After I was reborn, I became a plug-in for the country

Although Yinreng's birthday had to be celebrated, he was still young, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs only held a family banquet according to the highest standard, not as grand as Kangxi's Qianqiu Festival.

The concubines and princes from the harem naturally came, but the foreign court ministers only sent congratulatory gifts and did not enter the palace to celebrate the birthday.

Because of last year's general election, there are many more people in the palace than when Yinfeng first came back.Moreover, the territory of Yuqing Palace is narrow and long, and the area is not large enough to hold so many tables, so this palace banquet was held in Qianqing Palace.

The rules of the palace banquet are complicated, and the servants arrange it from morning to afternoon.

But the busyness of the servants did not affect the master at all, and Kangxi still had to go to the court to handle political affairs as usual.

A major event so far this year is that there has been little rain since spring, and after Lixia, even the Jiangnan area, which has always been rainy, is gradually becoming dry.

Except for the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, other state capitals across the country struggled to even pay taxes in the middle of the previous year.The grain prices in the capital have been faintly affected by the drought, and have begun to rise slightly.If this continues, I am afraid that this year will become a year of great famine.

Kangxi has been worrying about this for the past few days.

He asked the transfer department, the treasury is really not full now.The tax money from the previous two years was used to deal with the three times, but if there is really a major famine this year, it is still a question of where to raise the money for disaster relief.

With money in short supply, Kangxi was so worried that he didn't turn over his cards for several days.In the morning court these few days, the courtiers were all arguing because of this matter.

roughly divided into two factions.

One faction, led by Mingzhu, thinks that this year's tax should be exempted now, so that the people will not have to worry about paying taxes after they can't eat enough.

The other faction, headed by Tong Guogang, believes that it is still uncertain whether it is a drought or not.The papers in local newspapers only said that there might be a drought, but did not say that the grain harvest would be reduced. It is too early to draw conclusions.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Kangxi listened to the chattering and arguing of the ministers standing below him, feeling a little strange for a moment.

He glanced at the group of officials, his eyes narrowed slightly, by the way, there are still people who haven't expressed their opinions yet.

Suo'etu didn't hear the discussion of other colleagues at all, and he is now trying to figure out a few things in his hands recently.

The first thing was that Kangxi told him to be responsible for entertaining the Russians.

The errand had been in his hands for a few days.The Russians are not easy to serve, and relying on their status as waiters, they know that they dare not neglect them. They are not used to the food of the Qing Dynasty, and they find trouble every now and then.After three days of worrying about Suo'etu, he added several white hairs.

Another thing is that since he listened to the prince's words and didn't go against the emperor or Mingzhu, he felt that the power in his hands was losing little by little.

His stupid son went home every now and then to complain, saying that he had been suppressed by Mingzhu's men and couldn't move, and if this continued, he would be far away from the center.

Kangxi stared at Suo'etu for a long time, seeing that he had been silent, as if he was indifferent to this matter, he simply asked directly: "Suo Qing, how do you say how to deal with this matter?"

The voice fell silent for a long time, but there was no answer.

Suo'etu was still immersed in his own affairs, and didn't react at all.It was Tong Guogang who gave him a slight push before he knew that Kangxi was asking him something.

The ministers exchanged winks, and Gao Shiqi already had a sneer on his face.

Suo'etu raised his eyes to see Kangxi's face, his heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty: "The old minister was thinking about countermeasures just now, and I didn't hear what the emperor said for a while, please forgive me."

Knowing that what he said was not necessarily Zhen, Kangxi didn't take him seriously and waited for his answer.

Suo'etu's mind was spinning fast at the moment.

He thought back carefully, just now he only heard Ming Zhu and Tong Guogang talking, so he just had to follow one of them, usually Ming Zhu had the most ideas at such times.

Suo'etu used all his brains, and quickly gave an answer: "The old minister thinks that what Master Mingzhu said is true. Reducing taxes now may alleviate the famine. Otherwise, the famine will be worse in the future and the people will be in danger. I'm afraid we won't be able to save it in time."

As soon as this sentence was finished, the courtiers were so shocked that their jaws almost fell to the ground.Gao Shiqi's smile froze on his face, and it took him a long time to get it back.

Tong Guogang turned his head back slightly.

He wanted to see what color the sky outside was now.Suo San, who has been against Ming Zhu for half of his life, still has time to follow Ming Zhu's words.If something goes wrong, there must be something strange!

