[Qing] Tuan's favorite gluttonous little prince

When Yinqi woke up from his afternoon nap, he saw Khan Ama and Er Niang sitting not far away with sad faces.

He slept soundly, completely unaware that he was taken to Kunning Palace by Khan Ama, and then Er Niang followed him back to Qianqing Palace.

He jumped up and shouted triumphantly, "Er Niang~ Zai Zai woke up!"

When he woke up and got up by himself, and didn't cry, Er Niang would applaud and praise him, and would come to hug him and kiss him.

But this time my mother didn't.

She smiled reluctantly, "Zai Zai is awake, come on, get dressed."

Yinqi became a little unhappy, and lay down on the back with a bang, humming and chirping: "Wow... Er Niang, praise me!"

Only then did Xiu Min come to her senses, and helplessly praised him as usual: "Okay, Zai Zai is so good, I didn't even cry when I got up, Zai Zai is so good, come and kiss me."

Yin Qi stopped crying for a second, got up and threw himself into Xiu Min's arms, "Emiang, wipe away your tears~"

Kangxi watched the interaction between mother and son, and his heart was full of soft fatherly love, what an ignorant and innocent child.

Thinking of the poor handling of the wolf dog today, the bad rumors spreading, and the bleak prospects that the good cubs will face, distress and anger rose together.

After Yinqi put on his clothes, he was taken to the next room.As soon as he entered the house, he was immediately attracted by various animals, including horses, donkeys, deer, dogs, chickens, ducks, geese, and cats.

Yinqi wowed and struggled to grab it.

Kangxi and Xiumin looked at each other and put him down.

In the serious and tense faces of the two, Yin Qi ran over like a happy child.

At this time, Xiao Bai, who hadn't appeared for a long time, stopped him: [Host, can you not use your blood pressure to tame animals? ]

Yinqi paused, [Why? ]

Xiaobai: [I heard what you Khan Ama and Er Niang said when you were sleeping. They said that if you can speak animal language, you will not be allowed to touch animals in the future!And you have to kill all the people who have seen you tame animals. ]

Yinqi was stunned, [Why? ]

Xiaobai: [You Khan Ama said that you are the blood of the royal and noble real dragon emperor. If people believe that you are born with wild animals and livestock, what is the dignity of the royal face? ]

Seeing Yinqi's bewildered face, one can tell that he doesn't understand the seriousness of the problem at all.

Xiaobai: [You will still be treated as a monster, and you and your mother-in-law will be blamed for any bad things that happen in the Qing Dynasty in the future.For example, next year's earthquake, flood, and fire, everyone will say it is your fault. ]

Seeing Yinqi running halfway, he suddenly stopped and stayed for a long time, Kangxi and Xiumin observed for a while, then walked over worriedly, "Zai Zai, what's wrong with you?!"

At this moment, Yinqi moved again, he ran over, like an ordinary two-year-old baby, kicked around like a dog, and then was chased by geese and ran around the room.

Kangxi & Xiumin: "..."

The two looked at each other, seeing relief in each other's eyes.

After listening to Xiaobai's words, Yin Qi restrained his blood, but was bullied by the goose and cried: "Zai Zai, I'm not jealous (wrong)... Wow... What should I do if it's swollen?"

Kangxi picked up the cub and kicked the goose away, finally saving him.

Seeing that Zai Zai was crying hard, Xiu Min comforted him and said, "Stop crying, Zai Zai, let's stew this goose for you, okay?"

Yinqi suppressed his collapsed emotions for a second: "Okay!"

Kangxi: "..." It was so angry and funny.

Yipin waited all afternoon in the side hall of Qianqing Palace in fear, and finally, when Liang Jiugong came with a smile on her face, the big stone in her heart finally fell to the ground.

In the evening of that day, Qianqing Palace issued an imperial decree, rewarding the two of them.

One is that Concubine Yi offered her meritorious devotion to a divine dog with human nature, and rewarded her with a hundred taels of gold and a tree of red coral from the South China Sea.

The second is that because the god dog recognizes the master of the nine princes Yinqi, the god dog is specially given to the nine princes.

