Chapter 107: Coping
Yinchu was arrested by Orge in such an extremely undignified way, and the crime was not small - "pretending to be royal"! In this regard, Yinchu felt extremely wronged, but he was helpless. This Orge is obviously extremely handy at the art of grappling, and with only one arm, he is weak, and as a result, he has a body of martial arts, but he can't show it at all. Moreover, he is now both a "criminal" and a hostage, in this case, where do his subordinates dare to do something with Orge?
"I don't know what would happen if the people in Beijing found out...... Orge wanted to arrest him and go to Ningguta, so Yinchu was not afraid. For fear of accidents, he simply stopped his subordinates from shouting, lest Orge would take any extreme measures because of his subordinates' reckless actions. He is the eldest brother, and it is enough to laugh at being caught on his own turf, if he is injured or killed, it will be really ridiculous and generous.
And because of Yinchu's "cooperation", Orge was able to easily send them into Ningguta before sunset. However, here, Yinchu heard another news that made him feel very sad: Ma De and Luo Xin went out to "see the sea", and they haven't come back yet!
In other words: Ningguta is the only one who knows him, the big brother of the dynasty, and he is not there! …… In other words: before Ma De and Luo Xin came back, the eldest brother of the dynasty and his "shrimp" could only stay in the big prison that Ningguta now seemed a little hollow and be a "prison father"!
"Bastard!" After understanding these things, Yinchu's first reaction was to scold! However, the soldiers of Ningguta ignored him at all, and these people also had a belief: since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, successive Qing emperors had never been to the territory north of Mukden, and the princes had not, so the Yinchu who was locked up in the prison was a fake. And for this "fake" to deceive the "exile capital" Ningguta, the soldiers are even more indignant...... It's so indifferent to them! Therefore, although because Ma De was not there, the soldiers left behind in Ningguta could not file a case for such a big case, and they did not move the execution, they also tried their best to give Yinchu and his subordinates some hardships. Relatively speaking, Yinchu's reaction was fast enough, and after suffering some hardships, he talked about some personnel in the capital and Manchuria to show that he did have some identity, which made the soldiers who were full of confidence begin to be suspicious, and they didn't dare to mess around casually, and finally made life better!
"Wait for the master to go out, Ma De, Luo Xin, let's not finish......" Thinking that once the news of his arrest reached Kangxi's ears, Kangxi, who had always been strict with the princes, was furious, blaming himself for being incompetent and unable to deal with even a single hunter...... He hated Ma De and Luo Xin very much, especially after he heard that many of the kung fu learned by the people near Ningguta were taught by Luo Xin, and this hatred rose to a new level.
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However, although Yinchu hated Ma De and Luo Xin in the Ningguta prison, and looked through the autumn water, Ma De and Luo Xin didn't know what a big trouble they had already caused, they had actually come back a long time ago, but because they were not in a good mood, they did not go back to Ningguta directly, but went to the river near Ningguta, and floated on the river with Made, the pearling team under the head of Buthaula.
The governor of Buthaula, not only for the Qing Dynasty emperors Mulan autumn hunting to send prey over, but also for the court to collect Dongzhu, ginseng, mink and fish and other materials for the imperial relatives to squander, although it is a fat poor, but also very hard, a few times a year to stop.
Since Mader took over this position, in order to avoid hardship, he has carried out a series of actions. For example, breeding beasts, raising sables in captivity, opening medicine gardens, opening ponds to raise fish, and so on...... Although it has only been carried out for less than two years, it has also achieved initial results.
For example, breeding beasts. Beasts of prey eat all meat, and if you want to raise so many tigers and bears, and it is possible that one beast will have to be raised for several years, so it is impossible to have less meat. And in Ningguta, it was clear that it was impossible to get so much meat. So, Ma De and Luo Xin discussed, and set their sights on Eastern Mongolia...... There are a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock in Eastern Mongolia, and every year, there will be a group of old or sick people who are no longer suitable for raising, and at the same time, because the trade routes are not very smooth, the cattle and sheep in Eastern Mongolia can rarely be sold to the south, so the ultimate fate of these livestock is only to wait for slaughter, and eventually waste...... There's a huge opportunity here.
