As the saying goes, "Thirty-nine, four-nine, frozen pigs, sheep and old dogs", this is not true at all.

Even pedestrians walking on the road must wear hats, cover their faces with their sleeves, and snort until they are panting, let alone galloping on horseback.

However, none of the soldiers who escorted Cao Hao back to Beijing complained.

They were all from the Third Battalion of the Governor's Standard, and it was by drawing lots among hundreds of people that they seized the opportunity to return to Beijing. They are all from Shuntianfu, and their hometowns are from the counties of Shuntianfu. It's not easy to get home.

This time it is not so much a "business trip" as it is a snatch of family leave.

The Governor has already spoken, and after entering Beijing, he will give everyone a seven-day holiday.

From Baoding Mansion to the capital, it is an official road, under the rule of Chengping, there is no disaster of mountain bandits and road tyrants, and the supervision of the standard travel, but it is just to look better. After all, Cao Hao was ordered to enter Beijing, so there was no need to hide it. Even if it is not ostentatious, it is not advisable to follow lightly.

Therefore, Cao Hao regarded the opportunity to return to Beijing as a welfare and showed grace to the superintendent.

It is said that it is the superintendent, but in fact it is just the original Fubiao, there are only two battalions of soldiers and horses, and the military attache with the highest grade is just two guerrillas, and there are 903 soldiers under his control.

If you are a superintendent, you can have three to five battalions of people, and the highest military attache can be a staff general or even a deputy general.

However, Cao Hao had no intention of expanding, this was the governor's own soldiers, and there was no banditry in his direct subordination, but he was stationed in the governor's palace and guarded his family, and the two battalions were enough.

Fortunately, although the green battalion is unbearable, Fubiao is the best treatment in the green battalion, so when Cao Hao took over the two battalions, there was a shortage of less than 10%, and the remaining soldiers were mostly young and strong, and there were 280 horses.

The two guerrillas, one is thirty-six seven, surnamed Xie, named Tianlai, a native of Datong, Shanxi, and a donor official; A forty-two, thirty-year-old, but Han army, surnamed Liang Mingfu, a person from the capital, in the early years in Beijing as a forward leader, when the fourteenth elder brother went out, he was accompanied by the deputy general, and then was dismissed for some reason, idle at home.

It was not until the 60th year of Kangxi that Liang Chuanfu recovered, but he did not enter the Eight Banners, but made up for the guerrilla attacks and entered the Zhili Fubiao.

Before Cao Hao arrived at Baoding Mansion, he was puzzled when he saw Liang Chuanfu's resume.

In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Liang Chuanfu was a deputy general at the age of thirty-five, either from a family, if he was not capable of himself, or he had a master behind him.

It is not uncommon for officialdom to be up and down, and setbacks. Such a person, if he has a strong background, it is not difficult to regain his high position; If the background is not strong, it is not uncommon to be pressed to the end.

Liang Chuanfu's background is covered by clouds and mountains, and he can't see anything.

On an errand in Zhili, how many people have no background?

Just like thank Tianlai, it was the way of Prince Zhuang Lao, who had distant relatives with a housekeeper in Prince Zhuang's mansion.

But if you really have a background, you won't be in the place for four years without moving places. If I didn't have a background, I would have been squeezed down a long time ago.

It wasn't until Yongzheng didn't send a military attache down that Cao Hao reacted that this Liang Chuanfu was the emperor's person.

It is enough to know this, and the specific Cao Hao has no intention of exploring. After all, he has no ambition to lead the army, and there is nothing to say to others.

When he returned to Beijing this time, the military attache who came back with him was Liang Chuanfu.

Because the green camp was going to be moved after the beginning of the year, Cao Hao talked to Liang Chuanfu about the details of the green camp along the way, but he didn't waste his effort.

The highest superintendent can be a general, and now it is vacant, rather than waiting for others to remember, plug a living person in, Cao Hao would rather promote one person from between Liang Chuanfu and Xie Tianlai.

But he's still hesitating which one to promote.

The two are at the same level, one is promoted, and the other stays in office, it is inevitable that they will feel unfair, and they must always think of a way that is satisfactory to both of them.

There was nothing to say all the way, and I went to the capital.

The group entered the city from Chongwenmen, and the tax officials of Chongwenmen heard that it was the governor of Zhili who entered Beijing, and looked at the back of the team, and saw that only Cao Hao was riding in a carriage, and was immediately disappointed.

After entering the city, Cao Hao explained a few words to Liang Chuanfu, and even he took these fifty soldiers on vacation.

Before telling them to disperse, Cao Hao asked Zhang Yi to give Liang Chuanfu two bags of silver, one for Liang Chuanfu and one for the soldiers.

Then, Cao Hao went directly into the palace to hand over the sign.

After these few days of precipitation, Yongzheng's heart also calmed down, saw Cao Hao's shortcomings in development, and began to be picky. After consulting with several university scholars, the plan was rejected in several places.

When he heard that Cao Hao was coming, Yongzheng sent him to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts to see His Majesty, and reprimanded him with a slap on his face: "Ridiculous, outside the gate is the place where the dragon of my dynasty travels, and when the founding of the country came, it has always been only to raise soldiers, not the people, how can you set up states and counties?" I let you go down on an errand, didn't I make you whimsical and talkative? Knowing that you are incompetent, I have never expected you from the public, but I hope that you will abide by your duty and not lose your face. Think twice about everything in the future, as a governor, as a governor, to bear the people of a province, how can it be child's play? "In the end, it's a bit harsh.

Cao Hao was stunned by the scolding, could it be that his thoughts were ahead of his time?

