Ma Qi, the former minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has been reinstated as an official and has also served as the secretary of the household department, so he naturally resigned from his errand in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, in the midst of public speculation, Kangxi did not point out the new candidate for the head of the Internal Affairs Office.

On the Sixteenth Elder Brother's side, he picked out the loopholes in the accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Since the 50th year of Kangxi, due to the 50 years of his accession to the throne, the 600,000 years of Kangxi's life, and the floods and droughts in the north, the northern provinces have all issued edicts to reduce or exempt silver taxes.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has jurisdiction over the Huangzhuang of the five northern provinces, and there is no tax, so the people naturally cannot bathe in the vast imperial grace, and there is no grace to go down.

Then, in years when the rent was not reduced, there was a significant discrepancy in the miscellaneous items in the warehouse.

In some places, there is a quota for how much you need to pay each year to the treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In most cases, this amount is not only watery, but also easy to spend repeatedly. This means that the Ministry of Internal Affairs not only did not receive the corresponding miscellaneous items, but had to spend another amount of money to purchase them.

This is just the beginning, I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

Other expenditures are varied, and many of them are duplicated. As far as Shengjing Mine is concerned, from the 45th year of Kangxi to the present, there have been three large expenditures for mining purposes.

Ten years have passed, and no money has come in, but it is a lot of money every year to pay miners.

So many people, guarding a big mine, are they watching the mine play?

Because it is an iron mine, not a gold mine or a copper mine, there are few people who pay attention. If you don't pay attention to the accounts of the past years, you will not find this in many industries.

"I can't complain about it, here in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is a generation of errands, and I don't have to worry about food and clothing for several lifetimes, and this oil and water is too much." Yiduli saw the cattiness in this and sighed.

He is the right and left hand of Cao Hao in the main hall of the Internal Affairs Office, and the sixteenth elder brother did not hide from him about the account check.

"Sixteenth master, Master Cao, why don't you make it convenient, let the lowly post also go out, and be the head of Zhuangzi?" Yi Duli remembered that his wife had mentioned that this year's rain was insufficient, and the Zhuangzi harvest was afraid that it would be difficult to see a good harvest, and at the end of the year, he was afraid that he would not be able to make ends meet, so he would see if he would sell some of the antique calligraphy and paintings collected in the Rehe Mansion.

The sixteenth elder brother glanced at him angrily and said, "My parents are here, I don't travel far, I want to be an unfilial son in Yilangzhong?" ”

Yi Duli sighed at this time, stopped his envy, turned his head, looked at Cao Hao and said: "My lord tossed a bidding trip and sold the business road of the Internal Affairs Office for three years, but it was only a few million taels of silver in the inner treasury. Looking at the imperial property brochures of the five northern provinces, I am afraid that this number will be obtained every year if it is so unclear. ”

Although Cao Hao knows that officialdom is greedy for ink now, the yamen of the Internal Affairs Office is not innocent. But all of them are also shocking.

If nothing else, let's just say that there are several common things in the purchase list before the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such as eggs, chickens, ducks, etc. This purchase price is ten times the market price.

Ten out of ten are greedy for ink and eighty or ninety, what kind of courage is this?

Jiang Jian was Cao Hao's staff, and he watched Cao Hao follow the sixteenth elder brother to check the accounts, but he couldn't let go of it in his heart.

Knowing that the matter was decided by the sixteenth elder brother, it was useless for Cao Hao to change his mind, so he did not persuade Cao Hao. It's just that in private, I have begun to think about it to see if I can let Cao Hao take care of it less.

Just when the sixteenth elder brother and Cao Hao were having a good time, there was a big change in the Internal Affairs Office.

He Yi, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, asked for a rain excerpt because of a mistake, which caused Kangxi to be angry.

I don't know if Kangxi had a heart attack, and he was really negligent. The reason is this, among the excerpts of Kangxi's thirteenth batch of May, one is the excerpt of He Yi, who lives in Beijing.

It is Heyi who prayed for rain and got rain, which means that from the four places of Black Dragon Pond, Manjing, Caoqiao, and Shuitouzhuang, the eighth day of the fifth month began to pray for rain, and the fourteenth day was full of seven days. Now that the Ministry of Rites is playing, praying for the rain to stop, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs is praying for rain, whether to continue to pray for rain, or to stop praying for rain, please give an order.

The content of the excerpt is nothing, but the bad is bad in the following period. When Kangxi looked at the excerpt, it was May 13, and the date signed under the excerpt was also May 13.

The excerpts from the capital to Rehe, in addition to the 800 miles expedited and 600 miles expedited, the other excerpts are collected and sorted out by the scholars of Beijing University, and sent to Rehe by a special person and a fast horse, and the next time it arrives.

Heyi's fold, when it is said to have arrived, this is not a big surprise, what is it?

Kangxi was furious and ordered the bachelor in Beijing to strictly investigate the matter, but no outsiders knew what was found. It was only on May 18 that Kangxi removed the vacancy of the head of Heyi's internal affairs office.

