The two of them returned to the post house, Yinzhen ordered a meal and ate a few bites randomly, Yinzhen rinsed his mouth, and saw Yinxiang half-crooked on the easy chair, as if he had changed a person, looking at the beam of the house blankly, because he smiled: "I have never seen you live in peace like this, what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking about the starling." Yinxiang stroked his forehead and exhaled deeply, "Saying that he is a hypocrite, sometimes he really looks like a good person." said that he was a good person, and the ninth brother and the tenth brother still had ......" He wanted to say the fourteenth elder brother Yin, but Yin was a compatriot of Yinzhen's mother, so he changed his words and said: "...... There is also a large group, like Yu Xu, Aling'a, Wang Hongxu, what Oro Dai is a dry black turtle and miscellaneous fish bastard, Wang Ba, all revolving around him all day long! "Really?" Yin Zhen smiled, "As far as I can see, he is still virtuous and tolerant." Don't talk about you and me, plus the prince, ten are not worth one of him. But if a good person does something indiscriminately, there will inevitably be a mixture of fish and dragons around him - you don't worry about him, this person's heart is very clear! ”

Yinxiang snorted and said coldly: "What do I have to worry about him?" I'm worried about you! He is there to win people's hearts, and you are here to blindly offend people. It's okay if the prince really accepts your affection, but this second master is unwilling to bear the responsibilities of the four taels, how can he be good in the future? Yin Zhen couldn't help but be stunned, only nodded, and bowed his head to eat tea without squeaking. Yinxiang said again: "That year, the prince of Narsu entered Beijing, and the gift given to the prince was a little thinner, and the prince wanted to rectify him and catch his mistake of using the bright yellow paperweight without permission, but he asked you to be imprisoned and whipped in the Zongren Mansion. He got drunk in Yuqing Palace, molested the nobles in front of the emperor, messed up the pot, and poured red-crowned cranes into other people's houses without a way. The dead can't afford it, so I asked you to go and tell De Niangniang to dredge up in front of the emperor. We were collecting donations in Anhui, causing fires in the villages and smoke from the trees, and there was so much gossip in Beijing, and we didn't see the prince come forward to seek justice for us......"

"Shhh-" Yinzhen saw that Yinxiang was getting more and more energetic, and hurriedly gestured, "Prevent the partition wall from having ears!" As he spoke, he went out to take a look, but when he saw the moon sinking into the clouds, and the shadows of the trees were like walls, there was no one, so he turned around and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Yinxiang shook his head sadly and said: "It's not that I'm talking nonsense while I'm drunk, it's really chilling to be with such a master!" What does it mean to put on such a big show like tonight? Who's playing tricks on it? Fourth brother, you are alert and not fooled. If you really call the Metropolitan Inspectorate's stinky imperial history a secret reference, is the second brother willing to come out to defend us? - I have seen through your mind, and you are going to take this errand. Desperately offended so many people to stop the feast. But what do you expect from this loyalty? ”

Yinzhen was calm on the surface, but his heart was churning heavily. His move tonight was actually for the emperor and the crown prince to see. also let the hundred officials know that he does not avoid success or failure, and is determined to clean up the affairs of the household debt. I thought that this rough and refreshing thirteenth brother might not be able to appreciate this deep meaning, but he didn't expect him to see it even deeper than himself!

"Why don't you speak?" Yinxiang suddenly burst into flames, "Isn't what I'm talking about?" ”

"You're not bad at all." Yin Zhen sighed, "I'm already riding on the back of a tiger, how can it be so easy to get down?" A discerning person knows at a glance that the prince is becoming more and more unwilling, and it is no wonder that he has no authority to call him a prisoner of the country; He criticized and folded, and there was a study in front of the emperor - he himself was not angry. Some people just look at this one, blocking the road everywhere, making it difficult for people to move an inch. What do you know best, what 'party' do I have? There are too many errands to do, and the black pot is much back, who will avoid it? Now that he is the crown prince, it is inevitable that he will ask him for advice, or if he does not maintain him, people say that I don't think he can eat well, and he wants to defect to the eighth or the boss, what kind of reputation? So you can only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and go all the way to the dark! Thirteenth brother, you just swallowed, even the old fourteen is thinking with everyone. When you talk about this tonight, I simply said: I am ready to be a lonely minister, and I am forbidden by high walls. Things are very dangerous now, you have to save them - one day you can confess my heart for me, and you will not be in vain for your confidant brother......" he said eloquently, and his eyes turned red when he said this. But the spark of affection only flashed, and he quickly regained his composure, and took a sip of tea casually.

Yin Xiang stood up and paced back and forth impatiently. After a while, he stood still, turned around and said, "This is really a heartfelt word. But as far as I can see, we have to change it, maybe it's a different situation! ”

"Huh?"

"I've been thinking about this for a long time." Yinxiang said, "I can't compare to you, I have been lonely since I was a child. There is a mother, and for some reason, she has no title for life, no one dies. How angry I was with the ninth brother and the tenth brother for this incomprehensible thing, even a eunuch with a bit of status dared to spoil me. His eyes suddenly welled up with tears," ...... When I was a child, my brothers studied in Yuqing Palace. The same will not endorse, and it will be fine if someone else sues for illness. If I want to sue for illness, I have to empty the house and lose the fire, crying until I die, and no one cares. The eldest brother and the prince made trouble, and Chenda only punished me for kneeling. The emperor sent Kesh (reward), and said 'melt the four-year-old pear', and I got the least. I followed the guards to play Buku together, and I was also used as a practice style, and I had to listen to my brothers laugh at me when I vomited blood. Speaking of this, tears have come out of my eyes, "The fourteenth brother was born in the same year as me, you are a mother, and I won't say anything." You can just compare me with him - people say that I have the same personality as him, but he is generous and I am stingy, fourth brother, can I be generous? The amount of silver that the Zongren Mansion gives me every year is not half of what others do, saying that I have no relatives...... Without a reward, the eunuchs don't want to follow me! Yinxiang burst into tears, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stared at the dark night outside with his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Do you remember June 6 of that year?" The prince can't memorize the book, under the poisonous sun, punish me to kneel on the stone steps in front of Yuqing Palace, I hate and anger and helpless, I turned my back all of a sudden, I heard that they still laughed at me, 'It's really useless!' ’…… When I woke up, I was already in your arms, and all I said was, 'It would be nice to have a tree.' I remember that you are still crying - it has only been clear all these years that trees are never allowed to be planted in the palace, and you are my shade tree! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be alive today! ”

Yin Zhen was deeply shocked by his words, grabbed Yin Xiang's hand, and sighed: "What are you doing talking about these past events, it makes people feel like knives in their hearts!" Your mother's business...... I'll just tell you one thing, he is a very good person, the princess of the Tushetu Mongol Khan, Baori Longmei, whose status is more valuable than any mother. I'm afraid that only Banzai knows what happened to her, but she is definitely not guilty, and if she is guilty, there must be an edict...... Now that you have grown up, who dares to bully you now? "I told them to bully me big, and they became iron men, and if they picked my nose, I dared to gouge out their eyes!" Yinxiang said, "I don't say this tonight for my bitterness, I want you to keep a hand now, you think for me, and you have to keep yourself." So this errand of the household department, I'm doing it in front, you take a step back and answer - it, anyway, I'm a broken jar, if I fall more, it's still a broken jar, what's the matter? Yinxiang's words were sincere, thunderous and lightning, and every sentence was loud. Yin Zhen's face became more and more pale, and he shook his hand tightly and said, "Good brother, there are difficulties!" ”

On the morning of the second day, Kangxi met with Yinzhen and Yinxiang in Ningju. The old emperor looked very melancholy, and asked them about the situation of the Anhui errand, but he did not speak, but paced slowly with his hands behind his back, and after a long time, he sighed and sat down, and said: "You want to control the river outside, this idea is good." But now there is no silver, and nothing is empty words. If you are anxious about the country's difficulties, you can get a little bit from the salt merchants, and put it in Anhui Province, below Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Shanxi, this method may not all work. If you cure it this year and decide it next year, can you use this method again? No, no...... Listening to your meaning, I think that the prince asked you to come back, but in fact, I have repeatedly considered it, and it has nothing to do with their complaint. As he spoke, he turned his face to stare at Yinzhen Yinxiang, who was kneeling down, and said earnestly: "There are a lot of disadvantages, so you have to do them one by one." Now that the holy road is prosperous, if you want to find a few Confucians to preach the scriptures and spread the scriptures, how many or how many. How easy is it to say that you want to do practical things without talking about them? I have high hopes in your brother. ”