Made bred some beasts, and after giving birth to the young, some of them were raised, while others were taken to Eastern Mongolia and sold to the princes...... The princes of Mongolia also have the habit of raising fierce beasts, such as mastiffs and leopards. As a result, with just one little tiger, Luo Xin exchanged more than 1,000 cattle and sheep destined to be slaughtered from Horqin, although these cattle and sheep are already old, they are enough for the beasts in the canyon to eat "joy".
However, although there are other ways to save people, effort and money, Ma De and Luo Xin still can't find a way to solve the last "trouble".
The rivers near Ningguta are rich in eastern pearls, which are precious pearls that cannot be left by tributaries and royalty. The so-called East Pearl, also known as "North Pearl, Big Pearl, Beauty Pearl, Hu Pearl", is a kind of pearl taken out of the clam produced in the Ningguta River, compared with the pearl of the south, because of the crystal clear, round and huge, and more show the dignity of its king.
Therefore, the Qing court believed that the East Pearl was better than the pearls produced in the south, so it used the East Pearl as a special ornament for the royal family and princes, and ordered the General Administration of Butha to offer it every year.
This became a problem that Ma De and Luo Xin had to face!
Ma De and Luo Xin knew a little about the origin of pearls, and they also thought about catching some clams, peeling them and throwing sand grains into them, and then throwing them back into the water to see if they could raise some pearls. However, compared to ordinary pearls, the East Pearl is huge, and how many years does it take for this large pearl to form?
Therefore, the two soon ran out of patience and had to organize a fleet to go to the river to collect.
"Alas, Xinxin, how big do you see this bead? Isn't it a pity to throw it down......" Standing on the board of the boat, Ma De held a Dongzhu in his hand that was not very shiny, but was almost the size of a ping-pong ball, and said to Luo Xin. The Qing court strictly forbade private collection of Dongzhu, that is, officials, without a holy decree can not dive pearls, and the royal family wants to have a bright color and good appearance of Dongzhu, so when the inferior Dongzhu is found in the process of pearl diving, according to the custom, it must be thrown back into the river.
"Please, if you think this Dongzhu is pitiful, you can put it back in the shell and let it 'go back to the furnace to rebuild'......" Luo Xin sat on a small pony on the edge of the boat, facing the river, holding the fishing rod, and said without looking back.
"......" shook his head, and Ma De did as Rohin had said...... It's their old way. In the past, pearl diving encountered inferior eastern pearls, and pearl divers would throw the eastern pearls back into the river, which was both a waste and a waste of resources, so they formulated this method, hoping to protect it.
"Well, I didn't get much today. …… Two azure, one pink, and one white...... It's only four in total, damn it, how long does this have to be for Lao Tzu to float down the river? After disposing of the secondary East Pearl, Ma De took out a small box, opened it and counted it, and sighed.
"My lord, this is already good, the brothers have only picked more than two hundred clams today, and they are already far stronger than usual...... "A bare-chested pearl diver said to Mader.
"Know, know...... Alas, a hundred mussels come out of a pearl, this thing is trouble! …… So that everyone doesn't have to go into the water, let's rest today! Mader greeted and ordered. Clams generally live in deep water, pearl diving, encounter deep water, with a wooden pole inserted into the bottom of the water, the picker huggs the pole and goes down, to the water to pick the clam and then up the pole, very troublesome, but also a certain danger, Ma De heard that the person in charge of pearl diving today has picked more than 200 clams, knowing that these people are afraid that they have dived into the water five or six hundred times, so, dare not let them go down again, so he gave this order.
