"You three really dare to speak, you just pull me to the market and sell it!" After only a little glance at the joint name of the three feudatories, Kangxi almost fainted, and it took a lot of effort to not make himself break out. Gritting his teeth to suppress his anger for a long time, Kangxi held up the public fold, trembling his lips and asked Wu Yuanming and the others who were smiling: "Wu Yingxiong, Geng Jimei, Shang Zhizhi, this fold is really written by the three of you?" ”

Although the high dragon chair is extremely far away from the ministers, and the ministers can't see the expression on Kangxi's face - this is also the main reason why Wu Yuanming beat Kangxi by mistake that day, but the anger in Kangxi's heart is still clearly conveyed to the center of the ministers' ears through the tone and tone. And Geng Jimei and Shang Zhizhi lowered their eyebrows on the surface, but they both glanced at Wu Yuanming out of the corner of their eyes, and only Wu Yuanming replied unhurriedly: "Long live Huiyu, how can the three feudal lords be child's play?" Of course, this public fold is jointly written by the ministers. ”

"Good, good!" Kangxi gritted his teeth and said: "Your Wu family simply took over the treasury directly, Kangxi's national annual income of 16,518,261,24 yuan in silver in the seventh year of Kangxi is not enough to allocate the military salary demanded by your Wu family." And your Geng family and monks, this year the state will not collect taxes at all, and the taxes and silver will be collected directly by the two of you, otherwise I really don't know what to pay your military salary! ”

Kangxi was barely able to control his emotions and tone at first, but as the pace of speaking became faster and faster, Kangxi's tone became heavier and heavier, and later, Kangxi's tone was almost no different from slapping the dragon case and roaring. Frightened, Geng Jimei and Shang Zhizhi fell to their knees, and replied in a trembling voice: "The ministers are waiting for ten thousand deaths." And Wu Yuanming, who was born rebellious, was not in a hurry, and arched his hand: "Weichen thanked the lord Longen on behalf of the Wu family." ”

"What kind of favor do you thank me?" Kangxi was stunned by Wu Yuanming, and asked in surprise. Wu Yuanming recalled the lines of the braided drama TV series, and said with a humble smile: "You have no jokes, the emperor Jinkou Yuyan let Weichen's family take over the treasury, and Weichen of course wants to thank the lord Longen." ”

"You ......." Kangxi was so angry with Wu Yuanming that he was almost speechless, but he couldn't find the words to refute Wu Yuanming's shamelessness for a while, but he stood up for Kangxi and relieved Kangxi. Ji Bilong smiled at Wu Yuanming and said, "Son, the emperor is indeed following his word. However, taking over the treasury is a major matter, the first emperor and the emperor ordered the prime minister to curb a certain auxiliary government, the emperor Zhu Zhu and the blue approval of the upper study in parallel, even if the emperor really ordered the prince to take over the treasury, there is no blue approval resolution in the study, Yu Li is still not in line with the law of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"That being the case, then Weichen can only thank God." Wu Yuanming was very fond of the silver in the Manchu treasury, but he was not interested in managing the treasury. And Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief, and his impression of Kupilon also changed a little better. At this time, Aobai, who had not spoken since the previous dynasty, spoke, and unlike the respectful civil and military officials and the oily Wu Yuanming, Aobai's attitude was much more arrogant, and he said to Kangxi with a fierce face: "Your Majesty, although you are young and ignorant, you are the king of a country after all, please be cautious in what you say and do, don't be ugly and behaved anymore." ”

"As the king of a country, he actually said that he would let his subordinates take over the treasury and let his subordinates collect taxes and silver, and if such words were spread, where would the face of the court go?" Aobai's attitude was exactly the same as Lao Tzu's lesson to his son, and he said unceremoniously: "And Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, the three foreign vassal kings, are all heroes who have made great contributions to my Qing Dynasty. After I established the Qing Dynasty, they guarded the four provinces for my Qing Dynasty! When such a meritorious minister entered Beijing to see him, the emperor did not speak gently to appease, but made things difficult and even spoke ill of him everywhere, is this the way of the king? And what does it look like to be the king of a country? ”

