Chapter 36 I want to change Yinzhen is looking forward to it

Yuyan would not return to the capital, but the two princesses, Niuhulu and Geng, were to return to the capital with Yuji. This was also Yinzhen's intention.

Previously, they came along because of Defei's instructions. Now Yinzhen had to stay in Jiangnan to investigate the case, so Yinzhen sent these two people back and handed them over to Yuyan to make arrangements.

From the time of their departure till now, Niuhulu and Geng had hardly seen Yinzhen, let alone wait on and serve him.

Yinzhen never mentioned these two people and pretended they didn't exist.

In fact, as a noble prince, he really wouldn't care about the two princesses who he didn't care about.

Their lives were also arranged by Yuyan.

The actions of a princess were limited to begin with, and she could not break the rules after she came out. Even if Niu Hulu and Geng wanted to do something with Concubine De's words, they could not find an opportunity.

Yuyan personally told the two of them about arranging for them to return to Beijing.

This time, neither she nor Yinzhen went back, so she arranged for Niuhulu and Geng to be under the control of Sanfu Jin.

No one outside knew about the incident involving the Crown Prince's daughter, but the daughters and concubines had all been informed inside. Kangxi was obviously very angry, and even though no one knew what had happened specifically, the atmosphere was not right and no one dared to come forward.

Yu Yansi was not worried about these two people causing trouble. In fact, given their personalities, they would definitely be very well behaved on the road.

In fact, Niu Hulu and Geng still remembered what Concubine De said in their hearts.

They were sent to serve Fu Jin and Beile Ye, and had never been close to them, which made both of them a little anxious.

But the status of the Gege and Fu Jin was too different, and the relationship between Beile and Fu Jin was very good. They would have to make a living under Fu Jin in the future, so they dared not make trouble at all.

He could only ask timidly whether he could stay and serve Fu Jin and Beile Ye.

"I am terrified. If I go back like this, the queen will definitely blame me for not serving Fu Jin and the master well."

Yuyan snorted in her heart, but her face was gentle: "It was Lord Beile's idea to let you go back. Lord Beile stayed to do his job. It's inconvenient for you to stay here, but Her Majesty won't blame you."

The Fourteenth Prince's head was smashed by Kangxi and it hasn't healed yet.

The fact that Fourteenth Prince returned with injuries must have made Concubine De extremely distressed.

How could Concubine De remember whether her fourth son had someone to serve him?

Yinzhen must have a lot of resentment towards Yinzhen. He didn't know how he would exaggerate and say bad things about Yinzhen in front of Concubine De after returning. Concubine De was probably even more displeased with Yinzhen.

The Hulu and Geng families are both good ones, so there is no need to blame them.

Yuyan had already written a letter to Li in the name of Yinzhen, roughly telling her what could be said, and asked Li to keep Niuhulu and Geng under control after they returned, and not to let them talk nonsense.

The people in Beile Mansion and Jingcheng Garden must be as obedient as quails, otherwise they will be made scapegoats.

Once the masters made the decision, Niu Hulu and Geng had no say in it and could only act according to the rules.

After Yuyan had properly sent the people away, she began to prepare for the move.

Originally he lived here because it was close to Kangxi's residence, making it convenient for Yinzhen to serve Kangxi at any time.

But when Kangxi returned to Beijing with his princes, a large area here became vacant. If Yinzhen continued to live here, this large garden could not be used for anything else.

This was originally a place borrowed by Cao Yin, and Yinzhen didn't want to occupy someone else's place and not return it.

Besides, there are too many people watching here, and it is too conspicuous to come in and out, making it inconvenient for Yinzhen to do his work.

Therefore, Yinzhen found a small garden as his new home. He had already started working on it, so Yuyan naturally had to take over the task of moving.

Yinzhen rented this small garden with his own money. The owner of the garden wanted to give it to Yinzhen, but Yinzhen refused. However, Yinzhen still gave him silver according to the rules, and it had nothing to do with Cao Yin, Li Xu, or local officials.

Yinzhen told Yuyan that they would live here for at least one or two months, so he let Yuyan decorate it freely. Although it was someone else's garden, since it was their own home, comfort should be the priority.

Even if Yinzhen didn't give the order, Yuyan would have thought so.

The climate in the south and the north is completely different.

It's even more humid here. When Yuyan was arranging her residence, she was more concerned about the climate here.

If he had to stay here for two months, then a conservative estimate would be that by the time Yinzhen finished his mission as scheduled, it would be winter in the capital when he returned.

When Yuyan was tidying up the small garden, Yinzhen was always busy until late at night.

After the small garden was tidied up and everything was arranged, he was no longer busy. He actually lay in bed at home from morning to night without going out.

