On November 25, Yinzhen's concubine Li launched a rebellion.

This birth was extremely difficult, and I heard that someone even tried to tamper with her during labor.

Yinzhen was furious and conducted a thorough investigation. Finally, he found out that it was Ulanara who was responsible.

Yinzhen naturally didn't believe it, but all the evidence at the moment pointed to Ulanara, and Ulanara had no way to defend herself.

Such an incident was not glorious, so Yinzhen issued a gag order early on, but it was not concealed in the end. After a few days, Defei's house arrest was lifted.

Ulanara went to the palace to pay her respects, but was scolded by Concubine De.

Then the whole imperial city knew about it.

Ulanara returned to the Beile Mansion in a state of embarrassment.

This incident became known to everyone in just one day. Yinzhen didn't believe that there was no one behind the scenes fanning the flames.

He smelled something unusual from here.

For example... he clearly issued a gag order in time, so why did De'er Niang, who was still under house arrest, know about it?

Now she is unwilling to even put on a show.

After hearing about this, Yinreng suddenly remembered the fleeting thought that had occurred to him when he was in Yinzhen's mansion more than half a month ago.

Tsk…

He said that this kind of thing can't stand being talked about.

Fortunately, Li gave birth to a daughter safely.

Time flies in the busyness.

Before the Chinese New Year, Kangxi did not pardon the officials of the Imperial Household Department who were imprisoned.

After the Dragon Raised its Head, Kangxi seemed to have finally remembered them. He reduced the original terms by 50% and asked them to sign a "IOU" before releasing everyone.

For those who have been in prison for half a year, they are desperate to get out.

But after going out, he thought of the huge debt his family owed, and he was so sad that he could not even cry.

Even if Kangxi gave them a 50% discount, it was still a huge sum of 500,000 taels of silver. Those whose families had many officials had to bear an additional debt of 150,000 taels each.

The more prominent the family was before, the more helpless it is now.

The only way to fill this hole is to sell off the property.

But their "family property" had already been confiscated by Kangxi, and the "trifles" left behind were not enough to fill the gap.

Even the mansion was given to them by Kangxi.

After thinking through all this, the joy of being released from prison disappeared.

At the end of March, after the Princess Jiuge's mansion was built, Yinzhen personally sent the five trained maids and a female doctor to her.

After seeing these old women who exuded the spirit of "I'm not someone to be trifled with", even the usually calm Ninth Princess couldn't help but open her eyes wide in shock.

Fortunately, after half a year of advice from Yinzhen and Ulanara, Jiugege finally had some idea in her mind. She had realized that the man she was going to marry might not be as gentle, young and promising as the rumors said.

Moreover, considering the relationship between my mother and the Tong family, Shun Anyan probably doesn't have any good feelings towards me.

The people in front of her all looked extremely ferocious, and having them protecting her made her feel much more at ease.

On the afternoon before the Ninth Princess's wedding, the Crown Princess brought a group of sisters-in-law to add makeup to her.

In addition to the set of ruby ​​head ornaments that were visible, Guaerjia also secretly put a small box containing 10,000 taels of silver notes.

The fourth lady did the same thing as her, except that she only put in five thousand taels of silver.

The silver they gave together exceeded the dowry given by Kangxi.

On the day of the Ninth Princess's wedding, Yinzhen brought several of his married brothers, except Yinreng, into the wedding procession to boost the Ninth Princess's image.

And his goal was indeed achieved.

Shun Anyan attaches much more importance to marrying Jiu Gege than Jiu Gege herself.

He didn't care much about Jiu Gege, but he couldn't help but care about the people behind Jiu Gege.

After the Ninth Princess got married, the merchant ship at Tianjin Port also trained its sailors and set off with the expectations of Yinreng and others.

Kangxi was a "Pixiu" person, and he finally realized that the silver in his private treasury was increasing and could no longer go out without coming in, so he assigned a task to Yinreng.

Yinreng was put in charge of building the official road from Tianjin to the capital.

And Yinreng originally had this plan.

But his ambition was even greater. He planned to build the official roads between the capital and Jizhou as well.

After bargaining with Kangxi, he successfully took out two million taels of silver from Kangxi's private treasury, but Yinreng still felt it was a little too little.

There will be opportunities to deduct more points in the future.

In fact, two million taels were enough for him to repair all the roads in Jizhou, but compared with the silver the old man had collected in his private treasury over the years, these two million taels were just a drop in the bucket.

In the past two or three years, all the palaces, big and small, in the Forbidden City have been renovated.

How could he have so much money in the past?

Instead of letting the money gather dust in a private vault, it would be better to take it all out and use it to improve people's livelihood.

It's time to start work on water conservancy projects in Yuzhou, Sanjin, and Shu.

After obtaining the start-up capital, Yinreng set his sights on the third and fifth sons, who were relatively free.

There was also Old Twelve who had just entered the court on official business.

Although Twelve is a little transparent, he has been "beaten" in the study for ten years, so if he trains him well, he will be able to train him into a good ox or horse.

Besides, any skill Twelve learns is a skill. Since he can learn "funeral care", he can also learn architecture.

The third brother is still in charge of the development of the suburbs, but it is finally on the right track. With his subordinates keeping an eye on it, he doesn't have to worry too much.

What really consumes his energy is his book-editing project. Currently, "Ancient and Modern Architecture Collection" only covers the mortise and tenon technology, and there is still a lot of content to be included.

So when Yinreng came to him, he was a little reluctant, but he was soon tempted by Yinreng with the word "merit".

After Lao Wu finished reforming the Jiangnan Weaving Factory, Kangxi placed him in the Ministry of War. In the past two years, except for the expansion of the Fujian Navy, everything was stable in other places.

It can be said that the fifth brother is the one with the most free time among all the brothers.

So when Yinreng came to him, he agreed without any hesitation.

In early May, Yinreng successfully left the capital with the approval of Kangxi.

Although he was still being monitored, he felt much more comfortable than being under Kangxi's watchful eyes.

Construction of the official road from the capital to Tianjin started first. Yinreng referred to the standards of later generations and designed the road into a two-way four-horse carriageway. Canals were dug on both sides of the road for waterproofing, and evergreen pines and cypresses were planted.

The road surface was first flattened with a stone roller weighing several thousand kilograms, and then paved with large stones to ensure the stability of the road.

The second layer is paved with small stones to fill the gaps between the large stones, and the third layer is paved with a mixture of cinders, limestone and clay to prevent weeds from growing.

The fourth layer is paved with fine sand and limestone to increase the smoothness of the road.

This is how official roads are built in this era.

After Yinreng studied it for a while, he missed the asphalt road more and more.