On this day, Wang Jingqi came to a village in the suburbs of Beijing, which originally belonged to the imperial village of the Qing Dynasty.

After Zhu Yicheng returned to Beijing, he carried out large-scale treatment for the confiscation of the remains of the Qing Dynasty's Qing Dynasty's imperial fields in the suburbs of Beijing and Zhili.

In Zhu Yicheng's view, he, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, owns all over the world, and the Royal Family of Ming Dynasty and its own business. With the rise of industry and commerce and the prosperity of maritime trade, the Royal Family of Ming Dynasty has already possessed a continuous and endless wealth.

Therefore, the emperor Zhu Yicheng did not need to exploit the people on the land at all, nor was it like the barbarians of the Qing Dynasty who were keen on land. Moreover, the current Ming Dynasty was gradually moving from a pure agricultural country to the direction of the industrial revolution. Although land was important, it was not necessary. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yicheng directly transferred a lot of imperial fields and imperial villages to the court and changed it to official fields and official fields, and sold them directly to merchants, or divided into lost lands, or operated by the government.

The farm where Wang Jingqi visited was originally the imperial village of the Qing Dynasty, but now it belongs to the government. The farm covers an area of ​​not small, but it is not big for the rest of the royal villages that are often thousands or tens of thousands of acres. The entire farm has more than 300 acres of land, and the village houses, etc., and its geographical location is relatively remote. Generally speaking, it is not very prominent in the imperial village.

But outsiders don’t know about this kind of farm, but those who know about it understand that this farm does not look as simple as it looks on the surface. Because this farm is not something that ordinary people can enter, the road to entry is surrounded by high walls, and behind the farm are mountains and rivers, and the terrain is dangerous and difficult for ordinary people to cross. In addition, there is a team of fully armed elite Ming army and even Jinyiwei guards guarding it. No one can enter without a pass warrant.

But Wang Jingqi is a regular visitor here. Usually he comes here every five or six days. The purpose of coming here is very simple, because it is because the people living in this village, or what the people living in it write, makes him often come here.

These people were not ordinary people, and were also famous figures in the world back then. For example, the Governor of Jiangnan, Cao Yin, Jiangning Weaving Manufacturer, Li Xu, Eight Banners Ginseng Lingfeerle, Fan Shichong and Zou Henian who were captured in Guangdong.

In addition to them, there were many Qing officials who were captured on the battlefield or surrendered to the attack of the Ming army. These officials were originally in charge of Nanjing, but after the Ming Dynasty returned to capital, considering that these people were large in number and their different levels of official positions, the court relocated these people.

This village is the place where these people are placed, and it is also a group of high-level officials in the Qing Dynasty who were captured or surrendered. If they do not reach a certain level, they are not qualified to live here. Therefore, although the number of people is the smallest, the importance is obvious.

Now, there were originally 31 high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty living here, but in recent years, three people died of old age or acute illness, so there were still twenty-eight people left.

On weekdays, they still carry out labor reforms as before, and their place of labor is naturally the farmland owned by this farm. More than 300 acres of land is enough for these people to rely on themselves, not to mention the normal allocation of funds from the court. Moreover, because this place originally belonged to the imperial village, the conditions were much better than when they were in Nanjing. In addition, the labor reforms of these people over the years have gradually become accustomed to such a life.

After Wang Jingqi took over the study of history, he targeted these people and asked Zhu Yicheng for imperial edicts. The management of these people also changed from the original Jinyiwei to the joint management of Jinyiwei and the court, and Wang Jingqi was one of the people who could make the decision.

The reason for this is that Wang Jingqi needs to use these people. After all, they are all high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty, and some of them are so-called princes and nobles. It is not a secret to them that the situation within the Qing Dynasty, especially some things that outsiders do not know.

In this way, in addition to labor reform, these people have a new job. Unlike writing confessions in Nanjing before, this time they were asked to write everything they knew about the Qing Dynasty, starting from their own experiences, and then writing about some secrets and important things within the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, regardless of the length, the more detailed and extensive the better. Wang Jingqi would read these materials every few days and select valuable things from them for historical writing.

The same is true today. After Wang Jingqi arrived at Zhuangzi, he came to his office here with a familiarity. He first took a sip of the tea made for him by someone, and then turned on the manuscript that had been submitted.

While looking at it, Wang Jingqi nodded slightly when he saw something good. When he saw something special, Wang Jingqi would pick up his pen and circle it on it for marking.

This kind of thing seems a bit boring to others, but Wang Jingqi is happy with it. At first, these manuscripts were written in a relatively implicit manner. After all, the people who wrote these things were resistant to this matter. But as time went by, these people gradually let go, and the content they wrote became more and more detailed, making Wang Jingqi feel more and more interesting. This is also the reason why he could have waited for the manuscripts to be sent to read in Beijing, but instead came here in person.

After reading a few manuscripts, when Wang Jingqi continued to read another manuscript, he suddenly became surprised at first, and then couldn't help laughing, because the content of this manuscript actually mentioned the secrets in the Qing harem. There was a passage about Kangxi's jealousy and noisy concubines in the harem because of sleep. Kangxi was furious but had no anger. Kangxi, who was a little annoyed, was not lucky. Instead, he was in a state of distraction in the harem garden because of anger and nowhere to vent his fire. Who knew that he happened to meet an ordinary-looking palace maid passing by. I don't know what Kangxi thought at the time, and he actually took the palace maid to the nearby side palace to do business regardless of his identity. This palace maid was pregnant with "long son" because of this time, and the child that was born later was the eighth prince, the current Emperor Jianxing.

Seeing this, Wang Jingqi was so happy that tears were about to come out. You should know that when he wrote "The Secret News of the Qing Palace", he once wrote about Kangxi's sexual misconduct in the harem, but he never expected that there would be such a story in the fact.

After laughing for a while, he looked at the person who wrote this item. It turned out that it was written by Cao Yin. With the relationship between Cao Yin and Kangxi, it was very feasible for him to write this item, and I am afraid there would be no falsehood.

With a smile, Wang Jingqi shook his head, and then put it in a pile of options. After doing these, looking at the time, nearly two hours passed. Wang Jingqi, who was a little tired, stood up, opened the door and walked out, and took a walk in the small garden outside the office door. After a while, just as he was about to turn around and continue, a subordinate suddenly came over and said that he was asking him for leave tomorrow.

This subordinate is an editor of the Hanlin Academy. He was the third in the first grade of Jinshi and had a very good writing style, so he was invited by Wang Jingqi to assist in the study of history. On weekdays, Wang Jingqi is very casual, and the Hanlin Academy is originally relatively free, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is not as clear as that of the six departments of the court.
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