The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

When the carriage arrived at the Prince's Mansion, Yin Zuo finally got himself completely drunk. Yin Zhen looked at Yin Zuo, who was leaning on the seat, with a flushed face and a muttering mouth, and sighed slightly—he It's been a long time since I saw Yinzuo's docile appearance. Since the day when Wenquan Zhuangzi came back, his younger brother has erected the thorns all over his body to prevent him from approaching him.

Yinzhen half-embraced Yinzuo out of the car, waved away the guards, and went straight into the inner courtyard with people on his back - there was no family member in Yinzuo's mansion, so there was nothing to worry about.

Obviously, he added thick clothes in winter, and his height has grown a bit, but he feels that the weight is lighter than before. Yinzhen is silent, thinking of the three words he said unhappy, he starts to feel uncomfortable again.

If the matter could be repeated, he wondered if he would choose this way—although Yinzuo has not been in the position for a long time, the treasury is getting richer; the boss, fifth, seventh, eighth and even ninth and tenth are all reused Especially Lao Ba, who is so powerful in Dongpu, and now even the port is being built; the Ministry of State Affairs has taken in many refugees who have lost their land, so that these people who should have been sold into slavery or turned into beggars have With income, there is a way to survive; and Yinreng was severely punished for torturing and killing domestic slaves. In the future, those Eight Banners who take human life seriously should know how to be afraid...

If any of their brothers took the position, I'm afraid they would only be able to please Kangxi at the top and suppress the brothers at the bottom. In the middle, they would win over the courtiers to consolidate their power and live in the cracks. Who can do this?

From this point of view, he has succeeded, but the problem is, Xiao Liu said that he is unhappy...not happy!well!

It was snowing heavily again, Yinzhen was carrying people on his back, and walked slowly along the somewhat slippery concrete road, the surroundings were quiet, except for a few of them, there were hardly any people in sight——Yinzuo sympathizes with the servant, go down The rainy and snowy weather makes them not have to come out to clean for the time being. According to his words, God is joking with you.

In this, we can see the difference between Yinzuo and him. His mansion is strictly controlled, and every servant must abide by his duties. Those who leave their posts must be severely punished, and those who run around in the mansion during the days off will also be severely punished.

Yinzuo is different, as long as the people under him have finished what they need to do, the rest of the time is relatively free, but if they can't even do their own job well, they will be fined and demoted... such as serving tea and water If you can't do it, go to sweep the floor. If you can't sweep the floor, go to the laundry.

Now it was getting late and it was snowing heavily, even the servants on duty huddled in a warm place to warm up by the fire, and those who were not on duty even went to bed early, the huge prince's mansion seemed more and more deserted.

Yinzuo is the only master in the Hefu, and he doesn't like to be served by others, Wangcai is the only one who can talk to him to make fun of him... Yinzhen's heart throbbed with pain.

Although his younger brother seems to have had a good life since he was a child, but apart from being good-looking, he has never had a good life. The crown prince regards him as a thorn in his side, and Kangxi treats him dispensable... After a few days of good life, But he was tricked by his own brother...

With a sullen face, Yinzhen placed him on the bed. The maid came in and delivered hot water towels, hangover soup, etc., but he sent them away. He personally wiped Yinzuo's face, took off his shoes and coat, and covered him with a quilt. Not in a hurry to leave, just sat on the edge of the bed and read a book.

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The next day, Yinzuo didn't wake up until the third o'clock in the morning. He washed his face with warm water, sat on a stool and asked Wangcai to braid his hair. In the two lives before and after, Yinzuo's various skills were full, but just braiding, Can't learn anyway.

"Wait until the day I get bored," Yinzuo flipped through the book and said, "I'll become a monk, one doesn't need to braid my hair, and the other doesn't need to marry a wife, it's all convenient."

Wangcai asked: "Master, if you go to become a monk, what will you do with the slave?"

Yinzuo said: "My lord is a monk, so you can become a monk too? Don't you want to marry a wife?"

Wangcai cried and said with a mournful face: "Slaves are not allowed to marry wives, but slaves love to eat meat!"

"It's easy," Yinzuo said, "I'm familiar with hunting. Later, you can go to the cook to learn how to do it. If you are hungry, you can do it yourself. I will watch over you personally."

Wangcai muttered: "A monk who hunts and eats meat, is that still called a monk?"

Yin Zuo rolled his eyes at him, and said, "Does this mean you don't want to follow Master?"

