Yuzhu is a sensible person, and the fourth child asked him to help him with the work, so the timing is not right.
"Wu Jiang, you go back home and tell the old lady and my wife that I won't go home for dinner tonight. Well, Mr. Sibeile will definitely treat you to delicious food." Yuzhu called Wu Jiang, deliberately speaking in front of him
In front of the fourth child, he gave some instructions.
"Hey." After Wu Jiang accepted the order, he rode back to his hometown to report the news.
Lao Shisan laughed and said, "Fourth brother, look, Yuzhu asked you to treat you to a table waiting for you."
Ever since they had gone through hardships together in Mulan's palace, Lao Shisan had become a little closer to Yuzhu.
We are all understanding people. It is impossible to understand the principle that sharing happiness is easy but sharing adversity is difficult!
After being scolded by Kangxi in public for his chatter, the fourth child almost stopped laughing.
The fourth child said with a straight face: "As long as the accounts are sorted out and a table is set up in the Zhimei Building, I'll treat it."
Yuzhu knew very well that the fourth child was cold on the outside and hot on the inside. If you respect him a foot, he will respect you a foot.
However, the fourth child likes to go to extremes. He wants to give the emperor the throne (Yin Xiang) out of love, but wants to eat his flesh out of hatred (Long Keduo). The grievances are extremely clear!
A Song of Ice and Fire is a perfect fit for the fourth child!
Yuzhu can't guarantee that he will beat Lao Si on the night in Changchun Garden in the future.
Therefore, no matter how close the fourth child is to him, Yuzhu always respects him, even if it is subtle, the fourth child cannot find any fault with him.
In front of the fourth child, Yuzhu always kept a low profile and never said anything.
To put it bluntly, this is the secret I learned from Zhang Tingyu!
Zhang Tingyu's restrained and low-key style is very suitable for the fourth child, and so is Yuzhu!
The fourth child also knew Yuzhu's habit of checking accounts. After Yuzhu sat down behind the small desk, he ordered the steward from Baylor's mansion to cooperate with Yuzhu in closing the accounts.
Sure enough, Yuzhu still had the old habit of using the form printed by Lao Si to record all the items read by the accountant and the amount of money.
People in the household department are actually fine in this link. Their main shortcoming is that they can only add and subtract, but not multiply and divide. Summarization is slow and error-prone.
Yuzhu had learned mental arithmetic, and it was easy to handle such a simple summarization of numbers.
An hour and a half later, Yuzhu summarized the accounts twice, and the figures were the same twice, so he handed in the payment to Lao Si.
After reading the numbers, the fourth child couldn't help but sigh: "The national treasury is so empty that it cannot support a Northwest War!"
Yuzhu smiled but said nothing.
All the money he made went into the Guang Chu Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was Kangxi's inner treasury.
The current fiscal revenue and expenditure situation is actually somewhat similar to that of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The emperor's personal money in the inner treasury was abundant. However, the money in the third treasury of the Ministry of Revenue was seriously insufficient.
Ma Qi, a scholar in the Household Management Department, always found excuses to borrow money from the emperor.
Kangxi once sighed many times: "If Ma Qi borrows money, he will never come back!"
When I left the office, it was already dark.
However, in the entire Hubu Yamen, all the offices passing by were dimly lit by candles.
Hey, not a single room is in a state of darkness.
Yuzhu, who was following Lao Si, couldn't help but secretly laugh.
No one in the household department dared to leave earlier than the fourth child. Obviously, everyone knew the fact: the fourth child was a famous workaholic!
Lao Si kept his word and took Yuzhu and Lao Shisan straight to the Zhimei Building in a carriage.
The next morning, Yuzhu entered the palace in a sedan chair and met Wu Yu in front of Xihua Gate.
Wu Jun is Yuzhu's examination master and must be respected.
Yuzhu walked over quickly. The guards around Wu Yu all knew Yuzhu and stepped aside one after another.
"Disciple Yuzhu, I'd like to pay my respects to my master." Yuzhu bowed to the ground very respectfully.
Wu Jun stroked his white beard with his hand, couldn't help but smile, and said gently: "Jing Qing, I heard that you are very fond of Lin'er?"
Yuzhu said with a smile on his face: "I'm sorry, Master, I'm sorry. I would like to thank you for your kindness."
Wu Jun nodded secretly. Throughout the ages, young and noble people have often been arrogant and domineering.
However, Yuzhu is not only never arrogant, but also extremely respectful of his teachers. This is something that a sincere child can teach!
Yuzhu and Wu Yu were walking together in the south study room. It could be said that they didn't see each other when they looked up, but they met when they looked down.
If you deliberately try to distance yourself, it will appear too artificial, which is something a wise man would not do!
Since it was a chance encounter, Yuzhu accompanied Wu Yu into Xihua Gate. The master and apprentice chatted while walking.
According to the custom, when a bachelor enters the palace, a young eunuch will help him hold a lantern to light the way.
In this way, if Wu Yu is holding back her stomach, it will be difficult to talk to Yu Zhu.
The emperor's eyes and ears were all over the place. Even though Yuzhu had already guessed Wu Jun's difficulties, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
We are all old people, what is there that we don’t understand?
Yuzhu was eighteen years old, and his official career had just begun. However, Wu Jun was not far away from begging for bones and becoming an official!
According to Yuzhu's correct understanding, Wu Jun's biggest worry now must be the future of the Wu family's descendants.
"Master, the disciples know that the knowledge of the fifth senior brother is very good. In the future, when Quan Zi enters school, he would like to ask the fifth senior brother to teach him. Is that okay?"
