Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1020 Tiger Bone

In addition to rewarding Cao Yong, Yongzheng also discussed several official affairs of the household department, one of which was to exempt Sichuan and Shaanxi Kangxi from the unfinished money and food 60 years ago.

In name, since the rise of the army, many provinces have been exhausted; in fact, anyone can see that this grace is only for one person.

Now all provinces are investigating the deficit, and only Shaanxi and Sichuan officials are spared.

Except for the thirteenth elder brother who knew about it a long time ago, it was the first time for others to hear about it.

Yongzheng's long favor for Nian's family is well known.

Outside, there are Nian Xiyao and Nian Gengyao, two great officials who enfeoffed the border, and inside, there is Nian Concubine who has ascended to the position of imperial concubine. The rising trend of Nian's family is unstoppable.

The queen's son-in-law died early. Among the sons of Yongzheng, the prince born to the concubine Nian was only three years old and had no teeth, but he was born the most noble.

If it weren't for the presence of Hongli, who was educated by Kangxi, this little elder brother would be a well-deserved candidate for the crown prince.

Even if Hongli was educated by the first emperor, what can be done is still two things.

Although no one is standing in line now, when it comes to matters related to the Nian family, everyone has to think about it.

Compared with the favors of Feng Gong and Jin Jue, two reductions and exemptions to save money and food, this kind of grace is a bit excessive.

Others didn't notice anything, but Longkodo began to feel sour in his heart.

He is also a foreign relative, but he is the emperor's uncle, born in the Tong family, and he did his best when the emperor ascended the throne, but he joined the Taibao together with Nian Gengyao.He just inherited the title of his ancestors, and inherited the first-class prince. Nian Gengyao was granted the second-class hereditary captain of Qingche, and a few days later he was granted the third-class prince.

Now, because of Nian Gengyao, the officials of Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces were preserved.

How can Nian Gengyao, He De, be so highly praised by the emperor?
It's just that Longkodo has always had a city mansion, and no matter how dissatisfied he is, he will not show it in front of others.

For a while, the officials of the household department knelt down, and there were only a few bachelors and two prime minister affairs princes left in front of the imperial court.

"The late emperor's funeral is about to come. The supervisory censor, Nianxi, wrote a letter to ask to get rid of the humble family members of Lehu in Shanxi and Shaanxi. This is an act of grace to the common people. What do you think?" Yongzheng asked with some anticipation.

Shanxi and Shaanxi Lehu's lowly nationality were the disposal of Jianwen's old ministers during the Yongle period.

Originally a family of nobility, the descendants of loyal ministers are punished into "low status". Women have been prostitutes for generations, and men can only engage in "low business".Children and grandchildren, life is better than death.

Nian Xi's book "Get rid of baseness and make good" can be regarded as "putting order out of chaos".

Yongzheng was originally an emperor who valued people's livelihood, so he wholeheartedly agreed with this kind act of benevolent to the common people and leaving a name in history.

Elder Brother Thirteen has been with his brother for many years, and he knows his temperament. After he finished asking, he will take the lead in agreeing.

Seeing this, everyone followed Brother Thirteen and agreed to the matter.

Longkodo lowered his head and said words of agreement, but his brows could not help but frown.

Another thing related to the family of the same year.

Nian Xi has already been on vacation for ten months and is not in the Yamen, why did he suddenly think of submitting a book?
He is a supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province, how can he talk about things in Shanxi and Shaanxi?

Long Keduo couldn't believe that Nian Xi, a sick child, could be so diligent.In his eyes, this act of kindness was the emperor's desire to bestow favor on the people, and the reason why Nian Xi was named was just to give Nian Xi some credit for nothing.

Seeing everyone agreeing, Yongzheng was in a good mood, so he finalized the matter with golden words.

After discussing for another half an hour, they talked about several important court affairs.Mostly the Sacred Heart is arbitrary, everyone is the only one.