Although it is not the first time that he has been reprimanded by Ao Bai in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, although Ao Bai's words are not completely unreasonable, Kangxi still tightened his lips, stubbornly held his head high, and clasped the armrests of the dragon chair with both hands with a blue face, looking stubborn. And the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all silent, including Ji Bilong, who was also one of the four major auxiliary ministers, all walked low and pretended to be contemplative, and no one dared to refute the arrogance of the king of Aobai in person, but not the lowered faces of the officials of the Aobai lineage were all full of anger but certainty. Only Wu Yuanming, who was born with a backbone, saw his eyebrows fluttering, but he didn't shout, "The big husband should be like this!" Something like that.

Ao Bai chattered and taught Kangxi a long time, but he never meant to stop, Kangxi couldn't help it, grabbed the letter and shouted: "Lord Ao, stop, do you know how much the military salary asked for by the three feudatories?" Did you know that there was enough money in the treasury to pay for this military salary? ”

"The gong fold is in the hands of the emperor, and the old minister has not seen it beforehand, how can he know?" Ao Bai replied proudly. Ao Bai originally didn't want to stand up for Wu Sangui's family immediately, but just now Ji Bi Long suddenly stood up to speak for Kangxi, which not only surprised Ao Bai, but also made Ao Bai suspicious - Ji Bilong, who had always been with the mud, suddenly stood with Kangxi with a clear banner, and it was strange that Ao Bai couldn't be suspicious. Therefore, Ao Bai couldn't wait to stand up and help Wu Sangui speak, firstly, to make his position clear, and secondly, to deter Kubilong, who was also an auxiliary minister, so as not to collude with Kangxi.

"Okay, I will read it to Lord Ao, and the other lords will also listen to it, how much military salary do the three good vassal kings of our Great Qing Kingdom want!" Kangxi gritted his teeth and read aloud: "In addition to the repayment of the military salary given in the previous two years, the Fujian garrison will ask for eight million taels of silver this year!" The Guangdong garrison also asked for a salary of 8 million taels this year! And the Yunnan-Guizhou garrison, plus the military salary required to be reissued, please pay 20 million taels of silver! Twenty million taels! ”

"Twenty million taels of silver!" There was a huge uproar in the Taihe Palace, including Ao Bai and Ban Bushan, Suo Etu and others, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all dumbfounded, and they were all frightened by Wu Sangui's lion mouth - the tax revenue of the Qing court's treasury was only more than 16 million taels a year, and Wu Sangui dared to ask for 20 million taels, even if the treasury was emptied, it was not enough! That's it, not counting the sixteen million taels of silver from the other two feudatories.

"So much?" Ao Bai glanced at Wu Yuanming in surprise, although Wu Yuanming had promised to give Ao Bai a kickback of half of the total military salary, but Wu Yuanming opened his mouth to ask for so much military salary, and Ao Bai couldn't help but worry about whether the imperial court could come up with so much silver? And Mu Lima, Suo Etu and Bamburshan, who also received Wu Yuanming's kickback promises, also had the same thoughts as Aobai, and they were also worried that Wu Yuanming would ask too much.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a copy, please ask the emperor to admonish him." Ji Bilong, who has always been known for being a peacemaker, suddenly stood up again, hugged his hands and said to Kangxi. After Kangxi's nod of permission, Ji Bilong said loudly: "Your Majesty, the three feudatories are asking for a huge amount of military salaries, which is called begging, which is really blackmail!" The salary of 36 million taels of military salaries cannot be paid even if we are treated as the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the old minister played the Qing Emperor, arrested Wu Yingxiong, Geng Jimei and Shang Zhizhi, together with Geng Xinghe and Shang Zhili, and took them to prison, and then lit the Eight Banners to exterminate the rebels of the three feudatories! ”