Concubine Yi returned to Yikun Palace with the reward, and once again envied the women in the harem. The red coral was only one tree in the emperor's private treasury due to the chaos in San Francisco in the past few years.

What an honor this is!

What trick did Yipin have to coax the emperor to be so special to her?

And these days, Yinqi is going crazy.

He drove the wolf dog sled and took two young eunuchs to shuttle freely between the east and west palaces, and the children's laughter left a string after another.

He can go to any palace he wants to find delicious food, and he can go to any palace. The snow will not affect his travel at all.Not only did he get a lot of delicious food, but he also performed a filial piety for Er Niang. Huang Mamo and Ukumamo were very happy to see him.

Everyone soon found out that Yipin was greatly rewarded and favored by the Ninth Prince because of offering the god dog.

Some people thought that the Ninth Prince, the most beloved child of Kangxi, was a good breakthrough.

For another three days in a row, Kangxi still turned over Yipin's green cards.

But no one knows, Yipin is suffering in her heart.

In order to show her the reward of presenting the "God Dog", the emperor turned over her sign every day, but he didn't favor her, even she couldn't see Tianyan.

It wasn't until the first day of the twelfth lunar month, when the emperor was supposed to go to the queen's palace according to the rules, that Concubine Yi was not flopped, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Kangxi has a worry recently, who will raise the eleventh son of Wu Ya's family?

Except for Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui, who have contributed to the birth of the prince, the other concubines are either young or have lost the emperor's heart, and have long been rejected by him.

According to the ancestral system, the queen cannot raise the concubine's children, otherwise he would say that the queen would be the one who raises the best children.

The Empress Dowager often fell ill and needed rest.In the empress dowager's palace, she has already helped raise three princesses.

Xiu Min didn't care about his troubles: "Just give Wu Ya a concubine."

Kangxi frowned and disagreed, "This is against the rules."

Xiu Min secretly rolled her eyes, but she remembered that Wu Ya's clan would be conferred separately next year, and next time, she would be conferred directly as a concubine, and her status would still be ahead of Concubine Rong.

Dog man, when he wanted to be a favorite concubine, why didn't he think about breaking the rules?

After more than ten years of husband and wife, she looked at his eyes and knew that he was actually moved. After all, Wu Yashi was favored, and Kangxi might just wait for her to come up with some reasons to 'convince' him.

She doesn't!

Xiu Min stopped talking and turned to play graffiti with Yin Qi.

Kangxi held back for a long time, just as he was about to say something, Yinhu came back.

He was distracted, and asked with great interest how much he knew about the situation in Taiwan recently?

Yin Hu replied solemnly: "In terms of the battle situation, the enemy is full of tricks. They often join forces with the San Francisco rebels to sneak attack and attack front and back. Our army has suffered a lot of defeats. Half a month ago, the enemy army even broke the Jiangdong Bridge, trying to cut off our reinforcements and food."

"In terms of military strength, although our army has more soldiers and horses, the enemy's ships and artillery are more powerful, and the soldiers are better at swimming and are more familiar with the climate and terrain of the strait. Our army often loses in naval battles."

"In terms of food and grass, it is often unsustainable due to the emptiness of the national treasury. The enemy has been exploiting Fujian, Guangdong and other places for a long time, regardless of the lives of the people. Although there is enough food and grass, it has long lost the support of the people."

Although it is not very accurate and complete, compared to before, Yinhu has obviously done his homework. Kangxi nodded with satisfaction, and asked again: "In your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

Yin Hu: "First of all, we should train more elite naval troops; second, we should build more powerful ships and cannons; finally, the most important thing is to find a way to raise money to ensure the supply of food and grass."

Kangxi nodded approvingly, "Not bad, not bad, I can think of so much. Have you figured out where to go for business?"

Yinhu's eyes were sharp: "I saw it at Grand Master Nan Huairen, and I want to study more powerful artillery firearms!"

Before Kangxi said anything, Xiu Min suddenly interjected: "Don't you want to solve the most fundamental problem first?"

"What fundamental problem?"

"Money."