The echoed Mingzhu frowned, but kept silent, just waiting for Kangxi to make a decision.

Kangxi looked at Suo'etu thoughtfully.

It's strange that Suo'etu still has the same opinion as Mingzhu.Then he remembered that it seemed that in the past two years, the two of Ming Suo had rarely confronted each other.When did this change start?

After watching for a while, Kangxi said, "Get up."

Suo'etu stood up from the ground with a very serious expression, as if he agreed with this opinion from the bottom of his heart.

The ministers withdrew their wild glances and waited for the final decision from their superiors.

Kangxi pondered for a long time, and said: "The decree is temporarily reduced or exempted from local grain taxes. The state governments will carefully verify the grain production and then make a return. The Ministry of Households is ready to prepare for disaster relief in advance."

The Hubu Shangshu who was named answered yes, and the ministers all praised: "Long live the saint!"

The court meeting of the previous dynasty was still going on, and there was a lot of excitement in Yuqing Palace.Although the banquet is not held here, Yinfeng's younger brothers all gather here.

When the concubines went to greet the empress dowager, Yinfeng naturally wanted to avoid it.Brothers were too young to stay in the Palace of Compassion and Peace, the Empress Dowager spoke up after seeing her grandchildren, and all the brothers went to Yuqing Palace to talk with the crown prince.

Because of his birthday, Yinfeng has a holiday today.Early in the morning, after he went to Fengxian Hall to pay homage to Er Niang, and went to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, he brought the group of younger brothers back.

As a result, the small Yuqing Palace changed from the deserted one it used to be to very lively.Except for the elder brother who excused his homework and didn't come, and the seventh elder brother who was not yet one year old had to go back to nurse, the other three, four, five and six elder brothers, and the big Ge Ge and Er Ge Ge were all with him.

The five-year-old third elder brother is the most lively, leading his younger brothers to jump up and down in Yuqing Palace.Both Gege are younger than Yinfeng, and the eldest Gege is only six years old this year.But the girls are well-behaved, and they are much more stable than the boys.

Yinfeng asked the servants to take the chessboard and wait for the two of them to play chess in the flower hall of Duanben Palace.

Da Gege said in a very sensible way: "Brother Prince is just busy, as long as we have servants here to take care of us."

The third elder brother led his younger brothers to squat in the garden.After the wheat was harvested, the land in the small garden was cleared, and nothing was planted now.

The third elder brother pointed to the wasteland and proudly said to the fourth elder brother: "Look, the wheat planted here before was harvested by me and the prince!"

The fourth elder brother was expressionless: "The third brother is very powerful."

The fifth elder brother and the sixth elder brother are about the same age, only two years old.I broke free from the nurse's hand, and wanted to come over and squat down with my brothers to watch the ants.

The corner of Yinreng's mouth twitched slightly, third brother, when harvesting wheat, you stand the farthest.

He looked at the fourth elder brother again, and compared the memories of his previous life. It turned out that the facial paralysis of the fourth elder brother was developed since childhood.

Yinreng suddenly felt very tired. He didn't come here to talk with him. Mama Huang asked him to help look after the child.

Rather than being the king of the kids for his younger brother, he still wants to go to the study to reward himself for doing math problems.Or, go to Fengxian Hall and talk to his mother.Every year on his birthday, what he wishes to do the most is to be with Er Niang.Unfortunately, because of his status as the crown prince, he never got his wish.

The third elder brother and the fourth elder brother over there finished chatting, leaned close to the fourth elder brother's ear and whispered: "Let's go to the prince's brother's study in a while, I found something interesting there!"

The fourth elder brother's expression did not change, but his eyes lit up: "What?"

"It looks like a bottle, but it's transparent."

Brother San hasn't seen glass yet, so he doesn't know what it is, but he just finds it very strange.

"How did you see it?" Brother Si asked.

The third elder brother raised his chin: "I often come to play with the prince's brother, and I have written down the layout of his study."

The fifth elder brother who was squatting on the side also became curious, and asked after him: "Third brother, is there really something fun?"

"Can I still lie to you? Follow me for a while, and you will know when you go to the Prince's brother's study."

A few little devils obediently followed the third elder brother and walked into the study.

Yinfeng was arranging servants to prepare snacks for his younger brothers, but by mistake, there was no one in the small garden.

Yinfeng: "!"

Where is my brother?Where did the lonely brother go?