Yu Yan was puzzled and suspected that he was deliberately avoiding her: "Master Beile, are you not going to do your job?"

He has so many errands and so many important things to do, and he just ignores them?

Yinzhen said, "The Crown Prince and the Emperor fell ill on the way back, and they could no longer stay in Changchun Garden. Both of them had to recuperate, so this matter was naturally delayed. If you continue to jump around to investigate the matter of Hongxiang Pavilion, wouldn't that be annoying to others?"

The prince will bear a grudge, and even the emperor will be upset after hearing these things.

Yinzhen knew what was right for him and would not do anything that was truly thankless.

As early as when the emperor returned to Beijing, Ling Pu had already been controlled. As the scapegoat of the prince, there was no way Ling Pu could survive.

The emperor will not let Ling Pu go, and the prince himself will not take responsibility. Ling Pu is the best scapegoat, so the prince will certainly not save Ling Pu.

Hongxiang Pavilion was destined to be abandoned by the prince. No one dared to take it over, let alone touch it. Hongxiang Pavilion was now completely under the control of Yinzhen, and the people under control would not run away. The witnesses and evidence were well preserved, so there was no need to bring it to the table in such a hurry.

The prince and the emperor are both sick, who can still be unforgiving?

Wouldn't that force the emperor to punish his most beloved prince? This is how the matter was settled.

Autumn is dry, so Yuyan recently asked someone to collect a lot of popular scented teas from the south of the Yangtze River to make some for herself.

Yinzhen didn't like to drink this, but Yuyan saw him running outside every day, sometimes he didn't even have time to drink water, and his lips were dry and chapped. Even applying her ointment was useless, so she had to wait until Yinzhen was home and watch him drink some.

He liked to eat Dingsheng cake, so Yuyan specially asked someone to find the best Dingsheng cake in Suzhou and placed it next to him. It was freshly made and very fragrant, soft and delicious. Only then was Yinzhen willing to drink some of the flower tea she made herself.

Yuyan took a sip of the rose tea at hand. The roses in Jiangnan are sweeter and have a stronger fragrance than the roses in the capital. Yuyan still likes them very much.

This is for nourishing yin and improving complexion. She may have been a little tired recently and her menstrual period has not come for a few days. It is just right for her to drink this tonic and adjust.

Yuyan was eating crispy sugar cakes: "The matter of Hongxiang Pavilion cannot be handled, and what about the loss of Lianghuai salt tax? Is Lord Beile not going to handle it either?"

After the salt tax in Lianghuai was in deficit, the four provinces in the south of the Yangtze River also suffered financial losses.

When Kangxi left, he made it clear that only Yinzhen would be allowed to deal with the loss of salt tax in Lianghuai.

But the salt tax deficit and the financial deficit are closely related. If one thing is affected, the whole body will be affected. Just thinking about Yinzhen, Yuyan felt that this matter was not easy to handle.

After being busy for so many days, Yinzhen decided to do it.

There is indeed great resistance.

The loss of salt tax not only affects the current officials, but also the officials who handled it in the past. Those officials were promoted and transferred. Some are still in Jiangnan, some have been transferred long ago, and some have even retired.

It is extremely difficult to collect the money alone.

While Yuyan was busy moving, she heard a lot of rumors. It was said that the Fourth Prince was a ruthless and iron-faced King Yan when he was on duty before, and this time he was here to confiscate the family property because the salt tax was lost.

First search the homes of officials, then search the homes of salt merchants, and the losses will be made up.

[Humph. They say you are the emperor who confiscated property. But they don’t even take a closer look at who exactly were the people whose property you confiscated? You are doing good things that benefit the people, but you have offended those officials, so they criticize you verbally and pensively, giving you a bad reputation. But the eyes of the masses are sharp!]

[Why is Emperor Yongzheng not considered a good emperor?]

Yuyan drank her tea calmly, but she was complaining madly in her heart and speaking well of Yinzhen.

No, she was telling the truth.

From the perspective of the common people, Yinzhen did good things that benefited the people. He just didn't protect the interests of the feudal gentry.

Yinzhen sat up and touched Yuyan's nose with his fingertips, as if he was soothing a furry kitten.

After meeting Yuyan's puzzled gaze, Yinzhen smiled and lay down again.

Fu Jin doesn't need to be so excited. Fu Jin understands him, as long as someone understands him, it's fine.

It seems that after ascending the throne, he did not change his original intention and did some practical things.

Yinzhen was calculating in his mind.

