After several months of hard work, all five fingers of the old emperor's right hand could be bent slowly, and Yuzhu also felt that his recovery was good.
The old emperor obviously saw hope, nodded and said with a smile: "It is indeed much better. Fortunately, I have you."
Yuzhu would not take credit. He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with his backhand and said with a smile: "You are the real Dragon Emperor, and you have the blessing of God."
Kangxi liked to hear this. He raised his left hand, twitched his beard and smiled, saying, "Just tell me what reward you want."
Yuzhu slowly increased his strength and said with a smile: "When Kangxi celebrates his 100th anniversary, will you give me another shell?"
Kangxi Dragon was overjoyed, and he laughed and said: "With your good words, in the 80th year of Kangxi's reign, I will reward you with a hereditary and irreplaceable prince."
Yuzhu said in amusement: "The prince's courtesy to all the officials is too expensive. If you can reward a hereditary Beizi, I will be satisfied."
"Haha, it will be as you wish." Kangxi was very satisfied with Yuzhu's sense of proportion.
In the Qing Dynasty, although Beizi was considered a royal prince, in fact, his treatment was not much different from that of a Zhenguo Duke.
The real kings, besides princes, are county kings, and even Baile is a bit tasteless in name only.
When having breakfast, Kangxi was so happy that he stopped tossing the quail eggs and picked up a chopstick to cut up the chicken, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
Yuzhu accompanied the old emperor to have breakfast every day. He knew in his heart that as he got older, the old emperor's food taste had shifted from heavy oil and salt to mainly light food.
In the past, it would have been impossible for the old emperor to touch the bland white-cut chicken.
Yuzhu was really hungry. He ate a lot of food.
Under Yuzhu's guidance, the old emperor drank a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup and ate two corn cakes.
After finishing the meal, the old emperor took Yuzhu to the imperial gate to listen to the government.
It must be admitted that the old emperor was very diligent in his administration. As long as he was in the palace, when it didn't rain, he would attend the royal gate to listen to government affairs every day.
Of course, the old emperor preferred to live in Changchun Garden.
In Changchun Garden, the old emperor could sleep until whatever time he wanted, without worrying about the morning court.
All the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, except Yongzheng, liked to live in gardens.
Mainly, the emperors were afraid of the ancestral system established by Kangxi: when the emperor was in the palace, he had to stay at the gate and listen to the government.
It is very interesting to say that those are basically the important ministers who participate in the imperial government.
Yuzhu can see them every day, and they can see Yuzhu every day.
As long as he stood beside the old emperor, Yuzhu would adhere to one principle: no questions and no answers.
The imperial court is a decision-making meeting where the emperor consults ministers. It actually exercises imperial power plus ministerial power, which is extremely sensitive.
However, the more Yuzhu kept his duties, the more Kangxi liked to ask him, and asked him to make a speech and show his face almost every day.
As time passed, the important ministers, who were not fools, knew a terrible truth: in the two fields of making money and using troops, Yuzhu had a decisive influence on the old emperor's decision-making.
To be honest, this is what Yuzhu wants.
Serving by the old emperor's side, you have to stand out, but you can't stand out everywhere, so you can only selectively become an authoritative expert in the fields of making money and using troops.
As time passed, no one, including the old emperor, dared to ignore Yuzhu's views when discussing financial revenue and expenditure issues.
Not to mention anything else, the Dagukou Pier alone could generate a net income of 8 million taels of silver a year for the old emperor's inner treasury.
With so much pocket money, the old emperor's desire to overhaul his palace no longer had to look at the face of the household department.
In the past, whenever the old emperor wanted to build a palace, the officials from the Ministry of Revenue would scare Kangxi by telling him that there was not much money left in the Ministry of Finance.
Now, hey, the old emperor uses his own money to repair whatever he wants, and the old trolls in the Ministry of Revenue can only stare.
The old emperor took away the bulk, so Yuzhu tempted the old emperor by saying that he could make more money for the inner treasury by building a bigger ship.
How should I put it? The old emperor was still very wary of building ships and going to sea. Often, Yuzhu had to persuade him more than ten times before the old emperor would agree once.
However, Yuzhu was not in a hurry at all.
As long as the old emperor continues to pursue pleasure, Yuzhu's shipbuilding technology can only be delayed but not terminated.
What Yuzhu feared most was that the old emperor wanted to close the Dagukou Shipyard in a fit of enthusiasm.
In fact, wood and silver are secondary.
If the technical seeds who apprenticed with foreigners were forcibly dismissed, the losses to Yuzhu Climbing the Technology Tree would be immeasurable.
In modern times, the light of science and technology came from Europe. This is a fact.
Technology has no borders.
Europe is a little more advanced for the time being, so what are we afraid of?
Yuzhu spent a lot of money and invited European craftsmen to come to the Dagukou Shipyard, just to learn from the barbarians and gain skills to control the barbarians.
Europeans acted as bandits everywhere, snatching colonies all over the world.
Doesn’t it depend on the strength of the ship and the power of its guns?
For Yuzhu, coaxing the old emperor and letting him continue to support the advancement of science and technology was the top priority.
"Yuzhu, the Ministry of Revenue wants to borrow money from the inner treasury again, what do you think?" As long as money issues were involved, the old emperor would immediately think of Yuzhu, which almost became a conditioned reflex.
