[Qing] If you don't work hard, you will be forced to inherit the throne

After persuading Brother Tutu, Yinfeng ticked the first tick in the small plan book in his heart, and then he will work hard for the second tick.

Yinfeng: In view of the fact that Gu always does things in front of Khan Ama, which left a "not good" impression on Khan Ama, I think that the second matter of persuading Khan Ama to meet foreign envoys should be left to the Khan Ama It is better to do it alone with unrelated people.

As for who to entrust to do it, of course it is entrusted to a person who Yinfeng is absolutely "unstoppable", Chen Tingjing, who is now very popular in the ruling and opposition parties, Mrs. Chen!

Mr. Chen used to be in charge of the national treasury in the Ministry of Household Affairs. If Yu Guozhu did not commit a crime in the position of Secretary of the Ministry of Accounting, Khan Ama intended to promote Yu Guozhu. Now that the position of Minister of the Ministry of Accounting has been transferred, Lord Chen will be promoted. The position of Shangshu Hubu is on top.

When Yinreng studied with Chen Tingjing, he heard him talk about the treasury. During the sea embargo, the main tax revenue of the treasury came from land tax and merchant tax, while the money of the Ministry of Internal Affairs mainly came from the salt administration. The emperor sent his cronies Go to Zhangluo's shops and Zhuangzi.

There are too few sources of money for the treasury!

It is impossible to increase the land tax to increase the burden of the people. Khan Ama said that reducing taxation is the appearance of prosperous times, and increasing taxation is a sign of troubled times.

Based on the data obtained during previous studies, Yinfeng calculated how long the treasury's money could support the war without affecting the healthy operation of the Qing Dynasty.

It is no wonder that Khan Ama has many concerns. After all, war is a waste of national power. If all the cards are used to deal with Tsarist Russia, how will they deal with Galdan afterwards?

Yinfeng waited and waited until the Lantern Festival was coming, and the cook in the dining room made him delicious glutinous rice balls stuffed with sesame seeds, and the time was finally ripe.

"Gu Lai packs up the people and small animals to take to Changchun Garden."

Yinfeng began to count the number of people.

First of all, the people who are going to be taken away together are Madam Xu, the Grand Palace Maid Jinxiu and the Chief Eunuch Yuzhu.

Jinxiu has picked up two new maids who are newly hired, and those who are unreasonable and unhappy will come and fight with Jinxiu.The maids in Yuqing Palace are generally older. After a few years, when His Highness the Crown Prince grows up, they will all become nuns. When Xu Yuma retires in old age, Jinxiu will take over Xu Xuma's class and become Nanny Jin followed His Highness the Crown Prince, so who would be the next generation of successors that Aunt Jinxiu chose to train?

It's not that they are brainless and unhappy, but also other people. Whether they are sent by the emperor, sent by the Hesheli family, or promoted by His Royal Highness, they must be taught to keep up with His Royal Highness' movements.

Yinfeng said again: "Take Tom's mat and the grass futons of the two geese. How can I go to Changchun Garden without Tom, Maomao and Xiaoyi, Seventeen? Gu will want to kill them."

Seeing this, Xinyu hesitated to speak: "When you arrive at Changchun Garden, the Emperor will order His Highness to study hard and concentrate on studying. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to bring cats and geese."

Yinfeng shook his head: "Teachers won't complain to Khan Ama just because Gu brings a small animal, Khan Ama should also agree, if you don't believe me, you can ask Khan Ama for Gu."

Kangxi ordered Yinreng to go to Changchun Garden to study, and also found him a clean place. The purpose was to let him concentrate on it. He was already an older child, so how could he let him be playful like he was when he was a child?

Hearing Xinyu's report, Kangxi frowned: "Go and tell Baocheng, I will still let Chen Tingjing teach him. The other grand masters turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, and all their hearts are on him. Chen Tingjing is very serious." .”

The rest of the princes are not interested in the prince. It is not that Kangxi was too relaxed with the prince a few years ago, making them think that the emperor doesn't care about it.

Even the emperor had the attitude of educating the prince and letting him grow up freely, so how could other princes always go to Kangxi to complain?After all, the prince's academic excellence is indeed impeccable.

Only Chen Tingjing was not afraid of offending the prince or the emperor at all, and he was meticulous in doing things, but he shocked the prince who was a bit naughty.

Kangxi had a serious face: "This time, I won't make Baocheng mess around again."

When Yinreng heard Xinyu's reply from running errands, the little abacus in his heart was pounding, and he pretended to regret: "Well, Gu won't bring the children this time."