The Nine Dragons' fight for the throne took nearly ten years, leaving the emperor unable to deal with the matter, wasting everyone's time and energy. In the end, although he became the emperor, the far-reaching impact caused by the losses of these ten years would probably be difficult to make up for in a hundred years.

After he became emperor, he worked day and night, apparently because he was afraid that time was not enough and there were too many things to do. In the end, time was still not enough, and he probably didn't finish it.

He was called the emperor of property confiscation because the deficits that should have been rectified in the past ten years were not rectified at all, and were dragged from the Kangxi period to the time when he became emperor.

And what he was about to do was even slower.

This cannot happen anymore.

Yinzhen said, "As soon as the emperor left, Cao Yin claimed to be ill. He handed over all the responsibilities to me, but the money he collected was kept in his warehouse. He was waiting for me to do some hard labor and then collect the money for him. He didn't want to get involved in this matter anymore."

Cao Yin used illness as an excuse to hide, but Yinzhen didn't want him to hide.

Not only Cao Yin, but Li Xu also claimed to be ill.

Yinzhen did not go to visit the patient because he did not want to give Cao Yin this face.

As soon as the emperor left, Cao Yin became a shrunken turtle, a salt merchant, and a salt official. They took turns to come to the Fourth Prince to cry about their poverty. Yinzhen had just settled down and had not yet received any accurate information, so he did not take action against them immediately and let them enjoy themselves for a few days.

Regarding this matter, Yinzhen not only wanted Cao Yin to work with him, but also wanted Li Xu to be brought down.

Yinzhen saw a pile of visiting cards in Yuyan's hand and saw Yuyan pick out a few of them. Yinzhen asked, "What's wrong with these? Fujin wants to go to the banquet?"

Yuyan smiled and said, "The wives of officials in Suzhou are still very enthusiastic and want to invite me to enjoy the flowers and attend banquets. I was busy moving a few days ago and refused them all. This is a new one, and they still invite me to enjoy the flowers. This means they know that we have settled down."

"These copies shown to Lord Beile were sent by the families of the Cao and Li families. There are also families that are friendly with them. They are all having a banquet and they really want to invite me to go."

Yuyan smiled and said, "If Lord Cao and Lord Li are really seriously ill, their wives still have the leisure to enjoy flowers, listen to operas and hold banquets. They are really too generous."

Yinzhen took a look and said coldly, "He is trying to test you."

Yuyan smiled and said, "Lord Beile is a very capable person. He has been lying at home for four or five days. He must have made up his mind. Lord Beile, do you think I should go to this banquet?"

Yinzhen sat up again. It was like he was dozing off and got a pillow.

They wanted to test him, but he wanted to make the final decision.

He immediately asked Su Peisheng whether the letter from Hubei had arrived.

Su Peisheng hurried to ask, and came back to say that he had just arrived.

Yinzhen read the letter, looked at her and smiled, "Fujin, please go to the banquet."

"The flowers in Jiangnan are very pretty, and the operas are also unique. Since they have invited us so kindly, we will have a great time."

Yu Yan also laughed: "Master Beile, is there anything you want me to do?"

"Or, does Lord Beile have any instructions for me to do? I'm afraid the flowers in Jiangnan are too beautiful and the operas are too wonderful. I was so excited that I went a little too far."

Yinzhen laughed loudly, then stopped laughing after a moment. He gently scratched the tip of Yuyan's nose with his finger and smiled softly, "Go ahead, Fujin. If there's anything, I'll take care of it."

He was very curious about what Fu Jin wanted to do.

Yinzhen was not at all worried that Yuyan would say something like "she's gone too far".

Fu Jin is his Fu Jin. Fu Jin always has his best interests at heart. He will not harm him or do anything bad.

Yinzhen thought that it should be the Cao and Li families who were worried. His Fu Jin was so smart, could the Cao and Li families bear it?

Yuyan didn't know that her eyes were very bright, she just looked at Yinzhen intently.

In history, he actually suppressed his own personality. When he was not an emperor, many things he did were actually to confuse Kangxi and his brothers.

He himself doesn't like it.

Yuyan suddenly remembered that she seemed to have changed after she recovered from her illness, and then he changed as well.

He was particularly afraid that she would think he was incompetent or that he was in poor health. Yinzhen was eager to prove himself, so he went on like this.

But this kind of fiery temper seems to be the true nature of the Iron-faced King Yan.

[It's great that I can make a difference. I want to do something for him. I have things to do myself, and I hope to do something for him. I use my power, the power of knowing the future from future generations.]

[There is nothing wrong with change. It should be better to embark on a new path.]

Yinzhen smiled slightly. He would not ask Yuyan what she wanted to do.

He waits and sees. Because the change has already begun.

Yinzhen was really looking forward to it.