After the Qiansou Banquet, Kangxi was so happy that he was overjoyed. Extremely happy, he became sad, and he had a sullen expression on his face, unable to be happy.
Wen Xi teased Fu'er with a newly opened purple sand magnolia, "What's going on, Your Majesty?"
Kangxi muttered: "It's useless to tell you!"
"Oh!" Wen Xi responded lightly and stopped asking further questions. But she didn't ask, but Kangxi couldn't help but said: "50% of the cost of this Thousand Old Banquet came from my internal treasury, and 50% was used.
How come there is such a huge deficit in the national treasury?!"
Wen Xi raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Who told the emperor to do such a grand thing..." She mocked Kangxi, then turned to tease Fu'er: "Don't you think so, Fu'er?"
"Hey?" Fu'er's soft little mouth uttered incomprehensible Martian language, as if responding to Wen Xi.
Kangxi's old face was not very good-looking, "I only spent more than two million taels from the national treasury, but the deficit was more than ten million taels!"
Wen Xi was surprised and asked: "Who was corrupted?"
Kangxi looked sullen, and it seemed that the problem was caused by Kangxi himself.
In the past few years, the national treasury was becoming increasingly abundant. Kangxi felt that "the oceans and rivers were clear", so he extended his favor and began to allow officials to borrow money from the treasury for turnover. Kangxi's purpose was good, but unfortunately there were some problems in its implementation, and many people borrowed money.
, there were only a few people who repaid the money. At that time, Kangxi had a lot of money in his pocket and did not care about this small amount of money. But as time went by, more and more people borrowed money, and they borrowed money more and more harshly. None of them repaid the money, so this was given to Kangxi.
It caused a lot of trouble!
After Qiansou's banquet, Kangxi asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to make a statistics. He actually lent out more than ten million taels of silver, but the repayment was less than a fraction! Kangxi was immediately angry. You can borrow my money, but you don't want to pay it back.
Absolutely not! So Kangxi pulled out the "selfless" fourth prince Yinzhen to take charge of debt collection.
To be honest, this is really not a good job. Compared with the dirty and hard work that Kangxi gave Yinlu, this thing is more offensive. However, Yinzhen is a workaholic and works hard to do something industrial.
He acted like a debt collector every day, and now everyone secretly calls Prince Yong the "Prince of Debt Extortion"! This name is much louder than the name of Yin Lu, the Prince of Yuan County!
Kangxi decided to clear up the debt but had no choice. The treasury was empty, and Kangxi also wanted to expand Changchun Garden. This was an unstoppable expense, so he had to find money from other places. The result was that he thought
This is the way to clear your debt.
It's a pity that Yinzhen wanted to clear his debts, but his title was only Baylor, and Kangxi didn't give him much authority. Naturally, people with a little bit of status would not pay attention to the prince Baylor who seemed to have fallen out of favor. Among them, he borrowed money
Many of the big families were the old princes of the Aixinjueluo clan. Yinzhen repeatedly ran into trouble and had no choice but to go to the palace to complain to Kangxi.
"Huang Ama, Prince Li, as a close relative of the royal family, borrowed a total of 800,000 taels of silver from the national treasury! My son went to ask for it, but he said he had no money and kicked his son out! Only when his son asked about it did he find out that
Prince Rili just took in a concubine! The banquet alone cost tens of thousands of taels of silver!" Yinzhen made it very clear that Prince Li had money, but he just refused to pay it back, so he had no choice!
"My son is incompetent! It is really difficult for him to take on such a big responsibility. Please ask Emperor Ama to take back his life!"
When Yinzhen came to complain, Wen Xi was in Changchun Garden, preparing for Fu'er's first birthday party. Since Changchun Garden was built, Kangxi often came to live here. It is true that Changchun Garden has a beautiful scenery and is clean.
, there are no other concubines to come in. The harem is free to become a concubine and others are responsible for taking care of it, and there will be no big trouble.
"Master," Xiaoluzi came in to report, "The emperor has restored the fourth son of the emperor to the title of Prince Yong!"
Wen Xi said lightly. This was a matter of course. Otherwise, how could Baylor alone be able to offend the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han Dynasty?
Xiaoluzi added: "Prince Yong also asked the emperor to let the thirteenth elder brother assist in the matter."
The previous dynasty was naturally noisy. After receiving the title of prince, Yinzhen worked even harder. He was not merciless at all when dealing with the old princes of Aixinjueluo. He asked for an imperial edict and led half of the heroic cavalry battalion to charge into the imperial city.
, as if they were ransacking a house.
For a time, Kangxi's imperial court was piled with memorials to impeach Prince Yong. Kangxi groaned slightly and threw them all into the corner without even looking at them.
Here in Changchun Garden, Fu'er's first-year banquet was held very lively. After all, the harem has not had a baby for more than ten years. Even if it is just a princess, it is quite a festive event. Moreover, Kangxi is now sixty years old. On the third day of spring this year
In the month before his birthday, he had just held a feast for the Thousand Old Man, spending a lot of money. It was at that time that he realized that the treasury was empty.
In the past two years, Kangxi became more and more fond of grand ostentation. He spent a lot of money, and naturally the money in his pocket was not enough. However, Kangxi would never wrong his daughter, so he held a grand event and held it very grandly.
Prince Yong, the debt-collecting prince, arrived late, but the one who came even later than him was Jiubei Zi Yinzhen. It was enough for Yinzhen to arrive late, so he just took his seat quietly. He had to run to the front to greet Kangxi in a conspicuous place, and just said hello.
