179 179 No money
◎ Excuse me! I'm really short of money, dear! ◎
Especially Master Kang now, he is actually quite short of money.
Apart from other things, he has to spend several million taels of silver on tours every year, and he really likes to tour.
Of course, there are many advantages to touring, such as understanding the people's livelihood, inspecting the territory, shocking the world, etc.
Especially Master Kang's tours, it is really not a pure enjoyment version. It's
just that although touring is good in many ways, there is only one thing, it is really too expensive.
It is said that the expenses are easily several million taels, and this is only the travel expenses and food expenses, not to mention the construction of the palace and the extra expenses incurred by the local government.
As for the officials, big and small, from top to bottom, taking advantage of this opportunity to save money, it is even more needless to say, the amount is simply incalculable.
Therefore, with so many thousands of silver dollars spent every year and traveling all over the world, it is strange that he can have money.
Add to that the expenses of the empress dowager and the masters in the palace, as well as the hot springs, palaces, villas, festivals, and rewards, these expenses are simply too much to count.
And there is also the disaster relief when a natural disaster occurs, and the tax exemption for the disaster area, which also requires a lot of money.
Logically speaking, after all the calculations, Master Kang, as the king of a country, is really stretched to the limit, with little income and much expenditure, so it is best for him to save some money.
After all, no matter how much he can earn, it is limited, so he has to think of a way to save money, which is the right thing to do.
For example, these tours can be completely reduced or even eliminated.
Obviously, this is impossible for Master Kang.
Compared with eating and drinking, which is the most favorite pastime of ordinary people, it is indeed more important for the old man to go on tours.
He can sleep outdoors and eat simpler, but he still has to go on tours.
Especially to visit those Mongolian relatives outside the Great Wall. If he doesn't go, they will be unhappy and may make trouble again.
By then, it won't be something that can be solved with just a few million taels of silver.
Once a war breaks out, the losses will be enormous.
So you see, we have to go to the north. And we have to go to the south as well.
That's where floods have been happening year after year. Master Kang allocates millions of taels of silver to them every year to repair the river and build dams. Shouldn't he see the flood control situation with his own eyes?
Those are all silver!
His silver!
So, after hearing about the corruption of the river workers, Master Kang was so angry.
This is the life-saving money of the common people. Why are those bastards so black-hearted that they even want to touch this money?
What are people doing? !
For this reason, Master Kang often lost his temper and roared in various places such as the court, the study, and on tour. However, this old man only talked about it. He has been in office for so many years, but he has never really dealt with corruption.
It can be said that if it were not for Lin Ruhai and the four great masters, the thirteenth prince, and other clear-headed people who promoted this matter, Master Kang would not want to care about it.
In his later years, he was particularly soft-hearted, which was in sharp contrast to his "ruthless" heart when he was young.
In this way, those people can no longer be so hard-working. As long as there is a little opportunity, they will desperately make money. Once they have the money in their hands, they will consider it their own. Anyway, the long-lived master will not pursue it. Isn't this good?
Without punishment measures, there is no intimidation.
Therefore, Master Kang was called "the greatest emperor of all time" in vain, but in fact, it was all because of his reputation that he spent money.
If the fourth master had not been chosen to succeed the throne and allowed him to work on the "clean government" construction for more than ten years, who
knows what the Qing Empire would be like. It might have been ruined before the Empress Dowager Cixi took action.
How did it ruin?
Of course it was because of poverty.
Without the fourth master, so much money would have been spent on Master Kang, and with Qian Xiaosi, who was trying to do more than he could, it would not have worked even if there were mountains of gold and silver.
When Mo Yu thought of this, he felt even worse.
Sure enough, this grandfather and grandson were really spendthrifts.
According to the gossip that System 006 gave him, in history, Master Kang really liked his grandson Qian Xiaosi the most. He
was a little worse than the crown prince's Hongxi, but he really liked him.
After all, birds of a feather flock together - they both like to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and they both like to spend money. It's really a tacit understanding that only grandfather and grandson can have.
So, to get such a Master Kang to allocate funds to build a school, it is really a bit technically difficult.
But Mo Yu is still ready to face the challenge.
There is no problem that cannot be solved, only Yu Yu who is not afraid of difficulties!
Mo Yu planned to take the opportunity of returning to the palace to work to discuss this matter with Master Kang, but what he never expected was that before he took the initiative to find Master Kang, Master Kang had already taken the initiative to find him.
It seems that Master Kang has some new ideas, so he is eager to find him to discuss in the palace.
The reason for this guess is mainly due to Mo Yu's understanding of this old man.
He really likes to go on tours. He is
either on tour or on the way to go on tour. It is already quite good to stay in the palace for one or two months a year.
So, according to the time, his urge to go on tours is about to come back, so he has to prepare for the tour.
Sure enough, just as Mo Yu guessed, as soon as Mo Yu entered the palace, Master Kang greeted him warmly:
"Lin Moyu, you are here? Come and take a look, how about this map?"
Mo Yu was a little surprised when he heard it, but he also knew that in the past two years, there were many scholars and Confucian scholars in Wuying Palace who were compiling books there, and there was also a group of people drawing maps at the same time.
This map was called "Kanyu Tu" in this era. Historical records show that during Master Kang's reign, he did a lot of book compilation work, and of course, he also redrawn a comprehensive and accurate map.