After everyone retreated from the imperial front, the thirteenth elder brother went out of the palace to the household department.

Today, he is not only in charge of the three treasuries of the household department, but also the prime minister of the household department.When he arrived at the household department, he came directly to look for Cao Yong.

The Shaanxi Division and the Sichuan Division are both under the control of Cao Yong. The emperor issued an order to recover the deficit. The officials of the two divisions have been busy for ten months to sort out the old accounts of the two provinces. This sentence "clearing and exempting" made these people do nothing. work hard.

Cao Yong, the chief official, in addition to conveying the emperor's will, must also pay attention to everyone's emotions.

In the officialdom, although there are differences in superiority and inferiority between superiors and subordinates, and the system is strict, if the relationship between superiors and subordinates is not coordinated, it will also affect the efficiency of work.

Cao Yong has been an official for many years, and he has his own set of experience as an imperial servant, and the relationship with his colleagues is handled fairly harmoniously.

In addition to interpersonal relationships, he has to worry about the expenditure budgets of Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces.These two provinces were free of money and food 60 years ago in Kangxi, but they will inevitably be short of expenditures this year and next.Some places, such as Hegong and Tuntian, have to increase expenditures.

Cao Yong was sitting behind a few cases, looking at the account books of the two provinces on his face and having a headache, when he heard the outside officer say: "I have seen the prince, please greet the prince."

Then came the voice of the thirteenth elder brother: "The office of the yamen does not require a big gift."

Following the voice, I saw Brother Thirteen coming from the outside.

Seeing this, Cao Yong hurriedly got up to meet him.

The thirteenth elder brother glanced at his copybook, and said with a smile: "Cao Shilang, are you worried about the money in Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces?"

In this room, in addition to the long table under the window, there are also seats on the low kang on the north wall.

Cao Yong asked the thirteenth elder brother to sit first, and he was next to him, and served tea in person, and then said: "I am thinking of asking the prince for help. There are a lot of silver in Shaanxi and Sichuan in the next two years. If Kangxi alone 61 Moreover, the prince also knows that last year’s tax money from these two provinces did not go into the national treasury, and most of it went directly to the local vassal treasury.”

Brother Thirteen took two sips of tea, put down the cup, and said, "It's hard for you. I'm busy promoting fine varieties, but I don't forget to pay attention to this stall. Don't worry, the emperor has made arrangements. into the national treasury to make up for the lack of taxation in Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces."

When Cao Yong heard this, he made a sound in surprise.

The tea and salt two classes of badge silver, about 400 million taels of silver, are brought into the account every year. In the past, they were all put into the inner treasury for the palace's expenses.

For example, when the emperor travels, repairs the palace, and rewards the Mongolian kings, they all get money from the inner treasury.

As far as Cao Yong knows, there is no money in the inner treasury now.

Now, what should the internal treasury do if the bulk of the income is transferred to the national treasury?
The thirteenth elder brother saw Cao Yong's doubts, and said with a smile: "The responsibility for the abundance of the inner treasury must fall on the sixteenth brother. The emperor said that the sixteenth brother is talented, but he was abandoned by the emperor in his early years. Beloved, he has always been tired and lazy. He wants to enjoy leisure in the future, but he may not be able to."

This is related to the distance between the emperor and the clan, Cao Yong is not good at talking.I just thought that the seventeenth elder brother became the king of the county, and then ordered the Ministry of Rites, which is quite suspected of sharing power with the third elder brother.

It is not without reason that Yongzheng reused these brothers.The people he can trust are really limited...

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Taiji Factory, Lianjun Prince's Mansion.

When Chu Yu arrived, she realized that today the Eight Fujin invited not only Li Shi and her, but also the Seven Fujin.

After seeing his master Bafujin, Chu Yu rarely meets his aunt with a big gift.

