Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1380 Prevention
Consolate those who can be comforted, comfort those who should be comforted, and now we can only wait for Cao Song to arrive in Beijing.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Cao family is simply "unlucky". Either this one is sick, or that one is dismissed from office. Cao Yong, who is in charge of the family, feels unhappy in his heart.

In fact, it is true.

It's not about Cao Song's affairs, but the household department is getting busy.

Since Zhang Tingyu is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, the errands of the Ministry of Households are naturally mostly on Cao Yong.

In order to show his "grace", Yongzheng did not remove Cao Yong's "concurrent Minister of the Ministry of Industry" from him, so Cao Yong had to spend half a day every three days to deal with the government affairs of the Ministry of Industry.

Although the floods in the south have just come to an end, preparations for disaster relief this winter and next spring are about to begin.

The flood in spring and summer this year is once in a hundred years. Even though Li Wei mentioned the matter of building the dam to prevent floods in the Zhezi, Yongzheng also allocated money to it, but the officials below procrastinated and really built the dam before the flood came and prepared the fortifications. , less than [-]%.

In six southern provinces, 43 prefectures and 330 six prefectures and counties, millions of people were affected by disasters.This number is reported now, and there are some new states and counties that have not been reported.

According to different disaster situations, taxes should be reduced or exempted, and money and food should be provided.

This is a cumbersome job. Fortunately, there are various departments responsible for the province. Cao Yong, the Minister in charge, only needs to supervise.

In addition to the burdensome government affairs of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry, what depressed him was the word "relief".

Since ancient times, there have been fewer officials in "disaster relief"?

He can have a clear conscience, but he can't guarantee that others will not be mad.

If he continues to indulge, he will not only be sorry to the people, but he will also bear the "crime of negligence" when the Dong Chuang incident happens.

No matter from conscience, or from the current situation of the Cao family, Cao Yong is unwilling to bear this charge.

The first thing he thinks about now is to plan for a rainy day, think of a proper method, formulate various detailed rules for disaster relief, and pass this through the imperial approval to form a will.In this way, officials at all levels have laws to follow.

If anyone commits a crime, it will not be implicated in others.

In his previous life, he studied law, and in this life he often looked up Qing law, and now he finally found the time to "exhibit his strengths".

In addition, Jiang Jian, an aide with a criminal background, picked up the leftovers and filled in the gaps. Cao Yong stayed up in the study every night until midnight. After half a month of hard work, he changed his draft three times and finally drew up a disaster relief plan.

On the evening of August [-]th, Cao Yong's relief note came to the imperial court.

There are more than [-] words in this statement, starting from the court officials in the Hubutang, to the governors and chief envoys, to the Daotai, the magistrate, to the magistrate, the county magistrate, to the low-level officials, each person's responsibility in the relief The range is clearly marked.

This is not fabricated by Cao Yong out of thin air, but the division of powers based on the disaster relief records of the Ministry of Households over the years.

It's just that everyone's role in disaster relief earlier was mostly established by convention, but now Cao Yong is specific to the letter.

Then, the corresponding punishments are slack in errands, small mistakes, fallacies and other corresponding punishments. Naturally, corruption of ink and blackmail is one of the felonies.

Each article is against the law of the Qing Dynasty, and it does not go beyond words.

Logically speaking, if the errands are not done well, there will be punishments, and if the errands are done well, they should be rewarded. It's just that Cao Yong is not a fool, so he won't bother to think about how to encourage and praise officials. You can think about those And only Yongzheng can do it.

Yongzheng hated officials being greedy for ink the most. When he saw this book, he didn't take a second look, and immediately understood Cao Yong's deep meaning.

This is a first-of-its-kind booklet.

If this relief policy is followed, even if officials cannot be prevented from being greedy for money and food relief, they will no longer think about the past, where they will be implicated as soon as they are involved.

The innocent are wronged, and the innocent are blamed up and down. Once corrected, it is a shocking case.

Yongzheng's eyes lit up, he raised his head and told Chen Fu, "Go invite Prince Yi."