I didn't expect that this thing would be completed so early?
When Mo Yu went forward to take a look, he saw a simple sketch of the Qing Dynasty's territory.
The reason why it was a simple sketch was mainly because the re-surveying of this map was a big project. It has not been completed yet, but there are only a few years left, so it would be good to have a rough idea.
Seeing Mo Yu coming, Master Kang introduced the map to him with great interest.
Mo Yu looked at this beautiful map that looked like a maple leaf, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a long time.
[The map of the Flower Growers is still more beautiful at this time. If Master Kang knew that his unfilial descendants ceded land and paid compensation, turning the good maple leaf map into a rooster, how angry would he be. 】
As Mo Yu's mind turned, he couldn't help but cast his gaze towards the part that no longer existed in the present world. Unexpectedly, Master Kang was also looking at it. Seeing his eyes that were about to spit fire, Mo Yu felt a little uneasy.
Why did he feel a little guilty for no reason?
It's really...
No matter how powerful the old man is, he can't see through what he is thinking, right?
It shouldn't be... Not that powerful.
Mo Yu felt a little scared when he was stared at by Master Kang. But he also knew that "mind reading" and the like were just myths and legends.
If Master Kang really had such magical skills, then he wouldn't have to worry so much about who would inherit the throne.
To be honest, among the current princes, although many have more strengths than the fourth prince, there is only one who is suitable to turn the tide and take over Master Kang's position.
The others are either not as capable as him, or have poor character, or are not as capable and as good as him.
The Thirteenth Prince is a suitable candidate, but unfortunately his health is not very good, and he died earlier than the Fourth Prince...
This is very embarrassing.
Is it really going to be "the late emperor died halfway through his career"?
That would be too uncomfortable.
It would be a huge adverse impact on the country - the disadvantages of frequent changes of emperors are well known to everyone, so it is better not to choose the Thirteenth Prince.
Mo Yu was thinking about these things in his heart, but Master Kang could no longer tolerate his "wild thoughts".
What the hell?
Will future generations have to cede land and pay compensation?
How could the descendants of his Aixinjueluo family be so cowardly?
This must not be allowed.
I absolutely cannot tolerate it.
Master Kang wanted to explode on the spot, but of course he still couldn't overcome the mute restriction that came with "Listen to Your Heart". It
was the first time he hated such a restriction so much that he couldn't even curse or lose his temper!
Are you kidding? That's ceding land and paying compensation!
Was it ceded to Russia? Or England?
It couldn't be the Japanese pirates, right?
It was a pity that the Lin family kid's "voice of his heart" couldn't choose what to listen to, nor could he choose what not to listen to. He could only watch as Mo Yu's thoughts turned around on this major event, and then drifted to other places.
There was no better way except to stare blankly.
Fortunately, he finally remembered one thing, that is, he should not let the fourth son's son named Hongli succeed to the throne in the future.
Well, the fourth son should really be heard as well.
No, it is also possible to simply not let the fourth son succeed to the throne, wouldn't that solve the problem?
However, would it really be better if the fourth son was not allowed to succeed to the throne?
After all, didn't the kid from the Lin family just say that if other brothers were chosen, they might not even survive the period of ceding land and paying compensation?
...
The more Master Kang thought about it, the angrier and more confused he felt, and he couldn't do anything about Mo Yu.
And Mo Yu was of course as thick-skinned as always.
After all, in this world, he was still just a half-grown child.
What bad ideas can a child have?
It is better to build some infrastructure, which can at least speed up the construction speed, so that you can get a few more rounds of beatings in the future - of course, it would be even better if you can avoid being beaten.
Thinking of this, Mo Yu directly followed Master Kang and made a request:
"Your Highness, I have something to report."
Master Kang was originally immersed in sadness and depression and couldn't extricate himself - no one would be happy to know that his descendants would be so wasteful in the future.
Moreover, Master Kang was originally a strong person, so he looked down on weaklings even more.
At this time, he heard Mo Yu calling him, so of course he responded quickly.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Mo Yu directly talked about the construction of a national university.
He tried to describe it to Master Kang in easy-to-understand language, but he began to mutter a few words in his heart.
[I am not saying that the reason why we will fall behind and be beaten in the future is because of the Empress Dowager Cixi - oh, no, she is just a tool. The real problem is that most people in the entire court are not good enough. ]
[You can pull her down if she messes up. If you don't know how to govern the country, don't just sit there and do nothing. The words "harming the country and the people" are absolutely correct. ]
[The curse of Yehenara is also a gimmick, but I didn't expect it to come true. If Emperor Xianfeng didn't marry this thing, it might not be so easy to end up...]
[But maybe, in the final analysis, it's still a human problem. Especially for girls, if they are not given the right to receive the same education, and then huge power is thrown to them by mistake, won’t it cause trouble? 】
【So, we really need to do a good job in education, and make it the same for boys and girls... After all, there are thieves who have been thieves for a thousand years, but there are no thieves who have been guarding against them for a thousand years. If there is no Yehenala Cixi, there may be girls from other families who will cause trouble! 】
【After all, the emperor is also born by his mother, so we have to catch up with the lessons for the girls. 】
【Author’s words】
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