Yinxiang had already arrived at the household department, and while sending people to Yuqing Palace to invite Yinren, he asked the summoned officials to be accompanied by people from the Ministry of Rites. He didn't sleep well at night, but he practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he stayed up so well that he didn't care about not sleeping for two nights. He leaned on the easy chair on all fours, stroking his shaved head, and his heart was still folding. Listening to the laughter from time to time in the lobby of the household department, he muttered a little in his heart: he knew that none of these people were fuel-efficient lamps, they were all with Kangxi's three westward expeditions. was out of his mind, but he saw the dog breaking in, and he asked for peace with a smile, and said: "Master, the people who went to Yuqing Palace are back, and the prince got up and went out without sitting in the sedan chair, Chen Jiayou and Zhu Tianbao They were sulking, saying that they didn't know where the prince had gone-let's wait?" ”

"Wait a little longer." Yinxiang took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "If he doesn't come in another moment, there is something important, and we will do ours." They're in the lobby, so go over first. ”

The dog staggered to the lobby of the household, only to see Kan'er leaning against the door frame, there were more than 30 feudal officials, some were sitting in danger, some were talking to each other, some were on the coffee table, and the sleeves were so high that the old man held his chin crooked and listened to people laughing. Yao Dian sat under the public seat and said with his fingers and splattering:

"If you want to get rich, you don't have to fight wars. There is a doorway! The last time I saw him, he said a method! ”

Liu Xie sat next to Yao Dian, smiling and squinting, his forehead was shiny, and he was shining like a wine jar, and teased: "No wonder you are so broad, you dare to have a trick." Let's talk about it! ”

"Lao Yu said-" Yao Dian took a sip of tea, "If you want to get rich, you must first cure the external thief and then the internal thief." There are five foreign thieves - eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body - eyes, this thing is cheap, loves to look at beautiful women, and if you want to hide the gold house, you will waste the silver, can you marry a saltless girl, can't you spend the night? Speaking of ears, this plaything loves to listen to tunes and music, so you have to spend money to buy plays, in fact, it's annoying, and it's full of people to go up the mountain to listen to Yangge and play it; Let's just talk about the nose, I naturally like fragrance, buy a Xianglang Baoding, do you spend money or not? In fact, people, if you lie in the stable, you don't have this thought. There is also a tongue, the partial like good taste, I see people poor people eating Guanyin soil, that is really nothing! As for the body, it is a costly material, in the summer to fine kudzu, in the winter to cotton robes, no matter how good you dress, but it is cheap for others, let others see, in fact, follow the ancient teachings of the Yellow Emperor, get ideas to wear leaves, make a grass circle to wear, see how much you can save? ”

He was so smug that everyone grinned when he heard it, and Admiral Huguang slapped his thigh with a "snap", frowned and said, "It's better to read for ten years!" If I had heard these words, why should I borrow money? ”

"There are also internal thieves," Yao Dian said solemnly, "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, if the five thieves are not eliminated, the fortune is like ascending to the sky." Benevolence is the first evil, and I have this thought in my heart, helping relatives, helping the poor, how much money is enough? Righteousness must not be touched: where does the money come from? Zi said that the gifts are still exchanged, and others give you back, when will you get rich? Compare it to up but not to? There is also that wisdom, you must not be, you are smart, there are many people who ask you to do things, and if you only care about doing things, you must make money by mistake! Believing in this thing is the most hateful, a promise of a thousand gold, a thousand taels is gone...... So, the five thieves must be eliminated! Everyone couldn't help but shout in an uproar, Jinling's deputy general Ma Guocheng called it "Ma Cannon", laughed forward and backwards, beat his legs and said: "Wonderful, but we have too little reading, I'm afraid that only the four masters and thirteen masters will be able to get rid of the ten thieves inside and outside!" Liu Xie smiled: "Well said! It's just a little long-winded. The outline said: Don't love your face, don't be famous, don't care about shame, don't be afraid of laughing and scolding, go to Marshal Zhao Gong and make a big wish: I don't do a good thing in my life, and the wealth is rolling in! ”

