My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 80: Establishing a Queen and Recovering the Deficit (Part 2)
After New Year's Eve, it was the sixth day of February in the first year of Yongzheng's reign.

Yongzheng ordered the Ministry of Rites:
I follow the Empress Dowager's command: the foundation of morality must be supported by internal support; the basis of human relations is to attach great importance to Kunyi.

This is the positioning of heaven and earth, and the constant principle for emperors.

The legitimate wife, Nara, was of virtuous character and well-known for her graceful voice. She was filial and respectful to the emperor, and her kindness was known to her children.

She should inherit the throne, be given the title of Empress, and be made Empress to spread the teachings!

I only follow your instructions and make your concubine the queen.

The ceremony should be carried out, and your department should investigate in detail and report in detail.

At this point, Yongzheng officially began to make Nara the queen.

After Hongli learned about this, he took the initiative to come to the front hall of Yongshou Palace and saluted Nara: "Congratulations, mother!"

He sincerely expressed his congratulations to the Fourth Lady, Ulanara.

It should be noted that in this way, the political factor of him being raised by the queen herself would be more legitimate.

More importantly, as the imperial edict is sent to the whole country and even to foreign countries, people all over the world will pay more and more attention to him.

Who knows, someone might even start trying to find a way to curry favor with him by giving him gifts.

This also means that his influence will increase accordingly.

"reward!"

Ulanara also called out with a smile.

So Chen Shishun came over with an agate plate and held it in front of Hongli with a smile.

There were five gold ingots on the agate plate, and each of them had auspicious words written on it.

After Hongli thanked him, he let Haitang take it.

Not long after, Hongshi and Hongzhou also came to Ulanara to congratulate her.

This time, Ulanara met them and also rewarded them with gold ingots, but the number of gold ingots was reduced from five to three.

Li and Geng, who came with them, were both rewarded with brocade.

As for Hongli's biological mother, Niohuru, she was also awarded brocade when she came with Hongli to congratulate him.

But there are also more people from the Niuhuru clan.

And Haitang, who was beside Hongli, also received a reward.

Hongli understood that Ulanara deliberately made him and the people around him appear different from others.

However, Hongli was not satisfied with his efforts and only wanted to bring changes to himself and the people around him.

As a person from the future, he still hopes to bring more changes to the world.

However, his Confucian teacher still taught him every day to strictly control the thoughts of the world and use etiquette to constrain the correctness of all classes in the world, hoping that he would be more conservative.

His teachers of riding, archery and Western learning, namely his uncles, although they had some understanding of the West, also supported internal reforms aimed at saving the Qing Dynasty.

But they did not fully understand the West and did not know that the imperial system would come to an end with the advent of Western industrial civilization.

Hongli himself knew that as long as industrial civilization emerged, the end of the imperial system in this land would be inevitable.

Because, as long as there is an emperor in this land, the bureaucrats and landlords can treat the people as if they were human beings, and at the same time blame all the sins on the emperor to prove that they are innocent.

Only when the imperial system completely disappears can their true colors be revealed.

Only then did the people realize that it was not enough to just dethrone the emperor, but that it would also be effective if all the landlords and bureaucrats who were hiding under the imperial system were eliminated.

Therefore, Hongli hoped to use his great power to lay a better foundation for the future world after the end of the imperial system on the eve of its end.

In short, even if the imperial system ends, it should be a better ending.

So that the multi-ethnic countries in the future can have better resources to do greater things.

For this reason, Hongli was still somewhat anxious and had been paying close attention to the court's movements, thinking about how to make more preparations for his future imperial career. Recently, the biggest new policy in the court was to make up for the deficit.

In fact, the pursuit of deficit has become extremely intense!

Since the Imperial Household Department had been reorganized, Yongzheng had more confidence to ask the outer court to make up for the deficit.

Therefore, he pushed this new policy to the stage of forcing princes and ministers to repay their loans to the Ministry of Revenue and other government offices.

One of the major reasons for the deficit was that many princes and ministers would borrow money from the Ministry of Revenue and other government offices at interest or directly embezzle it, and the officials did not dare to ask them for it.