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"Legend has it that in the early years, the children of a family in Manchuria went to play in the river in the summer, and as a result, they picked a large clam clam. The Dongzhu taken out of this clam is more than an inch in diameter, and the color is even more golden, and the child knows that it is a treasure, so he takes it home and hides it privately. As a result, that night, the wind and rain were raging, and Tianlong came to his house, stretched his paws into the house, and took the back of Dongzhu before leaving, and as soon as Tianlong left, the wind and rain stopped. So, since then, we people here have believed that Dongzhu is noble, non-kings can not be saved, the emperor is the true dragon son of heaven, therefore, only the royal family is eligible to enjoy Dongzhu, if the people go against the law of heaven, private holy relics, will be retribution. ……”
After stopping pearl diving, Ma De saw that Luo Xin was still fishing there happily, so he chatted casually with a few pearl divers, and heard a pearl diver talk about this legend, and felt slightly ridiculous in his heart, but since this story involved a dragon, the Son of Heaven, he didn't dare to say anything about it, so he could only change the topic and ask a few people:
"How many times a year do you usually go down to the river, how many Dongzhu can you pick up by one person?"
"It's hard to say......," a pearl diver thought for a while and said, "Sometimes if you're lucky, you can pick an eastern pearl from dozens of mussels, but if you're unlucky, it's hard to say if you're not lucky, it's hard to say if you're not lucky enough to ......find a pearl among hundreds of clams."
"If it's so hard, you see...... Can you raise clams to produce pearls? Mader asked again.
"My lord, don't talk nonsense!" A pearl diver smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Dongzhu is a forbidden thing, that's not something we can raise...... Besides, how do you raise clams? How did this Dongzhu come about? Who knows this? ……”
"Yes, besides, even if the clams raised by people can produce Dongzhu, can these Dongzhu be suitable for the status of a royal person? I'm afraid these things won't get into the eyes of the royal people! Another pearl diver also said.
"Well, that's ......," Mader nodded, not asking anything more. Cultured pearls are indeed less valuable than natural pearls, the pearl diver's words reminded him. It seems that Dongzhu can only be produced in rivers by natural methods, and similarly, the history of Dongzhu may not be able to maintain for many more years.
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"Mader!" Ma De was "sad" for Dongzhu, but Luo Xin, who had been enjoying the joy of fishing, suddenly called him.
"What's wrong?"
"Look......" said Rohin, holding Mader's arm, pointing upstream of the river.
"What?" Looking blankly, Mader found nothing.
"There, right on the rocks by the river......" said Rohin with a hard slap on the face.
"There...... Huh, what's going on? Following Rohin's instructions, Mader soon discovered something on the river...... That's a person! It happened to be stranded next to a rock by the river.
"Get people up!"
Unexpectedly, pearl diving would encounter such a thing, Ma De and Luo Xin looked at each other, and then looked at the person who was lying face down in the river motionless, and his body was already swollen, and a sentence flashed in his mind: Ningguta was also killed!
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"Master Ma, what do you think should be done about this?"
Yinchu was finally released. However, he was even more angry, because, in the face of his anger, Mader did not even have the slightest sense of fear.
"What should I do? What are you trying to say, big brother? Ma De smiled and looked at the eldest son of the emperor in front of him, whose face was flushed with anger. Originally, seeing that there was a murder, Luo Xin still wanted to stretch out his hand, but he never thought that the floating corpse was full of traces of fighting with fierce beasts, this time, Xingge was bored, and he didn't want to stay on the boat anymore, so he returned to Ningguta with him, but he didn't expect that there was still a big thing waiting to be solved here.
"Master Ma, how dare your people ...... Don't you, as the commander of Ningguta, have any guilt? You'd better leave that Orge at my disposal, otherwise, Hugh blames Brother Ben for being unkind to you!" Yin Zhen said angrily. He really didn't want to mention that he was humiliated and captured, such a loss of royal face was enough for him to be reprimanded, maybe Kangxi would let him go back to his house to introspect behind closed doors, which would greatly hit his current prestige.
"Big brother, there is nothing wrong with Orge in this matter!"
"What did you say?"