Listening to the crowd insulting Yinzhen, the dog couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and was pondering, Kan'er smiled: "You haven't said it all, there is another one, eat slowly!" Everyone was listening to it with great interest, and no one was afraid that the child would have the intention to curse, and a tall thin man tilted his head and said, "How do you eat?" ”

"Last year, when I crossed the Yellow River beach, I bought a donkey kidney," Kan'er said seriously, "just a baked cake, sitting in the back of the car, eating for half a day, and even saving lunch!" The dog smiled and asked, "How do you eat it?" Kan'er said with confused eyes: "The donkey kidney is so long, I'll go and bite a little (Yao Dian), and then walk and bite a little ......."

Everyone didn't come back to their senses, and the dog also had a word, and said with a smile: "If you want to say that, I still have a way to save money: no matter what you eat or drink, spread it out slowly." I spilled forty miles as soon as I soaked in pee! ”

"How did you do that?" Kan'er asked, turning his face. The dog smiled: "I also sit in the back of the car, I pinch and flow some (Liu Xie), and then pinch and flow some more......"

Before the end of the sentence, it already caused everyone to laugh. The horse cannonist danced, and the tea in the cup spilled: "Bite a bit? Stream some! Hahahaha...... Lord Yao and Lord Liu's homes must be gold and silver! Borrow tens of thousands of brothers? Ho ho ho ho ...... "Yao Dian and Liu Xie were so embarrassed that their faces were flushed in this laughing general, thinking that these two little ghosts were both Yinzhen's people, and they were not good at attacking, so they only twisted their faces and laughed. was about to speak, when he saw Yinzhen and Yinxiang coming in one after the other, and suddenly the lobby fell silent.

"You've been waiting a long time!" Yinxiang glanced at everyone with a smile, and said self-deprecatingly: "There was still someone who talked and laughed just now, why didn't you say anything?" Looks like I'm a god of death. After saying that, he said, "Fourth master, please sit over there." In the middle, there is reserved for the prince, and he will sit there if he wants to come. ”

Yin Zhen nodded, sat calmly, everyone came back to their senses, and got up one after another to say goodbye, in front of this cold-faced and cold-hearted prince, even Ma Cannon, Guizhou General Luo Wen, these fierce old military affairs, have become conformist and dare not be presumptuous.

"Yesterday, Lao Shi invited everyone to a banquet, and he has already said that he is almost inseparable." Yinxiang paced slowly, threw a big braid behind his head, and said in a heavy tone, "Don't talk about it." The small truth is called 'no debt and light'. Debts must be returned, and it is better to pay them sooner rather than later...... I feel like a mirror in my heart, this errand is not flattering, and I also know that now I am a brother who hates dogs. But you might as well put yourself in your shoes, I am the emperor's elder brother, I have an industry, a garden, and a study, so I don't know how to be idle. My own house is beautiful, and people don't dislike it! But the emperor chose me to run an errand, which is called 'although I want to be accompanied by plum blossoms for a long time, I can't get it'! He coughed dryly, looked at Yinzhen who was sitting silently, and said: "From the big and small truths to my hardships, I simply said that treasury and silver are different from private debts. It needs to be used for disaster relief, for grain accumulation, for stabilizing the price of rice, for hundreds of officials, and for envoys to the imperial court - you are all old military affairs, and you need to use it even more in war! If something happens to the state, it will pay you an IOU, but you can't say it? So please come and discuss, when you report when you will pay it off, how much you can pay it off now, and make the bottom clear. I really can't afford it, the fourth master said, and you can't force everyone to take off their pants and sell it. You write an excerpt and put it here, and play it as a whole. The Holy One who has exempted you is your creation, and the Holy One says that it will not be reduced, and that it has its own constitution for the elderly—what do you say? ”

With such eloquent words, everyone looked at each other when they heard it. These people made up their minds, listened to Yinxiang's anger, stiffened things, and then went to Kangxi to break the net. Now that I listen to him calmly and slowly, I don't know what to do for a while. Yinzhen glanced at Yinxiang appreciatively, and thought to himself: People have great ability to endure the run, and they have really benefited!

