My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 210 The Princess is a source of joy, and Emperor Qianlong is so happy!

Upon hearing Hongli's words, Yongzheng looked at him and smiled, "So, what do you intend to do?"

“Learn from the methods used by Northern Song Dynasty civil officials to persecute people, and make Li Fu and Xie Jishi suffer greatly during their exile until they are willing to compromise with their father!”

Hongli replied.

After hearing this, Yongzheng glanced at Hongli.

"What if they continue to refuse to compromise?"

Yongzheng picked up the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand.

Hongli replied, "Then let them continue on the path of strengthening the borders of our Great Qing, including their accomplices!"

Upon hearing this, Yongzheng stopped twirling his prayer beads and sat down on a nanmu wood chair, looking thoughtful.

"That's a good idea!"

"What our Great Qing Dynasty is currently lacking is people willing to go to the areas outside the Great Wall, especially the northernmost part of the area, which is why those places are short of manpower."

After a while, Yongzheng smiled and said a few words.

But suddenly!
Yongzheng frowned again and said, "They all say that Tian Wenjing preys on the gentry, but can't they see how the gentry prey on the common people?"

"Amma!"

Hongli called out and asked Yongzheng, "Do you still insist on arguing with them and continuing to prove how helpless Tian Wenjing is in Henan?"

Yongzheng was stunned and glanced at the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand.

After a while, Yongzheng put down his Buddhist prayer beads, got up, walked to the window, sat down, picked up a memorial, and said as he read:

"Keep talking!"

"Whoo!"

“But they’re not fools, especially those officials who came from the civil service examination system.”

“They come from the gentry themselves and know better than anyone the evils the gentry commit in the area, but now they only speak for the gentry because they are only willing to speak for the gentry.”

“In this matter, they are Amma’s enemies, so Amma has no need to say anything more to them.”

Hongli replied, still with a serious expression, his hands folded in front of his abdomen, and bowing.

After hearing this, Yongzheng looked up at Hongli and said, "So, you didn't think about persuading them, you only thought about punishing them?"

Hongli also looked up at Yongzheng: "Your Majesty, I do not expect them to change. Your Majesty only believes that the world is never short of like-minded friends!"

"For example, although the emperor rectified the court and reformed the system, which caused great resentment among many lazy and greedy people, there were also quite a few who supported and understood him."

After all, Hongli knew that the first priority of reform was to identify who the enemy was.

Therefore, Hongli would first screen the issues before discussing how to correct them.

Emperor Yongzheng understood Hongli's understanding and nodded with satisfaction: "From now on, you will be in charge of handling the secret reports concerning Li Fu and Xie Jishi."

"Thank you, Ama!"

Emperor Hongli was overjoyed.

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The Ministry of Justice quickly reached a decision to exile the two men.

Li Fu was exiled to Fengtian.

Xie Jishi was exiled to Ningguta.

Clearly, Xie Jishi was to be exiled to a more severe degree.

Because Xie Jishi was indeed more outrageous; even when Yongzheng ordered that they stop pursuing Tian Wenjing, he still wanted to impeach Tian Wenjing.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Justice, Akdun, also needed to ease his relationship with the emperor, so he further increased Xie Jishi's exile sentence to appear just.

However, Li Fu and Xie Jishi were quite frustrated with their current situation of being exiled.

Because neither of them really expected this outcome.

Especially Li Fu.

When many ministers from the court came to see them off, he was quite saddened by the situation.

However, to their surprise, Hongli also sent the eunuch Li Yu to deliver travel gifts to them.

"Our Fourth Master said that he had long heard that you two are usually frugal and simple, and that besides reading, you only enjoy fine tea. He fears that you will not be able to drink good tea again on your journey to the border, so he specially sent me to deliver a portion of Pu'er tea to each of you as a parting gift. He hopes that you two will take good care of yourselves on your journey."

Li Yu spoke up about this, and whispered, "Fourth Master, you also asked me to pass on a message to you two, that he will try his best to get you back as soon as possible."

The two were deeply moved upon hearing this and hurriedly kowtowed to express their gratitude to Hongli.

"That's wonderful. Fourth Master is kind and willing to help us. I believe we will return to the interior as soon as possible."

Xie Jishi was the first to speak up on the way.

"Yes, even if they can't be reinstated, they can at least return to their hometown."

Li Fu sighed and echoed his sentiment.

"That's right, the future is still promising, and there will be a day when the Qing Dynasty is peaceful and the people are harmonious."

Xie Jishi's hope was rekindled, and he smiled. Originally, he was quite annoyed by the failure of his impeachment of Tian Wenjing. He knew that he had not expected that Yongzheng would be so perceptive as to detect their factionalism, which was why he had failed.

But now, Hongli's timid and gentle demeanor made him feel much better.

He believed that the good days that belonged to people like them, the good days they longed for, like those in the late Ming Dynasty and even the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, would eventually come!
Langrun Garden.

After returning, Hongli was looking at a map.

Since Yongzheng had given him the power to deal with the two men on his behalf, he naturally had to carefully design their exile routes.

Wherever the Qing Dynasty's territory extended, their exile routes should also extend there.

Meanwhile, Fu Hui and Fu Heng, who were beside him, were playing the digital Huarong Road puzzle.

