Listening to Yinzhen's words, Yinzhen said with a smile: "Japan is rich in gold and silver, this point, North Korea is incomparable, and none of the subject countries of the Qing Dynasty can be compared with Japan." [].”

"Not necessarily." Yinzhen also slowed down, paced slowly, and said casually: "Nanyang countries, although not rich in gold and silver, but have their own specialty, Myanmar's jade, especially jadeite is quite famous, and the output is also large, the real wax of rosewood, teak production is also very large, Nanzhang, Siam, Annam is rich in rice, we can not hold the golden rice bowl to beg." ”

Old Fourteen, this is to the Nanyang countries to pay the year? Or are you going to let the navy go to the countries of the South Seas to fight a dozen? Yin Yu was puzzled in his heart, but he echoed and said: "The fourteenth brother's words are very true, over the years, we have just begged for food with a golden rice bowl, and now that the navy is strong, we should garrison troops in various countries, I will tell the starling brother to sort out the information of the various feudal countries in Nanyang for the fourteenth brother to plan." ”

Yinzhen nodded slightly and said, "It's really time to carefully touch their family, you let the starling collect the information a little more solidly." ”

"Okay, I'll go right away." Yin Yu said and hugged his fists and bowed: "Fourteenth brother, please stay." ”

*

As the saying goes, one more people, two more gongs, three more ghosts, four more thieves, and five more chickens.

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty are like thieves, they have to get up on the fourth watch, and the fourth watch is ugly, that is, from one to three o'clock in the morning, which is the time when people sleep the deepest, and it is also the best time for the chickens and dogs to be thieves, so it is called the four thieves, also known as the "dog thief".

Since Yinzhen lived in Yuqing Palace, he didn't dare to slack off, and got up at three o'clock every day according to Kangxi's work and rest time when he was young, and his four sons were slightly earlier than him, and rushed to his window at three o'clock to greet him, and then went to study at his brother's house.

Yinzhen hated this kind of work and rest time, but at this stage, he didn't dare to innovate. As the crown prince, he dares to be lazy, and the ministers, especially those who are the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, will drown him if they don't swarm up. Kangxi will also reprimand him severely, there is no way, endure it, you must endure it.

Early the next morning, at three o'clock, Bao Fuquan shouted outside the door on time: "Please get up the prince." Immediately afterwards, he said in a low voice like a singing: "Dawn is coming, and all opportunities are waiting to be taken care of." Children and grandchildren will always be respectful. ”

After being woken up in a daze, Yinzhen sat up, Zhang Mengjiao beside him was also awakened, and quickly got up, Yinzhen knew that she was not used to it, shook her head slightly and said: "You don't have to get up, sleep more." Let the maids wait. ”

"The concubine doesn't dare." Zhang Mengjiao said lazily, while giving Yinzhen Zhang Luo clothes, she continued: "If the concubine breaks the rules. I'm going to make the maids laugh again. ”

Yinzhen smiled, but no longer spoke, the rules in the palace are as big as the sky, every word and deed is in line with the etiquette norms, Zhang Mengjiao is from Han nationality, and she is even more cautious on weekdays, walking on thin ice, all he can do is to pamper her a little more.

"Prince, the concubine heard that you will become the emperor. Can't the concubine stay with you for one night? Zhang Mengjiao asked curiously.

Yinzhen nodded slightly, the emperor of this year is not so easy to be, now he is only the crown prince, and he can sleep with his wife for a night, and when he becomes the emperor, he will have to sleep alone. After a slight groan, he said: "The emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, have you heard of this sentence?" ”

Zhang Mengjiao sighed lightly and said puzzledly: "What does it have to do with this?" ”

"That's what I'm talking about." Yinzhen chuckled and said: "There are many rules in the palace, in order to prevent the emperor from favoring and sympathizing with the emperor's dragon body, when the emperor is fortunate to be a concubine, there are a group of eunuchs outside to listen to the room, and when the time comes, it will be two hours, and they will shout outside, 'It's time to pull.'" "If you shout a few times in a row, seeing that the emperor is still unwilling to release people, the eunuchs will dare to enter the house and carry the concubine and leave." …,

As soon as she heard that there was sex and someone listening outside, Zhang Mengjiao couldn't help blushing with shame, and asked writhingly: "Is there anyone listening to the room in Yuqing Palace?" Our voices are so loud, don't they all let them hear them? ”

"What's our voice, it's your voice." Yinzhen teased her.

Zhang Mengjiao punched him a few times, and said shyly: "It's not all you who made it, don't say it." ”

"Hehe, don't worry, I don't like people listening to the room, I have long abolished this rule." Yinzhen chuckled, "However, I like to listen to your tactful and intoxicated voice." ”

"Death." Zhang Mengjiao twisted him lightly.