After being stunned for a while, Guizhou General Luo Wen coughed dryly and opened his mouth. Although he is five big and three thick, he is exquisite, and this group of people all regard him as the backbone.

"Thirteen masters," Luo Wen said with a smile, "We all understand Dali and Xiaoli, but you still don't know that we people, with the name of the feudal officials, live in eight seats, but in fact, they are strong on the outside and do things in the middle." Those shameless corrupt officials, who borrowed money and sold it for real shortages, forced them to death are also deserved; Foreign officials are scraped by the common people, and they can't be poor; The poor Beijing officials who are not sent to the envoy do not have much debt, and Bing Jing and Tan Jing are almost the same. It was bitter for us to lead the troops, except for the salary, there was no silver for the road. Eating empty quotas and drinking the blood of soldiers, we can't break this conscience. Alas...... Children are raised by their parents, what will they beg if they strip naked? We ourselves came out in numbered coats, and we couldn't bear to take food from the mouths of soldiers to pay off our debts for ourselves - we can't do it! ”

Yinzhen heard him say sincerely, and his heart felt cold: Although this Rowan wanted to pay the debt, his words were close to him, because he said: "Rowan is still reasonable. But I think, why are you so poor? Gentlemen, don't think that you will suffer a loss in repaying your debts, and then you must clean up the officials. Some people dodge the first day of junior high school, but they can't hide from the fifteenth! ”

"Fourth Master Mingjian!" The person sitting behind Luo Wen is called Tao Sanwei, but he is the governor of Guangdong. He snorted for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Yuquan landscape is the best, and distant water does not quench thirst." The money is enough to spend, who is willing to break the ass and borrow money? We are young in literacy, and we have to invite a lot of masters and clerks to write and write books, and we have to come out of the money. Those who lead soldiers know that raising soldiers for a thousand days is a while, who doesn't love soldiers like their lives and dares to deduct other people's salaries? It is really difficult for us to pay off the debt for so many years. The fourth master and the thirteenth master have given us a year and a half, let us maneuver around, it is sympathetic! ”

As soon as the words fell, Ma Guocheng sneered at each other: "Circling? How? Who are you talking to?! If you take off your pants, you won't have to sell your cunt! Thirteenth master, Ma Cannon will not tell lies, he originally fought Chahar with Tujunmen and Zhou Junmen, and got some money, and his mother shook it off. If you don't believe it, just raid my home, all the valuable guys will be confiscated, I will frown, my mother did not light the lamp! Luo Wen turned his face and said angrily: "Old Ma, this is not your military tent. Sven! What kind of system is this? Ma Guocheng was the red-clothed cannon battalion of the Kangxi Central Battalion during the Western Expedition, he was fierce, he was stunned to fight, and he was quite loved by Kangxi, so he was very arrogant, listening to Luo Wen's words, he put down the stilted Erlang's legs, and glared and said: "I also said this in front of the Long Live Lord - I want to have a good backer, pay back the money for me, and know how to be decent." Okay! People scraped the ground to pay back, and some of them asked Baylor to pay back, but we were unlucky! ”

Yinxiang heard the fire in his eyes, looked at Yinzhen contemplatively, and said with a smile: "After saying such a long time, are you thirsty?" - Tea for the adults! As he spoke, he glanced at the dog. The two nodded and agreed, and after a while, one carried a pot, the other held a bowl, and gave tea to everyone one by one. The generals have already been able to stir up the bitterness, and while eating tea, they continue to cry poorly:

"Thirteenth Master, if you say a word, as long as you call for the blood of the soldiers, the account will be returned!"

"You don't need to drink the blood of soldiers, report a few fake thefts, and pay off your debts at the same time!"

"It's really hard to be a dead person now, I can't afford to raise my wife and children, and I will lose the people of the court when I say it!"

"Mother's fart! It's better to fight, you can't use us horsemen in peacetime! ”

"That's it! When the war is fought, Roshan and the sea of wine are so happy! Now that it's too peaceful, Ge Laozi eats tofu and vegetables! ”

Yao Dian took the opportunity to fight Taiping Boxing and said with a smile: "Don't say these cold words, do you eat tofu and vegetables?" ”

"It's good to have tofu and vegetables, you can come to my house and have a look!"