Yuzhu's words immediately comforted Wu Jun and he couldn't help but laugh.
Alas, this disciple, Jie Qing, is not wrong at all. He is indeed very humane and sophisticated!
From Yuzhu's point of view, it is unrealistic to fully take care of the Wu family.
Because the official paths of Manchen and Hanchen are different!
The more Yuzhu takes care of him, the easier it will be for the children of the Wu family to be marginalized by the Han officials.
However, Wu Jun's fifth son stopped taking the imperial examination after passing the civil service examination. He divided his duties within the Wu family, which was farming and doing business, and earning money to support his brothers in becoming officials in the court.
Yuzhu's eldest son took Wu Lang, who was not an official, as his disciple, which was very wonderful.
Hey, if you do this, you won't violate the emperor's taboos, and you won't be afraid of the Han ministers gossiping too much. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!
After seeing the lights in the south study room, Wu Yu turned a straight face and stopped paying attention to Yuzhu.
Yuzhu also only treats Wu Jun as an ordinary boss, polite and courteous, approaching and staying away from him!
Just as he sat down, before Yuzhu picked up the tea cup, Zhang Tingyu came.
"Sir, please take a look." Zhang Tingyu's posture was very soft and he showed special respect for Yuzhu.
Yuzhu didn't want to embarrass Zhang Tingyu because of some trivial matters, so he smiled and said: "Hengchen, the abbreviation you wrote is definitely the best. Just pass it to the internal affairs office."
Zhang Tingyu is notoriously cautious, how could he believe Yu Zhu's words?
"Sir, you are famous for being well-informed. Only after you have reviewed the abbreviations drafted by your humble position can I feel at ease." Zhang Tingyu was very good at talking, and he immediately blocked Yuzhu's mouth.
Yuzhu knew in his heart that Zhang Tingyu was a meticulous person and would not let the conversation slip easily.
"Hengchen, just put it down. I just turned my hand and handed it in." Yuzhu still had the same attitude. He just passed his hand and it was impossible to see the abbreviation.
The higher the level of the service yamen, the more complicated the personnel affairs will be. Everyone must abide by the principle of being careful and making no big mistakes.
When it was time for the emperor to listen to the government, Yuzhu still stood at the end of the ministers in the south study room, always lowering his head, deliberately not looking at Kangxi.
Yesterday, after Duke Jingxi took the emperor's place in the queue, no one dared to come forward to recommend him today.
However, Kangxi was still unhappy.
Because Ma Qi asked Kangxi to borrow money again.
"Your Majesty, there are only ten million taels of silver in the three treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but the amount of money that needs to be allocated for disaster relief is as much as four million taels. The slave is thinking that he can only borrow some money from the Guangshu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
." Ma Qiming knew that Kang Xi's face had become ugly, but he just finished his words without caring.
In the early Qing Dynasty, even though Kangxi had greatly weakened the power base of the banner leaders, the Manchu nobles still held great real power.
As the chief Manchurian scholar, Ma Qi was quite tough and was not afraid of offending Kangxi.
In fact, the Tatar Qing Dynasty had a political structure of eight beile co-governance from the time of Laolu to the Huangtaiji period.
Dorgon's autocratic power was also based on the fact that his brothers Azig and Duduo each controlled a banner.
In essence, the Dorgon period was still the background of the Eight Banners co-governance.
After the death of Shunzhi, Kangxi unjustly accused Aobei of treason, with the purpose of regaining the power of pro-government.
Until today, Kangxi's autocratic power has only weakened the power of the banner owners. The power of the Manchu nobles is still greater than the imperial power.
It was not until forty years after Qianlong that the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty was vested in the hands of the emperor alone!
The butt determines the head, I am not deceiving you!
Ma Qi was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In his later years, Kangxi, in order to highlight benevolent governance, often exempted money and food from disaster-stricken areas.
But the problem is that the money collected is limited and cannot withstand Kangxi's generous squandering!
"Ma Qi, you just borrowed 800,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Internal Affairs last month, and you spent it all so quickly?" Kangxi's words were a typical example of a hooligan.
"Your Majesty, when you were still in Mulan Palace, you were exempted from three years of money and food from the eight states of Shandong, and the money in the three treasuries of the Ministry of Household Affairs was not enough." Ma Qi stiffened his neck and pushed back.
Ma Qi is not the fourth child, and he is not stupid. He deliberately did not mention the princes and ministers borrowing money from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Yuzhu did not raise his head, and kept his mouth shut, silently listening to the quarrel between Ma Qi and the old emperor.
The basis for Kangxi's abundant internal treasury was mainly that the Chongwenmen Supervisory Office was straightened out by Yuzhu, and it could collect two to three million taels of silver every year.
It seemed that there was a lot of money, but Kangxi, who was in his fifties, could not stop himself from building large-scale construction projects for his enjoyment.
Ma Qi's failure to repay the loan gave Kangxi a headache, but he couldn't bear to have an attack on the spot.
To put it bluntly, among the officials in the world, the officials in the Ministry of Revenue are the fattest and the most difficult.
The world is huge, and the biggest thing is without money!
"Let's discuss it later." Kangxi deliberately used a delaying strategy and did not want to continue to tangle with Ma Qi.
The project in Changchun Garden has already started. We can't let Ma Qi empty out the inner treasury and have to stop the work, right?
When Kangxi thought about money, he remembered Yuzhu.
However, Yuzhu stood quietly with his head down, not looking at Kangxi at all.
Kangxi felt very unhappy. After announcing the disbandment of the dynasty, he went straight to the South Study without returning to Qianqing Palace.