Hearing that there was movement in the house, a group of maids outside the door who had already been waiting outside the door with a pair of toiletries opened the door and came in under the leadership of the two personal maids of the autumn equinox and Xiangqiao.

After cleaning up the rope, half an hour has passed, Yinzhen began to carry out the day's process step by step in high spirits, first go to the queen mother to say goodbye, as for his mother Concubine De and Kangxi's concubines, but they follow the prince's rules, and there is no need to ask for peace every day. Next, it is the early reading, and the content of the early reading is the "Hadith" and "Record" of the emperors of the previous dynasties, including Kangxi's, of course.

Yinzhen got up early, and the ministers who revolved around him naturally did not dare to get up late, especially the ministers of the study, they did not get up later than Yinzhen, and the ministers on duty entered the palace on the fifth watch day (five o'clock) to prepare for the emperor's inquiry, because the time for the imperial gate to listen to the government was generally at the beginning of the morning (7 o'clock in the morning), they had to rush into the palace in advance, and write an abridgement of the memorabilia sent from various parts of the country and attach the handling opinions for the emperor's reference.

For important things or major events, you must pick out the original and play it, and you have to make a good draft first, so as not to be asked for opinions, another important task is to meet with officials, listen to the performance reports of officials from all over the country who go to Beijing to report on their work, pick out the outstanding ones, and introduce them to the emperor, however, Yinzhen does not dare to do this on his behalf, and would rather put it on hold than Kangxi be too careful.

In addition, there are countless trivial matters, and from time to time also on business trips, outsiders seem to be extremely honored by the ministers of the study, in fact, they are all bitter and unspeakable, and they are tired.

The ministers on duty on this day are Fu Ningan and Zhang Pengxi, and the two of them entered the duty room on time, and they began to be busy, picking up and folding to see if there was anything important. The two sat down and began to prepare to write an abridgement, but Fu Ningan coughed lightly at this time, and when he saw Zhang Pengxi looking over, he said, "I met the crown prince yesterday." When it comes to the matter of making the vassal states pledge and paying the New Year's coin, can Yunqing know the specific details? ”

The pledge of the feudal states, the payment of coins? Zhang Pengxi was secretly surprised, how could he not have heard the prince mention it? Is this a whim of the crown prince, or is it just a rumor to test the reaction of the DPRK and China? A little groaning. He said: "Ordering the vassal states to pledge and pay the New Year's coin, this is a major matter of the country, how dare the prince make the decision alone?" ”

Fu Ning'an's brows furrowed slightly, he also suspected that this matter had been approved by Kangxi, the crown prince has been cautious everywhere since he was in charge of the country, and he will not be so arbitrary, Zhang Pengxi is the leader of the 14th Party. I expected to be able to hear the truth from him, but I didn't know that this guy didn't leak a drop of water.

After a slight groan, Fu Ningan was still unwilling to say: "North Korea's annual currency has been continuously reduced and reduced over the years. The relationship between the clan and the vassal has also improved greatly, so why is there a sudden change in the situation? ”

"One time, another time." Zhang Pengxi didn't know the details, so he naturally didn't want to talk about it. replied briefly and vaguely, and then buried himself in writing an abridgement. Seeing this, Fu Ning'an had to shut his mouth stupidly, took a book and flipped through it, and the room was quiet.

After a while, a eunuch hurried over, bowed respectfully at the door and said, "Two lords of the middle hall." The crown prince called in. ”

Zhang Pengxi said without raising his head: "Got it." With that, he put down his pen and got up, arranged his crown robe and beads, checked whether there was any loss of etiquette, and then stepped out of the door.

The two rushed to the outside of Yuqing Palace, only to see that several other ministers of the study were already waiting at the door. Zhang Pengxi couldn't help but be slightly surprised, could it be that there was something important to discuss? At this time, I didn't have time to think about it, and after greeting a few people, I rushed in, but I wondered in my heart, could it be to discuss the affairs of the clan? Shouldn't you say hello to yourself?

Xiao Yongzao, Ma Qi, Zhang Pengxi, Song Zhu, Wang Luo, and Fu Ningan entered Yuqing Palace, and they all gave Yinzhen a salute, Yinzhen smiled and stretched out his hand to give up his seat, and when a few people sat down, he said slowly: "Yesterday, Your Majesty saw that the emperor has allowed the flag people to enter the Tianjin Army Workshop to work to solve the increasingly difficult problem of the flag people's livelihood. ”

Listening to this, several ministers in the study room are all one of them, and the flag people enter the workshop to work? This is a violation of the rule that banner people are not allowed to engage in other industries, is the crown prince ready to carry out the reform of the Eight Banners system?