“…… I can't afford it! ”

"Grace Grace Grace Let's ......"

"Don't hide it from the Thirteenth Master, I still have breakfast while I'm going to someone's house......"

For a while, the lobby of the household department was buzzing with a pot of boiling water, and it was also thanks to this god-boy military master, who lived like a group of people called Huazi, and moved out in sets like lotus flowers. When did the Goshkhas at the Tobe Tangkou station see this, they just snickered with their faces behind their backs. As he spoke, his voice gradually lowered, and everyone felt that their internal organs were churning, their chests were suffocated, and the yin and yang in their stomachs did not fight with the dragon and tiger. Yao Dian covered his stomach and said, "Why are you so disgusting?" Without saying a word, he vomited "wow" and sprayed all over the world. Some of the rest of the people were already suffocating their faces, and how could they smell the smell of this wine fart?

"Wow!"

"Wow-"

"Wow-"

For a while, the hall was open and the water was like vomiting and messing, and it was not enough to say that it was pickled and filthy and foul-smelling, and the Hubu Huatang was turned into a vomiting dojo. Yinzhen was stunned at first, but even if he understood that this was a game between Yinxiang and Gou'er, he couldn't help but be shocked, and frowned and thought about how to end it.

"I can't help you." Yin Xiang looked up and said with a smile, "It's not that I'm mean-hearted, it's that you pretend to be poor and provoke the gods!" Which one spits out the green vegetables and tofu, I am willing to be a guarantee, please long live his debt! Saying that, he squeezed his eyes at Yinzhen, and really went to check them one by one.

Just as he didn't know how to pay attention, Yinren took a large group of guards and eunuchs into the household compound. As soon as he entered the hospital, Yinren smelled the stench coming from afar, and saw the people in the household talking to each other, and knew that something was wrong. Hurriedly approached the lobby in three steps and two steps, and all the officials had already left the table and knelt down together. Yinren covered his nose and glared at Yinxiang and asked, "What kind of name are you?" ”

"I am the spear of the other against the shield of the other." Yinxiang sneered, "They said to drink the northwest wind, and it's green vegetables and tofu, please check it!" ”

Yinren stood in the hall with a gloomy face, ignored Yinxiang's words, and only glanced at Yinzhen coldly, Yinzhen only bowed slightly, put his robe on the table, and stared at the door casually. Yinren became more and more angry, went around in two circles on the spot, and sat straight to the center of the public case in the lobby, suppressing the fire and laughing at Yinxiang: "The thirteenth brother is doing things Meng Lang!" Today, these generals are all people who have been trained by the Lord of Long Live for decades, so why is it unreasonable? The matter of borrowing should be discussed calmly. Seeing that he didn't ask for a reason, Yinzhen hit Yinxiang fifty boards first, and felt that the matter had come to this point, so he couldn't help but help the prince, smiled because of the owe, and said: "The thirteenth brother is a little reckless, but the military is too unapprehensive." The thirteenth brother is in a hurry, you have to forgive me. Yinxiang seemed to be overwhelmed with heat, tugged on his placket, and said angrily: "Prince, you just came." I said a good thing about the car, and the adults didn't pull out a dime, and almost didn't make a noise in the lobby of the household! I was originally a stunned young man, but I went too far, and after the errand was done, I came to the door one by one to apologize. Only this little bit of foolishness can be seen on the day, I want to have the slightest bit of practice in the hearts of others, and the thunder struck me! ”

"You've already done it, and you still don't have the heart?" Yinren sneered and said, "Do you know that my master Xiong Cixu has also passed away!" I'll go to the Ministry of Rites for this, and if I'm a few steps late, you'll make a lot of trouble here! ”

