The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

Yinzhen immediately ordered someone to call Yinzhen, this kid is rebellious, if you don't deal with him now, when time passes, he will not take it seriously.

But after a while, Yinzhen was brought here by the little eunuch, his face was full of joy and triumph, and he didn't know what good things happened to him.Seeing that Yinzhen and Yinzuo's faces were not very good-looking, the smiles on their faces were put away, and he said honestly, "fourth brother, sixth brother."

Yinzhen said with a sullen face, "You did Shi Shilun's matter?"

Yinzhen lowered his head and said, "What's wrong?"

Yinzhen slapped the table and shouted: "You dare to tease me like this, a court official, what do you think is wrong?"

Yinzhen played with a green finger indifferently, and said, "Why don't you just treat him to a few cups of tea? Are you two trying to teach me a lesson like three trials?"

Yinzhen said coldly: "Do you know that these few cups of tea may cause him to lose his dignity in front of the imperial court? If he is lucky, he will lose his official position and resign. If he is unlucky, his head will fall off!"

Yinzhen raised his head and said, "What does that have to do with me? He can stop drinking if he doesn't want to drink?"

Yinzuo looked at Yinzhen: "Others lost their careers and even their lives because of you, and the common people lost a good official because of you, so you don't care at all?"

Yinzhen was terrified by him, and said with a sneer, "It's just a joke! If he really loses his dignity in front of the imperial court, I will naturally intercede with him, won't I?"

"Would you tell Huang Ama that you forced her to drink tea?"

"Forehead……"

Yinzuo rubbed his temples, he really didn't know how to teach a prince elder brother to learn to respect other people's life and life, or, in fact, he is the one who is out of date.

"Yinzhen, let me tell you," Yinzhen said coldly, "whether you're pretending or sincerely reforming, you'd better hide your thoughts tightly, otherwise if Huang Ama finds out, you For the rest of your life, you can only be a bald elder brother! Don't expect me and your sixth brother to take care of you for the rest of your life!"

Only then did Yinzhen realize that he was afraid, and curled his lips and said, "Got it!"

I went away resentfully.

Yinzhen patted Yinzuo on the shoulder, and said: "Yinzhen is still young, and when he gets older, he will know how powerful he is."

Yinzuo hummed, took the pieces away with a smile, and invited Yinzhen to start another game.

Shengjia stopped in Yangzhou for a few days, inspecting river embankments and lakes. According to the water level, it was found that the embankments in Qingshuitan, Gaoyou and other places were damaged.

A few days later, Shengjia went to Suzhou to guide the water control plan in detail, and then went to Hangzhou to review the Hangzhou garrison, etc., and then returned to Suzhou from Hangzhou.

I have been busy these days, and now it is finally over, and I can finally have a few days of entertainment.Play during the day, hold banquets and listen to plays at night.

It's okay to play, but Yin Zuo is not interested in drinking and listening to the opera when he is sitting tight. Every time he shows up and drinks a few cups, he slips away.

That day, he was looking for a clean place to play chess with Yinzhen, and he was only halfway through the game when suddenly the little eunuch beside Kangxi ran over quickly and said: "Yong Jun Wang, He Jun Wang, Long Live Lord summoned."

The two looked at each other, got up and followed the little eunuch, Yin Zuo asked: "Huang Ama suddenly summoned, but what's the matter?"

The little eunuch said: "Just now, Lord Long Live asked about the sentiments of the people, and the prefect of Suzhou mentioned that a spinning wheel shop was smashed, so Lord Long Live sent someone to invite the two princes."

There is only one possibility for such a trivial matter as smashing a shop to go to them-they opened the spinning wheel shop that was smashed.

Are you right?Although the shop didn't realize that it had the imperial court's signboard, it had informed the magistrates, who dared to smash their shop after eating a bear's heart and leopard?

And just such an idea, and it was brought up in front of Kangxi, was it intentional or unintentional?

Yinzhen asked, "Did the spinning wheel shop in Suzhou alone be smashed up, or did several places in the south of the Yangtze River get smashed together?"

"This slave doesn't know."

Yinzuo said: "Since it was smashed, there is always a saying, why did it smash?"

"It is said that the livelihood of the people has been cut off, and the crowd is furious..."

Yin Zuo shook his head and laughed, as if pointing something: "The crowd is so angry, fourth brother."

He sighed again: "Does this make people live a few days of peace?"

