In late April, the weather suddenly warmed up.

At this time in previous years, the holy driver had to leave Beijing to go to Rehe, and the magnates in the capital either went out of Beijing with Hu, or went to Zhuangzi outside the city to escape the summer heat, but this year there was no movement at all.

There is a heart to live, guessing whether it is because the queen mother is sick, the emperor is sick, and he can't get out. Only those who are well-informed know that there is still a stalemate between the queen mother and the emperor's mother and son, and there is no intention of reconciliation.

Although the emperor gave the queen mother the honorific title of "Renshou", and now the royal living record and related wills are also written as "Renshou Empress Dowager", but in fact, the queen mother repeatedly refused to respond, and refused to accept the treasure ceremony.

After returning from Jingling, the emperor changed from asking for peace every day to asking for peace every five days, and he still saluted in the courtyard of Yonghe Palace at the beginning of Yin, and the mother and son didn't see each other at all.

The ministers are okay, no matter how they muttered in their hearts, they only have to wait for the emperor's orders.

The princes and ministers, accustomed to enjoyment, all have summer resorts in Rehe, but this holy car still has no meaning to escape the heat, and everyone can't sit still.

According to the "Law of the Great Qing Dynasty", the prince of the clan who leaves the capital for a hundred miles without a decree is guilty of a capital crime. Everyone is encircled in the capital, and if they can let off steam, they will only escape the summer for a few months.

The sixteenth elder brother has become the object of competition among the major princes' mansions, and everyone wants to know when the emperor will be able to leave Beijing, and whether he will be able to leave Beijing.

If you don't go out of Beijing, you have to think of going to the suburbs to escape the summer.

Yongzheng didn't have a will, and the sixteenth elder brother didn't say whether the emperor would go or not, so he could only say "I don't know".

It's the truth, but who believes it?

He was a prince born by a Han concubine, and he suddenly inherited the iron hat king, and everyone just regarded him as the emperor's henchman.

only annoyed the sixteenth elder brother, so he could only catch Cao Hao and complain: "The emperor is too, if you don't go, you won't go, the next will will make everyone feel at ease, just drag it on." ”

Cao Hao also felt strange in his heart, and asked: "Sixteenth master, the emperor has only been on the throne for a short time, didn't he go to Rehe to be worshiped by the Mongolian princes, why didn't he go?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother smiled when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "I think, the emperor is reluctant to give up this silver. ”

This answer is so surprising.

Cao Hao was a little puzzled and said, "The inner library is not ...... Plump?"

After ascending the throne for half a year, in addition to taking over the millions of gold and silver accumulated by the two generations of princes in Prince Zhuang's mansion, Yongzheng also copied the homes of many officials, and all the family properties were confiscated into the officials.

Yongzheng has repeatedly rewarded his courtiers recently, and he looks very generous. Two days ago, I just gave Zhang Tingyu, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, a room with 1,000 taels of silver.

The Son of Heaven gave the house, there is no less than three entrances, and it is located at the foot of the root of the imperial city, where every inch of land is gold. This reward is not insignificant.

The sixteenth elder brother shook his head and said, "No matter how generous you are here, it's just a matter of ten thousand taels of silver." When you go to Rehe, the Mongolian princes will be rewarded, the princes and ministers who accompany you will be rewarded, and the Manchuria and Mongolian soldiers who are besieging will be rewarded, not to mention millions of taels of silver. Inner Mongolia is different from Outer Mongolia, which has been in the dynasty for many years, built a city and lived, and has long ceased to be brave in its early years. The emperor wants to be gracious, and directly summons the Mongolian princes who have come out of the flowers to Beijing for pilgrimage, even if he wants to reward some silver at that time, it will save more than the northern tour. Recently, the emperor frequently summoned the two scholars of the Ministry of Works, and looked at the meaning, what kind of great fortifications related to the people's livelihood should be done. The treasury is not rich, and it is not uncommon for the emperor to want to use the silver taels from the inner treasury. ”

Cao Hao listened and was a little moved.

Compared with Kangxi's false name, Yongzheng, the controversial emperor, can put the people's livelihood first, which is admirable.

After the sixteenth elder brother said this, he thought of it as well, and he didn't complain earlier, and said to Cao Hao: "The emperor is a diligent king, and he gets up every time he says that he will rest before the time." The virtuous monarchs of the past and present are like this. ”

Cao Hao listened, and felt helpless, this is not deserving of exhaustion.

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

If you talk about employing people, Yongzheng is really not as good as Kangxi.

Even if he has a few important confidants now, he refuses to let go of power, and he has to make his own decisions about everything.

If you are in charge of a thing, it is good, you can put an end to the drawbacks and understand the government affairs. As the king of a country, such a deviant is really not the way to live a long life.

It was rumored in later generations that Yongzheng took too much pill and died of mercury poisoning.

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

Dealing with government affairs and running the country is much more important to him than conquering women between the bed.

Seeing that Cao Hao was silent, the sixteenth elder brother said, "What do you want?" This is? ”

Cao Hao said: "Sixteenth master, this year's foreign goods from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are there no new coffee beans?" If it's convenient, can you get some for me? ”

The sixteenth elder brother looked at him curiously and said, "Don't you think that thing is troublesome to bake, grind and cook?" Why do you think of this again? ”

Nowadays, there are merchants who sell coffee to China, but it is rare. When Wei Xin was still in Guangzhou, Cao Hao had asked him to pay attention to this and exchange it for a bag of coffee beans.

It's just that Cao Hao is not a professional, although people have processed the coffee beans twice according to the procedures of roasting, grinding, boiling, and care, but he always feels that the taste is wrong, so he also leaves it and does not drink it, and the remaining coffee beans have long been lost to where they are gone.

