lied to Kangxi

Chapter 175 Working for Kangxi

While Yuzhu was eating, Zhang Tingyu came in.Originally, Zhang Tingyu wanted to sit with Yuzhu because of the face of his colleagues.

After seeing the food on Yu Zhu's table clearly, he turned around resolutely and sat far away.

This person is afraid of comparison.In Zhang Tingyu's food box, you don't need to look at it. There must be only two cold meat dishes, plus a small bowl of polished round-grained rice mixed with sand.

There is no way, Zhang Tingyu is a well-known upright official, neither giving nor receiving gifts.

The eunuchs in the palace couldn't benefit from Zhang Tingyu for a long time, so naturally they wanted to make things difficult for him.

Not to mention Zhang Tingyu, even the Chief Manchurian University scholar Ma Qi and the eunuchs who provided meals dared to trip him up secretly, which made him miserable.

When eating in the palace, how can you allow your ministers to pick and choose and make irresponsible remarks?
It is true that Yuzhu's aunt is Concubine Tong.

However, even if she is a noble concubine with the right to take control of the sixth palace, she dare not control a cat in the Qing Palace.

Concubine Tong has no right to intervene in all affairs before the imperial court.If you intervene, it is an arrogance.

After a delicious meal, Yuzhu stuffed two taels of broken silver in the red lacquer food box as usual.

This person, if you can't cross the river, you will tear down the bridge. The good reputation of Zhongnuo is still very important in the palace.

Even if Yuzhu's holy family is in full swing, it doesn't affect him from continuing to have a good relationship with Xiao Yezi in secret.

Xiao Yezi also had a tacit understanding, carrying the food box sent back by Yuzhu, turned around the corner, and quickly lifted the lid of the food box, and put the silver lying quietly on the top into her arms.

There is no way, Xiao Yezi's monthly silver is only two taels, and he has to spend five hundred cash every month as a tribute to his godfather.

That's not much money.

The eunuchs in the palace were all black-hearted, and even the eunuch uniform that Xiao Yezi was wearing had to be made by him with his own money.

Now, Yu Zhu gives Xiao Ye Zi two taels of silver every day, and he can save it all.In the future, when Xiao Yezi has the opportunity to go out of the palace to run errands, she will quietly take the money out to supplement the family.

Yuzhu once read a book, which said that the best way to put eyeliner is actually to lay down seemingly useless idlers in important areas long in advance.

Xiao Ye Zi is just the lowest-ranked eunuch, and Yu Zhu has made friends with him now, and later entrusts little Concubine Tong Gui to secretly promote him.

In the future, it is likely to be of great use.

Networking is something that must be laid out in advance.You can not use it at ordinary times, but you can't have a reliable person in the palace.

After finishing his meal, Yu Zhu returned to the south study, and not long after he sat down, he accepted a copy from the Guangdong Customs Supervisor.

Supervised by the Guangdong Customs, it is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households.In fact, the emperor personally selected trustworthy and capable officials from the coat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and sent them to collect money for the royal family.

Yuzhu opened it and saw that the Guangdong Customs had reported the total customs revenue last year.

Hey, Yuzhu read it three times before he could believe that the numbers on the notebook were correct.

The huge Guangdong Customs only collects 18 taels of tax a year, who would believe it?
Yuzhu was about to laugh angrily.However, this has nothing to do with him. He just wrote a brief summary: Guangdong Customs taxed more than 18 taels of silver last year.

Objectively speaking, Yuzhu is very good at grasping the central idea and making a concise description.

As a result, when playing chess at noon, Kangxi asked him abruptly: "Why, do you think the tax money collected by Guangdong Customs is too little?"

As long as the prince's matter is not involved, Kangxi can easily see Yuzhu's unspoken dissatisfaction from the summary in a calm state.

"To tell you the truth, old man, if I were to be the supervisor of Guangdong Customs, at least 80 taels of silver could be recovered every year."

Although Yuzhu is very young, his temperament is extremely calm, he doesn't express his position easily, as long as he expresses his position, he will definitely honor it.

He wasn't emotional at all, but his meaning was very clear. The coat-coating servants sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Guangdong Customs were too greedy.

These days, when playing chess, Kangxi deliberately asked a lot about salt, tea, iron, weaving, and customs deficits.

Yuzhu has never been stumped, and always answers fluently, without even stuttering.

Kangxi is actually very aware of the greedy nature of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Not to mention anything else, as usual, in Shuntian Fu Yin's secret book, there are detailed information on the market price level in the forty-nine cities.

However, when the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped being greedy for money, Kangxi should be worried about someone colluding with the prince's elder brother and secretly murdering him.

Is there any reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days?
The emperor is rich in the world, he is short of money and spends it, so he finds a reason to get it, that's all.Why expose yourself to danger for a little money?
Not only the Qing Dynasty, but even the Yeting officials in the Qin and Han Dynasties were all greedy, but the emperors always turned a blind eye.

An emperor was cheated of money, there is still something to say.The emperors of all dynasties were all cheated of money, which can explain the problem very well.

"En." Kangxi did not express his opinion on the spot as usual, and Yu Zhu didn't mention it any more knowingly.

The time is still very long, Yuzhu is not in a hurry.What he has to do now is to continue to instill various novel ways of making money to the old emperor, and what he is doing is the basic work of dripping water through rocks.

Although Kangxi is not a bragging sage, he is also an extremely mature old politician.

So far, he has been in power for more than forty years, except for the battle between the prince and the old man, he is familiar with all the big and small government affairs.

