Chapter 170
Yinreng heard about Soetu's return and confirmed that the third grandfather arrived in the capital on the fifteenth day and could not leave the Forbidden City to greet him. Instead, he sent Yuzhu to greet his third grandfather early.
Soetu went outside the capital for too long. The court officials almost forgot how glorious this powerful Suo Xiang was in the court. So Suo Xiang's party members were trembling and restrained their sharpness and obediently agreed to the Prince's cause trouble. Whenever His Highness did anything, they could not do anything. They could only shout "I'm asking for advice!" when they attended the court meeting to cheer for His Highness.
As soon as Soetu came back, Soego's followers celebrated the return of the leader.
Only when Soetu is there, they are the "princelings". When Soetu is not there, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't recognize them!
Your Highness would rather go to the fake and noble old stubborn Sha Cheng than ask for help from them. In the end, the emperor was unable to see him and assigned the matter to those among them, so that he would complete the affairs that His Highness wanted to do one by one.
Among them, Nalan Mingzhu's people were also involved, and they supervised each other for fear that the other party would be cheating.
"When Suo Xiang returned, His Highness the Crown Prince finally felt relieved. This was the toiletries that His Highness ordered his slaves to bring to Suo Xiang. His Highness could not leave the palace, so he used this to 'receive you're welcomed'," Yuzhu stopped when the carriage where Soetu returned, walked forward with a smile, talked to Soetu, and gave a set of toiletries produced in Yinreng Yuqing Palace to Soetu.
Many people in the Hesheli clan knew the eunuch in charge of the prince, who was surrounded by His Royal Highness, and they all moved away from suspicion, leaving room for them to chat.
Soetu asked with a smile: "Your Highness is okay recently? I haven't seen you for a few months, maybe you have grown a lot taller, right?" When I mentioned the prince, Soetu's smile became a little more real.
The crown prince of the country treated him close to him, but he still did not forget to miss him after he went out. When he returned, he also sent Yuzhu to greet him and give him gifts. This emphasis made Soetu feel very satisfied, and his uneasy mood gradually improved after returning to the capital.
No matter how the emperor treats him, as long as His Highness has him in his heart, the emperor will never take his life.
As long as Your Highness has him in his heart, his status will be stable, many times better than Nalan Mingzhu!
Yuzhu did not chat with Soetu for long, and then stopped after a few words: "Your Highness waited for Soexiang to wash away the dust, nourish his energy, and talk to him about the story of this border battle."
"I'll go find Your Highness tomorrow," Soetu smiled and ordered someone to take the toiletries, and sighed in his heart: Your Highness has finally grown up.
He finally knew how to give the third grandpa some decentness in front of outsiders!
Yuzhu came to deliver things, which made Soetu, who had always been neglected by Yinreng, so he was flattered. He held the welcome supplies and felt like he had received a treasure.
The children of the Hesheli clan were also happy because of this outing. The morale, which had been a little sluggish before, suddenly became high. Everyone looked rosy and walked with the wind.
After the prince's men left, a more noble invitation came: "Prince, the emperor summoned you into the palace."
Soetu is so glorious! As soon as he returned to the capital, he was valued by the crown prince and the king of the country. The tribesmen all believed that the Hesheli clan would become more and more prosperous in his hands.
When Kangxi summoned Soetu, he thought to himself: Be kind to Soetu so that he can teach more and prevent him from losing money.
So the emperor coughed lightly, concealed the complexity in his heart with an unpredictable expression, and said coldly to Soetu: "Suo Xiang knows that during the period when you are not in the capital, the prince has settled the treasury accounts?"
Soetu was slightly stunned, unable to see through Kangxi's intentions. Perhaps it was because he was suppressed a few years ago, which made him subconsciously restrain himself in front of Kangxi. He knew that Kangxi would not take his life, but he also knew that the emperor had some ways to make him sad. The saddest thing was to prevent him from contacting the prince. Without the prince's closeness, the connections he managed were not considered princely gang members, but were just Suoxiang members who would be liquidated by the emperor at any time.
He had no confidence in his heart, so he lowered his head and replied respectfully: "When I heard about this, all the officials in the people praised Your Highness for what he said."
Kangxi jumped and blurted out: "Do you think Baocheng is doing well? He has squandered all the Kuyin in Yuqing Palace!"
Soetu hurriedly said: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is selfless and does things that benefit the country and the people."
He couldn't help but guess in his heart the intention of the emperor saying this.
There is no silver in Yuqing Palace?!
