In Yiyang, a young man with a mustache stopped the large number of guards behind him and entered a quiet mansion alone. He wore a beanie straight-leg leather hat, riding boots, and a shiny black medium-length leather jacket. He booed at him, and the servants who came out of the mansion did not dare to speak out again.

"It's the emperor's ......"

"It's a ...... coming"

Seeing Li Shi's back into the depths of the mansion, the servants exchanged glances back and forth.

Li Xi walked to the boudoir in the depths, a tall figure was facing away from him, his heart was suddenly agitated, the main purpose of his trip was to catch Pan Jinling back to the palace, even if he hadn't seen him for a year, he really couldn't help himself.

The man with his back to him had his long hair scattered, his shoulders shaving, his arms stretched forward, and he hummed a low, staccato melody in his throat. Li Yan shook his head helplessly, this girl is still practicing singing Tianqu, she sounds speechless, is she chewing dates in her mouth to practice her guttural voice?

Wanting to be surprised, Li Shi took a light step, leaned behind the beauty, and wrapped his hands around his waist: "Guess who I am?" ”

As soon as the words came out, I felt that something was wrong, not only the feel was different, but the body fragrance was also different. The person in his arms turned around and retreated in shock, showing a beautiful face, isn't this He Mo Niang?

Seeing that it was Li Shi, He Mo Niang hurriedly felt deeply blessed, and her face was flushed. Li Xian awkwardly gestured with a "sorry" gesture, his two fingers bent into his legs, shrinking and shrinking, and He Moniang covered his mouth and laughed silently.

"What a big girl......"

Looking at He Mo Niang, who has been in her teens for nearly ten years, like a lotus out of the water, Li Xi sighed with infinite emotion, and then turned his eyes to another beautiful shadow that flew in.

∥ Heng was in a mess, and Pan Jinling, who didn't know what he was busy with, exclaimed, and subconsciously wanted to pounce over, but he immediately stopped his steps, and waved his hand to stop Li Shi, "Don't come here, your body is unclean......

What are you talking about?

It took a long time for Pan Jinling to appease Li Shi, and it turned out that she was studying pathology.

Pan Jinling said resentfully: "I have long wanted to go back, but this disease is too terrible, the concubine has been to the epidemic area, I am afraid that I will be infected with the ticks, if I bring it back, it will be a dead death." ”

Li Xi was very helpless, and told her a long time ago that the five insects in Dongting Lake can only be prevented, and it is difficult to treat, so she has to mix it up. The so-called five beetles, together with the water poisoning, water disease and swelling in Dongting Lake and even the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, are actually schistosomiasis in later generations.

After carefully asking her about her itinerary, Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that she had complied with her instructions and had never been contaminated with the plague water, and that she had been in good health for such a long time. Schistosomiasis is not passed down from person to person, but is transmitted through snails and faeces.

The ancient recipe also has anthelmintic drugs such as realgar to treat this disease, with the help of a microscope, Pan Jinling is organizing people to do the general test, and at the same time, relying on the temple and the local government, vigorously promote the elimination of snails, dung and rural medical and health work, this work is more than half a year, and I am happy in it.

Li Shi pinched Pan Jinling's chin and said viciously: "That's really to have a good check, from the inside out......"

Pan Jinling had been rubbed with his other hand and his whole body was soft, and his bright eyes were radiating a bright light, and then he was picked up by Li Yan's waist, and he muttered, and there was no more speech.

Watching the two of them turn into the back room, He Mo Niang held her crimson face, her eyes were also confused, and after a while, she shook her head vigorously to throw the scene out of her mind, and continued to practice the out-of-tune ah-oh sound. She followed Pan Jinling to practice medicine while also participating in the affairs of the Heavenly Temple. Becoming a celestial maiden who sings heavenly songs is her dream dream, but it seems too difficult for her.

Changde, another Qing court official arrived, this person was as straight as a knife, his face was cold, and he stood in the back hall of Changde Mansion, as if he was stunned from the ground. ..., as soon as the governor of Hubei Ortai came, plus the general of Jingzhou and the governor of Hunan, Nian Xiyao, the Qing court and Huguang officials gathered. 【1】

Ortai said coldly: "This matter is too dangerous, we must have a perfect strategy, and we must not act rashly."

