Secrets of Yuqing Palace

Kangxi said expressionlessly, "Since Yinzhen and Yin'er are taking over this matter, Yinsi does not need to interfere any further."

He looked at Yinzhen and Yin'er with gentle eyes.

"Don't worry and do this boldly. I'm here to support you."

"I want to see, is it really that difficult to recover the debt? Do you have the guts to go against the emperor's will?"

After saying this, Kangxi looked coldly at the court officials and relatives below and issued an edict.

"From this day forward, I appoint Prince Yong, Yinzhen, and Ninth Prince Yin'er as ministers of debt repayment to the national treasury. From the princes and nobles to the civil and military officials, all borrowers must repay within ten days. Anyone who refuses to repay will be apprehended and prosecuted by the Infantry Commander's Office. No leniency will be shown!"

Yinreng lowered his head and smiled slightly.

【It’s done! 】

Yinreng was not worried about Yinzhen and Yin'er collecting the debts.

He had already planned this as early as when Yinzhen was on tour in Mongolia and reported the disaster urgently.

The idea of ​​having Yinzhen and Yin'er collect the outstanding silver was originally to have another way out if the emperor did not allow him, the crown prince, to handle the matter.

Yinzhen knew how to collect the debt.

As long as he and Yinzhen played the good guy and the bad guy respectively, they would classify the situations of the officials who borrowed money, and then decide whose debts to collect and how to pay them according to the specific situations.

There is no need to recover all the money. It is only necessary to catch those who take advantage of the situation and use the borrowed money to enrich themselves.

This group of people are the ones who owe the most money!

Another group of people borrowed money because their families were really in financial difficulties, so the amount they borrowed was not much.

Moreover, the infantry commander Tohaqi was his man, and with Tohaqi's cooperation with Yinzhen and Yin'er, they would get twice the result with half the effort.

Yinzhen and Yin'er were working hard to collect the debts.

Originally, Yinzhen was still stubborn and unwilling to return the silver he owed.

Yinreng deliberately said a few contemptuous words to Yinzhi in front of him. How could Yinzhi tolerate the contempt and disdain from his old rival?

There was no need for Yinzhen and Yin'er to come to his house to collect the debt. He just walked into the Ministry of Revenue with a cart full of silver.

A face full of arrogance and complacency.

Yin'er immediately stepped forward and flattered Yinzhi. He was indeed worthy of being the leader of all the brothers. He was generous in everything he did. No wonder Khan Ama loved his eldest brother the most.

Yinzhen was praised so much that he didn't know what day it was.

Even the tough guy Yinzhen paid the silver he owed, so it is even more impossible for the other brothers to default on their payments.

As for the clan ministers, those from the prince's line took the lead in returning.

Coupled with Yinzhen's ruthless and cold debt collection and Yin'er's smiling face, he quickly calculated the monthly household expenses of these ministers and relatives.

The extravagance of the men in the family who lived a life of debauchery and the women in the backyard made the ministers and relatives tremble with fear as they listened.

He treated them like ancestors, not only providing them with good food and drink, but also immediately collecting money, not daring to delay at all, for fear that all his secrets would be exposed by the cunning Ninth Master.

They did not force the ministers to pay back the money they really did not have.

Following Wanyu's suggestion, I got an interest-free installment plan.

In short, this debt collection activity can be said to be a win-win for everyone, except for those who are really greedy for money.

In the end, Yinzhen and Yin'er collected a total of 13 million taels of silver, which made the Minister of Revenue Zhang Yushu so happy that he smiled every day.

Especially when he looked at Yinzhen, his eyes lit up and he almost treated him as the God of Wealth.

Kangxi was also very satisfied with the performance of his two sons.

He directly kept Yinzhen in the Ministry of Revenue, took over Yinsi's previous work, and was responsible for the Ministry of Revenue.

Yinsi was sent to the Imperial Household Department by him and temporarily left the court. Moreover, the Imperial Household Department now had four ministers in charge.

It is now obvious that Yinsi has been temporarily disliked by the emperor, and the Imperial Household Department is a place where people flatter the powerful and bully the weak. He has just entered the Imperial Household Department and has little say at all. He is even suppressed by the other four ministers in charge.

Kangxi was very happy and gave a lot of rewards to Yinzhen and Yin'er. He also gave two abandoned gardens left over from the Ming Dynasty near Changchun Garden to his two sons to live in, and personally named and inscribed plaques on them.

The Yuanmingyuan was given to Yinzhen, and the Qingboyuan was given to Yin'er.

Kangxi put a lot of thought into choosing these two names.

After Yinzhen's first child died, he was taken to the Huguo Temple by the prince and stayed there for a few days. Like the prince, he became fascinated by Buddhism.

He also has the nickname "Yuanming Jushi".

Yuanming is a Buddhist term, which roughly means "A gentleman should act like the perfect and unobstructed light of Buddha."

Kangxi was satisfied with his son and hoped that he could really achieve Yuanming, so he named his garden "Yuanmingyuan".

As for Yin'er's Qingbo Garden, it was because this son loved luxurious things too much.

Kangxi was actually very confused.

He was born into a royal family, his mother was favored, and his mother's family was not an ordinary poor bannerman family. Why did the ninth son, who had never lacked gold, silver, jade and precious stones, love yellow and white things so much?

And he is really talented in business!

Over the years, the total amount of silver that Lao Jiu sent into his private treasury every year has reached hundreds of thousands of taels.

It is conceivable that Yin'er's own family wealth was even richer!

Therefore, he hoped that his son would be more elegant and indifferent, and not be too obsessed with gold and silver and other vulgar things and let people in the world think that the Ninth Prince was a money-grubber.

That’s why Yin’er’s garden was named “Qingbo Garden”.

The two people who got the garden were also very happy.

Although one of them was given the title of "Cold-Faced Prince" and the other was given the title of "Smiling Tiger", they did not care at all and immediately ordered their subordinates to repair the newly acquired garden.

In the future, when Khan Ama goes to Changchun Garden to escape the summer heat, they will no longer have to crowd into the West Garden and can live in their own garden.

Seeing that Khan Ama rewarded the fourth and ninth sons in such a way, Yinzhen glared at the eighth son who was incompetent with dissatisfaction.

Then he stood up and protested to his father.

He felt that he also made a contribution to the smooth collection of debts by the fourth and ninth brothers.

If he had not taken the initiative to pay all the silver owed, and the people below had not followed suit, how could they have received the silver so easily.

Besides, he is the eldest brother. His two younger brothers all have gardens, so why doesn’t he have one?

He now has many children, and living in the West Residence in West Garden is completely unable to accommodate them.

Kangxi was so angry at his foolish and shameless eldest son.

The other princes also looked at the Khan Ama above them with burning eyes.

They also crave the garden.

Every time they squeezed into the West Garden, they could not bring their wives, concubines, and children with them.

Yinreng saw that Kangxi looked like he had a headache.

So he stood up and suggested: "Khan Ama, what the eldest brother said makes some sense."

"Do you think we should give the garden to other brothers as well, so that they can bring their wives and children to escape the summer heat?"

"However, my fourth and ninth brothers have been rewarded for their meritorious service."

"If the other brothers also had gardens for free, it would be a bit unfair to my fourth and ninth brothers."

Kangxi waved his hand, indicating that he needed to think about the matter.

After the grand court meeting ended the next day, Prince Yong Yinzhen went to the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor.