Yin Zhen comforted: "Bear with me first, the officials of the Internal Affairs Office who accompanied me have already sent people to buy ice everywhere, and it will be better tomorrow." ”

It is estimated that there is still ice in the capital, but when I went back to get ice, it is estimated that I have already arrived in Mongolia by then.

So you can only go and buy it.

Tong Cheng'er nodded weakly: "I hope!" ”

The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are really capable, and it is indeed their dereliction of duty that the accompanying ice is not enough this time, so they ask around to buy ice.

The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are still useful, and they really bought a lot of ice.

In the last few days, Tong Cheng'er will have two more ice basins in his carriage.

Tong Cheng'er sighed: "I've finally come back to life." ”

When Yin Zhen heard this, he nodded and said, "I've worked hard for you these past few days." ”

Tong Cheng'er didn't speak, the heat was very hot, but she really didn't work hard.

Because in modern times, in order to work part-time during her college years, she also did this thing in the 356-degree sun.

That's really hard work.

The reason why it is called "bitter" now is probably because the life has been too good these years, the family is pampered, what do you want, it is not cold in winter, and it is not hot in summer, so it is so squeamish.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Yinzhen asked, "What do you think?" ”

Tong Cheng'er shook her head: "It's nothing, it should be hard for you." ”

Yin Zhen shook his head, it was not the first time he had encountered this kind of thing, Empress Xiao Yiren had no children back then, and the whole person was like losing her soul, and she was also negligent to him, at that time he was young, and the Internal Affairs Office looked down on him.

Less silver carbon in winter and less ice in summer, Yinzhen has experienced this.

Yinzhen: "This time I didn't think about it, I should have asked people to bring more ice, there will be no next time." ”

Tong Cheng'er nodded: "Actually, it's not strange, this summer is extremely hot, and the Internal Affairs Office probably didn't expect it." ”

Yin Zhen nodded: "It's the same." ”

Tong Cheng'er suddenly remembered and asked him, "By the way, where did the ice we use now come from?" ”

Yin Zhen replied: "What happened to the ones that were saved in winter?" ”

Tong Cheng'er was curious: "Why didn't you think about using saltpeter to make ice?" ”

She remembered that her high school chemistry teacher had said that someone in the Tang Dynasty had discovered that saltpeter could be used to make ice.

Yin Zhen said with a smile: "Saltpeter can indeed make ice, but there are too few saltpeters, so it is not as convenient as storing them directly in winter." ”

Tong Cheng'er was surprised: "Is there less saltpeter?" ”

Yin Zhen nodded: "Less!" ”

This is not right, Tong Cheng'er remembered that one of her classmates in college was from Xinjiang, and his family had a mine, and when he said it, he pretended to be modest and said: "Our family is nothing, and the entire Turpan area has hundreds of millions of tons of ......."

At that time, she wrote it down, and now she heard Yinzhen say that there are very few saltpeters.

Could it be that the mine in Turpan has not yet been discovered.

The more Tong Cheng'er thought about it, the more she felt that this was right.

Tong Cheng'er opened her mouth and said to Yinzhen: "There is something I don't know if it's true, but I think it's necessary to send someone to check it." ”

Yin Zhen asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"There should be hundreds of millions of tons of saltpeter mines in the Turpan area of Xinjiang."

Yinzhen didn't react when she heard her say Xinjiang at first, but after a while, he reacted, she was talking about the Western Regions.

"I know what you said, but it's too early to say this, and now Xinjiang is still called the Western Regions, and it has not yet been fully included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty."

Tong Cheng'er was stunned, she really didn't know this, it was beyond the scope of knowledge of science students.

She blushed and said, "Oh, that's it, forget it." ”

Yin Zhen smiled and said: "How can you forget it!" It should still be investigated, after all, the Western Regions will return to the territory of the Qing Dynasty sooner or later, if there is really such a large saltpeter mine, maybe the Western Regions will be able to be recovered during the reign of Huang Ama. ”

Yinzhen is telling the truth, after all, people in the Western Regions have had the impression that the land is barren and profitable since ancient times, so there is naturally a motivation to recover.

