To say that this Wang Youdun still understands the rules better. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoPlease search to see the most complete! The reason why he was perfunctory to the emperor was because he knew that there were some things that he should not say. The emperor's meals are under the control of the Internal Affairs Office, and the affairs of the Internal Affairs Office are the private affairs of the emperor's family, and only the emperor can manage them, and others are not qualified to talk too much, so he had to perfunctory the emperor.

However, an egg is only a few pennies on the market, and the Internal Affairs Office sold it to the emperor for ten taels of silver, which is indeed outrageous.

When it came to Guangxu after Daoguang, it was the same.

Probably because the eggs in the palace have been scrambled at a high price, so Emperor Guangxu also likes to eat eggs. At that time, there were about three or four copper plates for an egg, but the purchase price of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was thirty taels of silver each. Once, Emperor Guangxu and his teacher Weng Tongrong were chatting, and suddenly said: "Although this egg is delicious, it is too expensive, can you afford it, Master Weng?" ”

Weng Tongyi can also be regarded as a person who has read poetry and books and is familiar with history, learned the lessons of Wang Youdun and Cao Wenzheng, and quickly shirked and said: "The minister's family only eats one or two when they encounter a sacrificial ceremony, and they usually dare not buy it." ”

As a result, even the emperor's teacher did not dare to tell the truth, so Emperor Guangxu thought that eggs were very expensive all his life, and even the court officials could not afford to eat them. For this reason, he has to "eat" tens of thousands of taels of silver every year just by eating eggs.

It can be seen from this that this "Dao" has its own Dao, which is not so easy to destroy, and even if you hold great power or even become an emperor, you will often lose the struggle to challenge these "Dao".

For example, the Qing Dynasty emperors and ministers I just mentioned have voices of "rectifying the internal affairs government" and "returning the right way" in various periods, and they all want to be the clear stream of reforming old habits. Unfortunately, all of them ended in failure.

Emperor Daoguang was most dissatisfied with the internal affairs government that spent money like water because he was slamming the door, and he reprimanded him a lot. For example, Emperor Daoguang liked to eat "noodle soup", and once ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to arrange for the imperial dining room to make noodle soup. However, after waiting for many days, I didn't even see the shadow of a bowl of "noodle soup".

As a result, Emperor Daoguang summoned the relevant officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for questioning.

The relevant officials complained: "Your Majesty, don't you know that the cost of making noodle soup in the palace is too high, and you are raising funds non-stop these days!" ”

When Emperor Daoguang heard this, he was furious: "How much does a bowl of noodle soup cost?" ”

The official replied: "To set up an organization in charge of noodle soup in the imperial dining room and increase the relevant staffing, it will cost about 50,000 taels of silver a year, plus the money for raw materials." Therefore, if the emperor wants to eat noodle soup, he has to add 60,000 taels of silver to the imperial dining room every year. ”

Emperor Daoguang seemed to have calculated that they would answer like this, so he sneered and said, "No need! Before I ascended the throne, I had eaten noodle soup on Qianmen Street, and the market knew that a bowl of noodle soup and two copper plates, the Internal Affairs Office specially arranged a small eunuch to go to Qianmen Street every day to buy noodle soup and come back. ”

After several more days, Emperor Daoguang still did not see the noodle soup, and summoned the relevant officials again to reprimand him.

However, the official replied very naturally: "The ministers have been looking for Qianmen Street recently, but they have not found any vendors selling noodle soup at all." I think they think this noodle soup is not profitable, so they all withdraw! The minister is planning to go farther away to buy it these days, but there is also a problem, if you run too far, the noodle soup will not taste good, so I am worried! ”

Emperor Daoguang spread his hands helplessly: "Come on, I shouldn't be greedy!" Well, I won't eat nominal soup anymore! ”

The real background of this incident is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent people to drive away all the vendors and shops selling noodle soup on Qianmen Street!

Why, because these small stall vendors blocked their "way of rules" with an annual income of 60,000 taels of silver, and became wicked people in their eyes. Therefore, drive you away, lest the emperor send someone to ask him privately.

This is a classic example of their unscrupulous means to achieve their ends.

But can you say they're wrong?

They don't think they're wrong, and they've been sticking to the "way." Whoever destroys this "Tao" is the one who is really wrong, and who is really "rebellious".

So, the wrong person turned out to be the emperor. In the end, the emperor had to blame himself for this and apologize personally.

The problems reflected in this little story seem ridiculous, but they are very serious. For a bowl of noodle soup, the emperor couldn't fight the Internal Affairs Office! It must be said that after several generations of emperors, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had established many meritorious services in the early days, has gradually swelled into a huge independent force.

In other words, their so-called "Tao" actually implies a kind of memory logic, that is, the internal affairs government does everything to see if it can obtain "benefits", and it will do things that are advantageous, and things that are not beneficial will not be done. This is their fundamental value orientation, not to obey the emperor's orders.

The interest orientation has unconsciously surpassed everything!

How to eat noodle soup was a problem raised by Emperor Daoguang, and his solution was to buy ready-made, which was simple and cheap, and was definitely superior to the production method of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to set up a special agency, equip people, and increase the budget.

