The struggle of the eight blessings of rebirth

Chapter 99
Minzhi is a little innocent: "I'm sorry, I don't know... Huang Ama banned preaching, so it has nothing to do with painters..." Yinhu stared: "He came from the Qing Dynasty last year, and he said it was sent by His Majesty the Pope. When I first came here, I asked Huang Ama to allow him to preach, but Huang Ama flatly refused." Minzhi: "Oh..." With a cry, poor Castiglione spent his whole life in a small room, painting the subjects designated by Kangxi , there is no self-own, only nostalgia.From a sunny boy to an old man, even as a top painter, he didn't even leave a single self-portrait.

Minzhi lamented Castiglione's fate at home, but Kangxi in the palace was troubled by the urgent disaster in the south of the Yangtze River. Anyone who slept until midnight was dug up by the eunuch would not be in a good mood.And in the sleepy eyes, I was told that the embankment in Suyang County was broken for thousands of miles, and the eyes were full of floating corpses. Kangxi was completely irritable when he saw that the plague was about to spread. This year, the locust disaster in Shandong was just solved. This year, I will come to Jiangnan for floods. Don't let me stop, and the incident is so serious that Dengwenlou is beating drums, and I can't even delay a six-part seminar. Kangxi can't sleep, Kangxi scratches his head, and Kangxi loses his hair.

The next day, the Military Aircraft Department had an emergency meeting to discuss disaster relief matters. However, the account book presented by the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs made Kangxi frown: there was no money, and there was only 5 taels of silver on the account, and only 5 taels of silver were left in the entire Qing treasury. Ten thousand taels of silver.Kangxi's eyes couldn't help sweeping up the face of Hubu Manhan Shangshu.Those two were also very hard.Your Majesty, you are too good at spending money, and you are too kind. The summer resort building complex that is being built now is a bottomless pit, and you won't feel it is a luxury to throw any amount of money into it.Moreover, the annual maintenance fee of the Changchun Garden, the expenses of various royal banquets, and the fried eggs eaten by the emperor cost four renminbi a piece.
Moreover, Kangxi was a very generous emperor. Every time he toured the south or the north, there must be some places that could catch his eyes. With a wave of his hand, a certain place was exempted from tax for two years. Just like the infatuated one among male and female friends, the last one to know the cruel truth, asked the sky speechlessly.You can't question Kangxi's benevolent government, and you can't kill those corrupt officials who are fat and oily.Kangxi was the first monarch to put forward the concept of a harmonious society. He advocated not to alert the public if there were no major issues, and to solve them in private. While trying to soften the contradictions, he left the knots of the contradictions in the complex relationship network of lower-level officials. It also gave the major parties in the later stage of seizing the throne the soil to breed allies.

Of course, everything is still in the making, and the biggest problem facing Kangxi at this time is that he originally planned to tour the south this year, but in the end, he saw such a small amount of money on the books after the severe floods in the south of the Yangtze River. All gone.Or solve the problem quickly.But what if there is no money?Seeing Comrade Hubu's bitter face, Kangxi resented, and when he turned his face, he remembered Yinhu Yinhu and Yin'e who helped him solve the locust crisis at the critical moment last year. in mind.

On the fifth day after the Dengwenlou drumming incident, Kangxi decreed that a three-member imperial envoy team composed of Yinhu Yinzhen and Yinxiang went to the disaster area to deal with the aftermath.On the other hand, I took my elder brother Sanbeile 45 [-] and a bunch of radish heads to Nanjing to talk to Mr. Cao to reminisce about the old days. In this way, my son went to work hard, and my father went to travel, without delaying both sides.Poor Mr. Cao once again took on foreign debts to entertain Kangxi, and the Cao family's pit was dug bigger and bigger.

When Minzhi knew that Yinhu was going to Jiangnan, her first reaction was: Is the plot of "Li Wei as an Official" about to start?Yinzhen carrying Yinxiang is equivalent to carrying a golden finger. What if the two join forces to plot against Yinhu?But think again, who is Yinhu, the smiling fox, who is full of scheming in the legend, can fight Yinzhen to the top, no matter how much Kangxi suppresses him, no matter how much he is called cheap, he is still that kind of demeanor but gentle However, Prince Lian, who is as jade-like, what do I worry about him?Minzhi shook her head, what happened to herself?It's just the next trip to Jiangnan. Jiangnan still has the stronghold of the Eight Master Party scholars, so what are you afraid of?Stop flipping pancakes and go to bed!

Yinhu didn't know that Minzhi was worried about him at all, and he was full of anticipation for this trip to Jiangnan. This was the first time he took on a seemingly important job, and it was the Jiangnan officialdom that he had always wanted to intervene. , although he is not very satisfied with the people in the same company, but he is not Minzhi after all, and the resentment towards Yinzhen is not so deep, it is just that everyone has different positions and political opinions. Now he doesn't know at all, the relationship between them is a life-and-death knot relation.Yinhu is completely speechless about the fact that the old man gave 2 taels of silver to settle the flood in the south of the Yangtze River. It seems that this trip to the south of the Yangtze River is just a job of inspecting, patting his ass and leaving. not enough seams...

