sinovels Chapter 474 Mixed Blood......
Chapter 474 Mixed Blood......
After all, these things were given to the road builders by the imperial court, not for others, so they could only give one portion.
It was a wooden tray, which was designed by Wu Youwei, a bit like the dinner plate in the cafeteria of later generations.
It is designed to be very large, because ancient road construction workers eat a lot, so the dinner plate is also large.
The largest one is for rice, or staple food such as steamed buns and rolls.
The second largest is for soup bowls, there are two for vegetables, and two small ones, one for pickles and the other for salted duck eggs and the like.
There is also a place for chopsticks and spoons.
The plate was huge and had a lid on it.
Meal sharing system, one serving per person, but each dining car has three or five more servings, fearing that there will be accidents, such as knocking over the dinner plate or something, and you will have to make up for it.
When this portion was brought over, Emperor Xianzong opened it himself and found that it contained two rices.
A stewed potato with braised pork, a cucumber with garlic, and a cooked salted duck egg.
There is also a radish pickle, with sesame oil and chopped green onion and coriander.
In the stewed potatoes with braised pork, there are more braised pork and less potatoes.
Emperor Xianzong took a bite with the chopsticks inside: "Well, it tastes good!"
Then I took another bite of cucumber with garlic, which was also delicious; I also took a bite of rice: "Well, the people in the Ministry of Industry didn't smoke sticks."
Wantong was delighted: "It's a meritorious deed to build a concrete road. They are very motivated, how could they make trouble for themselves?"
More than making trouble?
People from the Ministry of Industry have never made such a big face. Since the first time the Ministry of Industry produced cement, later firearms, and sucrose produced by Wu Youwei, the Ministry of Industry has been showing off all these years, but it is them Showing the limelight has no benefits, and road construction is different now.
Not only has the reputation, but also benefits.
Of course, it’s not that they were corrupt, but that Emperor Xianzong’s generous award went to the Ministry of Industry. The biggest reward was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, 5000 taels of silver!
The youngest is the guard guarding the gate of the Ministry of Industry, 50 taels of silver.
The purpose is to let them have money and not be greedy for road construction money.
The people in the Ministry of Industry are basically those who do more and talk less, so they attach great importance to road construction.
Emperor Xianzong checked the food before taking them back to the palace and rewarding them with a dinner, imperial meal.
Emperor Xianzong was very satisfied with today's trip. He learned a lot, and he also saw the scene where the workers from the Ministry of Industry were serious about building roads.
So he was in a good mood, and he ate half a bowl of rice.
The imperial meals in the palace were delicious, and Wu Youwei's belly was full.
Then they left the palace and went home before the key was released.
"You are too reckless today, what if the emperor gets angry?" Wantong was worried that he would leave a bad impression on the emperor. Many civil servants used righteousness to suppress the emperor, and the emperor was particularly disgusted by this.
"No, he is a generation of Mingjun, and he is in front of the crown prince. As a father, he will not leave a bad impression on his son. Besides, the emperor will definitely become richer and richer in the future, but this How do you spend the money?" Wu Youwei reasoned with Wantong: "Many people, especially the emperor, have no restrictions. With money, it is easy to spend extravagance. Now that you have money, what will you do if you don't have money in the future? He is used to living a rich life. If he has no money, he will reach out to the treasury, and if the treasury is gone, he will reach out to the people. At that time, wouldn’t he be a fool? Instead of waiting for the future... it’s better to let them now The father and son know the difficulty of making money, so they don't spend it casually."
Wantong knew Wu Youwei, and he had heard about the last glory of Ming Dynasty.
What's more...the emperor of Ming Dynasty...one generation is not as good as one generation, and there is a carpenter emperor!
Let an eunuch and nanny control the government!
In addition, when he heard that his brother-in-law... had no success, he was even more troubled.
"That's...forget it, you are always right." Wantong kissed him: "Go wash and rest."
