The "100-day banquet" at Sibeile Mansion will not be held, but the gifts that should be prepared still need to be prepared.
This is easier.
In the past few years, children have been born in every house. As a rule, the children are given as gifts to the descendants and the concubines.
Brother Jiu is counting his fingers and waiting for the seal.
As a result, on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, the Holy Master was lucky enough to arrive at the Nanyuan Paddock.
The ninth elder brother had no choice but to accompany him on duty.
Among the Chengding princes, except for the crown prince, the ninth elder brother and the twelfth elder brother, everyone else followed the crowd, and there were also the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother who were not Cheng Ding.
When the driver came back, Brother Jiu sat down and was distracted.
what happened?
Khan Amma is very addicted to hunting.
I went there once last month, are you going again this month?
A while ago, on the way to visit the mausoleum, weren't we hunting all the time?
Pity him here, he has to meet him again when he comes back.
Seeing that Brother Twelve was quiet, Brother Ninth became curious and said: "Twelve, how hard do you pull the bow?"
This younger brother was silent in the study, and he was not outstanding in both civil and military affairs.
But after this year, the ninth elder brother also saw that the twelfth elder brother had a problem in his heart.
The twelfth elder brother raised his head and did not answer immediately. He hesitated and said, "Seven powers or eight powers?"
Brother Jiu was puzzled: "What's there to hesitate about? Is it seven or eight?"
Regardless of whether it is Qi Li or Ba Li, at the age of Twelve Prince, he is considered outstanding.
He is young, has a small birthday, and still has a lot of strength.
The twelfth elder brother paused and said: "That... is Jiu Li!"
Brother Jiu snorted softly and said: "What's this? It's still far away. Your sister-in-law Jiu can shoot a ten-power bow, and the girl next to her can also shoot a ten-power bow. The black guard in our house can shoot a fourteen-power bow. Listen, When I was young, I didn’t even have the power of sixteen..."
Regarding the Nine Sisters and Ten Power Gongs, the twelfth prince has not seen it in person, but he has heard the fourteenth prince talk about it several times.
Sister-in-law Jiu is very powerful, but won’t she be so powerful if she doesn’t have ten strength?
The twelfth elder brother looked at the ninth elder brother and wanted to ask a question.
Brother Jiu averted his eyes and stood up, saying: "I'll go to the inner manufacturing office and have a look..."
If you don't go to the battlefield, what's the use of drawing a bow and shooting arrows?
Just showing off in the paddock.
Very boring.
After leaving the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he took He Yuzhu and Sun Jin to the inner building to do gold and jade work.
The work arranged by the Qianqing Palace before the Mid-Autumn Festival, including December flower bonsai, should be done now.
Brother Ninth wants to take a look. If it looks good, he can tell Shu Shu when he goes back that his silver building will also have various gold and jade bonsais available next year.
The gem bonsai is all ready, with a glass cover on the outside and a rosewood base on the bottom.
Place them in a row and look lifelike.
Camellia in January, orchid in February, peach blossom in March, rose in April, pomegranate in May, lotus in June, jasmine in July, osmanthus in August, chrysanthemum in September, hibiscus in October, narcissus in November, wintersweet in December.
In addition to gold wire, various gemstones, jade and pearls were also used.
The things made inside are indeed exquisite.
Brother Jiu looked at it with a sense of schadenfreude.
Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality.
How to reward this person?
It sounds like the gold ones at the front are more expensive, but everyone knows that big flowers are beautiful, and more people like big flowers.
There is also a moral.
The pomegranate flower will definitely fall into Chengqian Palace.
Brother Jiu remembered the names of Xiaosong and the others, and Fujin still liked the tree of longevity.
Compared with pines and cypresses, the flowering periods of these seasonal flowers are short and unlucky.
Brother Jiu went to the leader of the craftsmen and said, "What will be the work here in the spring next year?"
The leader of the craftsmen said: "Prepare two sets of Prince Fujin's first wedding ceremony."
The ninth elder brother organized the tenth elder brother's "first wedding ceremony" by himself, knowing that there were not many things.
He said nothing, made of gold and jade.
Nowadays, foreign goods are popular in the capital, and there are also more Western jewelry.
But Brother Jiu felt that as long as the materials were available, these craftsmanship could be imitated by an in-house manufacturer.
He came here today. In addition to looking at the bonsai, he just wanted to know about the construction period here.
If the construction period is not busy and everyone is free, we can try to let them imitate Western utensils later.
After getting familiar with the patterns and craftsmanship there, you can start making Western jewelry.
The training of craftsmen within the company has matured.
It would be a waste of manpower to just listen to the orders from above. Could it be possible to allocate some of the internal craftsmen to do external work?
At that time, there will be no need to use the imperial banner, which will not damage the royal dignity, but it will not delay the open source.
Brother Jiu thought about it, returned to the Yamen, and wrote down a plan on the matter.
In addition to gold and jade works, there are also enamel works, Ruyi Pavilion, bronze works, bell making, glass factories, and oil wood works, all of which have great potential.
Jiangnan is wealthy and treats people in the capital as country bumpkins.
The fashionable clothing here in the capital is indeed passed down from the south of the Yangtze River.
Then pass it in reverse.
Let the capital become popular first, and then Mongolia and Jiangnan will follow the capital's trend, and the money will come in a steady stream...
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Nanyuan Palace, southwest corner courtyard.
Shengjia arrived at the Nanyuan paddock this morning and had to rest for a day as usual.
However, Kangxi called for all the accompanying brothers and rode together to the yard in the southwest corner of the paddock.
It has been more than a month since I came here last month, and I have tried two more rounds of vaccination, both of which were safe.
