If someone asks Liang Jiugong: What are the emperor and the prince doing?

Liang Jiugong would definitely answer with a smile: "The emperor and the crown prince are playing hide-and-seek."

That evening, the guards in the imperial garden saw the emperor and His Royal Highness playing hide-and-seek. They were happily running and chasing in the sunset. His Royal Highness's pleasant and crisp voice could be heard from afar.

Seeing from a distance, it only makes people envious the warm and sincere relationship between them. It turns out that the father and son of the Tian family are actually like the father and son in ordinary people, and they will talk, laugh, play and joke.

Did Kangxi beat Yinreng as he wished today?

No!

Not only did it, but he also accidentally flashed his waist.

A thirty-year-old man is no longer as energetic as he is at the age of twenty, and his waist and legs are not as good as before. Although Kangxi was healthy, he sat in front of the case for a long time and accidentally sprained while chasing his son.

Seeing that Kangxi's face suddenly changed, Yinreng suddenly said to the people around him with a cold face and felt something was wrong when he told him to go back to the Ganqing Palace.

He stopped hiding, came over with suspicion, and asked him worriedly: "What's wrong with Ahma Khan?"

The child is still keen. When something is wrong with Kangxi, he immediately notices that it is many times better than the slow Liang Jiu's achievements.

After all, he was raised by his son, with blood thicker than water, and was close to him!

"I suddenly remembered that there was something important to do," Kangxi's posture seemed a little awkward, and he forced his sour waist, hoping to return to the palace immediately.

There were rumors in the harem that the emperor and the prince were in the Imperial Garden. Many people received the news. Some consciously avoided the emperor and the prince, while others were eager to stand up and followed the rumors and rushed over to see the emperor.

Kangxi was away for two months in the southern tour, and only brought two concubines and two concubines in total. Including the eldest prince, the number of people in this travel team has been reduced a lot.

Kangxi, who had sprained his waist, still had time to chat with his concubines. He only heard the saying "I have joined the emperor and met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Kangxi felt a headache. He sent the concubines in a few words, called Yinreng and left in a hurry.

Yinreng was confused. When he arrived at Zhaoren Palace, the emperor lay down and asked Liang Jiugong to call the imperial physician who was good at treating waist diseases.

The imperial physician used the medicine for bruising and damage to rub Kangxi's waist. The medicine seemed to be a blood circulation and remove blood stasis, exuding the unique smell of safflower.

Yinreng was stunned: No, no, right? Does Khan Ama really have a waist disease at a young age? Is it because of kidney deficiency?

[It's not just to pursue my elder friends. My elder friends have grown up, so you can't be naughty anymore!] Kangxi gritted his teeth and endured it. Yinreng pointed at his opponent's fingers and whispered to his mistake: "My son is wrong, Mr. shouldn't run so fast." Next time, he will never walk the Khanma like this again, wuwu...My son is so old, and the old legs, if he is injured, who will work hard in the state affairs in the future?

Yinreng's heart trembled. After the imperial physician took the medicine box away, he quickly sweared: "Next time, I will never fight back, and I will not fight back, and I will never chase you again. Oh, if Khan Ama still doesn't feel relieved, then use the whisk to beat you a few times."

Kangxi was lying down, feeling amused and laughed. What else could he do? The money had been lent out, and it was impossible to get it back the next day after lent out. Where did the prince's face be put?

The accounts of the Ministry of Revenue Treasury were also filled out, but Yinreng’s own accounts of Yuqing Palace were terrible.

As soon as Kangxi lay down, Yinreng finally had the opportunity to communicate well with the calm Khan Ama.

"Khan Ama, I asked the Ministry of Revenue for the accounts borrowed from the money three years ago that I should pay back the money. Erchen planned to count the interest for those who have not paid back the money for three years."

Kangxi snorted coldly: "If they don't come out, do you want to deduct their salary?"

"If you deduct the salary of the imperial court and give the imperial court a profit, you will not be afraid of pointing at others and scolding me if you do such a thing."

"But it is natural to pay back the debt. There is no reason why the money lent out becomes the water splashed out. If it cannot be returned, will the treasury be emptied sooner or later?"

"If you want me to ask the court officials to collect the debts of the treasury, why use this method!" Kangxi's tone became a little heavier, making his waist hurt even more angry.

