Chapter 68
Yinzuo was very honest for a long time, until winter passed and spring came, the flowers in the imperial garden bloomed, and the birds started singing, and the atmosphere in the palace gradually began to liven up from its solemnity.
Cebutan and his tribe began to do business with the imperial court, and shops selling their specialties appeared in the capital.
Yinzuo had just come out of a fur shop. He didn't want to buy anything, he just wanted to look around.
In fact, the weather is getting warmer, and it is not a good season to sell furs, but because the goods are good and cheap, there are still many people buying them.
Yinzuo even went to the cattle market, where the newly arrived cattle were even more popular and were quickly snapped up as soon as they were brought in.
Yinzuo came to watch the fun and almost stepped on cow dung. Ah Fu carefully pulled his master aside, thinking that this was not a place for a noble master, but the young master was very excited.
He didn't even mind even though he almost stepped on cow dung.
Yinzuo started out by wandering around the prosperous areas of the capital, and then expanded his scope to the suburbs. Ah Fu felt that the entire capital was no longer large enough for his master to wander around.
I said before that I would accompany those guests from the grassland, but now I don’t always go to visit those guests from the grassland. Sometimes I go far away for convenience.
The emperor doesn't care either.
Why didn't she take care of it? She knew her son couldn't stay in the palace, so she sent people to protect him every time he left the palace.
After the New Year, Yinzuo is now eight years old, not young anymore, and Yinzuo always says that he is Kangxi's eyes and ears. Whether Kangxi wants to know about the prices or rumors in the capital, he will tell him.
Kangxi didn't think he needed his son to inquire about these things, but he felt that if he kept him in the palace all the time, he would get very upset, so he allowed him to go out of the palace to play with those Mongolian boys every once in a while, and he even turned a blind eye to his behavior of not looking for those Mongolian boys but just going out to play.
As for his other sons, well, since they didn't protest to him, he didn't care.
Yinzuo did suggest that his seventh brother and others go together, but except for the fifth brother who came out with him once or twice, no one else would come, except for the polo activities they only had once every two or three months.
Oh, by the way, the eldest sister and her friends also participated in the last polo activity. Afterwards, Yinzuo heard the second sister say that they also wanted to leave the palace once in a while, and said that playing polo with them was not fun, and they wanted to play with the noble ladies in the capital.
Kangxi was quite annoyed, and he blamed Yinzuo for all the trouble. This made everyone in the palace want to run away.
"Don't go out for a while." Kangxi, who had already changed into a thin shirt, said to Yinzuo with a tired look on his face.
You can stay at home, but what's wrong with that?
Then Yinzuo learned that it was refugees pouring into the capital. Last autumn, there was a severe drought in Shanxi, and Shanxi officials concealed and underreported the disaster. This year, from spring to summer, no water has fallen. Seeing that the harvest would not be harvested this year, chaos arose, and many more refugees came to the capital.
After this happened, a large number of officials were punished, and people had to be sent to Shanxi to provide disaster relief. There was also the headache of arranging arrangements for the influx of disaster victims into the capital, and the capital could not be allowed to have chaos.
Not only Kangxi was busy, but the crown prince and the eldest prince, who had just entered the court, were also busy.
Yinzuo and the others can't help with these matters.
It was not until half a month later that Kangxi returned to his usual pace. Yinzuo saw Kangxi feeding the fish and hurried over.
"Father Emperor, have you dealt with the drought?"
It's not the end of the matter. This time, a group of officials in Shanxi have been dealt with, who were also implicated in Beijing. In addition, we have to prevent the disaster relief money from being embezzled again. There are also issues such as the redeployment of officials and the return of refugees. There are many more to deal with.
But as an emperor, Kangxi only needed to deal with emergencies and give orders when something happened, which would make him a little tired. He didn't have to be tense about the subsequent matters. Otherwise, with all the big and small things happening in the world every day, even his strongest body would be worn out by them.
Kangxi handed the fish food to Yinzuo and said, "You want to run away again? Why can't you sit still every day?"
Yin Zuo said, "No, not this time. I just want things to end soon. Father, Prince, and Big Brother, don't work too hard."
"Those who leave home hungry will be able to eat their fill and settle down soon." Yinzuo said as he threw a handful of fish food into the lake, attracting beautiful fat fish with a golden-red sheen to jump out of the water.
"Father, I want to farm in the future." Yinzuo suddenly said.
Kangxi looked down at Yinzuo, wondering what had happened to this kid so suddenly.
Yinzuo and Kangxi said: "Farming will allow everyone to have enough food to eat."
Kangxi didn't take Yinzuo's whim seriously. This guy used to say that he wanted to be a general, but suddenly he said he wanted to go farming, probably because of the disaster victims.
It was just a sudden tenderness in the child's heart.
It will change after a while.
Kangxi leaned against the white jade railing by the lake and chatted lazily with his son: "You are quite arrogant, but there are many people farming in the world. One less person like you will not make a difference, and one more person like you will not make a difference. You cannot ensure that everyone can have enough food if you farm."
Kangxi sighed: "I can't do it either."
Yinzuo looked at Kangxi with his bright eyes, seeing through his thoughts: "But the Emperor really wants to do it."
Kangxi: “Of course.” Making sure all people in the world are well fed and clothed is the ideal blueprint described by literati and the ambition of all kings since ancient times. However, it is also an ambition that no one can realize.