"If they don't make a fuss now, they will only be clean for the rest of their lives." Yinzhen said: "Just wait, the excitement is yet to come."

When Yinzuo Yinzhen went back, the banquet was over, and only three or five people were left chatting with Kangxi, and when they saw the two coming in, they hurriedly got up and saluted.

The two invited Ann and sat down under Kangxi. Yin Zuo smiled and said, "Huang Ama, I heard that someone smashed up my son's shop? Ah, my son has grown up so much, I haven't heard of such a strange thing." My son! It’s a pity that I didn’t see it with my own eyes!”

He said again: "Fourth brother, remember to tell them not to clean up, and I will go to pay my respects to the ruins later."

Kangxi said with a straight face: "Don't you ask, why did they smash your shop?"

Yinzuo smiled and said: "When it comes to business, Huang Ama, you don't understand. There is no forced buying and selling in business. What my son sells is not food, so there will be no lawsuits about eating dead people, and he can return it at any time. There is no fraud, so ordinary people will not make trouble. If there are people making trouble in this situation, there are only two possibilities. It’s a lot of money, and it’s easy to spend. The other is that other merchants think you’ve robbed your business or broken the rules—a joke, when will it be their turn to decide things like rules?”

Turning to those officials, he said, "Which of you are the local officials in Suzhou? How many of these unscrupulous people have been arrested and sentenced?"

His words were obviously intentional, the prefect of Suzhou had been playing with them for some days, how could he not even recognize them.

Sure enough, when he asked him, the prefect of Suzhou, who was sitting at the end, hurriedly stood up, with cold sweat on his face, and before he could speak, Kangxi said with a stern face: "I know that the store was smashed by someone, I don't believe you don't know who it was." Damn it, stop messing around!"

Yinzuo giggled, and Kangxi said to the Suzhou prefect, "You tell him."

The magistrate of Suzhou respectfully said: "The sixth elder brother doesn't know something. Many families in Suzhou make a living by spinning yarn. Because of the sixth elder brother's spinning wheel, the price of cotton yarn in the south of the Yangtze River has dropped sharply, while the price of raw silk has risen steadily, and even the supply exceeds demand. Asange, that's why..."

He wiped off his sweat, and said: "The lower official really doesn't know that it belongs to Brother Six, so..."

Yinzuo said lightly: "I don't listen to your nonsense, I just ask you, what do you mean, it's my spinning wheel, which makes the people lose their livelihood?"

"This, this..."

That's right?

Yin Zuo snorted coldly and said, "Leave aside the relationship between this spinning wheel and this king, tell me, is this spinning wheel beneficial or harmful to the people?"

"This one……"

Yin Zuo's face turned cold, and he slapped the table and shouted: "You can't even answer this, and you still have the nerve to be an official?"

"The wealth of a country depends on the value created by the people. For example, in farming, if one person can only grow food for one person, then all the people in the Qing Dynasty will go to farm, and some people will go hungry, but if one If a person can grow food that five people can eat, the remaining four people can weave, build houses, and create more wealth... But you told the Lord, because I taught a person to grow five What people eat makes the food worthless, so they are going to starve to death?" Yinzuo looked at him and said, "Master Zhifu, are you stupid? Or do you think I'm stupid?"

The prefect of Suzhou kept wiping off his cold sweat, and said: "In the long run...it is naturally good, but the people's livelihood must not be ignored. If the sixth elder brother can come forward and explain a few words..."

"Let me explain? What do you, the magistrate, do?" Yinzuo said coldly: "The improvement of technology will definitely have a certain impact on the structure of the industrial chain, just like the pain before childbirth. Is it because giving birth is too painful? , so women all over the world don’t have children anymore? As for how to alleviate these shocks, it’s up to you, the prefect!”

"You are short-sighted and only see the gains and losses in front of you. I can teach you! But if you can't even manage your own one-third of an acre of land, you can't even deal with this shock..." Yinzuo turned to Kangxi and said: " Huang Ama, this kind of official who has no vision and no ability, really needs to be replaced."

Kangxi had been listening to their conversation quietly, and now seeing Yinzuo talking to him, he said lightly: "You have ten days to deal with this matter, otherwise, as Lao Liu said, you can't do it, and I will send someone else to do it." do it."

The prefect of Suzhou prostrated himself on the ground, answering again and again.

Kangxi said again: "Tell the Suzhou incident to Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other places, so that local officials can handle it properly."

"Whoo."