"The Hadith of the Emperor Ama is extremely clear." Yin Zhen straightened up slightly, and said calmly, "What the ministers saw below, as the emperor said, the fact that the officials are ruling is shocking. In addition, there is the annexation of land, and the wealthy scholars are desperately buying land by virtue of tax exemption, and small families are also willing to sell it at a low price as their tenants to avoid national taxes. and if he has no land at all, he shall pay a tax on the tin. The greed above is blazing, and the people below are unemployed, and after a long time, it will be unspeakable. Erchen wanted to stay in Anhui, but he also wanted to conduct a field investigation to find a way to open up sources and reduce expenditure, rectify the rule of officials, and share worries for Amma. As he spoke, he told Jiang Xia Liu that the eighth daughter was rich, but he avoided the relationship between the ninth elder brother Yinyu and the eighth elder brother Yinyu.

Kangxi listened very attentively, didn't say a word, just stared at the paperweight on the case with blazing eyes, and said for a long time: "I know." Land annexation is not a matter of course. So far, in the Han and Tang dynasties, as long as there is no revolution, no one can do anything about it. I originally wanted to measure the land of the whole country and pay taxes according to the land, so that I could buffer it, but the officials were not clear, and the number sent was false. Everything has to be done by officials, and the rule of officials is a real article! Yinxiang's eyes lit up when he heard this, the atmosphere of today's emperor's reception was too far away from what he thought last night, and he couldn't help but laugh at his mediocrity and disturb himself, so he said in a loud voice: "Long live since you know, why don't you work hard, and give an edict to blame the six departments and clean up one by one?" ”

"Oh? Less heroic, smelling the chicken and dancing, the ambition is not small! Kangxi's eyes flashed slightly, "Young man, there are three things at home, start with the tight place." Mencius said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and if you are not careful, things will be done badly. Only kindness does not work, Wang Anshi is an example! You first enrich the treasury, and then start with the officials, let the virtuous ministers get rid of the villains, the officials are cured, the land is cleared, the annexation is slow, the donations are more collected, the collection is fair, and the unjust prisons are fewer...... If you can't clean up the deficit and repay the debt, what else can you talk about? Yinzhen crouched on the ground and chewed Kangxi's words word by word, but he had a different feeling in his heart: there were so many letters and letters, but he didn't mention Kangxi's meaning at all, did he not know at all, or was it ...... Just thinking about it, Kangxi asked with a smile: "Yinzhen, I heard last night that you left without eating?" ”

Yin Zhen didn't expect Kangxi to be so well-informed, so he was startled and hurriedly said: "This is there, my son is careless, please punish Amma!" Yinxiang was afraid that Kangxi would ask about the fire horse banquet again, and his head immediately soaked in sweat, and he only picked the brick cracks with both hands without squeaking, but he heard Kangxi say again: "You probably don't know, you are gone, I don't know who made the promotion narrow, and the firecrackers drove the horse to make a cadre of officials cry and ask the mother to turn over on the horse, right?" Yinzhen secretly glanced at Yinxiang, and hurriedly kowtowed: "I don't know about this." But the matter started with the son, and the son could not escape the blame, so he asked the emperor to punish him together! ”

"What sin shall I cure you?" Kangxi laughed loudly and said, "It's good, it's good!" I have already made a will, and the six ministries are not allowed to set up a banquet when they return to Beijing, and the hundred officials are not allowed to have personal friendships with the emperor's elder brother! Huang Ageli, there are really a few invulnerable, give this group of filthy officials who are Wen Tian and martial arts to take a look! Yinxiang saw that Kangxi was happy, knelt forward and said: "My son originally looked very lightly at the cleaning of the household, but after his father's enlightenment, he suddenly opened up. Yesterday, I heard Yinxi say that Shi Shilun was resolute and resolute when he arrived in the ministry, and he had returned to the situation before his sons were sent to Anhui. For the sake of the mountain, we can't fall short. Now that he has received the will, Ming'er's son will go to the ministry to see things, and the prince and the fourth brother will only sit on the throne to supervise it! Kangxi smiled: "You can go to the prince to discuss these details." After the September Festival, I went to Chengde, and I was able to do this mission neatly before leaving, and I will not have any state affairs to worry about during the New Year-you kneel down, and I will meet with the people of the Criminal Department in a while to discuss the major matters decided this autumn. ”

