I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 43 It's reversed, it's all reversed
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There was a dull thunder and a drizzle of rain outside.

It is summer now, and since the heavy rain in August, it has rained intermittently three times.

Fortunately, these three rains are not as shameful as those in August. They are almost all light rains, but they give the people who work hard under the sun a rare relief from the heat.

Zhu Yijiong was in a daze while listening to the sound of rain outside the house.Unknowingly, it has been half a year since he arrived here, and he has gone from being precarious at the beginning to becoming a big rebel with tens of thousands of troops sitting on the edge of the stage.

Wu Alan moved his body and rested his head on the arm of the person next to him: "Husband, what are you thinking about?"

Zhu Yijiong deliberately said with a straight face: "Hmm...I was thinking, now that I have a wife, when will I have a son? This wife and children are so hot on the bed, and they rebel, so there is hope! Hahaha!"

Hearing this, Wu Alan's face turned red and he quickly buried his head in Zhu Yijiong's arms.

Zhu Yijiong smiled again and said: "Hey, let alone the wife and children who are hot on the bed, if Wu Laosi (Wu's foreigner) knew that Gu married his sister to be the queen, I'm afraid he would have to fight Gu with a knife on the spot! "

Wu Alan smiled lightly: "Brother can't."

Of course not. Wu Waidu was sent to Xiamen by Zhu Yijiong to be an Infernal Affairs practitioner, and he won't be able to come back in a short time.When he turns around and finds out about this, he, King Zhu, may even have a son.

"Your Highness, it's time to get up and have a meal. The adults have been waiting outside the palace for a long time." At this time, the voice of the old eunuch outside the house suddenly came, as if to remind.

Zhu Yijiong frowned, feeling unhappy.

Wu Alan stretched out his hand to caress Zhu Yijiong's chest and said softly: "Husband, it's better to get up and eat quickly! Don't make people wait in a hurry."

"Then...get up after a kiss."

"..."

Wu Alan hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and kissed her with a blushing face.

Zhu Yijiong, on the other hand, pushed her further and hugged her for a long time. Then she slowly got up and dressed, then took Wu Alan's hand and went to have a meal.

After finishing the meal, Wu Alan, accompanied by the newly selected maid, went to his queen's palace to rest. There was no need for so-called greetings, and there was no one to greet her.

Zhu Yijiong was wearing a dragon robe. Under the guidance of the old eunuch, he first went to the secretariat and took Zhu Ding with him, and then went to the imperial study.

By the way, this secretariat will have to change its address in the future and will no longer be able to work in the palace.Who told him that King Zhu is now married? Even if he doesn't change, Wang Li and others will file a petition asking him to change.

Now that the functions of the Secretariat have long been exposed, in the eyes of civil servants such as Wang Li, the Secretariat has become the Qing court's South Study Room and the collection of three palace academicians.

Naturally, everyone is thinking of the law, either to get rid of the people in the secretariat and take over themselves, or to win over the officials and make them their own.In this first step, we must first move out the office space of the Secretariat.

Arriving at the imperial study room, Zhu Yijiong sat down.

Wang Li took the lead in kowtowing, and everyone shouted long live.

Zhu Yijiong raised her hands and went through the process before the formal discussion.

"We would like to congratulate His Majesty the Governor on your wedding." Wang Li did not start the ceremony immediately, but said with a smile and cupped his hands.

The others also followed suit, smiling and congratulating.

The ministers congratulated on the wedding. Zhu Yijiong, the king of the country, naturally could no longer keep a straight face and said with a smile: "Everyone is congratulated!"

After that, he said to Wang Li: "Wang Qing, you are indeed a wonderful person."

"Supervising the country is a ridiculous compliment!" Wang Li smiled slightly when he heard this.

Through his observations in the past few months, especially Wang Yuan's temptation at the previous court meeting, Wang Li had already seen that their king, the superintendent of the country, did not like being restricted by others, especially civil servants, that is, scholars.

In this case, Wang Li did not hesitate and naturally followed his wishes, while also appeasing the emotions of those wealthy people in the city.

After all, it's just a matter of dragging a person's legitimate son into trouble, and there is more than just one son. At worst, if something happens in the future, he will pretend that he does not have this son, and then scatter all the family wealth. If that doesn't work, the whole family will flee.

If you kidnap someone's daughter again and marry King Zhu, you are really on the road to death.As for Wu Alan, the current queen.In Wang Li's view, these are people around Zhu Yijiong, and the relationship between them is unclear. Fortunately, things go smoothly and the rice is cooked.