Although Guntai's rank is prominent, compared with Ortai, who was promoted from a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to a governor in one year, his popularity is obviously insufficient. Guntai coughed and said: "Ma Jianbo has followed all the way, and now he is in Yiyang, and there are only a thousand guards around him, plus the blue-clothed guards, there are less than two thousand." Garrisoned in the area from Changsha to Miluo is the Shenwu army, which is the weak army of the Southern Barbarians, how can it take three or five days to arrive, and the other army is in Chenzhou Mansion, it is even more too late. ”

Guntai concluded: "With my Jingzhou flag camp and the newly trained musketeers of the Hubei Green Battalion, we will attack Yiyang by boat. If there is a secret assassination of the Shaanxi and Gansu dead soldiers led by Ma Jianbo, how can it be eighty percent. ”

Ortai sneered: "The emperor and the present have calculated several times, and they have all been ninety percent of the calculations, what is the result?" If you talk nonsense, you dare to act rashly? provoked Li Xian to lead the army north, you don't care about the head of Xiang Shang, but I don't want to be like this."

Nian Xiyao suddenly said: "Now that we are starting to work hard, our courtiers naturally have to worry about the king......"

Ortai was also silent, Yongzheng cleaned up the ninth and fourteenth queens, and the eighth child has become a turtle in the urn, but there is still a lack of suitable reasons. Now he has begun to devote his strength to straightening out his money bags, and has pursued the deficit with a ruthlessness that the dynasty has never seen before, and many counties and prefectures have been forced to destroy their families and even commit suicide.

Perhaps because he felt that he was doing things smoothly, Yongzheng had strange expectations for Jiangxi and Huguang, and in their twists and turns, he repeatedly criticized how to prevent Li Shi and how to dig Li Shi's corners. At the same time, it was repeatedly mentioned that the biggest flaw in Nanban now is Li Xi himself, he doesn't even have a son, as long as he is finished, the harm of Nanban will be removed.

With such a holy will, it is no wonder that Guntai, Nian Xiyao and Ma Jianbo have just arrived and are going to make a big gamble. Ortai can even think that Jiangxi, Fujian, and even Sichuan and other places have already taken action.

Ortai secretly said that what kind of emperor there is, what kind of courtiers there are, they are all a bunch of gamblers. But even if you want to gamble, you have to bet enough chips.

Ortai asked: "The flag camp, the green camp, and the dead soldiers, these are all open, isn't there a secret law?" By the way, why did Li Xi come to Hunan? ”

After all, this question got to the bottom of the matter, Nian Xiyao explained the reason, Ortai pondered for a moment, and suddenly raised his eyebrows: "In the name of the governor of Hubei, I went to meet Aunt Pan, and she went to Jingzhou to open the Yingci Academy, during which there was always a chance to see Li Xi." You have a reliable dead man to send me, and if it is better to meet on the lake, you can hide the cannon in the boat, and wait for me to give the call, and then go straight to the shot."

Ortai said seriously, Gontai and Nian Xiyao were stunned, he wanted to use himself as bait and die with Li Xi?

Ortai said in a deep voice: "Such a national thief, I can be eradicated at the cost of my life, but if I lose the money, I will only be killed, so as not to affect the court."

Seeing that this person was so ruthless, Guntai and Nian Xiyao said in their hearts, the celebrities who can be appreciated today really have to die.

In Xiguan, Guangzhou, following the cloth merchant into the roaring warehouse, the family felt that the roar made people's hearts sway, and subconsciously turned sideways to protect Tian Wenjing, but he stared at him coldly.

When Tian Wenjing was patrolling salt in Jiangxi, he encountered the rebellion of the Jiangxi Green Camp and the northern invasion, and he seized the power of the Nanchang prefect by ruthless means.