Soetu thought about the amount of the kuyin, and his heart was bleeding. Seeing that Kangxi's dragon face seemed to be unhappy, he immediately made a fuss in his heart and said loyally: "Your Highness gave me a lot of bonuses at the beginning, but I feel ashamed of it. Now your Highness has insufficient kuyin. I am willing to return the bonuses you gave to you to you."
Kangxi: "…"
As the saying goes, "I am afraid of a rope when I am bitten by a snake for ten years." What should I do if I am afraid of being suppressed by him?
The emperor frowned: "When will I say I want you to take out your dividends and settle the account? The treasury silver in Yuqing Palace has recovered 80% of it."
Soetu paused strangely for a moment, waiting for Kangxi to leave.
Kangxi said: "Baocheng's child always does some amazing things. You are the prince's tutor. You have the responsibility to teach the prince and are his foreign family. You are closer to other tutors. There are some things that Baocheng will not talk to other tutors, but is willing to talk to you. When you come back this time, teach the prince more about how to deal with people, so as not to grow up and not understand what is sinister."
As Soetu listened, he responded calmly, and a feeling of ecstasy surged in his heart.
The emperor meant to make him closer to the prince, and he didn't plan to recover the huge profits of the Liuli Official Kiln, and was willing to continue to give him a share of the pie!
"I am obeying the sacred order and will do my best to teach His Highness the Crown Prince!"
Kangxi said a few more words: "You are alert to what you should do and what you should not do."
After saying this, Kangxi did not try to keep Soetu again and asked him to leave on his own.
Soetu returned to the clan, and the manager came to search for him quietly, whispering to him quietly "report": "Several lords said that when the prime minister was not here, your highness never summoned our people."
Soetu had just been ringing the alarm bell by Kangxi, and a heart was tense now!
"Don't be impatient, am I back now? Your Highness is still young and is not close to other children of our family. When he is older, he will know the importance of his mother's family. Only the people in our family will do their wholeheartedly for him."
"Your Highness asked the emperor how many bachelors of the Hanlin Academy were leaving."
"Your Highness summoned the Qingliu Office of the Ministry of Rites to carry the land."
"Now your Highness has gone to the Ministry of Revenue."
He just didn't look at them at one more glance!
The subordinates said this, and the endless grievances and sadness that they could not be valued by His Highness. Can they still be considered princelings?
"Okay, this matter will be resolved when I meet with Your Highness," Soetu appeased the tribe members. His Highness did not send them. At that time, he would ask His Highness to take care of work. He would not be afraid that His Highness would order them, but he would be afraid that His Highness would ignore them!
"Without Your Highness's attention, when the Prime Minister was away, the children of the family were careful and lost thousands of acres of land!"
Soetu said lightly: "You know whether to occupy fertile land or lose your own land."
"But..." But others do this. The Eight Banners' powerful people invade the land of the people and take over the houses for themselves. Even if they reach the government, they will not dare to make a judgment.
"You forgot the liquidation incident a few years ago? You really forgot the pain when the scars healed."
"There are always people staring at our family. Those Han officials who claim to be pure and not afraid of the powerful are all watching with their eyes wide open!"
Speaking of Han ministers, Suoqiao's followers are really a little aggrieved. His Royal Highness is more close to Han ministers than to Manchu ministers. Instead of using privileges to achieve his goals, he prefers to be open and honest and do his business, which makes them dare not make extra small moves, for fear that his Royal Highness who is unaware of it will be "destroyed his relatives for justice" by His Royal Highness who is unaware of it.
This time, when measuring the land and clearing the land, the Hesheli clan also suffered a lot of losses. There was also the newly established Qing Bank. People believed in the Qing Bank and no longer borrowed money from private individuals, so that many people who made money had no way out.
Among the Eight Banners, all the major families have their own origins, which are not justified. They are hidden in the shadows and cannot be put on the table or made it clear. There is also the emperor pressing them on their heads, so they can only knock their teeth off and swallow them into their mouths, which is so uncomfortable.
The powerful people who were also affected by the interests were not only their family, but their family suffered even greater losses. The powerful people saw that the Hesheli clan, who had the greatest losses, had no expression. Others took advantage of this and picked up ready-made benefits, which made another group of people make a fortune.
The subordinates submitted all the accounts and reports for the past few months.
The manager complained to Soetu: "We have suffered a great loss in order to cooperate with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Seeing this, Soetu counted the benefits of his own power giving up one by one.
They gave up invading people's land, giving up refusing money, and giving up buying and selling slaves. All of these interests that were abandoned by them were in the pockets of others.
