On the first day of the Lunar New Year in the forty-first year of Kangxi, it was sunny, and the sun hung in the sky early, but the winter sun was not strong, and even the heavy snow last night could not melt. Thick snow piled up on the road, pedestrians step on it becomes an ice lump, slippery very, a careless can slip a big heel, even so, the pedestrians on the street are still in an endless stream, the New Year, always get relatives, acquaintances to visit the door, a New Year's greetings are not? No matter how difficult it is, it has to be walked.

In front of Prince Yi's mansion, a group of teenage children dressed as scholars were laughing and playing. It's just such an opportunity to be presumptuous a year, and I just received a red envelope, and I opened up to play, and the firecrackers and fireworks kept going, and it became a mess. A tall and thin little bookboy thief smiled and said, "Hey, big guy, be quiet, who can bite his own nose with his own teeth?" A group of little scholars all rolled their eyes and looked at the tall and thin scholar, and they didn't even bother to reply.

"Can't, hehe, I can't either, but Ah Fu can, who dares to bet with me, one to ten, bet more, let's lose more, come on......" The thin and tall scholar tried his best to tempt the big guy, and he never thought that a rough voice from behind interrupted his words: "Dog, you little bastard, are you going to cheat money again?" ”

"How can we, what honest people we are, what ......" Li Wei turned his head as he spoke, and saw more than a dozen sergeants standing behind him, led by two military attachés dressed in positive and second-grade uniforms, one in his early fifties with a calm face, and the other twenty-five or six, with a playful smile on his face. Li Wei was stunned for a moment before he remembered who it was, jumped up and shouted: "Little demon, haha, it's the little demon who is back, hey, congratulations to Lord Liu for being promoted again, this is ......"

Liu Yao was used to fighting with Li Wei in the palace, although he was a big official at this time, he didn't mind Li Wei calling him a little demon at all, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, cheat everywhere all day long, be careful of the prince beating your board." This is my father, dog, is my father in the house? ”

Liu Yao's father Liu Shuangcheng is also a slave under Yinzuo, although Li Wei has never seen it, but he has heard of it, and knows that this old man has always been serious and doesn't like to joke, so he stuck out his tongue and said: "The little one has seen the old Liu, the master went to the palace early in the morning, and he had to go to Ma Qi and Ma Da's house for a walk, and he had to return after noon. Liu Shuangcheng didn't make a sound, just nodded his head, indicating that he had said hello, Liu Yao scolded with a smile: "Adult, you stinky boy come with us like this, let's see if Lao Tzu doesn't pour you down tonight." After that, he followed Liu Shuangcheng and led his subordinate Goshha into the palace.

Li Wei continued his plan to cheat money, and encouraged the old man for a long time, but there were few responders, and it was estimated that the big guys were deceived by him on weekdays, and there were only one or two unbelievers who bet a few taels of silver to try their luck. Li Wei saw that not many people were fooled, and he felt bored, but although the sparrow is small, it is also meat, right? Li Weithief smiled and said, "Ah Fu, it's time for you to perform, but after all, the cigarette money you spent today can be recovered, and you can buy some food for Cui'er." Zhou Yongcheng squinted his eyes, slowly took out two teeth from his arms, pressed them on his big nose a few times, and didn't say anything, Li Wei laughed and said: "See, Ah Fu's tooth that he just lost, bite his nose, haha......"

It was past noon, Yinzuo was sitting in the carriage with Xiao Yixue, who was already tired and asleep, and he was quite proud in his heart - today a family entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings, and the old man also gave a special opinion on Hongli and carried forward the little brothers, and took the test of the homework of the two little guys, and the two little guys did not disappoint Yinzuo, their manners were elegant and polite, and they showed their hands in their homework: one memorized the "Thousand Character Text", and the other memorized the "Three Character Classic", but all the allusions that the old man asked could be answered like a stream, which made the old man very happy. rewarded the two little guys with a lot of good things, especially to carry forward, the old man actually rewarded him with his own commonly used inkstone, and there was a lot of praise between words. As for Ma Qi's "cheap father-in-law" Yinzuo, the "hairy-footed son-in-law", he was ordered to visit him.

The old man in front of the head sealed Yinzuo a prince, and when he entered the palace to thank him, the old man Kangxi half-jokingly, and half-seriously proposed that since Yinzuo married Ma Qi's "daughter", every New Year's holiday, there should be no less etiquette, so that Yinzuo could go to Ma Qi's house to walk around and move around. Although Yinzuo didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the old man's gourd, but since the old man opened his mouth, Yinzuo was not hypocritical, and he could have a good relationship with the chief minister, why not? In this way, he brought a big gift bag and dragged his family to Comrade Ma's house as a guest, and the gift was also given, and he cheated on a lunch by the way.

