The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

Back at Kangxi's residence, Kangxi was ready to rest. Seeing the two people leaving and returning, he knew that something must be wrong, so he called them in.

Yinzhen briefly said Wangcai's words, and Kangxi's expression darkened instantly, and veins popped out of his right hand holding the armrest.

These beasts!Really don't care about anything!

If the demolition of the embankment is believed to be true by the people, even if he waives a hundred rents and repairs a hundred embankments, he will not be able to restore the lost hearts of the people and the trust of the people!

Seeing this, Yinzuo told Wangcai to write another "script", and said: "My son has thought about it, the more serious you are about rumors, the more likely it is to be true." , if people are really sent to arrest, control, and ban, it is impossible to say that the half-believing people will believe it."

"Simply, my son did the opposite. According to the words in it, we made up a more realistic one. When the latter is discovered by some 'smart people', the former will naturally be self-defeating."

Yinzuo saw that Kangxi's face looked a little better, and smiled again: "Huang Ama don't need to worry too much. Fortunately, this rumor targeted his son, but it gave him a fatal flaw. After all, his son was on the boat at the time." ——If the rumors say that it was the elder brother or the prince who blew up the embankment, it will be difficult to handle."

When Yinzuo and Yinzhen left, the warmth on Kangxi's face faded completely, and he said coldly: "It seems that their eyeliners are not limited to those few! I really don't know that my side has become a sieve! Keep checking for me!"

"Whoo."

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Half an hour later, in Prince Yinreng's courtyard, there was a sound of slow and heavy stick strikes, screams and muffled groans from being blocked in his mouth. Yinreng sat neatly on the large grand master's chair, watching coldly He said nothing.

Although it was deliberately prolonged, after two quarters of an hour, the tortured people still fell silent one after another, and the strong smell of blood permeated the air.

Yinreng looked at Liang Jiugong coldly, and said, "It's late at night, can Gu go back and rest?"

Liang Jiugong smiled and said, "It's natural, please, Your Highness."

Yinfeng stood up slowly, and said slowly: "There are people who die, and they want to be the son of their neighbors. They steal the iron by their steps, their colors, their words, and their actions and attitudes. They don't steal the iron by doing nothing." ...The current Yinfeng is the son of this neighbor, and the father and son have believed so much, it is heartbreaking and chilling to the bone..."

Liang Jiugong's expression remained unchanged, and he still respectfully said: "The words of His Royal Highness, the old slave will truthfully tell the Lord Long Live."

Yinreng seemed to have never heard of his words, and continued: "... However, the root cause is that Yinreng's 'unnecessary' (referring to possible) crime-Huang Ama thinks this matter is the most beneficial to Yinreng. Convict me, but who is the one who benefits now? If anyone is to be convicted because of the benefit of this matter, Yinzuo, Yinxuan, Yinzhen, Yinzhi, Yinhu... who can escape? Why are you alone? Do you suspect that I, Yinfeng, are alone?"

After finishing speaking, without looking at everyone, he turned around and walked slowly into the door, and then closed the door behind his back, shutting everyone out.

In the morning, Yin Zuo learned from Yin Zhen what happened that night, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and said: "Huang Ama has such a temperament, she is happy to make others uncomfortable if she is uncomfortable-but listen If the crown prince is killed, I'm afraid Huang Ama will not be able to sleep even more."

The prince is trying to muddy the water!Involve everyone in it, and he's not so glaring.

Yinzhen said indifferently: "Huang Ama treats him differently after all."

In the previous life, because of the absence of Yinzuo, Yinfeng's character was far worse than in this life. He was extravagant, greedy and violent. Even the princes and ministers at that time were whipped and beaten by him, not to mention others.

Even so, Kangxi still pampered and indulged him, but later he couldn't bear it, and there was a farce of two wastes and two conflicts.

Whether it's the same or different, Yinzuo doesn't bother to think about it, anyway Yinreng wants to really impress Kangxi with these words, which is undoubtedly a dream.

