On the day Yinreng returned to Beijing with his two younger brothers, another official from the Ministry of Revenue was arrested in the capital.
This time, Yinzhi personally brought people to search the house.
It is said that a clean prefect can earn 100,000 silver coins after three years as a prefect, but the prefect is the highest administrative officer of a prefecture, and what about the head of the Ministry of Revenue?
He was just a small sixth-rank official.
Even for this small sixth-rank official, Yinzhi seized property worth nearly 34,000 taels of silver from his official residence, not including the value of the shops and land he owned.
With his annual salary of sixty taels, he might not be able to save up this much money even if he saved for hundreds of years.
Yinzhi, Yinzhen and Yinsi had arrested many corrupt officials like this in the previous few months. Every time they confiscated money, they would give a portion as rewards to their subordinates, and most of the rest would go into the national treasury.
Because the people they targeted were currently low-ranking officials, Kangxi turned a blind eye and allowed them to make trouble.
Yonghe Palace.
Defei looked at Yinzhen, whose skin was so dark that only his facial features could be seen, and her eyes became dizzy.
How come her fair-skinned and elegant son looks like this now?
Fourteenth was completely unaware of the grief and indignation in Concubine De's heart. Instead, he enthusiastically showed Concubine De his collection of the past year.
"Look, mother! This giant clam is so big! My son personally fished it out of the sea. This pearl was taken out of a snail. It's gray and not very round, but it's quite big. And this coral, you don't know..."
Fourteenth Barabala said a lot to Concubine De, and Concubine De's heart and eyes were filled with only heartache -
Fourteenth is a prince. How can he go into the sea to fish like those untouchables?
After Fourteen finished speaking, Concubine De handed him a cup of tea at the right time, watched him drink it in big gulps, and then advised,
"Fourteen, listen to your mother. You should stay in Kyoto after the New Year. Your mother will ask your father, the emperor, for help. He will agree."
"Why do you want to stay in the capital? I think it's good to go to Weihaiwei with my second brother."
Fourteen was very unhappy in his heart.
At first, he was quite resistant to the remote and poor Weihaiwei, but Weihaiwei had completely changed in the past two years. He privately felt that life in Weihaiwei was even more comfortable than in the capital.
In the capital, he had nothing to do except going on duty every day.
But in Weihaiwei, in addition to training, he can also go out hunting, fishing, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the island.
And there was no one watching him and making him follow the rules.
Moreover, the deserted island he discovered had begun to take shape as a military camp after half a year of construction. Those were all his hard work, so how could he give up all that so easily?
Seeing that he was unhappy, Concubine De frowned fiercely.
"You haven't gotten married yet. When your royal father was your age, he already had several children. Besides, I heard that your fourth brother and his family have already started planning. Have you forgotten that thought?"
Fourteen was stunned when he heard this, and instantly recalled the boasts he made before entering the court.
"Of course not..."
He answered subconsciously, but he could clearly sense that the strong desire in his heart had dissipated by more than half.
After seeing the vastness of the world, he began to feel that being trapped in the capital city all day was not the life he longed for.
"So just listen to Mother's words and stay in the capital. Mother will urge your Royal Father to move up your wedding date. It would be best if you get married this year so I can have a grandson next year..."
Seeing that the court was beginning to become chaotic, and Fourteenth Prince had not yet achieved anything and was still far away from the capital, she was afraid that Fourteenth Prince's favor would be divided up by the children born to those Han people.
So after the New Year she had to leave Fourteen in the capital.
Fourteen was not very willing in his heart, but he did not want to reject his mother's kindness, so he could only say vaguely,
"Let's talk about it later. Look, this headdress was specially made for you by my son, and I picked out all the pearls by hand..."
When Concubine De saw that she did not refuse, her expression finally relaxed.
This year, Yinzhi did not return to Beijing, but chose to garrison the northwest border.
Because Kangxi decisively destroyed the Dzungar tribe in this life, there was no subsequent invasion of the Khoshutu and other tribes by Galdan.
However, the Heshuotu and other tribes were frightened by the Qing Dynasty's thundering measures and remained peaceful for six or seven years.
Last year, there was a severe drought in the northwest, and many cattle and sheep in the Heshuotu tribe starved to death. In the face of food shortages, they began to set their sights on the Qing Dynasty again.
However, they were also afraid of making too much trouble and arousing the anger of the Qing Emperor, so they only sent out a few hundred troops to rob some food and property and bring them back.
Perhaps it was because Kangxi did not send more troops to the northwest last year, which gave Heshuotu and other tribes hope, so they planned to repeat the same trick in the autumn of this year.
How could Yinzhi spoil them?
He led his troops to encircle and wipe out all those hundreds of grassland cavalry.
Such results aroused the anger of Khoshut Khan.
So Khoshut Khan began to launch small-scale invasions, moving from one place to another after each attack.
They robbed more than ten small villages in succession.
The troops sent by Yinzhi always arrived a step late, and finally Yinzhi got really angry.
So he doesn't plan to return to Beijing this year.
Instead, he decided to stay in the northwest, seize the time to train his troops, and wait until the beginning of next spring to directly send troops to destroy the Khoshut Khanate.
The memorial he submitted was also approved by Kangxi.
The Qing Dynasty is now strong in military power. If Khoshut Khan keeps his tail between his legs after suffering a loss, Kangxi might consider letting Khoshut Khan's tribe go.
But Khoshut Khan was not in a clear mind, so he didn't mind teaching Khoshut Khan how to behave.
When Yinreng returned, he also brought back the second microscope he made.
After dealing with Kangxi, Yinreng began to look for people from the Imperial Hospital to study "cell biology".
The imperial physicians, led by Lin Weikai, were all amazed after seeing the cell organisms moving in the water.
In their cognition, the only things that move are humans and various animals.
This thing that cannot be seen by the naked eye can actually move, which really refreshed their cognition.
So, apart from going out to diagnose the pulses of the masters of each palace, this group of people spent almost all of their remaining time gathered around the microscope.
Occasionally, when he felt inspired, Yinreng would use penicillin to do some simple sterilization experiments and tell the imperial doctors that this was the principle of penicillin's treatment.
Yinreng thought someone would jump out to refute it, but the imperial doctors accepted this theory well and even drew inferences from it.
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