Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1040 Conviction
In late April, the weather suddenly heats up.

At this time in previous years, Sheng Jia would leave Beijing for Rehe, and the dignitaries of the capital would either go out of Beijing with their retinue, or go to Zhuangzi outside the city to escape the heat, but this year there was no movement at all.

The ones with active minds guessed whether it was because the Empress Dowager was ill and the emperor was sick and couldn't get out.Only those with good eyes and ears know that there is still a stalemate between the empress dowager and the emperor's mother and son, and there is no intention of reconciliation.

Although the emperor gave the empress dowager the honorary title of "Ren Shou", and the current royal daily records and related edicts are also written as "Empress Ren Shou", but in fact the empress dowager refused to accept her resignation repeatedly, and she refused to accept the treasure ceremony.

After returning from Jingling, the emperor changed from saying hello every day to saying hello every five days. He still saluted in the courtyard of Yonghe Palace in the early days of Yinchu, and the mother and son never saw each other.

The ministers are fine, no matter how much they mutter in their hearts, they only have to respect the emperor's orders.

The princes and ministers are used to enjoying themselves, and they all have a summer resort in Rehe, but this holy car still doesn't mean to escape the summer heat, so everyone can't sit still.

According to the "Great Qing Law", the princes and princes of the clan who go out of Beijing for a hundred miles without purpose will be punished with death.Everyone stays in the capital, and the days when they can let the wind go are the few months when they can escape from the summer heat.

The sixteenth elder brother became the target of all the princes' mansions scrambling to intercept him. Everyone wanted to know when the emperor would be able to leave Beijing, and whether he would leave Beijing or not.

If you don't leave Beijing, everyone will find a way to go to the suburbs to escape the summer heat.

Yongzheng didn't make a decree, and the sixteenth elder brother was not good, so he said whether the emperor would go or not, he could only say "I don't know".

It's obviously true, but who would believe it?

He was a prince without a noble from a concubine of the Han Dynasty, and he inherited the imperial concubine at once. Everyone just regarded him as the emperor's confidant.

I only annoyed the sixteenth elder brother so much, I could only catch Cao Yong and complained: "The emperor is the same, if you don't go, you won't go, the next order is to make everyone feel at ease, just drag on like this."

Cao Yong also felt strange in his heart, and asked: "Master Sixteen, the emperor has just ascended the throne not long ago, isn't it just right to go to Rehe to be worshiped by the Mongolian prince? Why don't you go?"

Brother Sixteen smiled when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "I was thinking, the emperor is reluctant to part with this money."

This answer is too surprising.

Cao Yong was a little puzzled, and said: "Isn't the internal treasury...full?"

Half a year after he ascended the throne, in addition to taking over the millions of gold and silver accumulated by two generations of princes in Prince Zhuang's mansion, Yongzheng also ransacked the homes of many officials, all of which were confiscated into officials.

Yongzheng has rewarded his courtiers many times recently, which seems quite generous.Two days ago, a house was given to Zhang Tingyu, the Minister of Rites, with 1000 taels of silver.

There is no house given by the emperor with less than three entrances, and it is located at the foot of the imperial city, where every inch of land is precious.This reward is not insignificant.

Brother Sixteen shook his head and said: "No matter how generous you are here, it's only a matter of ten thousand taels of silver. When you go to Rehe, the Mongolian princes will reward you, the princes and ministers who follow you will reward you, and the besieging Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers will reward you." Rewards, at least a few million taels of silver. Inner Mongolia is different from Outer Mongolia. They have lived in the city for many years and built a city. They are no longer brave in the early years. The emperor wants to be kind, and he directly summons the Mongolian princes who have paid flowers to Beijing for a pilgrimage. That is, even if you have to reward some silver at that time, it will be more economical than the northern tour. The emperor has frequently summoned the two ministers of the Ministry of Industry recently. Looking at the meaning, it means that they want to do some major work related to people's livelihood. The treasury is not rich, the emperor It is not uncommon to want to use the silver in the internal treasury."

Cao Yong listened, feel a little moved.

Compared with Kangxi's emphasis on fame and falsehood, Yongzheng, an emperor with a controversial reputation, can put people's livelihood first, which is admirable.

Brother Sixteen said this by himself, thinking of this, and no longer complaining earlier, he said to Cao Yong: "The emperor is a diligent king. He gets up before Li Yin every day, and rests when he is young. Throughout the ages My virtuous lord, that’s all.”

Cao Yong listened, helpless in his heart, this is not what he deserves to be exhausted.

Everything must be done by yourself, only those who are in a hurry.

In terms of employing people, Yongzheng is really not as good as Kangxi.

Even though he has a few important confidants now, he refuses to delegate power and has to make up his own mind about everything.

If you are in charge of one thing, it's okay, you can put an end to the disadvantages and understand government affairs.As the king of a country, it is really not the way to live a long life if you suffer like this.

It is rumored in later generations that Yongzheng died of mercury poisoning after taking too many elixir.

The ammunition in this palace is either used for sex in bed or for refreshment.Judging from the number of concubines in Yongzheng, he is not a greedy king.

Handling government affairs and running the country are more important to him than conquering women between the beds.

Seeing Cao Yong groaning silently, Elder Sixteen said, "What are you thinking? This is it?"

Cao Yong said: "Master Sixteen, are there any new coffee beans for the Ministry of Internal Affairs' foreign goods this year? If it's convenient, help me get some?"

Brother Sixteen looked at him curiously and said, "Don't you think it's troublesome to roast, grind and boil that thing? Why do you think of this again?"

Although there are businessmen who sell coffee to China, they are rare.When Wei Xin was still in Guangzhou, Cao Yong once asked him to pay attention to this, and found a bag of coffee beans.