The two of them withdrew from the Ningju residence, and it was past the time of the card. It was almost autumn, and the paths in the garden had gradually fallen leaves, and Xing Nian, the deputy chief eunuch of the Yangxin Palace, was supervising dozens of eunuchs, bringing long poles and brooms, some of them were sticky, and some were sweeping the road. The two of them didn't pay attention to it, and went straight over, just when they saw Li Dequan, the eunuch in charge of the deputy capital, coming over, and said to Yinzhen: "Two masters, the slave is safe!" ”

"Hmm," Yinzhen replied, and when he saw that Li Dequan wanted to speak and stopped, he asked, "What's the matter?" Li Dequan smiled and said, "It's not a big deal." Gao Fu'er came to the mansion, he couldn't enter the garden, so he asked the slave to return to the fourth master, saying that there was a dog in the house, and he was angry in the fourth archway and the people's pavilion, and called Shuntianfu to take it. Yinxiang smiled and said: "What's the big deal, run to the garden and ask Gao Fu'er to get people back?" Li Dequan smiled and said, "It's true." It's just that this is an evil sect, and Master Fan doesn't know what medicine he has taken, so he refuses to let it go. Gao Fuer said that he had to ask his master for a film, and he would go for another walk. ”

Yin Zhen listened, his face changed color, Shuntian Mansion Yin Fan Shijie has always been okay with his face, why did he openly embarrass himself? Could it be because of last night's feast? But it looks like he didn't come yesterday? …… He pondered for a long time with a blank face, and said: "This dog, a pair of monkeys, there is not a day when I don't find trouble!" Yinxiang didn't think so, and said with a smile: "I was just about to say, borrow these two monkeys to the household envoy!" I like that they are innocent and chaotic! Lao Li, tell Gao Fuer to go home, it was you who sent someone to send a message to Fan Shijie, saying that I want to see him! I lost my host last time, and I want him back! So saying, the two of them went away.

Yun Songxuan, where the prince Yinren is doing things, is not far away, along the verandah, a rockery pond, an old pine forest stands in a golden and green five-wing hall. The two of them heard someone talking from a distance. When I came in, the crown prince Yinren, the prince's master Wang Luo, the head of Yuqing Palace, Shi Zhu Tianbao, Chen Jiayou, and Shi Shilun were sitting on the ground and talking. When they came in, everyone stood up, except for Yinren. Yin Zhen saw that Wang Zhen was about to bow down, so he hurriedly took a step forward and hurriedly held it with both hands, and said, "Why should you old man!" You were given the Forbidden City to ride a horse, how can I afford it? You may be seated, everybody. He looked at Wang Luoqing's thin face and said, "I really miss you, my complexion is fine, only my hair is all white!" After that, he pulled Yinxiang to the prince to say goodbye.

Prince Yinren's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Kangxi when he was young, the two thick eyebrows on his long melon seed face are very separated, his face is like a crown of jade, his eyes are like paint, he wears a azure silk robe, and he doesn't even tie a belt around his waist. He seemed very easy-going, and helped the two of them up without waiting for Yinzhen Yinxiang to speak: "Come back well, I am relieved to see that your body is strong." - We're talking about the household department! You stirred up in the household for a while, Lao Shi stirred up for a while, and now the city is full of wind and rain. You guys are a step late, and I didn't see Liang Qingbiao, the old Shangshu of the household department, and sat here and put on a show. What kind of person is old and useless, I always ask the master to remember my love for escaping from Guangdong and returning to Beijing to report the news when I was in the three feudal clans, and leave a way to live...... "He said, his expression was also a little gloomy: "If you want to say Yulu, a product is one hundred and eighty taels a year, and it is really sad to live without borrowing money, but if you don't clean it up, it will be terrible to go on indiscriminately." It is not a unit to make people jump, just like we are reluctant to feed a few courtiers in the Qing Dynasty. It's hard to come back, and I have a helper. Wang Luo sat aside and listened silently, and then asked for a long time: "Fourth master, you have just come from the Lord of Long Live Lord, what is the will of the Lord?" Yin Zhen Fang slowly picked up the situation of seeing Kangxi just now, and said something related to the household department.