Wangcai hurriedly laughed and said: "Master, don't wrong the slave! It doesn't matter whether the master is a prince, a commoner, a county king or a prince, the slave follows the master. He has always been fed and clothed. You have never been bullied, where can you find such good jobs? Don’t say you are going to be a monk, even if you are going to be a nun, the servants will follow you!”

Yin Zuo said angrily: "Bah bah, you're the only nun!"

Wangcai smiled and said, "Slave is the middle man, it's the same as being a monk or a nun."

Really, it makes sense...

Yinzuo didn't bother to talk to him anymore, and talked nonsense with Wangcai, so that his book hadn't been found yet, but Wangcai didn't delay in working and chatting, and a braid was almost done.

"Have you touched my book?" He clearly remembered that he had put the bookmark in it yesterday.

"No." Wangcai said: "It was King Yong who took it and turned it over."

"Fourth brother?"

"Did you forget? It was His Royal Highness the King of Yongjun who sent you back yesterday," Wangcai said, "You were drunk and the slave was not here. The King of Yongjun was here to take care of him. Later, when the slave came back, it was getting late. I rested overnight in the guest room, and went directly to the court from here in the morning."

Speaking of the early dynasty, Yinzuo remembered that he still owed Kangxi a booklet, and said: "Tell the kitchen not to mess around, and I will go to the palace to eat later."

After seeing the battle yesterday, Wangcai was always worried that his master and Kangxi would be in a stalemate, and he was overjoyed when he heard that: "That's good."

Yin Zuo rolled his eyes: Does it have anything to do with you having a dime, why are you so happy!

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It's a rare sunny day, the sun is so bright that it almost blinds people's eyes, Suo'etu is dead, Yinfeng is in circles, and Lingpu's accomplices are executed in just these two days... I don't have these bloody cases in my heart, Yinzuo I feel like the sky is blue.

Yin Zuo chose a good time, when Kangxi came down, he was eating some snacks, Yin Zuo honestly poured a bowl of soup for himself, and ordered some porridge and pickles.

Kangxi saw that he was reincarnated like a starved ghost, so he said angrily: "I only think about food when I come here. Is this a special purpose to eat?"

"Huang Ama, you don't understand now, the food is delicious only if you rub it..." Yinzuo blinked his right eye at Kangxi: "It doesn't cost money!"

Kangxi shook his head and laughed, nodded his head, and said: "How many people in Qing Dynasty are richer than you? Come to me and cry poor!"

"Look at what Huang Ama said, if your son doesn't know how to be frugal, how can he be so rich?"

Seeing Yinzuo's mouth, he finally started talking nonsense again, and Kangxi was also in a good mood - he was a little reluctant to circle Yinreng, but seeing Yinzuo's relaxed and happy appearance, he felt that everything was worth it.

Although Yinzuo only said that he wanted porridge and pickles, the people in the imperial dining room dared to send him off like this and added several delicate side dishes.

On the contrary, these side dishes are rare things in winter. Yin Zuo chewed on the crispy radishes and thought of something new.

"A lot of things have been saved in the glass factory. The glass mirror Laojiu is already selling it, and there are still a lot of ordinary glass," Yinzuo said: "When the new year is over, don't rush to renovate the house. My son is repairing it in the suburbs." A few vegetable sheds, next winter, Huang Ama will have everything she wants to eat..."

He laughed again: "Huang Ama, don't look at us raising the salaries of those officials, wait for the vegetables in the greenhouse to come out, just like this, let them honestly take them out again!"

Kangxi cast a glance at him and said, "You asked them to pay for money, so you still need to come up with new tricks? Just the tiles, cement, and heating pipes emptied their one-year salary."

Yin Zuo snorted coldly: "Who forced them to pretend?" It's not just a year's salary, five years' salary is not enough, but it's not enough to pay for the money?People are rich!

He sighed again: "If one day, no one rushes to become an official, the officialdom will probably be completely clear."

No one is rushing to become an official, so what kind of emperor is he still?Kangxi drank tea and said: "Tomorrow, you will make an account, and the titles of Yinzhen and Yinzhen can also be mentioned, and the ninth and tenth are all poor, so they can't still be bald. elder brother."

Yinzuo was stunned: "Shall I write?"

