Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1022 Grace and Punishment

When everyone retreated from the Yonghe Gate, they were all silent.

No matter how much he thought in his heart, no one dared to take a closer look at Yongzheng's mood.It was supposed to be an auspicious and festive day, but it was a little more gloomy.

It was heard before, but today, under the gaze of everyone, looking at the main gate of the Hall of Yonghe, which has not been opened for a long time, everyone understands that the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother is not a rumor.

All the people followed the officials of the Ministry of Rites and went out of the East Sixth Palace and walked up the corridor, so they felt more at ease.

The sixteenth elder brother was a few steps behind, waiting for Cao Yong to walk side by side, and said in a low voice: "Let's go with the master!"

When Cao Yong heard this, he also slowed down, and followed the sixteenth elder brother to turn to the direction of the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Far away from the crowd, Elder Sixteen breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice: "Thank God, there was no trouble at all, otherwise I really don't know how it will end! Their mother and son are fighting each other, and Er Niang and I are hanging around Xin, if Brother Fifteen is involved, wouldn't it be wronged?"

Mother and son become enemies, that's what they are talking about.

Cao Yong knew that the fourteenth elder brother was safe and sound, and lived to the Qianlong Dynasty.The empress dowager is making such a fuss now, which is meaningless at all.Today, the mother and son are just fighting for a while.

You call him "uncle" and Jiaen Tong's family; I don't accept the honorary title and don't recognize you as a son.

It can only be said that the queen mother is old, she lost the calmness and wisdom when she was in charge of the sixth house, and fell into a struggle of loyalty.

If in her heart, she really cut off the relationship between mother and child, and honestly ascended to the position of queen mother, even if she could not interfere with the affairs of the previous dynasty, the word "filial piety" could force Yongzheng to restrain his hands and feet.

Under such resentment, there may not be no truth.

"Everything that should be implicated is implicated. The Sixteenth Lord just persuades the concubine to be at ease." Cao Yong said.

Brother Sixteen thought about it, so he let go of the words: "The flat glass is out, let me go and have a look."

Cao Yong agreed, and while they were talking, they arrived at the Yamen of the main hall of the House of Internal Affairs.

On the sixteenth elder brother's desk, there is a glass box half a foot high and one foot square.Open it, and inside is a stack of plate glass.

Cao Yong picked up one piece and looked at it. The color was light green, and it was relatively bright.

"How?" Elder Sixteen raised his eyebrows and said, "Dozens of boxes of this kind of glass have been fired. The emperor said that in these two days, we will first replace a few important places in the palace."

Cao Yong nodded and said: "The thickness is enough, it looks more solid; the color is also good, although it can't be colorless, but it looks transparent."

Brother Sixteen showed some color on his face, and said: "Some colorless ones can be burned, but it is not easy to burn, and there are too many waste materials. After one kiln, there are not two pieces that can be used. This color , Grandpa looks good."

Cao Yong knew that the sixteenth elder brother kept calling himself over, and it was definitely not to show off these pieces of glass, so he just waited for the following.

Sure enough, next, the sixteenth elder brother said his intention: "Furuo, in order to make more glass, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has added five kilns in Liulichang. But it will gradually become popular in the palace, and it will soon be popular." A year and a half, or two or three years if it is too late. The emperor allocated the tax money for the salt and tea classes to the household department this year. Even if there is still some money in the internal treasury, it will not last for a year. Use the income from the glass windows to fill the holes in the inner treasury, Furuo, you have to help."

Cao Yong listened and said with a smile: "Master Sixteen, don't you look far away? Even under the banner of raising money for the internal treasury, do you still need the help of others?"

When an imperial decree came down, it was a matter of course.

Elder Sixteen these days, can be regarded as a spring breeze.

In the past, no one looked down on him, the prince who was born of the concubine of the Han Dynasty, but now he is the prince of Heshuo Zhuang. When lining up at the court meeting, he is second only to Prince Kang, Prince Jian, and Prince Su, and is the fourth prince in the class. .

After him, there are the third elder brother, fifth elder brother, seventh elder brother, thirteenth elder brother and others.

He waved his hand and said, "Furuo, the tax on salt and tea has been allocated to make your work easier, and you have to fulfill me. Six departments and nine ministers, there are yamen in the capital where the court officials work, all of which are replaced with glass windows. In this way, officials and officials will pay attention to this matter, and there will be a lot of noise."

When Cao Yong heard it, it was indeed a good idea.

He thought for a while and asked, "Master Sixteen, how much is this box of glass?"

"How about five taels? This box is three feet square, and three boxes are enough for a room. In the yamen in Beijing, the houses commonly used by Tang officials are calculated as three rooms, and they are only 45 taels of silver per person. "Brother Sixteen shook his sleeves, revealing a small ivory abacus the size of a palm, counting three times, five times and two times.

When Cao Yong saw this, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Could it be that the person in front of him is Brother Nine?
"There are only about forty civil officials above the third rank in the capital. Counting the military officers above the second rank, there will not be more than a hundred. In this way, it is a matter of 5000 taels of silver." Sixteenth elder brother pulled the abacus and said: "Fu Ruo thinks of a proper excuse, where can I get this little money out of?"

After hearing this, Cao Yong said: "There are precedents to follow for every expenditure of the household department. How can we arrange the reasons at will? As long as the emperor approves this kind of new expenditure, others will not say anything. In my opinion, instead of The sixteenth master and I plan, if we ask for the emperor's will, and come down in the form of a decree of grace, it will also make the civil and military ministers bathe in the emperor's grace."

Brother Sixteen stroked his chin and said with a smile, "That's it, great kindness!"