Because of this, Kangxi and Yongzheng appreciated him very much and let him take charge of Jiangxi's affairs. Now that more than a year has passed, I feel that the internal affairs have been almost rectified, and I can see from the imperial approval that Yongzheng wants to take the initiative against Li Shi, and after weighing it again and again, he feels that only by knowing himself and knowing the other side can he be sure of the battle, so he sneaked into Guangdong. It was a great adventure, and he had put life and death on the line. ..., now it's just to follow the cloth merchant to touch the bottom of Guangdong industry and commerce, and the reaction of his family makes him very angry, what is there to be afraid of?

Entering this huge warehouse-like building, Tian Wenjing's heart suddenly shook violently. There are at least hundreds of strange machines gathered here, and behind each machine sits a female worker, pedaling the machines, making the machines hum with the sound of the tide.

The cloth merchant shouted loudly with a complacent face, only in this way could Tian Wenjing hear clearly, "This is a sewing factory, using a sewing machine to weave things, ten times faster than a person, but now this machine is not delicate enough, and female workers have to be trained for a long time before they can use it." Later, when you have permanent teeth, the machine will be ready to use. Women? Yes, the female workers are all married to the mother-in-law's family, and the girls don't dare to use it, and the poor and sour people in the government know to keep an eye on our company, and they all pretend not to see the girls called by the wild workshop."

According to the cloth merchant, his sewing factory has received many orders, both from the government and the military, as well as from shipping companies, which are also making "ready-to-wear garments" that are sold directly in the market. In addition, cloth bags, flags, quilts and other fabrics are also made, and this sewing factory alone can run water for tens of thousands of taels of silver in a month.

Stepping out of here, and then to another warehouse, Tian Wenjing was even more dazzled, there are hundreds of looms here, each with eight spindles vertically, cotton is twisted into threads and woven into cloth here, look at the cotton cloth piled up in the corner, it is really like a hill.

The cloth merchant said: "Tian Dongjia, how much cotton you have, I can eat it, here can produce thousands of pieces of cloth every day, the price is three percent lower than Susong cotton cloth, listen to the people of Dongguan machinery, wait for what kind of chicken to come out, you can have dozens of spindles in a car, only need two or three people to take care of it, then the price of cloth will be lower, I am afraid that the cotton of the entire Jiangnan is sent over, it is not enough for us to weave." ”

Tian Wenjing's eyes were already at a loss, a sewing factory, a weaving factory, has completely surpassed his cognition of industry and commerce, not to mention that he is a province in Jiangxi, that is, the entire imperial court in the north, how to compete with this Yinghua?

At night, in the inn, another fat man with a cold face said: "Wu Mou has also gone around during the day, Yangzhou, Jiangning, Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is difficult to reach this Guangzhou." There are more than 10 wharves, and hundreds of three-masted ships come and go a day, and in this situation, this amount of money is so rich that I am afraid it can supply an army of millions......"

Tian Wenjing said: "Mr. Wu, let's come here, first, to find out what is wrong, to see if there is an opportunity to start, and to see if there is any reference, so that Jiangxi is rich in money and food." ”

This Mr. Wu said confidently: "That's easy to do, allow Nanban merchants to transit through Jiangxi from me, but just take business taxes." ”

Tian Wenjing frowned: "But the emperor's intention is to come up with some means to make Nanban nervous or embarrassed." ”

Mr. Wu smiled: "Dong Weng, you also know that once Nanban has his heart for Jiangxi, with Jiangxi's soldiers and money and food, he will not be able to hold it at all." The emperor has just solved most of the things around him this time, and he is full of comfort, he should be thinking about venting his anger on Nanban, so he pressed Dong Weng and others to make a move. But I assert that the emperor will regret it soon, and if others move too much, which makes Li Xian really annoyed, the situation will be out of control......"

"At that time, if Jiangxi can continue to stand firm in the wind and rain, it should be a great achievement."

This Mr. Wu is Tian Wenjing's think tank, after some analysis, reasonable, Tian Wenjing nodded again and again.

"I just hope that Hunan won't make too much noise......"

He thought with some apprehension of the principal to the west of his house, the Ortai ...... whose personality was quite similar to his own, but whose personality was even more ruthless and harsh.