Chapter 672 Buy Jewelry to Make Women Happy

For the next three days, the prince talked about selling officials day and night.

Who made him owe too much, and his servants couldn't pay it back.

Seeing that the thirteenth master was returned with the help of the fourth master.

The tenth master or the eighth and ninth masters helped to return it.

The most incredible thing is that the honest and romantic third master was actually paid back by Kangxi with his own money.

But with the prince's temperament, none of the subordinate servants dared to help him pay back the money, or lend him money.

Because he usually extorted a lot of money from the officials under his door.

Sometimes under the guise of borrowing money, but never paying it back.

Anyone who dares to help him would wish to hide far away.

Fortunately, there were still many local turtles in the Qing Dynasty, the kind who were so poor that they only had money left.

In addition to those merchants, they just want to have an official in their family.

Just like those who are clean and honest officials, those whose family is poor only have a reputation, wishing that there would be a businessman in their family.

Or they have to fish for some oil and water, and finally start to corrupt.

Therefore, the prince sold ten official positions within three days.

Either sell to salt merchants, or sell to cloth merchants, medicine merchants.

In the end, they sold a total of 1.1 million taels of silver.

Not only helped him pay off the debt owed by the court.

He also paid off all the external debts for him.

There are tens of thousands of taels of silver left over, and this business is well done.

The debt-free and light-weight prince only thought about relaxing, but he didn't think about the future.

When he was free, he was still thinking about tripping up fourth master.

He called several officials under his door who really owed money, and ran to Kangxi's residence to kneel and cry.

Forget it, after Ba Ye heard this, he also joined in the fun.

He ordered people to go to the Qianqing Palace, kneeling and crying likewise.

Moreover, people staged a farce of suicide.

However, this farce has not yet begun.

Wei Dongting, a big celebrity in front of Kangxi, really couldn't bear to ask for debts, so he hanged himself at home!

In the early morning of the next day, Kangxi could no longer turn a blind eye.

He called all the princes and ministers to rise up outside the Qianqing Palace.

The so-called Daqi refers to the fact that all the officials above the fourth rank are standing outside the gate of Qianqing Palace.

Kangxi was sitting on the steps, with the yellow umbrella covered by the servants, looking down at the courtiers below.

Liang Jiugong said at the top of his voice, "Morning, rise to court!"

The ministers began to kneel and salute.

Seeing this, Kangxi didn't scream, but his voice was like a bell: "Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't make you angry. But what happened recently is really outrageous!"

Hearing this, one by one, how dare they get up, for fear that they will be called by name in a while.

"It's just to recover the arrears, but ten princes sold property on the street and whipped the court officials. The officials cried poorly in my Qianqing Palace. Even Wei Dongting, who accompanied me to pacify San Francisco and recover Taizhou, was because he couldn't pay his debts." Suicide, I just want to ask you, what do you think of the treasury when you borrow money, you are the people of the Qing Dynasty, and the treasury is the root of the Qing Dynasty!"

As soon as these words came out, the ministers buried their heads even lower.

Kangxi glanced at the one who was wearing a black hat and bowed his head last.

He called his name directly and said: "Old Ten, as an elder brother, you owe so much money to the treasury, what did you do?"

"Returning to the emperor, Ama, all the sons and servants have been paid off!" Elder Brother Shi replied aggrievedly.

"I don't care if you pay it back or not, you just answer me, what did you do with the money, if it wasn't for the fourth brother to go after the national treasury this time, would you still owe it all the time?"

"How can it be, my son borrowed money, naturally he wanted to manage the expenses of the family, be more decent, and don't lose your face. Moreover, my son didn't pay it back by himself, but borrowed money from everywhere to pay it back. Yes." Master Ten replied with a frown.

"A salary of nearly 20,000 taels a year. Your mother-in-law also left you a lot of money before she was alive. She and I even gave you a few pieces of Zhuangzi. You are still crying poor! Speaking of shame, what else is there? It would be even more embarrassing to go to the streets of the capital to call sellers, and to whip the court officials, because all your books over the years have been read in vain."

"I'm not good at reading, but some people are so good at reading that they owe more than I do?" Master Shi said angrily.

At the end, he even stared at the back of the third master in the front row.

"Who are you accusing Sang Huai of here?" Kangxi's voice became louder.

"Third brother, didn't he owe 400,000 taels of silver? That's much more than my son. Instead of talking about him, you made an exception and paid him with your own money. My son collected money to pay it back, no trouble." Just worry about it, but you're still talking about my son." Master Shi said with a flat mouth.

That appearance is really a son complaining in front of his old father.

Wronged Baba narrates how pitiful the old father is for his elder brother.

"What are you like? You have the nerve to ask me. I will explain it to you in front of the big guys today. The third elder brother gathered a group of learned people and wrote dozens of books. Among them, "Ancient and Modern" "Book Integration" covers everything from astronomy to geography, including humans, birds-beasts, insects, and even literature, music, etc. There is also a book on astronomy, mathematics, and music theory, which has also been compiled and will be printed soon. "

The printing at this time was not as good as it is in modern times, but it was much better than that of the previous dynasty, and it belonged to movable type printing.

It replaces traditional scribes, or printed plates that cannot be reused, by using removable metal or clay blocks.

The method of printing with movable type is to first make the positive script of the individual characters, and then select the individual characters according to the manuscript, arrange them in the type plate, and print them with ink.

After printing, the fonts are removed and reused for the next printing.

"In the past, he used to spend his own money to compile books. He really had no choice but to explain the reason to me. Not only did I have to pay back the money for him, but I also asked the Ministry of Households to allocate money to him every month in the future. He devoted himself to literature."

"Look at you again, wandering around the capital all day long, either buying jewelry to make women happy, or booking venues to listen to operas. I heard that you also bought two theaters in the capital. Do you want to live in theaters in your life? What's the point of staying here! Now I'm ashamed to be compared with the third child, I haven't asked you yet, what crime should I have for whipping the imperial court officials that day!"

Now, Master Shi was silenced by Kangxi.

Originally, he was upset and felt that Kangxi was eccentric.

I'm fine now, I'm afraid I'm going to be punished.

Where do you have the confidence to speak?

"Huang Ama, tenth brother has such a temperament, please forgive him this time." Ninth Master raised his head and spoke for Tenth Master.

"Forgive me, he must be allowed to stay in the clan mansion for three months!" Kangxi ordered directly.

"Huang Ama, I know I was wrong, and I will definitely learn from my third brother in the future!" Shi Ye heard that he was going to the clan's mansion, and he couldn't straighten his back.

Kangxi was indeed easy to soften his heart towards his son.

But it is also for those who have been brought up by their side since childhood, or those who are promising.

Kangxi didn't soften his heart at all for such an idiot as Master Shi.