After Yinzuo and his father finished feeding the fish, he said to his father, "Father, can I go to the imperial farm?"
Can.
In Kangxi's view, his son was just acting on a whim and liked to explore the outside world.
Oh, actually, Kangxi was not wrong about his son. After Yinzuo arrived at the imperial farm, he realized that there were many people farming in the world, and many people who knew how to farm, while he himself could not even swing a hoe as well as the petty official in the imperial farm.
It was just that he had an inexplicable thought that everyone should be able to have enough to eat. Even before the drought, he had never thought that some people would not have enough to eat.
Ah Fu and Yin Zuo said, "You are the emperor's prince. You will never be hungry." Ah Fu felt that it was normal for the Sixth Prince not to know that there were people in the world who did not have enough to eat. It was just that the most noble young master of royal family in the world did not know the sufferings of the world.
Yinzuo had indeed been brought up to the point where he didn't know the sufferings of the world, but even though he knew it now, he still insisted that it shouldn't be like this.
Ah Fu said, "The master has a kind heart."
Yinzuo was thinking about things, not whether he was kind-hearted or not, alas, but he didn't know how to make sure everyone in the world had enough food.
He was indeed exaggerating about his royal father.
Yinzuo learned at the imperial farm that his father had been selecting and improving the breeds. Yinzuo felt that his father had done a good job in this regard.
After returning to the palace, she ran up to Kangxi and praised him a lot with sparkling eyes.
"The Emperor is smart!"
“That’s a good idea!”
Kangxi poured cold water on Yinzuo's flattery and said, "You haven't achieved any results."
Yinzuo encouraged his father, "Father, hold on a little longer."
"The Emperor can do it."
Yinzuo told his father, "It's so uncomfortable to be hungry. Yinzuo feels uncomfortable in his stomach after just one meal."
Kangxi looked at Yinzuo's emotional face, his eyes softened, and said, "You're going to experience it yourself?"
Yinzuo hummed.
Kangxi touched Yinzuo's head, looking silly.
When his sight moved, Kangxi's eyes froze, he grabbed Yinzuo's hand, and frowned slightly: "What's wrong with your hand?"
I was just hoeing the fields, and I didn't really do much work. But I was delicate-skinned and tender-skinned, so blisters appeared on the palms of my hands after just a few swings of the hoe.
Kangxi grabbed Yinzuo's hand, picked the blisters, and applied medicine. He asked Yinzuo in surprise, "Does it hurt?"
Yinzuo: “It hurts.”
Kangxi thought Yinzuo would scream and shout, but it made him feel that Yinzuo was not so squeamish.
However, after applying the medicine to Yinzuo, Kangxi, the cold-blooded father, suddenly said, "I thought about it. When the crown prince and the eldest son were as old as you, I took them to farm."
"You brothers haven't experienced it yet. It's time to take you there."
In fact, Yinzuo had a very good memory and could remember things from his childhood. When Kangxi said this, he remembered the time when the Crown Prince and his elder brother were so tired that they were soaking wet.
Then he looked at his palms which were blistered.
Yinzuo covered his mouth, not knowing whether he had betrayed his brother.
Yinzuo went back and told everyone about this. He said carefully: "Third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, seventh brother, eighth brother, you have been studying in the palace for a long time. Do you also want to go out of the palace to relax?"
The Seventh Prince asked with great interest, "Are we going out to play polo?"
Yinzuo: "No, we are going out to farm."
Yinzuo really screwed everyone over. Although everyone was sweating, playing polo was fun, but farming was very hard work.
Moreover, the Third Prince and the others did not agree with this in their hearts. It was useless for them to understand this. They were born as the Emperor's sons and would not need to rely on farming to support themselves for the rest of their lives.
However, knowing the Emperor's preferences, everyone had to try their best to perform in front of Kangxi. The Third Prince gritted his teeth and persisted, the Fourth Prince had a resolute expression, even the Fifth Prince did not dare to be lazy, the Seventh Prince was serious, and the Eighth Prince also did a good job.
The Fifth Prince took a breath and said to Yinzuo through gritted teeth, "Thank you, brother. What kind of rumors are you spreading? I'd rather copy books in the upper study."
Yinzuo used his little hands to fan his fifth brother, whose face was red from tiredness, and felt very guilty.
They came to the fields to weed today. Although the Third Prince tried his best, he was not idle and recited two lines, "Planting beans under the southern mountain, the grass is lush and the bean sprouts are sparse." Kangxi, who was in front of him, heard it and glanced at him subtly, then quickly shut up.
Yinzuo also felt very sorry for his third brother, so he brought some water to give to him to drink. He also had to weed a row of fields, but after his experience with the water bubbles last time, he did not use a hoe, but squatted on the ground and pulled the weeds himself.
The eighth prince thought that since the emperor attached great importance to agriculture, he looked at Yinzuo and asked, "Is it possible?" However, even if he followed his sixth brother to the imperial farm to farm, it would not be of any use.
He didn't think that he could win the emperor's favor by just coming here to farm every day.
He was jealous of his sixth brother being loved and favored by the Emperor. He didn't believe that none of the other brothers were jealous. However, he was afraid that what the sixth brother did would backfire on them.
Kangxi didn't think he was partial. Each of his sons was assigned a task, but Yinzuo worked the slowest. Wasn't he very strict and didn't let others help him?
And even if he was partial, so what? He was partial but he was always fair and square.
(End of this chapter)
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