lied to Kangxi

Chapter 396
Things happen by chance.

In the early morning, Yuzhu got off duty from Qianqing Palace and rushed to the South Study Room.

Zhang Yushu, a university scholar on duty, unexpectedly assigned Zhang Boxing, who had just come to report, to work under Yuzhu's subordinates.

Hehe, Yu Zhu's subordinates today can be described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Fang Bao, the prime minister in civilian clothes, Zhang Tingyu, the power minister of the three dynasties, and Zhang Boxing, a well-known upright official, have a mahjong team with high IQ, all working together!
Zhang Boxing, courtesy name Xiaoxian and nickname Shuzhai, was born in Yifeng (Lankao), Henan.

Objectively speaking, Zhang Boxing is not greedy mainly because his family is very rich.

In Yifeng County, Lao Zhang's family is a well-known big bureaucrat and big landlord, owning tens of thousands of acres of good farmland.

Kangxi once said in public that there is no need for Zhang Xiaoxian to be greedy for money.

that's the truth.

Zhang Boxing was an official outside, only in the name of an upright official, and completely dismissed ill-gotten gains.

After participating in the Yumen hearing, Yuzhu felt that it was necessary to set some rules for his subordinates, so he called the three ruthless characters together.

In the south study room, there is only an office space, and there is no living room.

It can only be that Yuzhu is sitting high on the kang, with two sheets on one side, and three powerful figures sitting around him.

The bad thing is that there are people sitting all around, and everyone can hear what they say here.

Back then, when Yuzhu was still the top leader in the county, the reception room filled with leather sofas alone was as large as [-] square meters.

Alas, there is no comparison at all!

Among the three, Zhang Tingyu has the most seniority, so Yuzhu asked him first: "Brother Hengchen, how did you three negotiate?"

Talking to a top smart person like Zhang Tingyu, Yu Zhu didn't need to speak clearly at all.

Sure enough, Zhang Tingyu stood up, cupped his hands, and said sternly: "Master Huibutang, the humble officials discussed it a little bit, and after the book came out, follow the order of Brother Linggao, Brother Xiaoxian, and humble officials. Handle it. Whoever accepts the booklet will undertake it..."

As expected of a famous minister who has stood proudly in the imperial court for decades, Zhang Tingyu's answer was concise, well-organized, and impeccable.

According to Yuzhu's original intention, he didn't need to read the papers drafted by these three formidable subordinates, he just handed them to Qianqing Palace.

However, Zhang Tingyu was bitten to death, and Yuzhu was his immediate boss, so he had to help check it out.

Yuzhu didn't look at Zhang Tingyu, but looked at Fang Bao, and said with a smile: "Brother Linggao, I'm busy with work, so I can only count on you if I make mistakes."

This belongs to picking up soft persimmons!

Zhang Tingyu's father, Zhang Ying, was Kangxi's accompanying student, and was ranked as the prime minister. His family was extremely strong, and he was not afraid of Yuzhu.

Zhang Boxing, whose family is extremely rich, has just been relegated from the post of governor to Nanshufang.

Only, Fang Bao is different.

Fang Bao, who has no background, has just been involved in the "Nanshan Ji" case, and almost wiped out the three clans, just when he was still in shock.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Unlike Yuzhu who never wrote poems or lyrics, Fang Bao was conceited of his talent before suffering a big loss, and many of his poems and collections were scattered among the people.

If you offend Yuzhu, hehe, Yuzhu only needs to collect Fang Bao's masterpiece, and deliberately pick out taboo words from it, it's as easy as pie.

Kangxi brought Fang Bao into the south study, one is to cherish his talents, and the other is to monitor him nearby.

Yu Zhu, who is also the commander of the infantry, is likely to be the person in charge of monitoring.

"Returning to the Jue Department, how dare you disobey your orders?" Fang Bao just hesitated for a moment, then bit the bullet and took on this drudgery.

Most of Yuzhu has military merits, and he is the second-class brave and resolute, and concurrently serves as the left servant of the household department.

Fang Bao didn't dare to offend young upstarts like him, so he deliberately called him the Juebu instead of the usual Butang, to show his respect.

Yuzhu smiled in satisfaction, and looked at Zhang Tingyu again: "Brother Hengchen, you are relatively young, so why not help Brother Linggao and make mistakes together?"

The four people present were all extremely transparent and sensible people.

Zhang Boxing has been watching with cold eyes, and he can see clearly.

Zhang Tingyu made a move quietly, trying to embarrass Yuzhu.

However, with a smile on his face, Yuzhu not only kicked the ball back into Zhang Tingyu's arms, but also couldn't shirk it.

Why did Yuzhu involve Fang Bao?
Hehe, Zhang Tingyu has been under Yuzhu's men for some years and has never caused any trouble.

As soon as Fang Bao came, Zhang Tingyu took the initiative to test Yuzhu.If there is nothing about Fang Bao in it, Yuzhu dared to jump down from the steps of the South Study Room.

What is a master?

Yin people are also invisible!

As soon as the expert reaches out his hand, he will know if there is any!