Yinhu scratched his head: "The national treasury is empty, and after this year's taxes and salaries are collected, it is still not enough to make ends meet. The adults in the household department can't do anything about it, what can my son-in-law do?"

Xiu Min: "The Ministry of Households has no money, what about the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Kangxi said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs is even more out of money. Minmin, you haven't done anything these past few years. You don't know that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has to allocate 6 to [-] taels of silver from the Ministry of Households every year."

"Yeah?" Xiu Min smiled sarcastically, "How come I can't make ends meet when I'm in charge of the harem?"

Kangxi immediately frowned, except that the Tong Jia family was in charge of it for more than half a year, and the imperial concubine Niu Gulu's family was in charge of it in the past few years. Although the queen's doubts were well-founded, she was a deceased person after all, should she be held accountable? fault?

Xiu Min could tell what he was thinking just by looking at his expression, so she couldn't help but sneered in her heart.

Historically, Empress Hesheli died the earliest, and became the white moonlight in Kangxi's heart, making him read for most of his life.

But this time, she didn't die.It was Niu Gulu who died first, and Bai Yueguang became her, and she was not allowed to be discredited by others.

Xiu Min: "Don't think too much, I didn't say it was her fault, it must be the slave."

As she spoke, she called Madam Cao to bring a stack of ledgers.

The top one is the backup account book she kept in the palace when she presided over the New Year's Eve banquet when she was in charge of the palace, and this year's estimated bill for Concubine Hui Rong according to the old practice.

Kangxi and Yinhu looked at these two first, and found that the items basically hadn't changed much, but the prices had increased by more than ten times!

The price of expensive food such as bird's nest and shark's fin has increased by about ten times, but those dishes that were originally relatively cheap have increased by fifty or sixty times? !

Seeing this, Yinhu couldn't help asking: "Why did prices in the Qing Dynasty rise so fast?"

As he said that, he opened other books, all of which were the real books of the New Year's Eve banquet in previous years.It turned out that the raw materials used were different.

For example, the original rice was 'Southern Gongmi', but now it is 'Special Supply Gongmi'; for example, the original cabbage was Chinese cabbage, but now it is 'Emerald Cabbage'.Moreover, the price increase of these raw materials is not a one-time increase, but is slowly increasing every year.

Yinhu couldn't help frowning: "Didn't Khan Ama order the Ministry of Internal Affairs to increase revenue and reduce expenditure because of the fight against the rebels in San Francisco in recent years?"

Xiu Min had a half-smile but not a smile: "People in the royal family eat the best food to appear dignified, which is understandable."

"Is that so?" Yinhu looked at Khan Ama.

Kangxi was silent and didn't speak for a long time.

Xiu Min asked: "Would Yinhu be willing to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do business? Huangzhuang's annual income is not low, maybe you can find a real way to increase revenue and reduce expenditure?"

Only then did Kangxi come back to his senses, "Hu'er is only ten years old..."

Xiu Min: "That's right, it's because I'm only ten years old, so it's better to learn to do errands first at 'home'."

Yinhu didn't think about it for long, so he agreed, "My son is willing to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to study and do business."

Kangxi said, "Let me think about it."

Then let Yinhu go back to his palace and rest early.

After he left, Kangxi asked the queen, "Did you find anything?"

Xiu Min asked him a question: "Does your majesty know how much Qi'er's eggs cost each day?"

How did Kangxi know?He waited for her answer.

"Nine taels of silver per egg." Xiu Min revealed the answer, and seeing Kangxi's calm expression, he knew that he had no idea at all.

She asked again: "Then do you know how many eggs you can buy with nine taels of silver?"

"How many?"

Xiu Min calmly dropped a thunderbolt: "Five thousand."

While Kangxi took a deep breath, Yinqi let out a "wow", gave up his graffiti game, and squeezed into the middle of the two with a dirty body.

"Er Niang, Zai Zai is going to, 'folk', eat, five thousand~"

Although he didn't know how many [-] were, it was definitely much more than one, and even Xiaobai let out a loud 'wow' in his mind.

He can only eat one a day, can 'folk' children eat five thousand a day?