Yu Zhong stayed in Anqing for half a month and visited Luo Xin for a while. Because there was not much time left to take office, he had to set off to rush to Sichuan.

His departure and arrival officially opened the curtain of the 42nd year of Kangxi.

In Beijing, the eldest prince Yinzhen and the eighth prince Yinsi and his group cleared the national treasury deficit. Although their strength is not weak, the party members of the Crown Prince Yinreng are constrained from time to time, and civil and military officials are resisting. It can be imagined that their actions are not going smoothly. Even if they can use the two attendants Zhu Tianbao and Chen Jiayou sent by the Crown Prince to resist attacks from all sides from time to time, the speed of clearing the deficit is still slow. However, this does not mean that they are at a loss. There is a saying that goes: risks are always accompanied by opportunities! Perhaps this sentence is not suitable for use here, but after the "selfless" performance for a period of time, Yinzhen and Yinsi used the officials with the officials

The "persuasion" began to be a rampant, and used its power to make profits for themselves. At this moment, the most common trick they used was to "sell favors", suspend debt collection, and even secretly allow many officials to continue to owe money. This is manifested as that in the whole situation, they were still busy and busy, but at many individual points, they began to treat each other separately. The result of this was that the power of the Prince's Party had achieved great expansion in a short period of time. Especially under the clever and sleek approach of the Eighth Prince Yinsi, many officials of the Qing court joined him. The "Eighth Prince's Party" began to emerge, and in a short time, it could almost develop.

The elder princes have been evenly divided for decades, and the name of the "Eight Virtue Kings" has also begun to emerge in the court. Of course, this method of action cannot be hidden from others. The prince's party and many officials who were suppressed by the elder princes also began to rebound. However, due to the lack of organization, this rebound trend did not cause any harm to the two elders who were in charge of clearing the deficit at the beginning. On the contrary, because they did not dare to "fire" at the two elders directly, the rebounding storm involved many irrelevant officials. As a result, the disputes in the court gradually became increasingly rampant. However, just when many people thought that things would get bigger and bigger, taking advantage of this trend, the elder prince Yinzhen took the lead in performing.

Understanding that he was "insufficient in ability and difficult to take on important tasks", he directly crossed the prince and asked Kangxi to resign. When he withdrew, the eighth prince Yinsi and others, who were happy because of the huge increase in power, also saw the signs. In order to avoid it in time and prevent himself from being affected by this trend, he quickly wrote a memorial to resign from Kangxi to clear the deficit. At this point, the activity of clearing the deficit of the treasury that had been caused by the vacancy of the principal had to come to an end. From the beginning of clearing the deficit of the deficit to withdrawing by himself, the eldest prince and the eighth prince only recovered more than 10 million taels of silver for the treasury, which was only one-quarter of the total deficit.

However, withdrawal does not mean the end. After this, a discerning person has seen Kangxi's dissatisfaction with the three princes. Especially the prince, because he has done stupid things repeatedly, he is always unable to grasp the direction of the matter. He is too selfish, and his status is already dangerous. The eldest prince Yinzhen, whose image of being smart and capable has begun to gradually fade out of the court. Especially when he was put on a trick by the eighth prince Yinsi, he suffered a lot of rumors in the rebound trend, and his enemies in the court have also increased significantly. Although his strength is still not small, he has not achieved any major development. It can only be regarded as the same as before. The biggest beneficiary of the entire incident was the eighth prince Yinsi, who was regarded as the follower of the eldest prince by the ministers at the beginning. This person has high skills.

Ming, smooth, and climbing up the top, his strength can almost be called "one-stop". Especially in the whole incident, he was a normal person. Although he was constantly trying to win over officials at all levels, because of the big prince, the big tree, and the timely retracting hands, and although he left some handles, he was not happy with Kangxi, but compared to the eldest prince and the prince, he was still the least conspicuous of the three. Although he had a disagreement with the eldest prince and the group, he was no longer as close as before, but most importantly, he got the most practical benefits... the favorable feelings of a large number of officials and various secret support. After all, how can other people's power be better than their own? No matter how good you are as a follower, you are not as comfortable as your boss, right?

Just when the three princes were making trouble in Beijing with civil and military officials, the fourth prince Yinzhen also encountered a lot of trouble. The cause of these troubles was because the prince did not believe that Anhui was not deficit. Because he had prejudices at the beginning, and when Yinzhen was investigating the Anhui vassal treasury, he was impatient and mistakenly thought that it was Anhui officials who were deceived by him. Therefore, in order to force these people to "accept their mistakes", he used some so-called "thunderbolt methods". As a result, these methods made him isolated in Anhui.