"Khan Ama, the court officials cannot live on their own because their salary is low. While you increase the salary of the court officials, you can pay them back their debts. If you owe a lot, you must not live on their own. Go and see how his family is. If you live in a broken yard and don’t even have slaves at home, you can work hard. You can reward such ministers more to give him the opportunity to pay back the money."

As for the fact that there are many slaves in the family, living in a big house, with many wives, concubines, and descendants returning them to borrow money, then mortgage the valuable financial and mortgage the house!

Yinreng murmured in a low voice: "How can this be considered as the prince's profit? I didn't ask for profit for the past three years, and the interest rate was less than the chaos of the outside world. I paid back the debts of the treasury, and helped the Qing treasury."

Kangxi glanced at the unlucky child and had already calculated the issue of increasing the salary to the court officials.

"Khan Ama, the salary paid by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, to court officials was too low, much lower than that of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties. The Qing Dynasty followed the old system, so this part would be slightly increased!"

"A seventh-rank magistrate can use a salary of three taels of silver in a month. If there is a slave, a wife, a child, and a horse in the family, then this amount of money is not enough to spend a few days and life cannot last. Isn't this forcing an official to greedy for the wrong person?"

"After finding the documents, I found that the salary paid by the Qing Dynasty was paid in accordance with the specified number in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. However, the changes in the place increased the income of the prince and the prince. The income of the first-rank official in the court was 609 taels a year, while the annual salary of the prince was 10,000 taels a year. This gap was too big."

One is a triple digit and the other is a five digit. The gap between the rich and the poor is so strong, it is no wonder that court officials have to borrow money to live.

Kangxi initially opened the door to lend money to court officials because most court officials could not live a life, especially the Han officials who had no extra income.

"Yu Chenglong also mentioned this matter to me," Kangxi sighed softly: "When he went to office, he even borrowed travel expenses. After ten years as an official, he couldn't afford a carriage."

"There was also the reason when I allowed the court officials to borrow money at first."

Another reason is that the late emperor left Kangxi a court where the four auxiliary ministers controlled the government affairs, a country that seemed intact but was actually full of conflicts with the Han Dynasty. He initially agreed to borrow money in order to win over the court officials, consolidate power, and ease the conflict.

Kangxi was injured and could not run around, so he could only lie on the collapse, so he simply talked about the story of it with Yinreng earnestly.

"As soon as I opened my initial loan, a few years later, the amount of debts owed by the Ministry of Revenue has become larger and larger."

"At the beginning, the salary was not increased by the court officials, but because all the high-ranking officials were occupied by the Manchus, and very few Han ministers were promoted. From the time of the late emperor, a balanced situation of one official position and one Han Dynasty has gradually formed. I promoted Han ministers and suppressed the high-ranking officials, but I did not want them to form a situation where one family was the dominant one and several families were the dominant one."

After all, at the beginning, the government was decided by the meeting of the royal ministers.

Increase the power of the cabinet and then disperse the power to establish the Nanshu Room. All these measures are related to this.

"The salary could not be increased before, so can the salary be increased now?"

Yinreng sat beside the bed and counted: "Raise the ministers' salaries, reduce the expenses of the princes and princes, and prevent the national treasury from being dragged down by these people who need honor and support."

Kangxi knocked a chestnut on his head and cursed with a smile: "It's light! You need to know that increasing your salary is easy, but reducing your salary is difficult! Think about it, when you grow up and become an emperor, and tell your brothers that they will deduct their salary. Can you do this?"

Yinreng: "..."

"The royal family does have Rongyang at home, but they have brothers and relatives who serve in high positions and lead troops outside! You, it's too simple."

Kangxi poked Yinreng's head. When he thought that the silver in Yuqing Palace was empty, his heart hurt. After all, he still loved his son's old father. He ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take out 100,000 taels of silver from his private warehouse and stuff it into Yuqing Palace. After that, he talked like an old mother, looking like another Madam Xu.

"Save some money, you can't spend it anymore."

Kangxi never wanted Soetu to come back soon like today. If Soetu came back, at least someone could advise him not to be so selfless when the prince was doing things.