The sixteenth elder brother who acted in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, Ma Qi, the former head of the Internal Affairs Office, Cao Hao and Guan Bao, the heads of the Internal Affairs Office, were all summoned to the Imperial Front and asked them to recommend candidates from the subordinate officials of the Internal Affairs Office to fill the vacancy of He Yi.

Cao Hao's position is second to everyone.

Everyone knows that He Yi's career is almost over.

The emperor is dying, and the most unbearable thing is the foolishness of the courtiers, which will make him more and more suspicious.

"Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", no matter what the reason, the "crime of bullying the king", not to mention ruining the career, even losing the head, is not unusual.

"Huh?" After Kangxi finished speaking, seeing that everyone didn't speak, he couldn't help frowning, looked at Ma Qi and said, "Could it be that there is no one to use it in the huge Internal Affairs Mansion?" ”

"If you go back to the emperor, Dong Dianbang, the chief administrator of the Internal Affairs Office, has been on an errand for many years, and he is always serious, and the servants recommend this person." Ma Qi bowed back.

Kangxi nodded, his gaze swept over the sixteenth elder brother, Cao Hao and the others, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Dong Dianbang is an old man in the Internal Affairs Bureau, and there are not many subordinate officials in the Internal Affairs Office who are more suitable than him, and Ma Qi's recommendation can be regarded as fair.

The sixteenth elder brother, Guanbao, and Cao Hao had no other recommendations, and they all seconded Ma Qi.

In addition to Guanbao's passing year, Cao Hao and the sixteenth elder brother are really younger. Kangxi thought about Huan Shi, who was checking the accounts of the sixteenth elder brother recently, and sighed in his heart, it seems that it is just right to have a stable person to fill this gap.

The decree of the Minister of the Interior of the State Administration of Dong Dianbang was immediately published in the newspaper and made known to the world.

Cao Hao thought of Dong Suxin, who was still in the capital, and felt quite tricky.

When he returned to the other courtyard, Cao Hao mentioned to his father that Dong Dianbang was the acting head of the Internal Affairs Office.

Cao Yin nodded and said, "With his qualifications, this head of the Internal Affairs Office has long been deserved." If you hadn't been promoted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs last year, he would have mentioned it. ”

"It's okay to say otherwise, this son of Lord Dong has been in contact with him a few times, and he can be regarded as a well-informed person. It's just that the young lady in our house, when will she be able to return to Dong's house? Cao Hao asked.

Cao Yin had a closer relationship with Dong Suxin's uncle's Shang family, and said to Cao Yin: "I have entrusted the Shang family as a matchmaker, and I have already sent a letter to your second brother to tell Miss Dong to give you Xiaowu as his wife." ”

"Huh?" Cao Hao couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this.

The Cao family's junior five is only fifteen this year, and Dong Suxin is already twenty, and the age of the two is really far apart.

Besides, Cao Fu has a baby face, and because he is the youngest son, he still speaks with childishness; Dong Suxin was an errand boy in the Qianqing Palace when he was a teenager, and he was as steady as a wooden man. The two of them are really a mismatch.

"Your Majesty?" Cao Hao remembered that Su Xin was still in the booklet of the Internal Affairs Office and asked.

"The emperor has long privately instructed me that Su Xin is an honest and stable girl, a daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law, but she can be self-dedicated." Cao Yin glanced at Cao Hao and said, "It's okay to be normal, after raising in our house for two years, can you still marry someone else's family?" Even if your daughter-in-law is unwilling, after all, she is a person from the palace, and she can't say anything. The partial daughter-in-law was tired of you and almost gave her life. If there is a regeneration incident, I am afraid that the seventh elder brother will also have a grudge. You can't be a daughter-in-law, you can be a nephew. Although you have two children under your knees, you only have the blood of immortality. After a few years, when you reach the year of establishment, if your daughter-in-law has nothing to do, you must also think about the continuation of the bloodline. The families in the capital are prosperous, and most of them are families with many children; The bloodline is scarce, and it can't withstand the changes, and many families have fallen. ”

Hearing Cao Yin's lesson about this, Cao Hao hurriedly diverted the conversation and said, "By the way, father, how did you hear that He Yi also dismissed the title of Shangshu?" ”

Cao Yin Bai said that he had heard about He Yi, and now he mentioned it, which is quite embarrassing. He Yi not only dismissed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also the Ministry of Industry, and even the Yin Sheng obtained from the previous edict was also dismissed.

Losing his top flower feather doesn't count, and even his son's future is ruined. Disgusted by the emperor so far, how easy is it to reinstate?

"Although He Yi is a little famous, compared to others, he is quite good." Cao Yin sighed and said.

Regarding He Yi's dismissal, Cao Haoyuan didn't think about anything else.

Since you have the courage to blur Kangxi, you must be conscious, and it is not wronged. Not to mention, the two of them are both officials, Cao Hao has nothing to do with He Yi, but He Yi is always on guard, as if Cao Hao will always think about designing him to avenge his father.

He didn't want to think about it, if this was the case, Cao Hao wouldn't have to do anything else, and he would stare at the imperial history of the Yamen all day long. After all, over the years, due to major and minor affairs, the imperial history that has impeached their father and son is not one or two.