Tong Cheng'er nodded: "It's okay." ”

A few days passed in a flash, and Mongolia arrived.

Seriously, Mongolia is a little different from Tong Cheng'er's imagination.

Her impression of Mongolia comes more from the tourism promotional video, the camera is from top to bottom, the cattle and sheep can be seen everywhere on the green steppe, and the Mongolians wearing ethnic clothes, which makes people feel yearning.

The other is Mongolian specialty.

But when I really arrived in Mongolia, Tong Cheng'er found that the propaganda film is a propaganda film, and the reality is reality.

The Mongolia she saw was the Mongolia that had been in the TV series for 300 years, and the Mongolia she saw across time was very different from the Mongolia under the camera.

The green meadows are real, but the cattle and sheep that can be seen everywhere are not.

The place where they camped was near a stream, and there was no grass but grass nearby.

And the grass doesn't look like the kind of grass that people can lie down on, and the grass can be seen to have traces of cleaning, but it's still not particularly clean.

It's very different from the imaginary grassland where you can lie down and watch the stars.

Tong Cheng'er was unspeakably disappointed in her heart.

Tong Cheng'er asked Yinzhen: "It's not that Mongolia lives on grazing, why can't you see cattle and sheep." ”

Yin Zhen said with a smile: "Of course I can't see cattle and sheep, to put it bluntly, cattle and sheep are livestock used for eating, they have eaten everywhere and pulled *, such filthy things, the Mongolian prince will naturally not let them appear in front of Huang Ama." ”

Yin Zhen looked at the traces of being eaten by cattle and sheep on the grass, and said: "This area is suitable for grazing, and there should have been cattle and sheep originally, but it is estimated that he received the news that Huang Ama was coming, and drove the cattle and sheep elsewhere." ”

That's why you can't see cattle and sheep.

Tong Cheng'er came to her senses when she heard this.

In modern times, she grew up in the countryside with her grandparents when she was a child, and there are naturally people in the countryside who raise pigs, cattle and sheep.

Cattle and sheep are different, Tong Cheng'er remembers seeing a lot of cattle and sheep on the way to school when she was a child.

Huang Ama is "noble with a dragon body", and it is indeed not suitable to herd cattle and sheep, after all, those things may indeed affect and hurt the "dragon's eye".

Of course, Kangxi didn't come here on a hot day to play, he naturally had a purpose, and he was busy liaising with various Mongolian ministries every day.

As the prince's elder brother, Yinzhen naturally has entertainment.

Tong Cheng'er has less entertainment, except for necessary banquets, she usually reads the script in the yurt.

But lately, I've gotten a little tired of reading the script.

Yinzhen saw her boredom.

So one evening, he went out with Tong Cheng'er.

"Why are you free today?"

Yin Zhen opened his mouth and said: "Orange, this is because I have snubbed you recently." ”

"Nope."

Yin Zhen smiled and looked at her without speaking.

Tong Cheng'er was embarrassed by him, and said angrily: "What do you look at, you are not allowed to look at it." ”

"The orange is beautiful, why don't you let it see."

Tong Cheng'er blushed.

Yinzhen: "I'll take you somewhere." ”

Tong Cheng'er asked, "Where is it?" ”

Yinzhen didn't tell her directly, only said: "You'll know when you get to the place." ”

After that, he helped Tong Cheng'er to get on the horse, and then followed himself.

Tong Cheng'er didn't know how to ride a horse, and Yinzhen was afraid that she wouldn't be used to it, so she rode very slowly.

After a long time, the sky darkened, and the moon crept up on its branches.

"Here we are."

Yinzhen helped Tong Cheng'er down, and then Tong Cheng'er was shocked by the scene in front of her.

"W-That's beautiful, isn't it?"

Tong Cheng'er looked at the sparkling lake reflected by the moonlight in front of her, and then looked at the starry sky, as if there were only two of them between heaven and earth.

"How did you find a place like this?"