Kangxi was so angry that he blocked the gate of the Qianqing Palace and scolded Yinreng for half an hour, calling him a rebellious son, an unfilial son, and a son who was punished by heaven.

However, those words caused almost no harm to Yinreng.

At first, Yinreng went to the door in person and tried to persuade him to enter the Palace of Heavenly Purity in a gentle manner, but Kangxi disagreed and insisted on blocking the door and scolding him, so Yinreng ignored him.

He even asked the record officer to record the words he cursed. Anyway, he had already made a gesture of submission. If Kangxi still insisted on it, he would be being unreasonable.

When Kangxi saw the chief attendant setting a table at the door, he was so angry that his eyes went dark, and he finally returned to Qixiang Palace in frustration.

When the Tong family fell into complete decline and Yinreng had not yet turned his attention to Ma Qi, Ma Qi very tactfully wrote a letter to ask for retirement.

He understood that the Tong family was just the beginning. After the new emperor came to power, the first thing he would have to clean up would be the confidants of the previous emperor. If there was any prince who was not in the same mind as the new emperor, he could make another bet and fight back.

Unfortunately... from Yinzhi to Yinlu, everyone tried their best to support the new emperor.

Ma Qi just didn't understand. What kind of magic potion did the new emperor give them to make them defend his rule so much?

Not wanting the Fucha family to suffer the same fate of being broken up, Ma Qi had no choice but to give in.

If Yinreng had not known that Ma Qi had collaborated with the enemy and committed treason in history, he would have been happy to give him a chance.

Unfortunately, what this world lacks most is if.

The days passed one by one, and soon it was the first year of Xiangyi.

After more than a year, Yinreng had firmly grasped the political power in his own hands. After a year of dormancy and recuperation, the officials gradually figured out Yinreng's temperament.

In a nutshell, if someone is capable and willing to do practical things for the people, even if Yinreng points his finger at him and scolds him, Yinreng will not do anything to him.

On the contrary, if you have no ability but are still occupying the toilet without doing anything, then get out as soon as possible.

After a year, many Manchu-related households in the court were cleared out, and court officials dared to speak boldly in front of Yinreng.

So some people started to make a fuss about the fact that Yinreng had no descendants.

Yinreng is 39 years old this year. In this dynasty where the average age is 30 years old, he is an emperor without an heir, which is a huge shock to the court and the people.

People from the Cabinet, the Ministry of Rites and even the Imperial Observatory took turns persuading him to adopt two children from his brother's family and teach them personally so that the great Qing Dynasty would not be left without successors.

Yinreng thought about it and finally promised that if they were over forty and still had no children, he would adopt a child.

In fact, since he ascended the throne, he and Guwalja began to take care of their health.

Kangxi's old man Deng was already sixty years old and was still having children in Kuku. There was no reason why he couldn't have a child before he was forty.

But after such a long period of recuperation, there was still no movement from the Guwalgiya family, so Yinreng felt that the hope might not be very great.

He has nothing to be disappointed or regretful about.

After all, if he had chosen to have both a son and a daughter at the beginning, he might not be able to sit in this position now.

He had already made up his mind. If he really was not destined to have children in this life, he would pick two talented brothers and teach them personally. He would be able to raise a qualified heir.

On the third day after he made the promise, good news came from Kunning Palace: the queen was pregnant.

As soon as the news came out, everyone celebrated.

Of course, whether this happiness is real or pretended is unknown to outsiders.

After Guwalgiya became pregnant, troubles followed. What made Yinreng speechless the most was that the censors asked Yinreng to expand his harem.

After all, in this era, the medical system is not so perfect, and the probability of infant and young child death is really too high, so their concerns are not unreasonable.

However, Yinreng was a hundred-year-old man and could not bring himself to do anything to those concubines who were only fourteen or fifteen years old.

He's not some beast...

When the censors pressed him too hard, Yinreng said that he was unable to do it, which made the censors doubt their lives.

When it comes to men's dignity, they keep their mouths shut about such matters. Who would be like Yinreng, who keeps saying that he is unable to do something?

He is an emperor!

Doesn't he have any face?

Yinreng sneered——

face?

How much is face worth?

He was unwilling to make the harem filthy and messy for the sake of that illusory face.

Where there are people, there are disputes. This statement has always been realism.

Yinreng didn't want them to keep an eye on what was happening in his backyard all day, so he dropped another bombshell: he wanted to increase the salaries of officials.

In his early years, Yinreng was tortured by the bizarre officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. He clearly knew that if the survival problems of low-level officials were not improved, no honest officials would emerge from this fertile land.

The primary goal of reform is to start with top-level officials.

Taking the salary of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet as an example, their annual salary was 180 taels of silver and 180 hu of rice. If converted according to the prices before Yinreng's death in later generations, this amount would be about 100,000 yuan.

It is hard to imagine that a senior official at the core of the political hierarchy only receives such a small amount of salary per year. It is difficult to support a family of five, let alone servants.

According to Yinreng's calculations, the salary of a cabinet minister must be at least ten times higher than it is today, so that a cabinet minister can support his family and still have a surplus of half every year to leave a way out for future generations.

Only in this way can we completely solve the problem from the root that they have to make money from other places to supplement their family income.

However, he did not raise the officials' salaries to such a high level all at once. Instead, he first doubled the officials' basic salaries, and then asked people from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel to calculate the officials' length of service.

Based on three years of service, the salary will be increased by 5% every year thereafter.

Not 5% of the monthly salary, but 5% of the annual salary.

The salary of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet doubled to about 200,000 a year. After working in the cabinet for three years, the salary became 210,000 in the first year and 220,500 in the second year.

Increasing year by year.

For officials promoted from the lower ranks, three years of service are equivalent to one year of service at the next higher rank.

Take Li Guangdi as an example. He was promoted to the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion in the 44th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign. It has been eight years now. His annual salary is now nearly 300,000, not including the accumulated years of service when he entered the court as an official.

By this calculation, if a person climbs from the bottom to the position of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, his annual salary must be at least 400,000.

Although it is still not much, it is definitely enough for the family to live without pressure in Beijing.

When this policy came out, the officials in the court were happy, but the nobles and royal family members were not so happy.

Why can officials in the court enjoy such generous treatment while their titles and salaries remain unchanged?

These people formed a group to cause trouble for Yinreng. Some even threatened that if it were not for their ancestors, there would be no Qing Dynasty today, and their titles and salaries would also be increased.