Seventh Fujin pulled her and asked her to sit down beside him, looked at Eighth Fujin suspiciously, and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, our mother and I met at my younger siblings." Speaking of this, again Turning his head, he said to Chu Yu: "You child, it's been windy these two days, and you don't even need to add clothes."

"Before I came out, I saw that the sun was still enough, so I was negligent." Chu Yu replied softly.

Seeing that she wanted to protect her, Bafujin raised his chin and said, "Okay, Seventh Sister-in-Law, I can't get in here, and I'm going to eat your house so I can't make it?"

"Look at your sharp mouth. There are too many people, and you still refuse to let people say a word." Qi Fujin said with a smile when she heard her speak bluntly and was not easy to answer.

"Sister-in-law Qi is really biased. I haven't said anything yet, so I'm going to let someone else?" Ba Fujin also smiled, but there was a bit of firmness and determination in his brows and eyes.

Qi Fujin saw that her words were getting more and more out of line, but she smiled and said nothing, just thinking about Ba Fujin's intention to invite herself and Chu Yu over.

Seeing that she was trying to keep her mouth shut, Bafujin turned to Chuyu and said, "Da Gege is busy with the nobles right now, so I can't even invite you. Everyone says your wife is a kind person, so why would you think of embarrassing me? Could it be that my shabby settlement means I can't get into your eyes?" At the end of the speech, there was already a bit of anger.

Seeing this, Chu Yu quickly stood up and said, "Aunt Eight, don't be upset, it's all my niece's fault. Since the beginning of the first lunar month, my old lady has been in poor health, and has been taking care of her at home for the past two months. Not just my aunt, Others don’t go either. Our brother-in-law has an errand and was away from Beijing a few days ago. Even though my niece wanted to come over to say hello to my aunt, she couldn’t get away, so I postponed until today to come here to apologize to my aunt.”

After hearing this, Ba Fujin looked slightly relaxed, and said, "Your old lady is ill, why haven't you heard about it?"

"It's also a chronic illness. I just ask the imperial doctor to prescribe two prescriptions to take care of it." Chu Yu replied: "Our old lady ordered, don't make any noise, and don't want to cause trouble at this time."

Although what she said was cryptic, it also pointed out the embarrassment and embarrassment of Li's situation.

After Bafu Jin heard the words, he suppressed the resentment in his heart.

She waved her hand and sent the maids and women down, and then said to Chu Yu: "Your wife's status is different after all, even in front of the new emperor, she should be somewhat respectable. If she can come forward to intercede for the Li family, the emperor can still Holding on to a servant? It's been more than two months, you and your wife can stay together, so you won't be afraid of getting the bad name of treating your uncle's family poorly?"

Qi Fujin was beside him, and couldn't help frowning.

Ba Fujin tried his best to be peaceful, but he also criticized the members of the Cao family a lot in his words.It was rude to talk about her daughter, son-in-law and in-laws in front of her mother-in-law again.

If we only talk about her and Cao Yong, Chu Yu won't talk too much, after all, Bafu Jin is the elder.But when it comes to the mother-in-law, as a daughter-in-law, she is not easy to listen to, so she defended Li and said: "My old lady is a married woman, there is no imperial edict, and she can't even enter the palace, let alone Before the emperor."

Eight Fujin snorted, disapproving: "Who doesn't know that elder brother Shiliu is a frequent visitor to your family. If Mrs. Li really wants to intercede for the Li family, how can there be no way?"

She had always been arrogant, and after her husband died, she was even more careless in her words.

Hearing that Chuyu was defending her mother-in-law, the resentment she had suppressed before came out again, and her tone was a little blunt.

Chu Yu is a junior, even though she is annoyed at her rudeness, it is not good to argue with her.

Seeing that Chuyu was in trouble, Qifu Jin raised his eyebrows and said: "Sisters, please be careful! Even if you are unhappy in your heart, there is no reason to talk about the old lady in-laws in front of your niece. If there is a word or half of it spread, people outside will think It’s us who disrespect my aunt.”