Although he didn't bring the small animals, Yinfeng specially arranged for someone to take care of them. He brought his small blackboard, as well as the chalk and chalk eraser he ordered.

With the current lacquer-making technology of the Qing Dynasty, it is not difficult to synthesize chalk to make blackboards. The craftsmanship of the craftsmen is very good. The chalk is as thick as Yinfeng's thumb and can be written for a long time.

When Chen Tingjing came to teach, Yinfeng hung the statistical data written slowly on the blackboard in a prominent position.

"Taifu Chen, take a look. This is a histogram of treasury income before and after the Qinghai ban based on statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs in previous years. It is increasing year by year! Especially this year when all major ports have started to open for business, the increase is more than that of fields. Taxes and merchant taxes add up."

Chen Tingjing was really taken aback when he heard the words.

"Indeed, after the sea ban is increased, the treasury will have more customs revenue, and the silver earned will naturally be different from the past."

"I heard that foreign missions have been begging to come to Beijing to meet Khan Ama." Yinfeng was worried while wiping the blackboard and destroying the evidence: "Will Khan Ama meet them next year?"

Chen Tingjing couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be concerned about state affairs even during the holidays. Foreign envoys begged to come to Beijing in order to pay tribute to them. For the Qing Dynasty, it was still a major event to show the country's prestige. Naturally, the Emperor would not refuse."

Yinfeng: "..."

I just know that the courtiers in North Korea and China have such an attitude towards foreign envoys!

"When foreign envoys are like Beijing, the translation will become a problem again. The translation on the document alone will show such a big difference as I found before, let alone the oral translation?"

"Your Highness, the Ministry of Rites sent someone to take charge of the oral translation. What you are studying now is the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Chen Tingjing wants to tell Yinreng to study hard again.

What to do with so many thoughts, these things should be the emperor's worries, and the first task of His Royal Highness is to study hard.

Yinfeng muttered: "Gu thought that the Qing Dynasty could solve the domestic food problem through foreign trade and international exchanges."

Chen Tingjing shook his head: "His Royal Highness, the Qing Dynasty is self-sufficient in food, so how can we rely on foreigners to solve problems?"

"The self-sufficiency of the Qing Dynasty is the staple food, but soybeans are in short supply in the market. These figures are all recorded in the documents. As the lives of the people are getting better and better, the demand for soybeans among the people is gradually increasing. , but if more soybeans are to be planted, the area of ​​the farmland will be encroached on, and the government will stipulate the proportion of each farmer’s grain acreage. In addition, there are cotton, vegetable oil, sugar, and poultry.”

Yinfeng took out another blackboard, on which were densely written the supply benefits for the Qing Dynasty if the trade route was opened.

"Although the Qing Dynasty had abundant grain harvests year after year, overall it was still in a very tense state of balance," Yinfeng said solemnly: "Plus people's demand for winemaking increased, and the consumption of grain production increased. "

"Judging from the year-end financial records of the Ministry of Household Affairs last year, if you want to improve the basic necessities of the people, you can start from these aspects. Mr. Chen is a parental official who pleads for the people, and he is also a good official who is willing to listen to the voices of the people. The first goal is to have enough food first, and then solve the problem of whether you will starve to death when you are full, but you must not have some higher pursuits? This is the instinct of people to pursue happiness."

Seeing how nice what Yinfeng said, Chen Tingjing's heart was moved!

After all, he is the new Minister of the Household Department who is about to take office. Chen Tingjing has been paying attention to the finances of the Household Department for a long time last year, but he really didn't consider such operations after the lifting of the sea ban.

Seeing his heartbeat, Yinreng hurriedly wiped out all the evidence he had written down, leaving only a little bit of chalk dust for Mr. Chen.

"Master Chen, it's almost time, it's time for us to go to class."

The most gripping way is to stop suddenly after his heartbeat, making him unable to stop.

Yinfeng also quickly blocked Chen Tingjing's mouth.

"Khan Ama said that the most important task for Gu now is to study hard with you. After learning from the 'immortal', Gu just mentioned to you that there is such a good method."

Fairy!good idea!

Yinfeng: "I'm afraid you will need to discuss this matter with Han Ama in the future. I just mentioned it, just mentioned it."

Chen Tingjing: "..."

He felt His Highness the Crown Prince's sudden stop, like a mirror in his heart, but he couldn't do anything to him.

Yinfeng sat upright and picked up the book, and read it intently. While pulling his attention back to the book, he pricked up his ears to listen to Chen Tingjing's movements.

He heard Chen Tingjing sigh softly, as if he was compromising with him, and he knew in his heart: It seems that there is something going on!