What is Goshi? What is the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Is it really a supervision of hundreds of officials and the purging of officials? This is a big lie with empty teeth.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a gun storehouse, and those imperial historians who claim to be "iron-clad" are the guns in the hands of the powerful. The goal is pointed to, and there are people behind the thread, and it is not easy to talk about self-specialization.

Those corrupt Confucians, few of whom knew the suffering of the people, opened their self-righteous mouths, and they were accustomed to pen kung fu and fighting.

He Yi came out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the sour rot and Qinggao have already entered the bones, so he loves a name, where will Cao Hao care about him.

When his father affirmed He Yi so much, Cao Hao was quite surprised.

When He Yi impeached Cao Yin for repairing Jiangning Garden, he was greedy for ink, and he made a lot of noise, because this Cao Yin also made a special trip to ask for guilt. It is also for this reason that the officialdom in the capital said that Cao Yin's greed for ink has a nose and an eye.

After Cao Yin entered Beijing, he was also very estranged from He Yi, and he was not close to He Yi because his son was on an errand in the Internal Affairs Office.

Cao Hao couldn't help but sigh that he didn't know whether to be speechless or admire his father's selfless "worrying about the country".

He was a little conflicted in his heart, perhaps because of the different education he received, he really couldn't understand the loyalty and patriotism of the scholar three hundred years ago.

He also wanted to contribute to the country, but not for Kangxi, not for the Qing Dynasty, and so that the Chinese could avoid the evil of opium and not have to bear the shame of being the "sick man of East Asia".

It's just that this cigarette has not yet spread, and it is too early to mention it now.

"What does a father want his son to do?" Cao Hao couldn't help but ask.

Cao Yin couldn't help but be stunned when he saw his son asking like this, looked at him for a long time, and said: "Blue is better than blue, for the father to inherit the family shadow, the first half of his life was too easy, and he developed a self-righteous problem." You are much stronger than your father, and your future achievements must be beyond your father's reach. ”

"Father, my son doesn't dare to praise ......" Cao Hao didn't expect his father to praise himself, so he was a little embarrassed. He didn't want to hear this, but hoped that his father would show him a direction, so that he would not feel confused.

Cao Yin looked at his eldest son lovingly, but he didn't say a word.

The dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, and the son is also a little self-righteous and stubborn in his bones, and he is ......very stubborn * The capital, in the Anding Gate, Prince Yong's mansion.

A few days ago, a decree came, summoning the fourth elder brother to go to Rehe to follow him. Because he was about to set off tomorrow, there were still errands to be taken care of in the yamen, so the fourth elder brother didn't return until dark.

On the side of Sifujin, the luggage of the entourage has been prepared.

Seeing that her husband was tired, Sifujin served him to change his clothes, and then held the lamp with his own hands and said, "Master, the concubine has asked someone to boil bird's nest, and the master will drink a bowl." In this half month, the master has been a little clear, but if it is hot today, he doesn't dare to use ginseng. ”

The fourth elder brother took it, lowered his head and took two sips, remembered something, raised his head and said, "How is the preparation on the Nian side?" ”

"The concubine sent someone to ask before dinner, and it was already packed. It's just ......" Speaking of this, Sifu Jin paused and said: "It's just a few years, but Fan Ye went to Rehe, mostly followed by the Nian family, and the Li family's side, I'm afraid it will be uncomfortable......

When the fourth elder brother heard this, he couldn't help frowning.

"Master, otherwise, let the Li family go with the same year, and the concubine will stay at home?" Sifujin hesitated for a moment and asked.

The fourth elder brother shook his head and said, "No, this time I was ordered to go to Rehe to escape the summer, maybe I will invite the holy driver to visit the garden, and I will have to be blessed." On the Li side, you can find a way to appease you......"

* Cao's house, Aoi Courtyard, upper room.

Looking at Changsheng sitting on the kang, Dong Suxin's face was a little softer.

Changsheng has been eight months, and he can sit and climb. Although the Li family is not in the capital, no one dares to snub this little ancestor, and he is closely guarded from top to bottom, and he is raised for nothing.

Li is also thoughtful in Rehe, and once wanted to send his young son over, but he was worried that he was still too young and made a mistake on the road.

On Amethyst's side, she wrote letters to the Li family and Chu Yu every other day, telling them about all the things in the house, which can be regarded as a little relief for the Li family's concerns.

Changsheng also looked at Dong Suxin, his big eyes were black and white, and his small mouth was grinning, revealing his two front teeth below.

Dong Suxin stretched out his hand, touched Changsheng's little face, and said, "Sister, it's so strange." I used to be the most tired of children, and I always felt that crying and making noise caused people to be disturbed; Looking at it now, it's rare in my heart. ”

When a woman reaches an age, it will be like this. It's that the body is already ripe and wants to be a mother.

Amethyst thought in her heart, but it was not easy to say this, and said with a smile: "Who is not like this, when you are young and have limited patience, you can't stand the crying of children; When I get older, my surname has stabilized, and my heart has calmed down, so I don't feel annoyed......"

(To be continued)