As an emperor, it is impossible for his son to teach him not to be too kind and righteous, and to benefit himself. Kangxi would not say such words openly. That would teach the child badly. What if he learns badly?

The next morning court, Kangxi, who had been holding it in the night, felt that his waist was much better, which would make the fire brewing all night and directly mention it to the court.

"I heard that during the southern tour, the prince settled the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue."

As soon as these words were mentioned, the two ministers of the Ministry of Revenue hurriedly took the lead and replied respectfully: "Your Highness the Crown Prince Gao Yi, the national treasury cannot be turned on due to the vacant accounts. Once this account is settled, the national treasury will no longer be deficit."

"In recent years, civil and military officials in the court have been asking how much money the Ministry of Revenue has borrowed?"

Liang Qingting replied: "The total amount is one million taels of silver, two million and five million hu of rice, which is converted into silver and a total of about six million and five hundred and seventeen thousand taels of silver."

A total of seven million silver was returned to the prince. Only the prince who had the dividends of the official kiln could afford it.

Kangxi sighed on the imperial throne: "The court officials are not able to make ends meet. They have to ask the Ministry of Revenue to borrow money and rice to live a life. If their salary is too low, they will easily become greedy and corrupt officials. Now I want to increase the salary of the court, and the cabinet will formulate a charter."

Want to increase your salary?!

This is so good!

As soon as the emperor's words fell, all the court officials came forward to thank Long Live Long, and the flatterers' praises were thrown out.

Unexpectedly, Kangxi changed his tone and his palms lined up on the table in front of the emperor.

"The treasury accounts are deficient. The prince fills the accounts because he is kind-hearted. He says he wants to lend money to the ministers, which is also his kindness. Some people are trying harder and come to find the prince to borrow money again and again. What is this?! The civil and military life in the court cannot survive, and they are counting on the kindness of a ten-year-old child to live a life?!"

The emperor rebuked angrily: "I am not here for only two months. All the silver in the crown prince's East Palace is gone. Now I have to rely on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to support you. Look at you, you all claim to be a master of civility and military achievements, and you will cheat a child's money. Are you ashamed?!"

Of course, the emperor's salary increases are not for anything else. After the salary increases, why don't you pay back the silver and rice you borrowed from the prince?

Yinreng sat down with integrity, honestly without saying a word, pure and innocent.

Oh￣Ama is back, her back is tough, and there is someone alone to support her!

It’s great to increase your salary! If you increase your salary, you can pay it back. This money has gone from Khan Ama’s left hand to Khan Ama’s right hand.

Since his return to the southern tour, the eldest prince also joined the court and stood with the civil and military officials of the court, standing in front of the ministers of various departments.

Yinzhi is much taller than Yinreng. He looks like a young man, with a handsome face, and a heroic eyebrow and eyes, less immature and more handsome.

When the emperor was angry, Yinzhen also went to see his unlucky brother.

The filial piety that Yu Guozhu borrowed from money was delivered to him.

Yinzhi held the silver notes in Yuqing Palace and felt it was very hot!

When the court meeting arrived, Yinzhi looked for an opportunity and secretly came to Yinreng and stuffed him the silver notes.

Yinreng said in surprise: "What are you doing? Why give me silver bills? Even if I am poor, I still have Khan Ama to raise him. How can I need my brothers to pay for it?"

Yinzhi said angrily: "Look at the mark on this silver note."

Yinreng: "Huh? The mark of the East Palace."

"There are indeed people who borrow money to make a living by borrowing money. Most of them rely on asking the Ministry of Revenue to make money by borrowing money, or even using this to make money to make money. If you are more concerned, is it so easy to be calm to treasury?!"

"I know. When liquidation is done, only liquidation officials will not involve the elder brother. Don't worry, the overtime debt repayment system will not fall on you."

Yinzhi said something unhappy and said it together with Yinreng, and both of them were slightly stunned.

Yinzhen: "...liquidation?"

He recalled the angry look of Khan Ama when he was in court, and looked like a guardian who bullied my son and suddenly realized.

OK! It turns out that the silly brother is digging a hole for someone!

"Don't worry, brother, ask whoever borrows money, and there will be no involvement. Khan Ama will not want to see a large number of people dismissed from office because of these matters."
To be continued...