Handed the notebook written by Wangcai overnight and revised by himself to Yinzhen, and said: "Fourth brother, it's up to you. You know, it's okay for me to come up with ideas. If you let me arrange things, then It’s going to be a mess.”

Yinzhen nodded, put away the notebook, and went to find someone to arrange it.

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In the remaining few days, on the surface, it looks the same as the previous few days, but the private rumors among the people are getting more and more fierce. Among the chaotic rumors, because Wangcai's version is more "detailed", it is slowly taking up the place in it. With the leading role, it gradually has the tendency to "unify the world".

Similarly, with the spread of the "explosion of the embankment", the two protagonists, Yinzuo and Yinzhen, were almost notorious among Suzhou folks, and the prestige of Kangxi and the court also dropped to the extreme.

"Wangcai, find out the most decent clothes for grandpa, grandpa will be on stage to sing a big show today!"

Wangcai looked at Yinzuo stupidly, and said, "Master, how can you have any unseemly clothes? Or, are you wearing the clothes of the king of the county?"

The boring slave!

Yin Zuo sighed, and said: "Then find out the clothes that look most valuable to you, and prepare everything for all kinds of guys."

He has never liked jade pendants and sachets, but this time he is making an exception—a man depends on his clothes and a horse depends on his saddle. This time, he is going to use his clothes to bluff people first.

Yin Zuo's spinning wheel shop is located in the busiest street in Suzhou City, but the usually spacious street seems to be overcrowded at this moment - because there are too many people on the street.

No matter in which era, there are incidents of customers finding trouble with unscrupulous merchants, but today these people find trouble in a special way, because they don't rush to the door, knock on the door and shout "open the door", but stand at the door. Outside the door, clamoring to "close the door".

Yin Zuo went a bit late, when he arrived, the official had already arrived, and was driving away the crowd with water and fire sticks and a large knife with sheath.

"If you don't leave, beat me hard!" Dong Zhengya, the prefect of Suzhou, sat in a sedan chair by the street, and said coldly, "If anyone dares to resist, they will be beaten to death!"

He is also extremely angry now. He instigated these people to make troubles. Although he did not directly participate in it, he also acquiesced in it. But now that the fire is burning on his own head, those people not only don't think about him, but try their best to make things worse , so that he could not step down at all.

"It doesn't matter if you kill me?" A pleasant voice suddenly came from outside the sedan chair, lazily and with a bit of sarcasm: "If I didn't know your voice very well, Mr. Dong, I really didn't know it. In front of Huang Ama, the parents and officials who kept worrying about the livelihood of the people have turned into King Yama today... Why, the people on the street today are not the people under your rule, my lord? Or, they are not the people of my Qing Dynasty? "

Dong Zhengya trembled, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to come out, only to see Yin Zuo, dressed in white, leaning leisurely on the shaft of a carriage, with thin lips, even when he spoke harsh words, he looked so pretty.

"The next officer gives..."

"Forget it." Yinzuo waved his hand impatiently, and said, "Master Dong, why don't you tell me first, what are you doing shouting and killing all over the street?"

Dong Zhengya opened his mouth, and didn't dare to say "You don't know what I'm doing", but said: "I'm going to punish some unruly people..."

"Oh, punish the troublesome people?" Yinzuo smiled and said, "Why do you think that you think that your reputation is not bad enough, and the people don't have enough grievances, so you want to help your master to settle a few murders?"

"No, no, no, I don't dare..." Dong Zhengya said repeatedly, and hurriedly ordered the people below: "Quickly tell them to stop!"

Yinzuo glanced at him, and said with a half smile but not a smile: "I really don't know that there are things in this world that you, Mr. Dong, dare not do!"

Dong Zhengya was about to speak, but Yinzuo stopped talking to him, and said to Wangcai: "Go ask them to set up a stage, the master is going to sing!"

The so-called setting up a table is to put together a few large square tables at the entrance of the store, then spread a few bolts of satin, and put a grand master's chair on the table. At first glance, it looks like that.