Coming out of Kangxi's courtyard, Yin Zuo's good mood these past few days was wiped out, Yin Zhen persuaded: "Why get angry with these fools, it's not worth it."

Yinzuo shook his head and said, "I'm not angry, but feel a little strange."

"kindness?"

"The matter of the spinning wheel shop, even before we got the news, it spread to Huang Ama's ears first. I don't believe it if it's a coincidence!"

Yinzhen frowned and said: "If it was really designed by someone, since they know that the spinning wheel is related to you, it is impossible for them not to know that this shop has won the approval of Huang Ama, and it can even be said to be the property of the imperial court... After they came like this, What is the purpose?"

Yinzuo said lightly: "You didn't listen to him, do you want me to come forward to explain? The spinning wheel shop matter, no matter what happens, it will never move me. But once I come forward, I will go back to Yangzhou and Hangzhou and continue to make troubles Come on, I'm afraid I should be exhausted. It's not just me, if things get serious, the fourth brother will also be deeply involved-if my guess is right, this is trying to tie our hands and feet! I just don't know their ultimate goal how."

It was also because of this thought that he simply disregarded that Kangxi was nearby, and said the words "dismissed from office" beyond his authority: If there is another accident, don't tell the concubine, if you inform the concubine, you will be dismissed as an official, and someone else will take care of it!

Yinzhen said: "I will pay attention to people."

Yinzuo nodded and was about to speak when Wangcai hurried over, sweating on his brow, panting, "Master, it's not good, it's not good!"

The two looked at each other, Yinzuo said: "What happened?"

Wangcai said: "Master, in the past few days, there have been rumors outside that the sinking of the ship was done by you, Master, for the purpose of framing the crown prince!"

Yin Zuo didn't take it seriously, and said: "What do you think is the matter? It's just a few rumors, why don't you care about him, it's worth your panic?"

"No!" Wangcai said: "The servant went to listen to it. The rumors outside are true, saying how you poured the medicine, how you dug the boat, and how you connected with the fourth elder brother to fry the embankment... It's like what they saw with their own eyes. Master, you were almost killed by someone, and these people dare to say that, it's too much! They can't be so cheap. Master, you..."

Yinzhen's expression was serious, and he interrupted: "They said about blowing up the embankment?"

Wangcai said blankly: "Yes! What's the matter?"

Wangcai was in it, and he knew what was going on, so he didn't think of it. The word "exploding the dike" was covered by Kangxi to death. I don't know.Even the shipwreck was unknown to anyone except those who personally participated in the search.

Yinzhen looked at Yinzuo and said, "You have to tell Huang Ama about this."

Yinzuo nodded and hummed.

Wangcai said anxiously: "Master, the rumor is about you, master, you still want to tell Long Live Lord?"

Yinzuo's heart moved, and he said, "Wangcai, you like listening to books, right?"

Wangcai let out a cry, and nodded silly, he really didn't understand why his master still brought up such an irreconcilable matter with such a barrier.

Yinzuo said: "I have given you a task. You, just follow the rumors and make up a story, the more careful the better - for example, where did the master and the fourth brother meet secretly, and they all said those things. What kind of tea is it, what does the secret room look like. For example, the fourth brother sent to blow up the embankment, how many people are there, what do they look like, what clothes are they wearing, what accents they speak, how and how they dug the hole, how and how they detonated... Lord, how did I take the medicine, what kind of medicine I took, who was almost found out, how I kept it vague, etc..."

Wangcai opened his mouth wide: "Huh?"

Yin Zuo patted his head and said: "Remember, the more careful the better, the more realistic the better... You have to make up well, and I will give you one tael for every ten words!"

Ten words and one tael of silver!

Wangcai suddenly forgot to care about his master being slandered by rumors, his eyes sparkled: "Ten words and one tael of silver? Really?"

Yinzuo hummed, and said seductively, "If there are one hundred thousand characters, there will be 1 taels!"

Wangcai's saliva almost flowed out: "Master, don't worry, this 1 taels, the slave will definitely earn."

"Remember what the rumors say, don't change a single word."

Wangcai was full of confidence, and said: "I'm going to listen to it again, slave!"

Go with great interest.

As soon as Wangcai left, Yinzuo's smile disappeared instantly. Looking at Yinzhen, he sighed, "These people are really going all out, and they even dare to spread the word about blowing up the embankment."

Yinzhen sighed: "But we didn't even understand their purpose."

What do you want to do with this hammer here and there?

I really miss the situation in the past, when the enemy was clear and we were dark.