Chapter 135
It is not always possible that Khan Ama throws bait to let the little donkey work every time. It is obvious that Khan Ama’s adult donkey is truly efficient when he works. Of course, the big donkey has to do big things.
Now the little donkey gives the big donkey a carrot with his backhand and hangs it in front. Will the big donkey take the bait?
Kangxi's mood fluctuated in joy and relief, happy with the prince's talent, happy with his growth and intentions. What's more, he personally cultivated a fellow man with the same concept of governing as his own. In the position of the supreme emperor, the only ones closest to him are the crown prince, the king and the crown prince, and the ministers. To talk about the mountain between the king and the crown prince, the threat of two tigers? Kangxi still can't feel it, only feels the bitter tears of holding the reins of the horse a few years ago, and the mood that made the horse up and down, and the paternal incompetent fury that affected both joy and anger.
Now that the pony has grown up, he proves to him that he is not a pony, but a little tiger, he was born and raised by the cub. Kangxi was in a good mood. In Yinreng's subsequent persuasion, he thought carefully along his ideas.
"Khan Ama, it is obviously not enough to rely on the Ministry of Rites alone. If you want to arrange this big net and hand it over to any department of the court to take over, it will cause the officials to delay their original work and be burdened by the new work. The son went to the Qingsi Department of the ritual system. Seeing that all the adults were constantly moving around, the work was heavy, and the day of completion was nowhere to be completed. In the long run, the officials of the Ministry of Rites could not bear the burden. Khan Ama was angry that his work was not good, and both sides were affected. But the matter of the method book number has been busy so far. When the big net continues to spread, will the operation of the department holding the net be damaged? Wouldn't it be a big problem?"
"Baocheng believes that establishing another department is more conducive to putting this matter into practice? Single department is not a trivial matter. The new department must have a complete operational function and cannot overlap with the existing responsibilities of the department and the department, otherwise there will be concerns about redundant staff. Who should the new department be under?"
Kangxi thoughtful, and the huge temptation of controlling all the books, printing workshops and bookstores in the world, made him look at the radish hanging in front of the big donkey and was ready to move.
When Yinreng was discussing politics with Kangxi in private, he acted very freely. He ran to his small table, dipped ink and wrote it on rice paper, and told Kangxi while writing notes.
"Since it is to be in the hands of Khan Ama, the new department should naturally be managed by the cabinet, just like the various departments and courts."
"The sons have roughly formulated a new department function. They need to be responsible for researching, drafting the law in books, dissemination, printing, publications, etc. The Qing Dynasty sets a vacancy in the law here. Khan Ama needs power in hand, and avoids being deceived by officials below, or new chaos, and restricts the law as a rope to avoid taking advantage of loopholes in the matter, or delaying the government orders by slandering the selfish interests."
"They also need to formulate a 'creative orientation', a 'prohibited bottom line', grasp the theme plans of creative works in the entire network, and even formulate future plans to guide literary people to create."
"In addition, there is public opinion orientation and public opinion propaganda, which conveys and interprets the imperial decrees for the people below... The government decrees are issued with new public opinion propaganda and praises the imperial court, grasp the public opinion orientation, so that the supported people can learn about it and be grateful and expectant, and the officials who are in the middle can no longer deceive their superiors and subordinates."
Yinreng was delighted, and his lips were suddenly unable to control himself, and his eyebrows were also curled up because of his happiness.
Seeing Kangxi looking at him, he said with a smile: "Khan Ama, please don't worry, I will stay in the Ministry of Rites and not run away."
[Ahhhh, my friend is amazing! I’m the first-class in passing the blame, and I’m better than my younger brother. My friend is already more cunning than Xiaomei. Xiaomei wants to play a rainbow fart for you here.] Yinreng: It turns out that playing a rainbow fart means praise, and I have learned it again!
Yinreng praised Xiaomei so much that his tail was raised to the sky. Kangxi always felt something was wrong when he saw him smiling. He recalled the father and son just now talking about it, but he didn't think something was wrong.
When Yinreng saw Khan Ama looking at him, he hurriedly said, "Khan Ama trusts his son, and he is happy!"
Yinreng touched his dark conscience and swore: I was definitely not happy because I left all my work to Khan Ama.
Kangxi himself also amused him and reached out to rub him: "What are you thinking? When will I not believe you?"
"You, next time you do things more roundaboutly, you can't offend the old ministers in this way. Although Sha Cheng is noble, he is very good at making friends. He has a good status among the government and the people."
Kangxi was willing to use Sha Cheng because Sha Cheng was a pure and unpretentious weirdo. When others talked in the court and the country, it was too late to be happy with friends' help. What about Sha Cheng? He refused his friend's help with righteousness and thought that if someone came to help him because of his good relationship with him, he wanted to form a clerk with him and to tarnish his noble heart.
Kangxi told Yinreng: If nothing unexpected happens, Sha Cheng will work as the Minister of Rites for a long time until he is old and retired.
Yinreng nodded: "Don't worry, Ahma, I will apologize to Lord Sha in private. With Lord Sha's temperament, he may not accept normal courtesy."
"If you go find him, he dare not show you his face. He will accept it." Kangxi pointed Yinreng helplessly: "When will you learn some scheming methods?"
Yinreng blinked: "He will accept whatever his son gave me?"