Thinking of this, the corner of Yinhu's mouth twitched: Fourth brother has been in the household department for so long, and he is used to seeing the shriveled money bags in the household department. You see, his family eats vegetarian food and drinks soup, except for Buddhists. , must also be stimulated by not seeing big money.The last drought in Shandong, if I hadn’t dug up a corrupt official from Shanxi for Huang Ama, where would the household department get money to build a porridge shed, and if I hadn’t diverted the attention of the victims at critical times, your household department would have done well?Hmph, the 2 taels of silver this time is a hot potato, fourth brother, you should take care of this more, those who are able should work harder, brother, I will just take care of watching the theater.

Slowly sipping tea, slowly digesting the information from all parties, Yinhu felt more and more that this errand was really a good thing for him, just as he was thinking, the outside reported that Yinzhen Yinxiang came to the door together.Yinhu pursed his lips, came out of the study, and walked out slowly. When he arrived at the patio, he saw Yinzhen and Yinxiang standing by the door, and walked up to him with a few steps: "Fourth brother, thirteenth brother, how come you come?" It just so happened that I was thinking about sending someone to the fourth brother's house to deliver a letter..."

Yinxiang took a step forward: "Brother Ann, this is the first time I've come to your place..." Yinhu smiled and said, "No, ever since you went to Fengtai, Yin'er has been yelling that no one will accompany him to drink wine. ..." Yinxiang smirked.Yinzhen coughed heavily on the side: "Eighth brother, let's sum up the errands given by Huang Ama first..." Yinhu's eyes flashed: "What the fourth brother said is true, then let's talk in the study." So, a group of people entered Yinhu's study.A servant had already gone to the main house to inform Minzhi, but she just said lightly that she should serve her as she should, don't send her away, and continue to babble with her son.Recently, she began to teach her son to look at pictures and speak, such as fruits, animals, daily necessities, etc. Once, she accidentally drew a pineapple, and the magpie saw it, and kept asking what it was, so she had to say She broke the drawing and made the honeydew melon out of shape.

Yinhu led the two of them into the study room, the first thing Yinxiang saw was the partition between the inner study room and the outer study room, a seven-story multi-treasure shelf, on which were placed small shelves, and each shelf was stuck with a A snuff bottle, seen from a distance, is brightly colored and brightly colored. Yinxiang is embarrassed. The third brother's house collects ancient jade, and the fourth brother's house collects inkstones. When I arrive at the mynah's house, they actually collect snuff bottles?This thing is exquisite and beautiful, but it is not worth the money. How does he know that this thing will become a rare treasure in the modern times hundreds of years later?The multi-treasure stand was designed by Minzhi. She originally wanted to display crystal jade and root carvings, but last time she was hit hard by the fact that sapphire was worthless.After discovering that Yinhu had many snuff bottles with different interiors, he decided to ask the craftsmen to find a way to display them. After all, these are also handicrafts.

When Yinhu came back from a business trip and found that his study room had such a scenic spot, he finally understood his unique values ​​in Fujin, and no one let anyone withdraw it. Need to take it off one by one to wipe and put it back.Now when Yinzhen Yinxiang sees Yinhu displaying his "collection" with such fanfare, he looks at him with strange eyes. After all, snuff bottles are just like the high-end lighters pursued by modern men. Tibetan", it is a bit incongruous to put it on display in the study.

Yinxiang looked at Yinhu suspiciously: "Brother, so you are so good, I have a lot of new ones in the house that have never been used, so I will send them to you tomorrow, and they will look good..." Yinhu waved his hand: "These are all made by your sister-in-law, she likes these strange things..." Yinxiang was even more embarrassing: "Sister-in-law..." If Minzhi was here, she would definitely be very disdainful: Cut, I don’t understand Artists, the inner painting of snuff bottles is definitely a handicraft.She asked the old artists of Liulichang to make it, and put it on the shelf of modern times, the market value is definitely millions of dollars!It's a pity that she has always forgotten that she is now in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, not the modern age.

Yinzhen didn't care to study the decoration of Yinhu's house, so he directly bypassed the multi-treasure shelf and entered the inner room, Yinhu hurriedly followed in, the three of them sat down in front of the desk, and one of his servants brought tea.Yinzhen took a symbolic sip, and went straight to the point: "What does the eighth brother think of this errand?" Yinhu spread his hands together: "It looks very tricky..." Yinzhen frowned: "The Ministry of household affairs have been in trouble for the past two years." , stretched..." Yinhu hurriedly took over the conversation: "The fourth brother has been in the household department for a long time, and I will leave the abacus to the fourth brother. The younger brother doesn't understand..." Yinzhen was stunned: "This remark What's the explanation?" Yinxiang leaned forward and said, "Suyang County and its surrounding areas are in such a big mess, Huang Ama only paid [-] silver, which means we should do disaster relief or build embankments, neither of which is reliable!"

Yinzhen stared, Yinxiang immediately silenced, but his face was clearly dissatisfied with Kangxi's arrangement.

(End of this chapter)