My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 181 The Princess is Pregnant During Trial Marriage!

Emperor Yongzheng smiled knowingly and said to Hongli, "I am very pleased that you have such an understanding."

Speaking of it.

Yongzheng looked at Hongli and said, "Your eighth uncle has a deep mind. He seems to be giving you a temple property to make it easier for you to spread benevolence and kindness, but in reality, he wants to sow discord between my father and me and create differences in our strategies for governing the country. He himself is blinded by the wealth of Jiangnan, and now he wants to seduce your eyes."

"Fortunately, you still have some sense and weren't blinded by all that money for incense offerings."

Emperor Yongzheng was more focused on reforming domestic affairs, so he picked up the memorials again.

"Father, let's have our meal first."

Hongli then handed the bowl of porridge to Yongzheng, seeing that there was a bowl of porridge in front of him.

Yongzheng then put down the memorial and took it, saying, "I forgot to eat."

Hongli smiled slightly upon seeing this.

Next, Hongli went to the East Warm Pavilion and began to read the memorials that Yongzheng had given him.

Since Emperor Yongzheng followed the Eighth Prince's wishes and issued an edict to reduce the number of cavalrymen in the Eight Banners in the capital to only fifty, the number of cavalrymen that were reduced has been ordered by Emperor Yongzheng to be mainly used by the Ministry of War to increase the number of cavalrymen in Qinghai, Gansu, Heilongjiang and Jilin.

Moreover, Yongzheng also added ten cavalrymen to each of the Eight Banners soldiers in these areas, along with the cavalrymen from the various banners in the capital that had been given up. All of these were intended as rewards for those who would make meritorious contributions to the border troops or for those whose fathers or brothers had died in battle.

When Hongli saw that local generals and governors reported in their memorials that the soldiers in the border areas had become more motivated and trained more diligently as a result, he was very pleased.

especially……

Those Solons and Jurchens who were incorporated into the Eight Banners army to fill vacancies were also included.

These people, hoping to earn a monthly salary of three taels of silver for their vests, braved the wind and snow to venture deep into the heart of the Junggar and Russian territories for reconnaissance.

After all, they were truly poor, and three taels a month was a very high income for them.

This significantly enhanced the court's intelligence gathering capabilities, allowing it to gain a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of the situation of hostile forces in the surrounding areas.

Hongli had to admit that although the reduction of the number of guards in the capital resulted in the death of a guard and the sentencing of forty rioting bannermen to death with reprieve, and was also the trigger for the imprisonment of the Eighth Prince and Hongshi, it was of great significance to the strengthening of the Qing military!
Because if each zuo jun (military commander) in the capital loses a few dozen cavalrymen, it only means that the emperor, princes, and other powerful figures will lose a few dozen or a hundred of their public servants who can neither draw a bow nor ride a horse and only know how to bully the common people. But it will motivate tens of thousands of people in the border towns to work hard for the extra few dozen border cavalrymen in their zuo jun.

"Give me a horse!"

"Give it to A!"

After reducing the number of military officers and staff in the Imperial Household Department and the military officers and staff of princes and nobles, the Ministry of War also allocated some military officer and staff positions to the Eight Banners School.

Students of official schools could obtain these positions by taking the horsemanship and archery exams at the Eight Banners official schools.

However, he would be sent to the Northwest after the exam.

Because the region where the Qing Dynasty is most likely to wage war again is in the Northwest.

Who could blame them when the Dzungars harbored ambitions to expand eastward, yet were unwilling to submit to the Qing court?

Thus, Guarjia Fude became the new cavalry officer of the Eight Banners official school, and on this day, his classmates who had passed the examination together were also given horses and armor.

This moved Fude to tears.

For someone from a lowly Manchu background like him to become a "vestite" was no less difficult than for a Han Chinese to pass the imperial examinations.

Before this, many of these vests were the private property of powerful and wealthy people in the capital.

According to Yongzheng himself, some people, because of their close relationship with powerful figures, used their names as aliases while still breastfeeding to receive salaries.

Therefore, even if many lower-ranking Manchus practiced riding and archery diligently and saved every penny, they still could not be selected as cavalrymen. As a result, many lower-ranking Manchus simply gave up and stopped practicing riding and archery.

Things are different now. Yongzheng's reforms have allowed them to become agents through their own efforts.

As a result, Fude, who came from a low-ranking Manchu family, not only received a monthly salary of three taels of silver, but also a monthly allowance for his family and a allowance for his warhorse's feed.

Therefore, when Fude held his armor and saw the warhorse assigned to him, tears welled up in his eyes.

He was as strong as a tower and rarely shed tears, but now he was truly crying!
He felt that even if he were to die on the battlefield, it would be worth it.

After all, as a pseudonym, dying on the battlefield would result in higher compensation!

Hongli could imagine how much the reforms of Yongzheng in military and political affairs would change the fate of countless lower-level bannermen and inject vitality into the Eight Banners and the army of the Qing Dynasty. This would involve taking away the quotas for bannermen, including those for princes, nobles, and even the emperor himself, and giving them to bannermen who were willing to earn such status through their achievements and military merits.