"Things without vision, these things that are not worthy of the table will be abandoned, so I need to cry here?" Soetu's eyes flashed, and he picked up the account of the inputs of the Liuli Official Kiln. By comparison, he found that the profits made in the Liuli Official Kiln were much more than the benefits he gave up.
The emperor knows how much these dividends are. Not only did the emperor know, but he had not taken action to deprive him of the dividends he received, which means that the emperor was allowing him to make money in a "rightful" way.
Soetu's subordinate paused and immediately said, "Get the treasury silver to me and I will send it to Your Highness when I enter the palace."
"Prince?"
Soetu rebuked: "It's all right to cooperate with Your Highness's actions. Why not lose the small profits of fly heads? Others are happy when they swallow these, and they will cry at that time!"
The manager was shocked: "What the Prime Minister means, is it the Emperor..."
"Don't say anything more. What the emperor is thinking? How can we guess?"
Soetu said coldly: "Tell them, don't feel at ease because I'm back. I'm at the forefront of the storm! Let the family members be more alert. Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need you to do things or rely on you. This means that he may abandon you at any time. If you make a mistake, your Highness will not come to save you."
Anyway, Your Highness will not abandon him, and no one has the face to be in front of the palace, but it is not certain that others are.
"Don't think that I'm here to do everything. I'm ugly in front of you. If anyone causes trouble for Your Highness, don't blame me for turning against you. Your Highness's interests are related to the future of the family. Whoever dares to drag your Highness back, I will definitely forgive you!"
Soetu was very sober. In the eyes of the emperor, he was the prince's person. If the prince was honored, he would be honored. If the prince was harmed, he would be destroyed. Everything he did was related to the face of the prince. If one day he dragged the prince back, he would be the first one to get rid of.
Since he had already boasted about giving the crown prince bonus, even though the emperor refused, Soetu still wanted to express his feelings that a hundred thousand taels of silver bills was enough to be sincere.
Next, as the emperor wishes, he taught the prince what "hands people's hearts" and what "human hearts are sinister".
This is really a big problem. It is his fault to teach well or not.
While thinking about it with great concern, Soetu used toiletries to prepare for bathing and changing clothes.
The servant took apart the few things that the prince gave him one by one, and saw three bottles in them, which read: ginger shampoo, ginger conditioner, and rose shower gel...
Yinreng didn't expect that there would be a follow-up to the treasury he had to pacify the treasury and create the Qing bank!
He returned 80% of the Kuyin in Yuqing Palace. Khan Ama gave him 100,000 taels, the third grandfather gave him 100,000 taels, and Brother Tutu gave him 100,000 taels. Yinreng calculated that the money in Yuqing Palace should be controlled at about 1.6 million taels. As a result, it was calculated and it was as much as 3.66 million taels!
Yinreng hugged the small box where he placed the silver notes, looked around suspiciously, and called Madam Xu to check the accounts together, and found that this part of the money really came out of thin air.
"No way? Money makes money?!"
This matter was a bit strange. He quietly told no one, and took Xiaomei and Cao Zhen to abduct Yinzhen, who was studying in the study room.
"Little Four, Xiao Si, a treasure pot appeared in Gu Yuqing Palace. It will make money by itself! Wow, so much more money is added at once, Gu couldn't even think of what to do with them."
Yinzhi:...
How should he explain the prince, it was a normal state for officials of the Qing Dynasty to embezzle and accept bribes. The impact of bad policies lasted for decades. Even if two generations of emperors cleaned up the administration of the government, they could only suppress the temporary atmosphere. If there was a slight negligence, corruption would breed. Once the atmosphere was corrupt, if you wanted to clean up and rectify it, it would be like a serious illness recovering, which was slow and painful.
The money embezzled by officials is used to bribe superiors. There is also a bad atmosphere in the officialdom called "filial piety" and actually "bribery".
Officials in the capital asked the local government to be filial. In order to plunder the people's wealth and make a lot of money, local officials colluded with merchants to conduct some "gray income" transactions. Some officials even used their positions to make a name for plundering money, so they were filial to the people who were most worthy of being filial.
That person must have a huge position in the government and the opposition, which is difficult for anyone to shake. He has a huge force, forms a squad, and can bring many benefits to his subordinates.
As we all know, the prince spent a lot of money to pacify the treasury accounts.
On this side, the prince was squandering, and on the other side, those who wanted to rely on the prince tried their best to give the prince "filial piety".
Chapter completed!