As soon as Yuzhu made a move, Fang Bao and Zhang Tingyu were trapped.

Enough to explain a lot of things, is it necessary to try again?

Birds of a feather flock together.

Ever since Yuzhu managed the sperm of three people, this scene was destined to happen today, regardless of anyone's will.

Zhang Boxing also understood Yuzhu's mind, the abbreviations and rules drafted by the three of them could be passed directly to the palace, and Yuzhu would not deliberately stop them from delivering them.

However, the three of them made a fool of themselves, and it was impossible for Yuzhu to take care of them.

After all, this is the South Study Room, apart from your own father, who would dare to do things for outsiders?

In a word, brothers climb mountains and work hard on their own.

Yu Zhu's attitude is mainly determined by the special nature of the South Study Room.

The South Study Room is right under the eyes of the emperor.

Except for the old emperor, anyone who dares to speak up will be in trouble!

In Yuzhu's dictionary, responsibilities and rights have always been consistent.

By the emperor's side, it's the right thing to do without your own business, to hang up high and pretend to be confused.

In the afternoon, after being on duty, Yuzhu refused to stay for a second, and went straight out of the palace to accompany his wife.

Before boarding the sedan chair at Xihua Gate, Wu Jiang whispered, "Master Hui, the Cao family sent someone to report that Mrs. Sun has passed away."

Well, Mrs. Sun has been depressed ever since the Cao family was robbed of the vacancies of Jiangning Weaving.

For a coated family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs like the Cao family, if they lose their holy favor, it means that it will be difficult for the family to prosper.

However, the withdrawal of the Cao family from Jiangning was inseparable from Cao Yin's incompetence.

It is not clear that Cao Yin borrowed a huge amount of debt successively in order to meet Shengjia's southern tour.

Because of this, Kangxi made a deal with Yuzhu, Cao's debts were repaid by Yuzhu, and Kangxi promised Yuzhu that he could build a big ship, and use Dagu Port in Tianjin Wei as Yuzhu's exclusive trading port.

Hey, how did Hong Kong rise?
Isn't the whole mainland surrounded and blocked by the West, leaving only Hong Kong, the window for foreign trade?
Before the first Opium War, there was not a single foreign trade port in the entire northern part of the Qing Dynasty.

Today's Tianjin Wei Dagu Port is equivalent to the significance of Hong Kong to the entire mainland.

However, no matter how wise Kangxi was, he still couldn't see through the profound connotation and huge tricks in it.

In today's Qing Dynasty, the area south of the Yangtze River has gradually become richer than the north.

However, the classes that got rich were basically merchants, landlords and some Han bureaucrats.

Most of the military power, financial power, and personnel power of the Qing Dynasty were in the hands of the northerners, mainly the bannermen.

In layman's terms, northerners have power and soldiers, while southerners have money and food.

These days, if you have power, you must have money, but if you have money, you need to buy the protection of the powerful.

In the short term, Yuzhu must suffer a huge loss due to the huge debts of the Cao family.

However, Yuzhu holds the only foreign trade port on the northern coast, hehe, strategically speaking, the deal he made with Kangxi has made a lot of money.

Logically speaking, when Mrs. Sun died, Cao Chun should come forward.

However, Cao Chun was still on the official ship returning to Beijing with a small hammer.

To be kind, Yuzhu is the grandson-in-law of the Cao family after all, so he ordered him to go to the Cao family.

When Yuzhu arrived, the inside and outside of Cao's old house had become a sea of ​​white, with white flags erected everywhere.

With Yuzhu's status, there is no need to mourn for Mrs. Sun.

When he comes to offer sacrifices, he only needs to put on a plain dress outside his official uniform and tie a white belt around his waist.

As for picking off the red tassels on the top, that is impossible.

The Cao family is not the owner of the banner, and Yuzhu is not a coat or slave under the banner.

Unless the emperor and empress dowager died, or Tong Guowei and Long Kedo died, the jade pillar had to be removed.

After Yuzhu got off the sedan chair, she stood at the door and took a look, hey, why is it that the door is in such a state?
The Cao family, no matter how poor it is, is also a family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are not hundreds of relatives and friends, but dozens of them, right?
Yuzhu felt strange in his heart, but he didn't intend to meddle in the Cao family's business.

Because, he knows, none of the Cao family is a fuel-efficient lamp, and there must be endless things to do.

Hearing that Yuzhu was coming, Cao Di greeted him from the mansion in three steps at a time.

"May the little prime minister be safe." Cao Di Zhaqian respectfully greeted him.

Yuzhu looked at the handsome Cao Di, nodded slightly, and said lightly, "That's all."

Today's Cao Di is already the official eight-rank pen post style in the yamen of the infantry commander.

Alas, people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.

Cao Di is begging for life in the palm of Yuzhu, how can his waist be hardened?

"Second brother Di, please mourn." Yuzhu simply comforted Cao Di, and then he wanted to step into the mansion.

Unexpectedly, Cao Di leaned closer and whispered, "Going back to Xiao Xiangguo, I'm afraid the palace doesn't know about it yet."