Yin Zuo turned to Dong Zhengya, and said: "Didn't Master Dong say that he wants this king to come forward and explain to the common people? Isn't the Lord just coming? Please, Master Dong, call them together again!"

So the officials who had just worked hard to disperse the people began to gather people together again, probably because practice makes perfect, they quickly gathered people in front of the stage set up by Yinzuo, those who bought new spinning wheels stood on the left, and those who didn't have one stood on the right .

After they stood up, Yinzuo took Wangcai and stepped on the temporary steps to the stage. His appearance and demeanor were already very intimidating, but now he wears them deliberately, and it is obvious that ordinary people can't wear them. Clothes, plus the surrounding officials and yamen guards, waiting for him to come forward, the people below did not dare to say anything, they looked at him eagerly, waiting for him to speak.

The common people of this era are honest!Even if they are incited to make trouble, they are still trembling and doing their duty.

Yinzuo sighed, and said: "I made this new spinning wheel, and I also opened the spinning wheel shop behind this. I know you are dissatisfied, but I don't know why you are dissatisfied. You just want to talk to me, so , I’m here. There are so many of you, and I can’t hear the chatter. Each side sends a representative to come up and tell me two things. First, why are you dissatisfied? Second, what do you want? If someone I feel that their answers can’t represent you, and when they finish speaking, you can come up and say it yourself. It’s better to be quick, I have limited patience.”

He knew that in such a situation, he had to be the first to win the battle, and the first to be the soldier, and then the salute, so he put on an air of condescension, and there was no room for others to talk at all.

After speaking, he sat on the grand master's chair and drank tea unhurriedly.

After a while, two people came up from each side, both old men with big beards.

Yin Zuo looked at the representatives of the group of people on the left, who had bought new spinning wheels, and asked, "I remember the rules in my store, you can return the goods if you are not satisfied, if you don't return the goods, why are you making trouble? "

The old man had been prepared for a long time and said: "although the spinning wheel is good, but now the price of raw silk has risen, and there is no market for it, and cotton yarn can't be sold at all, and the price keeps falling. If this continues, we will soon have no silk to spin." , no money to earn, how does our family live?"

Yin Zuo asked again: "What do you want?"

The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "We hope you can close the spinning wheel shop and stop selling new spinning wheels."

Yin Zuo rubbed his forehead and said, "Let me ask you, you said that you earn less money now - can you earn half as much money as before spinning a roll of cotton yarn?"

"……Have."

"So how many rolls have you spun in the time it took to spin one roll?"

The old man lowered his head with some guilt: "...twenty volumes."

Yin Zuo looked at him calmly, and said lightly: "That is to say, the things I sold to you allow you to earn ten times the money in the same time, and you still want to come and smash my shop?"

The old man shrank his neck: "It's really... I can't make it through..."

Yin Zuo sneered, ignored him, got up and walked to the group of people on the left, and said lightly: "I understand your request, and I can promise you now!"

Just as the faces of the crowd below were filled with joy, Yinzuo said coldly again: "Every one of you here is counted as one. Go to the shopkeeper to register immediately and sign the return document. I will suffer a little. The spinning wheel you bought, I will pay for it immediately." Send someone to take it back at the original price, and you won’t be charged for any loss of a penny. After you all register, the master will close the shop immediately, and never sell a spinning wheel in this city of Suzhou again! Let’s start!”

The shopkeeper of the spinning wheel immediately stood up and said, "If you want to return the goods, register here! Hurry up!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one was willing to step forward first.

Yin Zuo said coldly: "Since he is modest, let's go and invite them one by one!"

A few guys came forward to ask for someone when they heard the sound, but those people avoided snakes and scorpions. When they saw them, they hid back. The guys managed to pull one of them, and they dragged a few steps when they didn't want to, and the person kept shouting: " I'm not returning it! I'm not returning it!"

The guy let him go, and went to grab another person, but before he caught him, that person also said anxiously: "I won't return the goods either!"