"Master, the slave has given you a greeting." Liu Shuangcheng and his son were chatting in the Yin'an Hall accompanied by Wu Sidao and Lin Xuanyi, and when they saw Yinzuo coming in, the father and son quickly got up and knelt down to salute. Liu Yao has been back to Beijing several times, every time he goes back to Beijing, he doesn't go back to live in Yinzuo, although he is excited to see Yinzuo, but he is nothing, Liu Shuangcheng has not returned to Beijing for five years, although he often writes to each other, but after all, he has not seen him for a long time, and he has already been so excited that he is difficult to control himself, and his face is full of tears.

"Shuangcheng? When did it come, this king thought that you would not be able to come to Beijing until after the festival, just come, get up, let the master take a look. Yinzuo raised his hand with a smile and signaled Liu Shuangcheng and his son to be flat.

"Master, I'll just arrive early this morning." Liu Shuangcheng replied succinctly.

"Oh." Yinzuo nodded and said, "Have you eaten?" ”

"Hey, I used it with the two gentlemen in front of the head, and the slave thought that the master must have imperial food available when he entered the palace, so he didn't wait for the master." The little demon said with a smile.

Hey, the nature of the country is easy to change, the little demon is not small, and he still looks like he loves to laugh, which is interesting. Yinzuo scolded with a smile: "Poor mouth." Have the two gentlemen explained the matter? ”

Liu Shuangcheng nodded and said, "Master, the minions are clear, please rest assured." ”

"Okay, it's good to be clear, don't mess things up, prepare first, when to do it, this king will send someone to inform you and others, go and meet your master, tonight this king and your father and son have a good drink, go." Yinzuo smiled and waved his hand. Liu Shuangcheng's father and son answered yes, retreated, and went straight to see Lan Yue'er and the others without mentioning it.

Liu Shuangcheng was just transferred to the commander of the Shandong Navy Division, and Liu Yao took over his father's original position as the commander of the Fujian Navy Division. Liu Shuangcheng, father and son, have already grasped half of the strength of the Qing Dynasty's outer naval division, of course, now the Great Qingshui Division is still weak and pitiful, in the eyes of the imperial court officials, the naval division is simply a chicken rib, dispensable things, even the status of the officers and soldiers with the naval division is also very low, and they are always excluded in the Qing army series.

What others think of the sailor Yinzuo doesn't care at all, the reason why Yinzuo wants to arrange Liu Shuangcheng's father and son in the sailor, naturally has his idea, that is, to build a strong navy, in order to achieve this goal, we must wait for the opportunity - now whether it is technology, sailors and other manpower or economic strength, the Da Qingshui division has the opportunity to become the world's first-class navy today. In order to achieve this goal, Yinzuo also made various arrangements in advance, including the last time he fooled the old man, presented steel mills, advanced artillery, warship drawings, etc., and also trained a large number of sailors through overseas trade, all of which were in preparation for the establishment of an ocean-going navy.

Yinzuo doesn't want to wait any longer, the reason is very simple, Yinzuo can't afford to wait - now overseas trade has been in full swing, the trade volume has risen sharply, but more is sold, less is bought, and the surplus is huge, although there will be no problems in a short time, but after a long time, the European powers will inevitably notice that something is wrong, and at that time, a naval battle will no longer be inevitable. According to Yinzuo's estimate, this war with the Netherlands and Britain will inevitably break out within ten years, but it is just a matter of who to fight first and how to fight. Yinzuo has been planning for a long time, just waiting for an opportunity, of course, the opportunity will not fall from the sky by itself, Yinzuo plans to create such an opportunity by himself, everything has to rely on Liu Shuangcheng and his son to operate, which is also the root cause of Yinzuo asking the Ministry of War to arrange for Liu Shuangcheng and his son to come back to report on their work.

After Liu Shuangcheng's father and son withdrew, Yinzuo asked with a smile: "Two gentlemen, this king's plan is fine, right?" ”

Lin Xuanyi smiled and said, "It stands to reason that there is no problem, but it is difficult to say if the eighth master is willing to follow the path of the prince." ”

"Hey, at that time, I can't help the eighth child, the fourth one is urging, let's beat him again, he has to leave if he doesn't leave." Yinzuo said with a smile.

"According to Yulu, it seems that this plan is feasible, but the prince has to pass the hurdle in front of him first, and the fourth master and the eighth master may have joined forces, and this hurdle is not easy to pass." Wu Sidao said calmly.

"Hmm." Yinzuo nodded and didn't speak, "Honghu" had already heard the news, and the fourth and eighth children were secretly hooking their hands, preparing to give Yinzuo a surprise attack. Although he already knew the other party's plan, Yinzuo also made corresponding arrangements, but whether he could pass the test smoothly, Yinzuo did not have a bottom in his heart.

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