If Yinreng chose not to have children because he didn't like her, she would resent and hate him, but Yinreng didn't do that.
He did not use any dishonorable means to scheme against her to achieve his goal of not having children, and he gave her the right to choose.
Then she has nothing to complain about.
Indeed, the education she received since childhood told her that she had to bear children for her husband, but if the child she gave birth to lived in fear every day, or even faced the risk of death at any time, she would rather not bring the child into this world.
Although only seven of her father's children survived, many died in infancy or were stillborn.
Thinking of her younger brother who died young, Guaerjia felt a lump in her heart and her eyes were swollen.
"……sorry."
Yinreng hugged her tighter, his voice full of guilt.
Guwalgiya buried her face in Yinreng's chest and said nothing.
With a few days left before the Chinese New Year, Yinreng asked Kangxi for mercy and went to take a look at the outer city and the suburbs.
It has been snowing heavily these days, and everything is covered in white.
The residential area on the outskirts of the city has become quite large. Thousands of acres of land have been built into small courtyards. Although the weather is cold, the stalls on both sides of the road are crowded with people and it is bustling.
Today, the size of the "urban management" team has become huge. Every few hundred meters, you can see "urban management" officers in blue police uniforms patrolling to maintain order in the streets.
The vendors and passers-by here also consciously keep the streets clean.
There will be special people to collect the garbage and泔水 generated here, and workers will clean the public toilets every day.
Night-scented jasmine is now a valuable commodity. Sometimes when the workers come to move the night-scented jasmine, the people living nearby will come and ask for a bucket or two to fertilize the vegetable fields at their doorstep.
Most of the people living here work on construction sites, with a stable daily income. Even if they don't have any skills, they can support themselves and their wives and children by working hard.
As Yinreng wished, the people who moved from the outer city to the suburbs lived a stable life.
After taking a tour, Yinreng felt quite happy. After all, he had changed the fate of some people with his own strength.
He was just about to lower the curtain and tell Dachun to turn around and go to the outer city when he saw an officer taking silver from a vendor.
Yinreng narrowed his eyes.
Looking at the vendor with a smile on his face and nodding and scraping, he was furious.
There is indeed a stall fee on the streets here. If the area is not large, one or two taels of silver per month is about one-tenth of the net profit of the stall. Yinreng believed that the proportion he collected was not high.
But to pay the money, one has to go to the Urban Construction Office set up by the Ministry of Revenue here. What qualifications do these officials have to collect money from the vendors?
"Let's go to the Urban Construction Office."
“Hmm…”
In order to facilitate the local residents, the Urban Construction Office was set up in the residential area, and Ma Tizi arrived there in just a cup of tea.
There were four guards at the door. When they saw the carriage approaching, two of them rushed forward to meet it.
"Who are you?"
Dachun took out a golden order from his bosom and waved it in front of the two officers. The two officers immediately knelt on the ground.
"I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Yinreng jumped down from the carriage and said,
"Go and call your manager. I want to see him."
Not long after, a middle-aged man of medium build walked in.
"Your humble servant pays respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Get up."
Yinreng sat at the head of the table and watched him get up from the ground before saying,
"I came here today to ask how you collect the stall fees on the street outside."
The middle-aged boss felt nervous and stumbled when speaking.
"Replying to… Your Highness, all the fees are collected according to the rules you… set."
Yinreng looked him up and down, making him feel creepy.
Then he chuckled and said,
"I'm giving you a chance to tell the truth. Otherwise, when I find out, you should know the consequences."
Hearing this, the man's legs went limp and he knelt on the ground.
"Your Highness, spare my life!"
A hint of coldness flashed in Yinreng's eyes.
He immediately grabbed the man in front of him and walked out of the Urban Construction Office and headed straight for the Ministry of Revenue.
It was not long before Kangxi put down his pen, and the Ministry of Revenue had already completed all the year-end settlements, so the officials did not have much to do. When Yinreng arrived with the middle-aged official, they were gathered in groups of three or five around the stove, making tea.
When they heard that the prince had come with his men in such a threatening manner, everyone's heart skipped a beat.
With their many years of experience working with the Crown Prince, there must have been a mistake somewhere...
From the Shangshu to the Zhubu, everyone was secretly groaning. The New Year was only a few days away, and as luck would have it, the Crown Prince had caught them again!
No matter how upset they are, they cannot turn a blind eye.
The left and right ministers of the Ministry of Revenue suppressed their dissatisfaction and went to see the prince with a smile on their faces.
Yinreng asked directly without waiting for them to salute.
"You two should know this person, right?"
The two of them glanced at the person sitting on the ground, frowned, and then shook their heads.
“I don’t recognize…”
"I don't recognize him."
Yinreng was so angry that he laughed.
When the suburban residential area was first built, the people in the Ministry of Revenue were afraid that he would tamper with the tariffs, so they had to send someone to keep an eye on the account books. He thought it would be a good thing to have someone in charge of the accounts, so he nodded in agreement.
Later, he saw that the people in the Ministry of Revenue did not dare to tamper with the accounts, so he felt relieved. When he formed the "urban management" team, he did not mobilize people from the Five Cities Inspection Office, but selected two heads of the Ministry of Revenue.
After all, stall fees need to be collected to pay the salaries of sanitation workers and urban management staff.
As a result, only more than a year has passed, and these two idiots don’t recognize the person in charge of urban construction.
"Hahahaha...what a strange person I don't recognize!"
Yinreng stood up from his seat.
"You actually don't recognize the people you sent out. You're really conscientious!"
After hearing this, the two looked at the man again, with confusion in their eyes. They were sure that they just didn't recognize this man.
At this time, the official who was lying on the ground was struggling to hold the thigh of the Right Minister of Revenue.
"Your Highness, it was Minister Gao who arranged for me to enter the Urban Construction Office. It was Minister Gao..."
The two ministers of the Ministry of Revenue were startled. Could it be that this person was really transferred from their department?!
Yinreng said coldly,
"Didn't you hear what he said? Go and call Gao in!"
After Minister Gao was brought in, the whole cause and effect of the matter became clear.
Minister Gao's real name was Gao Yuanlang. The concubine he had favored for many years was the sister of the head of the department.
In order to please his concubine, he spent a lot of money to transfer one of the officials who was transferred from Yinreng and replaced him with his brother-in-law.
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