"Seeing that the sky is long, Bai Yueli is sleepy in the yamen. Although these coffee beans are bitter to drink, they are the best for refreshing. Cao Hao said.

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, he frowned and said, "If it really has this effect, will it be addictive?" ”

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

Cao Hao said: "This is like tea, and the addiction is just a few more cups a day, but there is no harm in it." ”

The sixteenth elder brother was relieved at this time, and said with a smile: "Fu Ruo, since it is a good thing, shouldn't you buy more and let everyone try it?" ”

Cao Hao saw that his eyes were shining, so he smiled and thought about the way to make money.

Cao Hao is not as optimistic as the sixteenth elder brother, things are still very expensive, and I don't know how coffee is in the West now, but in China it can't be bought with gold.

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

He told the sixteenth elder brother this, and the sixteenth elder brother's excitement weakened a little, but he still promised to get some ...... for Cao Hao On 23 April, Li Xu's case was transferred from the Criminal Department to the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where the Minister in Charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was instructed to discuss the crime. Li Xu's father and son were also transferred from the prison of the Criminal Department to the detention of the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Everyone can see that the emperor's tone has changed, from angrily reprimanding Li Xu for betraying the grace of the previous emperor and "severely punishing crimes", to now "Wei Yi has done a little bit for the emperor's father, and he is old, so it is okay to hand this over to the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for discussion."

At present, there are 16 elder brothers, Ma Wu, Ka Dahun, and Dong Dianbang, the ministers of the internal affairs department. Among them, the sixteen elder brothers are the mainstay.

The head of the Internal Affairs Office was originally a close minister who served the Son of Heaven. Even Emperor Yanjing wants to raise his hand to let go of the Li family, who would be embarrassed by Li Xu without knowing how to do it, since he took the sixteenth elder brother as the head of the horse, he refused to say much.

After half a day of court discussion, Li Xu's crime was decided, and the crime of collecting ginseng for the villain was "riddled with diseases, old and weak, and vainly listening to people's words" before committing the crime of "transgression".

The weaving yamen's deficit of money and grain was mostly caused by his son and family members taking advantage of Li Xu's old age in recent years to meddle in official affairs and lie about expenses, and Li Xu was "derelict in his duties" and "negligent in supervision".

During Li Xu's tenure, all kinds of surplus silver obtained from Kangxi in the 45th year of Kangxi were used as advances, so 70 taels were exchanged for 100 taels, or 80 or 90 taels for 100 taels. Li Xu compensated the merchant for the cushion, all with pure silver, and exchanged it in full. A total of 378,800 taels of silver was given for the weighing of this item, and the merchant should compensate and pay off the state money.

The four people involved in the case, Li Xu, were dismissed from their posts as leather weaving workers, dismissed from the household department, cut their posts, and before sending the Xining Army, their houses, shops, land, and family members were all listed and confiscated to fill the money and grain owed above; Li Xu's eldest son, Li Nai, the alternate prefect, meddled in the official affairs of the weaving government, with a hundred rods, and his fame was removed for three years; Qian Zhongxuan, the Li family, Shen Yishi, the prime minister, a hundred rods, Liuning Guta, and the armored people are slaves.

Li Xu's crime is not light.

Before the dispatch of the army, this was a heavy punishment, second only to the death penalty.

Several managers were a little surprised, but they didn't say much, and they signed a joint name on the excerpt of the sixteenth elder brother.

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

The excerpt is played by Hu Fenghui, a weaver in Suzhou, mentioning that in February of the 32nd year of Kangxi, a sum of 2,000 taels of silver was paid for buying rice, which had been reimbursed, and the rice stone bought was not stored in the warehouse.

Yongzheng has decided to let Li Xu go, and when he looks at this excerpt again, he only thinks it's funny. The account books of thirty years ago can be checked, and this Hu Fenghui is not careless.

Although it was ordered to investigate, but to this point, there was an aggressive attitude, and Yongzheng was not pleased.

He remembered Nian Qianyao's surname, and the same was true, leaving no room for people to turn around. This Hu Fenghui worked so hard to investigate the evidence of the Li family's crimes, was he loyal to the monarch, or because of the personal grudge between Nian Qianyao and Cao Hao, he wanted to be angry for Nian Qianyao?

Nian Qianyao is in charge of the northwest, which is Yongzheng's intention. Yongzheng is willing to support him and let him be powerful in the northwest, but he doesn't want him to meddle in other affairs.

Thinking of these, Yongzheng felt a little irritable in his heart.

After reading the excerpts in Suzhou, and then looking at the excerpts of the sixteenth elder brother, he felt much more comfortable in his heart.

He transferred the matter to the Internal Affairs Office, in addition to saving face for the Li family and Cao Hao's mother and son, he also wanted to see how the sixteenth elder brother would deal with it.

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

This excerpt is not selfish, and it is very much in line with Yongzheng's intentions.

"Li Xu is seventy years old, and he can't be driven before sending the army, so let's go to Shengjing." Yongzheng picked up the red pen, added a few words on the fold, and then approved a "quasi".

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although the banner people have rules, "the five punishments are not added", the light ones are changed to whips and flails, and the heavy ones are directly executed. But no one has been convicted, if it is a case that the emperor personally intervenes into, even if it is the identity of the flag person, the staff must be scepter, and the flow must be flowed.

Shengjing does not have the bitter cold of Ningguta, and there is no distance of Xinjiang Province, and the exile of Shengjing can be regarded as a thousand miles and light......

(To be continued)