Everyone got up and listened quietly before sitting down again, and Yinren smiled and said: "Thirteenth brother, I am most relieved to have you sitting in the household department." The emperor's cuisine is perfect. In fact, there are not many things on my side, there are long live masters for big things, and Zhang Tingyu, Tong, and Ma in the study for small things. My thoughts, Tianbao and Jiayou also followed to experience and experience. What do you think of the fourth? ”

"Okay." Yin Zhen said lightly.

Chen Jiayou and Zhu Tianbao were both recommended to Yuqing Palace by Yinzhen. The teenager is a newcomer and has few scruples when encountering problems. Yinren's intention in calling them here is very clear, first, they want to have clean ears; the second is that the errand is done well and can compete for credit; The third is that the errand is smashed, and the responsibility is Yinzhen's. Yinxiang couldn't help but feel a chill when he saw his true intentions, but he didn't dare to say a word off topic. Just thinking about it, Shi Shilun said: "I received a message from the governor of Nanjing Yamen this morning, Cao Yin is critically ill and cannot come to Beijing, Mu Zixu also reported his illness, only Wu Dan, the governor of Guangdong, will arrive in a few days, and Wei Dongting, the governor of customs, is also a big debtor, and he has suffered a miasma in southern Yunnan, so I am afraid he will not be able to come." It's a very difficult thing, and we're just talking about it, and we don't know how to start it. ”

"Let's start with Brother first!" Yinxiang was only recently commended by the emperor, and Wu Zixing was refreshed, because he said loudly, "The first to gnaw the bone of the tenth brother." Now that Banzai is so determined, I think I can accomplish it in one battle. Our brothers are debt-free and light, and we have no worries about others. He thought that this method was wonderful, and everyone would be impressed, but when he finished speaking, there was an embarrassing silence. Everyone hung their heads and ate tea, but it had no effect. Yinxiang was stunned, and Yinren smiled: "Why don't you say anything?" Why don't you become the 450,000 I borrowed? It was really impossible to move it, so He Zhu'er was asked to borrow it temporarily. When you buy a garden, the silver is 50,000 yuan, so you have to do it. I have sent to Mukden, and at the end of the year the money will be delivered, and the debt will be paid. How's it going, Desperate Thirteen? ”

Yinxiang was so suffocated that he never thought that the initiator of the debt again was the prince! It's no wonder that even an iron-fisted official like Shi Shilun is helpless. Yinzhen's heart was also a mess at first, but he soon understood that this son could only do what the prince wanted, because he said: "That's it, let's do it hard." Then he got up, and all the people got up and took their leave. Yinxiang thought that walking with Yinzhen was too dazzling, so he only glanced at Yinzhen and said, "Master Wang, what about the words you promised me?" Take advantage of this pen and paper to write! As he spoke, he dragged Wang Zhu to write.

As soon as Yinzhen walked to the gate of the garden, he saw Yin Fan Shijie of Shuntianfu wearing a peacock supplement suit and a sapphire top to come in. Fan Shijie had already seen it, and he was busy asking for peace, "Fourth master, are you back from Anhui?" ”

"Hmm." Yin Zhen nodded and asked, "Fan Shijie, a scholar in my house, asked your person to take it, what did he do?" Fan Shijie shrugged his mustache and said seriously: "Fourth master, the slave dog in the house was bullied by an egg seller in the fourth archway, which caused a quarrel, and it was Jiang Zhi of the Li Fan Yuan and Yao Dian of the Ministry of Rites who bumped into each other and sent them to Shuntianfu." This matter has alarmed the Lifan Yuan, and it will be released without trial, which is probably not good. "Let's take a look at Yinzhen.