Yuzhu instantly understood that Cao Di was reminding him to tell the emperor about the death of Mrs. Sun.

Mrs. Sun is Kangxi's nanny, and Kangxi has always taken care of the entire Cao family.

Presumably, after Kangxi learned of the bad news, he must give it generously, right?
It's just that Cao Yin is far away at Dagukou, so I'm afraid he hasn't returned home yet.

The biggest man in the mansion is Cao Quan.

However, after the Tongshan corruption case, Cao Quan was deprived of his post, and he was not qualified to enter the palace to see Kangxi at all.

The problem now is that Cao Quan regards himself as an elder, so he is embarrassed to come out to greet Yu Zhu.

Yuzhu nodded and said: "We should wait until the father-in-law comes back, and then deal with it?" He deliberately pushed it on Cao Yin's body.

The men of the Cao family are not dead, and Cao Yin is still a shipbuilder with the rank of general government envoy. What is Yuzhu's position, interfering in the internal affairs of the Cao family without authorization?

It must be admitted that the actions of the Cao family are quite fast.

The mourning hall has been set up, and Mrs. Sun has also taken a rest.

Xiao Lian, refers to, while the body is still cold, put on the shroud as soon as possible, and then stuff a big bead in the mouth.

Well, after all, Cao Quan is the son of Mrs. Sun, so he did it in time.

Last time, Shang Jia's heir was extinct, and the nephews were only thinking about stealing things and taking the treasure, so who cares about her Xiao Lian?

As a result, when Lao Twelve and Yuzhu arrived, Shang Jia's body was stiff, and the shroud could no longer be worn.

Alas, the tragic situation of Shang Jia's family has confirmed an extremely simple truth of this era: raising children to guard against old age.

Dagukou was not too far from the capital, and before nightfall, Cao Yin hurried back on horseback.

Cao Yin put on a filial piety, and after worshiping the old lady Sun, he immediately went outside the palace gate and handed a sign to see Kangxi.

Kangxi looked at Cao Yin, who was full of filial piety, and recalled that when he had smallpox, Mrs. Sun's desperate companionship, he couldn't help being moved.

"There shouldn't be many guests coming to the door, right?" Kangxi asked Cao Yin intentionally.

Cao Yin wiped away his tears, choked with sobs and said: "Master Shengming, there are indeed not many guests who come to pay homage." It was so embarrassing to death.

"Ziqing, I'm sorry for the time being." Kangxi thought for a while, and told Wei Zhu, "Go and pass on my oral order, and let Yuzhu handle the important affairs of the Cao family. Well, if he doesn't show up, the funeral of the Cao family cannot be beautiful. "

Wei Zhu was walking out, and he heard Kangxi's order: "It's better to ask the old twelve to help with the funeral."

After all, the old emperor was nostalgic for the past, and he was always thinking about the benefits of Mrs. Sun, which deliberately raised the standard of the Cao family's funeral.

Hearing this, Cao Yin was very pleased, but also ashamed, alas, he was all to blame for his incompetence.

Ever since Cao Yin lost the vacancies of Jiangning weaving, the fortune of the Cao family has also declined step by step.

When Cao Yin rode back from Dagukou on horseback, among the guests registered in the concierge's big book, apart from Yu Zhu, there was not a single distinguished guest above the third rank Jingqing.

There is no way, the Cao family was originally a coater of the Shangsanqi, and has been working outside Beijing for many years.

Li Xu, who is closest to the Cao family, is far away in Jiangning.Grandma Sun's nephew, Hangzhou weaving Sun Wencheng, is beyond his reach.

More importantly, the noble son-in-law the Cao family has always been proud of, the iron-capped county king Naersu, was deprived of his title.

Objectively speaking, if Naersu was still the king of the county, and the Cao family held the funeral, it would never be so shabby and deserted.

However, Kangxi saw very clearly that the Cao family's funeral was so deserted, and the root cause was obviously Yuzhu.

Yuzhu, the little bastard, has always looked down on the Cao family, obviously he didn't contribute at all.

How did this work?

After Kangxi's oral order reached Cao's house and Yuzhu presided over the funeral, my dear fellow, the high-ranking officials in Beijing seemed to have just heard the news, and came in droves.

All of a sudden, the threshold of the Cao family was almost smashed!
The fifth is coming soon!
Seventh, it's a little late.

In the early hours of the morning, the fourth child came down from the household department, and under the starlight, he also came.

In front of the gate of Cao's house, visitors gathered in front of Yuzhu one after another, and greeted him affectionately.

"Meet the noble department."

"Greetings, Lord Department."

"Please be safe, little Prime Minister."

"Juebu, please forgive me."

Cao Yin bowed his waist, accompanied by a smiling face, the distinguished guests who came to the door, but they only said a few perfunctory words, and then moved in front of Yuzhu, and took the initiative to strike up a conversation.

At this time, Cao Yin, like an irrelevant passerby, was completely enveloped by Yu Zhu's huge figure.

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