Yinzhen has always regarded himself as an "alone minister", but the isolation of Anhui officials was too obvious and direct, which aroused the anger in his heart. Especially when Yinzhen discovered that although the tax level in Anhui was not lower than that in other provinces, the tax checkpoints were far less than in other provinces, the anger broke out immediately. Because Yinzhen thought that too few checkpoints represent less taxes, but how could a small amount of taxes support the entire Anhui not asking the court for a piece of food for several years? Moreover, the fire consumption in Anhui was also extremely low among more than a dozen provinces! There was little commercial tax,

There is also little agricultural tax, and there are few taxes, but there is never a single word "difficulty" from Anhui officials to the outside world. Then, there must be a huge "trick" here. Although Lu Longqi, who succeeded Ma De, explained to him many times, he did not believe that doing so could lead to high taxes. Moreover, Yinzhen also thought he had seized a huge handle, that is, during Ma De's administration in Anhui, he not only cleaned the rivers many times, but also repaired the official roads. These are all projects that cost money. Even if Anhui has high taxes, how high can the money be able to withstand such expenses without causing a deficit?

In this way, from prejudice at the beginning to disagreeing opinions many times later to almost completely disbelief, Yinzhen offended the officials of Anhui before finally confirming that Anhui was indeed not in deficits. Otherwise, Lu Longqi and Yang Ming, the Anhui Grain Bureau, who was entrusted by Ma De to monitor market trends, would probably not have been able to persevere until the end. However, by the time he finally came to the result, the matter was already done. The Fourth Prince is not a person who is good at apologizing! Therefore, this "resentment" between him and Anhui officials was considered to be settled, and he was still the loser.

However, although Yinzhen was making a big fuss in Anhui and was far away in Nanjing, Ma De achieved initial success in the trial circulation of silver coins. Since it was the first batch of silver dollars, Ma De personally supervised almost every link between the production process and the experimental circulation. However, the final result was a bit unexpected and also a little dissatisfied with him. The first batch of silver dollars cast in silver alloys were exquisitely made, exquisite patterns, beautiful words, rich content, brilliant silver, and charming. As soon as he entered the market, he was immediately searched for a price of more than 10% of the silver dollars. However, the first batch of silver dollars were almost permanently hidden.

I knew who they were, but they realized the huge collection value of the first batch of silver dollars. They were not used, and they were all hidden at home. Although this result was both surprising and pleasant, Ma De had to take his people to continue to speed up the casting of silver dollars. From the first batch of 100,000 taels to one million taels, two million taels, and all to three million taels... And the final income from casting silver dollars was that the ku silver in Jiangsu vassal ku increased by 20% in vain! However, even though they knew that silver dollars were mixed with silver and other metals for equivalent silver, because "the market was used, and the merchants said it was convenient", the trend of using silver dollars was still rising.

But at this time, Ma De stopped the large-scale minting activities. Although at this time, from Kangxi to the common people, they stared at the newly built mints, Gao Shiqi, Ma Qi, Song Hun, Zhao Shenqiao and others, and even wrote a book to use coins to alleviate the current major problem of the deficit of the imperial court. In addition, based on their jealousy of the huge profits obtained from the silver dollar manufacturing, many governors also wrote letters to Kangxi, demanding that the same rights of minting as Ma De. Although these people had various reasons, the most were exactly the same as Gao Shiqi and others... After all,

No one dared to promise like Ma De that the provincial vassal treasury in his rule was not deficit! Seeing that Ma De had made so much in just a few months, how could these people not be irritated? However, everyone's wishes were disappointed. Ma De ignored anyone's opinions and forced to stop the almost "crazy" silver dollar manufacturing with an extremely tough attitude. The reason he gave Kangxi was also very simple, with only one word: stable!... The Qing Dynasty was a large population and a relatively developed economy, and the demand for money was very large. However, there was only one currency in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the "Kangxi Tongbao" copper coin!

, As a large amount of copper is used to mint coins, copper materials are scarce in the market, and the price of copper ware is getting higher and higher, gradually exceeding the market value represented by the equivalent amount of copper coins. This phenomenon caused many illegal merchants to collect copper coins in large quantities, and then melt them into copper ware for sale, so as to make huge profits. The consequence of this practice was that it caused great damage to the monetary system of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing court discovered this situation, although it carried out a certain blow, the effect was not good. In the end, the tin content in the copper coins was increased and bad coins were used instead of good coins to force those illegal people to do their own work.

Giving up this action. Ma De took this incident as an example and asked Kangxi to formulate a currency law to change the past few monetary protection regulations. In order to convince Kangxi and those ministers, Ma De pointed out without hesitation that he used clever means to use huge profits from currency. However, although his words aroused the vigilance of Kangxi and others, formulating a new law did not become a topic of the Qing court. In fact, even if Ma De's suggestion was adopted, it would take a long time to formulate a currency law without any precedent.

In addition to casting silver dollars, the Shanghai Port planned by Made officially began construction. Although there were ports in Shanghai before, there had been no large-scale investment, and there were large ports such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing on the slightest rise in Shunjiang, so Shanghai has never become the true "Shanghai". However, all this is destined to change.

Li Fu and Tian Wenjing can be said to be two people with completely opposite personalities, but their opposite personalities may not be able to complement each other. Li Fu is gentle, elegant, knowledgeable, and excellent coordination skills, which is why Ma De chose him to be responsible for the construction of the entire Shanghai Port. This stall can only be said to be small at the beginning, but as the port gradually expands, various affairs will inevitably follow one after another. This gradual change from small to big is the most capable of training people. Since Li Fu can become the governor of Zhili in the future, his ability will not disappoint Ma De. However, Tian Wenjing's personality is that he does not rub sand in his eyes. Although Ma De knew that this old county magistrate was more detrimental than reputation in the years to come, and he often did bad things.

