It's quite a contradiction.

Since it was Yinzhen who discovered the problem, Kangxi naturally summoned Yinzhen over.

"Gu Badai told me about the current situation of the Ministry of Revenue. I heard that you were the first to discover this matter?"

Yinzhen nodded: "Your Majesty, it was I who discovered it."

Emperor Kangxi asked with some curiosity, "How did you discover that?"

"Your subject saw the pile of IOUs in the Ministry of Revenue and casually asked about the difference between the silver on the books and the actual silver in the national treasury. I didn't expect the difference to be so big, so I thought of sorting it out in detail. In the process of sorting it out, your subject discovered the harm of not stopping the lending of silver."

"Then I told Lord Gu about it. I was thinking of telling Father Emperor after I came up with a solution, but I didn't expect that Lord Gu was so concerned about the Ministry of Revenue that Father Emperor found out about it too."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Kangxi nodded and said, "You did very well."

Upon receiving such a remark from his imperial father, Yinzhen was somewhat surprised. In his dream, the Ministry of Revenue was in an even worse situation than this. However, at that time, when Yongzheng proposed to urge the repayment of the loan, his imperial father had pushed him away several times. In the end, the Ministry of Revenue could no longer hold on and finally agreed.

Seeing his father, the Emperor, being so easy to talk to now, he felt it was somewhat unreal.

He thought the "Ministry of Revenue's Pleading Poverty" plan would be a protracted battle, but he didn't expect that this would be the first round, directly "hitting" his father, the Emperor, and making his father take it seriously.

That's incredible.

"It's all what I should do."

Emperor Kangxi: "You were the first to discover the problem with the Ministry of Revenue, so do you have a solution?"

Yinzhen: "Your subject has some ideas."

Kangxi was not surprised that he had an idea: "Tell me about it."

At this time, Kangxi did not think that he could come up with any particularly good ideas, and he was just giving his son a chance, so he listened to his thoughts.