"Don't give it too expensive, casually. You can get ordinary things like inkstones and brushes. I don't need to teach you this?" Kangxi felt that Yinreng was too dependent on him, so he told him earnestly: "You should also make up your mind, don't always ask me."
I'm not your wet nurse!
Yinreng stopped when he saw that he was ready and agreed obediently: "Oh, Erchen knows. Khan Ama, the sun is about to set, do you need Erchen to help you share some of the work?"
Look at how considerate he is. He knows that Khan Ama is going to call the cabinet bachelors to discuss important matters while the iron is hot, but he also takes the initiative to take on the work.
Sure enough, Kangxi waved his hand and let him play with it.
"Then I will ask Lord Sha to apologize!"
Since the introduction of cement, various roads in the capital have been paved into new roads. The new roads are flat without pits, and the carriages are much more stable than before. People say that the roads in the capital are now the flattest roads in the world.
Yinreng's small plan to want bicycles was also implemented. As early as a month ago, he sent someone to his third grandfather for the design of the bicycle. Nowadays, there are shops selling wooden bicycles in the public. People still don't know what they are selling, and the price is expensive. So far, they have only sold a few.
Yinreng asked someone to send a letter to his third grandfather and asked him to ask for a bicycle sent by handcraftsmen. The body, handle to the seat are made of trees and fences, and have the unique flexibility of wood. In order to "environmental protection", Yinreng proposed that craftsmen use discarded and recycled wood to make small parts of the bicycle, so as to turn waste into treasure.
As for the axles and chains, they are all made of copper and iron. Bicycles are more rare than copper basins, copper mirrors, and axes. The pricing is also different depending on the wood used. The cheapest one is made of discarded wood in the warehouse, walnut and shrubs are of medium price, and the most expensive one is made of camphor wood.
Yinreng sent someone to send a walnut bicycle. Cao Zhen's eyes shone around the bicycle and sighed repeatedly: "Is this a different car sold in a new driving shop in Beijing recently?"
"If Azhen likes it, I will give you one next time."
Cao Zhen shook his head: "Your Highness doesn't have to spend money, I can buy it myself with money."
He had a lot of pocket money. His grandfather and grandmother stuffed him a lot of money, and his parents were afraid that he would be hungry and thirsty. Even his brother liked to stuff him money. Cao Zhen lacked everything, and the most important thing was money.
Yinreng took Yuzhu and Cao Zhen to the Ministry of Rites again.
Xiaomei sighed.
[At this time, other officials of the Ministry of Rites got off work, but Sha Cheng, the Minister of State, still worked hard.] It was precisely because there was a diligent social animal in front of him. Although Sha Cheng made a report to Khan Ama, Yinreng was not angry. Any donkey who was willing to work hard was worthy of his care.
Sha Cheng learned that Yinreng came to apologize. As Kangxi said, he did not care about Yinreng. As for the baby four-wheeled bicycle sent by Yinreng, it was easy to get started and ride without any threshold. No one could ride it. Sha Cheng had never seen this thing. Seeing that it was made of walnut, there were copper and iron, and there were no other gold, silver and gems. The estimated price would not be too outrageous, so he turned a blind eye to accept it.
Sha Cheng accepted the prince's apology, which was considered as agreeing to resolve the matter privately, and to give Kangxi face.
He did not take this strange car to heart, but asked someone to take it home. There was no imperial seal on the car, which means it was not a reward from the emperor and could be used at will.
Sha Cheng was not interested in toys and ordered people to put the carriage together.
The next morning, Sha Cheng was about to go to the morning court. As soon as he walked out of his yard, he saw his fifteen-year-old grandson who was getting up in the morning to exercise, riding the four-wheeled bicycle to surround the yard, fast and flexible. When he saw him appear, the eldest grandson pulled the brakes and stopped in front of him.
"Did my grandfather go to the South City to buy a different car? It's so brisk and can be exercised! It's suitable for you. My grandson has been interested in the strange car for a long time, but the price is one or two gold. My father doesn't agree to buy it for my grandson, but my grandfather is still generous!"
Sha Cheng: "..."
The author has something to say: One or two golds, according to modern algorithms, is about 13,000-14,500RMB?
So the little prince gave more than 10,000 yuan...
PS: The earliest bicycle was invented around 1690, and Yinreng was born in 1674.
"The Grand View of Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty" records: "A two-wheeled car made by Huangluzhuang is more than three feet long and can sit on one person. No one can push and pull it. You can walk by yourself. When walking, you can hold the handle with your hands and shake it. You can walk eighty miles a day."
In the late Qing Dynasty, Puyi was the first emperor in the Forbidden City who was keen on riding bicycles. In order to facilitate bicycle riding, he sawed off all the thresholds of the palace gates that his ancestors had not felt inconvenient for hundreds of years.
In order to make it convenient to ride a bicycle in the palace, Puyi asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send people to saw the threshold from the Hall of Yangxin to the Imperial Garden. According to Mr. Xiao Zhengwen, former vice president of the Palace Museum, in the statistics in 1993, the sawed thresholds include: the inner left gate of Dongyichang Street, the inner right gate of West Yichang Street, all the gates of East Erchang Street, most of the gates of West Erchang Street, the five palace gates in the East Six Palaces, and the east and west second gates of the Imperial Garden.
Chapter completed!