bookcurios Chapter 122 Now that everyone is in the water, it will be easy
Chapter 122 Now that everyone is in the water, it will be easy
"luxury?"
Yinreng asked belatedly.
The egg that even the Emperor would describe as 'luxurious'...
Before Yinreng could think too much, Kangxi taught him,
"Yes, as a prince of the Qing Dynasty, you naturally cannot be lazy and ignorant.
It's because I didn't have time to take you to understand the people's sentiments.
I'll ask you to take a closer look at the purchasing accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the silver in the national treasury, etc. in the future, and the rest of my princes should also learn from them.
This egg, at ten taels of silver each, is truly precious.”
Ten taels?! One? ? ? Huh? ? ? ?
So he and Dong E Gege cooked today and used... a basket... of twenty-two eggs, which is two hundred and twenty taels of silver!
Yinreng took a deep breath, and at the same time, the abacus in his head started clacking, almost causing the abacus beads to fall out.
Although he was the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty, he never married and entered officialdom, and his monthly salary was only four hundred taels.
After he enters the government, his salary will certainly not be lower than that of a Heshuo Prince, so it will only be nine hundred taels of silver a month...
The afternoon tea and dinner that day, just the meal with eggs as a condiment, cost two hundred taels of silver.
Then what about gold and silver jewelry, cloth and rouge...
Although he, as a prince, must not only rely on salary to make a living, but this salary of more than 10,000 taels of silver a year is definitely a huge income...
(wДw)! ! !
At this moment, Yinreng suddenly discovered something shocking.
He might be wandering madly on the borderline of not being able to support Dong E Gege!
Now Yinreng suddenly understood why local officials were corrupt and why officials in the capital formed cliques for personal gain.
You can't marry a wife just relying on your salary!
As a prince, he has an official salary, and also a stipend from the Imperial Household Department. At least he has the basic supplies of various types of rice, vegetables, meat, and cloth, but... the extra things also cost money!
When I think about it this way, my father's large number of concubines in his harem is really a sin of extravagance.
He can't learn from his father.
At the very least, if you marry Princess Dong E, you can't let her live a life worse than when she was in the Dong E Mansion!
He is the wife of the crown prince, but he has to save even eggs. Where will his face be if this gets out?
At the very least... before he becomes rich enough to rival a country, he should just focus on supporting one woman, Mrs. Dong E.
Ah... How embarrassing! How could I use such a name in my mind?
……
Closer to home.
Although it is said that a successful man cannot have only one woman behind him.
But no one could have imagined that he, the crown prince, was so poor that he couldn't even afford to feed his wife.
This is not worthy of the word "success" at all. I am too embarrassed to even speak this fact out loud behind closed doors!
A strong sense of responsibility and a sense of crisis about money cheered Yinreng up.
No, we can't live like this anymore.
Crown Prince Yinreng had never considered doing business. After all, in the values he was taught, merchants were always lowly people.
Therefore, the prince wanted to get married and enter the officialdom as soon as possible, get the monthly salary of nine hundred taels as soon as possible, and then think about how to make achievements and get more rewards such as "ten thousand taels of gold" and "some treasures" that can be taken out of the national treasury.
Just Baturu.
Be a strategic Baturu.
Isn't Tsarist Russia uneasy recently?!
So can he contribute to it?
Among his princes and royal guards, there are many brave and capable generals who can be consulted for advice.
Oh yes, Dong E Gege’s father Peng Chun was also a fierce general!
While doing the important work, he was also able to listen to Dong E Gege's family affairs. Best of both worlds! Long live the prince! So smart!
After the meal, the father and son had their own thoughts. They washed up and lay on the bed, staring and thinking.
What Yinreng was thinking about was how he, as the crown prince, could gain this military merit.
But what Kangxi was thinking was, as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, did he have to restrain his appetite like this?
In other words, is it a sin to choose better while being frugal?
Sacrifice Yinreng.
Force him to confront Dong'e Gege, so that when Dong'e Gege pays respect to the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager in the future, she will have to bring him along as well! !
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He Junyi'erha tiredly withdrew his consciousness, took a sip of sedative and sleeping pills made from herbs, and fell asleep.