Immediately, he realized that Kangxi was giving him a chance to show him kindness. Thinking that he had lost even the golden beans, Kangxi was still hard-hearted and had no intention of abolishing him at all. Yinzuo couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, and said unhappily: " I write it and I write it!"

He said again: "Huang Ama, it's a happy event for your son to be named the crown prince. How about some kind of amnesty for the world?"

Kangxi clicked his tongue and said: "I said earlier that I am going to amnesty the world, but who said that releasing those criminals and harming the good people is an amnesty? Why did you change your mind now?"

Yin Zuo said: "Those people can't be forgiven, but others can be forgiven?"

"Ok?"

Yinzuo said: "My son heard from the fourth brother that in addition to scholars, farmers, industry, and merchants, we in the Qing Dynasty also had low-level status. There are lazy people in Zhejiang, Lehu in Shaanxi, Danhu in Guangdong, and beggars in Jiangsu. There are companions and servants in Anhui... These people are all in the previous dynasty. When the ancestors committed crimes, they affected the descendants. If the son said that their ancestors committed crimes, it was the crimes committed by the previous dynasty. It has nothing to do with us. What’s the matter? Amnesty them, registering them as a regular citizen can not only win people’s hearts, but also increase the labor force, otherwise so many people can only make a living by begging, selling themselves, and singing operas, which will not help people’s livelihood at all, and will be wasted.”

Kangxi said: "What did the fourth brother say?"

"Well," Yinzuo replied: "Isn't my son going to build some textile factories along the coast, as well as cement factories and glass factories in various places? This requires a lot of manpower. But where do people come from? If the people don't After planting the land, they all come to work. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? You can’t expect more refugees, right? Even if there are refugees, it’s best to return to their hometowns to resettle them... After all, the food we produce in Daqing is really not rich. I told the fourth brother, and the fourth brother told me this, Huang Ama, tell me, aren't these ready-made people?"

Kangxi nodded, this matter is simple, and said: "Write a charter later."

Yinzuo smiled and handed over a notebook: "It's already written!"

Kangxi glanced at him suspiciously. The cancellation of the lowly status has more advantages than disadvantages. He will definitely agree. Now that the paperwork has been written, it is really not his nature to explain so much in a long way. There are oddities.

He looked down carefully.

There are three things in total.

The first is what he just mentioned, abolishing low-level registration, opening lazy people, happy households, Danhu, beggar households, etc. as civilians, and incorporating them into official households. From then on, they can engage in other industries, and future generations can enter the imperial examination to become officials.

The second is about human trafficking.

The general idea is that in recent years, human traffickers pretend to be parents, and human trafficking is quite rampant. In order to prevent this trend, all sales contracts in the future can only be signed by the buyer and himself after going to the government to express his willingness.If you are coerced, deceived, or abducted, you can report it on the spot, and the government must immediately file a case for investigation, and you must not slack off.If the person who sells his body is less than fifteen years old when he signs the contract, he will have a chance to redeem it when he becomes an adult in the future. He only needs to pay double the initial selling price to restore his freedom. Go to the government to pay.

Third, it is about family and children.

The zhezi said that all the people on the land of the Qing Dynasty, no matter how good they are, are the people of the Qing Dynasty, and the family has children.Since it is for the people of our Qing Dynasty, not livestock, how can we buy a person and get his descendants?If the main family intends to take the child as a slave, it needs to do the following: 15. At the beginning of the birth of the child, the parents will sign the contract of sale, and the main family must bear all the expenses of the child from birth to the age of 15, such as food and clothes , medicine, etc., if the period cannot be fulfilled, the child of the family will be restored to freedom. Second, after the child of the family reaches the age of 15, a new contract of sale will be signed with the main family. The host must not refuse.

Finally, I added a sentence, the law of the country is greater than the sky, and the life of human beings is greater than the sky.Matters related to human life can only be dealt with by national law. If a person does have a place to die, the relevant person must report it to the government for a judgment—but any private execution of clan members, domestic slaves, children, etc. Anyone, etc., shall be punished for the crime of intentional homicide.

Kangxi pondered, and said: "It's okay to be a lowly citizen, but this family has a son..."

There is no major conflict of interest with those gentry and court officials regarding the cancellation of lowly status. He can handle it properly with a single sentence, but canceling family birth... seems to be unnecessary.