I clearly remember that Chengde later set up the prefect's yamen, and I had been to Chengde in my previous life, and I also heard the legend of the Chengde prefect when he participated in Cixi's seizure of power.

Coupled with what he saw with Hu in his early years, there were already many big towns on the hundreds of miles from the capital to Rehe. Even if there is no state and county system, the population of the people is not large.

It is easier to set up a prefecture and county in Rehe than to set up a prefecture and county outside the mouth, because there is no need to relocate the population.

was confused, but in the face of Yongzheng's reprimand, Cao Hao could only bend his knees and confess.

Yongzheng Xu was tired of scolding, looked at Cao Hao and snorted twice, took a sip of the teacup, and said, "Flatten!" ”

If you want to set up states and counties and increase taxes, of course he, the emperor, is in favor of it with both hands, but when it comes to the outside of the border, it is not that he, the emperor, can have the final say.

He was angry, but not to Cao Hao, but to those clans.

In addition, Yongzheng did not praise Cao Hao, but reprimanded, and deliberately beaten, for fear that he would be arrogant.

Cao Hao was honestly waiting for the next step, and when the development strip was handed over, he didn't pass it all.

For example, in the case of marine aquaculture, it was written at the time that it was also because the people in the counties near the sea were so poor that they hoped that if they were lucky, there would be room for development. There is also the mining one, which is also a good idea.

In this era, transportation is inconvenient, and the price of coal is not low after a long journey. The poor can't afford it, the rich are dirty, and it is not easy to sell it if they use charcoal directly.

Unexpectedly, Yongzheng took the next mention of seafood farming and mining, but only asked a few questions, and his expression was quite concerned, and then there was no follow-up.

Cao Hao didn't know the bottom in his heart, and he couldn't tell whether he agreed or denied it. Yongzheng has put these two aside and talked to Cao Hao about the agriculture of Zhili.

"There have been two crops a year in Jiangnan, but in Zhili?" Yongzheng asked.

In his last life, Cao Hao went to a fellow scholar in Hebei and knew that winter wheat was interplanted with corn or soybeans in the countryside. In this life, although Cao Hao did not go down to the local area to see it with his own eyes, he asked three prefects and more than a dozen prefects about this issue, and invited the elders of several townships outside Qingyuan County to inquire about the governor's mansion before he came to this conclusion.

Seeing Cao Hao's affirmative answer, Yongzheng nodded and said, "I know that you are usually a stable person, and if you don't have the certainty of increasing grain production, you won't put forward a proposal to promote cotton and linen." It's just that you have to be methodical, you don't have to rush for a while, you can wait for two years for cotton and linen......"

As the monarch and the minister were talking, they heard an attendant at the door say: "Your Majesty, Prince Zhuang is in a hurry to see you!" ”

Yongzheng said that his interest was interrupted, and he couldn't help frowning, and shouted: "Chen Fu! ”

Before the words fell, a eunuch had already entered the door, and it was the person who had just enlightened: "The slave is here!" ”

Yong Zhenggang wanted to scold him twice, but he felt that it was wrong. The sixteenth elder brother is not a reckless person, and he will never ask people to see him when he knows that he has received a courtier.

"Biography!" The voice was cold.

Before Chen Fu could go out to pass the news, the sixteenth elder brother outside heard the voice and had already hurried in.

His forehead was full of sweat, his face was pale, he entered the warm pavilion, knelt down directly and said, "Your Majesty, the second elder brother is sick!" ”

Yongzheng raised his eyebrows and said, "I gave it a few days ago, didn't I order the imperial doctor to see it?" Not good yet? ”

Because there were outsiders, the sixteenth elder brother hesitated, glanced at the courtiers standing on the side, and when he saw Cao Hao, he said happily: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I can't stand it this time, so the imperial doctor returned and said that it would be ...... to prepare for the future."

"What?" When Yongzheng heard this, he stood up suddenly.

He only felt a little numb in his heart, and faintly gave birth to a little joy.

Although that person was "abolished", he was the identity of the eldest son, and he was a thorn in his heart.

He didn't want to bear the charge of "killing his brother", so he was able to live in Xian'an Palace. And the emperor's favorite eldest grandson Honghui, he also obeyed the emperor's last order, was named the king of the county, and placed in the palace of Zhengjiazhuang.

Now, this thorn in the heart is finally going to be removed.

He let out a long breath and said, "Why the emergency?" Can you still say that? ”

"I felt uncomfortable on the eighth day of the new year, and the imperial doctor only thought that it was an ordinary wind evil entering the body, but I didn't expect that my condition was getting worse these days, and I began to fall unconscious this morning, and I couldn't pour medicine...... "Brother Sixteen replied.

Yongzheng was silent for a while, and his face gradually showed a look of sadness, and he said slowly: "I know, Prince Chuanyi, Prince Jian, Prince Li, Prince Chun...... Fairness ...... Beizi Hongchun explores the disease...... Mingtai Hospital chooses good doctors for treatment! ”

"Brother Command!" The stakes were very high, and the sixteenth elder brother answered and left in a hurry.

Yongzheng sat down again, his expression was lonely, he was no longer interested in talking about government affairs, and waved his hand to send Cao Hao to kneel.

Coming out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Cao Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't expect that he would return to Beijing just in time for this time.

The emperor's arrangement of those clans is not so much to explore the disease as to be a witness.

There are too many bends and curves in this, and Cao Hao has no mental awareness.

When His Majesty has seen it, he can go home.

From tomorrow, it's the running department. Although there is no need to ask for six for the time being, this "charcoal respect" is indispensable. Among them, he did not need to go to the six yamen, but he had to send people to several scholars and all the kings. There are a few families, and he has to go to visit ...... in person*,

(To be continued)