These dynamisms may not have been very apparent during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng.

But when the next dynasty comes, many ambitious lower-ranking Manchus who are willing to pay the blood tax will fight their way out of the bloodshed at the grassroots level of the army and bring many glorious achievements to the empire!

Hongli is now just waiting to follow the original historical development, become the future Qianlong Emperor, and then use the capital that Yongzheng accumulated for him through reforms to flaunt his power.

He had to admit that only Yongzheng was willing to cut himself and the princes of the capital into such a position, taking advantage of the Eighth Prince's desire for fame and reputation to reduce the number of officers and cavalrymen in the Imperial Household Department and among the princes to fifty.

Hongli could imagine how the officers and supervisors of the Imperial Household Department, as well as the princes and their officers, would secretly complain about Yongzheng.

Just how much pressure did Emperor Yongzheng bear in doing this?

Therefore, Hongli couldn't help but glance at Yongzheng, who was reviewing memorials in the opposite room.

Serious! Diligent! Tireless!
Those temples were already streaked with frost.

Hongli felt a pang of heartache at the sight of the map and the chipped, blunt knife in the box. After returning to his study in the Prince's quarters, he no longer felt any resentment upon seeing the map and the chipped, blunt knife in the box.

Because he believed that time would give him everything he wanted.

Hongli couldn't help but have the urge to have sex with her again.

Moreover, he knew that the best reward he could give Yongzheng was to get his woman pregnant.

So Hongli summoned Nara Minxuan again, intending to impregnate her once more out of respect for the Empress.

After she arrived, Hongli took the initiative to hug her from behind and eagerly began to undress her.

"Cousin, don't worry!"

Nara Minxuan covered her mouth and vomited.

Hongli stopped what he was doing and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Nara Minxuan shook her head: "I don't know. I suddenly felt nauseous just now. Cousin, why don't you send another princess?"

Haitang then stepped forward and couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Miss, are you pregnant?"

"Li Yu, summon the imperial physician!"

Hongli was suddenly overjoyed.

An hour later.

After a consultation, several imperial physicians knelt before Hongli and said, "Your Majesty, we congratulate you! The princess is pregnant!"

"reward!"

Although Hongli had already guessed this possibility, he was even more overjoyed when he heard the conclusion from the imperial physicians, and he uttered just this one word with a smile.

He was well aware of how much impetus his princess's pregnancy would provide for Yongzheng's reform efforts and how much it would benefit his own political future!

"Whoo!"

Li Yu immediately responded and went to fetch the silver, appearing even happier than if he had received the reward himself.

Haitang was overjoyed, as if she herself were pregnant, and smiled as she looked at Nara Minxuan lying on the bed. The imperial physicians quickly thanked the emperor and, as was customary, jointly submitted a memorial to Emperor Yongzheng upon their return, reporting the matter.

In any case, the birth of a new imperial grandson is a major event for the imperial family, requiring several on-duty imperial physicians to be in charge and to rule out misdiagnosis.

Hongli then sat down next to Nara Minxuan, took her soft, white hand in his own, and said with a smile, "Father, Mother, and Uncle will be very happy to know this, and they will be very happy too."

Nara Minxuan smiled gently.

As she was pregnant for the first time, she was excited but also a little apprehensive.

Fortunately, Hongli held her hand, and his square and resolute brows conveyed some courage to her.

A teenage girl's pregnancy is no small matter.

Hongli naturally dared not be careless, and the anger in his heart was somewhat calmed by this matter. He personally went to check if there were any emergency medicines missing in the room, and immediately sent someone to fetch them if necessary.

When Emperor Yongzheng learned of this news, he was still working late into the night processing memorials.

The "equalization of land tax and poll tax" policy was implemented in various regions and achieved remarkable results, but it also had many problems that required him to carefully manage and report through memorials to the emperor.

Therefore, Emperor Yongzheng had no choice but to stay up late and review some memorials as quickly as possible.

Every moment he delays here will delay the problems below by one day, and the severity of the damage will be several times greater than it was initially, resulting in a more serious blow to public trust.

Cough!

However, he was nearly fifty years old, and staying up for even half an hour felt like taking half a day's life. He was so exhausted that he couldn't help but cough. His knees were weak and his body felt like he had just traveled a long distance. Even when he put down his pen and stopped writing, he couldn't get up properly and just rubbed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose.

The news that Hongli had impregnated Nara Minxuan immediately revived him, as if he had become twenty years younger. He stood up energetically, his eyes fixed intently on the joint memorial of the imperial physicians that he had snatched from Su Peisheng.

"Great news, really great news!"

Emperor Yongzheng smiled even more brightly than when he learned that one of his concubines was pregnant. After closing the memorial, he patted it in his palm and then immediately went to the desk to retrieve the imperial edict, on which he wrote the title of Marquis of the Fifth Rank.

Wu Ge is Nara Minxuan's father and the Empress's younger brother.

However, when Empress Wu Ge was conferred the title, she was not granted a noble title. This time, when Nara Minxuan became pregnant, Yongzheng directly granted her the title of First-Class Marquis, which naturally shows that Wu Ge's status was elevated by her daughter, and also shows how much Yongzheng valued this happy event.