"En." Wu Youwei touched his face: "Don't think too much, the emperor is a wise king now."
Once he becomes a faint king, someone is more anxious than him.
Jimao, exempt from taxation and grain in Huguang and Henan.
Emperor Xianzong's kindness to the world has become more and more popular.
It was hot in June, so Wu Youwei gave the little prince a mid-term exam.
This time the topic is more abundant, the little math prince has already learned multiplication and division.
So there were a lot more math papers, the little prince was good at arithmetic and did well in the exam, Wu Youwei still showed the exam papers to Emperor Xianzong.
Emperor Xianzong felt that this method was good: "Why don't all princes take the same test in the future?"
"This...you have the final say!" Wu Youwei was noncommittal.
Because the education of the princes must be different from that of the prince.
Otherwise... from now on, you will have the education to be a prince, but you will not be destined to be a prince... so you can't mess it up?
Thinking of the later generations of the Bianzi Dynasty, the most famous one is "Nine Dragons Seize the Inheritance", a place where the Qing Dynasty became a place where the princes intrigue.
If Yongzheng hadn't been ruthless and smart enough to make a move of "secretly establishing a reserve", maybe people's brains would be out of their minds.
There is no need for a century of national humiliation, and it would have to fall apart at that time.
Emperor Xianzong thought for a while: "Well, I will consider it."
Then Wu Youwei resigned.
It's too hot in summer.
There are two temperatures outside and inside the hall.
Wu Youwei hurried back to the East Palace.
The cantaloupe grown by the little prince was ready to eat, Wu Youwei unceremoniously asked someone to pick two and put them in the deep well, and then he ate the cantaloupe in the hall to enjoy the coolness.
Don't live a happy life.
In the seventh month of autumn, Manduogule of Mandulu actually came to Beijing to pay homage and propose marriage!
"Propose marriage?" Wu Youwei was taken aback for a moment: "Isn't it because you don't want to marry?"
"Of course not, it's just that the proposed marriage is a businessman's daughter." Wantong had already received the news: "You still know this person."
"I still know him?" Wu Youwei thought for a while: "Who is it?"
He knew a lot of businessmen, and he really couldn't guess who they were.
"It's the customs officer." Wan Tongdao: "His family's youngest daughter."
"The daughter of the customs officer's family?" Wu Youwei frowned: "He...agreed?"
"Well." Wantong told him: "The cloth shop opened by the customs officer is actually the emperor's..."
"What?" Wu Youwei was taken aback: "The auspicious cloth village belongs to the emperor?"
"Well, Guan Yuanwai is one of the emperor's spies." Wantong smiled: "I just found out."
After Wu Youwei was stunned for a moment, he suddenly realized: "No wonder Jixiang Buzhuang has opened all over the south, north, and sixty-thirteen provinces without any obstacles."
It's not that no one is jealous of Jixiang cloth village, but they can open all over Ming Dynasty!
"It would be better if it was a grain store." Wu Youwei sighed: "If it was a grain store...it seems more appropriate."
Cloth and food, the first thing that people think of is food, followed by cloth...
Wantong thought for a while: "Not bad."
If the emperor has food in his hand, it means that the household department has food in his hand!
"The youngest daughter of the customs official's family married Manduogule... is it the emperor's intention?" Wu Youwei was more concerned about this.
"No, it means customs officer." Wan Tongdao: "He wants to develop business outside the customs, and the grassland also needs cloth!"
Therefore, the emperor made money overseas, and after earning a lot, he set his sights on the grasslands.
Other things can make money on the grassland, such as white sugar and rock sugar, but they are all things of the imperial court, but Jixiang Cloth is different. This is his hidden industry, the kind that does not need to be spent!
"And his youngest daughter, to be honest, is of Han-Mongol mixed race." Wantong told about Miss Guan's life experience.
