After the mourning period, it was the Spring Festival, and Yinreng was already fifteen years old, which was a very important time point for the princes of the Qing Dynasty.
So as soon as New Year's Day was over, Kangxi couldn't wait to send him to the court to do his job.
Before the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi asked him which ministry he wanted to go to for training, and Yinreng answered the Ministry of Rites without hesitation.
In his previous life, his answer was to let the emperor decide.
Kangxi assigned him to the Ministry of Revenue.
It was said that he would stay in the Ministry of Revenue for half a year, then go to the Ministry of Personnel, and then rotate in the remaining ministries for three months in turn.
In fact, the Ministry of Personnel is the head of the Six Ministries, followed by the Ministry of Revenue. Kangxi did not let him gain experience in the Ministry of Personnel right away, which reduced the difficulty for him.
Of course, he did not complete his rotation in his previous life. More than a year later, Kangxi personally led an expedition against Galdan and made him regent.
After the war, Kangxi handed over the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Revenue to him, and asked him to work together with the ministers of several ministries.
But in this life he doesn't want to go back to the old path.
He just wants to be a salted fish.
Among the six ministries, only the Ministry of Rites is suitable for retirement.
Because the work of the Ministry of Rites requires physical strength but not much mental strength.
The Ministry of Rites is only responsible for managing the country's etiquette system and the planning and execution of various ceremonial rituals, maintaining the country's etiquette norms, education system, diplomatic image and cultural heritage.
In short, he was only responsible for supervising the formulation of etiquette procedures, and he did not personally watch over it. At most, he would be busy during festivals. The rest of the time he would stay in the Ministry of Rites. As long as there were no mistakes, no one could trouble him.
——No one dared to trouble him even if something went wrong.
Kangxi saw through his tricks at a glance and asked him why he wanted to go to the Ministry of Rites. Yinreng racked his brains to talk about the importance of the Ministry of Rites and said a lot of nonsense. In the end, Kangxi replied with two words.
"no."
Yinreng was confused.
"Why didn't you just say you didn't agree earlier? You've wasted so much time asking unnecessary questions..."
It's not easy for him to fabricate benefits for the Ministry of Rites!
Kangxi curled the corners of his lips, taking in Yinreng's resentment, and finally ruthlessly assigned Yinreng the first department to be trained.
It’s still the Ministry of Revenue.
Yinreng: “…”
He really didn't want to go to the Ministry of Revenue.
As the most important functional department of the six ministries, the Ministry of Revenue's responsibilities cover many aspects of the country's financial and economic management, and its business volume is heavy.
Even if he just read the files, it would take him at least a year or two to finish.
The Ministry of Revenue was responsible for the management and statistics of national household registration, land, taxes, and other matters, as well as the expenditure of military supplies and armaments, official salaries, calculation of disaster relief funds, etc. In a word, the job was not easy, and Yinreng did not want to go.
But Kangxi had already made up his mind, so he had to go whether he wanted to or not.
The official positions in the Qing Dynasty were very different from those in previous dynasties. One of the differences was reflected in the allocation of officials.
Among the six ministries, there were two Shangshu, one Manchu and one Han, and they were both officials of the first rank.
There are two left and right assistant ministers, one Manchu and one Han, for a total of four people, and they are all second-rank officials.
There are two assistant ministers to the Governor-General of the Granaries, one Manchu and one Han, both of whom are second-rank officials.
As for the rest of the doctors, officials, managers, clerks, and clerks, there were so many people that Yinreng had trained there for six months in his previous life and didn't recognize all of them.
The current Ministers of Revenue are Yisan'a and Zhang Yushu, but in a few months Yisan'a will be promoted to Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
The newly promoted Minister of Revenue was Maltu.
In fact, if we only look at the distribution of top Manchu and Han officials in the six ministries, we can't see that Kangxi had any preference for the Manchus.
However, the difficulty for Han people to be promoted to the cabinet minister is exponentially greater than that for Manchus.
Moreover, once a position among Manchu officials became vacant, someone would fill it immediately. However, when a position among Han officials became vacant, Kangxi would have to consider for a long time before promoting someone to fill it.
The most important point is that there are not many top military officers who are of Han Chinese descent. In fact, this alone shows that Kangxi was indeed on guard against the Han Chinese.
Even though he was close to the Han people on the surface, he was willing to make use of Han scholars and give students from poor families room for advancement.
On the first day of the official court session, Yinreng and Yinzhi both stood on the left side of Kangxi, with Yinreng leaning forward and Yinzhi standing below him.
The nine ministers and six departments went up the stairs one by one to report to Emperor Kangxi. The most important thing was the snow disaster in the northern region.
The Qing Dynasty was now in the Little Ice Age, with several snowstorms occurring in the north every winter. Sometimes Emperor Kangxi could not even celebrate the New Year in peace.
The Ministry of Revenue was the main force in disaster relief, in charge of the allocation of money and grain, while the Ministry of Personnel sent personnel to provide disaster relief, and the Ministry of War coordinated the army to escort relief supplies.
The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Justice also have their own responsibilities, but the Ministry of Rites has the easiest and most comfortable job.
Although Yinreng had just entered the court, Yisan'a and others did not expect Yinreng to give any good advice, but Kangxi's examination was the problem Yinreng had to face.
If Yinreng went to the Ministry of Rites, he would just have to watch how the Ministry of Rites drafted the ceremony process and would not have to worry about anything else.
Now, not only did he have to look through the files of disaster relief in previous years, but he also had to refer to the records in the files to give the specific amounts of disaster relief funds and food. Yinreng's scalp went numb.
Although he had experience as regent in his previous life, it had been so long that he had almost forgotten all the files. Now he still had to continue his studies in the Ministry of Revenue.
In this era, looking at account books is also a delicate job.
In the following months, Yinreng stayed in the Ministry of Revenue to review files.
In his previous life, Yinreng invented the tabular accounting method for convenience, which made the profits and losses of the Ministry of Revenue clear at a glance, but in this life he only planned to use it secretly for himself.
At the end of last year, Kangxi suddenly decided to go on a southern tour.
An imperial censor advised that the emperor's tour might cause great waste of money and labor, but Kangxi took it lightly and said that his trip to the south of the Yangtze River would benefit the people.
So all the civil and military officials in the court stopped trying to persuade him.
After arranging Yinreng's destination, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Kangxi set out from the capital and traveled by boat to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
As per convention, a draft should have been held this spring.
However, due to the death of Empress Xiaozhuang, the selection of concubines was suspended for three years. That is to say, from the day Empress Xiaozhuang died until the 29th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, there was no selection of concubines.
If not for this, Kangxi would not have been able to leave so capriciously.
But for Yinreng, it was one less big trouble.
The Grand Canal is very convenient. It took only more than two months for Kangxi to return to the capital after his trip to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Even Yinreng was so envious that he cried.
He wants to go out and play too.
It’s a pity that Kangxi traveled light on this southern tour and did not bring any princes with him.
However, he did send a lot of things to Yinreng along the way, ranging from amulets that he personally asked for in the temple to a piece of peculiar-looking stone.
The success made Yinreng's disgust with the class reach its peak.
In mid-March, Kangxi returned to the capital from Jiangnan, bringing back a woman with stunning looks and a cool temperament, which caused quite a stir in the harem.
This was the first time that Kangxi brought a woman back from outside, so they could not help but pay attention to her.
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