The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 58 Are there real fathers and sons in the heavenly family?
Yinyu smiled slightly and said, "That's great. I was just worried that I couldn't bring it back smoothly. So I'll have to trouble you!"

After saying this, Yinyou walked out of the palace without looking back.

Wu Shi stared at Yin Yu's back, blinked, and suddenly whispered to his men, "The road is not safe, so be careful. Send a few people to help Master Fifteen to send the silver back to the new house."

"Yes." The dozen or so guards arranged by Wu Shi in advance responded in unison.

After Yinyou got into his carriage, he poured half a cup of tea himself and a mysterious smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

Alas, the father and son were suspicious of each other to the point of investigating the source of the silver. You can imagine that their relationship was extremely tense!

However, Yinyou didn't need to worry about anything.

Making him the Crown Princess' brother-in-law was something Kangxi did on purpose. What does it have to do with him?

In the Qing Dynasty during those years, official silver and private silver were clearly distinguished.

All official silver has marks specially cast by craftsmen, such as: the Kuping silver of the Ministry of Revenue, the Caoping silver of the Grain Duty Office, etc.

Kuping is an important standard used by the government to collect taxes and pay out silver. The Kuping of the imperial court is different from that of other places. Among them, Guangdong has the largest Kuping and Ningbo has the smallest Kuping.

The silver that the prince rewarded Yinyou could only be the silver from the Imperial Household Department and could not come from any other source.

If there is Kuping silver from somewhere else, or even privately minted silver, hehe, this means that the prince has a way to make money privately.

However, things are far from that simple.

As the saying goes, if a man hurts a tiger, the tiger will eat his human heart.

The prince could also use this incident to find out to what extent Kangxi was on guard against him.
Now, the answer has been revealed. Kangxi even wanted to find out the origin of the money coming out of the Eastern Palace. It was obvious that he was keeping a closer eye on it than on thieves.

During the attack and defense between Kangxi and the prince, Yinyu realized a truth: Are there true father and son in the royal family?
Yinyou came to the Eastern Palace in person to deliver the invitation, which was a sign of respect for the supreme imperial power.

For the rest of the brothers, Yinyu could just send someone to deliver the invitations.

However, Yinyou had to show up in person at both his father-in-law Nomuzi's place and the Crown Princess's family's home.

Regardless of public or private reasons, Yinyu must visit the Crown Princess's family first.

Yinyou wrote the visiting card himself and called Yuzhu to deliver it to the Shi family.

In the Qing Dynasty, anyone with a bit of status would not visit someone without first saying hello.

A night owl's sudden visit to someone's house is a serious disrespect and will definitely be ridiculed.

After Yuzhu rode to Shi's house, he came back drunk only when it was almost dark.

"My lord, our Fu Jin's eldest brother, who is also your eldest brother-in-law, said that the elders in the family are serving in other places. Three days from now in the morning, he will lead his younger brothers to wait for you in front of the gate." Yuzhu burped, but did not delay in making his words clear.

Yinyou nodded. The Crown Princess's uncle, Shi Wenzhuo, is currently the fourth-rank governor of Taomin Road in Gansu Province and has never been in Beijing.

The Crown Princess had three younger brothers, all of whom were older than Yinyu's first wife, Guaerjia.

This means that Yinyou has three legitimate brothers-in-law.

Among them, the eldest brother-in-law, Fu Dali, is currently serving as the second-class imperial guard. The second brother-in-law, Qingde, is idle at home, carrying a bird cage, enjoying the bright lights and wine, and living a life of drunkenness and debauchery. The third brother-in-law, Guanyinbao, is studying in the Eight Banners Official School.

Objectively speaking, because there were too few bannermen, the Qing court attached great importance to their education.

In the first year of Shunzhi, when the Qing army entered the country, Dorgon established the Eight Banners Official School in the Imperial College. There were eight schools in total, one for each banner. "Master, I have been anxious to leave, but Fu Dali insisted on staying, so there was nothing I could do." Yuzhu hurriedly explained the reason for his late return.

According to etiquette, it would be extremely disrespectful if Fudali did not keep the guests.

No matter what, Yinyou is the biological son of the current emperor, and the supreme imperial power must not be violated.

"Well, in three days, you will lead the way to the Shi family."

Since the two parties have already made an appointment, it is a foregone conclusion that Yinyou will visit the Shi family in person.

The next morning, Li Ding took Yinyou's handwritten visiting card to meet the Fourth Lady's uncle, Nomuzhi.

The reality of the power comparison determined that only when the Crown Princess's family set a date, Yinyou would dare to agree with Nomuqi on the day to visit.

The order of priority must not be wrong.

If the two families' meetings were on the same day, it would only make a fool of itself. The whip in the prince's hand is definitely not a vegetarian.

Yinyou's father-in-law, Nomuzhi, was just a bondservant, and was insignificant.

However, Nomuzi is also the fourth lady's uncle, which deserves great attention.

According to Yinyu's prior instructions, when Li Ding saw Nuo Muqi, he took the initiative to hide his head and said respectfully: "I am Li Ding, and I wish you the best of Master Nuo."

Nuo Muqi did not shout at the first time, but stroked his beard and asked Li Ding with a slightly smug smile: "Are you Li Lai Chong's eldest son?"

Li Ding was stunned for a moment and looked at Nomuzi in disbelief.

His father, Li Xu, was also known by the courtesy name Xudong and Lai Chong. However, even his relatives did not know much about this courtesy name Lai Chong.

"Haha, don't be suspicious. I just said it casually. But please go back and tell Brother Lai Chongxian that the debt of favor he owed me back then has been cleared for the sake of Master Fifteen." Nomuqi's words were vague and Li Ding was confused.

"Excuse me..." How could Li Ding dare to pass on the message to Li Xu? Just when he was about to ask in detail, Nomuqi waved his hand to stop him.

"Big brother Li, the affairs of our elders have nothing to do with you youngsters." Nomuqi changed the subject and said, "You need to tell us about Master Fifteen's preferences one by one, so as to avoid any mistakes and make everyone embarrassed."

Li Ding blinked but said nothing.

Nomuzi couldn't help but laugh and cursed: "Get up, you kid, are you still holding a grudge?"

Li Ding stood up straight and said with a smile: "To be honest with you, Master Nuo, our master loves Tianjin's seafood the most!"

To be honest, following Yinyou's side, what hasn't Li Ding experienced?

Those black-hearted bastards in the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the audacity to embezzle all the supplies of the princesses. However, they would not dare to embezzle the princes' allowances even if they had eight hundred guts.

The seafood in Tianjin is the closest to Beijing.

After the seafood is caught and loaded onto the ship, it is transported by speedboat directly to the canal dock outside Chongwenmen.

However, the price of seafood delivered on the same day is sky-high, more than ten times higher?
"Big lad of the Li family, you might as well just empty out my family's silver vault!" Nomuzi sneered, "If you really piss me off, I'll go borrow some money from my eldest niece."

Who else could be Nomuzi's eldest niece other than the Fourth Lady?

(End of this chapter)