Sure enough, not long after this class, Kangxi summoned Yinfeng and asked him with a serious face: "The immortal taught you something again, why didn't Baocheng tell me? If it wasn't for Chen Tingjing who overheard, I'm afraid I don't even know what you have learned."

Yinfeng: "Ama Khan, I don't know if what I've learned is useful, so I asked the Taifu's opinion casually. I can't just come to you every time I learn something new. Baba said, when you were young, it was my ignorant minister who bothered you because of this, but when you grow up, you know you have worked hard, so how can it always take up your time?"

Yinreng is gentle and humble, and already has a calm and dignified appearance. Just looking at his fluent answers, Kangxi felt a kind of joy and comfort that "my family has a son who has just grown up".

Only Chen Tingjing who came to Kangxi to "complain" saw the prince smiling like a little fox!

Kangxi had no doubts that this was Yinreng wanting to do something just around the corner. Since it was used to ask the prince's doubts, the prince himself must not be sure of the depth of it.

"Tell me about this good method, and how it is beneficial to the development of the Qing Dynasty."

Yinfeng nodded, and mentioned the word "import" when he opened his mouth.

Importing is a good move!It can promote close exchanges between friendly countries, and it can also solve the problem of shortage of domestic materials, and exchange their surplus with other countries for what they need. If there is a year of war, even the most imminent food problem Can be solved.

The grain, cotton, and vegetable seeds of the Qing Dynasty are not necessarily the best seeds. If new seeds are imported, better varieties can be improved.

Just listening to Yinfeng's eloquence, unlike the eloquence of his childhood, when he spoke in a clear and elegant way, both Kangxi and Chen Tingjing fell into deep thought before they knew it.

"Of course, the premise of all this is that the Qing government took the initiative to negotiate business with overseas businessmen."

"Since we want to talk about business, Daqing needs to cultivate a large number of talents who can communicate with them. Daqing has to send his own people to go out, reach out, open their eyes, and explore the outside world."

Yinreng: Plan [-], persuade Khan Ama to receive envoys from various countries.

The preliminary preparations required for this plan are to cultivate Qing’s own foreign language talents, send Qing’s talents abroad, and increase foreign exchanges and cooperation after the lifting of the sea ban, thereby attracting more and more foreigners to come to Daqing, including ambassadors from various countries. ministers, missionaries and foreign businessmen.

So the purpose came back again. The reform of the military system has no effect for the time being, but the purchase of foreign guns and guns can be achieved in a short period of time. Tsarist Russia can hire Cossack cavalry to invade the border of the Qing Dynasty. Why can’t the Qing Dynasty hire other countries? What about the mercenaries?This can also be achieved in a short period of time.

As long as the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia go to war, the missionaries who are looking for trade routes will do their best to facilitate their reconciliation, and they will continue to deal with it to connect the two countries.

Yinfeng knew that he just begged Khan Ama to meet the envoys, but Khan Ama would not take it seriously when facing foreign envoys, and the imperial state of mind of a great country, and the courtiers were still immersed in the dream of going to heaven. They will not take foreign envoys seriously.

But if there are other temptations as bait, with many benefits, related to the national food of the Qing Dynasty, and closely related to the lives of the people of the Qing Dynasty, then it will be different.

Even Chen Tingjing took the bait, and Khan Ama, who is determined to be famous in history as an emperor through the ages, probably won't let the benefits in front of him slip away.

Sure enough, Chen Tingjing took the initiative to report the household department's grain balance last year to the emperor.

At first glance, it sounds that the grain stocks of the Qing Dynasty are gradually increasing, but what follows is that the population of the Qing people continues to grow, and they are consumed rapidly.The surplus grain in the granary seems to be enough, but in fact, it needs to be used for emergency in case of any natural disaster. Overall, the balance of this item is like stepping on a tightrope, tense.It is precisely because of this that Kangxi tried to avoid fighting at both ends, and at the same time dealt with the loss of the national power of Tsarist Russia and the Junggar Khanate in the Qing Dynasty.

Kangxi tapped the table with his fingers, and pondered: "Then, what does the Qing Dynasty use to conduct long-term and stable transactions with foreigners going abroad?"

"I'm afraid Khan Ama doesn't know that in the minds of foreigners, silk and porcelain from the East are so expensive that only the royal family can use them. The extravagant nobles in France love these, and so do the wealthy tycoons in England. These, the Qing Dynasty not only needs to import, but also needs to export goods, and most importantly, to regain the influence of the Han and Tang Dynasties on the surrounding world."

Everyone thinks that the Qing Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, and that’s okay, so just follow the trend. The Qing Dynasty needs such a high-end "package" to export its culture and manage its own international image.