On September 28, the twenty-third year of Kangxi's reign, at the age of Jiazi, Kangxi made his first southern tour to Qiluan. Before leaving, he ordered that he was going on this southern tour to observe the people's conditions and learn more about the administration.
The reserves should not be taken from the people. Whenever they pass through the place, the people should settle down their own business and not move far away, which will cause more trouble. If any official dares to violate the order and conduct private expeditions, once discovered, he will be severely punished.
On that day, starting from the Meridian Gate, the car drove from Yongding Gate in the outer city of Beijing to Nanyuan in the suburbs of Beijing. The line stretched like a long snake with no end in sight. The civil and military officials who saw them off stood on the bank of the moat and knelt down.
Kowtow, the emperor travels in a mighty manner. The emperor and his companions are cheered from behind by armed guards, with colorful flags, Buddhist flags, ceremonial swords, guns and golden melons, and the guard of honor is bright and orderly. Head to Tongxian, board a ship on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and go south.
We are walking along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so the speed is naturally fast. You may not feel it on the dragon boat, but the journey from Beijing to Shandong is more than 600 miles away. It is only a day trip. "The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains."
It's true. Boats are indeed a very fast means of transportation in this era.
Even though this river was destroyed in the Sui Dynasty, it still depends on Tongbo for thousands of miles. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal lost one Sui Dynasty, but it prospered countless dynasties in later generations. Later history books record how extravagant the dragon boat of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was. The dragon boat was forty-five feet high and long.
Two hundred feet long, the dragon boat is divided into four floors. The upper floor completely imitates the layout of a palace. It has the main hall, the inner hall, and the east and west chapels, where court meetings can be held. It is like a palace on the water. But I don’t know which one is better than the dragon boat of Kangxi today.
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But is two hundred feet really long? Ten feet is only twenty feet. Zheng He’s treasure ship in the Ming Dynasty sailed to the West. The larger one was forty-four feet long and eighteen feet wide, and the medium one was longer.
Thirty-seven feet, 15 feet wide. And this Kangxi dragon boat is also over 30 feet.
There was no bumps on the dragon boat, and there was no need to worry about seasickness. Kangxi summoned the ministers to come in and out, and Wen Xi came out and strolled to the stern of the boat. The dragon boat was followed by thousands of ships, large and small, stretching for ten miles. It was impossible to see the edge at a glance.
.On this trip, he did not bring the prince with him, and Xiaozhuang and the Queen Mother also stayed in the capital. The main purpose of Kangxi's first southern tour was, firstly, to work on the river, and secondly, to go to Jiangning to win the hearts and minds of the scholars and people from all over the world.
"We are about to arrive in Texas. Don't blow the wind outside." Kangxi didn't know when he quietly walked up behind Wen Xi, wearing a bright yellow nine-dragon robe that was a bit dazzling in the sun.
The first stop for the inspection of river works was the Yellow River, and Dezhou was the first place where the emperor stopped. The place where the emperor stopped was arranged by local officials early on. It was a garden belonging to a local gentry, named Qinghe Garden, with a rockery pond.
The scenery is beautiful and exquisite, and has the charm of Jiangnan landscape.
This was just a temporary stop. The dragon boat had already stopped at Dezhou Port, and Kangxi would stay in Shandong for a while to inspect the Yellow River embankment. So he left early the next morning, but Wen Xi could not be found.
There is the bottle of pills hidden in the drawer. I remember that I put them here last night! These two days are also the ovulation period, so if you don’t take them, it is easy to get pregnant.
"Good luck to you, your master!" Xiao Quanzi walked in quickly, holding a small garlic bottle with a pastel lotus pattern in his hand. He said, "I picked this thing up outside last night. After asking, I found out that it was your master's personal belongings.
Item. Specially sent."
Isn't it the bottle containing contraceptive pills? Wen Xi hurriedly opened it and looked at it. It seemed that there were no shortage of small red pills inside, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Quanzi added: "Your Majesty specially ordered the imperial chef to make a cup of pearl stewed bird's nest for your master. From now on, you will have one cup every morning. It is best to eat it on an empty stomach." After that, he asked the little eunuch behind to bring it up.
While eating the bird's nest, Wen Xi felt that the taste was different from the usual bird's nest, with the bitter taste of medicinal herbs, so she asked: "What is added to it?"
Xiao Quanzi replied: "With the addition of ginseng, donkey-hide gelatin and other substances, it is very effective in regulating palace cold. Your master, just take it with peace of mind."
Wen Xi said oh, and she knew it wouldn't be something harmful. It could be considered as medicinal food, and the taste was pretty good. She happened to be hungry in the morning, so she ate up a cup of bird's nest quickly.
Xiao Quanzi said with a smile: "I congratulate your master, I would like to congratulate you in advance on the early birth of the emperor!"
Wenxi asked Qingsha to reward Xiaoquanzi before washing and changing clothes. This trip, there were relatively few people with her. Xiaoluzi and Songerzhuer were all sent to take care of Shibaozi. Wenxi also called Eniang Songzhu.
I was looking for a reliable person to get married to, so I only brought Qing Lan and a few maids from the Qing generation to marry me.
Qingsha leaned close to Wen Xi's ear and said: "The emperor really loves his master the most. He has only summoned his master in the past two days! Yesterday, the governor of Dezhou presented ten beauties to the emperor, and he was scolded by the emperor!"
Wen Xi raised her eyebrows. She knew how horny Kangxi was. She was about to ask Qingsha to go out and find out how those beauties were arranged by Kangxi. Then she heard news that the prefect of Dezhou had been dismissed. She knew it, but it was definitely not the case.
