Although Tian Wenjing did not force Wei Dongting, a close attendant of Emperor Kangxi, to his death, he almost did, and in the end, Emperor Kangxi had to pay the fine.
Furthermore, the Tenth Prince and his wife were a disgrace to their mother; both of them only knew how to spend money and not how to earn it. They lived off their savings and couldn't repay their debts until the imperial concubine in the palace paid them back.
In addition, the Niohuru family, the maternal grandparents' family of the Tenth Prince, was very honored because they produced an empress and a concubine, but the dowries of the two women emptied half of their family fortune.
Then, after Ebilun died, his sons fought each other, which further depleted their resources.
Although the palace frequently bestows rewards, these are usually just decorative items—medicinal herbs, cloth, and the like—not real gold or silver. Furthermore...
This time, to repay the money, Alinga still managed to get help from the imperial concubine in the palace.
Consort Wenxi has been thoroughly tricked this time, and now she has to clean up the mess for both her son and daughter-in-law, as well as her own family.
Fortunately, the Imperial Concubine held her and her sister's dowries in her hands, otherwise she would have been in serious trouble.
However, the Imperial Concubine lived a good life in the palace, with sons and daughters, and did not care about Kangxi's favor.
So the quota was sufficient, but this time it was also severely damaged.
However, the actions of Aling'a and his wife pushed the Imperial Concubine to her limit.
From the very beginning, they demanded that the Imperial Concubine repay everything.
In the end, the imperial concubine gave 80,000 taels of silver to her family.
but,
The relationship between the Tenth Prince's Consort and her family once became strained.
Previously, the Imperial Concubine had strongly opposed Aling'a's recommendation of the Eighth Prince, Yinzhi, as Crown Prince, and their relationship had already become strained. This time, however, Aling'a's immediate and forceful attitude chilled the Imperial Concubine's heart. In truth, Aling'a dared to act this way because she felt that the Tenth Prince was out of favor, holding only the title of Prince without any real responsibility.
However, Aling'a is mediocre. The Niohuru family has been declining since Ebilun died, and now they have fallen out with the Consort and the Tenth Prince over the issue of money. In Khoja's eyes, this is very foolish.
The Third Prince, Yinzhi, owed over ten thousand taels of silver. It wasn't a huge amount, but the Third Prince loved collecting rare calligraphy and paintings, and he spent a lot of money on this. Consort Rong was favored in her early years, but the things bestowed upon her by Emperor Kangxi could not be sold.
Therefore, Consort Rong was arguably the poorest of the four consorts, and her maternal family, the Ma Jia clan, was not prominent.
In the end, half of the money came from the Third Prince's wife. Because of this, Consort Rong is now very amiable towards her daughters-in-law.
The debt owed to the Crown Prince was even greater. The Fourth Prince went there several times but was always turned away by the Crown Prince, only managing to pay back 100,000 taels as a token payment. Later, it was Hongyu who visited several times before the debt was finally cleared.
For some reason, even when the Crown Prince and Yinzhi were at odds, the Crown Prince never targeted his nephew Hongyu. Later, when he learned what his maternal uncle had done to the young Hongyu, he gave him a severe scolding.
Although the Crown Prince had no worries about food and clothing in the palace, it was not easy for him to come up with so much cash all at once. In the end, he had to sell some things left by the Empress Dowager outside the palace and two manors to raise the money.
The Empress Dowager's place was even more lively, with people coming every day to complain about being poor.
The Aisin Gioro family was a large clan, and the imperial clan had been struggling for some time, causing the Empress Dowager great distress. In the end, the Empress Dowager took out a portion of her private savings and gave it to the imperial clan members who were indeed having a hard time.
Of course, they were all given to Mongolian wives.
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was the legal mother of Emperor Kangxi, and she received numerous tributes from him, his consorts, and his descendants. In addition, she inherited a portion of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's wealth, and since she rarely needed to use the money, she was quite wealthy.
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