Yongzheng was worried about the health of the thirteenth elder brother, and he did not want him to suffer from traveling, so he left a room for the thirteenth elder brother in the side hall of the Qinzheng Hall.When the thirteenth elder brother was late on business, he stayed in the garden to settle down.

Because tomorrow is the grand court meeting, Yongzheng just discussed the government affairs with the thirteenth elder brother until late at night, and then let the thirteenth elder brother go out, and the thirteenth elder brother was placed in the side hall.

Now, Yongzheng was invigorated by this booklet, so he couldn't help sending Brother Thirteen over to discuss.

After a while, Elder Brother Thirteen followed Chen Fu in.

Yongzheng glanced at Brother Thirteen, and told Chen Fu, "Go get a blanket."

Chen Fu went down in response, Brother Thirteen looked at the clock, it was almost midnight, and said: "There will be a grand court tomorrow, the emperor should arrange it earlier..."

Yongzheng pointed to the side of the kang, saw the thirteenth elder brother sitting down, and said, "Isn't it true that the thirteenth brother is also not settled! I was going to sleep, but I saw a good thing, and I feel refreshed..." As he said, Pick up the folder from the kang table and hand it to brother thirteen.

In private, the two of them lost the restraint of a monarch and his ministers, and became a little more at ease as a brother.

It's not that the thirteenth elder brother is pampered and spoiled, but that he knows how to get along like this, which is most in the emperor's mind.

"It's so thick...it's two inches high..." Brother Thirteen took the paper and said with a smile.

Yongzheng smiled without saying a word, only raised his eyebrows, motioning for him to open it.

Brother Thirteen opened it, put away his smile, and showed a bit of solemnity.

It is said that the thirteenth elder brother is in charge of the household department now, so he will read the papers of the household department first, and then hand them to the emperor according to the complexity; but the emperor is used to doing everything by himself, and the thirteenth elder brother has not been in good health in the past two years, so the following papers On the contrary, the emperor read it first, and he needed the direct instructions of the holy judge, and assigned the papers that he did not need to decide to the thirteen elder brothers.

Therefore, Yongzheng read Cao Yong's excerpt first, and only the prince in charge, Brother Thirteen, saw it.

At this moment, Chen Fu had tiptoed in, holding a thin navy blue camel hair blanket in his hand.

"Cover the prince's lap..." Yongzheng ordered in a low voice.

"Hey..." Chen Fu responded in a low voice, and stepped forward to put the blanket on Brother Thirteen's legs.

Elder Brother Thirteen was fascinated by watching, without realizing it.

Yongzheng smiled, picked up another unapproved brochure and read it.

For a while, there was silence in the room, only the occasional sound of folding...

After a full quarter of an hour, the thirteenth elder brother raised his head, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then continued to look.

Yongzheng shook his head with a smile, and did not interrupt him, but only ordered Chen Fu to light two more candlesticks.

The royal candlesticks used in the palace, one candlestick can light nine candles, and they are all one and a half feet high suet white wax.

With the addition of two candlesticks, the room is brighter again...

After another quarter of an hour, Brother Thirteen raised his head again, but heaved a heavy sigh.

Yongzheng put down the imperial brush in his hand and said, "Do you regret it?"

Elder Brother Thirteen said in surprise, "Your Majesty also remembers the past?"

Yongzheng said: "It seems that there is nothing wrong with using the word cautious at a critical time... That year, my thirteenth brother and I went to the south of the Yangtze River to provide disaster relief under the order of Emperor Ama, but we didn't expect to be disgraced... At that time, there was still Thinking about having the status of a prince, who would dare to fool him, but those moths collude with each other, how much did they get? It only hurts the innocent people..."

The thirteenth elder brother took a long breath and said: "It's hard for Cao Yong to think of this. If it were someone else, I'm afraid it would be Xiao Gui and Cao Sui...Only he, an old man in the household department, knows the accumulation of money and food in the household department's bank treasury. It’s not easy, and I’ve been a local official, and I know that the people are not easy, so I think of these..."