All of a sudden, the cries of "no return" continued, and there was a mess and noise, so that the staff didn't know which one was to be returned and which one was not. When the head was big, there was a crisp "touch" When it was heard, everyone was startled, but Yin Zuo dropped the cup in his hand and stood up with the coldness of the face.

"Isn't it because it can't survive? Why don't you want to return any of them?" Yinzuo said coldly: "I think you are greedy! You only want to get something for yourself!"

"My Lord's spinning wheel can save you twenty times the time, but the raw silk supply is insufficient, so you can't keep earning ten times the money, but how much can you do with the extra time? How much can you exchange for it? Yinzuo said: "Who among you can't live because you bought the master's spinning wheel, stand up and tell me how you can't survive!"

His gaze swept across the faces of all the people below the stage. Wherever his gaze went, not to mention the heads, not even one looked up.

Yinzuo didn't speak, and they didn't even dare to vent their anger. After a moment of silence, Yinzuo asked lightly: "I'll ask you again, do you want to close my shop?"

The sparrow below was silent.

Yin Zuo shouted: "Speak!"

A sparse voice came from below: "...don't."

Then it got louder again: "No!"

Yin Zuo hummed, and asked again: "Are there any other requests?"

"...No, no more."

Yin Zuo stopped talking, turned back to ask the old man on the other side, his expression was much more relaxed than before, and said: "What do you want?"

The old man said with a wry smile: "The spinning wheels in your store are good things, but only a few are sold every day. We use old spinning wheels, let alone the slowness, and the products are not good. The money has shrunk a bit, and because the things are not good, the price has been reduced..."

Yinzuo nodded and said, "I see."

He clapped his hands, and the people below stepped forward and said, "Master."

"Send a copy of the drawing of the spinning wheel to each woodworking shop." He slightly raised his voice, and said, "If any of you know how to do carpentry, or know someone who can do it, let them come and get it, Grandpa." They don’t even accept a single penny.”

The old man's eyes widened in disbelief: "This... this..."

Shouldn't this kind of thing be his treasure?Shouldn't it be his cash cow?Why... just give it to someone casually?

The people in the audience stood close and heard them talking, and they immediately started making noise, and the noise slowly spread to the back, and after a while, a bold person stood up and said, "I'm just a carpenter, can you uh... that ..."

Without further ado, the shopkeeper immediately took a stack of blueprints to him, and told him: "If there is anything you don't understand, feel free to ask, and you can also see how the carpenters in our shop work... nothing Silver. Oh, by the way, if you are skilled enough, you are welcome to work in our shop, and you will be paid one or two taels of silver a month."

The man looked at the blueprint in his hand in disbelief, and responded repeatedly, thanking him a thousand times.

Many people came out of the crowd one after another and received the blueprints one after another. Only then did they believe that what Yin Zuo said was true.

The old man trembled: "You, you are..."

Yin Zuo got up again, and everyone in the audience knew that he had something to say, so they all fell silent. Yin Zuo smiled wryly and said: "Although there may not be many people here who can read, I believe that they can settle accounts. If you rent, you can Do the math, is the profit from the thread you spun for the store enough to buy an old-fashioned spinning wheel? You might as well do the math, the money you give is enough to buy half a spinning wheel? Don’t say that you handed over the old spinning wheel , Do you think that with the new spinning wheel, the old spinning wheel is still worth money? They are piled outside the firewood house now, and some of them have been burned for firewood. If you don’t believe me, you can go and see for yourself.”

"You can also do the math again. If I don't sell the spinning wheel, but hire someone to do it at a high price, how much money can I earn now?"

The people below began to whisper, and even became more and more violent. Yin Zuo clapped his hands, and the surrounding guards roared, making them all quiet. Yin Zuo raised his voice and said, "Do you think I'm stupid? Are you talking about me?" I don't know what I'm drawing?"

"Yeah, what am I trying to do?" In the silence, Yinzuo's voice grew louder and reached everyone's ears: "If it's for profit, I won't earn a lot of money; if it's for fame, who do you know who I am?" ? What exactly am I drawing?"