This was her first sleep since she came to the world of "Nine Dragons Fighting for Succession".
In order to ensure that her plan was successful, she overdrew her spiritual consciousness and used all her spiritual power to give herself a live broadcast.
In other words, the current Rehe Camp is not very big. The straight-line distance from her residence in the Empress Dowager's side courtyard to the residence where Kangxi handles government affairs is only 500 meters.
After half an hour of fixed-point, small-area observation, she was finally able to hold on.
It is said that there is a milestone that cannot be overcome in the Qing Dynasty - the raid on the Imperial Household Department.
However, this is a competitive copy, and who discovers, who proposes, who reports, who takes action, who benefits, and who cleans up the mess are all things to consider.
The Imperial Household Department is complicated and deeply rooted. Not to mention the hostile forces, even its own forces have infiltrated it to a considerable extent. If it is cut off with one knife, it is unknown whether she dares to report it and whether Kangxi dares to take action.
Nalan Mingzhu, Suo'etu, and Tong Guowei all had their hands on the stolen money of the Imperial Household Department, and some clan members and ministers pretended to be ignorant even though they knew the truth, for fear of offending these bondservants of the Imperial Household Department!
Even the "cousin" of Fucha family who worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to pretend to be ignorant.
A group of bondservants were in conflict with each other, and neither he nor the Fucha family alone could break them.
Therefore, for He Zhun Yierha, the task of searching the internal affairs had to be done beautifully and cleanly.
The prince needs to be both a victim and a beneficiary of this incident, and even more so, a marginal figure in this incident.
The same naturally applies to the Dong'e, Fucha, and Hesheli families, whose interests are related to the prince.
Now in the prince's mind, eggs that cost ten taels of silver each have become popular.
If by chance in the future he discovered that an egg was worth only three cents, or if he discovered that the Imperial Household Department was pretending to obey his orders but actually disobeying them, then his suspicions towards the Imperial Household Department and the bannermen would begin to grow.
The prince was suspicious and couldn't sleep. How could Mr. Huang still sleep peacefully?
If we use Kangxi's suspicion and anger as an excuse to rectify the Imperial Household Department and eliminate the corruption in the Qing Dynasty, would other people be jealous and want to get involved to share a piece of the pie?
Others and Jun Yilhan may not be sure, but Guarjia Gefuhe will definitely intervene in a high-profile manner.
The other taskers had to be very calm to watch Guaerjia enjoy it all to themselves, which might involve a positive or negative loss of 4 points and Kangxi's favorability.
If done properly, this move could directly drag down all the taskers, no matter how well they were hiding now...
Now that we're all in the water, it'll be easy.
The coating process is complicated and involves conflicts of interest.
Depriving someone of their money is like killing their parents. The Imperial Household Department during the reign of Emperor Kangxi was not that easy to copy.
Now the father and son are sitting here discussing 'eggs that cost ten taels each', and Kangxi himself has become interested in this luxury item, which is a good thing.
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The next day, He Zhun Yierha asked the maid to get the so-called "farewell gift".
A piece of white jade only half a finger long, with square and long corners that are polished to be extremely round. Holding it in the hand gives the illusion of pinching a candy that can be broken in one stroke.
One side is spotlessly white, while the other side is engraved with the Manchu word "peace" in gold.
It doesn't look like a newly carved piece, but it has been well preserved and shows no signs of being played with.
Could it be that Yinreng dug out his childhood things and gave them to her?
Thinking of this, He Junyi'erha also laughed.
According to today's thinking, this piece of jade is truly extremely precious.
It was given by Kangxi to keep the prince safe when he was young, and now it is in her hands.
He Junyi'erha did not intend to put it away, but hung it on her waist and tied it together with her sachet.
Gifts are given to be used.
Besides, it's time for them to be clear with each other.
Eight years later, it sounds like a lot of time, but the time she can manipulate the situation as she does now is not long.
Her favorability within the palace has been almost fully restored. Before the Empress Dowager dies, her current glory will be revealed.
It's time to make arrangements outside the palace.
Dong E cannot turn the situation around for the prince just by being a lone commander. She needs an ally, an ally who is also from a military family and has the same high position and power.
The Niuhulu and Tonggiya clans were both among the candidates.