Chapter 1346: Knocking

Although Cao Yong was confident that he would do his best for the country and the people the day before, when he got up from his bed in the middle of the night the next day, Cao Yong hoped that he would retire early.

Since the Holy Lord was stationed in the Old Summer Palace, when the small court meeting, Cao Yong would have to get up in the middle of the night and rushed out of Xizhimen (two o'clock in the morning). In this way, he would have to get up at midnight.

Since he entered the court as an official, the big and small dynasties have also been around for many years.

I was probably young in my early years and had a lot of energy, so I didn’t think anything was wrong. Now I get up in the middle of the night and lose my energy during the day. When the conditioning is almost done, it is the day of the court meeting again, and it is repeated, making people feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Cao Yong yawned, closed his eyes, and let his wife help him organize and repair his clothes.

Seeing her husband like this, Chu Yu felt a little distressed and hesitated and said, "The day before, Xiaochao, let's go to live outside the city... Our garden is close to the Imperial Garden, and we can rest for two more hours. Tianyou is the same. When he was working as a servant in the Imperial Garden, he would go home if he wanted to go home. If he was tired and didn't like to go back and forth, would he be able to put him in the garden?"

Cao Yong was a little moved after hearing this.

He is now the Minister of the Head, and he takes turns once every three days, which is really a bit overwhelming.

Judging from Yongzheng's itinerary in recent years, he has been stationed in the Old Summer Palace for more than half a year.

In previous years, my family moved to Haidian Garden to escape the summer heat without getting up early. This year, I have to move, and there are many things to do with my children. Chu Yu, the mistress in the head, needs to take charge of her.

But I was fine with my own family, so I went to the garden early to rest, which saved me the energy to get up in the middle of the night; my son was young and energetic, so I couldn't let him develop the habit of not staying at night.

Cao Yong had been in the guard office himself, so he knew who the guard office was.

They are all noble children. They cannot be said to be both food, drink, gamble, and they are often good at playing and making trouble.

Tianyou is still steady and age here. If he is really hooked up and gets involved in bad habits, wouldn’t it be too late to regret it?

Therefore, Cao Yong waved his hand and said, "Wait until you talk about it. Everyone else has survived this way, so don't be too spoiled."

When Chu Yu heard this, he smiled and said, "I've been doing the same thing this year, and I'll have some leisure time next year..."

"Where can I have some leisure time next year? It's not that there is still a daughter..." When talking about this, Cao Yong put away his smile and couldn't be happy.

He originally planned to keep Tianhui until the eighteenth wedding, but Shuhede's age was there.

Although the old lady of the Tatara clan did not say anything in front of Chu Yu, she also said something in front of Cao Yi, wanting to get married as soon as possible.

In this world, women can get married at the age of fourteen. To outsiders, Tianhui is sixteen next year, so she is not considered early to marry.

He had only thought before that his daughter was a steady and sensible person, and he thought that she was not as handsome as a boy of the same age, and that she was a few years older than Shuhede.

Shuheld is nineteen this year and twenty next year, and getting married is considered late.

If he had both parents and Cao Yong was shameless, he would have to postpone the marriage for two years; but the old prime minister and his wife of the Grand Secretary's House were both over 70 years old, and they were still waiting for the eldest grandson to get married as soon as possible and have a scattered family.

The Cao family wanted to get married and delay the wedding date, which was just unauthentic.

When Li returns to Beijing, the two families will officially discuss marriage. Even if Tianhui's wedding date is pushed late, it will be great if it can be pushed until the end of next year.

At that time, Tianhui was only sixteen years old.

Cao Yong had already regretted it in his heart...

Chu Yu knew that her husband was upset about his daughter's affairs and hurriedly said, "I know that the master has no appetite at this time, but he has to be over for most of the day, so he still needs to eat more... Yesterday, Changping Zhuangzi sent some wild vegetables here. This morning there were shepherd's purse wontons, and cold bitter rucai..." After that, he sent a message to serve.

The food box was ready, and in a moment, the maids had already set up the dining table.

Cao Yong had no appetite at first, but when he saw a large bowl of wontons filled with fragrance, he also had more appetite. He finished eating without leaving any left, and ate two more honeysuckle rolls.

After eating well for breakfast and drinking another cup of strong tea, Cao Yong also gained energy.

From the city to the Old Summer Palace, the carriage for more than an hour is no longer difficult.

It has been half a month since summer begins, and the weather is still a bit cold in the morning and evening.

When the carriage arrived outside the Old Summer Palace, it was already dawn.

On the left side of the palace where Yongzheng handled political affairs was there was a class room. Cao Yong and other people from the small dynasty did not have to wait outside the garden, and the eunuchs led here to wait.

The Ministry of Revenue is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Yongzheng is also a pragmatic emperor. Therefore, every time it is the Ministry of Revenue's turn to be on duty, the court discussion will not be short, and today is no exception.

When everyone was led to the imperial court, there was a silver bill from Shaanxi and Gansu twice. It was supposed to be a reduction in the prefectures and counties, but before the exemption of the order was completed, the original amount was collected.

Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, submitted a memorandum, mentioning that the money was immediately reduced and exempted. It should be returned by households, but the households were scattered and difficult to disperse. For fear that the clerks would fill their pockets, they asked to store the treasurer to fill food and pay.

Although the amount of silver is less than 7,000 taels, there is no previous example after all.

What should the Ministry of Revenue do? It is still necessary to ask for instructions.

