As for the other two parties involved in the "Opium Case", they could not believe that they were sentenced to death so easily until the execution.
In fact, the crimes of the two were not enough for Kangxi to kill them, but the bad thing was that they knew about the crime but concealed it, and harmed many powerful people. If he didn't kill them, he would not be able to explain to the victims.
After the opium case came to an end, Yin'er and Yinzhen met with Kangxi again in private and successfully got Henry's merchant ship.
Yinreng had seen a summary of shipbuilding in the library of the Shangshufang. The shipbuilding techniques mentioned in it were extremely advanced. So for Yinreng, Henry's merchant ships were just a springboard. He needed to test Kangxi's attitude towards forming a sea-going merchant caravan.
The result did not disappoint him.
Kangxi agreed readily.
On the day when the fourth and ninth brothers got the ship, Yinreng found them with a stack of shipbuilding abstracts and navigation materials of Zheng He's voyages to the West.
The place for this gathering is the Fourth Prince's Mansion.
Ever since Yinzhen saw the greenhouse in the outer city, he had been thinking about it. Within two days, he asked Yin'er to hire a glass craftsman to renovate the west wing of the main courtyard.
When Yinreng arrived, the two huge glass windows happened to arrive as well.
Seeing the servants in the Prince's Mansion busying around, Yinreng also became interested and asked Yinzhen to take him to see what was going on.
By the way, wait for Lao Jiu.
Yinzhen also had the same idea, and the two of them hit it off and followed the crowd to the main courtyard.
The two sheets of glass were extremely heavy, but fortunately a pulley crane had been installed in advance and the craftsmen were careful enough to transport the glass to the destination safely.
The process of inlaying glass was also extremely slow. Yinreng stood at the front of the crowd and felt bored after watching for half a cup of tea. He looked up and looked around, and saw the Fourth Lady standing under the corridor of the main hall, and the baby in her arms.
Yinreng slapped Yinzhen on the shoulder.
"Bring your son here to play with him."
Yinzhen shifted his gaze away from the craftsman's hands and was speechless when he heard this. Why did this sound so wrong?
His son is not a toy!
wrong!
…
Something is even more wrong!
Yinzhen complained in his heart as he walked towards the corridor.
As soon as he approached the corridor, Honghui raised his fair and tender little face and called "Ama" in a baby voice.
Ulanara slightly increased her strength to prevent Honghui from falling due to excessive struggling.
"Why are you here?"
"Second brother wants to see Honghui!"
Yinzhen smiled and extended his hand to Honghui.
"Come, come to Ama."
Seeing this, Honghui stretched out his arm without hesitation and moved towards Yinzhen.
Ulanara was a little surprised, not because Yinreng wanted to see his son, but because Yinzhen wanted to hug him.
You have to know that Honghui is already over one year old, and up to now, Yinzhen has only held him a few times.
"Why don't we just let Dongxue carry him over."
Yinzhen looked back at the noisy environment and shook his head at Ulanara.
“No need.”
There are only male craftsmen there, and women are not suitable to go there.
Yinzhen twisted his body a little and held Honghui in his arms. Under the worried gaze of Ulanara, he walked towards the west wing.
Honghui was not comfortable being held in his father's arms. He twisted his little body, but when he saw that he couldn't struggle any further, he opened his pair of dark eyes and stared at the crowd.
In his few memories, he had never seen so many people gathered together.
Seeing the two men approaching, Yinreng took a few steps forward, reached out and pulled Honghui out of his father's arms.
"Come, ask Second Uncle to hug you."
Before Yinzhen could react, his son, who was so big, was in someone else's arms. He was suddenly confused.
"Second brother, how come you are so skilled in holding me?"
Yinreng teased Honghui in a familiar way, and did not even turn his head when he heard the words.
"I practiced this by holding my eldest brother's baby."
"Come, call uncle, and you will have candy."
Honghui was not afraid when being held in the arms of a stranger. He just stared at Yinreng curiously for a while, then turned his head to look at Yinzhen.
"Come, come to Ama..."
Yinzhen smiled widely, hoping that his son would give him face.
However, Honghui immediately turned his head to Yinreng.
Yinzhen: “…”
"Hey, it seems he doesn't know you well."
Yinreng made fun of Yinzhen, then made a face at Honghui, which made Honghui grin.
"Come, call uncle."
"uncle!"
"Hey, good, call again."
"uncle!"
Honghui is already one and a half years old. He speaks clearly. Although he cannot speak long sentences, two or three words are easy for him.
Yinzhen is 21 years old this year and has only one son, Honghui. However, one of his concubines is pregnant and will give birth within one or two months.
Compared with his previous life, the eldest, third, fourth, and even his own backyard are all very stable in this life, so stable that it is somewhat unreasonable.
When this thought appeared in Yinreng's mind, he quickly spat a few times in his heart.
This kind of thing can't stand being talked about!
Yinzhen watched from the side and suddenly felt a little sad.
My second brother loves children so much, but he can't give birth to his own bloodline.
Soon, the doorman announced that Lao Jiu had arrived, and Yinreng stuffed Honghui back into Yinzhen's arms. Seeing how flustered he was, Yinreng was speechless and complained.
"Your baby-holding skills are terrible."
Yinzhen's mouth twitched for a moment, and without saying anything, he personally handed his son to his wife, then took Yinreng to the study.
Yinzhen made a lot of money from selling houses these two days, and he always had a smile on his face when he saw everyone these days.
Yinreng placed the pile of books in front of the two of them.
"This is the information about Eunuch Sanbao's voyage. It's all here."
Yinzhen reached out and took a book and flipped through it, his face full of surprise.
"Is this a flight path drawn on it?"
"good!"
Yin'er became interested when he heard this, and he went over and asked while flipping through the book,
“How come I’ve never seen this information before…”
Yinzhen couldn't help but expose his secrets when he heard this.
"You have trouble completing your daily schoolwork, so how could you possibly read these miscellaneous books?"
Yinzhen: “…”
There is nothing wrong with what you said.
Even if he knew about the existence of these books, he had no interest in looking them up.
"The information I gave you is for you to find a master and build your own sea vessel. Henry's merchant ship can go out to sea first to explore the way. It would be best if we could find a plant called rubber tree."
If rubber were found, the sealing problem of Zheng He's treasure ship could be perfectly solved.
"Rubber tree?"
“Yes, it’s the rubber tree…”
In the following time, Yinreng described the characteristics of the rubber tree to the two people. He only vaguely remembered that the rubber tree only grows in tropical and subtropical regions.
Moreover, its place of origin is far away from the Qing Dynasty.
Probably not in Asia.
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