It’s just that Cao Yong is not a professional. Although he made coffee beans processed twice according to the procedures of roasting, grinding, boiling, and filtering, he always felt that the taste was not right, so he didn’t drink it. I don't know where to throw it.

"Seeing that the sky is getting longer, I feel sleepy in the Yamen during the day. Although the coffee beans are bitter to drink, they are the best for refreshing." Cao Yong said.

Brother Sixteen heard this, but frowned and said: "If it really has this effect, will it be addictive?"

He was frightened by opium, so he was wary of these foreign things.

Cao Yong said: "This is like tea. Addiction is just drinking a few more cups a day. It's not harmful."

Brother Sixteen was relieved now, and said with a smile, "Furuo, since it's a good thing, why don't you buy more and let everyone follow suit?"

Seeing that his eyes were bright, Cao Yong smiled and he was thinking about the way to make money.

Cao Yong is not as optimistic as the sixteenth elder brother, things are rare and expensive. I don't know how coffee is in the West now, but in China you can't buy anything with gold.

This taste is not as mellow and mild as tea leaves, and there are a few that can change the taste accordingly.

He told this to Elder Sixteen, and Elder Sixteen's excitement weakened a bit, but he still promised to get some for Cao Yong...

On April 23, Li Xu's case was transferred from the Ministry of Punishment to the Department of Punishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was appointed to discuss the crime.Li Xu and his son were also transferred from the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to the Department of Punishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Anyone can see that the emperor's tone has changed, from angrily accusing Li Xu of failing to live up to the late emperor's kindness as "severely punished", to now "but Yiyi has done a little bit for the emperor's father, and is old, so hand this over to him." The minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can discuss crimes."

At present, there are sixteen elder brothers, Ma Wu, Ga Dahun, and Dong Dianbang, who are the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Among them, sixteen princes are the main ones.

The head of the House of Internal Affairs is originally a close minister who serves the emperor.Even the emperor wanted to let go of the Li family, who would ignorantly embarrass Li Xu, so he took the sixteenth elder brother as his leader and refused to say anything.

After half a day's discussion, Li Xu's charges were settled. The crime of "overstepping" was due to "sickness, old age, confusion, and false listening to others" in the matter of picking ginseng for the villain.

The weaving yamen was short of money and food, mostly due to his son and family taking advantage of Li Xu's old age to intervene in official affairs and lie about payment in recent years. Li Xu "negligently" and "negligently supervised".

The Yanzheng Yamen was in short supply. During Li Xu's tenure, all the surplus silver from various merchants since the 45th year of Kangxi was used for urgent advances, so 70 taels was used as a hundred taels, or 90 or 37 taels were used as hundreds of taels.Li Xu compensated the merchants, and all of them used pure silver, and exchanged them in full.The lack of weighing for this item resulted in a total loss of 800 taels of silver. The merchant should compensate and pay off the state treasury.

The four people involved in the case, Li Xu, were dismissed from the post of Dangge Weaving, dismissed the title of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and cut down his post. Before dispatching the Xining army, the houses, shops, land, and family members were all listed and confiscated to make up for the above-mentioned money and food owed; The eldest son of Xu, Li Nai, an alternate magistrate, intervened in the official affairs of the weaving government. He took a hundred sticks and lost his fame and served three years in prison.

Li Xu's crime was not considered light.

Before dispatching troops, this was a severe punishment, second only to the death penalty.

The several supervisors were a little surprised, but they didn't say much, so they jointly signed on the sixteenth elder brother's brochure.

When the sixteenth elder brother handed the book to the emperor, Yongzheng was looking at another book from Suzhou.

The excerpt was written by Hu Fenghui, a Suzhou weaver. It mentioned that a sum of 32 taels of rice in February of the 2000nd year of Kangxi was reimbursed, and the purchased rice and stones were not stored in the warehouse.

Since Yongzheng had already decided to let Li Xu go, he only thought it was funny when he read this book again. The account books from 30 years ago can be found out, so Hu Fenghui is not careless.

Although it was a survey by order, Yongzheng was not happy with his aggressive attitude when he reached this point.

He thought of Nian Gengyao's character, and it was the same, leaving no room for change.This Hu Fenghui is so hard to investigate the evidence of the Li family, is he loyal to the emperor, or because of the personal grievances between Nian Gengyao and Cao Yong, he wants to vent his anger on Nian Gengyao's behalf?
It was Yongzheng's intention that Nian Gengyao was in charge of the Northwest.Yongzheng was willing to support him and let him establish his prestige in the northwest, but he didn't want him to intervene in other affairs.

Thinking of these, Yongzheng felt a little restless.

After reading Suzhou's excerpts, and then reading Elder Sixteen's excerpts, he felt much more at ease.

He forwarded the matter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in addition to saving face for Li Shi and Cao Yong's mother and son, he also wanted to see how Elder Sixteen would deal with it in this way.

After all, elder brother Sixteen is the blood relative of the Li family.

This excerpt, however, does not show selfishness, and is very much in line with Yongzheng's wishes.

"Li Xu is seventy years old, and he can't be driven before he dispatches the army, let's go to Shengjing." Yongzheng picked up the ink pen, added a few words on the paper, and then approved "Approve".

Brother Sixteen heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Although the banner people have rules, "five punishments will not be imposed on the body", the whip and shackles are changed for the light, and the death is directly executed for the severe one.But no one was convicted. If the emperor personally intervened in the case, even if he was a bannerman, he would have to be rod, and he would have to die.

Shengjing does not have the bitter cold of Ninggu Pagoda, nor the remoteness of Xinjiang. Exile in Shengjing is regarded as a stream of thousands of miles, and it is considered light...

(End of this chapter)