The only thing that made Kangxi feel angry was the matter of the river embankment. He was dismissed from office because of the donation of beauties, and his life was not worried. It seemed that it was dereliction of duty at most, and the construction of the river embankment was not ideal.
.Dezhou is just a less important section of the Yellow River embankment, so it only stayed in Dezhou for two days, and then the Emperor Kangxi set off for Jinan.
On the eighth day of October, Kangxi was in a heavy mood all the way to Jinan Prefecture. It was not until he arrived at Jinan Prefecture that he felt better. The prosperity of Jinan caught Kangxi's eyes and finally made him feel better. But the Southern Tour was obviously not the case.
Looking at the scenery and having fun, even if he finally came to Jinan, where "every spring has spring water and every household has weeping poplars", Kangxi only went to see Baotu Spring, but Wen Xi had a problem with her dantian spiritual power at this time and was very anxious.
Very soon, I pretended to be sick and didn't go with him.
I don’t know when it started, but the spiritual energy in the Dantian was growing every day, but every morning when Wen Xi got up in the past two days, she would find that the spiritual energy in the Dantian was inexplicably less! Originally, the second level of cultivation
For more than half a year, the "fog" in the dantian continued to become more and more dense, but after arriving in Jinan Prefecture, it began to decrease inexplicably! The dantian became thinner at an increasingly visible speed.
After half a year of hard work, Huawei was in vain. Wen Xi was naturally anxious!
I calmed down and circulated the spiritual energy for double the time every day, staring day and night, but the Dantian still seemed to be leaking, and the newly added spiritual energy could not keep up with the consumption rate! Wen Xi became more and more anxious, unable to eat or sleep, Qinglan
Even after checking the pulse, nothing could be diagnosed. Wen Xi knew that this was not a disease, but that there was an invisible vortex in the body for some reason, sucking all the spiritual energy out of the Dantian.
Kangxi was also busy these days, so he went to Mount Tai again. On the tenth day of the lunar month, he climbed to the top of Mount Tai. On the eleventh day, he worshiped the God of Mount Tai and ordered that the temple on the top of Mount Tai be repaired with this year's incense tax from Mount Tai. He also wanted to send approval from the capital.
I went to bed very late every day, and sometimes when I came to Wenxi's place, it was in the middle of the night, and Wenxi would come out of the room quickly, pretending to be sleeping, and leave before dawn the next day.
A few days later, Luan Yu set out to station in Taoyuan County, which is a dangerous place for the Yellow River embankment. Kangxi would leave early every day and return late every day. He went to survey seven areas including Xiaojiadu and ordered Jin Fu to make detailed plans and take effective measures to make the Yellow River flow
Going eastward, the water flowed and washed the sand without any obstruction. He also personally comforted the river workers and ordered them not to deduct food from the river workers. He praised the governor of the river and affirmed Jin Fu's contribution to river control. When Kangxi came back that day, his feet were full of mud, but
His expression finally showed a comforting look, and he shouted: "Jin Fu, a capable minister of river control!" Then he issued a decree and granted him three-eyed flowers.
When Kangxi finished inspecting the river, the strange phenomenon of Wen Xi's Dantian aura disappearing inexplicably finally stopped. However, the storage of Dantian for more than half a year was almost exhausted! After scanning with mental power, only a thin "mist" remained, and Wen Xi lamented repeatedly.
, I have spent more than half a year practicing hard, not to mention how depressed I am.
"I see that you have not thought about eating these past few days, and you have lost weight!" The imperial ship had already left Shandong, and Kangxi finally felt a little more relaxed.
Wen Xi finally found some comfort and hurriedly pinched her cheeks happily, "Really? I have lost weight?!" Since entering the palace, even though Wen Xi has been deliberately controlling her food intake, everyone said that she
"I'm getting plump every day!" Every time I hear the word "plump", I feel so depressed!
Kangxi suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. He was still feeling sorry for this girl just now, but she became happy!
Wen Xi giggled and saw that Kangxi still looked tired. A few days ago, there was a flood in the Gaoyou area. Most of the people's farmhouses were in the water. Kangxi walked more than ten miles to inspect the flood. It was really hard. Kangxi didn't notice it.
I lost weight but became darker.
That night, the cook made sweet and sour crispy fish which was very delicious. However, Kangxi was not interested in these sour and spicy foods. He only liked the light ones for health reasons. Perhaps it was because he had practiced vomiting for so long.
The sadness of the second loss of Na Jing was offset by the word "lost weight". Wen Xi's appetite was particularly good today. Even the ordinary eight-treasure porridge felt particularly delicious. She drank it in one go with the sour and crispy pickled cucumbers.
Had two bowls.
While eating, Kangxi suddenly looked at Wen Xi blankly, and then at the side dishes that were eating so quickly. His eyes suddenly jumped with joy, and he asked hurriedly: "Why do you suddenly like to eat pickles?"
Wen Xi was stunned and said casually: "Maybe it's because??? the pickled cucumbers are not very sour." Wen Xi really doesn't like to eat things that are too sour, but the occasional sour taste is also very off-putting.
Kangxi hurriedly took a piece and brought it to his mouth, chewed it twice, swallowed it with a calm expression on his face, and said with an oh, "I understand." He picked up the colorful yellow ground cloud and dragon pattern bowl, and drank silently.
Had a big mouthful of porridge.
What did you understand? Wen Xi was confused. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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