I heard my cousin say that the main reason for their consultation trip this time was that during the last consultation trip, some Korean businessmen who accompanied them sold horses and returned to China without permission, and they were discovered by the border guards. The businessman resisted desperately and absconded back to North Korea. The king of Joseon eventually captured him, this time escorting him to the Qing Dynasty for punishment. Park said it clearly.

"Selling horses, this is a felony of exile! Even the envoys must be convicted severely...... "Hongyi has some pity for this North Korean businessman who pursues profit maximization, and there must be a North Korean official behind him who is "pretending to be confused".

"If you don't respect the court, you should be punished! The emperor has already issued an order, saying that since the opening of Shengjing, this dynasty is not allowed to sell North Korean Malaysia, and it has been along for decades, and the border mouth is strictly investigated as usual! [3]”

Park quoted a holy decree of Fulin, and he knelt down to recite it first, causing everyone in the room to kneel down and accompany him, and even Hongyi, who was lying down well, quickly got up and knelt on the kang to listen to the "hadith". Looking at the resolute look on Park's face, Hongyi was a little distracted: as a Korean, although Park is proud of the precious specialties of North Korea, he has already integrated himself with the Qing Dynasty, and once something happens, her main son is naturally the Qing Dynasty. At this point, it can be said that the Great Qing Dynasty has a good way of indoctrination, so if there is a chance in the future, can you educate those "sticks" of later generations?

Hongyi was very satisfied to find that the wisdom he had crossed over began to "exert his might" again: to educate the stick, this is the simple wish of many aspiring young people in later generations, and he was stunned to change the nationality of the old man Confucius to "Republic of Korea?!! Taking advantage of the fact that the Qing Dynasty has not yet had the humiliation of the First Sino-Japanese War, this article can be given priority.

However, Hongyi still feels that this matter is not a big matter that he is vaguely thinking about in his heart! So what could it be? Hongyi was silent, carefully recalling the bits and pieces of his mental journey just now: Pyongyang Hongsatin - Park's cousin - counselor - repatriation of prisoners - accompanying businessmen - smuggling horses - outcasts according to the law...... Wait a minute, the key question is that one word - "horse"!

That's right, it's the horse that the Manchu Eight Banners rely on the most!

Hongyi remembered that a few days ago, he galloped on the imperial horse of Emperor Fulin in high spirits, and it felt amazing! Although I often drove cars to shuttle between the reinforced concrete urban jungle in later generations, I never experienced the heroism and freedom of galloping! What's more, horses, especially war horses, are as important as the lives of Manchurian men.

Although he has begun to focus on increasing the position and weight of hot weapons in the Eight Banners army, and the effect is also good, at least now those important civil and military ministers who personally participated in the Mulan military exercise, as well as those who watched their firearms drills, the Gyeonggi Garrison Eight Banners and the Forbidden Brigade Eight Banners, are all frightened and have to admit the benefits of firearms. However, things cannot be done overnight, if the traditional cold-weapon cavalry is abandoned now, once the situation of green and yellow is created, the consequences will be unimaginable!

What's more, in the history of arquebus development, the role of cavalry cannot be ignored. In particular, the "Dragoons"! The earliest appearance of this type of army dates back to the Italian War of 1552-1559, when the French occupied Pittmund, and in order to deal with the Spaniards who could appear in the back at any time, the then French Marshal de Brissac ordered his musketeers to step on horseback, so the first motorized infantry on Shijie was formed. However, the formation of dragoons in regiments must have been born during the Thirty Years' War[4], when each regiment of dragoons had 10 to 15 companies of 100 men each. Such a dragoon regiment was much larger than the average cavalry, which rarely exceeded 500 people. Since the early dragoons were mainly mobile in foot warfare, they were at a disadvantage when engaged with real cavalry units, and the later dragoons constantly tried to improve their horsemanship and equipment to the level of standard cavalry.

But this is not to say that the dragoons were without merit. On the contrary, in the Shunzhi Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty, if a so-called "dragoon" team was established as soon as possible, the very immature arquebus equipment troops, combined with the establishment of the Firearms Education and Research Institute, would definitely lead the development of flintlock pistols, and perhaps lead the idea and experiment of rear-loading flintlock pistols in advance!

On the other hand, the current armament policy of the Qing Dynasty is far from being invulnerable, and there are still many aspects that can be corrected and improved, and these urgent areas that need to be solved must be closely integrated with the needs of the future firearms era to rejuvenate the world!

"Mama, you just said that the Korean counselor and his party, can there be an accompanying businessman this time?" Hongyi asked suddenly.

Park, who was discussing needlework with Sun, did not expect that little Belle Ye was so interested in this North Korean envoy, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse, so he quickly replied truthfully:

"Back to my grandfather's words, the slave maid heard from my cousin that they were led by a North Korean petty official surnamed Min this time, and they also followed some businessmen who were doing business as usual, and now they all live in the Huitong Pavilion."

"Oh, as usual, Korean businessmen are free to enter and leave the hall, I wonder if this time it will be the same?" Hongyi saw that Park was a little worried, and knew that he might have inadvertently scared her, so he asked more kindly.

"That's natural, master, their profit-seekers must have been scattered near the glaze factory to Taobao now!" After all, the Park family is from the old palace, and the young master knows that he has no stake in him when he smiles.