The mother of Miss Guan is Zhaya, the youngest daughter of a herdsman. When the customs officer went to sell cloth outside the customs, she encountered a pack of wolves, and the convoy was dispersed. , was rescued by them, and later the convoy gathered around them before finding them, but at that time there were no cloths and other things before, so they could only leave some personal things, such as jade pendants, purses, etc. as tokens.
Thinking of coming back the next year, I must repay the grace of saving my life.
As a result, when they went the next year, Zhaya’s house had been ransacked. The horse bandits came from nowhere. She didn't want to stay on the grassland to drag the brothers down, so the customs officer thought about it and took her back to the capital. She was a little Mongolian girl, and she was not familiar with the place here, and it was impossible for her to marry outside. Drunk, just follow her... Mongols don't value chastity, but the customs officer still accepts her as a concubine. The wife of the customs officer knows that it is not easy for a Mongolian girl, so the inner house
Take good care of her.
She also lived up to her expectations and really gave birth to a child, this Miss Guan.
Because she is a young girl, she is more or less doted on by Guan Yuanwai and others. However, Zhaya may be really not used to the water and soil of the capital. She died when her daughter was 13 years old. Ms. Guan yearns for life on the grassland, because she often According to my mother, Ms. Guan has been able to speak Mongolian since she was a child.
There is no language barrier.
Last year, Guan Dagong, the eldest son of Customs Officer, went to Mandulu, sold some cloth and made a lot of money, so Customs Officer decided to establish a stronghold in Mandulu to sell cloth and purchase leather such as cowhide and sheepskin.
Mandokule also heard Mr. Guan mention his little sister a few times. As mentioned earlier, Mandokule is also of Mongolian-Han mixed race. His mother is Han and his father is Mongolian; Miss Guan is just the opposite. Her father is Han and her mother is Mongolian. Because of this, Ms. Guan has not bound her feet since she was a child.
He also loves horseback riding and hunting, and is good at barbecue and cooking.
When I was a child, I also learned from her Mongolian mother how to deliver lambs to ewes, calves, and horse cubs.
"Have you ever learned this?" Wu Youwei felt that this really didn't seem like something a daughter of a wealthy businessman should know. Shouldn't it be embroidery and playing the piano?
"Her mother taught her. At that time, customs officials specially bought a Zhuangzi to house her mother, so that she could live freely with her daughter." Wan Tongdao: "But it's not a grassland after all..."
A concubine, who doesn't know much Chinese, lived in such a closed life for ten years, and then left.
Mrs. Guan was worried that Ms. Guan was alone there, so she took her over and raised her at home for two years. Ms. Guan didn't like this kind of closed life very much, so she could only use her needles and threads in the embroidery building, embroidering flowers and sewing. Clothes, nothing more than raising flowers, planting grass, etc., you can’t even see a livestock, let alone go hunting on horseback.
So Miss Guan wants to marry outside the customs, because outside the customs is free.
The customs officer thought of marriage.
Daming cannot get married, but folks can marry!
In addition, Manduogule also knew about this girl, so he came to propose marriage in person.
By the way, I will meet the previous side, and I will also pay respects to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. After all, he is able to have what he is today, thanks to the support of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, Garthlan alone would not tolerate him.
What's more, there are so many other tribes, let alone let him go.
Now he wants to have a closer relationship with Daming, but he is not born a Han, and Daming will not reuse him, but the Mongols don't like him either, because he is not a pure Mongol.
As a man of mixed race, he decided to marry a woman of mixed race as his wife. He wanted to get closer to Daming instead of remarrying with various Mongolian tribes.
The two hit it off, and he came.
"This is...suitable." Wu Youwei couldn't say if it was inappropriate, after all, the two had similar backgrounds.
Sure enough, on July [-]th, the customs officer's house was full of excitement because the youngest daughter was engaged.
It's too late to get married this year. The wedding is scheduled for next spring. After all, it will snow on the grassland after returning. It's inconvenient to travel in winter, after all, I'm afraid of a snowstorm.