Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1343
Although Cao Yong was full of confidence thinking about doing his best for the country and the people the day before, when he got up from the bed in the middle of the night the next day, Cao Yong was looking forward to his early retirement.

Since Shengjia was stationed in the Old Summer Palace, Cao Yong had to get up in the middle of the night to drive Chouzheng (at [-]:[-] a.m.) out of the city from Xizhimen during the small court meetings.

Since he entered the court as an official, the big and small courts have also come down for many years.

In the early years, I was young and full of energy, and I didn’t feel anything. Now when I wake up in the middle of the night, I have no energy for half a day during the day.

Cao Yong yawned, closed his eyes, and let his wife help him tidy up his clothes.

Seeing her husband like this, Chu Yu felt distressed, hesitated and said: "One day before Xiaochao, the master should go live outside the city... Our home is also close to the imperial garden, so we can rest for two more hours. God bless you too If you want to go home when you want to go home when you are working in the imperial court, if you are tired and don't like to go back and forth, can you let him stay in the garden?"

Cao Yong listened, a little moved.

He is currently the Minister of the Palm, and he is on duty once every three days, which is really a bit difficult.

Judging from Yongzheng's itinerary in the past few years, he stayed in Yuanmingyuan for more than half of the year.

In previous years, my family often moved to Haidian Garden to escape the summer heat, so there was no need to get up early.There are many things to do this year, such as moving, getting married, etc. Chuyu, the head of the house, needs to be in charge.

It’s just that it’s okay for me to go to the garden to rest in advance, which saves me the energy of getting up in the middle of the night; my son is young and energetic, so he can’t let him develop the habit of not returning home at night.

Cao Yong himself has been in the guards, so he knows who the guards are.

They are all the sons of nobles, and they can't say that they can eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, but most of them can play and toss.

God Bless is still prudent, age is here, if you are really hooked up and contaminated with bad habits, wouldn't it be too late to regret.

Therefore, Cao Yong still waved his hand and said: "Let's wait and see. Boss, others have survived like this, so don't be too coddled."

When Chu Yu heard this, she said with a smile: "This year's major affairs are almost taken care of, and next year will be free..."

"Where can I be free next year, it's not about my daughter..." When mentioning this, Cao Yong stopped laughing and couldn't be happy.

He originally planned to keep Tianhui until eighteen to get married, but Shuhede's age is still in the balance.

Although the old Mrs. Tala did not say anything in front of Chu Yu, she also said in front of Cao Yi that she wanted her grandson to get married as soon as possible.

In this world, a woman can get married when she is fourteen.In the eyes of outsiders, Tianhui will be 16 years old next year, which is not considered early marriage.

Previously, he only thought that his daughter was a steady and sensible person, and he only liked Shu Hede, who was a few years older, because he looked down on boys of the same age.

Shu Hede is nineteen this year, and will be twenty next year, so getting married is already considered a late marriage.

If he had both parents, Cao Yong would have the cheek to postpone the marriage for two years; but the old couple of the University Scholars' Mansion are all over the ages, and they are still waiting for the eldest grandson to get married as soon as possible and spread their branches and leaves.

The Cao family wants to get married, but also postpones the wedding, which is unethical.

When Mrs. Li returns to Beijing, the two families will formally discuss marriage.Even if Tianhui's wedding date is delayed, it would be nice if it could be postponed until the end of next year.

At that time, Tianhui was only 16 years old.

In Cao Yong's heart, he has already faintly regretted...

Chu Yu knew that her husband was upset about her daughter again, so she quickly changed the subject and said, "I know that the master has no appetite at this time, but it will take a long time, so I still need to eat more... Yesterday Changping Zhuangzi sent some wild vegetables over. This morning, we have shepherd's purse wontons, and cold bitter hemp vegetables..." After finishing speaking, he sent a message to set the meal.

The food box was ready, and in a short while, the maids had already set the table.

Cao Yong didn't have much appetite at first, but when he saw a large bowl of fragrant wontons, his appetite increased. He ate nothing left, and even ate two extra honeysuckle rolls.

After eating a good breakfast and drinking a cup of strong tea, Cao Yong became more energetic.

From the city to the Old Summer Palace, it took more than an hour in a carriage, and it was not difficult.

It has been more than half a month of summer, and the weather is still a bit cold in the morning and evening.

When the carriage arrived outside the Old Summer Palace, it was already daylight.

On the left side of the palace where Yongzheng handles political affairs is the class room. Cao Yong and other people from the small dynasty do not have to wait outside the garden, but are led by the servants to wait here.

The household department is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and Yongzheng is a pragmatic emperor, so every time the household department is on duty, the time for court meetings will not be short, and today is no exception.

When all the people were led to the imperial court, they first received a sum of Dingyin from Shaanxi and Gansu, which was supposed to reduce or exempt the prefectures and counties, but before the decree of the reduction or exemption went down, the original amount had already been collected.

Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, wrote in the brochure, mentioning that the money will be reduced immediately and returned on a household basis, but the households are scattered and it is difficult to distribute it. I am afraid that the subordinates will fill their pockets, so please store it in the treasury for food and payment.

Although this sum of money is less than 7000 taels, there is no precedent after all.

How to deal with the Ministry of Households has to ask for advice.

It's a small court, but it's just the minister on duty, the servant, two great scholars, and several princes. Who among you is not a human being?

Yue Zhongqi, as the governor in charge of the three provinces, solemnly handed over the note and made a special trip to mention this matter, so naturally she had other intentions.