Xiong Cixu is a Jinshi during the Shunzhi period, since Kangxi entered the cabinet in the eighth year of the prime minister, and Mingzhu, Suo Etu and the minister of the study, is the only surviving father of the two dynasties of the Xi Dynasty. Yin Zhen felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, the prince wants to blame this on cleaning up the deficit? Yin frowned and said, "As far as I know, Xiong Cixu is not indebted to the national debt. It is Wei Dongting, who has been sick for more than ten years, and it is common for him to die. Prince, these things have nothing to do with paying off debts, don't blame the old thirteen. ”

"I'm ordered to clean up, Prince!" Yinxiangman was counting on Yinren to sit in the household department and support him through this last hurdle, but he didn't expect him to be so mediocre and cowardly, so he said in a defensive voice, "Now no matter the basin or urine basin, as long as it is a basin, press it on my head!" If that's the case, the crown prince will play the emperor, remove me, and please be smart! Yinren's face turned white with anger, and he snorted and said, "You were talking to me?" I'm counting on your foolishness! What do I dare not take this short? I'm afraid I can't afford it with your status! ”

Yin Zhen thought about it, the more troublesome it became, the more difficult it was to clean up, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said: "The emperor has repeatedly said that clearing up the deficit debt is the first priority. The thirteenth man overdid it, and when I turned around, I accompanied him to apologize, and today I still discussed the debt first, and asked the prince to calm the anger of the thunder. Yinxiang also came to his senses at this time, suppressed his anger and whispered: "I don't want to do anything more, and I will take care of the trouble I caused." It's better to rely on the fourth brother and do serious things first......"

"You've stood aside!" Yinren snorted arbitrarily, "Go down and reason with you!" ”

The officials below thought that today's incident was planned by the prince, but they came out and pretended to be a good person to clean up the situation, which will taste the taste, and the three elder brothers are not the same thing. The Admiral of Taihu Lake Naval Division kowtowed his head one by one, and choked up: "I don't complain about the court, and I don't blame the Thirteenth Master, who told the minions that they can't bear to be poor, and they want to borrow treasury silver?" As he spoke, he whimpered and let go. Luo Wen followed and said: "Prince Shengming, the ministers did not dare to say that they would not repay the debts, they only asked for a forbearance of the deadline, and the ministers survived for the rest of the day, isn't it also to preserve the dignity of the court?" At this time, everyone was already crying and choking, and some said: "Pity us people, crawl out of the pile of the dead, have no backer, no way, and end up like this." Some of them threw snot and salivated: "Forcing debts to die and fighting to death, they are all dead anyway!" Didn't you hear that Arabutan was going to rebel? Send us away......"

"Our lives are in danger! Fight desperately, don't fight and force your life, it's too peaceful, you don't need it! ”

"Even Wei Junmen is forced to death, what are we?"

Ma Guocheng was different, knelt forward, tore open his robe with a "snort", revealing his black-red, black-red bronze chest, and shouted: "Brothers, you have all read books, as the saying goes, 'A soldier can be killed, but not a day'!" Why are we? Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they thought that he had turned the "insult" into a "day", and they all lowered their heads and laughed at the bricks. Ma Guocheng came to his senses more and more, and said: "Long live my surname Ma also knows, never wipe salt water, please check the seventy-two knife wounds on my body!" When I was surrounded in Kobdo, I rushed out with my master and fell this wound, long live all the tears when I saw it, and I gave a glass of wine to an injury! I owe 70,000 silver today, and I want to cut it again in my heart? Thirteenth master, you are a good man, you come, if the old slave frowns, it is **raised! ”

Yinren was so crying by them that he had no master, and deeply regretted that he didn't tell Yinzhen Yinxiang yesterday to explain the truth, sighed, got down and took a seat to cover his clothes for Ma Guocheng, and said: "Get up, get up!" What's wrong with you guys? When did the court say that it would not feed you? You veterans are the most honest in heart, and I know best, so why bother? He breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Give me a face, don't worry about the Thirteenth Master, he has his difficulties, the first time to support such a big situation alone, I want to do things well, but I am young and competitive, and I am eager for quick success, you have to be considerate." He said and looked at Rowan. Luo Wen said: "The prince just rest assured. We are all coarse people, and whatever we have in our hearts, we pour it out and enjoy it. Resentment against the Thirteenth Master is nothing, how can we not get along with the Thirteenth Master? ”