Bafu Jin knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and said embarrassingly: "I didn't mean it, and I was not worried about the Li family's affairs. No matter how noble the wife of the Cao family is, she is still an aunt from the Li family. At this time, she will not help Li. family, who will help the Li family?"

About the Li family, Qifujin only heard a few words, so he persuaded vaguely: "Since the brothers and sisters know this truth, they should know that at this time, the most sad thing is the old lady of the in-laws. If she is not worried about the Li family, she will I have been sick for a long time without saying that I am sick. Since it is related to the imperial court, it is not for us women to ask about it. Brothers and sisters also relax, you just feel sorry for your daughter and son-in-law. Your niece and son-in-law are still studying, and your grandfather is not doing well. It will involve the grandson."

After hearing this, Ba Fujin couldn't feel relieved, and muttered: "The emperor wants to kill chickens and scare monkeys, so Li Xu's crime can be lightened? If no one is involved, it is not uncommon for his descendants to be implicated."

Qifujin said: "Since we know what the emperor wants, the younger siblings still want to come forward, wouldn't it add fuel to the fire?"

Bafujin was speechless when he heard the words.

How could she not know these powerful relationships.It was only because he cared about his adoptive daughter that he still "couldn't bear it" in the end, so he couldn't stand by and watch.

When Chu Yu saw the two of them talking about this, she also said: "Yes, eighth aunt, our old lady didn't dare to move lightly, and it was because of this. The emperor is holding fire on the Li family, and it is really inappropriate to make trouble at this time. The Li family has Aunt's daughter, son-in-law, and our old lady's nephew and grandson, who wouldn't help?"

Bafujin was discouraged by what their mother and daughter said, and he was no longer confident before, and said: "So, I really have to take a step and see a step!"

She was a little depressed, not in the mood to gossip.

Seeing this, Qi Fujin charged him with a crime, and left the county palace with Chuyu.

"It's rare for you to come out and sit with me at home." Qi Fujin took Chu Yu's hand and said, "Yesterday the palace summoned me to bring your seventh younger sister into the palace, and I think there is a decree of marriage soon. "

While talking, she pulled Chuyu onto her frame.

"Seventh Sister will be married to Ji next year, isn't it too early to discuss marriage?" Chu Yu said, thinking of her half-sister, who was born before she came out of the court and was only one year older than Niu Niu.

"It's not too early, you were also 14 years old when you were married. This year you choose someone, and you will get married next year. It's a good age. Now the emperor values ​​you, Ama, and only hopes that Qi Gege will be blessed. You are a son of a lord in the capital. Get Mongolia to suffer." Qi Fujin said.

Ever since Wu Gege got married, Qi Fujin was lonely by his side, so he took Qi Gege by his side to raise him, so he was somewhat sincere towards this concubine.

Chu Yu thought about the three sisters she married, and the two stayed in Beijing. Compared with other palaces, they are already too lucky.If Qigege also stayed in Beijing, it would be a great grace...

As soon as the carriage entered Dongjiang Mi Lane, a steward came up to greet him, and said through the curtain: "Master Fujin, there are people coming from the palace, and my lord has sent servants to welcome Fujin back to the mansion."

After hearing this, Qi Fujin was surprised, and turned to Chu Yu and said, "Could it be that Qi Gege's intention to marry came down, why is it so fast..."

In the front hall of the palace, Chen Fu didn't see Qi Fujin, he smiled at Qi Elder Brother, and said, "How about the prince accept the order first?"

Seventh elder brother said: "That's fine." Immediately, he brought his sons to kneel down to accept the order.

Chen Fu solemnly proclaimed the decree: "Prince Heshuo Chun Yunyou's daughter is made the princess, and the third-class son-in-law, Nian Geng Yao and son Nian Xi, is He Shuo's forehead, hereby!"

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Ask for a monthly pass in a low voice. .

(End of this chapter)