Since he was a small dynasty, he was just a minister, minister, two grand sects, and several princes. Who is not a good person?

As the governor of the three provinces, Yue Zhongqi solemnly handed over the memorial and made a special mention of this matter, which naturally had other intentions.

If the emperor approved the money to be paid for military salaries, I believe that it will take many local money and food to be paid for in no time.

Being a governor and governor outside is free and easy, but you don’t have to be with the emperor forever. In addition to having eyes and eyes in the capital, sometimes you have to find out the emperor’s joys and angers from the memorials.

If the emperor is not sure, is it the army going to move, or not?

If it were other governors, they might not have paid too much attention to the war, but Yue Zhongqi was born with military meritorious deeds. He was under the jurisdiction of three provinces and border provinces...

Yongzheng ordered that since this silver was a gift from the people of Shaanxi, it would be returned to Shaanxi for use in water conservancy and granaries and other matters that benefit people's livelihood, and there would be no need to be filled with military pay.

Cao Yong stood in the queue and listened to Yongzheng's orders, and could not help but accept it.

Although Yongzheng had a bad reputation among scholars, as an emperor, his several new policies did reduce the burden on the people.

His disposal of the more than 6,000 taels of silver is in line with the way of "taking it from the people and returning it to the people".

As a witness to history, Cao Yong can say with certainty that without the hard work of Yongzheng for more than ten years of hard work on governance, there would be no "Kangxi and Qianlong Prosperity".

If Yongzheng lived longer, what would history have...

After talking about the money from Shaanxi, Yongzheng asked about the local granary again.

Local officials store rice and grain to prepare for the urgent needs of drought and flood, which is related to the lives of the people and should not be ignored at all. Not only did the Ministry of Revenue send people to inspect the granary that year, but the granary should also be directly linked to the local officials.

If there is any inappropriate granary, the local chief officer will be directly responsible; if there is moldy, rotten and deficient rice and grain in the granary, the order for compensation shall be restricted.

At the end, Yongzheng looked very strict and said, "The compensation cannot be paid within a year, and the punishment will be punished according to the rules and will never be neglected!"

Everyone knows that the emperor attaches importance to the official warehouse and asks about it once or twice every year, but this year it is very special.

In April alone, this is the third encounter.

With a well-informed person, he knew what the emperor was worried about; if the news was behind, he could not help but guess whether there was any instability in the official warehouse. The emperor was beating several officials of the Ministry of Revenue.

Cao Yong's heart also sank.

It seems that the water conditions in the south are really worrying, which makes Yongzheng so worried...

Military affairs in the northwest, water conditions in the south, deficits in Shanxi, private salt in the south of the Yangtze River... all are major issues of people's livelihood, and all are related to the Ministry of Revenue.

Therefore, the day was small and the morning was delayed until the afternoon, and everything was agreed upon until the morning (two o'clock in the afternoon).

Except for Yongzheng on the dragon throne, the Thirteenth Prince on the square stool, and other princes and ministers are all standing squads.

Even Cao Yong was in his prime, and he felt his calves and stiff waists all morning. Not to mention the older adults, all their faces were pale and gritted their teeth and were hard, making it inconvenient to walk.

I don’t know if Yongzheng was sympathetic or rewarded at will, but he sent someone to pass on oral instructions and gave him food to the princes and ministers on duty.

Since it is a meal, no matter how many dishes you have, the ministers must be grateful.

After all the etiquettes came, half an hour passed.

Everyone left the garden after dinner.

After getting on the carriage, Cao Yong took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was already the second day of the Shen dynasty (3:30 pm).

Then calculate the time from the Old Summer Palace to the city, so there is no need to go to the yamen.

Cao Yong lifted the curtain and ordered Zhang Yi to ask him to go back to the city first and go to the yamen to inform Jiang Jian. In this case, if there is an important official document in the yamen, Jiang Jian can be taken back to the mansion.

After giving the order, Cao Yong put down the curtain and closed his eyes and was stunned.

Although the big deficit in the officialdom in Shanxi was that Yidu established his ex-boy, and the former ex-boy did not do anything about Yidu's business, but when Yidu was in Shanxi, it was also related to the money he had.

He had submitted a memorandum last year, mentioning the fact that he would spend money on fire and money to pay.

His starting point is not difficult to understand. Everyone knows that the movements in the northwest came out last year, and peace will not last a few years.

Yiduli took the initiative to offer fire and spend money, which also meant to be favored.

But what Yongzheng couldn't stand the most was that officials exploited the people.

Yiduli was not greedy, but he was determined to use the fire and money collected by the people of Shanxi to serve as military pay, which was also considered to relieve the emperor's worries.

But Yongzheng didn't think so. Instead, he made Yidu a typical example and criticized this matter. It was nothing more than that officials regarded the money that should have been returned to the people as their own land and occupied it at will.

If Yiduli was still in office in Shanxi, today's incident in the small court would only shock him for a few days; now Yiduli is already in Beijing, and the emperor still scolds the head officials so unceremoniously, which makes people panic.

Cao Yong didn't believe that Yongzheng was just scolding him casually, and was beating Yiduli.

Iduli is not on duty today.

Among the princes and ministers present, two were close to Yiduli, the Thirteenth Prince and himself.

The emperor is fighting a cow across the mountain? Which cow is it?

He rubbed his eyebrows and told himself not to think too much.

The friendship between Idu can only be regarded as a personal relationship, and there will be no taboos when it is neither party nor group.

Having said that, he was a little uneasy.
Chapter completed!