"In this way," Yinren saw that everyone was relieved, and felt a little relieved in his heart, and secretly made up his mind, and said: "The debt still has to be repaid." However, the time limit can be relaxed for the purpose of dealing with the situation. You are all pillars of the imperial court, sharing weal and woe with the country, and you must think about the emperor and the society - how about making compensation for five years? ”

When he said this, everyone was overjoyed, not to mention five years, that is, one year, who would have thought that this fourth master and thirteenth master would still be in charge? As long as you don't withdraw from the errand, if you take a few big cases and move them down, why don't you worry about tens of thousands of silver? Yinzhen couldn't help but cry bitterly in his heart, and he was surprised again and again, and Yinxiang was so angry that he stomped out of the lobby.

Yinxiang returned to the signing room angrily, and wanted to summon the people who settled the accounts to talk, but there was no one, because he saw the dog standing at the door, so he asked, "Where are all the people dead?" ”

"Ye is confused." The dog smiled, "It's all waiting in the study!" Yinxiang didn't say a word, got up and went to the back study, and saw that there were more than 30 people standing inside and outside the study, Shi Shilun and the waiter You Mingtang were also inside, all of them were depressed and sat in relative silence. As soon as Yinxiang stepped into the door, he smiled and said, "You know everything? Don't look like a bear, like a lost dog! There are some things, the bastard now, who will be sure in the future? Lao Shi Lao You, long live the messenger and give you a guaranteed ticket, and the old thirteen will give you another layer: I really want to send you Uriya Sutai, and the thirteenth master will send you across the desert with dry food! ”

"Lao You and I have thought of this step a long time ago." Shi Shilun looked out the window calmly, his little eyes shining, and said, "It's that the fourth master and you have to take care." It's common for me to take off my top and strip off my official uniform. You Mingtang sighed: "I didn't expect the tree to fall so quickly!" Look, within two years, I won't be the same as before, and I will gouge out my eyes! I can only sigh and turn my head to transfer these dozens of people, flee in the wilderness, where to go back to beg for a living? ”

"You're talking about them?" Yinxiang pointed at everyone, smiled coldly and said, "You two are big people, you can't do anything here." Civilian workers like Li Fu and Tian Wenjing have already arranged a way out. These brothers are my soldiers, and will I cause them to suffer? Yinxiang said, took down a wooden box from the bookshelf, opened it, and there was a thick pile of paperwork inside, which was covered with the guard of the military department, and blew away the floating dust on the top, smiled at himself, and said: "It can be said that you are prepared and there is no trouble!" This is the letter of appointment of the six-rank military attache obtained from the Ministry of War last year. It's all Gyeonggi garrison, and it's not fat, but it's also a difference......"

Everyone couldn't help but open their mouths in astonishment, and listened to Yinxiang's roll call one by one in a daze, and took over the appointment in a stupid manner, but they were all thousands of generals, and they were divided into Xishan, Yuquan, Fengtai, Tongzhou and other places, some were the Han army's green battalion, some were good at hunting, and some were Ruijian's battalion - these messengers were already a beautiful difference in the eyes of the garrison outside the Saiwai! Yinxiang assigned them one by one, looked at the dog and said with a smile: "The Thirteenth Master can't take care of you, you are the people of the Fourth Master, and you will return to the Fourth Master's Mansion - I have already greeted the Yamen, the Governor of Zhili, the Yamen of the Infantry Army, and Lao Zhao, the Commander of the Infantry Army, and Lao Zhao. If you are missing, you will be empty, and you will make up for it as soon as you go. Only one, don't brag that I gave it to others. We sent a mess, we don't have this dignity! With that, he looked up and breathed a sigh of relief, then lifted his feet and left.

The dog took a step behind him and asked, "Ming'er, are we still here to answer the ceremony?" Yinxiang raised his hand and said loudly without looking back:

"If you want to come, you can come, if you don't want to come, forget it. Tobe still has a fart to do! ”