However, Emperor Daoguang's good method made the personnel of the Internal Affairs Office not get any benefits, and they couldn't get any benefits at all, so they had to pay for their hard work. Therefore, the relevant officials would rather be criticized by the emperor many times, send people to drive away the vendors, and force the Daoguang Emperor to accept the methods of the internal affairs government. Therefore, the only thing Emperor Daoguang could resist in the end was not to eat the powder soup, plus to apologize and ridicule himself.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs rubbed oil from the emperor, but there were many tricks, only this one "buy low and sell high", which was a big deal of making money every day and even nearly 10,000 catties a day.

Although the emperor is at the peak of his power and can set many rules and regulations for the internal affairs office, after all, he is in the deep palace and does not know the normal market situation. As a result, the Ministry of Internal Affairs bought goods from outside the palace at a reasonable price, and sometimes even grabbed them directly, and then reported them to the emperor at a high price.

The emperor was kept in the dark, nothing was clear, and the ministers generally did not dare to say anything. Therefore, this so-called "Tao" was formed at once. On the surface, there is nothing illegal or even illegal in the whole process. So it is with eggs, and so it is with patches. The price difference has become the "gray income" of the handling personnel. Moreover, the courage is getting bigger and bigger, and the income is becoming more and more evil. Every year, the "legal expenses" of the emperor and the Forbidden City are four or five million taels of silver, which is a relatively frugal emperor. If you come across one that can be made, you won't be able to take it down if you don't have 10 million taels.

In the late Qing Dynasty, when the Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, the Minister of Military Aircraft at that time was Yan Jingming. This can be regarded as a rare virtuous appearance in the late Qing Dynasty. Several times to turn the tide, known as the "prime minister to save the time", but because it is difficult to reverse the general trend, he strongly opposed Cixi's rebuilding of the Old Summer Palace, which was not adopted, and finally resigned in anger, after which, the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

Yan Jingming was very incorruptible, and when he was in office, he found that the suitcases purchased by the Internal Affairs Office for the palace cost sixty taels of silver each, which was simply sky-high. He was interested in rectifying the Internal Affairs Bureau, so he pointed out to the Empress Dowager Cixi that the maximum unit price of suitcases in the capital would not exceed six taels of silver, and that the Internal Affairs Office was seriously suspected of deducting corruption when purchasing suitcases.

The Empress Dowager Cixi is not particularly mediocre in this regard, she is still very clear in her heart, and she will not break it, so she asked Yan Jingming to buy her a suitcase of six taels of silver to see.

Yan Jingming was full of confidence, so he went to the market to see it in person. As a result, it is better not to look at it, and this look, I was surprised to find that all the trunk shops are closed for business. As soon as they asked, the shopkeepers complained one after another, and the father-in-law of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a message demanding that all the suitcase shops in Beijing be closed and open without permission, and whoever opened without authorization would smash their shops.

This Yan Jingming can be regarded as a bit arrogant, and he is strong, and he plans to give the Internal Affairs Office a little color to see. So, he wrote a secret letter to Tianjin Daotai, asking him to buy a suitcase from Tianjin and send it over. Unexpectedly, more than half a month had passed, and the boxes in Tianjin had not been shipped.

In the end, because there was no real evidence, Yan Jingming's accusations against the Internal Affairs Office could not be established. Yan Jingming is the Minister of Military Aircraft, but he can't get off the stage, so he is distressed. Afterwards, Yan Jingming traced it down, and it turned out that Yan Jingming's personal entourage who sent a letter to Tianjin received 1,000 taels of silver from the Internal Affairs Office, and with a secret letter, he disappeared.

Power competes with power, the bright always can't beat the dark, and the strong can't always beat the weak. So, reflecting on it, it may not be clear or not, and strong is not strong. On the contrary, darkness is true light, and weak is really strong.

Things can't be done, and people can't do it. And, the later it goes, the more so. In addition to Yan Jingming, the "prime minister who saved the time", Emperor Guangxu, who later ascended to the throne, can be regarded as an ambitious person. However, the dignified emperor was helpless against a middle-level official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Qingkuan is an internal affairs minister, that is, the most ordinary middle-level cadre, and the reason why he offended Guangxu was because he stretched out his hand to make money into Guangxu's private wallet.

Guangxu once wanted to make four bracelets for the Empress Dowager Cixi as a birthday gift, so he asked Qingkuan to make four samples for the Empress Dowager Cixi, who liked it very much, and then showed it to the Guangxu Emperor. Guangxu asked how much money he needed, and Qingkuan asked for 40,000 taels of silver when he opened his mouth.

Guangxu was taken aback, and immediately blurted out: "God, isn't this going to copy my family?" ”

It turned out that Guangxu had worked hard to save 40,000 taels of private silver over the years, and because he was not worried about the Internal Affairs Office, he kept it in the money shop outside the palace to eat interest. It's good now, Qingkuan used these four bracelets as an excuse to take away all his private money as soon as he opened his mouth, and this bracelet has been shown to Cixi, and Guangxu has to give it, he really hates itchy. Therefore, Guangxu has hated Qingkuan since then.

To say that Qingkuan is indeed a huge greed, and he does not shy away from suspicion at all, high-profile corruption, big reports, and arrogance. Especially during Cixi's 60th birthday, Qingkuan presided over the celebration office, and one person took care of the procurement of all utensils, making a fortune, and others had no way to interfere. In this way, Qingkuan cut off the financial path of others and offended many people, including his colleagues.

At this time, there was a Manchu imperial historian who secretly played Qingkuan's family to hide the throne and behaved badly, and said that he was pretending to be a eunuch. You must know that these two sins are not small, and they are both big sins!

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