Wang Zhu and Fu Ning'an both suddenly realized, no wonder the crown prince said yesterday that he wanted to reform the Eight Banners system, even the most fundamental Eight Banners system in the Qing Dynasty He dared to innovate, in the future, what else did he dare not innovate?

Zhang Pengxi was secretly frightened, the flag man is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and the whole body is moved, the flag man is used to being pampered, and he can endure the hardship when he enters the workshop? Once this thing is messed up, there is no room to turn back, the livelihood of the flag man is a dead end, everyone is afraid to avoid it, the fourteenth master is now in an unstable situation, fledgling, why do you want to go to this troubled water?

Xiao Yongzao and Ma Qi learned the news yesterday, and they were not surprised, Song Zhu groaned slightly, but couldn't help asking: "Slave foolish, I don't know if the Tianjin Military Workshop follows the model of Shanghai, or?" ”

Yinzhen glanced at him and said slowly: "This palace is now the prince, home is the country, and the country is the home, how can you buy private property again?" The military workshops in Shanghai and Tianjin were all brought under the name of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Xiao Yongzao and Ma Qi glanced at each other, and they all secretly said in their hearts, it seems that this Ministry of Industry Shangshu is about to be replaced, not a member of the Fourteenth Party, whoever does this Ministry of Industry Shangshu will automatically resign, the prince is so powerful that Kangxi willingly handed over the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, plus the household department, the six departments have gone to the second.

Yinzhen, who listened to it, handed over the military workshops in Shanghai and Tianjin to the imperial court, Wang Luo, Fu Ning'an, and Song Zhu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, they were all in the Kangxi camp, if the military workshops in Tianjin still followed the model of Shanghai, then the hearts of the banner people were all biased towards the crown prince, even if Kangxi was fully recovered, it was impossible to win back the hearts of the people. Moreover, the livelihood of the banner people is already difficult.

Zhang Pengxi sighed secretly, the fourteenth master's mind, the princes are really unmatched, the family business that has been earned over the years has been sent clean without even blinking an eye, this time it is really broken for the country.

Seeing that several people were silent, Yinzhen said in a deep voice: "The world has been peaceful these years, the forbidden brigade stationed in Beijing has a fixed amount of soldiers, a fixed number of salaries, and the livelihood of the banner people is difficult, a family of seven or eight, only relying on one person's military salary to support, has seriously curbed the reproduction and development of the banner people, and it will inevitably drag down the imperial court finances.

In the year of disaster and famine, how can we give relief? In the event of a major war, where can I urgently collect military salaries? Don't all stare at the 70 million taels of indemnity from Japan, which is the money for immigrating to Australia, developing the navy, the new Janissary Army, and building Tianjin and Karopa, that idea is far from enough. Several people were taken aback by Yinzhen's tone, 70 million taels of silver, the sum of the two years of the Qing Dynasty, in the mouth of the crown prince turned out to be 'that bit of silver', after thinking about it, it is indeed not enough, Australian immigrants will need 50 million taels, the navy is a bottomless pit, Tianjin will be developed, Karopa has become the capital of Nanyang, and it must be vigorously developed, and the remaining 20 million silver is indeed not spent.

After a pause, Yinzhen continued: "The banner people march into the workshop to work, which can not only solve the livelihood problem of the flag people, but also vigorously promote the development of the military workshop, and save the worries of the imperial court, which is a good deed for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

Zhang Pengxi immediately said without hesitation: "After the world is peaceful, the livelihood of the banner people has become a stubborn disease, and the imperial court has spent all its financial and material resources only for a while, and the emperor is also depressed for this, and he has also proposed to 'garrison along the border' but with little success, this move can solve the problem of the livelihood of the flag people once and for all, and the ministers and others will naturally do their best to support." ”

Wang Wei hesitated slightly, and then muttered: "This move is certainly beneficial to the country and the people, but there are also inappropriateness, and Weichen thinks it is appropriate to postpone the announcement." First, the status of the flag people is different from that of the people, and entering the workshop as a craftsman will suddenly raise the status of the craftsman, which is easy to cause confusion. Second, when the flag man joins the army workshop, he naturally has to pay his salary, where does the salary come from? It is still the expenditure of the imperial court.

At present, the Navy and the Janissaries are expanding, and there is a great demand for ordnance and the like, and it will take three or five years, or ten or eight years, and the Navy and the Janissaries are not expanded, or even abolished, how can the livelihood of the bannermen in the military workshop be solved? This move is tantamount to passing on the livelihood of the bannermen and imposing them on the imperial court. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )