Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 773 The skinny camel is bigger than a horse
"Exactly, Cao Ben is the brother-in-law of Pingjun King Naersu~"

"Hehe, good, what a Cao family!"

The Cao family in Jinling?

Naersu is a descendant of the imperial family, a descendant of Aixinjueluo with Zhengmiaohong roots, and the daughter of Cao Yin, the envoy of the first generation Fujin.

In the 40th year of Kangxi, he attacked the king of Pingjun.

In the first year of Yongzheng, in charge of Shangsi courtyard, a prince with no real power actually connived at the rampage of his wife and family. The good days of Prince Pingjun may be coming to an end.

According to the system of the Qing Dynasty, after the birth of princes and princesses, wet nurses were selected from among the three banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, namely, the three banners of the Inlaid Yellow, Zhenghuang, and Zhengbai.

Cao Xi's wife, Sun, was chosen as the wet nurse of Lord Kangxi.Since then, the relationship between the Cao family and the emperor has become closer.
Cao Yin, the son of Cao Xi, entered the palace at the age of 16 and served as the guardian of Emperor Kangxi's Luan.He was appreciated by Lord Kangxi.

In the 29th year of Kangxi, he was appointed as Suzhou weaving, and moved to Jiangning weaving three years later.

Lord Kangxi made six tours to the south, four of which lived in Cao Yin's house.When Cao Yin was critically ill, Emperor Kangxi gave imperial medicine and sent people to Jinling from the capital to Jinling. Unfortunately, before the medicine arrived, Cao Yin had already died of illness.

Cao Yin's family was an imperial merchant who supplied silk fabrics for the court and purchased various imperial items. Cao Yin also served as a coat retainer and received money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a banker.

However, the Cao family was inevitably involved in the struggle for the crown prince in the late Kangxi Dynasty. The Cao family recommended the eighth elder brother Yinhu as the prince many times, which angered the fourth master at that time.

So after the fourth master came to the throne, he immediately cleaned up the Cao family, and the once prosperous Cao family completely collapsed.

Cao Yin has two daughters, both of whom are princesses.The eldest daughter married Narsu, the king of Pingjun, as his concubine, and the second daughter married the Mongolian prince as his concubine.

After Cao Yin's death, in order to protect the Cao family's Jiangnan family property from being damaged by relocation, Emperor Kangxi specially appointed Cao Yong, the son of Cao Yin, to succeed Jiangning weaving.

Two years later, Cao Yong died of illness, and Lord Kangxi personally presided over the adoption of Cao Yin's fourth nephew, Cao Fu, and took over the post of Jiangning weaving.

At the same time, Lord Kangxi asked Cao Yin's brother-in-law Suzhou Weaving Li Xu to make up for Cao Yin's shortfall.

In the 48th year of Kangxi, the governor of Liangjiang, Li Canzuo, Cao Yin and Li Xu owed 300 million taels of public silver, and asked for his public impeachment.

Lord Kangxi did not approve.Let this matter go.

In the 54th year of Kangxi, it was found that Cao Yin was short of 37 taels of silver in the weaving treasury during his lifetime.Lord Kangxi had to make arrangements again.Let Li Xu make up for it.

It was not until the 56th year of Kangxi that the account was finally made up.

Lord Kangxi took care of the Cao family because of the relationship between Cao Xi and Cao Yin. In Cao Fu's generation, he became alienated and indifferent.

In the 61st year of Kangxi, because Li Xu and Cao Fu defaulted on the silver taels for selling ginseng, the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked Kangxi Lord to strictly order Li Xu and Cao Fu to pay off the outstanding silver taels before the end of the year, otherwise they would be severely punished. Approved.

Obviously, this is completely different from Kangxi's previous attitude towards Cao Yin.

After the fourth master came to the throne, he issued decrees one after another, and began to check money and food with great fanfare throughout the country to make up for the shortfall.

In the first year of Yongzheng alone, dozens of officials at all levels were dismissed from their posts and ransacked their homes. Li Xu, a Suzhou weaving man who was a relative of the Cao family and shared weal and woe, was also dismissed and ransacked his home because of a deficit.

But the fourth master did not punish the Cao family and Li Xu together, but allowed him to repay the shortfall in three years.

Cao Fu's own deficit has not yet been made up, and it has increased the deficit left by Cao Yin, and now the Cao family is still making up for it.

　see you tomorrow!

　　
　
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