"Huang Ama," Yinzuo said, "the wealth and prosperity of a country can be seen as the value created by the people. For example, two people, one farming for a living, and the other begging for a living, the former is creating wealth, the latter is only Can consume wealth, if farmers feel that begging can get food without working, and everyone comes to beg, what will this country look like? In my son's view, the existence of family and children is of no use to the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty .Once a person sells himself as a slave, he will be the slave of others for the rest of his life until his children and grandchildren. Their masters benefit from buying one person and getting a nest. But these people don’t farm or weave, so they don’t have much to do in this life. What good is it for our Qing Dynasty to just serve and curry favor with the master, or even live a life of idle food? Moreover, my son did not say that a family cannot be a slave if they have children, but it is just to give them a chance to choose."

Although what Yin Zuo said was high-sounding, Kangxi didn't know that he was still brooding over the matter of Yin Reng. In this book, he didn't want more people who were forced to be slaves, or even tortured and killed. , sighed, and said: "This matter is not only related to the interests of the Han nobles, but it will also cause dissatisfaction among many Manchus. Let me think about it."

Yin Zuo complained: "It's not like the time for the Eight Banners to enter the customs. Those people have no military power in their hands, so what if they are dissatisfied? And those Han people—how have they ever been satisfied with us?"

When the Qing army entered the customs, those Han people who advocated "the body, the skin, and the parents" even shaved their heads. It can be seen that in the face of power, the power of public opinion is really weak... The imperial court asked them to shave their heads. Liberation It shouldn't be a problem for several families to have children, right?

"Important court affairs are not as simple as you say!" Kangxi said: "I will go to court early tomorrow, let's talk about it first."

"Oh!"

Kangxi said again: "By the way, what about the notebook I asked you to write a few days ago?"

"It's finished." Yinzuo submitted the papers about the early court. He didn't pay much attention to it. When Japan-China Long live God and the cabinet deal with the memorial, it will be necessary to discuss or explain the matter in the early court, and write the name on the paper, and finally the cabinet will summarize it, and draw up the list of participants and topics based on this, and the long live will notify the meeting after reviewing it personally to people.

Each morning court is recorded by a special person, and the results are sent to various ministries and localities after the morning court.

Kangxi looked at it, put it aside, and said: "Lao Ba is coming back soon, he is the prince, he can't stay outside all the time, tell me, who should be sent to accept the matter of Dongpu?"

Yin Zuo said pleasantly: "The eighth brother is coming back? So soon! He wasn't injured, right? Did he earn any money? Did he fight those people?"

"When he comes back, you can ask him yourself!" Kangxi knocked him on the head with the booklet: "I'm asking you, who is better to let the Dongying stall?"

Yinzuo dodged cleverly and complained: "I'm not familiar with the court ministers, how do I know who is better to send? In my opinion, it's better for the eighth younger brother to choose this person—what's the situation over there? He knows best, don't send someone casually to destroy the good situation of his business."

Kangxi hated iron but said: "In the imperial court, there are more people who support Lao Ba than you. This time you have made great achievements again, so you have no heart to guard against others?"

Yin Zuo said disapprovingly: "East Ying, it's not in our country, so the eighth brother can do whatever he wants, even if he becomes the king there, anyway, it won't be cheap for outsiders... As for support, my son remembers, there are hundreds of them. Zhezi, there are only three votes to support his son - if they are all guarded against and dare not use them, it is estimated that Jackie Chan and Li Guang will die of overwork in a few years."

Kangxi was speechless with him, sighed, and said: "When the new year begins, I'm going to patrol the Yongding River, you..."

Yin Zuo didn't wait for him to finish, and said repeatedly: "My son is not going! My son is very busy!"

Kangxi glared at him: "Why didn't I know you were busy?"

Yinzuo said: "You don't know, Huang Ama, the boat bought by my son has returned, and those people are rushing here with their things! There are steam engines and rubber on the boat, oh yes, and they brought back a very powerful Briton , very good at making things - my son has been looking forward to this for more than half a year, and it will take several months to patrol the embankment, and my son can't wait for a day..."

Idle boy!Kangxi said angrily: "If you don't go to patrol the embankment, you will sit in the capital for me, the prime minister!"

Just as Yin Zuo was about to complain, he suddenly laughed again and said, "Then Huang Ama, leave fourth brother behind for me."

The prime minister's court affairs and so on, Yinzhen is familiar with it, he was an emperor before!

Kangxi frowned slightly, and suddenly his heart moved, he poked his forehead and said: "I just want to see how you and the fourth brother will handle this government affairs!"