When Kangxi was alive, he intended to maintain a lenient policy and did not pursue the matter.

But now, Yongzheng ascended the throne and showed no mercy. He even shut everyone up by reorganizing the Imperial Household Department.

Therefore, many princes and ministers had to start making up for the deficit.

Sun Zhaji, the Manchu Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Manchu Bordered Red Banner, was dismissed from his post for serious arrears in treasury silver, and chose to commit suicide shortly after returning home.

The successor, the Minister of Revenue, Xu Yuanmeng, submitted a memorial requesting a postponement of the compensation.

Xu Yuanmeng was a member of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner, belonging to the upper three banners. Although he, like Sun Zhaji, had changed his name to a Chinese one, bannermen always paid attention to the banner and did not attach importance to ethnicity. For example, there were Jurchens in the lower three banners and the Han Army Banner.

Therefore, logically, the emperor should also give Xu Yuanmeng some face.

But Yongzheng did not agree and only ordered Xu Yuanmeng to urge him to do so.

As a result, many princes and ministers became even more dissatisfied, and many members of the royal family even cried to Kangxi when they went to the Shouhuang Palace to pay homage.

I don’t know who came up with the idea, but many royal princes and nobles went directly to the streets to sell their wares, saying they wanted to pay off their debts.

Among them was the tenth son Yin.

Of course, this is different from a certain TV drama. The real intensive recovery of deficits by Yongzheng actually took place in the first year of his reign, not in the later years of Kangxi.

After Hongli learned that Yin had gone to the street to sell his property, Chen Shishun came to him and said that the queen wanted to see him.

Without waiting for Hongli to ask, Chen Shishun took the initiative to report, "Concubine Yi and the others took the opportunity of coming to congratulate the master to mention to him that the Tenth Master had embarrassed His Majesty outside."

Hongli nodded: "Then, she wants to ask her mother to let me go to Khan Ama and speak well of the Tenth Master?"

"Fourth Master, you are wise. Concubine Yi also learned about this from Ninth Master. She is afraid that His Majesty will blame Ninth Master for Tenth Master's matter. It's not that Ninth Master doesn't want to help Tenth Master, but he has a sum of money that has not been returned, so he can't help Tenth Master for the time being."

Chen Shishun replied with a smile.

Hongli believed that the ninth prince was not so unable to come up with money to help the tenth prince. He just wanted to see the tenth prince sell off his property to embarrass Yongzheng. He also deliberately used this excuse to spread the matter into the palace so that people in the harem could put pressure on Yongzheng to make up for the deficit.

But he said nothing in front of Chen Shishun. He only heard the queen talk about this matter when he met her.

"I can't just turn a blind eye to Concubine Yi's request, but the harem shouldn't interfere in government affairs. You're a member of the imperial clan and a Beizi, so how about doing this for Enie?"

Ulanara also knew that this matter would make Hongli embarrassed, so she used an inquiring tone.

Hongli nodded and said, "Don't worry, Enie. Speaking of which, I also owe my tenth uncle a favor. It's not impossible for me to speak up for him and ask Khan Ama to give him some more time. I will tell Khan Ama about this when I go to pay my respects tonight."

Ulanara asked, "You should know what to say, right?"

"I know. I only heard it from outside, not from anyone in the harem."

Hongli replied.

Ulanara smiled and touched Hongli's arm: "It's hard for you, my son!"

"Ene, please don't say that. Sharing your worries is what I, your son, should do."

That evening, Hongli met Yongzheng and told him about the incident: "Khan Ama, I heard that my tenth uncle was ordered to make up for the deficit and was forced to peddle his wares on the street?"

"Why, are you here to plead for him? Do you think this new policy of making up for the deficit shouldn't be so strict?"

Yongzheng asked coldly.

Hongli said, "No, I think it should be even stricter. Correcting a wrong cannot be done without going too far, and if you go too far, you can't correct the wrong! We should make it so that the princes and ministers won't dare to borrow public funds in the future!"

(End of this chapter)