Yinzhen listened to him and pushed back neither softly nor hard, and he didn't know what the dog had done, so he couldn't find a word for a while, so he just kept his face and didn't speak. His face, sometimes the princes shuddered when they saw it, but Fan Shijie didn't care, and when he saw that Yinzhen had nothing to say, he knocked and said goodbye. Qia Yinxiang came out with a big hat fanning the cool breeze, and when he saw Fan Shijie, he smiled and said, "Your mother!" You're not dead yet, are you? ”

"Yo! Thirteen masters! When Fan Shijie heard this scolding, he seemed to be all over his body, and he said goodbye, and said: "Thirteenth master, you are in Kangtai, how can the slave be willing to stretch his legs?" Yin Zhen, who made a solemn and serious conversation, also smiled, and said: "Lao Fan and I are on business, and we are fighting in the ring!" ”

Yinxiang scolded with a smile: "You wild donkey, you don't even buy the account of the fourth master, what kind of medicine did you take?" "It's not that I won't let go." Fan Shijie is a person who is more comfortable the more he scolds, his eyes are squeezed into a slit with a smile, and he said, "I just returned to the fourth master, and the trial will be released, and the trial will ......be released" Yinxiang knew that the case was not big, and scolded: "The fourth master said something, you still try a dick!" Isn't it just talking to people? ”

"Aren't you afraid that Yao Dian won't follow them!" Fan Shijie spread his hands and said, "If it's just a bickering, who will I arrest?" This dog pranks, and treats people in a bad way - today there is a child in the fourth archway who said to buy eggs, and the egg seller is holding the lid of the basket, and counting them up one by one. There were more than 500 eggs stacked, like a hill. The egg seller pouted his ass and held it with his hands, riding a horse and squatting on his crotch and not daring to move. The little ghost said to take the money, and he slipped away. The dog took advantage of the fact that the egg seller could not move, so he came up and kicked them, scratched their limbs, and itched to dump a large pile of eggs on the street. The two of them fought, and a skinny dog sprang out without being stunned, and the fingers that bit the eggs were bleeding......"

Before he finished speaking, Yinzhen knew that it must be the cooperation of the dogs. Although this is not a big matter, the prince's slaves bully the commoners in broad daylight, and their reputation is extremely bad. Just thinking about it, Yinxiang smiled: "This is just a childish play, what is it really about?" Yao Dian is your godfather? Jiang Zhi is your mother? If you make it to the capital, you are still a Jing Zhaoyin! Say this bastard again, kick the yolk out for you! As he spoke, he actually stepped forward and screwed Fan Shijie's ear, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to let it go?" Do you want to let it go? Wanping County is in charge of the imperial court, and such a big official can't even do this thing? ”

"Thirteen masters! Ouch yo ......" Fan Shijie laughed with a painful pout, "...... If you let me go, I will let it go, and you let it go...... I may have to see the emperor for a while, my ears are swollen and indecent......"

"Learn to bark on a donkey!"

"Oh, Thirteen Masters! What is this place? Look at the ...... people."

"Learn!"

That Fan Shijie was pulled out of the ear, rolled his eyes and looked at Yinzhen who couldn't help laughing, he was really angry, hissing a donkey uphill, and smacking two farts, Yinxiang smiled and let go of his hand, which provoked none of the eunuchs and soldiers guarding the gate of the garden to laugh. Yinzhen didn't expect that there was such a person in the world, and he couldn't help but laugh and fell, but Yinxiang said: "Fourth brother, let's go-Lao Fan, take your dog skin at night and bring the dog to my house." Your mother's good mouth, there is a jar of old songs on credit, just dug out of the ground! After that, he went out of the garden with Yinzhen. Along the way, Yinzhen couldn't help laughing, but Yinxiang said: "This is not unusual, one thing drops one thing, Lao Fan eats this, puts on a serious face with him, and he is also serious with you, but it can't be said - I heard that he is leaving office and going to Huguang to be a political envoy." ”

"Who will take over the Shuncheon Mansion?"

"Roncodo."

Yin Zhen immediately lost a smile on his face. Long Keduo is Tong Guowei's nephew, the Tong family is noble, and Tong Guowei's elder brother Tong Guogang is the prince's maternal uncle Suo Etu trapped and died. What is the meaning of the emperor's exchange of Shuntianfu Yin before going to Rehe, and replacing him with the prince's old enemies?