But what does that mean?

Can't look at others well, and look at others?

Anyway, now everyone's tacit understanding is not to say anything about Zhang's behavior of playing the side ball, but one or two of them are staring at Lan Ying with wide eyes.

Although Zhang is not smart, she is not stupid, since she dares to catch Wuren openly, she must have caught some Lan Ying's handle. Compared with the Zhang family, everyone hopes that Lan Ying will be unlucky, especially now that Li Qishu is grounded, the Song family is doing confinement, and Lan Ying alone occupies seventy percent of the days when the fourth elder brother enters the backyard, how not to make people envious, jealous and hateful.

Don't think that only the Yi family and the Zhang family are uncomfortable, the palace maids who are inspired by the deeds of Concubine Wu Ya and the Song family who think they are a little bit beautiful, but they are all ready to move, so the favored Lan Ying has naturally become a stumbling block for them to climb the bed and get rid of it quickly.

If Lan Ying is planted because of this, there will definitely not be one or two good voices in the North Three Institutes, but a large area.

Without him, the interests are different.

However, the development of things was a little unexpected, Lan Ying and Zhang were not waiting for a serious face of Mama Tong, but the fourth elder brother who led Su Peisheng over with a black face.

After the two stepped forward to say goodbye, Zhang looked at the fourth elder brother's black face and felt happy in his heart, thinking that the fourth elder brother had a black face because of Lan Ying's matter. On the contrary, Lan Ying strangely calmed down the moment she saw the fourth elder brother, but she didn't have the panic before.

"Master ......" Zhang's coquettish call to the fourth elder brother, and was about to add fuel and vinegar to talk about Wuren, but he didn't expect to be stopped by the cold eye knife seen by the fourth elder brother, and the look seemed to be looking at a dead person again, which made Zhang's heart startled and subconsciously stopped and lowered his head.

Without the fury that everyone expected, the fourth elder brother walked directly into Lan Ying's house, except for Lan Ying, who killed everyone out. After waiting for the door to close, the fourth elder brother fell silent again, and sat there in a daze.

I don't know how long the fourth elder brother has been sitting, the sky has gradually darkened, Lan Ying stood a little unbearable, only to hear the fourth elder brother's voice sound, "Are you guilty! ”

Lan Ying immediately knelt in front of the fourth elder brother, lowered her head and said, "The slave is guilty." The minions didn't mean to do this, they were forced to do so. ”

Lan Ying smiled wryly if there was another way, she would not take this road, this road is not safe and secret at all, it means that it may not explode with a bang like a time bomb.

"I have no choice!" The fourth elder brother's eyes narrowed slightly, this was a precursor to really anger, "You should tell the master what is the last resort, even if the master ignores the matter of this backyard, he also knows that you are the one with the best treatment among the concubines in the backyard, except for the Song family." ”

Continuing to smile bitterly, Lan Ying raised her head and met the eyes of the fourth elder brother, "It's because the master is too good to the slave that the slave has no choice but to go that way." Without waiting for the fourth elder brother to say anything, Lan Ying explained: "The master's favor for the slave is ecstatic and with a hint of uneasiness, afraid that the master will suddenly get tired of the slave." Therefore, for the people sent by the master, the slaves have always been kind to entertain. "As for what this hospitality is, it is a matter of opinion from the benevolent and the wise from the wise.

"The slave was born in Baoyi, and the family Ama disappeared a few years ago, and the stepmother also remarried and left, and there was no one in the mother's family. But there are many large and small slaves who usually come and go to the side of the slave, especially the people and slaves around the master dare not slack off. But the minions' savings are limited, two at a time is good, and where can they get so much silver if they have more times, and the minions have no other way to get the silver when they give birth to the North Three Institutes, so they can only ...... "I can only try my best to get some silver."

This kind of thing seems a bit strange in later generations, but in ancient times, it was normal, not to mention that Lan Ying wanted to tie up the minions around the fourth elder brother, even the fourth elder brother had to show a smile when he saw the minions around the emperor, and the minions around the emperor like Liang Jiugong were always filial, and I just hoped that he could say a good word for himself in the emperor's ear.

Don't look at the history of the fourth elder brother, the father didn't love his mother, he didn't love his adoptive mother, and he died early, the whole poor worm, but the fourth elder brother has never tasted the taste of no money, and his reputation is more important than money in his heart, which is also one of the reasons why he later ascended the throne and became the queen in his previous life, and he was so resolute in fighting corruption and not leaving people a way to live.

has never been poor, how can the fourth elder brother know what it is like to be poor. He is so rich that he can even run a spy agency, you can imagine how rich the private house left by Queen Xiaoyi to the fourth elder brother, and it is no wonder that the Tong family usually does not look at the fourth elder brother very well, and most of them are from the Tong family.

Just like the emperor rewards the minister and will intimately reward gold and silver or something, the fourth elder brother is not ignorant of the unspoken rule of giving silver to the minions, but he has never experienced the pain of not having silver, so he doesn't think this is a big deal, which can be seen from the fact that the fourth elder brother's reward has never been a separate silver and gold.

Judging from the fourth elder brother's previous temperament, he must have been furious when he heard this, but today after listening to Lan Ying's words, he was strangely quiet, and he didn't call Lan Ying to punish her, let alone punish her, just sat there quietly thinking about something.

This matter is said to be a big deal and a big deal, and it is not a big deal or a big deal, because this matter is a big deal for the country and the people, but it has nothing to do with the fourth elder brother who has not yet listened to the government, so it is also a small matter.

What's the matter?

The Yellow River burst its banks.

Just after spring, a section of the Yellow River burst its banks.

It's safe to say there's something wrong inside!

You must know that the Qing Dynasty, like other dynasties, allocated funds for the river to be rectified every year, although it is not said that the embankment breaks every year, but it is not much better.

Everyone knows that the river is greasy, the river is fat, I believe that the emperor also has a number in his heart, but because it is too involved, even if the emperor knows in his heart, he can get by and turn a blind eye, obviously this matter is not going to go now.

The flood season has not yet arrived, and the spring drizzle has caused the Yellow River to burst its banks, so wait for the flood season to come...... As a result, I didn't dare to think about it at all, so the emperor blew it up!

To tell the truth, although the emperor was called the Kangxi Emperor by later generations, in fact, half of them were boasted by the rulers themselves, not to mention other things, at least on the issue of the Manchus and the Han people, the emperor's attitude was definitely partial to the Manchus, of course, from the perspective of a Manchu emperor, this is human nature, but for this reason, the Qing Dynasty has been left with a big problem since he started, and even to some extent the Qing Dynasty perished because of this problem.

What's the problem!

A problem that has existed in all dynasties – corruption.

Although the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties will suppress corrupt officials as long as they are not straw bags or are in power, there will still be some well-known big corrupt officials in all dynasties, and corrupt officials have made the common people miserable and have no way to live, and those who have a little bit of thought will not sit still but will embark on the road of rebellion.

Therefore, although there were corruption problems in all dynasties and the Qing Dynasty, only the Qing Dynasty had rebellions in every dynasty from the founding of the country to its demise. In addition to the fact that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were Manchus, this corruption also accounted for a large reason.

In his previous life, after the fourth elder brother ascended the throne, he became the "Emperor of the Copying Family", and the title of "Emperor of the Copying Family" is definitely not a good title in the history books, but the fourth elder brother was forced to have no choice, because the treasury had no money and was "borrowed" by the minister.

In addition to the Yongzheng Dynasty, the system of the Qing Dynasty is particularly preferential to the Manchurians, and the source of this is the one who sits on the dragon chair now, and there is another thing that everyone does not know. It's just that there was not a rebellion of the three feudatories before, and the three feudatories were pacified, but because the emperor did not trust the Han people at that time, and Empress Xiaozhuang Wen was opposed at that time, almost all the troops sent out were from the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

As the Manchu emperor, the emperor's basic plate is not the Eight Banners of the Han Army or the Eight Banners of Mongolia, but the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the number of Manchus is not enough to be detrimental to the emperor's rule, so he not only encouraged everyone to have more lives, but also further improved the welfare of the Manchurians.

At first, I couldn't see anything, but then it was a burden that couldn't be reduced.

First of all, the Manchu people were born with rations regardless of their status, which was specially provided by the royal family, although the rations could not let you eat and drink a lot of money and glory for a lifetime, but it would never starve you to death, which became a huge expense after the Manchurian people worked hard to give birth to more people.

Secondly, the Manchus, especially the Manchu officials, can go to the treasury to borrow silver, and Hanchen can also do it, but basically not many people go, and the others don't say it, the prince Yinren and the eldest brother Yinchu took the lead in borrowing a lot of silver from the treasury, and it is unknown where it was spent. With the crown prince Yinren and the eldest brother Yinren as examples, the others naturally followed suit, and one or two borrowed money from the treasury regardless of whether they had money or not.

As for the return date...... Hehe......

Not to mention that it is impossible for officials to borrow only a small tael of silver, even if it is really one tael, so many officials add up to a large amount. Others don't know, but at least after the emperor's several southern tours, the Cao and Li families in Jiangnan borrowed at least two million silver from the treasury.

The treasury is not a bottomless pit or a cornucopia, it can make money, and there is always silver. It is not the time when the treasury has no silver, what if there is no silver?

Basically, the silver in the treasury is obtained from taxation, which is distributed equally among the common people.

If this is the case, everyone will be a little harder, and they will not take the risk of rebellion.

However, the Qing Dynasty's "human nature" is here again!

Embezzlement!

How can an official not be corrupt, and even if there is, it is because there is another greater interest that seduces/lures him. Those who are not corrupt are ambitious and want to leave a good name for the ages, just like when talking about the Qing officials of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is definitely Yu Chengchan, Zhang Boxing, Tang Bin, Shi Shilun, Liu Yong, Ji Xiaolan and so on.

It can be said that there is no full person.

Why?

It's not because the consciousness of the Manchurians is low, but because the cost of corruption is too low.

The emperor is still suppressing corrupt officials, and he will punish him every time he finds out, and then he will not be punished.

Because every time the emperor is punished, he is dismissed, especially the Manchu corrupt officials who have almost never lost their lives, if this is the case, it is normal for the Manchu emperor to be a little biased, but the next thing is dumbfounded, the person who was dismissed is safe and rests at home for a few years or even a few months, and then receives the holy decree to go to another place to take office.

Who doesn't love the silver of the white flowers, anyway, the corruption is found out, that is, it is just a period of rest at home, and it may not be a province in the future, why not do such a good thing, and there is no danger of losing your life by destroying your family.

Whoever is left behind, everyone will be corrupted.

This "perk" is really good!

In other words, although the slogan shouted by the emperor on the surface is "never raise taxes", in fact, the common people of the Qing Dynasty not only have taxes on their heads, but also the exploitation of corrupt officials, which is much more serious than taxes.

It is precisely because of the emperor's inaction that the ministers under him are becoming more and more bold, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, to what extent have these people become bold? The emperor has found a problem in a place, and tomorrow he will send someone to inspect it, and these people will burn the things tonight, so that the emperor has nowhere to check.

Of course, there is no courage to such an extent, but there are already signs, it can be said that what is happening in the river today is not only a proof of the courage of the corrupt officials, but also a temptation of the corrupt officials to the emperor...... They will be even more emboldened.

Although fifty percent of the title of the current emperor is blown out, the emperor still has real materials, and he naturally understands that it will not work like this, so he not only sent officials down to verify, but also asked courtiers and older princes to write their views on this matter.

Don't look at the fourth elder brother who is still living in the palace before he gets married, and the mother family is not obvious, he looks like a bare-pole commander, but in fact, the fourth elder brother is surrounded by people who have made suggestions, which was left to him by Queen Xiaoyi, but that person is far away outside the palace, and at this time, the fourth elder brother does not dare to go out of the palace to ask for advice, so he can only think of his own ideas.

If you want to say why these people dare to be so bold, the reason is very simple, because they are leaning on Suo Etu behind them, and Suo Etu is the uncle of the crown prince Yinren, once this matter is broken, it will definitely offend Suo Etu and then offend the prince, and now no one wants to offend the prince, and the fourth elder brother does not want to offend the prince even if he is a prince.

But the eldest brother Yinchu and Nalan Mingzhu jumped up and down on the side to kill Suo Etu and the prince, and if they didn't offend the prince, they would indirectly offend the eldest brother and Nalan Mingzhu, which was really a dilemma.