The Crown Princess pondered, this matter can no longer be like this. If not for anything else, just because there are many rewards from the elders in the palace that are registered in the private treasury of the two younger brothers.
The Crown Princess had never had the key to this private treasury, and it had been held by Mr. Li from the beginning. I just thought that she was the biological mother and had no reason not to love the child. I didn't expect that she would take advantage of her son to support her parents' family.
The Li family is also bold and dares to accept anything. The Crown Princess was thinking about asking someone to invite the Crown Prince over, when there was movement at the door.
The prince is here. The princess stood up. The prince came in, his face tensed, and sat down directly. He looked at the princess and asked in a questioning tone: "Did you hand the certificate to the emperor?" The prince also sat down and nodded.
The prince frowned and said: "Why are you so reckless? Shouldn't you tell me..." The prince said calmly: "There are rumors everywhere. Even Qi Fujin and Jiu Fujin were mentioned. There are beautiful girls in the family. They are asking around like a fly. Since the root cause is Yuqing Palace, it is natural to solve it from Yuqing Palace..." The people who were jealous were not only looking at Prince Zhi's successor position, but also thinking about the Ninth Prince's Mansion. The successor to Fujin position.
After all, it is difficult for a woman to undergo childbirth. Half her life is lost after giving birth to one child. It is not surprising that she loses her life after giving birth to three children. Especially after the confinement period, Jiu Fujin still stayed behind closed doors, which made people even more speculative.
As for the Qibele Mansion, some people suspected that they were going to visit Fujin, and some nobles and concubines were asking about it.
Yuqing Palace is no exception and has become a hot spot. The princess is so disgusting. At this moment, she lowered her eyes to hide the contempt in them.
The prince said unhappily: "Just think of it as giving me a favor to Khan Ama." The princess looked up at the prince and said, "Isn't it my duty to control the women of the East Palace?" The prince: "..." The truth is That's the truth, but I always feel that he is a step too slow. The princess seems to be
"Retreat to advance." The Crown Princess continued: "Since it was my dereliction of duty, I should have apologized long ago." The Prince glanced at her and said, "What was written on the fold?" The Crown Princess looked at the Prince and said, "I apologize for not restraining Mrs. Li. Rumors spread all over the sky, and I asked the imperial doctor to take care of my pulse again. Since I am sick and cannot give birth to a grandson, I asked the emperor to choose more beautiful girls from the Eight Banners to fill the East Palace..." The prince looked uncomfortable and moved his eyes away. He said: "It is common for childbirth to hurt the body. It only takes three or five years to raise her. There is nothing absolute..." After hearing this, the Crown Princess's expression did not change, but she clenched her fists in her sleeves.
Li... The prince still has no intention of exposing Li's evil deeds, and the princess has no intention of bringing the matter to the table.
In that case, she would look too incompetent and pitiful. She looked at the account book of Xue Fang Palace and said, "I was about to send someone to ask you to come over. This is the account book of Xue Fang Palace. The objects given out by Li on it look familiar. Many of them have the names of the eldest brother and the second brother. The property belonging to the family, some of which are registered in the palace, it is not easy for this to be leaked outside..." The prince was stunned after hearing this, then took the account book and read a few pages.
He had known for a long time that Li Gege treated his mother's family well, but he didn't take it seriously. He just thought it was just a couple and didn't take it to heart.
Unexpectedly, in addition to directly sending people out of the palace, she also privately rewarded the Li family so many times.
He was extremely annoyed, but he still hesitated when he thought of Hong Xi. The biological mother is no longer alive, so the mother-in-law also needs to be held accountable?
Then he remembered his previous plan to choose another adoptive mother for Hong Xi. If this is the case, it would be better if the Li family dealt with it clearly.
He said with displeasure, "That's unreasonable! There's no need to hide it, just call it theft and tell the Criminal Division to recover it according to the account book!" The princess looked at the prince, but she didn't expect him to be so cruel.
If the crime of stealing property from the East Palace is confirmed, the Li family will end up having their family records confiscated. The prince looked at the princess and said, "Huh?" The prince lowered his eyes and said, "Follow my instructions..." The prince felt awkward looking at the princess's appearance, so he frowned and went out.
The nanny was standing by, worried and said: "Then... after all, they are the eldest brother and the second brother's maternal family. The two elder brothers are already older, so don't hold a grudge against the empress because of this..." the princess said. : "Have someone send a message to the Shenxing Department. The Eight Banners Showgirls are going to be admitted to the East Palace, and there will be many grandsons by then." With the prince's temperament, he was not someone who had the patience to teach his son, and he was always proud of his status as a legitimate son. Now that I have a good family background, my elder brother won't care too much about Li's two sons.
After being husband and wife for several years, the Crown Princess also saw that the Prince's character was really cold and cold, and he was different from everyone else.
The emperor personally educated the prince in his early years and repeatedly improved the prince's treatment. Whenever tributes from outside governors entered the palace, Yuqing Palace picked them first.
But what about the prince? Instead, he listened to the instigation of the Hesheli family and felt that the emperor valued him because he felt guilty about the Queen.
It was also said that in the early years of the emperor's life, he wandered around the harem and had many domestic pets, so the queen was depressed and died of hemorrhage after giving birth.
There are also the princes and daughters born that year as evidence. In three months' time, in addition to the prince, three more princes and daughters were born in the harem.
The emperor's mention of the deep love between the couple after the Yuan Dynasty was all false. In fact, they had a favorite, otherwise they would not have added two more elder brothers the following year.
These words were accidentally revealed by the prince to the princess after the wedding. The Crown Princess understood the Crown Prince's intention, she just felt that the husband and wife were one and could share the honor and disgrace.