Yuzhu walked out from behind the old emperor, cupped his hands and said: "The front account is not clear, and the back account is not borrowed. This is the rule."
"Yes, is there any reason to borrow money all the time but never pay it back?" With Yuzhu's tacit cooperation, the old emperor got over his addiction to creditors.
Because Yuzhu had served as the left minister of the Ministry of Finance for a period of time, Mu Helun, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, also knew that arguing with Yuzhu about financial management was purely to seek abuse.
Since Kangxi asked, Mu Helun had to answer. He thought for a while, raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, you know exactly how much silver is in the three treasuries of the Ministry of Household Affairs. How can there be such money in the treasury today?"
How much debt do you owe?" He began to complain incessantly.
The Kangxi Dynasty was always short of money. Firstly, there were frequent wars. Secondly, the emperor was overhauling his palace. Secondly, with the passage of time, land annexation became more and more intense. As a result, the imperial court's fiscal revenue was always unable to make ends meet.
Under the current conditions, if you want to solve the fiscal revenue problem once and for all, you must follow Lao Si's strategy.
Yuzhu knew better than anyone that as long as he did not engage in diversion, the imperial treasury would always be empty.
Because the Junggar Khanate has been ready to move, the court must save money and food to prepare for war.
In addition, natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred frequently in various places, and the court also needed money to prepare for shortages.
Objectively speaking, before Yongzheng established the system of allotment and farming, the biggest problem of small-scale peasant society was actually the continuous decrease in fiscal income, which resulted in the inability to withstand long-term wars or occasional natural disasters.
In the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the wild boar skins outside the customs, only a few million taels of Liao wages were added, which caused widespread complaints.
The ministers of the Donglin Party denounced Emperor Zhu Ming one after another as an evil vampire.
Scholars from all over the country took advantage of the chaos and beat the mine supervisors and tax supervisors to death. It often happened.
In a nutshell, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted money to suppress the rise of wild boar skins, but the Donglin Party was not happy to get the money, so it was snatched away by the emperor. It's as simple as that.
As a result, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, most of the Donglin Party's properties became spoils of war for the Eight Banners soldiers.
Last time, after Yuzhu went to Jiangnan, he once again acted viciously and severely punished the Donglin Party members.
Not to mention anything else, the money obtained from the house ransack alone exceeded ten million taels.
All this money went into Kangxi's inner treasury to prepare for the future Northwest War.
Yuzhu did not make any money, but he robbed the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan, Liu Taiqing, and her daughter Yan Xiaoqing.
Before allotment of land, the fiscal revenue of the imperial court was obviously inversely proportional to the amount of land owned by the scholar-bureaucrats.
Moreover, the head tax that has been levied has led to a hidden population that has reached at least tens of millions.
When the Three Kingdoms returned to the Jin Dynasty, the population statistics of the Jin Dynasty were the number of Ding households that the court could collect taxes from. This was actually relatively accurate.
However, there were a large number of serfs hidden in powerful estates in various places that did not pay taxes, and it was impossible to count these people clearly.
The old emperor's inner treasury was full of money, and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue had long been jealous. They had to help the old emperor spend some small money.
As a result, the old emperor didn't say anything, but pushed Yuzhu to the front desk and started a lawsuit with the people from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Including Mu Helun, the Minister of Hubu, all the people in the Hubu were no match for Yuzhu.
Especially when it comes to millions of dollars, the people in the household department have to squat on the ground and use arithmetic to get it.
As for Yuzhu, he didn't even use a pen and just relied on mental arithmetic to crush the people in the household department.
It’s a matter of judgment!
After some wrangling, the Ministry of Accounts successfully borrowed another five hundred thousand taels of silver from the inner treasury.
As for Yuzhu, he also obtained favorable conditions for the old emperor with an annual interest rate of one-twentieth.
The main reason is that whether it is the inner treasury or the national treasury, it is actually the emperor's money.
However, the old emperor could spend the money in the inner treasury as he pleased without looking at anyone's eyes.
If the money from the treasury is to be used, those old cowards in the Ministry of Revenue will definitely make things difficult for the old emperor by talking too much.
Throughout its thousands of years of history, there have been many peasant uprisings and dynasties changing many times.
However, the general trend is that the imperial power is increasingly strengthened, while the power of the prime minister, that is, the power of ministers, continues to decline.
This change is actually in line with the laws of human nature.
No matter who it is, as long as they sit on the throne of the emperor, who doesn't want to decide the fate of others as they please?
After the court was over, the old emperor felt very happy and proud. Liu Yuzhu spoke for another half an hour before letting him go.
After Yuzhu came out of the palace, he just walked to the official sedan when he saw Wu Jiang approaching him and whispered: "Sir, Mu Wu, who is next to Mu Helun, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, just found the younger one, saying that it was Mu Shangshu.
I want to make an appointment to catch up with you."
Upon hearing this, Yuzhu understood that Mu Herun was just a cover, and he must be the fourth child in charge of the household department who wanted to see him.
As long as the inner treasury continues to expand its silver reserves, the household department will inevitably continue to borrow money from the inner treasury.
Although Yuzhu did not specifically manage the inner treasury, he had unparalleled influence on how the silver in the inner treasury was used.
If you want to borrow money from the inner treasury, no matter who you are, you can't get past Yuzhu!