After the congratulations were completed, everyone went to play.

What Wang Li presented was the specific procedures for setting up counties for immigrants and reclaiming new fields at the previous court meeting.Including the initial plan to move how many households there are, where to move from, how much stone, grain, and moat are expected to be lost, how much money, time, and troops will be spent, etc.

All of this was written into a report by Wang Li. He was able to handle so many details in just three days, which shows that he had indeed thought deeply about this matter and had already made a plan.

Tongzhi Liang Wenxuan improved and supplemented what Zhu Yijiong said before to promote sweet potato cultivation in mountainous areas, and adopted methods adapted to local conditions.

Not all mountainous areas are suitable for growing sweet potatoes. Some mountainous areas are gentle, located at the foot of mountains, and have relatively fertile soil. In fact, they cannot be considered mountainous areas.

If used to grow sweet potatoes, although extremely high yields can be obtained, some people may not see the opportunity.Then he deliberately lied and turned all the rice fields and wheat fields in the entire Taiwan Bend into sweet potato fields.

After all, sweet potatoes are just a backup grain to solve famine and food shortages. It is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, which is currently rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and has countless wars to fight in the future.

Planting only sweet potatoes means that there are only sweet potatoes, and the soldiers can only use sweet potatoes as military rations.If you really want to eat sweet potatoes for a long time, the combat effectiveness of soldiers will definitely drop significantly, which is not beneficial to the country.

Moreover, Liang Wenxuan also wanted to take this opportunity to conduct a thorough inventory of the fields below to see how many of the bad mountainous fields in the account books were true.

After the two civil servants finished their report, the county magistrate Zhu Kui also reported the current food shortage in Zhuluo County in the early stages.

Wu Guanyu and Wang Yuan had nothing important to do, they just came to congratulate.The same is true for the generals.

Lai Chi Zhang Yue originally wanted to go back three days ago, but considering the wedding of the prison country, he stayed a few more days.

It is worth mentioning that one more person was added to the court meeting today.

Shopkeeper Kang Zifeikang has been sailing with camphor (inventory) goods for almost a month and finally returned.

Returning with him were eight shiploads of goods.One of the ships contained gunpowder, weighing more than [-] kilograms, which almost emptied the entire inventory at Nagasaki Port.

As for the fire salt Zhu Yijiong wanted to buy, they neither had it nor did they do this business.

Of the remaining seven ships, six contained iron ore, and one contained Japanese-made matchlocks, which the Japanese called iron cannons.

Although the Japanese country is just a small country, I have to say that the level of this copycat is really great.

Even the Wanli War in the previous Ming Dynasty ended with the defeat of the Japanese state.But in fact, the Japanese matchlock guns at that time were already better made than those of the Ming army.Not only is it powerful and has a long range, it is also easy to carry.

King Zhu asked Kang Zifei to purchase these Japanese-made matchlock guns, not only to analyze the imitations, but also to quickly equip his new army.

After all, it is already an era of alternating cold and hot weapons, even if the Qing Dynasty gives people the impression of conquering the world in future movies and TV dramas.

But in fact, the Qing court in this era not only had guns, but also cannons.Kangxi used red cannons to attack Ge Erdan. The Junggar people in the northwest even learned the Central Asian hump tactic (using camels as trenches for musketry battles).

As for soldiers' shooting skills and other skills, aren't the previous organizational and queue training just for the present?

The matchlock fire rate is slow and the accuracy is low. No matter how hard you practice, you will never become famous.Just line up and shoot, it's simple and practical. After one round of matchlock shooting, let the grenade be thrown over and explode again.In this case, the Qing army will be defeated. How can the army be invincible when charging?
Thinking of this, Zhu Yijiong felt happy and praised Kang Zifei, asking him to continue working hard in the future.

Moreover, don’t just focus on the small Japanese port of Nagasaki. You can also do business in other places, even other countries, such as the Western Buddhists.

The discussion in the royal study room was still going on. Suddenly, a soldier wearing the red uniform of the Ming Army rushed in and knelt down as soon as he entered.

The guards at the door didn't even stop him. Wang Li and others followed the sound and saw a small flag on the man's back. The big word "urgent" on the flag was very eye-catching.

"Report! Your Majesty, report urgently from Penghu! We have rebelled, we have rebelled!"

　The imitation of Japanese matchlocks was very successful.

　　As for the flintlock gun, Europe has only initially solved its shortcomings in this era. China has not yet used it on a large scale. The original flintlock gun is used, which is easy to misfire, laborious, and has a slower rate of fire, etc.

　　
　
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