"Org is both a hunter and a banner man, the equivalent of the outer soldiers of Ningguta. Seeing outsiders coming, it is not wrong for him to be vigilant, and besides, big brother, you have not come up with anything that can prove your identity, and it is reasonable that you have been locked up! Mader said slowly.
"Listening to what Master Ma said, am I wrong about this?" Yin Zhen was almost crazy, if he hadn't seen the rising sun standing behind Ma De, he would have rushed over and beat Ma De violently.
"Actually, no one is wrong with this." Ma De still just smiled, "The eldest brother is not in the capital city of Nafu, but he came to Manchuria, presumably because he was ordered by the Holy Order, and it is reasonable that he can't show it at will; However, big brother, what Orge is doing, why is it not to maintain the dignity of the royal family, in case Xiaoxiao pretends to be? ”
"You ......" crossed his hand and pointed at him, unable to speak angrily. Arresting the eldest brother, the eldest son of Emperor Guan, is it still for the dignity of the royal family? He wanted to get angry, but he didn't know what to say. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with what Mader said.
"Actually, Big Brother doesn't have to be in such a hurry...... There is a solution to everything, as long as you don't rush to get angry, you will always want to get it. Mader said with a smile again.
"What do you mean?"
"Big brother, Ming people don't say dark words." Ma De straightened his face and said: "What you have suffered in Ningguta is indeed very difficult to do, and in terms of it, I am afraid that I have sinned up and down Ningguta." However, with the emperor's character, if this matter is reported, I am afraid that it will be you, the eldest brother, who will suffer a big loss......"
"Mader, you want to threaten me?" His eyes stared at Ma De, and his originally handsome face looked a little hideous.
"Don't dare! It's just a matter of facts...... If the eldest brother didn't think so, Ma De wouldn't dare to say anything! Ma De replied with a bow.
"Don't dare to beak? Hmph, Master Ma, you can really speak......" Yinchu let out a breath slowly, trying to suppress his anger that could not help but rise because of seeing Ma De's ease, and said slowly.
"Don't dare! In fact, compared to the bravery of the big brother to slay the tiger, where can Ma De's kung fu get on the table? Mader smiled again.
"Huh? ...... "Slay the Tiger?" I? Yinchu was stunned by Ma De's words.
"Orge has gone to peel off the tiger skin, although there are many knife wounds, and the tiger skin has been damaged, but that tiger can also be regarded as the trophy of the big brother, and I Ningguta people dare not leave it privately." Mader continued.
"He wanted to hide what happened this time...... "After going around in such a big circle, Yinchu finally understood what Ma De meant. But how can things be so easily hidden? How well-informed Kangxi's news is, as the eldest son of the emperor, even if he doesn't know, he has heard of it. What is the crime of deceit? Moreover, how could the eldest son of the dignified emperor suffer such a big crime in vain?
However, before he could speak, Ma De continued: "Big Brother, you are brave, and the minions have been played to the court, presumably in the near future, Big Brother, your reputation for fighting fierce tigers will spread all over the world......"
"You ......" Before he could make a fuss, Yinchu was choked to death. The court has already been played...... That is to say, the facts have been finalized, and he will not be able to do it if he does not agree with Ma De's words, because the twists and turns are presented along the way, as long as they are not secret folds, before the performances are known to Kangxi, I am afraid that many officials will know about his "brave deeds". This kind of thing that gives the royal family a long face, even if Kangxi knows the truth, he will never pull down his face and deny it...... At most, it was a secret reprimand, and the big thing turned into a thing.
"This Mader is such a quick means." Yinchu's anger dropped a lot, and there was both appreciation and more vigilance in his eyes when he looked at Ma De.
"By the way, I haven't asked the eldest brother why he came to Manchuria here? Why didn't you hear from Mukden? Didn't you go to Fengtian, big brother? Mader asked again.
"I was ordered by the emperor to inspect Heilongjiang Customs, and at the same time inspect the defense of Heilongjiang, and did not go to Fengtian ......"
"Big brother, are you going to Heilongjiang?" Ma De gently wiped the sweat from his palms and asked Yinzhen.
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