This is an educational game that Hongli made for them.

The two were having a great time and hadn't gotten tired of it yet.

Interestingly, the princesses around Hongli also loved to gather around them to watch them play, and would cheer them on when they were in trouble.

For these princesses, having two more children in the garden was quite an interesting thing.

Some even had their maternal instincts awakened, and they all had higher expectations for getting pregnant and having children.

Pregnant Nara Minxuan and Fucha Yuyan seemed to see what their unborn children would look like in the future, and their eyes showed more gentle smiles and less anxiety about childbirth.

During evening lessons, Hongli mentioned to the thirteenth prince the matter of impeaching Tian Wenjing that had taken place at the court meeting earlier that day.

"The officials who opposed Tian Wenjing's impeachment attempt ultimately failed."

Hongli said this with a smile when he brought it up.

The thirteenth prince smiled and nodded, then leaned back in his chair and moved closer to Hongli, saying solemnly, "But these people will not give up easily. The gentry in Henan will not sit idly by while Tian Wenjing successfully implements the policy of officials and gentry paying taxes and performing corvée labor together in Henan. Many officials in the court and gentry in other parts of the country will not sit idly by while he succeeds."

Hongli nodded.

He knew that the officials and gentry who opposed Tian Wenjing's actions would not easily admit defeat.

But he would not stop Yongzheng from supporting Tian Wenjing in doing so.

Because every bit of imperial power Yongzheng strengthens now, and every extra penny he earns for the national treasury, will become capital for him to compete with other major world powers for global interests in the future.

The stricter the Yongzheng Emperor was with officials and gentry, the better it would be for him to become emperor in the future. He would use Yongzheng's imperial edicts to intimidate these officials.

For example, if anyone disobeys, he can say, "Do you want me to strictly follow the father's way and carry out the late emperor's instructions?"

Hongli himself was not idle either.

He couldn't possibly just wait for Yongzheng to build up his fortune while he actually spent all his time as a stud.

That afternoon, he went out of the city to inspect the factory he had set up in his own banner territory.

With winter wheat sowing in the north imminent, it's important to pay attention to whether fertilizer production at fertilizer plants can keep up, as well as coal briquettes from coal factories and feed from feed mills.

Indeed, in order to solve the employment problem of the bannermen under his command, Hongli also added a feed mill.

The feed that Hongli had his bannermen produce was made by mixing concentrated grains such as corn, rice and wheat, as well as roughage such as straw and forage, and garlic, baking soda, etc. in a certain proportion.

However, the rice and wheat used were old rice and wheat, which were cheap grains sold in granaries whenever new grain was delivered.

Emperor Qianlong mixed these with corn, straw, fodder, and other roughage, along with additives such as garlic and baking soda, to make feed. Naturally, this was to make cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep more productive, which can be considered a kind of technology and hard work in this era.

Hongli had to admit that the technology and hard work he implemented did indeed increase the slaughter rate of cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep, effectively reducing the probability of these animals getting sick.

However, the adoption rate of the feed he allowed to produce was still not high.

Because in that era, only slightly wealthy self-cultivating farmers and landlords would raise cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. Most people were lucky to be able to feed themselves, let alone have surplus grain to raise livestock and poultry.

As luck would have it, after Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne, he implemented a new policy of self-cultivation for the Manchu bannermen, which led to the emergence of many self-cultivating farmers among the Manchu bannermen in the Rehe area. Furthermore, Emperor Hongli improved their grain harvest by manufacturing chemical fertilizers, which naturally created a demand for domesticated cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep.

This provided a market for Hongli to produce and sell feed.

of course!

Emperor Qianlong's main purpose in doing this was to increase productivity and employment, and to make the social economy more prosperous.

Although raising livestock and poultry is not common, increasing the slaughter rate of livestock and poultry can still help increase the meat consumption of the local population, which will be beneficial for its future expansion.

He can't simply increase the population by increasing the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes, causing the average height and physical fitness of the people in this land to decrease instead of increase as the population grows.

He believes that as more and more farmers raise livestock and poultry with feed, the productivity of pork, beef and mutton will increase, and the difficulty for people to eat meat will decrease.

When Hongli left the city, he happened to pass by the Tonghui River.

Right now, it is late autumn, and the grain tribute for autumn tax is being transported to Beijing one after another.

He couldn't help but notice that the number of grain and silver transport ships on the Tonghui River had increased significantly compared to previous years, almost completely blocking the waterway.

In the distance, officials were still organizing and deploying troops. It was clear that there were too many official ships transporting grain and silver, and that overall coordination was needed to prevent the congestion from worsening.

Hongli knew that this was the result of the promotion of new policies such as the integration of land tax and poll tax.

Although Yongzheng's reforms aroused resentment among officials and gentry across the country, they did indeed allow him to amass a greater fortune.

Over a hundred new fireproof granaries, built with large blue bricks, have been constructed, clearly indicating that the existing granaries could no longer hold so much money and grain.

Hongli was secretly pleased with this, thinking that he would never have to worry about money and food in the future. What he would have to worry about was that his territory was not large enough, his palaces were not numerous enough, and his rule was not strong enough.

This made him want to become the Qianlong Emperor as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)