Cao Yong seemed to be "cautious" and detailed the responsibilities of disaster relief; but this time "cautious", he lost his caution and seemed a little passionate.

Yongzheng and Shisan elder brother looked at each other, both of them understood that Cao Yong's book was a good thing for the country and the people, but for Cao Yong himself, it was "a thankless effort", and he wanted to offend and warn a large number of people.

Yongzheng was very satisfied, nodded and said: "Finally he has lost his stinginess, and looks like a famous minister..."

Seeing that Yongzheng was interested, the thirteenth elder brother thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, this booklet is carefully drafted, but it is mostly for preventing punishment. It is obvious whether we should also supervise and reward one or two." Your Majesty Ron?"

Yongzheng nodded with a smile, and said: "It should be like this. I want all the ministers and workers in the world to know that I will never forgive those who dare to be greedy for ink; I will not treat those good officials who are truly honest and upright and make decisions for the people..."

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The next day, the Great Court Meeting.

Although Cao's mansion was close to the Forbidden City, Cao Yong still got up in the middle of the night because Shengjia was stationed in Yuanmingyuan.

When he was about to reach Xizhimen, he happened to meet Zuo Zhu, so Cao Yong told him to get into the carriage.

Although Zuo Zhu did mediocre stereotyped essays, he would fail in the exam, but because he studied diligently in his early years and read the Four Books and Five Classics solidly, when he took the six-part pen and post examination, he was the same as Zuo Cheng. To participate in the Great Court Meeting.

"These days, there are many things in the yamen at home, and I have been unable to ask. You have moved to the ancestral house for a while, how are you living?" Cao Yong asked.

Zuo Zhu said: "It's all good, the internal and external housekeepers are the candidates selected by the second younger brother earlier... The adoptive father doesn't have to worry about his son, the son has grown up now..."

Cao Yong then asked: "Where is it over there, can you still be safe?"

Zuozhu said "hehe" twice: "It is said that the hands are not used to it... My son asked someone to build a small kitchen, and the servants and purchases in the grandmother's yard were also called out alone, so as not to mix with others... ..."

In this way, Mrs. Ning couldn't make a fuss anymore, and she didn't have a chance to help with housework.

Cao Yong nodded: "There are many filial piety in the world. You do what you should do. It is righteous. If others want to talk, they have to weigh it... People are getting old, and their temperaments are changeable and weird. You are the younger generation. It's good to have a few... I still say the same thing, I didn't let your brothers suffer wronged since I was a child, and I didn't allow you to suffer wronged yourself..."

"Yes, adoptive father..." Zuo Zhu responded, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Father, the second uncle is a military officer, and he was dismissed because of the disputes in the officialdom; did the second brother also let him leave Jiangnan... ..."

Cao Yong's earlier idea was also to hope that Zuo Cheng would be qualified in Liubu to make up for the lack of not being born in the imperial examination.

But because of the drafting of the disaster relief policy now, Cao Yong's thoughts have changed.

Zuo Cheng is now following Yin Jishan in Hunan. Huguang and Liangjiang are the areas most affected by floods this year. If Zuo Cheng can do a good job in disaster relief, his achievements will reach the imperial court...

It's just that, and with the credit of checking the local official warehouses before, Zuo Cheng's Tengda will not only be in front of Zuo Zhu, but also the gap between the two brothers will become wider and wider...

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Tears ran, I had something to go out during the day, and I had to catch up with the rain.

Thinking that the distance is short and there is no smooth bus, even if you take a taxi to take a taxi and come back, you can’t get wet. The result is a tragedy... When you go there, you arrive smoothly, but there is no taxi when you come back. The distance of four kilometers +, Xiaojiu came back from a stroll in the rain. Good clothes have hats to cover most of them... Afraid of catching a cold, I drank hot water when I came back, but I didn't catch a cold, and I had diarrhea, and ran to the bathroom all night. The sad Xiaojiu was shivering in the room...

(End of this chapter)