"Liuli factory...... I want to go and see, the light car is simple, and I don't wear clothes...... "Hongyi said to the two grandmothers, and he didn't use the word "micro-service private visit" that only emperors can use. But before he finished speaking, he found that the two grandmothers had changed their faces, and their faces were so frightened that they even forgot to shake their heads - after all, they took the prince out of the palace without authorization, and there was no guard of honor to accompany them, and once something went wrong, it would be very important, and their heads must be lost......

[1] [Huitong Hall] In ancient China's ancient capital, there were institutions for the imperial court to receive guests, and the Honglu Temple after the Han Dynasty, that is, the government office dedicated to its duties, was changed to the Huitong Hall under the Ministry of Rites in the Yuan Dynasty. The Ming and Qing dynasties still set up Honglu Temple, but its responsibility is to specialize in the court's ceremonial class, no longer manage reception affairs, but the official in charge of the hall adds the title of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple. In addition, the Ministry of War belongs to the organization of delivering official documents and receiving people, the Jin Dynasty is known as the Sifang Pavilion, and the Ming and Qing dynasties are the same pavilions. Related to it is also an institution specializing in translating foreign documents, known as Siyi Hall in the Ming Dynasty, and renamed the Four Translation Hall in the Qing Dynasty. Although it is not an administrative yamen, nor is it a very important building type, it is an important part of the imperial capital mechanism and carries the function of developing foreign relations.

[2] Haidongqing, or "Xiongkuru" in the Sushen language, means the highest and fastest bird on shijie, and has the meaning of "God of Ten Thousand Eagles". Legend has it that only one of the 100,000 conds produced a "Haidongqing", which is the highest totem of the Chinese Sushen (Manchurian) lineage. It represents the cautious (Manchurian) spirit of bravery, wisdom, perseverance, integrity, strength, pioneering, enterprising, forever xiangshang, and never giving up. Haidongqing is not simply a species that really exists, similar to the phoenix totem worship of the Han people. It may also be a huge bird that has long been extinct, according to the records of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is very likely to be the nine phoenixes in the great wilderness of the ancient northeast. In later generations, the image of Haidongqing gradually decreased, which was the result of the secularization of Haidongqing. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica, Poultry Department", it is recorded: "Carved out of Liaodong, the most handsome is called Haidongqing." "The secularized Haidongqing may be the Chinese colloquial name for the northeastern subspecies of the Falcon family. The falcon is a type of falcon that is distributed over a wide area of northern Europe, northern Asia, and northern North America, and its northeastern subspecies is native to Jilin, Heilongjiang, Wafangdian, Liaoning, and Kashgar, Xinjiang.

[3] Quoted from "Transcript of Bibian Division". The Transcript of the Bibian Division is a 273-volume diary of the official office of the Yi Dynasty of Korea from the late 16th century to the mid-19th century, which records the discussions, decisions, and handling of various state affairs by the Bibian Division at that time. Since its establishment, the Bibian Division has recorded records of state affairs for a total of 276 years, from the 9th year of Gwanghaejun (1617) to the 29th year of Gojong (1892). The "Transcription of Bibyon Division" that we see now was compiled and published by the Korean National History Compilation Committee in 1952.

[4] The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was a large-scale international war involving all of Europe, which evolved from the civil war of the Holy Roman Empire. The war was the product of the struggle for interests, the establishment of hegemony, and the exacerbation of religious disputes among European states, beginning with the revolt of the Bohemian people against the Habsburg rule of the Austrian Empire, and ending with the defeat of the Habsburgs and the signing of the Peace of Westphalia. The main effects of the Thirty Years' War were: the division of Germany - because Germany was the main battlefield of the Thirty Years' War, its economy was greatly damaged, and after the war, the vassal states divided their territories, and their internal divisions became irreversible, which indirectly made the Holy Roman Empire exist in name only. Dutch and Swedish independence - After this war, the independence of the Netherlands and Switzerland was guaranteed, and the Netherlands became the new maritime supremacy. Decline of Spain - Spain lost both land and naval battles in the war, and lost its status as a European power. Rise of France - France won Alsace and Lorraine in this war, and gained the status of European hegemon. Rise of Sweden - The Swedish king acquired a large area of land on the Baltic coast of Germany, and thus became a German vassal, ready to meddle in the internal affairs of Germany. Sweden also received 5 million ducaten in reparations, and has since become a Nordic power. Change in tactics - Conscription was introduced in the war, and standing armies and logistics systems were established to enable armies to fight protractedly. The armed forces have also been gradually streamlined to meet the requirements of mobile warfare. King Gustav II of Sweden carried out a military reform, that is, the use of musketeers instead of spearmen, first artillery for concentrated fire attacks, and then cavalry sorties for assault, Zuihou infantry was responsible for clearing the enemy's three-stage tactics, which became the standard of warfare in subsequent wars. The Formation of Modern European Nation-States -- The Thirty Years' War promoted the formation of modern European nation-states and was the beginning of modern European history. The conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia, which established the principles of national territory, sovereignty and independence in international relations, is considered the beginning of modern international relations. The signing of the Westphalian Treaty marked the formation of the international community in the modern sense of the word, and the international law determined by it was truly born. The international order established by the Peace of Westphalia had a profound impact and continued through to the Vienna system established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.