Kangxi had already asked Qin Tianjian to choose auspicious days and selected the day for the vaccination of the seventeenth prince, which was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
Vaccination is different in adults than in children.
In his early years in the palace, he used palace servants to test for variolation. In the past six months, he also allowed Zhao Chang and Fu Song to test cowpox on death row prisoners from the Ministry of Punishment.
But he couldn't use innocent children to vaccinate him. If he did, he would be known as "cruel" a hundred years later.
But sending the seventeenth elder brother to be vaccinated alone made him feel reluctant to give up as a father.
After listening to the report from the imperial doctor and Fu Song, the princes and elder brothers had different thoughts.
There are a total of five children in the Zhijun Prince's Mansion, all of whom were vaccinated against variola, and all of them were successful.
Therefore, the eldest brother feels that the reason why people outside are unwilling to vaccinate is probably due to their stubbornness. If it is replaced with cowpox, whether or not to vaccinate will still be avoided.
He didn't feel much.
The third elder brother and the fourth elder brother are both fond of calculating economic accounts, and they immediately understood what it meant to reduce the cost of cowpox to one percent of the "cooked vaccine".
It means that almshouses in every place can afford to inoculate pox.
Ordinary families, above average, can also afford this expense.
Vaccination will no longer be limited to the capital and the Eight Banners, but can also be promoted outside Beijing.
The third elder brother felt his heart aching when he looked at Fu Song.
What would a reformed clan do with this credit?
As long as he takes charge of this matter, he will be promoted to the county king immediately!
The fourth elder brother had already heard what the ninth elder brother had said, and he was already thinking about how much it would cost the county and the government if the government provided free vaccination during the year of acne.
Sand accumulates into hills.
It will cost a lot of money, but it is not unaffordable either.
If the vaccination rate among the common people is tied to the assessment of local officials, in a few years, the vaccination population will be expanded many times, and smallpox will not spread again in the pox years.
The fifth elder brother was nearby and listened more seriously.
His eldest daughter was three years old and it was time for vaccination. She was vaccinated last month.
Although he was fine, having a fever for three days was worrying.
There are two younger ones down there, and they will be vaccinated the year after next or the year after that.
The seventh prince's expression remained unchanged, he had known about this for a long time.
The eighth prince almost lost his expression.
So this year, the death row inmate of the Ministry of Punishment stopped the autumn battle, not because he revealed the "white duck", but because Khan Amma ordered people to test "cowpox"? !
Although Fu Song is currently in charge of this matter, who is Fu Song?
He is the cousin-in-law of the Ninth Prince, the chief of ceremonies of the Ninth Prince's Mansion!
Who is the person leading this matter? Do you still have to guess?
The eighth prince felt that he was going crazy.
Maybe he doesn't get along with Brother Jiu?
The tenth elder brother is only happy. Fusong is the one doing the work, but the credit falls on his ninth elder brother.
It's good. Although Ninth Brother did not join the court or join the army and lead the Eight Banners in the campaign, if he really solved the problem of smallpox, it would also be the result of the title.
The thirteenth elder brother also rejoiced on behalf of the ninth elder brother.
The fourteenth elder brother is in high spirits.
Brother Ninth has taken a new approach and used his strengths.
The previous princes were just born early.
In another three to five years, the mediocre ones will be outclassed.
The prince and elder brother behind him couldn't stop him, he would still step forward when he should.
For example, Ninth Brother, and his Fourteenth Master!
When the group returned to the palace, everyone burst into congratulations.
It was smallpox. Before and after entering the customs, many Manchu princes and nobles were killed by smallpox.
Even Emperor Shizu was not spared.
Kangxi sat on the dragon chair, his eyes swept over the faces of each of his sons, and said: "I asked Qin Tian to choose the date. On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, I will send my elder brother to be vaccinated against cowpox on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month!"
Everyone was calm.
That's the prince's brother!
The eldest brother hurriedly said: "Khan Ama, the hospital has prepared the 'cooked vaccine' needed for the seventeenth brother's vaccination. It may not be appropriate to temporarily replace the cowpox vaccine."
The third elder brother also said: "Yes, Khan Ama, if you want to try a new vaccine, you can choose children from the clan to be vaccinated. The seventeenth elder brother can just use the 'cooked vaccine' as usual."
Fourth Brother did not say anything. He thought of the failure rate after vaccination that Fu Song mentioned just now.
Just seeing that in the past four months, there has not been a single case of cowpox death, this cowpox is more reassuring than the "ripe vaccine".
As an Amma, he would choose cowpox if he compared his own feelings with others.
The fifth elder brother was puzzled. He looked at the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother and said, "Eldest brother, third elder brother, didn't you understand just now? The cowpox vaccine is better than the 'cooked vaccine'. There are good ones, so why can't you plant them well?" ? I just didn’t know about this in the first place. It would be great if our eldest daughter directly received the new vaccine last month. She used the 'cooked vaccine' prepared by Tai Hospital. She had a fever for three days, and I didn’t have it for three days. Eat well..."
The eldest brother looked at the fifth brother and said: "The 'cooked vaccine' has been out for more than ten years. We brothers have all planted it, and they are all fine. The new vaccine sounds good, but it has only been planted on a hundred or so people so far." But, just in case."
The third elder brother also said: "It's not that the cowpox vaccine is really foolproof. Compared with this uncontrollable thing, the imperial doctor is more familiar with the 'cooked vaccine', and there are regulations for post-flowering care."
However, the fifth elder brother had full confidence in his younger brother and said: "It's okay to be designated. If there is something inappropriate, the ninth elder brother will not push it to Khan Ama."
Kangxi then explained his purpose and said: "Is there any elder brother, princess, and seventeenth elder brother in each government who can vaccinate against pox..."
(End of chapter)