It’s just that the princess thinks that the prince thinks too much. Isn’t it normal for parents in this world to treat their children well?
In particular, people have a pity for the weak, and the emperor himself has a weak relationship with his parents, so it is easier for him to pity the lonely prince.
There is no reason for this or that... The emperor is the emperor, and there is no need to please or make up for anything.
If it is true, as the Hesheli family said, that the emperor feels more guilty than loving towards the prince, then he may not even want to see him, let alone interfere with his daily life.
The Hesheli family had a plan. For the sake of the Hesheli family's future, they got close to each other even though they were not close, and the prince actually believed it.
As a result, the emperor's father has not been close to him all these years, let alone the prince's elder brother. Not believing in the emperor's sincere love, but treating the Hesheli family as family members, what is this but a fool's errand?
The Crown Princess smiled bitterly. It is true that the Emperor favors the Crown Prince, but he is also a loving father to other princes and their brothers. The Crown Prince is not friendly to his brothers. The Emperor will let such a Crown Prince succeed to the throne?
Yongqing County, Beigeyi Palace. Today, Kangxi visited the Yongding River Embankment in person and now summoned Ma Qi to come over.
I was worried that it would rain today and affect the river construction. Since it didn't rain, we could just take advantage of the drying up of the river to widen the river channel and use the soil to build the embankment.
Now that Prince Zhi had brought his clan to supervise the work again, Ma Qike urged the governor of the river to transport the Yongding River stakes from Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces to avoid delaying the fortifications.
Ma Qi responded. Kangxi thought for a while and said: "Since the year before last, how much money has the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated for the Yongding River fortifications?" Ma Qi pondered for a moment and said: "Thirty-seven years, 1.4 million taels of silver, thirty-eight years 850,000 taels, 600,000 taels this spring..." In the spring of the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi's reign, the Muddy River flooded a lot of fertile farmland, making the people miserable and in danger of flooding the capital.
After all, before that, in the seventh year of Kangxi's reign, the Hun River flooded the capital, and even a corner of the Meridian Gate collapsed. It took twenty days for the flood to recede, and the people of the capital were miserable.
In order to prevent the recurrence of the past, Kangxi ordered the governor of Zhili, Yu Chenglong, to manage the Hun River. 1.4 million taels of silver were spent, and it took three months to recruit hundreds of thousands of people to dig out 200 miles of new river channels.
At that time, Yu Chenglong asked the emperor to give the new river channel the Yongding River. However, after Kangxi thought about it, he named the entire Hun River the Yongding River and named the Yongding River God, hoping that the capital would no longer suffer from floods.
In the next two years, the Ministry of Revenue also allocated money to continue to improve the Yongding River construction.
"Two million eight hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver..." Kangxi counted this number with distress. This is only the construction cost of the Yongding River, and the bulk is still in Huanghuai.
He thought for a while and said: "Ask the Ministry of Industry to arrange for two division officials to record the project files. If the eight banners build embankments in sections, if there are any omissions within ten years, just ask the commander and deputy commander of the banner!" Ma Ma Qi bowed and agreed, but felt something was wrong in his heart.
Your Majesty has personally patrolled the embankments in the past two years. Do you know the tricks of embankment construction? This is suspicious of the River Governor's Yamen... The river workers really want too much money.
It starts with five million taels of silver each year, and in years with lots of rain, it will cost another two or three million taels. The most expensive year is 11,370,000 taels.
If according to the emperor's standards, the construction of the river embankment takes ten years, then the money allocated by the river governor every year will not be accounted for... When Ma Qi went down, Kangxi fell into deep thought.
What he was thinking about was not the matter of corruption, but the discovery of something inappropriate about the Eight Banners service. There are actually quite a few bearded men among the people who have been transferred.
What use can such a person come here? This was the Eight Banners armor that he personally ordered to draw under his nose.
Not under his nose, what are the river workers like? Kangxi thought of the stinginess of the ninth elder brother, who refused to increase the number of people serving on duty, and arranged the manpower required for each errand, with no surplus and no shifts.
Everyone's errands are fully arranged, not to mention there are also assessments. Those who do well are rewarded; those who do poorly are punished.
The more you work, the more you get, the less you work, the less you get, and the more you work, the less you get. For the same job, everyone gets a different salary.
He thought it was too stingy at the time, but now he thinks it is a solution. If according to the previous calculations, each person has a fixed amount of money per day, but the twenty-year-old young man and the fifty-year-old old man have different contributions, there will naturally be dissatisfaction.
Everything that comes and goes has become a lake. The previous method of calculating wages by day was not very appropriate, at least not very appropriate in river engineering... Capital City, Ninth Prince's Mansion.
Shu Shu wanted to stretch, so before the sun set, Brother Jiu would accompany her for a walk in the house. The couple walked to the main courtyard.
"After the Dragon Boat Festival, let's move to the garden. Who will look after the house..." Shu Shu said casually.
Brother Ninth said: "Fusong, follow Zhang Tingzhan, nothing happened anyway..." Just as he was talking, Cui Baisui came over and said: "Master, Fujin, someone from outside said his name is Cao Shun, he belongs to the master Servant, come to see the master..." After hearing this, Brother Jiu was overjoyed. He looked at Shu Shu and said, "I'm in need of someone to help me. I'm finally back..." Shu Shu thought about the journey from the capital to Jingdong, Yunnan. The distance is so long. I really admire Cao Shun’s speed. I thought it would be in May or June.
After all, the one-way distance is more than 6,000 miles, and there are many mountain roads in the middle... Thank you very much, leader. I see big rewards in the background every day, thank you.
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