Subsequently, Emperor Yongzheng added another item to the imperial edict, granting Langrun Garden, an annex to the Yuanmingyuan Garden, to Hongli.

Yongzheng did this so that when he went to Yuanmingyuan for a temporary stay, Hongli could also bring his entourage to Langrun Garden, so that Nara Minxuan could have a better environment to take care of her pregnancy.

After issuing these edicts, Emperor Yongzheng went to the Empress and personally told her about the matter.

The Queen was overjoyed, just as she had been when she learned she was pregnant, and she hadn't been this happy in a long time.

After all, this time it was her niece who was pregnant, and the child was that of her adopted son, the future crown prince.

The significance of this is self-evident!

The next day, after receiving the imperial decree from Emperor Yongzheng granting him Langrun Garden and promoting him to the rank of First-Class Marquis of Wuge, Hongli also received a generous reward from the Empress.

The Empress's reward consisted of fifty bolts of colored silk and a pair of longevity gold locks.

Not long after, Consort Xi also rewarded Hongli and Nara Minxuan with one hundred gold ingots and writing brushes.

As Hongli's birth mother, she was naturally very happy.

After all, who wouldn't want their son's wife to get pregnant?

Hongli then took Nara Minxuan to pay his respects and express his gratitude to Emperor Yongzheng, the Empress, and Consort Xi. Emperor Yongzheng, the Empress, and Consort Xi also gave him some instructions.

Soon, the outer court also learned of this matter because Wu Ge had been promoted to the rank of First-Class Marquis.

This was naturally a cause for celebration for all the princes and ministers in the court who supported Hongli or hoped that he would ascend the throne in the future.

Even the neutral Japan Party would be happy to see this outcome, as it means a more stable power transition in the future with less chance of upheaval.

For those who support the "Days of Life" movement, the biggest fear is instability. Many of them oppose reform not because their own economic interests are harmed, but because the instability caused by the reforms disgusts them.

As a result, many officials sent congratulatory gifts to Wu Ge, and even many princes and nobles sent gifts to congratulate him on his promotion to first-class marquis, thus expressing their attitude towards the matter.

Wu Ge naturally had to host a banquet for these people, which made his celebration banquet for being promoted to first-class marquis particularly lively and caused a sensation in the capital.

When Yongzheng learned of this, he was not offended. On the contrary, he was quite happy to see this result, because he knew that it meant that many princes and ministers accepted Hongli as the future emperor.

As a result, Emperor Yongzheng became even more diligent in his duties.

When Hongli arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation early that morning to learn about government affairs, he saw Yongzheng put a pill into his mouth.

He knew that this meant that Yongzheng had stayed up all night again yesterday, because otherwise, Yongzheng would not easily take this kind of tonic made mainly of ginseng and deer antler.

"Father! You should give yourself more time to rest."

When Hongli met him, he still offered this advice.

Yongzheng smiled and said, "For me, this is a time to rest. You will soon become a father and will understand what I mean in the future."

Then, Yongzheng looked up at Hongli and said, "Your thirteenth uncle told me last night that he wanted you to go to the Ministry of Revenue. I have agreed. Go now. He is waiting for you at the Ministry of Revenue."

"Whoo!"

Emperor Hongli then went to the Ministry of Revenue.

Although he was not sure why the thirteenth prince had asked him to come to the Ministry of Revenue.

"Nephew greets his thirteenth uncle!"

Hongli then met with the thirteenth prince and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue.

After Hongli was excused from formalities, the thirteenth prince said, "I requested permission to bring you here today because it happens to be the day last year's official silver was deposited into the treasury. So I wanted you to come and see for yourself how powerful the Qing Dynasty has become!"

"Thank you, Uncle Thirteen, for giving me this opportunity to directly experience the Emperor's hard work and achievements!"

Hongli quickly said something, and then went to the Ministry of Revenue's treasury with the thirteenth prince and others.

When Hongli saw the enormous silver treasury, as large as a palace, with shelves as big as those in a modern library filled with silver ingots, he was stunned.

What shocked Hongli even more was that he found many new shelves, still smelling of paint, were piled with even brighter silver. Even in those shelves that were not full or had no silver at all, there were servants naked carrying baskets of official silver onto them.

"Thirteenth Uncle, how much silver is in your savings account?"

"A full fifty million taels!"

The thirteenth prince extended five fingers of his right hand and waved them in front of Hongli.

Hongli opened his mouth slightly, and then said, "In other words, the amount of silver deposits has increased by a full ten million taels compared to last year, and by more than twenty million taels compared to the sixty-first year of Kangxi's reign?"

The thirteenth prince nodded and smiled.

Hongli couldn't help but grin.

He had to admit that Emperor Yongzheng's ability to enrich the country was truly remarkable!

Looking at the glittering silver vault, like a brilliant galaxy, and the Milky Way flowing into it like water.

He knew that these would be the foundation for him to become a wealthy and comfortable emperor in the future!
He had to admit that having a hardworking father who worked day and night was truly wonderful!

(End of this chapter)