That was something that only happened when Yongzheng could support him indiscriminately. Tian Wenjing's current status is still low and he has no background. He is not as clear as he will be like in the future and will not listen to others. Therefore, at this time, he should be more than enough to be a qualified supervisor and should not cause too much trouble to Li Fan, because the two people's personalities are hugely different, and there is one similarity, that is, integrity! Moreover, I believe that in this huge and complex project, the current Lord Bo should also change. Ma De's hope is that Tian Wenjing can learn to do things more reasonably while sticking to his original personality, and also hopes that the Li Tian combination can exert extraordinary power.

And there are not just a few things that can be said in the 42nd year of Kangxi.

The incident of "troubled people causing trouble" reported by Dai Duo was quickly resolved after Nian Gengyao returned to the army. Many "leading" bad people were arrested and were then included in Nian Gengyao's army. Then, after the matter was resolved, Dai Duo immediately used various means to carry out large-scale rectification of the entire Taiwan. The most prominent point of his approach was to force the indigenous people to "live together" with the new residents! The final purpose of this approach was naturally self-evident, and it also received support from the upper class of Fujian. However, although Nian Gengyao acted with him, some bad people caused trouble.

As an excuse, however, in order to calm down the public grievances aroused by his compulsion and to resolve the endless fights, Dai Duo had to spend more time in the future than he forced these people to move. During this period, because Lan Li, a leader who did not have any good feelings for Taiwan, was still safe with Nian Gengyao. And during this period, the conflict between the Japanese shogunate and the vassals became increasingly acute. Nian Gengyao finally rose up again and headed to Ryukyu, paying attention to various changes in Japan at any time in Ryukyu.

In addition to Taiwan, the northwest Cewang Albutan also took advantage of the opportunity of flying in the south of the Yangtze River. Sabusu was newly arrived and unknown. Before winter came, he suddenly sent troops to occupy a pasture in Khalkha Mongolia, causing panic among the Mongolian tribes in northern deserts. However, due to seasonal issues, the Qing court could only helplessly against Albutan. Kangxi just ordered Sabusu to pay attention to prevention and even if it was over. As for whether he would order troops to wipe out the rebellious Junggar tribe, no one asked more questions, because everyone understood that before the deficit in the treasury could not be alleviated, Kangxi would not be able to send troops to the northwest again.

After many things, in the 42nd year of Kangxi's rule, other more influential events occurred... After that personnel change two years ago, Kangxi once again replaced some officials in the court. All of this happened after he finished his southern tour and returned to Beijing.

Kangxi returned to Beijing after the eldest prince Yinzhen and the eighth prince Yinsi resigned from the matter of clearing the deficit. However, after Kangxi returned to Beijing, he was not as angry as people imagined. Everyone found out that he was wrong... Kangxi did not get angry about the deficit, and even did not blame anyone for it. On the contrary, Kangxi transferred Qi Shiwu, the governor of Shaanxi who had always been inclined to the crown prince, to Beijing, and replaced Tong Guowei as the Minister of War; while the governor of Shaanxi was replaced by Chen Xijia, the former minister of the Ministry of Revenue; Chen Xijia's Ministry of Revenue

The position of Minister of Justice was acquired by Shi Shilun, the Minister of Justice of Justice. In addition, Gao Shiqi was dismissed from the Minister of Rites, Zhang Tingyu was dismissed from the Minister of Personnel, and Ma Qi was dismissed from the General Office of the Internal Affairs. At this point, almost all of the four ministers in Shangshu were taken away! The positions they lost were acquired by those with obvious stances, and among these people, the majority of those who tended to be the crown prince were still! This is not the end. Kangxi also dismissed Guo Xiu's Left Commander and changed his position to a cabinet minister with no clear authority. In addition, Kangxi also mobilized many other officials.

His actions once again confused almost all those who care about the court. What was the purpose of placing the military power of the world to the prince who was in great prestige? Why did he also divide the power of other departments while releasing the military power? Could it be that he planned to give way? But the prince's performance was... Gradually, with Beijing as the source, another rumor appeared, that is, Kangxi's love for the prince still had not changed, and the emperor was still determined to protect the prince.

However, these rumors cannot be hidden from those smart people. Because Kangxi's actions made the struggle between the Prince Party and * who showed signs again silent. The members of * did not understand Kangxi's purpose. Although they were quite happy with the situation in front of them, they no longer dared to act rashly because of repeated mistakes before. As for the Prince Party, whether the eldest or the eighth brothers, they suffered heavy losses in Kangxi's personnel transfer, and the number of ministers who were in power under them shrank greatly. Faced with Kangxi's difficult-to-understand attitude and the strong again, they naturally did not dare to provoke lightly. However, the temporary calm cannot cover up the contradictions that have been aroused...

"Everyone should be preparing for the last fight!"
Chapter completed!