If the emperor allowed this money to be paid for the soldiers, then I believe that it will not be long before there will be local money and food in various names to pay for the soldiers.

As a governor outside, you can feel at ease, but after all, you don't have to be with the imperial court all the time. Apart from having eyes and ears in the capital, sometimes you have to find out the emperor's happiness and anger from the book.

If the emperor is not sure, is the army going to move, or not to move?
If it were other governors, Xu would not pay too much attention to the war, but Yue Zhongqi was born in the military. He has three provinces under his jurisdiction and it is a frontier province...

Yongzheng ordered that since the silver was donated by the people of Shaanxi, it should be returned to Shaanxi and used for water conservancy and granary and other things that are beneficial to the people's livelihood, and it does not need to be charged into the military pay.

Cao Yong stood in the queue, listening to Yongzheng's oral instructions, and couldn't help being convinced.

Although Yongzheng has a bad reputation among scholars, as an emperor, his new policies have indeed lightened the burden on the people.

His disposal of the more than 6000 taels of silver is in line with the principle of "take it from the people and return it to the people".

As a witness of history, Cao Yong can say with certainty that without Yongzheng's hard work for more than ten years, there would be no "Kangqian prosperity".

If Yongzheng lived longer, what would history be like...

After talking about the silver in Shaanxi, Yongzheng asked about the local granaries.

Local official warehouses stockpile rice and grain to prepare for urgent needs of drought and flood, which is related to the lives of the people and should not be ignored at all.Not only did the Ministry of Households send people to inspect every year, but the granaries had to be directly linked with local officials.

If there is something wrong with the granary, the local chief official should be directly responsible; if the granary is moldy, rotten and short of rice, it must be ordered to repair it.

At the end, Yong looked stern, and said: "The compensation can't be paid out within a limited year, and the crime will be punished according to the law, and we will never neglect!"

Everyone knows that the emperor attaches great importance to the official warehouse, and he has to ask about it once or twice every year, but this year he is extraordinarily diligent.

In April alone, this was the third time.

Those who are well-informed know what the emperor is worried about; those who are behind-the-scenes can't help guessing whether there is something unstable in the official warehouse, and the emperor is beating a few officials in the household department.

Cao Yong's heart also sank.

It seems that the water situation in the south is really worrying, which makes Yongzheng so worried...

The military affairs in the northwest, the water conditions in the south, the deficit in Shanxi, the private salt in the south of the Yangtze River...everything is a matter of people's livelihood, and everything is related to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Therefore, the small court of this day was postponed until the afternoon, and all matters were not discussed until it was not yet (two o'clock in the afternoon).

Except for Yongzheng on the dragon chair and the thirteen princes on the square stool, the other princes and ministers all stood on duty.

Even a man like Cao Yong, who is in his prime, feels heavy in his calves and stiff in his back after standing for a whole morning; let alone a few elderly adults, all of whom have pale faces, gritted their teeth and stiffen their teeth, and it is already inconvenient for them to walk.

I don't know whether it was Yongzheng who was sympathetic or just rewarded at will, anyway, he made someone pass down an oral order to give meals to the princes and ministers on duty.

Since it is a meal, no matter how many dishes there are, the courtiers must be grateful.

After the various etiquettes came down, another half an hour passed.

Everyone left the garden after dinner.

After getting into the carriage, Cao Yong took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was already the second quarter of the middle school (03:30 in the afternoon).

Calculate the time from the Yuanmingyuan to the city, and there is no need to go to the Yamen.

Cao Yong opened the curtain and told Zhang Yi to go back to the city first and go to the government office to inform Jiang Jian.In this case, if there is an urgent official document in the yamen, Jiang Jian can take it back to the mansion.

After finishing the order, Cao Yong put down the curtain and closed his eyes in a daze.

Although the big deficit in Shanxi's officialdom is the big hole left by Yiduli's predecessors and predecessors, and it has nothing to do with Yiduli, but when Yiduli was in Shanxi, it was also related to the consumption of money.

He wrote a note last year, mentioning the matter of returning the fire consumption money to the salary.

His starting point is not difficult to understand. Everyone knew about the movement in the Northwest last year, and it will not be peaceful for a few years.

Yi Duli took the initiative to offer fire to consume money, which also meant to cater to his wishes.

But what Yongzheng couldn't stand the most was that officials exploited the people.

Yi Duli himself is not greedy, but he has the heart to use the fire consumption money paid by the people of Shanxi as military pay, which can be regarded as a relief for the emperor.

But Yongzheng didn't see it that way. Instead, he took Yiduli as a model and reprimanded this matter. It was nothing more than officials taking the money that should have been returned to the people as their own private land, arbitrarily occupying it, and so on.

If Yiduli was still in office in Shanxi, today's Xiaochao incident would only shock him for a few days; now that Yiduli is already in Beijing, it would be frightening for the emperor to scold the officials in charge so unceremoniously.

Cao Yong didn't believe that Yongzheng just reprimanded him casually and was beating Yiduli.

Ituri is not on duty today.

Among the princes and ministers present, there were two people who were close to Yiduli, and the thirteenth elder brother and himself.

The emperor is hunting cattle in the mountains?Which is the cow?

He rubbed the space between his brows and told himself not to think too much.

My friendship with Yiduli can only be regarded as a personal relationship, neither party nor group, there should be no taboos.

Having said that, he was a little uneasy after all.

That's right, the identities of myself and Yi Duli are not the same as in the past. Both of them are in charge of the capital. In their view, it is a personal relationship that does not involve public affairs; in the eyes of others, they are suspected of being a party...

(End of this chapter)