Since Elder Sixteen put his wish of collecting money on the promotion of glass windows, Cao Yong had to say: "Master Sixteen, the price of this glass is not low. If it is really promoted outside, there will be people who are jealous of the profits. Follow the firing. If the Sixteenth Master wants to make money from this, he must put an end to firing in folk kilns. You can also compare these high-quality glasses, and then fire some middle-low ones. The price is set at a low level, so it is ordinary rich If households want to follow suit, they can afford it. With a two-pronged approach, they will always be able to secure three to five years of income."

The two talked for a while, and Elder Sixteen decided to follow the precedent of promoting pipes and cigarette holders before, and add internal signs to these glasses, which can not only distinguish the imitations from the outside, but also increase the value of the glass.

After saying this, Elder Sixteen talked about delivering the coffin of the late emperor in a few days.

In addition to the emperor bringing the clan kings and the former emperor's descendants to send them off, the civil and military ministers also followed half of them.

The sixteenth brother said: "No matter what, Huang Ama has always treated you well, so you should give him a ride. Thinking about it, the list drawn up by the emperor should also have your name on it." Speaking of this, I can't help but feel a little sad: "It's me. Although I have won the title of Prince, my descendants will inherit the incense of Prince Zhuang."

"Filial piety is not filial piety, it doesn't matter. No matter what your status is, the Sixteenth Lord is still the son of the former emperor and the younger brother of the present emperor." Cao Yong said.

Elder Sixteen heard the words, his eyebrows and eyes added a bit of arrogance: "That's right, even though I'm wearing a prince's hat, I'm still the former Emperor Sixteenth Prince Yunlu..."

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Hall of Mental Cultivation, East Nuan Pavilion.

Besides Yongzheng who was sitting cross-legged on the kang, there were two other people in the room, namely the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother in great dresses, the three brothers were discussing the matter of the Daxing emperor.

In a few days, it will be a hundred days since Emperor Daxing passed away.

Qin Tianjian has already chosen an auspicious day and auspicious time.

Yongzheng had a note in his hand, which was the candidate for the funeral drafted by the Ministry of Rites.

Among the sons of the first emperor, the name of the fourteenth elder brother was not listed at all, and among the grandsons, one of the fourteenth elder brothers was missing.

"He's so cute!" Yongzheng told Zhezi to put it down, with a bit of sarcasm on his lips, said.

This is about the third elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother are younger brothers, so it is hard to say anything, just pretend not to hear.

Yongzheng pondered for a moment, and said: "In this way, if the princes and officials look at it, it will appear that I am stingy and can't tolerate my brothers... The fourteenth son is not healthy, and it is inconvenient to support the spirit. He named his eldest son Hongchun as the son of Gushan. Lead the fourteen elder brothers to send off the spirit."

The thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother were all surprised when they heard this.

You know, although Hongchun is the eldest son, he is a concubine.Hong Ming, who was born in the first line, was not enfeoffed, but the eldest son of the concubine, and the title was still equal to that of the fourteenth elder brother. This is also a disguised way of handing over the rights of the fourteenth elder brother to Hongchun.

As a result, the situation between Fourteen Fujin and Hong Ming will become awkward. How will the family get along?

But even knowing this, they didn't mean to say much.

It's not unusual for the Queen Mother to be so ruthless today, and it's not unusual for the Emperor to turn his anger on Elder Fourteen, it's just that Hongchun has been taken advantage of.

Not counting the eldest sons and eldest sons of the palace, except for the eldest son Hongxi, Hongchun, who was not well known, became the second elder brother among the emperor's nephews to be ennobled.

Yongzheng gave out a shellfish casually, and his heart was better.

He picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said to Elder Brother Thirteen, "After the four eldest princesses line up, add Mrs. Li."

The four princesses he was talking about were Princess Gulun Chunxi, Princess Gulun Rongxian, Princess Gulun Kejing, and Princess Heshuojing who lived in the capital now.

Among them, Princess Chunxi is the adopted daughter of Emperor Daxing, and the other three are the biological daughters of Emperor Daxing.

Although they all have a princess mansion in the capital, except for Princess Jingjing who married Sun Chengyun and Princess Rongxian who lived in the capital because of the emperor's favor, the other two princesses rarely return to the capital.

The reason why the princesses are able to gather in the capital now is for the sake of the emperor's invitation, and they want to send the emperor's father off as daughters at last.

All the thirteen elder brothers who usually have Yongzheng as the head of the horse, at this time dare not accept the order, hesitantly said: "Your Majesty, for the sake of His Majesty... the Emperor does not necessarily have to do so if he wants to be kind to Mrs. Li."

However, the emperor can't listen to people's persuasion.

Yongzheng sneered twice, and said: "I know, there was a villain who said that I was ungrateful and ungrateful. I want to let them see, have I ever treated anyone badly? The Jinjue who was promoted, the king who was named king Li Shi is the beloved daughter of the Emperor Daxing, although I can't disobey the emperor father and let Li family receive the imperial edict, but I can complete the father-daughter relationship between the emperor father and her!"

It is about the Cao family, the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother are very careful.

Different from the worry of the thirteenth elder brother, the seventeenth elder brother brought a little joy.

He had previously been ordered to repair the imperial mausoleum in preparation for Emperor Daxing's soul transfer.Because of the good errands, he was named the king of the county. It's hard to describe the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys in the process.

It's just because Yongzheng treated him differently, in just a few months, he, a powerless prince, also got a taste of what it means to be "a fox pretending to be a tiger".

The emperor ordered the Li family to send off the spirit with the eldest princess class, which can be regarded as proving the relationship between the Li family and the royal family, which may not be beneficial to Cao Yong.

Those who want to plot Cao Yong, seeing that the emperor has the intention of defending, have to weigh their own weight...

(End of this chapter)