Zhao Kuo has always been a negative teaching material.But why did Zhao Kuo succeed Lian Po as the coach of Zhao Jun?
At least, his tongue is very sharp, and in military theory, he speaks logically.

Objectively speaking, Yuzhu has no chance to prove his ability in practice for the time being, so he is forced to be Zhao Kuo first.

He couldn't even explain clearly, how could he convince the emperor that Yu Zhu was good at fighting and making money?
After losing three rounds of Go, Yuzhu wanted to leave.

However, Kangxi looked at him with a half-smile, and cursed: "You boy, you are just a bastard. Look at the South Study Room, who dares to go to the Yamen without being upright? You are lucky, you dare to go out of the palace and return to the mansion when the time comes, and you don't mind at all." Don't delay. It's too busy, isn't it good? Let me give you an errand."

Well, what can Yu Zhu say, he had to accept the job obediently.

After coming out of the palace, Yuzhu boarded the sedan chair and gave orders to go to the Ministry of Punishment.

The Criminal Department is right next to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng both know how to get there.

When Yuzhu's official sedan chair stopped at the gate of the criminal department, Zhong Nezhang, the minister of the criminal department, An Bulu, was already waiting at the gate.

"Humble position Nezhang, pay homage to Lord Yu."

Seeing Yuzhu getting off the official sedan chair, Nezhang hurried over and bowed to the ground, showing great respect.

"Master Ne, you are too polite." Yuzhu is from the fourth rank, and Nezhang is the fifth rank, Yuzhu only needs to return the gift.

"Master Yu is an important minister of Nanshufang, how dare you be disrespectful in a humble position?" Nezhang accompanied Yu Zhu into the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice with a smile on his face.

Last time, when Yu Zhu came, the people from the Criminal Department were not so polite.Not to mention meeting Nezhang, even the doctor of Zhejiang Division couldn't do it.

Different from ordinary doctors, Nezhang, a dignified doctor, is the chief secretary who specially serves the top leaders of the Ministry of Punishment.

The grade is still the fifth grade, but the influence is completely different.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, there are very few unjust things.

However, Yuzhu is not only an imperial envoy, but also a young upstart who accompanies the emperor to play chess every day. Nezhang still dares to put on the air of a secret, that is himself, and he is uncomfortable.

Yu Zhu was following a secret decree, and he had always been a low-key man, so he deliberately didn't ask An Bulu to come out to greet him.

In An Bulu's official office, the incense case has been set up.

Following Yuzhu out of the palace, four guards with swords in front of the imperial court lined up on both sides of the hall door, separating the inside and the outside.

Yuzhu faced the gate, with his back to the incense case, and shouted in a deep voice: "The emperor's words."

"Slave Ambulu, please respectfully listen to the oracle." Ambulu quickly knelt down to accept the order.

"Writing the jade pillar, Dai Zi was interrogated secretly, and An Bulu of the Ministry of Punishment cooperated with him, hereby."

When An Bulu heard that it was Dai Zi's business, he couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

It was the emperor's secret decree to arrest Dai Zi from Fengtian, and the Ministry of Punishment was only carrying out the decree.

Therefore, after Dai Zi was captured and returned, he was held alone in the prison cell without any contact with anyone.

Interestingly, it was An Bulu who arrested him, but Yu Zhu was the one who interrogated him.

Based on An Bulu's experience in politics, although he didn't dare to ask, he could guess that the matter here was not trivial.

Accompanied by An Bulu personally, Yuzhu entered the heavily guarded prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

After going through more than a dozen checkpoints all the way, I finally came to the fence of a small separate cell.

However, there was only one torch inserted on the stone wall, the light was too dim, and Yuzhu couldn't see the situation in the small cell too clearly.

"Hold the lamp." Following An Bulu's order, more than a dozen torches lit up on the surrounding walls in a short time.

This time, Yuzhu saw clearly.I saw a middle-aged man with gray hair sitting blankly on the ground covered with straw mats.

Dai Zi kept his head down all the time, not knowing what he was thinking, and Yu Zhu, who was commanding, couldn't see his appearance clearly because of the angle of his sight.

Yu Zhu turned to look at An Bulu, but said nothing.

Before An Bulu was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, he was the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The heads of the San Judicial Division are all masters of old cases.

Even if Yu Zhu didn't say anything, how could An Bulu not understand?

Following An Bulu's orders, the following officials and servants, under the leadership of Nezhang, all exited the prison.

After the scene was cleared, only An Bulu, Yuzhu and four guards in yellow jackets with knives were left in the prison.

Next to the prison is a dedicated interrogation room.

Yu Zhu was an imperial envoy, and he sat in the middle of the desk, while An Bulu sat on the side.

After the two imperial guards with knives put Dai Zi in, Yuzhu could see Dai Zi's face clearly.

How should I put it, Dai Zi's hair is gray and her appearance is haggard, but she was born with a hooked nose, which really affects the view.

According to the popular superstitious physiognomy of this era, the hooked nose is considered to be the facial feature of schemers, careerists and villains.

Well, with a bad face, it's no wonder that Dai Zi was tortured by that foreign devil, Nan Huairen.

Others don't quite know, but Yuzhu knows it well. Nan Huairen deliberately framed Dai Zi because of huge interests.

When Dai Zi imitated the Folang machine gun and succeeded in the experiment, Nan Huairen wanted to kill Dai Zi, a weapon genius, so as to eliminate future troubles forever.

Nan Huairen, who harbored evil intentions, fabricated the charge of "communicating with the East" and deliberately framed Dai Zi.

It's just that, because Kangxi was still an emperor who cherished talents after all, he didn't kill Dai Zi, but only exiled him to Fengtian.

(End of this chapter)