Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

The matter of the emperor's suppression of corruption was speculative, but the impact of this shock did not dissipate for a long time. On that day, Concubine Rong specially ran to Yonghe Palace and whispered to her: "The Shunzhen Gate caught the eunuch who was secretly taken out of the palace. , Turned out to be full of gold, silver and jade, follow the clues to check, where do you think the eunuchs came from, and how did they get so many things to take outside the palace?"

Of course Lan Qi didn't pay attention to this kind of thing, but seeing Concubine Rong so nervous, it couldn't be any concubine. Thinking about who else is in the palace now, she couldn't help being shocked, could it be the prince?

"Yuqing Palace is amazing now, and they have sold their belongings. Where did the crown prince spend all the money? It's not enough to exchange things for money?" Concubine Rong chattered, and the news reached her. , is also a fellow eunuch who is on duty at Shunzhen Gate, and after hearing a few words, they spread to Jingyang Palace.

Lan Qi's heart sank. Concubine Rong really has a delicate heart. If she knew it herself, she would definitely not tell others easily. She was carrying it, and came here to tell herself that if something happened, more people would know about it, and her burden and even danger would be less.

Concubine Rong said to herself: "Could it be that the matter of suppressing corruption has been found out on the crown prince?"

Lan Qi didn't say a word, just listened cooperatively, but she had other ideas in her mind. A few days later, she called Lan Ying into the palace and asked her about the turmoil in the capital. The attitude of the emperor is that he will not settle accounts after returning to Luanqiu. Most of the money owed by the emperor this time has been delayed by the court for three or four years or even longer. A Ling'a said that the emperor is really wise. If the emperor is in the capital, he may not be sure. The old minister ran to play tricks, but the emperor knocked on the mountain thousands of miles away, and everyone couldn't figure out the situation, but they were all shocked."

"A lot of people have been involved, right?" Lan Qi asked.

"A lot." Lanying nodded, and said a little embarrassedly, "It seems that Empress Xiaoyi's family has also been affected. Her brother Longkodo is looking for our uncle to turn around. I heard what Alinga's sister-in-law said."

Lan Qi frowned slightly. The tree in the Uncle's Mansion has deep roots. Legend has it that it is a house made of mountains of gold and silver. Empress Xiaoyi's Chengqian Palace in the past was also magnificent. The outsider Zhou Ji didn't know whether it was Tong Guowei who didn't help him, or whether the uncle's house was not as good as before. The article here is very deep.

But I heard Lan Ying say again: "After entering the door of Ah Ling's family, I realized that these wealthy families are not clean. It's got to be full."

Lan Qi scolded: "What is this called? It's money owed to the imperial court. Shouldn't it be returned?"

Lan Ying muttered: "Fortunately, it's the end of the year. If it's the end of the year, the current situation of the family may be a sad year. Sister, you don't know that these big houses are actually empty and empty. Most of them look respectable and close their doors. It’s good to be able to turn around.”

Lan Qi said: "Since this is the case, you should take good care of your family and persuade Ah Ling not to take any more risks. One day the emperor will be serious. If the six relatives don't recognize you, we will have nothing to do. This time is over, what will happen next time?" What to do? You can take care of the family business with peace of mind, your family still has fields, mountains and forests to earn income every year, plus your salary is more than enough to live on, if you don’t live well, I will feel uneasy again. "

Lanying smiled slyly: "The money my sister gave me last time, are you waiting to take it back? It's fine if you don't want it, just treat it as a reward for me."

Lan Qi didn't care at all, and joked: "That's the money for your niece and niece to get married. You're so kind, my aunt."

"But A Ling'a was used to fill in the vacancy and returned to the court. Didn't it go into the emperor's pocket again? Didn't she go into the emperor's pocket? Didn't she just go into my sister's pocket?" The head melon said: "It's the money of the court, the emperor can't mess with it, your abacus is too good."

Jokes are jokes, serious things can't be sloppy, Lanying is just laughing and relaxed, knowing how serious this matter is, and now A Ling'a is even weaker in front of her, while doting on his wife, and admiring her way of running the house, at least this A turmoil did not destroy the family business. Under Lanying's management, the family can still live on.Naturally, since Concubine Wen Xi fell out of favor in the early years and disappeared now, the Niu Hulu clan is really not as good as before, so the number of shortfalls is not scary, and the items that A Ling'a is afraid of are finally filled.

As for Lan Qi, in front of the family of Liugong, she knew that life under the golden roof and red wall was not easy. As Lanying said, any corruption will naturally be taken from the country's deficit, but they also want to fill the gap and dare not be too ostentatious, but where can they get money to make up for it?Naturally, the east wall is torn down to make up for the west wall, and the greedy silver will be spent sooner or later, so the deficit will snowball and become bigger and bigger, with more and more loopholes, endless.

It was the first time for Lan Qi to know the most fundamental reason for these things. She also couldn't figure out why those corrupt officials were not satisfied even though they had a lot of money. The imperial court was short-lived, no wonder Xuan Ye hated and greedy to the bone.

Thinking about what Concubine Rong said about Yuqing Palace not being able to turn around, the expenses of the crown prince, concubine and emperor's grandson are all allocated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, just like in the emperor's Qianqing Palace, not counted together with the harem concubines and other princes and princesses.Although Lan Qi didn't know the detailed rules, it was not difficult to live as usual. There were silver and other things sent every month. The sudden turnover of so much silver seemed to be inseparable from this shock.Lan Qi didn't know how many yamen the prince was in charge of the imperial court now, and how many years he had been in politics now, did he also expose a loophole?

Every time I think of these things, I feel anxious for a while, I am afraid that if the prince is really at a loss, Xuan Ye will not be happy to receive the money.Then he made a decision in his heart, when his son returns to Beijing, he must give him a good beating, and he must not let Yinzhen get confused on this, even if it would be very hard for him to be in court, he must not go on the road of no return.

At this moment, the emperor, who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, is serving the queen mother and brought his concubines and princes to Hangzhou. After accompanying the queen mother to tour the scenery of Hangzhou, he plans to take the princes to review the garrison in Hangzhou on the 27th of this month, and compete in riding and shooting in the school grounds.

Before that day, after finishing his errands, Yinzhen came to find Yinxiang and Yinti, and wanted to take them to choose horses and take them for a run, so as to prepare for the riding and archery competition that day, but Yinti was bored in the room. Ignoring it, Yinxiang followed his brother outside the door, and said softly: "He is not happy, what he said is different from what he imagined, fourth brother, you follow Huang Ama everywhere, but he and I follow behind the emperor's grandmother and can't go anywhere. Go, it's better not to go out like this."

Yinzhen smiled and said: "How old is he, where does he want to go, do he still need all the civil and military officials to kowtow to the fourteenth brother?"

As he spoke, he came into the room and saw his younger brother wrapped in a quilt and stuffed in the corner of the bed. He obviously knew that he came here deliberately to be angry. He stood aside with his hands behind his back and asked in a deep voice: "If you really don't want to go, I will Take your thirteenth brother away, and I will tell Huang Ama later that the fourteenth brother is ill, so you don’t need to take him with you when inspecting the garrison, and you don’t need to count him in the riding and shooting competition.”

The kid under the quilt was motionless, Yinti seemed really wronged, and went out happily. Before going out, the fourth brother took him to sharpen the short knife, but when he really left the imperial city, he was stuck in a carriage He bumped up and down behind Huang's grandmother for almost two months, and he didn't even see Huang's grandmother a few times, but he always heard that his brothers went everywhere with Huang's grandmother, and everything was completely different from what he imagined.

"Are you afraid of losing?" Yinzhen said suddenly, seeing the little guy in the quilt move, he continued, "I will make it clear to Huang Ama, whether you are sick or afraid of losing, you will not Can't even speak? If you don't speak again, then let everyone know that Brother Fourteen is afraid of losing."

Yinqi jumped up, his eyes widened: "Who is afraid of losing, fourth brother, don't talk nonsense."

Yinzhen slapped him hard on the head and reprimanded him: "Whoever allows you to talk to your brother like this, there is no rule at all."

Fourteen didn't dare to talk back, and turned his face away in disbelief, but was suddenly picked up by his brother and pushed to the ground, kicked him on the back of the buttocks and said, "Hiding under the quilt like a girl, thank you for being able to do it." , immediately change my clothes and follow me, if you dawdle any longer, do you want me to loosen your muscles and bones?"

Yinxiang was afraid that his fourteenth brother would talk back again, but his elder brother didn't get angry, so he hurried up to smooth things over, and dragged his younger brother to change clothes.Why did Yinti not want to go out, but his proud temperament was frustrated all the way, and he couldn't stand it anymore. After all, he was still an ignorant child, showing everything on his face.

The two brothers came out fully dressed, Yinzhen looked them up and down, sure enough the younger brothers had grown up, they hadn't seen much in the past two months, they seemed to have grown up again, and told them not to run around and to understand the rules, and then put The younger brother led out the door together.

Although he was still riding in a carriage, Elder Fourteen was clearly active. He was sullen and didn't go out to play with the Queen Mother these days, so what he saw was very fresh. He kept asking Brother Thirteen this and that all the way, which made Yinzhen have a headache. , but seeing his younger brothers happy, he could only bear it.

When we arrived at the garrison school grounds, we were already preparing for the next day's imperial inspection, and the horses were all arranged, so Yinzhen took his younger brothers to choose horses, and said, "You have rarely ridden horses since you went out, you must be unfamiliar , Huang Ama said that you don’t want to win the game, you can lose the competition but you can’t lose your momentum, you can’t care about the importance of winning, the royal children must have tolerance.”

But the elder brother said for a long time that the fourteenth elder brother's heart had already gone somewhere, and he was reprimanded by the elder brother again, so he could only obediently follow behind him with a drooping face.