"At the beginning of this year, before the end of the first month, the weather was freezing, but the emperor decided to go south due to the collapse of Huang and Huai for years, to check the river course, preside over the strategy, check the officials and calm the people... What is he planning?"

"The emperor ordered the Ministry of Households, Engineering, and Military Affairs to prepare all supplies for the southern tour. It is strictly forbidden for officials along the way to use their names as scientific factions. Officials, big and small, are not allowed to make trouble. People don't have to be shunned... What is he trying to do?"

"The emperor took a single boat and marched day and night to visit the dikes in the south of the Yellow River. Along the way, countless dikes with leaks and seepage were found, and dozens of river officials were punished... What is he planning?"

“这一趟南巡，皇上截留漕粮十万石，于高邮等受灾七州县各留一万，减值平粜：免江苏、安徽康熙34、35、36年奏销未完民欠一切地丁钱粮、米豆麦杂税；免淮扬九州县二卫康熙37年未完地丁漕项等银19万两，米麦11万；免凤阳府寿州等十二州县卫康熙37年未完钱粮及漕粮；浙江盐课加征银三万一千300两……他图的又是什么？”

Following his words, the suppressed voice gradually rose up again. They had never heard of these things, and they never knew that Kangxi had done so many things before they knew about them.

Yinzuo's voice was raised to the highest level, and he said word by word: "Didn't you ask me what I pictured? What is Huang Amat's picture? I love Xinjueluo Yinzuo, what is the picture!"

Aixinjueluo. Yinzuo's words, like a blockbuster, exploded the entire crowd.

Yinzuo was very patient this time, and he waited until the voice from the bottom gradually subsided before he spoke again. The voice was extremely helpless: "After the king built the spinning wheel, he thought it could improve people's livelihood, so he put it in Jiangnan and so on without much thought. Is it my king's fault for causing trouble to you all, but I hope you can forgive me for the sake of my king's no malice. Recruiting peasants to clear silt and repair embankments, the wages are decent, you can try it, if there is anyone who is not up to the task, I bought a piece of wasteland fifty miles away, but I will never let anyone who is willing to live a good life be hungry That's the stomach."

The atmosphere below gradually eased because of Yinzuo's words, and more curious eyes looked at Yinzuo, Yinzuo smiled, knowing that these people had already misunderstood him and the vicious person in the rumors, so he smiled Said: "Looking at the situation, you all know who Yin Zuo is, and you think so. The previous king Ben Wang read a book of stories, and Yin Zuo played a big role in it. I think everyone has read it too."

"That book was so well written that even this king believed it to be true! But unfortunately, even this king himself doesn't know where the secret room of the fourth brother's house is, let alone when to talk to the fourth brother in the secret room. Hahaha!" He seemed to think of something very interesting, and laughed for a while before saying, "The most interesting thing is that this king swam in the river in February for a day. I didn’t drown in one night... Only then did I know that my water skills are so good! Haha!”

As soon as this remark came out, the audience burst into laughter, and someone even responded: "These people are talking nonsense! Don't say it's the water in February, it's in the water now, let him stay for a day to see if it's okay drowning!"

"..."

After performing something called "speech" from later generations to the common people of this era, Yinzuo joked a few more words, then ordered them to leave, and ran to the shop to drink tea by himself-in the era without trumpets, the It is really a crime to talk to this large group of people.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yinzhen was there. As soon as he entered the door, he said, "Huang Ama decided to go to the mausoleum of Ming Taizu."

Yinzuo was taken aback for a moment, and said, "The fourth brother means..."

Yinzhen said: "If the news of the embankment bombing spreads out, the prestige of the imperial court will be greatly affected. Huang Ama must do something to restore the hearts of the people."

Yinzuo frowned and said: "They spread rumors, is it just to let Huang Ama go to the mausoleum? Doesn't that make sense?"

Yinzhen said, "Otherwise, do you have a better explanation?"