That’s all, but he still wore a pair of coarse cloth and patched clothes!
Kangxi's face was extremely ugly at that time: "Lao Jiu, why are you dressed like this?! Are you deliberately trying to compete with the Queen and Hutuli Yimin?!"
Yinzhen hurriedly knelt down and said confidently: "Huang Ama, my son didn't mean to be disrespectful to Huang's mother! Just to pay back the money, my son has sold everything in the house, and only these clothes are left to wear.
Got it!"
Yinli shrugged his eyebrows and looked like he was watching a good show. Unfortunately, his brother was still suffering from the wind and sun on the river and could not come back to watch this good show.
Yinzhen stood up from his seat and said: "Huang Ama, the ninth brother owes 500,000 taels, and now he has only paid back 200,000 taels, which is less than half! I acted impartially!"
Jiu Beizi immediately said in a sinister manner: "Fourth brother is really selfless! But I remember that Long Keduo owed one hundred thousand taels of silver. Why didn't fourth brother go to him to collect the debt? Why did the fourth brother just keep an eye on his younger brother?!"
Yinzhen said with a straight face: "The matter of clearing off debts has to be from difficult to easy, and naturally we have to start with the big debtors! When the ninth brother pays off, I will naturally go to Longkodo! Ninth brother, don't stare at others when you have time.
It’s better to pay back the 300,000 taels of silver as soon as possible!”
Yinzhen was never one to admit defeat. Even though Yinzhen was depressed, he was still full of energy! A strange smile appeared on Yinzhen's face: "My brother will do his best even if he loses everything. It's just that the Meridian Gate is not very lively.
On the contrary, the front of the fourth brother's palace is quite lively. Can you please lend the entrance of the palace to the younger brother so that the younger brother can set up a stall and sell all the furniture and furnishings in the mansion in exchange for the money he owes?
,how?"
After hearing this, Yinzhen was immediately angry and his face turned purple. Although he didn't dare to tell clearly what Yinzhen's family background was, he also knew that Lao Ba was able to win over so many important Manchu and Han ministers a few years ago because of the money in Lao Jiu's pocket.
!There are so many princes and elder brothers, and none of them has a richer family than Lao Jiu! Yinzhen’s business is spread all over the north and south, and he is as rich as a country, but he keeps hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and refuses to call him, complaining about his poverty everywhere! Even a few elders
The prince has obediently paid the silver owed, but Lao Jiu is full of tricks!
As a prince, he competes with the people for profit, and he has become a rotten businessman. He even went out to set up a stall...Yin Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "You have completely disgraced the royal family!"
Yinzhen is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes, "That's because you, fourth brother, forced me to do that!"
Indeed, it was only a few hundred thousand taels of silver, which was only a drop in the bucket for Yinzhen. When he was short of money, he had withdrawn it from the treasury several times, and then he forgot about it. If only the fourth son had come to ask for help in a nice voice
He, this small amount of money might be repaid as a reward to a beggar, but because the fourth child has been so proud of himself recently, he is extremely arrogant! When Yinzhen thought that Bage was idle at home, he became very angry: I just won’t pay it back, you
What can you do to me?!
Yinzhen said angrily: "It's really disgraceful for my younger brother to go out and set up a stall. Naturally, it can't be as famous as the fourth brother's reputation as the 'Prince of Extorting Debts'!"
"That's enough!!" Kangxi suddenly shouted, gnashing his teeth with hatred: "Brothers Ni Qiang are both my good sons!!"
Brothers Yinzhen and Yinzhen both knelt down and said, "Huang Ama, please calm down!"
Kangxi pointed at Yinzhen, who was wearing patches, and said: "Since you intend to disgrace the royal family, don't appear in front of me again. I will just pretend that I don't have you as my son!"
Seeing that Kangxi favored Yinzhen so unhesitatingly, Yinzhen felt deeply unwilling. He forced himself to defend himself and said: "Huang Ama, the fourth brother has led the soldiers and horses of the Xiaoqi camp to ransack the house recently to collect debts.
Like a robber! Several ministers from the Manchu and Han Dynasties have been forced to hang themselves on the beam! If Huang Ama doesn't ignore it anymore, his son will have no choice but to hang himself on the beam!"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Concubine Yi, who was sitting on the concubine's seat next to her, finally couldn't stand it anymore and spoke out with distressed admonishment.
Veins popped out on Kangxi's forehead, and he angrily shouted: "If you want to hang a beam, I will give you three feet of white silk! I want to see if you really dare to hang a beam!!" Kangxi's temperament was never intimidated.
Why didn't Kangxi know about Lao Jiu's family background? Where did he lack these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? Of course Kangxi didn't lack this, but this son was really embarrassing to him!!
When Concubine Yi heard this, her body suddenly softened and she knelt down on the ground, "Your Majesty, calm down! Yinzhen just spoke out of anger!"
Yinzhen lowered his head and said nothing at this moment. He dared to fight with Lao Si, but he did not dare to go up against the emperor's father's anger. He knelt on the ground honestly and lost his arrogance.
Fu'er blinked her big playful eyes, pouted her little mouth and uttered two words: "Xuanliang?" Then she looked at her forehead with her big eyes full of doubts.
Wen Xi said with a smile: "As for the hanging beam, you hang a piece of white silk on the beam, tie it with a knot, and then stick your neck in."
Fu'er thought about the rafters, then touched his neck, still unable to understand such a difficult action. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support.
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